Sure. Such as a series of the most legendary games in history.
My wife is having kittens (metaphorically, getting in before you Mr AC) at the moment - having just watched the trailer.
We came to the series somewhat late, after buying Fallout 3 in a sale and then leaving it forgotten, unwrapped, for months. But since starting on it, it's been the biggest detriment to household productivity since Skyrim. We've been looking forward to New Vegas (also currently unwrapped), but this... this gives us something to aim for. MUST finish all the series before Fallout 4 comes out.
I know Russians who are busily working on all sorts of interesting technologies in-house (SCADA, DCS, etc) There seems to be a real fear that if sanctions increase they'll be cut off from technology they need to run their industrial systems. It seems to have sparked a renaissance in the local software community, hell-bent of forging a form of self-reliance. Interesting to see where all this leads.
There's been commentary from the paper's authors on this. Along the lines of "the peer reviewer did provide a detailed list of suggestions for how they could make it better". Hard to revise if the best advice is to able to run a mile as fast as a man.
Agreed, we don't know the quality of the research. It could have been shit. It could have just been bad science. But now the whole thing has been skewed by the ad hominem attack on the researchers themselves.
I'm surprised because every review process I've seen was blind. Papers are submitted with just an ID, authors are not disclosed until the paper is accepted (they are never disclosed if it is rejected, as far as I'm aware). PLoS One is reputable enough that I would've expected the same.
Yeah, I thought it was strange that the reviewer cited the researchers' web sites in the review, where their gender would have been apparent.
The study was conducted by only two authors, both of whom appear (judging by their webpages) to be evolutionary biologists at the post-doc level.
OP. Good point. From what I've read, there may have been problems with the paper as first submitted. But one complaint from the researchers was that instead of being directed to areas where their methodology needed addressing - or their paper being rejected on the basis of the quality of research - they were told to "get a man to read it" (which, incidentally they had already done, via male colleagues).
So yes, now it will be difficult to review the paper on its own merits. Sexism still manages to distort the playing field, even when its adherents are put to the task.
OK, this is not a serious solution, but the way a company I worked for years ago managed this was hilarious. One of the managers put a server in the boot of his car and had it connect wirelessly to the file servers when it was parked in the office car park.
Because he had to reverse his car in to bring the wifi into range, the joke "I'm just backing up the data" got played every time he did it. Suffice it to say, the joke got old pretty quick.
I'd concur. My kids have an on-again/off-again interest in programming, but the crazy shit they come up with using Redstone wiring in Minecraft is just unbelievable. Sure, I could push them towards C or Ruby, but when I see them building logic gates, adders, flip-flops and the like in Minecraft I just think "they'll work this stuff out on their own". And probably have a better understanding of the fundamentals as they go on.
MIT's Scratch system is probably a good start for a lot of nascent coders though. It's not just about the code - it's also the community around it, like a Github for little ones. Strongly recommend looking into that.
Because we're very smart in a very narrow domains? Sharp minds that are easily distracted by "shiny-shiny"? I think we're just lucky to be in an industry were the demand for labour outstrips supply. I haven't seen any real threat to this in the 20+ years I've worked in IT, but possibly this will change over time - and we'll eventually find "just give me a job, please" is the only perk we care about. Meh.
This. I've never understood why IT people in particular would be easily enticed by such pre-selected perks. They're supposedly smart individuals who know what they like. If anything, try not to get in the way.
Seriously. I've been here. Imagine the worst kind of software developers - people who don't check in regularly and when they do they smash a huge delta into the repository. Imagine people who don't really understand version control and manage to screw up the tree with their own little "experiments" on how they think things should be run.
And best of all, imagine who they will come to when things go awry. Do you want to be that person?
Foisting sophisticated tools on technically unsophisticated folks will end in tears. Use an enterprise document management tool (Alfresco, Nuxeo, Sharepoint, etc) and lock down the workflow. Yes, there's still a learning curve - but expecting non-developers to grok development tools is a path to pain.
Two experimentally physicists, with one shouting: "Oh God, shut if off! Shut it off!"
But seriously, as AC has posted, the question is meaningless if time "started" at the point of the Big Bang. Hard to get your head around maybe. I know my mother has problems with it, but she also poses strange questions like "why aren't apes having human babies now." It's like a hundred years of science has just slipped past her.
These are the comments I came to see.. the wistful memories from a time long gone by (not the harping about Obama, etc).
I remember the day the dream died for me: walking into a store newly stocked with consumer goods and asking "Where are your ICs?". After a little confusion (and perhaps consultation with the old-beard I imagined locked up in the storeroom) I was directed to a small carousel containing LEDs and switches, but sadly not the ICs I was after.
Well.. maybe not useful in deserts, but in South Australia evaporative cooling is both popular and useful. Low average humidity in Summer, ready access to water - at least in the cities. So a system like this would work in South Australia - it'd probably be completely useless in other Australian States where the humidity in Summer is high. I'm guessing there are similar places to South Australia around the world though, so maybe there's also a market.
