COmplaining aboutmodern education hasnt changed in 2400 years.
Reminds of the passage from Plato's Phadreus dialog condemning the invention of writing. The speaker claimed people would use their memory less and it would become much weaker. Homer's epics are pre-writing. Lore-masters would memorize them - tens of thousands of lines. In the original greek they have a beat and rhyme fairly similar to modern rap, to assist memorization.
The insulin metabolic pathway is very old in terms of evolution and very pervasive. Dozens of genes have been identified regulating such. I dont thing there will be single-point cures.
Drilling cost go up as square of depth. Oil companies can afford spend a hundred million to drill five miles below two miles of water. The NSF cannot afford really deep holes. The entire NSF earth science budget is lees than the average oil company single deep water hole.
I went to an MIT admissions orientation this week and the officer spent a far amount of time talking about collaboration and interaction. When I was a MIT student, it was the buzz of being surround by peole with IQs 140 and higher that really pushed you. A few extreemly motivated people can do this alone, but lots of us need the cahalanging environment.
Both Islam and early Christianity had abhorance of charging interest on borrowed money. Its was sin in the eyes of many. However Christian Europe gave up its reluctance, especially employing an interest-indifferent proxy the Jews, before directly doing it themselves a few centuries later. Hence, Europe developed efficient ways of creating/accumulating large sums of money necesssary to finance exploration ships and building manufacturing enterprises.
Observant Islamic bankers use non-interest ways of growing money now. E.g. profit shares in a group enterprise (dividends), leases, etc. They are almost efficient at growing money, but perhaps not quite.
I'd be interested in seeing the most accurate and least accurate tech predictions from that era for times about now.
One I recall is extrapolating the growth of MicroSoft and Bill Gates wealth. I recall people prediction MSFT to have the first trillion dollar stock valuation about now and Bill gates to be a trillionaire a couple years after that. They've both slowed down considerably.
For unclear resaons our local Xmas parade started incorporating more and more penquins each year on its floats. I guess it might have something to with all the penguin movies rather than Linus. Santa must have a really bad GPS, is all I can say.
I've had three pairs so far. But the transistion zone is always a little different in each grinding. That bothers me for a few days or weeks until it magically disappears.
Please there seems to be a memory effect too. I use a previous for recreation and the switchover is fairly fast.
I'm in a state where many insurance companies used creidt scores to adjust rates.
(This is banned in some states.) What if the insurance company cannot longer read these? set to the highest rate then?
Then shock the fingers of people they disagree with.
A lot of this could done by simple pattern recognition. For example a phrase with "Hillary" and a positive adjective, or "Cheney" and a negative adjective.
I'm am concerned that scientific journals in university libraries are disappearing. I used to love to browse the current issues on open shelves, but libraries are increasingly subscribing to all-electronic editions. In many university libraries this now requires student enrollment or being an employee to read these.
I find this ironic, because the modern system of knowledge is contructed on open publication, replication and repudiation. Only the professorial "elite" will have access. Further ironic becasue the Net was supposed to make libraries available everywhere.
It is my top net news site due to its original content. That would have been one of the few online services I would have paid money for had it gone to a full subscription business.
However, I felt it was stupid to go halfway. People would pay fro all-or-nothing, not half-and-half. They basically cut 2/3rd the audience of their more interesting columnists like Krugman and Friedmen. I dont agree with them, but liked their insights.
Hopefully Murdoc will liberate the Wall Street Journal soon too.
As a boomer I was bored when my parents or grandparents were told me how they did things in their time. I'm sure digressing about pubch cards, floppy disks, and command lines must bore the hell out of most kids these days.
Speaking of anacharisms, why do we still have telephone numbers at all? They should be hidden like IP numbers are hidden beneath web addresses and domain names. people who work exclusively with cells pretty much do that now. After the initial connection, you just automatically add the clller to your directory.
The idea is fairly old - Thomas Edison the inventor of the phonograph and co-inventor of movie films proposed commercializing education by recording the most charismatic teachers and showing them at schools. This supposedly would solve two cost problems: first you stimulate students with the best teachers; second you reduce the number of [expensive] teachers by replicating their presententions. EVERY TIME a new form of media was invented since Edison someone has proposed the same arguments for commercializing education- to this day, now with Internet text messaging and videos. To a small degree the InterNet has facilitated grade-school charter school and college-trade schools. It cuts the cost of classrooms, but not the labor costs of interactive teachers. There must be something fundamental about the interative give-and-take of teachers and students thats resisted change int the 2500 years since Plato's Academy.
This has already been done with conventional chemical rockets.
In order for the pluto probe to reach pluto in 11 years, it crossed the moon in a few hours, Mars in a about a week and Jupiter in a month. It woudl be very difficult to put a probe that fast into orbit.
About six years ago Japan tried to send a probe to Mars.
It MISSED the plant so, they sent around the solar system to try to hit Mars again.
When it finally got there, it had run out of fuel and died.
The had a little better luck with a comet probe. It made it there. I was supposed to retrieve samples. They think it might have gotten some. But the probe died on the way back to Earth.
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COmplaining aboutmodern education hasnt changed in 2400 years. Reminds of the passage from Plato's Phadreus dialog condemning the invention of writing. The speaker claimed people would use their memory less and it would become much weaker. Homer's epics are pre-writing. Lore-masters would memorize them - tens of thousands of lines. In the original greek they have a beat and rhyme fairly similar to modern rap, to assist memorization.
