"Time Magazine has caved in to shareholder's demands to feature more buzz words, like 'iPhone' and '...of the year', and pronounced Jobs's little bar of happiness the Invention Of The Year. Yes, it's official - Time has gone mad."
( http://techdigest.tv/2007/11/time_magazine_n.html )
He might be a crackpot, but the idea isn't. Google on MOND.
And his observations regarding 'science' have been made before.
Quote (regarding Kuhn's most renown work, 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions', 1962): "Throughout thirteen succinct but thought-provoking chapters, Kuhn argued that science is not a steady, cumulative acquisition of knowledge. Instead, science is "a series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions" [Nicholas Wade, writing for Science], which he described as "the tradition-shattering complements to the tradition-bound activity of normal science." After such revolutions, "one conceptual world view is replaced by another" [Wade]."
Common reasoning however still is that 'scientic process' is decoupled from 'psychological and social' interference.
... "On the ground, Engineers drive at breakneck speed on crowded roads without fear of collision, and upon reaching destination, will dismantle their cars so they won't take too much parking space."
Not that I want to run them out of a patent (if they TRULY deserve it), but I think most decent programmers might be able to effect the same results with existing code and some head-banging on the wall.
"She is the first researcher to gain access to the original documents from the experimental period at Vipeholm. She describes how the scientists found themselves in the interstice between research and care, and under great pressure from political and economic interests. The confectionery industry donated huge sums of money and tons of chocolates and caramels to the experiments.
The experiments had started in 1945, with government-sanctioned vitamin trials, but they were converted in 1947 without the knowledge of the government. The researchers decided, in consultation with the Medical Board, to start to use sugar instead, to cause tooth decay by using an extremely sweet and sticky diet. Up to that point, Vipeholm employees had been part of the experiment too, but this was stopped, since it was soon found that there was no way of monitoring their intake of sweets.
That much for the relevance of context, avoiding to raise the question how 'science' can have a passport.
I am not paranoid about 'a Chinese person', but about the ubiquitous presence of this (context:... has published over 200 books, book chapters, journal papers, conference proceedings and technical reports in mechanics, intelligent control, robotics and automation. Currently, Dr. Wang is the Secretary-Elect of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Council, members of the ExCom and AdCom of IEEE ITS Council and IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society, associate editors of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, SMC, and ITS, and the Editor-in-Charge of the World Scientific Series on Intelligent Control and Intelligent Automation.") particular one.
"The Chinese themselves don't think they're getting much of the advanced technology. While Americans have complained in the last year about their jobless economic recovery, Chinese have bemoaned what they call a "headless" or "brainless" boom, said panelist Fei-Yue Wang, a University of Arizona specialist on intelligent transportation, who has been involved in the Chinese government's long-term technology planning." http://spectrum.ieee.org/print/4040
If you look a little further at his publication history (a part of it), you might suspect dual-use research. Add experience with 'communist academic careers' (the 'German Democratic Republic' collapsed while I was working at a University here (formerly West)) and you know that you only make it if you are opportunistic. And then you perhaps wonder how he manages to co-author in such a broad variety of areas - coordinating for a more global target?
... , for instance at this place, where we have, as only one example of a high ranking AI-researcher, Dr. Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences (also advisor to the government), who does interesting research like, e.g. "Pedestrian Detection from a Moving Vehicle" (translate for yourself). I had this person on the radar earlier.
Granted, but I said most. I concede that I am/was biased.
facilitating access to knowledge
Working on the premise that 'reality' may perhaps be perceived as 'coded knowledge', you via research decode it and, by a process of stepwise translation, facilitate access for a variety of targets.
sounds (IMHO) like a (pompous) slight. Something that I avoid doing.
Right — I am doing my exercises in order to improve (see sig).
Wikipedia (as a publishing medium) should not be used to learn or practice ones skills, but to actually help improve the knowledge of mankind
Thus, if you indeed happen to have the skill to 'improve the knowledge of mankind' (will not comment on the implications of the 'Weltanschauung' that shows up here), do not practice it on Wikipedia.
Rest assured, most with only a semblance of this competence will avoid to waste their energy anyway.
Using Wikipedia (for article submission) merely as an academic exercise
Last time I pondered about it, I thought that facilitating access to knowledge is 'the academic exercise' per se, aka research.
unknown levels of experience, honesty, or intelligence
Like posters here, especially the one of the submission referred to, in which case 'dubious' may be in place as a means for augmentation of the addressed concepts.
Headline: Over-50s Invade the Social Networking Scene
Then: one third of Facebook users are aged between 35 and 54
Gives some evidence that you may well feel like 50 if you are 35 (especially if you are looking for a job in Germany). Luckily, this does not apply to me, being well over 50 and having 'retired from reality' (as someone mentioned here).
