Would someone please explain why it wouldn't just be 14! for all permutations?
14! is the total number of permutations. Each permutation contains 14 episodes. So, you would have to watch at least 14 * 14! episodes to watch every permutation. But in actuality, you'd probably have to watch far fewer episodes.
If there were just 3 episodes, you could watch five episodes and you'd capture three of the permutations:
i.e. 1 2 3 1 2
contains the permutations 1, 2, 3 and 2, 3, 1 and 3, 1, 2.
Thanks. Good math problem, but a terrible metaphor.
The experience of watching 1,2,3,1,2 would not be at all the same as watching 1,2,3 ; 2,3,1 ; and 3,1,2
Then buy some tarot cards. Nobody can see the future. Do you think a farmer in 1880 could see that his great-grandson would be a video game developer?
Yeah, this is the wild card to me.
I mean, "social media specialist" is an actual thing. We seem almost endlessly inventive at coming up with new jobs. And their occupants are definitely not all super high IQ, believe me.
I'm not sure if providing end-user support gets harder with the age of the IT worker, but it definitely gets harder with the age of the end user.
Eh, I encounter at least as many younguns who think they are "techie" because they use SnapFace.
The whole "youngsters are better with tech" thing had some validity perhaps, in the 70s and 80s. A historical moment, if you will. Now it's just a tired meme, coasting along...
These days, the oldster that you think you are more techie than may well have built the tech that you merely use but don't understand.
The father of freaking HTML is using a cheesy hosted "website builder" to put up a document that is every bit as as stark and simple as any he did almost 30 years ago?
It probably took longer to clicky clicky everything than it would have to mark it up by hand.
The political stuff aside, we're doomed just from a nerd standpoint...
And just to be clear, I have no problem with CMSs and visual editors per se, but in this case the HTML produced is a hot mess, and it is less functional than an ancient hand marked up HTML document (for example, they didn't bother to put any anchors in it so you could link to a section).
The father of freaking HTML is using a cheesy hosted "website builder" to put up a document that is every bit as as stark and simple as any he did almost 30 years ago?
It probably took longer to clicky clicky everything than it would have to mark it up by hand.
The political stuff aside, we're doomed just from a nerd standpoint...
Under the principles laid out in the document, which Berners-Lee calls a "Magna Carta for the web", governments must ensure that its citizens have access to all of the internet, all of the time, and that their privacy is respected so they can be online "freely, safely and without fear."
Does that include people who get "de-platformed"?
Yes, I know that wasn't done by government...but hmm, lookie here:
Companies will
Make the internet affordable and accessible to everyone
So that no one is excluded from using and shaping the web.
But it seems that the de-platformed are excluded from "shaping" it...
Two easy options to solve essentially all battery related smartphone problems:
1. Increase phone thickness, and use this change to increase battery volume.
2. Return to having a user replaceable battery that can be replaced in a few seconds by popping the rear panel off, taking the empty battery out, putting a full one in and closing the rear panel. As essentially all phones in 1990s allowed you to do.
And suddenly battery problems all go away. But with those changes, phone's effective life increases significantly, so sales will go down. Therefore, it will not happen.
(checks my Moto that I bought last year) Huh, I can still replace my battery as you describe, just like the the 1990s!
Maybe the problem is that some people are buying the wrong phones.
It seems screamingly obvious to me that most people would prefer a little extra daylight after work. That has the most utility to the most people. Make DST year round and be done with it. There is no reason that noon has to be the time of day when the sun is highest overhead. That's just tradition for the sake of useless tradition.
Yeah, why can't we all put aside our differences and agree with me??:)
I might like a little more daylight after work. I also might like little more daylight when my kids walk to the bus stop in the morning. Turns out that different people have different priorities and different preferences.
Trying to use inorganic matter to simulate consciousness is a fools errand.
Why ? Unless you can point out some fundamental limitations, it's nothing but an argument from incredulity. It's like saying we can only make a functional wing from feathers, and not aluminum.
You keep saying that... and AI keeps being just around the corner...
Obviously just round numbers, but US media still can't bring themselves to use the quoted numbers. Instead they leave them out and do their best to convert to specific imperial numbers. Duh!
What's wrong with converting units to those that your audience uses?
In the little over an hour since this story about trolls being removed from Twitter was posted, 34 of the 38 comments posted here were from anonymous cowards, and most of those were trolling, with comments like, "only n i g g e r s use Twitter" and "go choke yourself" and "it's an attack against conservatives" and how "the bots stuff is bullshit".
Two of those are just dumbarse AC wastes of space, a time honored Slashdot tradition. The other two are quite possibly just points of view that you don't like.
I count five making the case for not voting and three others making the "both sides are trash" argument (which is also a case against voting).
You don't have to go to Twitter to see this effect in action. The problem is, it's not working as well this time around.
