it seems that the algorithm depends upon the analogy with a flat two dimensional disk packing problem and this leads to the bound in the ratio of the diameters. I would guess that it would be possible to generalize to a cylindrical annulus with limits on the distance between the inner and outer cylinders. Then the problem becomes (approximately) analogous to optimally vertically stacking planes of packed spheres as you continue to pack in smaller annuli.
To begin with, this would just be a manufacturing boon, but it could easily end with computers growing new humans (or skinjobs?) from vats of stem cells.
A good reference for clinical research is: http://www.rfcom.ca/clinic/general.shtml
People with real symptoms need sympathy, but clinical research is the only way to discern causes.
It is easy to be flippant about this, but even washing your hands is difficult when you don't have clean water.
If you want to save lives, step one is clean water.
Some old memories come up from jmorris42's post recommending Relativity; The Special and the General Theory. I read that when I was in junior-high, did a book-report on it (I wish I had the book report to read now), and phoned the university to ask some anonymous physics professor questions about it. I haven't looked at it since, so I can't really judge how accessible it was.
A book that tried to be accessible, but was all over the map was Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler's "Gravitation". If you just go through and pick and choose sections, it's probably good too.
You'll have to decide what you mean by "understanding" the theory. There are many different levels of understanding and only you can decide what you are comfortable with, and what level of understanding meets your needs.
raises hand... but some of you guys are making me feel young:) (wrapping your own cores?)...
somewhat after my punched tape/teletype experience, I built a PC (back then, "built a PC" meant soldering) and eventually moved up to a "stringy floppy"... I think the storage progression in my life went:
paper tape, 5 1/4" floppy, stringy floppy, massive 4'x2'x8" 500M harddrive array, 2G SD card.
I may have skipped a few steps there:)
...Typically redundant systems use instruments from different manufacturers or instruments that are implemented with different technology.
This is not possible for digital systems because they are too costly to implement multiple times. What this means is that redundant digital control systems use same software.
Not in well designed systems. In well designed systems there can be hardware, software, and algorithmic redundancy. Different algorithms may be used to calculate the same result and a voting system may be used to pick the correct result with increased reliability or signal an exception.
I wonder if they were security conscious when they developed the remote?... a brave new world of hacking into your neighborhood toilets, adjusting the temperatures, playing sounds, flushing, raising the seat, perhaps on some models even activating the bidet....
Supporting materials for the article can be found here (pdf). The article itself is available to members.
From the supporting materials:
A serial founder effect model of phonemic diversity was used to infer the most likely
origin of modern languages, following an approach outlined in studies of human
genetic and phenotypic diversity (S6). Under this model, during population expansion,
small founder groups are expected to carry less phonemic diversity than their larger
parent populations.
This approach only models the decrease in phonemic diversity due to migration. It does not say anything about how phonemic diversity grows. In essence, it models only half of the system. To me it seems difficult to answer questions of the origin of language without also modeling the growth of phonemic diversity Phonemic variation can be introduced to the region by migration as well (as in the case of the apparent migration of phonemes from Borneo to Madagascar).
One word of caution: I am not an expert in the field... just a slashdot reader.
Unfortunately, physics is implacable, its laws are not subject to negotiation. Until we find ways to (1) move faster than sound without creating a sonic boom and (2) move faster than sound without spending much more fuel, we will be limited to subsonic travel.
Done. This people behind evacuated tube transport have a solid proposal and patents. I heard they were trying to sell the concept in China.
Even though you never post a thing, someone else may post something about you. You may already be tagged in multiple photos on Facebook. You may have loan applications visible on the web. Your information is not entirely under your control - with pervasive digital storage, constant security challenges, and an increasing cultural trend to blurring the line between public and private, there is a growing chance that your information will leak out into the public.
without regulated and mandatory GMO labeling they could introduce this milk into your corner store (certainly in Canada anyway) and you wouldn't even know about it.
This "principle" breaks one of the foundations of modern law - that you should be held responsible for you own actions, and not actions of others which you neither had controller over, nor knowledge of
somebody please mod up @trims post! If the principle is accepted and applied elsewhere, we're all responsible for whatever Kevin Bacon does.
Yes, time is clearly different from space (or else we would live in a Euclidean universe without CPT symmetry). No, time is not treated as a dimension just for convenience - doing so gives great predictive power - explaining local Lorentz invariance as a fundamental principle that goes well beyond the properties of electromagnetism, and, combined with the equivalence principle, leading to predictions of the bending of light (among others).
I think the real challenge comes in trying to understand the root difference between the time dimension and the space dimensions without throwing out the theories that we've built over spacetime, just as we've built theories over spacetime without throwing out Newtonian theory.
Can they still discriminate on the basis of quality of research? I hope they are allowed to differentiate between "good research" into alternative theories and "crappy pseudo-research" into alternative theories.
I wonder what "good research into creationism" would entail? Do they have to define god? Make observable predictions of god?
Slashdot Mirror
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it seems that the algorithm depends upon the analogy with a flat two dimensional disk packing problem and this leads to the bound in the ratio of the diameters. I would guess that it would be possible to generalize to a cylindrical annulus with limits on the distance between the inner and outer cylinders. Then the problem becomes (approximately) analogous to optimally vertically stacking planes of packed spheres as you continue to pack in smaller annuli.
