Must I rely on Google searchs and Wikipedia for all my answers? I've read hundreds of scientific sources and this is the first time I've ever come across Octillion.
Maybe, simply finding something somewhere on the internet is not enough to make it remarkable.
It depends on who's doing the educating. The patent industry has done a fine job in "educating" Judges in the utility and indeed necessity of modern patent law as it is practised. Do you really want the software industry to start indoctrinating judges as well.
If the judge is unable to rule on the case, they should simply say so. If the government cannot find a judge to hear the case, then it is an overwhelmingly technical matter, not a legal one, and should be thrown out of the courts. If the government still needs to hear these cases, then they must either establish specialised courts or find some other method of dealing with them.
Far too much faith is placed in the court system by far too many. It is not the effective, impartial font of justice that many fantasise it to be. It's a creaking, rusty relic of a medieval property arbitration for the wealthy and powerful, with a criminal punishment system tacked on to protect that same property. It is failing miserably to deal with modern society, and sooner or later we're going to end up paying for it. The rise of private arbitration and legal fraud by major corporations is a symptom of how discredited rule of law by the court has become.
Bank bonuses were dependant on results. The more money you shovelled out the window or burned in a furnace, the more you got paid.
This will ruin Google. Bonuses and other goal oriented incentives ruin organisations wholesale.
If you dangle large quantities of money in front of people to get them to do something(or worse threaten to deny them money if they don't), then they will do whatever it takes to meet that goal. This means they will cut corners, engage in risk, change parameters, and generally cheat and game the system in every way possible to meet your target. Eventually, your company or organisation will be utterly ruined, withered from within by your ill advised management practices.
Bonuses are an illegitimate form of compensation on every level. 99% percent of the time, a bonus culture is instituted by management to pay themselves handsomely for wrecking their company.
If you want someone to work, pay them for the job they do, not the targets they meet. Never, ever try to reduce a job to numbers when that's not what it's all about. If you're still not getting quality labour, hire better people, and note you may have to pay to get them.
True indeed. In fact, I would go farther. I think this has the potential to become a classic textbook example of number theory.
This is an impressive and visually interesting application of basic number theory. I would not be surprised if we began seeing the presentations modelled on the Legion of Lego showing up in the slides of number theory lectures in the near future.
The best reason for leaving one out of the prime number set is because it enables you to state the prime number theorem more succinctly:
Every integer n>1 has a unique factorisation as a product of primes (Prime factorisation)
If one was prime, then the factorisation would not be unique. For example 6=2.3, but if 1 was an allowed prime then 6=1.2.3=1.1.2.3=1.1.1.2.3=.... 1^n.2.3. So it's preferred to leave one out.
There are other reasons, but the prime number theorem is perhaps the best one.
The big problem here is that whenever you install any application, you're technically giving the designers virtually free reign to do whatever they like with your system/PC/phone/whatever.
Once permitted in, most commercial applications barge into your PC, rewrite whatever files they please, alter configuration settings, gobble up memory, install themselves as startup applications and often install an entire suite of unwanted applications and advertisements you didn't even ask for. Then they plonk themselves down in your living room, feet on the sofa, and begin to shout at you, along with all the dozens of other loudmouth applications you've invited in.
But, it's usually kind of funny/sad/lame to watch several teenagers, all with their phones out, all with headphones attached to their phones, and all heads down and texting and more or less ignoring one another. It's like self-imposed autism or something, and actually kind of sad to watch.
Does anyone here remember what teenagers did before mobile phones? Did you all have unmissable, action-packed adolescences or something?
I can remember being a teenager and hanging out with other teenagers. They were among the most mind numbingly boring experiences of my life. I can vividly recall spending entire days "hanging out" with groups in towns. Let me give you a typical "fun time".
Six+ hours spent standing outside shops, on street corners, under bridges occassional window browsing, one 40 minute break in a cafe, and all the while everyone talking complete and utter shite about either music, tv, movies or gossip. One continuous topic would typically be what we'd all see in the cinema later on. Eventually, after hours of idle meandering, legs now aching with pain, the group would finally make it to that place, at which point either a) no money would remain for everyone to see the film, so we'd all go home, or b) everyone would go in and talk continuously throughout the entire film. Later, people would either ring their parents for lifts home, or walk the long mile back to their abodes.
