Mostly its quite good, but as with any source you need to be careful because there are mistakes. I mostly use if for background information on well-understood topics.
Its not a competition. This was awesome. The moon landing was awesome. Seeing pictures from the surface of Titan was awesome. Finding a Higgs Boson was awesome. Detecting colliding neutron star gravity waves was awesome.
One is whether there was in appropriate surveillance. That seems to be true, but personally it is exactly what I would expect for secret courts. I suspect that points more to an overall design failure of this type of surveillance system.
To me a bigger question is who had access to the information. If it was internal and classified by the FBI, that is not nearly as serious as if the Clinton campaign was given access.
Some of the blame goes to scientists trying to make their work sound more exciting by using phrases like "quantum teleportation", "cloaking fields" and "tractor beams". It may be great for getting the public interested, and may even help funding (I've seem some of that at my lab), but in the end it contributes to the idea that there is no separation between science and hookum.
We have to make it clear to the public that entanglement doesn't *do* anything magical or mysterious. Its just that in the standard formulation of quantum mechanics a non-observable thing, the "wave function" behaves in ways that are non-intuitive. Most likely that means that there is a better formulation that doesn't have this behavior .
Why do you say that there is no way to begin? Is there any evidence that what we call "consciousness" isn't the result of a complex system obeying simple rules in the brain?
Science, like most games has rules. If you want to do "science", you need to follow the rules. If you don't follow the rules you are doing something else.
The main rule of "science" is that you make a prediction that can be "tested", eg, shown to be false by an experiment. Examples:
1) General relativity predicts that all objects fall at the same rate. This can be "tested" by very carefully measuring the rate at which different things fall. This has been done with accuracy around 1e-14, and the theory has so far not been disproven.
2) There were some predictions that the mass of the universe would be exactly enough to close it. Measurements of the mass density of the universe have shown that this theory is not true. It wasn't a stupid theory, is just happens not to be correct.
OK, how does this apply to the "consciousness of particles"? What measurement would prove that particles do NOT have consciousness?
Without that, it is something like philosophy or religion - which are fine things, but its not *SCIENCE*.
I don't know if there are any approved cloud storage solutions for classified data. It would surprise me, but its possible. Most secret data has to stored on isolated networks. If they exist, I can't imagine that icloud is one of them. I don't expect Apple to offer a classified data storage solution, it doesn't seem like that fits with their business model. I do expect anyone with access to classified or even sensitive data to keep that data only on secure devices.
A hack of the CIA directors icloud storage should have turned up things like family photos and shopping lists, not sensitive information on mid-east policies.
If the autopilot had frequent problems, drivers would stay alert, but if it works very reliably, most people will have difficulty keeping their attention focused.
For aircraft autopilots, most failures allow a lot of correction time - despite the speeds, things happen relatively slowly in most aircraft and there is time for the pilot to give his attention to the problem. With cars an accident can happen very quickly, before the inattentive driver can shift his attention.
Last time I was in Switzerland there was a small convenience store run on the honor system. No staff, no cameras, just a lock box you dropped cash in when you bought something. They were still in business.
People rarely run out on restaurant bills even though its easy to do. Its quite possible that a lot of people understand that stealing stuff is bad.
The numbers you give for the Pipisterel are for the gas version. The electric has a 1 hour endurance. Cruise speed not listed, but no more than 200km/h and probably lower for max efficiency.
All aircraft can trade potential energy (altitude) for range. Even in an electric, rather then use the engines as generators it would be more efficient to feather the props and make use of the improved glide.
Its a way that aircraft are fundamentally different from cars and why electric airplanes don't get the same sort of efficiency win.
You could use regenerative breaking rather than putting out drag devices (spoilers and similar) but those are generally used for a small percentage of flight time because they are inefficient.
Social experiments are difficult. Did they correct for the issue that very smart people are likely to lead groups with different functions than moderately smart people? Maybe there is a correlation between high intelligence and leading groups that work under very large time pressure or under poorly - defined constraints?
I think its really tricky. One can imagine correlations between gender, age, and other protected characteristic with hours worked, or willingness to change jobs for higher wages. That sort of correlation is very difficult to separate from some externally applied bias. An additional complication is that these groups may have followed different past career paths - again possibly due to preference and possibly due to external bias.
I think the overall goal is good, but that it will be tricky to implement in many situations.
In some situations where it is straightforward to measure an employee's productivity then this could and I think should be applied.
Yes, that is the problem. I'd like to have cell phones that didn't track my activities, but I don't have that option.
OTOH, I'd be surprised if ads in cars became popular because unlike tracking they are too obviously invasive. I think that audio recording of conversations in cars to "improve customer experiences" and "enhance safety" are much more likely.
