Re:Free London School of Economics Course
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Globalization
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· Score: 2
Not that anyone noticed (if you did I'd like to hear about it)... but the course is taught by TWO socioligists, and the second is the director of the school:
Anthony Giddens is the director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He started his academic career at the University of Hull, and went on to study for an M.A. in sociology at the LSE; by 1976 he had completed a Ph.D. at Cambridge University.
Giddens has held numerous teaching positions within sociology, including at the University of Leicester and the University of Cambridge, and has lectured extensively at many overseas universities. He has received 10 honorary degrees throughout his career. More recently he was the BBC Reith Lecturer in 1999.
Giddens is the most widely read and cited social theorist of his generation, authoring 34 books and countless articles and reviews. He co-founded the academic publishing house Polity Press in 1985 and still stands as chairman and director of Polity Press Ltd. as well as the director of Blackwell-Polity Ltd. He also stands as the chairman and director of the Centre for Social Research.
Giddens is well respected for developing the theory of structuration, and has been at the forefront of developing ideas in left-of-centre politics, helping to popularize the idea of the "third way," and travelling to many countries around the world to talk to political leaders and heads of state about the development of third way politics. Frequently referred to as "Tony Blair's guru," Giddens has also made a strong impact on the evolution of New Labour.
Free London School of Economic Course
on
Globalization
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· Score: 2
Fathom.com which is trying to be the international university course clearinghouse has a FREE onlie course called "The Globalization Debate". Maybe some of you are serious enough about this to take the FREE course and see some examples of well considered and balanced opinion on globalisation.
Here's the course description that I include here because the Fathom site would not allow internal links:
Globalisation is a fervidly contested and often misunderstood concept. It has occupied and divided economists, sociologists and anti-capitalists alike. Anti-globalisation protestors have regularly and successfully picketed World Trade Organisation summits as part of their stand against the might of globalisation. Yet, many economists tout the benefits of increased trade, sophisticated telecommunications networks and cross-border investment to developing countries, pointing to the gains workers and unions throughout the world stand to make from closer integration.
Most people seem to know whether they are for or against globalisation, without pausing to consider what exactly it is and where its effects can be seen. Globalisation might be a term too slippery to be closely defined, but it is a vibrant debate worth engaging in.
In this seminar two major sociologists put forward their versions of globalisation. For Anthony Giddens, it is a phenomenon characterised by fundamental changes in the world economy, the communications revolution and trade between nation-states in physical commodities, information and currency. For Leslie Sklair, globalisation should be seen as a new phase of capitalism, one that transcends the unit of the nation-state. In an interview, he introduces the globalisation debate and stakes out his position within it. Sklair builds on these arguments through a flash image gallery, which explores how the idea of globalisation is used by transnational corporations.
Leslie Sklair is a reader in sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and is responsible for the doctoral programme in the sociology department. He has been a visiting professor at New York University, San Diego State University and Hong Kong University, and has lectured on globalisation all over the world. His Sociology of the Global System (1995) has been translated into Japanese, Portuguese, Persian, Chinese and Spanish. He has conducted fieldwork on transnational corporations in Mexico, China, Hong Kong, Egypt and Australia, and in Europe and North America.
Sklair's latest book, The Transnational Capitalist Class, aims to provide the first systematic, research-based sociological analysis of the relationships between processes of globalisation and the major transnational corporations that are widely considered to dominate the global economy. Using the Global Fortune 500 as an example, the book focuses on the extent of globalisation in these corporations.
Anthony Giddens is the director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He started his academic career at the University of Hull, and went on to study for an M.A. in sociology at the LSE; by 1976 he had completed a Ph.D. at Cambridge University.
Giddens has held numerous teaching positions within sociology, including at the University of Leicester and the University of Cambridge, and has lectured extensively at many overseas universities. He has received 10 honorary degrees throughout his career. More recently he was the BBC Reith Lecturer in 1999.
Giddens is the most widely read and cited social theorist of his generation, authoring 34 books and countless articles and reviews. He co-founded the academic publishing house Polity Press in 1985 and still stands as chairman and director of Polity Press Ltd. as well as the director of Blackwell-Polity Ltd. He also stands as the chairman and director of the Centre for Social Research.
