So let's see. Middle C is about 260 Hz (with Bb slightly lower). 57 octaves lower is 2^-57 * 260 Hz, which is 5.5 x 10^14 seconds per cycle, or about 17.4 million years per cycle. Yeah, I think it's fair to say that humans aren't going to hear this signal.
Not to mention, unless you can mount the system directly in the center of the ball, then you still have a margin of error the diameter [actually: radius] of the ball.
Simple solution: mount two transmitters on opposites sides of the ball and take the average.
The/. headline is misleading (go figure!). The PopSci article isn't listing the "10 dirtiest cities", but rather 10 notably dirty cities. Clearly they picked one from North America, one from Europe, and 8 other representative dirty ones. I'd lay odds that neither Pittsburgh nor Milan are even in the top 100 worldwide.
Gosh, you're right! The root of the number reduces it to 2^512. Skipping even numbers drops that another factor of 2 to a mere 2^511 factors that must be checked*. Child's play!
* Back of the envelope. I realize the number of potential factors is actually quite a bit less than this. Still a big power of 2 though.
That's just not true. Consider the time he borrowed increasingly large sums of money from his friend in order to empirically test the magnitude of their friendship.
Baseball hits may or may not be random, but the key thing is that they are not independent.
Announcers and actual players to the contrary, they actually are remarkably independent. Studies have been done. The one to start with is: Albright, S. C. (1993), "A statistical analysis of hitting streaks in baseball," Journal of the American Statistical Association , 88, 1175-1183. He shows that there is almost no evidence that hitting streaks are anything other than statistical noise.
This is because of the fallacy of believing the pie is only so big, and has to be divided equitably. However, the pie is actually variable in size, and all one has to do is increase the size of the pie by working to increase one's proportion of the pie.
Another reason for the fallacy, as Thomas Sowell keeps pointing out (bless 'im), is that this statistic invariably refers to the lowest quintile of households, not people. But the lowest quintile of households contains slightly over half the number of actual people that the highest quintile contains. The lowest quintile of households contains large numbers of single young adults who are just getting started and will do fine.
The Ninth Amendment doesn't say that all rights not mentioned in the Constitution are retained by the people; it just says that this list isn't exhaustive. Furthermore, Santorum didn't say people don't have a right to privacy; he said that it isn't in the Constitution.
One of the Asimov stories introduces a "Zeroth Law" in which the robots must not harm humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm. This overrides the higher-numbered laws, leading to some interesting changes in robot behavior.
Maybe "serving God" is a yet-more-fundamental law introduced by a random mutation in some Cylon's positronic brain?
Since Europe has stricter licensing than America, they can more easily presume that drivers are capable of executing these swerves.
I'd be careful about making generalizations like this. France, for example, has a "special license" category which allows you to drive below a certain speed (I think it's 50 kph) and only on the shoulder. It's useful in rural areas where elderly need to be able to drive but can't pass the more stringent normal licensing test (which, you're correct to observe, is tougher than the U.S. standard).
Instead of replying to each of my interlocutors in turn, I'm going to reply to myself - but it's really a response to all of you.
Of course it's hyperbolic nonsense to call the 21st century Swiss fascist. But it's interesting that none of you called me on that one. Instead, you all busily missed the point, which was that it's also nonsense to call the 21st century USA fascist, or even "descending into fascism". It's an insult to the victims of actual fascism to say so.
You know, I really don't think someone who lives in a country that actively collaborated with actual fascists should be slinging that kind of abuse at a country that fought them.
Actually, the great-grand-parent. My post (about having a gun) was the parent of yours, and I have no idea how that could be construed as wishing the rare tiger had lived to kill a few more common humans. Did it sound like I was saying it was an unfair fight? Hey, in a perfect world, maybe they'd be able to use tranquilizers. But in any fight between a tiger and a person, I'm going to root for the person. I'm a little dumbfounded I have to write this at all.
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So let's see. Middle C is about 260 Hz (with Bb slightly lower). 57 octaves lower is 2^-57 * 260 Hz, which is 5.5 x 10^14 seconds per cycle, or about 17.4 million years per cycle. Yeah, I think it's fair to say that humans aren't going to hear this signal.
