A.I. has returned this decade due to success in big data and improved neural networks (deep learning). But A.I. was blacklisted in the UK in the 1970s due to slow progress and negative report on it. In the US neural networks (Perceptrons) were ridiculed in a book around the same time.
A second "A.I. Winter" occurred in the late 1980s when massive startup funding into expert systems and logic supercomputers failed to pan out.
We had a thread in Slashdot yesterday about earthquake prediction. Due to expensive failures in the 1970s you wouldnt get funded or tenure in the 80s or 90s for prediction research. In recent years this has softened for sibling "forecasing" and "early warning" research.
Mars-2020 and Europa-2025 have dibs on two of the missions. And you have to decide many years in advance which power source to use.
Jupiter is border line solar. Most of its probes have been nuclear. But Juno due to arrive shortly has 180 feet of solar panels. Juno is designed to last only a short time because it is flying through Jupiters highly toxic geomagnetic fields to study them.
I recall NASAs supply partly came from decommissioned Soviet warheads. But that process is now over.
Three years ago an accidentally released white gang member killed the head of Colorado Prisons dressed as a pizza delivery guy (he killed the pizza guy for his coat and car too). The killer had been accidentally released years early. A subsequent audit of prisoner sentences found a one third error rate. Both in undercalculating bad behavior extensions or over calculating good behavior reductions.
When I was at Stanford in the 1970s there were several promising methods associated with at least one major earthquake. They included the Russian acoustic - shear velocity ratio which was supposed to change before earthquakes due to an increase in microcracks. The Chinese had two successes with farmyard animal anomalies, but missed the most costly Chinese quake in the 20th century, the Tianjin right at the doorstep of Beijing science academies. Heliem soil anomaly increases seemed promising too. The US funded studies in all these methods. But none ever really predicted another quake. "Prediction" became a nasty joke wordk on scientific resumes. The field dribbled on with more narrow problems such as early warning systems to give 30 seconds or so early notice of damaging seismic waves or tsunamis. And less rigorous "forecasting"- windows of increased probablity rather than a specific prediction.
Yet the prediction effort sunders on. A Greek group claimed ground resistance anomalies associated with quakes, but no one could reproduce their results. A Stanford group saw a magnetic jump just before the large 1989 San Andreas quake, but this was never seen again in later quakes. A Russian group calimed their secretive "circles of probability" method predicted the same quake, but missed other quakes. And ionospheric anomalies, the topic of this slashdot, are startign to be looked at. All these methods have received some funding from government agencies, so its not like they are completely ignored. The USGS had a huge and expensive effort to instrument Parkfield California for a large quake which happens about every 20 years. The quake did happen a dozen years later than expected. There werent any promising anomaly signals.
The most promising method still seems to be previous seismicity and fault mapping. These hint at the possible size and location of earthquakes. Its been known for a century that quakes tend to obey a size-frequency law. That means when you see a persistent swarm of small or medium quakes like in northwest Nevada, central Oklahoma, and eastern Tennessee, is this a sign of something larger to come?
These seismicity data are are online in public databases for anyone to test their pet analysis theory on.
They are like the "Apple of family entertainment" a roller coaster of highs and lows.
Some highs:
Musical cartoon (1920s)
Feature length cartoon. (1930s)
Color TV show (1950s)
Family friendly theme park (1950s)
Family movies (1960s)
Revived cartoon musical (1990s)
Pixar, Marvel and LucasFilms (2000s)
It is thought life evolved in deep ocean near vents. In a hiP hiT environment you dont need many enzymes (protein catalysts) to drive metabolic and protein synthesis reactions. Life then migrated to more hostile environments after evolving enzymes. These hostile environment include hot and cold temperatures, low pressure, solar radiation, free oxygen and parasitic viruses.
I could see in life evolving in the interior ocean of an ice moon in a more hostile solar system. Then evolve mechanisms to survive the more hostile environment.
Either from these public kits or some kid interning at a biomedical lab. Thats when you know DIY is easy.
P.S. I briefly googled to see if there CRISPR science fair projects in 2015, but didnt find anything.
Of a dark site allegedly used for drug trading some years back. They got it from the bitcoin computer files on seized disks. The Australian raid could acquire bitcoin too.
I lost track whether the FBI sold their bitcoin.
