Are they trying to catch real-world terrorists or Lex Luthor?
They're looking for the coed naked twister parties. I haven't seen a t-shirt or hat with that phrase in probably 20 years...
Seriously though I hope they whitelist weather.gov or else a lot of mostly harmless meteorologists will pay the ultimate price in america's war on civil liberties err I mean terror.
or dx. there's going to be a clone there in a month anyways.
The concept of clone is inappropriate since they've release gerbers and BoM and all that. Its a clone the same way two 6-32 machine screws that came off different yet identical screw machines are "clones".
They chopped the main site and put up a single page static site to handle the load, if they had not, I'd be including a link to the gerber files etc. You two can become a raspberry pi manufacturer.
My experience with dx is that it might be clone like in that it'll probably have inferior parts on the same PCB. I haven't checked the rasp-pi BoM but a reasonable working V spec for a tantalum capacitor on a 3.3 volt power bus might be, say, 16 volts, so that no matter how you F up your power connections at least you won't have to replace all the caps, even if you do have to replace the chips. It only costs a few pennies more. But I almost guarantee the dx clone would be assembled with the cheapest imaginable 4 volt rated caps for the 3.3 volt lines, and that will work.. for a little while... most of the time... Or they'll cheap out and use something with a much higher ESR so its noisier and somewhat less reliable around RF (like stepper motors switching on and off might crash a clone due to power glitches and a "real one" might not notice, or your bluetooth range isn't what it should be, etc)
None of these is satisfactory as they obviously don't adjust for things you can't measure
Or things you won't measure for whatever convoluted reason.
For example, back pain patients given powerful painkillers recover slower or not at all compared to no painkillers.
Example of false reasoning: I overstrained my back doing some overambitious carpentry alone. Intense pain when sitting or standing, laying on back not so bad. Went to doc, did not accept script for painkillers because I slept on my back just fine and everything I do sitting or standing is not allowed while on pain killers anyway (can't even drive to work if I'm high on painkillers). Also doc is all nervous that I'm dr shopping for abuse meds and really chilled out and got more helpful once he realized it was perfectly clear that I was only genuinely trying to fix my back. blah blah blah. The point is the diagnosis of "back pain" is the same for me and someone who's in agony even when lying down so they need painkillers just to sleep. No great stretch of imagination that the guy in more agony than myself is more F'd up and takes longer to recover (took me only about half a week, but I've heard if you really F up your back it can be semi-permanent, months maybe). Multiply this by 15K and you get a whopper like "taking painkillers means it takes months to recover from back pain diagnosis instead of days"
But my dirty little secret: My real name isn't formfeed
Ah this old strawman, obsoleted months ago when G+ made "pages" available. Set up your G+ account under $realname whatever it is. Create a business/organization/pr page maintained and controlled by you named "formfeed". Never post tethercat videos on the $realname page, never post homework assignments on the formfeed page. Done.
I maintain or curate or whatever my local ham radio club G+ page. To the best of my knowledge, to my annoyance, actually, it seems the only people who can figure out who runs the radio club page is GOOG.
Here, do a real live experiment. Go to the G+ page for "Perl Weekly" and try to figure out who runs it other than by his own very intentional public admission. You can't. He did intentionally put his name on the "about" page and he makes no secret of it in his own comments, but other than those intentional "security breeches", only himself and GOOG know who is running the "Perl Weekly" page.
Close but you missed a point in the system. If and only if the input signal is noiseless and/or the spectrum of the noise is white (almost always isn't AGWN) and completely driftless over time.
which is a static system (time independent), and we can measure it for as long as we like
There is no such thing out there, and at the 32 bit level there is a lot of logic chopping and special circumstances required. Maybe something like counting 32 bits worth of individual photons in a laboratory setting...
I do agree with your analysis.... if the "raw analog signal" has a theoretical 16 bits of accuracy, you can smack a 8 bit A/D against it for a long time to get a 16 bit piece of massaged meaningful data. But smack a 20 bit A/D converter against a raw signal that inherently limits at 16 bits and you still only get 16 bits of data. Note I'm not talking about DSP techniques for pulling data below the noise level, I'm talking about the data itself only containing 16 bits worth of data regardless of the SNR.
Shannon describes an upper limit on a AGWN channel but it assumes otherwise perfect signal path... its an upper limit not an always achievable goal.
