I guess that Shark Psychology is not a subject thats been studied much due to the intractability of the subjects and difficulty of objectively assessing their actions. Is it at all possible, however, that either by electromagnetic or psychological effects the tagging of a shark changes its behaviour? It strikes me that all the data discussed in the article is info about sharks that have been tagged by people.
Designing a system to pass the test is what most IT outsourcing companies do !
Its when you try to do something useful with it that you find all your code is good for is giving convincing answers to the test it had to face. Although I guess if skynet will be obsessive/compulsive about getting into University the future would be a less perilous place....
Mubarak wasnt bad for the Coptic minority (or for the gay minority as it happens). His sons took prominent part in a movement of moderate moslems who placed guards to protect Coptic churches. I think minority groups everywhere fear overwhelming majority rule.
IMO the 'support' was one of those forced gestures that democracies get caught in, to their general ridicule.
Having campaigned however reluctantly - for democracy it would have looked very bad then to denounce the victor. That sort of thing would instantly be compared to Chile, where in 1970 Salvatore Allende won a democratic election giving him a mandate for a form of Christian Socialism which entailed the nationalisation of some (profitable) American business operations in his country... and was overthrown and killed by a US-friendly right-winger (Augusto Pinochet) who was content to leave business in private hands.
Whether such an act of denunciation would look bad compared to how bad the present situation seems, is a question for more scholarly minds.
Events in the Middle-East begin, to me, to resemble the backstory to the late Iain M.Banks work. We've intervened in numerous ways in a society we don't really understand for a mixture of reasons in our own interests and also those which we perceived to be in the interests of the resident population.
And for cultural reasons we didnt comprehend, it's gone horribly wrong.
In the UK we have camera-controlled variable speed limits which measure the average speed of passing vehicles over 1km
Most drivers slow to about 4mph below the limit in order not to drift over it (easy to do in a 6 mile, free-slowing 50mph zone). I found the best solution to the stress of speed monitoring is to use an android phone as a head-up-display mounted next to the rear view mirror. the Torque app relays car instrumentation to the smartphone display, reading it from the ECU via a bluetooth adapter plugged into the car's management port. i look at the rear view every few moments anyway, now I have a large, bright display giving GPS speed, fuel economy and engine temperature alongside it, in my peripheral field of vision
I think theres a lot in that. Also - a lot of accidents happen in the hour spanning night and day... while people are making the transition from running on vision and observation of other vehicles and objects, to running down 2 beams of light and watching for reflections and motion. 9pm and later would be after dusk for a lot of the year
Top Gear commented a few years back that if you drive after being awake for 18 hours you have the same reaction speeds as someone who'd had half a bottle of whisky. The only difference is that driving tired is perfectly legal.
On the subject of driving and talking - in the UK its legal as long as you have a hands-free kit. I do, but refuse to use it when moving as I find it too distracting trying to talk without hand gestures, which I do persistently even when I cant see the person I'm talking to....
Office was got as near as possible to perfection in about 17 years then they spent 13 years making it worse and worse. The current version is only slightly preferable to being buggered with a cactus
yeah, same here. Since I plugged a cheapo bluetooth unit (the blue clear one for people looking on eBay) into my Volvo V40 my fuel bills have dropped noticeably, and it gave me very early warning that the engine thermostat was failing, long before I'd have noticed it through an unsteady thermostat needle. I feel also that running the car in a less aggressive style for economy's sake will prolong the life of various components too that otherwise need to be bought and either fitted, or paying someone to fit...
Also , in that particular culture the appearance of not having been duped / not losing face is worth more than any degree of integrity and honesty. Plus - maybe the bomb un-detectors have a placebo effect on potential bombers?
Core Assets are things that make money. Normally its Capital Assets - EG, a machine that costs $100000 but makes $50000 basecost contribution (markup on) saleable goods a year and lasts for 10 years would be considered an asset - as it gives a revenue yield greater than the costs it consumes (power, materials) and the costs of financing.
But the real economic value of that machine requires a market willing to buy the goods produced at the stated value. So it is for Human Capital - employees. If they produce goods worth more than their wages cost, and if the market will take those goods and pay for them - then the employees are assets who must be appreciated, and protected, and kept.
The problem is that the wage bill exists whether anyones buying the product or not. Most corporations fail because the product doesnt sell. That being the case the staff are, sadly, a liability not an asset. Economics is a game for the cold-hearted.
I was more pleased than if they had gone along with the displays they were curating. These people were probably minimum wage earners who could be fired in a heartbeat for undermining the museum's message, but they had a personal ethic to tell the truth which went beyond their perceived duties as employees.
Dinosaur fossils were well known in some parts of the ancient world long before the writing of the holy books of the Abrahamic religions, mainly China where they were revered, dug out and eaten as medicine (dragon bones!). International flows of knowledge have happened for a very long time, its probably a reference to one of those areas where fossils were plentiful and evidently monstrous.
Some reporters did that when it first opened, found that almost all of the museum staff were quite willing to admit that it was all nonsense and that none of them were qualified in any related field, and weren't expected to offer any sort of analysis or insight...
In 1918 the Treaty of Versailles stated - not for the first time - that there is no such thing as an innocent civilian of a warlike state - they can be divided into those who acted to prevent, and those who complied. We are probably all citizens (or subjects in the case of monarchies) of post-revolutionary states. We should understand that a limited proportion of the blame for the actions of tyrants must fall upon those who did not act to stop them
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I guess that Shark Psychology is not a subject thats been studied much due to the intractability of the subjects and difficulty of objectively assessing their actions. Is it at all possible, however, that either by electromagnetic or psychological effects the tagging of a shark changes its behaviour? It strikes me that all the data discussed in the article is info about sharks that have been tagged by people.
