Sweden will probably be a source of stem cells. This solution has been suggested by Bush's administration.
I think the decision was that US govt funded research would only be allowed on existing cell lines. At the time of the decision, Sweden supposedly had the largest number of cell lines, and would therefore be the main provider. Consequently, research funding organisations in the US have already started funding some research in Sweden.
Note that if new cell lines are produced from new embryos, even in other countries, they would not be allowed in US govt funded research.
Since the decision, there have been some suggestions of obtaining human cell lines from other sources, but I don't think it has been shown to work yet.
I thought research labs already have their own cluster, and grid systems?
Many do, but they are somewhat hard to utilize sometimes. For instance, in the lab I am at now, they have a well-sized cluster which in its first incarnation used double-CPU nodes. It turned out that usually, only a single CPU on each node was used. This was because the applixation that people mostly were running didn't support using more than one cpu.
In this case, it has probably (I am note a user myself) been a headache running Mathematica scripts on multiple nodes. I guess it means writing small Mathematica scripts that are then distributed across the cluster and a perl script or something collects the results and merges them. Being able to write the whole logic in one environment must be a big step forward.
One of the cooler things here though is the heterogenecy. In the organisations I have been, there have been enourmous computing power in administrative PCs running windows that no-one has been able to really take advantage of. At least without a big effort. gridMathematica may actually provide an easy way of tapping into that resource.
PubMed does not provide direct access to articles. Instead, you have lots of meta data about the publications, including author info, keywords, and most importantly, an abstract. Also, there are links out to the publishers' web sites.
PubMed actually works like a search engine for articles, but you have to go to the publisher's web site to read the paper. They cannot get any better advertising. A commersial version of PubMed would by necessity draw fewer eyes, so it is in the interest of publishers to keep it free, which is why I think they will never be interested in shutting it down.
If you need to go in by hand and check all your spam, it defeats the purpose of filtering in the first place.
No, it doesn't, at least not to me. I am a Xemacs/Gnus user and have some trivial (non-Bayesian) filters that puts emails likely to be spam in a special folder. The accuracy is around 99%. Whenever I read my regular email, I can simply walk through them one by one without stumbling over spam every second message. Once a day, I take a look in the spam folder to see if someone I know but didn't happen to have in my address book sent me an email without a Subject line (yup, that's the most common problem).
This is way less intrusive than have my good emails mixed in with tons of spam!
Given the way you have written your email address ({moc.zoyajeec} {ta} {jc}), I am surprised about your reaction. When submitting my email adress, I often try to add a suffix "+slashdot" (for example "arve+slashdot@some.domain.org") or similar to enable some tracking of where the adresses are distributed, since my mail server apparently supports that. It is not unusual that this perfectly legal email address is refused.
Furthermore, I live in Sweden and our addresses look nothing like US standard adresses. This is almost often troublesome. Recently, I was forced to enter a state even though I elsewhere had submitted "Sweden" rather than "USA" as country. (I chose Alaska!)
The list goes on. Most often, overzealaous validation is simply wrong. I todays global society, it is simply too hard to know every acceptable format, and you are better off being a bit relaxed about it. "Jennifer 8 Lee" is a perfectly valid string in a database.
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If Neandertals made a significant genetic contribution to modern humans, similarities should exist between DNA of Neandertals and that of people from Europe, where the Neandertals persisted the longest. Pääbo and his colleagues compared the Neandertal DNA to that from five modern populations, but it proved no closer to DNA from modern Europeans than to that from four other groups. While this does not rule out the possibility of Neandertal and modern human mixing, it suggests that the Neandertal genetic contribution to modern gene pools, if any, was small.
Svante Pääbo is a respected expert on ancient DNA, and was the first (whose student...) sequenced Neandertal DNA.
When I have had fuzzy logic explained to me, it has not been about probabilities. Sure, the output is a number between 0 and 1 which you can interpret as a probability, but the logic part of it is rather more of a poor re-invention of probability theory. And if fuzzy logic has "been given the shaft", then that is why.
Actual probability theory is highly regarded in CS. There are people spending their careers on probabilistic algorithms, where randomness is used as a powerful tool. In combinatorics, probabilities is used to for example show existence of structures ("probabilistic method"). Markov chains and processes are commonly used for modelling real world phenomena, and I would be surprised if they were not used in computer games and simulations for movies.
