We have no idea how far away we are. We don't fully get it and are pretty much trying substances at random. We might figure out something that works next year or never. It's not something you can predict with any accuracy.
Just use a backtracking algorithm. It'd take about 30 lines in C++ and 40 years to execute. But, applying Moore's law we find that that becomes under a second in about 45 years... so I'm claiming victory.
Quantum mechanics is vague and sort of undefinable. Hey, the dribble that comes out of the mouths of religious people is vague and undefinable! Clearly they must have been talking about quantum mechanics all along!
I think these people forget that if the soul did anything as quantifiable as quantum mechanics we would have already used it to help shrink the size of our electronics. These sorts of arm-chair QM mystery men are worse than your average joke. In my book Roger Penrose is no more reasonable in this area than Deepak Chopra.
Actually no. Too much randomness and things start falling off the rails. You need the Goldie-locks mutation rate which may be higher or lower depending the genes (end parts of chromosomes are all crap) and population size, etc.
If you have a tiny population it is less advantageous to take risks with mutants.
Too high of a mutation rate and you'll lose the structure you already possess. Too little and you'll fail to improve (which isn't so bad if you kick ass).
I'm not exactly sure how they think this is any different than the many adaptations to preserve fidelity of genetic information which notably does an imperfect job.
Embryos count neither as human life or human beings. They are clumps of undifferentiated stem cells. You don't need to farm them. You can grow one line into a massive number of cells with very little effort. The greater problem is that they are genetically different from you and could be recognized by your body as a foreign invader.
One of the promises of iPC is that if we grow an organ with it, it's a real cure rather than 5-10year stopgap like most of our organ transplants tend to be.
A number of those emails seem to be very state-businessy looking at who they are all from. And apparently they were using those accounts in order to have the ability to quickly delete any email they wanted rather than be subject to maintaining them for FOIA requests.
Apparently the question was where did she meet her spouse. And everybody already knows they eloped out of highschool about seven months before their first kid was born. So "Wasilla high" reset the password.
I'm glad my passwords are like "na;nl;awiwoacf" and other crazy crap like that (no I don't use that password). But also those damned reset questions are a massive security hole.
 181.005. QUALIFYING FOR PLACEMENT ON BALLOT BY PARTY REQUIRED TO NOMINATE BY CONVENTION. (a) To be entitled to have the names of its nominees placed on the general election ballot, a political party required to make nominations by convention must file with the secretary of state, not later than the 75th day after the date of the precinct conventions held under this chapter, lists of precinct convention participants indicating that the number of participants equals at least one percent of the total number of votes received by all candidates for governor in the most recent gubernatorial general election. The lists must include each participant's residence address and voter registration number. (b) A political party is entitled to have the names of its nominees placed on the ballot, without qualifying under Subsection (a), in each subsequent general election following a general election in which the party had a nominee for a statewide office who received a number of votes equal to at least five percent of the total number of votes received by all candidates for that office.
The Texas law says any parties which get more than 5% last time around get to be on the ballot this time around. That would be the Democrats and Republicans.
Yeah, a nice fat set of great superconductive power lines would be nice to run across the US. We could build a nice array of Gen III nuclear plants in the middle of nowhere and use them to power most of the US.
No. It works and Newtonian physics doesn't work. We can wrap our minds around Newton because without knowing it we get Newton really well. We grew up with things acting as Newton described. We learn about Newtonian physics and understand the universe better. QM we can predict but our minds just don't wrap around theory very well because it works exactly as Newtonian physics doesn't work.
QM certainly works. It demonstratively works. However the actual workings of QM are odd. In fact that it's easier to understand them if you invent an infinite number of parallel dimensions or dead/alive cats or any number of very bizarre but oddly more understandable things. Even clearly bizarre they tend to seem less bizarre than things actually work that way.
It's not complex. It's just weird. It's something that we just aren't good getting our heads around. Sure QM works and works every time we just have a tough time understanding how something be there and not be there, have a state and not have a state or be several places at the same time because we aren't use to this in our everyday lives. They don't compute... but we use quantum phenomenon to run our computers without fail or error. They just work.
Why bother with the "reasonable hardware" line. Just program in multiple possible rendering abilities and switch between then to tweak down or up the graphics. If somebody wants they should be able to call up the engine being raytraced and going at a frame a minute.
Just because it's a massive amount of work for little benefit is hardly a reason to not do it. The shadows in question are doable they just aren't easy or hardware cheap.
They ran out of opium. After they booted out the moors they were effectively screwed. They had addicts and no drugs and it was such a pain in the ass to run drugs through Muslim territory. A fool's bet for three ships isn't that bad.
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Exactly. All we need is a couple basic elements to work out the kinks... like a cheap high temperature superconductor.
We have no idea how far away we are. We don't fully get it and are pretty much trying substances at random. We might figure out something that works next year or never. It's not something you can predict with any accuracy.
Just use a backtracking algorithm. It'd take about 30 lines in C++ and 40 years to execute. But, applying Moore's law we find that that becomes under a second in about 45 years... so I'm claiming victory.
I don't know what this soul thing is, but whatever it is, I have it on good authority that it can be made with a skull full of neurons.
