Honestly, would you question her abilities if she would have been a male professor?
Probably not. But we would also not see old, balding, male professor on every news front page out there (Einstein doesn't count, he is more a meme, rather than a real person now).
She would not end up with so much publicity if not for being female (quite cute on top of that). It is normal that some people will get suspicious and wonder if this is pure merit, or maybe journalists just want to push woman-in-STEM agenda.
I sincerely hope she is as accomplished as newspapers claim - it is heartwarming news to hear about young people being really passionate about real science (regardless of gender).
I think there is a bit of misunderstanding there regarding word arrest.
"They fingerprinted me. Took my mug shot and gave me a court date,"
I don't think he was put into holding cell/prison waiting for the trial (which is the meaning of arrest in case of flight risk or possibility of muddling up the case). I think he was handled as arrested person, with mug shot and related paperwork and let out, asking him to come back to court (which did not happen, as case was dismissed beforehand).
I suppose that story would be a lot weaker if instead of saying 'arrest' and 'mug shot' it would instead say "they invited me to police station and took picture to compare with one taken at the ATM, but before case went to court, they realized timestamps were mismatched";)
I'm all for him suing Wells Fargo/police/whoever was involved, but it doesn't sound like he was put into prison cell in meantime.
If perfectly circular, average distance from any planet to any planet should be equal to the center of their path circle, which is, drum roll please, the center of the sun.
No? Planet A at 1AU orbit and Planet B at 2AU orbit have distance between 1AU and 3AU. Planet C at 1000AU has distance to planet A between 999AU and 1001AU. Whatever are their periods, some average of 1-3 won't get anywhere close to average of 999-1001.
So, Earth-Mercury average distance shares the first place with any other of 45 planet pair combinations.
Not sure how you came up with number 45. 8 planets give 28 combinations, so it should be 'any other of 27 combinations'. Even if you didn't get memo from 2006 about Pluto, it would be 36-1=35 combinations.
(like a comet would flying towards the sun does which eventually causes it to propel back out into space)
If I understand you correctly, you suggest that comets are flying directly towards sun, get decelerated by ablating gas, stop and then accelerate away like a rocket. I suppose that you imagine that at some point they stop spewing gases, but gravity still works, so they will finally come back.
Just in case - this is completely wrong image. Comets are orbiting Sun and 'missing' it when they fly in, getting around Sun on tight gravity leash and flying back, still in very elongated orbit. Comet tail is way too weak to pull the 'stop and reverse' trick, plus, which is even worse, it points into wrong direction (away from sun, so if anything, it would accelerate comet towards Sun even more)
I don't see a reason why world in which simulation hardware runs should be in any way similar to ours. It can be as well 4d spatial dimensions one, with multiple spin axis for elemental particles etc. I think it makes sense for each deeper simulation level to be significantly simpler than previous one (same way as we would not run full quantum-level, universe scale simulator in our world, but rather do a lot of simplifications to reduce required data complexity).
So, bees can smell minimal amount of quinine or sugar from dispenser, even when it is still closed. This would require very sensitive sense of smell, only possible in animal which has to go large distances to find food based on smell alone.
Yep, basic hypothesis is that bees can add and subtract. Only after we prove they cannot, we can look for other explanations.
Please note that while it seems like they cracked translating thought into speed, it is really about something very different. They decode what person is hearing into sound. This is very, very far from being able to interpret actual thoughts - they attach themselves to very early stage of hearing process, where things are still looking very much like sound waves.
Additionally, it is tested on just 10 words (numbers from 0 to 9). On top of that, given neural nets are magic, I wouldn't be surprised if instead on brain activity, they focused on some measurement artifact, which is caused by skull vibrating to the sound, turning all that setup into overcomplicated and underperforming microphone.
Sure, it is a worthy research, but it is light years away from thoughts to speech conversion.
I'm sure if you keep them long enough, some of them will eventually evolve the ability to synthesize the new X and Y bases.
