You are forgetting the basic laws of conservation of energy and mass. There is a reason by replicators are a science fiction tech.
Creating mass out of energy/electricity would require m/(c^2) Joules or energy. With the current speed of light and price of electricity, I would hate to see the power bill for replicating a glass of water.
Even if you are not creating stuff out of energy, but just printing it from some base material, that base stuff needs to be produced, with the relevant chemical/material properties. That is not exactly for free either.
So don't worry, the traditional economy isn't going anywhere just yet.
This is indeed the key. Our models are Java/semantic web type of things, with many, many threads and inter agent communication. almost no math. I guess in that case it would not make too much sense to move to these architectures.
San somebody who has actually worked with such machines enlighten me about its performance on tasks that are not floating point intensive? Our simulations mainly push many,many objects around, with relatively little, or no floating point math in them.
Do such machines still make sense, or are we better off with a bunch of general purpose CPUs clustered together? How do they compare to Suns Niagara cpus that have umpteen hardware threads in them ?
If it is that resilient and fast growing, you will not be able to control it anyhow. Many, many examples of invasive species throughout the world show this. So, just learn how to harvest it and make biodiesel/biogas/electricity out of it. No intensive agriculture, ferilizers or herbicides needed. Plus, this might piss off the corn/ethanol lobby enough to actually start taking action against the grass. Ether way, we win. Oh yeah, biodiversity losses, but that is shafted anyway...
Thats interesting. I dont think that human heuristics beak down. We simply have not learaned to live in a world of so much information and technology yet. And the funny thing is, no mater how hard we try, we never will be, so, we keep on trying...
Put Glest on there as well ( http://www.glest.org/ ) Very polished looking RTS. From their website " Glest is a free 3D real-time strategy game, where you control the armies of two different factions: Tech, which is mainly composed of warriors and mechanical devices, and Magic, that prefers mages and summoned creatures in the battlefield. "
I manage a large intranet wiki at a university, based on TWiki. We also do some research on its use. The main metrics I would suggest :
* number of pages (cumulative graph over time, and per month/day)
* number of edits, idem
* number of views , idem
* Number/size of attachments, idem
* a histogram of edits/views per person
* a histogram of people who only read and never contribute.
you can obviously anonymize the graphs if needed. A little straightforard programming-fu and access to the server logs goes a log way.
Before you show the histograms to the bosses, you need to tell them about the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law , as you will be looking at one, guaranteed. 10 % contribute, 90% read. That is fine and natural, but they must understand that. You can demonstrate the fact that people read it a lot and that it is a resource they use (use the the views/views and no edits graph), and the (relatively few) people who actively contribute must be encouraged to do so, and maybe even given an explicit task to do so.
You can also plot a degree distribution histogram per page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_(graph_theory) ), where the degree of a page is the number of outgoing links to pages + number of pages referencing back to it. If you get a power law again, you have a few important portal pages and lots of content. More uniform distribution suggests something in the lines of an encyclopedia/storage type of content. I would suggest that having a power law is better, as people find stuff more easily ( bar a good search engine...) You can also use any of the graphing tools (http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/ or http://jung.sourceforge.net/ ) to draw all pages out, and show different clusters of content. AGain, you can do this over time
Oh, and while you are at it, list the top/bottom 10 (20, 30) most used pages, and explain why. Observe how they change over time.
Im sure that there is enough suggestions here to get a nice progress metric for the boss. Good luck.
Most offices will have a shower somewhere in the building, at least they do over here. Just ask around, you will be surprised. Pack your neat clothes in saddle bags/backpack (roll them around a towel to prevent creasing) and you will be fine. Plus, it can save time in the morning, as there is no need for the morning shower, just have some breakfast and jump on the bike. You can even do the shave routine under the shower.
It was actually pretty cool editor for the DOS era. Went through most of my high school science class reports with it. Of course, LaTeX and Kile/TexMaker/Emacs/AucTex rules the MSc and the PhD times....
Normally, I don't feed trolls, but here goes just once...
Proofs exists only in the abstract world of mathematics and logic. In the real world there is no such thing as a proof... only very, very compelling evidence, and theories that spot-on predict experimental outcomes. And of course, evolution being an intractable algorithmic process, you by definition can not predict the exact outcome of any evolution. But again, if you have ever bothered reading anything on evolution, you would have known that Darwin and evolution is not about the "why" or the "where to" question. Only about the how...
neither is there any concrete scientific evidence of evolution, apart from the strong surviving over the week, which can hardly be used to back up macro-evolution.
Well, of you hate the shape : 1. get the CAD files : http://downloads.openmoko.org/CAD/ 2. Modify them 3. Find a CNC shop to build them (solid brushed alumunium case anyone ?) 4. ? 5. Profit !
Slashdot Mirror
According to http://ip6.nl/#!slashdot.org it scores 1/5 stars, and calmly states that "slashdot.org isn't quite ready for IPv6 yet."
You are forgetting the basic laws of conservation of energy and mass. There is a reason by replicators are a science fiction tech.
Creating mass out of energy/electricity would require m/(c^2) Joules or energy. With the current speed of light and price of electricity, I would hate to see the power bill for replicating a glass of water.
Even if you are not creating stuff out of energy, but just printing it from some base material, that base stuff needs to be produced, with the relevant chemical/material properties. That is not exactly for free either.
So don't worry, the traditional economy isn't going anywhere just yet.
>I actually was interested in getting a Wikileaks mug, but all they had is stuff that you had to wear in public.
