If the user base gets riled up, then riled up again, then riled up some more, than extra-special-super riled up, and they keep subjecting themselves to it... Then the user base is full of morons. Admit it, you people are hooked on the crack.
This is hilarious. It's like hundreds of people are experiencing a mental stack overflow. "Whoa... We didn't ever... uh... You can't do that... Well... Wait a second, are we in some kind of loop?"
What's with the "this is Portland" thing? Portland has car prowlers like any city, but nothing particularly out of the ordinary. And anyway, why lock your door? Do you WANT a broken window? What are you keeping in there, suitcases of $100's?
Stimulated emission is not perfect cloning. The monkey wrench which prevents lasers from violating the no-cloning rule is the non-zero probability of spontaneous emission. See this paper:
Although perfect copying of unknown quantum systems is forbidden by the
laws of quantum mechanics, approximate cloning is possible. A natural way of
realizing quantum cloning of photons is by stimulated emission. In this context,
the fundamental quantum limit to the quality of the clones is imposed by the
unavoidable presence of spontaneous emission.
So, taxes pay for the roads, the sidewalks, etc. If you pay taxes, and you park where these fucking abominations are, then you get the pleasure of paying another tax on top of what you've already paid to park there.
It isn't a tax, it's a deterrent to prevent too many people trying to park in the middle of downtown. In my city, there are areas with meters and areas with free parking. Guess which areas I can never find a parking spot?
You're not paranoid enough. I figure the satellite isn't actually meandering out of its orbit at all -- that part is just fabrication. The idea is to provide a plausible scenario which gives a justification for demonstrating some heretofore unknown technology that can blast this thing from 35,000 kilometers away, without it looking like pure sabre rattling.
Wow dude, I'm trying to make a point about robots using nuclear power as a parable and you believe that my true intention is to frighten people away from nuclear power? You're fucking crazy.
Isn't it fair to say that if you're worried about roundoff noise in repeated calculations, you've passed the point from being just a scientist to a someone who should be concerned with general programming theory and conventions, and hence at least familiar and comfortable with notation that denotes type?
I understand types. The question here is which type the literal value "5" or "2" ought to be. Right now, these literals are interpreted as integers. A lot of people would prefer the default to be some real type. I'm talking about the syntax of the language, not suggesting that integer arithmetic is useless.
Just out of curiosity, I understand the Shuttle is not designed to go to Geosynchronous orbit. Is it merely a matter of thrust that keeps it Low-Earth Orbit or are there other issues as well?
Leaving aside the obviously huge amount of fuel you'd need... the problem is conservation of energy. It takes a LOT of energy to reach geosynch orbit. This energy doesn't just vanish when you want to turn around and come back. As you fall into Earth's gravity well, that potential energy transforms into kinetic energy. Result? You're going to slam into the atmosphere going 10 or so times faster than the shuttle can handle.
Except for band allocations and licensing. Even if you operate as a 'pirate' you have to rely upon repeaters, which even if you set up illegal repeaters you've got to worry about access to a suitable location.
You're saying that in the event of a global catastrophe which cuts off the "normal" communications channels, the FCC is going to make it a priority to hunt down and prosecute people using ham radio without a proper license? Get real.
2.5000000000000000 is. e.g. 0x4004000000000000
Congratulations, your arithmetic now has 15 more sigfigs than what happened when you used a pencil.
What the hell are you talking about? Just because the value in the register, if written out, is 2.5000000000000000, doesn't mean that anybody believes that the value is exact.
What the hell good is math accurate out to 10 places when I only have an 8 bit A2D on an input in the process loop?
Because I don't want to accumulate roundoff noise in each fucking calculation? Nobody is disputing the importance of significant figures. But intermediate rounding is just throwing noise into the mix for no good damn reason.
I have a friend who swerved as he was coming over a rise and a truck was hanging ass into his lane (he was going a bit too fast). Swerved across the road, then back, hit the gravel, spun it, flew into an orchard, and miraculously flipped end-over-end 6 times keeping a perfectly straight line down the aisle. He crawled out the busted window and walked away from it.
Similarly awesome story to retell. In an infinity of alternate universes that guy is dead. No question about it.
If your definition of robot is "machine controlled by an intelligent computer program" then I'm sorry to say, you're ALREADY putting your faith in such things, hundreds of times per day. Hell, you're putting your life in a computer's hands on a second-by-second basis just by being within ten miles of a nuclear power plant.
What the hell are you rambling about? Long numerical calculations do not involve intermediate rounding except in very specific circumstances. Data always have some amount of noise to them -- rounding at inappropriate moments AMPLIFIES the noise. The direction to which a value rounds depends which side of 0.5 the fractional part falls on. If the exact value (which we cannot know precisely) is very close to 0.5 in the fractional part, then whether the value rounds up or rounds down may depend entirely on the noise.
That's exactly the output you should expect for integer division, which is what 5/2 is asking for.
On what planet? Just because C works that way, and Python works that way (at least until now), doesn't mean it's the best way, or the most useful way, or that it could never be changed.
