From the article it does not sound like they have seeded the simulation with what a brain should look like. The article refers to the evolution of cell-to-cell neuronal communication without and manifestation of centralization. They are hoping that more complex task will result in the evolution of a centralized neuronal system.
Here's the indication that you have a weak product. If the artist shows up on a kids lunchbox you will eventually lose money. This will probably occur after the initial flash. The truth comes out that there is no real talent there and your big product has no sound market base. The base will shift to the next big no talent flash.
Here is the big difference in today's music world compared to the past: past markets were more stable because you promoted talent and not product. Additionally, your target audience had an average age > 13 years old.
I have heard this question before from other sources. The general rule is that you pay income taxes where you live and vote. This is the only technical way that taxation without representation can be prevented. If you had to pay taxes in Indiana, you would technically have no voice in how the tax money was used (not to say that you really do anyway). This is the theory anyway.
I have never seen a contribution from Steven Wolfram on this site. There are quite a few from Danny Hillis whom I would feel would be just as much shunned by the purist as Wolfram. Although Hillis doesn't claim to have developed a scientific structure for explaining everything. This seems to be a conspicuous absence.
The current network connecting the existing research facilities at the South Pole is quite extensive and lends itself to satallite links. It would seem that another satallite would be the best solution. Check out the article by Raytheon Polar Services which describes the current technology down there.
I have found that regardless of whether it's at the secondary or post-secondary level, most students only perform the mechanics until they apply what they learn to a practical problem. Until then, even with so-called real-world examples in the algebra texts, the subject remains far too abstract. Effective practical application doesn't mean some uninteresting rate-time-distance type problem with sailboats either. You need a developing hierarchy of application problems for a student to get a real feel for mathematics. Students in engineering and science curricula begin to apply the mathematics to problems that they see over and over again with increasing levels of complexity.
Not all engineering students begin as math wizards but by the end of their degree program are quite comfortable with calculus and transform mathematics.
It's all in the amount of exposure and the level of application availible to the student.
give me the "no win senario". Simulated global bioterrorism, tactical and strategic nuke defense while trying to divert an asteroid on a collision path with earth...
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Manned space exploration such as the Apollo program was more cultivated art based on engineering principles than any other single endevour set forth by man. Think about what people learn from the development of enterprise level projects that are never discussed in the textbooks or the classrooms. It requires a human experiential knowledge base that is passed on directly from engineer to engineer to maintain technology of that level.
We couldn't even go back to the moon again today because we have lost that knowledge base. Sure it was recorded, but the engineers that wrote it down have retired or died. There is a knowledge and experience gap with the following generation of engineers after the Apollo program who never had the opportunity to work under the masters because we stopped the big adventure and chose to stay in earth orbit.
The DoD will build a new fighter aircraft every 10 to 15 years whether they need one or not just so the next generation of engineers will know how to do it. It doesn't matter if it actually ever results in a procurement. The design process itself serves the purpose of training our engineers and keeping us technologically viable in that arena.
There is a lot of material out there on the web. It's not all in one place and it certainly isn't packaged as full curricula for home schooling. The free stuff will be found in bits and pieces.
One such place is the Mathematics, Science and Techonology Office at the University of Illinois. Web sites like these are where you can find both static and interactive material that could be used for K-12 home schooling.
I teach and my suggestion is to use other course material/curricula as a guide. Every good, qualified teacher develops their own material to suit their style of teaching. If you rely to heavily on what some else has developed you can lose effectiveness. Judiciously use it as a guide and a base for developing your own stuff for your kid.
With that said I would like to add the other side of my $0.02 coin. We are pretty much mirror images of our parents and many of us spend a great deal of time and sometimes money trying to deprogram ourselves in order to function well as adults. Home schooling will have a tendancy make your child think like you do. Is this really what you want ?
Try not to apply an ego preservation heuristic to this where you accept only what challenges your belief system the least.
It's not a gift if you have to pay for it whether you pay now or later. The article just said "eventually" being unclear if the initial installation is actually free or upgrades would have to be paid for. The term "miniscule" was used to describe the price. Upgrades are not necessarily "miniscule" unless they are offsetting costs by some strange formula to account for using the city in their marketing.
What are the legal implications of software licensing for software that is a gift ? If the software is normally sold and you give it as a gift does that affect your license ?
The idea could be used to secure confidential business information and even keep military secrets safe
Having worked in classified special access projects for 11 years there are two thing to consider:
1) classified information is still classified whether it is encrypted or not. You don't just walk away from it unattended. True classified information is transmitted over the internet everyday via NES but you never know where the packets are.
2) processing of classified material has to be done in an approved area. Most everyone around you would also be cleared.
I guess you might find an application for this in a battlefield environment.
The bottom line that you should take with you on your path:
1) ask yourself what really sets you on fire. What do you love?
2) and are you really good at it ?
