Pseudo-random number generators not "known to be random." They are constructed to pass certain statistical tests with high certainty. Output of these generators, however, NOT RANDOM in strongest sense. Instead, are generated by DETERMINISTIC ALGORITHM.
Pi's digits also pass certain tests for non-correlation.
OOGG wish correct additional mistaken assumption of yours: Knowledge or proof of FACT does not CHANGE fact. ONLY CHANGE OUR KNOWLEDGE.
Digits of PI either "random" or "not random" depending on definition you choose for word "random." If not proven, must make experiment study to understand.
OOGG wish suggest reason for changing program in running image.
OOGG surprised you not recognize nature of modern program: typical case is ecommerce type application: running process contain much business data and transactions in progress. World not stop so that program be changed, recompiled, dump current state to disk, kill old binary, launch new binary, read current state from disk, allow users access again.
Instead, non-stone-age program in Lisp can be changed by redefining rules in running program. Present new views by providing new functions acting on live data. Upgrade functionality by loading new code without losing data and state. Allow users to customize behavior of program by creating new code interactively.
World not static. Practical program should also not be static.
Existence of true numeric types, however, not change essential nature of Tcl evaluation: substitution of strings for symbols prefixed by $. Result is usual shell-language nightmare of quoting with various "strength", "uplevel". Lisp take approach of virtually every other programming language: names represent values of variables, except in assignment and definitions.
OOGG never use cadadar or similar accessors in use of Common Lisp. For structured data, OOGG prefer structures or objects, with well-defined accessor methods. When OOGG mention abstraction, he mean functional and macro abstraction.
OOGG respectfully suggest you miss point. Lisp macro allow program be written on very high-level. Language without Lisp macro generally force program be written at low level, or very brittle architecture.
Some learning necessary to understand *any* code. Once learn Lisp macro library, have much power at one's disposal. Once learn nasty Java object heirarchy, brain hurt, and still must program within brittle heirarchy, with limited Java single inheritance. And, Java architecture usually solve much simpler, more limited problem.
OOGG think answer quite accurate and informed, but misleading to novice.
Problem of non-standard naming for MOP pale in comparison to OOP architecture so stone-age that have no MOP at all. Or language like C++ that provide template "solution" which is worse than problem.
Lisp was the perfect language to run as a scripting language thanks to its interpreter.
OOGG admit Lisp was interpreted in stone-age. (Also, was called LISP in stone-age, but OOGG digress). However, since http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MacLisp MacLisp project, Lisp developers know how write efficient compilers for Lisp.
In heyday of Lisp Machines, whole OS (including FORTRAN compilers, etc.) written in Lisp, compiled to Lisp-based microcode execute directly on CPU.
Current Lisp standard support structures, arrays, hash-tables, strings, also sophisticated OOP using CLOS.
OOGG very happy not have to bang C++ rocks together in order to write powerful programs quickly.
ADVANTAGE IS SMALL SIZE. YOUR UNIT more than 1 meter in length. HOWEVER, NOT IMMEDIATELY CLEAR IF SOLUTION can be scaled up WITHOUT COMMENSURATE larger size.
YOU HAVE LINKED TO one conspiracy theory journalist AND ONE pseudoscientific gibberish BASED ON ASSUMPTION THAT HYDROGEN ATOM NOT PROPERLY UNDERSTOOD BY QUANTUM MECHANICS.
OBVIOUSLY, CAN NEVER DISPROVE sufficiently elaborate CONSPIRACY. HOWEVER, hydrogen atom IS MOST BASIC PROBLEM SOLVED IN QUANTUM MECHANICS. HAS BEEN SOLVED FOR 70+ years NOW.
blacklightpower.com ASSUMES ALL THAT WORK ABSOLUTELY WRONG. INVENTS GIBBBERISH "fractional quantum numbers." TRUST ME, HYDROGEN ATOM QUANTUM MECHANICS WELL VERIFIED BY EXPERIMENT.
KEY POINT IS "whole thing becomes self-sustaining."
