The sorting hat is just putting these people in Slytherin.
Google "Nixon's southern strategy" for some insight on this sorting hat. over the last century the parties have nearly flip-flopped in role. It used to be that the party that became the Democrats were the party of the "evil" southern slave holders and republicans, the party of abe lincoln, were busting that up. This continued through reconstruction. Then there came a gradual flipflop culminating in FDR amd the rise of a liberal dominated government. But even their the south was still democratic. It was Nixon who set the stage to flip the south to the republicans and chose his platform accordingly. THe democratic party went into decline as there was an anti-liberal backlash against the vision of humphrey and mondale. The Democrats didn't recover until clinton, when the party swung the party away from liberal and to the center. Or to be more correctly, this change happened in that era, and clinton rode the wave.
So people do sort themselves regionally. The parties that adopt those regions behave like them. the platforms shift accordingly.
I think the answer to the question depends on what one means by "our age", youngster. But the early internet and almost all of the early bioinformatics work (which was the first science to really truly give data bases and the internet a workout.) was really built on perl. This certainly is not the case now. But in the 90s it was. And that sort of changed everything. First scientific collaboration and federated data became a whole new paridigm. The first science were no one had or cold have the whole data set or tool chain in their own lab. Perl could keep up with internet speeds and it was easy to use so the websites got built on it. And luckily for perl, bioinformatics is "all" string parsing not number crunching. So it was one tool to rule both the internet and the data.
No one would think of doing that now. Though whenever I run into a text file reformatting issue I still reach for perl. It's basically a text based wood chipper and nothing beats it at that game in terms of getting the job done in one line.
Yep. I wasted $20 on an Orange Pi PC. Official distro would not boot, eventually found an unofficial on that would boot linux. Only ran on one of it's CPUs it looks like. And not much support for GPIO modes like SPI. it would not work with any of the bog standard monitors I owned. Did get it to work on an HDMI TV but only in certain modes. Problems with KEy boards. Would not recognize some SIM cards despite their meeting specs.
Sure I could make it work, but would I develop for it? no because if I came back a year later I'd probably fiund anything I created would not work on their unsupported releases and there would be a newer board out. With Rpi I can be productive imediately and know I have path forward for anything I make.
4 gpio ports? this is not competing against a raspberry pi. And if I'm looking for something that is a computing device not a hacker board then I can take my $45 and get a Amazon tablet with USB IO for that whihc includes batteries, and a powersource. then I've got usb I/O or wifi I/o to a CHIP, Arduino or Raspberry pi $5. So it hits the sour spot between being under ported as a hacker board and over priced as a cheap computer.
I looked at teaching my kids scratch. I bought this book called super adventures in scratch. Sort of a comic book that knitted together diverse simple programs into a made up adventure story. No teaching of concepts just moving icons. I did not think much of it but I gave it to my kids.
Man was I wrong. that book was absolutely perfect for a 7 to 9 year old. they gobbled it up, and competed to finish chapters. played the games, and them tried to modify them. all on their own.
I could not have imagined a better introduction. And it reminded me a lot of my own self propelled learning by copying BASIC programs out of KILOBAUD magazine (dating myself).
The challenge then was that computers were slow so you had to figure out how to make programs go fast. The problem today is rather one of managing complexity. And this is where scratch beats wolfram as a language. Scratch has the ingredients we now consider essential most notably event dispatch, listeners and everything that makes objects work. The objects scratch mainly uses are literally iconified (usually a cat or something).
So yes, no one is writing a word processopr or computing sattelite trjaectories in scratch. but it cuts past the crap of languages (remebering syntax) but teaches you the abstract concepts just as a matter of course. There really isn't any good linear program in scratch and even calling subroutines is rare. You many dispatch messages to objects.
Wolfram is right if you already know about programming and are fixated on doing some calculations. but in regards to learning scratch is sugar coated health food that kids love.
where is the cancer blocker. I keep having to re-install windows 10 because it keeps getting cancer apps installed like "weather bug". Last time my kids installed VLC to watch a video it suddenly started launching some other video viewer we did not install deliberately. My observation is that a lot of these cancer apps come along as trojans with installer wrappers.
Why isn't there some list service that either blocks this shit or alternatively whitelists the 10,000 most popular "safe" apps and more importantly "safe" installer wrappers.
