If we still used typewriters every day, nobody would pay anywhere near as much for this. Similarly, when we eventually stop using what we now know as PCs, people will pay much more for a famous PC.
If it's THAT cheap, I'll just buy my own. Even if the unsubsidized hardware costs twice that, I'd still rather spend $40 and have the freedom to do what I want with MY hardware.
Wouldn't power consumption grow more than linearly with neuron count? I would think the number of connections is the dominant factor - so the comparison of two data points of power consumption vs neuron count is meaningless.
I was following the fractalforums thread for a while, and IIRC that is what a lot of the discussion focused on - "how can we define the squaring operation in 3D such that the Mandelbrot iterative equation gives us something like our vague notion of what we want the Mandelbulb to look like?"
Site is down, but I got an email notification from fractalforums a few days ago, and they had some incredible results. The pursuit is at least as much aesthetic as it is mathematical, and in that respect they've succeeded marvelously.
based on the course I'm taking right now, its a pretty standard exercise in EM duality. It's extremely straightforward mathematically, and apparently the fictitious magnetic current sources can be useful for simplifying complicated electrical current geometries.
so... definitely not unreasonable to think that he learned about this.
Does anyone else see a problem with this quote from the article?
"The DTV transition freed the 700 MHz block and increased the available wireless spectrum by a multiple of three, Genachowski estimated. But that took more than five years to complete.
At that rate, it would take 50 years to accommodate our wireless data growth. "
the 700MHz block was not deallocated at a constant rate over the course of 5 years... it took five years of political/business BS to clear it. That's not to say that clearing a larger block won't take more time, but there's certainly no reason to believe the relationship would be linear. I think this is a case of a reporter regurgitating words that he liked the sound of.
...is a completely inappropriate way to respond to a story that is not asking a question. If the story were "How do you backup your data?", and you respond to a post saying "I do X, Y, Z" with "This.", that makes sense.
If someone walked up to you during a real life conversation, and said "This." in response to another person's statement, you would think they were crazy.
exp(-k*t) is a linear solution, isnt it...? why do you say that adding a resistor to a circuit makes it nonlinear? an RLC circuit has a pseudoperiodic solution, cos(w*t)*exp(-k*t)... are you saying this is not linear?
if you took the code for say, half life, and ignored all the textures and maps, how big would that be? it seems to me that this release was an exercise in procedural graphics generation, not in code optimization.
thats why its in the list...
reports of their demise have proved greatly exaggerated. All have survived, and some have thrived, in their supposed obsolescence--not as cult artifacts (everything from buggy whips to eight-tracks has its fans and collectors), but because they fill real needs that their more sophisticated successors don't.
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I think the question is about movies with 3D viewing effects, not movies rendered with 3D animation software
If we still used typewriters every day, nobody would pay anywhere near as much for this. Similarly, when we eventually stop using what we now know as PCs, people will pay much more for a famous PC.
I think they mean overhead with respect to the solar event, as shown in the first movie in the article.
"An air chamber behind the backing can be pressurized or depressurized using pneumatic technology, in this case fan-based pumps."
Fans generally move.
If it's THAT cheap, I'll just buy my own. Even if the unsubsidized hardware costs twice that, I'd still rather spend $40 and have the freedom to do what I want with MY hardware.
Wouldn't power consumption grow more than linearly with neuron count? I would think the number of connections is the dominant factor - so the comparison of two data points of power consumption vs neuron count is meaningless.
There are a few other schools in Pittsburgh.
I was following the fractalforums thread for a while, and IIRC that is what a lot of the discussion focused on - "how can we define the squaring operation in 3D such that the Mandelbrot iterative equation gives us something like our vague notion of what we want the Mandelbulb to look like?"
Site is down, but I got an email notification from fractalforums a few days ago, and they had some incredible results. The pursuit is at least as much aesthetic as it is mathematical, and in that respect they've succeeded marvelously.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_equations#With_magnetic_monopoles
based on the course I'm taking right now, its a pretty standard exercise in EM duality. It's extremely straightforward mathematically, and apparently the fictitious magnetic current sources can be useful for simplifying complicated electrical current geometries.
so... definitely not unreasonable to think that he learned about this.
Does anyone else see a problem with this quote from the article?
"The DTV transition freed the 700 MHz block and increased the available wireless spectrum by a multiple of three, Genachowski estimated. But that took more than five years to complete. At that rate, it would take 50 years to accommodate our wireless data growth. "
the 700MHz block was not deallocated at a constant rate over the course of 5 years... it took five years of political/business BS to clear it. That's not to say that clearing a larger block won't take more time, but there's certainly no reason to believe the relationship would be linear. I think this is a case of a reporter regurgitating words that he liked the sound of.
someone should tell them about plouffe's inverter, it already does what they want.
This.
...is a completely inappropriate way to respond to a story that is not asking a question. If the story were "How do you backup your data?", and you respond to a post saying "I do X, Y, Z" with "This.", that makes sense.
If someone walked up to you during a real life conversation, and said "This." in response to another person's statement, you would think they were crazy.
I want full multiple-document interface, like in opera. I can't believe that isn't already available in the big browsers.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18625005.300
exp(-k*t) is a linear solution, isnt it...? why do you say that adding a resistor to a circuit makes it nonlinear? an RLC circuit has a pseudoperiodic solution, cos(w*t)*exp(-k*t)... are you saying this is not linear?
a giant cloud of sugar in the middle of our galaxy, eh?
so if a supernova happened upon this cloud...might the milky way end up with a giant caramel center?
if you took the code for say, half life, and ignored all the textures and maps, how big would that be? it seems to me that this release was an exercise in procedural graphics generation, not in code optimization.
thats why its in the list...
reports of their demise have proved greatly exaggerated. All have survived, and some have thrived, in their supposed obsolescence--not as cult artifacts (everything from buggy whips to eight-tracks has its fans and collectors), but because they fill real needs that their more sophisticated successors don't.
Yes, that is a HUGE improvement. yeah... youre right, this is hardly an improvement over displays that don't bend at all...