As someone else pointed out, Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment was a paradox meant to illustrate the absurdity of the Copenhagen interpretation. (Much like the antinomies in set theory that were meant to show basic flaws in the theory)
That is to say, only an idiot would take it seriously. Including these idiots of scientists who are trying to apply the said paradox and the people who comment on it as if the Copenhagen interpretation was correct.
And let's not forget hordes of moronic professors who teach the Copenhagen interpretation as if it were some kind of received wisdom. That's how smart the average population is. Not much.
The slightly smarter person would reckon that, the Copenhagen interpretation does not make any sense, and there is no such magical event as a wave-collapse. That is why, people are trying to find more scientifically plausible interpretations of QM.
I just hope they don't call it the qvirus. Please. Don't do it!
Next you'll have is biologists who will invent the field of quantum biology (which already exists, but forget about it for the fun of the moment), and claim that it is about harnessing the biological variety of parallel universes.
And then presumably, head back to the church of scientology.
may I suggest that you do not need to be a rocket engineer to appreciate that individual timers are a damn silly idea. when i read the explanation (as a computer guy) i couldn't believe it. with engineers that lack engineering common sense i doubt that they can build reliable products at all.
I quit that second religion because the 486 was obviously faster. We couldn't fake it any more.
Then, for many years I used, or tried to use, linux. Mostly, I found that poor people use linux and dumb people use windows. Those userbases certainly didn't meet the Amigan zealotry that I was used to. There wasn't any single minded obsessiveness to the products that we used. Instead you get all sorts of technologies from different people. CONFUSING.
Now, I have an iMac, an iPod and an iLife. Back in the hands of THE COMPANY.
Wow. You know so much about Turkey, I'm impressed as a Turkish citizen.
I have some comments.
1. First the Kurdish terrorists. You don't have to take it from me to conclude that they are no better than Islamic terrorists. They shoot babies, they burn villages, they blow up buildings, they kill engineers, doctors, state officers, they even kill their own who don't agree with them, they use women "militia" as sex slaves and so forth. No need to say they make a lot of money from a host of illegal activities like drug trafficking. I don't know how more evil those terrorists could get. I hope you don't get such dumbass motherfuckers claiming micro nationalism in the age of globalism in your own comfortable countries. You know the kind of micro nationalism that your hostile "neighbors" finance, because it's just like that here. You know the kind of nationalism that fucked up Yugoslavia. For years they (Kurdish TERRORISTS) got support from Europe as the naive Europeans thought these bastards were freedom fighters. Fuck, no. These guys are hardened criminals, and Europeans are finding out the hard way. Don't worry. It will come to US too. Just wait until your pet country Kurdistan begins exporting their goods into US. You know it's just as smart as George Bush to start up a puppet government so you can control them in the future. I hope all that fucking oil explodes in your country's hands. Don't take it personal, but your country has proven to be the most greedy nation on Earth and I rightfully despise that. Change your fucking government for fuck's sake! What if we get forced to invade that country when they start slaughtering the Turks down there? Wouldn't you go to war with Mexico if they started cleansing of US citizens? Will you go to war with us too because we knocked down your puppet country? Damn it, the world is run by idiots. Anyway, as I said you want to find it out the hard way. So be it. Start a fucking third world war and we'll all be fine.
2. Being Turk is defined as being a citizen of Turkey, it is not defined by race. Even the nationalists define it as "shared culture". In fact, racism cannot be so popular in Turkey since most of us have mixed origins. For instance, I have Bosnian and Greek blood. Who knows where else? So, there has been a nationalistic party in Turkey, much like many European countries, but they are not powerful fortunately. However, these acts of terrorism strengthens the nationalistic tendencies, much like anywhere else in the world.
3. In fact, Turkey is much more decadent than foreigners think. There is virtually no difference between the moral level of TV shows in USA and in Turkey. As if that's a good thing:) Though Turks do like to pretend they are super moral while everybody is fucking everybody:)
Looking at the posts about author's mention of bubblesort, it also seems that AJAX is very popular among lamers. You can't beat millions of lamers with wit, you need a nuke.
Distributed algorithms are of course difficult to implement with a f***ed up language like C.
