If you are old enough, you might remember, some of the googleplex used to be SGI buildings... Maybe google did some remodeling and found some antiques;^)
One way to think about this is to understand how to get a unbiased number out of a biased coin? A simplistic Von-Neumann extractor. Basically, flip the coin twice, discard HH/TT and assign HT and TH to 0 and one. This throws away alot of flips (depending on how biased the coin is) but gets you what you want if the flips are independent.
Now imagine instead of a 2x2 matrix, a really large matrix that takes in a sequence of flips that depends on the minimum entropy of the source so that you avoid throwing away flips. How do you fill the elements of this matrix?
The importance of random numbers in Crypto is that many symmetric encryption protocols rely on efficiently generating random numbers (e.g., nonces, symmetric keys).
The quality of the random numbers you use to generate prime keys for RSA are of course important too, but generally generating primes isn't done as frequently (because testing them is relatively slow) so efficiently combining two low-entropy sources isn't as critical because you can combine sources of low-entropy and achieve high quality random number using currently known methods.
Well, George Clooney is trying to get the world to do something about Darfur (how the mostly Muslim government is attempting to exterminate non-arabs in the Darfur region of the Sudan) and Bill Gates is leading the world in vaccination and a fake vaccination program outed Bin-laden...
| So here's my hope for the Chinese people to say, "enough" and make their government fix this.
Last time they "fixed this" was not that long ago, and they called it "The Cultural Revolution".
You need to review your history. The Cultural Revolution wasn't the chinese people uprising against their system, it was the government clamping down on perceived capitalist/bourgeois infiltrators into their system (but in a way more brutal fashion than USA McCarthyism was trying to purge communists).
Regardless if you think AI is possible or not, most folks should realize that intelligence is not required prerequisite for the those that are lording over your life... If you think a computer would make your life better, well, that's your choice to believe it...
I suspect that people that wish computers took over the world are probably mostly disenfranchised. When you are disenfranchised, you are easiest to convince that the grass is greener anywhere than where you are standing. These things are not rational, so attempting to analyse them with analysis is probably doomed to failure. Think of it like simulated annealing. You know you aren't at a good place, so you move anywhere and hope for the best. The closer you think you are to a good place, the less you move.
Only a few Americans (apparently 211, none particularly newsworthy).
Don't forget as an American, if you are trying to hide your money from the tax man, you have to be much better at it because of the FATCA rules... Probably all the people caught so far have been lulled into complacency by the ineptness (or corruptness) of their own governments to track and tax the wealth of their native illuminati...
As I understand it, Mossack Fonseca is a Panamanian law firm (why it was called the Panama Papers) and Americans generally don't create Panamanian shell companies because you can mostly create such shell companies right here in the good ole' U S of A. AFAIK, Delaware, Nevada, Wyoming don't require beneficial ownership declarations for LLCs and there may be others. Also given the current information sharing arrangement between the USA and Panama govt, it would be better to set up your shell company in some other country (like Belize or Isle of Man) and use a local law firm.
This is really a ban on posting photos of children.
France just hasn't thought it thru.
Or maybe the French have thought it through and they are simply tired of looking at endless pictures of other people's children;^) (disclaimer, I have 2 kids and no facebook account)...
...original promise of cable TV (no ads in exchange for subscription fees)
The "original" promise of cable back 1948 was simply that for a fee, you could get TV if you couldn't receive it over the air with a community antenna (called CATV). Later, in 1972, a small upstart company called HBO made a new promise. That wasn't the original promise of CATV, but of HBO.
Right, but didn't Cruz "suspend" his campaign and not just outright quit? So technically he's out with one foot still in the race; specifically to keep Kasich in check as I understand it.
Candidates generally always "suspend" their campaign to legally keep the ability to raise money and receive any federal matching funds. If they officially dropped out, they would not be able to raise money for the office, nor receive any federal matching campaign funds. These funds can be used to pay any campaign debts, retain/pay staff (e.g., future cronies), and can be carried over for future campaigns.
As a bonus, the parties allow you to keep you delegates if a candidate doesn't officially drop out, so they get more influence on the party planks.
No. The P and the VP *should not* be from the same state. *One of them is a true* New Yorker.
FTFY...
FWIW, your original statement however, was misinformed. The constitution only bars both electors from a state from voting for inhabitants of their home state. This only makes it disadvantageous for a party to select the P and VP from the same state, but doesn't prohibit it.
Lose the meat and come up with some other much tastier and healthier and no-calorie substrate to pour fat on.
Hmm, why must the substrate be no-calorie if you are going to pour fat on it... Fat has about 2x the calories of protein...
