Who cares? Build times will be negligible, so the recompile-crash-debug-fix-recompile... cycle will go by quicker!
Or, better yet, with a quantum computer, you can create a test suite to automatically test a whole bunch of inputs on your application. It only takes a fraction of a second for each test, so you can conceivably go through a whole bunch of inputs in minutes.
For a while I thought this was part of the Gutenberg project and that the digitized version would be available for free (it IS the Bible after all), but I guess the only thing they have in common is Johann Gutenberg's name.
Reminds me of in the book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell talks about how suicides increased in Micronesia after reports of suicides started appearing in the papers. He argues that the idea of offing yourself just started spreading after more people "discovered" it and soon more and more started doing it.
My problem with the simulated universe idea is that the universe doing the simulation would need more energy and information to create the simulated one. That said, the simulated world would not be able to match the simulator completely and so if we are living in a simulated world, the one "above us" must be more complex than ours (additional laws of nature?). But then I have to ask, if we are missing anything, what is it that we're missing in our world? It should be impossible to detect what unless of course the removal of such missing pieces causes inconsistencies in our world.
This isn't totally related to the Matrix films, but it's interesting anyway... I was thinking the other day, if we were to simulate our real world somehow, and assuming we would like to simulate the real world as closely as possible, we'd need more information (and energy) to create the simulation than is required in the real thing (because the simulation requires a simulation of the rules and requires checks on each rule and "memory" to hold the simulated information, and so on).
Therefore, our simulated world must always be inferior in some way to the real world. In other words, we'd need to "bound" the simulated world somehow since we would not be able to create an accurate simulation (our real world must bound the simulated world). I guess what I'm getting at then is that if we were to simulate the real world, our simulation cannot be both consistent and complete (Godel's theorem). If it is complete (all rules of nature simulated), we'll have to bend some rules to ensure the system remains bounded (else we'll run out of resources in the "real" world to use in the simulation) and if it is consistent, we surely cannot simulate all rules (again, bounding issues).
Further, if we were living in a simulated world, this would mean that eventually we should find laws of nature that are not consistent or complete. (Still, assuming we aren't in the simulated world, can we ever find such laws?)
Anyway, is my logic right? In either case, can someone direct me to useful texts that covers such notions? Excuse me if I've butchered anything.
It was never as popular as any of the doors that have been mentioned already, but the game I wrote has been released under the GPL and is available at here: http://theclans.sourceforge.net/
Maybe, plum maybe, ya' shouldn't scribble about doodads dat would dig ya' in trouble.
I dig it de desire t'invisibly post, but everydin' ya' do kin (and someday probably gots'ta be) traceable back t'ya'. Rememba' dat and da damn golden rule and ya''ll be set. Man!
The scene where the boy is playing the violin and the old men walk in, pick up their instruments, and join along is one of the best scenes in all cinema.
I was just watching this film again yesterday and that entire scene, including the part before it where Seiji is working on a violin and Shizuku walks in is so quietly beautiful. It's not a loud film at all, but it's still one of my favourites.
I remember hearing stories like that one with the summation problem back in school. It was those types of stories that got me interested in science and math. I enjoyed hearing that if you were just a little bit more clever, you can come up with a nice elegant solution to a problem. To me, that's what made science interesting: Putting the puzzle together to see the greater whole.
Here's another problem that I enjoyed:
Jamie went out to her grandfather's farm.
Her grandfather has pigs and chickens on his farm.
She noticed that there were a total of
26 heads and 68 feet among them.
How many chickens and how many pigs
did her grandfather have?
I remember our teacher telling us how one clever kid figured out the problem easily by imagining all the pigs standing up on their hind legs and going from there. Now that's cool.
As a follow-up, do you have your own personal system for generating/remembering passwords?
Furthermore, since we require more and more passwords for things such as networks, email, online banking, ebay, and on and on, what do you think is the best method for joe average to keep track of all of these, aside from a) using the same password for all of them and b) using a "trusted" framework (passport, palladium). Can there ever be a solution to such a problem?
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What do you want on your tombstone? Windows, Linux, or BSD?
Who cares? Build times will be negligible, so the recompile-crash-debug-fix-recompile... cycle will go by quicker! Or, better yet, with a quantum computer, you can create a test suite to automatically test a whole bunch of inputs on your application. It only takes a fraction of a second for each test, so you can conceivably go through a whole bunch of inputs in minutes.
How about Springfield Heights Institute of Technology!?!
For a while I thought this was part of the Gutenberg project and that the digitized version would be available for free (it IS the Bible after all), but I guess the only thing they have in common is Johann Gutenberg's name.
