GPS is fine when it works. What will happen to air travel when GPS goes down?
This could happen through a technical fault (likely locally, unlikely globally) or via enemy action (jamming locally, destruction of the infrastructure globally).
Remember that the C/A (coarse/acquisition) code that we civilians use for navigation was never meant for that. Like the Internet, various bits of old and new technology and capability gradually accreted into something upon which our entire economy depends. That something was not designed as a whole, and was certainly not designed for robustness and dependability. Ponder this the next time you step onto a plane.
Ah, self-reporting. So there could be a huge selection bias if (for example) half of the shroomers died or became so incapacitated that they couldn't self-report their medical situation.
You might be able to get one centimeter of accuracy, but that's only if you calibrate each individual device. You can't even create a design and calibrate that: variations in how you spray the conductive material will greatly effect how each individual device performs, regardless of how other instances perform. Each calibration will be different. Temperature and other factors may also affect this technique, so an individual calibration may not even be good over time.
Perhaps you could make something simple, like a button or slider, that is replicable. However, there are easier and more accurate ways to do that.
This technique looks like it would be fun to play with, but don't expect it to change the world.
To make sure the world knows that this kind of behavior won't be tolerated, Google should do something that will annoy the board of directors of Burger King's parent company. Here's some pseudo code for a response from Google Home to the Burger King ad:
if (Burger King stock price is down):
say "The Whopper is a hamburger from Burger King, owned by Restaurant Brands International whose stock price is currently falling." else if (Burger King stock price is up):
say "The Whopper is a hamburger from Burger King, owned by Restaurant Brands International whose stock price is currently considered overvalued by", list of market gurus else:
say "The Whopper is a hamburger from Burger King, owned by Restaurant Brands International whose stock is stagnant."
I'd love to. I enjoy seeing movies in a real theater.
But I have small children, so there is little opportunity to go out. Netflix and other online providers are my best hope for seeing any movies at all, and even then I see them only long after they've left the theaters.
Both a $10 gift card and a $100 bonus are well below what I would consider to be useful rewards. Considering that it costs a company thousands of dollars to keep a group of employees in a room for a day of brainstorming, a suitable reward for a successful outcome should be at least of the same magnitude.
Pathological brainstorming being the structured kind, where they bring in an outside facilitator who tells everyone that no idea should be criticized and that everyone should be given an equal chance to speak. This is what happens when the organization is in a rut, and upper management so is desperate that they are resorting to gimmicks.
Fuck that.
Get the right people in the same room with a whiteboard and let them go at it, no holds barred. I have seen amazing things accomplished in such situations. Introverts are usually fine in small groups, with people that they known or are stuck with for a while, especially when the topic is something about which they are passionate. Extroverts tend to talk too much, so being able to interrupt them is a necessity. Holding the session at an off-site location, away from where the participants normally work, helps get people out of their comfort zone. Judicious amounts of alcohol can lower people's inhibitions, which can be helpful in certain (but not all) kinds of brainstorming situations. A looming deadline, or perhaps a major award for success, can also help keep people focused and productively on task.
Being successful at brainstorming isn't the problem. What's really hard is getting bureaucratic support to implement the ideas that are created during the brainstorming session. But that's a whole 'nother rant.
It should be straightforward to write a filter to detect animated images with luminance variations of the right amplitude and frequency to cause seizures in susceptible individuals. These individuals could then enable the filter and be spared from this type of attack.
I wonder why the various browser and email application vendors have not implemented such, for ADA purposes.
It's not unusual for large religious organizations to send representatives to tech conferences. As other have mentioned, they have technology needs too.
I remember having a nice chat with a priest from the Vatican Observatory when we attended an astronomy conference, At a conference on human-computer interaction, I spoke with a gentleman from the Mormon church's genealogy arm.
These were actual technology conferences with peer-reviewed publications, unlike the more arts and entertainment focused SXSW.
To compute the channel capacity, you need to know the channel's signal-to-noise ratio as well as its bandwidth.
The Shannon channel capacity formula is: C = B * log_2(1 + SNR) where C is the channel's capacity in bits/second, B is its bandwidth in hertz, log_2 is the base-2 logarithm and SNR is the channel's signal-to-noise ratio.
If we assume an SNR of 48 dB for a reasonable POTS line, its capacity would be C = 3 kHz * log_2(1 + 48 dB) ~= 3000 * log_2(63097) which is almost 48,000 bits per second.
This is a theoretical limit that realizable systems can only approach, but never equal or exceed. A practical system would also use extra bits for forward error correction purposes; I doubt that this codec deals gracefully with bit errors.