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To begin with, this would just be a manufacturing boon, but it could easily end with computers growing new humans (or skinjobs?) from vats of stem cells.
Interesting technology. Interesting possibilities. Poor story.
Mod Up! Funny (and True)
darn it! where is that "like" button when you need it?
heat = the energy of a large number of particles & heat = how it feels when the particles are you.
For those who, like me, didn't know and weren't told on first usage in the summary.
Does anyone know if it is just a flat list? Or is it an OWL-DL ontology? Or something else?
A good reference for clinical research is: http://www.rfcom.ca/clinic/general.shtml People with real symptoms need sympathy, but clinical research is the only way to discern causes.
Basic stuff like "Wash your hands regularly,"
It is easy to be flippant about this, but even washing your hands is difficult when you don't have clean water. If you want to save lives, step one is clean water.
Some old memories come up from jmorris42's post recommending Relativity; The Special and the General Theory. I read that when I was in junior-high, did a book-report on it (I wish I had the book report to read now), and phoned the university to ask some anonymous physics professor questions about it. I haven't looked at it since, so I can't really judge how accessible it was.
I would say that Steven Weinberg's "Gravitation and Cosmology" was the most accessible book that I studied at university.
A book that tried to be accessible, but was all over the map was Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler's "Gravitation". If you just go through and pick and choose sections, it's probably good too.
Here's others's opinions at physics forums
You'll have to decide what you mean by "understanding" the theory. There are many different levels of understanding and only you can decide what you are comfortable with, and what level of understanding meets your needs.
The real story is summed up by the text of the first graphic: "The world has huge natural gas reserves" "63 years left". A frighteningly short time.
raises hand... but some of you guys are making me feel young :) (wrapping your own cores?)...
somewhat after my punched tape/teletype experience, I built a PC (back then, "built a PC" meant soldering) and eventually moved up to a "stringy floppy"... I think the storage progression in my life went:
paper tape, 5 1/4" floppy, stringy floppy, massive 4'x2'x8" 500M harddrive array, 2G SD card.
I may have skipped a few steps there :)
It's still a matter of research rather than practical implementation. See this previous slashdot story for more information.
...Typically redundant systems use instruments from different manufacturers or instruments that are implemented with different technology.
This is not possible for digital systems because they are too costly to implement multiple times. What this means is that redundant digital control systems use same software.
Not in well designed systems. In well designed systems there can be hardware, software, and algorithmic redundancy. Different algorithms may be used to calculate the same result and a voting system may be used to pick the correct result with increased reliability or signal an exception.
I wonder if they were security conscious when they developed the remote? ... a brave new world of hacking into your neighborhood toilets, adjusting the temperatures, playing sounds, flushing, raising the seat, perhaps on some models even activating the bidet....
A serial founder effect model of phonemic diversity was used to infer the most likely origin of modern languages, following an approach outlined in studies of human genetic and phenotypic diversity (S6). Under this model, during population expansion, small founder groups are expected to carry less phonemic diversity than their larger parent populations.
This approach only models the decrease in phonemic diversity due to migration. It does not say anything about how phonemic diversity grows. In essence, it models only half of the system. To me it seems difficult to answer questions of the origin of language without also modeling the growth of phonemic diversity Phonemic variation can be introduced to the region by migration as well (as in the case of the apparent migration of phonemes from Borneo to Madagascar).
One word of caution: I am not an expert in the field... just a slashdot reader.
Unfortunately, physics is implacable, its laws are not subject to negotiation. Until we find ways to (1) move faster than sound without creating a sonic boom and (2) move faster than sound without spending much more fuel, we will be limited to subsonic travel.
Done. This people behind evacuated tube transport have a solid proposal and patents. I heard they were trying to sell the concept in China.
Even though you never post a thing, someone else may post something about you. You may already be tagged in multiple photos on Facebook. You may have loan applications visible on the web. Your information is not entirely under your control - with pervasive digital storage, constant security challenges, and an increasing cultural trend to blurring the line between public and private, there is a growing chance that your information will leak out into the public.
So if each bank had a bunch of sharks with lasers...
without regulated and mandatory GMO labeling they could introduce this milk into your corner store (certainly in Canada anyway) and you wouldn't even know about it.
This "principle" breaks one of the foundations of modern law - that you should be held responsible for you own actions, and not actions of others which you neither had controller over, nor knowledge of
somebody please mod up @trims post! If the principle is accepted and applied elsewhere, we're all responsible for whatever Kevin Bacon does.
Yes, time is clearly different from space (or else we would live in a Euclidean universe without CPT symmetry). No, time is not treated as a dimension just for convenience - doing so gives great predictive power - explaining local Lorentz invariance as a fundamental principle that goes well beyond the properties of electromagnetism, and, combined with the equivalence principle, leading to predictions of the bending of light (among others). I think the real challenge comes in trying to understand the root difference between the time dimension and the space dimensions without throwing out the theories that we've built over spacetime, just as we've built theories over spacetime without throwing out Newtonian theory.
looks like Charlie Sheen's got another blog...
that's overstating it a bit... have you got a suggestion for varying the mod mechanism or are you just enjoying hyperbole?
Can they still discriminate on the basis of quality of research? I hope they are allowed to differentiate between "good research" into alternative theories and "crappy pseudo-research" into alternative theories. I wonder what "good research into creationism" would entail? Do they have to define god? Make observable predictions of god?