I think in this case it would be, "THE GOOGLES! THEY TELL NOTHING!"
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Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
I think you mean, "For just 25 cents, you too can feed a starving artist!"
"I bet what happened was, they discovered fire and invented the wheel on the same day. Then, at night, they burned the wheel."
LOL. Good one.
Reminds me of in the book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell talks about how suicides increased in Micronesia after reports of suicides started appearing in the papers. He argues that the idea of offing yourself just started spreading after more people "discovered" it and soon more and more started doing it.
Q: What is the sound of one hand typing?
A: Fap fap fap.
Yes, and it will be pronounced "double-V".
A wearable jacket. I've been waiting for one of these for a while.
Interestingly, I made comments on this notion a few days ago and was directed to the article in question:
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=65437&cid=603
My problem with the simulated universe idea is that the universe doing the simulation would need more energy and information to create the simulated one. That said, the simulated world would not be able to match the simulator completely and so if we are living in a simulated world, the one "above us" must be more complex than ours (additional laws of nature?). But then I have to ask, if we are missing anything, what is it that we're missing in our world? It should be impossible to detect what unless of course the removal of such missing pieces causes inconsistencies in our world.
This isn't totally related to the Matrix films, but it's interesting anyway... I was thinking the other day, if we were to simulate our real world somehow, and assuming we would like to simulate the real world as closely as possible, we'd need more information (and energy) to create the simulation than is required in the real thing (because the simulation requires a simulation of the rules and requires checks on each rule and "memory" to hold the simulated information, and so on).
Therefore, our simulated world must always be inferior in some way to the real world. In other words, we'd need to "bound" the simulated world somehow since we would not be able to create an accurate simulation (our real world must bound the simulated world). I guess what I'm getting at then is that if we were to simulate the real world, our simulation cannot be both consistent and complete (Godel's theorem). If it is complete (all rules of nature simulated), we'll have to bend some rules to ensure the system remains bounded (else we'll run out of resources in the "real" world to use in the simulation) and if it is consistent, we surely cannot simulate all rules (again, bounding issues).
Further, if we were living in a simulated world, this would mean that eventually we should find laws of nature that are not consistent or complete. (Still, assuming we aren't in the simulated world, can we ever find such laws?)
Anyway, is my logic right? In either case, can someone direct me to useful texts that covers such notions? Excuse me if I've butchered anything.
How the fuck do you put it on/take it off?!
Why, one of course!
Dude, whatever happened to your SMELL-O-VISION research?
If we had it set up with Slashdot, it would make it easier to smell the bullshit.
It was never as popular as any of the doors that have been mentioned already, but the game I wrote has been released under the GPL and is available at here: http://theclans.sourceforge.net/
Perhaps ah' can be uh some assistance.
Here's some novel dought in dis day and age.
Maybe, plum maybe, ya' shouldn't scribble about doodads dat would dig ya' in trouble.
I dig it de desire t'invisibly post, but everydin' ya' do kin (and someday probably gots'ta be) traceable back t'ya'. Rememba' dat and da damn golden rule and ya''ll be set. Man!
We should get Junis over from Afghanistan to help them out. I hear he's a pro at getting the internet up and running on the crudest of devices.
The scene where the boy is playing the violin and the old men walk in, pick up their instruments, and join along is one of the best scenes in all cinema.
I was just watching this film again yesterday and that entire scene, including the part before it where Seiji is working on a violin and Shizuku walks in is so quietly beautiful. It's not a loud film at all, but it's still one of my favourites.I remember hearing stories like that one with the summation problem back in school. It was those types of stories that got me interested in science and math. I enjoyed hearing that if you were just a little bit more clever, you can come up with a nice elegant solution to a problem. To me, that's what made science interesting: Putting the puzzle together to see the greater whole.
Here's another problem that I enjoyed:I remember our teacher telling us how one clever kid figured out the problem easily by imagining all the pigs standing up on their hind legs and going from there. Now that's cool.
Have a little timer that says how long until the story goes live for comments.
What a great idea! It'll make first posts even more fun!
As a follow-up, do you have your own personal system for generating/remembering passwords?
Furthermore, since we require more and more passwords for things such as networks, email, online banking, ebay, and on and on, what do you think is the best method for joe average to keep track of all of these, aside from a) using the same password for all of them and b) using a "trusted" framework (passport, palladium). Can there ever be a solution to such a problem?
I can't wait till bikinis are just RFID tags!
Privacy? You pretty much give it up in more ways than one at that point!