I live in a resort community in the Colorado rocky mountains. Every fall we have a few weeks of elk (wapiti) mating season where tourist type folks drive around looking for the herds of elk.
I think it would be really cool to have a google maps app on a website where people could click on a map to show where they saw elk.
I'd say you have found the core of the matter. The frustrating part is that some things that are neither repeatable nor observable are still considered 'science', like macro-evolution for exammple.
Your pattern would work, unless there were a bias against the publishing of intelligent design articles, or any articles that contradicted strict naturalism.
If that were the case, then any super-naturalistic explanations are left out by the designed-in bias of the system.
Which is fine for many subjects. Except it doesn't sufficiently cover the range of human experience.
That's all good stuff. But I was using the internet before those happened.
The word 'create' usually implies some act of building or constructing... something that had not been there before.
Maybe he should have said he helped turn the nice quiet internet into a channel for endless spam and porn. That would have been true to about the same extent, and almost as entertaining.
invariant pattern recognition abilities (in a loose sense -- this also includes memory/learning and inductive reasoning) are the true mark of intelligence, and this is nearly undisputed. If they really want to test how intelligent a program is, they need to test its patern recognition ability.
And the management of multiple simultaneous stimulations and pattern recognition in multiple stimulation environment.
Sounds great except for that weasel word "evidence". (And that I don't have $5000 I can wager on anything.)
How about this:
If the overall mean official temperature at the Loveland/Fort Collins, CO airport over the period 1/1/2010 through 12/31/2014 is higher than the same overall mean temperature over the period 1/1/2005 through 12/31/2009 I will pay you $100. Otherwise you will pay me $100. If the mean temperature difference is less than 1 F degree, we call it a wash and no one pays.
By "overall mean temperature" I mean taking the daily high and daily low for each day, adding them all up and dividing by two times the number of days.
I'll even generously let you have the slack from increased commercial development, etc. in the area.
I think you are defining "wasted time" differently than he does in his essay.
He never really got to the point of saying that getting an advanced education just so you can make more money is a waste of time. But that is true.
He implied it by saying you should treat school like a "day job" and spend your real effort in finding the things you enjoy doing, and learning how to do them well.
If you took all of those hard subjects just to impress an unknown future employer then it's no wonder you are disappointed. But it's probably not too late (unless you have twelve kids to feed).
Turn off the TV and do some things you've wanted to try.
Hasn't it always been the case that the guy with the ink/camera/microphone/blog gets to write whatever he pleases.... including what will make him some $$?
Each case is different. Hearing only the insider's version of the story, is it surprising that the important details don't come through?
Sorry about the child support. I suggest you try to go back to court and have that adjusted... or consider signing over your parental rights. (I'm Not A Lawyer, so don't take this as legal advice!)
No, actually US energy economy is dependant on foreign oil. Energy policy has a number of facets, including the stated goal of increasing use of domestic coal for electric production.
The real problem is that folks like me and you keep getting in the car and turning the key.
I really can't understand why Gore is giving such speeches. Is he bitter about losing in 2000? Does he aspire to run for office again? Maybe the spirit of campaigning just picks him up and carries him along.
Al Gore is history. He has even less relevance than Bill Clinton.
Jimmy Carter has an opinion, but at least Jimmy Carter has a life outside of being a former politician. Maybe Al Gore should get one of those too.
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But the remote-control eating doesn't seem like it really would satisfy.
I live in a resort community in the Colorado rocky mountains. Every fall we have a few weeks
of elk (wapiti) mating season where tourist type folks drive around looking for the herds of elk.
I think it would be really cool to have a google maps app on a website where people could click on a map to show where they saw elk.
How would I go about doing that?
A semantics problem I guess. I always took "initiative" to be related to "initial" or "initate", both of which imply being there at the start.
So no, someone who comes along and finishes another's work did not take the "initiative".
If it can't be observed than it doesn't exist.
I'd say you have found the core of the matter.
The frustrating part is that some things that are neither repeatable nor observable are still considered 'science', like macro-evolution for exammple.
Your car is the accidental result of millions of years of automotive evolution.
