check that, it was alan alda doing a scientific american frontier special, not nova.
Nova ran a show on this technology
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It's not a panacea but at least it's an innovative approach. Countries under the Kyoto Protocol might get points for using this. As an added bonus the boffins gather every morning for an algea slurpie. On tv they all chugged down the thick green slop while bravely smiling.
"Their answer was to eschew emotions. I believe one of Lucas's themes is that their choice was wrong."
I agree. Not only does Lucas key on the need for love but he keys on the love of the nuclear family and especially maternal love. There's an amusing anecdote of a young spanish boy chosen by itinerate Buddhist monks, who inform the boy's mother that her son was spiritually advanced, and, was meant to be schooled in their faith. The monks wanted to take the boy with them to be schooled. The mother refused, saying, even a Buddah needed his mother.
On a more mundane note Romanian orphans, who had been given room and board but no love and who were adopted, for the most part, by North American families, were found to be devoid of empathy and unable to consider the needs of others. David Suzuki approached this subject in his book The Sacred Balance. While Anakin was taken from his mother at a very early age and denied continuing maternal love Luke was raised in a nuclear family with, we assume, adequate maternal love.
Speaking personally I support FOSS because my mom taught me to play nice and to share.
In order to hypothesize we simplify. Using the idea of Occam's Razor we make a number of assumptions and the assumptions we make have a number of presuppositons attached to them. This is how we hypothesize in order to predict and once our predictions are shown to be correct we theorize. Gregory Bateson investigated these ideas in his book Mind and Nature. Smart people should defend dumb/wrong ideas, if they are concerned about falsification as the leading idea in the progress of scince, because the smarter the person the more likely the argument will be logical and the more logical the argument the more able we are to potentially falsify or verify it.
Your sig: "If you find this post offensive, don't read it!"
Do you suffer from some weird kind of epistemological dyslexia? Do you, unlike the rest of us, have some grok like, gestalten faculity that allows you to sense whether a post is offensive before you read it? Ah, you are a l337 jedi, able to sense the dark side.
'Using the highly scientific method Trial and Error'
While reading K. Popper my then wife asked me what I was studying. I replied that I was studying the hypothetical-deductive method, being a smart assed lawyer she replied: "You mean trail and error." I'm not sure, even now, that in its bare essentials they aren't one in the same.
My ex-wife is a successful lawyer and dictating onto tape takes up a big parcel of her time. I think speech recognition is an obvious, lucrative area for MS to move into.
Thanks for the check. I remembered reading the Reg article and wondered why there hadn't been more reporting, as it seemed fairly innovative. The Coq proof assistant home page.
While the trajectory might be up for question, it's still well to note MS throws huge amounts of resources at its product line. Recently The Reg ran an article noting researchers at MS... "have devised a computer program that verifies the correctness of
its own calculations, and applied it to the four colour problem. It constructs a precise mathematical proof and checks that it follows the strict rules of formal logic."
OO and MS Office will soon be commodities and interchangeable and good enough for the majority of users, but MS is always going to pushing the envelope in areas like speech recognition and, now, it seems, self-checking programs.
Hi, I don't think the US would ever use force against Canada, there's just too much good will between us. Having said that my cultural event horizon is limited to being straight, middle class, milk toast. (I'm still watching reruns of Freinds.) I've only ever wanted for anything when I chose to be poor for a while out of school, so my view has a strong, class bias, but I've never encountered any ill will to Americans in Canada. I've family across the country and I was educated in Ontario, Quebec (basically partied my brains out if Quebec City), Alberta and B.C., and, cross country, we seem to like Americans. Americans are accomplished negotiators but I don't think either country will ever undermine our relationship, or, for that matter, I don't think the US, Britian and Canada will ever not come to the aide of one another.
Good stats, sorry about your dad, hopefully we'll clean up the waiting lists. On the west coast things are still not up to scratch, but with the extra dollars the Feds have put in maybe we'll get things under control. After a cycling trip to Montreal I lived there for a year and the public services infrastructure was deplorable.