I thought you could pass a Turing test by always answering "yes", "no" or "That would be an ecumenical question"
Designing a system to pass the test is what most IT outsourcing companies do !
Its when you try to do something useful with it that you find all your code is good for is giving convincing answers to the test it had to face. Although I guess if skynet will be obsessive/compulsive about getting into University the future would be a less perilous place....
Mubarak wasnt bad for the Coptic minority (or for the gay minority as it happens). His sons took prominent part in a movement of moderate moslems who placed guards to protect Coptic churches. I think minority groups everywhere fear overwhelming majority rule.
IMO the 'support' was one of those forced gestures that democracies get caught in, to their general ridicule.
Having campaigned however reluctantly - for democracy it would have looked very bad then to denounce the victor. That sort of thing would instantly be compared to Chile, where in 1970 Salvatore Allende won a democratic election giving him a mandate for a form of Christian Socialism which entailed the nationalisation of some (profitable) American business operations in his country... and was overthrown and killed by a US-friendly right-winger (Augusto Pinochet) who was content to leave business in private hands.
Whether such an act of denunciation would look bad compared to how bad the present situation seems, is a question for more scholarly minds.
except naked flames
Events in the Middle-East begin, to me, to resemble the backstory to the late Iain M.Banks work. We've intervened in numerous ways in a society we don't really understand for a mixture of reasons in our own interests and also those which we perceived to be in the interests of the resident population.
And for cultural reasons we didnt comprehend, it's gone horribly wrong.
you will probably be a better driver than most: good luck
In the UK we have camera-controlled variable speed limits which measure the average speed of passing vehicles over 1km
Most drivers slow to about 4mph below the limit in order not to drift over it (easy to do in a 6 mile, free-slowing 50mph zone). I found the best solution to the stress of speed monitoring is to use an android phone as a head-up-display mounted next to the rear view mirror. the Torque app relays car instrumentation to the smartphone display, reading it from the ECU via a bluetooth adapter plugged into the car's management port. i look at the rear view every few moments anyway, now I have a large, bright display giving GPS speed, fuel economy and engine temperature alongside it, in my peripheral field of vision
I think theres a lot in that. Also - a lot of accidents happen in the hour spanning night and day... while people are making the transition from running on vision and observation of other vehicles and objects, to running down 2 beams of light and watching for reflections and motion. 9pm and later would be after dusk for a lot of the year
Top Gear commented a few years back that if you drive after being awake for 18 hours you have the same reaction speeds as someone who'd had half a bottle of whisky. The only difference is that driving tired is perfectly legal.
On the subject of driving and talking - in the UK its legal as long as you have a hands-free kit. I do, but refuse to use it when moving as I find it too distracting trying to talk without hand gestures, which I do persistently even when I cant see the person I'm talking to....
Office was got as near as possible to perfection in about 17 years then they spent 13 years making it worse and worse. The current version is only slightly preferable to being buggered with a cactus
yeah, same here. Since I plugged a cheapo bluetooth unit (the blue clear one for people looking on eBay) into my Volvo V40 my fuel bills have dropped noticeably, and it gave me very early warning that the engine thermostat was failing, long before I'd have noticed it through an unsteady thermostat needle. I feel also that running the car in a less aggressive style for economy's sake will prolong the life of various components too that otherwise need to be bought and either fitted, or paying someone to fit...
Also , in that particular culture the appearance of not having been duped / not losing face is worth more than any degree of integrity and honesty. Plus - maybe the bomb un-detectors have a placebo effect on potential bombers?
'cos I really need source compatibility between my toaster, my phone and my PC
unless you include the Afrikaner Dutch, in which case they may be one of the most angry races alive
Core Assets are things that make money. Normally its Capital Assets - EG, a machine that costs $100000 but makes $50000 basecost contribution (markup on) saleable goods a year and lasts for 10 years would be considered an asset - as it gives a revenue yield greater than the costs it consumes (power, materials) and the costs of financing.
But the real economic value of that machine requires a market willing to buy the goods produced at the stated value. So it is for Human Capital - employees. If they produce goods worth more than their wages cost, and if the market will take those goods and pay for them - then the employees are assets who must be appreciated, and protected, and kept.
The problem is that the wage bill exists whether anyones buying the product or not. Most corporations fail because the product doesnt sell. That being the case the staff are, sadly, a liability not an asset. Economics is a game for the cold-hearted.
I wonder if there is any hate term that includes the phrase " DROP TABLE Submissions;-- " .....
I was more pleased than if they had gone along with the displays they were curating. These people were probably minimum wage earners who could be fired in a heartbeat for undermining the museum's message, but they had a personal ethic to tell the truth which went beyond their perceived duties as employees.
Dinosaur fossils were well known in some parts of the ancient world long before the writing of the holy books of the Abrahamic religions, mainly China where they were revered, dug out and eaten as medicine (dragon bones!). International flows of knowledge have happened for a very long time, its probably a reference to one of those areas where fossils were plentiful and evidently monstrous.
Some reporters did that when it first opened, found that almost all of the museum staff were quite willing to admit that it was all nonsense and that none of them were qualified in any related field, and weren't expected to offer any sort of analysis or insight...
or even.. April 1st Post ! *i'll get my coat*
Or just cut to the chase and drop a warhead.
In 1918 the Treaty of Versailles stated - not for the first time - that there is no such thing as an innocent civilian of a warlike state - they can be divided into those who acted to prevent, and those who complied. We are probably all citizens (or subjects in the case of monarchies) of post-revolutionary states. We should understand that a limited proportion of the blame for the actions of tyrants must fall upon those who did not act to stop them
Or it could be ended in 5 minutes if anyone had the balls to use a neutron weapon in the role it was designed for.