Steve Keen knows his stuff. I highly recommend his blog to anyone interested in economics, even though I disagree with several of his conclusions and proposals.
This gives me an idea. I think I might head out to the pending recycle pile and rescue a pair of IBM Selectrics. Not as cool as rigging up ~50 solenoids to tug on the keys of a mechanical typewriter, but still cool.
The shit from your past comes back to haunt you, but likewise for your opponent. In 50 years, anyone that doesn't have some dirt will feel fake in a way that will be painfully obvious to everyone (of that time).
This is not, by the way, an endorsement of the surveillance society. I'm pretty strongly against that, and I'd like to prevent it from taking shape, if possible. But if it does, people will adapt. The argument you quote is essentially that while every mistake that a person makes will be widely known by the public, the people of that time will judge them by the standards that we have now, in a very private society where secrecy is still possible to a large extent.
Social norms have changed a LOT in the last 20 years or so, a period I picked because I have personal experience with society in that timeframe. But, if I ask my parents (or sometimes even if I don't ask), I hear that times changed a lot in the 20 years before that too. And if my grandmother is to be believed, things changed a lot between the 30s and the 50s as well (and the kids these days...).
Back on topic, I'll be grabbing a copy of it. I find a link to geocities that I wish I'd could follow once a month, minimum. Sometimes far more often.
The article starts by claiming 2.507 petaflops, but gives no mention if that is Rmax or Rpeak. We have to assume that it is Rmax, since 2.5 petaflops is no big deal in terms of Rpeak.
Unfortunately, then the article lists both Rpeak and Rmax. But the numbers quoted seem to be for Tianhe-I (#7 on the top 500 list), not Tianhe-IA (not currently listed). Wikipedia table of the top 10
Oh, and it gets better. The article claims that Tianhe-IA has 7,168 GPUs and 14,336 CPUs. Very strange, since the Tianhe-I has 71,680 CPU/GPU pairs.
My guess is that China doubled up their Tianhe-I computer and swapped out for newer GPUs, then named the new thing Tianhe-IA (this is pretty normal when competing for top500 spots). I'm going to go with 143,360 Xeon/M2050 pairs. Either that, or the Chinese found a way to overclock 10% of their chips into the 20+ GHz range and threw out the rest.
Am I really the only person left that hates this construction? I know that it has become (very) common usage, but we, as nerds, should understand that details matter.
If one says that something is 50% smaller, we understand that to mean half the size. And if one says that something is 3000% smaller, or 30 times smaller, should we not understand that as not only taking no space, but actually giving us 29 times the original space back?
Unless we are making a three part comparison, which has new perils. If B is half the size of A, and C is 30 times smaller than B than B is to A, then we may understand the size of C as 0.5^30 times the size of A. However, if B is 99% of the size of A, then having C be 30 times smaller than B can mean that C is 70% of the size of A, or maybe C is 0.99^30 times the size of A.
Perhaps we should stick to saying what we mean, with things like "a chip for correcting errors in flash memory claimed to be one thirtieth the size of a digital logic-based equivalent"
I can assure you that "the white man" would love a man-to-man battle. In fact, I can't think of anything at all that "the white man" would like more. Hell, "the white man" would probably offer a 10 to 1 handicap and no air cover if they could get a man-to-man battle. If "the white man" got a man-to-man battle, they'd be done and back home inside of a week.
Without any regard to anyone's politics, or how they feel about the fighting there, the simple truth is that Julian and friends signed the death warrants of quite a few people. When I said murder before, I wasn't sure if it was really that, or mere negligence. Until I read hobo's link. Clearly they knew that lives were on the line, and they chose to publish anyway. That goes beyond mere negligence.
Say we take the assumption that this leak will save civilian lives, that something will change for the better here. If that does happen, what will cause it? Will it be the real footage of actual people dying? Will it be the clear evidence that the old strategy wasn't working? Or will it be our allies and their families being hunted down and killed?
If wikileaks had been more careful, they could have met their political objectives and upheld their journalistic standards. All without anyone dying for it.
100 deaths for 100 lives is a bad trade when 200 lives and no deaths is so easily possible.
You might want to read my post. I'd say read it again, but this is slashdot.
