Human brains are more like a supercomputer architecture. The outer layers (gray matter) do all the calculations while the inner layers (white matter) do the connections. There are diffusion-based MRI images that show how all the interconnects go.
For heating, you have the arterial blood supply, while for cooling, you have the venous blood supply which draws the heat out. For pressure equalisation, there's the circle of Willis, a ring of arteries. Even the flow of blood and nutrients isn't a simple pumping process. It's http://www.brain-aneurysm.com/ba1.html ">regulated by a neural system of it's own
Still never understood why CPU's have to be installed in a motherboard mounted socket rather than on their board connector like a GPU. Or why all the connectors have to be on the motherboard and not on a separate board.
I'm guessing that trying to create a silicon cube based on multiple layers would increase the chances of defects reducing the yield of functional dies. Even if you did get two successful slices, there's always the chance something would get trapped inbetween.
Maybe you could create a heat sink from a combination of a piezo-electric material and another material with high heat expansion/contraction coefficient, so that rapid heating/cooling would create current.
Students jailed for a year after smoking pot while abroad TWO students studying in Australia have been jailed for a year after returning to Singapore with faint traces of drugs still in their blood three weeks after smoking cannabis at an end-of-exams party. Film student Gavin Seow Lek Chen, 28, and his fiancee, Lynn Cheok Lye Peng, 22, a communications student, arrived home from Perth for their end-of-term break.
Remember those days, but that was maybe because every new feature really did change the experience.
CPU's did double in speed just about every year.4.77MHz, 8MHz, 16MHz, 32 MHz, 60 MHz, 90 MHz, 133 MHz, 266 MHz, 450 MHz, 1 GHz, 2 Ghz, and the names kept changing, 8086, 80286, 80386, Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III, Xeon, dual-core, quad-core. Each new release had some pipeline optimization that really did improve performance; more stages, dual stages, larger cache memory, L1/L2 cache, larger memory space, virtual memory, supervisor instructions, superscalar architecture. The benchmark then was rendering the Mandelbrot set.
Video cards kept changing too; CGA, EGA, VGA, SVGA, SXVGA, Just going from 16 colors to 256 colors and then 24-bit color were eye-popping. In the early 1990's, BYTE magazine had adverts for $120,000 512x480x32-bit framebuffer systems the size of suitcases. It was a dream to get a PC that could do all that kind of rendering. Then the rendered images in the adverts just seemed so basic.
Memory went from 256K to 640K to 1 Megabytes with extended memory. The fun of setting/tweaking DMA channels and pushing drivers into expanded/extended memory to make more main memory available for applications was like spending the weekend tuning a hot-rod engine.
Seeing adverts for the latest PC's back then - usually super-tall beige tower units with 2" LCD clock speed indicators and the large turbo-boost button. Other CPU's seemed awesome too, the i860 with built in 3D rendering instructions, the transputer, Taos operating system, Cray supercomputers, they all seemed cool and the local dream job was a visualisation/parallel processing engineer working on SGI workstations/supercomputers.
Now you can get all that experience just by purchasing a bargain shelf PC with dual core CPU's and GPU with dual video output. A pair of dual 30" widescreen monitors isn't more expensive than buying a TV. In fact a LCD TV doubles as a monitor and cable-TV set-top box, and the PC doubles as a TV.
The real comparison is between what can be rendered using DVD codecs and what can be rendered using the GPU. That's what owners of these systems expect. They want their games to look like what a SFX based movie can provide.
There is HDR - high dynamic range. Your framebuffer has high precision pixels that have fixed-point or 32-bit floating point components for at least RGB if not RGBA. Then by dynamically scaling these values you can view both the dark areas of a scene as well as the bright areas.
I hope they turn this saga into a horror movie. This is like the corpse still banging on the cofffin cask door, even when sprinkled with holy water, surrounded by crucifixes, shot with silver bullets, packed in with garlic and exorcised by an entire busload of priests working shifts 24/7.
A full developer-class Linux installation will take between 15 and 20 Gigabytes. That includes things like Qt, SDL, gcc/g++, audio systems like ALSA, Jack, nvidia drivers. From all the updates, I've done to my system, there are 2987 packages installed. Though I've no idea how many RPM packages are actually used on daily basis.
It's handy to have a package that you want to use pre-installed, but it's a hassle when you find there's a package missing and the repositories don't have a version for your system.
But how can anyone tell whether one CPU is going to be fast or slow for their purposes? There's all that hyperthreading, cache size, memory size to consider as well. You'd really need to know how many MHz and Megabytes a particular application requires in order to run smoothly.
My parents have a laptop (1.5 GHz) that is so slow on starting up, that they just basically keep it on all the time, and don't bother shutting down the applications (E-mail, spreadsheet, web-browser). On the times that they do switch it on, they go off to make a cup of coffee, make some telephone calls, and when they're done, the PC has booted up.
