Yes! That was his other show and I remember that episode. I liked the way he never explained things without getting the kids to explain it first (a skill sadly missing in most managers), the kids were never ridiculed for being wrong but god help them if they did not offer an idea.
I remember in one episode he went off on one of his tangents and pointed out the "spikes" on the tip of a flame that he was using for something else. After harrasing the kids for an explaination with the "why is it so" question and a mryid of follow-up questions about their explainations, eventually he said something like: "Well done, very good ideas! I have tried to find the answer for a long time and it seems nobody knows for sure - why is it so?", and promptly switched back to the experiment.
Bit of trivia: Julius studied physics under Eienstien. Having now read a bit about Mr.Wizard I think Julius may also have learnt something from him too.....Imagine a mythbuster's show with those two in charge.:)
"It's not anybody's fault if Europeans are stupid. They like to act smart and pretend they're the brightest bulbs on the planet but Europeans are actually quite unintelligent."
And you have just demonstrated that a gutless racist does not have the intelligence to understand the use of a random example to convey a concept.
Lol, I'm sure that is the rationale they would use. The intelligent people may try and point out that thermonuclear war was in fact a failure of leadership but I don't expect a bunch of young heathy people bonking their way to a population boom would give a damn.
How many people have walked past stonehenge since it was abandoned without realizing it can be used as an astronomical clock?
When the roman empire collapsed it took Europe 1000+yrs to relearn plumbing ( some parts of the UK are still catching up:).
It's not the equipment that's irreplaceable, it's the people.
It's always sad when the world loses a great teacher but I've never heard of him here in Australia. Judging from the posts in this thread, it's sounds like his methods were similar to the late great Prof. Sumner Miller who entertained, educated and influenced many people from my generation.
I argee, most #1 tracks of all time (~70, all original) and still a household name 40yrs after the peak of his career. Damn kids wouldn't recognise talent if it bit them.
Putting on my pedantic hat I am inclined to respond with: AFAIK nobody has managed to get a computer to make a subjective judgement
However I do agree/concede that an AI program or "expert system" could be trained to determine if something was defamatory in the same way they can be trained to diagnose disease. After all the defamation laws are supposedly a set of non-contradictory objective statements.
In keeping with the/. tradition I did not RTFA, the main point of my post was to stop the GP from unintentionally spreading nonesense by pointing him to the man who wrote one of the gospels of CS.
My camera has a virtual keyboard on the screen and I don't use it for the same reason - time. Who wants to document 1000 photos while they are still experiencing their holiday, better to wait until you get home and sort out the 100 photos that are worth keeping.
"The business of politics does something to you." - It comes from trying to keep everyone "happy", sorta like a neurotic housewife with an overbearing husband and whinny kids.
I'm close to your vintage and when I was a kid my parents were always screaming at me to turn it down ("it" looked like an old peice of furniture stuffed with valves and had a single 16'' speaker), 20yrs and my own kids started telling me to turn it down. I think I may have finnally hit the "sweet spot" that lays between between nagging and senility.
Figuring out sane answers from rigourous enquiry into esoteric details is supposed to be the job of the public service, and they are supposed to deliver those answers "without fear or favour" - instead we have a system where people like Hansen are harrased by political arse kissers. Perhaps there should be a ban on senior public servants running for political office, maybe we would get a bit more of the "without fear or favour" stuff?
Ummm...I've been using crtBreakAlloc for generating stack traces since V1.5. No offence to you or VLD but I did say that crtdbg is "obscure" to many programmers.;)
I checked and you are 100% correct, it was a flipant example culled from childhood memories of the 60's - I don't know why a 10yro Aussie would confuse India with Pakistan.:)
If you use MS compilers the memory debug stuff is in crtdbg.h, IIRC it has been there in one form or another since V1.5 but for some reason seems too obscure for the average Windows programmer to find.;)
It is a very handy feature for finding leaks, buffer overflows, ect. The only other product I've used to find memory problems on recent incarnations of Windows is Purify. The MS solution is infinitely simpler because it's built into the environment and it's narrowly focused on memory problems. To state the obvious and in fairness to Purify, MSDev is infuriatingly fussy when it comes to building debug modules for IBM's Purify.
What on earth makes you think the neo-cons have suddenly started telling the truth?
Have you not noticed that the US are building "shields" in the Pacific and have them planned for the eastern edge of the the EU?
Miss the fact that an invasion of Iraq puts a large chunk of the US military slap in the middle of the chess board...err...middle east?
Ooooo and then there are little details like Pakistan, a few decades back they were a stone age soviet ally, now they're a nuclear armed US ally on the door-step of the Caspian sea. NATO stomping around Afghanistan looking to kill the people who the CIA trained and supplied to kick the soviets out (OBL/Taliban).
OTOH: Ten anti-missle misslies (by themselves) are certainly not a realistic defense against Russia (not even enogh to stop Isreal) but I'm sure they will be very effective at stopping Iranian WMD's that only the neo-cons can find.
Speaking of Iran reminds me of another "supreme council", do you think that maybe the veto holders in the UNSC are stll fighting each other in proxy wars just as they have done since the end of WWII? Has the underlying "competition" for ever dwindling resources somehow been solved or have the peices just moved around on the "chess board"?
Meditate and discuss: The real moral behind the story of Adam and Eve is: Don't let anyone spoonfeed you apple-pie.
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"but can you ever really get a perfect anything?"
The whole notion of "silicon balls" sounds fake to me!
I was thinking more along the lines of Morlocks.
Oh....the answer to the "spike" question?
I don't know and it's been bugging me for 40yrs!!!
Yes! That was his other show and I remember that episode. I liked the way he never explained things without getting the kids to explain it first (a skill sadly missing in most managers), the kids were never ridiculed for being wrong but god help them if they did not offer an idea.
:)
I remember in one episode he went off on one of his tangents and pointed out the "spikes" on the tip of a flame that he was using for something else. After harrasing the kids for an explaination with the "why is it so" question and a mryid of follow-up questions about their explainations, eventually he said something like: "Well done, very good ideas! I have tried to find the answer for a long time and it seems nobody knows for sure - why is it so?", and promptly switched back to the experiment.
Bit of trivia: Julius studied physics under Eienstien. Having now read a bit about Mr.Wizard I think Julius may also have learnt something from him too.....Imagine a mythbuster's show with those two in charge.
"What do you think a sextant is..."
If you don't have a timepiece it's a useless piece of junk.
"seriously, did a proto-bird jump out of a tree to get away from a snake and discovered it could fly?"
Not sure about birds but it might explain flying snakes.
"It's not anybody's fault if Europeans are stupid. They like to act smart and pretend they're the brightest bulbs on the planet but Europeans are actually quite unintelligent."
And you have just demonstrated that a gutless racist does not have the intelligence to understand the use of a random example to convey a concept.
Is there an echo in your basement?
Lol, I'm sure that is the rationale they would use. The intelligent people may try and point out that thermonuclear war was in fact a failure of leadership but I don't expect a bunch of young heathy people bonking their way to a population boom would give a damn.
How many people have walked past stonehenge since it was abandoned without realizing it can be used as an astronomical clock? When the roman empire collapsed it took Europe 1000+yrs to relearn plumbing ( some parts of the UK are still catching up :).
It's not the equipment that's irreplaceable, it's the people.
It's always sad when the world loses a great teacher but I've never heard of him here in Australia. Judging from the posts in this thread, it's sounds like his methods were similar to the late great Prof. Sumner Miller who entertained, educated and influenced many people from my generation.
Trivia question: Is he the "Mr Wizard" in the song walking on the sun?
Wait I have it...make him road test every penis enlargement product/procedure/pill that he has advertised. /unreasonable_revenge
I argee, most #1 tracks of all time (~70, all original) and still a household name 40yrs after the peak of his career. Damn kids wouldn't recognise talent if it bit them.