Not necessarily. It might be physically impossible to express bio-machinery required to synthetize X and Y using normal DNA+XY. That would explain why those extra bases never happened in natural world - even if some mutation happened, there was no chance it would be self-sustaining.
I guess serious navigators have access to a super secret GPS system which can tell them which way is north?
You need to move few meters and GPS will tell you where north is. Take mobile phone navigation for example - my phone has horrible internal compass and often shows direction off by 90 degrees or so. But it is enough to start driving and suddenly it corrects itself.
Thinking about it, maybe they skimped on compass and put super secret GPS inside instead?
Bottom of the stand in the picture reminds me of mirror setup magicians are using on stage to pretend there is empty space under the box, while in reality, there is enough space to fit their assistant there.
By making it few inches higher, they could do the same without any foldable screen, just slide existing flat panel down. Or, if their OLED display is so good, just point backward facing camera on the stand and display area behind it on the screen itself as it lowers and don't use mirrors at all.
I'm not saying it is exactly the case with Amazon, because I don't know the company well enough, but in general your statement does not necessarily hold true (that risk flows perfectly after the split). Default risk might be largely external to the company and won't change after splitting less risky part off. Having less risky part in will just mean it will get eaten up by bond/loan payoffs in case of default of entire company.
What split can cause is that bonds/loans for retail part might be more expensive, as there will be less to recover. But for equity price (which anyway goes to zero in case of default) it is mostly just the risk, not recovery rate which is important.
Great so they only have to cover one three hundred and sixty fifths of the entire area of France. No problem I guess.
0.3%. I know it is a huge investment, but take into account, that 52% of area of France is used for agriculture. Having half of land area used for food is normal, but using 0.3% of land area for energy needs is already outrageous?
I think that if that would be as simple as giving up 1% of your land to never have to worry about electricity again with zero pollution, every country in the world would jump on it. There are many other serious issues, but I don't think that area needed for solar farms is the showstopper.
I thought it was illegal to carry knives (longer than few inches) in UK for long time. I always wondered how are you supposed to buy kitchen knives from supermarket:)
Anyway, have rules been made more strict recently?
Why does it matter that impactor is flying with 2km/s? From what I understand, impact depth should be mostly independent of speed above certain threshold (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_depth)?
For comparison, 46% of first-time mortgage holders don't default during the first two years.
You have 54% people defaulting on mortgage in first two years??? This is completely crazy. I think it is around 5% average or so in EU (total, not first 2 years).
"Welcoming the accession of Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as non-nuclear-weapon State, Taking into account the commitment of Ukraine to eliminate all nuclear weapons from its territory within a specified period of[..]"
The Russian Federation,[...] reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, [...], to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine The Russian Federation, [...] reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine[...] The Russian Federation [...] reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine [...], to refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind. etc, etc.
It is funny in every post by a European there is a different number of days "required by law". So far I have heard 20 days, 25 days, 30 days. Is it based on level of smugness?
EU itself requires that each of the member countries need to give at least 20 days off per year in paid holidays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Anything over that depends on country. In Poland you got 20 if you are just starting to work, 26 with few years of experience (this is leftover from communist times, your entire job experience+education counts, not time spent with single employer). Plus 13 national/religious holidays. Sweden has 25 days.France 25 days as well, but they have 35-hour work week by default and if you work more - as much as 39 hours !!! - you get up to 22 days extra. Maybe other countries in EU have just 20 days.
I don't see anything close to 30 days - maybe somebody is counting public holidays as well (then you can easily get in range of 40 days).
I'm not sure from where the idea that accounting is paid better than IT comes from. Unless by 'accounting' you mean CFO of big company, I don't think this is the case.
It is bit hard to qualify what you mean by 'good accounting' and 'good IT', but let's try.
First anecdotal evidence - average IT guy in my area (Central Europe, medium sized city) earns 2-3 times more than average accounting guy.
