I used to be in the "BMI == Worthless" camp myself. Had all sorts of reasons why it was bunk, used to be able to quote muscle density, et cetera, just like everyone else on here.
Then I grew up and lost over 80 pounds.
Yeah, same here. Lost 80lb over the course of a year.
My BMI went from 30 to 25. At 6'4" I was 210lb, all muscle, could bench press 315lb, and my BMI said I was borderline obese.
The reality of the situation is that it's not a Democrat/Republican thing.....it's a power thing. If a Democrat were in office, the Republicans would be shouting vote fraud, etc.
Yes. That's exactly why we need a system that's verifiable and difficult to manipulate. When you have two sides that will do anything to win, you remove any way to cheat that you possibly can.
Absoutely. There will be wide margins in exit polls for Democrats and the Republicans will win anyway. They'll blatantly steal it and dare us to say it was stolen.
See, they've already tested the waters on the "will anyone believe an election is stolen" question. (Whether the 2004 election was stolen or not.) They know the general public will not believe it to be stolen, no matter how compelling the evidence.
ST does not fit this mold. It is far, far, far, far more complex than either GR or QM, and makes no extra falsifiable predictions.
Why is that a bad thing? Who says the laws that govern the structure of the universe must be comprehensible by humans? This whole idea that theories that are "more elegant" are better just baffles me. Sure, simpler models are easier to work with, but so what?
I will never, never, never live down the fact that I interviewed with him personally, along with one of his engineers, in the spring of 1996 for a tech job here in Dallas, and I expressed disappointment that the pay was going to be meager...
Oh, I've got one up oin you there. A startup company I'd been with for two years was bought by broadcast.com. I got some stock, and a few more options, but I quit because I thought I'd been screwed in the deal.
The broadcast.com IPO was two weeks later. And then it was bought by yahoo.:(
Shawyer has decades of experience designing systems in the space industry, gotten £250,000 to research his theories, been reviewed by independent experts from UK's Department of Trade and Industry, and may well deploy this system in a satelite within two years.
Most of the high mod comments I've seen so far boil down to, "He's a fake!"
Look at the pattern made by Olympus Mons and the three mountains near it.
They form an isosceles triangle. The three mountains are the base, almost equidistant from each other, in a straight line. The distance from Olympus to the middle of the three mountains is the same as the distance between the outer two of the three mountains.
Sure, he said that. He also said that if you don't do that you, "deserve disdain at every level." The purpose of disdain is to apply social pressure to conform to a desired behavior. In other words, "If you don't like what you like without shame, you should be ashamed of yourself.":)
If you don't have the self-confidence to like what you like, and the hell with the rest of the world, you are (in my book) suffering the deepest kind of herd mentality that deserves disdain at every level.
So, what you're saying is, "If you don't defy the herd, the herd should enforce herd defiance behavior!"
Only now that MS has started championing a pretty much official IronPython effort has Sun discovered dynamic languages, and started working towards making the JVM more dynamic-languages friendly.
SCripting language support has been part of the spec for java6 since the beginning, mid 2005. JSR 270
My favourite explanation is that light and dark travel at different speeds...
You mean like a wave propagates through a medium, but the particles in the medium don't need to travel along with the wave? So, darkness is the wave and light is the medium?
I was at the GECCO06 conference (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation COnference) when the Human Competitive awards were handed out. The first place winner went to a guy whu evolved an oscillator that used HALF as many capacitors and resistors than the industry standard one. The second place winner evolved input parameters to Schrodinger's equations that enabled him to model a certain chemical reaction 10 and in some cases 1000 times faster than the earlier best result in the literature. And the rest of the entries were fascinating as well.
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Yeah, same here. Lost 80lb over the course of a year.
My BMI went from 30 to 25. At 6'4" I was 210lb, all muscle, could bench press 315lb, and my BMI said I was borderline obese.
BMI is crap.
No. This is a website about "stuff that matters."
