yes. I know. The tech is currently being used by the US and UK for artillery. Not needed as such, as at the moment it costs something like $50 to $60 grand for each GPS guided shell. Not the cheapest option. Although they do hit the target. I know the US has them. The UK does not at the moment as they cost too much and there are differences in the artillery we use.
Developed in the US and I must say that I am very impressed.
I like you're analogy. It makes sense to me. However schizophrenia is not well understood and is a term used for many different issues. If only people could be treated in a logical way! They cannot as every one is different.
As for cochlear implants... they are not advised for adults in the UK. It is difficult for them to learn how it works. Brain function, learning the neural connections to be able to use it is not easy and takes progressively longer as you get older. They are normally only provided to kids. Sprogs learn how to use them very rapidly.
Now to add the "hangover" functionality. That is a lot more difficult. Strange how you can easily get a NN drunk but it is far more difficult to give it a hangover.
Yes Booze does work.unfortunately it gives you a sore head . As for simulated networks... I've just added a "drunk" function to mine! It randomly modifies the link weights. It behaves about as well as an extremely drunk person. Success I suppose!
Snipers do not kill significant numbers of any personel. Kings or Generals? You must be joking. They kill from a long range and are hard to retaliate against or locate. They protect their own side, they instil fear (who knows when they will get shot) into the other side.
Most high ranking people have been injured or killed by someone very close to them physically and often in their trusted group of friends.
Shot by them or by shot by your own side. Great choice. The USSR tried this in the second world war. The Brits tried in the first world war. It is even better when you are a conscripted grunt. Killed for not agreeing to go to war, killed for not obeying orders, killed for obeying them and living a crap life for possibly many years then die. Some wars are driven top down. Current ones seem to be bottom up. People do not like you invading their country. It may be better in a few generations because of it but now they are suffering.
"The front line is not a place for negotiation. You see the bad guys, you shoot them or they shoot you. If your conscience acts up, you die. If you want to stop a war, you'll have start top down; grunts on the ground are merely following orders. If they stop following orders, they get prosecuted and shot."
If you believe that you have truly lost it. There are many different kinds of war and in many cases there is no "good guy" nor a "bad guy". I though Americans had learned that in Vietnam. (Even though the U.S. was partly responsible for the war because of their choice of allies in WW2)
There are many variations on this. Artillery shells with GPS guidance systems. Fire them 15 degrees off target and they will hit it within 10 meters One and a half minutes later.
Laser guided bombs. Often just a clamp on pack to a drop bomb. They require reflections from the target to home in although GPS is coming.
Another system is similar to TOW but without the optic cable. The launcher provides a scan line laser across the area and the non propelled projectiles (clock synched) have a receiver in the rear that enables them to figure out where they are (bit like a light gun on the atari) and then correct for it. The projectiles are passive. If the target moves the launcher tracks it and the grid the projectiles see moves so they correct. It is simple, hard to disrupt (as you have to interupt the information from behind the projectile as they can only "see" behind them) and hard to track (most of these systems are currently missile based where the projectiles are fired from the missiles after the missile is launched. The missile is the thing doing the laser scanning. If you can detect the source all you can hit is the booster.
Something similar should be possible in a bullet. It would perhaps give your position away for the few seconds the rifle was providing information.
Oh yes there were a few Health and safety courses I had to attend. I learnt how to lift boxes and which fire extinguishers are suitable for which fires. Not the most taxing of things.
Sort of. In the UK a masters is often seen as a stepping stone to a PhD. It is fine in its own right although a lot of science and engineering bachelors have now become four year courses where you end up with a masters. Here there are research and taught Masters. One involves lessons and is generally a one year course. The other you are on your own and tends to be a two year setup. PhD's generally have no requirement for taught aspects. It is on you're own back to learn what you need. Your supervisors will do just that and supervise you. I had a few required courses. Part of the grant agreement. They totalled about 20 hours in my first year. That was all...they were technical but not related to what I was doing in any way.
Not quite true at least in the UK. You normally have 3 years to complete but it is fairly trivial to extend to four years as long as there is funding in place or you pay for it. That is to continue working at the university.
Most universities will accept submissions within ten years of your starting date but nowdays you will pay through the nose in late submission fees. UCL is now about 4 or 5 hundred quid per year. Others may cost more or less. Thankfully I started my PhD before that became common. When I submitted on the tenth anniversary of starting it I did not have to pay anything. I did not write my thesis when I was a full time student. I did the research and wrote the hated thing later when I was in full time work. And yes you will start to hate it after a while.
