You or a legal gaurdian already has to sign off on most medical tests, including this one. Although your neighbor could sneakily swab your cheek and send it in under false pretenses, this would be fraud. Since your neighbor already is willing to break the law, there is little to stop them from illegally having it analyzed out of state.
Making knowledge illegal does not make it unavailable. If we outlaw self-awareness only outlaws will have self-awareness.
I've worked in and socialized within a number of scientific fields, and religious beliefs aren't that uncommon, although they rarely intrude much into the research. But I've been surprised at how common a belief in a soul and god(s) in neuroscience is. There is a place where the science and belief can be in direct conflict, as neuroscience is actively explaining away any useful role once played by the soul.
I found this rather curious, but these were often competent, respected professors. I guess I'm just not smart enough to simultaneously believe two comflicting ideas which eat each other.
For my thesis project in grad school I worked on modelling a Mauthner neuron from a goldfish, using as accurate a physical/chemical model as possible. This meant multiple ion species and various kinds of ion channels all governed by Maxwell's and the drift-diffusion equation, solved using a FEM and multigrid approach. We did this with a rack of 32 Apple servers running Linux as a Beowulf cluster. Calculating a second's worth of activity took hours. The goal was to mimic the calculation the two Mauthner neurons made in deciding whether and how to flee from danger. Simulating something as complex as the activity of a mammalian pyramidal cell in this manner is probably still a couple Moore-cycles away.
I mean successful in the sense that they succeeded in their objectives, knowledge of the deception didn't come out until well after the act, and the players largely got away with it. When I conspire successfully those are my intended results. Being able to gloat openly years later is just icing on the cake.
Gulf of Tonkin Augusto Pinochet coup of Chile Iran-Contra Tuskegee Experiments
These are all well documented Successful conspiracies/deceptions conducted by US government agencies. Many more could be listed, and it's safe to assume there are undiscovered ones.
On the other hand, the possibility that alien anal research scientists consider our species worth so much time is both far-fetched and upsetting.
Those are good possibilities, but makes the title "Hobbit 2" kinda silly.
Since nothing really happens in that period, I'm hoping for a bittersweet romance involving an aging, eccentric Bilbo. Give it a gardening subtext with lots of high-def food shots. Samwise can provide comic relief.
I mean, do these tales all have to be swords and destiny? How about a little simple daily life?
The term "Chaos" entered pop-culture with James Gliek's book "Chaos: the Making of a New Science". Sensive Dependence is commonly cited as part of the definition of chaos, which varies significantly. The term got a mathematical definition in 1975 from Li and James Yorke's paper "Period Three Implies Chaos", which stated that a dynamical system (function which eats its own output i.e. f(f(x))) with a period three orbit (f(f(f(a))) = a, f(a)~=a, f(f(a))~=a), will have all orbits, including "chaotic" ones (definition similar to Sensitive Dependence). Sharkovsky had done him one better showing what orbits exist given any orbit (ex. 9 implies 2). In any case "Chaos" lacks a concensus formal definition, while being widely used both by scientist and laypersons.
The importance of Sensitive Dependenent systems to determinism is that any slight variation in measurement may produce very different results. Simply increasing the accuracy of measurement will produce different results. The conservative interpretation is that certain equations will always fail to correctly predict what they model because any slight inaccuracy in measurement used for input will deviate widely from the true result. Couple that with the Heisenburg Uncertainty Theorem which gives a lower bound on accuracy of any simultaneous measurement of position and velocity, and you've got a pretty good characterization of the theoretical limits of certain mathematical models. The liberal interpretation is to conclude that because a certain branch of mathematics fails under certain circumstances, then we must have free will.
If it was reasonable to route traffic within an ISP's network and cost-saving to do so, some ISPs would already be doing it. My impression (and experience) is that the internet is a highly adaptive dynamic system which achieves a degree of efficiency which may not be possible to match by manually imposing artificial barriers.
One thing ISP's might do is apply a "cost" function to routing, to encourage particular paths, if they don't already...
