Don't discount second generation (algal and microbial) biofuels though. They haven't been perfected yet, but they could effectively combine solar power and organic chemistry production in one.
Which is useful because we still need those organic chemicals to make plastics, if not fuel.
It can be simpler to describe a set of things than a particular member of that set. E.g. the set of real numbers can be described using a handful of axioms, but most members of that set cannot be pinpointed using any finite description.
Given that, Occam's razor could favour a multiverse.
And I find it difficult to imagine a modern composer producing music at the rate and quality that Bach did. Or an organization expecting (and hiring) someone to do so. I don't know if anyone receives the early, focused music training that was routine in musical families at that time.
Of course:) I just think that if physics can be computed, then certainly the brain can, so any fundamental limits on computation apply to the brain too.
I think the brain can also emulate a computer, given enough time (assuming you can get around aging). There might be noise/errors but that's true of computer hardware too, just to a lesser extent, and there are algorithms to reduce it...
Which would make brains and computers fundamentally the same, ignoring the pesky details of mortality and speed.
If you can hear it, it can deafen you. Unless you're talking about neural implants, it all has to go through your cochlear, and that's where the hairs get damaged.
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I mean < 3
In some contexts, 3 is a furry with a pointed hat.
No one has come up with the "database driven file systems" we were all promised years ago
Google Desktop is a database on top of a normal file system which gives a similar effect...
And if we had an alternative energy infrastructure, those things wouldn't even be half true.
Some people are just Luddites.
Don't discount second generation (algal and microbial) biofuels though. They haven't been perfected yet, but they could effectively combine solar power and organic chemistry production in one.
Which is useful because we still need those organic chemicals to make plastics, if not fuel.
It's called TV.
C++ - all the power and flexibility of assembly language combined with the readability and maintainability of assembly language with classes.
(Although some of those boost.org libraries make it look surprisingly like Python.)
The early mob gets the loot!
Unless you use a one handed Dvorak layout...
Technically 'h' should be typed by the right hand.
That would be deverberated (or dereverberated?) Devertebrated means that the vertebrae (back bones) were removed.
You mean, mean vs median. The two coincide for a normal curve anyway (which IQ is usually assumed to be).
But when you hand it in at the police station, what light goes off in the policeman's head?
It can be simpler to describe a set of things than a particular member of that set. E.g. the set of real numbers can be described using a handful of axioms, but most members of that set cannot be pinpointed using any finite description.
Given that, Occam's razor could favour a multiverse.
Sounds like a Far Side :)
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Yes, but he did profit off his talent.
And I find it difficult to imagine a modern composer producing music at the rate and quality that Bach did. Or an organization expecting (and hiring) someone to do so. I don't know if anyone receives the early, focused music training that was routine in musical families at that time.
Bach was paid to write music by the Church.
Of course :) I just think that if physics can be computed, then certainly the brain can, so any fundamental limits on computation apply to the brain too.
I think the brain can also emulate a computer, given enough time (assuming you can get around aging). There might be noise/errors but that's true of computer hardware too, just to a lesser extent, and there are algorithms to reduce it...
Which would make brains and computers fundamentally the same, ignoring the pesky details of mortality and speed.
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The brain is a computer too.
If you can hear it, it can deafen you. Unless you're talking about neural implants, it all has to go through your cochlear, and that's where the hairs get damaged.
At least until the invention of strong AI. But that will obsolete everything else, too :)
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