From this blog I think the original sketch up for the logo looks more like a panda while the final rendition was for some reason made to look more like a fox. But maybe it's just my mind playing tricks on me. I honestly never knew a fire fox was a panda and not a fox (or just a made up name). And I had also completely forgotten about Phoenix and Firebird.
Damn. All those mod points last week, and now when I for once run in to an under-moded AC post, of course I have non. I would love to read a comparison between the D-Wave computer and analog computers.
I did just did that, as a response to reading this thread.
Open the Systems Settings (called gnome-control-center if you want to run it from a terminal) Click Privacy In the first tab "Search results" disable "Include online search results" and "Record Activity"
I'm not the original AC, but my short answer is: Yes. Maybe it's related to me being a european, and brought up on the "metric" system. But I don't think I would hesitate for a nanoyear to mix any prefix with any unit.
See, that's what we get from NOT having a language police. Språkrådet should just stop observing peoples sloppy and bad writing and instead dictate how we should write. Then they could simply choose the word "obinglingsbar" instead:)
I think you would have a hard time finding a physicist who does not agree on the meaning of the SI prefixes. Sure there are a lot of redundant units for historic and practical reasons, like Å (Ångström) which is 0.1nm. However is you for some bizarre reason were to MÅ as your unit everyone would still easily understand that you are referring to 1 million ångström or 0.1mm. There may be 60 s to a minute, but definitely 1000 s to a kilo second and a 1000 minutes to a kilo minute.
Microwaves is probably the most "confusing" word in this regard that I can come to think of (kilobytes excluded). Microwave are electromagnetic waves with wavelengths of 1mm - 1m [wikipedia] and not down to 1 micrometer as one would expect from the name. The name simply comes from them being small compared to radio waves. I believe the reason is that microwaves were named before micro- became a SI prefix [citation needed]
How can there even be an "age old efficiency problem related to the power amplifier in smartphones"? Sounds like an oxymoron to be. Or maybe it's just me getting age old.
This is about public officials in a position of trust trying to calm or silence the worry of the public. With the seismic history of the region, what sane scientist would claim that there was no danger?
The seismic history according to the Nature article is that similar events likely happened in 1461 and 1703. What sane person, scientist or otherwise, would not draw the conclusion that such an event is extremely unlikely and thus that there is essentially no danger. Sure that doesn't mean absolutely no danger, but you can't just come with 20/20 hindsight and say that because it happened, it was likely to happen.
For some things, like "i", (sqrt of -1), I still haven't found a useful application outside of complex physics and formal mathematical proofs. It's a very unintuitive concept.
I think the problem with complex numbers is the name, imaginary. It makes them sound like fantasy numbers which doesn't really exist, they are after all the "opposite of real numbers". At some point in history however, negative numbers must have felt equally strange. You can't have "minus five" apples in your hand, such a thing just doesn't exist. But today most people have no problem to understand that negative numbers are a useful tool to describe things in our life and universe, such as the difference between how many apples I have now compared to before or to describe the distance I have traveled when I'm moving backwards with respect to some reference frame.
Yet, when it comes to complex numbers, people (including me) seem to have a hard time to do the same, to realize that they are simply a useful mathematical tools to describe different things that happen in the real world. That they are just as real or imaginary as any other analytical tool we use.
Did you read another article than the one I read? This is an honest question.
1. The article in fact mention that the new technique is not applicable for life or death situation where a high radiation dose is acceptable. But rather for routine tests where it is important to limit the dose. 2. Article doesn't mention different generations of CT 3. No price is mentioned that I can see. I've search for "1.5", "million", neither words are used anyway 4. No mention of linux
Maybe the link have changed from an earlier version. The article is intel.com so I assume that it's main purpose was PR, but still I thought it was pretty ok and it was clear on the improvement that was made (computation time was reduced by a factor of 100).
I did some opencl in python with PyOpenCL recently (http://mathema.tician.de/software/pyopencl). I found it very very easy to get going with. You simply prepare all your data in high level, friendly python and then you fire it off to the graphics card and wait for the result. Sure the OpenCL part is written in a language most resembling C but there is no need not to use a better tool for your non-computational parts.
Maybe I'm different from other Facebook users then, sure I have some people on my friends list that I only met once at a party and now don't even remember who they are. But in real life there are so many more people that I know casually and would say I'm "connected to" that I am not friends with on Facebook, such as: my hair dresser, my dentist, my boss, other colleagues, all the people I ever went to school with (of whom I've probably befriended less than 25% on Facebook) all the teachers I ever had, my neighbours, distant relatives, my siblings friends etc etc.
So I think if we included everyone we know in real life the degree of separation would probably go down, not up.
