Given that StatCounter gives the data per country, I don't think it should be too hard for them to also figure out the time zone. Yes, there will be some error, but then, all the data they have contains some error. They could for example just use JavaScript to read local computer time and send it to them. For computers without JavaScript enabled (or computers whose time is obviously wrong, like showing a date from years ago), they could use the IP to guess the time zone of the computer.
Of course, if your war movies have only three stars, there won't be any Midichlorians in them. You know, Midichlorians are expensive, they are only used in war movies which have at least four stars.
A FAT USB drive (or Android phone) doesn't need to be 'safely removed'. You can just yank the thing and it's fine (as long as it's finished its r/w operations).
I thought making sure that all read/write operations have finished was the point of "safely remove".
What's wrong here is the feeding of the cows with soya. In the former times, cows were eating grass which isn't eatable by humans and grows in places not useful for agriculture. In other words, they made additional resources available.
If the jukebox is equipped with a mobile connection, it would not be necessary for the bar owner to set up anything. It already has everything it needs for the phones to communicate with it.
Try this as a thought experiment. Imagine your brain and your DNA scanned into a computer. This is used to generate a simulated you. This simulated you is placed in a simulated room in which all the known laws of physics are simulated to a high degree of precision.
Pfftt.... the precision of reality simulators is wayyyyy overrated. A simple timing attack like virt-what is sufficient to show whether you've been instanced in a standard reality or a virtual one.:O
From the linked page:
If nothing is printed and the script exits with code 0 (no error), then
it can mean either that the program is running on bare-metal or the
program is running inside a type of virtual machine which we don't know
about or cannot detect.
Why, oh why, do so many people insist in reading things into texts which simply are not in the text. Be assured that I know very well that quantum mechanics is not just classical statistics. After all, I'm working in the fields. However the concept of explaining one point with a different, but simpler example sharing just that single property seems to be lost to most people:-(
But you didn't understand that the explanation wasn't meant as an explanation of what is really happening. It was meant as an explanation how something that is not real can apparently "have an effect" (the point the OP had a problem with) by using classical probability as example.
That's not an exact analogy. However to see that, you have to look at the details of quantum mechanics. The post I answered to however questioned the concept, and therefore I explained the concept on the case which everyone can understand immediately, which is classical probabilities.
Now with quantum mechanics, there's no "die" beyond the probabilities, however the basic idea of the interpretation as state of knowledge is the same. Except that in this case it's not knowledge about a hidden reality (the "die") but about the measurement results themselves (the numbers observed).
If the wave function has an effect then it what way is it not real? Maybe its the mathematician in me but if reality can only be understood mathematically then I have no problem with that, thats just a problem with our imagination. I have always thought the divided universes interpretation of quantum physics multiple states was reading too much into things, a bit like during the steam age everybody wanted to interpreted things in terms of steam engines, thats useful, but the model implies things which the pure maths itself doesn't.
Think of probability distributions. If you throw a die and don't look at the result, you don't know which of the possible results happened. However you know that if you throw that die often enough, you know that each result happens approximately the same number of time. Therefore you can assign the same probability to each result, i.e. 1/6 each. But the probability distribution does not describe the current state of the die; the current state of the die is that it shows one of the numbers 1 to 6. It just tells you about your knowledge of that state; the equal probability just means "I have no idea which result happened, and there's no reason to favour either one."
Now assume that a trusted friend looks at the cube and tells you that it is not a 6. Now suddenly the probability distribution you assign to the cube changes: You'll assign probability 0 to the 6, and probability 1/5 to all other results. However the physical state of the cube does not change at all. Only your knowledge about it changes.
Finally you look at the die, and find e.g. it shows the 3. At that point the probability distribution "collapses" to the distribution which assigns 1 to the result 3, and 0 to all other results.
Now the idea of non-real wave functions is exactly like that. For those interpretations the wave function doesn't tell you what state of the system is, but only which results you get how often when you measure certain properties. When you measure, your knowledge changes, and therefore the wave function "collapses" just the same way the probability distribution "collapses" when you look at the die.
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That's why a responsible AI builder would build the desired values in right from the start.
No, a being a scientist is about doing science. Just having science education doesn't make you a scientist.
In Germany, Firefox has close to 50%, according to StatCounter.
Given that StatCounter gives the data per country, I don't think it should be too hard for them to also figure out the time zone. Yes, there will be some error, but then, all the data they have contains some error. They could for example just use JavaScript to read local computer time and send it to them. For computers without JavaScript enabled (or computers whose time is obviously wrong, like showing a date from years ago), they could use the IP to guess the time zone of the computer.