In short: CS and probability theory goes hand in hand.
Read the paper. One does not need to understand it to see what the actual questions are.
The authors carefully defines that a Tetris problem is a starting board and a series of Tetrominoes. Several computational objectives are then defined, such as "can a game be played wherein k rows are collapsed?" or "can the board after the last tetrominoe have at most height k?".
So it is really a mathematical version of Tetris, but it applies to regular Tetris in that there are certainly games that simply are too hard for you.
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Actually, thanks to filename completion in any standard shell, you'll list those files with about 9 keystrokes. Add to that "mv " and whatever the "directory bar" is, and you have accomplished your goal very efficiently. There is no way that I would be able to mouse around that quickly to choose the files and drag them somewhere!
On a sheet of paper, draw a line separating the paper into two halves. In one half write "UI Module" and in the other half write "Database Interface Module".
I don't think that you are addressing the problems that the original poster is interested in. The question seems to be about designing modules dealing with complex GUIs for very complex data, and then the issue is not merely how to access data in a DB.
For example, I have played around with products from Spotfire. They have products for viewing and manipulating or filtering a lot of data from multiple views. Take a look at some example pics and try to disregard the marketing crap. Their GUI is very responsive and easy to use, even though you may have very complex dependencies between the views. You can interactively mess with data filters in one view and get immediate changes in all other views. Interaction and data visualiztion at its finest. (No, I have no connection with the company!)
I'd think that designing such software takes a great deal of care of you want to ensure efficency, maintainability, extensibility, et.c. It is surely not just a matter of loading data into some datastructures!
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By right-clicking on an image, you can select "block images from this server" and further images will not be loaded from this site, saving you annoying advertisements and download-times.
This feature is already in Mozilla. I believe I have used it at least from 1.0.
I can tell you what 'lotsa nudity' leads to. I seem to remember hearing that a member of the Swedish government was runing on a platform that at least one channel should be forced to air uncensored porn for 24 hours every saturday or something like that in an effort to increase population. In short:
Watching lotsa nudity -> "it" -> population
Right now, the above is labelled as "troll", but it is almost true. In the recent elections, a lesser known woman representing the Christian Democrats (so not in the government), of all parties, had convinced herself that the above logic was true and tried to make that into the party platform. There is currently a growing worry about declinng birth rates in Sweden. Unfortunately for her, her fellow party members where not so happy about her ideas, so she had to resign.
I do not care how they collect the information. What I learned from the Nobel seminar was that neutrinos are registred quite rarely, but they had found that they suddenly had 12 neutrinos over a short time span.
I am simply asking what the arrival times are good for. To the unitiated, it does not seem to matter if the precision is by the second rather than the microsecond, and that it doesn't really matter if the computer clock is off by several minutes and has the precision of a wristwatch.
I would like to recommend the Nobel prize homepage. There is a lot of information there. In particular, go check out the "further information" links for the public, where nice presentations of the science is available.
Kamiokande (Koshiba's experiment)was a water-Cerenkov experiment, however the IMB experiment (another water-Cerenkov experiment, near Cleveland) also saw the neutrinos from supernova 1987A *and* IMB had an atomic clock, so they could get accurate arrival times, which the japanese experiment couldn't.
Would that make such a difference? I was at the actual presentation yesterday, and they had registered arrival times at Kamiokande too. Maybe the precision was lame, but since they actually only registered 12 neutrinos from that supernova, it seems a wristwatch would do well enough...
Actually, Linus Torvalds got his honorary doctorate from the Stockholm University, which is a different entity, even if KTH and SU actually are sharing some departments (such as NADA, the CS and numerical analysis department).
Yup, a lot of people (well hackers rather) were awkward about that. The school has a tradition of giving honorary doctorates to successful entrepeneurs (i.e., people with lots of money).
Please notice however, that Richard M. Stallman was given an honorary doctorate at KTH already in 1996!
OK, I admit I have not seen their marketing, but they are promoting their own movie versions rather than the originals, right? I felt I should do the same.
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What if people want to purchase (rent) a copy of a movie to watch? While I think most would agree, I hardly see how. A legitimate copy of the movie has been purchased. A disclaimer is shown so people don't blame the movie on the directory. Honestly, I ask, what is wrong with this?