In any case, much of the "taste" you get in a steak comes from the Maillard reaction (amino acid + sugar + heat), the presence of nucleotides which enhance the glutamate "umami" flavor, and the fact that if you don't heat the muscle fiber too much, it still retains enough water to remain tender.
Fat doesn't taste much by itself, but it really helps in two areas: Many flavor molecules can be partially fat soluble and water soluble, so having some fat will help to carry the "taste". Also fat can act to improve heat conduction so that the meat will cook more evenly so that hotter parts of the muscle fibers near the cooking surface don't squeeze out all their water (some flavor molecules like glutamates are water soluble).
On the other hand, salt is generally better than fat at drawing out water from the center of the meat to the out hotter parts to reduce uneven water loss because of the effect it has on the cell wall structure, but fat doesn't evaporate, so it works better depending on the cooking technique.
But in the universe of things to make your "meat" taste better, collagen is even better because the gelatinous nature allows it to hold both fat and water for low&slow cooking times that maximize the development of flavor molecules. Cooking techniques used in stews and ribs allow for lots of flavor because they use cuts that have lots of collagen which hold in both water and fat while the slow-heat causes the chemical reactions to create lots of flavor molecules.
The problem with the filet is that is it has very little fat and collagen, so fewer fat-soluble flavor molecules and because of the lack of fat and collagen is hard to cook with certain cooking techniques designed to create flavor molecules. Basically, sear quickly (for some Maillard) and only heat to medium rare to keep it tender and prevent it from drying out. It's an overrated cut which is why they have to dress it with bacon and sprinkle lots of other flavors on top.
The mechanization of agriculture didn't result in 76% unemployment
It did for the horses. We are the horses now.
Although worldwide, horses are currently in a state of population decline (currently down about 1M/year), in the US, there is population growth in horses (primarily due to recreational jobs). In some places it's easier to find new jobs in a new line of work. At least it's mostly possible for us humans to move where the jobs are (even if it is sometimes inconvenient to do so).
On the other hand, horses generally only live only about 30 years and not all those horse jobs were replaced...
Sorry, there is no algorithm that makes algorithms..
Although there might not be an algorithm that makes algorithms, there are algorithms to configure a meta-algorithm implementations. And example meta-algorithm implementation would be a deep neural net, or a human brain. I don't think it is a stretch to call the algorithm used to configure meta-algorithm implementation "learning" (although commonly this is called training)...
Exactly. And this is the explaination of the effect. As you probably know, at the same time when EmDrive has been invented, there were experiments to verify if our universe is a simulation. In these experiments they tried to find a regular structure in the observations (aka modelling grid). Knowing this fact, those who run this simulation stopped the process and made some changes in the engine, so now it woks on an irregular (stochastic) grid. As a side effect of this, the process of modelling of microwaves bouncing in a truncated cone introduces some calculation errors that eventually leads to the movement of the cone itself.
Except the simulation might not be a grid or any other similar stochastic grid/voxel structure, but maybe something analogous to an r-tree or sparse structure where the "discreteness" is simply in quantization,...
Given the amount of apparent "free-space" in our universe, if you think about it, a grid/voxel in orthogonal preferred directions probably doesn't really make sense. Why have x,y,z,t if all that matters is "p", and "r", and there's that wacky relativity and frame of reference to deal with...
And bicycles... fucking bicycles everywhere, with bike paths everywhere. And decent public transportation you can take your bike on... actually, Amsterdam is the city Portland Oregon aspires to be one day when it grows up.
Maybe there is hope that one day when Portland grows up, they can let their citizens pump their own petrol (like they do in Amsterdam), I mean grown-ups can pump petrol, right (well, I guess until 2025 when they ban petrol powered cars)...
On the other hand, because of all the people using public transportation, hybrids and electric cars, Oregon just started to introduce OReGO (basically pay $0.015 per mile public road user fee instead of petrol tax)...
It's interesting that you called those "Disney" movies, since, except for The Lion King, all of those stories pre-dated Walt Disney's birth.
Of course, the Lion King (originated in 1988) also post-dated Walt Disney's death, but was worked during Roy Jr. tenure.
That being said...
Pocahontas (in production at the same time) is arguably a fictional adaptation of a real story...
To be fair, the Snow White silent-live-action film made in 1916 was Walt's inspiration for the Disney Snow White animated feature film. Of course, the live-action film was based on the Broadway play from 1912***, which was based on the Grimm's tale, which was likely inspired by fictionalized version of an actual German countess who lived circa 1730. (yes there is a really talking mirror)
On the other hand, the fairy tale story Cendrillon from 1697 (predating the Grimm collection) was the inspiration for Disney's Cinderella. But, The Jungle Book (inspired by the book) wasn't really the same as the book at all.
