Fair enough, then what is the 'benefit' of solving this?
Fame, better game design. pursuit of knowledge?
Just saying that if you want to get donations for a pile of computing power, it is helpful to know how much it will cost and what the selling point to the donors is
Not that many, the general purpose cpus are poorly suited to cryptocurrency and the low core count would hamper the number of threads. Either thread heavy GPU's, incredibly cheap SOC's or well suited FPGAs return much more coin for the buck than what they are asking for here
If you went to Dell for this, it would run just under $200k (list price, using local disk), but there is probably an awful lot of suitable gear that is being aged out or abandoned by bankrupt companies out there that could be picked up for far less
Whatsa matter? Too complex for you? Does having a conversation on a topic that asks you to look at something from the other person's point of view take you out of your depth?
Yep, and when faced with the unfamiliar, you choose to brush it aside by attempting to treat it as childish... very adult of you. That must be how complex problems are solved, eh? By failing to become familiar with them and, having refused to understand them, brushing them off as unworthy for your superior intellect
Drawing this back to TFA, how many biochemists have studied the fast biochemical reactions in cells? What if they all poo-pooed the idea of quantum states being the source for the fast reactions? Would the search for knowledge be served? Would science be advanced? Probably not
You seem to be unwilling to understand the science of your internal emotional reactions to having your views challenged. How's that working out for you?
Wow, really hitting a sore spot there, funny that you feel justified in attacking others as wannabe slashdoters (ohhh what an exclusive club) because somebody hurt your feelings. Personally I do not understand nosql options, pretty much because I spent a couple of decades with sql and haven't had a reason to use it
The example could be flipped the other way to say that I find nosql complex because of its unfamiliarity to me... wha...? Did I suffer injuries or insult from being used as an example? No, because I have the emotional processing of an adult and can see beyond a perceived insult to see that the real issue is how we find things that are unfamiliar to be complex
Why don't you drop the AC bullshit and just stand up for what you believe in
Oh dear, is this the culture that comes from giving losers trophies?
The original post was using examples to illustrate their point, that being complexity is a term used by an observer that does not understand what they are looking at
Taking offense with the entire argument because you resemble one of the examples is pretty much weak sauce and only makes you worse for ignoring the actual point of the post
As far as being polite goes... I find directness to be much more useful. Just think about how many planes have crashed because the co-pilot thought that it would be rude to point out that their senior pilot was making a mistake
I wanna see a video with a cosmologist running around shrieking, "OMG Quadruple Supernova! Quadruple Supernova" whilst having some sort of emotional breakdown
I think that you need to look at the generation of authors that created Star Trek TOS, they (like Roddenberry) were military veterans from WW2 and seemed to believe that good could overcome evil, bridges could be built across cultures and the idea of service to the betterment of their society wasn't an alien idea.
Harlan Ellison wrote one of the darkest original episodes, City on the Edge of Forever, and maybe the popular acclaim that it received allowed younger authors to take the series into different directions. When TNG was produced the authors were largely younger than the original group, with Roddenberry providing oversight through the the later series that were almost playing a neo-classical hand with references to past episodes and different riffs on themes.
Now Roddenberry is gone and the ownership of Star Trek has been taken over by generations of authors that never knew life before there was a Star Trek...
At least that is my long-winded summation of how we got to where we are now. What would it take to get it back in line with TOS? Maybe a dose of optimism and belief in conquering great evils and striving for a greater society. Maybe it just isn't a widely held set of beliefs anymore
It is that sort of spine that Spock brought to the new productions when he was brought into the story line. I think that is what we will miss most about both Nimoy and Spock
Thanks AC, aside from power transmission, are there other technologies which this would enable such as quantum computing (taking a shot in the dark here)?
Either liquid He or two stage mechanical coolers are used to get the superconducting magnet down to 77 K They also note that He is in short supply
So, these new materials, which seem to be able to operate at about twice the temperature of current superconductors (thanks AC above for pointing out mistake)
What does than mean in terms of cost, maintainability and overall benefit of keeping something at 138 K as opposed to 77 K? Does it allow for different techniques? Does it allow for wider applications? Does it cost less, and if so by a little or a lot?
So when they talk about high temp semiconductors, it is still around -211F
What does this mean in practical terms? Is this an easy temperature to maintain? What techniques or materials could we use to keep that temp? How does power generation and pulling off waste heat factor into it?
I look at all the heat handlers in a datacenter and wonder, ok what if we step this down a couple hundred degrees
Yep, warm winters cause an influx of derelicts to Phoenix hoping to avoid freezing to death elsewhere. A (normally up) construction market and people just loosing steam on the way to California makes for a volatile mix in AZ. Once that summer sets in the 110+F exterior temps result in the overheated people think they are in the wild west and shootings become so standard that they don't even make the evening news
Tomatoe/tomato, you say 'unique legal standards protected by Erie', I say bullshit local custom exploited by trolls
Not claiming that the juries are corrupt, just unsophisticated and willing to believe that some troll claiming to have 'invented' a technique that is disputed by prior art, that any person who has been using the internet for the past 2 decades, would recognized
A friend of mine was trying to 'help out' some down on their luck folks and they said 'thank you' by ripping all of the copper out of her rental house. She replaced it all with PVC and they came back and ripped out the walls again expecting there to be copper in there.
