Their pay ranges from $77K for a humanities assistant prof to $366K for a med school full professor. A science/engineering fill prof earns $180K on average. Some double their salaries consulting up to 20% of their time. elite schools pay more. Institutions in S.F./Silicon Valley pay more.
The Italian court assembled an international panel of nine expert seismologists to write a report on the current state of earthquake prediction. The US representative was USC professor Thomas Jordan who runs the Southern California Earthquake Center. I heard him summarize this report in Golden Colorado last month. ironically it was few days following the Colorado and Virgina quakes.
Seismologists mostly prefer using the term "forecasting" instead of prediction for couple reasons. First, forecasting presents a spread of probabilities like they do in weather. The concept of prediction has a more binary outcome: either it occurs or does not- a subtle semantic difference, but more significant psychologically. Second, the term prediction has acquired a bad reputation in seismology, akin to "cold fusion" in physics. This is because the world spent a lot of effort trying to replicate alleged Russian and Chinese successful predictions reported in the 1970s, but with no success.
Tom mainly talked about how to evaluate and present forecasts, not the prediction techniques themselves. This is where the Italian seismologist may have been behind the current practice. But not to the point of criminal negligence as Italian prosecutors contend.
As regards to techniques, previous seismicity and increases in that have been and still are the most favored method. GPS ground strains, electromagnetic, radon, animals etc have not panned out.
Thats kind of why the Kepler Consortium suggests hundreds of "candidate" planets to be verfied by further study. Its estimated there may be alternative hypotheses explaining the light curves of 5% - 20% of the candidates.
This planet had an orbit of 229 days. Kepler ideally desires three transits with two equal intervals to call it planet candidate. Kepler's observing duration is approaching the length where it could start detecting Earth-year planets now. The alternative experiments havent had enough sensitivity or duration to detect many Earth-year planets. Earth-year planets are likely to be in the habitable zone of G-type stars like the Sun.
I thought the next big Kepler data dump would be September 23 2011, after many of the preliminary papers had been published.
It contains both original fottage from 30 years ago and recent interviews with participants.
I was amazed with the parallels with Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
The Nim Project was designed to replicate/test Washoe's results. But its results were used to repudiate ape language. Both experiments had tantalizing result and major procedural flaws.
Nim like Washoe could read and manipulate human emotions pretty well. But he could not control his own.
Its not that science is decided by the consensus of the majority, but that the lone-wolf granted convincing evidence can change the mind of the majority. I've seen old paradigms turned over many times in my lifetime. Sometimes this takes decades, even waiting for the stubborn blockheads to die off, but it happens.
Take over the cars going in the cross direction so they let me through.
(We have enough people here with red light remote controls.)
(Urban legend has it that many auto functions are already remote control hackable.)
The computer that "takes over the world" wont come from a mad scientist's workshop or the military-industrial complex. Instead it will emerge out of Wall Street. There are few stronger motives for Artificial Intelligence than to make lots of money.
before certifying Soyuz of US astronaut transport. That makes a pretty tight schedule for staffing the Space Station. The last Soyuz lifeboat on the ISS loses its safety rating in November. Soyuzes are given a 200 day safety lifetime mainly due to life-support supplies.
They advertised in the back of comic books. A couple dollars a month got a incremental kit every month for a year. The bulk of it was an electronic subsystem progressing through amplifiers until built a whole ham radio. I remember a dry ice cloud chamber too. Good enough to help me get into M.I.T.
I am jealous of what kids got today. All the science kits have been dumbed down for safety reasons, I'd be hacking together computers and software. Which I do now.
Hegel's dialectics and class struggles are a framework for interpreting PAST history. However these were descriptive, not predictive, i.e. not quite science. Wishful thinkers who declared socialism or liberal democracies were the NEXT BEST THING seemed to overshot the part. Perhaps a century from now the authoritarian capitalism of east Asia may turn out to be the winner. Then it may have its heyday and be supplanted by some else.
Help explain why the 2010 oil spill disappeared fairly quickly in 85 degree Gulf of Mexico water and slowly in 40 degree Prince William Sound water in 1989. Maybe the ambient microbes matter too.
Ken suggested that small, bottom up skunkworks are more productive than massive managed software projects. This certainly changed how we did things over a decade ago. The compromise between the two methodolgies is Agile.
Doug was in my Chinese-1 class at Stanford in 1976. I think he was chilling out at his Stanford Prof Dad's house after just finishing his physics PhD and working on his book. I think Doug was exploring the Whorf-Sapir-Heinlein hypothesis that language influences how you think. Chinese was the most radically different language from English you could readily study at the time. I was interested in Chinese philosophical classics in the original (a level I never reached).
Anyways, Doug gave me this clever little vignettes he was writing that reminded me of the mathematical puzzles in Scientific America because I was one of the few techies in the Chinese class. I never guess these would win the Pulizer non-fiction prize and become a computer classic.
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Their pay ranges from $77K for a humanities assistant prof to $366K for a med school full professor. A science/engineering fill prof earns $180K on average. Some double their salaries consulting up to 20% of their time. elite schools pay more. Institutions in S.F./Silicon Valley pay more.
Who would do a thing like that?