When I came to watch DS9, I was bored out of my freaking mind most of the time. Oh, more drama between characters, more religious drama... Oh god no, not a Ferengi episode. While I had good memories of what I had seen in the past, seeing the whole show again was not really fun. The addition of Worf did add something more interesting with the show, but we had to go through the awkward Worf phase where he doesn't seem to fit in, for drama's sake.
Watch Mr Garrick closely. The most interesting character in all of trekdom. The only alien culture where they gave up on trying to balance and just did something downright weird (Think of how annoying it is that vulcan scientists were also witch doctors on the side)
Tell me again what the safety issues are in the 'operation' of solar panels?
For me, it has been climbing onto a slippery steel roof to brush snow off in the winter, and washing the dust and bird plops in the summer.
It's mostly installation cheapskate problems that crop up in operation. Its low voltage DC (well, at least some systems) so I don't need one of them permits in this county to wire it up so I'm doing it MY way. AC, DC, who cares I'm using a AC rated breaker. I wanna use a cheap APX style fuse, what you say the interruption voltage is 48 volts and I've got a 72 volt array, well that voltage is supposed to be a minimum, right?
(for the sarcasm impaired, everything suggested above is a good way to start an electrical fire, although to a non-EE non-electrician type it probably sounds like a bunch of good ideas)
Great idea, but if i cant have it local, then no thanks. I don't want to rely on something that is being hosted by another party.
They lose interest, poof there goes my work.
I checked the FAQ. Ouch.
Can I export my CircuitLab schematics out to another tool?
Not at this time.
Especially big bummer as I'd like to import ckts into a PCB autorouter. So its just a toy, at least right now, as opposed to a "real" EDA tool, which is too bad.
I checked it out and there's a pretty limited selection of BJTs, etc. Well I poked around and it turns out you can do something pretty cool with just a couple parts, with any luck here's a differential amp, assuming this link works:
My guess is they'll soon be releasing a "paid" version where I can use thousands of (official?) transistor models not just 10 or so. That would be pretty awesome.
Also if they know what they're doing they'll partner with a short run PCB house. Some PCB houses give away PCB CAD software, these guys have a jump ahead of them... Maybe they already have, I have not explored the entire site. Imagine doing the schematic, the spice run, the pcb layout, and order some boards (and parts?) from the same browser window... that would be cool. Heck partner with those "virtual front panel" guys too.
If you double click on a component you can change the parameters, I think I could design a nifty little MMIC active constant current biasing circuit by hacking a rectifier model into a psuedo-mmic model (basically crank the forward V drop to 3 volts or so, depending on device, and a couple other things especially device capacitance). I wonder if I can push it into oscillation? (Note, you try to design ckts that don't do that... at least if they're theoretically amplifiers) Or get it to ring into a negative voltage at the amp input by doing stupid inductor tricks (this is why you don't use MMICs at HF freqs, aside from oscillation and usually intentional device gain rolloff)
I'd like to see the ability to handle temperature swings. My parts are milspec individually, but does my overall design work over a whole milspec temp range?
I suppose if I'm asking for the moon, could I have something like Ansoft for waveguide foolishness in my browser window?
Google+, however, misses that boat: anyone can add you, without your consent (you can only block, not force them to unfriend). That means there is no "confirmed acceptance", missing out on a key social-emotional facet.
I almost never post public unless its a pretty generic brag (hey! look world, I built me a... or bought me a...) I almost always post to circles and I control who is in those circles. Creepy people of the universe can circle me all they want, but they're only gonna see stuff I'd post on my virtual front lawn or my resume.
This operation mode is entirely different from what I remember on FB where all your friends saw all the junk you posted.
The "confirmed acceptance" on G+ is when I circle you back and put you in whatever individual or combination of circles I feel appropriate, based on your previous public posts or your filled out profile. Most people on G+ operate this way, which might explain to you why you see people ranting along the lines of "WTF do people circle me but they won't fill out their profile or post anything". Your pictures have your QSL card and ham radio callsign and you go in the ham radio circle, you have a picture of your homemade SMD reflow oven you go in my hardware hackers circle, you have blank profile and no public posts I ignore you and you never see anything other than my rare public post.
Circle me on G+ and you'll only see about 1% of my total activity, if that, until I figure out who the heck you are and which of my hobby circles you belong in.
