That's the tricky part of running a research group - you want to publish your results in order get enough citations/references in other papers, in order to get further funding. But if you give away too much information, someone else can just set up a competing research department and take away your funding, so you end up having to start from scratch again.
So your survival tactic is to create a research group as large as possible to keep up the production of papers and the number of directions you can go in, or to investigate an area that nobody else has any interest in.
Having an expensive subscription for these research papers is one way to get the references, but reduce the risk of losing your funding.
But there is more than one solution - the centre cube on each face can have any one of four orientations. If you were to paint arrows onto each cube, scrambled the cube, and then solved it, the arrows would not necessarily be aligned with the rest of the cubes on that side.
Thanks for the information - from the document, it looked like they had sold some advertising space, and were replacing charity adverts with the register ed adverts. I guess they bought advertising slots and used the charity adverts when no other adverts were available.
One business user was updating the website for his home business. He used his home network connection to inspect the appearance of his website. To his surprise, he could not understand why the format of his website was consistently different from what he had intended. Disturbed by this, he reinstalled the OS on all his servers in fear of being rootkitted, rechecked all his security settings, reconfigured his firewall, and performed a packet trace on every connection made. In the end he noticed that various links on his webpages were being changed and that in particular some were coming from dns.sysip.net. Basically, this system redirected any links to adverts back to Phorm servers.
Perhaps there could be a way of transparently transferring zip files across as web pages? Any encoding scheme is going to need to calculate a checksum of all the text, script and image data, and store that checksum somewhere.
Perhaps a website could use a advert banner as the decryption key. If Phorm attempt to replace the banner, then the website is unviewable.
Town hall snoopers used controversial anti-terror powers to delve into the phone and email records of thousands of people last year.
They wanted to check for evidence of dog smuggling and storing petrol without permission - and even to trace a suspected bogus faith healer.
In one case they were inquiring into unburied animal carcasses.
Some councils are allowing middle-ranking staff to authorise covert operations under the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which is intended for use 'in the interests of national security'.
That system is called "streaming". The problem with that or even with just "mixed mode" teaching was that you could end up with a plonker of a teacher especially in the top classes. Most of the students in the top classes had parents who were lecturers, business directors or doctors (either they already knew the subject material or could afford to pay for a private tutor). In this situation, a crap teacher could be completely hopeless and still get a good review because the students were doing well.
Other schools have run systems where the students could vote for the teacher they wanted to teach them or to have different teachers different topics (one month per topic).
It started 30 years ago - Thatcher was infuriated that students who had completed courses in subjects like Pure Mathematics and Physics were complaining that they were unable to find jobs, so she demanded that the universities made all their courses business focused. The good news was that this made the people more employable, but meant that there was no incentive for them to go into teaching.
And as the financial industry has grown, there really isn't any incentive for anyone with such skills to go into teaching.
I've got the old syllabuses for A-level subjects from back in the 80's (the Lett's study guides have these as the front sections). It's obvious that various subjects have been dropped due to various reasons.
You mean the black sticky soot that comes out when the fire is heating up? That might be a problem, but there are smokeless fuels to solve that problem.
My absolute favorite in home theater atrocities are the ones where you find a flat panel mounted over the fireplace. I always want to mention what a bad idea it is, but just bite my lip as to not be rude.
The heat load isn't probably as bad as you imagine. We have a firebox (cast iron metal box with ceramic window for burning logs of wood). The firebox itself gets extremely hot, but the wooden fireplace around and above it remains at room temperature.
Make sure your windows are completely closed by curtains so that no light escapes from the room. Perhaps a light sensor combined with zoom lens could pick up the reflections of IR light through the curtains.
The latest technique in MRI is functional MRI (fMRI) . The doctors can watch the oxygen demand levels of the brain change dynamically as a person thinks. The resulting brain scan image superimposes the oxygen demand levels in red-yellow-green-blue scale over a monochrome image of that slice of the brain. Effectively, they see which areas of the brain are in use from second to second.
In some cases, they have discovered that people in coma's or a persistive vegetable state have been discovered to have been aware of their surroundings.
With "reinnervation", they graft the nerves that used to lead to the arm/hand/fingers and reattach them to the chest muscles. Electrodes in the base of the prosthesis pick up these electrical signals and use them to move the arm. It would be possible to reassign different signals to different arm movements, but you won't be able to control any more muscles than you had before.
Maybe with electrodes implanted in the brain this would be possible - people were able to control a cursor with their thoughts. But it would require many more electrodes to be able to control an entire arm.
X has been given a office desk in the basement - Sometime in the past we decided to discontinue X's employment, but the request never made it through to HR.
The major different between CPU's and GPU's is that CPU's have to handle the effects of different branch conditions. One of the optimizations that CPU's have been designed for, is the combination of pipelining and dual path evaluation. Because the CPU is pipelining instructions, it has to evaluate both outcomes of each conditional instruction in parallel with the actual condition, and then select the actual outcome once it is actually known. Calculating the condition first followed by the outcome, would reduce performance by a half.
