Thanks to modern mathematics, it is mathematically proven that mathematics is NOT just syntax and logic.
Math prooves itself? Then what have you prooved?
There are many deep and fundamental concepts in mathematics. Syntax is the necessary assistant to express them
I bet there are. However, if you look at the very point of the text you quoted, you'll see that I said this lack of understanding applies to the math teachers I've had. I'm not generalizing, as you seem to think I am. I am speaking of my own experience. In your example of radians, my teachers have simply failed to ever draw the attention of the class to such. A teacher who understands would not fail to point out such a clue.
I'm told I'm studying Comp. Sci, but I think I've been lied to and that what I'm really studying is mathematics. I think math could be very useful to me, if I just had proper understanding of it. The other students I've talked to have apparently not thought much about this, and have skipped the entire 'understanding' part in favor of memorizing every example problem and past answers to tests they can get their hands on. I concider this practice fatalist, counter-productive, and in some sense cheating. They reduce mathematics to superstition, using formulas they have no understanding of at all and are unable to modify. They are aslo unable to create new formulas.
I decided that I'll have none of that, and set out to understand mathematics, first stop being the math teachers. My folly became quickly apparent. They were doing the exact same thing the rest of their students are. They've memorized _everything_ without understanding what it was. How they are allowed to teach anyone is beyond me. They've created a scenario where mathematical superstition is passed down the generations like some bastardization of tradition. Any attempt to pick apart what they are saying results in fierce opposition as if you are trying to slay their holy cow.
So seeing that my teachers would be of no help, I decided to study math on my own. A year prior to that decision I would have laughed and concidered the very notion alien to all I wish to accomplish. - Study math?? Can you come up with anything even more boring? It didn't take too long before I discovered Bertrand Russell and his Formal Proof; the foundation of "modern" math.
Thanks to Russell, you do not need to even understand what the formulas mean or anything of the kind, as long as your mathematical syntax is flawless. This for some reason gives free regin to teachers to hammer the syntax into students without them, us, ever knowing what it means. We become, quite literally, educated fools.
If math was an intellectual island, this would not be a problem. However, math isn't an intellectual island so it is a problem. Math has become synonymous with a great many sciences, and today for example physics without math is inconceivable. Yet there is no progress in physics without understanding, and math has become alienated to understanding.
It is no wonder that science does not attract students. What we are thaught is in essense to memorize phone books and rely on other people's solutions. What those of us interested in science want to do isn't to assimilate a mathematical encyclopedia, but to understand the reaches of space and time, matter and light, and ultimately ourselves.
"Know thyself", said the inscription. That goal is still as far above our heads as the roof of the building it once adorned, and at this rate we will never reach it. Math _needs_ to be understood, even if we can teach computers to automagically generate 'proof'.
Are there important aspects of the Universe that can only be understood using the Anthropic Principle?
This question is of trumendous importance and of profound implications. It renders consciousness the creator of the universe, draws the line between information and data, and promotes monistic idealism. If explored with courage and integrity, it can mark the beginning of third-millennia science.
On my desktop maching I'm running Apache, PHP, Perl and MySQL on WinXP in order to run one of those PHP portal-things. My 'pooter stays on 24/7, mostly serving friends with annoying or funny pictures, and as I use all sorts of 'network aware' apps my static IP would certainly not be concidered dead. So if this worm is going to hit I should be quick to know about it. So far a search for that mentioned file turns up no hits, but if I catch it I'll post it on my portal, URL above.
(And don't you dare/. me. I've gotta present a PHP app I'm coding tomorrow.)
Try Carmageddon for size. Jeez, I'm glad I didn't have a license back then. The game even invaded my dreams, so all night I was running over sheep (some prefer to just count them) and and frying people with the Zombie electro-bastard ray.
hought it would be even nicer if the pointless resolution change between bootup and main X server startup was eliminated (it's usually the same res anyway).
AFAIK, it runs a VGA framebuffer-thing first, but entering userland it starts using your GFX card and needs drivers for that. Can't say about the possibility of using the GFX card right away. If I'm wrong about this, please do correct me.
Outlaw P2P? You do realize that for such a law to be effective it means I could no longer legally connect to your system, or any other, right? It'd be the end of the internet.