I frankly don't see any winners. And if you do see a problem with this. What about other movie edittings?
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Unfortunately, these days I wouldn't be surprised. Why? Most media has gone way too overboard. Sure, when I'm with the guys its fine but if there are little kids even around in the house, I don't want to. Movie houses such as these allow movies to be played without the worry of junior sneaking around when watching such films at night.
Anyway, I fail to see. How is hollywood gonna stop me now? Oh wait, some DVDs don't allow you to time advance!
I surf the web in the same way. Try holding down the Apple key when clicking a link (assuming you're using IE). Your link will automatically open in a new window. It's actually quicker than what's involved with the two-button approach (right-click, move down menu, left-click.)
OK, this is nitpicking, but I am using a three button mouse (they aren't too uncommon you know), and I get a new window (or actually in my case a new tab) with the middle button. That is much quicker than combining with a mod-key.
And more importantly: With you method, can you surf the web efficiently while holding a coffee cup in one hand huh? Or perhaps scratch your belly, or making sure that your earlobes are folded the right way? No, didn't think so!
And where are you getting these numbers from? I just reread the article and I don't see a claim that VoIP will do better than other digital wireless phone technologies.
The discussion is about wireless VoIP, and even todays mobile phone systems such as GSM are already doing AD conversion and putting the bits in packets. With compression.
The reason they are going with VOIP is compression- you can compress the date down by a factor of perhaps 4 fairly easily;
I'm not sure what your point is: Modern mobile phone systems are also digital and doing compression. It actually to find code for GSM compression on the net! Anyway, compression and digital transport is not a reason for VoIP.
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I think the decision was that US govt funded research would only be allowed on existing cell lines. At the time of the decision, Sweden supposedly had the largest number of cell lines, and would therefore be the main provider. Consequently, research funding organisations in the US have already started funding some research in Sweden.
Note that if new cell lines are produced from new embryos, even in other countries, they would not be allowed in US govt funded research.
Since the decision, there have been some suggestions of obtaining human cell lines from other sources, but I don't think it has been shown to work yet.
Many do, but they are somewhat hard to utilize sometimes. For instance, in the lab I am at now, they have a well-sized cluster which in its first incarnation used double-CPU nodes. It turned out that usually, only a single CPU on each node was used. This was because the applixation that people mostly were running didn't support using more than one cpu.
In this case, it has probably (I am note a user myself) been a headache running Mathematica scripts on multiple nodes. I guess it means writing small Mathematica scripts that are then distributed across the cluster and a perl script or something collects the results and merges them. Being able to write the whole logic in one environment must be a big step forward.
One of the cooler things here though is the heterogenecy. In the organisations I have been, there have been enourmous computing power in administrative PCs running windows that no-one has been able to really take advantage of. At least without a big effort. gridMathematica may actually provide an easy way of tapping into that resource.
PubMed actually works like a search engine for articles, but you have to go to the publisher's web site to read the paper. They cannot get any better advertising. A commersial version of PubMed would by necessity draw fewer eyes, so it is in the interest of publishers to keep it free, which is why I think they will never be interested in shutting it down.
No, it doesn't, at least not to me. I am a Xemacs/Gnus user and have some trivial (non-Bayesian) filters that puts emails likely to be spam in a special folder. The accuracy is around 99%. Whenever I read my regular email, I can simply walk through them one by one without stumbling over spam every second message. Once a day, I take a look in the spam folder to see if someone I know but didn't happen to have in my address book sent me an email without a Subject line (yup, that's the most common problem).
This is way less intrusive than have my good emails mixed in with tons of spam!
Furthermore, I live in Sweden and our addresses look nothing like US standard adresses. This is almost often troublesome. Recently, I was forced to enter a state even though I elsewhere had submitted "Sweden" rather than "USA" as country. (I chose Alaska!)
The list goes on. Most often, overzealaous validation is simply wrong. I todays global society, it is simply too hard to know every acceptable format, and you are better off being a bit relaxed about it. "Jennifer 8 Lee" is a perfectly valid string in a database.
Actual probability theory is highly regarded in CS. There are people spending their careers on probabilistic algorithms, where randomness is used as a powerful tool. In combinatorics, probabilities is used to for example show existence of structures ("probabilistic method"). Markov chains and processes are commonly used for modelling real world phenomena, and I would be surprised if they were not used in computer games and simulations for movies.
