By the end of the week we'll accomplish what would've taken half an hour, but it will be in secret and nobody will be the wiser.
Except that there will be a written record of 100% of the entire discussion.
Frankly, I fail to see the problem here. As long as record are kept, these email discussions are even better than having minutes of meetings from a public transparency perspective. Of course, it all involves the public actually having access to the emails, so there's probably an issue there.
It's central argument is "I did stop; a car just passed in front of me and you didn't see.". This is then expanded into 4 pages of unnecessary and probably disingenuous over-analysis.
The entire argument breaks down in FIG 5. Leaving aside this nonsense of measuring angular speed(The human brain interpolates just fine), the author compares two curves in which the equated angular speeds of the car do not translate into the same linear speed. Indeed, at the occlusion point at t~1.5 s, the car corressponding to the blue curve would be travelling at 15m/s, verses the car at constant 8m/s that it is being compared to.
And this is even before we begin talking about how the author is really comparing a car at constant speed to one which reverses back into the stop sign and then drives forward.
I think this kind of thing is described as "sophomoric", and in that that word describes a second year student who is full of their own knowledge with no concept of their own ignorance, I would have to label it as such. The cop was right, pay your ticket Mr. Krioukov, and don't darken the door of the maths department for a very long time.
1701-D would have been huge, perhaps too large to be feasible....
This is a point worth emphasising. The actual ships in Star Trek really are on an space age scale. The ship supposed to be over 1km long.
Rather than quote statistics, I'll just link to a Minecraft Megaproject video of a virtual 1:1 scale model of the ship (to 1m resolution). It's a lot bigger than the impression given by the Paramounts sets in the show. Seeing shuttle-bay 1 was an experience in itself, and illustrative of just how infeasible building such an object would really be.
So a New Jersey ("New Joisey") accent would sell in Ireland?
It does. Syndicated US TV shows are enormous in Ireland, to the point where most programming on Irish television, certainly drama programming, is probably made in the US.
It is effectively expected that in high budget shows, particularly crime dramas and films, the actors will have Americans accents. UK accents will be accepted, to a point, but a film like Die Hard either set in the UK, or having leads with UK accents will certainly not work.
One of the most unusual film experiences I had in recent years was watching "The Wind That Shakes the Barley", a war film set during the Irish war of independence and the civil war. It was frankly a bit surreal to see all the drama, conflict, tragedy, war, bloodshed, and death being played out by people with Irish accents. It was a mentally relieving whenever black and tans would show up to provide a more traditional accent to the manic proceedings.
Occasionally, the Irish broadcaster RTE produces dramas set in Dublin, etc and played by Irish actors. They invariably flop. People can't suspend their disbelief when a drama is set, literally, in their home town, in the very streets and buildings they've been in themselves.
Does Bugs Bunny sound sexy to you?
No. But I will note that when the UK director Gerry Anderson produced Thunderbirds, for a UK audience, he gave the puppets US accents.
(I also feel obliged to mention that, for myself personally, meeting someone with a US accent in the flesh is often a surreal experience. It feels a bit like some kind of a line---probably a glass screen of some kind---has been crossed. The effect has significantly diminished over time, now only a lingering one. And it only occurs for US accents.)
Was over at a friends house recently. He had on some kind of Mickey mouse adventure DVD for the baby. It was essentially demented. Mickey mouse traping around on an undefined saccharine adventure with shapeshifting companions, reaching into a sack of some kind to use tools on CG doors that lead to the next microplot with no connection to what came before or after.
It was the closest I have ever seen film come to capturing the hazy stream of consciousness of a dream. I think it was over an hour long.
If Disney and others have been mass producing DVDs like that for children for the last 15 years, I'd fully expect incidences of all kinds of mental pathology to be skyrocketing right about now.
I know the kind of hard-mindedness behind what has led up to the Financial Crisis and what has PERSISTED it. It's the persistence that really gets under my non-USian skin. In $UTOPIA, we KNOW when we've made mistakes and we learn from them quickly, readily and even hungrily. Sure, we have our share of arrogant assholes too, but it's not our "culture" to be that way. Watching the Americans in action routinely fills me with a sense of "WTF?!"
