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  1. Re:not the first time on Photo First: Light Captured As Both Particle and Wave · · Score: 1

    Really it's just the equivalent of a fourier transformations. Something engineers use all the time.

    It really isn't that complicated.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  2. Oh look they are making massive water particles! on Photo First: Light Captured As Both Particle and Wave · · Score: 1

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    What another groan worthy /. summary. It's not the standing waves that equate to photons. The only thing photonic here is the quantum exchange between the light field and the electrons used for imaging.

    And no, you don't need to have several PhDs to understand this, reading the articles at the links totally suffices.

  3. Re:Realistic on The Groups Behind Making Distributed Solar Power Harder To Adopt · · Score: 2

    The US is late to the game. In Germany you sometime get 50% of the power load from solar on especially sunny summer days, while hardly any in the winter. The demand on the grid is of course brutal, but so far has been manageable.

    Gas turbine power plants are key for load balancing.

  4. High school physics back of a napkin calculation on Theory of Information Could Resolve One of the Great Paradoxes of Cosmology · · Score: 1

    Color me unimpressed. While somewhat original the whole approach is completely flawed. There are many more things than just stars in the universe. After all, for all we know, the visible universe only makes up a small portion of all matter.

  5. Quantum Cellular Automatons and Quantum Computing on Interviews: Ask Stephen Wolfram a Question · · Score: 1

    How do you think will Quantum Computers or more specifically Quantum Cellular Automatons impact IT?

  6. Re:Marketing on Cutting Through Data Science Hype · · Score: 1

    Marketing also encompasses requirement gathering i.e. understanding what the market needs. Especially for the fast moving software industry it is a core business process and about much more than just advertising and branding.

  7. Re:"Big Data" is not "bullshit". on Cutting Through Data Science Hype · · Score: 1

    You are absolutely right, only problem is that Watson doesn't perform proper statistics. It's anything but Bayesian learning.

  8. The convoluted concept doesn't help on Cutting Through Data Science Hype · · Score: 2

    Watson was impressive on Jeopardy, but a TV show is a very different venue than business data analytics.

    For the latter you really need a statistically sound approach in order to reach the right conclusion.

    (DISCLAIMER: I do not work for Bayesia, but actually a competitor, yet any person or company that understand Bayesianism as a sound foundation for knowledge inference knows this dirty little secret about Watson)

  9. Good for Quantum Cryptography not Computing on New Micro-Ring Resonator Creates Quantum Entanglement On a Silicon Chip · · Score: 1

    A better source for entangled photon pairs will come in handy for Quantum Cryptography, but Quantum Computing requires many entangled qubits.

    There is no indication how these resonators could produce more than pair-wise entanglement, after all this is very different from the Josephson junction loops that D-Wave and the future Google chip are build on. These allow an arbitrary coupling via the magnetic flux (only restricted by the chip's geometry).

    Regrettably, this just yet another poorly written pop-science article not informed by any actual knowledge of quantum information science. If I had a cent for each of them I'd be rich by now.

  10. Re:quirky wacky name syndrome on Opera Founder Is Back, WIth a Feature-Heavy, Chromium-Based Browser · · Score: 1

    What's in a name? I also thought Bluetooth was idiotic when it came out, but there are only so many short and descriptive names. Getting a trademark is actually not that easy, and in the end the only thing that matters is that it is unique, and that your competition can't take it away from you.

    Firefox, Chrome etc. aren't particular descriptive names but everybody now knows what they stand for.

  11. Re:"vivaldi" on Opera Founder Is Back, WIth a Feature-Heavy, Chromium-Based Browser · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So let me get this straight, you seriously don't know who Vivaldi was, and you think everybody else is as proudly ignorant as you are.

    Obviously the name works perfectly. This browser is not for you.

  12. Re:Had a pleasure to see early self-driving footag on Mercedes-Benz's Self-Driving Concept Car Is Here · · Score: 1

    KITT, not invented in Germany but certainly embraced like nowhere else by an entire generation of German pre-teen boys.

    Probably lead directly to this prototype.

  13. Had a pleasure to see early self-driving footage on Mercedes-Benz's Self-Driving Concept Car Is Here · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That was in 1997 when I worked at what later became the KIT.

    Back then they tested an early artificial neural net controller under real life conditions on the Autobahn A8. The driver just sat with his arms folded behind the wheel.

    This technology has been a long time coming and still lawmakers haven't caught on to it.

  14. Re:Failed state policies on In Breakthrough, US and Cuba To Resume Diplomatic Relations · · Score: 2

    And if you value freedom and liberty and good public health care you can move to Canada (that's what I did).

  15. MS fighting the good fight on Microsoft To US Gov't: the World's Servers Are Not Yours For the Taking · · Score: 1

    How the times have changed.

  16. Re:protein? on Monochromatic Light As a Species-selective Insecticide · · Score: 1

    Complex molecules have characteristic absorption spectra. More energy per photon will not work if you move it outside the specific energy gap (a classical analog would be resonance, if the frequency fits little energy will suffice).

     

  17. Re:Wow on Monochromatic Light As a Species-selective Insecticide · · Score: 1

    Remarkable. Does your business have a web site?

  18. Re:too many words on A Common Logic To Seeing Cats and the Cosmos · · Score: 2

    As somebody who has worked on artificial neural networks in the past, and holds a physics degree, I don't think that this assessment is wrong.

    I think at this point this is more a curiosity. Interesting in it's own right, but not something that I would expect to yield new and improved algorithms.

  19. Re:why why WHY? on Kim Dotcom Faces Jail At Bail Hearing · · Score: 1

    No worries anonymous coward. If he has already been found guilty in the court of wikipedia why wait on the earthly jurisprudence.

    All good.

  20. Re:why why WHY? on Kim Dotcom Faces Jail At Bail Hearing · · Score: 2

    Dang it, I moderated this as 'Funny' but it still shows as "Informative" which it really isn't.

    Now I have to write this comment just to role back the moderation.

  21. Re:Is it just me ... on First Star War Episode 7 Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    And boy, you must just hate the Legend of Korra ...

  22. Re:Is it just me ... on First Star War Episode 7 Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    Really have no idea what your are talking about. As far as I am concerned Frozen and Tangled are perfectly fine, but my favorite remains Lilo and Stitch.

    Doubt that you've watched any of them, but if you have then please get a bit more concrete about what you consider to be negative 'feminist' influence. I.e. plot points characterizations etc.

  23. Re:Is it just me ... on First Star War Episode 7 Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    So far you made the most well reasoned argument on behalf on the whiners and than you lost me with this:

    "... the last Disney movies are also feminist porn of the bad kind."

    See, I have two daughters, and the classical Disney princess role model just makes me want to hurl. So I very much appreciate that they at least try a little bit to break away from this. Yet, with Frozen it still was way too much about the dress and being pretty. But at least they got nicely across that just because a dude's a prince, and a smooth talker, doesn't mean you should just fall for him.

    The latter is a message that any dad will very much appreciate. If you think that's feminist you obviously don't have a daughter.

  24. Re:Is it just me ... on First Star War Episode 7 Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    Embarrassment is like athletes foot, it just crops up uninvited and no matter how much you scratch, it just won't go away.

    But thanks anyway.

    BTW I don't know why the dude's in a Stormtrooper outfit, but I have a hunch that he won't be the villain.

  25. Re:Is it just me ... on First Star War Episode 7 Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    Good point.