... It is fine for a monkey to hand us the works of Shakespeare now, if there has been infinite time already for him and his friends to bang on typewriters, but if they've only had 14 billion years so far, we might have to suppose they at least read the Cliff Notes....
It would not actually be Shakespeare's works. The phenominon is called "Noise Aliasing". Look it up...
The question is not what language you use, but do you know more than one? If you only have learned one language you are limited, both in your capabilities and in your way of thinking. It is known that languages effect the modes of thinking that people use. If you have not learned other languages you might not be -able- to think in other ways.
Outside of a database, how else do you effectively and in a reasonable amount of time identify someone who is unfit to buy a weapon at a point of sale? Give them an ad hoc mental examination? Ask them nicely if they have a history of criminal violence? Lie detector test? A database is more effective than anything else to do this.
Keep a database of the Criminals, fine. Keep a database of the honest citizens, very dangerous. If you can't see the difference, then you have your eyes closed...
..."Monkeys do better than people in the stock market" - I'm sure they did lots of market research beforehand though.
A surprising number of people get exited when it's high and buy stocks, and then get scared when it is low and sell it all. To quote an old phrase "Buy Low, Sell High".
One problem with the interpretations of the scan data, is that few of the medical doctors really understand computers.
We can understand that code in a subroutine can be used by many different apps. But the doctors, at least in the past, seem to assume each section of the brain has a fixed operation. Like a dedicated forming press in a factory. These areas are much more like a milling machine, able to adapt to many operations within a range of options.
The human brain is the most powerful computer that we know, and we don't have the specs or manual. Imagine trying to figure out the main computer in a crashed UFO ! No wonder they are a little lost... 8-)
A good electric motor with electronic controls should be able to work as both drive and brake. The differences in motor design vs generator design are mostly due to the lack of good electronic controls. But designing the electronic controls for this bike will be a big job and they are right to put it off until later.
It looks like they have the people to do it, it will just take time. It is done for the cars, but the bikes are a new application.
They would need motors in both wheels, though, for braking. I wonder if there is any advantage in having drive motors in both wheels? I suppose the best arrangement would be one motor, with regular hand breaks on both wheels. For safety backup and sudden breaking.
You know, it is possible to use the racing positiuon on a cruser bike. Your arms are not in as good a position, for that, as on a racer. But to use the upright position on a racer, you have to let go of the handlebars. -Not- a good idea, on normal roads with bumps.
I think the racer bikes are used mainly because people think bike racing is cool. But I am an engineer, and my idea of cool is different...
The thing that surprises me, is the difficulty of getting permanant status after completing graduate school.
My friend has been a productive member of the US working class, and depending on how things with applications, has a 1 in 3 chance of staying here. It makes no sense to me, because it seems like the opposite effect of a brain drain, people come here, get educated, then are sent home.
I would guess that, in the past, a lot of students were sent here by governments or companies back home. If the students got permanant visas on graduation, meny of those would not return home. And, the governments and companies would not send students here to the schools. It is likely that the schools themselves convinced the politicians to make that law...
Actually the grass IS greener here in the USA. The USA has huge sections of untouched land that is some of the greenest grass around.
Sadly you cant afford to own any of it, because the rich have intentionally suppressed wages way down so that tech employees could never hope to afford to own land.
You live too close to the city! City land is expensive, that's true anywhere. Get out of the cities, they are dying anyway...
The answer is different for different IDEs. Some are made to be stupidly easy, for beginners. Some are made to fill in gaps in professional systems. Most are just stopgaps. As said here, an IDE can help both beginners and professionals. But they can hurt people trying to get from the former to the latter.
To work for both, IDEs need this:
Help the programmer to make modules quickly, as generating with templates. The generation should be driven by setups such as dictionary definitions. Allow the programmer to modify the modules as necessary, using the method they prefer. Help the programmer to find the defined symbols and structures and cross check for errors. Be able to repeat the generation many times over the life of the app, without loosing the mods. Be able to link in modules generated in other ways, as in external source, DLLs or APIs. Use modules in more than one language. Use different databases and file types in the same app. Generate fully linked native code, as well as other scripts. Allow the programmer to write new template scrips to generate specialized modules, and derive them from existing templates. Have robust third-party add-ons available to expand capabilities. Have a Debugger that can show you what is happening from source level down to assembler and Hex level.
