I've read the book, and he doesn't say that it only happens in humans. He says that it doesn't happen in computers (thus far), and doesn't address the question of other animals.
Does this mean that people are willing to acknowledge that fertilization is the start of life for individuals in a species that reproduces via sperm and egg?
We remember when it was actually cool to get a "First Post".
It is still cool, despite CmdrTaco's attempts to dumb it down. Nowdays you have to get a "Frist Psot", and it is no longer identified by that nice (#1) beside it, so you have to rely on checking that nobody posted earlier.
I agree that re-use is a bit more hyped than it should be. However it is still important. If you've ever tried to do Serial I/O using the Windows API then you will appreciate how horrible it is. So I decided to write an object that does it for me, with a nice user interface. I've since used that object in many applications that I hadn't even considered when I first wrote it, with a great overall saving in design and maintenance time.
sort of like php -- sure java might be "better", but php does 99% of what users need and does it without the heavy lifting required to get java working.
At the time of writing I didn't, but I have since thought of a "fixup" technique to the basic idea.
Divide the vectors into two sets A and A' (so that if V is in A then V' is in A'). Also pick some constant K.
For the vectors in A', and also the vectors in A whose length is not a multiple of K, the vector corresponds to its normal plane.
For the other vectors, the vector corresponds to the normal plane of the vector, but moved towards the origin by a distance of K.
I think this means that every plane has a unique vector, and every vector has a unique plane (except for the origin, but if you really wanted to you could give it a plane using a similar "fixup" technique to what I've used here: pick one particular vector W and assign that to the origin, then 2W gets the normal plane of W, etc.).
I also thought of a second method of assigning planes to points: the point corresponds to the plane which is the geometric inversion of the sphere centred on the point and passing through the origin. (This method also needs a "fixup" for the planes going through the origin).
Not good enough... I want a function with only a finite number of points that don't map to a plane (preferably, every point except the origin should have a unique associated plane).
I got this quickly because of having previously studied the same problem in disguise:
Five people have a coloured star each on their back, one of which is white and four are red. The people are standing in a line all facing the same way (so they cannot see their own star). Once you are able to deduce that your star is white, you must leave the line within 60 seconds. Assume everyone is a logical genius and does not need longer to make the deduction:)
I don't recall if there was any particular stipulation to the problem, only to point out that eventually (after 5 minutes) the person with the star will leave -- rather than the reader's initial reaction which is that they'll all stay there forever.
I don't see you complaining that there might be infinitely many prisoners, so you clearly didn't have any trouble working out that 'n' (the number of prisoners) is some particular finite number that doesn't change throughout the course of the problem. But you seem unable to apply the same brain power to 'k'. I can only conclude that you are deliberately being obtuse to cover up the fact that you can't solve the problem?
The same side always faces the Earth, this is due to an effect of Earth's gravity on it. This implies that a "day" on the moon is 29 Earth days, ie. if you had a house there it would be sunny for 2 weeks and then dark for 2 weeks.
In the common expression "dark side of the moon, "dark" means "unknown", because we can never see it so we have no idea what is on it. It doesn't refer to whether the sun is shining on it.
Eclipses happen much more rarely than that, for any given geographical location. To see a total solar eclipse from home, I have to wait decades on average. In fact there hasn't been one in my lifetime and I'm 26. A partial solar only comes along once every 3 or 4 years. It is obviously a rare enough event that it gets a Slashdot mention.
It is also very exciting to see something odd happen to the Sun, which normally stands unassailed in the sky. I suppose it is a similar sort of fascination to seeing the Twin Towers attack video -- except every eclipse is slightly different to all previous ones.
A somewhat common misconception is that the moon is dark in places because the earth is shading it.
Wow. Have these people never looked at the moon during the daytime? Or, to the GP, has he not noticed that solar eclipses occur at new moon? We see the sun with a bite of blackness.
BTW why do you call it a "flashlight" ? It doesn't flash.
An unrelated recent study (sorry, I don't have any links) found what we all know already: humans tend to go into auto-pilot when they are fairly happy and nothing is going wrong. This is why people drift through life, or have the same job for 30 years. People generally only make substantial improvements to their life when they are forced to by circumstances (eg. I got kicked out of a flat, so I bought a house), or they consciously embark on an improvement path.
