However, Bourbaki was very good at getting the mathematics itself clearly defined.
It's just a pity they were never able to clearly get it across.
Bourbaki, and the Bourbaki style, makes great reference material. But that's all it makes. There is more to mathematics, and pictures and example are part of that "more". A big part. Bourbaki did not just forget these topics. They actively excluded them. Jean Dieudonne stood up in the middle of a conference and shouted "Down with Euclid! Death to Triangles!". It was an irrational zealotry, but mathematicians are people too, and they followed the trend setters.
You cannot learn mathematics from a reference book, or from books and people that try to be like those reference books. This applies to graduate students and professionals studying mathematics just as much as it applies to preschoolers learning about shapes. Here's a link to another view of mathematics, and how it should be taught by V.I. Arnold, a famous Russian mathematician.
About 35 million cows are slaughtered in the U.S. If you test 1% of them, you get a maximum margin of error of about 0.17%
All probably under the assumption that the prevalence of the disease is uniformly distributed among the cattle you test. More likely, it comes in batches of cattle from the same farms or areas.
Quality means relying on more than the bare minimum of testing that statistics lets you get away with. Though you are right that there are diminishing returns for every percentage extra you test. However I think in this case that relying on the law of large numbers to justify 1% testing is probably based more on financial reasons than scientific or safety ones.
Yes. Some foreign markets are paranoid about Beef imports. But if 100% testing is what it is going to take to sell to them, and someone can afford to do that, they should be let do it. Personally, I don't think 100% testing will work because the issue is not the quality of the beef but instead the fact that it is imported. If that drives the industry to 100% testing... so be it. Times change, and so does business.
Skin color and ethnicity should matter in an election, but Obama is half-"white American" half "Black African." While that technically makes him half African-American...
Actually, in the US at least, it makes him fully African-American. It's a good example of what's wrong with racial categorizations.
It's very sad, but racism can and does rob people of their heritage in more ways than one. In other countries and cultures, there are in betweencategories, though like all categorizations, they too have lead to racial discrimination. But in Anglo-Saxon society, American in particular, people do not seem to accept in-between categorizations. This even extends to those people of mixed race themselves.
It's a tragedy that many people will be unmotivated or indeed unwilling to trace their real ancestry. It's not just black people, many of whose ancestors where white, that lose heritage in this way. White people too are largely ignorant of their own ancestors. DNA is conclusively showing that out systems of racial classification are not scientific.
I come from an extended family which takes great interest in tracing its genealogy and past. It's interesting to find out about an unusual or (in)famous ancestor, and it does give you a sense of history. The idea that many do not or indeed cannot acknowledge their own heritage because of societal generalizations is indeed depressing. Taking the time to uncover, and accept, your family tree in the face of rigid racial classifications, still takes a brave individual in this day and age.
Micropayments are not becoming more popular. Smaller payments are. The best example of a game based on the smaller payments model is WarHawk for the PS3. The game itself is reasonably cheap, and the expansions are all less then 10 euros. There is little reason NOT to buy them.
When a game, or an expansion is cheaper, it's less of a risk, and people will buy more. The idea of asking people to fork over 60 or 70 euros for a title which because of its industry has a relatively high probability of being mediocre is asking too much. People are less satisfied with their purchases, and will be more adverse to buying new games. Hence less games will be purchased.
Developers and publishers may finally have realized this. From my own experience, there are a lot of very reasonably priced titles ( 10 euros) coming out on the playstation network. Pixel Junk titles are so cheap at this price that there is practically no risk at all in purchasing them. "Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty" was only 4-5 levels long, but as it was priced at 16 euros, I can't say that that bothered me too much. I got my money's worth.
The problem here stems from fixed prices on games. Why are games like GTA4 and Motorstorm are both in and around the same price? It does not make sense, and all the games industry is doing is creating a market for lemons.
If the professional gaming leagues ever do end up bending to the status quo and actually banning drugs, then if the gamers feel strongly enough about it, they should create their own league and let the people decide which they prefer.
Personally, I think these rules have more to do with a desire to be seen as politically mainstream, and that there is no real concern about "fairness".
The fact remains; most people associate video games with children and young people. While this remains the dominant view of the medium it will be subjected to a level of scrutiny and censorship unseen by any medium that has come before it. There are movies rated PG-13 that, as a game, would never be certified with anything less than an M or 18s rating. We've all played GTA. What, if anything, in the entire series compares with the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan?
