Agreed that PC's are not going away. The shift in development spending towards datacenters makes sense if you believe that market growth will be in datacenters. This is likely given that the world is saturated with smartphones (and pcs) which are access terminals to applications like social media which run in datacenters.
The artist is welcome to do my basement, my house is built on granite and radon gas is a recognized problem in this area. The photos are interesting and have artistic merit, Greenpeace however are just behaving like cancer. I support environmental awareness and have done since the 70's but I regard Greenpeace as an enemy of the environment because of their moronic publicity.
Arctic expeditions are hazardous working environments, I am not sure you want to tell the children that their parent had a terminal accident on something called BoatyMcBoatface.
Marketing will tell you that you want to change the product. Technologically you probably do not need to change it every three years. The product will probably work for ten to twenty years before it fails (excluding batteries) and it will in many cases still function as it does now in ten to twenty years. Software is the limiting factor these days and the majority of walled garden products can and will be disabled by their marketing departments. If you think that this is a scam to screw more money out of the customer then you are right. There is a reason why Goldman Sachs refers to customers as "Mugs".
In the old days these were known as slip-ons. I guess a brand can sell anything these days. To be fair I suppose novelty products are fun for a while. Sadly it looks like the next President Of the United States will very likely be a brand. Sigh, what is it with the brand thing?
To be fair warp drive is being speculatively thought about and some models would produce a flash. See the serious overview for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?... "Warp drives and bending time Prof Tamara Davis" Australian Academy of Science. "It could be that the optic boom of arrival at the destination would fry the destination" "The energy required to operate the drive could exceed that contained in the mass of the observable universe"
However the energy currently thought to be involved in a FRB is way outside anything human civilization could do - e.g. Wikipedia records the energy of one FRB as "The power exceeded 1.3×10*42 ergs/s. That is estimated to be as much energy in one millisecond as the Sun emits in 10,000 years"
So it is not likely to be warp drive given what we understand.
It was realized fairly quickly that the Parkes Perytons caused by the microwave oven were different to the initial FRB.
"Emily Petroff (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) says that the discovery team knew early on that these so-called perytons were local. The observatory watches along 13 different radio beams as the dish sweeps across the sky. Any point-like astrophysical source will be brightest at just one of those frequencies. Perytons, however, appear equally bright in all 13 beams."
I have not seen any discussion on FRB with respect to lensing so I do not know whether gravitational lensing is involved. Increases in the number and effectiveness of observation tools over the next few years will provide a big enough sample of these events to start characterizing them better though.
I think that in some sense this field is bigger than gravitational wave astronomy right now. It will be a while before the required new gravitational wave detectors find and locate many sources.
The field of FRB's is definitely one where interesting new science is likely to appear soon. It is quite exciting to see these early papers contradicting each other as new data comes in - this is bleeding edge science going on right before our eyes.
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious single pulses recently discovered in routine L-band pulsar searches. They are very brief (~milliseconds), and exhibit dispersion and spatial distribution which suggests large -- possibly cosmological -- distances. Although they probably occur at a rate of about 10,000/sky/day, they are quite difficult to find due to the very narrow field of view of suitably-equipped radio telescopes, and also due to the prevalence of interference at L-band. In this talk I will give an overview of instrumentation that has been developed to detect FRBs in large numbers and with better information (polarization, improved localization, etc.). In particular I will describe GBTrans, a new instrument we (VT, WVU, and NRAO) have developed at Green Bank for continuous real-time FRB searching, and plans for a new instrument called LASA (Large Array of Small Arrays), which would be purpose-built for this task. Both systems feature real-time continuous acquisition and analysis of about 400 MHz of L-band spectrum, using FPGAs to compute dynamic spectra and GPUs to search 1000s of possible dispersion signatures simultaneously. LASA would replace the GBTrans 20-m dish antenna with 2 m x 2 m arrays of 256 tightly-coupled crossed dipole antennas each, forming 16 independently-steerable beams simultaneously. This problem requires mitigation of copious interference from active users of the L-band spectrum, and I'll explain how we manage to do that in real time as well."
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To be fair Starts With a Bang was one of the best astronomy blogs on the internet when Nathan effectively ran it for free. It is unfortunate that having moved into a more commercial setting he happens to be publishing it on Forbes. That is one good reason why his articles are featured on this site.
However a significant number of readers, myself included, do not like sharing data with Forbes advertising partners and can no longer read his good quality journalism. YMMV.