So this would tend to suggest that the guys "drifting through" life while smoking weed, is because it makes them happy with their life. Who are you to tell them that's no good and they should be joining the rat race instead?
NB. I'm anti cannabis, but I am much more anti bad logic.
The British got to define the Prime Meridian based on their global empire. Subsequently this has defined GMT. Wouldn't it make more sense for GMT to be based on New York (the center of the World Financial System and headquarters of the United Nations)?
They defined their own meridian and everyone else decided to use it.
I'm glad that GMT doesn't get turned over to anyone else; at least half of Americans (and many Europeans, and Microsoft) don't even know what GMT is (they think it is British local time). On one web server I use that gives event times in GMT and a US timezone, there were endless problems because people turned up an hour late for events during the northern summer. Eventually they solved the problem by only using the US timezone and not offering times in GMT.
I keep all my original digital photos (in.tiff format) along with full-quality movies and all the games I've ever played back to Duke Nukem on 80x386 on a RAID array that's grown to nearly 2 terabytes.
So, basically, you're going to keep Duke Nukem forever?
Something I noticed on the weekend while reading the newspaper -- there is a type of penguin called a Gentoo. Kind of fits in nicely with the Tux penguin theme. In fact these penguins were in the news because they lived on a minefield..
Slashdot Mirror
"Oh no! My decades of illegal activies might have to come to an end! Damn you Slashdot!"
I've read the book, and he doesn't say that it only happens in humans. He says that it doesn't happen in computers (thus far), and doesn't address the question of other animals.
Which came first, the H1RA gene or the egg?
Does this mean that people are willing to acknowledge that fertilization is the start of life for individuals in a species that reproduces via sperm and egg?
Was that an evolution troll or an abortion troll?
We remember when it was actually cool to get a "First Post".
It is still cool, despite CmdrTaco's attempts to dumb it down.
Nowdays you have to get a "Frist Psot", and it is no longer identified
by that nice (#1) beside it, so you have to rely on checking that
nobody posted earlier.
Yes, I'm surprised he wasn't arrested for being a receiver...
I agree that re-use is a bit more hyped than it should be.
However it is still important.
If you've ever tried to do Serial I/O using the Windows API then you will appreciate how horrible it is. So I decided to write an object that does it for me, with a nice user interface. I've since used that object in many applications that I hadn't even considered when I first wrote it, with a great overall saving in design and maintenance time.
sort of like php -- sure java might be "better", but php does 99% of what users need and does it without the heavy lifting required to get java working.
Java: download, run.
PHP: download. Read manual to find out correct configure options. Configure. Fail. Download other required packages. Configure. Fail. Upgrade packages. Configure. Build. Install. Modify apache files. Test. Modify php.ini. Test.
Java is an order of magnitude easier to install.
stored procs are considered bad form in sql (besides the point there's no standard for them yet).
Stored procs are considered excellent form in my organization. What's yours?
At the time of writing I didn't, but I have since thought of a "fixup" technique to the basic idea.
Divide the vectors into two sets A and A' (so that if V is in A then V' is in A'). Also pick some constant K.
For the vectors in A', and also the vectors in A whose length is not a multiple of K, the vector corresponds to its normal plane.
For the other vectors, the vector corresponds to the normal plane of the vector, but moved towards the origin by a distance of K.
I think this means that every plane has a unique vector, and every vector has a unique plane (except for the origin, but if you really wanted to you could give it a plane using a similar "fixup" technique to what I've used here: pick one particular vector W and assign that to the origin, then 2W gets the normal plane of W, etc.).
I also thought of a second method of assigning planes to points: the point corresponds to the plane which is the geometric inversion of the sphere centred on the point and passing through the origin. (This method also needs a "fixup" for the planes going through the origin).
Good work.. now you can concentrate on 'nukular' and 'veehickle'
For all intensive purposes, your right.
Not good enough ... I want a function with only a finite number of points that don't map to a plane (preferably, every point except the origin should have a unique associated plane).
(Sorry -- just answering in case you thought nobody noticed your post and felt bad :)
The squares you removed are both white, but each rectangle covers one white and one black square. QED.