It's a very difficult and serious situation, and, I hope we can pull together to resolve the issues. I tried to find a recent report that pointed to the Ohio river system (watershed) encroaching on the lakes. IIRC the two watersheds are now only a few klicks apart, if the Lakes start draining into the Ohio/Mississippi system it's going to trigger a radical change. Water's an ongoing interest of mine, it's one of, if not the most, fascinating compound; including the fact that, other than "just so stories", we haven't adequately explained how the earth came to be so water rich
The idea has been around a long time but then so has John Craven. Toronto is using the waters of Lake Ontario to provide air conditioning for a big slice of downtown realestate. The big problem with the Great Lakes is the needs of the urban sprawl that circles the Lakes' shores is putting stress on the resource, not to mention the political fray ensuing from many plans to alter the in/out flow of the watershed feeding the lakes. Being Canadian and watching the growing need for water in the US just makes me feel like we're gonna be on top of the quality of life index for a long time to come.
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"Why is this so scary?"
My guess is it's so very scary for their children.
The 9/11 anniversary and psychosis
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"The D'Souzas said the bombardment began after the first anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks"
There's an interesting, if not well defined, link between trauma and psychosis. Delusions and paranoia seem to have a strong link to widely shared public "concerns". I recently talked with a psychiatrist about paraniod schizophrenics and mentioned that there seemed to be a recurring theme of religious delusion and persecution. He, in return, said that in the 50's, paranoid schizophrenics, frequently complained of persecution by communists. The bogey man of the day seems to morph readily into paranoid delusions.
On a less humane note, it's scary these people are procreating, but just to help things along this site should validate their paranoia.
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"Uh you are really overselling the worth of the ISS"
Yes I am, while not wanting to appear flippant, I noted Stonehenge as an example of making a people in the image of an icon or wonder. I'm suggesting we build, and even overbuild, not because it's economically feasible but because it will meld the efforts of several nations in a symbol that transcends political differences. The spinoffs from developing and implementing new and bleeding edge technology are manifold and not always apparent. What I'm suggesting verges on a technological totemism and, as such, may seem bathotic, but I think we are subject to a very primitive brain barely overridden by the executive center of the cortex, and likely to respond very positively to making the ISS a la the Tower of Bable. When has space exploration been an economically driven enterprise? There is probably no similar project in all of history that didn't pork feed contractors.
One of the biggest blunders to come from the baby boomer generation was the demonization of nuclear power and it was extended to the Orion project. It may be that a transnational enterprise would manage to escape the hysteria surrounding nuclear powered spacecraft giving support to Project Prometheus. (It's not uninteresting as an aside that James Lovelock, formulator of the famed, Gaia hypothesis now advocates development of nuclear power because were out of time to search out alternatives in the face of depletion and pollution of oil.)
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The International Space Station, failures, warts and all, represented a transnation project akin to projects like Stonehenge. Throughout histroy war has acted as a dissemenation tool for culture. An example being Alexander's Hellenization of the cradle of western civilization and the near east. Often conquerers press ganged the conquered into building new wonders to punctuate and perpetuate their victories. The ISS representes an undertaking by many nations to take the first semipermanent step to get us off mother earth. The ISS also could be the only, presently, viable, safe haven for gene banks, living and frozen, to repopulate the earth in case of a worldwide disaster scenario. The USA is in a postion to lead the way to put the ISS back in play as a means and symbol to represent a peaceful transnational implementation of world class science, while sharing the cost burden. I would rather governments, transparent and accountable (at least in theory... Churchill: "democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others") than private corporations be the builders and keepers of the ISS.
I read Toynbee and weird O. Spengler some years ago, along with many other historians but I can't recall a term that represents the construction of monuments to cement nation building.
Archimedes claimed: "Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world."
He developed the claim into The Claw, which must have been a wonder to see in action. I've never been able to find out if the Roman soldier who killed him was punished or had anything to say. Archimedes was an engineer who applied the principles of Euclidean geometry.
