If you force the rain to come down, NOW, RIGHT HERE, aren't you preventing the rain from falling on your neighbors? What if there is a drought and the neighbors need the rain?
1) What you speculate is akin to a well known phenomena called rain shadow deserts.
2) "stealing" is a strong word implying ownership. AFAIK issues of water distribution are murky in international law. indeed, diverting a river can be considered casus-beli.
This certainly means that a country must consider international consequences of using such methods.
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First, they don't even tell us Einstein got a Nobel Prize... and not even for relativity itself ! IIRC, he got it for explaining some optical phenomena (dual particle / light nature of photons)
Actually, the photoelectric effect was one of the basis of "old" QM and is well-deserving of a Nobel all by itself.
In fact, A.E. deserved at least 3 seperate Nobels : photo-electric effect, SRT, GRT (in reverse order of importance) are all Nobel-worthy just by themselves.
These are the ones I know of , very probably there are more.
However since they never give the Nobel more than once, indeed the Nobel should have been given to relativity theory.
... who reads some reviews only after seeing the movies ?
seriously, some movies I'll see no matter what the reviewer says,
LOTR is one (three) of those.
I'll read the reviews solely for the purpose of getting other people's take on the movies. Like the "discussion" part of an article comes after the "results" section.
Actually these kinds of marriages are a part of their culture,
So is murdering women who do not comply with their idea of "family honor".
and they are not trapped as you imply,
reread above reply.
these marriages actually work
did you, by any chance, consider that if all marriages work in a specific culture this is an indicator for lack of freedom ?
They all (Husband and Wife) are very happy,
well, this reminds me of this old story I once heard:
A man defects from the then-comunist eastern europe to the west. His friends in the west ask him one day:
Q: How was the food there in the east ? A: Can't complain.
Q: How did the police treat you ? A: Can't complain.
Q: and what about the economy there ? A: Can't complain.
Q: why the hell, then, did you defect ? A: Well, here I can complain...
This is not human rights violation, it is simply a cultural difference
This is what every bully outside of the west always say. "but we do it our way !". Consider that pre-arranged marriage many times are accompanied with forced, non-consentual (sometimes violent) sex. Yes, that's what we in the west usually call rape . And woo to her if she doesn't smile afterwards. But that's OK, Arab women aren't beaten, violated, or mutilated (circumcized) , they're just culturaly different.
but it's OK for them, ask them. They can't complain.
The one invention that has brought man as far away from nature as possible, is now helping us understanding it better.
math and computation is an integral part of nature.
Fundemental particles are manifestations of group theory. Information is an integral part of statistical physics and has measureable physical properties.
computations and math are not disjoint or far from nature, they are part of it's very essence. It's just that it took man some time to figure that out.
Merely mixing relativity and quantum theory has been done for years and years - the form of the strong nuclear force was found by Yukawa to be a solution of the Klein-Gordon equation - which was proposed in 1924.
True that, but even SR and QFT have serious fundemental problems.
TTBOMK the EPR paradox and the basic definitions of what exactly constitutes a measurement and when/why/how does the WF collapse simultaneously (remember "simultaneous" is a non-existing term in SR) are still unresolved.
these are not "show-stopper" bugs in that people do exact, experimentally tested calculations with known theories. But they mean that although mixing QM and SR has been done for years, A consistent unifying model is not available.
(unless this QLC stuff, which is new to me, does satisfyingly address those issues.)
If it turns out she's right, a whole new generation of scientist will grow up thinking that women are only good with kitchen-related things
only ignorant people think so even today.
STW for Emma Noether's and Lisa Mitner's stories.
(Lisa Mitner was like an underdog^2 : both a jewish and a woman in the pre-Nazi regime. So off the Nobel went to who was very probably the less-deserving coleague)
remember, computing is nothing but a problem in N-Dimensional topology. If anybody tell you different, they are part of the problem, not part of the solution
No. That's the problem solving part. The more important (and hard) part is defining the problem.
Somewhere deep inside of me, I suspect that people who refuse to look at (any) ads are the first ones to yell when their favorite sites go to a subscription model
Wrong. I refuse to look at any pop-up adds, but when LWN went to subscription I subscribed and I still pay them. why ?
