It was not for adventure, tohught it was an adventure. Trading COMPANIES are not about adventure they are about making money. PILGRIMS are not about adventure, they are about escaping religios persecution. The GOLD rush(es) was about gold! Homesteaders were here for the free land. The Mountain men were here for the beavers. The soldiers to kill Indians. The Mormons to establish their Zion.
Keeping all your eggs in one basket is a strategy for failure.
And throwing all your eggs out of your basket hoping to find another basket is even worse. Wealth is wasted on manned space flight, more could be accomplished at a lower cost with unmanned exploration.
Yes, and it is a good thing that the Columbia shows no signs of contamination and is still has a below average(for US rivers) amount of radioactive isotopes in it.
"Someone can spend years learning something that could be transferred in minutes. Where is the fairness in that?"
Someone can spend a life time discovering something that can be learned in a day. Where is the fairness in that?
Its not about scholastic "fairness" it is about progress. If the time to learn can be cut, then the contribution to research naturally increases. Likewise intelligence becomes of greater importance, unlike the current education system that favors memorization ability.
until it breaks:o.
I believe phyruxus is talking about automatic towing/pushing for a dead (like doesn't move) car. I think some sort of electric magnet would be the way to go that would automaticaly activate pushing the care infront of you....this is actually a general solution to having a car going to slow infront of you...clearly this would have to be included in the reservation system so a car doesn't push another car out of its closly timed reservation....but this is rly just making a new reservation for a longer car.
That is my biggest complaint about the simulation, it expects perfect preformance by the agents. A traffic control system must be fault tollerant, a stop light inherintly does this, the reservation system does not. A simple way to increase the tolerance of the reservation system is specify that no car can have a vehicle infront of it that is within it's stopping distance. Which isn't so simple because stopping distance is a function of speed and in an intersection vehicals that will be infront of you must also be considered. Because of this the model of just reserving a path through the intersection breaks down, because there is a buffer on the side of a path which size depends on th speed of other vehicals; this makes the vehicals query for the forecast on the intersection in a certain time frame, not just ask if a certain reservation works.
That patern is due to their spawning code I believe. A car cannot spawn with in 1 second or 1 meter of a car infront of it, and a direction has a fixed fairly high chance of spawning a car every 1/15 of a second (that is the time step), and then it get placed in a legal lane, if no lane is available the car is discarded. The high rate of spawning and the 1 second gap rule will result in the cars being placed into "waves". The diagonals form just is a result from the fact that some car must be infront(2 cars can't spawn in the same direcrtion in the same time step) and the "waves" crossing at the intersection reservation system.
I wish it was open source I would liek to play around with diffrent agent AI's to see what results I get...for example their systen nabdates the cars crossing the intersection at a fixed speed, and is 100% trusting in the cars. I would like to try adding acceleration into it and make the cars have imperfect control (a car could break, or not accelerate just right, or speed fluctuates, ect.)
That is (kinda) done by Utah DoT at least. And I trust by most other DoTs, no need for tags just road sensors do the trick. I don't know how intelligent the traffic lights are; however, they do have detaield information on traffic patersn and at least manually adjust light timers for events, construction, and observed traffic paterns. They have a system that would easily allow AI control of all the (major) stop lights...I don't know if it is done or to what extent however.
How is it on false positives? I don't see how any such algorithim that can catch quality photoshops would not produce false positives on images thatm for example, have strange lighting.
"I also see schools wasting money on computers that are five times faster than mine just to run Microsoft Office."
It simply isn't a waste. That school (if it is like the US schools I have volunteered doing tech support at) has at least a 6 year cycle on their computers. So that computer by Moore's Law will decresse by a factor of 2^6 compared to the comptuer level in 6 years. That computer will still be sitting in classrooms when your computer is ~13x faster than it!
bah I give up. Some exampels though:
In English the six most common letters are E T A O I N.
In Spanish they are E A O S R N.
In German they are something like E N I R S A.
But rly the bigger diffrences is at the lower frequency letters, but I don't know those off hand.
Also looking at frequencies of certain sequences of letters is helpful.