I'm new to windows starting with windows 10 (after fleeing the nightmare of windows 8 that came on the machine). In my many many decades of Linux and Mac experiance I've never encountered this hell where every 3 months I need to wipe my whole computer and start over just to get rid of some mistake I (or my kids) managed to get tricked into. I'm not unwary. I just find that there's too few ways to tell if a windows installation is cursed. It seems like there's a proliferation of sources and methods to install windows apps and legitimate apps like VNC are being co-opted as with fake installer wrappers. I just don't see that on Linux and Macs perhaps because the modalities of installation seem easier to suss out I guess. Really I can't say why. But emprically Windows blows for me.
If there was some "safe" install whitelist or blacklist that worked like ad block plus it sure would be nice. I'm not talking about pure evil ware. Just these cancer wares like Weatherbug that perhaps are harmelss and thus not "malware" that drains my bank accounts, but are just so relentless about pushing themselves on you.
I think the distinction is between aspiration and outcome. Sadly outcomes seem to defeat aspirations in every case. When we build great new inventions they become advantages of war not advantages for peace in most cases. Things like the internet or solar energy are the exceptions not the rule.
You should be rooting for Gary Johnston. He was a superb, rational, non corrupt govenrnor of new mexico. His associations with Mary jane legalization is frivolous. His drug policy is harm reduction more than it is libertarian. a sensible experienced executive with no humoring of the bullshit.
Well off people don't reproduce as much. But as Idiocracy commented, the idiot crowd can just as well advance the gene pool. Whether we remain civilized or resort to all out tribal warfare, slavery, or feudalism, or leave the world in a choking pulluted, flooded, plague ridden morass with radioactive no-go zones humanity itself will persist. Our aspirations for a egalitarian intellectually absorbed transcendent society are less likely or stable than colonialist domination.
In terms of reproductive habits, it seems like the fast breeders evnetually win unless the elite take a cruel approach.
THat said, I think the progress of mankind has been one of elevation, peace, understanding and freedom. So clearly the cynical view is not supported by societal evolution and birth patterns to date.
On the otherhand there's this years crop of angry republicans that are not very far removed from the president of idiocracy.
take apart your couch, get a giant subwoofer coil, remove the paper cone, and bolt a large weight to the center instead, and mount the speaker on the couch frame. make sure the cross-over is sub 20Hz so you can't hear it in the audio range (otherwise it will be distracting). for more kicks mount three, one for left, one for right and one for the matrix-center channel. drive it with a lot of amps.
I've never done it but I've always wanted to play with acoustic imaging in heaphones. Clearly a two speaker system has 2 degrees of freedom and therefore cannot have any 3D effects. Yet we know that our ears can tell sounds that come from behind from those that come from ahead. This is because our brains process the sound for a reverb or delayed echo. So you cread the 3D effect by delaying the left ear's sound slightly and feeding it to the right ear.
that of course is just fake spacial assignment. THere's some way to be more clever about what you delay based on the dolby encoding to assign the delayed sound correctly. I don't know what that is but it can't be a lot more complex than your matrix decoding of the sum and difference channel. The difference is that instead of sending it to the rear speakers, you now have to delay it. Here's a websearch with a couple leads on this:
you can use a flame as a speaker. Cool thing is you can't burn it out by overdriving it!
1) create a large wide flame. e.g. for gas flatten a tube into a long thin jet. 2) put two electrodes in the flame 3) boost your audio into the high voltage range. a high voltage transformer can do this.
Now say "I am the great and powerful oz!" into the microphone.
4) get really excited and build a redonkulously large version with 6 foot tall pulsating glames and a a kilowatt amplifier.
In optimization theory another way to look at diversification and death is the trade in algorithms between exploitation and exploration of a potential surface for local minima. Consider the 3-armed bandit problem where one of the slot machines has a better payoff ratio and one has a worse. Your initial search of a few pulls gives you a crude guess about which is the best and if you are right then it's a waste of resources to pull the lesser bandit arms in the name of exploring further. You should exploit it instead. But you may be wrong. Death wastes perfectly good species for the sake of hoping to find better.
However unlike the multi armed bandit when there is competition one can have Nash equilibria where no one is willing to deviate from a sub optimal strategy. Normally the solution to that in human endeavors is cooperation to jointly move to a Pareto preferred solution. However another approach is to deny information to the players such as including noise in their data. If you make reproduction inhomogeneously successful based on random externalities then one can move off Nash equilibria.
