It also gives emulator programmer a reference point for correct behaviour, and information on how that behaviour was originally achieved which might be useful. Aren't we reaching the stage where low-level simulation of original hardware is possible for the simpler cabinets?
It wasn't; although there are '80s cabinets in there, the hardware in a lot of the pictures is late '90s or early 2000s vintage, and one of the articles suggests it has been closed for about ten years. Given that there's been a recession on that entire time, it might be that the value of the space didn't justify the cost of clearing out all those machines.
Surprisingly, no; during development the studio gradually split into a team which had been designing the low-level stuff and creatures, and a team which had been responsible for the large-scale procedural gameplay and space exploration. Because the two teams were essentially not talking to each other, the aspects wound up diverging massively in graphical style and it was a bit of a mess to try and bring it all back together into a shippable game. It's just the usual story of an overambitious idea, poorly managed, that winds up having to conform to genre standards (in this case, The Sims and a god game on one disk) to meet a deadline.
That's not much good when you're pressing special characters and modifier keys all the time. I've hacked together regexes on an iPad before, using my favourite terminal app which brings up a bunch of useful shortcuts to special symbols and the modifiers, but it was still quietly horrific.
They did receive IRB approval, however the protocol listed in the paper expressly breaches one of the IRBs' rules, and may breach several others depending on how the study was performed. It shouldn't have been approved.
It becomes a problem when you involve actual academic research staff. Private companies can do whatever the heck they like outside of a hospital, but researchers engaging in interventions are required to meet certain ethical standards as a matter of professional norm and quite often as a binding condition of any funding they have received.
Take all the existing costs and yield problems of a touchscreen phone, then add a few dozen mechanical parts under a region-specific text overlay, and attach them to that phone with even more moving parts.
It's probably best for a niche device like this to start off with a design that minimises risks.
Yes, that's one of the things I'd assume a private firm would have to offer to get the contract in a free market. Although obviously in this case I suppose they could've just mandated that.
Not a libertarian, but to play devil's advocate for a moment: the problem is that they're a state-appointed-and-run agency, so this isn't properly privatised. You have the bad half of privatisation, but not the good half. You could argue that if the system was actually an open market with private security firms competing for the government's business then you'd have open-ness.
Now as far as I'm concerned, history has proven that it'd never actually work out that way, but there you go.
I suppose it depends on what you mean by "weaker". I don't think that experiments are going to tell us much at all about what neanderthals ate, so in this case observation would seem to have the edge.
Is there such a thing as "observational" and "experimental" science though? I see a lot of experimental work behind observational studies, and a lot of observations behind lab experiments.
Let me rephrase. I get what you're saying, that it's a factually correct statement to say that people from such-and-such a group get such-and-such results on a test. The point I want to contest - the AC now at "1, Informative" that Nephandus is supporting - is the idea that it's due to some underlying difference between the races that we're just too politically correct to acknowledge. The observation is true, the conclusion they're pushing is counterfactual.
I'm not sure I follow your objection. Perhaps I should give a clearer example: there are well-established links between being a computer user and being unhealthy. However as the joke in the Simpsons goes, it's not the computer use that the issue, it's the non-stop sitting and snacking that comes with it. The ostensible connection is meaningless, it just happens to put those individuals in a group where they would run into the real causal agent.
I'm not being pedantic here: focussing on the underlying causal issue determines how you react to a result, whether it's mandating restricted computer use versus encouraging exercise, or accepting under-representation of minorities in technical fields as an intrinsic part of their existence versus addressing the social deprivation that causes that in the first place.
Yes, I know what a spurious correlation is. I'm not sure you think think that highlighting one when the actual underlying causal mechanism is plain to see is an intellectually fruitful strategy. You're not one of those "my kid was diagnosed with autism after his vaccines, therefore the vaccines caused the autism" kooks, are you?
It's the buzz of the gaming world right now so I'm surprised it took this long to reach Slashdot. Even as early as last year it had a ten-page feature in Edge.
The researchers actually observing this long-ago concluded that it has nothing to do with being black, hispanic, white or asian and almost exclusively to do with economic and social factors. It's not just politically incorrect to assert that it's a race issue, it's contrafactual.
1) The higgs field instability is an inherent part of the higgs model; it falls out of the mathematics surprisingly simply and is years-old news at this point. Whether it's a practical concern rather depends on the masses involved, and there's every chance it will go away with improved models 2) The author isn't claiming that the Higgs doesn't exist. Regardless, we know that something more exotic than the standard model exists, because we general relativity and QM continue to be bitterly incompatible 3) There's no graviton in the standard model, and no obvious way to add one, nor any experimental evidence of one
Actually I got this wrong, the large masses are a consequence of the instability, the instability itself arises because the Higgs self-interaction can, if these results are correct, become attractive at high energy densities (similar to those predicted for inflation). At that point it's all downhill.
I found an older article about the Higgs field instability itself; the instability arises because the field can be much stronger, leading to much higher particle masses and thus the big crunch alluded to. Although that's assuming that inertial and gravitational mass are still the same thing in such a domain...
I don't think that applies given that the IDE is for the web, not the browser. This is more like a digital photo frame shipping with a photo editing package. Which is kind of worse, because at least the inner platform ships users the tools they need to make the product itself better.
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It also gives emulator programmer a reference point for correct behaviour, and information on how that behaviour was originally achieved which might be useful. Aren't we reaching the stage where low-level simulation of original hardware is possible for the simpler cabinets?