The Italian court assembled an international panel of nine expert seismologists to write a report on the current state of earthquake prediction. The US representative was USC professor Thomas Jordan who runs the Southern California Earthquake Center. I heard him summarize this report in Golden Colorado last month. ironically it was few days following the Colorado and Virgina quakes.
Seismologists mostly prefer using the term "forecasting" instead of prediction for couple reasons. First, forecasting presents a spread of probabilities like they do in weather. The concept of prediction has a more binary outcome: either it occurs or does not- a subtle semantic difference, but more significant psychologically. Second, the term prediction has acquired a bad reputation in seismology, akin to "cold fusion" in physics. This is because the world spent a lot of effort trying to replicate alleged Russian and Chinese successful predictions reported in the 1970s, but with no success.
Tom mainly talked about how to evaluate and present forecasts, not the prediction techniques themselves. This is where the Italian seismologist may have been behind the current practice. But not to the point of criminal negligence as Italian prosecutors contend.
As regards to techniques, previous seismicity and increases in that have been and still are the most favored method. GPS ground strains, electromagnetic, radon, animals etc have not panned out.
Thats kind of why the Kepler Consortium suggests hundreds of "candidate" planets to be verfied by further study. Its estimated there may be alternative hypotheses explaining the light curves of 5% - 20% of the candidates.
This planet had an orbit of 229 days. Kepler ideally desires three transits with two equal intervals to call it planet candidate. Kepler's observing duration is approaching the length where it could start detecting Earth-year planets now. The alternative experiments havent had enough sensitivity or duration to detect many Earth-year planets. Earth-year planets are likely to be in the habitable zone of G-type stars like the Sun.
I thought the next big Kepler data dump would be September 23 2011, after many of the preliminary papers had been published.
It contains both original fottage from 30 years ago and recent interviews with participants.
I was amazed with the parallels with Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
The Nim Project was designed to replicate/test Washoe's results. But its results were used to repudiate ape language. Both experiments had tantalizing result and major procedural flaws.
Nim like Washoe could read and manipulate human emotions pretty well. But he could not control his own.
Some could jump ship to more lucrative startups.
MicroSoft has been down this road several times before,trying to close their system. You'd think they would have learned by now.
An improvement over Windows which took nine years to copy properly
Google has a history of homegrown languages. If few elsewhere in the world dont adopt it, then its not going to prosper.
Its not that science is decided by the consensus of the majority, but that the lone-wolf granted convincing evidence can change the mind of the majority. I've seen old paradigms turned over many times in my lifetime. Sometimes this takes decades, even waiting for the stubborn blockheads to die off, but it happens.
Take over the cars going in the cross direction so they let me through.
(We have enough people here with red light remote controls.)
(Urban legend has it that many auto functions are already remote control hackable.)
The computer that "takes over the world" wont come from a mad scientist's workshop or the military-industrial complex. Instead it will emerge out of Wall Street. There are few stronger motives for Artificial Intelligence than to make lots of money.
And through off the computers.
But it has fallen through cracks after the takeover.
Google may have both the most expensive and efficient supercomputer on the planet. This is not contradictory, just huge.
before certifying Soyuz of US astronaut transport. That makes a pretty tight schedule for staffing the Space Station. The last Soyuz lifeboat on the ISS loses its safety rating in November. Soyuzes are given a 200 day safety lifetime mainly due to life-support supplies.
Because the "knowledge industry" is so large these days it makes a measurable impact on natural resources and the GDP.
I'd like to see a comparison to the energy usage in producing a days consumption of food or living in a house. Those numbers are nto small either.
They advertised in the back of comic books. A couple dollars a month got a incremental kit every month for a year. The bulk of it was an electronic subsystem progressing through amplifiers until built a whole ham radio. I remember a dry ice cloud chamber too. Good enough to help me get into M.I.T.
I am jealous of what kids got today. All the science kits have been dumbed down for safety reasons, I'd be hacking together computers and software. Which I do now.
Hegel's dialectics and class struggles are a framework for interpreting PAST history. However these were descriptive, not predictive, i.e. not quite science. Wishful thinkers who declared socialism or liberal democracies were the NEXT BEST THING seemed to overshot the part. Perhaps a century from now the authoritarian capitalism of east Asia may turn out to be the winner. Then it may have its heyday and be supplanted by some else.
How far they went over what kind of surfaces. Not all the that may have been determinable from the films and telemetry.
Some of us are still waiting :-)
Help explain why the 2010 oil spill disappeared fairly quickly in 85 degree Gulf of Mexico water and slowly in 40 degree Prince William Sound water in 1989. Maybe the ambient microbes matter too.
Ken suggested that small, bottom up skunkworks are more productive than massive managed software projects. This certainly changed how we did things over a decade ago. The compromise between the two methodolgies is Agile.
Doug was in my Chinese-1 class at Stanford in 1976. I think he was chilling out at his Stanford Prof Dad's house after just finishing his physics PhD and working on his book. I think Doug was exploring the Whorf-Sapir-Heinlein hypothesis that language influences how you think. Chinese was the most radically different language from English you could readily study at the time. I was interested in Chinese philosophical classics in the original (a level I never reached).
Anyways, Doug gave me this clever little vignettes he was writing that reminded me of the mathematical puzzles in Scientific America because I was one of the few techies in the Chinese class. I never guess these would win the Pulizer non-fiction prize and become a computer classic.