"I worked hard to develop my lucidity. How did you lose it?"
Was taken things too far, experimented with meditation techniques and thought it should be possible to get the same extra sensory state that some drugs induce.
Problem is, what I did not take into account, is that drugs add an external control. They leave your system and your neural state is (mostly) re-set.
Messed myself up quite a bit, and really panicked when I realized it. Experienced some nasty sensory overload. Fortunately wasn't really all that hard to put myself back together, but the experience left me raw. Ever since no more lucid dreams...
Of course all this was three decades ago don't even remember how old I was, 14 maybe 15.
"Padgett dislikes the concept of infinity, because he sees every shape as a finite construction of smaller and smaller units that approach what physicists refer to as the Planck length."
An astounding ability indeed, given that the Planck length is so many orders of magnitude smaller than visible light, in fact it can't even been studied by our most powerful accelerators.
As it is in fact the theoretically smallest length scale possible it will actually never be 'seen', no matter how banged up the brain.
Twenty years ago a CS grad student and fellow at the research center that I worked at, told me that he was certain that after object orientation the next big thing would turn out to be functional programming.
I thought that made perfect sense and bought into the notion. So I am still waiting.
The Senate report's findings are not some surprisingly new or unforeseeable result. This was well established and repeatedly pointed out to the Bush administration.
Only in a deeply warped society would some weasel lawyers construct the kind of twisted logic that you are espousing. Your definition is so far outside the mainstream, it doesn't even qualify as a joke. So yes, it is irrelevant.
And while I am happy that you are not happy about this state of affairs, it doesn't make a yota of difference. Your rational is irrational and the method profoundly wrong.
As to being able to catch terrorists without torture, you didn't pay attention to what I earlier wrote. We got all the RAF bad guys and one of the worst terrorists before Bin Laden was caught the old fashioned way, with solid intelligence and diplomacy.
Terrorism was always a reality in most Western countries (but North America) and we dealt with it without misplacing our values.
If you never even heard of Hitchens it's a pretty save bet that you never heard about any of this foreign history, and live on a Faux News diet.
Please stop misquoting Orwel, he was talking about war not about abusing prisoners.
"foreign democracies aren't as open as ours"
Of course how could any foreign democracy ever be as open as the US. Nothing in Europe or the rest of the world could *ever* touch the US in openness.
Hope you're feeling all snug and cozy under your blanket of US exceptionalism.
And of course you are completely missing the point, no surprise there. None of these foreign democracies ever legalized torture. In cases where the truth is revealed the foreign public reacts with well deserved disgust and outrage. The fact that so many in the US seem to be numbed to the violence conducted in its name is what's most disturbing.
Your opinion in the matter is completely irrelevant, the procedure just like mock executions is of course well outside any civilized standard.
That you happily put yourself there speaks for itself, and makes my point in highlighting how far the US has fallen.
Fortunately some of this moral cravenness is offset by exceptional Americans like Snowden and Greenwald. Over the long run I am optimistic that the US will regain its misplaced moral compass.
Oh please. As if there has never been terrorism before 9/11. The UK was in a genuine war with the IRA, Germany had the RAF, Italy the Red Brigades and France fought several nasty wars in North Africa after WW2.
Some of the nastier conflicts saw their share of atrocities, but there was never an attempt to redefine and legalize torture. Stooping low is bad, but losing all perspective is far worse.
As a German living in Canada I couldn't care less what party she belongs to.
Given her track record of lies and obfuscation, this is such bad PR that I can only conclude dropbox either completely does not understand its international customers, or doesn't care to lose them.
Waterboarding is regarded as torture by any other civilized country of the world.
Doesn't matter if you type you fingers bloody or stomp your feet to pretend otherwise. Just shows what America is made of these days... not the right stuff.
As much as it pains me to observe this, but due to the 'special relationship' having the UK on board will mean that everything is tapped by the US anyhow.
If you care about the environment you should want the mountain of nuclear waste reduced. And treating it with a particle accelerator, using a so called spallation reaction, you can do exactly this, while running the whole thing as an inherently save reactor with net energy gain.
Other than the fact that paper's like this would have been peer reviewed, I am not aware of any review of their architecture. But this paper is certainly key, because it all comes down to the spin coupling in order to decide if true quantum annealing happens on the chip.
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Yes, it was stupid.
Then again it was at the age that should be list in the dictionary next to 'stupid'.
Nowadays I hardly remember my dreams anymore.
"I worked hard to develop my lucidity. How did you lose it?"
Was taken things too far, experimented with meditation techniques and thought it should be possible to get the same extra sensory state that some drugs induce.
Problem is, what I did not take into account, is that drugs add an external control. They leave your system and your neural state is (mostly) re-set.
Messed myself up quite a bit, and really panicked when I realized it. Experienced some nasty sensory overload. Fortunately wasn't really all that hard to put myself back together, but the experience left me raw. Ever since no more lucid dreams ...
Of course all this was three decades ago don't even remember how old I was, 14 maybe 15.
... I was a teenager. Was really pretty cool. Especially being able to fly everywhere.
From the article
"Padgett dislikes the concept of infinity, because he sees every shape as a finite construction of smaller and smaller units that approach what physicists refer to as the Planck length."
An astounding ability indeed, given that the Planck length is so many orders of magnitude smaller than visible light, in fact it can't even been studied by our most powerful accelerators.
