A number of famous mathematicians and physicists did a lot of great stuff before they were 25.
Unlike authors, musicians, and film makers, scientists don't get paid for the rest of their lives for things they did before they were 25. I know a couple scientists that were asking for change outside the 7-11 following their burn out, and several more doing the equivalent of working at the 7-11. If this kid really is an aspie, burning out is a bad option.
Yeah, science doesn't care if they live or die. Maybe society should.
I feel sorry for this kid, because these stories/videos aren't going to go away. The kid is talking about things he partially understands, and maybe he has some insights or ideas, but other people have probably already had those insights. He's got a lot more to learn before he'll be reworking general relativity. Maybe he'll be working on it in graduate school. The problem is, that these videos will follow him there.
I think this happens to all the physics freaks at that age, but we old timers didn't have video cameras following us around when we were explaining to the rest of the class why the detection of cosmic ray muons at ground level is good evidence for special relativity. I tried to build a version of special relativity with quantized space-time when I was in middle school. Of course I didn't succeed, but I've still got the papers somewhere. It's extremely stupid and I did learn things in the attempt. But with a little more knowledge I wouldn't have even tried it. But fortunately I (and more importantly, my colleagues) don't have video of TV interviews with a 13 year old me saying things that any physicist undergrad would know were wrong.
So let's leave the kid alone and let him fail at these unattainable goals without us looking. Then he will go to college and grad school and become a scientist that might actually do some of these things. If we keep bothering him, and make his inconsequential failures public, he'll probably end up an accountant.
There's a difference between not starting with object oriented programming and turning out computer science grads that have never been exposed to object oriented programming. The former is just fine. The latter is just stupid.
I guess it's the difference between whether you're turning out software engineers or whether you're turning out programmers. A programmer might only need to be able to understand a specific language or language family. A software engineer should be have a firm basis in every common language family, be it procedural, functional, object oriented, etc...
HTTPS requires greater administration, especially in multiple server setups where a session may talk to more than one machine during a session, and has higher computational overhead on the server. If you don't use https for every item on a page (to save computation or to use an http only server for content that doesn't need to be secure) the user gets an annoying warning.
I've never been on the Shuttle gantries, but have been on other ones at KSC and VAFB. You would think that there are lots of precautions, but there are lots of places up there where you can fall, especially if there's no vehicle on the pad or if you're working outside the gantry. Lots of edges to reach over to grab a cable and places where if you miss a foothold or handhold you'll be relying on one hand to hold you in place. Once workers have been there a while they treat such risks as routine and since mistakes are rare, falls are rare. Your tools are on tethers, so you can't drop one and damage the vehicle. You yourself are not on a tether.
Even scarier is the receiver platform at Arecibo. There a lot of places where workers go without any railings, and small gaps to be crossed where you can look down 500 feet and see the holes dropped hard hats and tools make in the dish, this video doesn't do it justice. You gotta be there. Every decade or so, someone does take a fall there.
Even if Northside had his facts straight, he should have gone to the police, not to the public. Sure, we may know now that the researcher was guilty, but what happened to due process?
You misunderstand... From what I have been able to observe for the past couple years, there doesn't seem to be anything illegal about mortgage fraud. I assume he was fired for having an unreported conflict of interest in his research.
Do you assume that just because atmospheric CO2 is high that global warming is inevitable and that if CO2 is high it must be anthropogenic in nature and therefore the global warming is anthropogenic? If so, this is an overly simplistic (albeit common) view of the way the universe operates.
No, I believe that the change in CO2 levels is primarily anthropogenic because studies have shown that to be the case with reasonable confidence limits. And yes, high CO2 level will undoubtedly bring on warming which will lead to still higher CO2 levels especially if we don't reduce our contribution. You apparently discount those studies because they contradict what you wish to believe.
There is not merely one Milankovich cycle.
Of course not, but the summed effect is properly referred to in the singular. It is in the summed effect that we are in a cooling cycle and I don't see anything of shorter period indicating enough warming to contradict that. Of course the problem with these cycles is that only the additive effects of many smaller components is visible in the paleoclimate record, with no indication of the short period changes seen.
What makes you think I believe any of those things?
You seem to think that you understand how I'm wired... I just thought I'd show you how it feels to have your scientific value system challenged with little or nothing to go on...