If you can clearly awnser these two question then you have a plan. Whatever it is, it is what you are suppose to be doing. Go after it with a single-minded determination. I am 43. I worked as a research engineer for the US government for 12 years and finally discovered that I loved to teach and was good at it. Now that is what I do in addition to developing educational engineering courseware.
Do what you love or don't do it !
been around since The Lawnmower Man
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Remember Job was using one at VSI to absorbed the accumulated knowledge base of mankind.
There is one lesson that NASA has not picked up on from the US DoD and the Air Force. The DoD will have their contractors design and build a new fighter aircraft every 10 to 15 years whether one is needed or not. It may never become a big procurement but it is the process that is important. It is so the art is not lost for the next generation of engineers. You have to pass it on or you will forget how to do it.
We have actually forgotten how to go back to the moon. Yes the procedures, techniques and designs were recorded but never passed down from one engineer to the next.
Let's move into a non-password method of user validation for computer systems and networks. Anyone for a USB retinal scanner or DNA fingerprint validation system for your office network PC.
In the studey of dissapation-fluctuation phenomena in condensed matter, when atomic motion occurs in a highly cooperative manner due to some type of impulsive electrical or mechanical excitation, that motion has a definite information content. The information sink can be considered the thermal bath in which the solid exchanges energy. Entropy in this sense has been refered to as information loss.
Corporate investment in IT is not bad. However the corporation has no business investing in IT for just the sake of investing in IT. There must be a concrete, tangible payoff for the investment that must in pretty short order. This is where the problems lies and is the primary reason the field is in the condition that it is in today.
Very few of the.coms have viable R&D that can truly develop real innovation. Nor is this the proper place for that to be done.
Most of the.coms should never have existed as corporate entities in the first place. They were never viable and the same people running a different kind of business would have never survived in any other market either.
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Here is the big difference in today's music world compared to the past: past markets were more stable because you promoted talent and not product. Additionally, your target audience had an average age > 13 years old.
Not all engineering students begin as math wizards but by the end of their degree program are quite comfortable with calculus and transform mathematics.
It's all in the amount of exposure and the level of application availible to the student.
Now we know what Dick Cheney was up to all that time.
http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath312.htm
We couldn't even go back to the moon again today because we have lost that knowledge base. Sure it was recorded, but the engineers that wrote it down have retired or died. There is a knowledge and experience gap with the following generation of engineers after the Apollo program who never had the opportunity to work under the masters because we stopped the big adventure and chose to stay in earth orbit.
The DoD will build a new fighter aircraft every 10 to 15 years whether they need one or not just so the next generation of engineers will know how to do it. It doesn't matter if it actually ever results in a procurement. The design process itself serves the purpose of training our engineers and keeping us technologically viable in that arena.
One such place is the Mathematics, Science and Techonology Office at the University of Illinois. Web sites like these are where you can find both static and interactive material that could be used for K-12 home schooling.
I teach and my suggestion is to use other course material/curricula as a guide. Every good, qualified teacher develops their own material to suit their style of teaching. If you rely to heavily on what some else has developed you can lose effectiveness. Judiciously use it as a guide and a base for developing your own stuff for your kid.
With that said I would like to add the other side of my $0.02 coin. We are pretty much mirror images of our parents and many of us spend a great deal of time and sometimes money trying to deprogram ourselves in order to function well as adults. Home schooling will have a tendancy make your child think like you do. Is this really what you want ?
Try not to apply an ego preservation heuristic to this where you accept only what challenges your belief system the least.
What are the legal implications of software licensing for software that is a gift ? If the software is normally sold and you give it as a gift does that affect your license ?
Having worked in classified special access projects for 11 years there are two thing to consider:
1) classified information is still classified whether it is encrypted or not. You don't just walk away from it unattended. True classified information is transmitted over the internet everyday via NES but you never know where the packets are.
2) processing of classified material has to be done in an approved area. Most everyone around you would also be cleared.
I guess you might find an application for this in a battlefield environment.
1) ask yourself what really sets you on fire. What do you love?
2) and are you really good at it ?
If you can clearly awnser these two question then you have a plan. Whatever it is, it is what you are suppose to be doing. Go after it with a single-minded determination. I am 43. I worked as a research engineer for the US government for 12 years and finally discovered that I loved to teach and was good at it. Now that is what I do in addition to developing educational engineering courseware.
Do what you love or don't do it !
All bad precedents begin with justifiable measures." - Julius Ceasar
We have actually forgotten how to go back to the moon. Yes the procedures, techniques and designs were recorded but never passed down from one engineer to the next.
In the studey of dissapation-fluctuation phenomena in condensed matter, when atomic motion occurs in a highly cooperative manner due to some type of impulsive electrical or mechanical excitation, that motion has a definite information content. The information sink can be considered the thermal bath in which the solid exchanges energy. Entropy in this sense has been refered to as information loss.
Very few of the .coms have viable R&D that can truly develop real innovation. Nor is this the proper place for that to be done.
Most of the .coms should never have existed as corporate entities in the first place. They were never viable and the same people running a different kind of business would have never survived in any other market either.