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In the good 'ol USA science is suggesting the advertising dollar take the back seat. I don't think so... the military industrial complex is pushing ahead with weapons in space in the face of many nations wanting to keep space weapons free and the scientific community thinks advertisiing will be kept out of space?
All else being equal is a presupposition to what is presented here and in most stories posted on/. The end user is the final arbitrator and, as far as I can tell, the end user decided with Win 95 and Office 97 that things were good enough, they just worked. This is reflected in the growing stickiness in Windows users who are slow to upgrade. The GUI is good enough, the apps suffice and even if a new killer app comes along it's unlikely to be the impetus to change that was Visical or Lotus 123. Linux will gain a larger share as Windows apps and FOSS apps become commodities, indistinguishable from one another. But the IT industry now works under the hood out of the limelight and no one has to stay abreast of their innovations in order to have an edge over the competitors (excepting those industries which still rely on modelling using the bleeding edge of the technological curve). It's been done. It just works and "some guy/girl" in the office pool can undertake to learn Access or Excel without going to night school. The only thing that will change the business use of IT products is something to come along that again gives an obvious advantage to early adopters, but this is nowhere on the horizon. The only thing in the pike is more better, a la 64 bit dual core chips.
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check that, it was alan alda doing a scientific american frontier special, not nova.
It's not a panacea but at least it's an innovative approach. Countries under the Kyoto Protocol might get points for using this. As an added bonus the boffins gather every morning for an algea slurpie. On tv they all chugged down the thick green slop while bravely smiling.
I agree. Not only does Lucas key on the need for love but he keys on the love of the nuclear family and especially maternal love. There's an amusing anecdote of a young spanish boy chosen by itinerate Buddhist monks, who inform the boy's mother that her son was spiritually advanced, and, was meant to be schooled in their faith. The monks wanted to take the boy with them to be schooled. The mother refused, saying, even a Buddah needed his mother.
On a more mundane note Romanian orphans, who had been given room and board but no love and who were adopted, for the most part, by North American families, were found to be devoid of empathy and unable to consider the needs of others. David Suzuki approached this subject in his book The Sacred Balance. While Anakin was taken from his mother at a very early age and denied continuing maternal love Luke was raised in a nuclear family with, we assume, adequate maternal love.
Speaking personally I support FOSS because my mom taught me to play nice and to share.
In order to hypothesize we simplify. Using the idea of Occam's Razor we make a number of assumptions and the assumptions we make have a number of presuppositons attached to them. This is how we hypothesize in order to predict and once our predictions are shown to be correct we theorize. Gregory Bateson investigated these ideas in his book Mind and Nature. Smart people should defend dumb/wrong ideas, if they are concerned about falsification as the leading idea in the progress of scince, because the smarter the person the more likely the argument will be logical and the more logical the argument the more able we are to potentially falsify or verify it.
That would be Buridan's Ass between two piles of hay.
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15 languages
Do you suffer from some weird kind of epistemological dyslexia? Do you, unlike the rest of us, have some grok like, gestalten faculity that allows you to sense whether a post is offensive before you read it? Ah, you are a l337 jedi, able to sense the dark side.
While reading K. Popper my then wife asked me what I was studying. I replied that I was studying the hypothetical-deductive method, being a smart assed lawyer she replied: "You mean trail and error." I'm not sure, even now, that in its bare essentials they aren't one in the same.
My ex-wife is a successful lawyer and dictating onto tape takes up a big parcel of her time. I think speech recognition is an obvious, lucrative area for MS to move into.
Thanks for the check. I remembered reading the Reg article and wondered why there hadn't been more reporting, as it seemed fairly innovative. The Coq proof assistant home page.
OO and MS Office will soon be commodities and interchangeable and good enough for the majority of users, but MS is always going to pushing the envelope in areas like speech recognition and, now, it seems, self-checking programs.