In short: CS and probability theory goes hand in hand.
The authors carefully defines that a Tetris problem is a starting board and a series of Tetrominoes. Several computational objectives are then defined, such as "can a game be played wherein k rows are collapsed?" or "can the board after the last tetrominoe have at most height k?".
So it is really a mathematical version of Tetris, but it applies to regular Tetris in that there are certainly games that simply are too hard for you.
Actually, thanks to filename completion in any standard shell, you'll list those files with about 9 keystrokes. Add to that "mv " and whatever the "directory bar" is, and you have accomplished your goal very efficiently. There is no way that I would be able to mouse around that quickly to choose the files and drag them somewhere!
I don't think that you are addressing the problems that the original poster is interested in. The question seems to be about designing modules dealing with complex GUIs for very complex data, and then the issue is not merely how to access data in a DB.
For example, I have played around with products from Spotfire. They have products for viewing and manipulating or filtering a lot of data from multiple views. Take a look at some example pics and try to disregard the marketing crap. Their GUI is very responsive and easy to use, even though you may have very complex dependencies between the views. You can interactively mess with data filters in one view and get immediate changes in all other views. Interaction and data visualiztion at its finest. (No, I have no connection with the company!)
I'd think that designing such software takes a great deal of care of you want to ensure efficency, maintainability, extensibility, et.c. It is surely not just a matter of loading data into some datastructures!
This feature is already in Mozilla. I believe I have used it at least from 1.0.
Right now, the above is labelled as "troll", but it is almost true. In the recent elections, a lesser known woman representing the Christian Democrats (so not in the government), of all parties, had convinced herself that the above logic was true and tried to make that into the party platform. There is currently a growing worry about declinng birth rates in Sweden. Unfortunately for her, her fellow party members where not so happy about her ideas, so she had to resign.
I am simply asking what the arrival times are good for. To the unitiated, it does not seem to matter if the precision is by the second rather than the microsecond, and that it doesn't really matter if the computer clock is off by several minutes and has the precision of a wristwatch.
Just curious...
Would that make such a difference? I was at the actual presentation yesterday, and they had registered arrival times at Kamiokande too. Maybe the precision was lame, but since they actually only registered 12 neutrinos from that supernova, it seems a wristwatch would do well enough...
Actually, Linus Torvalds got his honorary doctorate from the Stockholm University, which is a different entity, even if KTH and SU actually are sharing some departments (such as NADA, the CS and numerical analysis department).
On the other hand consider for example this biography or what the wikipedia has to say. 1996 seems to be the answer.
Nope, not at KTH. Google (try 'Stallman hedersdoktor') says 1996, and that correlates well with my memory.
Please notice however, that Richard M. Stallman was given an honorary doctorate at KTH already in 1996!
OK, I admit I have not seen their marketing, but they are promoting their own movie versions rather than the originals, right? I felt I should do the same.
What if people want to purchase (rent) a copy of a movie to watch? While I think most would agree, I hardly see how. A legitimate copy of the movie has been purchased. A disclaimer is shown so people don't blame the movie on the directory. Honestly, I ask, what is wrong with this?
I frankly don't see any winners. And if you do see a problem with this. What about other movie edittings?
Unfortunately, these days I wouldn't be surprised. Why? Most media has gone way too overboard. Sure, when I'm with the guys its fine but if there are little kids even around in the house, I don't want to. Movie houses such as these allow movies to be played without the worry of junior sneaking around when watching such films at night.
Anyway, I fail to see. How is hollywood gonna stop me now? Oh wait, some DVDs don't allow you to time advance!
OK, this is nitpicking, but I am using a three button mouse (they aren't too uncommon you know), and I get a new window (or actually in my case a new tab) with the middle button. That is much quicker than combining with a mod-key.
And more importantly: With you method, can you surf the web efficiently while holding a coffee cup in one hand huh? Or perhaps scratch your belly, or making sure that your earlobes are folded the right way? No, didn't think so!
Lars
The discussion is about wireless VoIP, and even todays mobile phone systems such as GSM are already doing AD conversion and putting the bits in packets. With compression.
Lars
I'm not sure what your point is: Modern mobile phone systems are also digital and doing compression. It actually to find code for GSM compression on the net! Anyway, compression and digital transport is not a reason for VoIP.
Lars