Do you work at a PR firm? Let me re-quote the sentence you included AND the one following (with emphasis):
Space-based solar panels wouldn't be in the dark much. Not only would they produce power all the time, you could use them to supply base load without any other equipment.
Space-based solar panels wouldn't be in the dark much. Not only would they produce power all the time, you could use them to supply base load without any other equipment. Plus you don't occupy any land or harm any ecosystems, either with the installation or, if you build them in space, with the manufacturing.
There are a lot of advantages, but the whole thing hinges on building a solar panel manufacturing system in space, on the moon or a captured asteroid (it doesn't have to be self-replicating). We'll certainly do it one day, but I don't think it's particularly close. This kid's idea of sticking a small solar satellite in orbit is just a PR stunt.
I thought everybody knew that was the point. Why would Facebook et. al. be interested in education? To create more workers so they have to pay them less, of course.
I used to use a full size iPad (1, then later 2) to do it. I thought the larger screen was essential. It's not. I won the mini at a conference and when I started using it I went back.
I certainly have a notebook, but I read papers almost exclusively on the iPad mini. It's light and easy to hold. A convertible notebook isn't the same.
Japan has an aging population. They want humanoid robots to take care of the old people and make them feel loved while all the working age people are at work trying to pay for it all.
Seems unlikely. The effects of general relativity and uncertainties in the orbits of various planets and the sun's mass would probably make several digits of a 10^-15 measurement useless. Plus even if you did make that measurement, it's not going to help you much because that's where your spacecraft was minutes or hours ago.
It's possible NASA has timing hardware with 1 part in 10^15 precision because timing is pretty easy to do. It's unlikely they actually use all that precision for spacecraft navigation.
Hm.... My favourite way to read scientific literature is on a first gen iPad mini, preferably with my feet up on something. I generally read portrait, full page width, but if it's something with lots of sub-subscripts I might go landscape.
When you get on a bus here the driver looks at you, assesses how likely you are to actually pay, then peels off if he thinks you will. If not, he waits until you tap your card or plink your change, THEN peels off. You get a helpful burst of acceleration to encourage you to move to the back of the bus.
Whenever the bus is not actually moving you can open the doors and get off. Often you have to because the drivers frequently miss stops.
Still nobody likes mass transit. Something about having to wait for it in the snow, and it taking twice as long when it does come.
It's possible. A spread spectrum signal is only below the noise floor at each specific frequency. If you know the spectral pattern the transmitter is using (at that moment) then you can coherently sum the signal and find that it's stronger than the noise. If you don't know the pattern, you can't do that.
"The most effective way to teach each person is specific to that person"
There's actually very little evidence to support that assertion either. Learning styles, for example, are basically an invention that people thought sounded truthy but has no scientific support.
There is also recent research showing that things like online learning aren't really very good. Universities are implementing it anyway because they're run by business people (like Zuck and Gates) and it's highly profitable, dirt cheap, and in demand. None of those things mean it's effective.
Last week I told a grad student "grad school is where you learn that you don't know nearly as much as you think you do. A postdoc is where you learn that nobody else does either."
Except that the original project still exists. The BSD license is like an electronic library where you can check out the books for free. You don't get access to my margin notes unless I choose to return my copy of the book, but the original is still there and you can read it and make your own notes as you please.
And Cafe, Theano and Torch 7 are open source and do even more.
There are a bunch of really good implementations, and several of them have nothing to do with companies, but do have an existing community developing them. This GNUish project doesn't seem to have any advantages and is arriving late to the game.
Switzerland isn't exactly a pacifist nation. They have universal (male) peacetime conscription, had a nuclear program during the cold war, used to be pretty famous for their mercenaries, and are generally well armed. Switzerland is a neutral nation, meaning they don't go poking their guns in other people's wars.
Just like in the Ukraine. The Ukraine gave up its substantial nuclear arsenal after the USSR broke up in exchange for a promise of US protection. How'd that work out for them?
He did. He said "the rest of the world." That means "the world, minus the USA."
I couldn't actually find the world average per capita gun death rate, but Wikipedia says the US is 12th of the countries they have data for. While most of the countries ahead of the US have very high rates, they don't represent a very big proportion of the world population.
Mexico has fewer gun related deaths than the US, by the way. Other sources say Iraq is a bit worse than the US, at least in terms of homicides. No data on Somalia or Syria.
Are you American? Does it give you pause when you point to Somalia to say "well, we're better than them!"
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Technology someone else owns. TCP/IP, HTTP, Javascript, these are technology. Your web page isn't.
Do you work at a PR firm? Let me re-quote the sentence you included AND the one following (with emphasis):
It's a lot easier to beam power down to the moon than down to the earth. Just leave a few of your solar power satellites in orbit of the moon.