Just my $.02
cheers
I was going more with the Most and Least Livable Countries: UN Human Development Index.
cheers
The idea has been around a long time but then so has John Craven. Toronto is using the waters of Lake Ontario to provide air conditioning for a big slice of downtown realestate. The big problem with the Great Lakes is the needs of the urban sprawl that circles the Lakes' shores is putting stress on the resource, not to mention the political fray ensuing from many plans to alter the in/out flow of the watershed feeding the lakes. Being Canadian and watching the growing need for water in the US just makes me feel like we're gonna be on top of the quality of life index for a long time to come.
My guess is it's so very scary for their children.
There's an interesting, if not well defined, link between trauma and psychosis. Delusions and paranoia seem to have a strong link to widely shared public "concerns". I recently talked with a psychiatrist about paraniod schizophrenics and mentioned that there seemed to be a recurring theme of religious delusion and persecution. He, in return, said that in the 50's, paranoid schizophrenics, frequently complained of persecution by communists. The bogey man of the day seems to morph readily into paranoid delusions.
On a less humane note, it's scary these people are procreating, but just to help things along this site should validate their paranoia.
Yes I am, while not wanting to appear flippant, I noted Stonehenge as an example of making a people in the image of an icon or wonder. I'm suggesting we build, and even overbuild, not because it's economically feasible but because it will meld the efforts of several nations in a symbol that transcends political differences. The spinoffs from developing and implementing new and bleeding edge technology are manifold and not always apparent. What I'm suggesting verges on a technological totemism and, as such, may seem bathotic, but I think we are subject to a very primitive brain barely overridden by the executive center of the cortex, and likely to respond very positively to making the ISS a la the Tower of Bable. When has space exploration been an economically driven enterprise? There is probably no similar project in all of history that didn't pork feed contractors.
One of the biggest blunders to come from the baby boomer generation was the demonization of nuclear power and it was extended to the Orion project. It may be that a transnational enterprise would manage to escape the hysteria surrounding nuclear powered spacecraft giving support to Project Prometheus. (It's not uninteresting as an aside that James Lovelock, formulator of the famed, Gaia hypothesis now advocates development of nuclear power because were out of time to search out alternatives in the face of depletion and pollution of oil.)
Q & Q Archive hours of interesting stuff.
I read Toynbee and weird O. Spengler some years ago, along with many other historians but I can't recall a term that represents the construction of monuments to cement nation building.
just my .01 cent.
He developed the claim into The Claw, which must have been a wonder to see in action. I've never been able to find out if the Roman soldier who killed him was punished or had anything to say. Archimedes was an engineer who applied the principles of Euclidean geometry.
In the good 'ol USA science is suggesting the advertising dollar take the back seat. I don't think so... the military industrial complex is pushing ahead with weapons in space in the face of many nations wanting to keep space weapons free and the scientific community thinks advertisiing will be kept out of space?
Not to Troll "yer" cowboy Let's Roll, but... ermm remember 1812? Oh yes we can do it again.
All else being equal is a presupposition to what is presented here and in most stories posted on /. The end user is the final arbitrator and, as far as I can tell, the end user decided with Win 95 and Office 97 that things were good enough, they just worked. This is reflected in the growing stickiness in Windows users who are slow to upgrade. The GUI is good enough, the apps suffice and even if a new killer app comes along it's unlikely to be the impetus to change that was Visical or Lotus 123. Linux will gain a larger share as Windows apps and FOSS apps become commodities, indistinguishable from one another. But the IT industry now works under the hood out of the limelight and no one has to stay abreast of their innovations in order to have an edge over the competitors (excepting those industries which still rely on modelling using the bleeding edge of the technological curve). It's been done. It just works and "some guy/girl" in the office pool can undertake to learn Access or Excel without going to night school. The only thing that will change the business use of IT products is something to come along that again gives an obvious advantage to early adopters, but this is nowhere on the horizon. The only thing in the pike is more better, a la 64 bit dual core chips.
I kill the chicken. I cook the chicken. I eat the chicken... human-poultry interaction system