The main advantage of going away to college is being surrounded by challenging teachers and students at your level. DigiPen is a great opportunity if you know that is what you want to do. A larger place might offer more breadth in topics and people, if that is what you wan to do.
These places have some of the tallest buildings in the world. I am not sure how close you can get to the Three Gorges Dam west of Shanghai, which is one of the largest construction projects in the world. other interesting things in those countries too.
Every public wall and floor is a continuous video advertisement in Spielberg's 2002 movie "Minority Report". It is keyed into the biometrics of the passerby. No special chip needed.
David Stork has a chapter computer lip reading on in the book "Hal's Legacy" on A.I. methods. The combination is much more reliable that either audio or visual.
A few centimeters of rock will sheild against most anything. Microbes have been found as deep as anyone has drilled in the earth- 8 miles, so there are probably lots of microes inside rocks.
Example #1: The guys who manufactured the polio virus from scratch earlier this year said everything was "off the shelf".
Examples #2: There are now several gene manipulation
projects being submitted to the Intel National Science Fair. I know 15-year old geniuses are
smarter than me:-), but usually dont have industrial resources.
The correspondent said it was working ten years
ago, and bunch bozos said it still too hard.
The only reason I can think of is that these
small machines aren't as open to general
developers as the generic PC, so you dont
see as many niche applications.
Its been two years since Clinton & Venter & Collins
announced the human genome had been "sequenced" yet
they dont even have a firm gene count yet. Of course that was just the "first draft", with the final draft now about 94% completed.
I know its a very complex problem. These MicroSoftian "vaporware" announcements make me very skeptical about bold claims by other researchers.
I cant say I know the answer.
Both the distribution of sub-units in human language- sounds and words- and the DNA signal are power-law fractal. These represent the tradeoff between novelty (the message) and
redunacy (communicate through noise). EE people know better coding systems for puhing signal through noise, yet nature seems to have settled on fractal.
On the other hand fractals occur everywhere in nature, usually as result of simple processes.
A very simple case is to sum the heads of coin tosses- the resulting curve is fractal. Nothing too profound about randomness.
I presume the recovery after 9-11 was all over the board. Some companies did not have adequate backups of all their business records. While others, like the stock exchanges did fine.
A "scientist" considers *any* hypothesis,
and then ranks them according to the facts,
the repeatable experimental observations,
the simplicity of explanation, etc.
A "dogmatist" has a conclusion in mind and
forces all observations to fit that conclusion,
even when that conclusion becomes so contorted
to lose belief.
As a "scientist" some variations of the creation hypotheis are in my [ large ] inventory of hypotheses, but ranks low in likelihood.
A religious creationist has only one immutable conclusion in mind. And I've met scientists who are dogmatic about their pet theories and dont consider any other.
This a eastern philosophical concept that every action and thought of a sentient creature is recorded (where?). This record is then used for karmic "justice" in future lives. This idea is not unlike Christian Judgement Day where your entire history is replayed instantly in God's mind when he decides to admit you heaven or condemn you hell. A talented psychic can supposed "read" the akashic record.
An variation of the "akashic record" is that "time" is an illusion of material reality. In an alternative reality all events are simultaneous. Therefore all events relating to soul's incarnations are operating together. This hypothesis bypasses the issue what is the cosmic "recording media". Interestingly, some western physicists don't believe in the independent existance of "time" too.
The hypothesis that "chemistry explains all of life" is nearly universal in science, yet is not fully proven yet (though I believe it). The ultimate test of the chemistry hypothesis is be to construct life from inert chemicals off the shelf. The closest one got was the constuction of a polio virus from regeants earlier this year. The virus appeared viable, but was about a thousand times less potent than its natural version. The simplest life form, as described in this article, is about 20-50 times more complicated than a virus in terms of genes and chemicals (proteins, sugars, others).
