FWIW, this project has been given quite a bit of thought and planning by those involved. It is the brainchild of a Yale graduate student and they already have quite a few members who've made commitments. I am on the mailing list but haven't yet decided if I'd join. I must admit that after reading their essays and rationales, it is quite compelling...
I'm going this saturday for my interview at UAMS. I was just sort of guessing, since you had Woo Pig SOoieee and all. Maybe you did undergrad at UA and are now elsewhere?
3) If you tie 4 cats together and drop them will they all land on their feet?
Actually, there is a very important result that turned up from some research done several years back. As it turns out, if you tie four cats together such that each set of 4 legs stick out orthogonally to the other three, and drop the bundle-o-cats from a height, the cats will, as they near the ground, rapidly come to a stop, hover a mere foot or two above the ground, and spin rapidly.
Not really, but thats the funniest mental image I've had in awhile.
They've got one of these in at least one of Vienna's underground stations. They're pretty cool, granted, all I bought was a box of Choco-Liebnitz bicuits (mmm choco liebnitz), but cool nonetheless.
I know you haven't missed out on all this brouhaha over hate-crime legislation. Now in many (most? all?) of the US it is MORE illegal to hate someone against whom you are committing a crime than it is to simply commit the crime.
Notice what is happening. The legislators are telling us what we can and can't be thinking, and are penalizing us (meaning extra jail time) if we happen to be thinking the "wrong" thing (note that I am not advocating hatred).
If you think we have freedom of thought, you're already, sadly, mistaken:(
I remember reading about this experement, and what they had done is taken the "brain mass" from a lamprey (a jawless fish with an incredibly simple nervous system). Pretty interesting that just a little bitty hunk of cells could navigate around in the computer. Since a lamprey has but one very simple "eye" it was probably fairly simple to feed in the visual input.
squake was coded up by a friend of mine [who still doesn't his name to be mentioned], a teenager at the time. He hacked it in like 1 or 2 nights after recieving the leaked source from someone, and then passed it [the hacked source] on (fearfully, even) to Carmack who was mighty displeased but... well, the rest is history.
There is such little actual difference between the republicans and the democrats these days. I voted republican until I realized they were no longer the party of smaller government, open markets, and general freedoms.
i too have pondered this idea (the simulation in a computer of single and simple multi cellular organisms to see what happens etc etc) but the physics behind this are extraoridinary complicated.
So lets say you define a single celled organism to live in a 1 foot square box. What is at the bounds of the universe?
Even if we ignore that, the cheif problem is the MASSIVELY COMPLICATED chemical reactions which take place even inside single celled organisms. And inorder to simulate the chemical reactions, we must simulate the basic physics, but think about it -- you would have to have a data object in memory for **EVERY ATOM IN YOUR SIMULATED UNIVERSE**
I'm not saying we won't be there one day, but if you approach this from a physics and chemistry perspective, its near impossible:/
(Would be fun though:)
blach
I see your point (it is quite valid) but I was viewing the gentleman in question's "offending material" as sort of a THING in which he took a passive / omissive role in "doing something wrong"
In the example you present, the "offending material" is an ACTION (cf thing) and the sinister programmer has taken an active / commissive role.
So I see the point youre making, and I should have made the distinction clear.
So if the guy is guilty of anything, its of omission--I certainly do not think he is guilty of commision of an overtly illegal act.
Anyway what I'm blabbering about is this, perhaps my proof is incorrect, but not to the degree that you assert. I should have been more clear / offered caveats to my statement "he is not responsible for something he doesn't own".
the first line of this post's parent post -- THEN WHY IS HE BEING HELD RESPONSIBLE -- is the most key issue the kid has.
There are two possibilities.
#1 The kid owns the content.
#2 The kid does NOT own the content.
Any judge or jury would agree. The prosecution MUST pick one or the other--to assert both #1 & #2 (or 1 ^ 2 if you are a mathematician;) would be laughable.
Ok, then what does #1 imply?
#1 => His property (intellectual) was taken away from him unjustly and illegally. Any judge or jury would agree that this logically follows *ASSUMING IT BELONGS TO HIM*
Ok, what does #2 imply?
#2 => His property was NOT taken away. (The content does not belong to him.) An individual is not responsible for other people's property. Any judge or jury would agree with this.
