The fight cancer at home project seems pretty worthwhile to me. And there are more projects on biochemistry, that your computer can help with. Think of the higher electricity bill as a donation to science, because that's what it is. And you're not making a donation to a foundation that's lobbying for bigger funds from the state, you're actually paying for direct work in a certain field. The ability of the population to control how money is spent on research is pretty much maximized with the @home model. Also, you can easily fine tune CPU usage with BOINC. Anyway, it's your money, and you don't have to feel bad about it. But in case you wanted to donate to science, this is the best way for many projects.
yes, a can of worms would be open if you went against god! If god intended you to have chips in your brain, you would be born with them! just like speaking and writing!
I almost modded you interesting, but I can't. I don't have enough of a background to realize if, for the particular issue of P (!)= NP, it makes sense to think of decidability. I do suspect it doesn't, because the problem is pretty old, and I've never heard of anyone talking about its decidability. When there's a million dollars involved, I've learned to expect that enough people tried enough different ways to exhaust all the ideas I can have in 5 minutes from hearing about the problem (and ever since I've heard of the axiom of choice, I've thought that maybe some interesting questions are about undecidable problems).
My wife also complains sometimes that I sleep like a log. I doubt I'm comparable to you. But anyway, if I was you, I would first try to have regular sleeping hours (don't put it off), and then talk to a psychologist or something. You should be able to condition yourself to wake up with a particular stimulus. Anyway, glad to hear your wife understands. Good luck.
even "less than 2 a day on average", as they said... it's ridiculous. If I received that amount of e-mails from someone, it would mean I am spending at least half a day (each day) working on something that is a collaboration or something.
the BBC article says that this supposedly happened during WW2. If I were Churchill during WW2, and I had evidence of a UFO encounter, I would hide it too, and I might just say something about faith in the church. Imagine: the entire world is in war, and suddenly you hear of things that can't be explained (also, the war is about jews) wouldn't people panic, thinking about the apocalypse? I can't tell if the event did happen, but I can understand why he would formulate it like that in the context of WW2.
And frankly people are still too stupid to handle something like information about alien beings. I hate myself for saying it, but it's true. On the other hand, I realized that evolution happens because you force populations to handle new problems, so I think that, even though it would create a lot of problem, people knowing about aliens should tell the truth. (because we all know aliens exist but the illuminati/masons/bildeburgs/... don't want us to know)
I get a phone from the Netherlands, where there are no problems with downloads. I connect to the internet through this phone, while in France (I assume it costs a lot, but whatever). What laws am I supposed to obey?
actually, this is still a valid question. Those huge intensities are something completely different. We can be certain that these small fluctuating currents flowing through the brain won't kill you directly. But they could lead to erroneus sensory input, right up to the limit of psychosis. You can facilitate the appearance of illusions if you play with electromagnetic fields around a brain (I remember seeing some discussions about experiments on Discovery). Or another thing: you can unwittingly generate some noise that is heard on a subcounscious level, increasing stress up to the point of going mad.
Because the brain is a complex circuit, you have no idea what effect some small input may have on the whole system (stupid argument: hearing a faint "help", which is a tiny input to the brain, will probably make a life guard alert, which is a kind of stress).
well, the summary makes it pretty clear: the theory remains the same (Heisenberg's "principle" is a very specific statement derived from the theory for a certain problem). It's just that in some pathological cases, by entangling particles, they can measure what one of them is doing (I assume they lose information about another part of the system). I think I heard of this before, about some laser pulses that they wanted to get some noise out of: they just split one pulse into one with less quantum noise, while the other had more. It was some years ago, so I may be wrong.
I think this kind of technology will be very useful when someone is dealing with several "wall-sized" displays (you move around the room, and the "keyboard" moves with you). Or think of a doctor typing stuff in a "chart".
i think his wish is more about throwing himself in front of a bullet to save someone else kind of death. he believes he would die to help others, and I think that objectively that is what would happen; a person comitting suicide might believe they are helping others, when in fact they are not (or it's a more subjective understanding of helping others).
This doesn't seem like flamebait. he actually has a point, however badly worded. hackers should start thinking about an open standard. If there's a specific reason for this not to be a valid idea, let us know, but don't just call him flamebait.
"So a [...] researcher tries to wake up [...] users and he's the guy you want to kick in the nuts? Very curious."
Welcome to Earth.
On a more serious note, in the final of MASH, a woman kills her baby (infant) because it made noise and the respective group of people wanted to be silent (soldiers outside the bus wanting them dead). Don't expect anger/fear to be rational; once you set off some feelings, a lot of people can't tell the difference between "our survival depends on hiding our weakness now and this guy is yelling about it" and "hey, this guy showed us that we are weak and we should solve the problem".