Here, it seems, the means justify the ends. Linus basically says "I won't take any challenges".
Linus tells me that we can never write a proper scalable OS for a NUMA machine, or a modular system that can serve well to parallel I/O systems and the like. I highly disagree.
Because these things are not pipe dreams, they have been done. IBM guys have made amazingly abstract and modular OS stuff and they've been using them for years, so I think it's rather pathetic to say that there is only one true path to OS implementation. Why not admit that it is the only path that you have any experience in?
I think I'm getting it. This is like turning every project to Gnome, right?
Some evil voice inside me says that if you increase the number of monkeys, random code generation still won't scale, the number of possible codes increases exponentially with code length.
What's worse, you need to increase the number of critics as fast, so reproducing Shakespeare with a million monkeys strapped to the keyboard isn't possible with that sort of "flaming away". If you don't believe me, just browse the WWW.
Now, there is the hypothesis that the average joe will do better than random code generation. I like that idea, but in the end that just mean that learning how to code is a no-brainer. I don't quite buy that.
Many of the eager and excited hacks are by beginners, I think (^_^)
I'm still a beginner in python and I always intend to be a beginner in one subject or the other. Maybe someday I'll be a beginner in the apache project.
But alas, if he wants to collect patches from my mom, he better get ready for a logic bomb.
There is the MIT type of computer genius, how different is that from an autistic kid did you ever think?
Bent on repetition, the autistic kid does not seem to have the inspiration to change the world like the genius does. Neither does she seem to read emotions off people, making it harder for her to consume novels and movies, and well, just about everything in life:(
My analysis is that some genes for "analytical skills" can be part of the condition of autism, but I doubt it is a complete answer. From most accounts I've read, even savants are not considered to have a normal level of intelligence to get by in the society. I know that's also what you think of your boss, advisor or co-worker, but please leave the humor aside for a while. The problematic situation here is that, it seems, some irresponsible journalists love to make the implication that "science and mathematics is abnormal. mathematicians are mutants." possibly because they believed to be normal kids, yet understood basically nothing from science classes.
In my humble opinion, the research is neglecting the social dimensions when a computer scientist marries an electrical engineer. These guys are the new slaves. They never had a life. How much of a colorful and fulfilling life do you expect them to give to their children?
On the other hand, there are of course many engineer/scientist/whatever couples with actual lives, hobbies, emotions, goals, personalities. The fact as I see it, is that most good engineers are smart enough to find out about life and art, if they ever have the opportunity. I have seen many colleagues enjoy a beautiful social life and engage in outstanding "extracurricular" activities after school.
My advice for Silicon Valley couples who don't want their kids to look autistic is: endow them with art. I think art is the missing factor in many kids' lives. Please don't try to impose on them "the right kind of art". Good art is almost always the wrong kind:D If you teach a kid that solving stupid puzzles is a cool game, then she will solve stupid puzzles all her life. Teach her to break those toys. I also think that music will improve their lives, and of course they must be interacting with other kids, or they will never learn how vicious or helpful others can be.
At any rate, I would personally like to have been the child of a bright scientist couple who'd motivate me to work on important problems when I was younger.
By the way, there is no such thing as "the right lifestyle". (Well, especially the lifestyle of advertisers:D)
They want to give it to the least developed countries. How nice.
As other posters mentioned, $100 is a lot of money for people in
those countries. Unless the developed nations pay for all the costs
and do not put these poorer nations in even deeper debt, I won't
believe that the intentions behind UN's move, usually a sockpuppet
of USA, are good.
I don't know why I should care whether one linux distribution likes GPLv3 or not. The people who work on GPLv3 know the issues far better than any distribution can. So, it's not interesting at all what some random guy thinks (especially this guy).
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Hey, but we are the new proletariat, aren't we? So it only seems appropriate we got a vacation in Russia.
As someone else pointed out, Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment was a paradox meant to illustrate the absurdity of the Copenhagen interpretation. (Much like the antinomies in set theory that were meant to show basic flaws in the theory)
That is to say, only an idiot would take it seriously. Including these idiots of scientists who are trying to apply the said paradox and the people who comment on it as if the Copenhagen interpretation was correct.
