The article summary states the power at 100Hz, but then says the pulse is 50ns long - during which interval a 100Hz base frequency is irrelevant....
Standard directional antennas won't have much effect on a 50ns pulse, but I'm sure the pulse can be directed.
By the way, this has been done by truckers with illegal (high power) CB rigs to inadequately shielded EFI systems (such as in the early VW Jettas) long ago...
It's a better measure than clock-speed these days, size has fairly good correspondance to power efficiency and power efficiency is the main thing holding back higher clock speeds. It's also nice to be able to fit more cores on a single chip, and size helps with that.
It was attached to a class, not an after-school club - so, while still messed up, it might be a little easier to understand.
And, yeah, the Lit-Mag was pretty much a joke - no more so than any number of other classes in HS, but I think curriculum they were trying to teach had more to do with respecting authority than anything related to literature, publishing, or other academic things.
Back in the day before web-postings, I participated in a class that worked on the annual "Literary magazine" - a photocopied bunch of stories and artwork done by students. I had a friend who was a good writer but happened to attend another school. I submitted one of his stories on his behalf via the normal submission process - there was a tradition about work only coming from my school, and an obscure rule (which I, of course, knew about, but I was 15 at the time....), but the story got in (along with 350 other pages of marginal material produced by high school students), and I pushed in the class to get it an award - it tied for 3rd place. I disclosed the story's origin to some of the other kids in the class one day before printing - they felt the need to tell the teacher who viewed the whole thing as his personal achievement in life (besides marrying an ex-student after she turned 18 years old... but I digress), and he felt the need to expunge the offending story from HIS magazine, correct the awards page, etc. etc. Took him about 4 hours.
Long story short, I did something really really minor that pissed off a teacher in a big way. They suspended me for 3 days for "breaking literary magazine policy", and there was really nothing to do about it but take the lumps. If the teacher hadn't been in tight with the disciplinarian, he might have been laughed out of the office.
Timing plays a big part in how these things work out - if they had tried to suspend me for 10 days, it would have been worth fighting and they would probably have lost. You might try to fight your case, but in all likelyhood you're better off taking the lumps and getting on with life.
A PIC microcontroller and compatible GPS can handle your computing load for "real-time" sailing control.
The only computing/electronic thing I'd wish for beyond GPS would be real-time weather data, more for storm avoidance than any wind-speed advantage - but I don't think you'll be getting that reliably in the middle of the Atlantic???
Really, you're more likely to have a stuck actuator than a computer system crash. I'd look to proven designs for radio-controlled sailboats, work up an algorithm to sail with the available wind (and furl before it hurls), and implement it on something that doesn't have a million lines of code in the OS.
The leap of faith that I fail to make is that the complimentarty states weren't set at the time of entanglement.
Repeating myself: perhaps the entangled particles have merely been set to complimentary states by the process of entanglement - the observer may not know this until he takes a measurement, but that lack of observation doesn't make it any less true that the particles are in complimentary states during the interim.
It seems far easier to believe that a particle may retain a given (albeit unknown until measured) state for a period of time, rather than "spookily" acquiring a complimentary state at the time its partner is measured. That entanglement doesn't set a known state, only a random but complimentary state for both particles, isn't so mysterious.
From the practical point of view, I don't see any measurable difference between the two explanations. The "spooky action at a distance" explanation seems to give more influence to the observer than perhaps the observer merits.
I imagine the manager is protecting his fragile tech staff from having to do a final check on your system after the repair since they only know how to do final checks on Windows machines. And, clearly, to provide quality service to their customers, they must do a final check before returning your system to you.
of course, he's a bloody idiot, but what do you expect from someone who's working his post, anyway?
Only then purely because you looked at the red box from a different angle the blue ball instantaneously shifts position even if the two boxes are lightyears apart.
I guess I just lose the thread at the point when you can't examine the blue ball to know if it has shifted position or not, without also destroying the entanglement.
Now, if you could make a two groups of entangled pairs A1-B1 and A2-B2, send the Bs to Mars, then measure either A1 or A2 in your spooky effecting method, if the Bs gave any clue as to which A was measured - that would be forming a useful communication channel - which is supposed to be "against the rules." And, if there's no way to look at B1 and B2 and tell whether A1 or A2 was measured (without that information passing through another channel), how do you really know anything?
Actually, typing this all through - it starts to make a tiny modicum of sense, which probably means it's bedtime.
Ah, but it (the secret key) was sent - just as "entangled" particles.