That's a great idea. Too good to not have happened, here's what a quick search yielded. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/03/173241&from=rss http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2004/01/61968 http://openvotingsolutions.net/
Whistleblowing works best in response to fraud. To report your company for incompetence requires someone capable enough to recognize it. Diebold seems to lack that employee. And given their response to these reported errors, I can understand why they failed to attract such employees. Competent engineers embrace criticism, and tend to avoid work that suppresses it.
The article wasn't very clear, nor is ARIA's statement. There are several lingering questions:
1) Who do you pay? How do you know if a recording you have is represented by ARIA? They are one of many music industry groups. Looking at the album cover isn't guaranteed to work, the album may have been printed overseas. Artists switch labels and copyrights can be transferred or expire.
2) When does this apply? Either music published prior to this proclamation is exempt, or DJs have been spinning illegally for years and are liable for back-pay.
3) How is this policed? Does the Australian government really want to be responsible for examining the legality of every song on a DJ's hard drive? If ARIA gets aggressive about this all they'll do is get their music out of circulation, because compliance is too expensive and time-consuming.
Airport traffic controllers are prevented from striking by such a law...
But this is a different kind of problem, which I think points to a lack of international governing authority. Clearly this dispute should never have to come to this, it's not good for the consumer or the ISP providers. My guess is Cogent acted this way because there was no clear laws, court or higher authority to turn to.
Creating something like this would be complex but far from impossible; there is plenty of precedent in international business (just not in this field). International banking, stocks, etc. would be a good example. It requires local laws linked to international treaties.
By choosing to censor themselves, Google maintains control over their own operation rather than having China impose external restraints on them. If Google had confronted China with a completely uncensored search engine, the Chinese government would have either set up extensive systems to regulate google, or just shut them out. Once Google is well established, it will be much harder for China to contain them if they decide to start loosening their self-imposed censorship. And of course, choosing to self-regulate leaves them a much better position to adapt and grow as a business, relatively unfettered by technological and bureaucratic red tape.
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A time to gather with your coworkers and give them something they'll remember for the rest of their lives >:>
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I use hostICan.com, I switched from GoDaddy for greater stability and usability. I've been very happy with the experience; no annoying ads for additional services, a clean set of web management tools, all the usual stuff installed and up-to-date (php, mysql, perl, etc.), and great phone and email support. They employ competent people who give me useful answers.
Data suppression is outdated in the age of the internet. From what I read here, it sounds like 1) cops cycle in and out of undercover work and 2) use their real names (which Hollywood does not seem to be aware of) so a criminal can google a potential cop and identify him as one rather easily. Claiming the website should be taken down to protect undercover cops is an untenable argument.
D&D magazine once ran an article on the practical physical limits on boat speed, criticizing the official AD&D table on this topic. That article inspired me to question, qualify and revise the mathematical models I encounter, and not just accept them at face value. These games I played and invented with friends were viewed poorly by most every authority in our lives, but at least for me it contributed significantly to my career as an applied mathematician and scientist. Currently I work for a biotech, but the skills born in those games have served me equally well in neuroimaging, finance, and radar research. My work is relaxed, lucrative and interesting. I doubt I would have the career I enjoy today if I had not learned to enjoy it as a child.
The Pennsylvania Quakers weren't threatened by the French or Indians, they got along just fine with them. Not to mention they were and are pacifists, committed to solving their differences in a non-violent manner. The French and Indian war was a war of territorial expansion started by big-city governors and journalists far removed from the proposed war zone. The rural inhabitants of Pennsylvania Franklin refers to weren't refusing to defend themselves (they weren't under attack), they were declining to attack their neighbors.
Feb. 29, 2008 - Renowned international thief Lupin 3rd announced his plans today to steal the Crown Jewels of Persia. Inspector McCleed's subsequent pursuit was hampered by a sabotaged anchor winch.
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You or a legal gaurdian already has to sign off on most medical tests, including this one. Although your neighbor could sneakily swab your cheek and send it in under false pretenses, this would be fraud. Since your neighbor already is willing to break the law, there is little to stop them from illegally having it analyzed out of state.