China never demanded Google to deviate from "do no evil." It only demanded that it uses China's definition of "evil".
Of course, if your war movies have only three stars, there won't be any Midichlorians in them. You know, Midichlorians are expensive, they are only used in war movies which have at least four stars.
Oh, the Open Source UIs are fine. It's only that brain development hasn't yet caught up with them. :-)
So you think there's no middle ground between making shitloads of money and being broke?
Actually, they fear attacks from Mars during the Olympics. You'll find they also purchased country music CDs ...
To bad it will not be able to play the DVD ...
I thought making sure that all read/write operations have finished was the point of "safely remove".
If meat were grown only the traditional way, it would get more expensive, and thus the consumption would go down by the normal market forces.
What's wrong here is the feeding of the cows with soya. In the former times, cows were eating grass which isn't eatable by humans and grows in places not useful for agriculture. In other words, they made additional resources available.
If the jukebox is equipped with a mobile connection, it would not be necessary for the bar owner to set up anything. It already has everything it needs for the phones to communicate with it.
It's not just the summary that reads as an in joke. Even the title contains unexplained mysteries. Why "Free Bird"?
More importantly, why do Google Patents kill it, and why do they use iPhones for that? :-)
Try this as a thought experiment. Imagine your brain and your DNA scanned into a computer. This is used to generate a simulated you. This simulated you is placed in a simulated room in which all the known laws of physics are simulated to a high degree of precision.
Pfftt.... the precision of reality simulators is wayyyyy overrated. A simple timing attack like virt-what is sufficient to show whether you've been instanced in a standard reality or a virtual one. :O
From the linked page:
You are aware that in medieval time maps were secrets? The vast majority of people back then probably had never in their life seen a map.
Why, oh why, do so many people insist in reading things into texts which simply are not in the text. Be assured that I know very well that quantum mechanics is not just classical statistics. After all, I'm working in the fields. However the concept of explaining one point with a different, but simpler example sharing just that single property seems to be lost to most people :-(
But you didn't understand that the explanation wasn't meant as an explanation of what is really happening. It was meant as an explanation how something that is not real can apparently "have an effect" (the point the OP had a problem with) by using classical probability as example.
That's not an exact analogy. However to see that, you have to look at the details of quantum mechanics. The post I answered to however questioned the concept, and therefore I explained the concept on the case which everyone can understand immediately, which is classical probabilities.
Now with quantum mechanics, there's no "die" beyond the probabilities, however the basic idea of the interpretation as state of knowledge is the same. Except that in this case it's not knowledge about a hidden reality (the "die") but about the measurement results themselves (the numbers observed).
Actually I'm pretty sure that in the middle ages the vast majority of people had not even thought of the question.
If the wave function has an effect then it what way is it not real? Maybe its the mathematician in me but if reality can only be understood mathematically then I have no problem with that, thats just a problem with our imagination. I have always thought the divided universes interpretation of quantum physics multiple states was reading too much into things, a bit like during the steam age everybody wanted to interpreted things in terms of steam engines, thats useful, but the model implies things which the pure maths itself doesn't.
Think of probability distributions. If you throw a die and don't look at the result, you don't know which of the possible results happened. However you know that if you throw that die often enough, you know that each result happens approximately the same number of time. Therefore you can assign the same probability to each result, i.e. 1/6 each. But the probability distribution does not describe the current state of the die; the current state of the die is that it shows one of the numbers 1 to 6. It just tells you about your knowledge of that state; the equal probability just means "I have no idea which result happened, and there's no reason to favour either one."
Now assume that a trusted friend looks at the cube and tells you that it is not a 6. Now suddenly the probability distribution you assign to the cube changes: You'll assign probability 0 to the 6, and probability 1/5 to all other results. However the physical state of the cube does not change at all. Only your knowledge about it changes.
Finally you look at the die, and find e.g. it shows the 3. At that point the probability distribution "collapses" to the distribution which assigns 1 to the result 3, and 0 to all other results.
Now the idea of non-real wave functions is exactly like that. For those interpretations the wave function doesn't tell you what state of the system is, but only which results you get how often when you measure certain properties. When you measure, your knowledge changes, and therefore the wave function "collapses" just the same way the probability distribution "collapses" when you look at the die.
the mathematics leaves no doubt that the wavefunction is not just a statistical tool, but rather, a real, objective state of a quantum system.
If that's the case, I would suppose that wavefunctions have wavefunctions.
Yes. That's known as second quantization.
Yes, there's a huge difference between the GPL and the GPL. Not to mention the much bigger difference to the GPL. :-)
Well, vi vs. Emacs was getting old already, thanks to Oracle we now have a more modern target: OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice. :-)