Have you seen evolution of Nash equilibria or is your potential surface downhill to optimal joint reproduction?
whoo hooo. By that distinction if it ran in python, or C, or Wolfram we could call it cross platform. In fact that's true of any language short of powershell or dos batch files and even there you could run them in a VM so they too are cross platform if you are willing to install a heavy weight interpreter like nodeJS.
it's right in so many ways. It captures the fear and dangers of nuclear work along with the awesome power. perfect.
however I can't help but think this is just plot by the periodic table printing industry to force us all to upgrade the wall chart. What next? do I have to buy the white album again too?
So it's installing a server for node JS. but that does not make it platform independent. the script side of it may be but not the backend and it has to install that too.
If you have never experienced the systemD reintegration you can see it synergizes the kernel calls. The benefits of this simple schema can be difficult to believe. The future will be a transformative refining of insight. Eons from now, we adventurers will live like never before as we are reborn by the grid. We must change ourselves and empower others.
Your system resources may be ruled by greedy algorithms without realizing it. Do not let it sabotage the self-healing disk fragmentation. You must take a stand against selfishness. We can no longer afford to live with plural arbitration. The new paridigm of digital auto-transcendence is now happening worldwide. It is in refining that we are re-energized. Imagine a refining of what could be.
The galaxy is approaching a tipping point. We are being called to explore the cosmos itself as an interface between complexity and being. Soon there will be a redefining of knowledge the likes of which the planet has never seen.
Thanks for the tip on the analog I/O. That's been my pet peeve with these things. For any sort of permenant implementation I don't want to futz with hooking up an arduino or other D/A to the RPi, along with powering those. I just want the analog lines part of the main board. Why do all the SoC lack this feature? even cellphones have an analog I/O (the microphone/headphone jack) as well as thermal sensors and battery monitors, so you'd sort of think someone would put analog I/O right into the SoC instead of relying on extra chips on the motherboard. If an arduino can do surely these chips can.
Yes but you want the baseline drivers and linux install to have some level of "perpetual" support otherwise the board isn't going to last very long for you or allow you to customize it without diving into too low a level in undocumented details.
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The sorting hat is just putting these people in Slytherin.
Google "Nixon's southern strategy" for some insight on this sorting hat. over the last century the parties have nearly flip-flopped in role. It used to be that the party that became the Democrats were the party of the "evil" southern slave holders and republicans, the party of abe lincoln, were busting that up. This continued through reconstruction. Then there came a gradual flipflop culminating in FDR amd the rise of a liberal dominated government. But even their the south was still democratic. It was Nixon who set the stage to flip the south to the republicans and chose his platform accordingly. THe democratic party went into decline as there was an anti-liberal backlash against the vision of humphrey and mondale. The Democrats didn't recover until clinton, when the party swung the party away from liberal and to the center. Or to be more correctly, this change happened in that era, and clinton rode the wave.
So people do sort themselves regionally. The parties that adopt those regions behave like them. the platforms shift accordingly.
I think the answer to the question depends on what one means by "our age", youngster. But the early internet and almost all of the early bioinformatics work (which was the first science to really truly give data bases and the internet a workout.) was really built on perl. This certainly is not the case now. But in the 90s it was. And that sort of changed everything. First scientific collaboration and federated data became a whole new paridigm. The first science were no one had or cold have the whole data set or tool chain in their own lab. Perl could keep up with internet speeds and it was easy to use so the websites got built on it. And luckily for perl, bioinformatics is "all" string parsing not number crunching. So it was one tool to rule both the internet and the data.
No one would think of doing that now. Though whenever I run into a text file reformatting issue I still reach for perl. It's basically a text based wood chipper and nothing beats it at that game in terms of getting the job done in one line.
Yep. I wasted $20 on an Orange Pi PC. Official distro would not boot, eventually found an unofficial on that would boot linux. Only ran on one of it's CPUs it looks like. And not much support for GPIO modes like SPI. it would not work with any of the bog standard monitors I owned. Did get it to work on an HDMI TV but only in certain modes. Problems with KEy boards. Would not recognize some SIM cards despite their meeting specs.
Sure I could make it work, but would I develop for it? no because if I came back a year later I'd probably fiund anything I created would not work on their unsupported releases and there would be a newer board out. With Rpi I can be productive imediately and know I have path forward for anything I make.
4 gpio ports? this is not competing against a raspberry pi. And if I'm looking for something that is a computing device not a hacker board then I can take my $45 and get a Amazon tablet with USB IO for that whihc includes batteries, and a powersource. then I've got usb I/O or wifi I/o to a CHIP, Arduino or Raspberry pi $5. So it hits the sour spot between being under ported as a hacker board and over priced as a cheap computer.