It was a special kind of purgatory. It was like going to mass, followed by attending a funeral, and afterwards a lecture in the tanneries of ancient Assyria, all mixed in with waiting in a long queue to fill in forms that made no sense. Imagine if you will Silent Bob without the Jay, standing on a corner _not_ having amazing adventures or experiences. Ah, the heady days of youth!
I'm sure some poster will following this up with tales of their awesome, all-American, action packed teenage socialising. But my experience was that teenagers were as boring as shit. Too old to play, too young to talk, too poor to go anywhere interesting, and too inexperienced to know when their bored.
Autism?! Autism!!! You think texting on their phones is a form of autism?! Teenagers are intrinsically autistic, monosyllabic, awkward, and uninteresting people. The phones and the internet have nothing to do with it.
At 16, she is horribly addicted to all of these things. We had my dad's 70th b-day party over the weekend and she sulked in the corner the entire time with her face buried in her phone.
I suspect neither the phone nor its internet connectivity were the real problem here.
Or how about we just give up with the idea of for profit third party authentication altogether and use either a handful of open authentication sites or just fall back on a distributed web of trust. I find the whole idea of founding our public key encryption systems on trusting a private, for-profit corporation to be laughable to begin with.
And the Mozillia/Firefox Debacle over self-signed certs would be funny right now if it wasn't so offensive.
The written and spoken words are two very different things. When writing, the "speaker" uses the structure and syntax of the language alone to communicate their meaning( though some allowances can be made for formatting, etc). When speaking, tone, expression, gestures and immediacy all lend an entirely different character (and confusion) to the conversation.
You can judge someone's opinions by what they write, but you won't have much luck telling much else about them. It's not surprising; judgig someone by what they write would be like judging someone on what they cook for dinner.
You don't perchance happen to have the email you sent them granting them permission to release your email address on to Epsilon and/or any other subcontractor/partnered company which fancy placed within their heads? I can only presume that ni private company would be do dishonourable as to throw your or anyone else's email address about like corporate confetti paper without your explicit written permission. Perish the thought!
This is part of the planned failure mode of the reactor.
Apparently earthquake and tsunami's were part of the planned failure modes of the reactors as well. We've all seen how well things have gone so far. Why should we believe the company now? How do we know that this is really all part of some planned failure scenario and not simply another unexpected disaster beyond their control and indeed understanding?
But this is not going to be a Chernobyl-level catastrophe.
They say there's no danger of a Chernobyl style catastrophe, but what credibility do they have? These people--and quite a few nuclear proponents around here--told us all that there was "no danger" of any major leak in the days after the tsunami hit. Three weeks later the reactor is a molten puddle on a concrete floor, and now they're telling us we don't have to fear something else. Do you believe them? Would you beleive them if your home was near the exclusion zone?
Need I mention that four weeks ago, all involved would have scoffed at the notion of even the possibility of a meltdown.
The essential problem is that once you create a management, accountancy, HR or other department, the people within it will find work to keep themselves employed whether there is an actual need for them to do it or not.
Hence TPS reports, meetings, paperwork, etc. The purpose of this flack is not to help the company, increase efficiency, or anything of the sort; its purpose is to keep management employed.
Google has a very simple way of dealing with any oncoming "management" crisis. Fire say, 50%, of all managers. Those that remain will only have enough time to focus on their core work. If you leave their hands idle, your company will be swamped with the devil's work. Better to show them the door than allow them to cook up some hideous "synjergisation" strategy between unproductive meetings.
If you've been to China, it is understandable why: There is very much a mentality of "Whatever you want to do is ok, so long as it gets you ahead." Lying, cheating, all perfectly ok.
China? That's how things work everywhere nowadays. Look at all the crooks running out banks and industries.
This has nothing to do with Relativity as far as I can see. He's giving a presentation on integration by parts(to someone else apparently) using his window instead of a whiteboard. I wouldn't have started with the integrals that he did, but otherwise I find no complaint in the presentation.
Remarkable enough for a 12 year old, though it should be noted that there are a always a few precocious mathematicians about. I can say that it's more than I was able to do at 12, or 15 for that matter.
Ordinarily, bright sparks like this one would perhaps be trained to compete in the International Mathematics Olympiad or the like, and would go on to become a research mathematician. Unfortunately those glitterati physicists appear to have poached yet another promising student. Is there no end to their palaver?!
