I also choose to do everything but the basic data acquisition and inspection using proper tools (Python and R, in my case).
Me too, but one must realize that basic data acquisition and inspection can be 90% of the project (for me, it's usually lots of pivot table playing to figure out what the data looks like and what I want it to look like, then a quick R script to get it that way). As you say, the trick is knowing when to switch.
Not exactly. It's something British, and it's called wit.
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Appearently you're not reading enough into it. It clearly states, as you can see from my bolding above that it says "while you're browsing YOUR OWN MUSIC".
I've bought about 10 songs from the iStore, but have about 3000mp3s in my iTunes. The recommendations I've gotten are pretty obviously from those 10 songs I bought. Don't know if they know about my 3000mp3s, but they're not making recommendations from it right now.
How do you end up heating water while creating power?
Sorry, I misspoke. I was going to repost and said that I meant "cooling" rather than "heating", then I realized what was really happening was reducing a temperature gradient, so it's a little more complex. Still, gives a picture of the amount of energy involved in appropriate units.
I'm sure someone can go into the math of exactly how much energy the ocean contains by multiplying water's heat capacity to the amount of water in the oean, but I'm too lazy to do that.
Gosh, I am disappointed in the quality of nerds these days. Ever heard of the back of an envelope? For god's sake, units of energy are defined by how much they heat water, so it's not hard to figure this one out.
Projection from http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/world.html is that the world will use 645 quadrillion BTUs of energy per year in 2025. If we assume this all comes from the ocean at 100% efficiency, this would be enough to raise a patch of water, 100m deep by 1024km on a side, by 1 degree C. Insignificant next to the whole ocean? sure. But certainly significant compared to local or even regional climate variation! (not that hydrocarbons aren't worse, or that this can't be spread out but hey, now all the slashdot blather can be vaguely informed. sheesh).
Arggh! Geek crisis! I don't know whether to say 'African or European?', 'ALBATROSS!' or 'if you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up daisies.'
The term they are looking for is "After-Action Report", or "AAR" in mil-speak.
Different military units will call it different things, but whether you say 'L2' (Lessons Learned), 'DB' (Debriefing), 'AAR' (After-Action Review), 'PM' (Post-Mortem), 'BMC' (Battle-Mamagement Critique) or even 'TLA' (Three Letter Acronym), the intent is the same: assign some blame, and don't get any on you. (Schlock Mercenary).
Um, works for diseases with a short infectious period. No complaints if someone's forced to stay in their house for two weeks. With AIDS though, infectious period is a lifetime. Like nice leper colonies.
Why not?? We westerners have always done this kind of thing to Asia! I want my government to promote our monopolies abroad. I offer you five words: British East India Tea Company.
You buy the disc, so you having the disc is a privilege.
No. I made a fair exchange for my money. I didn't agree to a contract when I did so. If they can restrict my use of the product, then why can't I restrict theirs? Hey RIAA! You know those little green pieces of paper I traded with you? You can do what you want with them, as long as you don't give them to someone else.
RIAA Guy 1: "One Wesley Willis download? An aberation.
"Can you imagine 10 people a day, 10 people a day, walkin' in, downloadin' a bar of Wesley Willis, and walkin' out? People might think it was a movement. And that's what it is, the Wesley Willis Download Anti-R-I-A-A movement, and all you have to do to join is download a few bars when it comes around agin on the P2P.
Still a good idea to plan on tomorrow's sunrise, though...
Yeah, but let's say you've only ever seen one sunrise, and you were the only one who saw it, and it costs $100,000 for anyone else to look for a sunrise, and if sunrises always happen the company you work for would make millions...what do you plan on then?
From
this link a good average differential between a processor at load and idle is 40W. If you turn the computer off instead, that's maybe 80W. (Broad average over many computers).
Now
Here we see that 2million years of computing time has been used, so (times 40W/hr) that comes to 700,000MWHr.
No the 2000 U.S. consumption of energy was ~21 billion MWHr.
(Here, and trust the government to use quadrillions of BTUs as a unit). So to date, SETI has used 0.003% of U.S. annual energy consumption. And that's almost enough energy to power the City of Red Deer, Alberta for 17 months! Someone else can tell us how many libraries of congress you could have read with that much light.
Feel free to check my units and zeros, I've been wrong before, as long as someone can tell the Brits what a quadrillion is.
