What you've said is true, but you're acting like we can only do one thing at once. That's false. Different people do different things and that's going to keep going. It's a good thing, too! There's plenty of people trying their best to help women in archaic societies (though sadly this sort of thing will have to come from the inside to last), same thing for sex slavery and whatever else you can think of. There's no reason why biologists, doctors and such (who can't contribute much to the political problems you've outlined) should avoid working on anything until those problems are solved.
1) Who talked about ferrying? If we outgrow the Earth, we can live elsewhere, I'm sure. Humanity has many faults, but one thing it doesn't lack is ingenuity. 2) Not wanting to explore and expand on the basis of current economics is rather short-sighted. How can you even predict what economies would look like with immortal workers, scientists, etc.?
Wisening, maturing, growing, those are gifts. Aging? That's definitely a disease. Remember, just because the two are associated now doesn't mean they are irremediably linked.
It's complicated. Different studies will factor different things depending on what they had in mind when they made the study. Sometimes you're trying to look at the direct impact of something, whereas other times you want to include things which are strongly correlated too In this instance, you could decide to correct for stress, for example, which would target coffee more specifically (ie. if there is a correlation between stress and coffee, then not correcting for it could mean the actual reason might be stress but you'd still just link it to coffee; on the flip side, you might want not to correct for it if you want to highlight that relationship in your study).
Then you have statistical analysis, sometimes there's a bit of a bias (researchers have a hypothesis they want to test and consciously or subconsciously select data that supports the result they're looking for), errors, missing factors, etc. Studies are useful in practice because they can link together often disparate elements, but they're also very empirical; they won't give proof about anything, at best you'll have a statistical result which could mean something very different depending on how you interpret it.
You do realize that there might be money in it, but that the initial capital is beyond even Musk's funds? This is a really big project and I doubt any company could do it all by themselves. The only real reason to let it out in the open is to generate some interest and possibly get the government to wake up and do something. It's unlikely, sure, but it's better than just saying "It won't work." and never doing anything.
Interestingly, I had a similar experience with my classical mechanics prof, except he did away with the note-taking altogether. Instead, we'd have to read parts of the course textbook before each class, take a small and simple online quizz to check you'd actually read it (the quizz was very loosely timed so you could go back and pick up the answers from the book if you wanted) and then show up in class with nothing in hand. The entire course was dedicated to the prof showing us a variety of questions, usually in the form of simple problems, and asking us to choose one of four possible answers. Once the problem was exposed, we'd get a few minutes to discuss with others and then would have to vote on what we believed was the correct answer. The prof would then explain the right answer, with more details if more people got it wrong.
It was truly a breath of fresh air compared to any other course structure I have since had. We didn't waste time taking an inordinate amount of notes we'd never read, we didn't have to split our attention between note-taking and what the prof had to say, etc. He also claimed that ever since he started doing that, grades had notably improved in his class.
Slashdot most certainly shouldn't be so isolationist as to avoid talking about anything non-tech. I think it can be interesting to have discussions about non-tech news with the very tech/science focused community here, which is very different from most other news sites.
Um, you do realize that this is all for rather official use cases where you're going to be identified regardless? I doubt your bank only knows you as John Doe, let alone the government. Contracts also tend to require identification.
The OP's point is that no railroad network turns a profit; they need to be subsidized. That's false. That the SNCF had to be subsidized at some point during its growth is another thing entirely: few large-scale projects like road and rail networks could've happened without the government being involved at some point in the process.
I'm sure there was been a time where strapping yourself inside a gigantic hunk of steel with odd protrusions on either side and going off IN THE AIR at hundreds of kilometers per hour would also have sounded like entering a coffin. And yet look at where we are now.
Probably worse: you have a 5400rpm non-functional drive. I very much doubt they've integrated a failsafe which bypasses the NAND cache if it gets exhausted. More likely the performance will worsen as the healthy NAND decreases in size until it's zero.
This looks like Seagate desperately clinging to their old bastion. Even Western Digital bit the bullet and started working on pure SSDs. The problem with Seagate's calculations is that there'll come a time (not that far into the future) where NAND will be cheap enough to get a full SSD for only a moderate price hike over a HDD, all while getting all the benefits of a pure SSD drive. They risk getting left behind by clinging to the hybrid drive idea.
Proving P=NP implies that a host of processes taking non-polynomial time could take polynomial time instead. This has important implications in computer science, physics, chemistry and more, as you go from a problem considered to be effectively "impossible" (as in, impossible in a reasonable amount of time due to exponential growth) to one that is "possible". It's a very different change from incremental speedups we usually get from algorithms, because we're talking about something which has an entirely different growth function.
Also, please keep in mind that factorization of large numbers is not NP-complete. It is very possible (and very likely) that we will find an algorithm in P to solve this without proving or disproving that P=NP.
Yes, because using a deprecated, non-SI unit is better. The article could've said 20 to 40 terabecquerels, but that would've confused people just as much.