Not everyone does a PhD to stay in academia. I got mine because I wanted to. Mind you it was an EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Science Research Council) CASE grant (http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/students/coll/icase/Pages/intro.aspx) so I was working in industry. Has it made much difference to my work or choice of career...Nope. Has it made a difference to me. Yes.
A Doctorate is what you make of it. Doing stuff you love is the bonus. Living like a poor student for years can be tricky and you enter the work force years behind friends who stopped after their bachelors. It means you will probably be earning less then them for quite a while. But you will have done it. You will have graduated with a silly floppy hat. It is then up to you to live up to the expectations it may invoke. Personally I would down play it in job applications unless they specifically require a PhD. As others have said it can sometimes be a problem due to being "over qualified" which is just silly. People don't apply for jobs unless they want them. I would say that if you went through the shear grind of getting a PhD. it shows that you are capable of putting up the both the good and the bad and still turning up for work and making things happen.
I can get a router for my home that costs that $200 dollers.A medium to large company would pay a lot more. 10's of thousands. Beyound that it is mostly up to how much can be charged. 1.5 million is the most I heard of. Big soding machines. Optical routing.
What is wrong with the scripts on slashdot. They are wonky. Adding info causes an update that removes it.
polotics did get involved. The US built the SLA and was involved in paying for the LHC. I'm not surprised that funding for the SSC was withdrawn.A lot of europe and the US was involved in the LHC. Probably not a good plan as the SSC was a stunning idea. Not everything works out well.
In many parts of the world mobile phones are quite cheap and there is no requirement to sign a contract. It is an american thing which seems odd to most of us. Choose not to get roped into a contract and perhaps the companies will change. Not much hope there.
Same here in old england. Although It has been a while so I do not know if that is true anymore.Others said that they could pick up a router for less. They are not routers and as specialised equipment they cost a lot more. When a decent router costs over 20K is it surprising that they cost more? When it is old hardware it is a given.
Part of that is due to publishing requirements. It is very hard to get a null hypothesis published. Even when they are as important as a succesful result. Publishing good results is a good idea. However lots of important information from null results is lost. That results in many people performing the same experiments again and again.The reason I liked it was for those Wow! moments. When something unexpected happens and you start investigating.
Gravity is not a theory it is a Law. Lots of evidence and not disproven untill relativiy screwed it up. The terms Law and Theory have changed over time and it takes a fair bit more evidence to call something a theory let alone a law. Evolution is not a theory it is a hypothesis. I do belive it is correct and many others do but there are a few different opinions. I think the general idea is sound but there have been minor revisions over time. God has nothing to do with that:P
How rapid was that flooding of the Med? 5.5 million years later the atlantic is still trying to fill the Med basin. The black sea was much more recent and probaly occured a lot more rapidly. Still not really plausable. Considering the number of feak storms, tusnamis and other floods that have happened over the last 100 years ( I chose 100 years as it is a time scale most people will understand and there are good records) it is not surprising that such disasters have become entrenched in human history. Most costal parts of the world have suffered from them. Many places that are not on the coast have been washed away due to heavy rain causing rivers to overflow. How many times was London flooded in the last few hundred years? Sir Basil Jet helped with that by building the north and south banks of the thames.Then much later the thames flood barrier was built. Floods still happen (just not in the city) In Richmond there are a few parking spots near the river that flood quite regularly. It is a bit of a laugh watching the water slowly rise over the cars then betting on what the owner will do when they find out that they have to wade to thier car. I live in Guildford., UK. Not near any coast. but near a river. The local curch has a plate on it with a high water level mark. It is about 5 metres above normal river level It occurred only 30ish years ago and washed out 2 bridges. 2 or so years ago most of the main roads were blocked as the river overflowed and covered them with a few feet of water. That may not sound like much but it is about 7 foot from the normal level to the surface of the roads. They happen quite slowly here as the rivers are managed (flood relief... The river is allowed to flow into local feilds)
I lost track there. Floods happen in lots of places that humans live in. Most are not expected and very violent. People having memories of them is not surprising.