Putting on my pedantic hat I am inclined to respond with: AFAIK nobody has managed to get a computer to make a subjective judgement
/. tradition I did not RTFA, the main point of my post was to stop the GP from unintentionally spreading nonesense by pointing him to the man who wrote one of the gospels of CS.
However I do agree/concede that an AI program or "expert system" could be trained to determine if something was defamatory in the same way they can be trained to diagnose disease. After all the defamation laws are supposedly a set of non-contradictory objective statements.
In keeping with the
My camera has a virtual keyboard on the screen and I don't use it for the same reason - time. Who wants to document 1000 photos while they are still experiencing their holiday, better to wait until you get home and sort out the 100 photos that are worth keeping.
"programs are a superset of algorithms, the primary difference being that algorithms must terminate while programs may or may not"
Program = Algorithm + Data. - Knuth.
"if you didn't precisely specify what the output meant"
If you expand that to include input, you will have described what is otherwise known as - GIGO.
BTW: A subjective judgement as to wether the "garbage" output by a particular program is/isn't defamatory is outside the realm of computer science.
"Have you ever considered that maybe you just like terrible music?"
No, but I do wish people would stop asking me that stupid question! >:(
"The business of politics does something to you." - It comes from trying to keep everyone "happy", sorta like a neurotic housewife with an overbearing husband and whinny kids.
"Oh Neddy! I've never been so scared, I thought I was going to eternal paradise." - Ned's wife after a near death experience.
I'm close to your vintage and when I was a kid my parents were always screaming at me to turn it down ("it" looked like an old peice of furniture stuffed with valves and had a single 16'' speaker), 20yrs and my own kids started telling me to turn it down. I think I may have finnally hit the "sweet spot" that lays between between nagging and senility.
Figuring out sane answers from rigourous enquiry into esoteric details is supposed to be the job of the public service, and they are supposed to deliver those answers "without fear or favour" - instead we have a system where people like Hansen are harrased by political arse kissers. Perhaps there should be a ban on senior public servants running for political office, maybe we would get a bit more of the "without fear or favour" stuff?
Ummm...I've been using crtBreakAlloc for generating stack traces since V1.5. No offence to you or VLD but I did say that crtdbg is "obscure" to many programmers. ;)
I checked and you are 100% correct, it was a flipant example culled from childhood memories of the 60's - I don't know why a 10yro Aussie would confuse India with Pakistan. :)
If you use MS compilers the memory debug stuff is in crtdbg.h, IIRC it has been there in one form or another since V1.5 but for some reason seems too obscure for the average Windows programmer to find. ;)
It is a very handy feature for finding leaks, buffer overflows, ect. The only other product I've used to find memory problems on recent incarnations of Windows is Purify. The MS solution is infinitely simpler because it's built into the environment and it's narrowly focused on memory problems. To state the obvious and in fairness to Purify, MSDev is infuriatingly fussy when it comes to building debug modules for IBM's Purify.
What on earth makes you think the neo-cons have suddenly started telling the truth?
Have you not noticed that the US are building "shields" in the Pacific and have them planned for the eastern edge of the the EU?
Miss the fact that an invasion of Iraq puts a large chunk of the US military slap in the middle of the chess board...err...middle east?
Ooooo and then there are little details like Pakistan, a few decades back they were a stone age soviet ally, now they're a nuclear armed US ally on the door-step of the Caspian sea. NATO stomping around Afghanistan looking to kill the people who the CIA trained and supplied to kick the soviets out (OBL/Taliban).
OTOH: Ten anti-missle misslies (by themselves) are certainly not a realistic defense against Russia (not even enogh to stop Isreal) but I'm sure they will be very effective at stopping Iranian WMD's that only the neo-cons can find.
Speaking of Iran reminds me of another "supreme council", do you think that maybe the veto holders in the UNSC are stll fighting each other in proxy wars just as they have done since the end of WWII? Has the underlying "competition" for ever dwindling resources somehow been solved or have the peices just moved around on the "chess board"?
Meditate and discuss: The real moral behind the story of Adam and Eve is: Don't let anyone spoonfeed you apple-pie.