Giddens is well respected for developing the theory of structuration, and has been at the forefront of developing ideas in left-of-centre politics, helping to popularize the idea of the "third way," and travelling to many countries around the world to talk to political leaders and heads of state about the development of third way politics. Frequently referred to as "Tony Blair's guru," Giddens has also made a strong impact on the evolution of New Labour.
Free London School of Economics Course
on
Globalization
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· Score: 4, Informative
The London School of Economics is giving a Free course called "The Globalisation Debate" at the onlineline University course clearinghouse "Fathom.com. Their system doesn't permit direct linking, so you will need to search on Globalisation, or the school. Here's the course description:
Globalisation is a fervidly contested and often misunderstood concept. It has occupied and divided economists, sociologists and anti-capitalists alike. Anti-globalisation protestors have regularly and successfully picketed World Trade Organisation summits as part of their stand against the might of globalisation. Yet, many economists tout the benefits of increased trade, sophisticated telecommunications networks and cross-border investment to developing countries, pointing to the gains workers and unions throughout the world stand to make from closer integration.
Most people seem to know whether they are for or against globalisation, without pausing to consider what exactly it is and where its effects can be seen. Globalisation might be a term too slippery to be closely defined, but it is a vibrant debate worth engaging in.
In this seminar two major sociologists put forward their versions of globalisation. For Anthony Giddens, it is a phenomenon characterised by fundamental changes in the world economy, the communications revolution and trade between nation-states in physical commodities, information and currency. For Leslie Sklair, globalisation should be seen as a new phase of capitalism, one that transcends the unit of the nation-state. In an interview, he introduces the globalisation debate and stakes out his position within it. Sklair builds on these arguments through a flash image gallery, which explores how the idea of globalisation is used by transnational corporations.
The course is taught by Leslie Sklair is a reader in sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and is responsible for the doctoral programme in the sociology department. He has been a visiting professor at New York University, San Diego State University and Hong Kong University, and has lectured on globalisation all over the world. His Sociology of the Global System (1995) has been translated into Japanese, Portuguese, Persian, Chinese and Spanish. He has conducted fieldwork on transnational corporations in Mexico, China, Hong Kong, Egypt and Australia, and in Europe and North America.
Re:One 2600 meeting does not a sample make.
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Babbage, A Look Back
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· Score: 3, Interesting
We need roving teachers... HackMasters... who set HackerDojos in every city.
We have one here in Antofagasta, Chile where I live... actually it's just my apartemnt, but I can say from direct experience that the new generating of hackers love to hang out and learn with the older generation... they just love to see my KIM-1 and TRS-80 Model I... my Cray 1 S/1000 supercomputer memory card... my collection of BYTE, 80 Micro, & Kilobaud... my books (especially my books because there is no such thing as a free public library in Chile)... to hear my hacking war stories and most interestingly, to work on new developement projects with me.
Make your self into a HackMaster.
Teach!
One 2600 meeting does not a sample make.
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Babbage, A Look Back
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· Score: 4, Interesting
My advice is to make the effort and go to H2K2 and get a real sample. I think you will find like I did when I spoke at H2K, that the majority are well informed about our history.
Like any culture, our culture needs to be taught!
Only so many can have had first hand experience and there are less of us each day. Yet, each day, there are more just coming into interest who need to be taught.
If you find such a teacherless group of people interested in computers, you should take it upon yourself to teach who we are.
Tell them about Norbert Wiener and Marie Ampere. Warren McCulloch, J.C.R. Licklider, John von Neumann and Vannevar Bush. Alan Turing, Claude Shannon and David Levy (yes Ken Thompson too and Belle). Scott Adams(all three) and Stanislaw Lem. Joeseph Weizenbaum and Eliza, Alaxander Bain and Donald Hebb. Nolan Bushnell, Ted Dabney and Larry Bryan. Alan Kay and Steve Russell. David Gottieb, Joel Hochberg and Al Arcorn. Thomas Hobbes and Levithan. Charles Darwin, Erasmus Darwin and Thomas Huxley. Aristotle and Lucretius. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Charles Babbage and Blaise Pascal. B. F. Skinner and Wilhelm Wundt. Robert Tinney and Peter Max. J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky. Doug Lenat, Push Singh and myself.