In the UK, if you use an ATM that isn't part of your bank, the other bank sometimes charges a handling fee (sometimes 1.5% of the transaction or a fixed £1.50 amount). That's called "dipping".
In the USA, both your bank and the other bank would charge you for making a transaction. That's called "double-dipping". California moved to make that illegal.
Every scientific instrument from those found in home science kits to an international research labs has an experimental error associated with every measurement made.
It's how certain you can be of reading the right value in terms of percentage error. It's the same principle wherever you work. A real teacher would have asked you to recheck your reading and calculations.
It's the same principle behind a high school physics lab and real world research. Scientists have to figure how the errors in every measurements combine together to give a final error estimate. If they can't resolve the discrepency between expected results from theory, real world measurements with experimental error, then it makes headline news.
DNA Codon tables are the lookup tables for the Amino acids. Each species has a unique table, though they do seem to vary between species.
DNA is transcribed by converting into RNA with one of the base pairs being replaced by an amino not normally found in regular DNA. I guess that prevents the transcription machinery from getting mixed up.
It's like medical research, the actual manufacturing process might not be that difficult, but it's the research into getting the right "mix" of ingredients is the hard part.
Manufacturing some new "super-drug" might be a straightforward lab bench formula, but all that medical testing, studies, and other bureaucracy takes up all the dough.
One click purchase is more than just clicking the button. You have to bind the current web browser window to a user-id, use the very same user-id for billing, maintain a secure database of personal information, and be able to transfer those orders to a global connected network of warehouses as well as interfacing with the financial networks. There would be ways of guaranteeing f fault-tolerance and reliability.
For UI elements, there will have been market research into seeing which is the most intuitive. Some products still make the mistake of putting the "update" or "apply" button next to the "exit app", "clear" or "cancel" buttons.
Some classes of supercomputers have direct links from each node to individual hard disk drives in RAID configurations. It's part of the specification of a supercomputer:
Low power consumption through instruction sets and hardware architecture. If you can get multi-core systems to fit into a tablet PC, then it's easy enough to rack mount them into a server chassis.
After two years, you will be expected to know more things, as you will still be competing against entry level graduates.
You will need to continue to learn more things like source code control systems (Subversion), development tool chains for different operating systems (Windows, Linux, OSX) and how to organize a large application built from several different API's.
Fascinating thing about DNA was that any sequence could be transcribed in six different ways. Because three combinations of the four letters C,T,A,G, are required to encode each possible amino acid (codons) ie. |CTA|GGA|GAT|, they could be offset by zero, one or two letters as well as being reversed ie. |TAG|AGG|ATC|. Known as codons, there is also an end codon, which indicates the end-of-sequence.
Then cells are known to cache those genes that are actively in use. Cell nucleii are known to mask off those genes known to be damaged, like a hard disk drive writing off bad sectors.
Maybe parental DNA can store configuration information on how often particular genes are used. Then offspring DNA could then activate those genes. That could be proved one way or another by looking at genetic differences between siblings after their parents started exercising after the first child.
Seniority system seems to have switched around - in the early 1990's, working in the film industry gave you access to all the big iron - SGI workstations, render farms, while the game industry still moved stuff around on floppy disk.
After the introduction of console systems like the XBox and PS3, working in the game industry has become more desirable than working in the film industry. Some places require two years advertising/film industry experience before considering applicants.
It was the same in the UK. You just needed a handful of A-levels in Maths, Physics, and some other sciences/arts, and you could go to any university on a grant. Then with a degree and an interesting project, you could apply to any employer with a good chance of getting employment.
These days, there seem to be so many obstacles thrown up - first of all there is the nine page application form, with three pages for diversity/equal opportunities. Pass that, and then there's the two/three home multiple choice test plus programming test. Pass those, then there's the verbal telephone technical interview. Then there's the initial technical interview, a follow-up interview, and if you're lucky, the job offer.
Don't have a degree or even know every STL design pattern off by heart, and they won't want to know you.
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Human brains are more like a supercomputer architecture. The outer layers (gray matter) do all the calculations while the inner layers (white matter) do the connections. There are diffusion-based MRI images that show how all the interconnects go.
For heating, you have the arterial blood supply, while for cooling, you have the venous blood supply which draws the heat out. For pressure equalisation, there's the circle of Willis, a ring of arteries. Even the flow of blood and nutrients isn't a simple pumping process. It's http://www.brain-aneurysm.com/ba1.html ">regulated by a neural system of it's own
No, just kidnap some anon/lulzsec member in Mexico or anyone who reports news from Mexico to them.