Nope, obviosuly the closer related two languages are the lower your confidence of the diffrence can be. However, for any language the frequency of the same characters are enough diffrent that given a large enough sample you can catagorize them with some confidence. I wish I could find the link that has a lot of the info on this, but I can't seem to:(. I will keep looking and post it if I find it.
I belive he was suggesting the language the post was written in. There is a lot of interesting work looking at the character distribution of a composition to determine the language....it is actually very good for longer works. So It wouldn't be all that hard to just analyze the character frequencies to filiter out post that are cleary not a certain language.
You just described exactly what LIGO is....just 1400 meters shorter and only one station instead of 2.5(LIGO Hanford has a short one and a full 2km per arm one).
LIGO Hanfod is a very cool facility. I got to go on a tour of it several years ago while they were in the calibration phase. At the time they were working on mapping the background vibration in the area. Trucks hitting a bump on a highway over 10 miles away left a consistent detectable spike. It was impressive the work that went into identifying every vibration they felt and then setting up monitoring and periodic average noise maps in order to help filter out the background noise to focus on the vibrations from space. LIGO is the king of siesmographs.
Its interesting that LIGO Livingston seems to be the more PR focused one. Go figure the one in a worse location for this work, but not on a nuclear site gets the PR:P, got to love America's fear of nuclear power.
If I remember right, there are 5 other international LIGOs, all collaborating on this. It's amazing the expense getting put into verifying this prediction by Einstein. It's never been clear to me why peopel care enough to go to such great lengths to verify this prediction. Anyone have insite in this? Please no philosophical boiler-plate answers...real impact-on-physics answers are what I am looking for.
Somehow tih thoose results they reach this conclution: "Given just the three operating systems analyzed before, SuSE comes out ahead of Fedora consistently - but more importantly, both Linux distributions also lay waste to the 64-bit and 32-bit editions of Windows XP."
Actually. It is not elitist at all. This study started in 1982, and got owned by the internet. They maintained a very similar set of questions each year to maintain the validity of the survey. It is unfortunate that this study got so destroyed by the internet, it now begs a follow-up looking at the impact of the internet on reading specifically.
O, and a discussion is always better than listening to a discussion. So yes a debate you are a part of is > talk radio/TV.
"However, broadcasters aren't required to keep a tape of their broadcasts so, rarely, an indecency complaint gets dismissed for lack of evidence."
Wouldn't less tapes being kept of a broadcast mean more cases get dismissed not less? It seems completely obvious that more tapes=>more evidence=>less dismissed for lack of evidence. Got to check Semantics not just Syntax!
Michael Jordan would not be Michael Jordan if he was in a different body. Obviously there are tons of such examples; the point being who you are is rather arbitrarily defined by the individual. People that live in a mostly cognitive world associate themselves with their brain. People that live in a physical world associate themselves with their body. Some fear retardation, others fear paralysis. Its not a question of what part of the person is the person...it is a question of what does a particular person associate themselves with.
Beyond that psychological/philosophical angle there is the plain physiology that has been mentioned of hormones. Additionally nerve signals, muscle coordination, body awareness. It's not (of course) some simple question of plugging the brain in to the right wires.
Flamebait I can understand. But troll?? Can someone explain that for me?
ah...the "brain" is the person idea. Pretty popular among/. people (nerds:D). However, no the brain is not the person, so transplanting the brain != immortality.
The few of you that actually read the ruling, know that stating your name is acceptable form of identification according to the ruling. I think it is perfectly reasonable for an officer to ask someone's name in a Terry stop. This is not a significant intrusion and the Terry stop happening means there is something being investigated.
Ignorance is not bliss....it is the bain of civilization. Educate yourself before you comment.
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It was not for adventure, tohught it was an adventure.
Trading COMPANIES are not about adventure they are about making money. PILGRIMS are not about adventure, they are about escaping religios persecution. The GOLD rush(es) was about gold! Homesteaders were here for the free land. The Mountain men were here for the beavers. The soldiers to kill Indians. The Mormons to establish their Zion.
It was not about adventure.
Keeping all your eggs in one basket is a strategy for failure.
And throwing all your eggs out of your basket hoping to find another basket is even worse. Wealth is wasted on manned space flight, more could be accomplished at a lower cost with unmanned exploration.
