Looking at their social media sites, it looks like they run these surveys (on Surveymonkey) and put out the corresponding press releases constantly. Usually in exchange for being entered into a prize draw for a gift card or something.
The Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual suggests about 4 metric tonnes. Of course the same book concluded that the thing's not much more useful than an actual forklift.;)
It's also a survey of Vouchercloud's own userbase, a group of people who are quite likely to insert random or spurious answers to a survey so that they can click through to their free coupon.
...actually, most of those surveys use a baseline distribution from before the period they want to study as their definition for "average", "first quintile", whatever, so even for a symmetric distribution you can have more or less than 50% on a given side of the average.
Sci/tech press releases are like the autocue in Anchorman, you can put any old bollocks up there and the mainstream media will uncritically print it as news because it's a lot cheaper than having an actual science/tech department big enough to fill that section of the paper/website.
I was under the impression that one of the issue was that women are less likely to get offered exciting projects, overtime, etc. etc. so they wind up stuck in relatively junior positions doing limited hours.
I'm pretty sure one of the senior scientists in last year's artificial burger project was involved exactly because he was a vegetarian who wanted to eat artificial meat.
Alternatively, they genuinely thought we had a meat replacement ready to go and were just refusing to use it out of pettiness or evil. Given the way PETA talk about their ideological opponents it seems alarmingly plausible to me.
Also consider "Blood Glacier", a German film about a hostile microbe that escapes a thawing glacier. It's a shameless Thing derivative but the puppet effects are a lot of fun.
I think that says more about your misconceptions regarding "check your privilege": the idea is that you become aware of your own observer biases and account for them. It's an idea that's practically created for scientists.
Ah, Commodore's entry into "multimedia" and the "superconsole" race, respectively. Famously just worse and more expensive versions of the A500 and A1200, two machines which could already plug into a TV and work perfectly well as a games console. (And which were cheap new or second hand already.) At least the Ouya doesn't have that to compete with: it's cheap, and current tablets don't quite-as-conveniently connect to the television.
Yes, it is a problem when three months of growth in an investment is wiped out overnight, especially if you bought in during that period. It's even worse news for anyone who wasn't investing and was trying to use Bitcoin to actually buy things.
Not quite true: self-organising systems can regulate themselves into surprisingly resilient equilibria. This is why the economy doesn't need constant micro-management; feedback loops like supply and demand tend to damp out perturbations. However there's no reason to suppose that any given equilibrium arising from any given set of constraints and feedbacks will be optimal for whatever outcome you're looking for, be it quality of life, GDP per capita, or whatever. The "laissez faire capitalism is implied by self-organisation" argument tends to assume without evidence that the best equilibrium is the one you fall into with the set of feedbacks and constraints that the proponent's flavour of laissez faire capitalism favours. However it's important to remember that there's no reason to assume that the equilibrium produced by the current set of rules is optimal, either.
It's also important to remember that if your system naturally falls out of its current equilibrium (which is a thing self-organising systems can do) you will need to change the feedbacks and constraints or apply an external force to get it back to where it was. Basically, you can't walk away and say "this system is inherently able to look after us, if we leave it alone", just on the basis of its being a self-organising system.
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Looking at their social media sites, it looks like they run these surveys (on Surveymonkey) and put out the corresponding press releases constantly. Usually in exchange for being entered into a prize draw for a gift card or something.
The implied purpose is as a testbed for designing the human-computer interfaces for robots, which is the research group's main job.
The Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual suggests about 4 metric tonnes. Of course the same book concluded that the thing's not much more useful than an actual forklift. ;)
It's also a survey of Vouchercloud's own userbase, a group of people who are quite likely to insert random or spurious answers to a survey so that they can click through to their free coupon.
...actually, most of those surveys use a baseline distribution from before the period they want to study as their definition for "average", "first quintile", whatever, so even for a symmetric distribution you can have more or less than 50% on a given side of the average.
Sci/tech press releases are like the autocue in Anchorman, you can put any old bollocks up there and the mainstream media will uncritically print it as news because it's a lot cheaper than having an actual science/tech department big enough to fill that section of the paper/website.
The Daily Mail is an anti-source: facts uniquely found there are more likely to be wrong than right, so using it tends to count against your argument.
There's a joke site about setting up a cloned-celeb-meat sausage co:
http://motherboard.vice.com/en...
Fat-soluble vitamins, maybe? I wasn't being facetious, I'm dangerously close to losing an afternoon on reading up on restricted diets here.
I was under the impression that one of the issue was that women are less likely to get offered exciting projects, overtime, etc. etc. so they wind up stuck in relatively junior positions doing limited hours.
I'm pretty sure one of the senior scientists in last year's artificial burger project was involved exactly because he was a vegetarian who wanted to eat artificial meat.
Well now I'm clearly going to have to spend all afternoon looking up how the Inuit diet works, physiologically.
Wouldn't a human being who was a carnivore fall down dead from malnutrition pretty quickly? Everyone I know is an omnivore.
Alternatively, they genuinely thought we had a meat replacement ready to go and were just refusing to use it out of pettiness or evil. Given the way PETA talk about their ideological opponents it seems alarmingly plausible to me.
It's literally instant coffee.
It's a live, reproducing virus. They know what it looks like when it's fresh.
Also consider "Blood Glacier", a German film about a hostile microbe that escapes a thawing glacier. It's a shameless Thing derivative but the puppet effects are a lot of fun.
Bingo, you got it.
I think that says more about your misconceptions regarding "check your privilege": the idea is that you become aware of your own observer biases and account for them. It's an idea that's practically created for scientists.
I didn't realise that six digits carried any sort of prestige. I must be getting old.
There will be a four-digit user along any moment to put us in our place.
Ah, Commodore's entry into "multimedia" and the "superconsole" race, respectively. Famously just worse and more expensive versions of the A500 and A1200, two machines which could already plug into a TV and work perfectly well as a games console. (And which were cheap new or second hand already.) At least the Ouya doesn't have that to compete with: it's cheap, and current tablets don't quite-as-conveniently connect to the television.
Yes, it is a problem when three months of growth in an investment is wiped out overnight, especially if you bought in during that period. It's even worse news for anyone who wasn't investing and was trying to use Bitcoin to actually buy things.
Not quite true: self-organising systems can regulate themselves into surprisingly resilient equilibria. This is why the economy doesn't need constant micro-management; feedback loops like supply and demand tend to damp out perturbations. However there's no reason to suppose that any given equilibrium arising from any given set of constraints and feedbacks will be optimal for whatever outcome you're looking for, be it quality of life, GDP per capita, or whatever. The "laissez faire capitalism is implied by self-organisation" argument tends to assume without evidence that the best equilibrium is the one you fall into with the set of feedbacks and constraints that the proponent's flavour of laissez faire capitalism favours. However it's important to remember that there's no reason to assume that the equilibrium produced by the current set of rules is optimal, either.
It's also important to remember that if your system naturally falls out of its current equilibrium (which is a thing self-organising systems can do) you will need to change the feedbacks and constraints or apply an external force to get it back to where it was. Basically, you can't walk away and say "this system is inherently able to look after us, if we leave it alone", just on the basis of its being a self-organising system.
Indeed, MtGox managed to devalue everyone's assets by half without creating any inflation whatsoever. What an amazing innovation.
That's what the sporran is for.