The part that I object to is the part that is getting people killed right now. Can you comprehend this? There are people that are fucking dead right now because of Julian's ego, and more are joining them tomorrow.
Make no mistake, by the standards of any state in the union, Julian is a murderer.
Wikileaks is probably moribund now because of how they handled this. But this is the internet, so there will be a replacement sooner or later. I can only hope that the replacement learns the right lessons here.
The leaked data can fit (broadly) into 4 categories.
1) Junk. Unavoidable in any large data/document set.
2) "This is what war looks like." Gun camera footage, etc. Kudos for releasing this. The people back home should be able to see this so they can make informed decisions.
3) "Our plan isn't working very well." We all knew this already. No harm in releasing it, and drawing attention to it might foster real debate.
4) Shit that is going to get people killed. There is no journalistic value in publishing a list of villagers that are helping us. The world does not benefit from knowing which people in the Taliban were feeding us information. These people are DEAD, some already and some soon to be. And Julian killed them just as surely as if he had pulled the trigger himself.
So, after the leak hangs and Julian goes into hiding, if you decide to start Wikileaks 2.0, please try really hard not to help our enemies kill our friends. We want to support your cause and we think that it is important to make the truth available to the people so they can make informed decisions. But we have limits, so you need to have some decency and exercise some discretion.
Your examples are the PC, a true free market creation that has improved by several orders of magnitude by any reckoning, and the four most heavily regulated (aka not-free) industries in the country, namely airlines, cable, telecom and banking.
So the NIMBY hordes are secretly funded by the oil industry? Seems unlikely to me considering that the oil industry hasn't been able to build any new refineries here for decades because of essentially the same NIMBY nutjobs.
The problem is pressure. There isn't a pumpjack on the sea floor using suction to draw the petroleum out of the well. It is coming out by itself, and under very high pressure.
You could weld a valve onto the top, but if you try to close it, the pressure will seek relief elsewhere. If you get really, really lucky, it just blows out the weld and rejects the valve. Much more likely, however, it would split the pipe under the sea floor where we don't have access. The only hope of capturing anything is if the breech remains above the surface.
One day in July or August BP will suddenly get shit under control and the leak will stop over night. That will be the day the two relief wells come online and provide means to reduce the well pressure. BP started drilling these relief wells in April, and they take a few months to come online. Everything else is window dressing.
I don't see a first amendment issue here. I find the notion of removing works from the public domain (for any reason) to be abhorrent, but the court is correct when it says there are no first amendment issues.
It isn't. A retrograde landing at KSC would come in from the Atlantic Ocean.
An orbit requires two things, altitude and transverse velocity. There are no shortcuts for altitude, so we have to do it entirely the hard way, with rockets. On the other hand, everything on the surface of the earth (not counting the poles) has transverse velocity already, because the earth is turning. This gift of velocity is towards the east, and is related to the launch site's latitude, greater at the equator, less at the poles. This is one of the two reasons why we nearly always launch to the east. Anyone know the second reason?
When we launch to the east to take advantage of this gift, we call that a prograde orbit. Launching into a retrograde orbit requires burning fuel for 100% of the required transversal, plus enough to overcome the initial eastward velocity from the launch site.
A southward launch from California can be used for a polar orbit, but I don't think the shuttle has ever actually done it. I think the Air Force insisted that the shuttle be capable of this mission, which would be a single-orbit spy flight over the Soviet Union.
When a hospital does this, they call it triage, and there is no outrage.
If we take as given that resources are finite, then not every case of juvenile delinquency can get the full service treatment, so we must find a way to allocate resources efficiently. The point of this analysis is to estimate which cases need more intervention, and which need less.
The teenager that is having problems with his girlfriend and acts out by picking a fight, or damaging some property, or whatever, is probably going to be fine with a slap on the wrist and some hands-off "supervision" like a call to his probation officer once a month. Why waste time and money by making him jump through more hoops?
This is the decision that the software is made for, not for finding people off the street to oppress.
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Steve Keen knows his stuff. I highly recommend his blog to anyone interested in economics, even though I disagree with several of his conclusions and proposals.
He was recently able to give the full (long) version of his standard presentation in Michigan. Go watch it. http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2010/11/15/why-credit-money-fails/
Seems fair to me.