I use the Clarion rapid application development system. It is not perfect, but it at least makes a start at all of these.
It keeps the application information in specialized databases for the app modules and the dictionary. It has an embed editor that shows you the source but enters your new code into the app database, so it is included on the next make. Or the next edit. But it also has a text editor for looking at the generated (or external) source. The proprietary Clarion language has native types for tables, queues and dynamically assigned strings. But it also has compilers for small modules in C/C++, Modula-2 and Assembler. And it re-generates changed modules on every make before the compile and link. Fast.
... My conclusion essentially made the argument that "Although individual improbable events are unlikely, the shear number of opportunities to experience an improbable event on a day to day basis are staggering." Any specific improbable event is highly unlikely to occur, but the occurrence of improbable events in general is a practical certainty....
That is basically the description of "Murphy's Law". Which, contrary to some opinions, is -not- a joke.
Before Microsoft owned the world, back about 1974 (I think), they sold the best BASIC language software there was. It was a code image for the CP/M OS. But it needed more memory than most microcomputers had at the time, so they came up with an idea to make their own Dynamic Memory board and bundle it with the BASIC software.
Unfortunatly, the boards did not work. But they sold them anyway. In fact, Microsoft said that they would not sell Basic except with the Memory board. So people that needed the BASIC had to buy a board that everyone knew did not work, then buy expensive static memory boards from someone else.
We were in college at the time, and decided to find out what was wrong with the boards. The best we could determine (since dynamic memory was still experimental at that time) was that the skew in the strobe pulses had them out of timing when they got to the chips. So, we tried to redesign the board, cutting and jumpering runs and adding different control chips. But the memory chips themselves did not work in a way that could be made to operate on the S-100 bus protocol.
Either none were ever tested by Microsoft, or they failed and were sold anyway.
So far as I know, none of the Microsoft Dynamic Memory boards ever worked, for anyone. It would have been news in the industry!
But Microsoft continued to refuse to sell BASIC unless you bought one of the boards, until they were gone. Somewhere there are buried hundreds of Microsoft 4K Dynamic Memory boards, that never worked.
There were stories about it in copies of BYTE Magazine of the time, I think. (Or maybe it was an earlier magazine.)
When he says "So we forced it upon them" "We drove them to it with goads in their sides", then you know he needs an "attitude ajustment"! With a... well, nevermind.
Put it another way: do you choose the general by seeing which soldier is best at using a rifle?
Of course, ideally he should know the notions of what a rifle is...
Not necessarily "best", although some were/are. But they should know at least enough to recognize that waving one around wildly, is not a good thing. And maybe even be good enough to hit what they aim at, if it's close. Visiting the troops and accidentily shooting one, is not going to inspire confidence!
The shareholders in his example would be the taxpaying citizenry.
Clearly the employees are the one who generate the profits.
Not completely true. If the employees could generate profits without the company, then they would. Some can, and some do! But for those that can't, the company is necessary. And those who can create successful companies deserve big rewards, to get them to create more. Of course, that doesn't mean that every rich person can create new companies, or deserves big pay. I see a lot of "I don't like big companies, so lets beat up the small companies!", and I think that is very bad for all of us.
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... It is fine for a monkey to hand us the works of Shakespeare now, if there has been infinite time already for him and his friends to bang on typewriters, but if they've only had 14 billion years so far, we might have to suppose they at least read the Cliff Notes. ...
It would not actually be Shakespeare's works. The phenominon is called "Noise Aliasing". Look it up...
How much is infinity divided by infinity?
42, of course.
No, that's wrong. Any electronics tech knows the answer is 47.
The question is not what language you use, but do you know more than one? If you only have learned one language you are limited, both in your capabilities and in your way of thinking. It is known that languages effect the modes of thinking that people use. If you have not learned other languages you might not be -able- to think in other ways.
Applies to spoken languages as well...