PHRASE IS meaningless WITHOUT CLARIFICATION.
FURTHERMORE, 10^8 TIMES large negative number IS even larger NEGATIVE NUMBER. MILLIONS OF GENERATORS with negative efficiency MILLIONS OF TIMES worse, not better.
THIS THREAD BRINGING OUT ANONYMOUS MORONS in large quantities. UNFORTUNATELY, moronic thoughts ON SLASHDOT CAUSE self-sustaining chain reaction.
OOGG wish to clarify description of piezoelectric.
KEY ASPECT NOT CONVERT ENERGY. RATHER, RELATION BETWEEN mechanical strain & electric polarization, OR IN CASE pyroelectric BETWEEN electric polarization & thermal gradient.
EXPERIMENT USE pyroelectric CONVERT THERMAL GRADIENT into polarization = electric field.
NOT NEED ENERGY CONVERSION FOR PIEZOELECTRIC APPLICATION. Cell phone filter (SAW=surface acoustic wave) USE COUPLING BETWEEN ELECTRIC FIELD & SOUND WAVE PROPAGATION FOR high-Q MICROWAVE/RF FILTER. NOT CONVERT ENERGY.
Gaussian beam diverge as well; angle of divergence be inversely proportional to the beam "waist." For zero divergence, beam width be infinite. Cavemen call this zero divergence beam "plane wave." OOGG know of no way to create beam with infinitely large beam waist on finite-sized Earth.
OOGG want correct your misinformed view of financial system. Government borrow funds by selling Treasury bonds. Holders of bonds expect paid interest, not imaginary money.
Also, banks, holders of money oppose inflation. OOGG have misfortune of holding caveman stone money, US Confederate currency, many old German marks. (OOGG learn hard way to avoid sovereign credit risk.) Inflation wipe out value of currency. Even US nickel once buy large candy bar. Now, same nickel buy 1/10 candy bar. OOGG need diet, but 1/10 candy bar less value than 1 candy bar. Bank with nickel in reserve lose value just as much as OOGG.
Federal reserve notes are printed by Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Issued in exchange for funds held by Federal reserve. That is, Federal Reserve exchange real electronic money for real paper money.
Summary: every thing you say completely wrong. Even stone age caveman have better understanding of money than a whoabot. Thank you.
OOGG NOT MORON. OOGG HAVE READ ABOUT near-critical EXPERIMENTS AT LOS ALAMOS. BUT ANONYMOUS COWARD MORON not understand those masses ARE PLUTONIUM, OR URANIUM enriched BEYOND PEBBLES IN REACTOR. PEBBLES DESIGNED TO NOT BE SUPERCRITICAL EVEN WHEN in CLOSE-PACKED CONFIGURATION.
SCIENTISTS AT LOS ALAMOS knew MATERIAL UNSAFE. FEYNMAN in fact VISIT OAK RIDGE, see potential HAZARD. SIMILAR SCIENCE show PEBBLES safe.
ALSO, NUCLEAR BOMB term USUALLY MEAN HIGH-YIELD REACTION, not DIRTY BOMB, or MISFIRED BOMB just release PROMPT RADIATION. ACCIDENT AT LOS ALAMOS NOT EXPLOSIVE, just RADIATIVE. HIGH-YIELD BOMB ALSO NEED TAMPER, provide inertia CONFINE MATERIAL UNTIL multiple generations of CHAIN REACTION OCCUR.
OOGG often misunderstood--MODERN HUMANS NOT ACCEPT CAVEMAN BEHAVIOR. Luckily, MOST PEOPLE NOT HAVE CAVEMAN REFLEXES HONED BY CONFRONTATION WITH SABER-TOOTH TIGER, so OOGG can CLUB JERKS ON HEAD. OOGG USE OF MOSTLY CAPS COME FROM stone-age TELETYPE TERMINAL OOGG USE ACCESS INTERNET. lower-case to defeat SLASHDOT FILTER require OOGG manipulate INTERFACE BY HAND.