Tweekers have an incredibly high level of motivation and a relatively low level of guilt for the things they are willing to do for money
More than likely tweekers looking to get salvageable metal, they are pretty damned persistent and copper bundles bring a heck of a lot of money as long as the salvage yard is willing to look the other way
So, you are claiming that a Kangaroo Court, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K..., that ignores judicial standards and rushes cases at the expense of the defendant is a good thing?
WTF, no wonder the patent trolls flock to it, Marshall Texas Kangaroo Courts have even been the subject of local hymnals, https://archive.org/details/IB...
Are you suggesting the Marshall Texas, population 23,523, where the federal courthouse is located that is mentioned in your linked article is NOT a rural area?
Or perhaps having a mail-drop 'office' adjacent to the court house is not 'shopping' for a jury and judge...
Interesting, I did some googling and found a competing theory that it is the restrictions of the mother's metabolism that demands that the baby be born at nine months. As compared to a chimpanzees development at birth (brain 1/2 the size at adulthood) the birth canal would only need to be 3 centimeters wider, a size that many women could accommodate
Taking that out of consideration, I still have to wonder at the novelty of increasing brain size and complexity in mammals. I think that mice would have severe limitations to the size of the brain that they could support. What mammals would be capable of supporting a brain of similar size to humans? Elephants can obviously support a very large brain, would this gene provide for a more human-like brain (increase in folds and complexity). They would face limitations in terms of supportability (kinda hard to keep that super-intelligent elephant in an urban environment.
What would be an appropriate target for engineering an intelligent companion for humans? Dogs, cats or even horses? To be honest I selected cows because of the intelligent cow at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe offering to serve up portions of its own body for consumption. But they would also have a fairly docile pattern of behavior and we are pretty good at keeping them in line. Pigs may be another option (Animal Farm anybody).
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Fair enough, then what is the 'benefit' of solving this?
Fame, better game design. pursuit of knowledge?
Just saying that if you want to get donations for a pile of computing power, it is helpful to know how much it will cost and what the selling point to the donors is
Not that many, the general purpose cpus are poorly suited to cryptocurrency and the low core count would hamper the number of threads.
Either thread heavy GPU's, incredibly cheap SOC's or well suited FPGAs return much more coin for the buck than what they are asking for here
If you went to Dell for this, it would run just under $200k (list price, using local disk), but there is probably an awful lot of suitable gear that is being aged out or abandoned by bankrupt companies out there that could be picked up for far less
What is the financial interest is solving this?
Whatsa matter? Too complex for you? Does having a conversation on a topic that asks you to look at something from the other person's point of view take you out of your depth?
Yep, and when faced with the unfamiliar, you choose to brush it aside by attempting to treat it as childish... very adult of you. That must be how complex problems are solved, eh? By failing to become familiar with them and, having refused to understand them, brushing them off as unworthy for your superior intellect
Drawing this back to TFA, how many biochemists have studied the fast biochemical reactions in cells? What if they all poo-pooed the idea of quantum states being the source for the fast reactions? Would the search for knowledge be served? Would science be advanced? Probably not
You seem to be unwilling to understand the science of your internal emotional reactions to having your views challenged. How's that working out for you?
Wow, really hitting a sore spot there, funny that you feel justified in attacking others as wannabe slashdoters (ohhh what an exclusive club) because somebody hurt your feelings. Personally I do not understand nosql options, pretty much because I spent a couple of decades with sql and haven't had a reason to use it
The example could be flipped the other way to say that I find nosql complex because of its unfamiliarity to me... wha...? Did I suffer injuries or insult from being used as an example? No, because I have the emotional processing of an adult and can see beyond a perceived insult to see that the real issue is how we find things that are unfamiliar to be complex
Why don't you drop the AC bullshit and just stand up for what you believe in
Oh dear, is this the culture that comes from giving losers trophies?
The original post was using examples to illustrate their point, that being complexity is a term used by an observer that does not understand what they are looking at
Taking offense with the entire argument because you resemble one of the examples is pretty much weak sauce and only makes you worse for ignoring the actual point of the post
As far as being polite goes... I find directness to be much more useful. Just think about how many planes have crashed because the co-pilot thought that it would be rude to point out that their senior pilot was making a mistake
I wanna see a video with a cosmologist running around shrieking, "OMG Quadruple Supernova! Quadruple Supernova" whilst having some sort of emotional breakdown
What I relief, I expect Boehner and McConnell to pull their conservative troops together and whip this up in a jiffy...
well?
I think that you need to look at the generation of authors that created Star Trek TOS, they (like Roddenberry) were military veterans from WW2 and seemed to believe that good could overcome evil, bridges could be built across cultures and the idea of service to the betterment of their society wasn't an alien idea.