For back-of-the-envelope purposes, assume you could use this codec to send a single voice signal in 700 Hz of bandwidth on a channel with low SNR, or you could send 60 voice signals over a regular POTS line.
Roy Moore got away with it for quite a while, and in an extremely egregious manner.
If it takes that much effort to get rid of a judge who is willing to completely ignore his oath to the constitution, I don't think anything will happen to an appellate judge who is merely trying to get higher courts to reconsider a previous decision. Like any other profession, judges protect their own.
Expect to see more shenanigans like this as the new administration emboldens fringe elements.
Many of these tech companies are located in areas that have a very high cost of living, so it's unfair to compare their intern salaries with average workers in the rest of the country. Also, many of these interns are either in high-demand programs at prestigious universities or already have degrees from them, and are doing actual productive work. They are not spending their time fetching coffee or shadowing real employees.
In my experience, technical internship programs are a good deal for both the company and the intern. They provide competent labor at a good price for the company and give students excellent opportunities for learning and growth.
The length of the cable is 12,800 km. The speed of light is 300,000 km/sec. The velocity factor of fiber is about 68%. The data rate of the cable is 120e12 bits/sec.
The amount of time that the data stays in the cable is 12,800 km / (300,000 km/sec * 0.68) = 62.7 milliseconds. Multiplying that by the data rate of 120e12 bits per second yields about eight terabits or one terabyte. That is the amount of data "stored" in the cable, at any instant, during transit.
It's not much of an addition to the Google/Facebook data cosmoplex, but it is solid state, liquid cooled, highly distributed and largely immune from fires and small meteor strikes.
Unmanned ships could save money, weight, and space...
Seriously? The crew and crew quarters take up a significant fraction of the operating budget, weight and volume of a modern cargo ship? I'm not buying it.
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GPS is fine when it works. What will happen to air travel when GPS goes down?
This could happen through a technical fault (likely locally, unlikely globally) or via enemy action (jamming locally, destruction of the infrastructure globally).
Remember that the C/A (coarse/acquisition) code that we civilians use for navigation was never meant for that. Like the Internet, various bits of old and new technology and capability gradually accreted into something upon which our entire economy depends. That something was not designed as a whole, and was certainly not designed for robustness and dependability. Ponder this the next time you step onto a plane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Gotta love prediction, especially when it's consistent with your worldview.
Especially since filing patents publicly telegraphs your defensive strategy to the people who want to subvert it.
Ah, self-reporting. So there could be a huge selection bias if (for example) half of the shroomers died or became so incapacitated that they couldn't self-report their medical situation.
You might be able to get one centimeter of accuracy, but that's only if you calibrate each individual device. You can't even create a design and calibrate that: variations in how you spray the conductive material will greatly effect how each individual device performs, regardless of how other instances perform. Each calibration will be different. Temperature and other factors may also affect this technique, so an individual calibration may not even be good over time.
Perhaps you could make something simple, like a button or slider, that is replicable. However, there are easier and more accurate ways to do that.
This technique looks like it would be fun to play with, but don't expect it to change the world.
To make sure the world knows that this kind of behavior won't be tolerated, Google should do something that will annoy the board of directors of Burger King's parent company. Here's some pseudo code for a response from Google Home to the Burger King ad:
if (Burger King stock price is down):
say "The Whopper is a hamburger from Burger King, owned by Restaurant Brands International whose stock price is currently falling."
else if (Burger King stock price is up):
say "The Whopper is a hamburger from Burger King, owned by Restaurant Brands International whose stock price is currently considered overvalued by", list of market gurus
else:
say "The Whopper is a hamburger from Burger King, owned by Restaurant Brands International whose stock is stagnant."
Tell that to United. And O. J. Simpson.
The alternative, click bait headline.
Copyrighting annotations is fine as long as they are truly commentary and have no legal force.
If they do have any legal force, then that's a whole different story.
I'd love to. I enjoy seeing movies in a real theater.
But I have small children, so there is little opportunity to go out. Netflix and other online providers are my best hope for seeing any movies at all, and even then I see them only long after they've left the theaters.
Both a $10 gift card and a $100 bonus are well below what I would consider to be useful rewards. Considering that it costs a company thousands of dollars to keep a group of employees in a room for a day of brainstorming, a suitable reward for a successful outcome should be at least of the same magnitude.
Pathological brainstorming being the structured kind, where they bring in an outside facilitator who tells everyone that no idea should be criticized and that everyone should be given an equal chance to speak. This is what happens when the organization is in a rut, and upper management so is desperate that they are resorting to gimmicks.