PS: I realize I might have given a stronger comment than might be required by the context... but the anger at this hacker might be related to this survival thing in a (faraway) way.
from what I see on their page, a 1kg battery can hold 48Wh (abigsmurf commented on this before you). A laptop might use somewhere between 15 to 30 W (for reasonable usage), so you get to use a laptop for 3 to 1.5 hours, depending on how hungry it is. I don't really get what the advantage of this new SCiB thing is, except that it is NOT Li-Ion. Anyway, I understood you can buy (as in it's already available) a car that can go for more than 100km on one recharge. If I ever want a car for a city, that's what I'm buying (for the moment I get by walking or sub/tram/bus). For a laptop, I will personally try to build (or get my cousin to build) a pedal generator (what I found so far on the internet is ridiculously expensive). Why waste time at the gym, when I can workout while at my laptop?
thank you. Scientists that are also good sailsmen are rewarded. Things are moving along so and so, but not very well: there are millions of people starving because research into genetically modified foods is expensive and you have to worry about patents. And medical research is also expensive and you can run into patents. And so on. OK, maybe I'm exagerating a bit, but when you think about it, many researchers are forced to hold on to secrets because they're worried about getting funding. And, as this comment http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1708484&cid=32822260 explains, they are also worried about other "scientists" trying to turn everything into a race against the clock, in order to publish first, while using possibly defective data analysis methods. I fully understand not wanting your data to be analized by someone who doesn't know what they're doing, because if they publish first, it is their errors that will be remembered by the public, not your correct results.
Yes, competition is needed in science, but... I think something's wrong.
It's really sad that a discussion about the possible detection of Earth-sized planets around other stars is dressed up in "it's our data and we want to publish first" and stuff like that. Humanity will, one day, pay dearly the fact that scientists are forced to fight for resources...
Anyway, this is interesting news. If computers were considered "the revenge of the nerds", I'm curious what the next few years will be called.
they're not saying life can only develop this way. but if they find an earth-like planet, there's a pretty good chance it might have life. by the way, they're looking for habitable planets, not life. the science of a class of systems "X" is always hard when you have just one example; there's no need to call them stupid.
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The fight cancer at home project seems pretty worthwhile to me. And there are more projects on biochemistry, that your computer can help with. Think of the higher electricity bill as a donation to science, because that's what it is. And you're not making a donation to a foundation that's lobbying for bigger funds from the state, you're actually paying for direct work in a certain field. The ability of the population to control how money is spent on research is pretty much maximized with the @home model.
Also, you can easily fine tune CPU usage with BOINC.
Anyway, it's your money, and you don't have to feel bad about it. But in case you wanted to donate to science, this is the best way for many projects.
offtopic: your paranthesis are giving me a headache. I think.
"real scientist"? I know them. they're the guys with intelligent design and "LHC is gonna kill us all", right?
just a moment. the fact that people have been using tools for a very long time doesn't mean that they have to read the instructions before.
yes, a can of worms would be open if you went against god! If god intended you to have chips in your brain, you would be born with them! just like speaking and writing!
mbrlkjhjakd!
I almost modded you interesting, but I can't.
I don't have enough of a background to realize if, for the particular issue of P (!)= NP, it makes sense to think of decidability. I do suspect it doesn't, because the problem is pretty old, and I've never heard of anyone talking about its decidability.
When there's a million dollars involved, I've learned to expect that enough people tried enough different ways to exhaust all the ideas I can have in 5 minutes from hearing about the problem (and ever since I've heard of the axiom of choice, I've thought that maybe some interesting questions are about undecidable problems).
My wife also complains sometimes that I sleep like a log. I doubt I'm comparable to you.
But anyway, if I was you, I would first try to have regular sleeping hours (don't put it off), and then talk to a psychologist or something. You should be able to condition yourself to wake up with a particular stimulus.
Anyway, glad to hear your wife understands. Good luck.
even "less than 2 a day on average", as they said... it's ridiculous. If I received that amount of e-mails from someone, it would mean I am spending at least half a day (each day) working on something that is a collaboration or something.
the BBC article says that this supposedly happened during WW2. If I were Churchill during WW2, and I had evidence of a UFO encounter, I would hide it too, and I might just say something about faith in the church. Imagine: the entire world is in war, and suddenly you hear of things that can't be explained (also, the war is about jews) wouldn't people panic, thinking about the apocalypse?
I can't tell if the event did happen, but I can understand why he would formulate it like that in the context of WW2.
And frankly people are still too stupid to handle something like information about alien beings. I hate myself for saying it, but it's true. On the other hand, I realized that evolution happens because you force populations to handle new problems, so I think that, even though it would create a lot of problem, people knowing about aliens should tell the truth.