Fortunately, not all Americans are alike. Some think in far better ways. But unfortunately, there are too many arrogant assholes who are still trying to keep it covered up and glossed over and they simply don't want to talk about it. Anglo Irish Bank uses American banking models and it has recently been determined that the whole thing was bankrupt leading to the bailout problems they are experiencing over there. (BTW, does it help to know that the money in Wall St. is mostly Chinese bonds? I suppose not as the problems come from poor disaster planning, maintenance and other factors of implementation... the money itself itself was just fine.)
Just remember that the constitution does not grant you the right to fly either.
Actually the American founders though of that problem, and solved it via the Ninth Amendment The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
This passage is really genius and its a great pity that the kind of intellectual governance that drafted it no longer exists in the US today.
It should be simple: was the car manufacturer funded fully, or even partially, by the public? Then all the results from it should be fully available to the public.
Not even a remotely close analogy.
Car manufacturers deal in physical products. They take in raw parts an material, add the value, and sell the resulting products. This is the production of a good.
An academic researcher reads literature, thinks for a bit, and produces one copyable paper. Once that paper is produced, that's it, the research is done and paid for. This is the performing of a service.
When a researcher gives their paper over to an academic publisher, it a very real sense they have effectively performed the service on that publishers behalf. They were paid out of the public purse to provide the pubic with useful results. Instead, they too public money and then sealed those results behind a private paywall.
This is properly analogous to you paying the manufacturer for your car to be produced, and then having the manufacturer give it a car dealer who you now have to pay an additional fee to if you want the car you've already paid for.
I know of a small family plant nursery business/garden centre who wanted to redo their website. They mostly sold flowers, trees, landscaping plants, etc and also ran vegetable classes.
Anyway, the developer they hired insisted that Google gave higher priority to the words "fruits" and "hedging", and proceeded to throw up a website containing essentially nothing but content about fruits and hedges. Trouble was, they didn't do a lot of hedging and I don't think they did fruits at all. When questioned on this, he came back with some nonsense about "hits" and "looking professional".
He basically wrecked their site through SEO best practices.
The key point is those scientists and engineers were not raised and trained by American society.
That statement is probably true for a signifigant percentage of American workers prior to about 1970. The US has always had an advantage in being able to attract immigrant labour, gaining a productive populace without having to bear the cost of raising and educating them. It's one of the things that made US such a competitive country.
However the flip side of this was that the American education and training sector was smaller than might be expected. This problem was slowly resolved during the 20th century, particularly during the 1950s with the GI programs and the Cold War as you mention.
The trouble is that the education and training sectors promoted during that time had a heavy STEM bent, and our society no longer values those professions. More significantly, due to this bent, other more traditional elements of the university such as the humanities were set aside and I would argue have not been picked up since.
The net effect of this is that the best schools in the US spend their time churning out narrowly educated scientists, technicians, technocrats and business students who ultimately have no idea how society should be run or what their place is in it beyond the specific narrow role in front of their noses. Worse, there are no longer productive industrial jobs for these people to be employed in and they have increasingly transferred their talents into ultimately destabilising professions such as the techno-financial sector, quantization-analysis services, modern-media relations, and the MBA industry.
Universities are effectively educating generations of idle hands with no civic sense or purpose. The result is essentially the rampant mischief we see all around us and ultimately the disintegration of rational, humane, civic society.
Indeed. The article appears to have been written by a wide-eyed journalist with a poor grasp of basic physics and chemistry. The authors confusion between electrons and atoms is clear from the text.
One slightly mitigating factor is the nature of the research, which appears to use physical arrangements of atoms to induce new types of electro-chemical bonding. The research appears to cajole electrons into various chemical bond arrangements by moving C-O molecules into patterns upon a copper grid. It appears that the atoms are being directly controlled, not the electrons.
From what I can guess from the ravings in the article, the electrons probably just hop in or out of the valence band of the copper to facilitate the formation of these giant "oxy-carbon" molecules. I assume a sufficiently literate chemistry geek would actually be able to put a name on the molecules being formed, similar to those on hydrocarbon molecules.
Or the whole article could have been the result of the authors lsd trip. Who knows?
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As an academic, I would describe it as more like living in a nightmare.
Except that there will be a written record of 100% of the entire discussion.
Frankly, I fail to see the problem here. As long as record are kept, these email discussions are even better than having minutes of meetings from a public transparency perspective. Of course, it all involves the public actually having access to the emails, so there's probably an issue there.
