Ha! Also, on actually RTFA, I notice that the link to the "rubber band" software is called "Tutte.zip" - presumably it is this Tutte. I think it involves fixing a cycle of the graph as an outer face, and applying a kind of simulated annealing (optimisation) approach to layout the other vertices.
I know Tarjan published a paper on it in the 70s because I once tried to implement it.
He did (Hopcroft and Tarjan, 1973). There are some more recent approaches, too. I've read, and should try implementing, one by Boyer and Myrvold (2004). I really suffer from "not-invented-here" syndrome as I know of at least one implementation in the language I want it in:)
hmm... then how did anything increase into a more complex structure? Survival does not imply progression.
Survival with selection can imply a drive to complexity. Given a source of pattern-generation structures (organisms), those that are selected for by the environment survive.
Evolution is a theory which has yet to be proven.
Either you are thinking of a form of proof (like mathematical proof) that could never be applied to evolution, or you simply don't know of the many tests, models, experiments, etc. You can't re-run the tape of history to 'prove' that it happened that way, but you can check various obvious things
From a non-religious point-of-view, there is absolutely no reason that evolution should be granted any merit beyond intelligent design.
Really? Apart from it being actual science, and not just a thin screen for creation 'theory'?.
I have friends who believe in intelligent design who are atheists. Intelligent design does not predicate a deity.
And who do they suppose is the intelligent designer? Aliens? So who designed them?
A much better solution to the problem of "where is the designer?" is that organisms designed themselves. That is, the interactions between molecules, cells, organisms, and physical environments is a design process. That's evolution.
Moreover, people who "believe" in angels won't be swayed by any kind of evidence against.
This is what seems to be missing from most replies here. Faith is belief in something DESPITE the evidence (or lack thereof). So there is no testable evidence for angels, but people believe in them anyway - faith.
There seems to be some sort of increase in the size of the slashdot commenter estimates of earthquake power ratios. First commenter said 30 times, then 100, then 150, now 500. Is there a logarithmic function to describe this increase in accuracy?
Wow! I know Europe and Japan have great trains systems, but Shizuoka to Germany on a bullet train, amazing!
Yeah, I hear they have transdimensional portals. Not cheap, but still cheaper than train travel in the UK, where we only lead the world in informing passengers which lines are delayed/closed...
If enough large internet entities black-holed France as a united front, the law (or France) would go away and other countries would learn a very valuable lesson.
Would that lesson be : if you cut a country off from the Internet, it magically disappears?
Railroad tracks are defined to be 2 horse asses wide, which actually has a history back to the Roman empire.
RIGHT well, APART from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order...
The US is in Afghanistan for the plunder.. be it oil, pipes, women, whatever. It's no different than one gang of chimpanzees attacking another. The flowery language and 'morality' is pure BS
Women? Seriously? The USA has RUN OUT of women, so it's invaded Afghanistan to get some more?
Doesn't that charming Scottish accent make up for it though? I wouldn't mind being mugged half as much if the mugger had one of those pleasant, educated-sounding UK accents.
You've never lived in Glasgow, have you? Perhaps you are thinking of highland accents, or the Irish?
No, it means that radiation is God's pure love. In order to get closer to Him, all the truly religious should get as close as possible to the hottest source they can find.
WALK INTO THE LIGHT.
(note : I am joking - I don't really want the faithful to die of radiation damage. I'm not Dawkins, ffs.)
Bullshit. Saddam Hussein was a fucking monster who had more blood on his hands than Qaddafi has ever dreamed of.
That's beside the point - it's not a game of "who is the worst dictator?". If it was, perhaps Idi Amin - who killed hundreds of thousands of his people - would have been deposed. Oddly enough, Gaddafi gave him military support at one time, but Amin died in Saudi (I'm reading this stuff off wikipedia, naturally:)
Of course getting rid of Saddam was good in of itself; but part of the reason why it hasn't gone... so smoothly since the actual invasion might be that the Iraqis don't feel 'liberated'. This is why the nations attacking Libya at the moment are trying to do it without landing troops. Well, except us British, who sent a diplomat with some special forces as protection, and got chucked out of the country again. Leading to the classic quote from one of the rebels "Why didn't they ask us? There is a proper way to do these things...".