1) they give me a good return for my money. 2) they treat me with respect. They give me a choice. If they'd use popup ads and other nasty tricks that take the choice away from me they'll lose me as a customer in seconds.
provide value, charge fairly, treat me with respect, and you'll get my money for a long time. Don't, and you won't. Like you said, Actions do have consequences.
Not only are you taking the radio away from the car owner and thereby depriving that owner of the use of it, you are also getting the use of the radio without paying the radio manufacturer for it.
no no no, the manufacturer has NO claim on the product once it is sold, the theft is from the owner, and ownership has been transferred (through act of "buying"). the fact you don't pay the manufacturer is not a legal offence against him, or a legal offence at all (to the woo of all salesmen whereever they are). the only offence is against the owner.
I hope you're just Trolling, but on the off chance you're serious, I'll ask:
Yes, I do. I would gladly go to Mars, under the understanding that I couldn't return, if there was about a 90% chance of surviving the first year
Why ? why not send a Machine to gather the data in your place and live a productive life studying the results ? what would your death achieve ?
I understand taking risks for a good cause, if you plan, test, and implement in a professional manner, there is still a risk and taking it is an heroic act. A soldier who dies fighting to defend his country is a Hero. But just throwing your life away for no good reason is not heroism IMHO, just a stupid, senseless, act of self hatred.
-- Sometimes one must do w/o thinking. Almost always it's the other way around.
Let's face it, the other well known use for Bayesian is the famous Microsoft Office Paper Clip!!!
1) office paper clip. The Office assistents of all shape, sizes and levels of irritation were a good idea at the time. The fact is MS did not understand just how hard educating people (especially people with, ehmm, suboptimal approach to machines) with current AI methods is. They nevertheless did try to do something instead of whining, which is a positive, experimental approach I like very much. The fact they failed does not mean the attempt was not worthwhile.
2) office assistants Vs spam-filtering. It may be, and IMHO very likely, that spam filtering is a much easier problem to solve than educating people. In fact, since spam is the output of a very limited statistical source (compared with the human brain...) and needs to be, by its definition, highly repetitive, a multi-user statistical approach is, like all sparks of genius after-the-fact, the obvious solution.
So you can use static rules if you wish, but ignoring the shared data from a multiple of users, seems like refusing to take the better solution.
nothing at all has happened to the information. The robbers stole a physical object. This particular physical object happens to contain valuable information,
not so simple. Of course math hadn't lost one bit. But historians had lost a piece of evidence. The original 1-st edition book may contain clues regarding ancient math publishing, formats, or other chemical or physical evidence. It could even hold DNA from the readers or publishers.
Hence, this is indeed a loss to science. A small one, I agree, but a loss non the same.
I reckon that there is a collective rejection of this way of thinking coming to the fore however. The "White way" is becoming less popular with the yute, and, unlike Michael Jackson, the Japanese are proud to appreciate and celebrate the inherent non-whiteness of their condition.
Aha ! I knew there was a reason japanese animators were using so much color ! It is due to the inherent non-whiteness of their condition ! They will never pull a vile Casper tfg !
go, purple, go !
(exclamation marks are the vilest form of sarcasm !!! )
Please present any evidence that demonstrates this.
An example for a nation-addiction:
start-example:
Israel's foreign policy in the last 1.5 decades (since withdraw from most of Lebanon) has been a balance between it's internal state (IOW the will of the voters ) and what it percieves (wrongfully, IMHO) as almost total dependance on US foreign aid.
This DIRECT aid, (as opposed to indirect aid and cooperation which is mutually very beneficial) did cause the Israelly politicians and public to become addicted. So addicted that when former P.M. Netanyahu (which IMHO was good in two thing only; economy and marketing himself) sugested to withdraw that (increasingly insignificant) aid none even took him seriously.
And this is aid, not total debt erasion , imagine what would happen if israel's debts would have been erased.
And if you want proof of this, just look at how Bush Sr. dragged P.M. Shamir kicking and screaming to Madrid. Against what Shamir by all accounts thought was the interest of his country. While it was true that the the internal political situation was much to do with this, no honest person can deny that a great deal of pressure was exerted for the Bush Sr. administration.
end-example.
So yes, even relying on aid can be addictive. Now think what debt-erasion, which IMHO is equivalent to bankruptcy, will do to a country. See my other answers as to why I think this is worse for a nation than for individuals.