(because we all know aliens exist but the illuminati/masons/bildeburgs/... don't want us to know)
as far as I can tell, slashdot got slashdotted too around now. maybe it's the pesky kids from before? (yes, it's offtopic)
I get a phone from the Netherlands, where there are no problems with downloads. I connect to the internet through this phone, while in France (I assume it costs a lot, but whatever). What laws am I supposed to obey?
actually, this is still a valid question. Those huge intensities are something completely different.
We can be certain that these small fluctuating currents flowing through the brain won't kill you directly. But they could lead to erroneus sensory input, right up to the limit of psychosis. You can facilitate the appearance of illusions if you play with electromagnetic fields around a brain (I remember seeing some discussions about experiments on Discovery).
Or another thing: you can unwittingly generate some noise that is heard on a subcounscious level, increasing stress up to the point of going mad.
Because the brain is a complex circuit, you have no idea what effect some small input may have on the whole system (stupid argument: hearing a faint "help", which is a tiny input to the brain, will probably make a life guard alert, which is a kind of stress).
well, the summary makes it pretty clear: the theory remains the same (Heisenberg's "principle" is a very specific statement derived from the theory for a certain problem). It's just that in some pathological cases, by entangling particles, they can measure what one of them is doing (I assume they lose information about another part of the system).
I think I heard of this before, about some laser pulses that they wanted to get some noise out of: they just split one pulse into one with less quantum noise, while the other had more. It was some years ago, so I may be wrong.
I think this kind of technology will be very useful when someone is dealing with several "wall-sized" displays (you move around the room, and the "keyboard" moves with you). Or think of a doctor typing stuff in a "chart".
i think his wish is more about throwing himself in front of a bullet to save someone else kind of death. he believes he would die to help others, and I think that objectively that is what would happen; a person comitting suicide might believe they are helping others, when in fact they are not (or it's a more subjective understanding of helping others).
This doesn't seem like flamebait. he actually has a point, however badly worded. hackers should start thinking about an open standard.
If there's a specific reason for this not to be a valid idea, let us know, but don't just call him flamebait.
as long as we're applying logic:
there are scientists who know how to make nuclear bombs!
Fred Phelps for president!
"So a [...] researcher tries to wake up [...] users and he's the guy you want to kick in the nuts? Very curious."
Welcome to Earth.
On a more serious note, in the final of MASH, a woman kills her baby (infant) because it made noise and the respective group of people wanted to be silent (soldiers outside the bus wanting them dead). Don't expect anger/fear to be rational; once you set off some feelings, a lot of people can't tell the difference between "our survival depends on hiding our weakness now and this guy is yelling about it" and "hey, this guy showed us that we are weak and we should solve the problem".
PS: I realize I might have given a stronger comment than might be required by the context... but the anger at this hacker might be related to this survival thing in a (faraway) way.
from what I see on their page, a 1kg battery can hold 48Wh (abigsmurf commented on this before you). A laptop might use somewhere between 15 to 30 W (for reasonable usage), so you get to use a laptop for 3 to 1.5 hours, depending on how hungry it is. I don't really get what the advantage of this new SCiB thing is, except that it is NOT Li-Ion.
Anyway, I understood you can buy (as in it's already available) a car that can go for more than 100km on one recharge. If I ever want a car for a city, that's what I'm buying (for the moment I get by walking or sub/tram/bus).
For a laptop, I will personally try to build (or get my cousin to build) a pedal generator (what I found so far on the internet is ridiculously expensive). Why waste time at the gym, when I can workout while at my laptop?
thank you.
Scientists that are also good sailsmen are rewarded. Things are moving along so and so, but not very well: there are millions of people starving because research into genetically modified foods is expensive and you have to worry about patents. And medical research is also expensive and you can run into patents. And so on.
OK, maybe I'm exagerating a bit, but when you think about it, many researchers are forced to hold on to secrets because they're worried about getting funding. And, as this comment http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1708484&cid=32822260 explains, they are also worried about other "scientists" trying to turn everything into a race against the clock, in order to publish first, while using possibly defective data analysis methods. I fully understand not wanting your data to be analized by someone who doesn't know what they're doing, because if they publish first, it is their errors that will be remembered by the public, not your correct results.
Yes, competition is needed in science, but ... I think something's wrong.
It's really sad that a discussion about the possible detection of Earth-sized planets around other stars is dressed up in "it's our data and we want to publish first" and stuff like that.
Humanity will, one day, pay dearly the fact that scientists are forced to fight for resources...
Anyway, this is interesting news. If computers were considered "the revenge of the nerds", I'm curious what the next few years will be called.
and god says "No evolution for you! NEXT!"
why is this modded troll? it's funny.
why do you all hate your grandfathers?
they're not saying life can only develop this way. but if they find an earth-like planet, there's a pretty good chance it might have life. by the way, they're looking for habitable planets, not life.
the science of a class of systems "X" is always hard when you have just one example; there's no need to call them stupid.