Papers are not scientific models (they may describe scientific models, of course). The argumentation in the paper can be verified (or falsified, if wrong). And so can the mathematics it uses. You can also verify that the equations they use really say what the authors claim they say, and where the authors cite other articles as source, you can verify that the information they claim to get from there is indeed found there.
You clearly have no idea how compute clusters work (or maybe in America, they work substantially different? But I somehow doubt it). If you reserve nodes for your job (which you have to do for the queuing system to schedule it), then no other job will be put there by the queuing system until your job terminates (possibly forcefully because it has used up the reserved time), even if you use nice -20.
And no, I've got no problems with using university resources for such a project, as long as the university approves it. But it makes the claim wrong that their research was not funded in any way. It was funded by the university, by providing the computing resources for it.
FTFA: "The model simulations were carried out on the supercomputers of the Advanced Centre for Research Computing at the University of Bristol. They were not funded in any way, and were set up in the author’s spare time."
Were they also done on the supercomputer's spare time? And did the author pay himself for the additional electricity cost?
Of course, if e.g. all you have ever published are four papers, your H index cannot go above four, even if those four papers are the best papers ever and each of them gets more citations than all the other papers in the world combined.
Also, the H index by its very nature gives advantage to people doing lots of collaborations, because that increases the chance that your collaborators (or people associated with them) will cite your articles (in part because some of them are also their articles, and in part because they are simply more likely to recognize your papers because they know you). Of course doing lots of collaborations doesn't imply you're a better scientist. It just means you're better at networking.
Here's a hint to you: Context matters. Here the context is whether a different translation of the Hebrew word "alma" in the bible as "young woman" instead of "virgin" would undermine Jesus' claim to divinity. Of course the whole discussion rests on the bible, so the question whether the bible as such tells us something about reality is as relevant for this question as the question whether any of the events in the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy have any relation to the real world has to the question whether the planet on which the Heart of Gold landed was really Magrathea.
No magic smoke. Just an infinite loop. Unless they have made precautions to prevent recursive re-evaluation. In that case it's either a simple update or an error. Or if they use lazy evaluation, it's even no action at all (but any subsequent read of A or B may result in any of the previous options).
There's an easy solution to the halting problem. It is called eternal life. That way, you can just wait until all programs finishing in finite time have finished (which will take infinite time, but with eternal life, you've got that infinite time), and then simply check which programs are still running.
Actually, there's another solution, which even can decide it in finite time. Build an accelerating Turing machine. The first step takes one second, and each following step takes half the time of the preceding step. Then any program which has not finished after two seconds never will finish.
Fuck you for off-topic post Travelled down Slashdot and back again Your post is troll, you're an anonymous coward.
And if you got first post on every story you see You would see the negative mod come from me and the moderation would say, fuck you for off-topic post.
I thought the point of the FSM was to ridicule Christians?
You thought wrong. The point of the FSM is to highlight the deficiencies of creationism/Intelligent Design. Not all Christians are creationists/Intelligent Design protagonists, and I'm not even sure that all creationists/ID protagonists are Christians.
I think you mean "another guy who also wasn't named Satoshi Nakamoto".
Although thinking of it, maybe his name really is Satoshi Nakamoto, and he made up that pseudonym story so that no one would guess he was the one who created Bitcoin; after all, who would use his own name as pseudonym?
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So does this mean "How many pages did your father's PhD thesis have?" is the ultimate question about life, the universe and everything? ;-)
Papers are not scientific models (they may describe scientific models, of course). The argumentation in the paper can be verified (or falsified, if wrong). And so can the mathematics it uses. You can also verify that the equations they use really say what the authors claim they say, and where the authors cite other articles as source, you can verify that the information they claim to get from there is indeed found there.
Not if ignoring the instructions gives no advantages, neither to you, nor to someone you want to help, nor the society as a whole.
So you think all complete morons are MBAs?
You clearly have no idea how compute clusters work (or maybe in America, they work substantially different? But I somehow doubt it). If you reserve nodes for your job (which you have to do for the queuing system to schedule it), then no other job will be put there by the queuing system until your job terminates (possibly forcefully because it has used up the reserved time), even if you use nice -20.
And no, I've got no problems with using university resources for such a project, as long as the university approves it. But it makes the claim wrong that their research was not funded in any way. It was funded by the university, by providing the computing resources for it.
FTFA: "The model simulations were carried out on the supercomputers of the Advanced Centre for Research Computing at the University of Bristol. They were not funded in any way, and were set up in the author’s spare time."
Were they also done on the supercomputer's spare time? And did the author pay himself for the additional electricity cost?
Stop wasting magic energy, of course.
Then make make performing an experiment part of the test.
Of course, if e.g. all you have ever published are four papers, your H index cannot go above four, even if those four papers are the best papers ever and each of them gets more citations than all the other papers in the world combined.
Also, the H index by its very nature gives advantage to people doing lots of collaborations, because that increases the chance that your collaborators (or people associated with them) will cite your articles (in part because some of them are also their articles, and in part because they are simply more likely to recognize your papers because they know you). Of course doing lots of collaborations doesn't imply you're a better scientist. It just means you're better at networking.
Where does the page count of the PhD matter? I've never heard about the number of pages to have an impact. It certainly didn't for me.
Not even God himself can.
Here's a hint to you: Context matters. Here the context is whether a different translation of the Hebrew word "alma" in the bible as "young woman" instead of "virgin" would undermine Jesus' claim to divinity. Of course the whole discussion rests on the bible, so the question whether the bible as such tells us something about reality is as relevant for this question as the question whether any of the events in the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy have any relation to the real world has to the question whether the planet on which the Heart of Gold landed was really Magrathea.
I see that you've used that word in your reply, and therefore I have to conclude that you have no idea what you were talking about. ;-)
No magic smoke. Just an infinite loop. Unless they have made precautions to prevent recursive re-evaluation. In that case it's either a simple update or an error. Or if they use lazy evaluation, it's even no action at all (but any subsequent read of A or B may result in any of the previous options).
Also I think the Observer pattern is all about this.
Which assembly language used "goto" as mnemonic for a jump?
No it doesn't because his claim of divinity is confirmed by his resurrection.
There's an easy solution to the halting problem. It is called eternal life. That way, you can just wait until all programs finishing in finite time have finished (which will take infinite time, but with eternal life, you've got that infinite time), and then simply check which programs are still running.
Actually, there's another solution, which even can decide it in finite time. Build an accelerating Turing machine. The first step takes one second, and each following step takes half the time of the preceding step. Then any program which has not finished after two seconds never will finish.
Have you ever watched a cat playing with a mouse?
We are definitely not much different than other animals in that regard.
Ice cave?
Fuck you for off-topic post
Travelled down Slashdot and back again
Your post is troll, you're an anonymous coward.
And if you got first post
on every story you see
You would see the negative mod come from me
and the moderation would say, fuck you for off-topic post.
You thought wrong. The point of the FSM is to highlight the deficiencies of creationism/Intelligent Design. Not all Christians are creationists/Intelligent Design protagonists, and I'm not even sure that all creationists/ID protagonists are Christians.
.... tried to change the wording after hitting submit, but only got half-way through. Has hell frozen over yet? I'm still waiting for an edit button.
I've been waiting for edit,
I've been waiting so long.
I've been waiting for edit,
and the search goes on.
I think you mean "another guy who also wasn't named Satoshi Nakamoto".
Although thinking of it, maybe his name really is Satoshi Nakamoto, and he made up that pseudonym story so that no one would guess he was the one who created Bitcoin; after all, who would use his own name as pseudonym?
Slashdot does support Unicode. Just a very limited subset of all characters.