More to the point, you are making a category error and confusing a person with a nation-state, so even if it is true for individuals, this says nothing about the effect on nations
why not ? Again, if anything, financial trust and rules of conduct is a stronger problem for nations than for individuals (which can, after bankruptcy, say, go work as an imployee somewhere).
I think that owning up to one's obligations is more important for a nation than for an individual or buisness. I explained that oppinion in several other posts.
If you say things are different for a nation and a buisness or individual, please explain what you see as the most important difference and how you estimate it's effect. Don't just say things are different ; It is a bit too general to be of any affect as an argument.
The question comes down to philosophical identity of countries; i.e. are the countries of today responsible for their sins of yesterday? The answer to this question governs the responsibilities of both sides of the economic divide today:
It comes down to a notion of financial trust. Like it or not, investors will not invest in a body which does not adress his and his predecessors debts.
It may not be just, it may be bad philosophy, it does scrue the poor, but that's the way it usually is and I can't think of a way to change it.
Also, I should point out: just because it's not your fault that people are starving, doesn't mean that you're not ethically obliged to help them out.
This discussion , as I see it, is not about fault or morals, it about pragmatism and effective help. I'm saying there are ways of helping people or countries in the short run which are detrimental in the long run.
Obligation to help does not mean you must do something for the sake of doing, w/o regarding the consequences.
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This is what happens to stray babylonian gods crash-landing on Earth.
"There is no Dana, only Goo"
If you force the rain to come down, NOW, RIGHT HERE, aren't you preventing the rain from falling on your neighbors? What if there is a drought and the neighbors need the rain?
.
1) What you speculate is akin to a well known phenomena called rain shadow deserts
2) "stealing" is a strong word implying ownership. AFAIK issues of water distribution are murky in international law.
indeed, diverting a river can be considered casus-beli.
This certainly means that a country must consider international consequences of using such methods.
First, they don't even tell us Einstein got a Nobel Prize... and not even for relativity itself ! IIRC, he got it for explaining some optical phenomena (dual particle / light nature of photons)
Actually, the photoelectric effect was one of the basis of "old" QM and is well-deserving of a Nobel all by itself.
In fact, A.E. deserved at least 3 seperate Nobels : photo-electric effect, SRT, GRT (in reverse order of importance) are all Nobel-worthy just by themselves.
These are the ones I know of , very probably there are more.
However since they never give the Nobel more than once, indeed the Nobel should have been given to relativity theory.
seriously, some movies I'll see no matter what the reviewer says,
LOTR is one (three) of those.
I'll read the reviews solely for the purpose of getting other people's take on the movies. Like the "discussion" part of an article comes after
the "results" section.
I know it sounds sick but hey
Is that the same thing American doctors do to make a quick $150 bucks from suckers... err American parents?
I think what he ment was, indeed, female circumcision . Far from being a laughing matter, it is a horrible mutilation.
Altough male circumcision is medically debateable, female circumcision is not, and it is a MUCH more destructive mutilation.
Actually these kinds of marriages are a part of their culture,
...
So is murdering women who do not comply with their idea of "family honor".
and they are not trapped as you imply,
reread above reply.
these marriages actually work
did you, by any chance, consider that if all marriages work in a specific culture this is an indicator for lack of freedom ?
They all (Husband and Wife) are very happy,
well, this reminds me of this old story I once heard:
A man defects from the then-comunist eastern europe to the west.
His friends in the west ask him one day:
Q: How was the food there in the east ?
A: Can't complain.
Q: How did the police treat you ?
A: Can't complain.
Q: and what about the economy there ?
A: Can't complain.
Q: why the hell, then, did you defect ?
A: Well, here I can complain
This is not human rights violation, it is simply a cultural difference
This is what every bully outside of the west always say. "but we do it our way !".
Consider that pre-arranged marriage many times are accompanied with forced, non-consentual (sometimes violent) sex. Yes, that's what we in the west usually call rape . And woo to her if she doesn't smile afterwards.
But that's OK, Arab women aren't beaten, violated, or mutilated (circumcized) , they're just culturaly different.
but it's OK for them, ask them.
They can't complain.
The one invention that has brought man as far away from nature as possible, is now helping us understanding it better.
math and computation is an integral part of nature.
Fundemental particles are manifestations of group theory.
Information is an integral part of statistical physics
and has measureable physical properties.
computations and math are not disjoint or far from nature, they are part
of it's very essence. It's just that it took man some time to
figure that out.