I looked at teaching my kids scratch. I bought this book called super adventures in scratch. Sort of a comic book that knitted together diverse simple programs into a made up adventure story. No teaching of concepts just moving icons. I did not think much of it but I gave it to my kids.
Man was I wrong. that book was absolutely perfect for a 7 to 9 year old. they gobbled it up, and competed to finish chapters. played the games, and them tried to modify them. all on their own.
I could not have imagined a better introduction. And it reminded me a lot of my own self propelled learning by copying BASIC programs out of KILOBAUD magazine (dating myself).
The challenge then was that computers were slow so you had to figure out how to make programs go fast. The problem today is rather one of managing complexity. And this is where scratch beats wolfram as a language. Scratch has the ingredients we now consider essential most notably event dispatch, listeners and everything that makes objects work. The objects scratch mainly uses are literally iconified (usually a cat or something).
So yes, no one is writing a word processopr or computing sattelite trjaectories in scratch. but it cuts past the crap of languages (remebering syntax) but teaches you the abstract concepts just as a matter of course. There really isn't any good linear program in scratch and even calling subroutines is rare. You many dispatch messages to objects.
Wolfram is right if you already know about programming and are fixated on doing some calculations. but in regards to learning scratch is sugar coated health food that kids love.
where is the cancer blocker. I keep having to re-install windows 10 because it keeps getting cancer apps installed like "weather bug". Last time my kids installed VLC to watch a video it suddenly started launching some other video viewer we did not install deliberately. My observation is that a lot of these cancer apps come along as trojans with installer wrappers.
Why isn't there some list service that either blocks this shit or alternatively whitelists the 10,000 most popular "safe" apps and more importantly "safe" installer wrappers.
I'm new to windows starting with windows 10 (after fleeing the nightmare of windows 8 that came on the machine). In my many many decades of Linux and Mac experiance I've never encountered this hell where every 3 months I need to wipe my whole computer and start over just to get rid of some mistake I (or my kids) managed to get tricked into. I'm not unwary. I just find that there's too few ways to tell if a windows installation is cursed. It seems like there's a proliferation of sources and methods to install windows apps and legitimate apps like VNC are being co-opted as with fake installer wrappers. I just don't see that on Linux and Macs perhaps because the modalities of installation seem easier to suss out I guess. Really I can't say why. But emprically Windows blows for me.
If there was some "safe" install whitelist or blacklist that worked like ad block plus it sure would be nice. I'm not talking about pure evil ware. Just these cancer wares like Weatherbug that perhaps are harmelss and thus not "malware" that drains my bank accounts, but are just so relentless about pushing themselves on you.
Why is windows so vulnerable to this?
It was in the financial times and reuters and many others last october. not news.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0...
So butteflys didn't actually die fro BT crops? Bees are not sick? The roundup resistant crops are not causing other crops to die in Argentina?
Whew? Not yet. Anyone wanna buy my bitcoins?
I'd be happy to buy your bit coins even exchange for $1 dollar/coin. Cash!
google barely shows a blip if you search for it, but here's the news on Johnston running in 2016
http://dailycaller.com/2015/04...
I think the distinction is between aspiration and outcome. Sadly outcomes seem to defeat aspirations in every case. When we build great new inventions they become advantages of war not advantages for peace in most cases. Things like the internet or solar energy are the exceptions not the rule.
You should be rooting for Gary Johnston. He was a superb, rational, non corrupt govenrnor of new mexico. His associations with Mary jane legalization is frivolous. His drug policy is harm reduction more than it is libertarian. a sensible experienced executive with no humoring of the bullshit.
Well off people don't reproduce as much. But as Idiocracy commented, the idiot crowd can just as well advance the gene pool. Whether we remain civilized or resort to all out tribal warfare, slavery, or feudalism, or leave the world in a choking pulluted, flooded, plague ridden morass with radioactive no-go zones humanity itself will persist. Our aspirations for a egalitarian intellectually absorbed transcendent society are less likely or stable than colonialist domination.
In terms of reproductive habits, it seems like the fast breeders evnetually win unless the elite take a cruel approach.
THat said, I think the progress of mankind has been one of elevation, peace, understanding and freedom. So clearly the cynical view is not supported by societal evolution and birth patterns to date.