Far more important than a name behind the currency. We've found than many basic elements of the currency have survived despite a decent fraction of world computing power analyzing it. And we found some weaknesses which newer cryptocurrencies address.
You get a digest of "most popular posts from your feeds since you last checked". Then the full feed. Plus a sprinkling of ads that resemble your feeds intermixed.
China has been censoring posts for a decade. Posters then create synonyms that mean prohibited topics. Live censors then catch on and the posters create new ones.
Spirit and Opportunity used the same base. Curiosity and MER-2020 use the same tech. Phoenix and Insight-2016 ditto. Some cost savings in make 3 or 4 copies of the same vehicle. The extras are for laboratory backup studies.
Yelp and Trip Advisor are occasional targets of lawsuits by unhappy businesses. But the businesses have to prove both falsehood and harm and tend to lose most of these suits.
Hawking and his competitors argue whether information is lost when matter-energy falls into a black hole. Is information converstion a universal law? A proposed solution is that a copy of anything crossing the event horizon is perserved when something crosses it. The surface area of an event horizon is exactly large enough in Planck units to preserve all the information inside a black hole. Then you can propse some semi-mystical mumbo-jumbo that beacause two regions ofbinformation are idetical, they in fact are identical objects.
Now you can take this one step further that this does not only apply to black hole singularities, but white hole singularities such as our own universe. So there is a copy of everything inside universe on the event horizon 13.8 billion light years out, i.e our hologram. And there is no real distinction between the hologram and our universe.
This is presented in Susskind's book The Black Hole Wars.
More a limitation of slightly contradictory English words and logic, than an air tight argument. In the mid 20th century there was a movement to claim much of philosophy and thology was wordplay. ButLogical positism is more just a tool in the toolkit now.
Some people worried about living near a high voltage overhead transmission power line- electrostatic fields, RF, and magnetic. Studies generally discounted this, but doubts persist.
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A.I. has returned this decade due to success in big data and improved neural networks (deep learning). But A.I. was blacklisted in the UK in the 1970s due to slow progress and negative report on it. In the US neural networks (Perceptrons) were ridiculed in a book around the same time.
A second "A.I. Winter" occurred in the late 1980s when massive startup funding into expert systems and logic supercomputers failed to pan out.
We had a thread in Slashdot yesterday about earthquake prediction. Due to expensive failures in the 1970s you wouldnt get funded or tenure in the 80s or 90s for prediction research. In recent years this has softened for sibling "forecasing" and "early warning" research.
Mars-2020 and Europa-2025 have dibs on two of the missions. And you have to decide many years in advance which power source to use.
Jupiter is border line solar. Most of its probes have been nuclear. But Juno due to arrive shortly has 180 feet of solar panels. Juno is designed to last only a short time because it is flying through Jupiters highly toxic geomagnetic fields to study them.
I recall NASAs supply partly came from decommissioned Soviet warheads. But that process is now over.
Fines or jail if caught. Germany is one. Kind of after the fact.
Three years ago an accidentally released white gang member killed the head of Colorado Prisons dressed as a pizza delivery guy (he killed the pizza guy for his coat and car too). The killer had been accidentally released years early. A subsequent audit of prisoner sentences found a one third error rate. Both in undercalculating bad behavior extensions or over calculating good behavior reductions.
When I was at Stanford in the 1970s there were several promising methods associated with at least one major earthquake. They included the Russian acoustic - shear velocity ratio which was supposed to change before earthquakes due to an increase in microcracks. The Chinese had two successes with farmyard animal anomalies, but missed the most costly Chinese quake in the 20th century, the Tianjin right at the doorstep of Beijing science academies. Heliem soil anomaly increases seemed promising too. The US funded studies in all these methods. But none ever really predicted another quake. "Prediction" became a nasty joke wordk on scientific resumes. The field dribbled on with more narrow problems such as early warning systems to give 30 seconds or so early notice of damaging seismic waves or tsunamis. And less rigorous "forecasting"- windows of increased probablity rather than a specific prediction.