The only value here is that the state can only be read once, then it self-destructs, and I'm not sure that's entirely true (what if someone is looking over your shoulder as you read the state?)
The "instant effect" has always eluded me.
I have two balls, and inside each is a disc magnet with red on the N side and blue on the S side.
I bring the balls together in a closed box and they become "entangled", with the magnets lining up one red on top, one blue.
I separate these balls without "measuring" them, later measure them and "voila!" one is red up and one is blue up.
So, why would I be impressed with sub-atomic particles doing the same thing? If you're not able to transfer information across the "entangled link," how can you prove that anything is happening?
To me, this notion that the particles "have no specific state until they are measured" is hogwash - I say they do have a state, but the observer just doesn't know it yet. That the state is disrupted by being observed is easy enough to grasp - but all I get out of entanglement is that the particle pairs have properties set in complimentary states that have not been measured and will not be disturbed or changed until they are measured.
In the far corner: Viacom, multibillion dollar conglomerate with legions of copyright defense employees churning out automated systems to troll YouTube for infringing material.
In the near corner: Individual video producer with no resources beyond his own two hands.
Round 1: Viacom's content generating machine scoops up scores of independent films and co-opts them for their own profit, skirting the edge of fair use and completely ignoring the little guys.
Round 2: Little guy notices his content in syndication (which is far less surprising than syndication picking up his content in the first place), gets amused and puts up a clip of his clip - but falls just a hair's breadth on the other side of fair use.
Round 3: Viacom's automated system for copyright defense correctly identifies their material on YouTube and takes the standard action - no surprises so far.
Round 4: Little guy makes an argument for poor taste on Viacom's part, which is true, but probably worthless in a court of law.
Recommendation of the judges: Add a bit of scathing commentary to the Viacom clip, use it just as fairly as they used the independant material and repost to YouTube. If Viacom continues to engage in this particular controversy, they're sure to come away with a black eye, but don't kid yourself for a minute with thoughts that you can bring the big guys down.
It will take 5-10 years for a change like this to have direct impact on the job market, and by that time the market may be expanding to consume the new supply.
In general, it's good to be in a popular profession.
On the other hand, if this move stigmatizes math, science and engineering as the pursuit of the poor, it could have major negative consequences for the profession - engineers would be the new volunteer army.
I would let the parents make the call, at least until the children are 18 or earning their own living (which can sometimes come well before 18 with the gifted corner of the spectrum.)
I have had a tough time with how much to treat my sons who have been diagnosed Autistic... I don't want to go down the radical rabbithole of hyperbaric chambers and injectable cocktails of amino acids (which have been around long before this group published.) Even if my boys were "cured" - at what cost? What happens when they go off the meds, or we can't afford them anymore? And what do they lose by being "cured"? Like all fathers, I'd kind of like my sons to have what I have had, only better - if they become "normal, average kids," I look at "normal, average" people my age and I think that I'm doing quite a bit better than them.
I'm somewhere on the spectrum (we all are, that's what a spectrum implies...), but I'm not as far to the autistic end as my sons, I could carry on some kind of conversation (and read aloud) when I was 4, they're still struggling with simple communication at 3 and 5. At this point, I'm glad nobody cured me - looking back at my life at all the things I would have chosen to do if I could have when I was younger, especially dating / relationships, if that had worked out for me back then, I think I would have been worse off now.
So, the eldest just went back on a Gluten free diet - it's a semi-radical thing to do, but he was slowly regressing in important areas over the 6 months we had him on "normal foods," and removing Gluten for 18 months seemed to help last time. It's connected to the inflammatory processes they mention in the article - removing it can reduce inflammation, or so they say. It's all black art at this point, even long-established things like high doses of B12 have poorly characterized effects. I certainly don't want the state telling me I have to deliver a certain bio-chemical treatment to my children (as they do with vaccines), but I do want to be allowed to choose to pursue reasonable treatments that may help. I just don't want to build my children up on a house of cards that may collapse out from under them some day, leaving them worse off than if we had just skipped treatment altogether.
>To wit, autism continues to gradually become more common despite the fact that mercury has now been completely removed from childhood vaccines.
Actually, depends on which studies you read - one found a sharp drop in autism incidence upon removal of thimerosal from the bulk of childhood vaccines....
In my experience, tradespeople are too busy working to have time to read more than the minimum of manuals or surf the internet for work related information beyond what it takes to get them "unstuck" and working again. Tradespeople who spend too much time "stuck" don't seem to have really good continuing employment prospects.
Engineers, on the other hand, seem to be allowed more of this free time - especially when it's recognized that they need to do some research for the project at hand.