The alternative hypothesis is "neo-vitalism" or that is some mysterious substance or force outside of pure chemistry. This was the prevailing hypothesis until well into the 19th century. But it keeps on reappearing in more "scientific" forms today. One statement is the "only living material can produce living matter", even though you can fully explain all the chemistry, physics, and genetics. Another version callled "morphogensis" is that there are "patterns" in lving matter that are transmitted from ancestor to descendent. Yet another version, championed by physicist Roger Penrose is that there is secret unknown physics involved (clarification: he specificiation is attributing human consciousness to a new form of quantum interaction). Still another variation is "holism" or "emergism" which states the totally is greater than the sum of the parts, i.e. a reductionistic explanation is necessarily incomplete.
Note the relation of life to matter is a very old philosophical problem. The ancient Greek story of Pygmalian, the medival Golem, and the 186 year old Frankenstein novel all addressed this issue.
An auxilary problem is artificial intelligence. Its seem obvious that this can be done by us computer geeks. But 55 years of effort have had disappointing results. Some people use similar arguments against artificial life against artificial intelligence.
There are a lot of rumors that NASA and the Russian space program have investigated this, but no one is talking on the record yet. For example, Newton's 3rd law- "for every action, a reaction" complicating movement in zero-G.
You are the most famous libidous space-amn and must know the answer:-)
Some poeple in my state use one if the Kroger chains.
They've been filling web orders for years.
Not as much variety as webvan.
But they already had the infrastructure.
Says that all abstraction's are ultimately leaky because you never construct a logical system that is complete and consistent (but get close enough for government work). Program abstractions usually leak long before they reach Goedel's limit.
Your skill base mentions technologies from over 20 years ago, so you are probably pushing 40 if not over. The tech field is very ageist, presuming near senility over 35 or so. Yet another NY Times article complaining about this.
2/3rds the cost of the three year computer
lifetime is the electricity and cooling system.
When TOC is counted a transmeta based cluster
or the super-dese SGI cluster announced yesterday
is cheaper.
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The main advantage of going away to college is being surrounded by challenging teachers and students at your level. DigiPen is a great opportunity if you know that is what you want to do. A larger place might offer more breadth in topics and people, if that is what you wan to do.
These places have some of the tallest buildings in the world. I am not sure how close you can get to the Three Gorges Dam west of Shanghai, which is one of the largest construction projects in the world. other interesting things in those countries too.
Every public wall and floor is a continuous video advertisement in Spielberg's 2002 movie "Minority Report". It is keyed into the biometrics of the passerby. No special chip needed.
Sun had a 3D volume rendering package in circa 1984 called SunVision(?). Point rendering was an option. Fast, but not as pretty.
David Stork has a chapter computer lip reading on in the book "Hal's Legacy" on A.I. methods. The combination is much more reliable that either audio or visual.
A few centimeters of rock will sheild against most anything. Microbes have been found as deep as anyone has drilled in the earth- 8 miles, so there are probably lots of microes inside rocks.
Example #1: The guys who manufactured the polio virus from scratch earlier this year said everything was "off the shelf".
:-), but usually dont have industrial resources.
Examples #2: There are now several gene manipulation projects being submitted to the Intel National Science Fair. I know 15-year old geniuses are smarter than me
The correspondent said it was working ten years ago, and bunch bozos said it still too hard.
The only reason I can think of is that these small machines aren't as open to general developers as the generic PC, so you dont see as many niche applications.
Its been two years since Clinton & Venter & Collins announced the human genome had been "sequenced" yet they dont even have a firm gene count yet. Of course that was just the "first draft", with the final draft now about 94% completed. I know its a very complex problem. These MicroSoftian "vaporware" announcements make me very skeptical about bold claims by other researchers.
I cant say I know the answer. Both the distribution of sub-units in human language- sounds and words- and the DNA signal are power-law fractal. These represent the tradeoff between novelty (the message) and redunacy (communicate through noise). EE people know better coding systems for puhing signal through noise, yet nature seems to have settled on fractal.
On the other hand fractals occur everywhere in nature, usually as result of simple processes. A very simple case is to sum the heads of coin tosses- the resulting curve is fractal. Nothing too profound about randomness.
I presume the recovery after 9-11 was all over the board. Some companies did not have adequate backups of all their business records. While others, like the stock exchanges did fine.