The slider man, the slider. You need to crank your circles slider. I was overwhelmed until I cranked the slider to the "correct" levels for each of my hobby groups to match their posting volumes with my interest levels, just like tweaking a stereo equalizer... I also wish they had a slider for individuals not just circles.
the tranny community will love the built in polymorphism of G++, especially after the scandal back last July or so about G+ only allowing M or F for gender. The encapsulation/inheritance system of G++ is not all that different than the existing G+ circle system. It'll still take two years of college classes for the "best and the brightest" to figure out how to noobishly incorrectly use G++. The G++ html code will render differently on every freaking browser just like (over the span of years) C++ was a freaking headache to keep working. Lack of native multithreading on G++ means we'll still be stuck with the tired old non-tree posting format of FB and G+ (unlike/. which has a tree posting structure) I'll paraphrase a Bjarne Stroustrup quote about G++: "There are only two kinds of social media sites: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses.". I love that quote, he rocks.
Ah that seems to be the key. FB is for people you know, however tenuously distant like that kid who sat next to you at lunch hour 20 years ago. G+ is for people who share interests with you. I've "met" some freaking amazing photographers, a couple decent hardware hackers, a couple decent cooks/chefs, some decent programmers, hundreds of ham radio operators...
Has anyone had any luck meeting and conversing with people in the hobbiest/interest type groups on FB or linkedin or whatever else? seems to be a spammy empty wasteland, but G+ actually more or less works for that.
Before I deleted FB years ago, 90% was people I knew and 10% was people I found. G+ seems to have flipped that ratio, which no one seems to be talking about. Yes there are exceptions, if you work at GOOG probably everyone you work with is there, but otherwise its the land of hobbies.
Seriously that might work. The journalist / media assumption is social media is only grannie auntie and the creep from middle school talking about nothing. Its even embedded into the language as "friend" and "friending". G+ seems to be going another direction into something like world wide/online/hobby clubs...
Does G+ have ads? I only use browsers with an ad blocker so I'm not sure. About a third of the article was fixation on advertisers interest, or lack thereof, WRT G+, which I thought was strange because I could swear they don't even have ads.
G+ is pretty popular in the ham radio and technical community. Linus makes posts worth reading. It seems like "technology podcaster" types use G+ heavily. Seems to be a lot of maker/hardware hacker type people on G+. Theres an interesting crowd of weather-freaks who like to second guess the NWS forecasters and do their own NAM and GFS analysis (I'm into it enough to know what they're talking about, but its not really my thing)
As far as news I circle Perl Weekly, Anonymous, and a software engineer named Margaret Leber who seems to share about 3 zerohedge articles per day.
Mike Elgan and Dan McDermott/Steve Mayne had some pretty insightful G+ posts WRT this whole "non-issue". Maynes post pretty much summarize the whole topic, a typical FB post results in 300 mostly idiot comments and G+ only has 20 comments but the average IQ level in the G+ posts is around 40 points higher. Its not as intelligent as/. is, at least when I'm posting, but G+ is up there (smile that was a joke)
Its not all good. G+ has way too many chicks who post hot-ish G to PG-13 rated pics of themselves (playboy models, strippers) and babble. It was entertaining for a bit but I can get better pics for free elsewhere, so bye bye ladies. Theres always some political moron who bellows loudly but doesn't know much.
Seems like GOOG needs to do a bit of product differentiation. FB is for the kid you sat next to in study hall in 8th grade, grind casual games, chicks gossiping and fighting with each other, spammy company fan pages (chose your own selection of free spam!) and sharing pics with granny. In contrast, G+ seems to be interesting people.
Though experiment. Take a 1 KHz tone sampled at 10 KHz, phase shift it 180 degrees as described in article, thats 5 samples phase/temporal shift. On the other hand in the 100 hz band you need to shift 50 samples for the same degree phase shift.
The alternative is no phase/temporal shifting which is not how it was described in the article, but you just take two binaries and diff them, essentially.
Think of how white noise and pink noise at a given frequency have the same power, but white noise has the same power per Hz across the band and pink noise has the same power per octave across the band, two different concepts if you handle multiple frequencies.
Somewhere in between. From the fine article he reversed the phase on one and added it and listened to what fell out, which wasn't much. Essentially a lot of complicated analog foolishness to figure out the delta between two files. Would seem you could do a lot simpler version of this digitally, decode both into raw / wav files, then calculate the diff between the two raw files.