That's EXACTLY the point being made here -- people are touting Python as a scientific computing platform, but the result "5/2 == 2" is almost never what you want when doing scientific calculations. So from the standpoint of scientific coding, some features are really not ideal.
My dentist uses digital x-rays: a digital pickup in your mouth, zap, picture on the computer. Allegedly uses a lower dose of rays by a factor of 10, no recurring costs for the film, and his computer system includes some image processing capability.
My dentist recently upgraded as well. Regarding the digital "pickup", I asked him how much would it cost if he broke it. Without missing a beat he said $11,000.
I always laugh when I read this. It's like a great asteroid is headed to earth, we dispatch Bruce Willis to blow it up, he succeeds, and you say "See, nothing happened, why did we bother with Bruce Willis?"
I think even some animals are more logical than that.
But those are two different questions! Surely your 401(k) investment options include some fund that's "as good as cash". It won't appreciate much, but you can get the employer match without having to be in equities at all.
But I don't mind the variability. What happened here wasn't variability, but quite obviously a breakdown of software systems with completely nonsense effects. It's as if the whole thing is a freaking computer simulation and we hit a bug. I'm wise enough to realize that the whole thing is to some degree a kind of gambling game, but I think this is too much.
I've spent hours looking at charts. I really don't believe that human behavior could have produced these shapes. Where did the money go? It's like it tunneled into a different dimension for a minute.
Did the prices come back because somebody was able to magically "put back" everything the way it was? If that's the case, it means total and instant manipulation of the entire market is possible, and we just saw it happen.
Or someone/company decided to liquidate their stock holdings maybe because they figured that the Greece crises would hit US stocks too or financial regulatory reform coming out of Congress would adversely harm the market. Of course they aren't the only player in the market, so all the automatic trading software realized that the massive sell-off made little sense given their risk parameters and lots of hedge-funds decided to invest in those now under priced stocks.
That could explain a correlated dip in prices. But it does not explain, for instance, how ACN lost about 99.98% of its value. It went from $40.00 to $0.01. Somebody rode the fucking lightning on that one, and I don't mean the electric chair
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If the user base gets riled up, then riled up again, then riled up some more, than extra-special-super riled up, and they keep subjecting themselves to it... Then the user base is full of morons. Admit it, you people are hooked on the crack.
This is hilarious. It's like hundreds of people are experiencing a mental stack overflow. "Whoa... We didn't ever... uh... You can't do that... Well... Wait a second, are we in some kind of loop?"
What's with the "this is Portland" thing? Portland has car prowlers like any city, but nothing particularly out of the ordinary. And anyway, why lock your door? Do you WANT a broken window? What are you keeping in there, suitcases of $100's?
Are you in the Dark Ages or something? Around here you can use a credit card if you want.
Stimulated emission is not perfect cloning. The monkey wrench which prevents lasers from violating the no-cloning rule is the non-zero probability of spontaneous emission. See this paper:
Experimental Quantum Cloning of Single Photons
Although perfect copying of unknown quantum systems is forbidden by the laws of quantum mechanics, approximate cloning is possible. A natural way of realizing quantum cloning of photons is by stimulated emission. In this context, the fundamental quantum limit to the quality of the clones is imposed by the unavoidable presence of spontaneous emission.
So, taxes pay for the roads, the sidewalks, etc. If you pay taxes, and you park where these fucking abominations are, then you get the pleasure of paying another tax on top of what you've already paid to park there.
It isn't a tax, it's a deterrent to prevent too many people trying to park in the middle of downtown. In my city, there are areas with meters and areas with free parking. Guess which areas I can never find a parking spot?
You're not paranoid enough. I figure the satellite isn't actually meandering out of its orbit at all -- that part is just fabrication. The idea is to provide a plausible scenario which gives a justification for demonstrating some heretofore unknown technology that can blast this thing from 35,000 kilometers away, without it looking like pure sabre rattling.
Wow dude, I'm trying to make a point about robots using nuclear power as a parable and you believe that my true intention is to frighten people away from nuclear power? You're fucking crazy.
Isn't it fair to say that if you're worried about roundoff noise in repeated calculations, you've passed the point from being just a scientist to a someone who should be concerned with general programming theory and conventions, and hence at least familiar and comfortable with notation that denotes type?
I understand types. The question here is which type the literal value "5" or "2" ought to be. Right now, these literals are interpreted as integers. A lot of people would prefer the default to be some real type. I'm talking about the syntax of the language, not suggesting that integer arithmetic is useless.
Just out of curiosity, I understand the Shuttle is not designed to go to Geosynchronous orbit. Is it merely a matter of thrust that keeps it Low-Earth Orbit or are there other issues as well?
Leaving aside the obviously huge amount of fuel you'd need... the problem is conservation of energy. It takes a LOT of energy to reach geosynch orbit. This energy doesn't just vanish when you want to turn around and come back. As you fall into Earth's gravity well, that potential energy transforms into kinetic energy. Result? You're going to slam into the atmosphere going 10 or so times faster than the shuttle can handle.