Making a case for not voting, and "both sides are trash", are points of view. You don't have to like them, but that doesn't make them nefarious "voter suppression". Doesn't make them bots either.
Even directly suggesting that voting is a waste of time is just a point of view. It may or may not persuade anyone. We used to value the freedom to try to persuade each other of things. There may have even been an amendment about it. (Yes, Twitter isn't government. I'm talking about the sentiment, the valuing of that freedom.)
If you can't say "fuck" people will just find a new way to convey the same sentiment. Banning words does nothing to change the people or situations that gave rise to them in the first place.
That's one way of looking at it.
Here's another: all words are just arbitrary sounds that carry meaning. And part of the meaning of offensive words is that they are offensive.
It's possible to convey displeasure without also conveying that you intend to offend. One set of words conveys both things, the other set of words conveys just one of those things.
Historically green areas on maps (paper & digital) have been City, State, or Federal parks, now it's just any old patch of grass?
TheVerge was right, 'more detail, less information'
I guess I can see in theory how such details might better orient your brain to the map, to at least reassure you that the map is accurate and that you are on track.
Except... that maps are deliberately simplified, abstracted representations of reality, and they are that for a reason.
There may be somebody somewhere who needs a... er... grass map, but it's not a typical driver who does.
Vegetation detail is a particular highlight, with Apple's maps even showing grass between two lanes of a highway, or around the borders of individual houses.
I guess next time I'm looking for exceptionally grassy highway medians, I'll buy an Apple device.
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Would someone please explain why it wouldn't just be 14! for all permutations?
14! is the total number of permutations. Each permutation contains 14 episodes. So, you would have to watch at least 14 * 14! episodes to watch every permutation. But in actuality, you'd probably have to watch far fewer episodes.
If there were just 3 episodes, you could watch five episodes and you'd capture three of the permutations:
i.e. 1 2 3 1 2
contains the permutations 1, 2, 3 and 2, 3, 1 and 3, 1, 2.
Thanks. Good math problem, but a terrible metaphor.
The experience of watching 1,2,3,1,2 would not be at all the same as watching 1,2,3 ; 2,3,1 ; and 3,1,2
Researchers said in December 2017 that it appeared to be a naturally formed, icy object covered with a dry crust.
They must be SUPER advanced to cause their object to naturally form like that!!!
Energy Cost of 'Mining' Bitcoin More Than Twice That of Copper Or Gold
Well, yeah, but fake pyramid scheme "currencies" have more than twice the fake pyramid scheme coolness factor than either copper or gold, so there!
Then buy some tarot cards. Nobody can see the future. Do you think a farmer in 1880 could see that his great-grandson would be a video game developer?
Yeah, this is the wild card to me.
I mean, "social media specialist" is an actual thing. We seem almost endlessly inventive at coming up with new jobs. And their occupants are definitely not all super high IQ, believe me.
I'm not sure if providing end-user support gets harder with the age of the IT worker, but it definitely gets harder with the age of the end user.
Eh, I encounter at least as many younguns who think they are "techie" because they use SnapFace.
The whole "youngsters are better with tech" thing had some validity perhaps, in the 70s and 80s. A historical moment, if you will. Now it's just a tired meme, coasting along ...
These days, the oldster that you think you are more techie than may well have built the tech that you merely use but don't understand.
Electronic systems are used by human beings. The vast majority of whom are terrible at security.
Turn off JavaScript and then visit http://fortheweb.webfoundation...
I am oddly moved by the giant silhouettes of not really identifiable things.
Squarespace, seriously?
The father of freaking HTML is using a cheesy hosted "website builder" to put up a document that is every bit as as stark and simple as any he did almost 30 years ago?
It probably took longer to clicky clicky everything than it would have to mark it up by hand.
The political stuff aside, we're doomed just from a nerd standpoint ...
And just to be clear, I have no problem with CMSs and visual editors per se, but in this case the HTML produced is a hot mess, and it is less functional than an ancient hand marked up HTML document (for example, they didn't bother to put any anchors in it so you could link to a section).
Squarespace, seriously?
The father of freaking HTML is using a cheesy hosted "website builder" to put up a document that is every bit as as stark and simple as any he did almost 30 years ago?
It probably took longer to clicky clicky everything than it would have to mark it up by hand.
The political stuff aside, we're doomed just from a nerd standpoint ...
BTW, I tried to link to a section of the "contract", but not only are there no anchors, the HTML is just plain an abomination. This is from TBL?
Oh ... it's Squarespace.
I find something oddly punderful about this, but I can't put it into words.
Under the principles laid out in the document, which Berners-Lee calls a "Magna Carta for the web", governments must ensure that its citizens have access to all of the internet, all of the time, and that their privacy is respected so they can be online "freely, safely and without fear."
Does that include people who get "de-platformed"?