Not to feed the anonymous troll but this got me curious to do some research since I remember reading of Dennis Ritchies passing first here on Slashdot and later on other news sources. A search for "Ritchie" on Slashdot shows that the story of his passing was posted Thursday Oct 13. The initial Google+ post that the story linked to states that he passed away during the weekend, so up to four days earlier, could this troll actually be correct?
Going on to Google News I can't find any reports of his death before Oct 12. It lists only three sources on Oct 12 (although when clicking two of them they actually come up as Oct 13) and a large amount of sources from Oct 13 or later. In fact Wikipedia claims he passed away on the 12th, the source of that is possibly a New York Times article from Oct 13 which claims he was found dead in his home on the Wednesday. So aside from the difficult part of finding out when he actually died it is very obvious that Slashdot was not several days "after reports in mainstream". Instead it seems like 4 days before the Slashdot post either only his closest family knew of his death or he was even still alive.
I'm not sure I understand your criticism completely but please not that it is not a normal memory they put on the chip but a "quantum memory" that can actually store the state of a qubit.
That was surprisingly fascinating to watch. I'm really impressed with how backwards compatible the windows platform is. I love my MacBook but I hate how even the most basic programs seem to always require the latest version of MacOS to run so that you are forced to upgrade. I admit this is more like "forward compatibility" though.
No mod points today so a simple thank you will have to suffice. I've recently been more and more annoyed at summaries lacking the essential point for the post to make any sense. Maybe I'm just getting old or something.
I'm confused. From the quotes around "clean coal" I imagine you're being sarcastic. But the image show a beautiful scenery and no smoke or anything from the chimney, so it does indeed look very clean. Did I miss-understand anything?
And how much has that hurt you? Are you without a job? In that case, would you have a job if Japan didn't exist? Did development in the US stop because of Japan, or is there other research still going on? Would the Prius have been built in the US if Japan didn't exist? Just curious on the reasoning.
I fail to see how loosing positions in ranking has any thing to do with that if life actually gets better for everyone. I'm not saying that is the case, just that it is an equally valid explanation.
Slashdot Mirror
From this blog I think the original sketch up for the logo looks more like a panda while the final rendition was for some reason made to look more like a fox. But maybe it's just my mind playing tricks on me. I honestly never knew a fire fox was a panda and not a fox (or just a made up name). And I had also completely forgotten about Phoenix and Firebird.
Damn. All those mod points last week, and now when I for once run in to an under-moded AC post, of course I have non. I would love to read a comparison between the D-Wave computer and analog computers.
I did just did that, as a response to reading this thread.
Open the Systems Settings (called gnome-control-center if you want to run it from a terminal)
Click Privacy
In the first tab "Search results" disable "Include online search results" and "Record Activity"
5. Our Obsession with Iran - They share a border with Israel
Iran shares a border with Isreal? Is this from the new Iranian "Google maps" we just heard about?
I'm not the original AC, but my short answer is: Yes. Maybe it's related to me being a european, and brought up on the "metric" system. But I don't think I would hesitate for a nanoyear to mix any prefix with any unit.
See, that's what we get from NOT having a language police. Språkrådet should just stop observing peoples sloppy and bad writing and instead dictate how we should write. Then they could simply choose the word "obinglingsbar" instead :)
I think you would have a hard time finding a physicist who does not agree on the meaning of the SI prefixes. Sure there are a lot of redundant units for historic and practical reasons, like Å (Ångström) which is 0.1nm. However is you for some bizarre reason were to MÅ as your unit everyone would still easily understand that you are referring to 1 million ångström or 0.1mm. There may be 60 s to a minute, but definitely 1000 s to a kilo second and a 1000 minutes to a kilo minute.
Microwaves is probably the most "confusing" word in this regard that I can come to think of (kilobytes excluded). Microwave are electromagnetic waves with wavelengths of 1mm - 1m [wikipedia] and not down to 1 micrometer as one would expect from the name. The name simply comes from them being small compared to radio waves. I believe the reason is that microwaves were named before micro- became a SI prefix [citation needed]
How can there even be an "age old efficiency problem related to the power amplifier in smartphones"? Sounds like an oxymoron to be. Or maybe it's just me getting age old.
This is about public officials in a position of trust trying to calm or silence the worry of the public. With the seismic history of the region, what sane scientist would claim that there was no danger?
The seismic history according to the Nature article is that similar events likely happened in 1461 and 1703. What sane person, scientist or otherwise, would not draw the conclusion that such an event is extremely unlikely and thus that there is essentially no danger. Sure that doesn't mean absolutely no danger, but you can't just come with 20/20 hindsight and say that because it happened, it was likely to happen.