I have an extension to this problem: is there any such function that is also 1-1 (ie. every point describes a different plane).
In the clarification suggested by 'frankir', any plane closer to the origin than the constant will have two points that describe it.
I got this quickly because of having previously studied the same problem in disguise:
:)
Five people have a coloured star each on their back, one of which is white and four are red. The people are standing in a line all facing the same way (so they cannot see their own star). Once you are able to deduce that your star is white, you must leave the line within 60 seconds. Assume everyone is a logical genius and does not need longer to make the deduction
I don't recall if there was any particular stipulation to the problem, only to point out that eventually (after 5 minutes) the person with the star will leave -- rather than the reader's initial reaction which is that they'll all stay there forever.
I don't see you complaining that there might be infinitely many prisoners, so you clearly didn't have any trouble working out that 'n' (the number of prisoners) is some particular finite number that doesn't change throughout the course of the problem. But you seem unable to apply the same brain power to 'k'. I can only conclude that you are deliberately being obtuse to cover up the fact that you can't solve the problem?
The same side always faces the Earth, this is due to an effect of Earth's gravity on it. This implies that a "day" on the moon is 29 Earth days, ie. if you had a house there it would be sunny for 2 weeks and then dark for 2 weeks.
In the common expression "dark side of the moon, "dark" means "unknown", because we can never see it so we have no idea what is on it. It doesn't refer to whether the sun is shining on it.
Eclipses happen much more rarely than that, for any given geographical location. To see a total solar eclipse from home, I have to wait decades on average. In fact there hasn't been one in my lifetime and I'm 26. A partial solar only comes along once every 3 or 4 years. It is obviously a rare enough event that it gets a Slashdot mention.
It is also very exciting to see something odd happen to the Sun, which normally stands unassailed in the sky. I suppose it is a similar sort of fascination to seeing the Twin Towers attack video -- except every eclipse is slightly different to all previous ones.
A somewhat common misconception is that the moon is dark in places because the earth is shading it.
Wow. Have these people never looked at the moon during the daytime?
Or, to the GP, has he not noticed that solar eclipses occur at new moon?
We see the sun with a bite of blackness.
BTW why do you call it a "flashlight" ? It doesn't flash.
An unrelated recent study (sorry, I don't have any links) found what we all know already: humans tend to go into auto-pilot when they are fairly happy and nothing is going wrong. This is why people drift through life, or have the same job for 30 years. People generally only make substantial improvements to their life when they are forced to by circumstances (eg. I got kicked out of a flat, so I bought a house), or they consciously embark on an improvement path.
So this would tend to suggest that the guys "drifting through" life while smoking weed, is because it makes them happy with their life. Who are you to tell them that's no good and they should be joining the rat race instead?
NB. I'm anti cannabis, but I am much more anti bad logic.
The British got to define the Prime Meridian based on their global empire. Subsequently this has defined GMT. Wouldn't it make more sense for GMT to be based on New York (the center of the World Financial System and headquarters of the United Nations)?
They defined their own meridian and everyone else decided to use it.
I'm glad that GMT doesn't get turned over to anyone else; at least half of Americans (and many Europeans, and Microsoft) don't even know what GMT is (they think it is British local time). On one web server I use that gives event times in GMT and a US timezone, there were endless problems because people turned up an hour late for events during the northern summer. Eventually they solved the problem by only using the US timezone and not offering times in GMT.
The United States is the largest financial contributor to the UN
I'm sure the rest of the world would happily lose that financial contribution if they could also have fewer of those pesky vetoes..
There is no international institution that recognizes Taiwan as an independent country.
In fact, the Catholic Church does. Also, 26 other countries do.
See our old friend Wikipedia.
I keep all my original digital photos (in .tiff format) along with full-quality movies and all the games I've ever played back to Duke Nukem on 80x386 on a RAID array that's grown to nearly 2 terabytes.
So, basically, you're going to keep Duke Nukem forever?
Something I noticed on the weekend while reading the newspaper -- there is a type of penguin called a Gentoo. Kind of fits in nicely with the Tux penguin theme. In fact these penguins were in the news because they lived on a minefield ..