We will always need more teachers who know how to both show and to tell!
I've submitted 11 articles - 6 have been accepted - which I think is pretty damn good. But I would still like to see this become a true Direct Democracy.
I vote to open the submission queue to the public!!!
Space based and ground based telescopes compliment each other. Right now, the Hubble's primary mission is that of a scout... it finds targets for the VLT (which I operate)... the Hubble's mirror is small and exposure times are limited by cosmic rays... the ground based VLT is much better at getting science data once the Hubble finds the target.
The next space telescope will be the NGST (Next Generation Space Telescope) which will be about the size of a single VLT telescope (we have 4 here in Chile) and it again will act as a scout for the OWL.
I submitted the story because it was a quiet night here at the observatory and there was nothing much to read on slashdot... I'm glad Michael posted it... I'm also impressed he remembered my interview from last year... he knew mindpixel and McKinstry are the same person, right?
With the modern LED lasers about, you could build very nice a portable laser projector vector game... I've thought about this a lot and have built some prototype systems... but I'm all alone here in South America and need some buddies to help me.
I think it's much, much closer than most people expect...
What we're actially doing with GAC is high dimensional tomography. At the moment we're just mapping the 'truth' of each of these high-d points, but soon, we will also measure the 'emotionality' of each point as well. This involves getting people to tell the system how each particular item makes them feel by selecting emotive words from some drop down lists - much like the way 'Quality' is measured now.
See my Slashdot interview for some more links on this emotional thread.
You are right, GAC is one heck of a psychological test on its own. However, unlike the MMPI, GAC has not explicitly been tested with both normal and clinical populations, so it would not be good at distinguishing the two.
The whole point of giving the MMPI to GAC now is to see what type of personality you get when you blend together 40,000 personalities. Looking at the data as it comes in (after recovering from the slashdot hit that killed the site for a while), GAC looks a little depressed and slightly sexually deviant. GAC also is showing some strong somatic symptoms (complaints about the body) which is of course quite ironic considering it doesn't have a body. But other than that, GAC appears normal. Quite human.
Brown I'm sure, was tempted to think he had discovered the secret of life, but to his credit, he decided to checkout inorganic particles as well. When he saw they too moved like the organic particles, he dismissed the idea.
Little did he know he actually discovered the principle that unites the organic and inorganic. This is a MAJOR discovery!
Diesel pumps are everywhere! The entire North American goods transportation system runs on diesel. All you have to do is know where the pumps are (usually on main highways entering cities). With a little planning and thought, you'll never run out of fuel.
People are starting to take XP very seriously simply because it delivers quality code instead of just documents about code. The core philosophy can be summed up: "A feature does not exist unless there is a test for it." (P.83 of XP Installed) This means that coders (pairs of programmers in XP) first construct unit tests of product features before the attempt to code the features. What this means in practice, is that the code that XP delivers (continuously in 3 week long iterations) can never be broken! I'll say that again just to make sure you read it: XP code can never be broken! I really think XP's adaptive, test-first philosophy is the best thing that has happened to software engineering since Dijkstra told us that the "Goto Statement is Considered Harmful" in 1968.
I operate the VLT here in Chile. The VLA is in New Mexico (and is the telescope array seen in Contact).
BTW: I know we also are close to "First Fringe" on the VLTI as well.
I hope Jack Straw is keeping track of his hair... all someone needs to frame him for any crime is one cell with intact DNA and a PCR system. With the two, they can make all the Jack Straw DNA they could ever want and place it on any fat chick's dress or at any crime scene.
But, who cares about Jack! Anyone who cares to can get my DNA or your DNA and frame either of us for a crime, or at least divert suspicion from themselves. For example, what if a rapist got hold of your used condom, then raped and murdered someone, planted your sperm on the body and then made an anonymous call to the police saying your were bragging about the crime... I think you'd go to jail, or if the body was found in Texas, your grave, real quick!!
