So you are the kind of guy who considers a theory 'settled' only if it's 100% complete ? OK, come and climb Mt Rainier or Mt Shashta with me (two mountains infamous for their deadly weathers). I'll give you the option to check the weather forecast to postpone the climb. Or not. Why would you want to check it anyway since the forecast is not 100% accurate, right ?
I'm not on OKcupid and I'm not looking for dates, but I read OKcupid's statistics blog regularly with a lot of pleasure. The guys who run the site have fascinating insight and great data analysis skills. And they are also good at explaining things simply. Well worth reading for geek minded people. Especially if they don't have a mate yet !!!
Spectating isn't a sport, no matter what you are staring at
And running around after a ball while high on some many custom drugs that make you die before you are 40 isn't a healthy activity either. Choice quote:
"A sport is advanced by the handful of people who do it brilliantly, but it is kept sweet and sane by the great numbers of the mediocre, who do it for fun." — Elizabeth Coxhead.
I do not understand why they don't build this on the side of a mountain. It should work even if not vertical and would be a LOT cheaper to build as a simple plastic tube laying against a steep slope than as a km high tower.
I'm convinced spammers will be the first ones to break the Turing limit and beyond. They can 'get' captchas that many humans fail at. They can generate text that passes through layers of spam filters. In their constant arm race to reach more eyeballs while avoiding defensive measures, they are increasingly similar not to Uber Intelligences, but to error-prone humans. Lately I've been getting strange emails through my sites with rather questions that are curiously 'off'. Not just dumb or stupid, but unlikely to have been asked by a human. My guess is that it's some new elaborate form of spamming. But I'll be damned if I can tell it from a human.
Experiences differ. In 1980 I went to a nerd camp: launched rockets, did program a PET Comodore (launching a career in the process), amateur radio, explosives and a whole lot of other stuff. The programming teacher was an ex paratrooper from WWII (I could never figure that one out) with plenty of stories to tell. And all the other teachers were fun.
In Nepal [...] I did not feel that the checks were very thorough
Well, last time I was there, we had ONE TON of extra luggage. After slipping a couple bills under the counter, we didn't have to pay the outrageous extra fare (thousands of dollars, if not more) as they miraculously all missed the scale. I was actually worried that the airplane might not lift off...
Yes, there should be an advanced permissions tab where you can: allow / deny / randomize the data used by the apps. If I want to use a dead pixel tester (random example) than wants internet access, phone call access and GPS access, I'm sorry but NO, I'm not installing it. But in most cases the app would still be useful without the GPS position or other minor features. And 'randomizing' is for when the app refuses to work with the service denied.
Although I do work in that field, I know nothing about the Hague. Where do you get your info that it stopped in 2005 ? It stopped producing Pu, but not reprocessing civilian leftovers.
Do they "clean up" the images first to make it easier to compress?
Normally they don't. Compression algorithms, almost by definition, create artifacts that are difficult if not impossible to distinguish from potentially interesting data. So science imagery is almost always saved in 'raw' format, unless you have no other option like with your Gallileo example. Imagine applying a dead pixel detection to an astronomy image: 'poof!', all the stars magically disappear!
I've seen studies that predict sustainable population limits anywhere from 500 million to 20 billions. And the most recent analises tend to favor the FORMER.
GPM is shrouding the inefficiency of gas guzzlers. With MPG you can quickly see that twice the mileage is twice as efficient.
The distance to your work doesn't change when you change your car. So what really interests you is: how much money will you save by the end of the trip if you have a thriftier car ? And that's a direct measure of GPM. MPG is useless.
Yeah in fact I wonder about carbon dioxide in the coldest parts of Antarctica too. Wiki says it melts at -78 degrees C. I recall a weather station I was involved with managing reported -75 one day. I wonder if you get CO2 frost in conditions like that?
You won't get to see CO2 snow for the simple reason that it forms a perfect mix with air. For the same reason that if you mix water and pure alcohol you won't end up with cubes of water-ice floating (or rather, sinking) in alcohol if you put i in a mild freezer.
This kind of back of the hand calculations and the fact that hard drive capacity hasn't increased much in the last few years (from 2Tb 3 years ago to only 3Tb now) makes me wonder if there aren't much larger prototype HDs in use in large datacenters à la Google.
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Myself, I'm personally disgusted by people who feel they have to vilify their opponents
Why ? Some people deserve to be vilified.
So you are the kind of guy who considers a theory 'settled' only if it's 100% complete ? OK, come and climb Mt Rainier or Mt Shashta with me (two mountains infamous for their deadly weathers). I'll give you the option to check the weather forecast to postpone the climb. Or not. Why would you want to check it anyway since the forecast is not 100% accurate, right ?
I want to read his epitaph to the Cmdr...
