Heaven forbid that you double check the facts. Not to mention that there is no worldwide measure of the quality/accuracy of any academic papers released.
SIGIR is the top information retrieval conference in the world. The acceptance rate was 16% last year, which makes it an "extremely selective" conference in the research world. The acceptance rate has held around 15% - 17% for decades now, and in fact tended decrease as the number of submissions have increased. It accepts submission from worldwide and from both academia and industry.
This analsys from 2007 of papers over the previous 30 years shows that China has moved into 5th overall in number of accepted papers. This is in no small part to Microsoft Research Asia.
So yeah, there are a lot of people just copying stuff around, but there's also a lot of people actually doing extremely good work. You're a fool if you fail to recognize this do your jingoism and racism.
The Unicode standard is 18 years old. Why does Slashdot not support it?
Because it's an English site. ASCII supports every character required.
But seriously, why would anyone hold on to the myth that markets are rational given the experimental findings of behavioral economics.
Oh that's right, it's the new religion to to keep the plebes down. Now excuse me, I have to cash my 30 million dollar bonus check for going bankrupt, because it's so hard to find such well qualified experts brain trust like me.
Sergey went on to say, "Look, I grew up in Soviet Union. I know authoritarian communist regimes. Let me tell you, falling all over yourself in order to please their every whim and enabling them to maintain their stranglehold on power isn't evil. It's actually good. Good for business that is! Ha! Ha! I kid. Nah. I'm serious."
"Biological fragments floating around in space" would not find their way into the warm environment under ground.
I don't think you have a grasp of the time scales we're talking about. We're talking about BILLIONS of years. The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. While I don't know the age of Enceladus, I think it's safe to assume it's contemporaneous with the Earth. This means that's even incredibly improbable events may have indeed occurred.
Think about this: I don't think anyone knows for sure about where the initial organic compounds arrived on Earth, but organic compounds (i.e. molecules containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen) are exceedingly common throughout the universe, so let's say for sake of argument that the compounds on Earth, initially came from some place else. (Which in a sense they have to since, atoms heavier than hydrogen only form in stars). In the ensuing 4.5 BILLION years. It's improbable that these compounds would come together and form more complex compounds, but yet they have. These compounds in turn, formed more complex compounds, and so and so, until eventually we're here. We're talking a thousand monkeys typing on a thousand typewriters writing the greatest novel known to man. ("'It was the best of times. It was the blurst of times.' 'The BLURST of times'? You stupid monkey!") Given enough time, it WILL happen.
Now has it happened? I don't know. You don't know. No one knows. None of us will know until we send a probe with sensitive enough instruments down into one of those fissures. My point is, that you're thinking to small. Humans don't have an intuitive idea of the scale of the universe, either in size or time. We think still think 100 years is a long time, even though people live that long. We think a 2000 years is the distant past We only recorded the last 5000 years. Let's go back further. As a species we're only 500,000 years old. That's.0000500 billion years. In other words, nothing. You're thinking too small.
The problem is not, nor has it ever been that lunatics with their hand out the window yelling, "it feels fine!" are shouted down or ignored. The problem is that over the past 20 years the understanding has evolved that there is a "correct" result, and anyone workilng to disprove that result is an enemy to be scrutinized, tied to suspicious parties and ostracized.
It is the nature of scientific theory that it is tested and attacked. That is why we value a theory like evolution, which has survived these constant attempts to disprove or reduce its scope for a very long time.
So are you saying that if someone tries to publish a paper denying evolution, that it wouldn't be ostracized?
The fact is that there ARE correct results. Results that have been studied, scrutinized, reproduced, and accepted. Once this is done, the field moves on. If it didn't, we'd still be arguing about the structure of the atom, or whether there's an aether, or better yet if the elements are: air, water, aether, fire, and earth; or wood, metal, water, fire, and earth.
Just because someone revels in being perceived as an iconoclast, doesn't automatically make them valid.
