People tried to warn you that an Obama administration would mark a massive shift in focus away from high-IQ pursuits and towards low-IQ pursuits, but nobody wanted to listen:
The consistently weird thing about Obama is that all of the very worst predictions about him keep coming true [Bill Clinton, for instance, was far more inconsistent in his politics] - Obama really does subscribe to this tribalistic, Bolshevik form of Mugabeism - he really is a true believer.
...The latest increase raises federal obligations to a record $546,668 per household in 2008, according to the USA TODAY analysis. That's quadruple what the average U.S. household owes for all mortgages, car loans, credit cards and other debt combined...
Bottom line: The government took on $6.8 trillion in new obligations in 2008, pushing the total owed to a record $63.8 trillion...
By the time the Kenyan Prince and Telly Axelrod and Bolshoi Emanuel and Blofeld Soros and the rest of the tribe are finished, there won't be any USA left [much less any USAF to hire you].
If you want to do this kind of work in the future, then you'll need to emigrate to China.
There is no way in Hades that this topic could possibly be addressed honestly - not at NYMag, nor at/., nor at any other mainstream news outlet.
The underlying horror of the demographics at work here - and the galactic insanity of the CRA & the redlining initiatives & the fiduciary disaster at Fannie & Freddie - is just too much for the circuits to handle.
Not to mention - heck, even I can't mention that one.
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They are the seeds of the internet. You plant some and sprinkle them with bits. Eventually they grow into a huge series of tubes. How do you think the internet was created? With lots and lots of netbeans.
One summer - when the Senator's boy, on vacation from the St Alban's School, was shredding, spiking, stripping, and selling all that demon weed tobaccy - he found time to trade the family cow for a handful of netbeans.
If you get three different answers, then you just take the average.
You could even throw in a few extra circuits to throw out wildly anomalous values.
In fact, you could change your computer circuitry from ADD(X, Y) to something like ADD(X, Y, SD), where SD is your [hypothesized] standard deviation, and any cluster of values which appear to be generating an unacceptable standard deviation would get tossed.
"There can only be one" is quite literally the second-to-last sentence which Kant ever wrote, in his so-called "Opus Postumum" [Kant was insistent that polytheism is impossible, and that there can only possibly be one God].
Anyway, I read that comment at Slashdot today just an hour or two before I got to the end of Opus Postumum.
yikes... a three body problem... not predictable...
Actually, if the asteroid is only 10m in diameter, then, relative to the earth & the moon, it has darned near zero mass, at which point KANM theory [Kolmogorov Arnold Nash Moser] would apply.
Plus, wouldn't a 1000 GPU 4870 cloud...only allow some 1000 users some fractional percentage of one 4870 capped by latency and other overhead?
Earlier in this thread, people were talking about the latency over the general IPv4 internet - but suppose that AMD/ATI could get the price on this thing down to $20,000 or $10,000 - to the point that an entrepreneur could purchase one of these boxes, and a gigabit [or maybe even 10-gigabit] ethernet switch, and some ethernet cabling, and some base stations [with virtual reality goggles & gloves], and set up a salon in a shopping mall, and offer maybe twenty-five teenagers the opportunity to play around together in a virtual world for, say, ten dollars an hour.
That's $250 an hour revenue [at least during busy hours - weekends, and after school - when the salon might be filled to the brim with bored teenagers], and the entrepreneur would need only 40 such hours to recoup a $10,000 investment, and only 80 such hours to recoup a $20,000 investment.
Anyway, I made up all these numbers - the real numbers might be more like $100,000 per machine + ethernet + goggles/gloves, and maybe only ten teenagers at a time, but paying more like $25 per hour - I don't know what the exact numbers would be - but the point is that with the local speed of gigabit or 10-gigabit ethernet connected to a local onsite "supercomputer", we might just be seeing the revival of the shopping-mall video-arcades of our formative years.
PS: And maybe for public health reasons, the entrepreneur would only provide the jacks for the goggles & gloves, with the expectation that the teenagers would bring their own goggles & gloves.
PPS: Of course, most bowling alleys provide shoe rentals - not sure how exactly they get around the problem of massive outbreaks of athlete's foot fungus, other than spraying the shoes all the time...
PPPS: But on account of redeye/conjunctivitis, I wouldn't be too crazy about the idea of goggle rentals...
Interestingly, the review mentions the new Phenoms have 758 million transistors which means they have about 27 million more transistors than Nehalem... but Nehalem at 2.66 Ghz is easily beating a Phenom at 3.0Ghz.