Next, the defense should point out that the prosecution, by saying:
A. The kids property (content) was not taken away
and
B. The kid is responsible for the content
is committing a logical fallacy.
If they University wants to take away the content, claim the kid doesn't own it, and not punish him, I don't have a problem.
Similarly, if they want to let him KEEP THE I.P., say he owns it, and hold him accountable for it, then I also do not have a (logical/philosophical) problem. I am not going to argue whether or not he violated the handbook policy.
Anyway I am a lowly mathematics student, but as I understand it, isnt this the business GOOD defense attourneys are in? To point out (or in some cases to create, depending on whos got the big bucks heh) logical fallacies in order to get people aquitted?
I pray that the people responsible for this kids fate have a basic grasp of logical principles.. but I am not so hopeful =(
dude quit bitching and read the article, it most certainly does mention the fact that it uses the gregorian calendar and has problems with earlier dates, and earlier dates in great britain.
Yeah, sadly I know, personally, the principal who suspended the kid. When I heard about the kid having been suspended I as about to give the guy a peice of my mind, but my better judgement prevailed -- it wouldn't have done any good. I suppose he already knows what an ass he has made of himself.
And this was a man I assumed to be a perfectly rational person. *YOU CAN NEVER TELL*
anyone who's met a real physician or been to medical school will tell you that you are wrong.
MD's do not think you can cure everything with a pill or a shot. I don't know why the same people who seem to get duped by chiropractors seem to think this, but that's a whole other conversation.
To say that doctors think everything can be cured with medicine is a farce. I mean its so ridiculous i can't even begin to argue with you??
You're right on when you say pain is the body telling you soething is wrong. Now the moron doctors who barely got into medical school will tell you to take a pill and ignore it. These are often the General practicioners and maybe surgeons. Any specialist or SUBspecialist will know better. If you would like to speak to my dad, who is an MD and a pain expert, you're more than welcome.
I balked when I read your sentence "...but chiropractic practicioners are just like normal doctors". Luckily, you halfway redeemed yourself by having meant that in an analogy sort of way as far as there are good ones and there are bad ones. Right O there.
But I promise you there is nothing a chiropractor can do that a Physical Therapist cannot. Chiropractors are great for a massage and getting your to hold your posture correctly, but that is about it.
If you think they can cure your cold or alleviate all maner of visceral pains then you are fooling yourself.
Now, I think the majority of chiropractors beleive in what they do and arent purposefully trying to dupe people out of their money, but they were duped by the "School of chiropractry" just like their customers are duped by them.
As long as I'm on my high horse, your first paragraph refers to a chiropractor as a "Doctor [you] know and trust". Physicians are not only insulted but HURT that chiropractors insist on being called "Doctors" when they are nothing of the sort. The "training" they receive is a joke. I'd more readily call someone with a PhD in Business "Doctor so and so" than someone who practices the chiropractic "arts" (note that it is most certainly not a science.)
Please ask a real physician to give you the lowdown on chriopractors. For your own good.
Chiroprachtry is a quack. www.quackwatch.com. Or you could ask about my firsthand experiences.
I will admit that chiropractry is good for an excellent massage, but that's about it. A Physical Therapist can do everything a chiropractor can do (except cure the common cold by manipulating the subluxations of my vertebrae hahaha) and it is a far more respected profession.
Please do yourself a favor and get out while you can.
don't make comments without watching the movie first. this was most certainly mentioned in the movie. before the attack had begun and right when they were realizing shit was going down, they tell the naval commander that "one of our ships just sunk a japanese sub coming into the harbor"
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FWIW, this project has been given quite a bit of thought and planning by those involved. It is the brainchild of a Yale graduate student and they already have quite a few members who've made commitments. I am on the mailing list but haven't yet decided if I'd join. I must admit that after reading their essays and rationales, it is quite compelling...
James
Methanol is commonly referred to as "Wood Alcohol," while "Rubbing Alcohol" is Isopropanol.
Regards,
James
I'm going this saturday for my interview at UAMS. I was just sort of guessing, since you had Woo Pig SOoieee and all. Maybe you did undergrad at UA and are now elsewhere?