Yes, and it is a good thing that the Columbia shows no signs of contamination and is still has a below average(for US rivers) amount of radioactive isotopes in it.
A lot of useful reprocessing is illegal. They do turn it into glass for storage however.
"Someone can spend years learning something that could be transferred in minutes. Where is the fairness in that?" Someone can spend a life time discovering something that can be learned in a day. Where is the fairness in that? Its not about scholastic "fairness" it is about progress. If the time to learn can be cut, then the contribution to research naturally increases. Likewise intelligence becomes of greater importance, unlike the current education system that favors memorization ability.
until it breaks :o.
I believe phyruxus is talking about automatic towing/pushing for a dead (like doesn't move) car. I think some sort of electric magnet would be the way to go that would automaticaly activate pushing the care infront of you....this is actually a general solution to having a car going to slow infront of you...clearly this would have to be included in the reservation system so a car doesn't push another car out of its closly timed reservation....but this is rly just making a new reservation for a longer car.
That is my biggest complaint about the simulation, it expects perfect preformance by the agents. A traffic control system must be fault tollerant, a stop light inherintly does this, the reservation system does not. A simple way to increase the tolerance of the reservation system is specify that no car can have a vehicle infront of it that is within it's stopping distance. Which isn't so simple because stopping distance is a function of speed and in an intersection vehicals that will be infront of you must also be considered. Because of this the model of just reserving a path through the intersection breaks down, because there is a buffer on the side of a path which size depends on th speed of other vehicals; this makes the vehicals query for the forecast on the intersection in a certain time frame, not just ask if a certain reservation works.
That patern is due to their spawning code I believe. A car cannot spawn with in 1 second or 1 meter of a car infront of it, and a direction has a fixed fairly high chance of spawning a car every 1/15 of a second (that is the time step), and then it get placed in a legal lane, if no lane is available the car is discarded. The high rate of spawning and the 1 second gap rule will result in the cars being placed into "waves". The diagonals form just is a result from the fact that some car must be infront(2 cars can't spawn in the same direcrtion in the same time step) and the "waves" crossing at the intersection reservation system. I wish it was open source I would liek to play around with diffrent agent AI's to see what results I get...for example their systen nabdates the cars crossing the intersection at a fixed speed, and is 100% trusting in the cars. I would like to try adding acceleration into it and make the cars have imperfect control (a car could break, or not accelerate just right, or speed fluctuates, ect.)
That is (kinda) done by Utah DoT at least. And I trust by most other DoTs, no need for tags just road sensors do the trick. I don't know how intelligent the traffic lights are; however, they do have detaield information on traffic patersn and at least manually adjust light timers for events, construction, and observed traffic paterns. They have a system that would easily allow AI control of all the (major) stop lights...I don't know if it is done or to what extent however.
YEAH! Becasue agents always stop at Stop Lights.....o wait.
-5 Flamebait, sry I just couldn't resist.
a fixed size buffer around each car is the same as a bigger car...so rly its the same.
Why have an intersection that no one turns at? Just make an overpass---0 delay always.
How is it on false positives? I don't see how any such algorithim that can catch quality photoshops would not produce false positives on images thatm for example, have strange lighting.
"I also see schools wasting money on computers that are five times faster than mine just to run Microsoft Office."
It simply isn't a waste. That school (if it is like the US schools I have volunteered doing tech support at) has at least a 6 year cycle on their computers. So that computer by Moore's Law will decresse by a factor of 2^6 compared to the comptuer level in 6 years. That computer will still be sitting in classrooms when your computer is ~13x faster than it!
bah I give up. Some exampels though:
In English the six most common letters are E T A O I N.
In Spanish they are E A O S R N.
In German they are something like E N I R S A.
But rly the bigger diffrences is at the lower frequency letters, but I don't know those off hand.
Also looking at frequencies of certain sequences of letters is helpful.
Nope, obviosuly the closer related two languages are the lower your confidence of the diffrence can be. However, for any language the frequency of the same characters are enough diffrent that given a large enough sample you can catagorize them with some confidence. I wish I could find the link that has a lot of the info on this, but I can't seem to :(. I will keep looking and post it if I find it.
