Due to some medical problems involving endocrinology, I imagine my body being somewhat more sensitive to hormonal/nutrient changes than the norm. Nothing insurmountable - apart from my chronic medication, the normal rules of eating healthily, exercising, and getting enough sleep seem to do the trick well enough to see me through the normal day-to-day.
A year or two ago I started in a job that required (tele or physical) presence for releases every second week (a lot of people where involved each time, it mostly involved waiting for everyone to do what they do, doing some checks in your own area of responsibility when the time came around). This normally was scheduled to start at 22:00 or 00:00, often it only finished around 06:00 or 07:00. (This was after working a normal 8-5 workday...)
Of course, everyone was given time off for the time spent on releases. But getting home at (say) 7, trying to sleep was nearly impossible for me. In my case I'd sleep maybe an hour or two, then wake up tired and grumpy, and because there was nothing else to do, eventually go back to work to put in a handful of (sluggish) hours. I did feel that I only got back into a fairly normal routine, waking up refreshed and ready, after about a week. Rinse and repeat. Apart from an inability to concentrate sufficiently at work, it also left me listless and tired. My social life suffered, as well as "reading up" I would normally do on subject matter in the evenings to keep up with developments in my field. Not good for work performance, or career in general....
Yeah, imagine a multi-million company thinking that such practices are good w.r.t. their mission critical systems.... (You can imagine what other "innovations" such an organisation can dream up.) I'm glad I'm out of there, money or not.
(I don't envy parents of small babies in this regard, but that is another matter for now.)
While sleep researchers seem to be clear that they still know very little about their subject, the basics of the light/dark cycle (including "blue" and "yellow" light) and its influence on hormones (melatonin, serotonin,...) seem to be in place. These hormones can have a profound effect on brain function and other health issues. It's a no-brainer, really.
I'm currently trying to uphold a routine (including weekends and holidays) of bedtime around 21:00 or 22:00 at the latest, which allows me to wake up naturally (no alarms) around sunrise. Routine does not go together well with exceptions, which is a bit sucky when you are doing a little evening coding and get into the "flow" and just want to finish one last thing... Might also interfere with some socialising. But on the whole, a healthy sleep routine is benefiting me at least as much as all the healthy eating and exercising combined.
I'm from a bit out of town (country/continent/hemisphere), so pardon my ignorance. But are you telling us that 3-year old stories get dredged up now for the sole purpose of swaying election outcomes?
The savings in aircraft construction is only part of the puzzle. Now, they can do away with all the shiny glass and steel, marble and lettering proclaiming "Welcome at Abc Airport!" etc. Littering, air pollution and urban decay will also be much less noticeable.
With artificial intelligence we're summoning the demon. You know those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram, and the holy water, and he's like — Yeah, he's sure he can control the demon? Doesn't work out.
So, Musk is using some scenario from unrealistic fantasy fiction, which builds on fallacious religious dogma, to motivate his views on some far-off technology? Yeah, makes totally sense.
One criticism I have against the Turing Test is the fact that an intelligence indistinguishable from humans is pretty useless, we already have an oversupply of them. An intelligence that is alien in some aspect would be much more useful, and perhaps much harder to predict what it will or won't do.
I wouldn't mind a time when shops had this and could use it to print (or, somewhat more old-fashioned: sew) clothes THAT ACTUALLY FIT. For some or other reason I have a hard time to find clothes that are long enough around the legs, arms, and body, not too tight around the shoulders and a little less tent-like around the waist. No, I'm not exceptionally tall and I also do not have a body builder upper body. Just dislike the Made In China (for Americans, presumably) stuff sold where I live.
... so whenever I read things like this, it always strikes me how badly (not at all) planned these "excursions" are, with how little actual attrition in the politician camp. Don't whoever do these sort of things have access to some DVDs? Just watch Olympus Has Fallen or some other such tripe for some basic inspiration next time, won't you?
Not much different from Edward de Bono's writings on Lateral Thinking, which of course go into somewhat more depth and systematize a method for doing the creative/lateral thinking.
While reading the article, one thought kept coming back: what if (some of) those genes coding for intelligence have some other negative effect? When you select all those highly intelligent embryos, will they grow up to all have e.g. crooked teeth, tiny penises, or autism?
the exoskeleton is able to support tools of up to 36 pounds
The anodized aluminum and carbon fiber skeleton weighs 30 pounds
So let me get this straight: you design a 30 pound device to carry 36 pounds? So someone will lug around 66 extra pounds all day and will not get tired?
I guess you do know that the statue honoring Liberty, which was gifted to America by the French, is hollow? The French do seem to have a fine sense of humor.
5. Could also be that people with many guests actually where able to hang on to relationships with friends; you don't make 100 friends a month before your wedding, it takes time. Ergo, also being able to hang on to relationship with spouse. And have a large support network. (I suppose it differs in other cultures, but I would think that a wedding is a fairly personal thing, so you tend to avoid strangers (apart from those "have to invite" relatives).)