TO ANSWER ORIGINAL QUESTION, OOGG NOT IN CHERNOBYL AT TIME. OOGG NEVER EXPOSED (to OOGG's knowledge) to HIGH LEVELS IONIZING RADIATION. TRY OTHER HYPOTHESIS TO UNDERSTAND OOGG BEHAVIOR. THANK YOU.
Now, what if there is some malfunction, and a sizeable amount of non-spent pebbles are accidentally "discarded": Instant nuclear bomb!
POSTER NOT UNDERSTAND NATURE OF PEBBLES. PEBBLES NOT NUCLEAR BOMB MATERIAL. PEBBLES ARE DESIGNED SO THAT DENSE ASSEMBLY IS SUBCRITICAL, i.e., usable for REACTOR.
ASSEMBLY INTO NUCLEAR BOMB REQUIRE enrichment, followed by explosive compression into supercritical mass. NOT JUST STACK LIKE ORANGES IN SUPERMARKET.
same applies to chemical waste which is produced in levels that are orders of magnitude higher
OOGG AGREE much more chemical waste produced than NUCLEAR WASTE. HOWEVER, OOGG HAVE CAVEMAN TECHNOLOGY to deal with chemical waste. OOGG HAVE FIRE!!!
PROBLEM WITH NUKE WASTE IS CAVEMAN FIRE CANNOT BREAK DOWN ATOMIC NUCLEI, while CAN breakdown CHEMICAL MOLECULES INTO RELATIVELY HARMLESS SMALLER MOLECULES. NUKE WASTE NEED NUCLEAR FIRE OR LONG WAIT.
(NOTE: OOGG NOT AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER TECHNOLOGY. CRACK n.i.m.b.y. WHINERS IN HEAD WITH CLUB!!!)
Although OOGG caveman, OOGG not around during Big Bang, Pre-Cambrian era, dinosaurs, etc. However, OOGG old enough remember debate on Darwinian evolution.
You mention "continually reexamined in the light of new evidence" yet mention no new evidence. OOGG hear such comments many times. OOGG know Darwin think of many objections, answer with real evidence. Many observations on human breed pigeons, dogs, agriculture, etc., substantiate Darwin argument. Many more observations since Darwin's time substantiate evolutionary ideas. "Intelligent design" provide no observation other than "I don't believe in the alternative."
Slashdot Mirror
Pseudo-random number generators not "known to be random." They are constructed to pass certain statistical tests with high certainty. Output of these generators, however, NOT RANDOM in strongest sense. Instead, are generated by DETERMINISTIC ALGORITHM.
Pi's digits also pass certain tests for non-correlation.
OOGG wish correct additional mistaken assumption of yours:
Knowledge or proof of FACT does not CHANGE fact. ONLY CHANGE OUR KNOWLEDGE.
Digits of PI either "random" or "not random" depending on definition you choose for word "random." If not proven, must make experiment study to understand.
OOGG never use MOP, still can program CLOS just fine. MOP exist for specific reason, not everyday development.
If not need super OOP powers granted by MOP, OOGG suggest not use them. Java suggest nobody *ever* need super powers. Obviously untrue.
OOGG wish suggest reason for changing program in running image.
OOGG surprised you not recognize nature of modern program: typical case is ecommerce type application: running process contain much business data and transactions in progress. World not stop so that program be changed, recompiled, dump current state to disk, kill old binary, launch new binary, read current state from disk, allow users access again.
Instead, non-stone-age program in Lisp can be changed by redefining rules in running program. Present new views by providing new functions acting on live data. Upgrade functionality by loading new code without losing data and state. Allow users to customize behavior of program by creating new code interactively.
World not static. Practical program should also not be static.
Existence of true numeric types, however, not change essential nature of Tcl evaluation: substitution of strings for symbols prefixed by $. Result is usual shell-language nightmare of quoting with various "strength", "uplevel". Lisp take approach of virtually every other programming language: names represent values of variables, except in assignment and definitions.
