If someone showed you a search engine that was significantly better than Google, then I think that you would probably switch to it. I certainly would even if it had some ridiculously long name.
Many slashdotters have remarked that they switched from Altavista to Google. I say that this only happened because Google was significantly better. It had nothing to do with the name. Imagine if Altavista had a short catchy name. People would still have switched to Google because of the then superior PageRank algorithm.
This sounds a lot like that fake commencement speech allegedly given by Vonnegut which turned out to be a simple story written by a woman reporter in the midwest (perhaps Chicago).
He was not pleased with your speed? Wow, he must be an imbecile. Did he even try to solve the problem himself before giving it to you? 3 minutes is not a lot of time but I would think that in an interview it would seem like an eternity mostly because the other person is waiting for a response.
The post-human intelligences figured out that the GRB was going to happen. I would think that you wouldn't know about it until it was actually happening unless you could create some model of all the known powerful stellar objects and predict when they will release all of that energy.
Still I don't like the idea of GRBs. I remember reading somewhere that someone thought they might've been the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs here on earth. Well...I'm more inclined to believe that it was a large meteor/asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs. Still...I don't like the idea that something that powerful could still fry things far far away.
A woman once told me that if math and computers weren't such a taboo for a woman to know about then she would have studied computer science or something.
Still...a lot of women get bored very quickly whenever math or computer science become the topic of conversation. They're just not into it or our culture has taught them not to be interested in it. It's not that they can't do it.
if I could live forever. I'd have time enough for it.
I'm reminded here of the old Star Trek episode Requiem for Methuselah (Kirk and Co. discover a guy called Flint on a remote planet who is Brahms, Leonardo Da Vinci, Alexander The Great and more).
That was actually a really nice story. It does make me interested actually in hearing more about the reviewer!
One correction that I'd like to make is that there is no Nobel Prize in Economics. It is called the "Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel."
For some reason, the injection of an Israeli veteran of the six-day war making analyses seems humorous.
on this. I've cooked a lot with copper and I've never felt ill.
I'm sure that if you ingest a lot of copper then you could get ill but if you cook with a clean copper pan and avoid acidic foods I'm sure you'll be ok.
The character Gary Seven was in Assignment: Earth. The Enterprise went back in time to observe Earth and intercepted Gary's transportation from a far alien world to Earth.
One of the coolest scenes from that episode is where Spock tries to nerve pinch Gary and, surprise surprise, he can't.
"Using the acidity of the berries in conjunction with the nails, you could make a battery of some kind. Probably not enough to do much given your other equipment, but its at least a use."
Yes, yes. You could build some sort of very primitive crystal radio using the hematite and copper. Additionally, you might be able to power a transmitter by using the berry acid as a battery. Of course, even if you were able to reach someone by short wave radio or whatever you might not be able to tell them where you are.
"One of the popular problems was to write a routine to reverse a linked list. So given "a->b->c" return the list as "c->b->a". It was explained that the nodes were singly linked. Very basic. It was amazing the answers I'd get back."
Ok, you've piqued my curiousity. What sort of "amazing answers" did you get back?
Basically, Wolfram wanted to develop a program for symbolic computation to help with his work on physics. He later did leave Caltech (and had serious problems trying to take his symbolic program with him as the University claimed ownership probably because he used University resources to develop it) and went to the Institute for Advanced Study. He did research there using computers and felt that the culture there didn't like computer modeling so he left and went to UIUC, I think, which was about the same time that he got the MacArthur Genius grant, I think, and that grant gave him enough money to found his own company.
Actually it would probably be a bad idea if Galactica made it to current day Earth. If they ever do make it to Earth then it should be a future Earth with advanced but not overwhelming weaponry or perhaps it should be an Earth that is barren where the pioneers have long since died off.
Still they should have some excellent hackers on the Galactica that can root the Cylons with their 3l33t skillz.
This attempted privatization of space is not new. Many Companies have been trying to reach space since the mid 80s. The problem is that most or all of these have failed to produce a working spacecraft even though they were bank rolled by millionaires.
So far, only one company, Scaled Composites, seems to be successful at this although I did see a reference about a year ago to some other company that towed their spacecraft out into the sea and launched from a floating platform but I don't recall if they've had successful launches.
There's certainly no guarantee that Blue Origins or Armadillo will ever make it into space. It may get too expensive.
I would love to see someone (NASA, ESA, etc.) send a space probe to another solar system. Perhaps one of those Daedalus type contraptions with a fusion drive or something more modern with an ion drive? Anyway, it would be nice if someone sent a device that could get to another system in say 20 years.
Of course, if we find Apes there that could be a problem...