Two "identical" guys one gets pill one doesn't is an anecdote. 12 thousand is not just a misdiagnosis. There must be something "different" about the 12K that did vs the 12K who did not, other than random chance. I don't think in the UK treatment plans are determined using dice or tarot cards, so there must be something special about the 12K who got the pills... or the 12K who didn't...
The only way I can see a Democrat voting for Santorum in the primary is to help Obama win in the general election. Is Santorum banking on his own unelectability to win the primary?
Exactly. Unelectability in MI If you're not going to get the electoral votes from MI anyway, none of those people matter in any way except that they can be used to get your nomination, then you can win using other states. Its kind of a big middle finger from S to the state of MI. Which could lead Ds to vote for R anyway just to spite S.
Either that or S knew that robocalls are a dirty trick so tried to make it look like R was paying for them to frame S, but failed, R has proof, so S was ordered by his bosses (megacorp campaign donors) to fall on his sword rather than R airing his dirty laundry.
Thats what makes it a crazy story. Oldest trick in the book that "the other side" always votes for the most unelectable guy to make certain they can win against him. You have to be a total political noob to try this stunt of asking for D votes before the nomination, whoever the D vote for is who they think O will be able to easily beat. Which everyone knows is Santorum anyway. Thats why everyone who pays attention to this thought the Santorum (the guy, not the bodily fluid) robocalls were a "dirty trick" by Romney's guys to make Santorum look bad (well, he does a pretty good job all by himself, I mean help him look worse). Then Santorum is dumb enough to admit to doing the robocalls himself. That dude is doomed to never get the nomination after this little scuffle. If he wasn't a complete idiot he'd blame Romney for the robocalls to democrats in support of himself. Indications of a martyr complex?
1. Find something that no one likes, like cross burning or robo calls. 2. Spend money to frame competition for doing it. 3. Profit! Or at least donations to you instead of competition, unless your stupid enough to admit you did it.
I will say that the only thing worse that this would be getting caught and outed by your opponent. The only intelligent explanation is Santorum tried to frame Romney by paying for robo calls to democrats in support of himself, but Romney caught him and got the goods on him, "and for the greater good of the R party" the chiefs (big donors, etc) convinced Santorum to fall on his sword instead of getting totally destroyed by Romney outing him. Santorum will probably get a minor position in "reward" for falling on his sword. Not too high up, getting caught being a crook is rough on the reputation...
Wouldn't this be a game-changer for encryption, though (if they can actually make it work, that is)? I mean, brute-force decryption seems like exactly the kind of computational task that a quantum computer could easily handle. So a brute-force attack on a key that may take hundreds of years on a current supercomputer could be done in a few minutes. No password would be safe from any organization with access to that kind of computing power. Or am I understanding the potential?
Not necessarily, no. For any crypto app you can come up with some formula where you chunk in the number of bits and it spits out how long it takes to crack it. It exclusively has to do with scalability in design. Double a linear algo and that number takes twice as long. Most (good) crypto is exponential so triple the number of bits it goes up by 3^3 or 27 times longer or whatever. The deal is quantum computing for some crypto increases by poly instead of exponential.
What no one wants to talk about is what if the quantum solution for a given sample takes 100 years... thats a bucket of fail even if it only increases poly. That is completely freaking useless because it scales nicely if you double the number of bits its just great that it only increases to 200 years, but no one can wait 100 years anyway, so...
This is also the strongly minority belief I hold about P=NP where I'm willing to accept there might be a poly solution to a supposedly exponential problem, but the constant factor for a trivial problem might be like a factorial number of universe-lifetimes so theoretically it exists which is why it hasn't been disproven yet and also it has no real world effect.
Much like the physics analogy of time dilatation at highway speeds, it exists, but its irrelevant in scale.
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Not till they shut off dancing with the stars, hillbilly hand fishin, and monday night football.
Hurricane, Tornado, Twister, Tsunami, Earthquake, Tremor, Flood
Are they trying to catch real-world terrorists or Lex Luthor?
They're looking for music pirates! Its a RIAA front! Beware!
Rock you like a Huricaaaaane... (a little over played, but good)
Pantera_Floods.mp3 (pretty good)
"Texas Tornado" by Bobby Braddock (note I spec'd music pirates, not "good music" pirates)
Earthquake by lil wayne (see above note x10)
I need some help w/ the rest...
... Tornado, Twister, Tsunami, ...