So basically criminals don't care about breaking the law, therefore we shouldn't have any laws and should just pack guns.
You miss the point. Laws give the police the right to arrest the criminals, after the crime. But laws do not stop any crimes.
Outside of a database, how else do you effectively and in a reasonable amount of time identify someone who is unfit to buy a weapon at a point of sale? Give them an ad hoc mental examination? Ask them nicely if they have a history of criminal violence? Lie detector test? A database is more effective than anything else to do this.
Keep a database of the Criminals, fine. Keep a database of the honest citizens, very dangerous. If you can't see the difference, then you have your eyes closed...
Bit coin is stupid because it can't expand and shrink to fit economic use. ...
Actually, that's one of it's advantages. Paper money is regularly inflated by governments to make a hidden tax. They can't do that with BitCoin.
A surprising number of people get exited when it's high and buy stocks, and then get scared when it is low and sell it all. To quote an old phrase "Buy Low, Sell High".
One problem with the interpretations of the scan data, is that few of the medical doctors really understand computers.
We can understand that code in a subroutine can be used by many different apps. But the doctors, at least in the past, seem to assume each section of the brain has a fixed operation. Like a dedicated forming press in a factory. These areas are much more like a milling machine, able to adapt to many operations within a range of options.
The human brain is the most powerful computer that we know, and we don't have the specs or manual. Imagine trying to figure out the main computer in a crashed UFO ! No wonder they are a little lost... 8-)
A good electric motor with electronic controls should be able to work as both drive and brake. The differences in motor design vs generator design are mostly due to the lack of good electronic controls. But designing the electronic controls for this bike will be a big job and they are right to put it off until later.
It looks like they have the people to do it, it will just take time. It is done for the cars, but the bikes are a new application.
They would need motors in both wheels, though, for braking. I wonder if there is any advantage in having drive motors in both wheels?
I suppose the best arrangement would be one motor, with regular hand breaks on both wheels. For safety backup and sudden breaking.
You know, it is possible to use the racing positiuon on a cruser bike. Your arms are not in as good a position, for that, as on a racer. But to use the upright position on a racer, you have to let go of the handlebars. -Not- a good idea, on normal roads with bumps.
I think the racer bikes are used mainly because people think bike racing is cool. But I am an engineer, and my idea of cool is different...
The thing that surprises me, is the difficulty of getting permanant status after completing graduate school.
My friend has been a productive member of the US working class, and depending on how things with applications, has a 1 in 3 chance of staying here. It makes no sense to me, because it seems like the opposite effect of a brain drain, people come here, get educated, then are sent home.
I would guess that, in the past, a lot of students were sent here by governments or companies back home. If the students got permanant visas on graduation, meny of those would not return home. And, the governments and companies would not send students here to the schools.
It is likely that the schools themselves convinced the politicians to make that law...
... almost nobody owns land in the USA.
I think this one might be a troll...
Actually the grass IS greener here in the USA. The USA has huge sections of untouched land that is some of the greenest grass around.
Sadly you cant afford to own any of it, because the rich have intentionally suppressed wages way down so that tech employees could never hope to afford to own land.
You live too close to the city! City land is expensive, that's true anywhere.
Get out of the cities, they are dying anyway...
The answer is different for different IDEs. Some are made to be stupidly easy, for beginners. Some are made to fill in gaps in professional systems. Most are just stopgaps.
As said here, an IDE can help both beginners and professionals. But they can hurt people trying to get from the former to the latter.
To work for both, IDEs need this:
Help the programmer to make modules quickly, as generating with templates.
The generation should be driven by setups such as dictionary definitions.
Allow the programmer to modify the modules as necessary, using the method they prefer.
Help the programmer to find the defined symbols and structures and cross check for errors.
Be able to repeat the generation many times over the life of the app, without loosing the mods.
Be able to link in modules generated in other ways, as in external source, DLLs or APIs.
Use modules in more than one language.
Use different databases and file types in the same app.
Generate fully linked native code, as well as other scripts.
Allow the programmer to write new template scrips to generate specialized modules, and derive them from existing templates.
Have robust third-party add-ons available to expand capabilities.
