The space shuttle could autonomously land itself with a computer less capable than a 1990's calculator. Control of a great many things do not require smarter and faster, the power necessary has been here for decades.
My mom's friend's mother was from Russia. Not only would she obsessively look for the best price, but she would spend fifteen minutes arguing with a store manager until they took 20 cents off the price of something (it didn't matter what, she had to win) to make her go away. She thought it was silly that American stores had price tags on things.
The American public has nothing on the Russians in his respect.
Statistics knows no limitations. He has found statistics errors in paleontology science papers that have led to retraction and that is further away than the field of asteroids. Isn't everybody supposed to be questioning science? Isn't that how it works as opposed to religion?
I really don't get the hate on this guy. This is supposed to be how science works. He found statistics errors before in science papers that have led to retractions.
He has a phd in math&physics from Princeton and did a postdoc under Stephen Hawking. People have probably been telling him he was smart long before he got rich.
The real issue here is that the establishment does not like to see interlopers come in and upset their little isolated enclaves. This is as true of scientists as it is of politicians.
This guy started college at age 14, has a PhD in theoretical and mathematical physics from Princeton and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge working under Stephen Hawking.
Sweet! I bought one of those this weekend too, I never had one. I bought my computer to play games, but didn't have any money left over, so had to write all my games myself. I found that I liked writing games better than playing them.
No, when I was a kid, they were called yuppies and you had to be rich or at least well off. But yes, most normal people disliked them. I thought they were obnoxious and I was younger than any of them.
Yes! When I was big into BBSes, I had close to 60 telephones numbers and logins memorized, not counting all the people I knew. I found that it's really a learned skill, and the more I memorized the easier it became. I don't have a cell phone, but still don't write people's numbers down. And no, my computer could not auto dial.
Being on a phone is not conducive to making anything like a large program either, but hacking out a simple program in a few minutes to monitor temperatures and send out a warning should be adequate.
I did the same thing to goggle after being forced to learn a new ui switching to ddg and firefox It was only painful for a few days, but I got used to it.
I don't mind learning new stuff, in fact I like it, but it does suck up brain energy that I'd rather spend learning something useful rather than relearning something that I already knew. If in two years, people are raving about how much more productive they are then I'll look into it.
Coincidentally, I pulled out atari 800 this weekend (it hasn't been touched since 1987) and it was fun. The reason I got into computers in the first place. I spent Sunday on ebay looking for additions, upgrades and games now that I can afford them.
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Far more waste, but far more recycling jobs. And recycles metal is less energy intensive to produce, so double win.
Horses are doing fine and are no longer subjugated to hard labor. And more plentiful than 10,000 years ago.
machines are getting smarter and smarter faster.
The space shuttle could autonomously land itself with a computer less capable than a 1990's calculator. Control of a great many things do not require smarter and faster, the power necessary has been here for decades.
Innovation and automation have been happening continuously for the past 13000 years.
been trained to...look for the best price always.
My mom's friend's mother was from Russia. Not only would she obsessively look for the best price, but she would spend fifteen minutes arguing with a store manager until they took 20 cents off the price of something (it didn't matter what, she had to win) to make her go away. She thought it was silly that American stores had price tags on things.
The American public has nothing on the Russians in his respect.
the short-term result is war.
While you guy are at war, I'll be kicking back on my little farm eating homegrown popcorn.
How long have you been predicting it? For decades, China has lost more jobs to automation than the US has lost jobs to China.
Statistics knows no limitations. He has found statistics errors in paleontology science papers that have led to retraction and that is further away than the field of asteroids. Isn't everybody supposed to be questioning science? Isn't that how it works as opposed to religion?
I really don't get the hate on this guy. This is supposed to be how science works. He found statistics errors before in science papers that have led to retractions.
Well, he is a rocket scientist.
He has a phd in math&physics from Princeton and did a postdoc under Stephen Hawking. People have probably been telling him he was smart long before he got rich.
The real issue here is that the establishment does not like to see interlopers come in and upset their little isolated enclaves. This is as true of scientists as it is of politicians.
Exactly this
doesn't really know the field and has never done this kind of analysis before is full of s**t.
He has a Phd in the subject from Princeton and worked under Stephen Hawking.
This guy has a phd from Princeton in Theoretical mathematical physics and studied under Hawking at Cambridge.
This guy started college at age 14, has a PhD in theoretical and mathematical physics from Princeton and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge working under Stephen Hawking.
Sweet! I bought one of those this weekend too, I never had one. I bought my computer to play games, but didn't have any money left over, so had to write all my games myself. I found that I liked writing games better than playing them.
Gen X. AKA the missing or sandwich generation. Also an early Billy Idol band.
No, when I was a kid, they were called yuppies and you had to be rich or at least well off. But yes, most normal people disliked them. I thought they were obnoxious and I was younger than any of them.
Yes! When I was big into BBSes, I had close to 60 telephones numbers and logins memorized, not counting all the people I knew. I found that it's really a learned skill, and the more I memorized the easier it became. I don't have a cell phone, but still don't write people's numbers down. And no, my computer could not auto dial.
Being on a phone is not conducive to making anything like a large program either, but hacking out a simple program in a few minutes to monitor temperatures and send out a warning should be adequate.
2T/7B/365=0.78
Last time I checked, one of my main software programs, mach3, only works on xp. That computer is not on the internet.
I don't mind learning new stuff, in fact I like it, but it does suck up brain energy that I'd rather spend learning something useful rather than relearning something that I already knew. If in two years, people are raving about how much more productive they are then I'll look into it.
Coincidentally, I pulled out atari 800 this weekend (it hasn't been touched since 1987) and it was fun. The reason I got into computers in the first place. I spent Sunday on ebay looking for additions, upgrades and games now that I can afford them.
not a lot of huge investments available that will return 25%
What if they have a long term outlook and preparing themselves for the next 25% margin industry?