I find it sad that this is the state of scientific community. I wonder how many scientific studies are left unpublished because it's in someone's best interest to prevent their publication?
I know there are methods to detect publication bias through various means, such as funnel plotting, and would imagine medical technology is a field where the practice of selective publication is fairly common.
For an interesting read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_bias#Effect_on_meta-analysis
What I'd be very interested in finding out, is how do they intend to power those things? Magnetic induction coils?
Also an interesting problem, how to get the display signal in there? Is it going to be a general purpose display, or are the first versions things that have pre-defined fields? The latter seems easier from a bandwidth point of view, as even a relatively low resolution general purpose screen will need quite a lot of data to be transferred.
So now instead of not finding what I want, I can not find what a celebrity wants. Awesome!
In a way, on an abstract level it is sort of cool.
That's basically enabling to run searches as someone else, enabling you to see things through another person's eyes.
As for myself, I'd consider it interesting to see statistics based customized searches. We already know google uses records form past searches and clicks to determine what to show us in subsequent searches. What if you could, run the search and see results that an average Finn would? Or an average Ethiopian? Or an average Ethiopian woman, who's interested in technology and cats?
I could see some, especially marketing related applications to this. How to optimize my website, so that people in my target group will see it as her first search result, for examle.
The system required the user to insert an electronic ID card, input the candidate number and select OK. After this the system would display candidate information again, and to confirm the vote, the user would have to hit OK again.
Apparently what happened was, some users instead removed the ID card prematurely, thus causing their votes not to be cast.
So I disagree on your point about the system potentially casting the vote to the wrong candidate, but of course we can't be quite sure, as the internal workings of the system were declared a "trade secret".
Upon reading the original post there was a one strong association in my mind: Architecture.
In the design of structures sciences and math is of extremely high importance (so the buildings won't collapse) but it's also a creative field that involves much more than just hard science.
I was under the impression there are significant international treaties making fission and fusion devices in space a big no-no (wouldn't it be handy if NASA could make nuclear powered rocket engines?).
I think the ban on atmospheric nuclear tests might have something to do with this, anyone know if there are similar treaties in effect in space?
Admittedly, a small fission reactor seems like a plausible way of producing energy for scientific stuff in space, in areas where solar energy is not plausible (dark side of the moon) or to provide sufficient energy for high-energy experiments, such as those related to material science.
Personally, I don't mind if my kids were taught ID, or astrology, roman myths or Vietnamese Buddhism for that matter, but there's a place for those things, at least in Finland religious studies (and for the non religious, âoephilosophy of lifeâ-classes, yes literally translated). The basis of scientific thinking is, that yes, alternative theories are to be studied, but an acceptable theory must be provable and disprovable. The existence of God(s) are neither, nor is ID. Unprovable theories are for theologists and philosophists, and their respective classes at school
The mark of a good scientist is the ability to scrutinize everything, from their own attitudes, to their own theories and to theories of others, and a certain willingness to be converted into a follower [sic] of another theory, a trait lacking in most religious people (which is good, as in many western religions, that's part of the point).
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I find it sad that this is the state of scientific community. I wonder how many scientific studies are left unpublished because it's in someone's best interest to prevent their publication? I know there are methods to detect publication bias through various means, such as funnel plotting, and would imagine medical technology is a field where the practice of selective publication is fairly common. For an interesting read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_bias#Effect_on_meta-analysis
What I'd be very interested in finding out, is how do they intend to power those things? Magnetic induction coils? Also an interesting problem, how to get the display signal in there? Is it going to be a general purpose display, or are the first versions things that have pre-defined fields? The latter seems easier from a bandwidth point of view, as even a relatively low resolution general purpose screen will need quite a lot of data to be transferred.
So now instead of not finding what I want, I can not find what a celebrity wants. Awesome!
In a way, on an abstract level it is sort of cool. That's basically enabling to run searches as someone else, enabling you to see things through another person's eyes. As for myself, I'd consider it interesting to see statistics based customized searches. We already know google uses records form past searches and clicks to determine what to show us in subsequent searches. What if you could, run the search and see results that an average Finn would? Or an average Ethiopian? Or an average Ethiopian woman, who's interested in technology and cats? I could see some, especially marketing related applications to this. How to optimize my website, so that people in my target group will see it as her first search result, for examle.
I hope they don't also want us to put a mains lead into our pockets to power that beast.
The system required the user to insert an electronic ID card, input the candidate number and select OK. After this the system would display candidate information again, and to confirm the vote, the user would have to hit OK again. Apparently what happened was, some users instead removed the ID card prematurely, thus causing their votes not to be cast. So I disagree on your point about the system potentially casting the vote to the wrong candidate, but of course we can't be quite sure, as the internal workings of the system were declared a "trade secret".
Upon reading the original post there was a one strong association in my mind: Architecture. In the design of structures sciences and math is of extremely high importance (so the buildings won't collapse) but it's also a creative field that involves much more than just hard science.
I was under the impression there are significant international treaties making fission and fusion devices in space a big no-no (wouldn't it be handy if NASA could make nuclear powered rocket engines?). I think the ban on atmospheric nuclear tests might have something to do with this, anyone know if there are similar treaties in effect in space? Admittedly, a small fission reactor seems like a plausible way of producing energy for scientific stuff in space, in areas where solar energy is not plausible (dark side of the moon) or to provide sufficient energy for high-energy experiments, such as those related to material science.
Personally, I don't mind if my kids were taught ID, or astrology, roman myths or Vietnamese Buddhism for that matter, but there's a place for those things, at least in Finland religious studies (and for the non religious, âoephilosophy of lifeâ-classes, yes literally translated). The basis of scientific thinking is, that yes, alternative theories are to be studied, but an acceptable theory must be provable and disprovable. The existence of God(s) are neither, nor is ID. Unprovable theories are for theologists and philosophists, and their respective classes at school The mark of a good scientist is the ability to scrutinize everything, from their own attitudes, to their own theories and to theories of others, and a certain willingness to be converted into a follower [sic] of another theory, a trait lacking in most religious people (which is good, as in many western religions, that's part of the point).