The article implies that it is DNA based microbe - I think it would be very unlikely that a true ET would just happen to be DNA - though it's possible - I would be much more interested if it's genetics were non-DNA (A COMPLETELY alien replicator).
If the DNA is really ET DNA - that is it is truely genetically unrelated to anything on earth, it would mean that the universe must be full of DNA for it to just land on Earth.
don't worry, quality filters are coming... they will work a lot like/. in that you can chose to see items of a only certain minimum quality. the rest will be there for the courageous to validate so that the masses can have their sanitized view.
Indeed, if you want to model the "less than" relationship for all natural numbers as "1 is less than 2" etc. it is clear the amount of memory required would be infinite.
This is quite dumb however, there are formal definitions of the "less than" relationship for natural numbers which can be stated in a few lines.
And this is indeed how it will be done. I don't need all the examples, just some in order to extract the formal relationships such as lessthan. See my posting elsewhere in this discussion tree regarding Radon and image reconstruction from a finite number of projections. If you want it here is the formalsim.
okay, some of them are good, but they are all supposed to be context independent, and something that everyone would agree on. That means no opinion, no political
campaigning, no paradoxes. If 10% of mindpixels database is complete garbage, of course it's never going to succeed. If it doesn't have an answer, people are just
screwing up the system by entering it.
None of this is true. The items you quoted are merely potential items in the corpus. They have not been validated yet. Moreover, the copus is full of political statements and paradoxes. Zero percent of the database is garbage. Nothing makes it in unless it has a stable response across an random sample of 30 users. As the garbage is filtered, you can't screw anything up (except your own reliability rating) by entering garbage. And I might point out as well, many items people think don't have a stable true/false answer, in fact do - though it is subconscious and can only be seen by forcing a group of people to respond to the item in the binary; which is why I don't allow 'unknown' as a response.
Slashdot Mirror
Not that anyone noticed (if you did I'd like to hear about it)... but the course is taught by TWO socioligists, and the second is the director of the school:
Anthony Giddens is the director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He started his academic career at the University of Hull, and went on to study for an M.A. in sociology at the LSE; by 1976 he had completed a Ph.D. at Cambridge University.
Giddens has held numerous teaching positions within sociology, including at the University of Leicester and the University of Cambridge, and has lectured extensively at many overseas universities. He has received 10 honorary degrees throughout his career. More recently he was the BBC Reith Lecturer in 1999.
Giddens is the most widely read and cited social theorist of his generation, authoring 34 books and countless articles and reviews. He co-founded the academic publishing house Polity Press in 1985 and still stands as chairman and director of Polity Press Ltd. as well as the director of Blackwell-Polity Ltd. He also stands as the chairman and director of the Centre for Social Research.
Giddens is well respected for developing the theory of structuration, and has been at the forefront of developing ideas in left-of-centre politics, helping to popularize the idea of the "third way," and travelling to many countries around the world to talk to political leaders and heads of state about the development of third way politics. Frequently referred to as "Tony Blair's guru," Giddens has also made a strong impact on the evolution of New Labour.
Fathom.com which is trying to be the international university course clearinghouse has a FREE onlie course called "The Globalization Debate". Maybe some of you are serious enough about this to take the FREE course and see some examples of well considered and balanced opinion on globalisation.
Here's the course description that I include here because the Fathom site would not allow internal links:
Globalisation is a fervidly contested and often misunderstood concept. It has occupied and divided economists, sociologists and anti-capitalists alike. Anti-globalisation protestors have regularly and successfully picketed World Trade Organisation summits as part of their stand against the might of globalisation. Yet, many economists tout the benefits of increased trade, sophisticated telecommunications networks and cross-border investment to developing countries, pointing to the gains workers and unions throughout the world stand to make from closer integration.
Most people seem to know whether they are for or against globalisation, without pausing to consider what exactly it is and where its effects can be seen. Globalisation might be a term too slippery to be closely defined, but it is a vibrant debate worth engaging in.
