So the obvious next step is to create neurons in situ for a wearable biocomputer powered by your body!
Yes the world of the future is a bit like having bees live in your head but, there they are, and like the lady said "I said live it, or live with it!"
The guy living in his house on his land would defend it in the absence of government. The guy claiming "title" to the vacant lot would likely find someone building a house on it to, oh I don't know, have a FAMILY or some obnoxious immoral thing like that. Moreover, this evil FATHER would probably just kill the "owner" of the vacant lot if the "owner" showed up and tried to kick the FATHER's wife and kids off the land.
So in terms of human powered transport, air resistance and friction overwhelm any advantages of a powerful, lightweight and efficient regenerative braking system?
Air loses on a energy per mass measure but not on a power per mass measure. A 200kg mass (heavy backpacking adult male cyclist) moving at 35mph has 25kJ of energy. So you basically need a mechanical system that can rapidly and efficiently absorb that energy during breaking and rapidly and efficiently deliver that energy during acceleration. Your reference says that at a minimum, the carbon fiber tank system can store 40kJ/kg.
As for the main challenge of efficiently converging air pressure to kinetic energy, that is where you need an infinitely variable transmission. Yes, it is challenging to get that right but has anyone seriously investigated it?
Why not an air hybrid for bicycles? The conversion efficiency of mechanical to air and air to mechanical is quite a bit higher than the conversion efficiency of mechanical to chemical and chemical to mechanical. Moreover, it seems that with a carbon fiber tank you don't have as much weight as with the battery.
No, the problem isn't deliberate suicide. It's just institutional. Microsoft has more institutional baggage. Their only way out of their trap would be to pull a kind of Netflix Prize for search but even that requires overcoming a lot of institutional baggage. They're trapped.
Thank you for the slam dunk on MS software quality.
But I was serious about the dystopian potential sans nation states. Nation states at least have the virtue that things like review of war-making decisions, if nothing else, pay lip service to involvement by "the people" rather than by "the meat".
Actually, I'm thinking of this more in terms of a private dystopia. In other words, imagine the nation states collapse and you have some multibilionare guy controlling an army of droids. Even if he is "well intentioned" as is Bill Gates, what is to keep him from deciding that feeding millions of fat lazy over-paid American programmers to starving African children isn't the "moral" thing to do?
This is one of the things that makes me think the concern about "friendly AI" is blown out of proportion. The problem isn't making sure teh AI's are "friendly" -- its making sure the NI (natural intelligence) owners of the AI's are "friendly".
If half the effort spent on "friendly AI" were spent on examining the ownership of AI's, there might be some hope.
The resemblance between these two kinds of finality becomes even closer when we look
at certain kinds of continuous parachains, most notably random walks for which we are given
both the initial and final positions. It turns out that it is by minimizing a certain integral with the
dimensions of information that we get the expected trajectory of such a doubly conditioned
random walk. This actually leads in the limit to the laws of Newtonian mechanics for the walker
if we identify dispersion rate with mass 3, and it turns out that there are features of this situation
suggestive of both quantum mechanics and relativity. That’s another story, however. For the
present, the following are the essential points:
* Aristotelian physics is the special case. The general case is Newtonian physics.
* The theory of Markov chains is the special case. The general case is the theory of
Markov parachains.
Obviously, if these no-account Americans are too lazy and unmotivated to work for a living, then that simply proves Bill Gates' case for removing the limit on guest worker visas! I mean, its either that or Microsoft will move to India!
IIRC, the plasma display PLATO terminals (with slide projector and audio disk player for "color images, and audio") were upwards of $10,000 in 1974. That is close to $50,000 in 2009 dollars. If we compare $100 to $50,000 I think we can safely say Moore's Law is in operation even considering the smaller screen.
The real problem isn't regression in Moore's Law -- its regression in areas like software resulting from a loosening of the discipline allowed by exponentiating hardware capability. This is one reason the Russians are so damn hot as programmers: They had to make their software work correctly on ridiculous hardware developed by the commies.
The problem is that carbon plumbing is required and the only form of carbon they have tried, graphite, has a problem with swelling and turning to carbon black under neutron bombardment so it loses its structural integrity.
Of course, it cannot possibly be the case that a culture of humans somewhere at some time in the past had the intelligence to develop breeding techniques and then got the bright idea that maybe breeding for even greater intelligence was desirable. For them to have done so would have required that they be either Jews or Nazis and we all know Jews and Nazis didn't exist until WW II.
So now China buys SpaceX, turns on its rice-in-manufactured-stuff-out formula to mass produce the Falcon 9 Heavy and conquers the solar system while Obama hands out funny money to his buddies' buddies' buddies'.
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So the obvious next step is to create neurons in situ for a wearable biocomputer powered by your body! Yes the world of the future is a bit like having bees live in your head but, there they are, and like the lady said "I said live it, or live with it!"