Actually, I've developed the best procedures for difficult welding situations when working _with_ experienced welders, in interactive mode, rather than blessing them with my knowledge via procedure developed at my desk.
- Ich bin ein Ingenieur
(Yet another problem with global outsourcing.)
We've had a kernel panicking MacPro (4GB RAM/ATI 1900) in for AppleCare service for over 8 weeks now, they're still "testing" to figure out what's wrong.
What everyone seems to be missing is the fact that human population can easily increase 100 fold, if we eliminate the dependance upon the ecosystem to support our need for feed....
Synthesize nutrients out of waste + cold fusion power and the entire land surface of the planet is easily inhabited - Trantor style (see: Asimov's Foundation series) - add to that space elevators and the fusion power can import enough metallic building material from the asteroid belt to cover the seas with condominiums.
It's not a future that I want to live in, so I'm not planning on sticking around for more than the next 100 years or so.
I suppose those living in rural India / China / $INSERT POOR STATE HERE$, could ask the same value questions of Disneyworld - they would have to spend several years of income just to travel to the Magic Castle, and do what? Experience a roller coaster? It's not as if they would have time on their trip to get a work permit and set up an entrepenurial venture that sends wads of cash home to their village, and what would they do with western currency, anyway?
This type of tourism is just the start, it's not so different from visiting "the New World" circa 1600AD. The infrastructure will take time to build, the ships will need to be improved, and while the value of gold and silver is obvious, there are other resources waiting to be exploited that are quite valuable but just not recognized as such, yet.
Don't bash the version 0.1-alpha tourists and their deep pockets, at least they're spending some cash on progress, instead of monopolizing a resource here at home (like waterfront real-estate). Even if this little foray into foolishness doesn't yield Teflon and Tang, it's getting the ball rolling in the right direction. As far as I'm concerned, the US Space Program has been throttled back to about 5% of peak growth since 1982, and about 2% since 2002 - they're in serious danger of taking a major step backward right about now - if the individuals who are working for NASA get laid off and there isn't a space oriented field for them to work in, guess what - they'll get a job doing something else, and those skills will be lost instead of passed on to the next generation.
Diversity is good, and tourism is an easy form of development - with as many US$100-Millionares as we have in the world, I'm sure there's at least some kind of market for this. Hopefully the US government will be inspired to keep up with private industry, lest the privates get good enough at space travel to pose a serious military threat....
Ultra stable - core libraries - does not compute......
Seriously, if you're looking to the core libraries to do any heavy lifting, you'd better exhaustively test them for every conceivable and inconceivable scenario in which you will be using them... they're not your code, and therefore will not be predictable in their behavior.
Actually, if BG had one brilliant stroke, it was implicitly permitting piracy for long enough to achieve world domination.... at least the western world.
I believe M$corp is allowing the current Asian piracy situation to run mostly unchecked to establish a similar dominance in China - certainly they have enough cash to buy enforcement from the Asian governments if they really wanted it.
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Standard directional antennas won't have much effect on a 50ns pulse, but I'm sure the pulse can be directed.
By the way, this has been done by truckers with illegal (high power) CB rigs to inadequately shielded EFI systems (such as in the early VW Jettas) long ago...
It's a better measure than clock-speed these days, size has fairly good correspondance to power efficiency and power efficiency is the main thing holding back higher clock speeds. It's also nice to be able to fit more cores on a single chip, and size helps with that.
And, yeah, the Lit-Mag was pretty much a joke - no more so than any number of other classes in HS, but I think curriculum they were trying to teach had more to do with respecting authority than anything related to literature, publishing, or other academic things.
Long story short, I did something really really minor that pissed off a teacher in a big way. They suspended me for 3 days for "breaking literary magazine policy", and there was really nothing to do about it but take the lumps. If the teacher hadn't been in tight with the disciplinarian, he might have been laughed out of the office.
Timing plays a big part in how these things work out - if they had tried to suspend me for 10 days, it would have been worth fighting and they would probably have lost. You might try to fight your case, but in all likelyhood you're better off taking the lumps and getting on with life.
The only computing/electronic thing I'd wish for beyond GPS would be real-time weather data, more for storm avoidance than any wind-speed advantage - but I don't think you'll be getting that reliably in the middle of the Atlantic???
Really, you're more likely to have a stuck actuator than a computer system crash. I'd look to proven designs for radio-controlled sailboats, work up an algorithm to sail with the available wind (and furl before it hurls), and implement it on something that doesn't have a million lines of code in the OS.