Still never understood why CPU's have to be installed in a motherboard mounted socket rather than on their board connector like a GPU. Or why all the connectors have to be on the motherboard and not on a separate board.
I'm guessing that trying to create a silicon cube based on multiple layers would increase the chances of defects reducing the yield of functional dies. Even if you did get two successful slices, there's always the chance something would get trapped inbetween.
Maybe you could create a heat sink from a combination of a piezo-electric material and another material with high heat expansion/contraction coefficient, so that rapid heating/cooling would create current.
Students jailed for a year after smoking pot while abroad
TWO students studying in Australia have been jailed for a year after returning to Singapore with faint traces of drugs still in their blood three weeks after smoking cannabis at an end-of-exams party.
Film student Gavin Seow Lek Chen, 28, and his fiancee, Lynn Cheok Lye Peng, 22, a communications student, arrived home from Perth for their end-of-term break.
Wouldn't the heat keeping the electrons and nucleii apart eventually escape from the system?
It seems like a perpetual motion machine that mass can create gravity, gravity causes pressure, and pressure creates heat.
Remember those days, but that was maybe because every new feature really did change the experience.
CPU's did double in speed just about every year .4.77MHz, 8MHz, 16MHz, 32 MHz, 60 MHz, 90 MHz, 133 MHz, 266 MHz, 450 MHz, 1 GHz, 2 Ghz, and the names kept changing, 8086, 80286, 80386, Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III, Xeon, dual-core, quad-core. Each new release had some pipeline optimization that really did improve performance; more stages, dual stages, larger cache memory, L1/L2 cache, larger memory space, virtual memory, supervisor instructions, superscalar architecture.
The benchmark then was rendering the Mandelbrot set.
Video cards kept changing too; CGA, EGA, VGA, SVGA, SXVGA, Just going from 16 colors to 256 colors and then 24-bit color were eye-popping. In the early 1990's, BYTE magazine had adverts for $120,000 512x480x32-bit framebuffer systems the size of suitcases. It was a dream to get a PC that could do all that kind of rendering. Then the rendered images in the adverts just seemed so basic.
Memory went from 256K to 640K to 1 Megabytes with extended memory. The fun of setting/tweaking DMA channels and pushing drivers into expanded/extended memory to make more main memory available for applications was like spending the weekend tuning a hot-rod engine.
Seeing adverts for the latest PC's back then - usually super-tall beige tower units with 2" LCD clock speed indicators and the large turbo-boost button. Other CPU's seemed awesome too, the i860 with built in 3D rendering instructions, the transputer, Taos operating system, Cray supercomputers, they all seemed cool and the local dream job was a visualisation/parallel processing engineer working on SGI workstations/supercomputers.
Now you can get all that experience just by purchasing a bargain shelf PC with dual core CPU's and GPU with dual video output. A pair of dual 30" widescreen monitors isn't more expensive than buying a TV. In fact a LCD TV doubles as a monitor and cable-TV set-top box, and the PC doubles as a TV.
The last hotel TV I watched had a DVD player into the setbox itself as well as network connectivity for pay-per-view services.
There were some cable set-top boxes that had built in 3D rendering. Just stick that logic into the TV and it's become a large-screen tablet PC.
The real comparison is between what can be rendered using DVD codecs and what can be rendered using the GPU. That's what owners of these systems expect. They want their games to look like what a SFX based movie can provide.
There is HDR - high dynamic range. Your framebuffer has high precision pixels that have fixed-point or 32-bit floating point components for at least RGB if not RGBA. Then by dynamically scaling these values you can view both the dark areas of a scene as well as the bright areas.
I hope they turn this saga into a horror movie. This is like the corpse still banging on the cofffin cask door, even when sprinkled with holy water, surrounded by crucifixes, shot with silver bullets, packed in with garlic and exorcised by an entire busload of priests working shifts 24/7.
A full developer-class Linux installation will take between 15 and 20 Gigabytes. That includes things like Qt, SDL, gcc/g++, audio systems like ALSA, Jack, nvidia drivers. From all the updates, I've done to my system, there are 2987 packages installed. Though I've no idea how many RPM packages are actually used on daily basis.
It's handy to have a package that you want to use pre-installed, but it's a hassle when you find there's a package missing and the repositories don't have a version for your system.
A simple CPU performance comparison chart would work
But how can anyone tell whether one CPU is going to be fast or slow for their purposes? There's all that hyperthreading, cache size, memory size to consider as well.
You'd really need to know how many MHz and Megabytes a particular application requires in order to run smoothly.
My parents have a laptop (1.5 GHz) that is so slow on starting up, that they just basically keep it on all the time, and don't bother shutting down the applications (E-mail, spreadsheet, web-browser). On the times that they do switch it on, they go off to make a cup of coffee, make some telephone calls, and when they're done, the PC has booted up.
