Only if genes for the desired characteristics were already in the population you started with could it be guaranteed. Yeast, as noted, have multicellular ancestors so there were probably clumping genes in their starting population.
That said, we can study the responses in human populations that took place in response to changes in diet and climate.
Empirical science is open to dispute based on evidence and sound reasoning. It's not open to dispute based on ignoring evidence and pretending it doesn't exist.
If the global-warming deniers had sound evidence that either the Earth isn't currently warming (It is.) or that there are sufficient non-hand-waving, non-anthropogenic causes to explain it then everybody would have to take them seriously.
Business method patents truly should be banned, as should gene patents for different reasons. But software patents should be allowed IF they are truly new and truly not obvious.
The trouble we're having is with most patents being issued for things that ARE obvious to persons skilled in the art.
Patents also last too long. 3 years would be appropriate for most patents because it no longer takes a long time to bring most new ideas to maker and earn some return on investment.
There's also the point that this inherently a differential question. They use simultaneous data from two receivers that see the same satellites at the same time to solve for the difference in position rather than the absolute position of each receiver. You can do this for each pair in their set of 25 receivers or for any subset.
You use 2- frequency GPS receivers that are inherently less noisy and more accurate than the cheap ones everybody uses for coarse navigation. Then you average the position data over long times.
The longer you average, the lower the uncertainty in the position.
Not all public education is garbage. A lot of it is pretty good. It all depends on which public school you are talking about. On average, schools in decent neighborhoods populated by middle and upper-middle income students compare favorably to private schools and are comparable to good schools anywhere in the world. Crappy education in public schools happens mostly in the poorer-neighborhood schools that have fewer resources to use to educate kids who are harder to teach.
Besides, in both New York and Colorado it was clearly demonstrated that online schools were much less effective than the regular public schools you think are garbage. No doubt there are many reasons for this. In Colorado, it was clear that many of the online schools were little more than fraud schemes. But even the ones that were trying to educate children weren't very good. Imagine trying to educate a bunch of kids who may or may not even be in the room when the lessons are being transmitted, who may or may not be doing their own homework and are distracted by the lure of PR0N, games, internet gambling, the TV in the next room, their mom's medical Marijuana stash, etc. And if they have questions, who answers? Who sees that they are not getting it?
For all those reasons, for me, the badges idea is pretty useless. The badge is a worthless credential. It's just not supported by a proven model of education.
If you really want to sequester a lot of CO2 really fast, grow hay, then harvest and bury is. Only problem is, we have more economic things to do with land.
There's nothing deliberate about the error mechanisms that cause mutation and therefore make evolution possible. "Deliberate" is the kind of word that's more appropriate to discussions of "intelligent design" than evolution.
The error mechanisms exist and are arguably necessary, but in the world of chemistry, randomness is everywhere so you don't need to go looking for deliberate errors.
Even if you don't sign up, people can still post tagged pictures ofyou and anything else they want. No consent needed! (In the USA this is apparently protected speech.)
But having a profile aggregates it for whoever wants to gather and use it.
Getting that ticket punched is only one goal. If I hire a somebody on the basis of having his ticket punched and then find out he doesn't know how to do anything, I'm going to fire him pretty soon.
The number of students in virtual schools run by educational management organizations rose sharply last year, according to a new report being published Friday, and far fewer of them are proving proficient on standardized tests compared with their peers in other privately managed charter schools and in traditional public schools.
The number of private companies operating full-time online K-12 schools in Colorado and other states continues to grow. Meantime, student performance is declining. That’s according to a new report by the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado.
These articles pertain to K-12 schools but I think the dynamic behind why these schools don't work very well can be generalized. Probably nothing works as well as direct face-to-face instruction.
They also made the very serious mistake of making a reactor that would not passively quench the reaction when power was removed. That's essential to making a safe reactor no matter where you build it.
I was greatly disturbed to learn that the reactors in Japan weren't built that way. They could have been.
I think that's not the point. Microsoft's patenting of this idea probably opens the gate for them to extend it to all sorts of future patents based on avoiding anything the customer wants to avoid. Avoid areas with recent snowfall. Avoid areas where bad weather is forecast. Avoid protests. Avoid areas that meet any user-selected demographic criteria...
It doesn't muddy the rights. All the potential problems involve unintentional (on the part of the company) release of the information to third parties. The employees are supposed to have access to company information, but aren't allowed to disclose it to third parties without permission.
The answer to that is to say no to such arrangements. They're risky for both the employee and the employer. Also, the employer shouldn't be asking the employees to subsidize them with free or reduced-cost equipment.
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Whether or not it's our fault is almost irrelevant. The important questions don't bear much on fault:
1. Is it going to adversely affect us if it continues? (The answer is yes.)
2. Is there anything we can do to stop or reverse the trend? (We better hope the answer is yes.)
I guess I can modify that to "you can't print land yet.
In places where the cost of an average home is over 150k, most of the cost is land. You can't print land.
Only if genes for the desired characteristics were already in the population you started with could it be guaranteed. Yeast, as noted, have multicellular ancestors so there were probably clumping genes in their starting population.
That said, we can study the responses in human populations that took place in response to changes in diet and climate.
Empirical science is open to dispute based on evidence and sound reasoning. It's not open to dispute based on ignoring evidence and pretending it doesn't exist.
