. . . unless they figure out this one simple fact:
Math is not English. (Or Math English, if you prefer.)
Language can only be boiled down to equations so far. There always comes a point where subjectivity, ambiguity, irony, nuance or some other non-mathematical factor takes over. And when it does, it takes over in such a big way that the math breaks down and renders all the previous work null and void.
Let me know when they start hiring brilliant people who understand language, then I might be interested in applying.
Besides, everyone knows that poets get more dates than mathematicians.
The better you become at reading, the better you become at writing. It only made sense to combine the two disciplines by requiring writing to be about things you read.
Now, having said that, I believe that once a student has achieved proficiency at writing about what they read, they should be encouraged to write about other things as well.
To quote Thoreau, "How vain it is to sit down to write when one has never stood up to live."
As to the question "Why is this on Slashdot?" I have a degree in English Literature. When I took my first job in IT, my boss told me that most IT people were an inch wide and a mile deep. Perhaps the person who posted this is trying to help some of us nerds broaden our horizons!
To quote one of the nerds from the movie "War Games" "Remember when you told me to tell you when you were acting rudely and insensitively? Well you're doing it now!"
Pons and Fleischman were liars who fabricated results to get media attention. If that's pioneering then that wacked out cult that claims to have cloned a human ought to get a Nobel prize for their work in "pioneering" genetics.
I don't use P2P anymore for sharing songs. However, in the last few months I have recovered 2 PCs from the dumpster at my apartment.
Because the previous owners of these PCs did not wipe their hard drives, I have been able to recover over 5 Gigs of mp3 files.
On one machine the files were in the Program Files/KaZaA/My Shared Files folder. On the other machine they were just in the My Documents/My Music folder.
I'm wondering what the legal disposition of those files is?
In the 11 years since I graduated college I've been a technology project manager, a programmer, a manager of internet development, a system administrator, and a systems analyst.
And to think, people used to give me weird looks when I told them I was getting a degree in English and Philosophy.
Gosh. You mean there's nothing to do along the way? No science to be done? Since when did the destination become the entire journey. I think solving the problem of getting more food into the ship would be easier to solve than getting an astronaut to sleep for 6 months or more.
Besides, if I'm an astronaut and you're sending me on one of the most incredible journeys of my life (perhaps taking up most of my life). And you want me to sleep though it? F**k that!
I don't think this should have been modded "funny".
My guess is that Google will use the money to start an acquisition binge. Might not be Yahoo, but start looking around at who you think Google might like to buy. (then buy their stock if they are public) You certainly don't need $3 billion dollars to improve search functionality.
I think it's hilarious they also have a US version of their store called sub300.com. Do they have to buy new domains whenever the exchange rate shifts? In Japan they're known as sub32000.com In Italy they're sub477777.com
You gotta have skin, All you really need is skin Skin's the thing that if you've got it outside It helps keep your insides in
It covers your nose, And it's wrapped around your toes And inside it you put lemon meringue And outside, you hang your clothes
Skin is what you feel at home in
And without it, furthermore
Both your liver and abdomen
Would keep falling on the floor
(And you'd be dressed in your intestine)
A Siamese twin Needs an extra set of skin And when the doctor knows that you're feelin' sick Where does he stick his needle in? In the end of your skin
If I was this guy and they were planting this stuff next to my farm, I'd see if I could help Monsanto out by "encouraging" them to develop a fire-resistant strain of Canola.
We in America do not have the market cornered on creativity and ingenuity as much as we'd like to think so.
So we close our borders and keep our precious IP locked in a black box? Then the world comes to a screeching halt?
We bitch and moan about OPEC manipulating the flow of oil, but we're willing to try to manipulate the flow of information? Seems a bit arrogant to me.
Guess what--there's no such thing as "information reserves," like there is oil reserves. The more information you let flow, the more information will be produced, in the US and abroad.
"In this case, if one treats consciousness, conservatively, as merely a form of computation, then one
can derive a finite total lifetime for any civilization in an
accelerating universe. This conclusion results from the
fact that in such a universe one ultimately has access to
only a finite volume, even after an infinite time. In the
case of actual conscious living systems, it is difficult to
quantify the nature of this limit, because we do not currently understand the precise relationship between computational complexity and consciousness."
They make a bold statement in the first sentence about consciousness, then two sentences later start back-pedalling faster than Wile E. Coyote at the edge of a cliff. This is not science, it's a cry for attention.
"Art is a religion with no god. Science is a disease with no cure." --Bart Hemminger, The Outside Curtain
I get the feeling that this may be Google's fault for not recognizing AXA as a brand name. They can certainly reject adword ads if they think the purchaser is violating a trademark.
Try doing a search for "American Express" and see what ads come up on Google.
Slashdot Mirror
Thiw will be just like that episode of the Simpsons where all the second rate stars are put on a spaceship and sent into the sun.
Only this time we'll charge them all $100,000.
Muahahahaha!
. . . unless they figure out this one simple fact:
Math is not English. (Or Math English, if you prefer.)
Language can only be boiled down to equations so far. There always comes a point where subjectivity, ambiguity, irony, nuance or some other non-mathematical factor takes over. And when it does, it takes over in such a big way that the math breaks down and renders all the previous work null and void.
Let me know when they start hiring brilliant people who understand language, then I might be interested in applying.
