Uh, you do know that in order to do ray-tracing efficiently, you have to use data structures like bsps, kdtrees and octrees? I.e. Ones that you don't want to have to rebuild every frame because something moved.
I get your point that you won't have to precompute lighting for radiosity, but even raytracing often using radiosity for global illumination.
I'm under the impression that Amnesty International has in fact been using a similar 5 interlocking handcuffs logo as part of their highlighting of China's human rights abuses, if the IOC has any reasonable claim - why is Amnesty able to continue using it?
Thanks, that explains things well. I also asked my dad (a GP), and he explained that you need to ask concrete questions so the patient can't avoid them with social chit-chat.
Also, since the questionnaire is being administered by a doctor it makes more sense - I just couldn't see how I could answer it properly myself.
Just having a look at the questionnaire, I'm not entirely sure if it's appropriate for diagnosis. Most of the questions are very leading and closed.
Questions like "Do you feel sad, depressed or miserable?" and "Do you feel more tense or worried than usual?" are hard to answer truthfully, and it's far more effective for a doctor to diagnose someone with light chat about how they're living, rather than trying to suggest to them what's wrong.
It's like diagnosing someone with psychosis, you don't just ask them if they think everyone's out to get them, you ask them if they've noticed anything odd lately as see what tangent they spin off on.
Hawking is pretty much a "popular celebrity" - there are a lot of other just as smart physicists/scientists out there. This isn't to degrade his achievements, and it's in some way useful for there to be a popular point of contact/figurehead with advanced physicsts.
Physicists here at Cambridge, UK use Excel in first year for a mathematical methods exercise, and then in second year we use excel again for another mathematical methods exercise and C++ (formerly Fortran) for a programming in physics course. I personally think Excel IS useful for seeing the flow of iterated algorithms, numerical integration and so on - but learning a proper language is important to if you want people to mature into programming at all. Plus programming seems so important in research environments that it'd be negligent not to.
In addition, as part of the first year natural science course you can do half the first year computer scientist's courses, including ML and Java - so if you're interested you do learn "real" languages.
No, the electric universe "theory" is just by a bunch of quacks that take selective analysis to mean that astrophysicists don't take electromagnetism into account and only think about gravity.
I think the somethingawful.com forums have proved that strict moderation is needed for large general forums. Despite being one of the largest forums on the internet and having tens of thousands of members, it manages to avoid the usual spam, flamewars and brainless repetition of memes that plague others (well, they last for a while, but often get clamped down on quite quickly as old and overused). The $10 fee to register probably helps, since it gives a monetary loss for being banned.
I was under the impression that facebook ALREADY DOES THIS. If you go on facebook.com and ask to submit a poll or ad, you can select which demographics you want and put in interets/music/activities. I've been targetted by ads for concerts by a few bands. This is nothing like beacon, which supplied information to facebook about outside activities.
It's not that hard, you just pick a card and drink half the sum of the prime factors in fingers. If you get it wrong, you have to stand on your head and recite pi backwards (as hard as it sounds.)
Uh, so what's to stop google/MS/Yahoo just blocking each ip from signing up if it's having a high CAPTCHA failure rate, and attempting to create a large number of accounts in a short amount of time?
Here in Cambridge we use http://sakaiproject.org/ for our document distribution and collaboration - and it works pretty damn nicely - all the lectures are shoved up in folders for courses that you can either join or be invited to. I don't know what other features Blackboard has, but we also have separate systems for grade reporting and exam signups.
Except you have to choose a basis along which to perform your measurement - and only one, due to the uncertainty principle (the non-commutating nature of the quantum operators involved), so you can only get "up" or "down" (or some other number of states, given the system)
You're referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenberg's_microscope , however, that isn't actually what the uncertainly principle is about - but rather the non-commuting nature of the position and momentum operators on a fundamental level.
I also recommend NS, though it's probably a bit dead these days - it's given me some of the deepest, most intense and most tactical FPS/RTS experiences. Proper team play, not just helping a team mate because you'll get extra points, I'm eagerly awaiting NS2.
Having read the first part of the paper, it pretty much seems to be a strawman argument against quantum computing by complaining that the popular perception of it is impossible, then so must quantum computing. Bullshit, the real quantum computing that researchers are working on is based on extremely well tested theories and the main reason why it might not work is the difficulty in actually engineering the machine itself with reasonable tolerances.
Having themed in Drupal it's definitely not too complex, I was able to piece together what I needed to do from samples around the internet, and a lot of it is quite intuitive.
I expected that the domain saving thing was actually them holding the domain while a customer decided if they wanted to buy it nor not, so it couldn't be registered while they're still entering card details or whatever. It is a bit dodgy, though - were they actually putting adverts up on the domains?
I remember seeing something about how the mutation rate of HIV is "on the edge" of survivability, if it mutated any faster, it would be unstable and unable to reliably reproduce. This gave some idea of somehow increasing the mutation rate significantly using drugs so that it just fails.
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After me, say it slowly: intents and purposes That way it actually makes sense.