Are they trying to catch real-world terrorists or Lex Luthor?
They're looking for the coed naked twister parties. I haven't seen a t-shirt or hat with that phrase in probably 20 years...
Seriously though I hope they whitelist weather.gov or else a lot of mostly harmless meteorologists will pay the ultimate price in america's war on civil liberties err I mean terror.
or dx. there's going to be a clone there in a month anyways.
The concept of clone is inappropriate since they've release gerbers and BoM and all that. Its a clone the same way two 6-32 machine screws that came off different yet identical screw machines are "clones".
They chopped the main site and put up a single page static site to handle the load, if they had not, I'd be including a link to the gerber files etc. You two can become a raspberry pi manufacturer.
My experience with dx is that it might be clone like in that it'll probably have inferior parts on the same PCB. I haven't checked the rasp-pi BoM but a reasonable working V spec for a tantalum capacitor on a 3.3 volt power bus might be, say, 16 volts, so that no matter how you F up your power connections at least you won't have to replace all the caps, even if you do have to replace the chips. It only costs a few pennies more. But I almost guarantee the dx clone would be assembled with the cheapest imaginable 4 volt rated caps for the 3.3 volt lines, and that will work.. for a little while... most of the time... Or they'll cheap out and use something with a much higher ESR so its noisier and somewhat less reliable around RF (like stepper motors switching on and off might crash a clone due to power glitches and a "real one" might not notice, or your bluetooth range isn't what it should be, etc)
None of these is satisfactory as they obviously don't adjust for things you can't measure
Or things you won't measure for whatever convoluted reason.
For example, back pain patients given powerful painkillers recover slower or not at all compared to no painkillers.
Example of false reasoning: I overstrained my back doing some overambitious carpentry alone. Intense pain when sitting or standing, laying on back not so bad. Went to doc, did not accept script for painkillers because I slept on my back just fine and everything I do sitting or standing is not allowed while on pain killers anyway (can't even drive to work if I'm high on painkillers). Also doc is all nervous that I'm dr shopping for abuse meds and really chilled out and got more helpful once he realized it was perfectly clear that I was only genuinely trying to fix my back. blah blah blah. The point is the diagnosis of "back pain" is the same for me and someone who's in agony even when lying down so they need painkillers just to sleep. No great stretch of imagination that the guy in more agony than myself is more F'd up and takes longer to recover (took me only about half a week, but I've heard if you really F up your back it can be semi-permanent, months maybe). Multiply this by 15K and you get a whopper like "taking painkillers means it takes months to recover from back pain diagnosis instead of days"
But my dirty little secret: My real name isn't formfeed
Ah this old strawman, obsoleted months ago when G+ made "pages" available. Set up your G+ account under $realname whatever it is. Create a business/organization/pr page maintained and controlled by you named "formfeed". Never post tethercat videos on the $realname page, never post homework assignments on the formfeed page. Done.
I maintain or curate or whatever my local ham radio club G+ page. To the best of my knowledge, to my annoyance, actually, it seems the only people who can figure out who runs the radio club page is GOOG.
Here, do a real live experiment. Go to the G+ page for "Perl Weekly" and try to figure out who runs it other than by his own very intentional public admission. You can't. He did intentionally put his name on the "about" page and he makes no secret of it in his own comments, but other than those intentional "security breeches", only himself and GOOG know who is running the "Perl Weekly" page.
Close but you missed a point in the system. If and only if the input signal is noiseless and/or the spectrum of the noise is white (almost always isn't AGWN) and completely driftless over time.
which is a static system (time independent), and we can measure it for as long as we like
There is no such thing out there, and at the 32 bit level there is a lot of logic chopping and special circumstances required. Maybe something like counting 32 bits worth of individual photons in a laboratory setting...
I do agree with your analysis.... if the "raw analog signal" has a theoretical 16 bits of accuracy, you can smack a 8 bit A/D against it for a long time to get a 16 bit piece of massaged meaningful data. But smack a 20 bit A/D converter against a raw signal that inherently limits at 16 bits and you still only get 16 bits of data. Note I'm not talking about DSP techniques for pulling data below the noise level, I'm talking about the data itself only containing 16 bits worth of data regardless of the SNR.
Shannon describes an upper limit on a AGWN channel but it assumes otherwise perfect signal path... its an upper limit not an always achievable goal.