That is quite an interesting read. I'm not sure how much I would trust wiki. It does confirm some of the statements I made.I do not know if the budweiser rocket went supersonic. It may have done but there is a distinct lack of evidence. claiming that it was because it had three wheels is just wrong Thrust SSC had five wheels I think.
There are lots of different land speed records. That one is effectivly unlimited. Others do have requiments. One such is the axel powered LSR. Yet another is for motorcycles (and that does have a limit of two wheels)
Direct alpha and beta are pretty much harmless as they can be stoped by almost anything. Gamma will sod up your DNA unless you have metres of sheilding. (Gamma depends on the intensity though).
Radioactive particulate matter is different. If you breath it in or swallow it Alpha, Beta and Gamma are being emited inside youre body and the only thing to absorb them is your body. Many of these materials are taken into your tissues. Many are quite toxic on thier own (without radiation issues). Techincaly Gamma radiation is not cumulative if you don't get DNA mess ups and you do spend enough time away from them to recover. Getting toxic and radioactive materials into your body is a very bad idea as you end up with (generally) a very low dose for a very long time .
Because engineering, like it or not, is always a trade off. Cost v's profit. How well do we build that bridge considering a 1 in 100 year storm? How well do we build that reactor considering a 1 in 1000 year earthquake? how well do we build backup systems to handle a wave front of over five metres? Perhaps these choises will be changed but you can build a bridge to withstand a 1 in 100 year flood and get it knocked down next year by that rare flood. It is imposible to negate any risk and it is unprofitable to reduce the risk too far. Hence a trade off is chosen. Depending on the political climate that trade off will vary.
Risk analysis is not simple. It is often wrong in hind sight. Live with it
Considering the Air force radar clocked it at 38mph (yes 38mph) and that the final speed was calculated from on board acceleration data it that has never been made public, it would be hard to claim it broke the speed of sound. As no official bodies were there and it did not sustain any claimed speed for a mile and did not complete the reverse run in the required time it most definately did not have anything to do with the land speed record.
I do not live in the US but due to the power they have it still affects me. Yes youre president does make me worried.Anyone who can send a nuke to my home is something to be scared of.:)
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yes. I know. The tech is currently being used by the US and UK for artillery. Not needed as such, as at the moment it costs something like $50 to $60 grand for each GPS guided shell. Not the cheapest option. Although they do hit the target. I know the US has them. The UK does not at the moment as they cost too much and there are differences in the artillery we use.
Developed in the US and I must say that I am very impressed.
I like you're analogy. It makes sense to me. However schizophrenia is not well understood and is a term used for many different issues. If only people could be treated in a logical way! They cannot as every one is different.
As for cochlear implants... they are not advised for adults in the UK. It is difficult for them to learn how it works. Brain function, learning the neural connections to be able to use it is not easy and takes progressively longer as you get older. They are normally only provided to kids. Sprogs learn how to use them very rapidly.
Now to add the "hangover" functionality. That is a lot more difficult. Strange how you can easily get a NN drunk but it is far more difficult to give it a hangover.
Yes Booze does work.unfortunately it gives you a sore head . As for simulated networks... I've just added a "drunk" function to mine! It randomly modifies the link weights. It behaves about as well as an extremely drunk person. Success I suppose!
Snipers do not kill significant numbers of any personel.
Kings or Generals? You must be joking.
They kill from a long range and are hard to retaliate against or locate. They protect their own side, they instil fear (who knows when they will get shot) into the other side.
Most high ranking people have been injured or killed by someone very close to them physically and often in their trusted group of friends.
Shot by them or by shot by your own side. Great choice. The USSR tried this in the second world war. The Brits tried in the first world war. It is even better when you are a conscripted grunt. Killed for not agreeing to go to war, killed for not obeying orders, killed for obeying them and living a crap life for possibly many years then die.
Some wars are driven top down. Current ones seem to be bottom up. People do not like you invading their country. It may be better in a few generations because of it but now they are suffering.
"The front line is not a place for negotiation. You see the bad guys, you shoot them or they shoot you. If your conscience acts up, you die. If you want to stop a war, you'll have start top down; grunts on the ground are merely following orders. If they stop following orders, they get prosecuted and shot."
If you believe that you have truly lost it. There are many different kinds of war and in many cases there is no "good guy" nor a "bad guy". I though Americans had learned that in Vietnam. (Even though the U.S. was partly responsible for the war because of their choice of allies in WW2)
There are many variations on this.
