True, I had not thought of that at the time. However, as you imply the first thing _I_ did was go to google. (-: However, university servers are probably better able to handle the slashdot effect better than Joe Gradstudent's budget webserver.
A second significant difference, according to Rosenthal, is that it should be considerably easier to use the magic-sized quantum dots to make an "electroluminescent device" - a light source powered directly by electricity - because they can be used with a wider selection of binding compounds without affecting their emissions characteristics. Other research groups have reported stimulating quantum dots to produce light by applying an electrical current. Of course, those produced colored light. So, one of the projects at the top of Rosenthal's list is to duplicate that feat with magic-sized nanocrystals to see if they will produce white light when electrically stimulated.
So, if applying current to the quantum crystals works in the case of these "magic" sized crystals (electroluminescence) to produce the same kind of white light, then the LED source can be eliminated, rather than having the crystals as a sympathetic phosphorescing medium.
First of all, let me say that for someone who is no skilled debator or penetrating and articulate argumentor it's been reassuring to read your several posts which redirect the conversation back to the original questions. Why should the US wrest the root DNS servers from ICANN and give them to the UN or EU or anyone else?
Perhaps there was a plan. I'll not vouch for its merit, but maybe there's more corruption and intrigue than this portion of the international debate which has only just surfaced in public.
I appreciate the nice fence metaphor of the background image as well. It'll be blue skies with Microsoft as long as you stay in your cage we've built for you.
I'm not really a true Ute, actually, but I did do undergraduate research for the cosmic ray people for about 2 years. Nice campus, good place to work, though that can probably be said about many institutions of higher learning; the ivory tower will be welcoming to all who are looney enough to love science as much.
The existence of black holes (Wheeler's term) has never been observationally established. However, I feel that when we are finally able to collect hard data on that enigma, we'll see a lot of strange things heretofore unpredicted which totally invalidade every last theory on the macroscopic Universe, and maybe one or two from the microscopic arena. In any of these cases, I look forward with patient anticipation. (:
IT IS one of the most famous, and most embarrassing, problems in physics.
Obviously a physicist didn't write this article. When something unexpected happens in the field of physics, physicists are not embarassed, there is rather much rejoicing among the people of science. The TOE aside, we in the pursuit of pure research do not concern ourselves with the prerogative of questions or the solving of problems, rather we are in the business of finding new questions and new classes of questions to ask. This is the essential difference between pure and applied research.
It's not a monopoly. The community government provides the infrastructure, but then that's a whole different potential quagmire the likes of which we see with the current telcos' stagnation, who are apathetic when in profit. With the govenrment owning and maintaining the fiber right up to your back yard, you would be able to subscribe to any ISP available.
Ideally the city government would provide the (fiber, lets hope) infrastructure with various ISP's competing for customers. No one in the city government has to be tech savvy enough to actively manage the network content. It's not doing away with the "free market" or a retrograde back into Keynesian cathedralism, but a refinement of the free market model. Allowing the telcos to have a monopoly hasn't worked, so we are altering the model. With government provided infrastructure citizens can choose any ISP they darn well want. That theoretically will open up the competition that is crucial to the free market model which hasn't materialized under the current system.
I've come to the opinion that under all but the most extraordinary circumstances, a company should not work on developing custom applications in-house. They should either farm them out to a development company, or they should adjust their processes to work with existing Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) applications. Concentrate on your core business and you're probably better off. If your core business is not software, you probably can't do a successful software project.
I guess that pretty much invalidates the whole premise of Bell Labs then. AT&T was a software consumer when they developed UNIX which they did because the alternatives were inadequate.
See also http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#why-AT T
Their legal evidence evaporating the only thing they know how to do is manufacture FUD, the bigger, uglier, and more ridiculous now they're in the corner.
The statue you are referring to is a statue of Brigham Young, and he faces neither towards the temple nor towards the bank (US Bank I believe leases the Gateway West tower) but straight down Main Street.
You are right, considering the nature of this experiment, the discreetness of the sample space would likely alter the value of the actual result. I did not consider the human factor of (in)doggedness (: which would definitely affect efficacy on a smaller set of mail seeing that one would probably apply more energy of thought in determining spam knowing the ordeal to be as trivially short as 10 messages.
Nevertheless, strictly statistically speaking the 99.84% statistic applies to each individual message regardless of the size of the sample space. A human has a 99.84% probability of correctly identifying this one RANDOM MESSAGE as spam or not according to statistics. If this number is false or inaccurate, then it is not statistics that is wrong, but the model that is too simple or misapplied.
If I flip a coin one, ten, or ten thousand times, it will not change the probability of being 50% getting either heads or tails on each individual flip, even regardless that I have gotten heads for the past 9,999 flips.
All of that being said, statistics, and mathematics in general can never touch the real world. They only can construct models that simulate the real world and make predictions on the behavior and state of those models.
