A collapse is the same as taking a single statistically random sample from a probability distribution given by the wave function.
This is wrong: the complex amplitude collapses, not just the probability (which is the square of the amplitude, and contains less information). This distinction is the heart of what makes quantum mechanics intrinsically different from classical physics.
Why, for instance, 10 cubic-kilometer voxels? Why not 100, or 1, or 0.1? How about 10^{15} cubic kilometers, which is about the volume of the sun? Adjust this number correctly, and you can match any energy density you want.
This is the problem with the science blogosphere: they'll take any press release whatsoever and echo it around regardless of whether or not it makes any fucking sense at all.
Not to defend Ross Ulbricht, but given what's coming to light, does anybody really doubt that HSBC enabled more drug trafficking than a dozen Silk Roads? And that's not even counting things like the arms trade and tax evasion.
Steal ten thousand dollars and you go to jail for decades. Steal ten billion and you get a slap on the wrist and an engraved invitation to the next campaign fundraising dinner.
The juxtaposition of this article with the previous one on hacking cars made me realize: If you can hack into a self-driving car, you could steal it without having to physically break into it.
Why would you bother to steal it, when you can get one any time you want with an app?
It's hard to say we live in a free country when the government can take such drastic measures on a whim.
Why the fuck do whackjob Libertarians insist on turning literally everything into an argument about "freedom"? There is probably no more classically legitimate function of government than to build and maintain the fucking roads. And maintenance includes closing them off when they're unsafe, so morons trying to exercise their "freedom" don't get themselves (or rescue crews) killed.
It just isn't possible to predict this stuff precisely. But you can't put a travel ban in place once the storm has actually started -- it would be too late. You have to do it pre-emptively for it to be effective.
If the encryption is provided as a black-box by the cloud provider, I will never trust it. Besides, it is brain-dead easy to mount an encfs volume on Dropbox. Just give me disk space. I'll encrypt it myself before you ever see it, ok?
An N of 1800 isn't unacceptable, but the thing is studies like this very often use rigged questions designed to produce the answer the authors want.
The N of the study isn't the only thing affecting the statistical significance. A response rate that low tells you that you very likely have hidden selection bias. In this case, the only people responding might well have been blowhard assholes with nothing better to do than respond to random surveys somebody emailed to them.
Only 6.5% of the 28,210 academics who were contacted provided usable data. But the authors say they corrected for that single-digit response rate, which they note is typical for surveys of academics, by weighting the respondents’ scores.
Everybody likes to blame the decline of bricks-and-mortar retail on the internet, and that may have some truth to it, but I think that a pretty substantial part of the problem is the influence of douchebag MBAs who have turned companies like Radio Shack, Sears, Office Depot, Best Buy, etc. etc. into dystopian hellholes of despair and horror. Try shopping at Sears in the last few years? The fear and desperation are palpable. I can understand in the current economy why the employees might not quit en masse, but why on earth would any customer voluntarily subject themselves to that?
Yeah, and global warming is faked by the left wing media, and vaccines are poison, and municipal water flouridation is a communist plot. Oh, and by the way, you don't really believe that you are anonymous here on/., do you?
Doubting the official line on the Sony hack is hardly the stuff of tinfoil-hat denialism. How's this for a scenario: (1) Garden-variety haxx0rz and/or a disgruntled employee steal a bunch of embarrassing files from Sony -- plenty of motive there -- and dump the files on the web. (2) Some moron in the media starts speculating that it has something to do with an idiotic movie about North Korea, and the echo chamber amplifies it as truth. (3) Haxx0rz, sensing an epic opportunity for lulz, play along with the feeding frenzy in the media with some crazy threats against screening the movie, then sit back and watch the fun as paranoia in the FBI and mindless nationalism in the population do the rest of their work for them.
So you are saying that the only reason that people do anything is for recognition or money?
Are you?
No, I am saying that the people who have an interest in assigning credit for work are the people who provide funding and jobs, because they don't want to provide either funding or jobs to people who are not actually creating new ideas. These are also the people who pay for journal subscriptions, fund conferences and professional societies, and confer degrees.
As far as the people who do the research are concerned, very few of them would be able to continue doing research in the absence of funding. Do you think lab equipment, office space, and staff are free?
Because it allows funding agencies, university tenure committees, etc. to determine which people are contributing useful new science to the world, and which people are dead wood sucking at the teat of an academic salary without creating anything useful to anybody.
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:-) -- My caricature of Muhammad. Please don't kill me.
How about this?
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Is that enough to be blasphemy?
A collapse is the same as taking a single statistically random sample from a probability distribution given by the wave function.
This is wrong: the complex amplitude collapses, not just the probability (which is the square of the amplitude, and contains less information). This distinction is the heart of what makes quantum mechanics intrinsically different from classical physics.
Why, for instance, 10 cubic-kilometer voxels? Why not 100, or 1, or 0.1? How about 10^{15} cubic kilometers, which is about the volume of the sun? Adjust this number correctly, and you can match any energy density you want.
This is the problem with the science blogosphere: they'll take any press release whatsoever and echo it around regardless of whether or not it makes any fucking sense at all.