The guy who created one of Hawking's earlier computer systems (that allowed him to talk) had a wife who was a nurse to Hawking. Hawking and the nurse fell in love and she divorced her husband and Hawking divorced his former wife.
Oddly enough recent news reports imply that he is being abused by his new wife.
They should kill Stargate and bring back Farscape. Stargate used to be a good show but it has gone downhill in a bad way in recent years. Since Richard Dean Anderson and Amanda Tapping have personal issues that are taking up their time, they should just kill the series.
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You are talking about Perelman who seems to have given an outline of a proof of the Thurston Geometrization Conjecture which, I think, contains the Poincaré Conjecture as a special case. So he has allegedly proved something much more general than Poincaré.
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Many slashdotters have remarked that they switched from Altavista to Google. I say that this only happened because Google was significantly better. It had nothing to do with the name. Imagine if Altavista had a short catchy name. People would still have switched to Google because of the then superior PageRank algorithm.
IIRC, Intel has used the billions of digits of PI to test their hardware for errors. So yeah...a billion digits of PI could be useful.
You are so right. A WWII veteran told me once upon a time that war is evil and should not happen.
This sounds a lot like that fake commencement speech allegedly given by Vonnegut which turned out to be a simple story written by a woman reporter in the midwest (perhaps Chicago).
He was not pleased with your speed? Wow, he must be an imbecile. Did he even try to solve the problem himself before giving it to you? 3 minutes is not a lot of time but I would think that in an interview it would seem like an eternity mostly because the other person is waiting for a response.
Still I don't like the idea of GRBs. I remember reading somewhere that someone thought they might've been the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs here on earth. Well...I'm more inclined to believe that it was a large meteor/asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs. Still...I don't like the idea that something that powerful could still fry things far far away.
Your arguments are remarkable! I want to hire you as my attorney.
Still...a lot of women get bored very quickly whenever math or computer science become the topic of conversation. They're just not into it or our culture has taught them not to be interested in it. It's not that they can't do it.
I'm reminded here of the old Star Trek episode Requiem for Methuselah (Kirk and Co. discover a guy called Flint on a remote planet who is Brahms, Leonardo Da Vinci, Alexander The Great and more).
One correction that I'd like to make is that there is no Nobel Prize in Economics. It is called the "Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel."
For some reason, the injection of an Israeli veteran of the six-day war making analyses seems humorous.
I'm sure that if you ingest a lot of copper then you could get ill but if you cook with a clean copper pan and avoid acidic foods I'm sure you'll be ok.
One of the coolest scenes from that episode is where Spock tries to nerve pinch Gary and, surprise surprise, he can't.
Yes, yes. You could build some sort of very primitive crystal radio using the hematite and copper. Additionally, you might be able to power a transmitter by using the berry acid as a battery. Of course, even if you were able to reach someone by short wave radio or whatever you might not be able to tell them where you are.
Ok, you've piqued my curiousity. What sort of "amazing answers" did you get back?
He would paint different versions of the same scene. Sort of mass production for his time.
Basically, Wolfram wanted to develop a program for symbolic computation to help with his work on physics. He later did leave Caltech (and had serious problems trying to take his symbolic program with him as the University claimed ownership probably because he used University resources to develop it) and went to the Institute for Advanced Study. He did research there using computers and felt that the culture there didn't like computer modeling so he left and went to UIUC, I think, which was about the same time that he got the MacArthur Genius grant, I think, and that grant gave him enough money to found his own company.
Still they should have some excellent hackers on the Galactica that can root the Cylons with their 3l33t skillz.
So far, only one company, Scaled Composites, seems to be successful at this although I did see a reference about a year ago to some other company that towed their spacecraft out into the sea and launched from a floating platform but I don't recall if they've had successful launches.
There's certainly no guarantee that Blue Origins or Armadillo will ever make it into space. It may get too expensive.
Of course, if we find Apes there that could be a problem...
Anyone know?
I can't quite tell if Hilbert backed down seeing that Einstein had submitted for publication too.
Anyway, it appears that Hilbert and Einstein both came up with General Relativity at the same time.
Oddly enough recent news reports imply that he is being abused by his new wife.
I dislike the fact that you answered the questions in Mathematica, but I won't call you a wimp. :)
They should kill Stargate and bring back Farscape. Stargate used to be a good show but it has gone downhill in a bad way in recent years. Since Richard Dean Anderson and Amanda Tapping have personal issues that are taking up their time, they should just kill the series.
You are talking about Perelman who seems to have given an outline of a proof of the Thurston Geometrization Conjecture which, I think, contains the Poincaré Conjecture as a special case. So he has allegedly proved something much more general than Poincaré.