The only value system I have as a scientist is "Reality is what the evidence shows it to be. Reasonable theories must predict the evidence." The theory behind the energy balance of the earth is very solid, and it predicts warming when atmospheric CO2 increases. CO2 level has been rising for the last 150 years and are now the highest in at least 800,000 years. Studies indicate it's primarily anthropogenic. It's been getting warmer for many decades with each of the last 3 decades being the warmest on record. Models for determining how warm it will get are still relatively crude but can fit past warming and predict continued warming of 2 to 7C by 2100 (using different assumptions). That's reality. The challenge for preventing it is to increase cloud cover substantially, or to make the atmosphere more transparent to IR while killing off the least number of people.
But, everyone on FOX News wants you to believe it's not happening because it snowed. So let's pretend it's not.
The GPL was designed long before the App Store existed, and before RMS started violating your mother. The AppStore was designed to prevent apps from using the GPL, not the other converse.
Actually that is an unresolved legal question. Suppose I write an app and offer it through the App Store licensed as GPLv2 and with the download provide appropriate license, copyright and download information. If I haven't modified the license, it states that the user may distribute the downloaded binary provided they offer to provide source. The App Store terms of service say he may not do so. Suppose he somehow cracks and distributes it and Apple goes after him. And he counter sues both me and Apple. Am I guilty for violating a legal agreement (to allow redistribution of the binary) between me an the user? Probably. I'm sure whatever agreement an app writer signs with Apple indemnifies them in such cases. In which case I pay damages to the user and to Apple and any legal costs they have.
The App Store could be compatible with the GPL, if Steve Jobs didn't have the "my way or the highway" stick up his ass. The App Store is either poorly designed, or well designed if violating the GPL is you main goal.
It's likely that Apple's distribution of X-code with GPLv2 components is illegal if the AppStore terms of service restrict redistribution of the downloaded software. If those terms exist, it doesn't matter if source code were included, because the person downloading Xcode would be restricted from redistributing in either source or binary form. Simple as that. For distribution to be stopped, one of the GCC copyright holders would need to complain.
Informative, and most speculative, but probably wrong. For those not near the plant, the best bet is to wait for some answers (which will probably involve a coolant pipe burst due to high reactor vessel pressure rather than a hydrogen explosion). For those near the plant, if you've got somewhere else to, go there until things are under control and fallout has been mapped..
Too many VORs are getting dismantled in order to save money. I don't think there ever was sufficient ground level VOR coverage to act as any kind of a GPS backup. Nation/world wide LORAN coverage might be an option, but gridded WAAS might be better.
You may or may not be a scientist, but if you're trying to argue that we should be skeptical about AGW because of all effects that amplify the effects of AGW, either you're trying to confuse the issue, or not very good at making your points. Our position in the current Milankovich cycle points to cooling, not warming. We entered a mild cooling period about 6kya and it should last for another 25ky whereupon we will enter a warming period. No glacial period is expected for at least 160ky.
I don't know the details of the supervolcano guy's dismissal.
But you apparently know that it was because of his questioning of AGW because the climate record doesn't include supervolcanos.
I don't assume that you're a non-scientific sycophant just because you believe (1) that extraterrestrial intelligence exists and (2) that it would be possible to make contact with them and (3) that Frank Drake is not full of BS... The Drake Equation
What makes you think I believe any of those things? Science isn't about belief, it's about theory and evidence. The existence of extraterrestrial intelligence is possible. It may be possible to detect extraterrestrial civilizations that broadcast. The parameters of the Drake equation are too uncertain to do more that set an upper limit to the number of transmitting species in the Galaxy. The equation we never meant to provide a definitive number of civilizations, but just to explore possibilities. Frank Drake himself will tell you that. If you're using for something beyond that, well, that's your problem.
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All money made in the markets is parasitic.
A number of famous mathematicians and physicists did a lot of great stuff before they were 25.
Unlike authors, musicians, and film makers, scientists don't get paid for the rest of their lives for things they did before they were 25. I know a couple scientists that were asking for change outside the 7-11 following their burn out, and several more doing the equivalent of working at the 7-11. If this kid really is an aspie, burning out is a bad option.
Yeah, science doesn't care if they live or die. Maybe society should.
I feel sorry for this kid, because these stories/videos aren't going to go away. The kid is talking about things he partially understands, and maybe he has some insights or ideas, but other people have probably already had those insights. He's got a lot more to learn before he'll be reworking general relativity. Maybe he'll be working on it in graduate school. The problem is, that these videos will follow him there.