If the global-warming deniers had sound evidence that either the Earth isn't currently warming (It is.) or that there are sufficient non-hand-waving, non-anthropogenic causes to explain it then everybody would have to take them seriously.
1. Yeah, but I couldn't a swipe at people who wantonly misuse scripture by inserting Jesus into the parts where he isn't.
2. Seen the Jordan River lately? I think some modern-day Jews could take a page out of that stewardship stuff.
Business method patents truly should be banned, as should gene patents for different reasons. But software patents should be allowed IF they are truly new and truly not obvious.
The trouble we're having is with most patents being issued for things that ARE obvious to persons skilled in the art.
Patents also last too long. 3 years would be appropriate for most patents because it no longer takes a long time to bring most new ideas to maker and earn some return on investment.
There's also the point that this inherently a differential question. They use simultaneous data from two receivers that see the same satellites at the same time to solve for the difference in position rather than the absolute position of each receiver. You can do this for each pair in their set of 25 receivers or for any subset.
Fancy math: cool answers.
You use 2- frequency GPS receivers that are inherently less noisy and more accurate than the cheap ones everybody uses for coarse navigation. Then you average the position data over long times.
The longer you average, the lower the uncertainty in the position.
No it's not. That stuff was written 1000 years before anybody heard of Jesus.
The correct model would be Moses, who ruled the Israelites with terror and slaughter.
Couldn't they have stuck with a hypothesis of "the temporal pattern of serial killing will be aperiodic but display a power-law distribution?"
Oh wait... they haven't analyzed enough data to support that conclusion either!
Really? Too expensive to make sonars that can detect mines?
Somebody please mod that up.
Wrong. Comments should describe what programs are for, what assumptions it makes about parameters, classes, data structures, etc.
If you have to read complex program code to figure out what it does, you are in trouble.
Not all public education is garbage. A lot of it is pretty good. It all depends on which public school you are talking about. On average, schools in decent neighborhoods populated by middle and upper-middle income students compare favorably to private schools and are comparable to good schools anywhere in the world. Crappy education in public schools happens mostly in the poorer-neighborhood schools that have fewer resources to use to educate kids who are harder to teach.
Besides, in both New York and Colorado it was clearly demonstrated that online schools were much less effective than the regular public schools you think are garbage. No doubt there are many reasons for this. In Colorado, it was clear that many of the online schools were little more than fraud schemes. But even the ones that were trying to educate children weren't very good. Imagine trying to educate a bunch of kids who may or may not even be in the room when the lessons are being transmitted, who may or may not be doing their own homework and are distracted by the lure of PR0N, games, internet gambling, the TV in the next room, their mom's medical Marijuana stash, etc. And if they have questions, who answers? Who sees that they are not getting it?
For all those reasons, for me, the badges idea is pretty useless. The badge is a worthless credential. It's just not supported by a proven model of education.
If you really want to sequester a lot of CO2 really fast, grow hay, then harvest and bury is. Only problem is, we have more economic things to do with land.
There's nothing deliberate about the error mechanisms that cause mutation and therefore make evolution possible. "Deliberate" is the kind of word that's more appropriate to discussions of "intelligent design" than evolution.
The error mechanisms exist and are arguably necessary, but in the world of chemistry, randomness is everywhere so you don't need to go looking for deliberate errors.
Even if you don't sign up, people can still post tagged pictures ofyou and anything else they want. No consent needed! (In the USA this is apparently protected speech.)
But having a profile aggregates it for whoever wants to gather and use it.
Getting that ticket punched is only one goal. If I hire a somebody on the basis of having his ticket punched and then find out he doesn't know how to do anything, I'm going to fire him pretty soon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/education/students-of-virtual-schools-are-lagging-in-proficiency.html
The number of students in virtual schools run by educational management organizations rose sharply last year, according to a new report being published Friday, and far fewer of them are proving proficient on standardized tests compared with their peers in other privately managed charter schools and in traditional public schools.
http://www.kunc.org/post/report-finds-more-virtual-k-12-students-are-falling-behind
The number of private companies operating full-time online K-12 schools in Colorado and other states continues to grow. Meantime, student performance is declining. That’s according to a new report by the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado.
These articles pertain to K-12 schools but I think the dynamic behind why these schools don't work very well can be generalized. Probably nothing works as well as direct face-to-face instruction.
It's the control systems and sensors that are vulnerable to radiation. The electromechanical systems aren't.
They also made the very serious mistake of making a reactor that would not passively quench the reaction when power was removed. That's essential to making a safe reactor no matter where you build it.
I was greatly disturbed to learn that the reactors in Japan weren't built that way. They could have been.
I think that's not the point. Microsoft's patenting of this idea probably opens the gate for them to extend it to all sorts of future patents based on avoiding anything the customer wants to avoid. Avoid areas with recent snowfall. Avoid areas where bad weather is forecast. Avoid protests. Avoid areas that meet any user-selected demographic criteria...
It doesn't muddy the rights. All the potential problems involve unintentional (on the part of the company) release of the information to third parties. The employees are supposed to have access to company information, but aren't allowed to disclose it to third parties without permission.
The answer to that is to say no to such arrangements. They're risky for both the employee and the employer. Also, the employer shouldn't be asking the employees to subsidize them with free or reduced-cost equipment.