The insulin metabolic pathway is very old in terms of evolution and very pervasive. Dozens of genes have been identified regulating such. I dont thing there will be single-point cures.
Drilling cost go up as square of depth. Oil companies can afford spend a hundred million to drill five miles below two miles of water. The NSF cannot afford really deep holes. The entire NSF earth science budget is lees than the average oil company single deep water hole.
Cant comment on main article anymore. -Dumb.
Price has been nearly constant in Euros since the project was conceived :-)
Get my point?
I went to an MIT admissions orientation this week and the officer spent a far amount of time talking about collaboration and interaction. When I was a MIT student, it was the buzz of being surround by peole with IQs 140 and higher that really pushed you. A few extreemly motivated people can do this alone, but lots of us need the cahalanging environment.
Both Islam and early Christianity had abhorance of charging interest on borrowed money. Its was sin in the eyes of many. However Christian Europe gave up its reluctance, especially employing an interest-indifferent proxy the Jews, before directly doing it themselves a few centuries later. Hence, Europe developed efficient ways of creating/accumulating large sums of money necesssary to finance exploration ships and building manufacturing enterprises.
Observant Islamic bankers use non-interest ways of growing money now. E.g. profit shares in a group enterprise (dividends), leases, etc. They are almost efficient at growing money, but perhaps not quite.
I'd be interested in seeing the most accurate and least accurate tech predictions from that era for times about now.
One I recall is extrapolating the growth of MicroSoft and Bill Gates wealth. I recall people prediction MSFT to have the first trillion dollar stock valuation about now and Bill gates to be a trillionaire a couple years after that. They've both slowed down considerably.
On a routine basis after 2009.
Who will that be?
For unclear resaons our local Xmas parade started incorporating more and more penquins each year on its floats. I guess it might have something to with all the penguin movies rather than Linus. Santa must have a really bad GPS, is all I can say.
I've had three pairs so far. But the transistion zone is always a little different in each grinding. That bothers me for a few days or weeks until it magically disappears.
Please there seems to be a memory effect too. I use a previous for recreation and the switchover is fairly fast.
I'm in a state where many insurance companies used creidt scores to adjust rates. (This is banned in some states.) What if the insurance company cannot longer read these? set to the highest rate then?
30% for publisher, 30% for bookstore, 20% for author, 20% for printing costs.
Answer: Change them to "American dollar jokes"
Then shock the fingers of people they disagree with.
A lot of this could done by simple pattern recognition. For example a phrase with "Hillary" and a positive adjective, or "Cheney" and a negative adjective.
I'm am concerned that scientific journals in university libraries are disappearing. I used to love to browse the current issues on open shelves, but libraries are increasingly subscribing to all-electronic editions. In many university libraries this now requires student enrollment or being an employee to read these.
I find this ironic, because the modern system of knowledge is contructed on open publication, replication and repudiation. Only the professorial "elite" will have access. Further ironic becasue the Net was supposed to make libraries available everywhere.
It is my top net news site due to its original content. That would have been one of the few online services I would have paid money for had it gone to a full subscription business.
However, I felt it was stupid to go halfway. People would pay fro all-or-nothing, not half-and-half. They basically cut 2/3rd the audience of their more interesting columnists like Krugman and Friedmen. I dont agree with them, but liked their insights.
Hopefully Murdoc will liberate the Wall Street Journal soon too.
The NY Times article said one hundred private boats have traversed the passed in the 21st century. Its almost not a nvoelty anymore.
As a boomer I was bored when my parents or grandparents were told me how they did things in their time. I'm sure digressing about pubch cards, floppy disks, and command lines must bore the hell out of most kids these days.
Speaking of anacharisms, why do we still have telephone numbers at all? They should be hidden like IP numbers are hidden beneath web addresses and domain names. people who work exclusively with cells pretty much do that now. After the initial connection, you just automatically add the clller to your directory.
The idea is fairly old - Thomas Edison the inventor of the phonograph and co-inventor of movie films proposed commercializing education by recording the most charismatic teachers and showing them at schools. This supposedly would solve two cost problems: first you stimulate students with the best teachers; second you reduce the number of [expensive] teachers by replicating their presententions. EVERY TIME a new form of media was invented since Edison someone has proposed the same arguments for commercializing education- to this day, now with Internet text messaging and videos. To a small degree the InterNet has facilitated grade-school charter school and college-trade schools. It cuts the cost of classrooms, but not the labor costs of interactive teachers. There must be something fundamental about the interative give-and-take of teachers and students thats resisted change int the 2500 years since Plato's Academy.
Claiming credit for others peoples successes.
This has already been done with conventional chemical rockets. In order for the pluto probe to reach pluto in 11 years, it crossed the moon in a few hours, Mars in a about a week and Jupiter in a month. It woudl be very difficult to put a probe that fast into orbit.
About six years ago Japan tried to send a probe to Mars. It MISSED the plant so, they sent around the solar system to try to hit Mars again. When it finally got there, it had run out of fuel and died.
The had a little better luck with a comet probe. It made it there. I was supposed to retrieve samples. They think it might have gotten some. But the probe died on the way back to Earth.
Good luck next time!