The class schooling system used to be a nescessary evil, but with todays technology it is finally possible to remove it. With the possibility to give each student his own screen and headset and have them advance at their own pace. Let me just say: Bleaghh. I have to read my manuals in.pdf (or worse!) form on screen, and now I have to learn with headphones on, from a screen? No thanks. Humans are adaptable and we can learn under an amazing range of conditions, but the headphones-and-screens way of teaching everyone strikes me as a little too Harry Harlow-esque.
Well, it's pretty stupid to have 15 years of memories on a single medium of storage (or "thing" since we're being nice to non-techies). Don't put your whole life on a "thing". Things break, and get orange juice spilled over them, and stolen by mafia like the ones you make movies about. EVERYBODY knows that. Crap. And here I've been backing all my memories to my brain. Now you're telling me I have to stop drinking orange juice through my nose?!?
I mean if you do believe in God and Satan, how do you know that some of the more obviously evil bits in religious books didn't come from him impersonating God? How do you know that "non-evil bits" didn't come from him?
That's the most inane, annoying thing I've ever seen. I couldn't watch the whole thing.
How the hell did that get so many views? I think you just answered your own question. Unfortunately, YouTube doesn't quantify things in terms of "watched 100% of the video".
A quantum computer uses the states of an electron to store data. However, no published research group has been able to create coherent electron states which are measurable and that last longer than a few nanoseconds. If this is not using the states of an electron, it is not a quantum computer. A quantum computer is any computer which takes direct advantage of a superposition of quantum states to store or process information. It doesn't matter whether these are states of electrons in atoms, or nucleons' internal states (or coupled to an external field) or what. They could be composed of a BEC for all I care. Electrons are just the easiest (for large -- small? -- values of "easy") things to work with at the moment.
Anyone who is so into the internet that they stake their emotions into it need some good old fashion electroshock therapy. That sounds fun. Can I get it online?
I just (a few minutes ago) found this free PDF book about algorithms (written for the undergrad-level student). It's pretty good: http://beust.com/algorithms.pdf
I also have training and experience in electronics. Without taking the entire back off the breadboard and carefully kneading or scanning that "putty" you can't verify that the device didn't pose a threat of some sort.
That being said, I agree with most of what you stated, especially the larger picture of lost rights and the negligible risks of suicide bombers vs. insidious rights abuses. I also think you've hit the nail on the head with going up to her and asking if you could take a look at the device to verify its status as a bomb or not. Still, she was an idiot for doing what she did, whether or not the cops overreacted.
If I can tell, at a glance, that it ISN'T a bomb.. then I would EXPECT a trained professional to know it even faster. The point is, you CAN'T tell, at a glance. Nor can anyone. There are any number of ways that wires may be routed elsewhere, through the base of the breadboard, etc. (This, of course, raises the issue that anything, including luggage, may be a bomb. But it doesn't excuse your claim that you can tell, at a glance, whether a few wires, a battery, and an LED are ALL that the device is composed of.)
Okay.. Maybe I was alone in my jr. Highschool electronics course and just fantasized about all the other students around me, but that sure as hell looks, very VERY obviously, like a bread board and nothing else. What exactly were they worried she was going to blow up, a resistor????? Hey, blasting caps can look a lot like a large resistor or capacitor. That, combined with whatever the hell that "putty" is, is a credible threat. Yes, I've just fed a troll.
Her choice of "artistic expression" isn't immediately recognizable, and therefore has to be treated as a threat. I'm all for imprisoning most modern artists, too.
I'd like to go up to an airport wearing a stripey jumper and, a wide brimmed hat and carrying one of those comic book bombs - with the word 'bomb' written on it. Just to see how long I'd survive. Keep the jumper hidden under a black cape (preferably lined with red). You also need a very large chin and thin moustache which you continually twirl.
One academic went through a sex change, submitted the same papers under both identities, and found that papers were accepted from a man but were rejected when they came from a woman, said the web inventor. Maybe the journals were aware that the papers were accepted once already. Why accept the same papers again?