Regards,
James
You know, it's not very nice to use foul language and call people morons when it is you yourself who have made the mistake. See other replies.
Regards
James
Actually, there is a very important result that turned up from some research done several years back. As it turns out, if you tie four cats together such that each set of 4 legs stick out orthogonally to the other three, and drop the bundle-o-cats from a height, the cats will, as they near the ground, rapidly come to a stop, hover a mere foot or two above the ground, and spin rapidly.
Not really, but thats the funniest mental image I've had in awhile.
They've got one of these in at least one of Vienna's underground stations. They're pretty cool, granted, all I bought was a box of Choco-Liebnitz bicuits (mmm choco liebnitz), but cool nonetheless.
Regards
James
The G4 got "schooled" by a 2 x 1.6 GHZ Athlon Multiprocessor system.
Regards
James
There is no Dr. John Post on the math faculty here, and as far as I am aware, not in the CS or CE departments either.
Sad to think they had to make up names. They're sinking fast.
Regards
James
That's a lot of 5 and a quarter floppies dude
I know you haven't missed out on all this brouhaha over hate-crime legislation. Now in many (most? all?) of the US it is MORE illegal to hate someone against whom you are committing a crime than it is to simply commit the crime.
:(
Notice what is happening. The legislators are telling us what we can and can't be thinking, and are penalizing us (meaning extra jail time) if we happen to be thinking the "wrong" thing (note that I am not advocating hatred).
If you think we have freedom of thought, you're already, sadly, mistaken
Regards
James
I remember reading about this experement, and what they had done is taken the "brain mass" from a lamprey (a jawless fish with an incredibly simple nervous system). Pretty interesting that just a little bitty hunk of cells could navigate around in the computer. Since a lamprey has but one very simple "eye" it was probably fairly simple to feed in the visual input.
Regards
James
squake was coded up by a friend of mine [who still doesn't his name to be mentioned], a teenager at the time. He hacked it in like 1 or 2 nights after recieving the leaked source from someone, and then passed it [the hacked source] on (fearfully, even) to Carmack who was mighty displeased but... well, the rest is history.
:(
A shame that he can't take credit for his work
That's an interesting thought, and not necessarily one that would occur to the defense attourney(s). I wonder how one could let them know this option?
This guy said protecting democracy in America. How about protecting THE REPUBLIC.
Or do former high level defense department officials have no clue what the difference is.
-j.
Don't fool yourself -
There is such little actual difference between the republicans and the democrats these days. I voted republican until I realized they were no longer the party of smaller government, open markets, and general freedoms.
Vote libertarian.
www.lp.org
i too have pondered this idea (the simulation in a computer of single and simple multi cellular organisms to see what happens etc etc) but the physics behind this are extraoridinary complicated. So lets say you define a single celled organism to live in a 1 foot square box. What is at the bounds of the universe? Even if we ignore that, the cheif problem is the MASSIVELY COMPLICATED chemical reactions which take place even inside single celled organisms. And inorder to simulate the chemical reactions, we must simulate the basic physics, but think about it -- you would have to have a data object in memory for **EVERY ATOM IN YOUR SIMULATED UNIVERSE** I'm not saying we won't be there one day, but if you approach this from a physics and chemistry perspective, its near impossible :/
(Would be fun though :)
blach
I see your point (it is quite valid) but I was viewing the gentleman in question's "offending material" as sort of a THING in which he took a passive / omissive role in "doing something wrong"
In the example you present, the "offending material" is an ACTION (cf thing) and the sinister programmer has taken an active / commissive role.
So I see the point youre making, and I should have made the distinction clear.
So if the guy is guilty of anything, its of omission--I certainly do not think he is guilty of commision of an overtly illegal act.
Anyway what I'm blabbering about is this, perhaps my proof is incorrect, but not to the degree that you assert. I should have been more clear / offered caveats to my statement "he is not responsible for something he doesn't own".
Thanks for the thoughts!!
James
the first line of this post's parent post -- THEN WHY IS HE BEING HELD RESPONSIBLE -- is the most key issue the kid has.
;) would be laughable.
There are two possibilities.
#1 The kid owns the content.
#2 The kid does NOT own the content.