For the record, I don't think Disney is really any better or worse than other block-buster movie makers out there when it comes to recycling plot/stories (they all do it), but since they are arguably better at making money at it than most they draw themselves a bigger target for more criticism...
*** As for adaptations, personally, I like the "original" (the Grimm version did not name the dwarves) names Blick, Flick, Glick, Snick, Plick, Whick and Quee, better than Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey. On the other hand, just think of the potential uproar if they instead had picked these names from the "short" list Flabby, Deafy, Tubby, Slutty, Hicky, Hotsy, and Chesty.;^)
"Winds" are not hazardous, turbulence is. The high wind speed (superrotation) is a significant benefit, not a negative; you circle the planet at no energy cost, and it dramatically reduces your day length.
There's still a good deal uncertainty about the degree of turbulence that can be expected, and like Earth it probably varies greatly by latitude and altitude. At this point, the only data that we have on that comes from the Vega probes. From what we've seen, it's probably in the same ballpark as that on Earth.
On the other hand, there is some unknown form of lightning and so-called "atmospheric gravity-waves" (completely unrelated to gravitational waves) detected by ESA's Venus Express. This seem to indicate that we really don't know what to expect about the atmospheric conditions on Venus and it's likely a floating ship in the atmosphere could actually be a continuous thrill ride experience.
We can always dream things, but right now these things are still in the realm of science fiction, not science fact. Perhaps theoretically possible, but may or may not be practical.
Slashdot Mirror
Was that not something introduces about 20 years ago by Silicon Graphics? Or am I getting old
http://manx.classiccmp.org/mir...
If you are old enough, you might remember, some of the googleplex used to be SGI buildings... ;^)
Maybe google did some remodeling and found some antiques
One way to think about this is to understand how to get a unbiased number out of a biased coin? A simplistic Von-Neumann extractor.
Basically, flip the coin twice, discard HH/TT and assign HT and TH to 0 and one. This throws away alot of flips (depending on how biased the coin is) but gets you what you want if the flips are independent.
Now imagine instead of a 2x2 matrix, a really large matrix that takes in a sequence of flips that depends on the minimum entropy of the source so that you avoid throwing away flips. How do you fill the elements of this matrix?
You can watch here and learn something...
The importance of random numbers in Crypto is that many symmetric encryption protocols rely on efficiently generating random numbers (e.g., nonces, symmetric keys).
The quality of the random numbers you use to generate prime keys for RSA are of course important too, but generally generating primes isn't done as frequently (because testing them is relatively slow) so efficiently combining two low-entropy sources isn't as critical because you can combine sources of low-entropy and achieve high quality random number using currently known methods.
Well, George Clooney is trying to get the world to do something about Darfur (how the mostly Muslim government is attempting to exterminate non-arabs in the Darfur region of the Sudan) and Bill Gates is leading the world in vaccination and a fake vaccination program outed Bin-laden...
| So here's my hope for the Chinese people to say, "enough" and make their government fix this.
Last time they "fixed this" was not that long ago, and they called it "The Cultural Revolution".
You need to review your history. The Cultural Revolution wasn't the chinese people uprising against their system, it was the government clamping down on perceived capitalist/bourgeois infiltrators into their system (but in a way more brutal fashion than USA McCarthyism was trying to purge communists).
FYI: here's one flaw: polflucht...
Remember, it was a child who grasped plate tectonics when established science said no way never.
Remember, it was Alfred Wegener (born in 1880) who presented his theory about plate tectonics (in 1912) when established science said no way never.
where: 1912-1880 = child
Regardless if you think AI is possible or not, most folks should realize that intelligence is not required prerequisite for the those that are lording over your life... If you think a computer would make your life better, well, that's your choice to believe it...
I suspect that people that wish computers took over the world are probably mostly disenfranchised. When you are disenfranchised, you are easiest to convince that the grass is greener anywhere than where you are standing. These things are not rational, so attempting to analyse them with analysis is probably doomed to failure. Think of it like simulated annealing. You know you aren't at a good place, so you move anywhere and hope for the best. The closer you think you are to a good place, the less you move.
Y'all are goin' down!
Only a few Americans (apparently 211, none particularly newsworthy).
Don't forget as an American, if you are trying to hide your money from the tax man, you have to be much better at it because of the FATCA rules... Probably all the people caught so far have been lulled into complacency by the ineptness (or corruptness) of their own governments to track and tax the wealth of their native illuminati...