There you go again. Conflating "climate change" with whether man is the most likely cause. Its really rather rich. The prime highlight of the IPCCs AR3 was to "forget" the existence of climate change prior to the 19th century. Natural variation over the past thousand years was reduced to quiet gradual downtrend with an abrupt surge upward in the 1800s. In so doing they discarded thousands of studies and work of thousands who previously carefully documented periods of great warming and cooling throughout the history of man.
And if the rates of change were analogous, then you might have had something, but their not.
The IOC hours after the deadly crash immediately said (before an legitimate investigation could even begin, let alone finish) that it was the luger's fault, and that there was nothing wrong with the course, even though there were numerous complaints about the course prior to the crash. So even though the IOC said there was nothing wrong with the course, and that it was luger-error, they immediately wrapped the posts with pads, built taller walls throughout the the course, and then started the lugers lower down on the course, in order to slow them down.
I'm sorry, but you don't get to say, "The course is fine," and then also get to change it immediately after a crash.
I love to watch the Olympic athletes compete, but the IOC has been a bunch of corrupt bastards for decades.
Oh please, some group of foreigners does something you teabaggers don't like, and it immediately because of "anti-Americanism." I suspect you think that New Zealanders are "jealous of our freedom" too don't you.
So they don't want nuclear power or nuclear weapons near them. That's they're right. A lot of people, including Oppenheimer, don't like the idea of nuclear weapons. A lot of people don't like nuclear power because of the issue of long lived waste. But hey, I guess Nevada hates America too because they don't want Yucca Mountain.
No one cares about Turing machines. They're an abstraction, Prog languages and architecture also don't really matter unless you're working on something very close to the metal.
Exactly. That's why we're only sending the top students.
Just because you're intelligent doesn't mean you're emotionally and socially mature enough for the new environment. We can see this with the higher than average suicide rates among child prodigies. Granted, we're talking about someone perhaps several years older than than some of the prodigies when they "graduate" high school, but the assertion that intelligence does not equal maturity still holds.
Your aeolipile citation is full of fail. "[It] was presumably intended as a temple 'wonder', like many of the other devices described in Pneumatica."
If it was a steam engine as commonly understood, then were what the hell did Thomas Newcomen and James Watt create? Where were the steam shovels and trains?
I don't agree with with Noel Sharkey, as it was more of a spring driven clockwork, and as wikipedia says, "A clockwork car is never considered a robot." More importantly, Hero's cart contained no agency at all, as it could not respond to the environment. Even a simple gear that would connected to a bumper that would cause it to reverse direction, would have been enough, but it didn't have one. It is no different from a wind up car.
Your Antikythera citation is also full of fail. It does not mention programability. A calculator is not a computer. It serves only one purpose, no more than an abacus or protractor is a computer. Just because the word is used, doesn't make it so. Perhaps you'd be shocked to learn, that "computer" was an occupation not all that long ago.
A steam engine does useful work, the Aeolipile didn't, and was never used for anything beyond "Ooos and Ahhhs".
Heron's wind-up cart, was clockwork, not a robot.
The Antikythera mechanism was a glorified lookup table. It was not general purpose, and could not "reprogramed." The Jacquard loom is the generally accepted as the earliest programmable machine.
But hey, I also bet you believe that Archimedes "Heat Ray" was a laser.
A spinning wheel is not an engine, no more than a pinwheel is a turbine. A windup toy is not a robot, no more than a top is a robot. A slide rule is not a computer, no more than a t-square is a computer.
Science and technology are not 'pop' subjects, despite however many Mythbuster episodes you've seen.
Why not? Given the constant bemoaning of state of science and technology education and the lack of interest in it, I would have thought fun projects and that fact that the Ardrino was featured in a mainstream magazine, that would be good news. But I guess not. We should maintain the status quo.
But yeah, go back to your pithy dismissive one or two line comments, hipster attitude. By the way, how is that working out for you? That's just super.