Yet the prediction effort sunders on. A Greek group claimed ground resistance anomalies associated with quakes, but no one could reproduce their results. A Stanford group saw a magnetic jump just before the large 1989 San Andreas quake, but this was never seen again in later quakes. A Russian group calimed their secretive "circles of probability" method predicted the same quake, but missed other quakes. And ionospheric anomalies, the topic of this slashdot, are startign to be looked at. All these methods have received some funding from government agencies, so its not like they are completely ignored. The USGS had a huge and expensive effort to instrument Parkfield California for a large quake which happens about every 20 years. The quake did happen a dozen years later than expected. There werent any promising anomaly signals.
The most promising method still seems to be previous seismicity and fault mapping. These hint at the possible size and location of earthquakes. Its been known for a century that quakes tend to obey a size-frequency law. That means when you see a persistent swarm of small or medium quakes like in northwest Nevada, central Oklahoma, and eastern Tennessee, is this a sign of something larger to come?
These seismicity data are are online in public databases for anyone to test their pet analysis theory on.
They are like the "Apple of family entertainment" a roller coaster of highs and lows. Some highs:
Musical cartoon (1920s)
Feature length cartoon. (1930s)
Color TV show (1950s)
Family friendly theme park (1950s)
Family movies (1960s)
Revived cartoon musical (1990s)
Pixar, Marvel and LucasFilms (2000s)
If one percent of these survive production scale up, it will be a revolution.
Even if the Clintons skim the top with expensive speeches. Mixed feelings here.
It is just getting started. But if it lives up to its hype it could be interesting.
the corporation" :-)
As corporations acquire more rights of people like unrestricted speech, this makes sense
These agencies often get their environmental research cut during Republican congresses. NASA Earth observing satellites too.
Jail if you download under 18s
Im guessing. Maybe a million titles.
It is thought life evolved in deep ocean near vents. In a hiP hiT environment you dont need many enzymes (protein catalysts) to drive metabolic and protein synthesis reactions. Life then migrated to more hostile environments after evolving enzymes. These hostile environment include hot and cold temperatures, low pressure, solar radiation, free oxygen and parasitic viruses.
I could see in life evolving in the interior ocean of an ice moon in a more hostile solar system. Then evolve mechanisms to survive the more hostile environment.
Either from these public kits or some kid interning at a biomedical lab. Thats when you know DIY is easy.
P.S. I briefly googled to see if there CRISPR science fair projects in 2015, but didnt find anything.
Of a dark site allegedly used for drug trading some years back. They got it from the bitcoin computer files on seized disks. The Australian raid could acquire bitcoin too.
I lost track whether the FBI sold their bitcoin.
Far more important than a name behind the currency. We've found than many basic elements of the currency have survived despite a decent fraction of world computing power analyzing it. And we found some weaknesses which newer cryptocurrencies address.
You get a digest of "most popular posts from your feeds since you last checked". Then the full feed. Plus a sprinkling of ads that resemble your feeds intermixed.
China has been censoring posts for a decade. Posters then create synonyms that mean prohibited topics. Live censors then catch on and the posters create new ones.
Spirit and Opportunity used the same base. Curiosity and MER-2020 use the same tech. Phoenix and Insight-2016 ditto. Some cost savings in make 3 or 4 copies of the same vehicle. The extras are for laboratory backup studies.
Yelp and Trip Advisor are occasional targets of lawsuits by unhappy businesses. But the businesses have to prove both falsehood and harm and tend to lose most of these suits.
Hawking and his competitors argue whether information is lost when matter-energy falls into a black hole. Is information converstion a universal law? A proposed solution is that a copy of anything crossing the event horizon is perserved when something crosses it. The surface area of an event horizon is exactly large enough in Planck units to preserve all the information inside a black hole. Then you can propse some semi-mystical mumbo-jumbo that beacause two regions ofbinformation are idetical, they in fact are identical objects. Now you can take this one step further that this does not only apply to black hole singularities, but white hole singularities such as our own universe. So there is a copy of everything inside universe on the event horizon 13.8 billion light years out, i.e our hologram. And there is no real distinction between the hologram and our universe. This is presented in Susskind's book The Black Hole Wars.
More a limitation of slightly contradictory English words and logic, than an air tight argument. In the mid 20th century there was a movement to claim much of philosophy and thology was wordplay. ButLogical positism is more just a tool in the toolkit now.
Some people worried about living near a high voltage overhead transmission power line- electrostatic fields, RF, and magnetic. Studies generally discounted this, but doubts persist.