As GPU's are dedicated to floating point data, they don't have the space to do this kind of logic.
Because a floating point number really consists of two value (a large 23-bit mantissa, a smaller (8-bit exponent and a single sign bit), performing a single arithmetic operation on two floating point numbers requires:
1. Aligning the two mantissas so the exponents match 2. Performing the operation 3. Renormalizing the mantissa of new value so that it is in the range 1.0 to less than 2.0 4. Saving the result to the destination register
Each of these stages would probably take one read/write cycle.
Performing an integer operation requires a shift-and-add sequence for multiplication, and a shift-compare-and-conditional-subtract for division.
Previous GPU's just stored the integer as the mantissa of floating point registers. But as integers are now represented separately as 32-bit values, they will be processed by a different hardware unit. Maybe they have two barrel shift registers working in parallel so that only 16 cycles are required.
They are doing tomography on large volume data sets. You take a large number of high-resolution slices of an object (1024x1024 x 16 bits) from a large number of different angles which encompass an entire circle (256 to 512 slices).
Since they are using eight GPU's, the total memory of the system must be in the range of 8 Gigabytes. They would need half the memory for the raw image data, and the other half for the final cube volume (1024^3 x 16 bits).
From the video, a calculation which would normally take an hour on a network of PC's will take seconds on their system.
Most likely, the speed optimisations are probably through not having to synchronise the PC's, load and save data from disk, and transfer it through the local network as well as having multiple processors to transform the data (128 per GPU). If you have everything in one place (ie. in GPU memory), then it is going to be a lot faster than a network of PC's.
Paypal doesn't support the use of Maestro or Solo credit cards (these UK ATM cards make your bank account appear like a credit card to sellers - so you can make purchases without going into debt - if you don't have the money you don't make the purchase).
Tell them that your religion forbids you from being photographed in any way as you believe every time a picture of you is taken, you lose a piece of your soul.
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That's the tricky part of running a research group - you want to publish your results in order get enough citations/references in other papers, in order to get further funding. But if you give away too much information, someone else can just set up a competing research department and take away your funding, so you end up having to start from scratch again.
So your survival tactic is to create a research group as large as possible to keep up the production of papers and the number of directions you can go in, or to investigate an area that nobody else has any interest in.
Having an expensive subscription for these research papers is one way to get the references, but reduce the risk of losing your funding.
But there is more than one solution - the centre cube on each face can have any one of four orientations. If you were to paint arrows onto each cube, scrambled the cube, and then solved it, the arrows would not necessarily be aligned with the rest of the cubes on that side.
So there might be actually 4^6 solutions (4096).
Thanks for the information - from the document, it looked like they had sold some advertising space, and were replacing charity adverts with the register ed adverts. I guess they bought advertising slots and used the charity adverts when no other adverts were available.
This was discussed in the forum digitalspy.co.uk
Phorm in the UK
One business user was updating the website for his home business. He used his home network connection to inspect the appearance of his website. To his surprise, he could not understand why the format of his website was consistently different from what he had intended. Disturbed by this, he reinstalled the OS on all his servers in fear of being rootkitted, rechecked all his security settings, reconfigured his firewall, and performed a packet trace on every connection made. In the end he noticed that various links on his webpages were being changed and that in particular some were coming from dns.sysip.net. Basically, this system redirected any links to adverts back to Phorm servers.
Customer who was Phormed
Or the ISP simply makes it a condition that by agreeing to the terms and conditions of the contract, they agree to be opted in to Phorm by default.
Perhaps there could be a way of transparently transferring zip files across as web pages? Any encoding scheme is going to need to calculate a checksum of all the text, script and image data, and store that checksum somewhere.
Perhaps a website could use a advert banner as the decryption key. If Phorm attempt to replace the banner, then the website is unviewable.
By their own admission a leading UK telecoms company has deprived several charities of a legal revenue stream to line their own corporate pockets.
Given the outrage following the several Audiocall staff kept 100K of children in need cash for itself, I hope BT get the same treatment.
Article in todays Daily Mail:
Phone spies: Town halls using anti-terror powers to bug residents' calls and emails
Town hall snoopers used controversial anti-terror powers to delve into the phone and email records of thousands of people last year.
They wanted to check for evidence of dog smuggling and storing petrol without permission - and even to trace a suspected bogus faith healer.
In one case they were inquiring into unburied animal carcasses.
Some councils are allowing middle-ranking staff to authorise covert operations under the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which is intended for use 'in the interests of national security'.
That system is called "streaming". The problem with that or even with just "mixed mode" teaching was that you could end up with a plonker of a teacher especially in the top classes. Most of the students in the top classes had parents who were lecturers, business directors or doctors (either they already knew the subject material or could afford to pay for a private tutor). In this situation, a crap teacher could be completely hopeless and still get a good review because the students were doing well.
Other schools have run systems where the students could vote for the teacher they wanted to teach them or to have different teachers different topics (one month per topic).
