How long before it became corrupt?... How long does it take to make a phone call?
Not necessarily so, if the process of 'implementing' would be of the 'bottom up' (vs. 'top down', hmm, well) kind, spread across a long time interval and building on small elements that are shaped during the evolution of the system (think self-organizing), in contrast to trying to establish a 'new and better' structure from what is left in the ashes.
Quote: "In 1974 the top-rate of income tax increased to its highest rate since the war, 83%. This applied to incomes over £20,000, and combined with a 15% surcharge on 'un-earned' income (investments and dividends) could add to a 98% marginal rate of personal income tax. In 1974, just 750,000 people were eligible to pay the top-rate of income tax."
but also to detect hot objects before touching them
From quite a distance ! Just imagine you live on a tree and only realize that it is burning right under you — would'nt it be of some 'evolutionary advantage' if you were able to detect the fire earlier (without actually seeing it)?
I am having trouble jumping from this thought to the thought of the skin resolving those sensations into an image
It need not necessarily be an image — a representation of the environment would (does) suffice (and of course it needs a lot of practice to achieve). On a side note, the formulation using the concept of an 'image' (to me) supports the idea that perception is very heavily biased towards vision (which, if you think that balance and adequate proportion are crucial has implications on its own).
Besides, the idea that one could 'see' (e.g.) a person coming up from behind does not seem to be that uncommon.
adult employees with some sense of quality and thought
You might as well think that 'employee' vs. 'sense' and 'thought' is a contradiction these days if you look at the 'quality' that is delivered (and at the cost to fix the financial implications).
Quote: "There is some disparity in the 'matter' too, related to cognitive functioning in the brain. Women have more white matter and men have more grey matter, the authors state.
White matter connects brain centres in the neural network; grey matter tends to localise brain activity into a single active brain centre.
As a result, "women tend to often be able to make crucial connections between widely disparate elements that men don't make; simultaneously, men tend to task-focus on one element or pattern without distraction better than women do"."
(emphasis mine)
Apart from the fact that you, on principle, will have a hard time to check for consistency: How do you imagine that a neural network like the brain — with a multitude of parallell processess — can be wired to be consistent (add 'over time' to get an even better grasp on the chances)? How can the machine check for and maintain consistency on the hardware level and which (consistent? set/network of) processes takes care of that?
To me, it seems rather a learning issue how coping with vagueness is implemented, not a characteristic of the hardware layer, which, besides, is not that 'hardwired' at all but adapts to the environmental (task-)profile.
Mandating that everything is at least 50%, even when a student gets a 0%, is a terrible idea.
Terrible, yes, but not exactly new. Policies like this were day-to-day practice in the former 'German Democratic Republic'' (and presumably in other countries behind the 'Iron Curtain' as well) to ensure that productivity followed the projected figures.
not spending the time instead on understanding the 3 years worth of adv.math courses you need to really grasp what is happening
I sincerely doubt that, I (now) rather think that that (alone) would give you a kind of imbalance prone to succesfully prevent you from getting a grasp of what is happening. I do not question, though, that it would boost your chances to probably come to one of a large set of plausible 'grasps'.
Looking at the population in question, it might presumably be interesting to investigate how the imperative "Get a life!"
would apply. I am sure that — with a little tweaking towards a more academic language — you can make a nice thesis out of that.
and the swaths of detail have been removed and replaced with fairly vague rhetoric
Which gives (rather odd) evidence that even politicians are capable of learning.
Disclaimer: I may add that I do not believe that the outcome of the US-elections will initiate any notable change, some evidence may be the unitedly agreed upon upstream redistribution of money from the (poor) taxpayer to (for short) the rich. Besides, I am not US-citizen and located in Europe.
The drawback of video games and most other types of exercise is that these focus on only a subset of 'built in' instruments/capabilities (both 'effectoral' and 'receptoral'), not to speak of issues related to overall posture. Thus I suppose you will have more transfer from Tai Chi to video (and there is a strong chance that you begin to loose interest in things that you once valued high, video games may be a part (though, admittedly, these 'excuses' are quite hard to overcome:)).