Harlan Ellison wrote one of the darkest original episodes, City on the Edge of Forever, and maybe the popular acclaim that it received allowed younger authors to take the series into different directions. When TNG was produced the authors were largely younger than the original group, with Roddenberry providing oversight through the the later series that were almost playing a neo-classical hand with references to past episodes and different riffs on themes.
Now Roddenberry is gone and the ownership of Star Trek has been taken over by generations of authors that never knew life before there was a Star Trek...
At least that is my long-winded summation of how we got to where we are now. What would it take to get it back in line with TOS? Maybe a dose of optimism and belief in conquering great evils and striving for a greater society. Maybe it just isn't a widely held set of beliefs anymore
It is that sort of spine that Spock brought to the new productions when he was brought into the story line. I think that is what we will miss most about both Nimoy and Spock
Must be funnier in German
Thanks AC, aside from power transmission, are there other technologies which this would enable such as quantum computing (taking a shot in the dark here)?
Does this make the proposed superconducting power transmission corridors feasible?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
Has anybody proposed a time-to-market for this, or are we still in the infinite loop of '20 years from now'?
138 K is -211 F
According to the omniscient wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Either liquid He or two stage mechanical coolers are used to get the superconducting magnet down to 77 K
They also note that He is in short supply
So, these new materials, which seem to be able to operate at about twice the temperature of current superconductors (thanks AC above for pointing out mistake)
What does than mean in terms of cost, maintainability and overall benefit of keeping something at 138 K as opposed to 77 K?
Does it allow for different techniques?
Does it allow for wider applications?
Does it cost less, and if so by a little or a lot?
So when they talk about high temp semiconductors, it is still around -211F
What does this mean in practical terms?
Is this an easy temperature to maintain?
What techniques or materials could we use to keep that temp?
How does power generation and pulling off waste heat factor into it?
I look at all the heat handlers in a datacenter and wonder, ok what if we step this down a couple hundred degrees
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LETTERS ON AN ELK HUNT
By a Woman Homesteader
Copyright, 1915, by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
http://www.gutenberg.org/files...
Good point, I just remember seeing something that wasn't metal peeking through the holes in the drywall
Yep, warm winters cause an influx of derelicts to Phoenix hoping to avoid freezing to death elsewhere. A (normally up) construction market and people just loosing steam on the way to California makes for a volatile mix in AZ. Once that summer sets in the 110+F exterior temps result in the overheated people think they are in the wild west and shootings become so standard that they don't even make the evening news
Tomatoe/tomato, you say 'unique legal standards protected by Erie', I say bullshit local custom exploited by trolls
Not claiming that the juries are corrupt, just unsophisticated and willing to believe that some troll claiming to have 'invented' a technique that is disputed by prior art, that any person who has been using the internet for the past 2 decades, would recognized
A friend of mine was trying to 'help out' some down on their luck folks and they said 'thank you' by ripping all of the copper out of her rental house. She replaced it all with PVC and they came back and ripped out the walls again expecting there to be copper in there.
Tweekers have an incredibly high level of motivation and a relatively low level of guilt for the things they are willing to do for money
More than likely tweekers looking to get salvageable metal, they are pretty damned persistent and copper bundles bring a heck of a lot of money as long as the salvage yard is willing to look the other way
So, you are claiming that a Kangaroo Court, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K..., that ignores judicial standards and rushes cases at the expense of the defendant is a good thing?
WTF, no wonder the patent trolls flock to it, Marshall Texas Kangaroo Courts have even been the subject of local hymnals, https://archive.org/details/IB...
Are you suggesting the Marshall Texas, population 23,523, where the federal courthouse is located that is mentioned in your linked article is NOT a rural area?
Or perhaps having a mail-drop 'office' adjacent to the court house is not 'shopping' for a jury and judge...
Shopping around for juries and judges in rural areas is a big problem that should be addressed
Interesting, I did some googling and found a competing theory that it is the restrictions of the mother's metabolism that demands that the baby be born at nine months. As compared to a chimpanzees development at birth (brain 1/2 the size at adulthood) the birth canal would only need to be 3 centimeters wider, a size that many women could accommodate
link to study:
http://blogs.scientificamerica...
Taking that out of consideration, I still have to wonder at the novelty of increasing brain size and complexity in mammals. I think that mice would have severe limitations to the size of the brain that they could support. What mammals would be capable of supporting a brain of similar size to humans? Elephants can obviously support a very large brain, would this gene provide for a more human-like brain (increase in folds and complexity). They would face limitations in terms of supportability (kinda hard to keep that super-intelligent elephant in an urban environment.
What would be an appropriate target for engineering an intelligent companion for humans? Dogs, cats or even horses? To be honest I selected cows because of the intelligent cow at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe offering to serve up portions of its own body for consumption. But they would also have a fairly docile pattern of behavior and we are pretty good at keeping them in line. Pigs may be another option (Animal Farm anybody).
Suggestions?
The limiting factor to human brain development has been the birth process
If we apply this technique to animals that have larger birth canals, then we can create beings that have brains that are much larger than a humans
All hail our future bovine overlords!
You don't think that they will hold a grudge over the past few millennia do you?