Repeating myself: perhaps the entangled particles have merely been set to complimentary states by the process of entanglement - the observer may not know this until he takes a measurement, but that lack of observation doesn't make it any less true that the particles are in complimentary states during the interim.
It seems far easier to believe that a particle may retain a given (albeit unknown until measured) state for a period of time, rather than "spookily" acquiring a complimentary state at the time its partner is measured. That entanglement doesn't set a known state, only a random but complimentary state for both particles, isn't so mysterious.
From the practical point of view, I don't see any measurable difference between the two explanations. The "spooky action at a distance" explanation seems to give more influence to the observer than perhaps the observer merits.
I imagine the manager is protecting his fragile tech staff from having to do a final check on your system after the repair since they only know how to do final checks on Windows machines. And, clearly, to provide quality service to their customers, they must do a final check before returning your system to you. of course, he's a bloody idiot, but what do you expect from someone who's working his post, anyway?
I guess I just lose the thread at the point when you can't examine the blue ball to know if it has shifted position or not, without also destroying the entanglement.
Now, if you could make a two groups of entangled pairs A1-B1 and A2-B2, send the Bs to Mars, then measure either A1 or A2 in your spooky effecting method, if the Bs gave any clue as to which A was measured - that would be forming a useful communication channel - which is supposed to be "against the rules." And, if there's no way to look at B1 and B2 and tell whether A1 or A2 was measured (without that information passing through another channel), how do you really know anything?
Actually, typing this all through - it starts to make a tiny modicum of sense, which probably means it's bedtime.
this interference effect is measurably changed when the entangled pairs' partners are measured.
I think the answer is: No, it doesn't work that way.
So, yet again, how do you really know that the entangled pairs have any connection / effect on each other?
Ah, but it (the secret key) was sent - just as "entangled" particles. The only value here is that the state can only be read once, then it self-destructs, and I'm not sure that's entirely true (what if someone is looking over your shoulder as you read the state?)
The "instant effect" has always eluded me. I have two balls, and inside each is a disc magnet with red on the N side and blue on the S side. I bring the balls together in a closed box and they become "entangled", with the magnets lining up one red on top, one blue. I separate these balls without "measuring" them, later measure them and "voila!" one is red up and one is blue up. So, why would I be impressed with sub-atomic particles doing the same thing? If you're not able to transfer information across the "entangled link," how can you prove that anything is happening? To me, this notion that the particles "have no specific state until they are measured" is hogwash - I say they do have a state, but the observer just doesn't know it yet. That the state is disrupted by being observed is easy enough to grasp - but all I get out of entanglement is that the particle pairs have properties set in complimentary states that have not been measured and will not be disturbed or changed until they are measured.
In the near corner: Individual video producer with no resources beyond his own two hands.
Round 1: Viacom's content generating machine scoops up scores of independent films and co-opts them for their own profit, skirting the edge of fair use and completely ignoring the little guys.
Round 2: Little guy notices his content in syndication (which is far less surprising than syndication picking up his content in the first place), gets amused and puts up a clip of his clip - but falls just a hair's breadth on the other side of fair use.
Round 3: Viacom's automated system for copyright defense correctly identifies their material on YouTube and takes the standard action - no surprises so far.
Round 4: Little guy makes an argument for poor taste on Viacom's part, which is true, but probably worthless in a court of law.
Recommendation of the judges: Add a bit of scathing commentary to the Viacom clip, use it just as fairly as they used the independant material and repost to YouTube. If Viacom continues to engage in this particular controversy, they're sure to come away with a black eye, but don't kid yourself for a minute with thoughts that you can bring the big guys down.
Yes, but....
It will take 5-10 years for a change like this to have direct impact on the job market, and by that time the market may be expanding to consume the new supply.
In general, it's good to be in a popular profession.
On the other hand, if this move stigmatizes math, science and engineering as the pursuit of the poor, it could have major negative consequences for the profession - engineers would be the new volunteer army.
Isn't anyone else disturbed by the lack of disclosure here?
I mean, I can get 1% cash back on a number of cards, I'd be concerned that they are donating at least that much if I use their card.
Also, where's the disclosure of past disbursements and current distribution ratios?
It all "feels good" - but without disclosure, I (and the recipients) would be better off if I made my own contributions directly.
That doesn't mean that their DNA is destroyed, just that they are non-viable. DNA samples in forensics use hair, dead skin, etc.
Also, that .2% still represents millions of viable cells which could be cultured to as many copies as you need.