I think this happens to all the physics freaks at that age, but we old timers didn't have video cameras following us around when we were explaining to the rest of the class why the detection of cosmic ray muons at ground level is good evidence for special relativity. I tried to build a version of special relativity with quantized space-time when I was in middle school. Of course I didn't succeed, but I've still got the papers somewhere. It's extremely stupid and I did learn things in the attempt. But with a little more knowledge I wouldn't have even tried it. But fortunately I (and more importantly, my colleagues) don't have video of TV interviews with a 13 year old me saying things that any physicist undergrad would know were wrong.
So let's leave the kid alone and let him fail at these unattainable goals without us looking. Then he will go to college and grad school and become a scientist that might actually do some of these things. If we keep bothering him, and make his inconsequential failures public, he'll probably end up an accountant.
There's a difference between not starting with object oriented programming and turning out computer science grads that have never been exposed to object oriented programming. The former is just fine. The latter is just stupid.
I guess it's the difference between whether you're turning out software engineers or whether you're turning out programmers. A programmer might only need to be able to understand a specific language or language family. A software engineer should be have a firm basis in every common language family, be it procedural, functional, object oriented, etc...
They don't meet some of the criteria of the common definition(s) of life.
I know some biologists that don't meet some of the criteria. It's usually in the "reproduction" area where they have problems.
That's President Hu to you.
True Capitalism requires the freedom to act in ones own self interest and the that there be no force used to compel any sacrifice to others.
In other words, throughout recorded history there's never been a capitalist country because capitalism is incompatible with the concept of society?
Where do you get this bullshit?/aP
Damn lack of mod points...
Wish I had mod points.
HTTPS requires greater administration, especially in multiple server setups where a session may talk to more than one machine during a session, and has higher computational overhead on the server. If you don't use https for every item on a page (to save computation or to use an http only server for content that doesn't need to be secure) the user gets an annoying warning.
Except I suggested they make their plants out of used bottles.
I've never been on the Shuttle gantries, but have been on other ones at KSC and VAFB. You would think that there are lots of precautions, but there are lots of places up there where you can fall, especially if there's no vehicle on the pad or if you're working outside the gantry. Lots of edges to reach over to grab a cable and places where if you miss a foothold or handhold you'll be relying on one hand to hold you in place. Once workers have been there a while they treat such risks as routine and since mistakes are rare, falls are rare. Your tools are on tethers, so you can't drop one and damage the vehicle. You yourself are not on a tether.
Even scarier is the receiver platform at Arecibo. There a lot of places where workers go without any railings, and small gaps to be crossed where you can look down 500 feet and see the holes dropped hard hats and tools make in the dish, this video doesn't do it justice. You gotta be there. Every decade or so, someone does take a fall there.
Even if Northside had his facts straight, he should have gone to the police, not to the public. Sure, we may know now that the researcher was guilty, but what happened to due process?
You misunderstand... From what I have been able to observe for the past couple years, there doesn't seem to be anything illegal about mortgage fraud. I assume he was fired for having an unreported conflict of interest in his research.
Do you assume that just because atmospheric CO2 is high that global warming is inevitable and that if CO2 is high it must be anthropogenic in nature and therefore the global warming is anthropogenic? If so, this is an overly simplistic (albeit common) view of the way the universe operates.
No, I believe that the change in CO2 levels is primarily anthropogenic because studies have shown that to be the case with reasonable confidence limits. And yes, high CO2 level will undoubtedly bring on warming which will lead to still higher CO2 levels especially if we don't reduce our contribution. You apparently discount those studies because they contradict what you wish to believe.
There is not merely one Milankovich cycle.
Of course not, but the summed effect is properly referred to in the singular. It is in the summed effect that we are in a cooling cycle and I don't see anything of shorter period indicating enough warming to contradict that. Of course the problem with these cycles is that only the additive effects of many smaller components is visible in the paleoclimate record, with no indication of the short period changes seen.
What makes you think I believe any of those things?
You seem to think that you understand how I'm wired... I just thought I'd show you how it feels to have your scientific value system challenged with little or nothing to go on...
