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  1. Re:That explains it... on "Shimmer Vision" Scopes See Better Using Heat · · Score: 1

    The former.

  2. Re:when I was a kid... we had Omnibot Jr. on Robots Learn To Follow · · Score: 2, Informative

    except the robot is processing visual images instead.

  3. Re:Not a chance. on Mathematical Modeling Used To Track and Label · · Score: 2, Funny

    We can get computers to make us feel special, no worries.

  4. Re:Nothing is 'safe' on Shuttle Retirement In 2010 Under Review · · Score: 1

    Maybe you missed the fact that the personnel for a shuttle don't grow on trees.

  5. Re:That explains it... on "Shimmer Vision" Scopes See Better Using Heat · · Score: 1

    There needs to be a Lame mod.

  6. Re:Zug zug on Stars Could Shine In Many Universes · · Score: 1

    I particularly like the fact that since the math for quantum theory didn't equate in this univers, to solve that little inconsistency in logic the quantum theorists began inventing new universes until the math worked. In other words, if there is only one universe, the math is wrong. So to make the math work, keep inventing universes until the math does work.

    The nature of math are proofs. Why would you think that 'math' would assume a false premise all of a sudden? You must be a God fearing man.

  7. Re:Shell as a general-purpose language... on Bash Cookbook · · Score: 1

    True story:

    A guy I go to school with (I'm in CS, he's in physics) used to talk about how he was a Bash wizard. Since he was generally talking about writing scripts to submit jobs to a PBS-based cluster, I assumed he meant just in terms of rapidly submitting a large variety of jobs. One day he complains to me that his simulations were slow and wanted me to look at it with him to help him speed them up. So I say fine, send me the file...

    He'd written a particle physics Monte Carlo sim using Bash and Linux command line tools (in particular, there were calls to bc everywhere).

    True story:

    A guy I go to school with (I'm in CS, he's in physics) used to talk about how he was a Bash wizard. Since he was generally talking about writing scripts to submit jobs to a PBS-based cluster, I assumed he meant just in terms of rapidly submitting a large variety of jobs. One day he complains to me that his simulations were slow and wanted me to look at it with him to help him speed them up. So I say fine, send me the file...

    He'd written a particle physics Monte Carlo sim using Bash and Linux command line tools (in particular, there were calls to bc everywhere).

    This reminds me of the time the robot engineer made a robot that was the 'engine' of a particle physics simulator. It pushed a big arbitrary precision calculator for him quite quickly. The simulation was pretty fast. This is why usually need a CS degree to program.