Artillery shells with GPS guidance systems. Fire them 15 degrees off target and they will hit it within 10 meters One and a half minutes later.
Laser guided bombs. Often just a clamp on pack to a drop bomb. They require reflections from the target to home in although GPS is coming.
Another system is similar to TOW but without the optic cable. The launcher provides a scan line laser across the area and the non propelled projectiles (clock synched) have a receiver in the rear that enables them to figure out where they are (bit like a light gun on the atari) and then correct for it. The projectiles are passive. If the target moves the launcher tracks it and the grid the projectiles see moves so they correct. It is simple, hard to disrupt (as you have to interupt the information from behind the projectile as they can only "see" behind them) and hard to track (most of these systems are currently missile based where the projectiles are fired from the missiles after the missile is launched. The missile is the thing doing the laser scanning. If you can detect the source all you can hit is the booster.
Something similar should be possible in a bullet. It would perhaps give your position away for the few seconds the rifle was providing information.
Oh yes there were a few Health and safety courses I had to attend. I learnt how to lift boxes and which fire extinguishers are suitable for which fires. Not the most taxing of things.
Sort of. In the UK a masters is often seen as a stepping stone to a PhD. It is fine in its own right although a lot of science and engineering bachelors have now become four year courses where you end up with a masters.
Here there are research and taught Masters. One involves lessons and is generally a one year course. The other you are on your own and tends to be a two year setup. PhD's generally have no requirement for taught aspects. It is on you're own back to learn what you need. Your supervisors will do just that and supervise you. I had a few required courses. Part of the grant agreement. They totalled about 20 hours in my first year. That was all...they were technical but not related to what I was doing in any way.
Not quite true at least in the UK. You normally have 3 years to complete but it is fairly trivial to extend to four years as long as there is funding in place or you pay for it. That is to continue working at the university.
Most universities will accept submissions within ten years of your starting date but nowdays you will pay through the nose in late submission fees. UCL is now about 4 or 5 hundred quid per year. Others may cost more or less. Thankfully I started my PhD before that became common. When I submitted on the tenth anniversary of starting it I did not have to pay anything. I did not write my thesis when I was a full time student. I did the research and wrote the hated thing later when I was in full time work. And yes you will start to hate it after a while.
Not everyone does a PhD to stay in academia. I got mine because I wanted to. Mind you it was an EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Science Research Council) CASE grant (http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/students/coll/icase/Pages/intro.aspx) so I was working in industry. Has it made much difference to my work or choice of career...Nope. Has it made a difference to me. Yes.
A Doctorate is what you make of it. Doing stuff you love is the bonus. Living like a poor student for years can be tricky and you enter the work force years behind friends who stopped after their bachelors. It means you will probably be earning less then them for quite a while. But you will have done it. You will have graduated with a silly floppy hat. It is then up to you to live up to the expectations it may invoke. Personally I would down play it in job applications unless they specifically require a PhD. As others have said it can sometimes be a problem due to being "over qualified" which is just silly. People don't apply for jobs unless they want them. I would say that if you went through the shear grind of getting a PhD. it shows that you are capable of putting up the both the good and the bad and still turning up for work and making things happen.
matfud
I can get a router for my home that costs that $200 dollers.A medium to large company would pay a lot more. 10's of thousands. Beyound that it is mostly up to how much can be charged. 1.5 million is the most I heard of. Big soding machines. Optical routing.
What is wrong with the scripts on slashdot. They are wonky. Adding info causes an update that removes it.
polotics did get involved. The US built the SLA and was involved in paying for the LHC. I'm not surprised that funding for the SSC was withdrawn.A lot of europe and the US was involved in the LHC. Probably not a good plan as the SSC was a stunning idea. Not everything works out well.
In many parts of the world mobile phones are quite cheap and there is no requirement to sign a contract. It is an american thing which seems odd to most of us. Choose not to get roped into a contract and perhaps the companies will change. Not much hope there.
Same here in old england. Although It has been a while so I do not know if that is true anymore.Others said that they could pick up a router for less. They are not routers and as specialised equipment they cost a lot more. When a decent router costs over 20K is it surprising that they cost more? When it is old hardware it is a given.