Except the rad is a deprecated, non-SI unit. The most useful unit for humans is the sievert (Sv), since it describes the effective absorbed dose regardless of source. 1Sv of alpha radiation does the same damage (give or take, obviously) as 1Sv of gamma radiation to the human body. It's a much more complicated value to compute (since it takes into account all those elements mentioned and more), but it's also much better to use as a comparison. The gray (Gy) is an absorbed dose measurement, which doesn't take into account biological interactions. Therefore it can be matched to other SI units in the form of 1 J/kg. Sieverts are derived from grays using a quality factor.
By comparison, the becquerel (Bq) can be computed straight from information like the half-life and mass, making it a much more theoretical measurement. It is equivalent to the reciprocal second. From what I gather, the becquerel figure is used because it's an estimate from the quantity and type of radioactive material, as opposed to a measurement done on the field.
I doubt this would be used to protect pen names of literary authors, but it could have important applications for whistleblowers and people who want to denounce things without getting traced down. Basically, any situation where the style is of little to no importance compared to the content.
What we need is to put lasers on the orcas so that they can clearly show their dangerous nature by frying people from afar when they feel like it. I'd wager people would be a bit less likely to swim with them then.
Amusingly enough, we had one particular occurrence happen to us in Milan. I was travelling with my parents at the time and it started raining as we wanted to go to a restaurant nearby, so we decided we'd get the hotel to call a cab in for us. They agreed without issue, but a few minutes later another cab popped up and we asked whether we could just take it, but the hotel said another cab was already on the way and we had to wait. Another solid 10 minutes later and the cab arrives... with around 10 euros on the meter, before we'd even boarded.
So no, European cabs, or at least Milanese cabs, don't expect a tip; they just take it straight off the bat, apparently. We walked in the end.
Elite also had a thirtieth of the funding goal, used the more popular Kickstarter platform, and had nostalgia and big names to help it. Whether Ubuntu is a popular enough brand to reach their lofty ambitions or not remains to be seen. The biggest crowdsourced project to date is Star Citizen, which managed to garner about 10 million dollars across two campaigns (their own site and Kickstarter later on). They've since taken the long approach and added another 4 million to the pile through extended preordering. Even that is not even half of the Edge.
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What you've said is true, but you're acting like we can only do one thing at once. That's false. Different people do different things and that's going to keep going. It's a good thing, too! There's plenty of people trying their best to help women in archaic societies (though sadly this sort of thing will have to come from the inside to last), same thing for sex slavery and whatever else you can think of. There's no reason why biologists, doctors and such (who can't contribute much to the political problems you've outlined) should avoid working on anything until those problems are solved.
1) Who talked about ferrying? If we outgrow the Earth, we can live elsewhere, I'm sure. Humanity has many faults, but one thing it doesn't lack is ingenuity. 2) Not wanting to explore and expand on the basis of current economics is rather short-sighted. How can you even predict what economies would look like with immortal workers, scientists, etc.?
Wisening, maturing, growing, those are gifts. Aging? That's definitely a disease. Remember, just because the two are associated now doesn't mean they are irremediably linked.
It's complicated. Different studies will factor different things depending on what they had in mind when they made the study. Sometimes you're trying to look at the direct impact of something, whereas other times you want to include things which are strongly correlated too In this instance, you could decide to correct for stress, for example, which would target coffee more specifically (ie. if there is a correlation between stress and coffee, then not correcting for it could mean the actual reason might be stress but you'd still just link it to coffee; on the flip side, you might want not to correct for it if you want to highlight that relationship in your study).
Then you have statistical analysis, sometimes there's a bit of a bias (researchers have a hypothesis they want to test and consciously or subconsciously select data that supports the result they're looking for), errors, missing factors, etc. Studies are useful in practice because they can link together often disparate elements, but they're also very empirical; they won't give proof about anything, at best you'll have a statistical result which could mean something very different depending on how you interpret it.
TL;DR Let's not do anything anymore because not doing anything has really helped us grow as a nation and has created a solid economy for the future.
You do realize that there might be money in it, but that the initial capital is beyond even Musk's funds? This is a really big project and I doubt any company could do it all by themselves. The only real reason to let it out in the open is to generate some interest and possibly get the government to wake up and do something. It's unlikely, sure, but it's better than just saying "It won't work." and never doing anything.
Interestingly, I had a similar experience with my classical mechanics prof, except he did away with the note-taking altogether. Instead, we'd have to read parts of the course textbook before each class, take a small and simple online quizz to check you'd actually read it (the quizz was very loosely timed so you could go back and pick up the answers from the book if you wanted) and then show up in class with nothing in hand. The entire course was dedicated to the prof showing us a variety of questions, usually in the form of simple problems, and asking us to choose one of four possible answers. Once the problem was exposed, we'd get a few minutes to discuss with others and then would have to vote on what we believed was the correct answer. The prof would then explain the right answer, with more details if more people got it wrong.