I belive he was suggesting the language the post was written in. There is a lot of interesting work looking at the character distribution of a composition to determine the language....it is actually very good for longer works. So It wouldn't be all that hard to just analyze the character frequencies to filiter out post that are cleary not a certain language.
You just described exactly what LIGO is....just 1400 meters shorter and only one station instead of 2.5(LIGO Hanford has a short one and a full 2km per arm one).
LIGO Hanfod is a very cool facility. I got to go on a tour of it several years ago while they were in the calibration phase. At the time they were working on mapping the background vibration in the area. Trucks hitting a bump on a highway over 10 miles away left a consistent detectable spike. It was impressive the work that went into identifying every vibration they felt and then setting up monitoring and periodic average noise maps in order to help filter out the background noise to focus on the vibrations from space. LIGO is the king of siesmographs.
:P, got to love America's fear of nuclear power.
Its interesting that LIGO Livingston seems to be the more PR focused one. Go figure the one in a worse location for this work, but not on a nuclear site gets the PR
If I remember right, there are 5 other international LIGOs, all collaborating on this. It's amazing the expense getting put into verifying this prediction by Einstein. It's never been clear to me why peopel care enough to go to such great lengths to verify this prediction. Anyone have insite in this? Please no philosophical boiler-plate answers...real impact-on-physics answers are what I am looking for.
Quick summary:
Meconder: SuSE(193,192), Windows(179,189), Fedora(83,78).
lame: Windows(282,281), SuSE(290,290), Fedor(295,205).
Mental Ray: Fedora(85.88,84.15), SuSE(86.73,85.29), Windows(92.08,91.97).
POV Ray: SuSE(1399,1762), Windows(1589,1592), Fedora(1700,1864).
RtCW: Windows(54.5,42.5), SuSE(40.2,37.3), Fedora(x,37.5).
UT2k4: SuSE(25,26), Fedora(x,26), Windows(24,24).
MySQL Select: Fedora(207,239), SuSE(215,289), Windows(259,264).
MySQL Insert: Fedora(489,515), SuSE(491,546), Windows(599,594).
Somehow tih thoose results they reach this conclution:
"Given just the three operating systems analyzed before, SuSE comes out ahead of Fedora consistently - but more importantly, both Linux distributions also lay waste to the 64-bit and 32-bit editions of Windows XP."
bah got to go...2 be continued.
Actually. It is not elitist at all. This study started in 1982, and got owned by the internet. They maintained a very similar set of questions each year to maintain the validity of the survey. It is unfortunate that this study got so destroyed by the internet, it now begs a follow-up looking at the impact of the internet on reading specifically. O, and a discussion is always better than listening to a discussion. So yes a debate you are a part of is > talk radio/TV.
"However, broadcasters aren't required to keep a tape of their broadcasts so, rarely, an indecency complaint gets dismissed for lack of evidence."
Wouldn't less tapes being kept of a broadcast mean more cases get dismissed not less? It seems completely obvious that more tapes=>more evidence=>less dismissed for lack of evidence. Got to check Semantics not just Syntax!
"if not the brain, what is?"
The person.
Michael Jordan would not be Michael Jordan if he was in a different body. Obviously there are tons of such examples; the point being who you are is rather arbitrarily defined by the individual. People that live in a mostly cognitive world associate themselves with their brain. People that live in a physical world associate themselves with their body. Some fear retardation, others fear paralysis. Its not a question of what part of the person is the person...it is a question of what does a particular person associate themselves with.
Beyond that psychological/philosophical angle there is the plain physiology that has been mentioned of hormones. Additionally nerve signals, muscle coordination, body awareness. It's not (of course) some simple question of plugging the brain in to the right wires.
Flamebait I can understand. But troll?? Can someone explain that for me?
ah...the "brain" is the person idea. Pretty popular among /. people (nerds :D). However, no the brain is not the person, so transplanting the brain != immortality.
The few of you that actually read the ruling, know that stating your name is acceptable form of identification according to the ruling. I think it is perfectly reasonable for an officer to ask someone's name in a Terry stop. This is not a significant intrusion and the Terry stop happening means there is something being investigated. Ignorance is not bliss....it is the bain of civilization. Educate yourself before you comment.
no they don't.