Let's switch to 'good'. Large company, 15+ years experience. Accountant - 59k average. Programmer - 84k average.
Not only IT is paid considerably better, but also their experience is better rewarded (while with accounting job, it seems that you will move from 48k to 59k in 15 years of experience).
Double-blind means that the person administering the treatment or placebo does not know the difference (in addition to the patient).
Double-blind study means that neither patient or person _compiling the results_ knows if this was placebo or real treatment. In many cases outside of simple medicine switch, person executing the experiment (as it goes outside of just medical subjects) is very well aware if it is real or not, he just labels it in secret which will get revealed after all the single measurements and compilations on A/B (rather than placebo/real) are finished.
I always considered Equilibrium as spiritual successor to Fahrenheit 451 and enjoyable film to watch (even if bit too Matrix-like in certain places). I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to watching Equilibrium-sans-gun-kata...
Can you expand on that? My impression was that it is considerably harder to use correctly than OpenGL. From wikipedia article (emphasis mine), "NVIDIA notes that OpenGL is still a great option for a lot of use cases, as it does come at a much lower complexity and maintenance burden than Vulkan"
I share the sentiment, but there are two issues here: 1) Deepfakes put face of unattainable on naked body you can see. You will need quite the opposite here, which makes it a lot harder compute-wise 2) To get reasonable quality for few hundred pixel x few hundred pixel face you need days of specialized GPU time. To put retina-quality full body in realtime, you would probably need to rent entire Amazon cloud
For time being, it is a lot cheaper to just ask them to undress for money;) So called 'Weinstein solution' to X-ray glasses.
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Honestly, would you question her abilities if she would have been a male professor?
Probably not. But we would also not see old, balding, male professor on every news front page out there (Einstein doesn't count, he is more a meme, rather than a real person now).
She would not end up with so much publicity if not for being female (quite cute on top of that). It is normal that some people will get suspicious and wonder if this is pure merit, or maybe journalists just want to push woman-in-STEM agenda.
I sincerely hope she is as accomplished as newspapers claim - it is heartwarming news to hear about young people being really passionate about real science (regardless of gender).
I think there is a bit of misunderstanding there regarding word arrest.
"They fingerprinted me. Took my mug shot and gave me a court date,"
I don't think he was put into holding cell/prison waiting for the trial (which is the meaning of arrest in case of flight risk or possibility of muddling up the case). I think he was handled as arrested person, with mug shot and related paperwork and let out, asking him to come back to court (which did not happen, as case was dismissed beforehand).
I suppose that story would be a lot weaker if instead of saying 'arrest' and 'mug shot' it would instead say "they invited me to police station and took picture to compare with one taken at the ATM, but before case went to court, they realized timestamps were mismatched" ;)
I'm all for him suing Wells Fargo/police/whoever was involved, but it doesn't sound like he was put into prison cell in meantime.
If perfectly circular, average distance from any planet to any planet should be equal to the center of their path circle, which is, drum roll please, the center of the sun.
No? Planet A at 1AU orbit and Planet B at 2AU orbit have distance between 1AU and 3AU. Planet C at 1000AU has distance to planet A between 999AU and 1001AU. Whatever are their periods, some average of 1-3 won't get anywhere close to average of 999-1001.
So, Earth-Mercury average distance shares the first place with any other of 45 planet pair combinations.
Not sure how you came up with number 45. 8 planets give 28 combinations, so it should be 'any other of 27 combinations'. Even if you didn't get memo from 2006 about Pluto, it would be 36-1=35 combinations.