It started 30 years ago - Thatcher was infuriated that students who had completed courses in subjects like Pure Mathematics and Physics were complaining that they were unable to find jobs, so she demanded that the universities made all their courses business focused. The good news was that this made the people more employable, but meant that there was no incentive for them to go into teaching.
And as the financial industry has grown, there really isn't any incentive for anyone with such skills to go into teaching.
I've got the old syllabuses for A-level subjects from back in the 80's (the Lett's study guides have these as the front sections). It's obvious that various subjects have been dropped due to various reasons.
You mean the black sticky soot that comes out when the fire is heating up? That might be a problem, but there are smokeless fuels to solve that problem.
My absolute favorite in home theater atrocities are the ones where you find a flat panel mounted over the fireplace. I always want to mention what a bad idea it is, but just bite my lip as to not be rude.
The heat load isn't probably as bad as you imagine. We have a firebox (cast iron metal box with ceramic window for burning logs of wood). The firebox itself gets extremely hot, but the wooden fireplace around and above it remains at room temperature.
Make sure your windows are completely closed by curtains so that no light escapes from the room. Perhaps a light sensor combined with zoom lens could pick up the reflections of IR light through the curtains.
The latest technique in MRI is functional MRI (fMRI) . The doctors can watch the oxygen demand levels of the brain change dynamically as a person thinks. The resulting brain scan image superimposes the oxygen demand levels in red-yellow-green-blue scale over a monochrome image of that slice of the brain. Effectively, they see which areas of the brain are in use from second to second.
In some cases, they have discovered that people in coma's or a persistive vegetable state have been discovered to have been aware of their surroundings.
Handy Libraries of Congress conversion chart
1 picture = 37052 words
1 library of congress = 28 million books = 2 ^ 42.6 bytes = 6.208375 Terabytes
The picture is that worth 5.558195779 x 10-9 libraries of congress
I'd like to see what what of these arms would look like if they could add an artificial silicone skin that other companies have developed.
With "reinnervation", they graft the nerves that used to lead to the arm/hand/fingers and reattach them to the chest muscles. Electrodes in the base of the prosthesis pick up these electrical signals and use them to move the arm. It would be possible to reassign different signals to different arm movements, but you won't be able to control any more muscles than you had before.
Maybe with electrodes implanted in the brain this would be possible - people were able to control a cursor with their thoughts. But it would require many more electrodes to be able to control an entire arm.
And also:
X has been given a office desk in the basement - Sometime in the past we decided to discontinue X's employment, but the request never made it through to HR.
Thanks for that correction - I guess I must have used paypal.com to sign up, and so never got the Maestro option.
The major different between CPU's and GPU's is that CPU's have to handle the effects of different branch conditions. One of the optimizations that CPU's have been designed for, is the combination of pipelining and dual path evaluation. Because the CPU is pipelining instructions, it has to evaluate both outcomes of each conditional instruction in parallel with the actual condition, and then select the actual outcome once it is actually known. Calculating the condition first followed by the outcome, would reduce performance by a half.
As GPU's are dedicated to floating point data, they don't have the space to do this kind of logic.
Because a floating point number really consists of two value (a large 23-bit mantissa, a smaller (8-bit exponent and a single sign bit), performing a single arithmetic operation on two floating point numbers requires:
1. Aligning the two mantissas so the exponents match
2. Performing the operation
3. Renormalizing the mantissa of new value so that it is in the range 1.0 to less than 2.0
4. Saving the result to the destination register
Each of these stages would probably take one read/write cycle.
Performing an integer operation requires a shift-and-add sequence for multiplication, and a shift-compare-and-conditional-subtract for division.
Previous GPU's just stored the integer as the mantissa of floating point registers. But as integers are now represented separately as 32-bit values, they will be processed by a different hardware unit. Maybe they have two barrel shift registers working in parallel so that only 16 cycles are required.
They are doing tomography on large volume data sets. You take a large number of high-resolution slices of an object (1024x1024 x 16 bits) from a large number of different angles which encompass an entire circle (256 to 512 slices).
Since they are using eight GPU's, the total memory of the system must be in the range of 8 Gigabytes. They would need half the memory for the raw image data, and the other half for the final cube volume (1024^3 x 16 bits).
From the video, a calculation which would normally take an hour on a network of PC's will take seconds on their system.
Most likely, the speed optimisations are probably through not having to synchronise the PC's, load and save data from disk, and transfer it through the local network as well as having multiple processors to transform the data (128 per GPU).
If you have everything in one place (ie. in GPU memory), then it is going to be a lot faster than a network of PC's.
Paypal doesn't support the use of Maestro or Solo credit cards (these UK ATM cards make your bank account appear like a credit card to sellers - so you can make purchases without going into debt - if you don't have the money you don't make the purchase).
Could this be used to filter car and big-truck exhaust fumes?
Tell them that your religion forbids you from being photographed in any way as you believe every time a picture of you is taken, you lose a piece of your soul.