If you travel a lot, you lean to have several forms of funds. At least 2 credit cards. Some of the countries local cash. Some of a major currency (Euros, Dollars, maybe Yuan).
Its easy for any credit card to get canceled, always good to have multiples.
Few organizations operate in a vacuum where they can take whatever time they want to develop new ideas. Generally there is competition in some form and things are advancing. A brilliant idea today may be worthless a year from now when someone else has developed it.
In addition to competition, there are sometimes specific deadlines - external project reviews, shoot-outs between competing projects, competitive bids etc that have externally set deadlines. In response to those if often makes sense for managers to set a series of smaller deadlines to try to keep a project on schedule.
I think a good manager will make sure that their employees understand *why* a deadline exists so that the deadlines don't seem arbitrary, but I think its almost impossible to avoid having deadlines.
If the monorail ran along the strip and to the airport, I'd use it whenever I visited. Instead it runs WAY in the back of the hotels behind the casino - its almost never the quickest/easiest way to get anywhere.
Considering its route, I don't know who they expected would ever use it.
The media constantly tells police that they have a *very dangerous* job. Thing is, its not that dangerous, less than roofers, taxi-drivers, pilots and a lot of other occupations. Their largest cause of death isn't even homicide, its traffic accidents.
Maybe if we stopped scaring police they would stop killing out of fear. (Fear can easily translate to anger and aggression when someone has a weapon).
Meanwhile I want to see wrongful police shooters do serious jail time, at least for manslaughter. (and the guy who called in the swatting should get reckless endangerment and manslaughter - maybe murder).
If they remove the slowdown, then they will be admitting that the excuse was a lie in the first place. So providing inexpensive batteries doesn't force them to admit to lying and open themselves up to a lawsuit.
Obviously I don't know if the original excuse was true or not, but this was pretty much the only thing that they could have done in either case.
Does anyone know enough about Li Ion batteries to weigh in on whether or not this makes sense? Does the peak power capability drop enough that its likely it couldn't support the power use?
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I use wikipedia and will cite it in papers.
Mostly its quite good, but as with any source you need to be careful because there are mistakes. I mostly use if for background information on well-understood topics.
Its not a competition.
This was awesome. The moon landing was awesome. Seeing pictures from the surface of Titan was awesome. Finding a Higgs Boson was awesome. Detecting colliding neutron star gravity waves was awesome.
We just need to keep doing cool things.
One is whether there was in appropriate surveillance. That seems to be true, but personally it is exactly what I would expect for secret courts. I suspect that points more to an overall design failure of this type of surveillance system.
To me a bigger question is who had access to the information. If it was internal and classified by the FBI, that is not nearly as serious as if the Clinton campaign was given access.
Some of the blame goes to scientists trying to make their work sound more exciting by using phrases like "quantum teleportation", "cloaking fields" and "tractor beams". It may be great for getting the public interested, and may even help funding (I've seem some of that at my lab), but in the end it contributes to the idea that there is no separation between science and hookum.
We have to make it clear to the public that entanglement doesn't *do* anything magical or mysterious. Its just that in the standard formulation of quantum mechanics a non-observable thing, the "wave function" behaves in ways that are non-intuitive. Most likely that means that there is a better formulation that doesn't have this behavior .
Why do you say that there is no way to begin? Is there any evidence that what we call "consciousness" isn't the result of a complex system obeying simple rules in the brain?
A scientific theory has to be testable. Its fine speculation, but its not science unless you can test it.
Science, like most games has rules. If you want to do "science", you need to follow the rules. If you don't follow the rules you are doing something else.
The main rule of "science" is that you make a prediction that can be "tested", eg, shown to be false by an experiment.
Examples:
1) General relativity predicts that all objects fall at the same rate. This can be "tested" by very carefully measuring the rate at which different things fall. This has been done with accuracy around 1e-14, and the theory has so far not been disproven.
2) There were some predictions that the mass of the universe would be exactly enough to close it. Measurements of the mass density of the universe have shown that this theory is not true. It wasn't a stupid theory, is just happens not to be correct.
OK, how does this apply to the "consciousness of particles"? What measurement would prove that particles do NOT have consciousness?
Without that, it is something like philosophy or religion - which are fine things, but its not *SCIENCE*.
I don't know if there are any approved cloud storage solutions for classified data. It would surprise me, but its possible. Most secret data has to stored on isolated networks. If they exist, I can't imagine that icloud is one of them. I don't expect Apple to offer a classified data storage solution, it doesn't seem like that fits with their business model. I do expect anyone with access to classified or even sensitive data to keep that data only on secure devices.
