If you toss a coin 100 times, and it comes up heads 51 times, and 4 of those times you 'guessed' how it landed because it rolled under the sofa, that does not support the conclusion that heads is more likely than tails. Because the results are statistically meaningless, it does not support any conclusion, other than the null hypothesis.
how funny, there are troops from all these countries in Iraq! Ethiopia and Eritrea!
those brave boys from the Solomon Islands, which doesn't even have a government (for any accurate use of the word) or a police force, let alone an army.
from the CIA world factbook:
Ethnic violence, government malfeasance, and endemic crime have undermined stability and civil society. In June 2003, Prime Minister Sir Allen KEMAKEZA sought the assistance of Australia in reestablishing law and order; the following month, an Australian-led multinational force arrived to restore peace and disarm ethnic militias.
yes, that's right, while the brave boys of the Solomon Islands International Rescue Peacekeeping Force were restoring democracy to Iraq, the Australian army was forced to invade the Solomon Islands to restore law and order.
[more information about the Solomons]
Legal system: English common law, which is widely disregarded
you must be trippin if you think that these countries, some of which i've never even heard of, have sent troops to iraq.
Palau?
[same source on Palau]
Area: total: 458 sq km
Area - comparative:slightly more than 2.5 times the size of Washington, DC
Population: 20,579 (July 2006 est.)
nice try, buddy. it's must be quite a source of amusement to the people running your country that there are people out there who actually believe the things they say.
you are actually right, there are 35.27 oz in a kilo. but where i come from it's as if there were 36. why? because 9 ounces is a 'nine bar', and a 9 bar is quarter of a kilo. it's the point at which you start to get 'wholesale' prices (for weed) and also the changeover from imperial to metric. the discrepancy may be partly explained by the fact that an ounce of weed is usually exactly 28 grams. all this in the uk, where our measurements are fucked up anyway, half the country use imperial and the other half metric (for non-drugs related measurements).
he hasn't been convicted of or even tried for any crime yet. but thanks for weighing in your retarded 'opinion' on something you literally don't know the first thing about, fuckwit.
(the one in London, UK, not the one in SA) we end a sentence like that. "You're a pedant, isn't it." instead of "You're a pedant, aren't you." Often contracted to 'innit'.
Clearly, you've never heard of Gough Whitlam. He was sacked from his position as democratically elected leader of the Australian govt. by the local representative of the British empire, at the request of various American military/security/goverment interests? Why? Because he wanted Australia to pull out of certain international treaties and become neutral vis-a-vis the cold war.
And you talk about 'sovereign rights'. Haha. Good troll.
"suggest that they move their call centers only to NATO countries"
Hmm. you don;t seem to have quite grasped the point behind outsourcing. Almost all NATO countries have better working conditions, labour rights and minimum wages than the US. That is, better from the point of view of the worker.
it's like the difference between knowing, academically that Richard Nixon was a crook, and reading transcripts of him saying to his aides 'How can we perjure ourselves in front of a grand jury to get out of this'.
why are you opening a remote terminal emulator using X11 forwarding, when you could just open a terminal in your local terminal emulator window using a normal ssh session ???
i did major in math. all i know about this problem though is that i've seen it before - either you posted about it previously with a link to an image (?) or you're not the only one to have thought about it.
off the top of my head it seems you could probably get reasonably (!) good lower estimates by examining pairs of glyphs, and determining the largest amount they could overlap by. eg the 3x3 square which has only one white square in the centre can't overlap the one with only the centre sq black at all. the second and third 3x3 grids that you reproduced above can overlap by up to 6 squares (the maximum). these are probably quite easy to work out automatically, for any n which isn't too big. if you work this out for each pair, you will be able to estimate a maximum amount of squares that you can save, compared to the trivial texture which just consists of each unique nxn square laid adjacently. then if you do something similar for sets of 3 and 4 glyphs, eg try all ways of overlapping them and see which one gives the biggest reduction in area. one glyph can overlap upto n^2-1 others, but i suspect that this rarely happens in practice once n gets a bit bigger than 2. so hopefully once you are trying combinations of 3 or 4 at a time, you will be getting estimates quite close the actual best case, without it being too computationally expensive. this might allow you to prove that the texture you've come up with 'by hand' is the best one, or very close to the best possible. the GP is a link to my blog. i came up with the 3x3 squares from the original image by hand. my interest is in finding a neat way to generate these with a simple algorithm that doesn't involve finding all combinations and then excluding the rotations and reflections. you can find the number of unique ones quite easily using the polya-burnside formula, but i don't have a good way to generate them all. since they are relevant to your problem, i wonder if you have any ideas about this?
and to save you from having to read the whole discussion, all estimates from below at the time of posting as to the maximum amount of information that can be stored on a sheet of either A4 or 8.5"x11" paper in this way:
then they would use the massive botnets of 0wned machines for something else, that probably also wouldn't be conducive to the health and general well-being of the internet...