(like a comet would flying towards the sun does which eventually causes it to propel back out into space)
If I understand you correctly, you suggest that comets are flying directly towards sun, get decelerated by ablating gas, stop and then accelerate away like a rocket. I suppose that you imagine that at some point they stop spewing gases, but gravity still works, so they will finally come back. Just in case - this is completely wrong image. Comets are orbiting Sun and 'missing' it when they fly in, getting around Sun on tight gravity leash and flying back, still in very elongated orbit. Comet tail is way too weak to pull the 'stop and reverse' trick, plus, which is even worse, it points into wrong direction (away from sun, so if anything, it would accelerate comet towards Sun even more)
I don't see a reason why world in which simulation hardware runs should be in any way similar to ours. It can be as well 4d spatial dimensions one, with multiple spin axis for elemental particles etc. I think it makes sense for each deeper simulation level to be significantly simpler than previous one (same way as we would not run full quantum-level, universe scale simulator in our world, but rather do a lot of simplifications to reduce required data complexity).
So, bees can smell minimal amount of quinine or sugar from dispenser, even when it is still closed. This would require very sensitive sense of smell, only possible in animal which has to go large distances to find food based on smell alone. Yep, basic hypothesis is that bees can add and subtract. Only after we prove they cannot, we can look for other explanations.
Please note that while it seems like they cracked translating thought into speed, it is really about something very different. They decode what person is hearing into sound. This is very, very far from being able to interpret actual thoughts - they attach themselves to very early stage of hearing process, where things are still looking very much like sound waves. Additionally, it is tested on just 10 words (numbers from 0 to 9). On top of that, given neural nets are magic, I wouldn't be surprised if instead on brain activity, they focused on some measurement artifact, which is caused by skull vibrating to the sound, turning all that setup into overcomplicated and underperforming microphone. Sure, it is a worthy research, but it is light years away from thoughts to speech conversion.
I'm sure if you keep them long enough, some of them will eventually evolve the ability to synthesize the new X and Y bases.
Not necessarily. It might be physically impossible to express bio-machinery required to synthetize X and Y using normal DNA+XY. That would explain why those extra bases never happened in natural world - even if some mutation happened, there was no chance it would be self-sustaining.
I guess serious navigators have access to a super secret GPS system which can tell them which way is north?
You need to move few meters and GPS will tell you where north is. Take mobile phone navigation for example - my phone has horrible internal compass and often shows direction off by 90 degrees or so. But it is enough to start driving and suddenly it corrects itself. Thinking about it, maybe they skimped on compass and put super secret GPS inside instead?
Bottom of the stand in the picture reminds me of mirror setup magicians are using on stage to pretend there is empty space under the box, while in reality, there is enough space to fit their assistant there. By making it few inches higher, they could do the same without any foldable screen, just slide existing flat panel down. Or, if their OLED display is so good, just point backward facing camera on the stand and display area behind it on the screen itself as it lowers and don't use mirrors at all.
I'm not saying it is exactly the case with Amazon, because I don't know the company well enough, but in general your statement does not necessarily hold true (that risk flows perfectly after the split). Default risk might be largely external to the company and won't change after splitting less risky part off. Having less risky part in will just mean it will get eaten up by bond/loan payoffs in case of default of entire company. What split can cause is that bonds/loans for retail part might be more expensive, as there will be less to recover. But for equity price (which anyway goes to zero in case of default) it is mostly just the risk, not recovery rate which is important.
Great so they only have to cover one three hundred and sixty fifths of the entire area of France. No problem I guess.
0.3%. I know it is a huge investment, but take into account, that 52% of area of France is used for agriculture. Having half of land area used for food is normal, but using 0.3% of land area for energy needs is already outrageous? I think that if that would be as simple as giving up 1% of your land to never have to worry about electricity again with zero pollution, every country in the world would jump on it. There are many other serious issues, but I don't think that area needed for solar farms is the showstopper.
I thought it was illegal to carry knives (longer than few inches) in UK for long time. I always wondered how are you supposed to buy kitchen knives from supermarket :)
Anyway, have rules been made more strict recently?
Why does it matter that impactor is flying with 2km/s? From what I understand, impact depth should be mostly independent of speed above certain threshold (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_depth)?
For comparison, 46% of first-time mortgage holders don't default during the first two years.