The ironic end game though is that you'll see southern states waiving environmental, wage, and other regulations to get aerospace jobs, while the liberal north languishes, as usual, and so, when the south does "rise again", the Confederate Army will be in the position of having the spaceships while the North will be cut off and begging for some foreign powers to help it.
I was thinking it had something to do with the almost entirely Democratic California state representatives who refuse to cut spending, even at the point California is at now.
I don't know what California you're talking about, but the state budget has been in free fall for years now
Reagan Domestic Policy advisor Bruce Bartlett calls your thinking unrealistic. The fact is that California has more demands placed on it by the will of the voters, yet a tiny minority refuse to act like adults and make any move to pay for it.
That isn't conservatism, that's recklessness. Or as the Guardian put it, a recipe for America's first failed state.
The lab results are in. The GOP policies are unpopular and ad hearing to them as slavishly as the as the "purity pledges" that the CAL-GOP requires, has been a disaster.
I knew this and am not even American. Every piece of coverage I've seen on this issue has explained how wide reaching the ramifications are. How can anyone have missed it?
Slashdot Mirror
See above.
Heaven forbid that you double check the facts. Not to mention that there is no worldwide measure of the quality/accuracy of any academic papers released.
You're right. There are hundreds of crap conferences. The World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, is particularly notorious. They accepted both, Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy, and my personal favorite, David Mazieres and Eddie Kohler's seminal work, Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List. So let's just limit ourselves to a top conferences, shall we?
SIGIR is the top information retrieval conference in the world. The acceptance rate was 16% last year, which makes it an "extremely selective" conference in the research world. The acceptance rate has held around 15% - 17% for decades now, and in fact tended decrease as the number of submissions have increased. It accepts submission from worldwide and from both academia and industry.
This analsys from 2007 of papers over the previous 30 years shows that China has moved into 5th overall in number of accepted papers. This is in no small part to Microsoft Research Asia.
So yeah, there are a lot of people just copying stuff around, but there's also a lot of people actually doing extremely good work. You're a fool if you fail to recognize this do your jingoism and racism.
The Unicode standard is 18 years old. Why does Slashdot not support it?
Because it's an English site. ASCII supports every character required.
Markets aren't rational?
People (especially people that think of themselves as being "smart") are prone to self-delusion?
But seriously, why would anyone hold on to the myth that markets are rational given the experimental findings of behavioral economics.
Oh that's right, it's the new religion to to keep the plebes down. Now excuse me, I have to cash my 30 million dollar bonus check for going bankrupt, because it's so hard to find such well qualified experts brain trust like me.
Wow, you even managed to troll during your superficial walk back. But heaven forbid you actually examine the facts.
"I'm an optimist. I want to find a way to work within the Chinese system and provide more and better information. I think a lot of people think I'm naive, and that may be true."
Sergey went on to say, "Look, I grew up in Soviet Union. I know authoritarian communist regimes. Let me tell you, falling all over yourself in order to please their every whim and enabling them to maintain their stranglehold on power isn't evil. It's actually good. Good for business that is! Ha! Ha! I kid. Nah. I'm serious."
"Biological fragments floating around in space" would not find their way into the warm environment under ground.
I don't think you have a grasp of the time scales we're talking about. We're talking about BILLIONS of years. The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. While I don't know the age of Enceladus, I think it's safe to assume it's contemporaneous with the Earth. This means that's even incredibly improbable events may have indeed occurred.
Think about this: I don't think anyone knows for sure about where the initial organic compounds arrived on Earth, but organic compounds (i.e. molecules containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen) are exceedingly common throughout the universe, so let's say for sake of argument that the compounds on Earth, initially came from some place else. (Which in a sense they have to since, atoms heavier than hydrogen only form in stars). In the ensuing 4.5 BILLION years. It's improbable that these compounds would come together and form more complex compounds, but yet they have. These compounds in turn, formed more complex compounds, and so and so, until eventually we're here. We're talking a thousand monkeys typing on a thousand typewriters writing the greatest novel known to man. ("'It was the best of times. It was the blurst of times.' 'The BLURST of times'? You stupid monkey!") Given enough time, it WILL happen.