And let's not forget hordes of moronic professors who teach the Copenhagen interpretation as if it were some kind of received wisdom. That's how smart the average population is. Not much.
The slightly smarter person would reckon that, the Copenhagen interpretation does not make any sense, and there is no such magical event as a wave-collapse. That is why, people are trying to find more scientifically plausible interpretations of QM.
I just hope they don't call it the qvirus. Please. Don't do it!
Next you'll have is biologists who will invent the field of quantum biology (which already exists, but forget about it for the fun of the moment), and claim that it is about harnessing the biological variety of parallel universes.
And then presumably, head back to the church of scientology.
No f****** way!
What if Jack Bauer isnt around?
Nah, what you guys need is a better technology visionary, not some super sysadmin
to prove how awesome jailbaits are :D
Oh, I need to think of a better reproductive line
may I suggest that you do not need to be a rocket engineer to appreciate that individual timers are a damn silly idea. when i read the explanation (as a computer guy) i couldn't believe it. with engineers that lack engineering common sense i doubt that they can build reliable products at all.
I quit that second religion because the 486 was obviously faster. We couldn't fake it any more.
Then, for many years I used, or tried to use, linux. Mostly, I found that poor people use linux and dumb people use windows. Those userbases certainly didn't meet the Amigan zealotry that I was used to. There wasn't any single minded obsessiveness to the products that we used. Instead you get all sorts of technologies from different people. CONFUSING.
Now, I have an iMac, an iPod and an iLife. Back in the hands of THE COMPANY.
YAY!
Wow. You know so much about Turkey, I'm impressed as a Turkish citizen.
:) Though Turks do like to pretend they are super moral while everybody is fucking everybody :)
I have some comments.
1. First the Kurdish terrorists. You don't have to take it from me to conclude that they are no better than Islamic terrorists. They shoot babies, they burn villages, they blow up buildings, they kill engineers, doctors, state officers, they even kill their own who don't agree with them, they use women "militia" as sex slaves and so forth. No need to say they make a lot of money from a host of illegal activities like drug trafficking. I don't know how more evil those terrorists could get. I hope you don't get such dumbass motherfuckers claiming micro nationalism in the age of globalism in your own comfortable countries. You know the kind of micro nationalism that your hostile "neighbors" finance, because it's just like that here. You know the kind of nationalism that fucked up Yugoslavia. For years they (Kurdish TERRORISTS) got support from Europe as the naive Europeans thought these bastards were freedom fighters. Fuck, no. These guys are hardened criminals, and Europeans are finding out the hard way. Don't worry. It will come to US too. Just wait until your pet country Kurdistan begins exporting their goods into US. You know it's just as smart as George Bush to start up a puppet government so you can control them in the future. I hope all that fucking oil explodes in your country's hands. Don't take it personal, but your country has proven to be the most greedy nation on Earth and I rightfully despise that. Change your fucking government for fuck's sake! What if we get forced to invade that country when they start slaughtering the Turks down there? Wouldn't you go to war with Mexico if they started cleansing of US citizens? Will you go to war with us too because we knocked down your puppet country? Damn it, the world is run by idiots. Anyway, as I said you want to find it out the hard way. So be it. Start a fucking third world war and we'll all be fine.
2. Being Turk is defined as being a citizen of Turkey, it is not defined by race. Even the nationalists define it as "shared culture". In fact, racism cannot be so popular in Turkey since most of us have mixed origins. For instance, I have Bosnian and Greek blood. Who knows where else? So, there has been a nationalistic party in Turkey, much like many European countries, but they are not powerful fortunately. However, these acts of terrorism strengthens the nationalistic tendencies, much like anywhere else in the world.
3. In fact, Turkey is much more decadent than foreigners think. There is virtually no difference between the moral level of TV shows in USA and in Turkey. As if that's a good thing
this is the conclusion i got :) hahah, lowly fucking sysadmins :)
Looking at the posts about author's mention of bubblesort, it also seems that AJAX is very popular among lamers. You can't beat millions of lamers with wit, you need a nuke.
Very few companies have an open source "core" business...
Is that true? Because if it is, THEN, it really means this is some conspiracy to remove the image of the electric car from public memory!