Not sure if you've noticed, son, but...THIS MATTERS.
Yes. That's exactly why we need a system that's verifiable and difficult to manipulate. When you have two sides that will do anything to win, you remove any way to cheat that you possibly can.
So? They probably figured out how to hack the machines and not be detected better than the Republicans.
Doesn't make it right.
Does this mean you're against anything the Democrats are for?
Absoutely. There will be wide margins in exit polls for Democrats and the Republicans will win anyway. They'll blatantly steal it and dare us to say it was stolen.
See, they've already tested the waters on the "will anyone believe an election is stolen" question. (Whether the 2004 election was stolen or not.) They know the general public will not believe it to be stolen, no matter how compelling the evidence.
So 2006 is a wash.
Why is that a bad thing? Who says the laws that govern the structure of the universe must be comprehensible by humans? This whole idea that theories that are "more elegant" are better just baffles me. Sure, simpler models are easier to work with, but so what?
Oh, I've got one up oin you there. A startup company I'd been with for two years was bought by broadcast.com. I got some stock, and a few more options, but I quit because I thought I'd been screwed in the deal.
The broadcast.com IPO was two weeks later. And then it was bought by yahoo.
MS in computer science.
At least you've got some credential to back up you're criticism. Not the case for most of the kneejerk nabobs around here.
Shawyer has decades of experience designing systems in the space industry, gotten £250,000 to research his theories, been reviewed by independent experts from UK's Department of Trade and Industry, and may well deploy this system in a satelite within two years.
Most of the high mod comments I've seen so far boil down to, "He's a fake!"
Well...what have you skeptics done lately?
Sure they've got an answer to that one: "No liberal or Democrat will ever be president."
The question they can't answer is, "Why not?"
So they can monitor in 89 day chunks, take a day off, and start back up again, all without a warrant?
Gee. Sounds reasonable to me!
If the person in charge of NASA said that they'd be fired, and rightly so.
Yeah? Show me.
http://www.google.com/mars/
Look at the pattern made by Olympus Mons and the three mountains near it.
They form an isosceles triangle. The three mountains are the base, almost equidistant from each other, in a straight line. The distance from Olympus to the middle of the three mountains is the same as the distance between the outer two of the three mountains.
Is this all due to chance?
Really? When did you graduated?
Sure, he said that. He also said that if you don't do that you, "deserve disdain at every level." The purpose of disdain is to apply social pressure to conform to a desired behavior. In other words, "If you don't like what you like without shame, you should be ashamed of yourself."
So, what you're saying is, "If you don't defy the herd, the herd should enforce herd defiance behavior!"
Welcome to the herd, bubba!
SCripting language support has been part of the spec for java6 since the beginning, mid 2005. JSR 270
Yes, I remember a lady who said something similar: "Let them eat cake."
I believe the reaction will be the same this time around, as well.
Well, then, I guess the last ten years were but a dream
Haven't heard of the author or the books. Been programming in java continuously since '97. :)
"Most influential"? Never heard of him...
You mean like a wave propagates through a medium, but the particles in the medium don't need to travel along with the wave? So, darkness is the wave and light is the medium?
Way to get all of the chicks to post!
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Yeah....... Hey there,
Following years? How about now?
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http://www.genetic-programming.com/humancompetiti
http://www.human-competitive.org/
(2006 results aren't posted yet...)
I was at the GECCO06 conference (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation COnference) when the Human Competitive awards were handed out. The first place winner went to a guy whu evolved an oscillator that used HALF as many capacitors and resistors than the industry standard one. The second place winner evolved input parameters to Schrodinger's equations that enabled him to model a certain chemical reaction 10 and in some cases 1000 times faster than the earlier best result in the literature. And the rest of the entries were fascinating as well.
http://www.genetic-programming.org/hc2006/entrant
The 1st and 2nd place entries were #5 and #6 respectively.
The same way Iraq was tied to 9/11, obviously.