Uh, you do know that in order to do ray-tracing efficiently, you have to use data structures like bsps, kdtrees and octrees? I.e. Ones that you don't want to have to rebuild every frame because something moved. I get your point that you won't have to precompute lighting for radiosity, but even raytracing often using radiosity for global illumination.
This smells of a PR stunt to say "look how awesome Miyamoto is! we have to stop him talking about trivial things or he'd give everything away! ha ha!"
I'm under the impression that Amnesty International has in fact been using a similar 5 interlocking handcuffs logo as part of their highlighting of China's human rights abuses, if the IOC has any reasonable claim - why is Amnesty able to continue using it?
Thanks, that explains things well. I also asked my dad (a GP), and he explained that you need to ask concrete questions so the patient can't avoid them with social chit-chat. Also, since the questionnaire is being administered by a doctor it makes more sense - I just couldn't see how I could answer it properly myself.
Just having a look at the questionnaire, I'm not entirely sure if it's appropriate for diagnosis. Most of the questions are very leading and closed. Questions like "Do you feel sad, depressed or miserable?" and "Do you feel more tense or worried than usual?" are hard to answer truthfully, and it's far more effective for a doctor to diagnose someone with light chat about how they're living, rather than trying to suggest to them what's wrong. It's like diagnosing someone with psychosis, you don't just ask them if they think everyone's out to get them, you ask them if they've noticed anything odd lately as see what tangent they spin off on.
Hawking is pretty much a "popular celebrity" - there are a lot of other just as smart physicists/scientists out there. This isn't to degrade his achievements, and it's in some way useful for there to be a popular point of contact/figurehead with advanced physicsts.
Physicists here at Cambridge, UK use Excel in first year for a mathematical methods exercise, and then in second year we use excel again for another mathematical methods exercise and C++ (formerly Fortran) for a programming in physics course. I personally think Excel IS useful for seeing the flow of iterated algorithms, numerical integration and so on - but learning a proper language is important to if you want people to mature into programming at all. Plus programming seems so important in research environments that it'd be negligent not to. In addition, as part of the first year natural science course you can do half the first year computer scientist's courses, including ML and Java - so if you're interested you do learn "real" languages.
No, the electric universe "theory" is just by a bunch of quacks that take selective analysis to mean that astrophysicists don't take electromagnetism into account and only think about gravity.
I think the somethingawful.com forums have proved that strict moderation is needed for large general forums. Despite being one of the largest forums on the internet and having tens of thousands of members, it manages to avoid the usual spam, flamewars and brainless repetition of memes that plague others (well, they last for a while, but often get clamped down on quite quickly as old and overused). The $10 fee to register probably helps, since it gives a monetary loss for being banned.
They're a very high volume site.
I was under the impression that facebook ALREADY DOES THIS. If you go on facebook.com and ask to submit a poll or ad, you can select which demographics you want and put in interets/music/activities. I've been targetted by ads for concerts by a few bands. This is nothing like beacon, which supplied information to facebook about outside activities.
It's not that hard, you just pick a card and drink half the sum of the prime factors in fingers. If you get it wrong, you have to stand on your head and recite pi backwards (as hard as it sounds.)
Uh, so what's to stop google/MS/Yahoo just blocking each ip from signing up if it's having a high CAPTCHA failure rate, and attempting to create a large number of accounts in a short amount of time?
For the love of god, don't start that.
Here in Cambridge we use http://sakaiproject.org/ for our document distribution and collaboration - and it works pretty damn nicely - all the lectures are shoved up in folders for courses that you can either join or be invited to. I don't know what other features Blackboard has, but we also have separate systems for grade reporting and exam signups.
You've just described FM radio, which has a finite data rate dependant on bandwidth.
Except you have to choose a basis along which to perform your measurement - and only one, due to the uncertainty principle (the non-commutating nature of the quantum operators involved), so you can only get "up" or "down" (or some other number of states, given the system)
You're referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenberg's_microscope , however, that isn't actually what the uncertainly principle is about - but rather the non-commuting nature of the position and momentum operators on a fundamental level.
I also recommend NS, though it's probably a bit dead these days - it's given me some of the deepest, most intense and most tactical FPS/RTS experiences. Proper team play, not just helping a team mate because you'll get extra points, I'm eagerly awaiting NS2.
Having read the first part of the paper, it pretty much seems to be a strawman argument against quantum computing by complaining that the popular perception of it is impossible, then so must quantum computing. Bullshit, the real quantum computing that researchers are working on is based on extremely well tested theories and the main reason why it might not work is the difficulty in actually engineering the machine itself with reasonable tolerances.
Having themed in Drupal it's definitely not too complex, I was able to piece together what I needed to do from samples around the internet, and a lot of it is quite intuitive.
Flexibility is still no excuse for not making sure it's actually good and usable in the first place
I expected that the domain saving thing was actually them holding the domain while a customer decided if they wanted to buy it nor not, so it couldn't be registered while they're still entering card details or whatever. It is a bit dodgy, though - were they actually putting adverts up on the domains?
I remember seeing something about how the mutation rate of HIV is "on the edge" of survivability, if it mutated any faster, it would be unstable and unable to reliably reproduce. This gave some idea of somehow increasing the mutation rate significantly using drugs so that it just fails.