As it is in fact the theoretically smallest length scale possible it will actually never be 'seen', no matter how banged up the brain.
Good suggestion. Too bad that your idea probably makes way too much sense to ever be adopted by any politician :-)
The process has major advantages. It uses an inherently safe reactor design and is net energy positive.
Don't understand why there is only on place on earth where this is seriously investigated and scaled up.
Twenty years ago a CS grad student and fellow at the research center that I worked at, told me that he was certain that after object orientation the next big thing would turn out to be functional programming.
I thought that made perfect sense and bought into the notion. So I am still waiting.
So you drove around the world. Good for you.
Ms. Clarenore Stinnes did that 85 years ago.
(Good thing there was no Saudi Arabia at the time).
Not only is it morally reprehensible, it is not even effective.
And yes, it is torture.
The Senate report's findings are not some surprisingly new or unforeseeable result. This was well established and repeatedly pointed out to the Bush administration.
And No, the greatest US generation did not do this.
Only in a deeply warped society would some weasel lawyers construct the kind of twisted logic that you are espousing. Your definition is so far outside the mainstream, it doesn't even qualify as a joke. So yes, it is irrelevant.
And while I am happy that you are not happy about this state of affairs, it doesn't make a yota of difference. Your rational is irrational and the method profoundly wrong.
As to being able to catch terrorists without torture, you didn't pay attention to what I earlier wrote. We got all the RAF bad guys and one of the worst terrorists before Bin Laden was caught the old fashioned way, with solid intelligence and diplomacy.
Terrorism was always a reality in most Western countries (but North America) and we dealt with it without misplacing our values.
If you never even heard of Hitchens it's a pretty save bet that you never heard about any of this foreign history, and live on a Faux News diet.
Maybe you should try to travel the world a bit.
Please stop misquoting Orwel, he was talking about war not about abusing prisoners.
Of course how could any foreign democracy ever be as open as the US. Nothing in Europe or the rest of the world could *ever* touch the US in openness.
Hope you're feeling all snug and cozy under your blanket of US exceptionalism.
And of course you are completely missing the point, no surprise there. None of these foreign democracies ever legalized torture. In cases where the truth is revealed the foreign public reacts with well deserved disgust and outrage. The fact that so many in the US seem to be numbed to the violence conducted in its name is what's most disturbing.
The only Iraq war cheerleader with an ounce of honor actually checked this for himself. Christopher Hitchens changed his tune afterwards.
Your opinion in the matter is completely irrelevant, the procedure just like mock executions is of course well outside any civilized standard.
That you happily put yourself there speaks for itself, and makes my point in highlighting how far the US has fallen.
Fortunately some of this moral cravenness is offset by exceptional Americans like Snowden and Greenwald. Over the long run I am optimistic that the US will regain its misplaced moral compass.
Oh please. As if there has never been terrorism before 9/11. The UK was in a genuine war with the IRA, Germany had the RAF, Italy the Red Brigades and France fought several nasty wars in North Africa after WW2.
Some of the nastier conflicts saw their share of atrocities, but there was never an attempt to redefine and legalize torture. Stooping low is bad, but losing all perspective is far worse.
As a German living in Canada I couldn't care less what party she belongs to.
Given her track record of lies and obfuscation, this is such bad PR that I can only conclude dropbox either completely does not understand its international customers, or doesn't care to lose them.
Waterboarding is regarded as torture by any other civilized country of the world.
Doesn't matter if you type you fingers bloody or stomp your feet to pretend otherwise. Just shows what America is made of these days ... not the right stuff.
You probably also don't die as a result.
From the summary:
Physicists have always thought [Schrodinger's equation] can be used to describe everything in the universe
What physicists would that be?
The Schrodinger's equation is none-relativistic and doesn't ever capture QED.
Only quantum information dilettantes who never graduated beyond the unitary world of simple quantum systems could believe such a nonsense.
This is the first direct evidence for gravity waves, but another very clever indirect one earned a Nobel Price in 1993.
I.e. the exception to the rule: If faced with actual military invasion the comparison to Nazis is no longer prohibited.
Drove a Mercedes 190D once. Alternator quit on a long distance drive. I only noticed because the radio stopped working.
(Car had a great mileage, too.)
... and yet again overlooking the fact that such simulation machines would certainly be more like quantum computers.
Plato's Cave - The n-th sequel. Like most sequels pretty lame really.
As much as it pains me to observe this, but due to the 'special relationship' having the UK on board will mean that everything is tapped by the US anyhow.
But isn't the fact that blogs open the dialog up, to include individuals outside the realm of academia, a decidedly new quality?
Very insightful comment. May I asked what field of science you're in?
If you care about the environment you should want the mountain of nuclear waste reduced. And treating it with a particle accelerator, using a so called spallation reaction, you can do exactly this, while running the whole thing as an inherently save reactor with net energy gain.
The technology is proven and an industrial scale prototype is about to be build in Belgium.
... but I'd rather stick a needle in my eye than listen to that debate.
Anyhow, I am not done yet with reviewing the medieval debates about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
Other than the fact that paper's like this would have been peer reviewed, I am not aware of any review of their architecture. But this paper is certainly key, because it all comes down to the spin coupling in order to decide if true quantum annealing happens on the chip.