You say that as if ignorant people were a rarity.
.
...
ignorant _physicists_ are in my humble experience a rarity
BTW, what's STW?
Search The [F word of choice] Web w/o the F
Merely mixing relativity and quantum theory has been done for years and years - the form of the strong nuclear force was found by Yukawa to be a solution of the Klein-Gordon equation - which was proposed in 1924.
True that, but even SR and QFT have serious fundemental problems.
TTBOMK the EPR paradox and the basic definitions of what
exactly constitutes a measurement and when/why/how does the
WF collapse simultaneously (remember "simultaneous" is a
non-existing term in SR) are still unresolved.
these are not "show-stopper" bugs in that people do exact,
experimentally tested calculations with known theories.
But they mean that although mixing QM and SR has been done for years,
A consistent unifying model is not available.
(unless this QLC stuff, which is new to me, does satisfyingly
address those issues.)
If it turns out she's right, a whole new generation of scientist will grow up thinking that women are only good with kitchen-related things
only ignorant people think so even today.
STW for Emma Noether's and Lisa Mitner's stories.
(Lisa Mitner was like an underdog^2 : both a jewish and a woman
in the pre-Nazi regime. So off the Nobel went to who was very
probably the less-deserving coleague)
remember, computing is nothing but a problem in N-Dimensional topology. If anybody tell you different, they are part of the problem, not part of the solution
No. That's the problem solving part. The more important (and hard) part is defining the problem.
Somewhere deep inside of me, I suspect that people who refuse to look at (any) ads are the first ones to yell when their favorite sites go to a subscription model
Wrong. I refuse to look at any pop-up adds, but when LWN went to subscription I subscribed and I still pay them. why ?
1) they give me a good return for my money.
2) they treat me with respect. They give me a choice. If they'd use popup ads and other nasty tricks that take the choice away from me they'll lose me as a customer in seconds.
provide value, charge fairly, treat me with respect, and you'll get my money for a long time. Don't, and you won't. Like you said, Actions do have consequences.
Without the training, you're just a schmuck who can masterbate with no hands.
w/o training ? that sounds quite dangerous. Maybe that's why jedis don't marry.
Not only are you taking the radio away from the car owner and thereby depriving that owner of the use of it, you are also getting the use of the radio without paying the radio manufacturer for it.
no no no, the manufacturer has NO claim on the product once it is sold, the theft is from the owner, and ownership has been transferred (through act of "buying"). the fact you don't pay the manufacturer is not a legal offence against him, or a legal offence at all (to the woo of all salesmen whereever they are). the only offence is against the owner.
I hope you're just Trolling, but on the off chance you're serious, I'll ask:
.
Yes, I do. I would gladly go to Mars, under the understanding that I couldn't return, if there was about a 90% chance of surviving the first year
Why ? why not send a Machine to gather the data in your place and live a productive life studying the results ? what would your death achieve ?
I understand taking risks for a good cause, if you plan, test, and implement in a professional manner, there is still a risk and taking it is an heroic act. A soldier who dies fighting to defend his country is a Hero.
But just throwing your life away for no good reason is not heroism IMHO, just a stupid, senseless, act of self hatred
-- Sometimes one must do w/o thinking. Almost always it's the other way around.
Lucas went on to say that [cprt violations => less money =>] wind up having a major impact on the quality of movies
... why, yes, I agree. Only disagree on the sign of \Delta_Q .
less money => major impact on quality of movies
since Lucas said that the success of summer popcorn movies enable studios to finance more artsy films.
and "design by commity" them to death.
you can always pick what's right for you (TM)
If you have an oracle Turing machine (or you're Paul Muad'dib)
-- start quote
Two types of pepole seem to talk precisely:
Mathematicians talk precisely, so they'll understand each other.
Layers seem to talk precisely, so they'll confuse each other.
-- end quote
Let's face it, the other well known use for Bayesian is the famous Microsoft Office Paper Clip!!!
...) and needs to be, by its definition, highly repetitive, a multi-user statistical approach is, like all sparks of genius after-the-fact, the obvious solution.
1) office paper clip.
The Office assistents of all shape, sizes and levels of irritation were a good idea at the time. The fact is MS did not understand just how hard educating people (especially people with, ehmm, suboptimal approach to machines) with current AI methods is. They nevertheless did try to do something instead of whining, which is a positive, experimental approach I like very much. The fact they failed does not mean the attempt was not worthwhile.