A "scientist" considers *any* hypothesis, and then ranks them according to the facts, the repeatable experimental observations, the simplicity of explanation, etc.
A "dogmatist" has a conclusion in mind and forces all observations to fit that conclusion, even when that conclusion becomes so contorted to lose belief.
As a "scientist" some variations of the creation hypotheis are in my [ large ] inventory of hypotheses, but ranks low in likelihood.
A religious creationist has only one immutable conclusion in mind. And I've met scientists who are dogmatic about their pet theories and dont consider any other.
With all these new rockets I hope that space tourism can be expanded beyond paying $20 mils to the Russians.
This a eastern philosophical concept that every action and thought of a sentient creature is recorded (where?). This record is then used for karmic "justice" in future lives. This idea is not unlike Christian Judgement Day where your entire history is replayed instantly in God's mind when he decides to admit you heaven or condemn you hell. A talented psychic can supposed "read" the akashic record.
An variation of the "akashic record" is that "time" is an illusion of material reality. In an alternative reality all events are simultaneous. Therefore all events relating to soul's incarnations are operating together. This hypothesis bypasses the issue what is the cosmic "recording media". Interestingly, some western physicists don't believe in the independent existance of "time" too.
The hypothesis that "chemistry explains all of life" is nearly universal in science, yet is not fully proven yet (though I believe it). The ultimate test of the chemistry hypothesis is be to construct life from inert chemicals off the shelf. The closest one got was the constuction of a polio virus from regeants earlier this year. The virus appeared viable, but was about a thousand times less potent than its natural version. The simplest life form, as described in this article, is about 20-50 times more complicated than a virus in terms of genes and chemicals (proteins, sugars, others).
The alternative hypothesis is "neo-vitalism" or that is some mysterious substance or force outside of pure chemistry. This was the prevailing hypothesis until well into the 19th century. But it keeps on reappearing in more "scientific" forms today. One statement is the "only living material can produce living matter", even though you can fully explain all the chemistry, physics, and genetics. Another version callled "morphogensis" is that there are "patterns" in lving matter that are transmitted from ancestor to descendent. Yet another version, championed by physicist Roger Penrose is that there is secret unknown physics involved (clarification: he specificiation is attributing human consciousness to a new form of quantum interaction). Still another variation is "holism" or "emergism" which states the totally is greater than the sum of the parts, i.e. a reductionistic explanation is necessarily incomplete.
Note the relation of life to matter is a very old philosophical problem. The ancient Greek story of Pygmalian, the medival Golem, and the 186 year old Frankenstein novel all addressed this issue.
An auxilary problem is artificial intelligence. Its seem obvious that this can be done by us computer geeks. But 55 years of effort have had disappointing results. Some people use similar arguments against artificial life against artificial intelligence.
The 2002 record is 35 TFLOPS.
Each years is 1.5x faster = 10x in five years.
2004 => 1.5 * 1.5 * 35 => 90 TFlops. IBM promises 100.
Stop worrying about politically correct video games. there aremore important this to do.
0.1 cents an email would be unoticeable by the legitmate user, but bankrupt the spammer.
One per second for a couple hours in Colorado on morning of the 18th in 2001.
There are a lot of rumors that NASA and the Russian space program have investigated this, but no one is talking on the record yet. For example, Newton's 3rd law- "for every action, a reaction" complicating movement in zero-G. You are the most famous libidous space-amn and must know the answer :-)
Some poeple in my state use one if the Kroger chains. They've been filling web orders for years. Not as much variety as webvan. But they already had the infrastructure.
Says that all abstraction's are ultimately leaky because you never construct a logical system that is complete and consistent (but get close enough for government work). Program abstractions usually leak long before they reach Goedel's limit.
Your skill base mentions technologies from over 20 years ago, so you are probably pushing 40 if not over. The tech field is very ageist, presuming near senility over 35 or so. Yet another NY Times article complaining about this.
2/3rds the cost of the three year computer lifetime is the electricity and cooling system. When TOC is counted a transmeta based cluster or the super-dese SGI cluster announced yesterday is cheaper.
If you want to see puch cards and 9-track tape drives.