Any belief in the supernatural is begging for a disaster in the long run, be it Hinduism, Judaism, Animatrix, Obelix, Jesus, whatever. The violence you see in the Bible, Asterix and in the Wachowsky Epic is largely irrelevant. It is the belief as such which is the dangerous feed for the alienated.
"Researchers in the parallel processing community have been using Amdahl's Law and Gustafson's Law to obtain estimated speedups as measures of parallel program potential. In 1967, Amdahl's Law was used as an argument against massively parallel processing. Since 1988 Gustafson's Law has been used to justify massively parallel processing (MPP). Interestingly, a careful analysis reveals that these two laws are in fact identical. The well publicized arguments were resulted from misunderstandings of the nature of both laws.
This paper establishes the mathematical equivalence between Amdahl's Law and Gustafson's Law. We also focus on an often neglected prerequisite to applying the Amdahl's Law: the serial and parallel programs must compute the same total number of steps for the same input. There is a class of commonly used algorithms for which this prerequisite is hard to satisfy. For these algorithms, the law can be abused. A simple rule is provided to identify these algorithms.
We conclude that the use of the "serial percentage" concept in parallel performance evaluation is misleading. It has caused nearly three decades of confusion in the parallel processing community. This confusion disappears when processing times are used in the formulations. Therefore, we suggest that time-based formulations would be the most appropriate for parallel performance evaluation."
Hey, most Jews won't turn into Muslims anytime soon. And I can't think of a mass movement from Buddhism to Christianity either, or, Richard Dawkins losing it and believe in anything superstitious.
DNA? Not in many centuries. Look at Brazil, USA, Turkey, were segregation is rampant despite centuries of a mixing effect.
Culture? Hmm. We're almost there.
"In 2011 alone, Microsoft's R&D budget reached a record high of $9.6 billion (yes, with a "B").", "Blending touch and touchscreens" "Windows 8 will be a success"
Ok, I made up the last one.
Still, of course Google sees this as a long-term potential, perhaps decades away, or less. Volvo has the same thing, on the road:
There's a scene in the cult 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger film Total Recall in which our hero jumps in a driverless taxi, part of a fleet that ferries passengers around a nameless city, using unspecified technology to safely navigate traffic and pedestrians.
The sci-fi film is set in 2084. But the world's first fleet of self-driving city vehicles is almost here, 70 years ahead of schedule and courtesy of Volvo. The Swedish car maker is to unleash 100 of them on the public roads of Gothenburg in a two-year project.
It's called Drive Me, a joint initiative between the manufacturer and various local agencies. It's backed by the national government and designed to discover the benefits to society of autonomous driving. Positioning country and company as pioneers in the subject won't hurt either.
For now, five prototype Volvos have been let loose as the technology is perfected ahead of the January 2017 launch.
So, Google is perfectly in tune with the zeitgeist.
I was intrigued by your description and made an "aptitude search darktable" on my Debian system. It sure sounds like a nice piece of software I could have used for my gazillion photos.
To my utter surprise, the software "darktable" was already installed, and, I had apparently tagged two images the late summer 2013. I had no recollection of that... But, an "aptitude search sparetime" gave me the answer. I didn't have that.
The software may well be excellent, but, make sure you have both, the software and the spare time.
Start reading all those pdfs you have downloaded on your computer, but from your smartphone. Uninstall Candy Crush and any newslinks you surely have. Let Ebola, Snowden, Putin, Ferguson live on without your knowledge. Four hundred 15 page pdf-files takes a while to read, digest and understand. A 450 page book by Pynchon won't help your career, since you're a Slashdot-reader. Those pdf-files may well do just that.
Maybe so. But UK and Japan will prevail too, whence the Weyland-Yutani Corporation is a British/Japanese conglomerate. If you've seen the documentary you would know that Weyland-Yutani is even more daaark deeeeep blue; not that anyone would hear you scream that anyway.
http://pss.sagepub.com/content...
We used a new theory of the biological basis of the Big Five personality traits to generate hypotheses about the association of each trait with the volume of different brain regions. Controlling for age, sex, and whole-brain volume, results from structural magnetic resonance imaging of 116 healthy adults supported our hypotheses for four of the five traits: Extraversion, Neuroticism, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness. Extraversion covaried with volume of medial orbitofrontal cortex, a brain region involved in processing reward information. Neuroticism covaried with volume of brain regions associated with threat, punishment, and negative affect. Agreeableness covaried with volume in regions that process information about the intentions and mental states of other individuals. Conscientiousness covaried with volume in lateral prefrontal cortex, a region involved in planning and the voluntary control of behavior. These findings support our biologically based, explanatory model of the Big Five and demonstrate the potential of personality neuroscience (i.e., the systematic study of individual differences in personality using neuroscience methods) as a discipline.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
However, we did find that Openness/Intellect was associated—at p less than.01, uncorrected—with one region consistent with our hypotheses: an area of parietal cortex involved in working memory and the control of attention. A previous study found that a nearly identical region (Talairach coordinates: 46, 33, 45) showed the strongest correlation between neural activity (during a difficult working memory task) and intelligence (J.R. Gray et al., 2003). This finding is significant because Openness/Intellect is the only Big Five trait that has been consistently and positively associated with intelligence (DeYoung et al., 2005).
Slashdot Mirror
or Grrooink, gimme dat rock?? or Grroink, like to see cave etchings? I'm prone to think the latter
Any belief in the supernatural is begging for a disaster in the long run, be it Hinduism, Judaism, Animatrix, Obelix, Jesus, whatever. The violence you see in the Bible, Asterix and in the Wachowsky Epic is largely irrelevant. It is the belief as such which is the dangerous feed for the alienated.