When I came to watch DS9, I was bored out of my freaking mind most of the time. Oh, more drama between characters, more religious drama... Oh god no, not a Ferengi episode. While I had good memories of what I had seen in the past, seeing the whole show again was not really fun. The addition of Worf did add something more interesting with the show, but we had to go through the awkward Worf phase where he doesn't seem to fit in, for drama's sake.
Watch Mr Garrick closely. The most interesting character in all of trekdom. The only alien culture where they gave up on trying to balance and just did something downright weird (Think of how annoying it is that vulcan scientists were also witch doctors on the side)
Tell me again what the safety issues are in the 'operation' of solar panels?
For me, it has been climbing onto a slippery steel roof to brush snow off in the winter, and washing the dust and bird plops in the summer.
It's mostly installation cheapskate problems that crop up in operation. Its low voltage DC (well, at least some systems) so I don't need one of them permits in this county to wire it up so I'm doing it MY way. AC, DC, who cares I'm using a AC rated breaker. I wanna use a cheap APX style fuse, what you say the interruption voltage is 48 volts and I've got a 72 volt array, well that voltage is supposed to be a minimum, right?
(for the sarcasm impaired, everything suggested above is a good way to start an electrical fire, although to a non-EE non-electrician type it probably sounds like a bunch of good ideas)
Great idea, but if i cant have it local, then no thanks. I don't want to rely on something that is being hosted by another party.
They lose interest, poof there goes my work.
I checked the FAQ. Ouch.
Can I export my CircuitLab schematics out to another tool?
Not at this time.
Especially big bummer as I'd like to import ckts into a PCB autorouter. So its just a toy, at least right now, as opposed to a "real" EDA tool, which is too bad.
I do not see a way to make the voltage source AC.
Try the demo differential amp circuit, that shows you how. Seems to work.
Its pretty cool, although limited.
I checked it out and there's a pretty limited selection of BJTs, etc. Well I poked around and it turns out you can do something pretty cool with just a couple parts, with any luck here's a differential amp, assuming this link works:
https://www.circuitlab.com/circuit/fby849/bjt-cascoded-active-load-differential-amplifier-with-cmfb/
My guess is they'll soon be releasing a "paid" version where I can use thousands of (official?) transistor models not just 10 or so. That would be pretty awesome.
Also if they know what they're doing they'll partner with a short run PCB house. Some PCB houses give away PCB CAD software, these guys have a jump ahead of them... Maybe they already have, I have not explored the entire site. Imagine doing the schematic, the spice run, the pcb layout, and order some boards (and parts?) from the same browser window... that would be cool. Heck partner with those "virtual front panel" guys too.
If you double click on a component you can change the parameters, I think I could design a nifty little MMIC active constant current biasing circuit by hacking a rectifier model into a psuedo-mmic model (basically crank the forward V drop to 3 volts or so, depending on device, and a couple other things especially device capacitance). I wonder if I can push it into oscillation? (Note, you try to design ckts that don't do that... at least if they're theoretically amplifiers) Or get it to ring into a negative voltage at the amp input by doing stupid inductor tricks (this is why you don't use MMICs at HF freqs, aside from oscillation and usually intentional device gain rolloff)
I'd like to see the ability to handle temperature swings. My parts are milspec individually, but does my overall design work over a whole milspec temp range?
I suppose if I'm asking for the moon, could I have something like Ansoft for waveguide foolishness in my browser window?
Google+, however, misses that boat: anyone can add you, without your consent (you can only block, not force them to unfriend). That means there is no "confirmed acceptance", missing out on a key social-emotional facet.
I almost never post public unless its a pretty generic brag (hey! look world, I built me a ... or bought me a ...) I almost always post to circles and I control who is in those circles. Creepy people of the universe can circle me all they want, but they're only gonna see stuff I'd post on my virtual front lawn or my resume.
This operation mode is entirely different from what I remember on FB where all your friends saw all the junk you posted.
The "confirmed acceptance" on G+ is when I circle you back and put you in whatever individual or combination of circles I feel appropriate, based on your previous public posts or your filled out profile. Most people on G+ operate this way, which might explain to you why you see people ranting along the lines of "WTF do people circle me but they won't fill out their profile or post anything". Your pictures have your QSL card and ham radio callsign and you go in the ham radio circle, you have a picture of your homemade SMD reflow oven you go in my hardware hackers circle, you have blank profile and no public posts I ignore you and you never see anything other than my rare public post.