Another thing was "double-dipping" in the USA.
In the UK, if you use an ATM that isn't part of your bank, the other bank sometimes charges a handling fee (sometimes 1.5% of the transaction or a fixed £1.50 amount). That's called "dipping".
In the USA, both your bank and the other bank would charge you for making a transaction. That's called "double-dipping". California moved to make that illegal.
Week one will begin the with the air drop of laptops.
Week two will continue the project with the air drop of power bars and batteries.
Week three will continue the project with the installation disks and AOL online.
Week four will see the project close to completion with the air drop of service manuals and wi-fi routers.
Week five will see the project get close to the completion of its first phase with the air drop of electric generators.
Week six will see the second phase of the project begin with the air drop of generators.
Week seven will see the completion of the second phase with the delivery of fuel by truck.
By the end of week eight we hope to publish the results of this project.
Every scientific instrument from those found in home science kits to an international research labs has an experimental error associated with every measurement made.
It's how certain you can be of reading the right value in terms of percentage error. It's the same principle wherever you work. A real teacher would have asked you to recheck your reading and calculations.
It's the same principle behind a high school physics lab and real world research. Scientists have to figure how the errors in every measurements combine together to give a final error estimate. If they can't resolve the discrepency between expected results from theory, real world measurements with experimental error, then it makes headline news.
DNA Codon tables are the lookup tables for the Amino acids. Each species has a unique table, though they do seem to vary between species.
DNA is transcribed by converting into RNA with one of the base pairs being replaced by an amino not normally found in regular DNA. I guess that prevents the transcription machinery from getting mixed up.
It's like medical research, the actual manufacturing process might not be that difficult, but it's the research into getting the right "mix" of ingredients is the hard part.
Manufacturing some new "super-drug" might be a straightforward lab bench formula, but all that medical testing, studies, and other bureaucracy takes up all the dough.
One click purchase is more than just clicking the button. You have to bind the current web browser window to a user-id, use the very same user-id for billing, maintain a secure database of personal information, and be able to transfer those orders to a global connected network of warehouses as well as interfacing with the financial networks. There would be ways of guaranteeing f
fault-tolerance and reliability.
For UI elements, there will have been market research into seeing which is the most intuitive. Some products still make the mistake of putting the "update" or "apply" button next to the "exit app", "clear" or "cancel" buttons.
Some classes of supercomputers have direct links from each node to individual hard disk drives in RAID configurations. It's part of the specification of a supercomputer:
T2K Open Supercomputer Challenge
Low power consumption through instruction sets and hardware architecture. If you can get multi-core systems to fit into a tablet PC, then it's easy enough to rack mount them into a server chassis.
It's more that the DNA sequence can be read backwards as well as forwards - there will still be two matched pairs of letters.
After two years, you will be expected to know more things, as you will still be competing against entry level graduates.
You will need to continue to learn more things like source code control systems (Subversion), development tool chains for different operating systems (Windows, Linux, OSX) and how to organize a large application built from several different API's.
Fascinating thing about DNA was that any sequence could be transcribed in six different ways. Because three combinations of the four letters C,T,A,G, are required to encode each possible amino acid (codons) ie. |CTA|GGA|GAT|, they could be offset by zero, one or two letters as well as being reversed ie. |TAG|AGG|ATC|. Known as codons, there is also an end codon, which indicates the end-of-sequence.
Then cells are known to cache those genes that are actively in use. Cell nucleii are known to mask off those genes known to be damaged, like a hard disk drive writing off bad sectors.
Maybe parental DNA can store configuration information on how often particular genes are used. Then offspring DNA could then activate those genes. That could be proved one way or another by looking at genetic differences between siblings after their parents started exercising after the first child.
Seniority system seems to have switched around - in the early 1990's, working in the film industry gave you access to all the big iron - SGI workstations, render farms, while the game industry still moved stuff around on floppy disk.
After the introduction of console systems like the XBox and PS3, working in the game industry has become more desirable than working in the film industry. Some places require two years advertising/film industry experience before considering applicants.
That should have been country, not company - spellchecker error.
It was the same in the UK. You just needed a handful of A-levels in Maths, Physics, and some other sciences/arts, and you could go to any university on a grant. Then with a degree and an interesting project, you could apply to any employer with a good chance of getting employment.
These days, there seem to be so many obstacles thrown up - first of all there is the nine page application form, with three pages for diversity/equal opportunities. Pass that, and then there's the two/three home multiple choice test plus programming test. Pass those, then there's the verbal telephone technical interview. Then there's the initial technical interview, a follow-up interview, and if you're lucky, the job offer.
Don't have a degree or even know every STL design pattern off by heart, and they won't want to know you.