"In mathematical terms, the Euclidean distance between the centroids of the two clusters was significantly larger than the intra-cluster distances between any members of either cluster." Any English major could tell you what kind of cluster that sentence is!
That sentence is perfectly cromulent. The Euclidean distance between the averaged centers of two groups is clearly embiggened beyond the distances between individual members among each each group.
Can they learn sign language like Gorillas, and communicate with sentence structure to convey an understanding of more abstract concepts like the passage of time? It seems like that could be a possibility, since sentence structure is kind of an extrapolation of spelling.
Birds (mostly I'm thinking of parrots) are known to develop large vocabularies, and gain a sense of context to the noises they make, as an exchange of information regarding their own situational awareness. Understanding noises and even words, and discerning their meanings relative to context is a task that many animals are capable of. Beyond mere habituation through operant conditioning, we have seen Dolphins, Dogs, Pigs, Horses, Elephants and all the Great Apes perform similar tasks through vocalization. But literacy and text is a pretty interesting twist for baboons.
Sounds like it's going to be a pretty gigantic leap to go from this experiment to an entire Internet. Keeping in mind that they only sent, received, and stored one bit, from one persistent store to another, each of which was capable of store who knows how many bits.
One bit.
How many bits (not bytes, bits) make up an "internet"?
+1 internets to anybody who can give a reasonable answer.
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
They cloned it from Kepler's blood taken from a mosquito fossilized in amber, obviously.
DNA on a chip. Makes perfect sense.
Kepler's laws of planetary motion probably add a significant boost to pipeline performance. And what better way to integrate that functionality than by cloning Kepler himself, and regrowing his brain on a chip! I was wondering how long it would take to grow a brain on a chip, after they successfully created a gut on a chip
Following France and Germany, last year the Italian Agriculture Ministry suspended the use of a class of pesticides, nicotine-based neonicotinoids, as a "precautionary measure." The compelling results - restored bee populations - prompted the government to uphold the ban. Yesterday, copies of the film 'Nicotine Bees' were delivered to the US Congress explaining the pesticide's connection to Colony Collapse Disorder. Despite the evidence, why does CCD remain a 'mystery' in the US?
Anybody who feels comfortable demanding extremely intrusive access to personal information will likely not even think twice about assuming that anybody who isn't as transparent as the norm probably has something to hide.
Anybody who feels comfortable providing extremely intrusive access to personal information will likely not even think twice about providing strangers access to company confidential data, and should not be hired.
Anybody who feels uncomfortable providing extremely intrusive access to personal information, but dumb will likely not even think twice about spamming the fuck out of Facebook with a shit load of useless sock puppet profiles that lead nowhere.
...might I direct your attention to yet another hilarious article which portends similarly ominous disasters, all because someone claimed that maintaining a constant connection to the internet was a good security practice?
The kind that require an "always on" internet connection?
Yes, let's increase the exposure of our vehicles. Surely it's better to increase the network availability of an already vulnerable system.
Wouldn't want to lock down all radio-based vectors of attack at all.
I mean, I know I'll be checking the logs and monitoring the spectrum for transmissions to and from my car, 24/7. That sounds safe.
If I were a doctor, I couldn't imagine making a blanket statement that everyone would want the same thing. Whether or not the patient is healthy, in the vast majority of circumstances, you're patient will have family members, and if anything goes wrong, they WILL want to know why. No matter the life expectancy.
Life saving, and life threatening decisions always need impeccable documentation of the circumstances. What if the patient doesn't believe you and wants a second decision? Obviously a second opinion isn't an option in trauma and emergency scenarios... but it's a touchy subject of willful opportunism to decide to take advantage of trauma situations, when you have to prove that you didn't decide to take advantage of emergencies for personal gain.
Or maybe they WANT to suffer and die. If you interfere with a persons wishes, and anything unexpected happens, it risks going before a judge.
Anyway, even if you save someone's life to day, and yeah, it extends their life for six months but with a far FAR more miserable death... well... is that an unsuable position? Lawyers will argue anything.
...a more conventional PC-like architecture provided by AMD.
So, then I'll just dump $300.00+ on the next generation PlayStation, and ~$60.00 on a game, when I could just play the $60.00 game on my PC, which I already have.
Slashdot Mirror
Sure, maybe that particular passage is copyrighted, but what about grammar and vocabulary?
"In mathematical terms, the Euclidean distance between the centroids of the two clusters was significantly larger than the intra-cluster distances between any members of either cluster." Any English major could tell you what kind of cluster that sentence is!
That sentence is perfectly cromulent. The Euclidean distance between the averaged centers of two groups is clearly embiggened beyond the distances between individual members among each each group.
Can they learn sign language like Gorillas, and communicate with sentence structure to convey an understanding of more abstract concepts like the passage of time? It seems like that could be a possibility, since sentence structure is kind of an extrapolation of spelling.