"What is striking is that whereas collaborators of the old regime have made careers in high politics in the new Germany almost all the dissident figures of the DDR, even ones like Rainer Eppelmann, who joined the CDU, have faded from the scene, leaving only Markus Meckel, last DDR foreign minister (SPD) and Arnold Vaatz, an old dissident (CDU) as the only critics of the DDR-regime with a chance of winning seats on 18th September.[12] Dr. Merkel represents the politically upwardly mobile, post-1989 class of ex-DDR citizens, who either served the old regime in one of the Bloc parties or were silent and obedient to all outward appearances." ( c.f., emphasis mine)
Thus, one might think that there still is a lot of 'Stasi-thinking' around, which for sure has fruitfully merged with the remnants of 'Gestapo-mind-set'.
CC. (born & living in Germany, at least physically)
Just compare the profile(s) of the group(s) that have an interest in the content they target (number, average age, coverage in the general media etc., expected resistance/verbal fluency) to the group that thinks sports-trivia (e.g. 'Past single-season home run record holders by average home runs per game') is 'important information'.
In the end, this is not about quality, but self-perceived power and egotism, if not worse.
I think the secret to efficient social networking is decentralization, both of content and of standards.
Same thoughts here. But you still will not beat power laws. Perhaps adding user controlled/hosted 'semi-intelligent-agents' (beyond similarity metrics) as an aid to relation building would help.
Slashdot Mirror
Somebody paid well. Food and Pharma come to mind.
CC.
In 2005: "Obesity Threatens to Cut U.S. Life Expectancy, New Analysis Suggests"
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/mar2005/nia-16.htm
Besides, being underweight, I don't buy into it anyway.
CC.
This has gone too far.
...
Of course, there is an explanation:
"Time Magazine has caved in to shareholder's demands to feature more buzz words, like 'iPhone' and '...of the year', and pronounced Jobs's little bar of happiness the Invention Of The Year. Yes, it's official - Time has gone mad."
( http://techdigest.tv/2007/11/time_magazine_n.html )
In a modern world
CC.
we need to do a better job of educating users
Hmm: "Miss America calls for mandatory internet safety classes — Tells Congress she looked at dirty photos"
You are not alone.
CC.
which could carry out procedures like a player piano.'
... if the patient is not well tuned.
CC.
He might be a crackpot, but the idea isn't. Google on MOND.
And his observations regarding 'science' have been made before.
Quote (regarding Kuhn's most renown work, 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions', 1962): "Throughout thirteen succinct but thought-provoking chapters, Kuhn argued that science is not a steady, cumulative acquisition of knowledge. Instead, science is "a series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions" [Nicholas Wade, writing for Science], which he described as "the tradition-shattering complements to the tradition-bound activity of normal science." After such revolutions, "one conceptual world view is replaced by another" [Wade]."
Common reasoning however still is that 'scientic process' is decoupled from 'psychological and social' interference.
CC.
... "On the ground, Engineers drive at breakneck speed on crowded roads without fear of collision, and upon reaching destination, will dismantle their cars so they won't take too much parking space."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God's_Eye#Motie_technology
Next thing that it should have an integrated autodoc with the proper spare parts.
CC.
Not that I want to run them out of a patent (if they TRULY deserve it), but I think most decent programmers might be able to effect the same results with existing code and some head-banging on the wall.
:)
Yes, I think so too. Get started
CC.
definately Did you mean: definitely site:slashdot.org
Close enough?
CC.
28 events is a ridiculously small sample size
But imagine how many nearly identical conference/research papers they can conjure up by slowly increasing the sample size they report on!
CC.
it's all there ...
.22 caliber gun disguised as cell phone
Mobile Phone Gun -
CC.
Excerpt from the article:
"She is the first researcher to gain access to the original documents from the experimental period at Vipeholm. She describes how the scientists found themselves in the interstice between research and care, and under great pressure from political and economic interests. The confectionery industry donated huge sums of money and tons of chocolates and caramels to the experiments.
The experiments had started in 1945, with government-sanctioned vitamin trials, but they were converted in 1947 without the knowledge of the government. The researchers decided, in consultation with the Medical Board, to start to use sugar instead, to cause tooth decay by using an extremely sweet and sticky diet. Up to that point, Vipeholm employees had been part of the experiment too, but this was stopped, since it was soon found that there was no way of monitoring their intake of sweets.
That much for the relevance of context, avoiding to raise the question how 'science' can have a passport.
CC.
You might want to have a look at touchgraph.
...
The upshot of this is that those freaks out there building falsely "deep" infatuous relationships
Save on your energy budget.
CC.