Not as cheap as valium though.
This argument is a shameless piece of sophistry.
It's central argument is "I did stop; a car just passed in front of me and you didn't see.". This is then expanded into 4 pages of unnecessary and probably disingenuous over-analysis.
The entire argument breaks down in FIG 5. Leaving aside this nonsense of measuring angular speed(The human brain interpolates just fine), the author compares two curves in which the equated angular speeds of the car do not translate into the same linear speed. Indeed, at the occlusion point at t~1.5 s, the car corressponding to the blue curve would be travelling at 15m/s, verses the car at constant 8m/s that it is being compared to.
And this is even before we begin talking about how the author is really comparing a car at constant speed to one which reverses back into the stop sign and then drives forward.
I think this kind of thing is described as "sophomoric", and in that that word describes a second year student who is full of their own knowledge with no concept of their own ignorance, I would have to label it as such. The cop was right, pay your ticket Mr. Krioukov, and don't darken the door of the maths department for a very long time.
Well, it can't get much worse than the existing UI in any case.
Actually, no as it turns out.
And that's a pretty specific fetish to justify spending $18 million.
This is a point worth emphasising. The actual ships in Star Trek really are on an space age scale. The ship supposed to be over 1km long.
Rather than quote statistics, I'll just link to a Minecraft Megaproject video of a virtual 1:1 scale model of the ship (to 1m resolution). It's a lot bigger than the impression given by the Paramounts sets in the show. Seeing shuttle-bay 1 was an experience in itself, and illustrative of just how infeasible building such an object would really be.
Meanwhile in the banks....
The Bonuses Will Continue Until Morals Improve.
Be honest, how many cat hairs are on your main home workbench right now?
The real tragedy is the amount of people who would vote for such politicians after they had said it.
Probably a euphemism for "old-fag" I should think.
But the people watching internet porn aren't having any sex at all.
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It does. Syndicated US TV shows are enormous in Ireland, to the point where most programming on Irish television, certainly drama programming, is probably made in the US.
It is effectively expected that in high budget shows, particularly crime dramas and films, the actors will have Americans accents. UK accents will be accepted, to a point, but a film like Die Hard either set in the UK, or having leads with UK accents will certainly not work.
One of the most unusual film experiences I had in recent years was watching "The Wind That Shakes the Barley", a war film set during the Irish war of independence and the civil war. It was frankly a bit surreal to see all the drama, conflict, tragedy, war, bloodshed, and death being played out by people with Irish accents. It was a mentally relieving whenever black and tans would show up to provide a more traditional accent to the manic proceedings.
Occasionally, the Irish broadcaster RTE produces dramas set in Dublin, etc and played by Irish actors. They invariably flop. People can't suspend their disbelief when a drama is set, literally, in their home town, in the very streets and buildings they've been in themselves.
No. But I will note that when the UK director Gerry Anderson produced Thunderbirds, for a UK audience, he gave the puppets US accents.
(I also feel obliged to mention that, for myself personally, meeting someone with a US accent in the flesh is often a surreal experience. It feels a bit like some kind of a line---probably a glass screen of some kind---has been crossed. The effect has significantly diminished over time, now only a lingering one. And it only occurs for US accents.)
Was over at a friends house recently. He had on some kind of Mickey mouse adventure DVD for the baby. It was essentially demented. Mickey mouse traping around on an undefined saccharine adventure with shapeshifting companions, reaching into a sack of some kind to use tools on CG doors that lead to the next microplot with no connection to what came before or after.
It was the closest I have ever seen film come to capturing the hazy stream of consciousness of a dream. I think it was over an hour long.
If Disney and others have been mass producing DVDs like that for children for the last 15 years, I'd fully expect incidences of all kinds of mental pathology to be skyrocketing right about now.
At last, we can watch Joe 90 again.
I know the kind of hard-mindedness behind what has led up to the Financial Crisis and what has PERSISTED it. It's the persistence that really gets under my non-USian skin. In $UTOPIA, we KNOW when we've made mistakes and we learn from them quickly, readily and even hungrily. Sure, we have our share of arrogant assholes too, but it's not our "culture" to be that way. Watching the Americans in action routinely fills me with a sense of "WTF?!"
