Someone else mentioned a pouncing preditor, and that is an example of a problem preditors solve: the location of a perticle in space at time t based on observation and estimation of preys speed, direction and acceleration; and the need to calculate the muscle contractions necessary to get it to the same point at the same time. As the prey evades, the preditor has to constantly adjust its own velocity and acceleration to match until it can get close enough to solve the following vector problem for t and Preditor Velocity:
Preditor Location + t * Preditor Velocity = Prey Location + t * Prey Velocity
This certainly involves an understanding of geometry.
The question is, do animals have a geometric sense, and do we see evidence of this in an alleged ability of dogs and cats to navigate over long distances.
To begin with, certainly an animal with such a sense would have a survival advantage over one without it.
Consider the problems that an animal has to solve: Where is reliable food to be found? Where is it dangerous to go? Where will I mate? Where is my competition? Where is the water?
The greater the distance that you can navigate and still 'know where you are', the greater a foraging area you have, and as selective pressure drives the animals to be successful over a greater and greater area, the geometric sense would get better and better.
Based on that, I would postulate that this sense is primitive. This hypothesis may perhaps be subject to test if they can find the brain address of this function.
Another guess: that domestic animals would tend to lose this ability since there is no longer a survival advantage to having it, for obvious reasons. So in the occasional amazing navigation of a dog or a cat, perhaps we are witnessing a remnent of what once was.
Of course it's a wonder that we can deal with two-dimensional problems. Dogs can't, cats can't, cows can't.
Of course they can. Finding your way home is solving a 2 dimensional problem, and animals have amazing ability to do that, even if dropped of somewhere they have never been.
It would seem to make more sense then to have a badge color based on security clearance, not employment status. Seems unlikely in a security-conscious environment that all permanent employees would be cleared and all temps would not be cleared.
What I fear is a culture of criminality, and this is just another example that it exists under the bush administration. When criminsls run the system there is no justice, only crime.
"Oh my did we do that criminal act too? But it didn't really harm anyone, it was an honest mistake that someone else made us do, we wont do it again, trust us."
Yeah I trust them to do whatever thay want to do, however illegal, because they are just following the bush lead.
What kind of deprived life can a person have where they think it is okay to steal from the less fortunate?
By enriching themselves they make it more likely that their offspring will survive, i.e., their genes will be passed on. Thus the desire to steal is actually a result of evolution. We may not like it, but not everything evolution produces passes muster from an ethical perspective.
An interesting question then might be, is then human knowledge and usage of quantum theory a desired property of the simulation, or an artifact that invalidates the simulation results?
It is the purpose of the *simulation* as you call it. Because quantum physics guarantee that you cannot accurately simulate, or predict, how a quantum universe will go, the only way to see what will happen is to actually *run* the universe to get the results.
Personally I think the evolution of self-aware intelligence is the reason the universe is being *run*, the big bang + evolution = godseed. Eventually an intelligence that doesn't kill itself out will evolve. Eventually one of these will evolve to the next order of complexity and create a self-aware universe = a god.
The likelihood that your information will be used increases drastically when the size a the theft is small. So size does not matter, in identity thefts at least; the identity thefts you need to worry about aren't the big ones heard on the news but the small unreported ones."
Is this stupid or what? Claim that size doesn't matter, all the while describing how size matters?
But the sad fact is that the situation with Intelligent Design is representative of the desires of the human beings who live here.
No, Intelligent Design is NOT representative of the desires of the human beings who live here, but of a small, vocal minority that thinks their shit doesn't stink because their guy is in the white house.
These people, while professing to be christians, are in fact thugs that don't want anyone else to hear what they don't believe.
Ya, and guess what. This kind of crap has lead to a government that actively pushes ignorance while trashing science, publishes proven lies (like 'abortion causes cancer'), ignores warnings of major environmental problems etc. etc. A population increasingly ignorant and bent on making everyone as ignorant as them as they try to give control of the government to religious idiots.
Sounds to me like it is actively happening, wake up and notice for crissake!
Guess what mr. he-man, the human body adapts to the conditions it finds itself in. Work in a computer cold room and your blood thickens, your peripheral vasculature retreats and your ability to sweat diminishes. Work in a hot factory and your ability to sweat increases, your salt retention increases, you become irritable and your ability to think plummets.
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Don't forget we have binocular, ie, sterioscopic vision, so the world is somewhat inherently 3D.
Someone else mentioned a pouncing preditor, and that is an example of a problem preditors solve: the location of a perticle in space at time t based on observation and estimation of preys speed, direction and acceleration; and the need to calculate the muscle contractions necessary to get it to the same point at the same time. As the prey evades, the preditor has to constantly adjust its own velocity and acceleration to match until it can get close enough to solve the following vector problem for t and Preditor Velocity:
Preditor Location + t * Preditor Velocity = Prey Location + t * Prey Velocity
This certainly involves an understanding of geometry.
The question is, do animals have a geometric sense, and do we see evidence of this in an alleged ability of dogs and cats to navigate over long distances.
To begin with, certainly an animal with such a sense would have a survival advantage over one without it.
Consider the problems that an animal has to solve:
Where is reliable food to be found?
Where is it dangerous to go?
Where will I mate?
Where is my competition?
Where is the water?
The greater the distance that you can navigate and still 'know where you are', the greater a foraging area you have, and as selective pressure drives the animals to be successful over a greater and greater area, the geometric sense would get better and better.