Simple solution: mount two transmitters on opposites sides of the ball and take the average.
The /. headline is misleading (go figure!). The PopSci article isn't listing the "10 dirtiest cities", but rather 10 notably dirty cities. Clearly they picked one from North America, one from Europe, and 8 other representative dirty ones. I'd lay odds that neither Pittsburgh nor Milan are even in the top 100 worldwide.
Gosh, you're right! The root of the number reduces it to 2^512. Skipping even numbers drops that another factor of 2 to a mere 2^511 factors that must be checked*. Child's play!
* Back of the envelope. I realize the number of potential factors is actually quite a bit less than this. Still a big power of 2 though.
Mod parent up. Geez, how do /.ers not know how web caching works?
If you bet "indefinitely", and it runs that long, then you win!
Hey, as the Radio Shack ads say: you've got stupid questions, we've got stupid answers.
No kidding! Look how difficult it is to "right" correct English!
Lucky bastard. ...red lights... stop signs... traffic... school buses...
I didn't say anything about "good", I was replying to the poster who said he only solved mysteries in order to save lives.
That's just not true. Consider the time he borrowed increasingly large sums of money from his friend in order to empirically test the magnitude of their friendship.
Announcers and actual players to the contrary, they actually are remarkably independent. Studies have been done. The one to start with is: Albright, S. C. (1993), "A statistical analysis of hitting streaks in baseball," Journal of the American Statistical Association , 88, 1175-1183. He shows that there is almost no evidence that hitting streaks are anything other than statistical noise.
And there's a universe somewhere where this joke was never posted on Slashdot.
Another reason for the fallacy, as Thomas Sowell keeps pointing out (bless 'im), is that this statistic invariably refers to the lowest quintile of households, not people. But the lowest quintile of households contains slightly over half the number of actual people that the highest quintile contains. The lowest quintile of households contains large numbers of single young adults who are just getting started and will do fine.
The Ninth Amendment doesn't say that all rights not mentioned in the Constitution are retained by the people; it just says that this list isn't exhaustive. Furthermore, Santorum didn't say people don't have a right to privacy; he said that it isn't in the Constitution.
Actually, he had triplets.
One of the Asimov stories introduces a "Zeroth Law" in which the robots must not harm humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm. This overrides the higher-numbered laws, leading to some interesting changes in robot behavior.
Maybe "serving God" is a yet-more-fundamental law introduced by a random mutation in some Cylon's positronic brain?
I'd be careful about making generalizations like this. France, for example, has a "special license" category which allows you to drive below a certain speed (I think it's 50 kph) and only on the shoulder. It's useful in rural areas where elderly need to be able to drive but can't pass the more stringent normal licensing test (which, you're correct to observe, is tougher than the U.S. standard).
And if a Democrat it would be: "Who would Marx tax?"
"Nazi" means anything they don't like. And clear, level-headed, informative responses to pathetic attempts at humor are definitely not liked!
Instead of replying to each of my interlocutors in turn, I'm going to reply to myself - but it's really a response to all of you.
Of course it's hyperbolic nonsense to call the 21st century Swiss fascist. But it's interesting that none of you called me on that one. Instead, you all busily missed the point, which was that it's also nonsense to call the 21st century USA fascist, or even "descending into fascism". It's an insult to the victims of actual fascism to say so.
You know, I really don't think someone who lives in a country that actively collaborated with actual fascists should be slinging that kind of abuse at a country that fought them.
Chad. They have no biometrics at the border - you can just stroll right in, with nary a fingerprint reader or retina scanner in sight.
Do bring a machete, though.
I like that term, "dispatched CIA-style." Does that mean their facial hair has been removed, or maybe their lawns defoliated?
I was trying to be funny. Given the mods and responses, clearly I failed.
Which I didn't do. Unless you're responding in this post to that other guy who did.
Actually, the great-grand-parent. My post (about having a gun) was the parent of yours, and I have no idea how that could be construed as wishing the rare tiger had lived to kill a few more common humans. Did it sound like I was saying it was an unfair fight? Hey, in a perfect world, maybe they'd be able to use tranquilizers. But in any fight between a tiger and a person, I'm going to root for the person. I'm a little dumbfounded I have to write this at all.