I've got grade 2 piano and no IT qualifications, and yet I'm working in IT instead of busking my way through chopsticks.
If that wasn't enough, news outlet MarketWatch reported on Friday that Susan Mauldin's LinkedIn page was made private and her last name was replaced with "M", in a move that appears to keep her education background secret.
I doubt it has anything to do with keeping her education background secret, and more to do with simply wanting to disappear until this particular shit storm blows over. Lot of (rightfully) angry people out there, some of whom might do (unrightfully) angry things.
I know a great deal about spacetime, thanks. I know space is relative, and I know time is relative.
The issue I have with your statement is the conclusion you've leapt to. Why should teleportation be possible because space is relative? It makes no sense. There's no link there. You may as well have said that telepathy is possible because we have dreams.
In order to maintain Moore's Law -- by which transistor density doubles every two years or so -- it now takes 18 times as many scientists as it did in the 1970s. That means each researcher's output today is 18 times less effective in terms of generating economic value than it was several decades ago.
Firstly, no, it doesn't mean that.
Secondly, Moore's Law is not the sole benchmark by which to measure technological progress. Not by a long way.
Why not? Do you spend all your time only engaging in activities that purely benefit the entirety of mankind? Or do you sometimes do dumb stuff that doesn't really "help" but that you find enjoyable?
91% accuracy...let's assume that gay men are 10% of all men. So this program will correctly identify 82% of men as straight, and misidentify 8% of straight men as gay.
If 10% of all men are gay, it could just say "straight" every time and you're up to 90% accuracy already.
In other words, not terribly useful.
I fail to see how it could be "useful" in any way - any moral way, anyway - even if it was 100% accurate.
GP's point is that the light reaching them now doesn't allow them to see us as we are now, but as were x years ago where x is also the distance in light-years to the planet..
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I've got grade 2 piano and no IT qualifications, and yet I'm working in IT instead of busking my way through chopsticks.
If that wasn't enough, news outlet MarketWatch reported on Friday that Susan Mauldin's LinkedIn page was made private and her last name was replaced with "M", in a move that appears to keep her education background secret.
I doubt it has anything to do with keeping her education background secret, and more to do with simply wanting to disappear until this particular shit storm blows over. Lot of (rightfully) angry people out there, some of whom might do (unrightfully) angry things.
However, every damn Amazon commercial seems to activate my Echo.
They shouldn't. The system recognises its own commercials and ignores them.
which targeted Black people
People with the surname Black?
I know a great deal about spacetime, thanks. I know space is relative, and I know time is relative.
The issue I have with your statement is the conclusion you've leapt to. Why should teleportation be possible because space is relative? It makes no sense. There's no link there. You may as well have said that telepathy is possible because we have dreams.
* Teleportation -- possible because space is relative
* Time Travel -- possible because time is relative
That's gibberish.
In order to maintain Moore's Law -- by which transistor density doubles every two years or so -- it now takes 18 times as many scientists as it did in the 1970s. That means each researcher's output today is 18 times less effective in terms of generating economic value than it was several decades ago.
Firstly, no, it doesn't mean that.
Secondly, Moore's Law is not the sole benchmark by which to measure technological progress. Not by a long way.
I was told there would be punch and pie.
Uber isn't doing anything. Their cab drivers are the ones absorbing the costs to take people to shelters.
If Uber was doing something they'd reimburse the cost of fuel and time to their drivers
How do you know they're not?
Great article. Would read again. A++++++++++++++++
Do you mean a solid shell resting on top of the bag of gloop?
That would just spread the force across the whole bag and negate the desired effect.
Newton got his name attached to more than one concept. Newtonian mechanics and Newtonian fluids are two separate concepts.
You'd be surprised what kind of impractical ideas people will try to get away with when looking for funding.
The bump's outer layer must be flexible. This automatically makes it more susceptible to cutting.
They need to be sufficiently long (> 1.5 m)
Materials cost money. The bigger the bump, the more it costs.
Newton did a lot of stuff, and got his name attached to a lot of things.
One of them is Newtonian mechanics. Another is the term "Newtonian fluid."
These are two separate concepts.
Because it's a total waste of manpower
Well, then, what are you doing here commenting on Slashdot? Why aren't you out curing cancer, you lazy git?
fixing something that never needed to be broken in the first place
That is rather exactly the guy's point, surely.
Why not? Do you spend all your time only engaging in activities that purely benefit the entirety of mankind? Or do you sometimes do dumb stuff that doesn't really "help" but that you find enjoyable?
91% accuracy...let's assume that gay men are 10% of all men. So this program will correctly identify 82% of men as straight, and misidentify 8% of straight men as gay.
If 10% of all men are gay, it could just say "straight" every time and you're up to 90% accuracy already.
In other words, not terribly useful.
I fail to see how it could be "useful" in any way - any moral way, anyway - even if it was 100% accurate.
technical details available here
Here? Where?
For an internet news site you sure do have a shitty grasp of how the internet works.
The majority of life has two suns not one.
The majority of stars are in binary systems, but this does not necessarily mean that the majority of life will be found in such systems.
...what?
GP's point is that the light reaching them now doesn't allow them to see us as we are now, but as were x years ago where x is also the distance in light-years to the planet..
Must you be demeaning just because other people have different priorities to you?
What a fortunate coincidence!
Just sue them if they don't offer the same plan without it at a cheaper price.
Sue them for what? Are they beholden to offer you every possible combination of their services?
At the moment, carrying out a terrorist attack is somewhat difficult.
No it isn't. It's really, really easy.
And that's why no-one uses trains, right? And why no train station has a car park?