But evaporative cooling systems are so cheap to build and run, and easy to maintain, I wonder if a brick wall you can't control (other than the flow of water) makes sense. Perhaps using the material to replace the battens in evaporative systems makes sense - as these are the main parts that wear out over time.
We need a light-hearted romp, something that touches on our fear of Big Data while extolling the virtues. Something with a dash of romance. If only Spencer Tracy and Catherine Hepburn were still alive, they'd be perfect.
Oh.. fuck me. Refreshed twice and the threading changed completely. With the same AC posting nonsense and threading weirdness, this has been the second least fun article in a long time. Bah!
What just happened Slashdot? After responding positively to someone slamming the anti-science crowd - with a simple +1 - the post seems to have gathered a couple of responses that should have gone to the AC clown. It's a small matter, and I'll say "fuck beta" (hey, never been able to follow a thread in it). But just to set the record straight, I'm with the "It works" crowd.
I can't find it now, but one poster made the point that we should ignore the anti-science crowd. My only fear is that these people vote - or worse, are in public office and able to set the agenda for education, research, etc. I don't know what the answer is, but I don't think it's to wilfully deny that there is a large mass of people with incredibly dodgy ideas.
I should shut up now. Thinking about it only makes me sad.
Dude, relax. The Electric Universe trolls have been around Slashdot for at least a decade now. In fact, after a huge apk-esque copypasta burst in the early 2000's, they kind of faded away.
In fact, seeing an Electric Universe troll now is like spotting a baiji. Just marvel, make note of it, and move on.
Thanks man. I'm breathing a bit easier now.
This is my first sighting of one in the wild. The closest I've ever come was in my uni days, hearing someone cite Erich von Däniken in a debate on evolution.
Heh. Belief and Unicrons. That'll add to the discussion meaningfully !
When did slashdot become populated with loud, uneducated Americans instead of 'nerds' who actually know at least a thing or two?
I couldn't figure out if this was trolling or just someone on acid. Maybe a troll on acid. Whatever the case, that's some crazy shit.
But yeah, been getting more worried about this trend towards hokum in Slashdot. Not sure if it's just a different crowd, or the world is just getting madder. If it keeps up, I'm out.
Slashdot Mirror
Sure. Such as a series of the most legendary games in history.
My wife is having kittens (metaphorically, getting in before you Mr AC) at the moment - having just watched the trailer.
We came to the series somewhat late, after buying Fallout 3 in a sale and then leaving it forgotten, unwrapped, for months. But since starting on it, it's been the biggest detriment to household productivity since Skyrim. We've been looking forward to New Vegas (also currently unwrapped), but this... this gives us something to aim for. MUST finish all the series before Fallout 4 comes out.
You got to have goals in life.
Are these crazy comments a product of naive machine learning algorithms?
Or code used for illicit communications?
Any ideas?
Yeah, I've been wondering that myself. If it's a bot, it's fucking annoying. If it's a human, I don't know why they don't keep their crap on Facebook.
I know Russians who are busily working on all sorts of interesting technologies in-house (SCADA, DCS, etc) There seems to be a real fear that if sanctions increase they'll be cut off from technology they need to run their industrial systems. It seems to have sparked a renaissance in the local software community, hell-bent of forging a form of self-reliance. Interesting to see where all this leads.
Looks like most of it is written in C#. I suspect it will have limited appeal to the /. crowd.
There's been commentary from the paper's authors on this. Along the lines of "the peer reviewer did provide a detailed list of suggestions for how they could make it better". Hard to revise if the best advice is to able to run a mile as fast as a man.
Agreed, we don't know the quality of the research. It could have been shit. It could have just been bad science. But now the whole thing has been skewed by the ad hominem attack on the researchers themselves.
Possibly, but context. Saying something troll-worthy in a tweet is one thing. Reviewing "for the lulz" is hardly good science.
I'm surprised because every review process I've seen was blind. Papers are submitted with just an ID, authors are not disclosed until the paper is accepted (they are never disclosed if it is rejected, as far as I'm aware). PLoS One is reputable enough that I would've expected the same.
Yeah, I thought it was strange that the reviewer cited the researchers' web sites in the review, where their gender would have been apparent.
OP. Good point. From what I've read, there may have been problems with the paper as first submitted. But one complaint from the researchers was that instead of being directed to areas where their methodology needed addressing - or their paper being rejected on the basis of the quality of research - they were told to "get a man to read it" (which, incidentally they had already done, via male colleagues).
So yes, now it will be difficult to review the paper on its own merits. Sexism still manages to distort the playing field, even when its adherents are put to the task.
OK, this is not a serious solution, but the way a company I worked for years ago managed this was hilarious. One of the managers put a server in the boot of his car and had it connect wirelessly to the file servers when it was parked in the office car park.
Because he had to reverse his car in to bring the wifi into range, the joke "I'm just backing up the data" got played every time he did it. Suffice it to say, the joke got old pretty quick.