You have 54% people defaulting on mortgage in first two years??? This is completely crazy. I think it is around 5% average or so in EU (total, not first 2 years).
We have just recently learned that accounting pays so much better than IT: https://ask.slashdot.org/story...
So, how big are accountant salaries in Silicon Valley?
"Welcoming the accession of Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as non-nuclear-weapon State,
Taking into account the commitment of Ukraine to eliminate all nuclear weapons from its territory within a specified period of[..]"
The Russian Federation,[...] reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, [...], to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine
The Russian Federation, [...] reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine[...]
The Russian Federation [...] reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine [...], to refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.
etc, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It is funny in every post by a European there is a different number of days "required by law". So far I have heard 20 days, 25 days, 30 days. Is it based on level of smugness?
EU itself requires that each of the member countries need to give at least 20 days off per year in paid holidays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Anything over that depends on country. In Poland you got 20 if you are just starting to work, 26 with few years of experience (this is leftover from communist times, your entire job experience+education counts, not time spent with single employer). Plus 13 national/religious holidays.
Sweden has 25 days.France 25 days as well, but they have 35-hour work week by default and if you work more - as much as 39 hours !!! - you get up to 22 days extra.
Maybe other countries in EU have just 20 days.
I don't see anything close to 30 days - maybe somebody is counting public holidays as well (then you can easily get in range of 40 days).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Dogs and children will lap the stuff up if they encounter a spill [...]
My child must be bit different then - she is not lapping puddles of random stuff near waste recycling plants in hope it might be sweet.
Maybe this is more dangerous for children raised on the progressive, 'no-sweets' diet? Are they desperate enough to lap everything looking for sweets?
I'm not sure from where the idea that accounting is paid better than IT comes from. Unless by 'accounting' you mean CFO of big company, I don't think this is the case.
It is bit hard to qualify what you mean by 'good accounting' and 'good IT', but let's try.
First anecdotal evidence - average IT guy in my area (Central Europe, medium sized city) earns 2-3 times more than average accounting guy.
Then let's look at some official stats for US.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Sala...
https://www.glassdoor.com/Sala...
Accountant - 55k average, 40-74 range. Programmer - 66k average, 50-90k range.
Let's switch to 'good'. Large company, 15+ years experience.
Accountant - 59k average. Programmer - 84k average.
Not only IT is paid considerably better, but also their experience is better rewarded (while with accounting job, it seems that you will move from 48k to 59k in 15 years of experience).
They were testing with 5W per kg of rat/mice for 9 hours a day. This means 250-500W strong mobile phone for human. Is it realistic?
Double-blind means that the person administering the treatment or placebo does not know the difference (in addition to the patient).
Double-blind study means that neither patient or person _compiling the results_ knows if this was placebo or real treatment. In many cases outside of simple medicine switch, person executing the experiment (as it goes outside of just medical subjects) is very well aware if it is real or not, he just labels it in secret which will get revealed after all the single measurements and compilations on A/B (rather than placebo/real) are finished.
I always considered Equilibrium as spiritual successor to Fahrenheit 451 and enjoyable film to watch (even if bit too Matrix-like in certain places). I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to watching Equilibrium-sans-gun-kata...
Vulcan is [...] easier to use than OpenGL
Can you expand on that? My impression was that it is considerably harder to use correctly than OpenGL.
From wikipedia article (emphasis mine),
"NVIDIA notes that OpenGL is still a great option for a lot of use cases, as it does come at a much lower complexity and maintenance burden than Vulkan"
I share the sentiment, but there are two issues here:
1) Deepfakes put face of unattainable on naked body you can see. You will need quite the opposite here, which makes it a lot harder compute-wise
2) To get reasonable quality for few hundred pixel x few hundred pixel face you need days of specialized GPU time. To put retina-quality full body in realtime, you would probably need to rent entire Amazon cloud
For time being, it is a lot cheaper to just ask them to undress for money ;) So called 'Weinstein solution' to X-ray glasses.