Any judge or jury would agree. The prosecution MUST pick one or the other--to assert both #1 & #2 (or 1 ^ 2 if you are a mathematician
Ok, then what does #1 imply?
#1 => His property (intellectual) was taken away from him unjustly and illegally. Any judge or jury would agree that this logically follows *ASSUMING IT BELONGS TO HIM*
Ok, what does #2 imply?
#2 => His property was NOT taken away. (The content does not belong to him.) An individual is not responsible for other people's property. Any judge or jury would agree with this.
Next, the defense should point out that the prosecution, by saying:
A. The kids property (content) was not taken away
and
B. The kid is responsible for the content
is committing a logical fallacy.
If they University wants to take away the content, claim the kid doesn't own it, and not punish him, I don't have a problem.
Similarly, if they want to let him KEEP THE I.P., say he owns it, and hold him accountable for it, then I also do not have a (logical/philosophical) problem. I am not going to argue whether or not he violated the handbook policy.
Anyway I am a lowly mathematics student, but as I understand it, isnt this the business GOOD defense attourneys are in? To point out (or in some cases to create, depending on whos got the big bucks heh) logical fallacies in order to get people aquitted?
I pray that the people responsible for this kids fate have a basic grasp of logical principles.. but I am not so hopeful =(
James Blachly
dude quit bitching and read the article, it most certainly does mention the fact that it uses the gregorian calendar and has problems with earlier dates, and earlier dates in great britain.
karma whore. =(
Yeah, sadly I know, personally, the principal who suspended the kid. When I heard about the kid having been suspended I as about to give the guy a peice of my mind, but my better judgement prevailed -- it wouldn't have done any good. I suppose he already knows what an ass he has made of himself.
And this was a man I assumed to be a perfectly rational person. *YOU CAN NEVER TELL*
anyone who's met a real physician or been to medical school will tell you that you are wrong.
MD's do not think you can cure everything with a pill or a shot. I don't know why the same people who seem to get duped by chiropractors seem to think this, but that's a whole other conversation.
To say that doctors think everything can be cured with medicine is a farce. I mean its so ridiculous i can't even begin to argue with you??
You're right on when you say pain is the body telling you soething is wrong. Now the moron doctors who barely got into medical school will tell you to take a pill and ignore it. These are often the General practicioners and maybe surgeons. Any specialist or SUBspecialist will know better. If you would like to speak to my dad, who is an MD and a pain expert, you're more than welcome.
I balked when I read your sentence "...but chiropractic practicioners are just like normal doctors". Luckily, you halfway redeemed yourself by having meant that in an analogy sort of way as far as there are good ones and there are bad ones. Right O there.
But I promise you there is nothing a chiropractor can do that a Physical Therapist cannot. Chiropractors are great for a massage and getting your to hold your posture correctly, but that is about it.
If you think they can cure your cold or alleviate all maner of visceral pains then you are fooling yourself.
Now, I think the majority of chiropractors beleive in what they do and arent purposefully trying to dupe people out of their money, but they were duped by the "School of chiropractry" just like their customers are duped by them.
As long as I'm on my high horse, your first paragraph refers to a chiropractor as a "Doctor [you] know and trust". Physicians are not only insulted but HURT that chiropractors insist on being called "Doctors" when they are nothing of the sort. The "training" they receive is a joke. I'd more readily call someone with a PhD in Business "Doctor so and so" than someone who practices the chiropractic "arts" (note that it is most certainly not a science.)
Please ask a real physician to give you the lowdown on chriopractors. For your own good.
Respectfully,
James
Chiroprachtry is a quack. www.quackwatch.com. Or you could ask about my firsthand experiences.
I will admit that chiropractry is good for an excellent massage, but that's about it. A Physical Therapist can do everything a chiropractor can do (except cure the common cold by manipulating the subluxations of my vertebrae hahaha) and it is a far more respected profession.
Please do yourself a favor and get out while you can.
Respectfully (no, really)
James
after rereading your post i realize you meant "ignored by our navy" not "ignored by the filmmakers"
that most certainly is interesting to note.
James
don't make comments without watching the movie first. this was most certainly mentioned in the movie. before the attack had begun and right when they were realizing shit was going down, they tell the naval commander that "one of our ships just sunk a japanese sub coming into the harbor"