6. Cheap weddings could be because of above-mentioned support network. Could be an indication that one is able to solve problems ("how to get flowers with little money"). Could also be an indication of value system: superficial "show" is less important than the deeper values in marriage.
But I believe most animals should still have the protection of being sentient beings, much like we protect infants and retarded people.
Or, we could free the chimps and use aborted fetuses for clinical trials instead. Or perhaps remove the "unwanted tissue" from the mother without damaging it and (for instance) use a surrogate mother or some future "artificial womb" to have it mature sufficiently for research needs....
Not to start a pro-abortion/pro-life debate here, but it does point out the minefield of deciding what is human and what not, what is a person and what not, what deserves legal protection and what not.
Perhaps learning to express your thoughts more clearly in communication to others, will help to diminish the episodes in quantity and/or intensity where you get upset at "pedantic little faggots" for not smelling what you mean.
the school's running costs are already half the cost of a traditional government school, and the quality of education is much, much better.
The government will never stand for this sort of nonsense. It requires people to be as dumb as possible (to continue voting them into power), while having a fraction of the population being able to be nominally employed (taxes, to pay government officials' lavish salaries and benefits), while enough remain unemployable ("long live the struggle!").
On a less sarcastic (not less serious) note: I believe that the population growth rate in SA outstrips the rate at which new schools are being built. Hence some investment firms see education (private schools and even homeschooling systems) as a viable niche market.
I'd rather trust an elected government than corporate leaders I can do nothing about. Politicians are far from perfect, but they are one step up from capitalists, and unlike capitalists, the people have the power to kick them out every four or so years.
You assume that the politicians are under control of the electorate ("the people"), and not under control of the capitalists.
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Unfortunately the mechanism (*) wasn't invented by Obama, but he sure as hell is using it to his advantage.
(* = and by this I mean the mechanism allowing for whooshes, not the 12 inch particle accelerator.)
Due to some medical problems involving endocrinology, I imagine my body being somewhat more sensitive to hormonal/nutrient changes than the norm. Nothing insurmountable - apart from my chronic medication, the normal rules of eating healthily, exercising, and getting enough sleep seem to do the trick well enough to see me through the normal day-to-day.
A year or two ago I started in a job that required (tele or physical) presence for releases every second week (a lot of people where involved each time, it mostly involved waiting for everyone to do what they do, doing some checks in your own area of responsibility when the time came around). This normally was scheduled to start at 22:00 or 00:00, often it only finished around 06:00 or 07:00. (This was after working a normal 8-5 workday...)
Of course, everyone was given time off for the time spent on releases. But getting home at (say) 7, trying to sleep was nearly impossible for me. In my case I'd sleep maybe an hour or two, then wake up tired and grumpy, and because there was nothing else to do, eventually go back to work to put in a handful of (sluggish) hours. I did feel that I only got back into a fairly normal routine, waking up refreshed and ready, after about a week. Rinse and repeat. Apart from an inability to concentrate sufficiently at work, it also left me listless and tired. My social life suffered, as well as "reading up" I would normally do on subject matter in the evenings to keep up with developments in my field. Not good for work performance, or career in general....
Yeah, imagine a multi-million company thinking that such practices are good w.r.t. their mission critical systems.... (You can imagine what other "innovations" such an organisation can dream up.) I'm glad I'm out of there, money or not.
(I don't envy parents of small babies in this regard, but that is another matter for now.)
While sleep researchers seem to be clear that they still know very little about their subject, the basics of the light/dark cycle (including "blue" and "yellow" light) and its influence on hormones (melatonin, serotonin, ...) seem to be in place. These hormones can have a profound effect on brain function and other health issues. It's a no-brainer, really.
I'm currently trying to uphold a routine (including weekends and holidays) of bedtime around 21:00 or 22:00 at the latest, which allows me to wake up naturally (no alarms) around sunrise. Routine does not go together well with exceptions, which is a bit sucky when you are doing a little evening coding and get into the "flow" and just want to finish one last thing... Might also interfere with some socialising. But on the whole, a healthy sleep routine is benefiting me at least as much as all the healthy eating and exercising combined.
Just another one of those covert feminism-agenda-pushing articles....
They omitted that the man they are blaming is also white, then it would have been perfect.
They might not want to buy these crash test dummies, because they do not fit so well in some of their cars.
Next week's your big chance.
I'm from a bit out of town (country/continent/hemisphere), so pardon my ignorance. But are you telling us that 3-year old stories get dredged up now for the sole purpose of swaying election outcomes?
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The savings in aircraft construction is only part of the puzzle. Now, they can do away with all the shiny glass and steel, marble and lettering proclaiming "Welcome at Abc Airport!" etc. Littering, air pollution and urban decay will also be much less noticeable.
