When the net was regulated by people with no corporate aspirations, it was efficient and good.
Now that the net was regulated by an international committee of gadflies and dopes, it was less efficient and still okay.
But since they don't seem to have the power to force major ISPs to give open access to their customers, they are no longer useful.
It takes a government to enforce something like that. But then a government, like a corporation or a committee, has its own agenda.
The only choice then is either to let the government do it, but PERFORM YOUR ROLE AS PART OF THE GOVERMENT instead of sitting on your ass whining about its existence, or turn the net back over to the people who invented it (modulo Jon Postel) and give them the legal authority to slap multi-billion dollar fines on router owners who don't route agnostically, not matter in which nation the offender may reside.
American government is the passing of random ideas through a plural-voting filter. But the plural-voting filter isn't democratic, instead it's made up of components meant to represent members of the democracy aggregated by geographic location (the boundaries of which are generally contiguous but are not likely to be convex). But the representation is only notionally "of the people," since the representative is an independent actor, and adjudges a vote according to factors other than the good of his constituents. And then generally the idea is passed on to a single filter which represents the aggregation of all of the other aggregations.
In other words, every idea, stupid or otherwise, will come before the legislature, and there's no chance that you or anyone else will ever be able to guess right every time on whether a given idea will pass them or not, and then the governor or president gets his crack at it.
So unless the Joneses are crazy and stressed from a thousand directions, the US government is way ahead of them.
So he's not allowed to do anything else until he balances the budget? No other government activity is to occur, until the budget for 2013 is complete and has a black number at the bottom? Is that how you want your legislature to work?
Of course, your budget probably carries a fat debt load, too, but you don't see a blind governor bitching about that.
Actually, the false-positive rate is a lot lower than that. Just ask O.J. He had to impeach the collection and storage practices at the LA crime lab, and the integrity of every person in the chain of evidence, because if he couldn't do that, the 170-trillion-to-1 chance the DNA wasn't his was going to put him in the gas chamber.
Criminals gave up their rights when they committed a crime.
In fact, I don't think it's anyone's right not to be identified by the epithelials they leave lying around.
If your footprints can be taken at birth, so can a few cells from the inside of your cheek.
In fact, I'd encourage everyone to get registered for fingerprints and DNA, because the time, money, and grief it will save your family when your unrecognizable torso is dug up in the woods, is significant.
But when I was learning to write Fortran in school in 9th grade, grad students were learning to write Fortran at the university across town, and making more mistakes and understanding it less than I was.
I would expect the CFD program that would suit this class is something that takes a simple grid input for the surface, simple initial conditions, then runs the flow and plots streamlines or vectors. No need to get into the theory behind the sim computations, just show how things flow across the surface.
If the kids are bright, they'll be ingrained with a desire to figure out (a) more about fluid flow, or (b) how a computer knows how fluid flows, or (c) both.
1. Hyperspace: distance and time are merely four directions in an orthogonal 4-space. So saying you made it in 12 parsecs when using a hyperdrive is completely correct. It's x^2+y^2+z^2+t^2 = 12^2.
The biggest shareholder of any company on any world has a voice whenever he wants to have a voice.
Whoever's mashing the pedal to the floor, they always know that if they don't turn left, someone they rarely meet is going to give them a driving lesson.
If you want to go to a party, you have to accept being at a party.
Twitter is fine, if you follow people you find interesting, and if you are interesting yourself.
But if you just click on the Trending Topic links, then yes, you're going to discover that 90+% of the things people say from behind their cellphones is pointless blather. And that's the people, not the fake accounts that are using the TT to get undeserved attention. Those are half or more of any #1 topic.
Once they get how it works, engineers should love twitter. Not least because there's a finite probability that http://twitter.com/TheRealNimoy will respond to you. A thing like that can make your decade.
Which means, as I was trying to apply, that the Wintel model of little competition actually serves the consumer better than the phone-market model of cage-fight competition.
First off, politicians do not often make errors. Most of the time they appear to have made a mistake, they have instead made a calculated decision to promote a fallacy in order to achieve a political goal. They are not driven by a need or desire to be right, they are driven by votes and money. Nor do they fail to recognize that humans are fallible. We just had the historical example of Congressman Joe Barton "apologizing" to BP for making a "legitimate mistake".
Second, induction is not an error generator. It is a method of logical manipulation of the facts to reveal new facts and, being logical, is a means of avoiding error. The errors attributed here to induction are not the result of the method but of the interpretation of the result of the method. But humans don't often use induction. They use intuition. They guess. They make decisions because they saw someone else make the same decision the same way (but they fail to see that the situations are not identical, and applying the same transform to different inputs is not guaranteed to give the same output).
