well, I guess the parent post was talking about separation between "news" and "analysis" of what isn't news any more. There's still some content out there that although being based on factual information is essentially some opinion.
I don't think that it's possible to separate facts from bias no matter how advanced your algorithms are. Face it, very few humans can do that (or even bother to try, unfortunately)
Maybe it's a consumer thing:
Some perceive getting smaller packages of the same thing as not worth the same money...
Could be the marketing that demands "added value" to any new product, even if this addition is questionable improvement. To sell for more you need to label your stuff not only "smaller" but also "better" and the latter is often perceptionally correlated with the length of "added feature lists", even when noone asked for those in the first place.
you forgot wolves
Don't you think humans form packs just to go out there to beat the crap out of that other pack of humans?
All there is to that "social" behavior...
And NO, to me humans don't look at all like ants, bees or termites. The little guys have a collective purpose. Do we?
True.
But this area of "political science" always was far enough from the common sense to make the shortsighted promises of immediate application enticing enough to cheat considerable fraction of tax-paying population.
Just imagine: "the Bush-Cheney collaboration made an announcement today that it has discovered several new forms of democracy; one of the newly discovered forms is highly unstable, has a tendency to decay into fundamentalism and subsequently has to be kept together by external military presence, lifetime is yet unknown... "
1) such experiments don't fit in a budget of a single nation any more -- define who are "we" that you speak of?
2) very few discoveries in fundamental science had any immediate applications for several generations.
Thus your genome example is at best an exhibit of superficial thinking -- it may be a key piece of information for technology that hasn't emerged yet; but if it's not in place - that technology won't ever be possible, unless through some blind luck.
you probably meant to say "spectacular conclusion to otherwise bleak and pointless existence"?
seriously though, at least one group of "activists" brings up this "issue" every single time almighty particle physisists start building anything at all.
Fear us! We are about to find a way to DESTROY MATTER!
I wish it was so.
But still it well may be that once those "stupid execs" reach some kind of "consensus" -- exactly this will happen. And you know what? I doubt it's gonna be the very first time when forcasts come true just because the people in charge believe those forcasts...
If it's a good movie, I mean if it's a good
movie -- you'd be amazed how much you missed the first time around...
Even in real life: have you ever wanted to pause and really think it over? Now, a good movie can be like that but a lot faster.
So, yes, there is a point in watching a movie more than once, given it contain a little more then dancing colors on a (65"?) widescreen.
Every time you're about to get mugged -- use it as an excellent opportunity to practice your mastery of the Force:
1) practice the mind trick at least 3 times
2) when (if) that doesn't work, try lifting up your opponents in the air
3) practice the trick of disappearance or super-high jumps.
4) contemplate the loss of your posessions and give a serious consideration to The Path to the Dark Side.
In any case the more you practice, the better you get; Thus with every single time you're mugged your skill with the Force improves - walk more dark alleys late at night!
If nothing else, I heard that adrenalin is actually good for your health, while expensive posessions are bad for your karma.
not sure how much sense does it make to dig into originals unless you practice the field and crave for true insight and understanding.
On the other hand...
with all the good books on Quantum Mechanics,
for example, imho absolutely the best is the book by P.A.M.Dirak himself, with all the dated notation, wrong(pedagogically) topic selection and limited educational value (for a student who's looking for a tutorial/solution manual). But I swear none provides clearer conceptual overview and presents fundamental formalism better.
Even the great teachers fairly often tell the story but miss the point.
And many may know and understand the originals, yet some brilliant ideas somehow manage to go unnoticed for ages.
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well, I guess the parent post was talking about separation between "news" and "analysis" of what isn't news any more. There's still some content out there that although being based on factual information is essentially some opinion.
I don't think that it's possible to separate facts from bias no matter how advanced your algorithms are. Face it, very few humans can do that (or even bother to try, unfortunately)
Maybe it's a consumer thing:
Some perceive getting smaller packages of the same thing as not worth the same money...