Based on that, I would postulate that this sense is primitive. This hypothesis may perhaps be subject to test if they can find the brain address of this function.
Another guess: that domestic animals would tend to lose this ability since there is no longer a survival advantage to having it, for obvious reasons. So in the occasional amazing navigation of a dog or a cat, perhaps we are witnessing a remnent of what once was.
Of course it's a wonder that we can deal with two-dimensional problems. Dogs can't, cats can't, cows can't.
Of course they can. Finding your way home is solving a 2 dimensional problem, and animals have amazing ability to do that, even if dropped of somewhere they have never been.
Or, as someone once said, "To err is universal, to err and put the blame on someone else, thats human!"
I would gladly reply in detail, but I have learned that replying to the willfully ignorant is a waste of time.
"There is none so blind as he who will not see" - bible
Bush = Lincoln, and dog shit = smoked salmon; works for me!
It would seem to make more sense then to have a badge color based on security clearance, not employment status. Seems unlikely in a security-conscious environment that all permanent employees would be cleared and all temps would not be cleared.
What I fear is a culture of criminality, and this is just another example that it exists under the bush administration. When criminsls run the system there is no justice, only crime.
"Oh my did we do that criminal act too? But it didn't really harm anyone, it was an honest mistake that someone else made us do, we wont do it again, trust us."
Yeah I trust them to do whatever thay want to do, however illegal, because they are just following the bush lead.
Stupidity: it's a renewable resource!
What kind of deprived life can a person have where they think it is okay to steal from the less fortunate?
By enriching themselves they make it more likely that their offspring will survive, i.e., their genes will be passed on. Thus the desire to steal is actually a result of evolution. We may not like it, but not everything evolution produces passes muster from an ethical perspective.
An interesting question then might be, is then human knowledge and usage of quantum theory a desired property of the simulation, or an artifact that invalidates the simulation results?
It is the purpose of the *simulation* as you call it. Because quantum physics guarantee that you cannot accurately simulate, or predict, how a quantum universe will go, the only way to see what will happen is to actually *run* the universe to get the results.
Personally I think the evolution of self-aware intelligence is the reason the universe is being *run*, the big bang + evolution = godseed. Eventually an intelligence that doesn't kill itself out will evolve. Eventually one of these will evolve to the next order of complexity and create a self-aware universe = a god.
This applies to slashdot also.
When I get the emailed list of today's slashdot articles, how do you think this one will be listed?
As "Linux's Difficulty with Names"?
No, that's too easy, it will be "from the more-important-than-you-think dept."
Stupid!
the US still reserves the right to shoot the satellites down if it wants
Refresh my memory: when did the US acquire the right to shoot down their satellites?
The likelihood that your information will be used increases drastically when the size a the theft is small. So size does not matter, in identity thefts at least; the identity thefts you need to worry about aren't the big ones heard on the news but the small unreported ones."
Is this stupid or what? Claim that size doesn't matter, all the while describing how size matters?
Stupidity: it's a renewable resource!
Code could only be self-documenting if it was bug free.
There is esentially no bug-free code, so there is no self-documenting code.
Stupidity: it's a renewable resource!
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
Is this actually a coherent sentence but I just don't understand it?
Is rational communication too much to ask for?
Perhaps it is your redneck ignorance or maybe you are just another ignorant twat.
For someone that seems in favor of censoring criticism, you sure use offensive, censorable language.
Stupidity: it's a renewable resource!
No, Intelligent Design is NOT representative of the desires of the human beings who live here, but of a small, vocal minority that thinks their shit doesn't stink because their guy is in the white house. These people, while professing to be christians, are in fact thugs that don't want anyone else to hear what they don't believe.
Stupidity: it's a renewable resource!
Ya, and guess what. This kind of crap has lead to a government that actively pushes ignorance while trashing science, publishes proven lies (like 'abortion causes cancer'), ignores warnings of major environmental problems etc. etc. A population increasingly ignorant and bent on making everyone as ignorant as them as they try to give control of the government to religious idiots.
Sounds to me like it is actively happening, wake up and notice for crissake!
Stupidity: it's a renewable resource!
Does slashdot use them?
What does this mean?
"He also offered $10k to charity if anyone who would develop some ridiculous murder spree game."
Or this?
"When someone did it, and he changed his mind and Penny-Arcade donated the cash instead."
'Get a grip. Spam is annoying, but not harmful.'
I suppose stealing thousands of man-years of other peoples time isn't harmful?
Stupidity: it's a renewable resource!
With all of the gratuitous graphics, strange color scemes and other distractions, I could hardly bring myself to read it.
When I allowed my sub. to lapse 5 years ago nothing happened, so I guess I lucked out.
Stupidity, it's a renewable resource!
...can easily be avoided by just reading the terms
I know you are supposed to, but if i read the terms of everything i bought i would be deaf dumb and blind, if not to say occupied.
Stupidity: it's a renewable resource!
Guess what mr. he-man, the human body adapts to the conditions it finds itself in. Work in a computer cold room and your blood thickens, your peripheral vasculature retreats and your ability to sweat diminishes. Work in a hot factory and your ability to sweat increases, your salt retention increases, you become irritable and your ability to think plummets.
Stupidity: it's a renewable resource!
They let you out of your cage again. Won't they ever learn?
Stupidity: it'd s renewable resource!