Being an avid fan of the series, I'm both thrilled and worried about how this will turn out. The manga is a terrific story, but while quite good the anime pales in comparison, because it is too short. The story needs to take its time to gain the momentum and texture that IMO defines it. No character remains a simple stereotype, and even the scenes and settings have what border on personalities. And everything changes.
It appears to me that the usual length of a movie won't be enough to do more than simply introduce the audience to the story, unless the production turns out to be a far, far departure from the usual Hollywood. BAA is violent and action-packed, but while that is usually what Hollywood picks up it's not what BAA is about. As for what it really is about... I've still to figure that one out.
Sun Laiyan, director of the China National Space Administration (CNSA), said that a large satellite-based earth observation system will also be built by 2010. The system could be used for observation of land, atmosphere and ocean within China, its adjacent areas and even the entire globe.
Sun said that China will develop a new generation of polar orbit and stationary orbit meteorological satellites, high-performance resource follow-up satellites, oceanic color and dynamic observation satellites.
AFAIK, the vast majority of spy satellites are also in rather low orbit for a variety of economic and plain rational reasons. 100 satellites should be more than enough for China to constantly keep monitored areas of their country in view even if half of them are on the other side of Earth. Plus this offers the ability to see in different angles, while geosynchronous orbit would only offer a narrow angle. And if the satellites occasionally fly over other countries, who are the Chinese to complain?
What strikes me as strange with this is that the information about this was actually released. They don't even bother hiding that they are spying on all and everything. What's the status on those home-made satellite jammers again?
The final machine will help scientists work out the safety, security and reliability requirements for the US's nuclear weapons stockpile, without the need for underground nuclear testing.
Could someone explain to me why this task requires such a monster of a machine? And how can one address (as in write code for) the numerous unknowable factors that seems to be included in the problem that is to be solved? The definition just seems to be too abstract to be an actual solvable problem, and if it is solvable it would require an immense human resource contribution for the code it is to run. Wouldn't it be simpler to just stick those people into a room and not let them out until they've solved the problem?
I've long wondered who comes up with the code they run on these 'pooters. Anyone who can offer some insight on the usual complexity of the code that is run/problems that are solved?
I'm very glad to hear that this technique of using the data in several frames of footage really does exist today. However, where can I get my paws on it? I've at many times wished for higher quality in various clips I've DLed, and found myself annoyed at knowing that in the sum of the data of a scene the information is there, but I can't access it. With whatever they're running at LDI, I could access it.
Also, imagine if you will what you could learn by running this on the footage of the JFK assassination? Or all those UFO sightings? This could be the conspiracy buff's dream. =)
That was a truly beautiful speach, technically and poetically. Would have given even Cicero a run for the money.
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No, that's not the one. This was on bugtraq. Maybe a bit older than two weeks.
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In my humble opinion, this article is about as useful as a troll. Many/. readers have already pointed out that these aren't much of flaws.
Mircrosoft is finally playing the right tunes, but someone on a vendetta can't accept this, so they nitpick after _anything_ to pin on SP2. For Christ's sake, Sendmail. Sendmail had a brand new remote execution (That's translates to your unpatched box being rooted.) exploit posted a week or two ago, and not a word was said.
And I quoteth: It's been said that the systems environment we offer is a veritable fantasyland for computer science, with vast networks that manipulate huge volumes of data and accomplish information analysis at mind-boggling speeds.
* Consider acres of hardware
* software years ahead of current commercial technology
* microprocessor-based advances
* over-the-horizon supercomputers
* leading-edge activities in programming, signals (including analog control), GUI's, AI, neural nets, information security, the design and implementation of encryption algorithms, and far beyond.
On the other career pages, you'll find that NSA has the philosophy of "building what they cannot buy" (paraphrased).
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Thanks to modern mathematics, it is mathematically proven that mathematics is NOT just syntax and logic.
Math prooves itself? Then what have you prooved?
There are many deep and fundamental concepts in mathematics. Syntax is the necessary assistant to express them
I bet there are. However, if you look at the very point of the text you quoted, you'll see that I said this lack of understanding applies to the math teachers I've had.
I'm not generalizing, as you seem to think I am. I am speaking of my own experience. In your example of radians, my teachers have simply failed to ever draw the attention of the class to such. A teacher who understands would not fail to point out such a clue.
