When a search is performed for whatever the modern equivalent of radiation and x-ray crystallography* is, that person's paper would then pop up first, garner more citations, and potentially end up an authoritative source on the topic.
*Take a look at the contributions of early Nobel winners in Physics.
I know you're joking, but wanted to allay a common misconception.
A Ph. D. doesn't work that way, and however helpful intelligence might be to getting one, it isn't sufficient alone. You also need a large degree of tolerance for absurdity. Actually, I've found Ph. D. comics to be a pretty accurate portrayal of the sort of stuff that goes on in grad. school and academia.
Be warned, those sorts of statements tend to get publicized alongside such others as "there will only be a world market for about 6 computers", "heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible", and "640k ought to be enough for anyone".
The drive would randomly "park", occasionally made loud clicking noises, and would sometimes fail to perform I/O operations. All of these things happened more or less at random; it was never very consistent (but then, neither was the output of my supply).
One thing I've found firsthand is that it isn't always the drive itself that's at fault. I had a similar experience with Seagate - not a single problem before they bought Maxtor (and not the other way around), but problems began to occur in later models. At first, it was just one drive, which I backed up and returned for repairs. They sent me a new one, but that didn't work either. I figured I was done with Seagate and bought a WD drive, which seemed to work for a while.
When it too started experiencing problems, I decided to delve deeper into the problem, suspecting something wrong with the system itself. The root cause was actually my power supply, which was supplying very low voltage on both the 5V and 12V rails. I replaced the supply and all of the drives resumed working properly.
You can imagine that if 99% of the cells in a tumor do have it, the tumor may be killed by the primed cells, but that 1% that doesn't will repopulate a while later.
This is why we haven't cured the disease yet. The tumor evolves and all that our treatments do, if they are unable to kill off the entire tumor, is select for cells that are resistant. I'm not an oncologist, although I am involved in medical research, but it seems to me that a more effective strategy would be to select for cells that are specifically weak to conventional treatment prior to administering it. Just as in machine classification*, a combination of individually effective treatments that work in different ways should tend to perform best, especially if resistance to one implies weakness to another.
*Because cancer treatment is really just one big classification problem: you want to kill all of the cancer cells and none of the normal ones. Get the sensitivity to 100% (all cancer cells killed) with a high enough specificity (most normal cells left alone) and you win.
Yep, I too was an ardent supporter until he pulled that (conveniently right after winning the primary), upon which he promptly lost my vote. His present position does not surprise me.
Or, more precisely, to build a better system and wait for the existing one to adapt to it. That probably entails a shift in the center of political power, however.
University admissions committees in general are fairly poor at keeping track of paperwork. When the university forgets to give you your housing application and other welcome materials, just don't remind them about that paper that says your ideas belong to them.
Despite supporting PAE, Vista-32 still limits addressable physical memory to 4 GB (Wikipedia). PAE will also run into problems at 64 GB, whereas 64-bit machines shouldn't reach another addressing limitation until they hit 16 EB.
Transitioning to 64-bit is a better solution in the long term.
The lower level of atmospheric CO2 was stable for a long period of time - basically all of human history prior to the Industrial Revolution. Although it is possible (in fact, virtually assured) that increasing the concentration of atmospheric CO2 as rapidly as we have since then has altered the environment in such a way that a true rollback is not possible, rolling back as best we can to a previously stable state is less likely to have negative consequences than transitioning to an altogether new state.
It is a good idea to have a plan B, however, since that rollback looks unlikely to occur in the foreseeable future.
Yep, but there are people who see the movie, see the world around them, and think "humanity must be getting dumber" even though the mean IQ is increasing. I don't want to give them more ammo:)
Because there remain a very high number of variables that an automated system would need to take into account to safely drive a car, and I don't think current systems consider most of them. Humans remain more adaptable at present.
Given the advent of civilization and the development of technology since then, I think we'd fare better this time around. But let's hope we don't need to find out.
(Also, it was probably 90% of humanity rather than all life. I don't even think the Permian mass extinction killed that many organisms, and that was by far the worst die-off in the history of life on this planet).
That doesn't violate the laws of thermodynamics. What happens to the rock you're burning? It's not as if you could continue forever; you're limited by the amount of fuel you have.
My experience was similar. I learned at 8 and practiced rigorously. So rigorously that it interfered with my "education", in fact, which led me to a pretty bad college despite a great deal of experience and a very high degree of ability in the skill. It would have been very nice to have a degree of endorsement for practicing a productive ability throughout my high school career.
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When a search is performed for whatever the modern equivalent of radiation and x-ray crystallography* is, that person's paper would then pop up first, garner more citations, and potentially end up an authoritative source on the topic.
*Take a look at the contributions of early Nobel winners in Physics.