Besides, over here — given the average size of (living) rooms — you have a hard time to place a 50" screen.
But it will also happen to eyesight, reaction time, ability to accurately gauge/apply brake and/or throttle pressure, etc.
Sure it happens, but you can exercise to slow the process (or even revert it to a certain degree).
I myself practice Tai Chi (see sig) for five years now after a history of being tied to the keyboard for about 30yrs (without any exercise or 'sports' at all) and this seems to be rather successful. IMHO, this or similar practice is a much better option compared to the introduction to more (in a sense 'disabling' rather than 'enabling') tech.
The unfortunate reality is that citations are a metric of "credit" in the academic community and the lack of citations presents a problem for researchers who build tools.
<sarcasm>This is only reflecting the fact that those are unable to add proper value to their respective fields, which again shows that the metrics work well.</sarcasm>
In my days the underlying attitude was reflected by the creation of the label 'Rechenknecht' (appr. compute-slave) for the sub-professoral members of the scientific (so called) 'community' who did most of the work.
Makes one really feel sorry for mother nature to be honest.
On principle, I am with you. However, you may adopt the view that it is probably not a big problem for the planet to survive a couple of million years of bad influence from humanity.
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How long before it became corrupt? ... How long does it take to make a phone call?
Not necessarily so, if the process of 'implementing' would be of the 'bottom up' (vs. 'top down', hmm, well) kind, spread across a long time interval and building on small elements that are shaped during the evolution of the system (think self-organizing), in contrast to trying to establish a 'new and better' structure from what is left in the ashes.
It won't happen here, though.
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organization of free democracies
...
Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007
Clearly in the lead: China, Russia, US
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a confiscatory 63%
You should have a look at the UK.
Quote: "In 1974 the top-rate of income tax increased to its highest rate since the war, 83%. This applied to incomes over £20,000, and combined with a 15% surcharge on 'un-earned' income (investments and dividends) could add to a 98% marginal rate of personal income tax. In 1974, just 750,000 people were eligible to pay the top-rate of income tax."
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these giant and wild entities like Google are made up of individual people
Wondering how to get 'a job' with an individual CV.
convert as many people around them to their way of thinking
To make it even more individual?
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but also to detect hot objects before touching them
From quite a distance ! Just imagine you live on a tree and only realize that it is burning right under you — would'nt it be of some 'evolutionary advantage' if you were able to detect the fire earlier (without actually seeing it)?
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In pitch-dark rooms you sometimes can "feel" close walls or large solid objects.
Microgravity
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I am having trouble jumping from this thought to the thought of the skin resolving those sensations into an image
It need not necessarily be an image — a representation of the environment would (does) suffice (and of course it needs a lot of practice to achieve). On a side note, the formulation using the concept of an 'image' (to me) supports the idea that perception is very heavily biased towards vision (which, if you think that balance and adequate proportion are crucial has implications on its own).
Besides, the idea that one could 'see' (e.g.) a person coming up from behind does not seem to be that uncommon.
CC.
adult employees with some sense of quality and thought
You might as well think that 'employee' vs. 'sense' and 'thought' is a contradiction these days if you look at the 'quality' that is delivered (and at the cost to fix the financial implications).
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old, well-tread, philosophically and scientifically fruitless territory here
In Germany, the topic is worth a dissertation (Theoretical Physics) <cyn>But alas, there never was remarkable progress in physics from there.</cyn>
link(pdf)
And, yes, avoiding to google beyond the first page and beyond the level of first thought makes the territory much safer.
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Is it *too* much to ask that a technical news site present technical articles correctly?
Then there would be much less news.
Quote: "ICANN up in arms at Verisign DNS hijacking" (as happened 2003)
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... it is going down.
#$@@!!
http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/~tk/climate_dynamics/fig1.gif
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Woman's brain is wired differently
Quote: "There is some disparity in the 'matter' too, related to cognitive functioning in the brain. Women have more white matter and men have more grey matter, the authors state.
White matter connects brain centres in the neural network; grey matter tends to localise brain activity into a single active brain centre.