In this seminar two major sociologists put forward their versions of globalisation. For Anthony Giddens, it is a phenomenon characterised by fundamental changes in the world economy, the communications revolution and trade between nation-states in physical commodities, information and currency. For Leslie Sklair, globalisation should be seen as a new phase of capitalism, one that transcends the unit of the nation-state. In an interview, he introduces the globalisation debate and stakes out his position within it. Sklair builds on these arguments through a flash image gallery, which explores how the idea of globalisation is used by transnational corporations.
Leslie Sklair is a reader in sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and is responsible for the doctoral programme in the sociology department. He has been a visiting professor at New York University, San Diego State University and Hong Kong University, and has lectured on globalisation all over the world. His Sociology of the Global System (1995) has been translated into Japanese, Portuguese, Persian, Chinese and Spanish. He has conducted fieldwork on transnational corporations in Mexico, China, Hong Kong, Egypt and Australia, and in Europe and North America.
Sklair's latest book, The Transnational Capitalist Class, aims to provide the first systematic, research-based sociological analysis of the relationships between processes of globalisation and the major transnational corporations that are widely considered to dominate the global economy. Using the Global Fortune 500 as an example, the book focuses on the extent of globalisation in these corporations.
Anthony Giddens is the director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He started his academic career at the University of Hull, and went on to study for an M.A. in sociology at the LSE; by 1976 he had completed a Ph.D. at Cambridge University.
Giddens has held numerous teaching positions within sociology, including at the University of Leicester and the University of Cambridge, and has lectured extensively at many overseas universities. He has received 10 honorary degrees throughout his career. More recently he was the BBC Reith Lecturer in 1999.
Giddens is the most widely read and cited social theorist of his generation, authoring 34 books and countless articles and reviews. He co-founded the academic publishing house Polity Press in 1985 and still stands as chairman and director of Polity Press Ltd. as well as the director of Blackwell-Polity Ltd. He also stands as the chairman and director of the Centre for Social Research.
Giddens is well respected for developing the theory of structuration, and has been at the forefront of developing ideas in left-of-centre politics, helping to popularize the idea of the "third way," and travelling to many countries around the world to talk to political leaders and heads of state about the development of third way politics. Frequently referred to as "Tony Blair's guru," Giddens has also made a strong impact on the evolution of New Labour.
The London School of Economics is giving a Free course called "The Globalisation Debate" at the onlineline University course clearinghouse "Fathom.com. Their system doesn't permit direct linking, so you will need to search on Globalisation, or the school. Here's the course description:
Globalisation is a fervidly contested and often misunderstood concept. It has occupied and divided economists, sociologists and anti-capitalists alike. Anti-globalisation protestors have regularly and successfully picketed World Trade Organisation summits as part of their stand against the might of globalisation. Yet, many economists tout the benefits of increased trade, sophisticated telecommunications networks and cross-border investment to developing countries, pointing to the gains workers and unions throughout the world stand to make from closer integration.
Most people seem to know whether they are for or against globalisation, without pausing to consider what exactly it is and where its effects can be seen. Globalisation might be a term too slippery to be closely defined, but it is a vibrant debate worth engaging in.
In this seminar two major sociologists put forward their versions of globalisation. For Anthony Giddens, it is a phenomenon characterised by fundamental changes in the world economy, the communications revolution and trade between nation-states in physical commodities, information and currency. For Leslie Sklair, globalisation should be seen as a new phase of capitalism, one that transcends the unit of the nation-state. In an interview, he introduces the globalisation debate and stakes out his position within it. Sklair builds on these arguments through a flash image gallery, which explores how the idea of globalisation is used by transnational corporations.
The course is taught by Leslie Sklair is a reader in sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and is responsible for the doctoral programme in the sociology department. He has been a visiting professor at New York University, San Diego State University and Hong Kong University, and has lectured on globalisation all over the world. His Sociology of the Global System (1995) has been translated into Japanese, Portuguese, Persian, Chinese and Spanish. He has conducted fieldwork on transnational corporations in Mexico, China, Hong Kong, Egypt and Australia, and in Europe and North America.