Third, this is not really new information. Injection of errors (noise) is a means of destabilizing locally stable but perhaps not optimal results in artificial neural networks, allowing the network to cascade into better solutions. Hell, it even works to increase the stability and strength of base metal, in which case it's called sintering.
And then there's the fact that most of human progress is the result of people doing things randomly, and those things that seem right becoming popular, while those that seem wrong are avoided.
On the scale from random to logical, I'd intuit that humanity is about 5% of the way there.
This is an interesting observation about competitiveness and innovation, because I always feel like I get more value from Intel CPUs ($2-300) and Windows operating systems ($2-300) than I do from smartphones ($3-500).
And not just by a little.
It could be because of the small screen, balky UI, limited data storage, and limited connectivity.
It could be because I'm somewhat ignoring the OEM contribution ($200 mobo, $60 case with silent power supply, $200 gigundo HD with raid striping for speed, $300 billboard-sized monitor).
Or it could be because what's driving these dozens of handset manufacturers to churn out so many new products is the low R&D cost and high unit margins compared to, say, trying to get into the CPU business.
They are, without doubt, hoping to use this liquid-spinning method to make a mirror that will collect huge amounts of light without having gross surface defects. But the mirrors they're competing against now come in dozen-meter sizes.
They're not describing how they'll deal with the real-world problems they're introducing while they deal with the imaginary mathematical problem they have predicted.
Slashdot Mirror
I did it for Nordberg.
When the net was regulated by people with no corporate aspirations, it was efficient and good.
Now that the net was regulated by an international committee of gadflies and dopes, it was less efficient and still okay.
But since they don't seem to have the power to force major ISPs to give open access to their customers, they are no longer useful.
It takes a government to enforce something like that. But then a government, like a corporation or a committee, has its own agenda.
The only choice then is either to let the government do it, but PERFORM YOUR ROLE AS PART OF THE GOVERMENT instead of sitting on your ass whining about its existence, or turn the net back over to the people who invented it (modulo Jon Postel) and give them the legal authority to slap multi-billion dollar fines on router owners who don't route agnostically, not matter in which nation the offender may reside.
American government is the passing of random ideas through a plural-voting filter. But the plural-voting filter isn't democratic, instead it's made up of components meant to represent members of the democracy aggregated by geographic location (the boundaries of which are generally contiguous but are not likely to be convex). But the representation is only notionally "of the people," since the representative is an independent actor, and adjudges a vote according to factors other than the good of his constituents. And then generally the idea is passed on to a single filter which represents the aggregation of all of the other aggregations.
In other words, every idea, stupid or otherwise, will come before the legislature, and there's no chance that you or anyone else will ever be able to guess right every time on whether a given idea will pass them or not, and then the governor or president gets his crack at it.
So unless the Joneses are crazy and stressed from a thousand directions, the US government is way ahead of them.
So he's not allowed to do anything else until he balances the budget? No other government activity is to occur, until the budget for 2013 is complete and has a black number at the bottom? Is that how you want your legislature to work?
Of course, your budget probably carries a fat debt load, too, but you don't see a blind governor bitching about that.
Actually, the false-positive rate is a lot lower than that. Just ask O.J. He had to impeach the collection and storage practices at the LA crime lab, and the integrity of every person in the chain of evidence, because if he couldn't do that, the 170-trillion-to-1 chance the DNA wasn't his was going to put him in the gas chamber.
Criminals gave up their rights when they committed a crime.
In fact, I don't think it's anyone's right not to be identified by the epithelials they leave lying around.
If your footprints can be taken at birth, so can a few cells from the inside of your cheek.
In fact, I'd encourage everyone to get registered for fingerprints and DNA, because the time, money, and grief it will save your family when your unrecognizable torso is dug up in the woods, is significant.
So again, fuck the criminals.
Futurama's been on the air so long they should name the season-1 DVD's "Pastarama".
Took some digging but I found a page where they actually show some pictures:
http://www.openfoam.com/docs/user/cavity.php#x5-110002.1.2
You'd think they'd have some color somewhere on the home page, but OSS types rarely have a marketing clue...
That's what they used to say about computers.
But when I was learning to write Fortran in school in 9th grade, grad students were learning to write Fortran at the university across town, and making more mistakes and understanding it less than I was.
