I'm not sure if you have a Ph.D. or are a university professor - if you are, I'd just like to ask a question (as a student hopefully working towards a Ph.D.).
From my understanding, most Universities choose new professors or tenure track lecturers based on two things: quality of their education / teaching ability, and quality of their researching ability. The first is difficult but possible to judge: one can look at past teaching performances, the advisor, grades, etc; the second is difficult but nearly *impossible* to judge: it is very difficult to judge someone for highly theoretical physics for which only a very small portion of the world can verify results (as in the case of Schoen). What better way to judge #2 than by looking at the quality of research publications which have been verified by an outside source?
Not only tbat, but many Ph.D.'s (and other research projects) are replicated by other researchers seeking to add conclusions or experiments to your work.
While it's understandably part of the scientific method (replication, replication, replication), there's very little more frustrating than investing a large amount of time and energy into a project you hope to persue for a long time, only to find out that the original researcher's results are inaccurate or irreproducible.
In the case of falsifying data, especially data that appeared to be important and well published, hundreds of thousands of dollars could have been lost invested in research projects that never materialized, and hundreds of other scientists wasted important time from their careers gaining no benefits.
You're definately right about the "negative". Yech.
If you read the article, you'll note that the researchers aren't using EEG, which is part of the reference you include in your seperate post.
The difference between an EEG and the technique they use in this study is invasiveness - EEGs are Non-Invasive, that is, they don't need to stick anything into your head (they attach electrodes at various points on the skull corresponding to lobes of the brain) - this study uses the ECoG, a more invasive technique for monitoring brain activity.
Note that the "breakthrough" was in acquisition of the task. This increased acquisition level may lead to much faster experimentation. Of course, the acquisition comes at a cost - invasive surgery.
Just thought I'd keep you up to article, there. =)
No kidding! I had a friend who was an airline industry worker, and every time we saw the "Aircraft Control Simulato" game in a videogame store, we always used to joke about how people sit at their desk and drag cigarettes like mad while tearing their hair out and getting no sleep.
It's like, the most stressful job in the world. Why anyone would want to simulate that is faaaar beyond me.
I mean, this post might be modded funny, but I swear, I didn't make it up. It's right out of the article.
"Our revenue for the second quarter was consistent with our expectation and we also incurred significant expenses for the impairment of goodwill and intangibles and for the exchange of our Series A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock. Both of these charges negatively impacted our second quarter results," said Darl McBride, President and CEO. "As the company looks forward to the last two quarters of fiscal year 2004 we are committed to increasing shareholder value through profitable operations and increasing cash flow from our UNIX division as well as remaining focused on our intellectual property lawsuits and licensing strategies."
Sometimes you don't even have to try to make a funny post, because the dialogue you'd put in Darl's mouth is actually less funny than his own idiotic ramblings.
An interesting development in the world of scientific literature is the "cyberbook" - a peer-reviewed, edited book available for free online.
This book, as the editor describes, contains many things which print journals cannot: high quality color figures, interactive demonstrations, videos of the task, and a wide range of contribution.
It's also searchable.
The book is about avian visual cognition, and available free as free from here:
It would be a very interesting business model to employ something similar to Bit-Torrent for their distribution system. I immediately thought of the same problem, until I realized the incredible transfer rates you'd achieve with thousands of customers using an automated distributed content system.
A caveat would be that they'd have to have a large number of servers to handle the load of "esoteric" titles - that is, movies that only a very few people will download at any given time. Also, the distribution would be much faster for popular movies - Bit-Torrent relies on swarming and things.
But it'd be really interesting to see this kind of an implementation, even if they did rewrite the original.
Geeks must have some sort of Advertising Impairment Syndrome, where in order to make a brand-name, they take the most unpronouncable and esoteric combinations of characters and stick them together.
It's like all the crazies who go ballistic at people when people don't pronounce a hard "G" at the beginning of "Gnome". Why the fuck should they? It's pronounced differently in every other word beginning with "G-N".
This might get modded flamebait, but every geek on slashdot knows it's true. Slashdot ITSELF is an example (tee hee! "http colon slash slash slash dot dot org!"). It IS cool, but it severely impedes the chances that anyone will ever recognize your product, or even download it, because if I had a conversation with a friend about this, I'd never be able to go google for it without specifically asking how to spell it.
Which is clearly the difference between the US and Europe, as the US currently gives out Patents for the most ridiculous stuff ever.
Just the other day, Microsoft got "A composite protocol system for reintegration of nebulon tubes while simultaneously dispersing intrusive or invasive window-images during a depression of the first actualization lever on a hand-held pointing device" for SP2's popup blocker. Or that's what I'm told.