We need roving teachers... HackMasters... who set HackerDojos in every city.
We have one here in Antofagasta, Chile where I live... actually it's just my apartemnt, but I can say from direct experience that the new generating of hackers love to hang out and learn with the older generation... they just love to see my KIM-1 and TRS-80 Model I... my Cray 1 S/1000 supercomputer memory card... my collection of BYTE, 80 Micro, & Kilobaud... my books (especially my books because there is no such thing as a free public library in Chile)... to hear my hacking war stories and most interestingly, to work on new developement projects with me.
Make your self into a HackMaster.
Teach!
My advice is to make the effort and go to H2K2 and get a real sample. I think you will find like I did when I spoke at H2K, that the majority are well informed about our history.
Like any culture, our culture needs to be taught! Only so many can have had first hand experience and there are less of us each day. Yet, each day, there are more just coming into interest who need to be taught. If you find such a teacherless group of people interested in computers, you should take it upon yourself to teach who we are.
Show people the first computer you ever programmed. Show them the games you played and wrote. Show them how to say "Hello World!" directly with a Turing Machine or in Java and everything between.
Tell them about Norbert Wiener and Marie Ampere. Warren McCulloch, J.C.R. Licklider, John von Neumann and Vannevar Bush. Alan Turing, Claude Shannon and David Levy (yes Ken Thompson too and Belle). Scott Adams(all three) and Stanislaw Lem. Joeseph Weizenbaum and Eliza, Alaxander Bain and Donald Hebb. Nolan Bushnell, Ted Dabney and Larry Bryan. Alan Kay and Steve Russell. David Gottieb, Joel Hochberg and Al Arcorn. Thomas Hobbes and Levithan. Charles Darwin, Erasmus Darwin and Thomas Huxley. Aristotle and Lucretius. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Charles Babbage and Blaise Pascal. B. F. Skinner and Wilhelm Wundt. Robert Tinney and Peter Max. J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky. Doug Lenat, Push Singh and myself.
We will always need more teachers who know how to both show and to tell!
I've submitted 11 articles - 6 have been accepted - which I think is pretty damn good. But I would still like to see this become a true Direct Democracy.
I vote to open the submission queue to the public!!!
hey this is neat...
Space based and ground based telescopes compliment each other. Right now, the Hubble's primary mission is that of a scout... it finds targets for the VLT (which I operate)... the Hubble's mirror is small and exposure times are limited by cosmic rays... the ground based VLT is much better at getting science data once the Hubble finds the target.
The next space telescope will be the NGST (Next Generation Space Telescope) which will be about the size of a single VLT telescope (we have 4 here in Chile) and it again will act as a scout for the OWL.
I submitted the story because it was a quiet night here at the observatory and there was nothing much to read on slashdot... I'm glad Michael posted it... I'm also impressed he remembered my interview from last year... he knew mindpixel and McKinstry are the same person, right?
With the modern LED lasers about, you could build very nice a portable laser projector vector game... I've thought about this a lot and have built some prototype systems... but I'm all alone here in South America and need some buddies to help me.
Yeah, no kidding. I wrote that question to Tom and now I really wonder what the heck he did...
I think it's much, much closer than most people expect...
What we're actially doing with GAC is high dimensional tomography. At the moment we're just mapping the 'truth' of each of these high-d points, but soon, we will also measure the 'emotionality' of each point as well. This involves getting people to tell the system how each particular item makes them feel by selecting emotive words from some drop down lists - much like the way 'Quality' is measured now.
See my Slashdot interview for some more links on this emotional thread.
IRTP: I run this project.
You are right, GAC is one heck of a psychological test on its own. However, unlike the MMPI, GAC has not explicitly been tested with both normal and clinical populations, so it would not be good at distinguishing the two.
The whole point of giving the MMPI to GAC now is to see what type of personality you get when you blend together 40,000 personalities. Looking at the data as it comes in (after recovering from the slashdot hit that killed the site for a while), GAC looks a little depressed and slightly sexually deviant. GAC also is showing some strong somatic symptoms (complaints about the body) which is of course quite ironic considering it doesn't have a body. But other than that, GAC appears normal. Quite human.