The original sentence was only 4 years, but an unfortunate combination of some faulty leap year code and Y2K errors caused a misprint on the court documents, and IT support won't help change it back...
Ringworld, on the other hand, is a special-effects masterpiece waiting to happen. The storyline is simple, the beauty of the story is visualizing the engineering involved
Yet the dialog, as with a lot of Sci-Fi, is absolutely awful. Truly terrible.
The ring itself would make for good imagery, although I expect that any director that has played Halo would bring certain visual clues along with them...
A degree in biochemistry doesn't make you a biochemist.
Your point being? I'm a computational biologist currently working in the area of cheminformatics. Or chemoinformatics, or whatever the hell you call it. My point was that experience (of any kind) in biochemistry is not (necessarily) relevant to origin of life studies.
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Ha! Also, on actually RTFA, I notice that the link to the "rubber band" software is called "Tutte.zip" - presumably it is this Tutte. I think it involves fixing a cycle of the graph as an outer face, and applying a kind of simulated annealing (optimisation) approach to layout the other vertices.
I know Tarjan published a paper on it in the 70s because I once tried to implement it.
He did (Hopcroft and Tarjan, 1973). There are some more recent approaches, too. I've read, and should try implementing, one by Boyer and Myrvold (2004). I really suffer from "not-invented-here" syndrome as I know of at least one implementation in the language I want it in :)
hmm... then how did anything increase into a more complex structure? Survival does not imply progression.
Survival with selection can imply a drive to complexity. Given a source of pattern-generation structures (organisms), those that are selected for by the environment survive.
Evolution is a theory which has yet to be proven.
Either you are thinking of a form of proof (like mathematical proof) that could never be applied to evolution, or you simply don't know of the many tests, models, experiments, etc. You can't re-run the tape of history to 'prove' that it happened that way, but you can check various obvious things
From a non-religious point-of-view, there is absolutely no reason that evolution should be granted any merit beyond intelligent design.
Really? Apart from it being actual science, and not just a thin screen for creation 'theory'?.
I have friends who believe in intelligent design who are atheists. Intelligent design does not predicate a deity.
And who do they suppose is the intelligent designer? Aliens? So who designed them?
A much better solution to the problem of "where is the designer?" is that organisms designed themselves. That is, the interactions between molecules, cells, organisms, and physical environments is a design process. That's evolution.
Moreover, people who "believe" in angels won't be swayed by any kind of evidence against.
This is what seems to be missing from most replies here. Faith is belief in something DESPITE the evidence (or lack thereof). So there is no testable evidence for angels, but people believe in them anyway - faith.
There seems to be some sort of increase in the size of the slashdot commenter estimates of earthquake power ratios. First commenter said 30 times, then 100, then 150, now 500. Is there a logarithmic function to describe this increase in accuracy?
Wow! I know Europe and Japan have great trains systems, but Shizuoka to Germany on a bullet train, amazing!
Yeah, I hear they have transdimensional portals. Not cheap, but still cheaper than train travel in the UK, where we only lead the world in informing passengers which lines are delayed/closed...
If enough large internet entities black-holed France as a united front, the law (or France) would go away and other countries would learn a very valuable lesson.
Would that lesson be : if you cut a country off from the Internet, it magically disappears?
Railroad tracks are defined to be 2 horse asses wide, which actually has a history back to the Roman empire.
RIGHT well, APART from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order...
WHAT have the romans ever done for US?
The US is in Afghanistan for the plunder.. be it oil, pipes, women, whatever. It's no different than one gang of chimpanzees attacking another. The flowery language and 'morality' is pure BS
Women? Seriously? The USA has RUN OUT of women, so it's invaded Afghanistan to get some more?
It does have some oil, though.
