No matter how far from the airport you put the security, if there is a crowd in line outside that security point, it's vulnerable to attack. The only way to make this impossible is to have a sufficient number of checkpoint personnel that there is never a line. Which is expensive. Too bad.
It's worse than that: the AI in this test won when piloting evenly matched planes. But the weak point in modern fighter jet design is the squishy fragile thing in the cockpit, which can't take more than 8 g-s or so, and not even close to that for negative g-forces. Get rid of the pilot, and you can design a plane whose performance is vastly better than a piloted plane. Now put that AI in it and send it head-to-head against an F-35. No contest.
when you make up the math to prove your point on the fly (which is what all theoretical physics does) its not impressive for the simulation to agree with your prediction
It never ceases to amaze me how violently anti-science a community of self-professed geeks can turn out to be.
This one is quite incorrect. There are plenty of brick-and-mortar stores that died due to the Internet.
And good riddance, most of the time. On rare occasions, I am actually stupid enough to think that it's a reasonable idea to try looking in a brick-and-mortar store for something that would be useful for me today, not in two days from Amazon. Almost always, the brick-and-mortar store doesn't have the thing in stock, but "can order it for me." Why the fuck would I go to the trouble of driving out to the fucking strip mall where the box store is, if I wanted it "ordered"?
Most modern brick-and-mortar stores should just die, with the possible exception of grocery stores.
The UK has strict gun control, which is just as effective as posting "Gun-Free Zone" signs.
The number of gun murders per capita in the US in 2012 was around thirty times that of the UK. Genuinely interested in what you think this difference is down to if not a strong legislative and cultural approach to gun control.
Because the British are a bunch of sheeple, obviously. Free Men murder each other with properly virile gusto.
The last statement in the summary is completely uncalled for.
Ned Wright is known to have a pretty sharp wit. Besides, Myhrvold used his notoriety to grandstand with the press before his work was peer-reviewed, basically calling Wright a moron. I would get a little testy too.
Do we find the science too complicated? Too busy to actually read the papers? Too lazy to do a little digging? Never learned how to do the math? Never mind. We can always pick a side and run down the character of any and all opponents. It's quick. It's easy. It's fun. Science be damned.
Oh, please.
None of us, even the most scientifically sophisticated, is capable of developing sufficient expertise in every field in order to personally judge the scientific merits of technical arguments in highly specialized fields. Maybe one or two such fields, if we work very hard on it. This is why we rely on the opinions of experts. Putting every random crackpot who advances an argument on the same footing as established scientists in the field is false equivalence. Yes, every once in a great while, an outsider can point out an error being made by subject experts. But, 99.999% of the time, they're full of shit. The burden of proof here is on Myhrvold.
But Wright archly noted that Myhrvold once worked at Microsoft, so "is responsible in part for a lot of bad software."
That hurts.
Here's a link to the paper. Seriously, does this guy think the WISE team are a bunch of idiots? I'm personally not qualfied to judge the details of the physical arguments in Myhrvold's paper, but I would give it high probability that he's full of shit.
As of 2004, coal is estimated to have been responsible for 24,000 deaths a year, down to 13,000 by 2010. By contrast, the IAEA and WHO estimate the total number of deaths from Chernobyl, not per year, but total, to be around 4,000:
Until somebody comes up with an open-source Mathematica clone (and manages to survive Wolfram's lawyers), the world will never be 100% open source. Mathematica is unique, and is decades ahead of its nearest equivalent.
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I have to say, this was the most insightful and interesting post I think I have ever seen. Can I follow your Twitter account?
OB Batman.
Now if we could only recall all of the douchebags who think it's cool to ride them. Extra points for vaping at the same time.
No matter how far from the airport you put the security, if there is a crowd in line outside that security point, it's vulnerable to attack. The only way to make this impossible is to have a sufficient number of checkpoint personnel that there is never a line. Which is expensive. Too bad.
Every single one of those items sounds like excellent policy.
Not that anybody in the current political debate in the U.S. gives a fuck about policy, instead of walls and BENGHAZI!
Saying that humans learn from their mistakes flies in the face of most people's experience with human beings.
Doubly so when they get behind the wheel.
Seriously? The Communications Decency Act? How the fuck does registering/taxing hotel rooms violate the Communications Decency Act?
