That's what I thought too. I guess it's not the math part but the human difficulty part. I'm sure you could calc approximately how many steps you need to do a certain task with a set algorightm, but the difficulty of each of those steps varies wildly in human terms. And that, I suppose, is the subjective bit. Is it harder to add 50digit nos or multiply 10digit ones?
The rhythm is off, but the rhyme is true, so the reader is left hanging. M yattempt to fix:
The once was a man named Blunkett
Privacy? Tried to debunk it.
But his guv'ment's card
Hit privacy hard
Hypocrisy test? He flunked it!
That was godwaful. See why I'm going to major in math?
They pop up a lot in number theory. For examply, Euler proved that the sum of all the integers is equal to the product of all the primes. (I'm not sure if that's important, but I thought it was a good example of how they tend to pop up).
As our economy depends more and more on services, people will tend to clump together to reduce travel costs and maximize convenience. The digital outsourcing trends that we see now don't fight this: they just link the clumps (ex: Bangalore to NYC). It's easier now to get services away from the city network, but still easier to get them within the network.
To clarify, how many years' worth of data are needed to predict a quake? Remember, four were predicted before publication. I'm asking whether the model can predict a quake while looking at data two years (or whatever) older.
It looks like it just says where an earthquake might occur. Valuable, but I'd argue this is NOT equivalent to predicting a quake. You can't evacuate an area and have people wait a while for the quake.
I started reading this story, and realized, when I clicked to RTFA, that I was up at 4:30AM, reading Slashdot, and clikcing through to read about some oxygen equipment failure that even NASA isn't worried about. Talk about exchanging sleep time for quality time.
Honey, random signals just aren't communication. There needs to be information content. I can make an electron do SHM and emit some waves, but it doesn't mean it's communicating.
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That's what I thought too. I guess it's not the math part but the human difficulty part. I'm sure you could calc approximately how many steps you need to do a certain task with a set algorightm, but the difficulty of each of those steps varies wildly in human terms. And that, I suppose, is the subjective bit. Is it harder to add 50digit nos or multiply 10digit ones?
Look. He's a Slashdot troll. When is he ever going to learn about kids? On the job at Chuck E. Cheese's is my best guess.
Ask yourself if you really want to work decades for a company where getting approval is such a hassle.
and another touchsensitive LCD screen and a stylus and wireless multiplyer and a DS-game slot and plays DS-only games...then it's what?
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Planets.
a short summary of The Cathedral and the Bazaar for us few ignorant folk?
Of course, a carpenter does real work with nails and tihngs and makes noise, while you just go clicky-clicky-clicky, and enjoy it anyway.
(Finishes imitation of tech support leeches)
The rhythm is off, but the rhyme is true, so the reader is left hanging. M yattempt to fix:
The once was a man named Blunkett
Privacy? Tried to debunk it.
But his guv'ment's card
Hit privacy hard
Hypocrisy test? He flunked it!
That was godwaful. See why I'm going to major in math?
What sort of failsafes do they have so that a power outage/DDOS sort of thing doesn't actually kill anyone?
You can turn it off whenever you want. It's not exactly HAL. Yet.
I believe so, even though (as the AC reply says) I may be horribly wrong. I just remember something along those lines.
They pop up a lot in number theory. For examply, Euler proved that the sum of all the integers is equal to the product of all the primes. (I'm not sure if that's important, but I thought it was a good example of how they tend to pop up).
Actually, the energy released by conventional explosives does result in a TINY mass decrease...think the mass equivalent of chemical bonds.
As our economy depends more and more on services, people will tend to clump together to reduce travel costs and maximize convenience. The digital outsourcing trends that we see now don't fight this: they just link the clumps (ex: Bangalore to NYC). It's easier now to get services away from the city network, but still easier to get them within the network.
That's precisely what most on the left DO say.
I'd have to say that Cal suck.
Amen. And don't forget the power of online magazines (I'm thinking the Economist).
You mean JP and both its knock offs.
That really depends on the magnitude of the quake.
To clarify, how many years' worth of data are needed to predict a quake? Remember, four were predicted before publication. I'm asking whether the model can predict a quake while looking at data two years (or whatever) older.
It looks like it just says where an earthquake might occur. Valuable, but I'd argue this is NOT equivalent to predicting a quake. You can't evacuate an area and have people wait a while for the quake.
I think it's a fair to ask how far in advance the quakes were predicted.
Why in hell would you "estimate" that the server could possibly be down for -23.5hr?
I started reading this story, and realized, when I clicked to RTFA, that I was up at 4:30AM, reading Slashdot, and clikcing through to read about some oxygen equipment failure that even NASA isn't worried about. Talk about exchanging sleep time for quality time.
Honey, random signals just aren't communication. There needs to be information content. I can make an electron do SHM and emit some waves, but it doesn't mean it's communicating.