Even with ROM images, some of the older, weirder arcade hardware is very hard to accurately emulate, so having whole boards is very precious.
It wasn't; although there are '80s cabinets in there, the hardware in a lot of the pictures is late '90s or early 2000s vintage, and one of the articles suggests it has been closed for about ten years. Given that there's been a recession on that entire time, it might be that the value of the space didn't justify the cost of clearing out all those machines.
Surprisingly, no; during development the studio gradually split into a team which had been designing the low-level stuff and creatures, and a team which had been responsible for the large-scale procedural gameplay and space exploration. Because the two teams were essentially not talking to each other, the aspects wound up diverging massively in graphical style and it was a bit of a mess to try and bring it all back together into a shippable game. It's just the usual story of an overambitious idea, poorly managed, that winds up having to conform to genre standards (in this case, The Sims and a god game on one disk) to meet a deadline.
That's not much good when you're pressing special characters and modifier keys all the time. I've hacked together regexes on an iPad before, using my favourite terminal app which brings up a bunch of useful shortcuts to special symbols and the modifiers, but it was still quietly horrific.
They did receive IRB approval, however the protocol listed in the paper expressly breaches one of the IRBs' rules, and may breach several others depending on how the study was performed. It shouldn't have been approved.
It becomes a problem when you involve actual academic research staff. Private companies can do whatever the heck they like outside of a hospital, but researchers engaging in interventions are required to meet certain ethical standards as a matter of professional norm and quite often as a binding condition of any funding they have received.
Take all the existing costs and yield problems of a touchscreen phone, then add a few dozen mechanical parts under a region-specific text overlay, and attach them to that phone with even more moving parts.
It's probably best for a niche device like this to start off with a design that minimises risks.
Yes, that's one of the things I'd assume a private firm would have to offer to get the contract in a free market. Although obviously in this case I suppose they could've just mandated that.
They got this all wrong. It should be :"No! Taxation without representation."
Not a libertarian, but to play devil's advocate for a moment: the problem is that they're a state-appointed-and-run agency, so this isn't properly privatised. You have the bad half of privatisation, but not the good half. You could argue that if the system was actually an open market with private security firms competing for the government's business then you'd have open-ness.
Now as far as I'm concerned, history has proven that it'd never actually work out that way, but there you go.
I suppose it depends on what you mean by "weaker". I don't think that experiments are going to tell us much at all about what neanderthals ate, so in this case observation would seem to have the edge.
Is there such a thing as "observational" and "experimental" science though? I see a lot of experimental work behind observational studies, and a lot of observations behind lab experiments.
Let me rephrase. I get what you're saying, that it's a factually correct statement to say that people from such-and-such a group get such-and-such results on a test. The point I want to contest - the AC now at "1, Informative" that Nephandus is supporting - is the idea that it's due to some underlying difference between the races that we're just too politically correct to acknowledge. The observation is true, the conclusion they're pushing is counterfactual.
They know how to control for controlling for economic and social factors? What?
I'm not sure I follow your objection. Perhaps I should give a clearer example: there are well-established links between being a computer user and being unhealthy. However as the joke in the Simpsons goes, it's not the computer use that the issue, it's the non-stop sitting and snacking that comes with it. The ostensible connection is meaningless, it just happens to put those individuals in a group where they would run into the real causal agent.
I'm not being pedantic here: focussing on the underlying causal issue determines how you react to a result, whether it's mandating restricted computer use versus encouraging exercise, or accepting under-representation of minorities in technical fields as an intrinsic part of their existence versus addressing the social deprivation that causes that in the first place.
I'm gonna need something a bit more trustworthy than two random jpeg images of charts off wordpress.
Yes, I know what a spurious correlation is. I'm not sure you think think that highlighting one when the actual underlying causal mechanism is plain to see is an intellectually fruitful strategy. You're not one of those "my kid was diagnosed with autism after his vaccines, therefore the vaccines caused the autism" kooks, are you?
It's the buzz of the gaming world right now so I'm surprised it took this long to reach Slashdot. Even as early as last year it had a ten-page feature in Edge.
The researchers actually observing this long-ago concluded that it has nothing to do with being black, hispanic, white or asian and almost exclusively to do with economic and social factors. It's not just politically incorrect to assert that it's a race issue, it's contrafactual.
1) The higgs field instability is an inherent part of the higgs model; it falls out of the mathematics surprisingly simply and is years-old news at this point. Whether it's a practical concern rather depends on the masses involved, and there's every chance it will go away with improved models
2) The author isn't claiming that the Higgs doesn't exist. Regardless, we know that something more exotic than the standard model exists, because we general relativity and QM continue to be bitterly incompatible
3) There's no graviton in the standard model, and no obvious way to add one, nor any experimental evidence of one
Actually I got this wrong, the large masses are a consequence of the instability, the instability itself arises because the Higgs self-interaction can, if these results are correct, become attractive at high energy densities (similar to those predicted for inflation). At that point it's all downhill.
I found an older article about the Higgs field instability itself; the instability arises because the field can be much stronger, leading to much higher particle masses and thus the big crunch alluded to. Although that's assuming that inertial and gravitational mass are still the same thing in such a domain...
http://www.livescience.com/273...
Yes, but the interesting and not obvious result is in which ways our theories are incomplete, which guides the search for better ones.
It's a false vacuum model, yes. Which is both exciting and quietly terrifying.
I don't think that applies given that the IDE is for the web, not the browser. This is more like a digital photo frame shipping with a photo editing package. Which is kind of worse, because at least the inner platform ships users the tools they need to make the product itself better.