So if Z causes both X and Y, I assume that this amazing test gives garbage?
Perhaps in some cases it would be possible to detect that both X and Y were being affected by the same noise, implying the existence of some unknown Z?
The standard t-test for detecting an effect is already probabalistic. In science and medicine a 95% confidence value is commonly used, which means a 1/20 of detecting something that isn't there.
Lois McMaster Bujold does it very well, in her Vorkosigan-saga books, where she touches upon cultural attitudes to sex.
But it seems like a kind of superficial gimmick. And most SF doesn't deliver any culture at all - art, music, religion, politics, etc - unless it directly relates to the plot.
What we need is someone who will do for SF what Tolkien did for fantasy.
In China a lot of dinosaur fossils are sold in medicine shops. For some reason most Chinese still believe eating them cures disease and give you manly vigor.
Whereas in fact manly vigor comes from driving a dinosaur-sized truck that guzzles fossil fuel.
something from nothing, or at least the physical from the non-physical. Lets all just admit that there is a single Holy God, who created the physical universe as we know it. He has always, and will always exist in spirit (non physical). For reasons unknowable to us He decided to create the physical universe - logically there is no other possibility.
Invoking an uncaused god to "explain" an uncaused universe doesn't do anything except add a middle man, and ultimately leaves *more* unexplained than before.
Slashdot Mirror
How come "Ask Slashdot" posts always boil down to "give me some ammunition for an argument with my boss" ?
I, for one, welcome our new Probably Superintelligent Robots overlords.
FTFY
Yes, but now we can find out whether we read Slashdot because we are nerds, or we are nerds because we read Slashdot.
So if Z causes both X and Y, I assume that this amazing test gives garbage?
Perhaps in some cases it would be possible to detect that both X and Y were being affected by the same noise, implying the existence of some unknown Z?
The standard t-test for detecting an effect is already probabalistic. In science and medicine a 95% confidence value is commonly used, which means a 1/20 of detecting something that isn't there.
Especially since Harrison Ford praises the script. I wonder what his opinion was regarding the Indiana Jones IV script.
They supposedly waited all those years for the right script to come along.
Lois McMaster Bujold does it very well, in her Vorkosigan-saga books, where she touches upon cultural attitudes to sex.
But it seems like a kind of superficial gimmick. And most SF doesn't deliver any culture at all - art, music, religion, politics, etc - unless it directly relates to the plot.
What we need is someone who will do for SF what Tolkien did for fantasy.
+1, wooshie
Grammar is hard!
It has won't be being so hard after you has will have been being studying it more.
Or as Yoda would say it, it so hard after you studying it more has will have been being has won't be being.
has won't be = periphrastic perfect future passive contrafactual modal participular infinitival indicative of "is"
Change you name to Kim Putin, and no one will mess with you.
Broke and his defense team quit without explanation. Can't imagine any connection there, eh?
Uhm, you're supposed to notice this before you sign, not after you go bankrupt.
Sorry, the limit is 1 conspiracy theory per post.
Source of my .sig.
Another team tried it with Star Wars discs and coundn't reproduce the effect.
The corporate-friendly Slashdot sucks.
Sounds like you, for one, don't welcome our new bitcoin & Tesla pimping overlords.
God is preparing to smite New Gomorrah.
The antelope refuge?
In China a lot of dinosaur fossils are sold in medicine shops. For some reason most Chinese still believe eating them cures disease and give you manly vigor.
Whereas in fact manly vigor comes from driving a dinosaur-sized truck that guzzles fossil fuel.
something from nothing, or at least the physical from the non-physical. Lets all just admit that there is a single Holy God, who created the physical universe as we know it. He has always, and will always exist in spirit (non physical). For reasons unknowable to us He decided to create the physical universe - logically there is no other possibility.
Invoking an uncaused god to "explain" an uncaused universe doesn't do anything except add a middle man, and ultimately leaves *more* unexplained than before.
Then you were unknown; now you're universally known as The Bad Pianist.
We don't celebrate DST in Tucson, but all my distant suppliers etc. do, so I have to adjust my mental clock to deal with their different offsets.
I'm the opposite: *I* don't use DST, and I have to spend most of the year reminding myself that "those idiots" think it's an hour later than it is.
lots of victims wait until the time is right.
Right. Then they fake a video as "evidence" that it happened.
Something similar showed up in my mailbox a couple times.. dont recall which group sent it though.
You mean you read that crap?
We're in an interglacial, still in same ice age.