OOGG never use cadadar or similar accessors in use of Common Lisp. For structured data, OOGG prefer structures or objects, with well-defined accessor methods. When OOGG mention abstraction, he mean functional and macro abstraction.
OOGG respectfully suggest you miss point. Lisp macro allow program be written on very high-level. Language without Lisp macro generally force program be written at low level, or very brittle architecture.
Some learning necessary to understand *any* code. Once learn Lisp macro library, have much power at one's disposal. Once learn nasty Java object heirarchy, brain hurt, and still must program within brittle heirarchy, with limited Java single inheritance. And, Java architecture usually solve much simpler, more limited problem.
OOGG think answer quite accurate and informed, but misleading to novice.
Problem of non-standard naming for MOP pale in comparison to OOP architecture so stone-age that have no MOP at all. Or language like C++ that provide template "solution" which is worse than problem.
OOGG confused by your post. You mention "standalone executable"
However, your post has perl script which is neither standalone nor executable. Instead, requires Perl installation, and is interpreted.
Tcl however lack the "robust abstraction" nature of Lisp. Instead, has "everything a string" nature.
Personally, OOGG feel any language where "value of variable" needs $ notation is severely brain-damaged. Absolute opposite of abstraction.
Lisp was the perfect language to run as a scripting language thanks to its interpreter.
OOGG admit Lisp was interpreted in stone-age. (Also, was called LISP in stone-age, but OOGG digress). However, since http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MacLisp MacLisp project, Lisp developers know how write efficient compilers for Lisp.
In heyday of Lisp Machines, whole OS (including FORTRAN compilers, etc.) written in Lisp, compiled to Lisp-based microcode execute directly on CPU.
Current Lisp standard support structures, arrays, hash-tables, strings, also sophisticated OOP using CLOS.
OOGG very happy not have to bang C++ rocks together in order to write powerful programs quickly.
ALSO, THOSE LOUSY APPLE BASTARDS made stone-age floppy drive OBSOLETE.
RELEASE COMPUTER WITHOUT supporting 5 1/4 inch FLOPPY IS BAFFLING.
ADVANTAGE IS SMALL SIZE. YOUR UNIT more than 1 meter in length. HOWEVER, NOT IMMEDIATELY CLEAR IF SOLUTION can be scaled up WITHOUT COMMENSURATE larger size.
YOU HAVE LINKED TO one conspiracy theory journalist AND ONE pseudoscientific gibberish BASED ON ASSUMPTION THAT HYDROGEN ATOM NOT PROPERLY UNDERSTOOD BY QUANTUM MECHANICS.
OBVIOUSLY, CAN NEVER DISPROVE sufficiently elaborate CONSPIRACY. HOWEVER, hydrogen atom IS MOST BASIC PROBLEM SOLVED IN QUANTUM MECHANICS. HAS BEEN SOLVED FOR 70+ years NOW.
blacklightpower.com ASSUMES ALL THAT WORK ABSOLUTELY WRONG. INVENTS GIBBBERISH "fractional quantum numbers." TRUST ME, HYDROGEN ATOM QUANTUM MECHANICS WELL VERIFIED BY EXPERIMENT.
KEY POINT IS "whole thing becomes self-sustaining."
PHRASE IS meaningless WITHOUT CLARIFICATION.
FURTHERMORE, 10^8 TIMES large negative number IS even larger NEGATIVE NUMBER. MILLIONS OF GENERATORS with negative efficiency MILLIONS OF TIMES worse, not better.
THIS THREAD BRINGING OUT ANONYMOUS MORONS in large quantities. UNFORTUNATELY, moronic thoughts ON SLASHDOT CAUSE self-sustaining chain reaction.
THIS FUSION DEVICE NOT CONVERT HEAT TO POWER.
Rather, CONVERT DEUTERIUM FUEL INTO POWER.
Unless you wish FILL extra-expensive CPU/GPU heatsink with PURE DEUTERIUM GAS, device not FUNCTION.