Birds (mostly I'm thinking of parrots) are known to develop large vocabularies, and gain a sense of context to the noises they make, as an exchange of information regarding their own situational awareness. Understanding noises and even words, and discerning their meanings relative to context is a task that many animals are capable of. Beyond mere habituation through operant conditioning, we have seen Dolphins, Dogs, Pigs, Horses, Elephants and all the Great Apes perform similar tasks through vocalization. But literacy and text is a pretty interesting twist for baboons.
Sounds like it's going to be a pretty gigantic leap to go from this experiment to an entire Internet. Keeping in mind that they only sent, received, and stored one bit, from one persistent store to another, each of which was capable of store who knows how many bits.
One bit.
How many bits (not bytes, bits) make up an "internet"?
+1 internets to anybody who can give a reasonable answer.
Because Unity sucks.
Most relevant post. This initiative probably has nothing to do with the end-user.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/07/the_nsas_perfec.html
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/nsa-2/
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/nsa-perfect-citizen-denial/
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1
/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/archive/disk_failures.pdf was not found on this server. That’s all we know.
Google
404. That’s an error.
The requested URL
Windows 8 promises to be an awful experience.
I hate Fennec, and I can't imagine the Metro IE being any better.
It's like being given the choose between loose stool with oily discharge and ordinary diarrhea.
Oh god, here it comes!
I can't wait for the first industrial accident involving this stuff.
Required reading: Why The Future Doesn't Need Us
They cloned it from Kepler's blood taken from a mosquito fossilized in amber, obviously. DNA on a chip. Makes perfect sense. Kepler's laws of planetary motion probably add a significant boost to pipeline performance. And what better way to integrate that functionality than by cloning Kepler himself, and regrowing his brain on a chip! I was wondering how long it would take to grow a brain on a chip, after they successfully created a gut on a chip
Following France and Germany, last year the Italian Agriculture Ministry suspended the use of a class of pesticides, nicotine-based neonicotinoids, as a "precautionary measure." The compelling results - restored bee populations - prompted the government to uphold the ban. Yesterday, copies of the film 'Nicotine Bees' were delivered to the US Congress explaining the pesticide's connection to Colony Collapse Disorder. Despite the evidence, why does CCD remain a 'mystery' in the US?
http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/nicotine-bees-population-restored-with-neonicotinoids-ban.html
Not if you use Unity... (*snicker!*)
That's either still in development or imaginary legend lore/vaporware, much like the TacoCopter.
Anybody who feels comfortable demanding extremely intrusive access to personal information will likely not even think twice about assuming that anybody who isn't as transparent as the norm probably has something to hide.
Anybody who feels comfortable providing extremely intrusive access to personal information will likely not even think twice about providing strangers access to company confidential data, and should not be hired.
Anybody who feels uncomfortable providing extremely intrusive access to personal information, but dumb will likely not even think twice about spamming the fuck out of Facebook with a shit load of useless sock puppet profiles that lead nowhere.
Then again, consider the hot dog...
The creative vision of an iconoclast like Malda can only add to the zeitgeist that these acolytes inspire.
Recent studies confirm: It * DOES * take one to know one.
Car Hacking Concerns On the Rise
AND I QUOTE:
...manufacturers will struggle to keep abreast of rapidly-evolving threats unless they organize regular software updates.
The kind that require an "always on" internet connection? Yes, let's increase the exposure of our vehicles. Surely it's better to increase the network availability of an already vulnerable system. Wouldn't want to lock down all radio-based vectors of attack at all. I mean, I know I'll be checking the logs and monitoring the spectrum for transmissions to and from my car, 24/7. That sounds safe.
If I were a doctor, I couldn't imagine making a blanket statement that everyone would want the same thing. Whether or not the patient is healthy, in the vast majority of circumstances, you're patient will have family members, and if anything goes wrong, they WILL want to know why. No matter the life expectancy.
Life saving, and life threatening decisions always need impeccable documentation of the circumstances. What if the patient doesn't believe you and wants a second decision? Obviously a second opinion isn't an option in trauma and emergency scenarios... but it's a touchy subject of willful opportunism to decide to take advantage of trauma situations, when you have to prove that you didn't decide to take advantage of emergencies for personal gain.
Or maybe they WANT to suffer and die. If you interfere with a persons wishes, and anything unexpected happens, it risks going before a judge.
Anyway, even if you save someone's life to day, and yeah, it extends their life for six months but with a far FAR more miserable death... well... is that an unsuable position? Lawyers will argue anything.
...a more conventional PC-like architecture provided by AMD.
So, then I'll just dump $300.00+ on the next generation PlayStation, and ~$60.00 on a game, when I could just play the $60.00 game on my PC, which I already have.