I'm told I'm studying Comp. Sci, but I think I've been lied to and that what I'm really studying is mathematics. I think math could be very useful to me, if I just had proper understanding of it. The other students I've talked to have apparently not thought much about this, and have skipped the entire 'understanding' part in favor of memorizing every example problem and past answers to tests they can get their hands on. I concider this practice fatalist, counter-productive, and in some sense cheating. They reduce mathematics to superstition, using formulas they have no understanding of at all and are unable to modify. They are aslo unable to create new formulas.
I decided that I'll have none of that, and set out to understand mathematics, first stop being the math teachers. My folly became quickly apparent.
They were doing the exact same thing the rest of their students are. They've memorized _everything_ without understanding what it was. How they are allowed to teach anyone is beyond me. They've created a scenario where mathematical superstition is passed down the generations like some bastardization of tradition. Any attempt to pick apart what they are saying results in fierce opposition as if you are trying to slay their holy cow.
So seeing that my teachers would be of no help, I decided to study math on my own. A year prior to that decision I would have laughed and concidered the very notion alien to all I wish to accomplish. - Study math?? Can you come up with anything even more boring?
It didn't take too long before I discovered Bertrand Russell and his Formal Proof; the foundation of "modern" math.
Thanks to Russell, you do not need to even understand what the formulas mean or anything of the kind, as long as your mathematical syntax is flawless. This for some reason gives free regin to teachers to hammer the syntax into students without them, us, ever knowing what it means.
We become, quite literally, educated fools.
If math was an intellectual island, this would not be a problem. However, math isn't an intellectual island so it is a problem. Math has become synonymous with a great many sciences, and today for example physics without math is inconceivable.
Yet there is no progress in physics without understanding, and math has become alienated to understanding.
It is no wonder that science does not attract students. What we are thaught is in essense to memorize phone books and rely on other people's solutions. What those of us interested in science want to do isn't to assimilate a mathematical encyclopedia, but to understand the reaches of space and time, matter and light, and ultimately ourselves.
"Know thyself", said the inscription. That goal is still as far above our heads as the roof of the building it once adorned, and at this rate we will never reach it. Math _needs_ to be understood, even if we can teach computers to automagically generate 'proof'.
Linux + Sci-fi + Detroit = Flying Car?
Well, it's been 50 years... But I still think they'll come up with a chromed and aerodynamic flying toaster before they come up with a flying car.
Hearing may actually be harder.
Not at all: http://www.cochlear.com/
My mother's got one. Speaking with her, you cannot tell.
Are there important aspects of the Universe that can only be understood using the Anthropic Principle?
This question is of trumendous importance and of profound implications. It renders consciousness the creator of the universe, draws the line between information and data, and promotes monistic idealism.
If explored with courage and integrity, it can mark the beginning of third-millennia science.
http://www.hotornot.com/r/?eid=BRG8K8H&key=EUB
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry...
*GG*
On my desktop maching I'm running Apache, PHP, Perl and MySQL on WinXP in order to run one of those PHP portal-things. My 'pooter stays on 24/7, mostly serving friends with annoying or funny pictures, and as I use all sorts of 'network aware' apps my static IP would certainly not be concidered dead. So if this worm is going to hit I should be quick to know about it. So far a search for that mentioned file turns up no hits, but if I catch it I'll post it on my portal, URL above.
/. me. I've gotta present a PHP app I'm coding tomorrow.)
(And don't you dare
Try Carmageddon for size. Jeez, I'm glad I didn't have a license back then.
The game even invaded my dreams, so all night I was running over sheep (some prefer to just count them) and and frying people with the Zombie electro-bastard ray.
w00t! =D
(Sorry 'bout the shortitude. Just had to be said.)
There goes the only type of devices I don't repeatedly electrocute myself on. =(
Damn you! Damn you to heck!
Sure does. Thanks. =)
hought it would be even nicer if the pointless resolution change between bootup and main X server startup was eliminated (it's usually the same res anyway).
AFAIK, it runs a VGA framebuffer-thing first, but entering userland it starts using your GFX card and needs drivers for that. Can't say about the possibility of using the GFX card right away.
If I'm wrong about this, please do correct me.
Those Japanese people are amazing! Who needs alien technology?