Never mind propaganda sites like Forbes. There are plenty of decent sources still left on the web, though you wonder how much longer it will be before they dry up. http://phys.org/news/2016-01-e...
You clearly have no understanding of the effect of exclusion from society has on people. Even if the exclusion is largely largely your "own" fault because your religion is different or as we would say out of sync with the modern world.
Daesh is like any other cult - it finds the excluded and pissed off and gives them a feeling of belonging. That is all it takes to radicalize young people who have not found themselves.
The awful irony is that our western society with its abundant freedom of choice and opportunity to define your own life obviously completely fails to attract the misfits who go off to Syria and Iraq to be killed by drones. The 60 people with half the worlds wealth might ponder on why the societies they run have so little meaning to the people who live in them.
The number one task of Daesh is obviously to continue to recruit, hence the odd high profile slaughter in western countries to keep their meme alive in the media and the relentless social web presence.
The number one task of western military should be to kill their propaganda and cut off their supply of recruits.
Given that Google is arguably significantly more powerful than most nation states on earth it seems very reasonable of them to be discussing the topic in the open. Perhaps they are being asked to sign up to something the NSA has asked for and are seeking a public response before responding.
There are some public issues to be discussed which I would hope will get discussed in the meeting
- Whether censorship of an enemies propaganda during the time of war is a reasonable thing to have on the open web.
- Does confining an enemy to the dark web automatically criminalize everybody on the dark web (I assume that all dark web users are classed by the NSA as criminals)
- What mechanism should be used in future to control the content of the web. (Do we want Mr Trump to personally define what is on the web by banning all pages with the word "Muslim" for example?)
I would have like to have up-voted the link to more information, both podcasts are interesting.
There are many lectures on YouTube requiring varying degrees of expertise to understand but this one seems comprehensible to anyone with a STEM background and I recommend you take a look. Jennifer Doudna. The CRISPR-Cas 9 Genome Engineering Revolution, UC Berkeley Events channel (one of many excellent primary sources on YouTube)
I appreciate that many people with an interest will use a search engine to investigate this interesting topic but YouTube has a high noise to signal ratio so you might not have thought to look there.
Sadly I think the West is fcuked. Its equalization with the developing world. The owners of Capital will remain wealthy as ever but the population will equalize globally and currently that means a long way down for Westerners.
It is also an explanation for the terrorist acts of Daesh. They are extremely annoyed that many displaced Muslims would rather relocate to Europe rather than their appalling regime. http://jihadology.net/2015/11/...
They think that by commiting terrorist acts in Europe they can make people believe that all Muslims have terrorist sympathies by leveraging our corrupt media who at the very least believe that selling more page views is their only job. https://www.vice.com/en_uk/rea...
It is straightforward for Westerners to comprehend the behaviour of Daesh and to believe that defeating their military occupation of Iraq and Syria makes sense. Extending that believe to attacking our fellow Muslim citizens and refugees is unpatriotic because it is exactly what Daesh wants to reinforce the scenario you paint.
Engineers are perhaps more susceptible to the calls of propaganda for all the reasons that you cite. As a profession we should also recognise that our education might have been light on philosophy and psychology which would armour us against propaganda and manipulation.
As a society we recognise that there is an argument that some arguably disenfranchised groups should benefit from positive discrimination - Women, people of colour, disabled people. It is arguably an even stronger imperative to be inclusive towards people of a different culture who are being attacked by an extremist terroist movement who want us to turn against them so that they are easy recruitment fodder. I suggest that it would be good systems engineering to remember this when the usual supects press the emotion button and call for repression and exclusion.
I would be surprised if even physicians were on top of the list of banned substances, it is quite a long one. http://www.usada.org/substance... Not to mention the fact that not all medications list their full contents, the best advice these days says take nothing at all and just drink more water. http://www.sportsinjurybulleti...
It is certainly true that they are already leading lives different to the average Joe when they can get a life ban from sport for using an over the counter cold treatment that contains a banned substance. Maybe one day we will be raising children in special camps where modern medicine is banned just so they can compete in sports. We could call the camps "Human Zoos".
At some point we may be seeing humans with genetically improved optical senses such as the ability to see in the infra red or ultra violet. Do we automatically ban them from sports because they might have an unfair advantage? I do not know the answer but it is only going to get messier from here on in.
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Details the rich will be paying to be sorted out later
Just pop your head on a braindead clone.