As I understand it, Mossack Fonseca is a Panamanian law firm (why it was called the Panama Papers) and Americans generally don't create Panamanian shell companies because you can mostly create such shell companies right here in the good ole' U S of A. AFAIK, Delaware, Nevada, Wyoming don't require beneficial ownership declarations for LLCs and there may be others. Also given the current information sharing arrangement between the USA and Panama govt, it would be better to set up your shell company in some other country (like Belize or Isle of Man) and use a local law firm.
Place the child in a public space where they have no reasonable expectation of privacy.
Take and post photos to your heart's content.
Given the EU's privacy laws and the right to be forgotten, I don't think that would be a safe harbor in France the same way it might in the US.
This is really a ban on posting photos of children.
France just hasn't thought it thru.
Or maybe the French have thought it through and they are simply tired of looking at endless pictures of other people's children ;^)
(disclaimer, I have 2 kids and no facebook account)...
...original promise of cable TV (no ads in exchange for subscription fees)
The "original" promise of cable back 1948 was simply that for a fee, you could get TV if you couldn't receive it over the air with a community antenna (called CATV). Later, in 1972, a small upstart company called HBO made a new promise. That wasn't the original promise of CATV, but of HBO.
It's making me rethink our electorate.
Maybe our founding fathers were on to something when they decided to create the electoral college instead of a direct democracy?
Just food for thought...
Right, but didn't Cruz "suspend" his campaign and not just outright quit? So technically he's out with one foot still in the race; specifically to keep Kasich in check as I understand it.
Candidates generally always "suspend" their campaign to legally keep the ability to raise money and receive any federal matching funds. If they officially dropped out, they would not be able to raise money for the office, nor receive any federal matching campaign funds. These funds can be used to pay any campaign debts, retain/pay staff (e.g., future cronies), and can be carried over for future campaigns.
As a bonus, the parties allow you to keep you delegates if a candidate doesn't officially drop out, so they get more influence on the party planks.
Can Don still pick Hillary as his running mate?
No. The P and the VP *should not* be from the same state. *One of them is a true* New Yorker.
FTFY...
FWIW, your original statement however, was misinformed. The constitution only bars both electors from a state from voting for inhabitants of their home state. This only makes it disadvantageous for a party to select the P and VP from the same state, but doesn't prohibit it.
Lose the meat and come up with some other much tastier and healthier and no-calorie substrate to pour fat on.
Hmm, why must the substrate be no-calorie if you are going to pour fat on it... Fat has about 2x the calories of protein...
In any case, much of the "taste" you get in a steak comes from the Maillard reaction (amino acid + sugar + heat), the presence of nucleotides which enhance the glutamate "umami" flavor, and the fact that if you don't heat the muscle fiber too much, it still retains enough water to remain tender.
Fat doesn't taste much by itself, but it really helps in two areas: Many flavor molecules can be partially fat soluble and water soluble, so having some fat will help to carry the "taste". Also fat can act to improve heat conduction so that the meat will cook more evenly so that hotter parts of the muscle fibers near the cooking surface don't squeeze out all their water (some flavor molecules like glutamates are water soluble).
On the other hand, salt is generally better than fat at drawing out water from the center of the meat to the out hotter parts to reduce uneven water loss because of the effect it has on the cell wall structure, but fat doesn't evaporate, so it works better depending on the cooking technique.
But in the universe of things to make your "meat" taste better, collagen is even better because the gelatinous nature allows it to hold both fat and water for low&slow cooking times that maximize the development of flavor molecules. Cooking techniques used in stews and ribs allow for lots of flavor because they use cuts that have lots of collagen which hold in both water and fat while the slow-heat causes the chemical reactions to create lots of flavor molecules.
The problem with the filet is that is it has very little fat and collagen, so fewer fat-soluble flavor molecules and because of the lack of fat and collagen is hard to cook with certain cooking techniques designed to create flavor molecules. Basically, sear quickly (for some Maillard) and only heat to medium rare to keep it tender and prevent it from drying out. It's an overrated cut which is why they have to dress it with bacon and sprinkle lots of other flavors on top.
A protein that promotes tissue growth? Like Growth Hormone? In the 'meat'. Nice.
Uhm, how do you think tissue grows in real animals?
FWIW, I think right now they are using the "real-stuff" (fetal bovine serum) for most of these lab-grown-meat experiments.
Maybe things will get a bit iffy when they switch to the synthetic stuff to reduce costs, though...
The mechanization of agriculture didn't result in 76% unemployment
It did for the horses. We are the horses now.
Although worldwide, horses are currently in a state of population decline (currently down about 1M/year), in the US, there is population growth in horses (primarily due to recreational jobs). In some places it's easier to find new jobs in a new line of work. At least it's mostly possible for us humans to move where the jobs are (even if it is sometimes inconvenient to do so).