Could be the marketing that demands "added value" to any new product, even if this addition is questionable improvement. To sell for more you need to label your stuff not only "smaller" but also "better" and the latter is often perceptionally correlated with the length of "added feature lists", even when noone asked for those in the first place.
I bet unlike most humans, worker drones are completely content with what they do... and they don't post on /. when they should be working...
you forgot wolves
Don't you think humans form packs just to go out there to beat the crap out of that other pack of humans?
All there is to that "social" behavior...
And NO, to me humans don't look at all like ants, bees or termites. The little guys have a collective purpose. Do we?
that would be conversion from one form into another.
And luckily most of "us" don't HAVE nukillah bombs.
True.
But this area of "political science" always was far enough from the common sense to make the shortsighted promises of immediate application enticing enough to cheat considerable fraction of tax-paying population.
Just imagine: "the Bush-Cheney collaboration made an announcement today that it has discovered several new forms of democracy; one of the newly discovered forms is highly unstable, has a tendency to decay into fundamentalism and subsequently has to be kept together by external military presence, lifetime is yet unknown... "
1) such experiments don't fit in a budget of a single nation any more -- define who are "we" that you speak of?
2) very few discoveries in fundamental science had any immediate applications for several generations. Thus your genome example is at best an exhibit of superficial thinking -- it may be a key piece of information for technology that hasn't emerged yet; but if it's not in place - that technology won't ever be possible, unless through some blind luck.
the cost estimate of exponential collider is divergent...
and premature demise?
you probably meant to say "spectacular conclusion to otherwise bleak and pointless existence"?
seriously though, at least one group of "activists" brings up this "issue" every single time almighty particle physisists start building anything at all. Fear us! We are about to find a way to DESTROY MATTER!
I wish it was so.
But still it well may be that once those "stupid execs" reach some kind of "consensus" -- exactly this will happen. And you know what? I doubt it's gonna be the very first time when forcasts come true just because the people in charge believe those forcasts...
thats just strange. but in a way, charming.
wrong! It's either anti-strange or anti-charming.
If it's a good movie, I mean if it's a good movie -- you'd be amazed how much you missed the first time around...
Even in real life: have you ever wanted to pause and really think it over? Now, a good movie can be like that but a lot faster.
So, yes, there is a point in watching a movie more than once, given it contain a little more then dancing colors on a (65"?) widescreen.
Every time you're about to get mugged -- use it as an excellent opportunity to practice your mastery of the Force:
1) practice the mind trick at least 3 times
2) when (if) that doesn't work, try lifting up your opponents in the air
3) practice the trick of disappearance or super-high jumps.
4) contemplate the loss of your posessions and give a serious consideration to The Path to the Dark Side.
In any case the more you practice, the better you get; Thus with every single time you're mugged your skill with the Force improves - walk more dark alleys late at night!
If nothing else, I heard that adrenalin is actually good for your health, while expensive posessions are bad for your karma.
The USA PATRIOT Act is not unconstitutional. Maybe sections of it are but the whole thing is not.
So, some parts of the fruit are rotten but overall it's fresh and wholesome?
Please explain how's that possible.
Good luck.
And I hope you've got enough cash, rich relatives and property for sale, cause something tells me you'll need it all...
> We're all going to be surfing the net with a government approved "conduct officer" standing behind us and it will be dumb and written in VB.
not sure how much sense does it make to dig into originals unless you practice the field and crave for true insight and understanding. On the other hand... with all the good books on Quantum Mechanics, for example, imho absolutely the best is the book by P.A.M.Dirak himself, with all the dated notation, wrong(pedagogically) topic selection and limited educational value (for a student who's looking for a tutorial/solution manual). But I swear none provides clearer conceptual overview and presents fundamental formalism better. Even the great teachers fairly often tell the story but miss the point. And many may know and understand the originals, yet some brilliant ideas somehow manage to go unnoticed for ages.