It was truly a breath of fresh air compared to any other course structure I have since had. We didn't waste time taking an inordinate amount of notes we'd never read, we didn't have to split our attention between note-taking and what the prof had to say, etc. He also claimed that ever since he started doing that, grades had notably improved in his class.
F5 doesn't work. Guess we're out of luck. At least we tried, right?
Slashdot most certainly shouldn't be so isolationist as to avoid talking about anything non-tech. I think it can be interesting to have discussions about non-tech news with the very tech/science focused community here, which is very different from most other news sites.
Um, you do realize that this is all for rather official use cases where you're going to be identified regardless? I doubt your bank only knows you as John Doe, let alone the government. Contracts also tend to require identification.
The OP's point is that no railroad network turns a profit; they need to be subsidized. That's false. That the SNCF had to be subsidized at some point during its growth is another thing entirely: few large-scale projects like road and rail networks could've happened without the government being involved at some point in the process.
I'm sure there was been a time where strapping yourself inside a gigantic hunk of steel with odd protrusions on either side and going off IN THE AIR at hundreds of kilometers per hour would also have sounded like entering a coffin. And yet look at where we are now.
Probably worse: you have a 5400rpm non-functional drive. I very much doubt they've integrated a failsafe which bypasses the NAND cache if it gets exhausted. More likely the performance will worsen as the healthy NAND decreases in size until it's zero.
This looks like Seagate desperately clinging to their old bastion. Even Western Digital bit the bullet and started working on pure SSDs. The problem with Seagate's calculations is that there'll come a time (not that far into the future) where NAND will be cheap enough to get a full SSD for only a moderate price hike over a HDD, all while getting all the benefits of a pure SSD drive. They risk getting left behind by clinging to the hybrid drive idea.
You could add Voyager, Sanctuary and Lost Girl.
Proving P=NP implies that a host of processes taking non-polynomial time could take polynomial time instead. This has important implications in computer science, physics, chemistry and more, as you go from a problem considered to be effectively "impossible" (as in, impossible in a reasonable amount of time due to exponential growth) to one that is "possible". It's a very different change from incremental speedups we usually get from algorithms, because we're talking about something which has an entirely different growth function.
Also, please keep in mind that factorization of large numbers is not NP-complete. It is very possible (and very likely) that we will find an algorithm in P to solve this without proving or disproving that P=NP.
Yes, because using a deprecated, non-SI unit is better. The article could've said 20 to 40 terabecquerels, but that would've confused people just as much.
Except the rad is a deprecated, non-SI unit. The most useful unit for humans is the sievert (Sv), since it describes the effective absorbed dose regardless of source. 1Sv of alpha radiation does the same damage (give or take, obviously) as 1Sv of gamma radiation to the human body. It's a much more complicated value to compute (since it takes into account all those elements mentioned and more), but it's also much better to use as a comparison. The gray (Gy) is an absorbed dose measurement, which doesn't take into account biological interactions. Therefore it can be matched to other SI units in the form of 1 J/kg. Sieverts are derived from grays using a quality factor.
By comparison, the becquerel (Bq) can be computed straight from information like the half-life and mass, making it a much more theoretical measurement. It is equivalent to the reciprocal second. From what I gather, the becquerel figure is used because it's an estimate from the quantity and type of radioactive material, as opposed to a measurement done on the field.
ReCAPTCHAs are actually one of the very few CAPTCHA systems which work without Javascript - a big accessibility bonus for text to speech.
I doubt this would be used to protect pen names of literary authors, but it could have important applications for whistleblowers and people who want to denounce things without getting traced down. Basically, any situation where the style is of little to no importance compared to the content.
Can't you see how convenient this is with the Internet and all? If the tubes are clogged, now you can just flush your toilet.
What we need is to put lasers on the orcas so that they can clearly show their dangerous nature by frying people from afar when they feel like it. I'd wager people would be a bit less likely to swim with them then.
Amusingly enough, we had one particular occurrence happen to us in Milan. I was travelling with my parents at the time and it started raining as we wanted to go to a restaurant nearby, so we decided we'd get the hotel to call a cab in for us. They agreed without issue, but a few minutes later another cab popped up and we asked whether we could just take it, but the hotel said another cab was already on the way and we had to wait. Another solid 10 minutes later and the cab arrives... with around 10 euros on the meter, before we'd even boarded.
So no, European cabs, or at least Milanese cabs, don't expect a tip; they just take it straight off the bat, apparently. We walked in the end.
Elite also had a thirtieth of the funding goal, used the more popular Kickstarter platform, and had nostalgia and big names to help it. Whether Ubuntu is a popular enough brand to reach their lofty ambitions or not remains to be seen. The biggest crowdsourced project to date is Star Citizen, which managed to garner about 10 million dollars across two campaigns (their own site and Kickstarter later on). They've since taken the long approach and added another 4 million to the pile through extended preordering. Even that is not even half of the Edge.
Probably not, considering it's on IndieGogo, not on Kickstarter ;)