I'm pretty sure the #1 Tech Support answer for Everything is "Reboot", which is now called all sorts of high-tech things like "Power Cycle".
I hate being told to "Power Cycle". It must be someplace in the Comcast tech-support handbook. But it gives me a good chuckle.
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Are you trying to say that you hit the caps key twice for every capital letter you need to type that's not in a big row of them? You really hit the caps key at the start of every sentence?
Mix solid Nitric Iodine with househould ammonia. Wait overnight and then pour off the liquid. You will be left with a muddy substance. Let this dry till it hardens. Now throw it at something!!!!
Read the last sentence. What was your point, exactly?
He didn't actually use the stuff on other people's crops, or do any of these things that he *could* have done. He advocated doing it.
I mean, there are plenty of organizations in America which advocate doing ridiculous things, none of which are called in to testify on charges of actually doing the things with no concrete evidence. I mean, being a member of a white supremacist group and owning a machine gun doesn't mean you're a murdering psycho and can be thrown away for it, even I'd wager most Americans are strongly against white supremacists and a good deal of them are against high-powered weapon ownership.
I dunno, but surely it wouldn't be very hard to perl script number strings the length of AMEX or Fleet cards and use one of their spiffy and free online verification databases.
Shit, with the numbers, you could even *guess* at expiration dates.
Passwords are probably untrackable. Way too much data.
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I'm not sure if you have a Ph.D. or are a university professor - if you are, I'd just like to ask a question (as a student hopefully working towards a Ph.D.).
From my understanding, most Universities choose new professors or tenure track lecturers based on two things: quality of their education / teaching ability, and quality of their researching ability. The first is difficult but possible to judge: one can look at past teaching performances, the advisor, grades, etc; the second is difficult but nearly *impossible* to judge: it is very difficult to judge someone for highly theoretical physics for which only a very small portion of the world can verify results (as in the case of Schoen). What better way to judge #2 than by looking at the quality of research publications which have been verified by an outside source?
I mean, pretty soon, the RIAA will have so many high tech snooping devices that we won't be able to even sing "DO RE MI F-- NO CARRIER
Not only tbat, but many Ph.D.'s (and other research projects) are replicated by other researchers seeking to add conclusions or experiments to your work.
While it's understandably part of the scientific method (replication, replication, replication), there's very little more frustrating than investing a large amount of time and energy into a project you hope to persue for a long time, only to find out that the original researcher's results are inaccurate or irreproducible.
In the case of falsifying data, especially data that appeared to be important and well published, hundreds of thousands of dollars could have been lost invested in research projects that never materialized, and hundreds of other scientists wasted important time from their careers gaining no benefits.
You're definately right about the "negative". Yech.
I especially liked how you included the parentheses in "(Omega + 1)".
Slashdot: Where even geeky jokes are incomparably geeky.
If you read the article, you'll note that the researchers aren't using EEG, which is part of the reference you include in your seperate post.
The difference between an EEG and the technique they use in this study is invasiveness - EEGs are Non-Invasive, that is, they don't need to stick anything into your head (they attach electrodes at various points on the skull corresponding to lobes of the brain) - this study uses the ECoG, a more invasive technique for monitoring brain activity.
Note that the "breakthrough" was in acquisition of the task. This increased acquisition level may lead to much faster experimentation. Of course, the acquisition comes at a cost - invasive surgery.
Just thought I'd keep you up to article, there. =)
No kidding! I had a friend who was an airline industry worker, and every time we saw the "Aircraft Control Simulato" game in a videogame store, we always used to joke about how people sit at their desk and drag cigarettes like mad while tearing their hair out and getting no sleep.
It's like, the most stressful job in the world. Why anyone would want to simulate that is faaaar beyond me.
I mean, this post might be modded funny, but I swear, I didn't make it up. It's right out of the article.
"Our revenue for the second quarter was consistent with our expectation and we also incurred significant expenses for the impairment of goodwill and intangibles and for the exchange of our Series A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock. Both of these charges negatively impacted our second quarter results," said Darl McBride, President and CEO. "As the company looks forward to the last two quarters of fiscal year 2004 we are committed to increasing shareholder value through profitable operations and increasing cash flow from our UNIX division as well as remaining focused on our intellectual property lawsuits and licensing strategies."
Sometimes you don't even have to try to make a funny post, because the dialogue you'd put in Darl's mouth is actually less funny than his own idiotic ramblings.
Interested parties might want to check out the following article from Avian Visual Cognition: Dinosaurs Among Us?
This article is a discussion of avian evolution from an avian physiology expert and the possible "bird-dinosaur" connection.
