Physics, unlike, say, making noises, isn't an innate behavior.
It's not even as innate as math, which is logical thinking in symbolic code.
Physics requires moving beyond manipulating symbols and into understanding physical processes, few of which are even visible without massive equipment. Just finding something to innovate takes experience with an ever-increasing breadth of data sources.
And the premise for this whole discussion is kinda wrong. Science is bursty. There was a rapid movement in the 1600s and 1700s, with opportunities for younger folks like Newton to get their piece in, then things got quiet and it was all old guys until the late 1800s and early 1900s, when we started to realize what atoms were, and that produced lots of juicy conundra that young guys could get their heads around.
Now we're bogged down with N forms of string theory, and our apparatus for experimenting on it is literally bigger than almost any city on the planet. I don't see how any kid could get involved enough to make a difference. It's a game of management and teamwork now.
N.B.: I also discovered that many American Express offices have actual banking facilities in them, and provide all these services as well. That cut down on my bank-hopping some, but not a lot, since AmEx offices are not as common as you'd think.
Often enough that I've held accounts at every major bank you can name, because there are no truly "national" banks, they're all regional in scope. This even though I've never had my direct-deposit sent to one of them. Actually there's one megabank I've never bothered with: Bank of America.
I mean, say someone hacks into your shorts and passes the IPv6 around to all the girls in your History class, who then conspire to stare at you whenever their iPhones signal them that you've sprouted wood...
Oh, same deal if you want to deposit your check. If you can't find your own bank branch, you're going to be learning their bank-by-mail process.
Fortunately, these days, there are national banks that brag about charging no fees and, while they have zero bricks and mortar, they allow you to deposit a check by sending them a picture of it: Ally Bank is that. It's also formerly GMAC, so it might raise your Too Big To Whatever hackles a bit. They also, by the way, pay more interest than any other bank I can find.
And zero national presence. Credit unions are fine if you never have to cash a live check in another state, but if you have, you know you need an account at a bank that has branches everywhere to get your check cashed. Even if the check is a cashier's check from your credit union.
Rumor is that AMD and ARM may team up. But this means they might be thinking of an ARM/ATI combo chip. Which would be verrrrry interesting. But it would leave AMD's x86 department out in the cold for the future of computing.
It's also a clue as to why AMD dumped the marcom hacks: these are the people who are supposed to tell the bigwigs what the Next Big Thing is going to be, and they have consistently been 1-2 years behind the curve.
The only place AMD has been approaching the bleeding edge is in graphics, where the ATI engineers are merely advancing their skillz as fast as they can. No need to guess where their market is going, since there's always a call for more cores and more clock.
Seriously, with 14 bazillion bloggers fighting to get clicks to their webpages, all you need is one guy with a copy of the datasheet and a twitter account, and you'll have your part's nomenclature showing up on every RSS feed in the world within minutes if not days. And, if you're lucky (or just know where to put the typos), you can get/. to send your favorite blogger enough clicks to buy an iPhone.
This is not entirely true. It would be true if a moving object maintained a constant velocity. But a ball flying through the air? not so much. Though there is the a degenerate case of an object moving in a parabolic arc. That's something balls do in physics class, or on the moon, but can't do on a ballfield, owing to bernoulli, magnus, and plain ol' drag, acting through a layered, flowing, swirling, airspace on a spinning, deformed object; not to mention that a properly built field is crowned, not planar (may not be true with modern drainage systems).
Ballplayers have sense memory, and have been learning the game their whole lives. They can tell from the sound, the condition of the air, and the visual effect of the initial flight of the ball, where it will likely end up. And even after doing this nearly their whole lives, they still guess wrong (where "right" is within an outstretched arm's length in a flying dive, with no intervening walls or railings or players) a good chunk of the time.
Since the easiest pancake-flipping solution is polynomial (not just polynomial, but the simplest "poly" nomial, O(n^2)), then I'm not sure the postulators knew what the fuck they were talking about...
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I'm just going to encrypt my knees. Seems like the solution to everything.
Why are you sending sensitive data over a network that can ship your packets blithely through any router on the planet?
Encryption? Are you kidding?
That is exactly how we make laws here in America!
Not so available anymore, people are willing to pay for it now.
The national capacity for this sort of thing is something like a few thousand vehicles total.
Kitchen grease as a biofuel is an ironic tale, not a significant one.
Physics, unlike, say, making noises, isn't an innate behavior.
It's not even as innate as math, which is logical thinking in symbolic code.
Physics requires moving beyond manipulating symbols and into understanding physical processes, few of which are even visible without massive equipment. Just finding something to innovate takes experience with an ever-increasing breadth of data sources.
