This book is about the life cycle of failed relationships. The path to divorce may start earlier than the wedding. Learn if some patterns apply to you. Some concepts revolve around distribution of information about the relationship among the couple. The book is not written by a psychologist who may be tempted to offer explanations, but by a sociologist who - in a curious unity of neutral, objective, indifferent yet compassionate discussion - analyzes a high number of uncouplings and highlight patterns of events and information flow. The book is thus compatible with analytical thinking, while its narration style might be interesting for the literary. Spirituality, commonplaces, broilerplate folksy advice or upbeat can-do encouragement are not found here. Considering the wealth of information, conclusions and advice are kept to precious short phrases, which is a merit of the book considering its stance and how little we know about ourselves.
Most game characters are there to slaughter or be slaughtered. Most games are violent and they are more prominent when weighting by sales. I am glad to hear that children are underrepresented. Now I already don't play FPS and gangster games, though they are reported to be a lot of fun with free-roaming worlds, complex AI etc. The violence part is at best an unnecessary distraction.
Maybe he accidentally visited some dating sites... perhaps filled out some forms for curiosity... then the smart AI determined who his ideal match would be.
It kept the obsolete defense to surprise scientists who then popularize and study it, therefore lowering its chance of going extinct from some remaining threat.
And your message contradicts to the P how?
Maybe public healthcare there is something to do with high volume with taxpayer funds, which lead to overworked, underpaid doctors who for this reason are self-chosen for their willingness to put up with it while the decent ones go private.
Or it leads to parasolvency as in the former Socialist countries which has the advantage that it helps keep decent doctors around.
A governing political party will not lose the next election due to substandard or inhuman public healthcare. But it will lose if it increases taxes to cover (badly attributed) funding needs.
In Hungary, the political death of the current governing party was when it introduced a co-payment fee, which was intended to keep those away who have plenty of time and just go for a chatter with the doctor and the other gossiping patients sharing the lengthy waits. The co-payment fee became the subject of a national ballot (which itself cost more than a year's worth of co-payment at stake) where the majority of voters rejected it.
The co-payment in question was going to be a little over $1 with lots of exceptions. The party trying to introduce it is on its way to become a political fringe while its former coalition partner can't get enough votes to get at least one member into the Parliament.
This was a reference to the root value of the double-blind test: excluding as much bias as possible. That itself reflects some knowledge of the psyche.
The idea behind a series of speed bumps is nothing to do with braking before each (and then accelerate) but to keep a steady slow place throughout.
It is interesting that braking before a speed bumper is taken for granted.
Read Summa Technologiae (non-fiction) if you want to read about futurology forecasts that are very competitive with those of the current thought leaders - Ray Kurzweil, Hans Moravec, de Grey, Vinge, Vita-More, Gibson, Dennett, Hofstadter etc. - only making these in 1963 when the exponential growth and Moore's law (or the transistor!) were not common sense. I would be interested in what topics other readers found interesting in this book.
the future belongs to parallel execution, more threads, lower clock. Today's chips will be considered overclocked. Compare a chip with a brain. More processors with lower performance each will beat a few "overclocked" processors. I'm talking about the future, not the current crappy power management.
Yes, here's an idea. You have to lock in an insurance rate for your baby prior to conceiving the baby. Then it is uncertain what the phenotypes will be. Not quite, you may say: some parents are more likely to conceive a child with certain predispositions than others, especially if both parents pass on the same risk. That's alright though: you will get a quote based on the genetic merit of you two as prospective parents. That'll be part of the overall marriage deal the same way other financial aspects are. You will get an insurance discount if you are willing to subject the embryo to genetic testing. While all these sound cruel, some would have a problem with making them pay for others' reckless procreation. The other thing is, it's inevitable. There's no such thing as discovering an important correlation and then not using it for economic benefit, whether we like it or not.
Maybe several hundred connection lines between any two "cores" or memory banks would do, in which casse the edge traces to align with can be orders of magnitude wider, making the alignment possible.
This needs one large cooler instead of hundreds of smaller ones.
You can do something useful with the concentrated heat, for example provide hot water. Better than letting it go useless.
But I think a good tradeoff would be to lower the frequency an order of magnitude, and use the massive parallelism - hundreds or thousands of cores on a die. Better, make it fully three-dimensional for a massive explosion of processing units. The brain is large and is 3D and still does not get really hot.
Instead of goofing around with connections, why not build a chip occupying the entire 300mm wafer? Any local manufacturing problem would disable just one specific core out of the hundreds of cores on the wafer-chip. Isn't it done already? Cell, AMD tri-core, old celerons...
Even the memory could be on the wafer, or at worst, one wafer for the cores and one for the memory, vertically stacked with through-silicon vias.