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Must I rely on Google searchs and Wikipedia for all my answers? I've read hundreds of scientific sources and this is the first time I've ever come across Octillion.
Maybe, simply finding something somewhere on the internet is not enough to make it remarkable.
Is this a rhetorical phrase like ginormous, or is this number actually defined somewhere?
Why? The Sun represents journalism and the media industry in its purest form.
It depends on who's doing the educating. The patent industry has done a fine job in "educating" Judges in the utility and indeed necessity of modern patent law as it is practised. Do you really want the software industry to start indoctrinating judges as well.
If the judge is unable to rule on the case, they should simply say so. If the government cannot find a judge to hear the case, then it is an overwhelmingly technical matter, not a legal one, and should be thrown out of the courts. If the government still needs to hear these cases, then they must either establish specialised courts or find some other method of dealing with them.
Far too much faith is placed in the court system by far too many. It is not the effective, impartial font of justice that many fantasise it to be. It's a creaking, rusty relic of a medieval property arbitration for the wealthy and powerful, with a criminal punishment system tacked on to protect that same property. It is failing miserably to deal with modern society, and sooner or later we're going to end up paying for it. The rise of private arbitration and legal fraud by major corporations is a symptom of how discredited rule of law by the court has become.
Bank bonuses were dependant on results. The more money you shovelled out the window or burned in a furnace, the more you got paid.
This will ruin Google. Bonuses and other goal oriented incentives ruin organisations wholesale.
If you dangle large quantities of money in front of people to get them to do something(or worse threaten to deny them money if they don't), then they will do whatever it takes to meet that goal. This means they will cut corners, engage in risk, change parameters, and generally cheat and game the system in every way possible to meet your target. Eventually, your company or organisation will be utterly ruined, withered from within by your ill advised management practices.
Bonuses are an illegitimate form of compensation on every level. 99% percent of the time, a bonus culture is instituted by management to pay themselves handsomely for wrecking their company.
If you want someone to work, pay them for the job they do, not the targets they meet. Never, ever try to reduce a job to numbers when that's not what it's all about. If you're still not getting quality labour, hire better people, and note you may have to pay to get them.
True indeed. In fact, I would go farther. I think this has the potential to become a classic textbook example of number theory.
This is an impressive and visually interesting application of basic number theory. I would not be surprised if we began seeing the presentations modelled on the Legion of Lego showing up in the slides of number theory lectures in the near future.
This is in fact true.
The best reason for leaving one out of the prime number set is because it enables you to state the prime number theorem more succinctly:
Every integer n>1 has a unique factorisation as a product of primes (Prime factorisation)
If one was prime, then the factorisation would not be unique. For example 6=2.3, but if 1 was an allowed prime then 6=1.2.3=1.1.2.3=1.1.1.2.3= .... 1^n .2.3. So it's preferred to leave one out.
There are other reasons, but the prime number theorem is perhaps the best one.
The main Tokyo lines are running almost 4 minutes late!!
They should be, but they'll probably just get a big bonus for coming in under cost.
The big problem here is that whenever you install any application, you're technically giving the designers virtually free reign to do whatever they like with your system/PC/phone/whatever.
Once permitted in, most commercial applications barge into your PC, rewrite whatever files they please, alter configuration settings, gobble up memory, install themselves as startup applications and often install an entire suite of unwanted applications and advertisements you didn't even ask for. Then they plonk themselves down in your living room, feet on the sofa, and begin to shout at you, along with all the dozens of other loudmouth applications you've invited in.
Does anyone here remember what teenagers did before mobile phones? Did you all have unmissable, action-packed adolescences or something?
I can remember being a teenager and hanging out with other teenagers. They were among the most mind numbingly boring experiences of my life. I can vividly recall spending entire days "hanging out" with groups in towns. Let me give you a typical "fun time".
Six+ hours spent standing outside shops, on street corners, under bridges occassional window browsing, one 40 minute break in a cafe, and all the while everyone talking complete and utter shite about either music, tv, movies or gossip. One continuous topic would typically be what we'd all see in the cinema later on. Eventually, after hours of idle meandering, legs now aching with pain, the group would finally make it to that place, at which point either a) no money would remain for everyone to see the film, so we'd all go home, or b) everyone would go in and talk continuously throughout the entire film. Later, people would either ring their parents for lifts home, or walk the long mile back to their abodes.