FURTHERMORE, PROBLEM WITH CPU/GPU is REMOVE POWER, not GENERATE POWER. FUSION REACTOR ON CPU/GPU cause HEAT PROBLEM, NOT SOLVE.
OOGG wish to clarify description of piezoelectric.
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KEY ASPECT NOT CONVERT ENERGY. RATHER, RELATION BETWEEN mechanical strain & electric polarization, OR IN CASE pyroelectric BETWEEN electric polarization & thermal gradient.
EXPERIMENT USE pyroelectric CONVERT THERMAL GRADIENT into polarization = electric field.
http://www.cohr.com/Applications/index.cfm?fuseac
NOT NEED ENERGY CONVERSION FOR PIEZOELECTRIC APPLICATION. Cell phone filter (SAW=surface acoustic wave) USE COUPLING BETWEEN ELECTRIC FIELD & SOUND WAVE PROPAGATION FOR high-Q MICROWAVE/RF FILTER. NOT CONVERT ENERGY.
1.5 million miles per hour is only 671,000 meters/second, or 0.00224 the speed of light. Relativistic effects are basically negligible.
Gaussian beam diverge as well; angle of divergence be inversely proportional to the beam "waist." For zero divergence, beam width be infinite. Cavemen call this zero divergence beam "plane wave." OOGG know of no way to create beam with infinitely large beam waist on finite-sized Earth.
OOGG WISH CORRECT STATEMENT ON IONIZING RADIATION.
ScrewMaster NOT REMEMBER PLANCK'S CONSTANT.
RADIATION TO "ionizing living tissue" MUST HAVE PHOTON ENERGY ENOUGH TO IONIZE. ATOMIC PHYSICS USE UNIT "Rydberg" IONIZING ENERGY FOR HYDROGEN ATOM.
ONE RYDBERG BE 13.6 electron volts. NOT ALL IONS REQUIRE SO MUCH, BUT CLEARLY ORDER OF VOLTS. THINK OF BATTERY; CHEMICAL BATTERIES PRODUCE VOLTS.
Planck's constant be equivalent to 3.28 10^15 Hz. Even 1 eV be 2.41 10^14 Hz, or ABOUT TEN THOUSAND TIMES HIGHER than 2.4 10^9 Hz = 2.4 GHz.
HANDY CAVEMAN RULE OF THUMB: GET CANCER FROM UV SUNLIGHT, NOT INFRARED FIRE. FIRE THERMAL BURN ONLY, NOT IONIZING.
OOGG want correct calculation.
5 watt = +7 dBW (dB REFERRED WATT. 0 dBW BE 1 WATT)
200 dB PATH LOSS reduce power -193 dBW.
= 5 * 10^-20 WATT.
OOGG NOT FIND GOOD INFO ON ANTENNA, FREQUENCY OF BEAGLE RF. NO FREQUENCY INFO MEAN OOGG NOT CHECK FREE SPACE LOSS CALCULATION)
OOGG want correct your misinformed view of financial system. Government borrow funds by selling Treasury bonds. Holders of bonds expect paid interest, not imaginary money.
Also, banks, holders of money oppose inflation. OOGG have misfortune of holding caveman stone money, US Confederate currency, many old German marks. (OOGG learn hard way to avoid sovereign credit risk.) Inflation wipe out value of currency. Even US nickel once buy large candy bar. Now, same nickel buy 1/10 candy bar. OOGG need diet, but 1/10 candy bar less value than 1 candy bar. Bank with nickel in reserve lose value just as much as OOGG.
Federal reserve notes are printed by Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Issued in exchange for funds held by Federal reserve. That is, Federal Reserve exchange real electronic money for real paper money.
Summary: every thing you say completely wrong. Even stone age caveman have better understanding of money than a whoabot. Thank you.