The other obvious problem is that pretty much every compiler on the market [especially the Intel C/C++ compiler] is optimized for the Intel circuitry as opposed to the AMD circuitry - i.e. most compilers probably aren't even aware of the functionality of those excess 27 million transistors.
I can't for the life of me understand why AMD couldn't come up with $10 or $15 or $20 million to fund their own in-house compiler - for instance, it seems like there was a time when they could have scooped up Metrowerks from Motorola for pennies on the dollar.
Until there's a compiler which truly understands the AMD circuitry, I don't see how anyone can know [definitively] the upper bounds of the capabilities of the AMD CPUs.
PS: And as AMD tightens up the integration of their Opteron CPU circuitry with their ATI GPU circuitry [it can't be all that long now until they're both just isolated, disparate cores on the same multi-core matrix, and maybe even completely integrated into the very same core], it seems to me that having an in-house compiler - which is very tightly integrated with the circuitry - will be of paramount importance.
In all honesty, I often wonder if maybe the Intel C/C++ compiler team is really the secret ace up Intel's sleeve which does the most important work in distinguishing them from AMD.
A recent study shows that even our smalled state, Rhode Island, with population density of over 1000 per square mile, has an average speed of only 6.7 Mbps. If you can't make that dense of an area high speed there is something seriously wrong with our system.
The Showtime Network had an extended documentary about this very phenomenon - it was called Brotherhood.
We're at the beginning of the Second Great Depression.
The situation is actually a lot worse than you realize, although I don't want to go that far off-topic.
But even though the glass is half-empty, it's also half-full.
The greatest return on investment is always made from starting small, at the very bottom of an economic slump, just as the economy kicks in and begins to grow again.
And if you remember any of your college calculus, the economy actually starts to accelerate again after passing through that inflection point on the way down - which inflection point is probably not such a bad time to be starting a new venture.
What you don't want to do is invest a ton of money into some project right at the peak of the good times - that's what all the fools do [i.e. buy high and, ultimately, sell low].
The truth of the matter is that the problem is inherently intractable.
If you have good people writing papers, then you will get good papers.
If you have lousy people writing papers, then you will get lousy papers.
What people need to realize [and what almost all people in the grant-writing racket lack the strength of character to admit] is that most published "research" is simply false.
And if to "false" you were to add "trivially tautological or essentially meaningless" then you would have classified almost all of published "research" nowadays.
But the grant-writing racket is very powerful politically, and the milk from the teat of that sow tastes oh so good...
Also, I have read in my life thousands of published peer-reviewed articles, and many of them contain incredible imbecillities where I have to question whether all the reviewers were high on hallucinogens. Very very high on hallucinogens.
Could someone mod the parent up +1 whatever [insightful, informative, funny - really, a "tragicomic" mod point would be most appropriate here].
Back in the day, Goro Shimura used to say that something like 50% of all published mathematics is simply rank nonsense, but these days, I'd say that the proportion is closer to 99%.
I mean, go a talk to a CFO or a COO, and they'll [most of the time] politely complain about IT being expensive... IT becomes a true utility, with a pay-as-you-go menu that implements a coherent chargeback model that will bring a smile to the guys in dark suits.
Really interesting times to be in IT.
Or not.
Everything you've just written indicates that the chores which are currently being performed by 10 IT dudes might, in the near- to mid-term-future, be acccomplished by a single IT dude [who himself might be halfway around the world in Bangalore].
Can you say, "Buggy Whip Industry"?
PS: On the other hand, this might drive IT costs so low that it would make sense for the Bangaloreans to ditch their own physical infrastructures and rent virtual time out of the USA.
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If this story is true, then it shouldn't be dumped in "IDLE".
[Although I have always suspected that "IDLE" is some sort of a weird, obfuscated, steganographic IQ-test.]
What's wrong with Troy, NY?
[Serious question.]
Pwned.
Obama: cut Constellation to pay for education
November 20, 2007
http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/11/20/obama-cut-constellation-to-pay-for-education/
The consistently weird thing about Obama is that all of the very worst predictions about him keep coming true [Bill Clinton, for instance, was far more inconsistent in his politics] - Obama really does subscribe to this tribalistic, Bolshevik form of Mugabeism - he really is a true believer.
Crap, I miss countermeasures. Wonder if the Air force is still hiring...