On the other hand, horses generally only live only about 30 years and not all those horse jobs were replaced...
Sorry, there is no algorithm that makes algorithms..
Although there might not be an algorithm that makes algorithms, there are algorithms to configure a meta-algorithm implementations. And example meta-algorithm implementation would be a deep neural net, or a human brain. I don't think it is a stretch to call the algorithm used to configure meta-algorithm implementation "learning" (although commonly this is called training)...
But this is merely a semantic point.
I wonder, if Facebook's new "paid users" plan could be considered making them "employees" using this rationale.
A slippery slope indeed...
Exactly. And this is the explaination of the effect. As you probably know, at the same time when EmDrive has been invented, there were experiments to verify if our universe is a simulation. In these experiments they tried to find a regular structure in the observations (aka modelling grid). Knowing this fact, those who run this simulation stopped the process and made some changes in the engine, so now it woks on an irregular (stochastic) grid.
As a side effect of this, the process of modelling of microwaves bouncing in a truncated cone introduces some calculation errors that eventually leads to the movement of the cone itself.
Except the simulation might not be a grid or any other similar stochastic grid/voxel structure, but maybe something analogous to an r-tree or sparse structure where the "discreteness" is simply in quantization,...
Given the amount of apparent "free-space" in our universe, if you think about it, a grid/voxel in orthogonal preferred directions probably doesn't really make sense. Why have x,y,z,t if all that matters is "p", and "r", and there's that wacky relativity and frame of reference to deal with...
And bicycles... fucking bicycles everywhere, with bike paths everywhere. And decent public transportation you can take your bike on... actually, Amsterdam is the city Portland Oregon aspires to be one day when it grows up.
Maybe there is hope that one day when Portland grows up, they can let their citizens pump their own petrol (like they do in Amsterdam), I mean grown-ups can pump petrol, right (well, I guess until 2025 when they ban petrol powered cars)...
On the other hand, because of all the people using public transportation, hybrids and electric cars, Oregon just started to introduce OReGO (basically pay $0.015 per mile public road user fee instead of petrol tax)...
It's interesting that you called those "Disney" movies, since, except for The Lion King, all of those stories pre-dated Walt Disney's birth.
Of course, the Lion King (originated in 1988) also post-dated Walt Disney's death, but was worked during Roy Jr. tenure.
That being said...
Pocahontas (in production at the same time) is arguably a fictional adaptation of a real story...
To be fair, the Snow White silent-live-action film made in 1916 was Walt's inspiration for the Disney Snow White animated feature film. Of course, the live-action film was based on the Broadway play from 1912***, which was based on the Grimm's tale, which was likely inspired by fictionalized version of an actual German countess who lived circa 1730. (yes there is a really talking mirror)
On the other hand, the fairy tale story Cendrillon from 1697 (predating the Grimm collection) was the inspiration for Disney's Cinderella. But, The Jungle Book (inspired by the book) wasn't really the same as the book at all.
For the record, I don't think Disney is really any better or worse than other block-buster movie makers out there when it comes to recycling plot/stories (they all do it), but since they are arguably better at making money at it than most they draw themselves a bigger target for more criticism...
*** As for adaptations, personally, I like the "original" (the Grimm version did not name the dwarves) names Blick, Flick, Glick, Snick, Plick, Whick and Quee, better than Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey. On the other hand, just think of the potential uproar if they instead had picked these names from the "short" list Flabby, Deafy, Tubby, Slutty, Hicky, Hotsy, and Chesty. ;^)
That doesn't sound like it could ever be abused...
I'll install it right before I fire myself out a cannon without any safety equipment.
A USB connected cannon?
On the internet, just ask and you shall receive...
Hurricane-force winds
"Winds" are not hazardous, turbulence is. The high wind speed (superrotation) is a significant benefit, not a negative; you circle the planet at no energy cost, and it dramatically reduces your day length.
There's still a good deal uncertainty about the degree of turbulence that can be expected, and like Earth it probably varies greatly by latitude and altitude. At this point, the only data that we have on that comes from the Vega probes. From what we've seen, it's probably in the same ballpark as that on Earth.
On the other hand, there is some unknown form of lightning and so-called "atmospheric gravity-waves" (completely unrelated to gravitational waves) detected by ESA's Venus Express. This seem to indicate that we really don't know what to expect about the atmospheric conditions on Venus and it's likely a floating ship in the atmosphere could actually be a continuous thrill ride experience.
We can always dream things, but right now these things are still in the realm of science fiction, not science fact. Perhaps theoretically possible, but may or may not be practical.