Is there a higher level of censorship because the player is "committing the action's themselves!". No. That is only a rationalisation. The real reason is because Joe Public and John Politician think games are for "kids", and should have a level of "decency" befitting that role. Mention drugs or prostitution in a video game, hint at violence, or make even innocuous remarks about sexuality, or heaven forbid use even very mild "language" and you'll be rated akin to a James Bond title.
Ratchet and Clank as a series, has been continuously rated "Teen" by the ESRB. The ESRB, touted as a serious rating agency, is telling me with a straight face that Ratchet and Clank is unsuitable for 9-12 year olds? This is the status quo in the video game industry. In an environment like that, just how much risk do you think artists, or their patrons, will really be willing to take with their work?
Why in blazes should people who don't have kids, or who responsibly make arrangements for them to be cared for... have to pay in the form of a lower salary for yours?
Yeah! And while we're at it, why should I have to pay taxes that go to old, sick and young people I don't even know! It's unjust!
Base window manager is irrelevant. Users don't care whether it's KDE or Gnome. Behold the Cube! Behold the wobbly windows. Behold the 3D tiling! Behold I say!
Show potential Linux users a demo of that floating cube, and you will ship millions of Linux boxes. I have observed this effect, first hand. If you've got a business selling Linux boxes and you don't have such a demo set up in shop, you are wasting your time. You think OSX got where it is because of its Kernel features?
Precisely. This is less a sports ethics issue, than it is a health and safety issue. There are little pro-steroid argument sin this thread that cannot be used to support private security companies, construction firms or any other industry needing physical labour, to make drug use mandatory for their workers. Why should people have to take medication just to get a job?
and really, what effect did the crushing of the Prague spring, the Hungarian uprising of 56 etc really have on relations between the west and Russia?
It seriously dried up the amount of people in the west sympathetic towards communism and marxism in general. It deprived the Soviet Union of most of their left wing political support, as well as their supply of spies.
How many Rusophiles will change their opinions after this particular incident?
I don't know about you but I'm not sure I'd want a hobbyist with an extremely large amount of potentially explosive material (stored improperly) doing "experiments" next door to me and my family.
We'll I wouldn't want a gun/hunting enthusiast storing and training with automatic and semi-automatic weapons of all calibres living next door to me either. But I doubt that Massachusetts law enforcement would be so quick to intervene on my behalf.
What I think is interesting is that people have no problem believing that someone's genetics serve as a template for their hair, eye color, height, etc, but are much more skeptical about the role of genetics role behavior.
Well how much does having blue eyes instead of brown affect your behavior and personality? Is there a statistical difference in IQ, behaviour and/or personality between groups of straight haired vs curly haired people? Should we care?
Sometimes, life is more complicated that a series of on/off switches.
This is the most insightful comment I've read, here or anywhere, in a very long time. You've succinctly surmised why genetics has so captivated popular opinion. People want a modern tarot.
Because; "You have the right to freedom of speech as long as your not dumb enough to use it".
Freedom of speech, like just about all our supposed freedoms, is only available to those that can afford to defend it in court. The contrapositive of this fact is of course that the ability to take away freedoms from someone is available to those that can afford to attack them in court.
Companies, etc, apply for injunctions and by Gods they get them. Do you think if you, whatever your grievance, applied for an injunction against a major company that it would be awarded? Money talks. Judges listen. It's not necessarily something as base as bribes. Just high class laywers gaming a system that puts up with being gamed.
These three hackers should not have appealed this order. They should have ignored it. Defcon should have ignored it. Why obey an order that is going to be struck down anyway? Threat of censure? The court can only censure you if it's oder was legal in the first place.
If more people stood up to, and openly defied the courts; we'd have a better court system.
They did so by shelling civilians in Tsinhvali.... Some _1500_ innocents have died as a direct result of this aggression... 90% of all Southern Ossetians hold russian citizenship...Remember Kosovo? This isn't any different.
You just regurgitated the majority of well crafted Russian Propaganda that has surrounded this affair. Allow me to cut this Gordian Knot.
South Ossetia is South of the Caucasus Mountains. Even the BBC seem to have gotten their heads out of there asses about this fact, and have finally shown a topographical map of the region. Surprise, surprise. It turns out that the only connection between "North Ossetia" and "South Ossetia" is a the Roki Tunnel constructed in 1957. Yet we are all expected to believe that South Ossetia, has a long rich and deep cultural connection to their northern neighbours, and not with Georgia.