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(Personally I suspect some post-Imperial propagandist doctored the data).
It must be an uninteresting number. (But is it the most uninteresting one?)
Me too, but one must realize that basic data acquisition and inspection can be 90% of the project (for me, it's usually lots of pivot table playing to figure out what the data looks like and what I want it to look like, then a quick R script to get it that way). As you say, the trick is knowing when to switch.
Not exactly. It's something British, and it's called wit.
I've bought about 10 songs from the iStore, but have about 3000mp3s in my iTunes. The recommendations I've gotten are pretty obviously from those 10 songs I bought. Don't know if they know about my 3000mp3s, but they're not making recommendations from it right now.
Sorry, I misspoke. I was going to repost and said that I meant "cooling" rather than "heating", then I realized what was really happening was reducing a temperature gradient, so it's a little more complex. Still, gives a picture of the amount of energy involved in appropriate units.
Gosh, I am disappointed in the quality of nerds these days. Ever heard of the back of an envelope? For god's sake, units of energy are defined by how much they heat water, so it's not hard to figure this one out.
Projection from http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/world.html is that the world will use 645 quadrillion BTUs of energy per year in 2025. If we assume this all comes from the ocean at 100% efficiency, this would be enough to raise a patch of water, 100m deep by 1024km on a side, by 1 degree C. Insignificant next to the whole ocean? sure. But certainly significant compared to local or even regional climate variation! (not that hydrocarbons aren't worse, or that this can't be spread out but hey, now all the slashdot blather can be vaguely informed. sheesh).
Actually (quoth the article "Even Adolf Hitler claimed to have been a prankster in his youth."), my favorite was the invasion of Poland.
Arggh! Geek crisis! I don't know whether to say 'African or European?', 'ALBATROSS!' or 'if you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up daisies.'
Do not be too proud of the technological terror you've constructed. The power to destroy websites is nothing compared to the power of the cache.
More to the point, is claiming that you're not responsible if anyone trusts your definition of the word "Exculpatory" exculpatory?
TFA sucked. It had a "shop or compare prices" section at the end and you couldn't buy a zombie. Just a bunch of freakin' movies.
Um, works for diseases with a short infectious period. No complaints if someone's forced to stay in their house for two weeks. With AIDS though, infectious period is a lifetime. Like nice leper colonies.
Well you see, yarn is expensive if it's made of Unstable Molecules.
How quickly can you write out the full expansion for the following factorization:
(a-x)(b-x)(c-x)...(z-x)
Just another Tango Lima Alpha, that's Whisky Tango Foxtrot.
Why not?? We westerners have always done this kind of thing to Asia! I want my government to promote our monopolies abroad. I offer you five words: British East India Tea Company.
No. I made a fair exchange for my money. I didn't agree to a contract when I did so. If they can restrict my use of the product, then why can't I restrict theirs? Hey RIAA! You know those little green pieces of paper I traded with you? You can do what you want with them, as long as you don't give them to someone else.
"Can you imagine 10 people a day, 10 people a day, walkin' in, downloadin' a bar of Wesley Willis, and walkin' out? People might think it was a movement. And that's what it is, the Wesley Willis Download Anti-R-I-A-A movement, and all you have to do to join is download a few bars when it comes around agin on the P2P.
With Feelin'.
1. They ignore you.
2. They laugh at you.
3. They fight you.
4. ???
5. You win!
Yeah, but let's say you've only ever seen one sunrise, and you were the only one who saw it, and it costs $100,000 for anyone else to look for a sunrise, and if sunrises always happen the company you work for would make millions...what do you plan on then?
That's okay, their entire space fleet will get eaten by a small dog. This sort of thing goes on all the time.
From this link a good average differential between a processor at load and idle is 40W. If you turn the computer off instead, that's maybe 80W. (Broad average over many computers).
Now Here we see that 2million years of computing time has been used, so (times 40W/hr) that comes to 700,000MWHr.
No the 2000 U.S. consumption of energy was ~21 billion MWHr. (Here, and trust the government to use quadrillions of BTUs as a unit). So to date, SETI has used 0.003% of U.S. annual energy consumption. And that's almost enough energy to power the City of Red Deer, Alberta for 17 months! Someone else can tell us how many libraries of congress you could have read with that much light.
Feel free to check my units and zeros, I've been wrong before, as long as someone can tell the Brits what a quadrillion is.
And we were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert.