In other words, Tesla will force their "autonomous" cars to drive like the worst driver you can imagine. Have they learned nothing from Uber killing pedestrians left and right?
An example where we have grown dumber is the loss of basic arithmetic skills. enough so cashiers can't seem to calculate change without the register. If it comes out to $12.34 and you give them $15, then find another 34 cents after wards they stare at you and the $2.66 in change they were trying to count out, lost. Some try, and you get the occasional person breaking out the calculator to calculate it from the beginning.
Eh, here, I think you are at fault. I always give them 34 cents before I hand them the big bills. By giving 34 cents after the big bills, you are forcing them (or their calculator) to compute the information twice; by giving them the small denominations first, you let them calculate the change only once. It's the humanly decent thing to do.
Definitely. As a STEM educator, the one "weird trick" I see that students can use to drastically improve their performance is simply memorizing key definitions and formulas. Problem-solving involves lots of guessing and checking ("trial-and-error"). Having key ingredients of their guess committed to memory speeds up the guessing process, which means you can arrive at the correct answer more quickly.
Is rote memorization not the best way to learn a material? Sure, rote memorization isn't. But memorization of previously discovered/derived results is the first step towards true synthesis.
Hm. Interesting. I'll have to re-watch the episode (the synopsis is consistent with the scenario being absurd, unlikely to be encountered by typical rocket hobbyists) to see how he is saying "8 MN"—if he's estimating it, it can easily be an optimistic estimate by an enthusiastic experimentalist (oops, slipping into my physics lingo; not sure what the engineering version is). If he actually measured (or claimed to have measured) "8 MN", then it tips more into "critical research failure" uncharacteristic of this particular show.
Had to look it up (I'm a physicist, not an engineer).
It's right at that edge where you could argue that they were trying to make it absurd but believable (roughly 10 times the largest thrust used by amateurs, assuming 1-second burn time; I don't remember the episode, but you are calling it "super rocket fuel"), not an example of "writers have no sense of scale", where galaxies are claimed to be millions of light-years across.
- RNG modeling. Cases are known where people have cracked the RNG of video gaming consoles. This usually requires a computing device to be used so it is seen as cheating in some jurisdictions. Probably does not work anymore with modern RNGs
Off-topic, but it's amazing what kinds of detail some Super Mario game speed runs involve. Here's an example of an analysis: How is this speedrun possible?
But of course, if there was actual money involved (especially money to be lost by Nintendo) in pursuits like this, it wouldn't have such quirks and bugs in it.
Not really, which is why I led with "absent the right clauses in TOS". I don't get paid enough to post on Slashdot to actually go through TOS of a soon-to-be-defunct company offering a service I would never have been interested in.
Even the best "wise guys" are playing under the same statistical rules as the casino. They are just not as easy a mark because they know the probabilities as well as the casino's stats guys do.
Insurance fraud is, as the name suggests, a fraud. The person committing insurance fraud is not simply taking opposite side of the bet the insurance company is taking; the person committing insurance fraud knows something that the insurance company doesn't know (because of deliberate concealment, etc.). Its card game equivalent is someone who literally knows what the next card up will be (not just probabilities of particular card coming up), either through prescience (they shouldn't be wasting their talent at gambling) or by cheating (then that is like insurance fraud and is illegal).
The biggest benefit I get is from their deterrent effects—and the joy I get from knowing that class action lawyers will finally be able to pay their bills and make ends meet.
Absent the right clauses in TOS, this is the kind of case class actions were made for—many people were wronged and large amount of financial damage has been inflicted, but individual suits do not make financial sense.
One redeeming quality the show had was it had great technical consultants. When some piece of physics or mathematical equation got brought up, it wasn't something at which you could say, "That's completely false based on this established theory."
But I'm speaking of only the first few seasons. After it turned into a generic rom com (if that's a word that applies to a TV series), I stopped watching.
I think there's a similarity to when a gospel singer sells out and goes mainstream (see: Amy Grant). There's a sense of betrayal that you can never wash away.
Yap. Despite what some people say, not only we went to the Moon, we went to the Moon half a dozen times, collecting more and more samples each time and doing more and more experiments. Other than possibly looking for He-3 (for some reason, that factors in a bunch of hard SF stories), we have no more reason to go to the Moon.
Manned mission to Mars could be interesting, especially if logistics were worked out for a round-trip journey, since it is probably the first place to get colonized outside of Earth, if we ever stop putting all of humanity's eggs in one basket.
Then it forces the sender to make "the video is edited" accusation. If you don't think a live-stream can't be edited or otherwise faked, you have not watched news broadcasts.
I mean there's a reason PGP was invented. Once there is a properly signed message, it becomes much harder for the sender to deny that they sent the message (because at that point, the only out is "I am too stupid to keep my secret key secure").
What it does is raise the stakes. It forces the sender to make "screenshot is photoshopped" accusation.
But then, unless the message is CC'd to multiple people at the time of sending, it's not like there wasn't "email is forged" accusation available already, anyway. (While faking full headers might take more effort, unless the adjudicator has access to the mail servers—highly doubtful—they can't be verified against a third-party record anyway.)
No, my wife doesn't need my password for things of importance in "normal life". Your uncle should have been including his life partner in his financial matters and set up a proper estate plan. Neither of them involves password sharing, when done properly.
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But you are a human being with actual intelligence.
Artificial "intelligence" comes nowhere close to the intuitive understanding humans have of other human behaviors.
In other words, Tesla will force their "autonomous" cars to drive like the worst driver you can imagine. Have they learned nothing from Uber killing pedestrians left and right?
Eh, here, I think you are at fault. I always give them 34 cents before I hand them the big bills. By giving 34 cents after the big bills, you are forcing them (or their calculator) to compute the information twice; by giving them the small denominations first, you let them calculate the change only once. It's the humanly decent thing to do.
Definitely. As a STEM educator, the one "weird trick" I see that students can use to drastically improve their performance is simply memorizing key definitions and formulas. Problem-solving involves lots of guessing and checking ("trial-and-error"). Having key ingredients of their guess committed to memory speeds up the guessing process, which means you can arrive at the correct answer more quickly.
Is rote memorization not the best way to learn a material? Sure, rote memorization isn't. But memorization of previously discovered/derived results is the first step towards true synthesis.
Hm. Interesting. I'll have to re-watch the episode (the synopsis is consistent with the scenario being absurd, unlikely to be encountered by typical rocket hobbyists) to see how he is saying "8 MN"—if he's estimating it, it can easily be an optimistic estimate by an enthusiastic experimentalist (oops, slipping into my physics lingo; not sure what the engineering version is). If he actually measured (or claimed to have measured) "8 MN", then it tips more into "critical research failure" uncharacteristic of this particular show.
Had to look it up (I'm a physicist, not an engineer).
It's right at that edge where you could argue that they were trying to make it absurd but believable (roughly 10 times the largest thrust used by amateurs, assuming 1-second burn time; I don't remember the episode, but you are calling it "super rocket fuel"), not an example of "writers have no sense of scale", where galaxies are claimed to be millions of light-years across.
See: South Korea and Kuwait (and the entire Europe).
Off-topic, but it's amazing what kinds of detail some Super Mario game speed runs involve. Here's an example of an analysis: How is this speedrun possible?
But of course, if there was actual money involved (especially money to be lost by Nintendo) in pursuits like this, it wouldn't have such quirks and bugs in it.
Not really, which is why I led with "absent the right clauses in TOS". I don't get paid enough to post on Slashdot to actually go through TOS of a soon-to-be-defunct company offering a service I would never have been interested in.
My guess: "Yes".
Not analogous comparison.
Even the best "wise guys" are playing under the same statistical rules as the casino. They are just not as easy a mark because they know the probabilities as well as the casino's stats guys do.
Insurance fraud is, as the name suggests, a fraud. The person committing insurance fraud is not simply taking opposite side of the bet the insurance company is taking; the person committing insurance fraud knows something that the insurance company doesn't know (because of deliberate concealment, etc.). Its card game equivalent is someone who literally knows what the next card up will be (not just probabilities of particular card coming up), either through prescience (they shouldn't be wasting their talent at gambling) or by cheating (then that is like insurance fraud and is illegal).
The biggest benefit I get is from their deterrent effects—and the joy I get from knowing that class action lawyers will finally be able to pay their bills and make ends meet.
Two words: class action.
Absent the right clauses in TOS, this is the kind of case class actions were made for—many people were wronged and large amount of financial damage has been inflicted, but individual suits do not make financial sense.
One redeeming quality the show had was it had great technical consultants. When some piece of physics or mathematical equation got brought up, it wasn't something at which you could say, "That's completely false based on this established theory."
But I'm speaking of only the first few seasons. After it turned into a generic rom com (if that's a word that applies to a TV series), I stopped watching.
Same here—weird thing is, I do like Friends.
I think there's a similarity to when a gospel singer sells out and goes mainstream (see: Amy Grant). There's a sense of betrayal that you can never wash away.
It's as though you know nothing about observational astronomy. We already have the Kepler telescope.
Again, no reason to go to the Moon.
But then, without alcohol, our gene pool would be far less ... diverse. Think of what that means for our evolution. #NotMeToo
Yap. Despite what some people say, not only we went to the Moon, we went to the Moon half a dozen times, collecting more and more samples each time and doing more and more experiments. Other than possibly looking for He-3 (for some reason, that factors in a bunch of hard SF stories), we have no more reason to go to the Moon.
Manned mission to Mars could be interesting, especially if logistics were worked out for a round-trip journey, since it is probably the first place to get colonized outside of Earth, if we ever stop putting all of humanity's eggs in one basket.
You can do a reverse look-up (not always successful). Maybe he meant he blocked an IP range.
And people are sovereign. All the peoples agree!
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... Well, not quite all (damn Brits).
What do you know. You blocks call chips by the wrong name!
Then it forces the sender to make "the video is edited" accusation. If you don't think a live-stream can't be edited or otherwise faked, you have not watched news broadcasts.
I mean there's a reason PGP was invented. Once there is a properly signed message, it becomes much harder for the sender to deny that they sent the message (because at that point, the only out is "I am too stupid to keep my secret key secure").
Why do you even have a public key posted on a key server, then?
What it does is raise the stakes. It forces the sender to make "screenshot is photoshopped" accusation.
But then, unless the message is CC'd to multiple people at the time of sending, it's not like there wasn't "email is forged" accusation available already, anyway. (While faking full headers might take more effort, unless the adjudicator has access to the mail servers—highly doubtful—they can't be verified against a third-party record anyway.)
No, my wife doesn't need my password for things of importance in "normal life". Your uncle should have been including his life partner in his financial matters and set up a proper estate plan. Neither of them involves password sharing, when done properly.