Dude - we're staring at a debt of $63.8 trillion [and that's a conservative estimate]:
Leap in U.S. debt hits taxpayers with 12% more red ink
...The latest increase raises federal obligations to a record $546,668 per household in 2008, according to the USA TODAY analysis. That's quadruple what the average U.S. household owes for all mortgages, car loans, credit cards and other debt combined...
By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY
2009-05-28
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-05-28-debt_N.htm
Bottom line: The government took on $6.8 trillion in new obligations in 2008, pushing the total owed to a record $63.8 trillion...
By the time the Kenyan Prince and Telly Axelrod and Bolshoi Emanuel and Blofeld Soros and the rest of the tribe are finished, there won't be any USA left [much less any USAF to hire you].
If you want to do this kind of work in the future, then you'll need to emigrate to China.
As I understand it, it was Intel who really got screwed on IA64.
Digital -> Compaq -> HPQ got essentially several billion $$$s in free R&D from Intel to give them a new platform to which VMS could be ported.
Which, in turn, means that all those legacy VMS systems can [at least in theory] be ported to a modern architecture.
Bottom line being that I don't think that Compaq [much less Digital] had several billion $$$s lying around to build a new Alpha fab.
There is no way in Hades that this topic could possibly be addressed honestly - not at NYMag, nor at
The underlying horror of the demographics at work here - and the galactic insanity of the CRA & the redlining initiatives & the fiduciary disaster at Fannie & Freddie - is just too much for the circuits to handle.
Not to mention - heck, even I can't mention that one.
+5 to you & +5 to the parent.
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.
They are the seeds of the internet. You plant some and sprinkle them with bits. Eventually they grow into a huge series of tubes. How do you think the internet was created? With lots and lots of netbeans.
One summer - when the Senator's boy, on vacation from the St Alban's School, was shredding, spiking, stripping, and selling all that demon weed tobaccy - he found time to trade the family cow for a handful of netbeans.
And the rest, as they say, c'est l'histoire.
Suppose you repeat your calculation 3 times...
If you get three different answers, then you just take the average.
You could even throw in a few extra circuits to throw out wildly anomalous values.
In fact, you could change your computer circuitry from ADD(X, Y) to something like ADD(X, Y, SD), where SD is your [hypothesized] standard deviation, and any cluster of values which appear to be generating an unacceptable standard deviation would get tossed.
there can be only one
"There can only be one" is quite literally the second-to-last sentence which Kant ever wrote, in his so-called "Opus Postumum" [Kant was insistent that polytheism is impossible, and that there can only possibly be one God].
Anyway, I read that comment at Slashdot today just an hour or two before I got to the end of Opus Postumum.
Weird.
yikes... a three body problem... not predictable...
Actually, if the asteroid is only 10m in diameter, then, relative to the earth & the moon, it has darned near zero mass, at which point KANM theory [Kolmogorov Arnold Nash Moser] would apply.
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Make the check out to me.
Manbearpig has a different idea.
Plus, wouldn't a 1000 GPU 4870 cloud...only allow some 1000 users some fractional percentage of one 4870 capped by latency and other overhead?
Earlier in this thread, people were talking about the latency over the general IPv4 internet - but suppose that AMD/ATI could get the price on this thing down to $20,000 or $10,000 - to the point that an entrepreneur could purchase one of these boxes, and a gigabit [or maybe even 10-gigabit] ethernet switch, and some ethernet cabling, and some base stations [with virtual reality goggles & gloves], and set up a salon in a shopping mall, and offer maybe twenty-five teenagers the opportunity to play around together in a virtual world for, say, ten dollars an hour.
That's $250 an hour revenue [at least during busy hours - weekends, and after school - when the salon might be filled to the brim with bored teenagers], and the entrepreneur would need only 40 such hours to recoup a $10,000 investment, and only 80 such hours to recoup a $20,000 investment.
Anyway, I made up all these numbers - the real numbers might be more like $100,000 per machine + ethernet + goggles/gloves, and maybe only ten teenagers at a time, but paying more like $25 per hour - I don't know what the exact numbers would be - but the point is that with the local speed of gigabit or 10-gigabit ethernet connected to a local onsite "supercomputer", we might just be seeing the revival of the shopping-mall video-arcades of our formative years.
PS: And maybe for public health reasons, the entrepreneur would only provide the jacks for the goggles & gloves, with the expectation that the teenagers would bring their own goggles & gloves.
PPS: Of course, most bowling alleys provide shoe rentals - not sure how exactly they get around the problem of massive outbreaks of athlete's foot fungus, other than spraying the shoes all the time...