I have had a tough time with how much to treat my sons who have been diagnosed Autistic... I don't want to go down the radical rabbithole of hyperbaric chambers and injectable cocktails of amino acids (which have been around long before this group published.) Even if my boys were "cured" - at what cost? What happens when they go off the meds, or we can't afford them anymore? And what do they lose by being "cured"? Like all fathers, I'd kind of like my sons to have what I have had, only better - if they become "normal, average kids," I look at "normal, average" people my age and I think that I'm doing quite a bit better than them.
I'm somewhere on the spectrum (we all are, that's what a spectrum implies...), but I'm not as far to the autistic end as my sons, I could carry on some kind of conversation (and read aloud) when I was 4, they're still struggling with simple communication at 3 and 5. At this point, I'm glad nobody cured me - looking back at my life at all the things I would have chosen to do if I could have when I was younger, especially dating / relationships, if that had worked out for me back then, I think I would have been worse off now.
So, the eldest just went back on a Gluten free diet - it's a semi-radical thing to do, but he was slowly regressing in important areas over the 6 months we had him on "normal foods," and removing Gluten for 18 months seemed to help last time. It's connected to the inflammatory processes they mention in the article - removing it can reduce inflammation, or so they say. It's all black art at this point, even long-established things like high doses of B12 have poorly characterized effects. I certainly don't want the state telling me I have to deliver a certain bio-chemical treatment to my children (as they do with vaccines), but I do want to be allowed to choose to pursue reasonable treatments that may help. I just don't want to build my children up on a house of cards that may collapse out from under them some day, leaving them worse off than if we had just skipped treatment altogether.
I'm thinking they're paranoid about system damage from overheating.
>To wit, autism continues to gradually become more common despite the fact that mercury has now been completely removed from childhood vaccines. Actually, depends on which studies you read - one found a sharp drop in autism incidence upon removal of thimerosal from the bulk of childhood vaccines....
In my experience, tradespeople are too busy working to have time to read more than the minimum of manuals or surf the internet for work related information beyond what it takes to get them "unstuck" and working again. Tradespeople who spend too much time "stuck" don't seem to have really good continuing employment prospects.
Engineers, on the other hand, seem to be allowed more of this free time - especially when it's recognized that they need to do some research for the project at hand.
Actually, I've developed the best procedures for difficult welding situations when working _with_ experienced welders, in interactive mode, rather than blessing them with my knowledge via procedure developed at my desk. - Ich bin ein Ingenieur (Yet another problem with global outsourcing.)
We've had a kernel panicking MacPro (4GB RAM/ATI 1900) in for AppleCare service for over 8 weeks now, they're still "testing" to figure out what's wrong.
Synthesize nutrients out of waste + cold fusion power and the entire land surface of the planet is easily inhabited - Trantor style (see: Asimov's Foundation series) - add to that space elevators and the fusion power can import enough metallic building material from the asteroid belt to cover the seas with condominiums.
It's not a future that I want to live in, so I'm not planning on sticking around for more than the next 100 years or so.
This type of tourism is just the start, it's not so different from visiting "the New World" circa 1600AD. The infrastructure will take time to build, the ships will need to be improved, and while the value of gold and silver is obvious, there are other resources waiting to be exploited that are quite valuable but just not recognized as such, yet.
Don't bash the version 0.1-alpha tourists and their deep pockets, at least they're spending some cash on progress, instead of monopolizing a resource here at home (like waterfront real-estate). Even if this little foray into foolishness doesn't yield Teflon and Tang, it's getting the ball rolling in the right direction. As far as I'm concerned, the US Space Program has been throttled back to about 5% of peak growth since 1982, and about 2% since 2002 - they're in serious danger of taking a major step backward right about now - if the individuals who are working for NASA get laid off and there isn't a space oriented field for them to work in, guess what - they'll get a job doing something else, and those skills will be lost instead of passed on to the next generation.
Diversity is good, and tourism is an easy form of development - with as many US$100-Millionares as we have in the world, I'm sure there's at least some kind of market for this. Hopefully the US government will be inspired to keep up with private industry, lest the privates get good enough at space travel to pose a serious military threat....
Seriously, if you're looking to the core libraries to do any heavy lifting, you'd better exhaustively test them for every conceivable and inconceivable scenario in which you will be using them... they're not your code, and therefore will not be predictable in their behavior.
I believe M$corp is allowing the current Asian piracy situation to run mostly unchecked to establish a similar dominance in China - certainly they have enough cash to buy enforcement from the Asian governments if they really wanted it.