... somebody exploits this to write malware that's truly a bitch to reverse-engineer.
Not to defend Ross Ulbricht, but given what's coming to light, does anybody really doubt that HSBC enabled more drug trafficking than a dozen Silk Roads? And that's not even counting things like the arms trade and tax evasion.
Steal ten thousand dollars and you go to jail for decades. Steal ten billion and you get a slap on the wrist and an engraved invitation to the next campaign fundraising dinner.
The juxtaposition of this article with the previous one on hacking cars made me realize: If you can hack into a self-driving car, you could steal it without having to physically break into it.
Why would you bother to steal it, when you can get one any time you want with an app?
Estrogen replacement therapy in women (about the closest equivalent to testosterone therapy in men) was shown to increase the risk of breast cancer.
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. People get old, and there is no magic bullet to stop it.
I for one welcome our testosterone-enhanced geriatric libertarian overlords!
It's hard to say we live in a free country when the government can take such drastic measures on a whim.
Why the fuck do whackjob Libertarians insist on turning literally everything into an argument about "freedom"? There is probably no more classically legitimate function of government than to build and maintain the fucking roads. And maintenance includes closing them off when they're unsafe, so morons trying to exercise their "freedom" don't get themselves (or rescue crews) killed.
For fuck's sake.
It just isn't possible to predict this stuff precisely. But you can't put a travel ban in place once the storm has actually started -- it would be too late. You have to do it pre-emptively for it to be effective.
If the encryption is provided as a black-box by the cloud provider, I will never trust it. Besides, it is brain-dead easy to mount an encfs volume on Dropbox. Just give me disk space. I'll encrypt it myself before you ever see it, ok?
An N of 1800 isn't unacceptable, but the thing is studies like this very often use rigged questions designed to produce the answer the authors want.
The N of the study isn't the only thing affecting the statistical significance. A response rate that low tells you that you very likely have hidden selection bias. In this case, the only people responding might well have been blowhard assholes with nothing better to do than respond to random surveys somebody emailed to them.
From TFA:
Only 6.5% of the 28,210 academics who were contacted provided usable data. But the authors say they corrected for that single-digit response rate, which they note is typical for surveys of academics, by weighting the respondents’ scores.
Translation: the study is total bullshit.
This article sums it up pretty well.
Everybody likes to blame the decline of bricks-and-mortar retail on the internet, and that may have some truth to it, but I think that a pretty substantial part of the problem is the influence of douchebag MBAs who have turned companies like Radio Shack, Sears, Office Depot, Best Buy, etc. etc. into dystopian hellholes of despair and horror. Try shopping at Sears in the last few years? The fear and desperation are palpable. I can understand in the current economy why the employees might not quit en masse, but why on earth would any customer voluntarily subject themselves to that?
Look at it like this: The only effective counter to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. There are more good people than bad people.
The problem isn't good people with guns vs bad people with guns. The problem is stupid people with guns.
If they are really that important: there ought to be an interlock that means that they will only fly if there is a 5 star general strapped on board.
Or Slim Pickens.
Yeah, and global warming is faked by the left wing media, and vaccines are poison, and municipal water flouridation is a communist plot. Oh, and by the way, you don't really believe that you are anonymous here on /., do you?
Doubting the official line on the Sony hack is hardly the stuff of tinfoil-hat denialism. How's this for a scenario: (1) Garden-variety haxx0rz and/or a disgruntled employee steal a bunch of embarrassing files from Sony -- plenty of motive there -- and dump the files on the web. (2) Some moron in the media starts speculating that it has something to do with an idiotic movie about North Korea, and the echo chamber amplifies it as truth. (3) Haxx0rz, sensing an epic opportunity for lulz, play along with the feeding frenzy in the media with some crazy threats against screening the movie, then sit back and watch the fun as paranoia in the FBI and mindless nationalism in the population do the rest of their work for them.
Couldn't be.
I've seen the flag-on-the-truck thing many times - never seen a confederate flag.
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I rest my case.
No, it's the big flag he stuck in the pickup bed 13 years ago
Confederate flag.
Everyone should watch this movie just as an act of patriotism.
You really think it was the North Koreans who did the Sony hack?
Sucker. Enjoy the crappy movie.
Your cat thinks your a moron, and is going to poop in your headphones.
Long overdue. Time for cigars and mojitos all around!
Oh, come on. Somebody mod parent "funny".
So you are saying that the only reason that people do anything is for recognition or money?
Are you?
No, I am saying that the people who have an interest in assigning credit for work are the people who provide funding and jobs, because they don't want to provide either funding or jobs to people who are not actually creating new ideas. These are also the people who pay for journal subscriptions, fund conferences and professional societies, and confer degrees.
As far as the people who do the research are concerned, very few of them would be able to continue doing research in the absence of funding. Do you think lab equipment, office space, and staff are free?
Why does anyone need 'credit' for ideas?
Because it allows funding agencies, university tenure committees, etc. to determine which people are contributing useful new science to the world, and which people are dead wood sucking at the teat of an academic salary without creating anything useful to anybody.