And the premise for this whole discussion is kinda wrong. Science is bursty. There was a rapid movement in the 1600s and 1700s, with opportunities for younger folks like Newton to get their piece in, then things got quiet and it was all old guys until the late 1800s and early 1900s, when we started to realize what atoms were, and that produced lots of juicy conundra that young guys could get their heads around.
Now we're bogged down with N forms of string theory, and our apparatus for experimenting on it is literally bigger than almost any city on the planet. I don't see how any kid could get involved enough to make a difference. It's a game of management and teamwork now.
I'll take my Nobel Prize money in gold bars, thanks.
Nuke it from space. It's the onl---ah, fuck it.
Problem solved.
N.B.: I also discovered that many American Express offices have actual banking facilities in them, and provide all these services as well. That cut down on my bank-hopping some, but not a lot, since AmEx offices are not as common as you'd think.
Often enough that I've held accounts at every major bank you can name, because there are no truly "national" banks, they're all regional in scope. This even though I've never had my direct-deposit sent to one of them. Actually there's one megabank I've never bothered with: Bank of America.
It's this piece of paper with money on it that you get for the first couple of weeks after you get a job. You'll see someday.
It's kind of like bitcoin, but without the constant anger over being sniped.
I see this as a system ripe for such abuses.
I mean, say someone hacks into your shorts and passes the IPv6 around to all the girls in your History class, who then conspire to stare at you whenever their iPhones signal them that you've sprouted wood...
Next week: how to conceive, gestate, and birth a baby in a wi-fi ready uterus from GigundoCorp.
Oh, same deal if you want to deposit your check. If you can't find your own bank branch, you're going to be learning their bank-by-mail process.
Fortunately, these days, there are national banks that brag about charging no fees and, while they have zero bricks and mortar, they allow you to deposit a check by sending them a picture of it: Ally Bank is that. It's also formerly GMAC, so it might raise your Too Big To Whatever hackles a bit. They also, by the way, pay more interest than any other bank I can find.
And zero national presence. Credit unions are fine if you never have to cash a live check in another state, but if you have, you know you need an account at a bank that has branches everywhere to get your check cashed. Even if the check is a cashier's check from your credit union.
Okay, so in addition to your twitter guy, hire a guy to call OEMs and say "use our chips and we'll give you free stickers."
And a guy to negotiate for a NASCAR team. Because, fuck, man, this is Amurrca.
Fact is, if AMD had ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED people doing that job, they were wasting about $140 million a year on dead wood.
TSMC isn't the only fabber.
Rumor is that AMD and ARM may team up. But this means they might be thinking of an ARM/ATI combo chip. Which would be verrrrry interesting. But it would leave AMD's x86 department out in the cold for the future of computing.
It's also a clue as to why AMD dumped the marcom hacks: these are the people who are supposed to tell the bigwigs what the Next Big Thing is going to be, and they have consistently been 1-2 years behind the curve.
The only place AMD has been approaching the bleeding edge is in graphics, where the ATI engineers are merely advancing their skillz as fast as they can. No need to guess where their market is going, since there's always a call for more cores and more clock.
Seriously, with 14 bazillion bloggers fighting to get clicks to their webpages, all you need is one guy with a copy of the datasheet and a twitter account, and you'll have your part's nomenclature showing up on every RSS feed in the world within minutes if not days. And, if you're lucky (or just know where to put the typos), you can get /. to send your favorite blogger enough clicks to buy an iPhone.
Oops. Skimmed right over that...
This is not entirely true. It would be true if a moving object maintained a constant velocity. But a ball flying through the air? not so much. Though there is the a degenerate case of an object moving in a parabolic arc. That's something balls do in physics class, or on the moon, but can't do on a ballfield, owing to bernoulli, magnus, and plain ol' drag, acting through a layered, flowing, swirling, airspace on a spinning, deformed object; not to mention that a properly built field is crowned, not planar (may not be true with modern drainage systems).
Ballplayers have sense memory, and have been learning the game their whole lives. They can tell from the sound, the condition of the air, and the visual effect of the initial flight of the ball, where it will likely end up. And even after doing this nearly their whole lives, they still guess wrong (where "right" is within an outstretched arm's length in a flying dive, with no intervening walls or railings or players) a good chunk of the time.
Since the easiest pancake-flipping solution is polynomial (not just polynomial, but the simplest "poly" nomial, O(n^2)), then I'm not sure the postulators knew what the fuck they were talking about...
That's the longest way to do it.
Is there a way to do it by flipping to intermediate states such that the next few flips get you to the solution faster than the longest way?
Oh, and how did you solve the problem of finding the largest unsorted pancake on O(1) time? The fastest my computer can do it is O(n)...
this is nothing more than a 1-dimensional rubik's cube...
We don't do differential equations in our heads.
We guess and correct as we chase the goal.
Some people have more experience guessing, so they have to correct less.
That problem is Artery-hard.