Leave it be. They're just kids.
I'd concur. My kids have an on-again/off-again interest in programming, but the crazy shit they come up with using Redstone wiring in Minecraft is just unbelievable. Sure, I could push them towards C or Ruby, but when I see them building logic gates, adders, flip-flops and the like in Minecraft I just think "they'll work this stuff out on their own". And probably have a better understanding of the fundamentals as they go on.
MIT's Scratch system is probably a good start for a lot of nascent coders though. It's not just about the code - it's also the community around it, like a Github for little ones. Strongly recommend looking into that.
This. I've never understood why IT people in particular would be easily enticed by such pre-selected perks. They're supposedly smart individuals who know what they like. If anything, try not to get in the way.
Seriously. I've been here. Imagine the worst kind of software developers - people who don't check in regularly and when they do they smash a huge delta into the repository. Imagine people who don't really understand version control and manage to screw up the tree with their own little "experiments" on how they think things should be run.
And best of all, imagine who they will come to when things go awry. Do you want to be that person?
Foisting sophisticated tools on technically unsophisticated folks will end in tears. Use an enterprise document management tool (Alfresco, Nuxeo, Sharepoint, etc) and lock down the workflow. Yes, there's still a learning curve - but expecting non-developers to grok development tools is a path to pain.
In a word: entropy.
Good call! Don't see red shift explained either.
Two experimental physicists, with one shouting: "Oh God, shut if off! Shut it off!"
gah! typo. Who looks silly now?
Two experimentally physicists, with one shouting: "Oh God, shut if off! Shut it off!"
But seriously, as AC has posted, the question is meaningless if time "started" at the point of the Big Bang. Hard to get your head around maybe. I know my mother has problems with it, but she also poses strange questions like "why aren't apes having human babies now." It's like a hundred years of science has just slipped past her.
Hey AC, Ayn Rand just called. She says she wants her shrivelled heart back.
No-one cares AC. Your pointless troll will disappear like mist on the side of a mountain. But sootman will still have his bargain T-Shirts and LEDs.
These are the comments I came to see.. the wistful memories from a time long gone by (not the harping about Obama, etc).
I remember the day the dream died for me: walking into a store newly stocked with consumer goods and asking "Where are your ICs?". After a little confusion (and perhaps consultation with the old-beard I imagined locked up in the storeroom) I was directed to a small carousel containing LEDs and switches, but sadly not the ICs I was after.
I walked away... never to return.
Well.. maybe not useful in deserts, but in South Australia evaporative cooling is both popular and useful. Low average humidity in Summer, ready access to water - at least in the cities. So a system like this would work in South Australia - it'd probably be completely useless in other Australian States where the humidity in Summer is high. I'm guessing there are similar places to South Australia around the world though, so maybe there's also a market.
But evaporative cooling systems are so cheap to build and run, and easy to maintain, I wonder if a brick wall you can't control (other than the flow of water) makes sense. Perhaps using the material to replace the battens in evaporative systems makes sense - as these are the main parts that wear out over time.
We need a light-hearted romp, something that touches on our fear of Big Data while extolling the virtues. Something with a dash of romance. If only Spencer Tracy and Catherine Hepburn were still alive, they'd be perfect.
Oh.. fuck me. Refreshed twice and the threading changed completely. With the same AC posting nonsense and threading weirdness, this has been the second least fun article in a long time. Bah!
What just happened Slashdot? After responding positively to someone slamming the anti-science crowd - with a simple +1 - the post seems to have gathered a couple of responses that should have gone to the AC clown. It's a small matter, and I'll say "fuck beta" (hey, never been able to follow a thread in it). But just to set the record straight, I'm with the "It works" crowd.
I can't find it now, but one poster made the point that we should ignore the anti-science crowd. My only fear is that these people vote - or worse, are in public office and able to set the agenda for education, research, etc. I don't know what the answer is, but I don't think it's to wilfully deny that there is a large mass of people with incredibly dodgy ideas.
I should shut up now. Thinking about it only makes me sad.
Damn! Where are mod points when you need 'em. +1
Dude, relax. The Electric Universe trolls have been around Slashdot for at least a decade now. In fact, after a huge apk-esque copypasta burst in the early 2000's, they kind of faded away.
In fact, seeing an Electric Universe troll now is like spotting a baiji. Just marvel, make note of it, and move on.
Thanks man. I'm breathing a bit easier now.
This is my first sighting of one in the wild. The closest I've ever come was in my uni days, hearing someone cite Erich von Däniken in a debate on evolution.
Heh. Belief and Unicrons. That'll add to the discussion meaningfully !
When did slashdot become populated with loud, uneducated Americans instead of 'nerds' who actually know at least a thing or two?
I couldn't figure out if this was trolling or just someone on acid. Maybe a troll on acid. Whatever the case, that's some crazy shit.
But yeah, been getting more worried about this trend towards hokum in Slashdot. Not sure if it's just a different crowd, or the world is just getting madder. If it keeps up, I'm out.