Agreed that PC's are not going away. The shift in development spending towards datacenters makes sense if you believe that market growth will be in datacenters. This is likely given that the world is saturated with smartphones (and pcs) which are access terminals to applications like social media which run in datacenters.
The artist is welcome to do my basement, my house is built on granite and radon gas is a recognized problem in this area. The photos are interesting and have artistic merit, Greenpeace however are just behaving like cancer. I support environmental awareness and have done since the 70's but I regard Greenpeace as an enemy of the environment because of their moronic publicity.
Arctic expeditions are hazardous working environments, I am not sure you want to tell the children that their parent had a terminal accident on something called BoatyMcBoatface.
Marketing will tell you that you want to change the product. Technologically you probably do not need to change it every three years. The product will probably work for ten to twenty years before it fails (excluding batteries) and it will in many cases still function as it does now in ten to twenty years. Software is the limiting factor these days and the majority of walled garden products can and will be disabled by their marketing departments. If you think that this is a scam to screw more money out of the customer then you are right. There is a reason why Goldman Sachs refers to customers as "Mugs".
In the old days these were known as slip-ons. I guess a brand can sell anything these days. To be fair I suppose novelty products are fun for a while. Sadly it looks like the next President Of the United States will very likely be a brand. Sigh, what is it with the brand thing?
To be fair warp drive is being speculatively thought about and some models would produce a flash. See the serious overview for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?... "Warp drives and bending time Prof Tamara Davis" Australian Academy of Science. "It could be that the optic boom of arrival at the destination would fry the destination" "The energy required to operate the drive could exceed that contained in the mass of the observable universe"
However the energy currently thought to be involved in a FRB is way outside anything human civilization could do - e.g. Wikipedia records the energy of one FRB as "The power exceeded 1.3×10*42 ergs/s. That is estimated to be as much energy in one millisecond as the Sun emits in 10,000 years"
So it is not likely to be warp drive given what we understand.
It was realized fairly quickly that the Parkes Perytons caused by the microwave oven were different to the initial FRB.
"Emily Petroff (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) says that the discovery team knew early on that these so-called perytons were local. The observatory watches along 13 different radio beams as the dish sweeps across the sky. Any point-like astrophysical source will be brightest at just one of those frequencies. Perytons, however, appear equally bright in all 13 beams."
I have not seen any discussion on FRB with respect to lensing so I do not know whether gravitational lensing is involved. Increases in the number and effectiveness of observation tools over the next few years will provide a big enough sample of these events to start characterizing them better though.
I think that in some sense this field is bigger than gravitational wave astronomy right now. It will be a while before the required new gravitational wave detectors find and locate many sources.
The field of FRB's is definitely one where interesting new science is likely to appear soon. It is quite exciting to see these early papers contradicting each other as new data comes in - this is bleeding edge science going on right before our eyes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Fast Radio Bursts
Looks at the hardware challenges
"Published on Nov 6, 2015
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious single pulses recently discovered in routine L-band pulsar searches. They are very brief (~milliseconds), and exhibit dispersion and spatial distribution which suggests large -- possibly cosmological -- distances. Although they probably occur at a rate of about 10,000/sky/day, they are quite difficult to find due to the very narrow field of view of suitably-equipped radio telescopes, and also due to the prevalence of interference at L-band. In this talk I will give an overview of instrumentation that has been developed to detect FRBs in large numbers and with better information (polarization, improved localization, etc.). In particular I will describe GBTrans, a new instrument we (VT, WVU, and NRAO) have developed at Green Bank for continuous real-time FRB searching, and plans for a new instrument called LASA (Large Array of Small Arrays), which would be purpose-built for this task. Both systems feature real-time continuous acquisition and analysis of about 400 MHz of L-band spectrum, using FPGAs to compute dynamic spectra and GPUs to search 1000s of possible dispersion signatures simultaneously. LASA would replace the GBTrans 20-m dish antenna with 2 m x 2 m arrays of 256 tightly-coupled crossed dipole antennas each, forming 16 independently-steerable beams simultaneously. This problem requires mitigation of copious interference from active users of the L-band spectrum, and I'll explain how we manage to do that in real time as well."
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To be fair Starts With a Bang was one of the best astronomy blogs on the internet when Nathan effectively ran it for free. It is unfortunate that having moved into a more commercial setting he happens to be publishing it on Forbes. That is one good reason why his articles are featured on this site.
However a significant number of readers, myself included, do not like sharing data with Forbes advertising partners and can no longer read his good quality journalism. YMMV.