Pedestrian Detection from a Moving Vehicle
... has published over 200 books, book chapters, journal papers, conference proceedings and technical reports in mechanics, intelligent control, robotics and automation. Currently, Dr. Wang is the Secretary-Elect of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Council, members of the ExCom and AdCom of IEEE ITS Council and IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society, associate editors of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, SMC, and ITS, and the Editor-in-Charge of the World Scientific Series on Intelligent Control and Intelligent Automation.") particular one.
=identifying targets from a vehicle
I am not paranoid about 'a Chinese person', but about the ubiquitous presence of this (context:
"The Chinese themselves don't think they're getting much of the advanced technology. While Americans have complained in the last year about their jobless economic recovery, Chinese have bemoaned what they call a "headless" or "brainless" boom, said panelist Fei-Yue Wang, a University of Arizona specialist on intelligent transportation, who has been involved in the Chinese government's long-term technology planning."
http://spectrum.ieee.org/print/4040
If you look a little further at his publication history (a part of it), you might suspect dual-use research. Add experience with 'communist academic careers' (the 'German Democratic Republic' collapsed while I was working at a University here (formerly West)) and you know that you only make it if you are opportunistic. And then you perhaps wonder how he manages to co-author in such a broad variety of areas - coordinating for a more global target?
YMMV.
CC.
... , for instance at this place, where we have, as only one example of a high ranking AI-researcher, Dr. Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences (also advisor to the government), who does interesting research like, e.g. "Pedestrian Detection from a Moving Vehicle" (translate for yourself). I had this person on the radar earlier.
CC.
You retired from reality? When did you join Facebook?
Asking here at this place ???
CC.
I've read many very good articles on WikiPedia.
Granted, but I said most. I concede that I am/was biased.
facilitating access to knowledge
Working on the premise that 'reality' may perhaps be perceived as 'coded knowledge', you via research decode it and, by a process of stepwise translation, facilitate access for a variety of targets.
sounds (IMHO) like a (pompous) slight. Something that I avoid doing.
Right — I am doing my exercises in order to improve (see sig).
CC.
Wikipedia (as a publishing medium) should not be used to learn or practice ones skills, but to actually help improve the knowledge of mankind
Thus, if you indeed happen to have the skill to 'improve the knowledge of mankind' (will not comment on the implications of the 'Weltanschauung' that shows up here), do not practice it on Wikipedia.
Rest assured, most with only a semblance of this competence will avoid to waste their energy anyway.
Using Wikipedia (for article submission) merely as an academic exercise
Last time I pondered about it, I thought that facilitating access to knowledge is 'the academic exercise' per se, aka research.
unknown levels of experience, honesty, or intelligence
Like posters here, especially the one of the submission referred to, in which case 'dubious' may be in place as a means for augmentation of the addressed concepts.
CC.
Headline: Over-50s Invade the Social Networking Scene
Then: one third of Facebook users are aged between 35 and 54
Gives some evidence that you may well feel like 50 if you are 35 (especially if you are looking for a job in Germany). Luckily, this does not apply to me, being well over 50 and having 'retired from reality' (as someone mentioned here).
CC.
None ever materialized
...
But
CC.
the following might shade a light ...
"What is striking is that whereas collaborators of the old regime have made careers in high politics in the new Germany almost all the dissident figures of the DDR, even ones like Rainer Eppelmann, who joined the CDU, have faded from the scene, leaving only Markus Meckel, last DDR foreign minister (SPD) and Arnold Vaatz, an old dissident (CDU) as the only critics of the DDR-regime with a chance of winning seats on 18th September.[12] Dr. Merkel represents the politically upwardly mobile, post-1989 class of ex-DDR citizens, who either served the old regime in one of the Bloc parties or were silent and obedient to all outward appearances." ( c.f., emphasis mine)
Thus, one might think that there still is a lot of 'Stasi-thinking' around, which for sure has fruitfully merged with the remnants of 'Gestapo-mind-set'.
CC. (born & living in Germany, at least physically)
is trivia heading for removal completely ?
Be sure it is not.
Just compare the profile(s) of the group(s) that have an interest in the content they target (number, average age, coverage in the general media etc., expected resistance/verbal fluency) to the group that thinks sports-trivia (e.g. 'Past single-season home run record holders by average home runs per game') is 'important information'.
In the end, this is not about quality, but self-perceived power and egotism, if not worse.
CC.
I think the secret to efficient social networking is decentralization, both of content and of standards.
Same thoughts here. But you still will not beat power laws. Perhaps adding user controlled/hosted 'semi-intelligent-agents' (beyond similarity metrics) as an aid to relation building would help.
CC.
but I have to wonder if this isn't a brilliant plan by the music companies to sell you the same music yet again!
Yep; and the RIAA, and even if only for the 'ego', makes sure that it is more equally involved (perhaps by way of a digital(!) filter?).
CC.
You can find just about any storage technology that has ever existed in use in someone's current product, right now.
Just thought that vapor (as OP said) is less.
CC.