Very interesting stuff.
An interesting development in the world of scientific literature is the "cyberbook" - a peer-reviewed, edited book available for free online.
This book, as the editor describes, contains many things which print journals cannot: high quality color figures, interactive demonstrations, videos of the task, and a wide range of contribution.
It's also searchable.
The book is about avian visual cognition, and available free as free from here:
http://pigeon.psy.tufts.edu
It would be a very interesting business model to employ something similar to Bit-Torrent for their distribution system. I immediately thought of the same problem, until I realized the incredible transfer rates you'd achieve with thousands of customers using an automated distributed content system.
A caveat would be that they'd have to have a large number of servers to handle the load of "esoteric" titles - that is, movies that only a very few people will download at any given time. Also, the distribution would be much faster for popular movies - Bit-Torrent relies on swarming and things.
But it'd be really interesting to see this kind of an implementation, even if they did rewrite the original.
"Nerd News" actually returns Slashdot. =)
Geeks must have some sort of Advertising Impairment Syndrome, where in order to make a brand-name, they take the most unpronouncable and esoteric combinations of characters and stick them together.
It's like all the crazies who go ballistic at people when people don't pronounce a hard "G" at the beginning of "Gnome". Why the fuck should they? It's pronounced differently in every other word beginning with "G-N".
This might get modded flamebait, but every geek on slashdot knows it's true. Slashdot ITSELF is an example (tee hee! "http colon slash slash slash dot dot org!"). It IS cool, but it severely impedes the chances that anyone will ever recognize your product, or even download it, because if I had a conversation with a friend about this, I'd never be able to go google for it without specifically asking how to spell it.
Which is clearly the difference between the US and Europe, as the US currently gives out Patents for the most ridiculous stuff ever.
Just the other day, Microsoft got "A composite protocol system for reintegration of nebulon tubes while simultaneously dispersing intrusive or invasive window-images during a depression of the first actualization lever on a hand-held pointing device" for SP2's popup blocker. Or that's what I'm told.
Doom 3: $60
...Priceless?
Dr. Pepper and Potato Chips: $5
Alienware Super Extreme Gaming System: $10,000
Having the "Sorry, I'm broke" Excuse to Avoid Going out on Weekends and Playing Computer Games Instead:
There are some things students can't afford. For everyone else, there's Alienware.
I'm pretty sure the #1 Tech Support answer for Everything is "Reboot", which is now called all sorts of high-tech things like "Power Cycle".
I hate being told to "Power Cycle". It must be someplace in the Comcast tech-support handbook. But it gives me a good chuckle.
Are you trying to say that you hit the caps key twice for every capital letter you need to type that's not in a big row of them? You really hit the caps key at the start of every sentence?
Yeesh, mate. Shift. SHIFT.
I was replying to the parent of my post, which assumed that the individual had actually done the actions of burning crops, etc.
It was a comparison, using another group which advocates something but doesn't neccessarily do it.
That's posted by the author of the webpage, not the text.
From the same website.
u p. htm
http://isuisse.ifrance.com/emmaf/anarcook/opfuq
Check that one out.
I just replied... but for some reason, it didn't include the full text of my reply. It should have said:
So, is "contains live and active cultures" a bug or a feature?
Down here, we call it Yogurt. Up there, they call them Chemical Weapons frozen for storage. Washington is a scaaaary place?
So, is "contains live and active cultures" a bug or a feature?
Down here, we call it Yogurt.
I typed "Anarchist's Cookbook" in Google.
I clicked a chapter. This is what I found:
Unstable Explosives by the Jolly Roger
Mix solid Nitric Iodine with househould ammonia. Wait overnight and then pour off the liquid. You will be left with a muddy substance. Let this dry till it hardens. Now throw it at something!!!!
Read the last sentence. What was your point, exactly?
Huh? I'm so confused.
He didn't actually use the stuff on other people's crops, or do any of these things that he *could* have done. He advocated doing it.
I mean, there are plenty of organizations in America which advocate doing ridiculous things, none of which are called in to testify on charges of actually doing the things with no concrete evidence. I mean, being a member of a white supremacist group and owning a machine gun doesn't mean you're a murdering psycho and can be thrown away for it, even I'd wager most Americans are strongly against white supremacists and a good deal of them are against high-powered weapon ownership.
I dunno, but surely it wouldn't be very hard to perl script number strings the length of AMEX or Fleet cards and use one of their spiffy and free online verification databases.
Shit, with the numbers, you could even *guess* at expiration dates.
Passwords are probably untrackable. Way too much data.
Free Hotmail doesn't do mail forwarding.