The only value system I have as a scientist is "Reality is what the evidence shows it to be. Reasonable theories must predict the evidence." The theory behind the energy balance of the earth is very solid, and it predicts warming when atmospheric CO2 increases. CO2 level has been rising for the last 150 years and are now the highest in at least 800,000 years. Studies indicate it's primarily anthropogenic. It's been getting warmer for many decades with each of the last 3 decades being the warmest on record. Models for determining how warm it will get are still relatively crude but can fit past warming and predict continued warming of 2 to 7C by 2100 (using different assumptions). That's reality. The challenge for preventing it is to increase cloud cover substantially, or to make the atmosphere more transparent to IR while killing off the least number of people.
But, everyone on FOX News wants you to believe it's not happening because it snowed. So let's pretend it's not.
The GPL was designed long before the App Store existed, and before RMS started violating your mother. The AppStore was designed to prevent apps from using the GPL, not the other converse.
So you're saying you don't mind me taking your work and passing it off as my own, so long as I don't erase your hard drive?
Actually that is an unresolved legal question. Suppose I write an app and offer it through the App Store licensed as GPLv2 and with the download provide appropriate license, copyright and download information. If I haven't modified the license, it states that the user may distribute the downloaded binary provided they offer to provide source. The App Store terms of service say he may not do so. Suppose he somehow cracks and distributes it and Apple goes after him. And he counter sues both me and Apple. Am I guilty for violating a legal agreement (to allow redistribution of the binary) between me an the user? Probably. I'm sure whatever agreement an app writer signs with Apple indemnifies them in such cases. In which case I pay damages to the user and to Apple and any legal costs they have.
So you like having your work stolen?
The App Store could be compatible with the GPL, if Steve Jobs didn't have the "my way or the highway" stick up his ass. The App Store is either poorly designed, or well designed if violating the GPL is you main goal.
It's likely that Apple's distribution of X-code with GPLv2 components is illegal if the AppStore terms of service restrict redistribution of the downloaded software. If those terms exist, it doesn't matter if source code were included, because the person downloading Xcode would be restricted from redistributing in either source or binary form. Simple as that. For distribution to be stopped, one of the GCC copyright holders would need to complain.
Informative, and most speculative, but probably wrong. For those not near the plant, the best bet is to wait for some answers (which will probably involve a coolant pipe burst due to high reactor vessel pressure rather than a hydrogen explosion). For those near the plant, if you've got somewhere else to, go there until things are under control and fallout has been mapped..
You need a compass and landmarks to determine where on the map you are.
You've grown too reliant on technology if you need the compass.
Too many VORs are getting dismantled in order to save money. I don't think there ever was sufficient ground level VOR coverage to act as any kind of a GPS backup. Nation/world wide LORAN coverage might be an option, but gridded WAAS might be better.
You may or may not be a scientist, but if you're trying to argue that we should be skeptical about AGW because of all effects that amplify the effects of AGW, either you're trying to confuse the issue, or not very good at making your points. Our position in the current Milankovich cycle points to cooling, not warming. We entered a mild cooling period about 6kya and it should last for another 25ky whereupon we will enter a warming period. No glacial period is expected for at least 160ky.
I don't know the details of the supervolcano guy's dismissal.
But you apparently know that it was because of his questioning of AGW because the climate record doesn't include supervolcanos.
I don't assume that you're a non-scientific sycophant just because you believe (1) that extraterrestrial intelligence exists and (2) that it would be possible to make contact with them and (3) that Frank Drake is not full of BS... The Drake Equation
What makes you think I believe any of those things? Science isn't about belief, it's about theory and evidence. The existence of extraterrestrial intelligence is possible. It may be possible to detect extraterrestrial civilizations that broadcast. The parameters of the Drake equation are too uncertain to do more that set an upper limit to the number of transmitting species in the Galaxy. The equation we never meant to provide a definitive number of civilizations, but just to explore possibilities. Frank Drake himself will tell you that. If you're using for something beyond that, well, that's your problem.
There are any number of mathematical problems with his composition that an extremely picky person could point out.
1. Since there are 8 notes in an octave, maybe he should have used a base 8 representation of PI rather than a base 10 representation
2. Notes in a scale are logarithmically spaced, so maybe he should have used log(PI) represented in base 8.
3. A full octave is a factor of 2 in frequency, so maybe he should have used log_2(PI) represented in base 8.
4. The entire composition could be simplified to one note by using base PI
5. No notes would be necessary at all if the composition were specified as log_PI(PI)-1. Some people just can't learn to simplify their work