Dopler radar has always been able to track the wakes of stealth aricraft, though few like to talk about it.
Brown I'm sure, was tempted to think he had discovered the secret of life, but to his credit, he decided to checkout inorganic particles as well. When he saw they too moved like the organic particles, he dismissed the idea.
Little did he know he actually discovered the principle that unites the organic and inorganic. This is a MAJOR discovery!
Until diesel pumps are everywhere...
Diesel pumps are everywhere! The entire North American goods transportation system runs on diesel. All you have to do is know where the pumps are (usually on main highways entering cities). With a little planning and thought, you'll never run out of fuel.
People are starting to take XP very seriously simply because it delivers quality code instead of just documents about code. The core philosophy can be summed up: "A feature does not exist unless there is a test for it." (P.83 of XP Installed) This means that coders (pairs of programmers in XP) first construct unit tests of product features before the attempt to code the features. What this means in practice, is that the code that XP delivers (continuously in 3 week long iterations) can never be broken! I'll say that again just to make sure you read it: XP code can never be broken! I really think XP's adaptive, test-first philosophy is the best thing that has happened to software engineering since Dijkstra told us that the "Goto Statement is Considered Harmful" in 1968.
I operate the VLT here in Chile. The VLA is in New Mexico (and is the telescope array seen in Contact). BTW: I know we also are close to "First Fringe" on the VLTI as well.
I hope Jack Straw is keeping track of his hair... all someone needs to frame him for any crime is one cell with intact DNA and a PCR system. With the two, they can make all the Jack Straw DNA they could ever want and place it on any fat chick's dress or at any crime scene.
But, who cares about Jack! Anyone who cares to can get my DNA or your DNA and frame either of us for a crime, or at least divert suspicion from themselves. For example, what if a rapist got hold of your used condom, then raped and murdered someone, planted your sperm on the body and then made an anonymous call to the police saying your were bragging about the crime... I think you'd go to jail, or if the body was found in Texas, your grave, real quick!!
You can see video of the nanocopters on the Cornell site here
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The article implies that it is DNA based microbe - I think it would be very unlikely that a true ET would just happen to be DNA - though it's possible - I would be much more interested if it's genetics were non-DNA (A COMPLETELY alien replicator).
If the DNA is really ET DNA - that is it is truely genetically unrelated to anything on earth, it would mean that the universe must be full of DNA for it to just land on Earth.
Can you say Andromeda Strain?
i've replied to some of your questions here, but the moderators seem to have missed them all... so'll you'll have to dig until they wake up.
don't worry, quality filters are coming... they will work a lot like /. in that you can chose to see items of a only certain minimum quality. the rest will be there for the courageous to validate so that the masses can have their sanitized view.
Indeed, if you want to model the "less than" relationship for all natural numbers as "1 is less than 2" etc. it is clear the amount of memory required would be infinite. This is quite dumb however, there are formal definitions of the "less than" relationship for natural numbers which can be stated in a few lines.
And this is indeed how it will be done. I don't need all the examples, just some in order to extract the formal relationships such as lessthan. See my posting elsewhere in this discussion tree regarding Radon and image reconstruction from a finite number of projections. If you want it here is the formalsim.
okay, some of them are good, but they are all supposed to be context independent, and something that everyone would agree on. That means no opinion, no political campaigning, no paradoxes. If 10% of mindpixels database is complete garbage, of course it's never going to succeed. If it doesn't have an answer, people are just screwing up the system by entering it.
None of this is true. The items you quoted are merely potential items in the corpus. They have not been validated yet. Moreover, the copus is full of political statements and paradoxes. Zero percent of the database is garbage. Nothing makes it in unless it has a stable response across an random sample of 30 users. As the garbage is filtered, you can't screw anything up (except your own reliability rating) by entering garbage. And I might point out as well, many items people think don't have a stable true/false answer, in fact do - though it is subconscious and can only be seen by forcing a group of people to respond to the item in the binary; which is why I don't allow 'unknown' as a response.