Circle me on G+ and you'll only see about 1% of my total activity, if that, until I figure out who the heck you are and which of my hobby circles you belong in.
Your stream consists of everybody or one circle
The slider man, the slider. You need to crank your circles slider. I was overwhelmed until I cranked the slider to the "correct" levels for each of my hobby groups to match their posting volumes with my interest levels, just like tweaking a stereo equalizer... I also wish they had a slider for individuals not just circles.
the tranny community will love the built in polymorphism of G++, especially after the scandal back last July or so about G+ only allowing M or F for gender. /. which has a tree posting structure)
The encapsulation/inheritance system of G++ is not all that different than the existing G+ circle system.
It'll still take two years of college classes for the "best and the brightest" to figure out how to noobishly incorrectly use G++.
The G++ html code will render differently on every freaking browser just like (over the span of years) C++ was a freaking headache to keep working.
Lack of native multithreading on G++ means we'll still be stuck with the tired old non-tree posting format of FB and G+ (unlike
I'll paraphrase a Bjarne Stroustrup quote about G++: "There are only two kinds of social media sites: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses.". I love that quote, he rocks.
or at least everybody they knew was
Ah that seems to be the key. FB is for people you know, however tenuously distant like that kid who sat next to you at lunch hour 20 years ago. G+ is for people who share interests with you. I've "met" some freaking amazing photographers, a couple decent hardware hackers, a couple decent cooks/chefs, some decent programmers, hundreds of ham radio operators...
Has anyone had any luck meeting and conversing with people in the hobbiest/interest type groups on FB or linkedin or whatever else? seems to be a spammy empty wasteland, but G+ actually more or less works for that.
Before I deleted FB years ago, 90% was people I knew and 10% was people I found. G+ seems to have flipped that ratio, which no one seems to be talking about. Yes there are exceptions, if you work at GOOG probably everyone you work with is there, but otherwise its the land of hobbies.
Seriously that might work. The journalist / media assumption is social media is only grannie auntie and the creep from middle school talking about nothing. Its even embedded into the language as "friend" and "friending". G+ seems to be going another direction into something like world wide/online/hobby clubs...
Does G+ have ads? I only use browsers with an ad blocker so I'm not sure. About a third of the article was fixation on advertisers interest, or lack thereof, WRT G+, which I thought was strange because I could swear they don't even have ads.
G+ is pretty popular in the ham radio and technical community. Linus makes posts worth reading. It seems like "technology podcaster" types use G+ heavily. Seems to be a lot of maker/hardware hacker type people on G+. Theres an interesting crowd of weather-freaks who like to second guess the NWS forecasters and do their own NAM and GFS analysis (I'm into it enough to know what they're talking about, but its not really my thing)
As far as news I circle Perl Weekly, Anonymous, and a software engineer named Margaret Leber who seems to share about 3 zerohedge articles per day.
Mike Elgan and Dan McDermott/Steve Mayne had some pretty insightful G+ posts WRT this whole "non-issue". Maynes post pretty much summarize the whole topic, a typical FB post results in 300 mostly idiot comments and G+ only has 20 comments but the average IQ level in the G+ posts is around 40 points higher. Its not as intelligent as /. is, at least when I'm posting, but G+ is up there (smile that was a joke)
Its not all good. G+ has way too many chicks who post hot-ish G to PG-13 rated pics of themselves (playboy models, strippers) and babble. It was entertaining for a bit but I can get better pics for free elsewhere, so bye bye ladies. Theres always some political moron who bellows loudly but doesn't know much.
Seems like GOOG needs to do a bit of product differentiation. FB is for the kid you sat next to in study hall in 8th grade, grind casual games, chicks gossiping and fighting with each other, spammy company fan pages (chose your own selection of free spam!) and sharing pics with granny. In contrast, G+ seems to be interesting people.
Depends how you do the diff.
Though experiment. Take a 1 KHz tone sampled at 10 KHz, phase shift it 180 degrees as described in article, thats 5 samples phase/temporal shift. On the other hand in the 100 hz band you need to shift 50 samples for the same degree phase shift.
The alternative is no phase/temporal shifting which is not how it was described in the article, but you just take two binaries and diff them, essentially.
Think of how white noise and pink noise at a given frequency have the same power, but white noise has the same power per Hz across the band and pink noise has the same power per octave across the band, two different concepts if you handle multiple frequencies.