PPPS: But on account of redeye/conjunctivitis, I wouldn't be too crazy about the idea of goggle rentals...
Interestingly, the review mentions the new Phenoms have 758 million transistors which means they have about 27 million more transistors than Nehalem... but Nehalem at 2.66 Ghz is easily beating a Phenom at 3.0Ghz.
The other obvious problem is that pretty much every compiler on the market [especially the Intel C/C++ compiler] is optimized for the Intel circuitry as opposed to the AMD circuitry - i.e. most compilers probably aren't even aware of the functionality of those excess 27 million transistors.
I can't for the life of me understand why AMD couldn't come up with $10 or $15 or $20 million to fund their own in-house compiler - for instance, it seems like there was a time when they could have scooped up Metrowerks from Motorola for pennies on the dollar.
Until there's a compiler which truly understands the AMD circuitry, I don't see how anyone can know [definitively] the upper bounds of the capabilities of the AMD CPUs.
PS: And as AMD tightens up the integration of their Opteron CPU circuitry with their ATI GPU circuitry [it can't be all that long now until they're both just isolated, disparate cores on the same multi-core matrix, and maybe even completely integrated into the very same core], it seems to me that having an in-house compiler - which is very tightly integrated with the circuitry - will be of paramount importance.
In all honesty, I often wonder if maybe the Intel C/C++ compiler team is really the secret ace up Intel's sleeve which does the most important work in distinguishing them from AMD.
A recent study shows that even our smalled state, Rhode Island, with population density of over 1000 per square mile, has an average speed of only 6.7 Mbps. If you can't make that dense of an area high speed there is something seriously wrong with our system.
The Showtime Network had an extended documentary about this very phenomenon - it was called Brotherhood.
We're at the beginning of the Second Great Depression.
The situation is actually a lot worse than you realize, although I don't want to go that far off-topic.
But even though the glass is half-empty, it's also half-full.
The greatest return on investment is always made from starting small, at the very bottom of an economic slump, just as the economy kicks in and begins to grow again.
And if you remember any of your college calculus, the economy actually starts to accelerate again after passing through that inflection point on the way down - which inflection point is probably not such a bad time to be starting a new venture.
What you don't want to do is invest a ton of money into some project right at the peak of the good times - that's what all the fools do [i.e. buy high and, ultimately, sell low].
The ostensible searchee, or the searcher himself?
I wouldn't want to try to teach "programming" to any child who hadn't had Algebra I [and preferably Algebra II].
I suppose that "programming" could serve as an introduction to Algebra I, but my gut tells me that that's the wrong way to go about it.
I think reviewers should be held accountable in some way.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
The truth of the matter is that the problem is inherently intractable.
If you have good people writing papers, then you will get good papers.
If you have lousy people writing papers, then you will get lousy papers.
What people need to realize [and what almost all people in the grant-writing racket lack the strength of character to admit] is that most published "research" is simply false.
And if to "false" you were to add "trivially tautological or essentially meaningless" then you would have classified almost all of published "research" nowadays.
But the grant-writing racket is very powerful politically, and the milk from the teat of that sow tastes oh so good...
fucking angry frustrated partisan shill
Mr Coward, kindly allow me to introduce you to Mr Freud.
Welcome to the 21st Century - party on, dudes!!!
Also, I have read in my life thousands of published peer-reviewed articles, and many of them contain incredible imbecillities where I have to question whether all the reviewers were high on hallucinogens. Very very high on hallucinogens.
Could someone mod the parent up +1 whatever [insightful, informative, funny - really, a "tragicomic" mod point would be most appropriate here].
Back in the day, Goro Shimura used to say that something like 50% of all published mathematics is simply rank nonsense, but these days, I'd say that the proportion is closer to 99%.
10 new terminators:
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I mean, go a talk to a CFO or a COO, and they'll [most of the time] politely complain about IT being expensive... IT becomes a true utility, with a pay-as-you-go menu that implements a coherent chargeback model that will bring a smile to the guys in dark suits.
Really interesting times to be in IT.
Or not.
Everything you've just written indicates that the chores which are currently being performed by 10 IT dudes might, in the near- to mid-term-future, be acccomplished by a single IT dude [who himself might be halfway around the world in Bangalore].
Can you say, "Buggy Whip Industry"?
PS: On the other hand, this might drive IT costs so low that it would make sense for the Bangaloreans to ditch their own physical infrastructures and rent virtual time out of the USA.