Slashdot Mirror
True, I had not thought of that at the time. However, as you imply the first thing _I_ did was go to google. (-: However, university servers are probably better able to handle the slashdot effect better than Joe Gradstudent's budget webserver.
http://exploration.vanderbilt.edu/news/news_quant
So, if applying current to the quantum crystals works in the case of these "magic" sized crystals (electroluminescence) to produce the same kind of white light, then the LED source can be eliminated, rather than having the crystals as a sympathetic phosphorescing medium.
http://exploration.vanderbilt.edu/images/news/arti cle_main/quantumdot_led_5.jpg
http://www.google.com/search?q=Michael+Bowers+Vand erbilt+University
u mdot_led.htm
http://exploration.vanderbilt.edu/news/news_quant
First of all, let me say that for someone who is no skilled debator or penetrating and articulate argumentor it's been reassuring to read your several posts which redirect the conversation back to the original questions. Why should the US wrest the root DNS servers from ICANN and give them to the UN or EU or anyone else?
Perhaps there was a plan. I'll not vouch for its merit, but maybe there's more corruption and intrigue than this portion of the international debate which has only just surfaced in public.
I appreciate the nice fence metaphor of the background image as well. It'll be blue skies with Microsoft as long as you stay in your cage we've built for you.
I'm not really a true Ute, actually, but I did do undergraduate research for the cosmic ray people for about 2 years. Nice campus, good place to work, though that can probably be said about many institutions of higher learning; the ivory tower will be welcoming to all who are looney enough to love science as much.
A story writer as good as George Lucas needs a director and screenplay that is better than George Lucas.
yee-haw, fellow Utes on slashdot!
My first thought was, "who is Woody Allen? Did he make movies?" (-:
And the moral is... don't believe everything you read on slashdot. (-:
The existence of black holes (Wheeler's term) has never been observationally established. However, I feel that when we are finally able to collect hard data on that enigma, we'll see a lot of strange things heretofore unpredicted which totally invalidade every last theory on the macroscopic Universe, and maybe one or two from the microscopic arena. In any of these cases, I look forward with patient anticipation. (:
Slashback is back after a long absence being devoured by gnomes.
Gnomes? I want to know what happened to my cadra of angry stealth attack llamas.
Insensitive clods.
Obviously a physicist didn't write this article. When something unexpected happens in the field of physics, physicists are not embarassed, there is rather much rejoicing among the people of science. The TOE aside, we in the pursuit of pure research do not concern ourselves with the prerogative of questions or the solving of problems, rather we are in the business of finding new questions and new classes of questions to ask. This is the essential difference between pure and applied research.
Yes, it's free. Free as in freedom.
insightful interesting insightful interesting insightful interesting.
Hey, um, G, never thought I'd bump into you in this crowd. (-: Interesting you got that link to bypass /.'s auto insert-the-site-after-the-link.
Justin
It's not a monopoly. The community government provides the infrastructure, but then that's a whole different potential quagmire the likes of which we see with the current telcos' stagnation, who are apathetic when in profit. With the govenrment owning and maintaining the fiber right up to your back yard, you would be able to subscribe to any ISP available.
Ideally the city government would provide the (fiber, lets hope) infrastructure with various ISP's competing for customers. No one in the city government has to be tech savvy enough to actively manage the network content. It's not doing away with the "free market" or a retrograde back into Keynesian cathedralism, but a refinement of the free market model. Allowing the telcos to have a monopoly hasn't worked, so we are altering the model. With government provided infrastructure citizens can choose any ISP they darn well want. That theoretically will open up the competition that is crucial to the free market model which hasn't materialized under the current system.
Take a good look. It's not often that you look socially condoned greed and selfishness in the face. Very chilling.
I guess that pretty much invalidates the whole premise of Bell Labs then. AT&T was a software consumer when they developed UNIX which they did because the alternatives were inadequate.
See also http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#why-A
Their legal evidence evaporating the only thing they know how to do is manufacture FUD, the bigger, uglier, and more ridiculous now they're in the corner.
70 trillion
The statue you are referring to is a statue of Brigham Young, and he faces neither towards the temple nor towards the bank (US Bank I believe leases the Gateway West tower) but straight down Main Street.
You are right, considering the nature of this experiment, the discreetness of the sample space would likely alter the value of the actual result. I did not consider the human factor of (in)doggedness (: which would definitely affect efficacy on a smaller set of mail seeing that one would probably apply more energy of thought in determining spam knowing the ordeal to be as trivially short as 10 messages.
Nevertheless, strictly statistically speaking the 99.84% statistic applies to each individual message regardless of the size of the sample space. A human has a 99.84% probability of correctly identifying this one RANDOM MESSAGE as spam or not according to statistics. If this number is false or inaccurate, then it is not statistics that is wrong, but the model that is too simple or misapplied.
If I flip a coin one, ten, or ten thousand times, it will not change the probability of being 50% getting either heads or tails on each individual flip, even regardless that I have gotten heads for the past 9,999 flips.
All of that being said, statistics, and mathematics in general can never touch the real world. They only can construct models that simulate the real world and make predictions on the behavior and state of those models.