Quantum mechanics is vague and sort of undefinable. Hey, the dribble that comes out of the mouths of religious people is vague and undefinable! Clearly they must have been talking about quantum mechanics all along!
I think these people forget that if the soul did anything as quantifiable as quantum mechanics we would have already used it to help shrink the size of our electronics. These sorts of arm-chair QM mystery men are worse than your average joke. In my book Roger Penrose is no more reasonable in this area than Deepak Chopra.
Yeah, the "this disproves Darwinism" vibe in the article is utterly idiotic. I see very that isn't known a dozen other ways in this article.
Actually no. Too much randomness and things start falling off the rails. You need the Goldie-locks mutation rate which may be higher or lower depending the genes (end parts of chromosomes are all crap) and population size, etc.
If you have a tiny population it is less advantageous to take risks with mutants.
Too high of a mutation rate and you'll lose the structure you already possess. Too little and you'll fail to improve (which isn't so bad if you kick ass).
I'm not exactly sure how they think this is any different than the many adaptations to preserve fidelity of genetic information which notably does an imperfect job.
Mutation rate = Evolution rate.
Embryos count neither as human life or human beings. They are clumps of undifferentiated stem cells. You don't need to farm them. You can grow one line into a massive number of cells with very little effort. The greater problem is that they are genetically different from you and could be recognized by your body as a foreign invader.
One of the promises of iPC is that if we grow an organ with it, it's a real cure rather than 5-10year stopgap like most of our organ transplants tend to be.
A number of those emails seem to be very state-businessy looking at who they are all from. And apparently they were using those accounts in order to have the ability to quickly delete any email they wanted rather than be subject to maintaining them for FOIA requests.
Apparently the question was where did she meet her spouse. And everybody already knows they eloped out of highschool about seven months before their first kid was born. So "Wasilla high" reset the password.
I'm glad my passwords are like "na;nl;awiwoacf" and other crazy crap like that (no I don't use that password). But also those damned reset questions are a massive security hole.
 181.005. QUALIFYING FOR PLACEMENT ON BALLOT BY PARTY
REQUIRED TO NOMINATE BY CONVENTION. (a) To be entitled to have
the names of its nominees placed on the general election ballot, a
political party required to make nominations by convention must
file with the secretary of state, not later than the 75th day after
the date of the precinct conventions held under this chapter, lists
of precinct convention participants indicating that the number of
participants equals at least one percent of the total number of
votes received by all candidates for governor in the most recent
gubernatorial general election. The lists must include each
participant's residence address and voter registration number.
(b) A political party is entitled to have the names of its
nominees placed on the ballot, without qualifying under Subsection
(a), in each subsequent general election following a general
election in which the party had a nominee for a statewide office who
received a number of votes equal to at least five percent of the
total number of votes received by all candidates for that office.
The Texas law says any parties which get more than 5% last time around get to be on the ballot this time around. That would be the Democrats and Republicans.
Undoubtedly they will use this to suggest that Carbon-14 is wrong even though this is an oddity of Carbon-13.
Get a tattoo of a band.
The suggestion is for superconductive powerlines. They require a good amount of cooling and are best underground just to maintain their temperature.
Now that's some real spin.
(I failed a vital saving throw against making that joke)
Yeah, a nice fat set of great superconductive power lines would be nice to run across the US. We could build a nice array of Gen III nuclear plants in the middle of nowhere and use them to power most of the US.
No. It works and Newtonian physics doesn't work. We can wrap our minds around Newton because without knowing it we get Newton really well. We grew up with things acting as Newton described. We learn about Newtonian physics and understand the universe better. QM we can predict but our minds just don't wrap around theory very well because it works exactly as Newtonian physics doesn't work.
Eric?
I knew the story must be wrong when it said Duke Nukem Forever was being released. That's not something that happens so it's clearly nonsense.
QM certainly works. It demonstratively works. However the actual workings of QM are odd. In fact that it's easier to understand them if you invent an infinite number of parallel dimensions or dead/alive cats or any number of very bizarre but oddly more understandable things. Even clearly bizarre they tend to seem less bizarre than things actually work that way.
It's not complex. It's just weird. It's something that we just aren't good getting our heads around. Sure QM works and works every time we just have a tough time understanding how something be there and not be there, have a state and not have a state or be several places at the same time because we aren't use to this in our everyday lives. They don't compute... but we use quantum phenomenon to run our computers without fail or error. They just work.
Duh, sarcasm.
*sigh*
But this video card can run a monitor! Voodoo 3... maybe somebody will need it!
Why bother with the "reasonable hardware" line. Just program in multiple possible rendering abilities and switch between then to tweak down or up the graphics. If somebody wants they should be able to call up the engine being raytraced and going at a frame a minute.
Just because it's a massive amount of work for little benefit is hardly a reason to not do it. The shadows in question are doable they just aren't easy or hardware cheap.
Well Europe to Asia is about 180 degrees and the rest is about the same size. So I think about 360 degrees. Is that about right?
They ran out of opium. After they booted out the moors they were effectively screwed. They had addicts and no drugs and it was such a pain in the ass to run drugs through Muslim territory. A fool's bet for three ships isn't that bad.