The guy living in his house on his land would defend it in the absence of government. The guy claiming "title" to the vacant lot would likely find someone building a house on it to, oh I don't know, have a FAMILY or some obnoxious immoral thing like that. Moreover, this evil FATHER would probably just kill the "owner" of the vacant lot if the "owner" showed up and tried to kick the FATHER's wife and kids off the land.
Reality is funny that way.
Gee... come to think of it -- maybe they are receiving a service from government!
Moreover, it is one of the few kinds of taxation that requires no filing by anyone.
So just ditch the tax systems that require filing and go to land value.
This is yet more evidence that the Hatch Act should be extended to cover government contractors like Lockheed and Boeing.
Interesting.
Air loses on a energy per mass measure but not on a power per mass measure. A 200kg mass (heavy backpacking adult male cyclist) moving at 35mph has 25kJ of energy. So you basically need a mechanical system that can rapidly and efficiently absorb that energy during breaking and rapidly and efficiently deliver that energy during acceleration. Your reference says that at a minimum, the carbon fiber tank system can store 40kJ/kg. As for the main challenge of efficiently converging air pressure to kinetic energy, that is where you need an infinitely variable transmission. Yes, it is challenging to get that right but has anyone seriously investigated it?
Why not an air hybrid for bicycles? The conversion efficiency of mechanical to air and air to mechanical is quite a bit higher than the conversion efficiency of mechanical to chemical and chemical to mechanical. Moreover, it seems that with a carbon fiber tank you don't have as much weight as with the battery.
No, the problem isn't deliberate suicide. It's just institutional. Microsoft has more institutional baggage. Their only way out of their trap would be to pull a kind of Netflix Prize for search but even that requires overcoming a lot of institutional baggage. They're trapped.
Microsoft is excluding the best technical talent from their search group. Google isn't. Pretty wallpaper only goes so far in search.
But I was serious about the dystopian potential sans nation states. Nation states at least have the virtue that things like review of war-making decisions, if nothing else, pay lip service to involvement by "the people" rather than by "the meat".
Actually, I'm thinking of this more in terms of a private dystopia. In other words, imagine the nation states collapse and you have some multibilionare guy controlling an army of droids. Even if he is "well intentioned" as is Bill Gates, what is to keep him from deciding that feeding millions of fat lazy over-paid American programmers to starving African children isn't the "moral" thing to do?
If half the effort spent on "friendly AI" were spent on examining the ownership of AI's, there might be some hope.
If you keep varying the averaging interval and keep deriving you'll eventually run into a positive number. Isn't that what economists are paid for?
Obviously, if these no-account Americans are too lazy and unmotivated to work for a living, then that simply proves Bill Gates' case for removing the limit on guest worker visas! I mean, its either that or Microsoft will move to India!
Hmmm... on second thought....
Too bad he didn't build a solar updraft tower instead. Dubai might be worth something.
IIRC, the plasma display PLATO terminals (with slide projector and audio disk player for "color images, and audio") were upwards of $10,000 in 1974. That is close to $50,000 in 2009 dollars. If we compare $100 to $50,000 I think we can safely say Moore's Law is in operation even considering the smaller screen.
The real problem isn't regression in Moore's Law -- its regression in areas like software resulting from a loosening of the discipline allowed by exponentiating hardware capability. This is one reason the Russians are so damn hot as programmers: They had to make their software work correctly on ridiculous hardware developed by the commies.
The idiot writes: "the enrichment process is more difficult and costly"
This is so ignorant it not only brings the rest of the unsupported assertions into question, it indicates the poster is an idiot.
The problem is that carbon plumbing is required and the only form of carbon they have tried, graphite, has a problem with swelling and turning to carbon black under neutron bombardment so it loses its structural integrity.
Fortunately there is a solution to this problem: glassy carbon plumbing.
Unfortunately, the capital markets have failed to put money in the hands of even a few of the right kind of people.
It may be the most important tool for saving the planet is the guillotine.
Pre-Inca skulls from the Paracas area of Peru have been estimated to have a cranial capacity of 2500ccs.
Of course, it cannot possibly be the case that a culture of humans somewhere at some time in the past had the intelligence to develop breeding techniques and then got the bright idea that maybe breeding for even greater intelligence was desirable. For them to have done so would have required that they be either Jews or Nazis and we all know Jews and Nazis didn't exist until WW II.
Probably the best thing you can do for the kid is to have him start with Java.
That way he won't be tempted to become a programmer.
I've always wondered where John Walker got his idea. Now I know he was just imitating Ed Lu! Edward Lu is a Fucking Genius!
South Africa -> United States -> China
Musk has had to change citizenship before. He can do it again.
So now China buys SpaceX, turns on its rice-in-manufactured-stuff-out formula to mass produce the Falcon 9 Heavy and conquers the solar system while Obama hands out funny money to his buddies' buddies' buddies'.