I had a friend in college who was doing this 30 years ago. He would buy the most expensive ticket from Phoenix to San Diego for Friday afternoon. Every Friday he would go to the airport and give up his ticket in exchange for a refund and a free ticket to anywhere in the country. Since they were all but guaranteed to be at least five people wanting to get on the flight, it was a no brain scam. I remember at one time over Christmas vacation he showed me a stack of 35 tickets that he had gotten. He used a few, but mostly resold them. Life was a lot easier then. It paid for his college.
Traditional communities naturally meet many 'basic needs' for emotional support. In the traditional Amish society in the US major depression is almost unknown, as it is in the equally traditional Kaluli tribe of New Guinea. In these societies individual concerns are group concerns and vise-versa. You know that if you have a problem other people will help you and you are expected to help out when others need support. We know we are meant to do these things but it's not a 'built in feature' of modern society in the same way.
It means being more expensive than conventionally mounted panels, for short.
Would solar panels on the wings of a jumbo jet work? Yes. Would they ever save enough money in extra fuel required to run the generators to power the onboard electronics to make it an economic consideration? Not unless you can get the entire system weight down to 400g.
Exactly this. I had the same conclusion before IT was a thing and was called 'computers'. But thought auto mechanic because that was the looked down upon noskill job at the time that every guy did on the weekend for fun in their driveway hobby. How was my plugging in wires and flipping switches any different than someone plugging wires and hoses into their car?
The Foundation Trilogy was based off of mathematician and historian Oswald Spengler's work, The Decline of the West. It was written just before WW1, but quite accurately predicts the course of the twentieth century.
I've read that lack of critical thinking is seen as a positive because it leads to better consensus achieving skills. I dunno, but glad I'll be gone long before we'll see the full implication of this.
Maybe we should just dissolve the republic and become a democracy. We have the technology for a direct democracy even. Everything can be voted on continuously in real time.
UUV gliders were discussed on/. maybe 15 years ago. Mostly off the shelf, they use a piston to change buoyancy and wings to move forward as they sink/rise. They collect data for a while then send it up to a satellite every week or month or something and use GPS and compass to steer.
I may or may have not worked on one of those architectures you listed:) And learned the system by writing some of the tests you mentioned,
The fun part was that you could test modules easy enough, but the goal was to test as many at one time. So you had to start with a branch in question, sometimes at the assembly level, work backwards to find out what input you needed to hit that branch. Find the upstream component and calculate what inputs you had to give it to produce the required output. Then the five modules to make those inputs, then the 50 modules to get the next higher set, etc, all the way to the very top.
Then for more fun, you'd have to worry about state, eg, you couldn't plug a random number into an integrator, you had to run the code for a while varying inputs way at the top. And you had multiple concurrent threads. I really liked these problems and got very good at them. And found a couple of provable branches that could not be taken which were traced back to contradictory requirements...not particularly hard to catch when you had shelves full of requirements. Later on the requirements were formally verified with software, and I created a lot of software to analyze code to tell you what inputs to give for automated test generation.
Oh, and another fun thing was you had to take all branches through a conditional, like
if (A or (A and B) and not C or C and A.That one if is half a dozen branches that all get tested.
As for neural nets, I don't know how much they are actively being used in control. Standard control theory works well enough (optimally even) and is formally provable
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It's a linear programming problem.
Yup. $19/ticket was Southwest's big promotion.
I had a friend in college who was doing this 30 years ago. He would buy the most expensive ticket from Phoenix to San Diego for Friday afternoon. Every Friday he would go to the airport and give up his ticket in exchange for a refund and a free ticket to anywhere in the country. Since they were all but guaranteed to be at least five people wanting to get on the flight, it was a no brain scam. I remember at one time over Christmas vacation he showed me a stack of 35 tickets that he had gotten. He used a few, but mostly resold them. Life was a lot easier then. It paid for his college.
Not sure whether to use wikipedia or urbandictionary....
You don't program AI's, you train them.
If one person around me is a dick, I think they are a dick. If everyone around me are dicks, I think that maybe it's me who is a dick.
Traditional communities naturally meet many 'basic needs' for emotional support. In the traditional Amish society in the US major depression is almost unknown, as it is in the equally traditional Kaluli tribe of New Guinea. In these societies individual concerns are group concerns and vise-versa. You know that if you have a problem other people will help you and you are expected to help out when others need support. We know we are meant to do these things but it's not a 'built in feature' of modern society in the same way.
http://www.clinical-depression...
You should read (or watch) Fight Club. Perhaps one of the most important movies ever made.
I already did, but in a fit of sarcasm.
Sawstop has a similar invention..
Don't worry. There's no money in this so it will never be made. And nobody cares about Africa.
According to a hyper-political relative, the only thing that counts is the label. Actually, "the team" in their words.
I cry Gauss's law. What's your rebuttal to that?
what does fail even mean?
It means being more expensive than conventionally mounted panels, for short.
Would solar panels on the wings of a jumbo jet work? Yes. Would they ever save enough money in extra fuel required to run the generators to power the onboard electronics to make it an economic consideration? Not unless you can get the entire system weight down to 400g.
IT workers are glorified burger flippers.
Exactly this. I had the same conclusion before IT was a thing and was called 'computers'. But thought auto mechanic because that was the looked down upon noskill job at the time that every guy did on the weekend for fun in their driveway hobby. How was my plugging in wires and flipping switches any different than someone plugging wires and hoses into their car?
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97 percent of all U.S. farms are family-owned
88 percent of all U.S. farms are small family farms
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal...
What nobody told me about small farming: I can’t make a living
It's interesting that it's so very close to 50-50, no?
I've read that lack of critical thinking is seen as a positive because it leads to better consensus achieving skills. I dunno, but glad I'll be gone long before we'll see the full implication of this.
Maybe we'll get some actual consensus ...
Or maybe we'll just ratchet it up a notch.
Trump was a democrat for the majority of his life.
This is where it's all going anyway,
Maybe we need to get rid of the state line differentiation and make the whole country one solid bloc. It would be much more efficient.
UUV gliders were discussed on /. maybe 15 years ago. Mostly off the shelf, they use a piston to change buoyancy and wings to move forward as they sink/rise. They collect data for a while then send it up to a satellite every week or month or something and use GPS and compass to steer.
The fun part was that you could test modules easy enough, but the goal was to test as many at one time. So you had to start with a branch in question, sometimes at the assembly level, work backwards to find out what input you needed to hit that branch. Find the upstream component and calculate what inputs you had to give it to produce the required output. Then the five modules to make those inputs, then the 50 modules to get the next higher set, etc, all the way to the very top.
Then for more fun, you'd have to worry about state, eg, you couldn't plug a random number into an integrator, you had to run the code for a while varying inputs way at the top. And you had multiple concurrent threads. I really liked these problems and got very good at them. And found a couple of provable branches that could not be taken which were traced back to contradictory requirements...not particularly hard to catch when you had shelves full of requirements. Later on the requirements were formally verified with software, and I created a lot of software to analyze code to tell you what inputs to give for automated test generation.
Oh, and another fun thing was you had to take all branches through a conditional, like
if (A or (A and B) and not C or C and A.That one if is half a dozen branches that all get tested.
As for neural nets, I don't know how much they are actively being used in control. Standard control theory works well enough (optimally even) and is formally provable