Look at the provence's profile. Most of it lies above 1000m. Total population ~70,000(There are 250,000 Russian's living in London). Do you know what South Ossetia is? It's a mountain slope. I'm a firm believer in self determination, but wars of national liberation over a bushel of villages on a mountain crag is taking it too far. Comparisons to Kosovo are laughable. Kosovo has over 30 times the population and twice the land mass, with most of that actually being below 1000m.
Border populations like the South Ossetian's exist all over the world, and I'm not in favor of national lines being redrawn to accommodate a handful of malcontents. Oppressed populations perhaps, but there is exactly zero evidence of that. Zero. A war over any such region is totally and completely unjustified.
You want to know what South Ossetia really is? It's a mini Sudentenland. Yeah, yeah, Godwin's Law, sue me. It's a good comparison. A very good comparison in fact. South Ossetia is an excuse, and excuse and nothing more, for Russia to put the smack down on Georgia and bring what it regards as a "near-abroad" province back under its boot. And it's not even a very good excuse.
I've been saying the following for a while, with a new sentence getting added every few years or so. The Bear is up. He's out of Hibernation, and has taken a very long piss. He's licked his wounds. He's wolfed down a few morsels. He's been seen marking the trees around his old haunts. He's been heard growling and roaring, and seen pawing the ground. Here's my latest addition:
The Bear has just made his first big kill in a very long time.
The Bear is back, he is On-Form, and the everybody(especially younger types) had better start getting used to it!
We can note the "most's", but should our conclusions be based on them? When we observe less women in technical fields, are we witnessing a cause of this lack or an effect of something else? Based on the changing status of women in a myriad of fields in the last century, I would think that "cause" is more likely. But please, feel free to continue making dubious body/brain analogies.
Personally, I have always felt that the most stupid event at the Olympics is the 100m sprint. Paradoxically this seems to be the viewers favourite, despite the fact that it is the event most determined by luck and, frankly, rule bending. I find it odd that there should be such expectation and buildup around an event that is over after less than 10 seconds. Though I suspect many women may have some insights on this.
The 400m sprints, and especially the relays, are nearly always a more interesting events. But Gymnastics of all kinds, in particular so called "artisic gymnastics", is most entertaining of all. If you think it's somehow inferior to the track and field events, then I challenge you to perform even one of the maneuvers seen there without spraining/breaking something.
All that said, I won't personally be watching much of the Olympics, except those clips that are splayed all over the news cycle. I've no wish to see the end result of years of a deprived and spartan childhood reduced to a walking canvas for corporate logos while they compete athletically around in front of obese onlookers in the middle of the worlds largest totalitarian state. Whew! Did I cover everything?
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Clearly then, the solution is to outlaw shadows.
I wonder how many people in the history of the world, ever, have in fact pulled this particular stunt?
It's just a pity they were never able to clearly get it across.
Bourbaki, and the Bourbaki style, makes great reference material. But that's all it makes. There is more to mathematics, and pictures and example are part of that "more". A big part. Bourbaki did not just forget these topics. They actively excluded them. Jean Dieudonne stood up in the middle of a conference and shouted "Down with Euclid! Death to Triangles!". It was an irrational zealotry, but mathematicians are people too, and they followed the trend setters.
You cannot learn mathematics from a reference book, or from books and people that try to be like those reference books. This applies to graduate students and professionals studying mathematics just as much as it applies to preschoolers learning about shapes. Here's a link to another view of mathematics, and how it should be taught by V.I. Arnold, a famous Russian mathematician.
So, basically, Lawyers have the same code of honour as Arms Dealers.
All probably under the assumption that the prevalence of the disease is uniformly distributed among the cattle you test. More likely, it comes in batches of cattle from the same farms or areas.
Quality means relying on more than the bare minimum of testing that statistics lets you get away with. Though you are right that there are diminishing returns for every percentage extra you test. However I think in this case that relying on the law of large numbers to justify 1% testing is probably based more on financial reasons than scientific or safety ones.
Yes. Some foreign markets are paranoid about Beef imports. But if 100% testing is what it is going to take to sell to them, and someone can afford to do that, they should be let do it. Personally, I don't think 100% testing will work because the issue is not the quality of the beef but instead the fact that it is imported. If that drives the industry to 100% testing... so be it. Times change, and so does business.
Actually, in the US at least, it makes him fully African-American. It's a good example of what's wrong with racial categorizations.
It's very sad, but racism can and does rob people of their heritage in more ways than one. In other countries and cultures, there are in between categories, though like all categorizations, they too have lead to racial discrimination. But in Anglo-Saxon society, American in particular, people do not seem to accept in-between categorizations. This even extends to those people of mixed race themselves.
