Wrigley has announced that they are closing up shop, as they are running out of gum. They expect the world's gum supply to reach critical levels by late April; by the start of May we'll be all outta gum...
I always liked my old NiCAD rechargeable power brick. My dad taught me how to keep it from accumulating battery memory and it served me faithfully for many years...
Wasn't this already posted as Comcast versus Netflix? Maybe we'll get lucky and all the big megacorps will end up at each other's throats for once, instead of at the consumers'...
If you aren't that into her/him, you don't want to spend the holidays with her/him. You don't want to visit your parents with her in tow, or visit his parents. You don't want to spend a bunch of money on a gift. You don't want to deal with a long-distance relationship for winter break, if you're in college. If there's a spring break spike then there will be a winter break spike.
For instance, Rosetta (Rosetta@Home and Fold.It) is doing structure prediction, not folding, using a mostly statistics-based energy function and Monte Carlo sampling, and this isn't something you can trivially offload to a specialized chip. In that case, distributed computing is by far the most efficient solution.
Right on the money. Because most of its applications use Monte Carlo as you mention, Rosetta requires lots of independent trajectories anyway. It's trivially parallelizeable (embarassingly parallel if you prefer) so distributed computing is the solution we use for pretty much everything. The Baker lab has the BOINC Rosetta@home and the rest of us use university-size clusters.
I'm sure aging is correlated to sleep and general health - if you use the power to improve your health, you'll age more slowly. Surely not slowly enough to make it balance, but you'd live to 100 subjective years instead of 80 subjective in the span of 60 objective years?
I understand the distinction you are making now. I mean autonomous (as a roboticist might) to mean "makes decisions based on its internal logic, with input and output signals but not input/output decisions", whereas you mean something more along the lines of "makes decisions by free thought rather than flow chart". A good point, then!
TFA speaks of "autonomous robots". Are those terms not universally exclusive?
Did you mean redundant? Robots are autonomous, otherwise it's a remote controlled device of some sort. Maybe still colloquially a robot, but certainly the terms aren't opposite.
Half of me wants to agree with this.
The other half is thinking, "dammit, ANOTHER key combo that does totally different things in emacs versus firefox!" You have no idea how many times I've brought up the save-page dialog by mistake in firefox...
Emotionally, I totally agree with this. Intellectually, I've never seen a system which can discriminate who should and should not be able to do these things that would work in practice...
I am also not an SQL person (although I have a co-worker who is). My first thought was "SQL injection? Is that the XKCD little Bobby Tables thing?"
Lo and behold, not only is it that, but bobby-tables.com is a site about preventing it.
I did the reverse of this: I grew up playing NES and Genesis games (and occasionally watching TV) on a color computer monitor seconded from a computer of my dad's that had died...
i and j are common subscripts in math because they're nearly indistinguishable. The professors can ensure you're REALLY paying attention, because otherwise you'll screw up your is and js and the whole formula collapses.
In grad school, I took a class from a professor who couldn't keep his is and js straight, it was pretty much a disaster in class. We listened to his explanations but wouldn't use any formulae unless we looked them up in a book first.
I reinstalled a laptop to SP1 a month ago (long after SP1 support ended), and it cleanly upgraded to SP2 then SP3. I think you'll be fine. You can get all the SP2 updates up to this one...but they won't make any more.
Do you bill them for the power for the little lightbulb that sits above your plate and lights it up so it can be seen easily at night? Maybe CA doesn't require those?
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It would be the weirdest form of alibi if someone claimed he could not have robbed a bank because at that exact moment he was murdering someone.
Phoenix Wright? Is that you?
Wrigley has announced that they are closing up shop, as they are running out of gum. They expect the world's gum supply to reach critical levels by late April; by the start of May we'll be all outta gum...
That would explain why it served me so well for so long :)
I always liked my old NiCAD rechargeable power brick. My dad taught me how to keep it from accumulating battery memory and it served me faithfully for many years...
Wasn't this already posted as Comcast versus Netflix? Maybe we'll get lucky and all the big megacorps will end up at each other's throats for once, instead of at the consumers'...
Come on, at least cite your sources. (Unless you're Randall, of course.) http://xkcd.com/221/
No, the first is "Once you have their money, you never give it back". 18 is "A Ferengi without profit is no Ferengi at all", which is close enough.
If you aren't that into her/him, you don't want to spend the holidays with her/him. You don't want to visit your parents with her in tow, or visit his parents. You don't want to spend a bunch of money on a gift. You don't want to deal with a long-distance relationship for winter break, if you're in college. If there's a spring break spike then there will be a winter break spike.
For instance, Rosetta (Rosetta@Home and Fold.It) is doing structure prediction, not folding, using a mostly statistics-based energy function and Monte Carlo sampling, and this isn't something you can trivially offload to a specialized chip. In that case, distributed computing is by far the most efficient solution.
Right on the money. Because most of its applications use Monte Carlo as you mention, Rosetta requires lots of independent trajectories anyway. It's trivially parallelizeable (embarassingly parallel if you prefer) so distributed computing is the solution we use for pretty much everything. The Baker lab has the BOINC Rosetta@home and the rest of us use university-size clusters.
I'm sure aging is correlated to sleep and general health - if you use the power to improve your health, you'll age more slowly. Surely not slowly enough to make it balance, but you'd live to 100 subjective years instead of 80 subjective in the span of 60 objective years?
While I think I know what you mean by "hyperlex", I'd like to point out that Google has an order of magnitude more hits for aforism than hyperlex: http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=hyperlex&word2=aforism
I hear you can also melt bars of chocolate sitting in their shirt pockets this way.
I understand the distinction you are making now. I mean autonomous (as a roboticist might) to mean "makes decisions based on its internal logic, with input and output signals but not input/output decisions", whereas you mean something more along the lines of "makes decisions by free thought rather than flow chart". A good point, then!
TFA speaks of "autonomous robots". Are those terms not universally exclusive?
Did you mean redundant? Robots are autonomous, otherwise it's a remote controlled device of some sort. Maybe still colloquially a robot, but certainly the terms aren't opposite.
Half of me wants to agree with this. The other half is thinking, "dammit, ANOTHER key combo that does totally different things in emacs versus firefox!" You have no idea how many times I've brought up the save-page dialog by mistake in firefox...
Emotionally, I totally agree with this. Intellectually, I've never seen a system which can discriminate who should and should not be able to do these things that would work in practice...
I am also not an SQL person (although I have a co-worker who is). My first thought was "SQL injection? Is that the XKCD little Bobby Tables thing?" Lo and behold, not only is it that, but bobby-tables.com is a site about preventing it.
Clark Kent? Is that you?
I did the reverse of this: I grew up playing NES and Genesis games (and occasionally watching TV) on a color computer monitor seconded from a computer of my dad's that had died...
In grad school, I took a class from a professor who couldn't keep his is and js straight, it was pretty much a disaster in class. We listened to his explanations but wouldn't use any formulae unless we looked them up in a book first.
I reinstalled a laptop to SP1 a month ago (long after SP1 support ended), and it cleanly upgraded to SP2 then SP3. I think you'll be fine. You can get all the SP2 updates up to this one...but they won't make any more.
Here you go! It doesn't work well in Firefox anymore, unfortunately.
Your grammar is even worse - it's "I can haz serial?", on a picture of a cat nosing at a bowl of milk and cereal.
Not to be rude to WrongSizeGlass, but is this really insightful? The GP's topic line is "Obligatory Simpsons"....
Do you bill them for the power for the little lightbulb that sits above your plate and lights it up so it can be seen easily at night? Maybe CA doesn't require those?