In fact, think about this: the most logical camouflage colour would be green, right? That's the colour we dress our soldiers in, right? Well, in practice mammals are coloured anything but green. Another reason is that green *may* be one of those colors which is quite difficult to produce.
I heard a story on NPR recently about the environment around Chernobyl helping to partially solve one of the difficulties with the evolution of color: If more brightly-colored birds get more mates, then why aren't ALL male birds very brightly colored? The thinking goes that there must be a tradeoff of some sort --- bright colors must convey some disadvantage, too, so that not every male bird has them. Perhaps attracting more predators, etc.
It turns out that the particular pigment which gives cardinals their bright red color also serves to protect DNA from radiation, and birds can "choose" (or it is chosen for them, perhaps, by genetics) whether to put their pigment stores toward protecting themselves from radiation, or whether to use it in attracting mates, but not 100% of both at the same time. The higher background levels of radiation near Chernobyl means that slightly more subdued reds were being selected for there, as extremely bright red cardinals really couldn't produce many viable offspring.
Perhaps green (except for sloths, and their fun symbiotic cyanobacteria) is one of those colors-with-a-tradeoff to mammals.
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"In Soviet Russia leprosy gets YOU.".
or
"Old humans have a lower body temperature than most mammals, actually that's one of the reasons we can get leprosy" in Korea.
Sorry. I wasn't quite understanding what your point was until I translated it into proper terminology.
How the hell did you add one and one to get tw --- Oh, nevermind.
The usual joke/your head graphic here. Whoosh, and all that.
How the hell did that get so many views? I think you just answered your own question. Unfortunately, YouTube doesn't quantify things in terms of "watched 100% of the video".
# "And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling stinky hasn't yet understood the first thing about smell."
# "If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet."
--Neils Bohr
...but this is only a valid answer in some parallel universe.Yeah, yeah, I know it only affects physical outcomes. Laugh anyway. It's Monday. I guess Mondays are a physical invariant across all universes.
Cost-of-living adjustments, apparently.
Yeah, those ancient Persians really knew what they were doing.
I just (a few minutes ago) found this free PDF book about algorithms (written for the undergrad-level student). It's pretty good: http://beust.com/algorithms.pdf
Yes, and it's making me all verklemmt. Discuss amongst yourselves.
I also have training and experience in electronics. Without taking the entire back off the breadboard and carefully kneading or scanning that "putty" you can't verify that the device didn't pose a threat of some sort.
That being said, I agree with most of what you stated, especially the larger picture of lost rights and the negligible risks of suicide bombers vs. insidious rights abuses. I also think you've hit the nail on the head with going up to her and asking if you could take a look at the device to verify its status as a bomb or not. Still, she was an idiot for doing what she did, whether or not the cops overreacted.
Windows Me.
No... seriously.
One academic went through a sex change, submitted the same papers under both identities, and found that papers were accepted from a man but were rejected when they came from a woman, said the web inventor. Maybe the journals were aware that the papers were accepted once already. Why accept the same papers again?
Ah, yes, because whatever the hamster is doing, it's going to be *more* disturbed by having a cell phone ring.
I heard a story on NPR recently about the environment around Chernobyl helping to partially solve one of the difficulties with the evolution of color: If more brightly-colored birds get more mates, then why aren't ALL male birds very brightly colored? The thinking goes that there must be a tradeoff of some sort --- bright colors must convey some disadvantage, too, so that not every male bird has them. Perhaps attracting more predators, etc.
It turns out that the particular pigment which gives cardinals their bright red color also serves to protect DNA from radiation, and birds can "choose" (or it is chosen for them, perhaps, by genetics) whether to put their pigment stores toward protecting themselves from radiation, or whether to use it in attracting mates, but not 100% of both at the same time. The higher background levels of radiation near Chernobyl means that slightly more subdued reds were being selected for there, as extremely bright red cardinals really couldn't produce many viable offspring.
Perhaps green (except for sloths, and their fun symbiotic cyanobacteria) is one of those colors-with-a-tradeoff to mammals.