Shi's Law
http://developers.slashdot.org...
http://spartan.cis.temple.edu/...
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
"Researchers in the parallel processing community have been using Amdahl's Law and Gustafson's Law to obtain estimated speedups as measures of parallel program potential. In 1967, Amdahl's Law was used as an argument against massively parallel processing. Since 1988 Gustafson's Law has been used to justify massively parallel processing (MPP). Interestingly, a careful analysis reveals that these two laws are in fact identical. The well publicized arguments were resulted from misunderstandings of the nature of both laws.
This paper establishes the mathematical equivalence between Amdahl's Law and Gustafson's Law. We also focus on an often neglected prerequisite to applying the Amdahl's Law: the serial and parallel programs must compute the same total number of steps for the same input. There is a class of commonly used algorithms for which this prerequisite is hard to satisfy. For these algorithms, the law can be abused. A simple rule is provided to identify these algorithms.
We conclude that the use of the "serial percentage" concept in parallel performance evaluation is misleading. It has caused nearly three decades of confusion in the parallel processing community. This confusion disappears when processing times are used in the formulations. Therefore, we suggest that time-based formulations would be the most appropriate for parallel performance evaluation."
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Hey, most Jews won't turn into Muslims anytime soon. And I can't think of a mass movement from Buddhism to Christianity either, or, Richard Dawkins losing it and believe in anything superstitious. DNA? Not in many centuries. Look at Brazil, USA, Turkey, were segregation is rampant despite centuries of a mixing effect. Culture? Hmm. We're almost there.
You are correct. ""the company continues to make the same mistake over and over. Google's mistake" is not a mistake.
:
Look:
"IBM Just Bet $3 Billion Of Its Research Budget On The Death Of Moore's Law" http://www.forbes.com/sites/al...
From "Microsoft, the world's best kept R&D secret" http://www.techhive.com/articl...
"In 2011 alone, Microsoft's R&D budget reached a record high of $9.6 billion (yes, with a "B").", "Blending touch and touchscreens" "Windows 8 will be a success"
Ok, I made up the last one.
Still, of course Google sees this as a long-term potential, perhaps decades away, or less. Volvo has the same thing, on the road:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/mot...
There's a scene in the cult 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger film Total Recall in which our hero jumps in a driverless taxi, part of a fleet that ferries passengers around a nameless city, using unspecified technology to safely navigate traffic and pedestrians.
The sci-fi film is set in 2084. But the world's first fleet of self-driving city vehicles is almost here, 70 years ahead of schedule and courtesy of Volvo. The Swedish car maker is to unleash 100 of them on the public roads of Gothenburg in a two-year project.
It's called Drive Me, a joint initiative between the manufacturer and various local agencies. It's backed by the national government and designed to discover the benefits to society of autonomous driving. Positioning country and company as pioneers in the subject won't hurt either.
For now, five prototype Volvos have been let loose as the technology is perfected ahead of the January 2017 launch.
So, Google is perfectly in tune with the zeitgeist.
Where can I rent a beagle for hunting? (1963)
Try http://huntingbeagle.gotop100.... (2014)
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I was intrigued by your description and made an "aptitude search darktable" on my Debian system. It sure sounds like a nice piece of software I could have used for my gazillion photos.
To my utter surprise, the software "darktable" was already installed, and, I had apparently tagged two images the late summer 2013. I had no recollection of that... But, an "aptitude search sparetime" gave me the answer. I didn't have that.
The software may well be excellent, but, make sure you have both, the software and the spare time.
Start reading all those pdfs you have downloaded on your computer, but from your smartphone. Uninstall Candy Crush and any newslinks you surely have. Let Ebola, Snowden, Putin, Ferguson live on without your knowledge. Four hundred 15 page pdf-files takes a while to read, digest and understand. A 450 page book by Pynchon won't help your career, since you're a Slashdot-reader. Those pdf-files may well do just that.
Maybe so. But UK and Japan will prevail too, whence the Weyland-Yutani Corporation is a British/Japanese conglomerate. If you've seen the documentary you would know that Weyland-Yutani is even more daaark deeeeep blue; not that anyone would hear you scream that anyway.
Curiosity ~ Openness
.01, uncorrected—with one region consistent with our hypotheses: an area of parietal cortex involved in working memory and the control of attention. A previous study found that a nearly identical region (Talairach coordinates: 46, 33, 45) showed the strongest correlation between neural activity (during a difficult working memory task) and intelligence (J.R. Gray et al., 2003). This finding is significant because Openness/Intellect is the only Big Five trait that has been consistently and positively associated with intelligence (DeYoung et al., 2005).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...
http://pss.sagepub.com/content...
We used a new theory of the biological basis of the Big Five personality traits to generate hypotheses about the association of each trait with the volume of different brain regions. Controlling for age, sex, and whole-brain volume, results from structural magnetic resonance imaging of 116 healthy adults supported our hypotheses for four of the five traits: Extraversion, Neuroticism, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness. Extraversion covaried with volume of medial orbitofrontal cortex, a brain region involved in processing reward information. Neuroticism covaried with volume of brain regions associated with threat, punishment, and negative affect. Agreeableness covaried with volume in regions that process information about the intentions and mental states of other individuals. Conscientiousness covaried with volume in lateral prefrontal cortex, a region involved in planning and the voluntary control of behavior. These findings support our biologically based, explanatory model of the Big Five and demonstrate the potential of personality neuroscience (i.e., the systematic study of individual differences in personality using neuroscience methods) as a discipline.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
However, we did find that Openness/Intellect was associated—at p less than
etc.