No wonder it's so ugly.
Your pattern would work, unless there were a bias against the publishing of intelligent design articles, or any articles that contradicted strict naturalism.
If that were the case, then any super-naturalistic explanations are left out by the designed-in bias of the system.
Which is fine for many subjects. Except it doesn't sufficiently cover the range of human experience.
That's all good stuff.
But I was using the internet before those happened.
The word 'create' usually implies some act of building or constructing... something that had not been there before.
Maybe he should have said he helped turn the nice quiet internet into a channel for endless spam and porn. That would have been true to about the same extent, and almost as entertaining.
I thought snopes was a 'she'.
That's probably the most self-revealing thing
I've ever seen on slashdot.
I appreciate your honesty.
The rest of us need to change because you won't?
invariant pattern recognition abilities (in a loose sense -- this also includes memory/learning and inductive reasoning) are the true mark of intelligence, and this is nearly undisputed. If they really want to test how intelligent a program is, they need to test its patern recognition ability.
And the management of multiple simultaneous stimulations and pattern recognition in multiple
stimulation environment.
You mean if I were a climatologist I would
have more money?
Not being a climatologist, I don't know what
'Global Mean Temperature' means.
And I don't have $10,000 anyway.
I respectfully decline your counter offer.
That sounds like a no.
?
Sounds great except for that weasel word "evidence". (And that I don't have $5000 I can
wager on anything.)
How about this:
If the overall mean official temperature at the Loveland/Fort Collins, CO airport over the period 1/1/2010 through 12/31/2014 is higher than the same overall mean temperature over the period 1/1/2005 through 12/31/2009 I will pay you $100. Otherwise you will pay me $100. If the mean temperature difference is less than 1 F degree,
we call it a wash and no one pays.
By "overall mean temperature" I mean taking the daily high and daily low for each day, adding them all up and dividing by two times the number of days.
I'll even generously let you have the slack from increased commercial development, etc. in the area.
Draw up the contract. I'm ready to sign it.
preaching to the choir.
For all of you folks that don't go to church, that means telling people what they want to hear.
The readers of Scientific American already enjoy getting a full dose of humorless anti-religion pseudo-science or they wouldn't be subscribers.
I'd like to hear about a town that only has access via interstate!
I think you are defining "wasted time" differently than he does in his essay.
He never really got to the point of saying that getting an advanced education just so you can make more money is a waste of time. But that is true.
He implied it by saying you should treat school like a "day job" and spend your real effort in finding the things you enjoy doing, and learning how to do them well.
If you took all of those hard subjects just to impress an unknown future employer then it's no wonder you are disappointed. But it's probably not too late (unless you have twelve kids to feed).
Turn off the TV and do some things you've wanted to try.
Hasn't it always been the case that the
guy with the ink/camera/microphone/blog
gets to write whatever he pleases.... including
what will make him some $$?
That's the beauty of the first amendment.
Each case is different. Hearing only the insider's version of the story, is it surprising that the important details don't come through?
Sorry about the child support. I suggest you try to go back to court and have that adjusted... or consider signing over your parental rights.
(I'm Not A Lawyer, so don't take this as legal advice!)
Check out the California Governor's office sometime.
Whoa! new economic theory:
... are the least likely to reinvest the money on the economy."
".. the wealthy
All those poor folks have been secretly investing in new corporations and hiring people.
sorry, I was overcome by sarcastic fit
No, actually US energy economy is dependant on foreign oil. Energy policy has a number of facets, including the stated goal of increasing use of domestic coal for electric production.
The real problem is that folks like me and you keep getting in the car and turning the key.
I really can't understand why Gore is giving such speeches. Is he bitter about losing in 2000? Does he aspire to run for office again? Maybe the spirit of campaigning just picks him up and carries him along.
Al Gore is history. He has even less relevance than Bill Clinton.
Jimmy Carter has an opinion, but at least Jimmy Carter has a life outside of being a former politician. Maybe Al Gore should get one of those too.
I would surely like to see a graph of global ozone damaging substance use vs. ozone hole size.
I don't suppose you have one in your back pocket?