Dear Airbnb: Hotels are regulated for very good reasons. Please fuck off now.
It's worse than that: the AI in this test won when piloting evenly matched planes. But the weak point in modern fighter jet design is the squishy fragile thing in the cockpit, which can't take more than 8 g-s or so, and not even close to that for negative g-forces. Get rid of the pilot, and you can design a plane whose performance is vastly better than a piloted plane. Now put that AI in it and send it head-to-head against an F-35. No contest.
when you make up the math to prove your point on the fly (which is what all theoretical physics does) its not impressive for the simulation to agree with your prediction
It never ceases to amaze me how violently anti-science a community of self-professed geeks can turn out to be.
And hookers?
The fatality rate for general aviation is 82 times that for commercial flight. Are these people utterly insane?
You will respecct mah libertah!
This one is quite incorrect. There are plenty of brick-and-mortar stores that died due to the Internet.
And good riddance, most of the time. On rare occasions, I am actually stupid enough to think that it's a reasonable idea to try looking in a brick-and-mortar store for something that would be useful for me today, not in two days from Amazon. Almost always, the brick-and-mortar store doesn't have the thing in stock, but "can order it for me." Why the fuck would I go to the trouble of driving out to the fucking strip mall where the box store is, if I wanted it "ordered"?
Most modern brick-and-mortar stores should just die, with the possible exception of grocery stores.
The UK has strict gun control, which is just as effective as posting "Gun-Free Zone" signs.
The number of gun murders per capita in the US in 2012 was around thirty times that of the UK. Genuinely interested in what you think this difference is down to if not a strong legislative and cultural approach to gun control.
Because the British are a bunch of sheeple, obviously. Free Men murder each other with properly virile gusto.
Because no thread on any topic is complete without a rant about the Second Amendment.
"inheritance encapsulation and polymorphism"
I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get Elsa to do that.
Or just fly a bunch of balloons, tethered with monofilament.
The burden of proof here is on both sides.
Really. What the fuck does that even mean?
WISE has publicly released its data, and published multiple analysis papers in peer-reviewed journals . What, exactly, more do you expect them to do?
The last statement in the summary is completely uncalled for.
Ned Wright is known to have a pretty sharp wit. Besides, Myhrvold used his notoriety to grandstand with the press before his work was peer-reviewed, basically calling Wright a moron. I would get a little testy too.
Do we find the science too complicated? Too busy to actually read the papers? Too lazy to do a little digging? Never learned how to do the math? Never mind. We can always pick a side and run down the character of any and all opponents. It's quick. It's easy. It's fun. Science be damned.
Oh, please.
None of us, even the most scientifically sophisticated, is capable of developing sufficient expertise in every field in order to personally judge the scientific merits of technical arguments in highly specialized fields. Maybe one or two such fields, if we work very hard on it. This is why we rely on the opinions of experts. Putting every random crackpot who advances an argument on the same footing as established scientists in the field is false equivalence. Yes, every once in a great while, an outsider can point out an error being made by subject experts. But, 99.999% of the time, they're full of shit. The burden of proof here is on Myhrvold.
Sure it isn't arxiv.org?
Whoops. I stand corrected.
But Wright archly noted that Myhrvold once worked at Microsoft, so "is responsible in part for a lot of bad software."
That hurts.
Here's a link to the paper. Seriously, does this guy think the WISE team are a bunch of idiots? I'm personally not qualfied to judge the details of the physical arguments in Myhrvold's paper, but I would give it high probability that he's full of shit.
punching someone is illegal; punching someone in self-defence is **not** - but "regardless of his objective" is somehow a valid statement? C'mon.
Punching someone in the face, unsolicited, to show them how weak their guard is, is not just assault, it's aggravated assault.
Just share with us the massive accidents and all the destruction coal plants have done.
OK. Here's a map of deaths per 100,000 population per year due to coal:
http://www.catf.us/fossil/prob...
As of 2004, coal is estimated to have been responsible for 24,000 deaths a year, down to 13,000 by 2010. By contrast, the IAEA and WHO estimate the total number of deaths from Chernobyl, not per year, but total, to be around 4,000:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre...
Happy to help.
Mathematica.
Until somebody comes up with an open-source Mathematica clone (and manages to survive Wolfram's lawyers), the world will never be 100% open source. Mathematica is unique, and is decades ahead of its nearest equivalent.