OOGG NOT MORON. OOGG HAVE READ ABOUT near-critical EXPERIMENTS AT LOS ALAMOS. BUT ANONYMOUS COWARD MORON not understand those masses ARE PLUTONIUM, OR URANIUM enriched BEYOND PEBBLES IN REACTOR. PEBBLES DESIGNED TO NOT BE SUPERCRITICAL EVEN WHEN in CLOSE-PACKED CONFIGURATION.
SCIENTISTS AT LOS ALAMOS knew MATERIAL UNSAFE. FEYNMAN in fact VISIT OAK RIDGE, see potential HAZARD. SIMILAR SCIENCE show PEBBLES safe.
ALSO, NUCLEAR BOMB term USUALLY MEAN HIGH-YIELD REACTION, not DIRTY BOMB, or MISFIRED BOMB just release PROMPT RADIATION. ACCIDENT AT LOS ALAMOS NOT EXPLOSIVE, just RADIATIVE. HIGH-YIELD BOMB ALSO NEED TAMPER, provide inertia CONFINE MATERIAL UNTIL multiple generations of CHAIN REACTION OCCUR.
OOGG NO UNDERSTAND WHAT NEED EXPLANATION.
OOGG often misunderstood--MODERN HUMANS NOT ACCEPT CAVEMAN BEHAVIOR. Luckily, MOST PEOPLE NOT HAVE CAVEMAN REFLEXES HONED BY CONFRONTATION WITH SABER-TOOTH TIGER, so OOGG can CLUB JERKS ON HEAD. OOGG USE OF MOSTLY CAPS COME FROM stone-age TELETYPE TERMINAL OOGG USE ACCESS INTERNET. lower-case to defeat SLASHDOT FILTER require OOGG manipulate INTERFACE BY HAND.
TO ANSWER ORIGINAL QUESTION, OOGG NOT IN CHERNOBYL AT TIME. OOGG NEVER EXPOSED (to OOGG's knowledge) to HIGH LEVELS IONIZING RADIATION. TRY OTHER HYPOTHESIS TO UNDERSTAND OOGG BEHAVIOR. THANK YOU.
Now, what if there is some malfunction, and a sizeable amount of non-spent pebbles are accidentally "discarded": Instant nuclear bomb!
POSTER NOT UNDERSTAND NATURE OF PEBBLES. PEBBLES NOT NUCLEAR BOMB MATERIAL. PEBBLES ARE DESIGNED SO THAT DENSE ASSEMBLY IS SUBCRITICAL, i.e., usable for REACTOR.
ASSEMBLY INTO NUCLEAR BOMB REQUIRE enrichment, followed by explosive compression into supercritical mass. NOT JUST STACK LIKE ORANGES IN SUPERMARKET.
same applies to chemical waste which is produced in levels that are orders of magnitude higher
OOGG AGREE much more chemical waste produced than NUCLEAR WASTE. HOWEVER, OOGG HAVE CAVEMAN TECHNOLOGY to deal with chemical waste. OOGG HAVE FIRE!!!
PROBLEM WITH NUKE WASTE IS CAVEMAN FIRE CANNOT BREAK DOWN ATOMIC NUCLEI, while CAN breakdown CHEMICAL MOLECULES INTO RELATIVELY HARMLESS SMALLER MOLECULES. NUKE WASTE NEED NUCLEAR FIRE OR LONG WAIT.
(NOTE: OOGG NOT AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER TECHNOLOGY. CRACK n.i.m.b.y. WHINERS IN HEAD WITH CLUB!!!)
Although OOGG caveman, OOGG not around during Big Bang, Pre-Cambrian era, dinosaurs, etc. However, OOGG old enough remember debate on Darwinian evolution.
You mention "continually reexamined in the light of new evidence" yet mention no new evidence. OOGG hear such comments many times. OOGG know Darwin think of many objections, answer with real evidence. Many observations on human breed pigeons, dogs, agriculture, etc., substantiate Darwin argument. Many more observations since Darwin's time substantiate evolutionary ideas. "Intelligent design" provide no observation other than "I don't believe in the alternative."
Perhaps try read Darwin's book?