>The researchers' measuring device, dubbed >scanning nonlinear dialectic microscope (SNDM),
>overcomes these limitations, said Cho.
Guess that Cho really paid attention in
his philosophy of physics course.
screw the lander, just show us the footprints!
i'd like to see how one would argue that NASA not only shot up a fake lander, but also shot up a set of fake astronaut boots in a hop-walking pattern.
Although I agree with most of what you said, I'm not sure that I would call it a "flawed assumption" exactly. In principle there might exist physical systems that obey such a law. You are making the implicit assumption that all computers must use transistors, i.e. logic level depends purely on the voltage. There exist other physical quantities which might not require 4 elements to handle ternary outputs, such as polarization states for optical systems, or even electron spins for electron systems. Not that there have been workable schemes for this sort of thing (to my knowledge), but that doesn't mean that they don't exist.
when i was an undergrad, i knew a guy who would do this sort of thing, essentially for the same reason. he worked his ass off all the time and would hold off sleeping for as long as he could. after several years of this (while i knew him. i don't know how long he was doing it beforehand), he started having health problems. his doctor told him, "if you don't start getting 8 hours a night, you will die." mind you, he was 20 years old. he claimed he was not sleeping in order to be productive, but at the same time he was consistently a dumbass and took an excessively long time to do his problem sets. i'm not saying there was necessarily causality there, but i sure as hell don't do my best thinking after 4 hours.
on a related note, i consistently got little sleep as an undergrad and life sucked. i consistently got lots of sleep as a grad student, and i felt great most of the time. doesn't quality of life count a heck of a lot more than dubious gains in productivity?
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>The researchers' measuring device, dubbed >scanning nonlinear dialectic microscope (SNDM), >overcomes these limitations, said Cho. Guess that Cho really paid attention in his philosophy of physics course.
screw the lander, just show us the footprints! i'd like to see how one would argue that NASA not only shot up a fake lander, but also shot up a set of fake astronaut boots in a hop-walking pattern.
Although I agree with most of what you said, I'm not sure that I would call it a "flawed assumption" exactly. In principle there might exist physical systems that obey such a law. You are making the implicit assumption that all computers must use transistors, i.e. logic level depends purely on the voltage. There exist other physical quantities which might not require 4 elements to handle ternary outputs, such as polarization states for optical systems, or even electron spins for electron systems. Not that there have been workable schemes for this sort of thing (to my knowledge), but that doesn't mean that they don't exist.
when i was an undergrad, i knew a guy who would do this sort of thing, essentially for the same reason. he worked his ass off all the time and would hold off sleeping for as long as he could. after several years of this (while i knew him. i don't know how long he was doing it beforehand), he started having health problems. his doctor told him, "if you don't start getting 8 hours a night, you will die." mind you, he was 20 years old. he claimed he was not sleeping in order to be productive, but at the same time he was consistently a dumbass and took an excessively long time to do his problem sets. i'm not saying there was necessarily causality there, but i sure as hell don't do my best thinking after 4 hours. on a related note, i consistently got little sleep as an undergrad and life sucked. i consistently got lots of sleep as a grad student, and i felt great most of the time. doesn't quality of life count a heck of a lot more than dubious gains in productivity?