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This book is about the life cycle of failed relationships. The path to divorce may start earlier than the wedding. Learn if some patterns apply to you. Some concepts revolve around distribution of information about the relationship among the couple. The book is not written by a psychologist who may be tempted to offer explanations, but by a sociologist who - in a curious unity of neutral, objective, indifferent yet compassionate discussion - analyzes a high number of uncouplings and highlight patterns of events and information flow. The book is thus compatible with analytical thinking, while its narration style might be interesting for the literary. Spirituality, commonplaces, broilerplate folksy advice or upbeat can-do encouragement are not found here. Considering the wealth of information, conclusions and advice are kept to precious short phrases, which is a merit of the book considering its stance and how little we know about ourselves.
http://www.amazon.com/Uncoupling-Turning-Points-Intimate-Relationships/dp/0679730028
Most game characters are there to slaughter or be slaughtered. Most games are violent and they are more prominent when weighting by sales. I am glad to hear that children are underrepresented. Now I already don't play FPS and gangster games, though they are reported to be a lot of fun with free-roaming worlds, complex AI etc. The violence part is at best an unnecessary distraction.
this applies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_disease The defense of the immune system: diarrhea. Treatment: let it go and drink a lot.
Maybe he accidentally visited some dating sites... perhaps filled out some forms for curiosity... then the smart AI determined who his ideal match would be.
It kept the obsolete defense to surprise scientists who then popularize and study it, therefore lowering its chance of going extinct from some remaining threat.
And your message contradicts to the P how? Maybe public healthcare there is something to do with high volume with taxpayer funds, which lead to overworked, underpaid doctors who for this reason are self-chosen for their willingness to put up with it while the decent ones go private. Or it leads to parasolvency as in the former Socialist countries which has the advantage that it helps keep decent doctors around. A governing political party will not lose the next election due to substandard or inhuman public healthcare. But it will lose if it increases taxes to cover (badly attributed) funding needs. In Hungary, the political death of the current governing party was when it introduced a co-payment fee, which was intended to keep those away who have plenty of time and just go for a chatter with the doctor and the other gossiping patients sharing the lengthy waits. The co-payment fee became the subject of a national ballot (which itself cost more than a year's worth of co-payment at stake) where the majority of voters rejected it. The co-payment in question was going to be a little over $1 with lots of exceptions. The party trying to introduce it is on its way to become a political fringe while its former coalition partner can't get enough votes to get at least one member into the Parliament.
This was a reference to the root value of the double-blind test: excluding as much bias as possible. That itself reflects some knowledge of the psyche.
The idea behind a series of speed bumps is nothing to do with braking before each (and then accelerate) but to keep a steady slow place throughout. It is interesting that braking before a speed bumper is taken for granted.
Read Summa Technologiae (non-fiction) if you want to read about futurology forecasts that are very competitive with those of the current thought leaders - Ray Kurzweil, Hans Moravec, de Grey, Vinge, Vita-More, Gibson, Dennett, Hofstadter etc. - only making these in 1963 when the exponential growth and Moore's law (or the transistor!) were not common sense. I would be interested in what topics other readers found interesting in this book.
Whoever confuses Dennett with Penrose already has a quantum mind.
the future belongs to parallel execution, more threads, lower clock. Today's chips will be considered overclocked. Compare a chip with a brain. More processors with lower performance each will beat a few "overclocked" processors. I'm talking about the future, not the current crappy power management.
Outlaw all electric heaters that heat using a resistance rather than microprocessors. Make heaters work with a WAN connection only.
Yes, here's an idea. You have to lock in an insurance rate for your baby prior to conceiving the baby. Then it is uncertain what the phenotypes will be. Not quite, you may say: some parents are more likely to conceive a child with certain predispositions than others, especially if both parents pass on the same risk. That's alright though: you will get a quote based on the genetic merit of you two as prospective parents. That'll be part of the overall marriage deal the same way other financial aspects are. You will get an insurance discount if you are willing to subject the embryo to genetic testing. While all these sound cruel, some would have a problem with making them pay for others' reckless procreation. The other thing is, it's inevitable. There's no such thing as discovering an important correlation and then not using it for economic benefit, whether we like it or not.
Maybe several hundred connection lines between any two "cores" or memory banks would do, in which casse the edge traces to align with can be orders of magnitude wider, making the alignment possible.
This needs one large cooler instead of hundreds of smaller ones. You can do something useful with the concentrated heat, for example provide hot water. Better than letting it go useless. But I think a good tradeoff would be to lower the frequency an order of magnitude, and use the massive parallelism - hundreds or thousands of cores on a die. Better, make it fully three-dimensional for a massive explosion of processing units. The brain is large and is 3D and still does not get really hot.
Instead of goofing around with connections, why not build a chip occupying the entire 300mm wafer? Any local manufacturing problem would disable just one specific core out of the hundreds of cores on the wafer-chip. Isn't it done already? Cell, AMD tri-core, old celerons... Even the memory could be on the wafer, or at worst, one wafer for the cores and one for the memory, vertically stacked with through-silicon vias.