Somewhere in between. From the fine article he reversed the phase on one and added it and listened to what fell out, which wasn't much. Essentially a lot of complicated analog foolishness to figure out the delta between two files. Would seem you could do a lot simpler version of this digitally, decode both into raw / wav files, then calculate the diff between the two raw files.
Two "identical" guys one gets pill one doesn't is an anecdote.
12 thousand is not just a misdiagnosis. There must be something "different" about the 12K that did vs the 12K who did not, other than random chance. I don't think in the UK treatment plans are determined using dice or tarot cards, so there must be something special about the 12K who got the pills... or the 12K who didn't...
Most of the people I know who take sleeping pills are not necessarily the most stable people in the world to begin with. Sorry to all you Ambien fans.
Theoretically, yes. In practice I don't think so.
find 12 thousand who had been prescribed sleeping pills and a matched set of controls
The only way I can see a Democrat voting for Santorum in the primary is to help Obama win in the general election. Is Santorum banking on his own unelectability to win the primary?
Exactly. Unelectability in MI If you're not going to get the electoral votes from MI anyway, none of those people matter in any way except that they can be used to get your nomination, then you can win using other states. Its kind of a big middle finger from S to the state of MI. Which could lead Ds to vote for R anyway just to spite S.
Either that or S knew that robocalls are a dirty trick so tried to make it look like R was paying for them to frame S, but failed, R has proof, so S was ordered by his bosses (megacorp campaign donors) to fall on his sword rather than R airing his dirty laundry.
Thats what makes it a crazy story. Oldest trick in the book that "the other side" always votes for the most unelectable guy to make certain they can win against him. You have to be a total political noob to try this stunt of asking for D votes before the nomination, whoever the D vote for is who they think O will be able to easily beat. Which everyone knows is Santorum anyway. Thats why everyone who pays attention to this thought the Santorum (the guy, not the bodily fluid) robocalls were a "dirty trick" by Romney's guys to make Santorum look bad (well, he does a pretty good job all by himself, I mean help him look worse). Then Santorum is dumb enough to admit to doing the robocalls himself. That dude is doomed to never get the nomination after this little scuffle. If he wasn't a complete idiot he'd blame Romney for the robocalls to democrats in support of himself. Indications of a martyr complex?
1. Find something that no one likes, like cross burning or robo calls.
2. Spend money to frame competition for doing it.
3. Profit! Or at least donations to you instead of competition, unless your stupid enough to admit you did it.
I will say that the only thing worse that this would be getting caught and outed by your opponent. The only intelligent explanation is Santorum tried to frame Romney by paying for robo calls to democrats in support of himself, but Romney caught him and got the goods on him, "and for the greater good of the R party" the chiefs (big donors, etc) convinced Santorum to fall on his sword instead of getting totally destroyed by Romney outing him. Santorum will probably get a minor position in "reward" for falling on his sword. Not too high up, getting caught being a crook is rough on the reputation...
Wouldn't this be a game-changer for encryption, though (if they can actually make it work, that is)? I mean, brute-force decryption seems like exactly the kind of computational task that a quantum computer could easily handle. So a brute-force attack on a key that may take hundreds of years on a current supercomputer could be done in a few minutes. No password would be safe from any organization with access to that kind of computing power. Or am I understanding the potential?
Not necessarily, no. For any crypto app you can come up with some formula where you chunk in the number of bits and it spits out how long it takes to crack it. It exclusively has to do with scalability in design. Double a linear algo and that number takes twice as long. Most (good) crypto is exponential so triple the number of bits it goes up by 3^3 or 27 times longer or whatever. The deal is quantum computing for some crypto increases by poly instead of exponential.
What no one wants to talk about is what if the quantum solution for a given sample takes 100 years ... thats a bucket of fail even if it only increases poly. That is completely freaking useless because it scales nicely if you double the number of bits its just great that it only increases to 200 years, but no one can wait 100 years anyway, so...
This is also the strongly minority belief I hold about P=NP where I'm willing to accept there might be a poly solution to a supposedly exponential problem, but the constant factor for a trivial problem might be like a factorial number of universe-lifetimes so theoretically it exists which is why it hasn't been disproven yet and also it has no real world effect.
Much like the physics analogy of time dilatation at highway speeds, it exists, but its irrelevant in scale.