Never mind propaganda sites like Forbes. There are plenty of decent sources still left on the web, though you wonder how much longer it will be before they dry up. http://phys.org/news/2016-01-e...
You clearly have no understanding of the effect of exclusion from society has on people. Even if the exclusion is largely largely your "own" fault because your religion is different or as we would say out of sync with the modern world.
Daesh is like any other cult - it finds the excluded and pissed off and gives them a feeling of belonging. That is all it takes to radicalize young people who have not found themselves.
The awful irony is that our western society with its abundant freedom of choice and opportunity to define your own life obviously completely fails to attract the misfits who go off to Syria and Iraq to be killed by drones. The 60 people with half the worlds wealth might ponder on why the societies they run have so little meaning to the people who live in them.
The number one task of Daesh is obviously to continue to recruit, hence the odd high profile slaughter in western countries to keep their meme alive in the media and the relentless social web presence.
The number one task of western military should be to kill their propaganda and cut off their supply of recruits.
Given that Google is arguably significantly more powerful than most nation states on earth it seems very reasonable of them to be discussing the topic in the open. Perhaps they are being asked to sign up to something the NSA has asked for and are seeking a public response before responding.
There are some public issues to be discussed which I would hope will get discussed in the meeting
- Whether censorship of an enemies propaganda during the time of war is a reasonable thing to have on the open web.
- Does confining an enemy to the dark web automatically criminalize everybody on the dark web (I assume that all dark web users are classed by the NSA as criminals)
- What mechanism should be used in future to control the content of the web. (Do we want Mr Trump to personally define what is on the web by banning all pages with the word "Muslim" for example?)
Forbes is a blank to me also. However you could read this http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_...
I would have like to have up-voted the link to more information, both podcasts are interesting.
There are many lectures on YouTube requiring varying degrees of expertise to understand but this one seems comprehensible to anyone with a STEM background and I recommend you take a look. Jennifer Doudna. The CRISPR-Cas 9 Genome Engineering Revolution, UC Berkeley Events channel (one of many excellent primary sources on YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I appreciate that many people with an interest will use a search engine to investigate this interesting topic but YouTube has a high noise to signal ratio so you might not have thought to look there.
Sadly I think the West is fcuked. Its equalization with the developing world. The owners of Capital will remain wealthy as ever but the population will equalize globally and currently that means a long way down for Westerners.
Spot on analysis I think.
It is also an explanation for the terrorist acts of Daesh. They are extremely annoyed that many displaced Muslims would rather relocate to Europe rather than their appalling regime.
http://jihadology.net/2015/11/...
They think that by commiting terrorist acts in Europe they can make people believe that all Muslims have terrorist sympathies by leveraging our corrupt media who at the very least believe that selling more page views is their only job.
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/rea...
It is straightforward for Westerners to comprehend the behaviour of Daesh and to believe that defeating their military occupation of Iraq and Syria makes sense. Extending that believe to attacking our fellow Muslim citizens and refugees is unpatriotic because it is exactly what Daesh wants to reinforce the scenario you paint.
Engineers are perhaps more susceptible to the calls of propaganda for all the reasons that you cite. As a profession we should also recognise that our education might have been light on philosophy and psychology which would armour us against propaganda and manipulation.
As a society we recognise that there is an argument that some arguably disenfranchised groups should benefit from positive discrimination - Women, people of colour, disabled people. It is arguably an even stronger imperative to be inclusive towards people of a different culture who are being attacked by an extremist terroist movement who want us to turn against them so that they are easy recruitment fodder. I suggest that it would be good systems engineering to remember this when the usual supects press the emotion button and call for repression and exclusion.
Fascinating story, could do with some mod points but alas I have none.
I would be surprised if even physicians were on top of the list of banned substances, it is quite a long one. http://www.usada.org/substance...
Not to mention the fact that not all medications list their full contents, the best advice these days says take nothing at all and just drink more water. http://www.sportsinjurybulleti...
It is certainly true that they are already leading lives different to the average Joe when they can get a life ban from sport for using an over the counter cold treatment that contains a banned substance. Maybe one day we will be raising children in special camps where modern medicine is banned just so they can compete in sports. We could call the camps "Human Zoos".
Regretfully I have to say that this is a highly likely scenario if sport does not accommodate augmented humans.
At some point we may be seeing humans with genetically improved optical senses such as the ability to see in the infra red or ultra violet. Do we automatically ban them from sports because they might have an unfair advantage? I do not know the answer but it is only going to get messier from here on in.