Making knowledge illegal does not make it unavailable. If we outlaw self-awareness only outlaws will have self-awareness.
I've worked in and socialized within a number of scientific fields, and religious beliefs aren't that uncommon, although they rarely intrude much into the research. But I've been surprised at how common a belief in a soul and god(s) in neuroscience is. There is a place where the science and belief can be in direct conflict, as neuroscience is actively explaining away any useful role once played by the soul.
I found this rather curious, but these were often competent, respected professors. I guess I'm just not smart enough to simultaneously believe two comflicting ideas which eat each other.
Think I'll have myself a pint'o that
For my thesis project in grad school I worked on modelling a Mauthner neuron from a goldfish, using as accurate a physical/chemical model as possible. This meant multiple ion species and various kinds of ion channels all governed by Maxwell's and the drift-diffusion equation, solved using a FEM and multigrid approach. We did this with a rack of 32 Apple servers running Linux as a Beowulf cluster. Calculating a second's worth of activity took hours.
The goal was to mimic the calculation the two Mauthner neurons made in deciding whether and how to flee from danger. Simulating something as complex as the activity of a mammalian pyramidal cell in this manner is probably still a couple Moore-cycles away.
I mean successful in the sense that they succeeded in their objectives, knowledge of the deception didn't come out until well after the act, and the players largely got away with it. When I conspire successfully those are my intended results. Being able to gloat openly years later is just icing on the cake.
Gulf of Tonkin
Augusto Pinochet coup of Chile
Iran-Contra
Tuskegee Experiments
These are all well documented Successful conspiracies/deceptions conducted by US government agencies. Many more could be listed, and it's safe to assume there are undiscovered ones.
On the other hand, the possibility that alien anal research scientists consider our species worth so much time is both far-fetched and upsetting.
Those are good possibilities, but makes the title "Hobbit 2" kinda silly.
Since nothing really happens in that period, I'm hoping for a bittersweet romance involving an aging, eccentric Bilbo. Give it a gardening subtext with lots of high-def food shots. Samwise can provide comic relief.
I mean, do these tales all have to be swords and destiny? How about a little simple daily life?
The term "Chaos" entered pop-culture with James Gliek's book
"Chaos: the Making of a New Science".
Sensive Dependence is commonly cited as part of the definition of chaos, which varies significantly. The term got a mathematical definition in 1975 from Li and James Yorke's paper "Period Three Implies Chaos", which stated that a dynamical system (function which eats its own output i.e. f(f(x))) with a period three orbit (f(f(f(a))) = a, f(a)~=a, f(f(a))~=a), will have all orbits, including "chaotic" ones (definition similar to Sensitive Dependence). Sharkovsky had done him one better showing what orbits exist given any orbit (ex. 9 implies 2).
In any case "Chaos" lacks a concensus formal definition, while being widely used both by scientist and laypersons.
The importance of Sensitive Dependenent systems to determinism is that any slight variation in measurement may produce very different results. Simply increasing the accuracy of measurement will produce different results. The conservative interpretation is that certain equations will always fail to correctly predict what they model because any slight inaccuracy in measurement used for input will deviate widely from the true result. Couple that with the Heisenburg Uncertainty Theorem which gives a lower bound on accuracy of any simultaneous measurement of position and velocity, and you've got a pretty good characterization of the theoretical limits of certain mathematical models.
The liberal interpretation is to conclude that because a certain branch of mathematics fails under certain circumstances, then we must have free will.
If it was reasonable to route traffic within an ISP's network and cost-saving to do so, some ISPs would already be doing it. My impression (and experience) is that the internet is a highly adaptive dynamic system which achieves a degree of efficiency which may not be possible to match by manually imposing artificial barriers.
One thing ISP's might do is apply a "cost" function to routing, to encourage particular paths, if they don't already...