Besides, everyone knows that poets get more dates than mathematicians.
The better you become at reading, the better you become at writing. It only made sense to combine the two disciplines by requiring writing to be about things you read.
Now, having said that, I believe that once a student has achieved proficiency at writing about what they read, they should be encouraged to write about other things as well.
To quote Thoreau, "How vain it is to sit down to write when one has never stood up to live."
As to the question "Why is this on Slashdot?" I have a degree in English Literature. When I took my first job in IT, my boss told me that most IT people were an inch wide and a mile deep. Perhaps the person who posted this is trying to help some of us nerds broaden our horizons!
To quote one of the nerds from the movie "War Games" "Remember when you told me to tell you when you were acting rudely and insensitively? Well you're doing it now!"
Pons and Fleischman were liars who fabricated results to get media attention. If that's pioneering then that wacked out cult that claims to have cloned a human ought to get a Nobel prize for their work in "pioneering" genetics.
I don't use P2P anymore for sharing songs. However, in the last few months I have recovered 2 PCs from the dumpster at my apartment.
Because the previous owners of these PCs did not wipe their hard drives, I have been able to recover over 5 Gigs of mp3 files.
On one machine the files were in the Program Files/KaZaA/My Shared Files folder. On the other machine they were just in the My Documents/My Music folder.
I'm wondering what the legal disposition of those files is?
Does this mean that we'll soon be getting more durable Post-it Notes?
In the 11 years since I graduated college I've been a technology project manager, a programmer, a manager of internet development, a system administrator, and a systems analyst.
And to think, people used to give me weird looks when I told them I was getting a degree in English and Philosophy.
Gosh. You mean there's nothing to do along the way? No science to be done? Since when did the destination become the entire journey. I think solving the problem of getting more food into the ship would be easier to solve than getting an astronaut to sleep for 6 months or more.
Besides, if I'm an astronaut and you're sending me on one of the most incredible journeys of my life (perhaps taking up most of my life). And you want me to sleep though it? F**k that!
I don't think this should have been modded "funny".
My guess is that Google will use the money to start an acquisition binge. Might not be Yahoo, but start looking around at who you think Google might like to buy. (then buy their stock if they are public) You certainly don't need $3 billion dollars to improve search functionality.
I think it's hilarious they also have a US version of their store called sub300.com. Do they have to buy new domains whenever the exchange rate shifts?
In Japan they're known as sub32000.com
In Italy they're sub477777.com
Maybe they'll combine venues and return together next year. Imagine Steve Jobs singing along with Morrisey!
You Gotta Have Skin
(Alan Sherman)
You gotta have skin,
All you really need is skin
Skin's the thing that if you've got it outside
It helps keep your insides in
It covers your nose,
And it's wrapped around your toes
And inside it you put lemon meringue
And outside, you hang your clothes
Skin is what you feel at home in
And without it, furthermore
Both your liver and abdomen
Would keep falling on the floor
(And you'd be dressed in your intestine)
A Siamese twin
Needs an extra set of skin
And when the doctor knows that you're feelin' sick
Where does he stick his needle in?
In the end of your skin
On the coolness meter it only rates slightly higher than sharks with frickin' laser beams on their heads.
This would fall into the "News for Nerds" as opposed to the "Stuff that matters" category.
Finally, a movie to match the concession stand snacks!
We've known since the early 80s that video killed the radio star.
A context-free human language?
Wouldn't that require context-free humans?
Isn't that what the Patriot Act is all about?
President Bush gave the area an exemption from EPA regulations on waste disposal in 2002:0 020918-9.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/2
. . .either they believe it will generate a profit, now or in the future, or they are legally compelled to do it.
Any company that does not follow this maxim will be out of business soon, because they will lose capital or competetive advantage.
If I was this guy and they were planting this stuff next to my farm, I'd see if I could help Monsanto out by "encouraging" them to develop a fire-resistant strain of Canola.
Look at history--the better the weapons, the fewer the wars.
We in America do not have the market cornered on creativity and ingenuity as much as we'd like to think so.
So we close our borders and keep our precious IP locked in a black box? Then the world comes to a screeching halt?
We bitch and moan about OPEC manipulating the flow of oil, but we're willing to try to manipulate the flow of information? Seems a bit arrogant to me.
Guess what--there's no such thing as "information reserves," like there is oil reserves. The more information you let flow, the more information will be produced, in the US and abroad.
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From the paper:
"In this case, if one treats consciousness, conservatively, as merely a form of computation, then one can derive a finite total lifetime for any civilization in an accelerating universe. This conclusion results from the fact that in such a universe one ultimately has access to only a finite volume, even after an infinite time. In the case of actual conscious living systems, it is difficult to quantify the nature of this limit, because we do not currently understand the precise relationship between computational complexity and consciousness."
They make a bold statement in the first sentence about consciousness, then two sentences later start back-pedalling faster than Wile E. Coyote at the edge of a cliff. This is not science, it's a cry for attention.
"Art is a religion with no god. Science is a disease with no cure." --Bart Hemminger, The Outside Curtain
I get the feeling that this may be Google's fault for not recognizing AXA as a brand name. They can certainly reject adword ads if they think the purchaser is violating a trademark.
Try doing a search for "American Express" and see what ads come up on Google.