As a result, "women tend to often be able to make crucial connections between widely disparate elements that men don't make; simultaneously, men tend to task-focus on one element or pattern without distraction better than women do"." (emphasis mine)
Too lazy to grab more evidence.
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brain is wired to need one consistent model
Apart from the fact that you, on principle, will have a hard time to check for consistency: How do you imagine that a neural network like the brain — with a multitude of parallell processess — can be wired to be consistent (add 'over time' to get an even better grasp on the chances)? How can the machine check for and maintain consistency on the hardware level and which (consistent? set/network of) processes takes care of that?
To me, it seems rather a learning issue how coping with vagueness is implemented, not a characteristic of the hardware layer, which, besides, is not that 'hardwired' at all but adapts to the environmental (task-)profile.
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because your brain is wired to need one consistent model
Especially the female brain.
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Mandating that everything is at least 50%, even when a student gets a 0%, is a terrible idea.
Terrible, yes, but not exactly new. Policies like this were day-to-day practice in the former 'German Democratic Republic'' (and presumably in other countries behind the 'Iron Curtain' as well) to ensure that productivity followed the projected figures.
CC.
not spending the time instead on understanding the 3 years worth of adv.math courses you need to really grasp what is happening
I sincerely doubt that, I (now) rather think that that (alone) would give you a kind of imbalance prone to succesfully prevent you from getting a grasp of what is happening. I do not question, though, that it would boost your chances to probably come to one of a large set of plausible 'grasps'.
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maybe this is all pointless speculation (emphasis mine)
As pointless as observing something outside the observable universe — thus, there is no need to worry.
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way of life (emphasis mine)
Looking at the population in question, it might presumably be interesting to investigate how the imperative "Get a life!" would apply. I am sure that — with a little tweaking towards a more academic language — you can make a nice thesis out of that.
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They're all rich white men
You mean, except the one black guy, right?
It is called meta-color.
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and the swaths of detail have been removed and replaced with fairly vague rhetoric
Which gives (rather odd) evidence that even politicians are capable of learning.
Disclaimer: I may add that I do not believe that the outcome of the US-elections will initiate any notable change, some evidence may be the unitedly agreed upon upstream redistribution of money from the (poor) taxpayer to (for short) the rich. Besides, I am not US-citizen and located in Europe.
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The drawback of video games and most other types of exercise is that these focus on only a subset of 'built in' instruments/capabilities (both 'effectoral' and 'receptoral'), not to speak of issues related to overall posture. Thus I suppose you will have more transfer from Tai Chi to video (and there is a strong chance that you begin to loose interest in things that you once valued high, video games may be a part (though, admittedly, these 'excuses' are quite hard to overcome :)).
Besides, over here — given the average size of (living) rooms — you have a hard time to place a 50" screen.
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But it will also happen to eyesight, reaction time, ability to accurately gauge/apply brake and/or throttle pressure, etc.
Sure it happens, but you can exercise to slow the process (or even revert it to a certain degree).
I myself practice Tai Chi (see sig) for five years now after a history of being tied to the keyboard for about 30yrs (without any exercise or 'sports' at all) and this seems to be rather successful. IMHO, this or similar practice is a much better option compared to the introduction to more (in a sense 'disabling' rather than 'enabling') tech.
CC.
The unfortunate reality is that citations are a metric of "credit" in the academic community and the lack of citations presents a problem for researchers who build tools.
<sarcasm>This is only reflecting the fact that those are unable to add proper value to their respective fields, which again shows that the metrics work well.</sarcasm>
In my days the underlying attitude was reflected by the creation of the label 'Rechenknecht' (appr. compute-slave) for the sub-professoral members of the scientific (so called) 'community' who did most of the work.
CC.
Makes one really feel sorry for mother nature to be honest.
On principle, I am with you. However, you may adopt the view that it is probably not a big problem for the planet to survive a couple of million years of bad influence from humanity.
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So we see countries competing on price of their environment.
Their?
If you wait long enough (centuries, if necessary), this turns into 'ours' quite suddenly.
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