I'm not on OKcupid and I'm not looking for dates, but I read OKcupid's statistics blog regularly with a lot of pleasure. The guys who run the site have fascinating insight and great data analysis skills. And they are also good at explaining things simply. Well worth reading for geek minded people. Especially if they don't have a mate yet !!!
Hey, my great-granma loved wrestling. And don't you dare tell her it's all fake !
Spectating isn't a sport, no matter what you are staring at
And running around after a ball while high on some many custom drugs that make you die before you are 40 isn't a healthy activity either. Choice quote:
"A sport is advanced by the handful of people who do it brilliantly, but it is kept sweet and sane by the great numbers of the mediocre, who do it for fun." — Elizabeth Coxhead.
There were some kids screaming in the background, which I'm not used to. Call that interference...
DDB ?!? Please read back what you wrote and provide some context: I have no idea what you wrote about.
I think it all started with a population of 12...
I do not understand why they don't build this on the side of a mountain. It should work even if not vertical and would be a LOT cheaper to build as a simple plastic tube laying against a steep slope than as a km high tower.
I'm convinced spammers will be the first ones to break the Turing limit and beyond. They can 'get' captchas that many humans fail at. They can generate text that passes through layers of spam filters. In their constant arm race to reach more eyeballs while avoiding defensive measures, they are increasingly similar not to Uber Intelligences, but to error-prone humans. Lately I've been getting strange emails through my sites with rather questions that are curiously 'off'. Not just dumb or stupid, but unlikely to have been asked by a human. My guess is that it's some new elaborate form of spamming. But I'll be damned if I can tell it from a human.
Experiences differ. In 1980 I went to a nerd camp: launched rockets, did program a PET Comodore (launching a career in the process), amateur radio, explosives and a whole lot of other stuff. The programming teacher was an ex paratrooper from WWII (I could never figure that one out) with plenty of stories to tell. And all the other teachers were fun.
In Nepal [...] I did not feel that the checks were very thorough
Well, last time I was there, we had ONE TON of extra luggage. After slipping a couple bills under the counter, we didn't have to pay the outrageous extra fare (thousands of dollars, if not more) as they miraculously all missed the scale. I was actually worried that the airplane might not lift off...
If a sample does not match the suspect, then it can generally be shown that the sample did NOT originate from the suspect
It has recently be proven false in some cases, see human chimerism.
Yes, there should be an advanced permissions tab where you can: allow / deny / randomize the data used by the apps. If I want to use a dead pixel tester (random example) than wants internet access, phone call access and GPS access, I'm sorry but NO, I'm not installing it. But in most cases the app would still be useful without the GPS position or other minor features. And 'randomizing' is for when the app refuses to work with the service denied.
The key to lossy compression is having a way to determine what type of data isn't as important and approximating that data.
The problem with research is that until you've looked, you don't know what you are looking for...
Although I do work in that field, I know nothing about the Hague. Where do you get your info that it stopped in 2005 ? It stopped producing Pu, but not reprocessing civilian leftovers.
Do they "clean up" the images first to make it easier to compress?
Normally they don't. Compression algorithms, almost by definition, create artifacts that are difficult if not impossible to distinguish from potentially interesting data. So science imagery is almost always saved in 'raw' format, unless you have no other option like with your Gallileo example. Imagine applying a dead pixel detection to an astronomy image: 'poof!', all the stars magically disappear!
Is this the info you are looking for ?
I've seen studies that predict sustainable population limits anywhere from 500 million to 20 billions. And the most recent analises tend to favor the FORMER.
Do I want to be cut off from all my eBooks in wifi or wireless outage?
Without even looking at the specs, it's a safe bet to assume that there's gonna be a cache for offline reading on that thing.
GPM is shrouding the inefficiency of gas guzzlers. With MPG you can quickly see that twice the mileage is twice as efficient.
The distance to your work doesn't change when you change your car. So what really interests you is: how much money will you save by the end of the trip if you have a thriftier car ? And that's a direct measure of GPM. MPG is useless.
Stillsuits. The good desert models, not the shoddy ones sold in cities by museum Fremen.
I always wondered how they didn't die of heatstroke in suits designed to not let sweat evaporate. Try to wear a rubber suit in the desert...
Yeah in fact I wonder about carbon dioxide in the coldest parts of Antarctica too. Wiki says it melts at -78 degrees C. I recall a weather station I was involved with managing reported -75 one day. I wonder if you get CO2 frost in conditions like that?
Disclaimer: I've worked in Antarctica at -78C !
You won't get to see CO2 snow for the simple reason that it forms a perfect mix with air. For the same reason that if you mix water and pure alcohol you won't end up with cubes of water-ice floating (or rather, sinking) in alcohol if you put i in a mild freezer.
This kind of back of the hand calculations and the fact that hard drive capacity hasn't increased much in the last few years (from 2Tb 3 years ago to only 3Tb now) makes me wonder if there aren't much larger prototype HDs in use in large datacenters à la Google.