Have a Debugger that can show you what is happening from source level down to assembler and Hex level.
I use the Clarion rapid application development system. It is not perfect, but it at least makes a start at all of these.
It keeps the application information in specialized databases for the app modules and the dictionary.
It has an embed editor that shows you the source but enters your new code into the app database, so it is included on the next make. Or the next edit.
But it also has a text editor for looking at the generated (or external) source.
The proprietary Clarion language has native types for tables, queues and dynamically assigned strings.
But it also has compilers for small modules in C/C++, Modula-2 and Assembler.
And it re-generates changed modules on every make before the compile and link. Fast.
Yes, using bad analogies is like cutting a tree down with a fish.
You have not seen the fish that I have seen! 8-)
... My conclusion essentially made the argument that "Although individual improbable events are unlikely, the shear number of opportunities to experience an improbable event on a day to day basis are staggering." Any specific improbable event is highly unlikely to occur, but the occurrence of improbable events in general is a practical certainty. ...
That is basically the description of "Murphy's Law". Which, contrary to some opinions, is -not- a joke.
Before Microsoft owned the world, back about 1974 (I think), they sold the best BASIC language software there was. It was a code image for the CP/M OS. But it needed more memory than most microcomputers had at the time, so they came up with an idea to make their own Dynamic Memory board and bundle it with the BASIC software.
Unfortunatly, the boards did not work. But they sold them anyway. In fact, Microsoft said that they would not sell Basic except with the Memory board. So people that needed the BASIC had to buy a board that everyone knew did not work, then buy expensive static memory boards from someone else.
We were in college at the time, and decided to find out what was wrong with the boards. The best we could determine (since dynamic memory was still experimental at that time) was that the skew in the strobe pulses had them out of timing when they got to the chips. So, we tried to redesign the board, cutting and jumpering runs and adding different control chips. But the memory chips themselves did not work in a way that could be made to operate on the S-100 bus protocol.
Either none were ever tested by Microsoft, or they failed and were sold anyway.
So far as I know, none of the Microsoft Dynamic Memory boards ever worked, for anyone. It would have been news in the industry!
But Microsoft continued to refuse to sell BASIC unless you bought one of the boards, until they were gone. Somewhere there are buried hundreds of Microsoft 4K Dynamic Memory boards, that never worked.
There were stories about it in copies of BYTE Magazine of the time, I think. (Or maybe it was an earlier magazine.)
When he says "So we forced it upon them" "We drove them to it with goads in their sides", then you know he needs an "attitude ajustment"! ... well, nevermind.
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Teaching is wonderful in many ways but do be prepared for the bullshit that's the academic world, too.
My father is a college professor (retired). Under-score this one, twice!
Of course, there are a lot of community colleges and tech schools that are not so bad.
Put it another way: do you choose the general by seeing which soldier is best at using a rifle?
Of course, ideally he should know the notions of what a rifle is...
Not necessarily "best", although some were/are.
But they should know at least enough to recognize that waving one around wildly, is not a good thing.
And maybe even be good enough to hit what they aim at, if it's close.
Visiting the troops and accidentily shooting one, is not going to inspire confidence!
Speaking as one who remembers when "full up" RAM was 256 Bytes, there is a universe of space between "really big" and Infinite!
You remember the "intellegent microbe monster" horror movies? Well, that is us, we just are able to hold our form better.
For real, check recent research in cell structure and DNA origins. (?!!)
"It's turtles all the way down!" 8-)
e^(i*pi)+1=0
Isn't that answer supposed to be 42?
No, that was a rounding error. Any Electronics Technician knows that the answer is 47.
Look it up... 8-)
The shareholders in his example would be the taxpaying citizenry.
Clearly the employees are the one who generate the profits.
Not completely true. If the employees could generate profits without the company, then they would.
Some can, and some do!
But for those that can't, the company is necessary. And those who can create successful companies deserve big rewards, to get them to create more.
Of course, that doesn't mean that every rich person can create new companies, or deserves big pay.
I see a lot of "I don't like big companies, so lets beat up the small companies!", and I think that is very bad for all of us.