Now has it happened? I don't know. You don't know. No one knows. None of us will know until we send a probe with sensitive enough instruments down into one of those fissures. My point is, that you're thinking to small. Humans don't have an intuitive idea of the scale of the universe, either in size or time. We think still think 100 years is a long time, even though people live that long. We think a 2000 years is the distant past We only recorded the last 5000 years. Let's go back further. As a species we're only 500,000 years old. That's .0000500 billion years. In other words, nothing. You're thinking too small.
Can we please stop regarding Google's saccharine "Don't Be Evil" claptrap for anymore than what it always was: branding.
Thanks.
That will likely lead to the deaths of google employees in China.
Puh-lease. No one is going to do that, because it would be piss off Wall Street, and the CCP only cares about one thing: money.
Damn science!
The problem is not, nor has it ever been that lunatics with their hand out the window yelling, "it feels fine!" are shouted down or ignored. The problem is that over the past 20 years the understanding has evolved that there is a "correct" result, and anyone workilng to disprove that result is an enemy to be scrutinized, tied to suspicious parties and ostracized.
It is the nature of scientific theory that it is tested and attacked. That is why we value a theory like evolution, which has survived these constant attempts to disprove or reduce its scope for a very long time.
So are you saying that if someone tries to publish a paper denying evolution, that it wouldn't be ostracized?
The fact is that there ARE correct results. Results that have been studied, scrutinized, reproduced, and accepted. Once this is done, the field moves on. If it didn't, we'd still be arguing about the structure of the atom, or whether there's an aether, or better yet if the elements are: air, water, aether, fire, and earth; or wood, metal, water, fire, and earth.
Just because someone revels in being perceived as an iconoclast, doesn't automatically make them valid.
There you go again. Conflating "climate change" with whether man is the most likely cause. Its really rather rich. The prime highlight of the IPCCs AR3 was to "forget" the existence of climate change prior to the 19th century. Natural variation over the past thousand years was reduced to quiet gradual downtrend with an abrupt surge upward in the 1800s. In so doing they discarded thousands of studies and work of thousands who previously carefully documented periods of great warming and cooling throughout the history of man.
And if the rates of change were analogous, then you might have had something, but their not.
Plenty of proof of professional misconduct there, including source code.
Nope.
The IOC hours after the deadly crash immediately said (before an legitimate investigation could even begin, let alone finish) that it was the luger's fault, and that there was nothing wrong with the course, even though there were numerous complaints about the course prior to the crash. So even though the IOC said there was nothing wrong with the course, and that it was luger-error, they immediately wrapped the posts with pads, built taller walls throughout the the course, and then started the lugers lower down on the course, in order to slow them down.
I'm sorry, but you don't get to say, "The course is fine," and then also get to change it immediately after a crash.
I love to watch the Olympic athletes compete, but the IOC has been a bunch of corrupt bastards for decades.
Oh please, some group of foreigners does something you teabaggers don't like, and it immediately because of "anti-Americanism." I suspect you think that New Zealanders are "jealous of our freedom" too don't you.
So they don't want nuclear power or nuclear weapons near them. That's they're right. A lot of people, including Oppenheimer, don't like the idea of nuclear weapons. A lot of people don't like nuclear power because of the issue of long lived waste. But hey, I guess Nevada hates America too because they don't want Yucca Mountain.
No one cares about Turing machines. They're an abstraction,
Prog languages and architecture also don't really matter unless you're working on something very close to the metal.
Exactly. That's why we're only sending the top students.