That's a great idea. Too good to not have happened, here's what a quick search yielded.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/03/173241&from=rss
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2004/01/61968
http://openvotingsolutions.net/
Whistleblowing works best in response to fraud. To report your company for incompetence requires someone capable enough to recognize it. Diebold seems to lack that employee. And given their response to these reported errors, I can understand why they failed to attract such employees. Competent engineers embrace criticism, and tend to avoid work that suppresses it.
The article wasn't very clear, nor is ARIA's statement. There are several lingering questions:
1) Who do you pay? How do you know if a recording you have is represented by ARIA? They are one of many music industry groups. Looking at the album cover isn't guaranteed to work, the album may have been printed overseas. Artists switch labels and copyrights can be transferred or expire.
2) When does this apply? Either music published prior to this proclamation is exempt, or DJs have been spinning illegally for years and are liable for back-pay.
3) How is this policed? Does the Australian government really want to be responsible for examining the legality of every song on a DJ's hard drive? If ARIA gets aggressive about this all they'll do is get their music out of circulation, because compliance is too expensive and time-consuming.
Airport traffic controllers are prevented from striking by such a law...
But this is a different kind of problem, which I think points to a lack of international governing authority. Clearly this dispute should never have to come to this, it's not good for the consumer or the ISP providers. My guess is Cogent acted this way because there was no clear laws, court or higher authority to turn to.
Creating something like this would be complex but far from impossible; there is plenty of precedent in international business (just not in this field). International banking, stocks, etc. would be a good example. It requires local laws linked to international treaties.
By choosing to censor themselves, Google maintains control over their own operation rather than having China impose external restraints on them. If Google had confronted China with a completely uncensored search engine, the Chinese government would have either set up extensive systems to regulate google, or just shut them out.
Once Google is well established, it will be much harder for China to contain them if they decide to start loosening their self-imposed censorship. And of course, choosing to self-regulate leaves them a much better position to adapt and grow as a business, relatively unfettered by technological and bureaucratic red tape.
A time to gather with your coworkers and give them something they'll remember for the rest of their lives >:>
http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/getfuzzy-20080310.html
In a Buckycentric universe "I didn't sleep enough" is just implied, there is no translation. However, one can still take a 10 buckute nap...
I use hostICan.com, I switched from GoDaddy for greater stability and usability. I've been very happy with the experience; no annoying ads for additional services, a clean set of web management tools, all the usual stuff installed and up-to-date (php, mysql, perl, etc.), and great phone and email support. They employ competent people who give me useful answers.
Data suppression is outdated in the age of the internet. From what I read here, it sounds like
1) cops cycle in and out of undercover work and
2) use their real names (which Hollywood does not seem to be aware of)
so a criminal can google a potential cop and identify him as one rather easily.
Claiming the website should be taken down to protect undercover cops is an untenable argument.
D&D magazine once ran an article on the practical physical limits on boat speed, criticizing the official AD&D table on this topic. That article inspired me to question, qualify and revise the mathematical models I encounter, and not just accept them at face value. These games I played and invented with friends were viewed poorly by most every authority in our lives, but at least for me it contributed significantly to my career as an applied mathematician and scientist. Currently I work for a biotech, but the skills born in those games have served me equally well in neuroimaging, finance, and radar research. My work is relaxed, lucrative and interesting. I doubt I would have the career I enjoy today if I had not learned to enjoy it as a child.
The Pennsylvania Quakers weren't threatened by the French or Indians, they got along just fine with them. Not to mention they were and are pacifists, committed to solving their differences in a non-violent manner. The French and Indian war was a war of territorial expansion started by big-city governors and journalists far removed from the proposed war zone. The rural inhabitants of Pennsylvania Franklin refers to weren't refusing to defend themselves (they weren't under attack), they were declining to attack their neighbors.
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Feb. 29, 2008 - Renowned international thief Lupin 3rd announced his plans today to steal the Crown Jewels of Persia. Inspector McCleed's subsequent pursuit was hampered by a sabotaged anchor winch.
The cuts were the result of a single freak anchoring mishap...
Please list your theory here...