For some things, like "i", (sqrt of -1), I still haven't found a useful application outside of complex physics and formal mathematical proofs. It's a very unintuitive concept.
I think the problem with complex numbers is the name, imaginary. It makes them sound like fantasy numbers which doesn't really exist, they are after all the "opposite of real numbers". At some point in history however, negative numbers must have felt equally strange. You can't have "minus five" apples in your hand, such a thing just doesn't exist. But today most people have no problem to understand that negative numbers are a useful tool to describe things in our life and universe, such as the difference between how many apples I have now compared to before or to describe the distance I have traveled when I'm moving backwards with respect to some reference frame.
Yet, when it comes to complex numbers, people (including me) seem to have a hard time to do the same, to realize that they are simply a useful mathematical tools to describe different things that happen in the real world. That they are just as real or imaginary as any other analytical tool we use.
Did you read another article than the one I read? This is an honest question.
1. The article in fact mention that the new technique is not applicable for life or death situation where a high radiation dose is acceptable. But rather for routine tests where it is important to limit the dose.
2. Article doesn't mention different generations of CT
3. No price is mentioned that I can see. I've search for "1.5", "million", neither words are used anyway
4. No mention of linux
Maybe the link have changed from an earlier version. The article is intel.com so I assume that it's main purpose was PR, but still I thought it was pretty ok and it was clear on the improvement that was made (computation time was reduced by a factor of 100).
I did some opencl in python with PyOpenCL recently (http://mathema.tician.de/software/pyopencl). I found it very very easy to get going with. You simply prepare all your data in high level, friendly python and then you fire it off to the graphics card and wait for the result. Sure the OpenCL part is written in a language most resembling C but there is no need not to use a better tool for your non-computational parts.
Doesn't sound that far away from kjol which is the Swedish word for, guess what: skirt
Maybe I'm different from other Facebook users then, sure I have some people on my friends list that I only met once at a party and now don't even remember who they are. But in real life there are so many more people that I know casually and would say I'm "connected to" that I am not friends with on Facebook, such as: my hair dresser, my dentist, my boss, other colleagues, all the people I ever went to school with (of whom I've probably befriended less than 25% on Facebook) all the teachers I ever had, my neighbours, distant relatives, my siblings friends etc etc.
So I think if we included everyone we know in real life the degree of separation would probably go down, not up.
Not to feed the anonymous troll but this got me curious to do some research since I remember reading of Dennis Ritchies passing first here on Slashdot and later on other news sources. A search for "Ritchie" on Slashdot shows that the story of his passing was posted Thursday Oct 13. The initial Google+ post that the story linked to states that he passed away during the weekend, so up to four days earlier, could this troll actually be correct?
Going on to Google News I can't find any reports of his death before Oct 12. It lists only three sources on Oct 12 (although when clicking two of them they actually come up as Oct 13) and a large amount of sources from Oct 13 or later. In fact Wikipedia claims he passed away on the 12th, the source of that is possibly a New York Times article from Oct 13 which claims he was found dead in his home on the Wednesday. So aside from the difficult part of finding out when he actually died it is very obvious that Slashdot was not several days "after reports in mainstream". Instead it seems like 4 days before the Slashdot post either only his closest family knew of his death or he was even still alive.
What would joogle know about that?
I'm not sure I understand your criticism completely but please not that it is not a normal memory they put on the chip but a "quantum memory" that can actually store the state of a qubit.
Finally I can build that large hydron collider I always wanted.
That was surprisingly fascinating to watch. I'm really impressed with how backwards compatible the windows platform is. I love my MacBook but I hate how even the most basic programs seem to always require the latest version of MacOS to run so that you are forced to upgrade. I admit this is more like "forward compatibility" though.
http://xkcd.com/386/
Good luck with that.
No mod points today so a simple thank you will have to suffice. I've recently been more and more annoyed at summaries lacking the essential point for the post to make any sense. Maybe I'm just getting old or something.
I'm confused. From the quotes around "clean coal" I imagine you're being sarcastic. But the image show a beautiful scenery and no smoke or anything from the chimney, so it does indeed look very clean. Did I miss-understand anything?
The article mentions an avarage cost of $5000 to install 1 kW of solar, so it seems like a pretty good investment overall.
The patent in question, US patent 5787449, was filed on June 2 1994 so that is the date you would have to beat.
And how much has that hurt you? Are you without a job? In that case, would you have a job if Japan didn't exist? Did development in the US stop because of Japan, or is there other research still going on? Would the Prius have been built in the US if Japan didn't exist? Just curious on the reasoning.
I fail to see how loosing positions in ranking has any thing to do with that if life actually gets better for everyone. I'm not saying that is the case, just that it is an equally valid explanation.