It's a tragedy that many people will be unmotivated or indeed unwilling to trace their real ancestry. It's not just black people, many of whose ancestors where white, that lose heritage in this way. White people too are largely ignorant of their own ancestors. DNA is conclusively showing that out systems of racial classification are not scientific.
I come from an extended family which takes great interest in tracing its genealogy and past. It's interesting to find out about an unusual or (in)famous ancestor, and it does give you a sense of history. The idea that many do not or indeed cannot acknowledge their own heritage because of societal generalizations is indeed depressing. Taking the time to uncover, and accept, your family tree in the face of rigid racial classifications, still takes a brave individual in this day and age.
Or for a big company to use all that juicy free code for its web based services without having to offer source rights to users.
Micropayments are not becoming more popular. Smaller payments are. The best example of a game based on the smaller payments model is WarHawk for the PS3. The game itself is reasonably cheap, and the expansions are all less then 10 euros. There is little reason NOT to buy them.
When a game, or an expansion is cheaper, it's less of a risk, and people will buy more. The idea of asking people to fork over 60 or 70 euros for a title which because of its industry has a relatively high probability of being mediocre is asking too much. People are less satisfied with their purchases, and will be more adverse to buying new games. Hence less games will be purchased.
Developers and publishers may finally have realized this. From my own experience, there are a lot of very reasonably priced titles ( 10 euros) coming out on the playstation network. Pixel Junk titles are so cheap at this price that there is practically no risk at all in purchasing them. "Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty" was only 4-5 levels long, but as it was priced at 16 euros, I can't say that that bothered me too much. I got my money's worth.
The problem here stems from fixed prices on games. Why are games like GTA4 and Motorstorm are both in and around the same price? It does not make sense, and all the games industry is doing is creating a market for lemons.
If the professional gaming leagues ever do end up bending to the status quo and actually banning drugs, then if the gamers feel strongly enough about it, they should create their own league and let the people decide which they prefer.
Personally, I think these rules have more to do with a desire to be seen as politically mainstream, and that there is no real concern about "fairness".
You mean like bodybuilding?
1. Wife
2. Girlfriend
3. Boyfriend
Indeed. Naturally however, he will now be sued by BoS for his trouble.
But should that art be censored?
The fact remains; most people associate video games with children and young people. While this remains the dominant view of the medium it will be subjected to a level of scrutiny and censorship unseen by any medium that has come before it. There are movies rated PG-13 that, as a game, would never be certified with anything less than an M or 18s rating. We've all played GTA. What, if anything, in the entire series compares with the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan?
Is there a higher level of censorship because the player is "committing the action's themselves!". No. That is only a rationalisation. The real reason is because Joe Public and John Politician think games are for "kids", and should have a level of "decency" befitting that role. Mention drugs or prostitution in a video game, hint at violence, or make even innocuous remarks about sexuality, or heaven forbid use even very mild "language" and you'll be rated akin to a James Bond title.
Ratchet and Clank as a series, has been continuously rated "Teen" by the ESRB. The ESRB, touted as a serious rating agency, is telling me with a straight face that Ratchet and Clank is unsuitable for 9-12 year olds? This is the status quo in the video game industry. In an environment like that, just how much risk do you think artists, or their patrons, will really be willing to take with their work?
Yeah! And while we're at it, why should I have to pay taxes that go to old, sick and young people I don't even know! It's unjust!
Base window manager is irrelevant. Users don't care whether it's KDE or Gnome. Behold the Cube! Behold the wobbly windows. Behold the 3D tiling! Behold I say!
Show potential Linux users a demo of that floating cube, and you will ship millions of Linux boxes. I have observed this effect, first hand. If you've got a business selling Linux boxes and you don't have such a demo set up in shop, you are wasting your time. You think OSX got where it is because of its Kernel features?
Precisely. This is less a sports ethics issue, than it is a health and safety issue. There are little pro-steroid argument sin this thread that cannot be used to support private security companies, construction firms or any other industry needing physical labour, to make drug use mandatory for their workers. Why should people have to take medication just to get a job?
It seriously dried up the amount of people in the west sympathetic towards communism and marxism in general. It deprived the Soviet Union of most of their left wing political support, as well as their supply of spies.
How many Rusophiles will change their opinions after this particular incident?
We'll I wouldn't want a gun/hunting enthusiast storing and training with automatic and semi-automatic weapons of all calibres living next door to me either. But I doubt that Massachusetts law enforcement would be so quick to intervene on my behalf.