With artificial intelligence we're summoning the demon. You know those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram, and the holy water, and he's like — Yeah, he's sure he can control the demon? Doesn't work out.
So, Musk is using some scenario from unrealistic fantasy fiction, which builds on fallacious religious dogma, to motivate his views on some far-off technology? Yeah, makes totally sense.
One criticism I have against the Turing Test is the fact that an intelligence indistinguishable from humans is pretty useless, we already have an oversupply of them. An intelligence that is alien in some aspect would be much more useful, and perhaps much harder to predict what it will or won't do.
I wouldn't mind a time when shops had this and could use it to print (or, somewhat more old-fashioned: sew) clothes THAT ACTUALLY FIT. For some or other reason I have a hard time to find clothes that are long enough around the legs, arms, and body, not too tight around the shoulders and a little less tent-like around the waist. No, I'm not exceptionally tall and I also do not have a body builder upper body. Just dislike the Made In China (for Americans, presumably) stuff sold where I live.
... so whenever I read things like this, it always strikes me how badly (not at all) planned these "excursions" are, with how little actual attrition in the politician camp. Don't whoever do these sort of things have access to some DVDs? Just watch Olympus Has Fallen or some other such tripe for some basic inspiration next time, won't you?
Not much different from Edward de Bono's writings on Lateral Thinking, which of course go into somewhat more depth and systematize a method for doing the creative/lateral thinking.
Send amputees missing their legs. Legs are dead weight in space. You can maneuver in zero G with just your arms.
Either we can send Oscar Pistorius, or we can send women - but not both.
No no no, it's a new processor running at PI GHz. It's the autocorrect software that messed up the punctuation.
Well, it has to be said for them that they breed profusely and one does not grow attached to them.
While reading the article, one thought kept coming back: what if (some of) those genes coding for intelligence have some other negative effect? When you select all those highly intelligent embryos, will they grow up to all have e.g. crooked teeth, tiny penises, or autism?
Now I know why politics is in the shape it is in. People think Democracy is a game.
Quoting from the article:
the exoskeleton is able to support tools of up to 36 pounds
The anodized aluminum and carbon fiber skeleton weighs 30 pounds
So let me get this straight: you design a 30 pound device to carry 36 pounds? So someone will lug around 66 extra pounds all day and will not get tired?
I guess you do know that the statue honoring Liberty, which was gifted to America by the French, is hollow? The French do seem to have a fine sense of humor.
5. Could also be that people with many guests actually where able to hang on to relationships with friends; you don't make 100 friends a month before your wedding, it takes time. Ergo, also being able to hang on to relationship with spouse. And have a large support network. (I suppose it differs in other cultures, but I would think that a wedding is a fairly personal thing, so you tend to avoid strangers (apart from those "have to invite" relatives).) 6. Cheap weddings could be because of above-mentioned support network. Could be an indication that one is able to solve problems ("how to get flowers with little money"). Could also be an indication of value system: superficial "show" is less important than the deeper values in marriage.
But if you're made of wood, then you float in water, and are therefore a witch. Duh.
So what's one more log on the fire?
But I believe most animals should still have the protection of being sentient beings, much like we protect infants and retarded people.
Or, we could free the chimps and use aborted fetuses for clinical trials instead. Or perhaps remove the "unwanted tissue" from the mother without damaging it and (for instance) use a surrogate mother or some future "artificial womb" to have it mature sufficiently for research needs....
Not to start a pro-abortion/pro-life debate here, but it does point out the minefield of deciding what is human and what not, what is a person and what not, what deserves legal protection and what not.
Perhaps learning to express your thoughts more clearly in communication to others, will help to diminish the episodes in quantity and/or intensity where you get upset at "pedantic little faggots" for not smelling what you mean.
the school's running costs are already half the cost of a traditional government school, and the quality of education is much, much better.
The government will never stand for this sort of nonsense. It requires people to be as dumb as possible (to continue voting them into power), while having a fraction of the population being able to be nominally employed (taxes, to pay government officials' lavish salaries and benefits), while enough remain unemployable ("long live the struggle!").
On a less sarcastic (not less serious) note: I believe that the population growth rate in SA outstrips the rate at which new schools are being built. Hence some investment firms see education (private schools and even homeschooling systems) as a viable niche market.
This is a database administrator and developer who didn't understand that there is a difference between the number zero, the empty string, and null.
Maybe he started as a C coder and from there on it was all just computers....
I'd rather trust an elected government than corporate leaders I can do nothing about. Politicians are far from perfect, but they are one step up from capitalists, and unlike capitalists, the people have the power to kick them out every four or so years.
You assume that the politicians are under control of the electorate ("the people"), and not under control of the capitalists.