A hack of the CIA directors icloud storage should have turned up things like family photos and shopping lists, not sensitive information on mid-east policies.
May well be true, but then there isn't that much to the story.
Is this implying that the CIA director keeps secret information on things like ipads and non-secure cloud storage????
Why do you think the hyper-intelligent automation will be supplying humanities needs?
Pets or Vermin. Might not be pets.
If the autopilot had frequent problems, drivers would stay alert, but if it works very reliably, most people will have difficulty keeping their attention focused.
For aircraft autopilots, most failures allow a lot of correction time - despite the speeds, things happen relatively slowly in most aircraft and there is time for the pilot to give his attention to the problem. With cars an accident can happen very quickly, before the inattentive driver can shift his attention.
Surely you don't think Russian agents would have to post anonymously. The would have well established and trusted aliases.
true, but its really rare for people to run out on restaurant checks here. Most people are pretty honest.
Last time I was in Switzerland there was a small convenience store run on the honor system. No staff, no cameras, just a lock box you dropped cash in when you bought something. They were still in business.
People rarely run out on restaurant bills even though its easy to do. Its quite possible that a lot of people understand that stealing stuff is bad.
The numbers you give for the Pipisterel are for the gas version. The electric has a 1 hour endurance. Cruise speed not listed, but no more than 200km/h and probably lower for max efficiency.
All aircraft can trade potential energy (altitude) for range. Even in an electric, rather then use the engines as generators it would be more efficient to feather the props and make use of the improved glide.
Its a way that aircraft are fundamentally different from cars and why electric airplanes don't get the same sort of efficiency win.
You could use regenerative breaking rather than putting out drag devices (spoilers and similar) but those are generally used for a small percentage of flight time because they are inefficient.
Social experiments are difficult. Did they correct for the issue that very smart people are likely to lead groups with different functions than moderately smart people? Maybe there is a correlation between high intelligence and leading groups that work under very large time pressure or under poorly - defined constraints?
I think its really tricky. One can imagine correlations between gender, age, and other protected characteristic with hours worked, or willingness to change jobs for higher wages. That sort of correlation is very difficult to separate from some externally applied bias. An additional complication is that these groups may have followed different past career paths - again possibly due to preference and possibly due to external bias.
I think the overall goal is good, but that it will be tricky to implement in many situations.
In some situations where it is straightforward to measure an employee's productivity then this could and I think should be applied.
Yes, that is the problem. I'd like to have cell phones that didn't track my activities, but I don't have that option.
OTOH, I'd be surprised if ads in cars became popular because unlike tracking they are too obviously invasive. I think that audio recording of conversations in cars to "improve customer experiences" and "enhance safety" are much more likely.
If you travel a lot, you lean to have several forms of funds. At least 2 credit cards. Some of the countries local cash. Some of a major currency (Euros, Dollars, maybe Yuan).
Its easy for any credit card to get canceled, always good to have multiples.
Few organizations operate in a vacuum where they can take whatever time they want to develop new ideas. Generally there is competition in some form and things are advancing. A brilliant idea today may be worthless a year from now when someone else has developed it.
In addition to competition, there are sometimes specific deadlines - external project reviews, shoot-outs between competing projects, competitive bids etc that have externally set deadlines. In response to those if often makes sense for managers to set a series of smaller deadlines to try to keep a project on schedule.
I think a good manager will make sure that their employees understand *why* a deadline exists so that the deadlines don't seem arbitrary, but I think its almost impossible to avoid having deadlines.
If the monorail ran along the strip and to the airport, I'd use it whenever I visited. Instead it runs WAY in the back of the hotels behind the casino - its almost never the quickest /easiest way to get anywhere.
Considering its route, I don't know who they expected would ever use it.
The media constantly tells police that they have a *very dangerous* job. Thing is, its not that dangerous, less than roofers, taxi-drivers, pilots and a lot of other occupations. Their largest cause of death isn't even homicide, its traffic accidents.
Maybe if we stopped scaring police they would stop killing out of fear. (Fear can easily translate to anger and aggression when someone has a weapon).
Meanwhile I want to see wrongful police shooters do serious jail time, at least for manslaughter. (and the guy who called in the swatting should get reckless endangerment and manslaughter - maybe murder).
If they remove the slowdown, then they will be admitting that the excuse was a lie in the first place. So providing inexpensive batteries doesn't force them to admit to lying and open themselves up to a lawsuit.
Obviously I don't know if the original excuse was true or not, but this was pretty much the only thing that they could have done in either case.
Does anyone know enough about Li Ion batteries to weigh in on whether or not this makes sense? Does the peak power capability drop enough that its likely it couldn't support the power use?