My mug arrived a few days ago, check it out here : http://officialwikileakseu.spreadshirt.net/p6
I've got a CnMbook. It's shite;
Can you elaborate please, it seems like a quite nice machine for some basic note typing/calendar/web/ssh stuff.
Obligatory genious from "The Parking Lot is Full" :
http://plif.courageunfettered.com/archive/wc263.gif
Thanks for the comment!
This is indeed the key. Our models are Java/semantic web type of things, with many, many threads and inter agent communication. almost no math. I guess in that case it would not make too much sense to move to these architectures.
San somebody who has actually worked with such machines enlighten me about its performance on tasks that are not floating point intensive? Our simulations mainly push many,many objects around, with relatively little, or no floating point math in them.
Do such machines still make sense, or are we better off with a bunch of general purpose CPUs clustered together? How do they compare to Suns Niagara cpus that have umpteen hardware threads in them ?
Yeah, you are right. Except that you can not choose not to play in this one...
Of course, you mean *when* not if...
That has been tried a number of times, and each time ended in a epic fail. For a case study, talk to any Aussie about Rabbits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbits_in_Australia or about the cane toad see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toad
If it is that resilient and fast growing, you will not be able to control it anyhow. Many, many examples of invasive species throughout the world show this. So, just learn how to harvest it and make biodiesel/biogas/electricity out of it. No intensive agriculture, ferilizers or herbicides needed. Plus, this might piss off the corn/ethanol lobby enough to actually start taking action against the grass. Ether way, we win. Oh yeah, biodiversity losses, but that is shafted anyway...
Thats interesting. I dont think that human heuristics beak down. We simply have not learaned to live in a world of so much information and technology yet. And the funny thing is, no mater how hard we try, we never will be, so, we keep on trying...
He basically just wants to have an Open Source solution available if he must use it in the first place.
You know, the devil you know...
Well, clearly it is. They would not have bothered otherwise...
You would like to know the moment you booted cryptoSkyNet :)
Put Glest on there as well ( http://www.glest.org/ ) Very polished looking RTS. From their website " Glest is a free 3D real-time strategy game, where you control the armies of two different factions: Tech, which is mainly composed of warriors and mechanical devices, and Magic, that prefers mages and summoned creatures in the battlefield. "
It is available from Ubuntu repositories.
My thoughts exactly. There is no reboot after you hit the Blue Planet Of Death...
*ducks*
I manage a large intranet wiki at a university, based on TWiki. We also do some research on its use. The main metrics I would suggest :
* number of pages (cumulative graph over time, and per month/day)
* number of edits, idem
* number of views , idem
* Number/size of attachments, idem
* a histogram of edits/views per person
* a histogram of people who only read and never contribute.
you can obviously anonymize the graphs if needed. A little straightforard programming-fu and access to the server logs goes a log way.
Before you show the histograms to the bosses, you need to tell them about the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law , as you will be looking at one, guaranteed. 10 % contribute, 90% read. That is fine and natural, but they must understand that. You can demonstrate the fact that people read it a lot and that it is a resource they use (use the the views/views and no edits graph), and the (relatively few) people who actively contribute must be encouraged to do so, and maybe even given an explicit task to do so.
You can also plot a degree distribution histogram per page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_(graph_theory) ), where the degree of a page is the number of outgoing links to pages + number of pages referencing back to it. If you get a power law again, you have a few important portal pages and lots of content. More uniform distribution suggests something in the lines of an encyclopedia/storage type of content. I would suggest that having a power law is better, as people find stuff more easily ( bar a good search engine...) You can also use any of the graphing tools (http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/ or http://jung.sourceforge.net/ ) to draw all pages out, and show different clusters of content. AGain, you can do this over time
Oh, and while you are at it, list the top/bottom 10 (20, 30) most used pages, and explain why. Observe how they change over time.
Im sure that there is enough suggestions here to get a nice progress metric for the boss. Good luck.
Gori
nonono, brain is THE interconnect. It is nothing but a massive network. Its like having a IPv12 and wire between any and every two machines....
Most offices will have a shower somewhere in the building, at least they do over here. Just ask around, you will be surprised. Pack your neat clothes in saddle bags/backpack (roll them around a towel to prevent creasing) and you will be fine. Plus, it can save time in the morning, as there is no need for the morning shower, just have some breakfast and jump on the bike. You can even do the shave routine under the shower.
That very much depends on the chick I guess...
ah.. sweet memories....
It was actually pretty cool editor for the DOS era. Went through most of my high school science class reports with it. Of course, LaTeX and Kile/TexMaker/Emacs/AucTex rules the MSc and the PhD times....
Normally, I don't feed trolls, but here goes just once...
Proofs exists only in the abstract world of mathematics and logic. In the real world there is no such thing as a proof... only very, very compelling evidence, and theories that spot-on predict experimental outcomes. And of course, evolution being an intractable algorithmic process, you by definition can not predict the exact outcome of any evolution. But again, if you have ever bothered reading anything on evolution, you would have known that Darwin and evolution is not about the "why" or the "where to" question. Only about the how...
neither is there any concrete scientific evidence of evolution, apart from the strong surviving over the week, which can hardly be used to back up macro-evolution.
Dude, you might want to get your facts right : http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/dn14094-bacteria-make-major-evolutionary-shift-in-the-lab.html
Well, of you hate the shape :
1. get the CAD files : http://downloads.openmoko.org/CAD/
2. Modify them
3. Find a CNC shop to build them (solid brushed alumunium case anyone ?)
4. ?
5. Profit !
There is always http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ Pick a project you like and crunch away...