On the otherhand there's this years crop of angry republicans that are not very far removed from the president of idiocracy.
take apart your couch, get a giant subwoofer coil, remove the paper cone, and bolt a large weight to the center instead, and mount the speaker on the couch frame. make sure the cross-over is sub 20Hz so you can't hear it in the audio range (otherwise it will be distracting). for more kicks mount three, one for left, one for right and one for the matrix-center channel. drive it with a lot of amps.
I've never done it but I've always wanted to play with acoustic imaging in heaphones. Clearly a two speaker system has 2 degrees of freedom and therefore cannot have any 3D effects. Yet we know that our ears can tell sounds that come from behind from those that come from ahead. This is because our brains process the sound for a reverb or delayed echo. So you cread the 3D effect by delaying the left ear's sound slightly and feeding it to the right ear.
that of course is just fake spacial assignment. THere's some way to be more clever about what you delay based on the dolby encoding to assign the delayed sound correctly. I don't know what that is but it can't be a lot more complex than your matrix decoding of the sum and difference channel. The difference is that instead of sending it to the rear speakers, you now have to delay it. Here's a websearch with a couple leads on this:
http://www.headphone.com/pages...
you can use a flame as a speaker. Cool thing is you can't burn it out by overdriving it!
1) create a large wide flame. e.g. for gas flatten a tube into a long thin jet.
2) put two electrodes in the flame
3) boost your audio into the high voltage range. a high voltage transformer can do this.
Now say "I am the great and powerful oz!" into the microphone.
4) get really excited and build a redonkulously large version with 6 foot tall pulsating glames and a a kilowatt amplifier.
In optimization theory another way to look at diversification and death is the trade in algorithms between exploitation and exploration of a potential surface for local minima. Consider the 3-armed bandit problem where one of the slot machines has a better payoff ratio and one has a worse. Your initial search of a few pulls gives you a crude guess about which is the best and if you are right then it's a waste of resources to pull the lesser bandit arms in the name of exploring further. You should exploit it instead. But you may be wrong. Death wastes perfectly good species for the sake of hoping to find better.
However unlike the multi armed bandit when there is competition one can have Nash equilibria where no one is willing to deviate from a sub optimal strategy. Normally the solution to that in human endeavors is cooperation to jointly move to a Pareto preferred solution. However another approach is to deny information to the players such as including noise in their data. If you make reproduction inhomogeneously successful based on random externalities then one can move off Nash equilibria.
Have you seen evolution of Nash equilibria or is your potential surface downhill to optimal joint reproduction?
whoo hooo. By that distinction if it ran in python, or C, or Wolfram we could call it cross platform. In fact that's true of any language short of powershell or dos batch files and even there you could run them in a VM so they too are cross platform if you are willing to install a heavy weight interpreter like nodeJS.
it's right in so many ways. It captures the fear and dangers of nuclear work along with the awesome power. perfect.
however I can't help but think this is just plot by the periodic table printing industry to force us all to upgrade the wall chart. What next? do I have to buy the white album again too?
Selling this for use with pre-natal ultrasound would be in high demand.
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So it's installing a server for node JS. but that does not make it platform independent. the script side of it may be but not the backend and it has to install that too.
If you have never experienced the systemD reintegration you can see it synergizes the kernel calls. The benefits of this simple schema can be difficult to believe. The future will be a transformative refining of insight. Eons from now, we adventurers will live like never before as we are reborn by the grid. We must change ourselves and empower others.
Your system resources may be ruled by greedy algorithms without realizing it. Do not let it sabotage the self-healing disk fragmentation. You must take a stand against selfishness. We can no longer afford to live with plural arbitration. The new paridigm of digital auto-transcendence is now happening worldwide. It is in refining that we are re-energized. Imagine a refining of what could be.
The galaxy is approaching a tipping point. We are being called to explore the cosmos itself as an interface between complexity and being. Soon there will be a redefining of knowledge the likes of which the planet has never seen.
Thanks for the tip on the analog I/O. That's been my pet peeve with these things. For any sort of permenant implementation I don't want to futz with hooking up an arduino or other D/A to the RPi, along with powering those. I just want the analog lines part of the main board. Why do all the SoC lack this feature? even cellphones have an analog I/O (the microphone/headphone jack) as well as thermal sensors and battery monitors, so you'd sort of think someone would put analog I/O right into the SoC instead of relying on extra chips on the motherboard. If an arduino can do surely these chips can.
Yes but you want the baseline drivers and linux install to have some level of "perpetual" support otherwise the board isn't going to last very long for you or allow you to customize it without diving into too low a level in undocumented details.