Space-based solar panels wouldn't be in the dark much. Not only would they produce power all the time, you could use them to supply base load without any other equipment. Plus you don't occupy any land or harm any ecosystems, either with the installation or, if you build them in space, with the manufacturing.
There are a lot of advantages, but the whole thing hinges on building a solar panel manufacturing system in space, on the moon or a captured asteroid (it doesn't have to be self-replicating). We'll certainly do it one day, but I don't think it's particularly close. This kid's idea of sticking a small solar satellite in orbit is just a PR stunt.
I thought everybody knew that was the point. Why would Facebook et. al. be interested in education? To create more workers so they have to pay them less, of course.
I used to use a full size iPad (1, then later 2) to do it. I thought the larger screen was essential. It's not. I won the mini at a conference and when I started using it I went back.
I certainly have a notebook, but I read papers almost exclusively on the iPad mini. It's light and easy to hold. A convertible notebook isn't the same.
Japan has an aging population. They want humanoid robots to take care of the old people and make them feel loved while all the working age people are at work trying to pay for it all.
Seems unlikely. The effects of general relativity and uncertainties in the orbits of various planets and the sun's mass would probably make several digits of a 10^-15 measurement useless. Plus even if you did make that measurement, it's not going to help you much because that's where your spacecraft was minutes or hours ago.
It's possible NASA has timing hardware with 1 part in 10^15 precision because timing is pretty easy to do. It's unlikely they actually use all that precision for spacecraft navigation.
Hm.... My favourite way to read scientific literature is on a first gen iPad mini, preferably with my feet up on something. I generally read portrait, full page width, but if it's something with lots of sub-subscripts I might go landscape.
When you get on a bus here the driver looks at you, assesses how likely you are to actually pay, then peels off if he thinks you will. If not, he waits until you tap your card or plink your change, THEN peels off. You get a helpful burst of acceleration to encourage you to move to the back of the bus.
Whenever the bus is not actually moving you can open the doors and get off. Often you have to because the drivers frequently miss stops.
Still nobody likes mass transit. Something about having to wait for it in the snow, and it taking twice as long when it does come.
It's possible. A spread spectrum signal is only below the noise floor at each specific frequency. If you know the spectral pattern the transmitter is using (at that moment) then you can coherently sum the signal and find that it's stronger than the noise. If you don't know the pattern, you can't do that.
Prime numbers have been studied for thousands of years. They're much more interesting than a trick of base ten.
Small ones I guess. Harder than any other number though.
"The most effective way to teach each person is specific to that person"
There's actually very little evidence to support that assertion either. Learning styles, for example, are basically an invention that people thought sounded truthy but has no scientific support.
There is also recent research showing that things like online learning aren't really very good. Universities are implementing it anyway because they're run by business people (like Zuck and Gates) and it's highly profitable, dirt cheap, and in demand. None of those things mean it's effective.
Last week I told a grad student "grad school is where you learn that you don't know nearly as much as you think you do. A postdoc is where you learn that nobody else does either."
I'm curious. Is the ethical motivations preamble longer or shorter than the actual code?
Except that the original project still exists. The BSD license is like an electronic library where you can check out the books for free. You don't get access to my margin notes unless I choose to return my copy of the book, but the original is still there and you can read it and make your own notes as you please.
And Cafe, Theano and Torch 7 are open source and do even more.
There are a bunch of really good implementations, and several of them have nothing to do with companies, but do have an existing community developing them. This GNUish project doesn't seem to have any advantages and is arriving late to the game.
Switzerland isn't exactly a pacifist nation. They have universal (male) peacetime conscription, had a nuclear program during the cold war, used to be pretty famous for their mercenaries, and are generally well armed. Switzerland is a neutral nation, meaning they don't go poking their guns in other people's wars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Perhaps you were too young, or not paying attention.
Just like in the Ukraine. The Ukraine gave up its substantial nuclear arsenal after the USSR broke up in exchange for a promise of US protection. How'd that work out for them?
You know the reason statistics was invented is because "common sense" is so often wrong, right?
They'll have trouble following a decent statistics class (i.e. relevant to things like voting) without knowing things like logs.
Also, Americans don't do logarithms until the end of high school and then call it advanced algebra??
He did. He said "the rest of the world." That means "the world, minus the USA."
I couldn't actually find the world average per capita gun death rate, but Wikipedia says the US is 12th of the countries they have data for. While most of the countries ahead of the US have very high rates, they don't represent a very big proportion of the world population.
Mexico has fewer gun related deaths than the US, by the way. Other sources say Iraq is a bit worse than the US, at least in terms of homicides. No data on Somalia or Syria.
Are you American? Does it give you pause when you point to Somalia to say "well, we're better than them!"