I know you're joking, but wanted to allay a common misconception.
A Ph. D. doesn't work that way, and however helpful intelligence might be to getting one, it isn't sufficient alone. You also need a large degree of tolerance for absurdity. Actually, I've found Ph. D. comics to be a pretty accurate portrayal of the sort of stuff that goes on in grad. school and academia.
Be warned, those sorts of statements tend to get publicized alongside such others as "there will only be a world market for about 6 computers", "heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible", and "640k ought to be enough for anyone".
It's always impossible. Until someone does it.
You must be new here :)
The drive would randomly "park", occasionally made loud clicking noises, and would sometimes fail to perform I/O operations. All of these things happened more or less at random; it was never very consistent (but then, neither was the output of my supply).
One thing I've found firsthand is that it isn't always the drive itself that's at fault. I had a similar experience with Seagate - not a single problem before they bought Maxtor (and not the other way around), but problems began to occur in later models. At first, it was just one drive, which I backed up and returned for repairs. They sent me a new one, but that didn't work either. I figured I was done with Seagate and bought a WD drive, which seemed to work for a while.
When it too started experiencing problems, I decided to delve deeper into the problem, suspecting something wrong with the system itself. The root cause was actually my power supply, which was supplying very low voltage on both the 5V and 12V rails. I replaced the supply and all of the drives resumed working properly.
Those tech. jobs may pay well, but the hours on most of them aren't great either.
This is why we haven't cured the disease yet. The tumor evolves and all that our treatments do, if they are unable to kill off the entire tumor, is select for cells that are resistant. I'm not an oncologist, although I am involved in medical research, but it seems to me that a more effective strategy would be to select for cells that are specifically weak to conventional treatment prior to administering it. Just as in machine classification*, a combination of individually effective treatments that work in different ways should tend to perform best, especially if resistance to one implies weakness to another.
*Because cancer treatment is really just one big classification problem: you want to kill all of the cancer cells and none of the normal ones. Get the sensitivity to 100% (all cancer cells killed) with a high enough specificity (most normal cells left alone) and you win.
Better yet, they can just make it play Portal audio clips at random intervals.
Well, I'm still glad that someone got them to admit it was fake :)
You must cast it into the fires of Mount Doom! Only then will your data be safe!
Yep, I too was an ardent supporter until he pulled that (conveniently right after winning the primary), upon which he promptly lost my vote. His present position does not surprise me.
Or, more precisely, to build a better system and wait for the existing one to adapt to it. That probably entails a shift in the center of political power, however.
University admissions committees in general are fairly poor at keeping track of paperwork. When the university forgets to give you your housing application and other welcome materials, just don't remind them about that paper that says your ideas belong to them.
It worked for me :)
I believe you're only allowed to do this for one year following the announcement of the invention, however, and then only in the USA, not elsewhere.
You must be new here :)
I read the article with great interest, but I have to wonder how much the writer actually knows about the mathematics: "Igon value"? Really? :)
Despite supporting PAE, Vista-32 still limits addressable physical memory to 4 GB (Wikipedia). PAE will also run into problems at 64 GB, whereas 64-bit machines shouldn't reach another addressing limitation until they hit 16 EB.
Transitioning to 64-bit is a better solution in the long term.
The lower level of atmospheric CO2 was stable for a long period of time - basically all of human history prior to the Industrial Revolution. Although it is possible (in fact, virtually assured) that increasing the concentration of atmospheric CO2 as rapidly as we have since then has altered the environment in such a way that a true rollback is not possible, rolling back as best we can to a previously stable state is less likely to have negative consequences than transitioning to an altogether new state.
It is a good idea to have a plan B, however, since that rollback looks unlikely to occur in the foreseeable future.
Yep, but there are people who see the movie, see the world around them, and think "humanity must be getting dumber" even though the mean IQ is increasing. I don't want to give them more ammo :)
The trend is actually an increase.
Because there remain a very high number of variables that an automated system would need to take into account to safely drive a car, and I don't think current systems consider most of them. Humans remain more adaptable at present.
Given the advent of civilization and the development of technology since then, I think we'd fare better this time around. But let's hope we don't need to find out.
(Also, it was probably 90% of humanity rather than all life. I don't even think the Permian mass extinction killed that many organisms, and that was by far the worst die-off in the history of life on this planet).
That doesn't violate the laws of thermodynamics. What happens to the rock you're burning? It's not as if you could continue forever; you're limited by the amount of fuel you have.
My experience was similar. I learned at 8 and practiced rigorously. So rigorously that it interfered with my "education", in fact, which led me to a pretty bad college despite a great deal of experience and a very high degree of ability in the skill. It would have been very nice to have a degree of endorsement for practicing a productive ability throughout my high school career.