Part of that is due to publishing requirements. It is very hard to get a null hypothesis published. Even when they are as important as a succesful result. Publishing good results is a good idea. However lots of important information from null results is lost. That results in many people performing the same experiments again and again.The reason I liked it was for those Wow! moments. When something unexpected happens and you start investigating.
Gravity is not a theory it is a Law. Lots of evidence and not disproven untill relativiy screwed it up. The terms Law and Theory have changed over time and it takes a fair bit more evidence to call something a theory let alone a law. Evolution is not a theory it is a hypothesis. I do belive it is correct and many others do but there are a few different opinions. I think the general idea is sound but there have been minor revisions over time. God has nothing to do with that :P
How rapid was that flooding of the Med? 5.5 million years later the atlantic is still trying to fill the Med basin. The black sea was much more recent and probaly occured a lot more rapidly. Still not really plausable. Considering the number of feak storms, tusnamis and other floods that have happened over the last 100 years ( I chose 100 years as it is a time scale most people will understand and there are good records) it is not surprising that such disasters have become entrenched in human history. Most costal parts of the world have suffered from them. Many places that are not on the coast have been washed away due to heavy rain causing rivers to overflow. How many times was London flooded in the last few hundred years? Sir Basil Jet helped with that by building the north and south banks of the thames.Then much later the thames flood barrier was built. Floods still happen (just not in the city) In Richmond there are a few parking spots near the river that flood quite regularly. It is a bit of a laugh watching the water slowly rise over the cars then betting on what the owner will do when they find out that they have to wade to thier car. I live in Guildford., UK. Not near any coast. but near a river. The local curch has a plate on it with a high water level mark. It is about 5 metres above normal river level It occurred only 30ish years ago and washed out 2 bridges. 2 or so years ago most of the main roads were blocked as the river overflowed and covered them with a few feet of water. That may not sound like much but it is about 7 foot from the normal level to the surface of the roads. They happen quite slowly here as the rivers are managed (flood relief... The river is allowed to flow into local feilds)
I lost track there. Floods happen in lots of places that humans live in. Most are not expected and very violent. People having memories of them is not surprising.
That is quite an interesting read. I'm not sure how much I would trust wiki. It does confirm some of the statements I made.I do not know if the budweiser rocket went supersonic. It may have done but there is a distinct lack of evidence. claiming that it was because it had three wheels is just wrong Thrust SSC had five wheels I think.
There are lots of different land speed records. That one is effectivly unlimited. Others do have requiments. One such is the axel powered LSR. Yet another is for motorcycles (and that does have a limit of two wheels)
Direct alpha and beta are pretty much harmless as they can be stoped by almost anything. Gamma will sod up your DNA unless you have metres of sheilding. (Gamma depends on the intensity though).
Radioactive particulate matter is different. If you breath it in or swallow it Alpha, Beta and Gamma are being emited inside youre body and the only thing to absorb them is your body. Many of these materials are taken into your tissues. Many are quite toxic on thier own (without radiation issues). Techincaly Gamma radiation is not cumulative if you don't get DNA mess ups and you do spend enough time away from them to recover. Getting toxic and radioactive materials into your body is a very bad idea as you end up with (generally) a very low dose for a very long time .
matfud
Because engineering, like it or not, is always a trade off. Cost v's profit. How well do we build that bridge considering a 1 in 100 year storm? How well do we build that reactor considering a 1 in 1000 year earthquake? how well do we build backup systems to handle a wave front of over five metres? Perhaps these choises will be changed but you can build a bridge to withstand a 1 in 100 year flood and get it knocked down next year by that rare flood. It is imposible to negate any risk and it is unprofitable to reduce the risk too far. Hence a trade off is chosen. Depending on the political climate that trade off will vary.
Risk analysis is not simple. It is often wrong in hind sight. Live with it
matfud
Considering the Air force radar clocked it at 38mph (yes 38mph) and that the final speed was calculated from on board acceleration data it that has never been made public, it would be hard to claim it broke the speed of sound. As no official bodies were there and it did not sustain any claimed speed for a mile and did not complete the reverse run in the required time it most definately did not have anything to do with the land speed record.
I live in the UK so there are lots of launch sites. My government really likes the US. So it takes laws from the US. Good or bad we get them.
I do not live in the US but due to the power they have it still affects me. Yes youre president does make me worried.Anyone who can send a nuke to my home is something to be scared of. :)
Some do not like the people who made our world. Even if they were absolute shits.