Fortunately, not all Americans are alike. Some think in far better ways. But unfortunately, there are too many arrogant assholes who are still trying to keep it covered up and glossed over and they simply don't want to talk about it. Anglo Irish Bank uses American banking models and it has recently been determined that the whole thing was bankrupt leading to the bailout problems they are experiencing over there. (BTW, does it help to know that the money in Wall St. is mostly Chinese bonds? I suppose not as the problems come from poor disaster planning, maintenance and other factors of implementation... the money itself itself was just fine.)
Actually the American founders though of that problem, and solved it via the Ninth Amendment
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
This passage is really genius and its a great pity that the kind of intellectual governance that drafted it no longer exists in the US today.
Why, right behind the patent application of course.
Not even a remotely close analogy.
Car manufacturers deal in physical products. They take in raw parts an material, add the value, and sell the resulting products. This is the production of a good.
An academic researcher reads literature, thinks for a bit, and produces one copyable paper. Once that paper is produced, that's it, the research is done and paid for. This is the performing of a service.
When a researcher gives their paper over to an academic publisher, it a very real sense they have effectively performed the service on that publishers behalf. They were paid out of the public purse to provide the pubic with useful results. Instead, they too public money and then sealed those results behind a private paywall.
This is properly analogous to you paying the manufacturer for your car to be produced, and then having the manufacturer give it a car dealer who you now have to pay an additional fee to if you want the car you've already paid for.
I know of a small family plant nursery business/garden centre who wanted to redo their website. They mostly sold flowers, trees, landscaping plants, etc and also ran vegetable classes.
Anyway, the developer they hired insisted that Google gave higher priority to the words "fruits" and "hedging", and proceeded to throw up a website containing essentially nothing but content about fruits and hedges. Trouble was, they didn't do a lot of hedging and I don't think they did fruits at all. When questioned on this, he came back with some nonsense about "hits" and "looking professional".
He basically wrecked their site through SEO best practices.
That statement is probably true for a signifigant percentage of American workers prior to about 1970. The US has always had an advantage in being able to attract immigrant labour, gaining a productive populace without having to bear the cost of raising and educating them. It's one of the things that made US such a competitive country.
However the flip side of this was that the American education and training sector was smaller than might be expected. This problem was slowly resolved during the 20th century, particularly during the 1950s with the GI programs and the Cold War as you mention.
The trouble is that the education and training sectors promoted during that time had a heavy STEM bent, and our society no longer values those professions. More significantly, due to this bent, other more traditional elements of the university such as the humanities were set aside and I would argue have not been picked up since.
The net effect of this is that the best schools in the US spend their time churning out narrowly educated scientists, technicians, technocrats and business students who ultimately have no idea how society should be run or what their place is in it beyond the specific narrow role in front of their noses. Worse, there are no longer productive industrial jobs for these people to be employed in and they have increasingly transferred their talents into ultimately destabilising professions such as the techno-financial sector, quantization-analysis services, modern-media relations, and the MBA industry.
Universities are effectively educating generations of idle hands with no civic sense or purpose. The result is essentially the rampant mischief we see all around us and ultimately the disintegration of rational, humane, civic society.
Indeed. The article appears to have been written by a wide-eyed journalist with a poor grasp of basic physics and chemistry. The authors confusion between electrons and atoms is clear from the text.
One slightly mitigating factor is the nature of the research, which appears to use physical arrangements of atoms to induce new types of electro-chemical bonding. The research appears to cajole electrons into various chemical bond arrangements by moving C-O molecules into patterns upon a copper grid. It appears that the atoms are being directly controlled, not the electrons.
From what I can guess from the ravings in the article, the electrons probably just hop in or out of the valence band of the copper to facilitate the formation of these giant "oxy-carbon" molecules. I assume a sufficiently literate chemistry geek would actually be able to put a name on the molecules being formed, similar to those on hydrocarbon molecules.
Or the whole article could have been the result of the authors lsd trip. Who knows?
But look at what happens to the coefficients for the surface area and volumes of the n-sphere for different values of n
The numerical coefficients follow an obvious pattern when tau is used with S(n+2)=V(n)*tau*r
With pi the pattern is nowhere near as obvious.
I'd post a table but the Slashdot lameness filter doesn't like those.
That's why we have financial markets traders.