Except for band allocations and licensing. Even if you operate as a 'pirate' you have to rely upon repeaters, which even if you set up illegal repeaters you've got to worry about access to a suitable location.
You're saying that in the event of a global catastrophe which cuts off the "normal" communications channels, the FCC is going to make it a priority to hunt down and prosecute people using ham radio without a proper license? Get real.
Wow. What bug crawled up your ass? If it's so fucking easy, why the hell should I be impressed by what's-his-face doing it?
2.5000000000000000 is. e.g. 0x4004000000000000 Congratulations, your arithmetic now has 15 more sigfigs than what happened when you used a pencil.
What the hell are you talking about? Just because the value in the register, if written out, is 2.5000000000000000, doesn't mean that anybody believes that the value is exact.
What the hell good is math accurate out to 10 places when I only have an 8 bit A2D on an input in the process loop?
Because I don't want to accumulate roundoff noise in each fucking calculation? Nobody is disputing the importance of significant figures. But intermediate rounding is just throwing noise into the mix for no good damn reason.
Oh shut up. The guy was a TEENAGER.
I have a friend who swerved as he was coming over a rise and a truck was hanging ass into his lane (he was going a bit too fast). Swerved across the road, then back, hit the gravel, spun it, flew into an orchard, and miraculously flipped end-over-end 6 times keeping a perfectly straight line down the aisle. He crawled out the busted window and walked away from it.
Similarly awesome story to retell. In an infinity of alternate universes that guy is dead. No question about it.
If your definition of robot is "machine controlled by an intelligent computer program" then I'm sorry to say, you're ALREADY putting your faith in such things, hundreds of times per day. Hell, you're putting your life in a computer's hands on a second-by-second basis just by being within ten miles of a nuclear power plant.
What the hell are you rambling about? Long numerical calculations do not involve intermediate rounding except in very specific circumstances. Data always have some amount of noise to them -- rounding at inappropriate moments AMPLIFIES the noise. The direction to which a value rounds depends which side of 0.5 the fractional part falls on. If the exact value (which we cannot know precisely) is very close to 0.5 in the fractional part, then whether the value rounds up or rounds down may depend entirely on the noise.
That's exactly the output you should expect for integer division, which is what 5/2 is asking for.
On what planet? Just because C works that way, and Python works that way (at least until now), doesn't mean it's the best way, or the most useful way, or that it could never be changed.
That's EXACTLY the point being made here -- people are touting Python as a scientific computing platform, but the result "5/2 == 2" is almost never what you want when doing scientific calculations. So from the standpoint of scientific coding, some features are really not ideal.
This is just a diagnostics test. It won't kill anyone.
Depressed person: "This test says that I'm highly likely to die of an extremely painful and debilitating disease in 30 years!" <shoots self in head>
Don't be obtuse. Nobody is saying that.
My dentist uses digital x-rays: a digital pickup in your mouth, zap, picture on the computer. Allegedly uses a lower dose of rays by a factor of 10, no recurring costs for the film, and his computer system includes some image processing capability.
My dentist recently upgraded as well. Regarding the digital "pickup", I asked him how much would it cost if he broke it. Without missing a beat he said $11,000.
I always laugh when I read this. It's like a great asteroid is headed to earth, we dispatch Bruce Willis to blow it up, he succeeds, and you say "See, nothing happened, why did we bother with Bruce Willis?"
I think even some animals are more logical than that.
It's easy to cut off a padlock with bolt cutters if you lose the key to the padlock.
It is rather more difficult to open an armored, locked hatch if you lose the key to the hatch.
It's referred to as x64 quite widely. Whether there's "such a thing" as it, who gives a shit.
But those are two different questions! Surely your 401(k) investment options include some fund that's "as good as cash". It won't appreciate much, but you can get the employer match without having to be in equities at all.
But I don't mind the variability. What happened here wasn't variability, but quite obviously a breakdown of software systems with completely nonsense effects. It's as if the whole thing is a freaking computer simulation and we hit a bug. I'm wise enough to realize that the whole thing is to some degree a kind of gambling game, but I think this is too much.
I've spent hours looking at charts. I really don't believe that human behavior could have produced these shapes. Where did the money go? It's like it tunneled into a different dimension for a minute.
Did the prices come back because somebody was able to magically "put back" everything the way it was? If that's the case, it means total and instant manipulation of the entire market is possible, and we just saw it happen.
Or someone/company decided to liquidate their stock holdings maybe because they figured that the Greece crises would hit US stocks too or financial regulatory reform coming out of Congress would adversely harm the market. Of course they aren't the only player in the market, so all the automatic trading software realized that the massive sell-off made little sense given their risk parameters and lots of hedge-funds decided to invest in those now under priced stocks.
That could explain a correlated dip in prices. But it does not explain, for instance, how ACN lost about 99.98% of its value. It went from $40.00 to $0.01. Somebody rode the fucking lightning on that one, and I don't mean the electric chair