Just because you're intelligent doesn't mean you're emotionally and socially mature enough for the new environment. We can see this with the higher than average suicide rates among child prodigies. Granted, we're talking about someone perhaps several years older than than some of the prodigies when they "graduate" high school, but the assertion that intelligence does not equal maturity still holds.
providing sufficient shielding should be a trivial exercise in additional hand-wavium. . . .
Hand-wavium incidentally is central to the plot of Avatar 2.
Your aeolipile citation is full of fail. "[It] was presumably intended as a temple 'wonder', like many of the other devices described in Pneumatica."
If it was a steam engine as commonly understood, then were what the hell did Thomas Newcomen and James Watt create? Where were the steam shovels and trains?
I don't agree with with Noel Sharkey, as it was more of a spring driven clockwork, and as wikipedia says, "A clockwork car is never considered a robot." More importantly, Hero's cart contained no agency at all, as it could not respond to the environment. Even a simple gear that would connected to a bumper that would cause it to reverse direction, would have been enough, but it didn't have one. It is no different from a wind up car.
Your Antikythera citation is also full of fail. It does not mention programability. A calculator is not a computer. It serves only one purpose, no more than an abacus or protractor is a computer. Just because the word is used, doesn't make it so. Perhaps you'd be shocked to learn, that "computer" was an occupation not all that long ago.
NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!
It's not your lawn, its your two dads'.
A steam engine does useful work, the Aeolipile didn't, and was never used for anything beyond "Ooos and Ahhhs".
Heron's wind-up cart, was clockwork, not a robot.
The Antikythera mechanism was a glorified lookup table. It was not general purpose, and could not "reprogramed." The Jacquard loom is the generally accepted as the earliest programmable machine.
But hey, I also bet you believe that Archimedes "Heat Ray" was a laser.
A spinning wheel is not an engine, no more than a pinwheel is a turbine.
A windup toy is not a robot, no more than a top is a robot.
A slide rule is not a computer, no more than a t-square is a computer.
Science and technology are not 'pop' subjects, despite however many Mythbuster episodes you've seen.
Why not? Given the constant bemoaning of state of science and technology education and the lack of interest in it, I would have thought fun projects and that fact that the Ardrino was featured in a mainstream magazine, that would be good news. But I guess not. We should maintain the status quo.
But yeah, go back to your pithy dismissive one or two line comments, hipster attitude. By the way, how is that working out for you? That's just super.
The ironic end game though is that you'll see southern states waiving environmental, wage, and other regulations to get aerospace jobs, while the liberal north languishes, as usual, and so, when the south does "rise again", the Confederate Army will be in the position of having the spaceships while the North will be cut off and begging for some foreign powers to help it.
That's why the South and their conservative Republican anti-government politicians, get $1.50 to $2.00 back from the federal government for every tax dollar collected.
We have a word for this in the North, it's "welfare." Your state would fall apart without us, and our "big government."
On behalf of all of us Northerns:
You're welcome.
I was thinking it had something to do with the almost entirely Democratic California state representatives who refuse to cut spending, even at the point California is at now.
I don't know what California you're talking about, but the state budget has been in free fall for years now
Reagan Domestic Policy advisor Bruce Bartlett calls your thinking unrealistic. The fact is that California has more demands placed on it by the will of the voters, yet a tiny minority refuse to act like adults and make any move to pay for it.
That isn't conservatism, that's recklessness. Or as the Guardian put it, a recipe for America's first failed state.
The lab results are in. The GOP policies are unpopular and ad hearing to them as slavishly as the as the "purity pledges" that the CAL-GOP requires, has been a disaster.
I knew this and am not even American. Every piece of coverage I've seen on this issue has explained how wide reaching the ramifications are. How can anyone have missed it?
Because they're American.
Currently hooked on AMP
Nothing like a crude attempt neuro-linguistic programming to deceive others while hypocritically calling yourself "authentic."
Here's the secret to women. Are you ready for it?
Wait for it.
There is no secret.
When you grok that, then you're ready. Hell, watch Kung-Fu Panda if you're still confused.