I would expect the CFD program that would suit this class is something that takes a simple grid input for the surface, simple initial conditions, then runs the flow and plots streamlines or vectors. No need to get into the theory behind the sim computations, just show how things flow across the surface.
If the kids are bright, they'll be ingrained with a desire to figure out (a) more about fluid flow, or (b) how a computer knows how fluid flows, or (c) both.
Simulate it in Python and run it in a VM.
It'll be faster, most likely.
$ units
2438 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units
You have: 1 ton
You want: metric assload
Unknown unit 'metric'
You want: ^D
$
On /., everything is measured in Quibbleflops.
1. Hyperspace: distance and time are merely four directions in an orthogonal 4-space. So saying you made it in 12 parsecs when using a hyperdrive is completely correct. It's x^2+y^2+z^2+t^2 = 12^2.
2. I thought everyone knew this.
3. Han shot first, goddammit.
Nice job, keeping this ad from being viraled onto /. there, firehose readers...
Let's not make a mistake here.
Bill Gates does not run Microsoft.
But he still, effectively, owns it.
The biggest shareholder of any company on any world has a voice whenever he wants to have a voice.
Whoever's mashing the pedal to the floor, they always know that if they don't turn left, someone they rarely meet is going to give them a driving lesson.
You mean they weren't?
It's not got much spam in it...
Ironically, I tweeted my breakfast this morning.
But it was meant ironically, and it worked in context.
If you want to go to a party, you have to accept being at a party.
Twitter is fine, if you follow people you find interesting, and if you are interesting yourself.
But if you just click on the Trending Topic links, then yes, you're going to discover that 90+% of the things people say from behind their cellphones is pointless blather. And that's the people, not the fake accounts that are using the TT to get undeserved attention. Those are half or more of any #1 topic.
Once they get how it works, engineers should love twitter. Not least because there's a finite probability that http://twitter.com/TheRealNimoy will respond to you. A thing like that can make your decade.
Which means, as I was trying to apply, that the Wintel model of little competition actually serves the consumer better than the phone-market model of cage-fight competition.
First off, politicians do not often make errors. Most of the time they appear to have made a mistake, they have instead made a calculated decision to promote a fallacy in order to achieve a political goal. They are not driven by a need or desire to be right, they are driven by votes and money. Nor do they fail to recognize that humans are fallible. We just had the historical example of Congressman Joe Barton "apologizing" to BP for making a "legitimate mistake".
Second, induction is not an error generator. It is a method of logical manipulation of the facts to reveal new facts and, being logical, is a means of avoiding error. The errors attributed here to induction are not the result of the method but of the interpretation of the result of the method. But humans don't often use induction. They use intuition. They guess. They make decisions because they saw someone else make the same decision the same way (but they fail to see that the situations are not identical, and applying the same transform to different inputs is not guaranteed to give the same output).
Third, this is not really new information. Injection of errors (noise) is a means of destabilizing locally stable but perhaps not optimal results in artificial neural networks, allowing the network to cascade into better solutions. Hell, it even works to increase the stability and strength of base metal, in which case it's called sintering.
And then there's the fact that most of human progress is the result of people doing things randomly, and those things that seem right becoming popular, while those that seem wrong are avoided.
On the scale from random to logical, I'd intuit that humanity is about 5% of the way there.
This is an interesting observation about competitiveness and innovation, because I always feel like I get more value from Intel CPUs ($2-300) and Windows operating systems ($2-300) than I do from smartphones ($3-500).
And not just by a little.
It could be because of the small screen, balky UI, limited data storage, and limited connectivity.
It could be because I'm somewhat ignoring the OEM contribution ($200 mobo, $60 case with silent power supply, $200 gigundo HD with raid striping for speed, $300 billboard-sized monitor).
Or it could be because what's driving these dozens of handset manufacturers to churn out so many new products is the low R&D cost and high unit margins compared to, say, trying to get into the CPU business.
It' s not at all unreasonable that there's a trillion dollars in "mineral wealth" there.
Sand is worth about $9/ton, so just scraping off and selling the top 8.5 cm of the country will get them a $trillion at retail.
The question is what kind of profit is there to be had on it?
That's why it's called a prototype.
They are, without doubt, hoping to use this liquid-spinning method to make a mirror that will collect huge amounts of light without having gross surface defects. But the mirrors they're competing against now come in dozen-meter sizes.
They're not describing how they'll deal with the real-world problems they're introducing while they deal with the imaginary mathematical problem they have predicted.
But then you're pitting one federal law against the other. Who wins?
Your legal team's brokers.