It was a special kind of purgatory. It was like going to mass, followed by attending a funeral, and afterwards a lecture in the tanneries of ancient Assyria, all mixed in with waiting in a long queue to fill in forms that made no sense. Imagine if you will Silent Bob without the Jay, standing on a corner _not_ having amazing adventures or experiences. Ah, the heady days of youth!
I'm sure some poster will following this up with tales of their awesome, all-American, action packed teenage socialising. But my experience was that teenagers were as boring as shit. Too old to play, too young to talk, too poor to go anywhere interesting, and too inexperienced to know when their bored.
Autism?! Autism!!! You think texting on their phones is a form of autism?! Teenagers are intrinsically autistic, monosyllabic, awkward, and uninteresting people. The phones and the internet have nothing to do with it.
I suspect neither the phone nor its internet connectivity were the real problem here.
Or how about we just give up with the idea of for profit third party authentication altogether and use either a handful of open authentication sites or just fall back on a distributed web of trust. I find the whole idea of founding our public key encryption systems on trusting a private, for-profit corporation to be laughable to begin with.
And the Mozillia/Firefox Debacle over self-signed certs would be funny right now if it wasn't so offensive.
The written and spoken words are two very different things. When writing, the "speaker" uses the structure and syntax of the language alone to communicate their meaning( though some allowances can be made for formatting, etc). When speaking, tone, expression, gestures and immediacy all lend an entirely different character (and confusion) to the conversation.
You can judge someone's opinions by what they write, but you won't have much luck telling much else about them. It's not surprising; judgig someone by what they write would be like judging someone on what they cook for dinner.
Taxpayers.
And, you know, if you have to do it, try not to use soulless extermination droids. Your PR is bad enough as it is.
You don't perchance happen to have the email you sent them granting them permission to release your email address on to Epsilon and/or any other subcontractor/partnered company which fancy placed within their heads? I can only presume that ni private company would be do dishonourable as to throw your or anyone else's email address about like corporate confetti paper without your explicit written permission. Perish the thought!
Like they do in France
Security breaches? Gawker sites should be banned for their deranged site design, for the good of the entire internet.
Apparently earthquake and tsunami's were part of the planned failure modes of the reactors as well. We've all seen how well things have gone so far. Why should we believe the company now? How do we know that this is really all part of some planned failure scenario and not simply another unexpected disaster beyond their control and indeed understanding?
They say there's no danger of a Chernobyl style catastrophe, but what credibility do they have? These people--and quite a few nuclear proponents around here--told us all that there was "no danger" of any major leak in the days after the tsunami hit. Three weeks later the reactor is a molten puddle on a concrete floor, and now they're telling us we don't have to fear something else. Do you believe them? Would you beleive them if your home was near the exclusion zone?
Need I mention that four weeks ago, all involved would have scoffed at the notion of even the possibility of a meltdown.
Even the Japanese Prime Minister has lost patience with the plant owners and their slipshod operations. How much credibility can we give these people, give to nuclear power? How much can we afford to give?
Given the progression of events thus far, I'm not certain if we can really rule this scenario out.
The essential problem is that once you create a management, accountancy, HR or other department, the people within it will find work to keep themselves employed whether there is an actual need for them to do it or not.
Hence TPS reports, meetings, paperwork, etc. The purpose of this flack is not to help the company, increase efficiency, or anything of the sort; its purpose is to keep management employed.
Google has a very simple way of dealing with any oncoming "management" crisis. Fire say, 50%, of all managers. Those that remain will only have enough time to focus on their core work. If you leave their hands idle, your company will be swamped with the devil's work. Better to show them the door than allow them to cook up some hideous "synjergisation" strategy between unproductive meetings.
China? That's how things work everywhere nowadays. Look at all the crooks running out banks and industries.
This has nothing to do with Relativity as far as I can see. He's giving a presentation on integration by parts(to someone else apparently) using his window instead of a whiteboard. I wouldn't have started with the integrals that he did, but otherwise I find no complaint in the presentation.
Remarkable enough for a 12 year old, though it should be noted that there are a always a few precocious mathematicians about. I can say that it's more than I was able to do at 12, or 15 for that matter.
Ordinarily, bright sparks like this one would perhaps be trained to compete in the International Mathematics Olympiad or the like, and would go on to become a research mathematician. Unfortunately those glitterati physicists appear to have poached yet another promising student. Is there no end to their palaver?!
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