Fuck that.
Get the right people in the same room with a whiteboard and let them go at it, no holds barred. I have seen amazing things accomplished in such situations. Introverts are usually fine in small groups, with people that they known or are stuck with for a while, especially when the topic is something about which they are passionate. Extroverts tend to talk too much, so being able to interrupt them is a necessity. Holding the session at an off-site location, away from where the participants normally work, helps get people out of their comfort zone. Judicious amounts of alcohol can lower people's inhibitions, which can be helpful in certain (but not all) kinds of brainstorming situations. A looming deadline, or perhaps a major award for success, can also help keep people focused and productively on task.
Being successful at brainstorming isn't the problem. What's really hard is getting bureaucratic support to implement the ideas that are created during the brainstorming session. But that's a whole 'nother rant.
It should be straightforward to write a filter to detect animated images with luminance variations of the right amplitude and frequency to cause seizures in susceptible individuals. These individuals could then enable the filter and be spared from this type of attack.
I wonder why the various browser and email application vendors have not implemented such, for ADA purposes.
It's not unusual for large religious organizations to send representatives to tech conferences. As other have mentioned, they have technology needs too.
I remember having a nice chat with a priest from the Vatican Observatory when we attended an astronomy conference, At a conference on human-computer interaction, I spoke with a gentleman from the Mormon church's genealogy arm.
These were actual technology conferences with peer-reviewed publications, unlike the more arts and entertainment focused SXSW.
They've discovered a new way to create powdered diamond. Quote from the lead researcher:
“I’ve never seen a diamond shatter like that. It was so powdered on the surface, it looked like baking soda or something like that.”
Robert Heinlein's "Waldo": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If that's true, there's more room for compression!
To compute the channel capacity, you need to know the channel's signal-to-noise ratio as well as its bandwidth.
The Shannon channel capacity formula is: C = B * log_2(1 + SNR) where C is the channel's capacity in bits/second, B is its bandwidth in hertz, log_2 is the base-2 logarithm and SNR is the channel's signal-to-noise ratio.
If we assume an SNR of 48 dB for a reasonable POTS line, its capacity would be C = 3 kHz * log_2(1 + 48 dB) ~= 3000 * log_2(63097) which is almost 48,000 bits per second.
This is a theoretical limit that realizable systems can only approach, but never equal or exceed. A practical system would also use extra bits for forward error correction purposes; I doubt that this codec deals gracefully with bit errors.
For back-of-the-envelope purposes, assume you could use this codec to send a single voice signal in 700 Hz of bandwidth on a channel with low SNR, or you could send 60 voice signals over a regular POTS line.
What makes you think they would let us flip their kill switches?
See here for one example.
Roy Moore got away with it for quite a while, and in an extremely egregious manner.
If it takes that much effort to get rid of a judge who is willing to completely ignore his oath to the constitution, I don't think anything will happen to an appellate judge who is merely trying to get higher courts to reconsider a previous decision. Like any other profession, judges protect their own.
Expect to see more shenanigans like this as the new administration emboldens fringe elements.
Many of these tech companies are located in areas that have a very high cost of living, so it's unfair to compare their intern salaries with average workers in the rest of the country. Also, many of these interns are either in high-demand programs at prestigious universities or already have degrees from them, and are doing actual productive work. They are not spending their time fetching coffee or shadowing real employees.
In my experience, technical internship programs are a good deal for both the company and the intern. They provide competent labor at a good price for the company and give students excellent opportunities for learning and growth.
The length of the cable is 12,800 km.
The speed of light is 300,000 km/sec.
The velocity factor of fiber is about 68%.
The data rate of the cable is 120e12 bits/sec.
The amount of time that the data stays in the cable is 12,800 km / (300,000 km/sec * 0.68) = 62.7 milliseconds. Multiplying that by the data rate of 120e12 bits per second yields about eight terabits or one terabyte. That is the amount of data "stored" in the cable, at any instant, during transit.
It's not much of an addition to the Google/Facebook data cosmoplex, but it is solid state, liquid cooled, highly distributed and largely immune from fires and small meteor strikes.
Unmanned ships could save money, weight, and space...
Seriously? The crew and crew quarters take up a significant fraction of the operating budget, weight and volume of a modern cargo ship? I'm not buying it.
Take a look at some of these ships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_ship
The simplest solution is to avoid doing business with anyone in the state of Indiana.
Once the economic costs of short-sighted legislation and stupid court decisions begin mounting, the state will change its laws.
A more accurate headline would be "Cell Phone Links to Cancer Only Found in Shitty Studies".