2) office assistants Vs spam-filtering.
It may be, and IMHO very likely, that spam filtering is a much easier problem to solve than educating people. In fact, since spam is the output of a very limited statistical source (compared with the human brain
So you can use static rules if you wish, but ignoring the shared data from a multiple of users, seems like refusing to take the better solution.
Yeah, weird and uncool.
nothing at all has happened to the information. The robbers stole a physical object. This particular physical object happens to contain valuable information,
not so simple. Of course math hadn't lost one bit. But historians had lost a piece of evidence. The original 1-st edition book may contain clues regarding ancient math publishing, formats, or other chemical or physical evidence. It could even hold DNA from the readers or publishers.
Hence, this is indeed a loss to science. A small one, I agree, but a loss non the same.
I reckon that there is a collective rejection of this way of thinking coming to the fore however. The "White way" is becoming less popular with the yute, and, unlike Michael Jackson, the Japanese are proud to appreciate and celebrate the inherent non-whiteness of their condition.
Aha ! I knew there was a reason japanese animators were using so much color ! It is due to the inherent non-whiteness of their condition ! They will never pull a vile Casper tfg !
go, purple, go !
(exclamation marks are the vilest form of sarcasm !!! )
It's good that Daniel Jackson is to return to Stargate ?
The producer wants to kick him out, he ascends to godhood, the crowds want him back in, he descends back to mortality.
Will they frigin decide what is his theological rank ? All these phase transitions are tiring.
What a load of Calvinist drivel!
Don't insult. Convince.
Please present any evidence that demonstrates this.
An example for a nation-addiction:
start-example:
Israel's foreign policy in the last 1.5 decades (since withdraw from most of Lebanon) has been a balance between it's internal state (IOW the will of the voters ) and what it percieves (wrongfully, IMHO) as almost total dependance on US foreign aid.
This DIRECT aid, (as opposed to indirect aid and cooperation which is mutually very beneficial) did cause the Israelly politicians and public to become addicted. So addicted that when former P.M. Netanyahu (which IMHO was good in two thing only; economy and marketing himself) sugested to withdraw that (increasingly insignificant) aid none even took him seriously.
And this is aid, not total debt erasion , imagine what would happen if israel's debts would have been erased.
And if you want proof of this, just look at how Bush Sr. dragged P.M. Shamir kicking and screaming to Madrid. Against what Shamir by all accounts thought was the interest of his country.
While it was true that the the internal political situation was much to do with this, no honest person can deny that a great deal of pressure was exerted for the Bush Sr. administration.
end-example.
So yes, even relying on aid can be addictive. Now think what debt-erasion, which IMHO is equivalent to bankruptcy, will do to a country. See my other answers as to why I think this is worse for a nation than for individuals.
More to the point, you are making a category error and confusing a person with a nation-state, so even if it is true for individuals, this says nothing about the effect on nations
why not ? Again, if anything, financial trust and rules of conduct is a stronger problem for nations than for individuals (which can, after bankruptcy, say, go work as an imployee somewhere).
I think that owning up to one's obligations is more important for a nation than for an individual or buisness. I explained that oppinion in several other posts.
If you say things are different for a nation and a buisness or individual, please explain what you see as the most important difference and how you estimate it's effect. Don't just say things are different ; It is a bit too general to be of any affect as an argument.
Since my NickName is DarkHelmet
small nitpick: that was president scrooge.
sorry, couldn't resist it
The question comes down to philosophical identity of countries; i.e. are the countries of today responsible for their sins of yesterday? The answer to this question governs the responsibilities of both sides of the economic divide today:
It comes down to a notion of financial trust. Like it or not, investors will not invest in a body which does not adress his and his predecessors debts.
It may not be just, it may be bad philosophy, it does scrue the poor, but that's the way it usually is and I can't think of a way to change it.
Also, I should point out: just because it's not your fault that people are starving, doesn't mean that you're not ethically obliged to help them out.
This discussion , as I see it, is not about fault or morals, it about pragmatism and effective help. I'm saying there are ways of helping people or countries in the short run which are detrimental in the long run.
Obligation to help does not mean you must do something for the sake of doing, w/o regarding the consequences.