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If you toss a coin 100 times, and it comes up heads 51 times, and 4 of those times you 'guessed' how it landed because it rolled under the sofa, that does not support the conclusion that heads is more likely than tails. Because the results are statistically meaningless, it does not support any conclusion, other than the null hypothesis.
but doesn't it make you feel bloated?
how funny, there are troops from all these countries in Iraq! Ethiopia and Eritrea!
those brave boys from the Solomon Islands, which doesn't even have a government (for any accurate use of the word) or a police force, let alone an army. from the CIA world factbook:
yes, that's right, while the brave boys of the Solomon Islands International Rescue Peacekeeping Force were restoring democracy to Iraq, the Australian army was forced to invade the Solomon Islands to restore law and order.you must be trippin if you think that these countries, some of which i've never even heard of, have sent troops to iraq. Palau?
nice try, buddy. it's must be quite a source of amusement to the people running your country that there are people out there who actually believe the things they say.you are actually right, there are 35.27 oz in a kilo.
but where i come from it's as if there were 36.
why?
because 9 ounces is a 'nine bar', and a 9 bar is quarter of a kilo.
it's the point at which you start to get 'wholesale' prices (for weed) and also the changeover from imperial to metric.
the discrepancy may be partly explained by the fact that an ounce of weed is usually exactly 28 grams.
all this in the uk, where our measurements are fucked up anyway, half the country use imperial and the other half metric (for non-drugs related measurements).
he hasn't been convicted of or even tried for any crime yet. but thanks for weighing in your retarded 'opinion' on something you literally don't know the first thing about, fuckwit.
(the one in London, UK, not the one in SA) we end a sentence like that.
"You're a pedant, isn't it." instead of
"You're a pedant, aren't you."
Often contracted to 'innit'.
you must be new here
Debts can't be inherited.
Clearly, you've never heard of Gough Whitlam. He was sacked from his position as democratically elected leader of the Australian govt. by the local representative of the British empire, at the request of various American military/security/goverment interests? Why? Because he wanted Australia to pull out of certain international treaties and become neutral vis-a-vis the cold war.
And you talk about 'sovereign rights'. Haha. Good troll.
didn't you know there's people that speak other languages to you? clue: christopher columbus was not a WASP
"suggest that they move their call centers only to NATO countries"
Hmm. you don;t seem to have quite grasped the point behind outsourcing. Almost all NATO countries have better working conditions, labour rights and minimum wages than the US. That is, better from the point of view of the worker.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=118075&cid=998 0688
not to be confused with someone who actually has been around here longer than you.
it's like the difference between knowing, academically that Richard Nixon was a crook, and reading transcripts of him saying to his aides 'How can we perjure ourselves in front of a grand jury to get out of this'.
whoosh
Ever heard of a concept called 'free as in freedom'?
Name three.
why are you opening a remote terminal emulator using X11 forwarding, when you could just open a terminal in your local terminal emulator window using a normal ssh session ???
Please cite your sources.
funny, the best thing about the PS2 was that it could play original playstation games.
i did major in math. all i know about this problem though is that i've seen it before - either you posted about it previously with a link to an image (?) or you're not the only one to have thought about it.
off the top of my head it seems you could probably get reasonably (!) good lower estimates by examining pairs of glyphs, and determining the largest amount they could overlap by. eg the 3x3 square which has only one white square in the centre can't overlap the one with only the centre sq black at all. the second and third 3x3 grids that you reproduced above can overlap by up to 6 squares (the maximum). these are probably quite easy to work out automatically, for any n which isn't too big. if you work this out for each pair, you will be able to estimate a maximum amount of squares that you can save, compared to the trivial texture which just consists of each unique nxn square laid adjacently. then if you do something similar for sets of 3 and 4 glyphs, eg try all ways of overlapping them and see which one gives the biggest reduction in area. one glyph can overlap upto n^2-1 others, but i suspect that this rarely happens in practice once n gets a bit bigger than 2. so hopefully once you are trying combinations of 3 or 4 at a time, you will be getting estimates quite close the actual best case, without it being too computationally expensive. this might allow you to prove that the texture you've come up with 'by hand' is the best one, or very close to the best possible.
the GP is a link to my blog. i came up with the 3x3 squares from the original image by hand. my interest is in finding a neat way to generate these with a simple algorithm that doesn't involve finding all combinations and then excluding the rotations and reflections. you can find the number of unique ones quite easily using the polya-burnside formula, but i don't have a good way to generate them all. since they are relevant to your problem, i wonder if you have any ideas about this?
and to save you from having to read the whole discussion, all estimates from below at the time of posting as to the maximum amount of information that can be stored on a sheet of either A4 or 8.5"x11" paper in this way:
2 GB, 244 GB, 7.6MB, 22MB,03GB, 765KB, 1.360006 million bits, 244,800,000 bytes, 8,415,000 MB, 15,000,000 bytes, 578MB, 1540.83 MB, 403MB, 9GB, 140MB, 280MB, 87,925,612 bytes, 256 MByte, 1.7 trillion bytes, 26 Megabytes, 20196 Mbit, 3 Million Gigabytes, 68 megabytes, 64K, 30 Mb, 32Mb, 8.2Gb, 69MiB, 1.4GB, 700 Gb, 31 Tb, 3.23136 TiB, 12MB, 247.955GB, 257 MB, 50 MB, 20,971,520,000 bits, 23,040,000 bits, 4000 megabytes, 5GB, 10MB, 200Kbytes, 1.4GB, 0.18 GB, 0.05 GB, 579 Gigabytes, 72.5 Gigabytes, 7,166 gigabits, 561 Mbits, 3,341,132,928 bytes, 26 MB, 2.2GB, 17 megabytes, 17401734 bytes, 128 megabytes, 139 MB, 254 megabytes, 245 GB, 128 MB.
http://retropolitan.blogspot.com/2005/06/all-ways- of-colouring-3x3-square-with.html
then they would use the massive botnets of 0wned machines for something else, that probably also wouldn't be conducive to the health and general well-being of the internet...
he had earned selling software, he still wouldn't repair the damage he has done to society.
more like $1.85