Distributed algorithms are of course difficult to implement with a f***ed up language like C.
Here, it seems, the means justify the ends. Linus basically says "I won't take any challenges".
Linus tells me that we can never write a proper scalable OS for a NUMA machine, or a modular system that can serve well to parallel I/O systems and the like. I highly disagree.
Because these things are not pipe dreams, they have been done. IBM guys have made amazingly abstract and modular OS stuff and they've been using them for years, so I think it's rather pathetic to say that there is only one true path to OS implementation. Why not admit that it is the only path that you have any experience in?
Wasn't the hungarian notation developed by software houses like microsoft which want to help incompetent programmers to write in C++?
Carl, you said "I tend to send around 300 to 400 emails a day".
:D
No shit?
Is that your day job? I mean, responding to people on e-mail lists, or are you just personally involved with so many people on so many subjects?
Just curious
I think I'm getting it. This is like turning every project
to Gnome, right?
Some evil voice inside me says that if you increase the number
of monkeys, random code generation still won't scale,
the number of possible codes increases exponentially with
code length.
What's worse, you need to increase the number of critics as fast,
so reproducing Shakespeare with a million monkeys strapped
to the keyboard isn't possible with that sort of "flaming
away". If you don't believe me, just browse the WWW.
Now, there is the hypothesis that the average joe will do
better than random code generation. I like that idea, but
in the end that just mean that learning how to code is a no-brainer.
I don't quite buy that.
Many of the eager and excited hacks are by beginners, I think (^_^)
I'm still a beginner in python and I always intend to be a beginner
in one subject or the other. Maybe someday I'll be a beginner in the
apache project.
But alas, if he wants to collect patches from my mom, he better get ready
for a logic bomb.
There is the MIT type of computer genius, how different is that from an autistic kid did you ever think?
:(
:D If you teach a kid that solving stupid puzzles is a cool game, then she will solve stupid puzzles all her life. Teach her to break those toys. I also think that music will improve their lives, and of course they must be interacting with other kids, or they will never learn how vicious or helpful others can be.
:D)
Bent on repetition, the autistic kid does not seem to have the inspiration to change the world like the genius does. Neither does she seem to read emotions off people, making it harder for her to consume novels and movies, and well, just about everything in life
My analysis is that some genes for "analytical skills" can be part of the condition of autism, but I doubt it is a complete answer. From most accounts I've read, even savants are not considered to have a normal level of intelligence to get by in the society. I know that's also what you think of your boss, advisor or co-worker, but please leave the humor aside for a while. The problematic situation here is that, it seems, some irresponsible journalists love to make the implication that "science and mathematics is abnormal. mathematicians are mutants." possibly because they believed to be normal kids, yet understood basically nothing from science classes.
In my humble opinion, the research is neglecting the social dimensions when a computer scientist marries an electrical engineer. These guys are the new slaves. They never had a life. How much of a colorful and fulfilling life do you expect them to give to their children?
On the other hand, there are of course many engineer/scientist/whatever couples with actual lives, hobbies, emotions, goals, personalities. The fact as I see it, is that most good engineers are smart enough to find out about life and art, if they ever have the opportunity. I have seen many colleagues enjoy a beautiful social life and engage in outstanding "extracurricular" activities after school.
My advice for Silicon Valley couples who don't want their kids to look autistic is: endow them with art. I think art is the missing factor in many kids' lives. Please don't try to impose on them "the right kind of art". Good art is almost always the wrong kind
At any rate, I would personally like to have been the child of a bright scientist couple who'd motivate me to work on important problems when I was younger.
By the way, there is no such thing as "the right lifestyle". (Well, especially the lifestyle of advertisers
As other posters mentioned, $100 is a lot of money for people in those countries. Unless the developed nations pay for all the costs and do not put these poorer nations in even deeper debt, I won't believe that the intentions behind UN's move, usually a sockpuppet of USA, are good.
Good title.
I don't know why I should care whether one linux distribution likes GPLv3 or not. The people who work on GPLv3 know the issues far better than any distribution can. So, it's not interesting at all what some random guy thinks (especially this guy).
It's a good day for drive by shooting in WA.