Outlaw P2P? You do realize that for such a law to be effective it means I could no longer legally connect to your system, or any other, right? It'd be the end of the internet.
Being an avid fan of the series, I'm both thrilled and worried about how this will turn out. The manga is a terrific story, but while quite good the anime pales in comparison, because it is too short. The story needs to take its time to gain the momentum and texture that IMO defines it. No character remains a simple stereotype, and even the scenes and settings have what border on personalities. And everything changes.
It appears to me that the usual length of a movie won't be enough to do more than simply introduce the audience to the story, unless the production turns out to be a far, far departure from the usual Hollywood. BAA is violent and action-packed, but while that is usually what Hollywood picks up it's not what BAA is about. As for what it really is about... I've still to figure that one out.
http://service.china.org.cn/link/wcm/Show_Text?inf o_id=112464
Highlights:
Sun Laiyan, director of the China National Space Administration (CNSA), said that a large satellite-based earth observation system will also be built by 2010. The system could be used for observation of land, atmosphere and ocean within China, its adjacent areas and even the entire globe.
Sun said that China will develop a new generation of polar orbit and stationary orbit meteorological satellites, high-performance resource follow-up satellites, oceanic color and dynamic observation satellites.
AFAIK, the vast majority of spy satellites are also in rather low orbit for a variety of economic and plain rational reasons. 100 satellites should be more than enough for China to constantly keep monitored areas of their country in view even if half of them are on the other side of Earth. Plus this offers the ability to see in different angles, while geosynchronous orbit would only offer a narrow angle.
And if the satellites occasionally fly over other countries, who are the Chinese to complain?
What strikes me as strange with this is that the information about this was actually released. They don't even bother hiding that they are spying on all and everything.
What's the status on those home-made satellite jammers again?
The final machine will help scientists work out the safety, security and reliability requirements for the US's nuclear weapons stockpile, without the need for underground nuclear testing.
Could someone explain to me why this task requires such a monster of a machine? And how can one address (as in write code for) the numerous unknowable factors that seems to be included in the problem that is to be solved? The definition just seems to be too abstract to be an actual solvable problem, and if it is solvable it would require an immense human resource contribution for the code it is to run. Wouldn't it be simpler to just stick those people into a room and not let them out until they've solved the problem?
I've long wondered who comes up with the code they run on these 'pooters. Anyone who can offer some insight on the usual complexity of the code that is run/problems that are solved?
I'm very glad to hear that this technique of using the data in several frames of footage really does exist today. However, where can I get my paws on it? I've at many times wished for higher quality in various clips I've DLed, and found myself annoyed at knowing that in the sum of the data of a scene the information is there, but I can't access it. With whatever they're running at LDI, I could access it.
Also, imagine if you will what you could learn by running this on the footage of the JFK assassination? Or all those UFO sightings? This could be the conspiracy buff's dream. =)
The hydrogen can also come from fields of cheap solar panels scattered over Sahara. Then we'd be getting two birds with one rock.
Wow, that thing puts my blue LEDs to shame!
That was a truly beautiful speach, technically and poetically. Would have given even Cicero a run for the money.
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No, that's not the one. This was on bugtraq. Maybe a bit older than two weeks.
In my humble opinion, this article is about as useful as a troll. Many /. readers have already pointed out that these aren't much of flaws.
Mircrosoft is finally playing the right tunes, but someone on a vendetta can't accept this, so they nitpick after _anything_ to pin on SP2.
For Christ's sake, Sendmail. Sendmail had a brand new remote execution (That's translates to your unpatched box being rooted.) exploit posted a week or two ago, and not a word was said.
This isn't news. This is hypocrisy.
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Computer Science careers at NSA
And I quoteth:
It's been said that the systems environment we offer is a veritable fantasyland for computer science, with vast networks that manipulate huge volumes of data and accomplish information analysis at mind-boggling speeds.
* Consider acres of hardware
* software years ahead of current commercial technology
* microprocessor-based advances
* over-the-horizon supercomputers
* leading-edge activities in programming, signals (including analog control), GUI's, AI, neural nets, information security, the design and implementation of encryption algorithms, and far beyond.
On the other career pages, you'll find that NSA has the philosophy of "building what they cannot buy" (paraphrased).