Doesn't that charming Scottish accent make up for it though? I wouldn't mind being mugged half as much if the mugger had one of those pleasant, educated-sounding UK accents.
You've never lived in Glasgow, have you? Perhaps you are thinking of highland accents, or the Irish?
In Scotland the problem's so bad that the term 'NED' (Non-educated Delinquent) is actually used in newspaper headlines.
It's even become a film title : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1560970/. Might have a watch of it sometime, actually.
I don't think you know half as much as you pretend to know about history or what it 'repeatedly shows'.
Clearly the poster meant "The bits of history that I remember because they support my point of view repeatedly shows....". Obviously. Duhhh. :)
I'm interested in hearing objective news
No, you're interested in news reinforcing your subjective opinion; just like everybody else.
I'm interested in hearing news that reinforces my opinion that I don't like reinforcing my opinions. It's hard to find, though.
let's face it... that Godzilla sucked.
Well Jean Reno was good, but yeah the rest of it was a waste of time.
The ostentatious gum-chewing to make themselves look more like US soldiers was classic.
...and with with and and and with with!
I like this game : what are we playing?
"Syzygy" is the new "Synergy". So what if it means something to do with astrology or mathematics - it's full-on buzzy right now.
Wait, if God made bananas easy for humans to eat and bananas are radioactive does that mean God's trying to kill us ?
No, it means that radiation is God's pure love. In order to get closer to Him, all the truly religious should get as close as possible to the hottest source they can find.
WALK INTO THE LIGHT.
(note : I am joking - I don't really want the faithful to die of radiation damage. I'm not Dawkins, ffs.)
Bullshit. Saddam Hussein was a fucking monster who had more blood on his hands than Qaddafi has ever dreamed of.
That's beside the point - it's not a game of "who is the worst dictator?". If it was, perhaps Idi Amin - who killed hundreds of thousands of his people - would have been deposed. Oddly enough, Gaddafi gave him military support at one time, but Amin died in Saudi (I'm reading this stuff off wikipedia, naturally :)
Of course getting rid of Saddam was good in of itself; but part of the reason why it hasn't gone ... so smoothly since the actual invasion might be that the Iraqis don't feel 'liberated'. This is why the nations attacking Libya at the moment are trying to do it without landing troops. Well, except us British, who sent a diplomat with some special forces as protection, and got chucked out of the country again. Leading to the classic quote from one of the rebels "Why didn't they ask us? There is a proper way to do these things...".
The original sentence was only 4 years, but an unfortunate combination of some faulty leap year code and Y2K errors caused a misprint on the court documents, and IT support won't help change it back...
Did these people know about genetics? O_o
No.
Next moronic question?
What is this about an ice shield? This is the first mention I have heard of this loonyness.
I wondered that too. I found this link to a Crystalline Canopy" - http://creationwiki.org/Crystalline_canopy er...which is weird.
Ringworld, on the other hand, is a special-effects masterpiece waiting to happen. The storyline is simple, the beauty of the story is visualizing the engineering involved
Yet the dialog, as with a lot of Sci-Fi, is absolutely awful. Truly terrible.
The ring itself would make for good imagery, although I expect that any director that has played Halo would bring certain visual clues along with them...
I am camping out to be first in line to see Paul. Now THAT is good syfy
Hahah. To my shame I have seen this movie : my advice would be (EVEN if you liked Hot Fuzz and are a big fan of Spaced)
DO NOT SEE
Although fairly ok for 10 year olds, it really is a bit rubbish. Especially, oddly enough, the militant atheism.
HP's ink cartridges cost a kidney, new printer can actually print kidneys.
The circle of life is complete.
Sadly, 90% through printing of the new kidney, the "replace cartridge" light will start blinking - the house always wins...
A degree in biochemistry doesn't make you a biochemist.
Your point being? I'm a computational biologist currently working in the area of cheminformatics. Or chemoinformatics, or whatever the hell you call it. My point was that experience (of any kind) in biochemistry is not (necessarily) relevant to origin of life studies.