Yes, I know that wasn't done by government ...but hmm, lookie here:
Companies will
Make the internet affordable and accessible to everyone
So that no one is excluded from using and shaping the web.
But it seems that the de-platformed are excluded from "shaping" it ...
Two easy options to solve essentially all battery related smartphone problems:
1. Increase phone thickness, and use this change to increase battery volume. 2. Return to having a user replaceable battery that can be replaced in a few seconds by popping the rear panel off, taking the empty battery out, putting a full one in and closing the rear panel. As essentially all phones in 1990s allowed you to do.
And suddenly battery problems all go away. But with those changes, phone's effective life increases significantly, so sales will go down. Therefore, it will not happen.
(checks my Moto that I bought last year) Huh, I can still replace my battery as you describe, just like the the 1990s!
Maybe the problem is that some people are buying the wrong phones.
When a child has to walk or bike to school it is less likely to be obese than when it's driven by soccer mom in her SUV.
Eh ... if said child is being driven to soccer, I'm not sure that's actually true ...
You get jet lag when you cross to a different continent on the other side of the world. Not a single hour. Jeez, Grandpa.
Yeah, who cares about science when you can have snark?
It seems screamingly obvious to me that most people would prefer a little extra daylight after work. That has the most utility to the most people. Make DST year round and be done with it. There is no reason that noon has to be the time of day when the sun is highest overhead. That's just tradition for the sake of useless tradition.
Yeah, why can't we all put aside our differences and agree with me?? :)
I might like a little more daylight after work. I also might like little more daylight when my kids walk to the bus stop in the morning. Turns out that different people have different priorities and different preferences.
I can't believe I've had to endure forced jet lag twice a year my whole life, for no reason that anyone can coherently articulate.
It would be nice if we can end it while I can still enjoy it, lol
Does the study say anything about people that have their own brand of coffee?
[ Asking for a friend. ]
No, but there is an appendix about people who have their own brand of salad dressing.
Trying to use inorganic matter to simulate consciousness is a fools errand.
Why ? Unless you can point out some fundamental limitations, it's nothing but an argument from incredulity. It's like saying we can only make a functional wing from feathers, and not aluminum.
You keep saying that ... and AI keeps being just around the corner ...
Obviously just round numbers, but US media still can't bring themselves to use the quoted numbers. Instead they leave them out and do their best to convert to specific imperial numbers. Duh!
What's wrong with converting units to those that your audience uses?
In the little over an hour since this story about trolls being removed from Twitter was posted, 34 of the 38 comments posted here were from anonymous cowards, and most of those were trolling, with comments like, "only n i g g e r s use Twitter" and "go choke yourself" and "it's an attack against conservatives" and how "the bots stuff is bullshit".
Two of those are just dumbarse AC wastes of space, a time honored Slashdot tradition. The other two are quite possibly just points of view that you don't like.
I count five making the case for not voting and three others making the "both sides are trash" argument (which is also a case against voting).
You don't have to go to Twitter to see this effect in action. The problem is, it's not working as well this time around.
Making a case for not voting, and "both sides are trash", are points of view. You don't have to like them, but that doesn't make them nefarious "voter suppression". Doesn't make them bots either.
Even directly suggesting that voting is a waste of time is just a point of view. It may or may not persuade anyone. We used to value the freedom to try to persuade each other of things. There may have even been an amendment about it. (Yes, Twitter isn't government. I'm talking about the sentiment, the valuing of that freedom.)
If you can't say "fuck" people will just find a new way to convey the same sentiment. Banning words does nothing to change the people or situations that gave rise to them in the first place.
That's one way of looking at it.
Here's another: all words are just arbitrary sounds that carry meaning. And part of the meaning of offensive words is that they are offensive.
It's possible to convey displeasure without also conveying that you intend to offend. One set of words conveys both things, the other set of words conveys just one of those things.
If you can't trust hardware engineering from "Bitcoin core developers" and mad scientists, what can you trust?
I guess next time I'm looking for exceptionally grassy highway medians, I'll buy an Apple device.
I've always suspected Apple fanbois were sheep...
Bwa-a-a-a-a h-a-a-a-a h-a-a-a-a!
Historically green areas on maps (paper & digital) have been City, State, or Federal parks, now it's just any old patch of grass?
TheVerge was right, 'more detail, less information'
I guess I can see in theory how such details might better orient your brain to the map, to at least reassure you that the map is accurate and that you are on track.
Except ... that maps are deliberately simplified, abstracted representations of reality, and they are that for a reason.
There may be somebody somewhere who needs a ... er ... grass map, but it's not a typical driver who does.
Vegetation detail is a particular highlight, with Apple's maps even showing grass between two lanes of a highway, or around the borders of individual houses.
I guess next time I'm looking for exceptionally grassy highway medians, I'll buy an Apple device.