Well how much does having blue eyes instead of brown affect your behavior and personality? Is there a statistical difference in IQ, behaviour and/or personality between groups of straight haired vs curly haired people? Should we care?
Sometimes, life is more complicated that a series of on/off switches.
This is the most insightful comment I've read, here or anywhere, in a very long time. You've succinctly surmised why genetics has so captivated popular opinion. People want a modern tarot.
Because; "You have the right to freedom of speech as long as your not dumb enough to use it".
Freedom of speech, like just about all our supposed freedoms, is only available to those that can afford to defend it in court. The contrapositive of this fact is of course that the ability to take away freedoms from someone is available to those that can afford to attack them in court.
Companies, etc, apply for injunctions and by Gods they get them. Do you think if you, whatever your grievance, applied for an injunction against a major company that it would be awarded? Money talks. Judges listen. It's not necessarily something as base as bribes. Just high class laywers gaming a system that puts up with being gamed.
These three hackers should not have appealed this order. They should have ignored it. Defcon should have ignored it. Why obey an order that is going to be struck down anyway? Threat of censure? The court can only censure you if it's oder was legal in the first place.
If more people stood up to, and openly defied the courts; we'd have a better court system.
You just regurgitated the majority of well crafted Russian Propaganda that has surrounded this affair. Allow me to cut this Gordian Knot.
South Ossetia is South of the Caucasus Mountains . Even the BBC seem to have gotten their heads out of there asses about this fact, and have finally shown a topographical map of the region. Surprise, surprise. It turns out that the only connection between "North Ossetia" and "South Ossetia" is a the Roki Tunnel constructed in 1957. Yet we are all expected to believe that South Ossetia, has a long rich and deep cultural connection to their northern neighbours, and not with Georgia.
Look at the provence's profile. Most of it lies above 1000m. Total population ~70,000(There are 250,000 Russian's living in London). Do you know what South Ossetia is? It's a mountain slope. I'm a firm believer in self determination, but wars of national liberation over a bushel of villages on a mountain crag is taking it too far. Comparisons to Kosovo are laughable. Kosovo has over 30 times the population and twice the land mass, with most of that actually being below 1000m.
Border populations like the South Ossetian's exist all over the world, and I'm not in favor of national lines being redrawn to accommodate a handful of malcontents. Oppressed populations perhaps, but there is exactly zero evidence of that. Zero. A war over any such region is totally and completely unjustified.
You want to know what South Ossetia really is? It's a mini Sudentenland. Yeah, yeah, Godwin's Law, sue me. It's a good comparison. A very good comparison in fact. South Ossetia is an excuse, and excuse and nothing more, for Russia to put the smack down on Georgia and bring what it regards as a "near-abroad" province back under its boot. And it's not even a very good excuse.
I've been saying the following for a while, with a new sentence getting added every few years or so. The Bear is up. He's out of Hibernation, and has taken a very long piss. He's licked his wounds. He's wolfed down a few morsels. He's been seen marking the trees around his old haunts. He's been heard growling and roaring, and seen pawing the ground. Here's my latest addition:
The Bear has just made his first big kill in a very long time.
The Bear is back, he is On-Form, and the everybody(especially younger types) had better start getting used to it!
See, The Art of War.
That said, this book is probably tripe.
We can note the "most's", but should our conclusions be based on them? When we observe less women in technical fields, are we witnessing a cause of this lack or an effect of something else? Based on the changing status of women in a myriad of fields in the last century, I would think that "cause" is more likely. But please, feel free to continue making dubious body/brain analogies.
Personally, I have always felt that the most stupid event at the Olympics is the 100m sprint. Paradoxically this seems to be the viewers favourite, despite the fact that it is the event most determined by luck and, frankly, rule bending. I find it odd that there should be such expectation and buildup around an event that is over after less than 10 seconds. Though I suspect many women may have some insights on this.
The 400m sprints, and especially the relays, are nearly always a more interesting events. But Gymnastics of all kinds, in particular so called "artisic gymnastics", is most entertaining of all. If you think it's somehow inferior to the track and field events, then I challenge you to perform even one of the maneuvers seen there without spraining/breaking something.
All that said, I won't personally be watching much of the Olympics, except those clips that are splayed all over the news cycle. I've no wish to see the end result of years of a deprived and spartan childhood reduced to a walking canvas for corporate logos while they compete athletically around in front of obese onlookers in the middle of the worlds largest totalitarian state. Whew! Did I cover everything?