This gives me an idea. I think I might head out to the pending recycle pile and rescue a pair of IBM Selectrics. Not as cool as rigging up ~50 solenoids to tug on the keys of a mechanical typewriter, but still cool.
The problem is its own solution.
The shit from your past comes back to haunt you, but likewise for your opponent. In 50 years, anyone that doesn't have some dirt will feel fake in a way that will be painfully obvious to everyone (of that time).
This is not, by the way, an endorsement of the surveillance society. I'm pretty strongly against that, and I'd like to prevent it from taking shape, if possible. But if it does, people will adapt. The argument you quote is essentially that while every mistake that a person makes will be widely known by the public, the people of that time will judge them by the standards that we have now, in a very private society where secrecy is still possible to a large extent.
Social norms have changed a LOT in the last 20 years or so, a period I picked because I have personal experience with society in that timeframe. But, if I ask my parents (or sometimes even if I don't ask), I hear that times changed a lot in the 20 years before that too. And if my grandmother is to be believed, things changed a lot between the 30s and the 50s as well (and the kids these days...).
Back on topic, I'll be grabbing a copy of it. I find a link to geocities that I wish I'd could follow once a month, minimum. Sometimes far more often.
The article starts by claiming 2.507 petaflops, but gives no mention if that is Rmax or Rpeak. We have to assume that it is Rmax, since 2.5 petaflops is no big deal in terms of Rpeak.
Unfortunately, then the article lists both Rpeak and Rmax. But the numbers quoted seem to be for Tianhe-I (#7 on the top 500 list), not Tianhe-IA (not currently listed). Wikipedia table of the top 10
Oh, and it gets better. The article claims that Tianhe-IA has 7,168 GPUs and 14,336 CPUs. Very strange, since the Tianhe-I has 71,680 CPU/GPU pairs.
My guess is that China doubled up their Tianhe-I computer and swapped out for newer GPUs, then named the new thing Tianhe-IA (this is pretty normal when competing for top500 spots). I'm going to go with 143,360 Xeon/M2050 pairs. Either that, or the Chinese found a way to overclock 10% of their chips into the 20+ GHz range and threw out the rest.
That word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I can't wait to see his sales graph after he adds the /. effect. How do we stack up to 4chan in terms of economic power?
I'm ordering the TPB. I got back into comics about a year ago after dropping out for a decade. Wish I'd noticed this when it came out.
The report can be found here:
http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=9034902&contentId=7064891
The link in the article, http://www.bp.com/securityerrorpageredirect.jsp, is an error page.
Am I really the only person left that hates this construction? I know that it has become (very) common usage, but we, as nerds, should understand that details matter.
If one says that something is 50% smaller, we understand that to mean half the size. And if one says that something is 3000% smaller, or 30 times smaller, should we not understand that as not only taking no space, but actually giving us 29 times the original space back?
Unless we are making a three part comparison, which has new perils. If B is half the size of A, and C is 30 times smaller than B than B is to A, then we may understand the size of C as 0.5^30 times the size of A. However, if B is 99% of the size of A, then having C be 30 times smaller than B can mean that C is 70% of the size of A, or maybe C is 0.99^30 times the size of A.
Perhaps we should stick to saying what we mean, with things like "a chip for correcting errors in flash memory claimed to be one thirtieth the size of a digital logic-based equivalent"
I can assure you that "the white man" would love a man-to-man battle. In fact, I can't think of anything at all that "the white man" would like more. Hell, "the white man" would probably offer a 10 to 1 handicap and no air cover if they could get a man-to-man battle. If "the white man" got a man-to-man battle, they'd be done and back home inside of a week.
Without any regard to anyone's politics, or how they feel about the fighting there, the simple truth is that Julian and friends signed the death warrants of quite a few people. When I said murder before, I wasn't sure if it was really that, or mere negligence. Until I read hobo's link. Clearly they knew that lives were on the line, and they chose to publish anyway. That goes beyond mere negligence.
Say we take the assumption that this leak will save civilian lives, that something will change for the better here. If that does happen, what will cause it? Will it be the real footage of actual people dying? Will it be the clear evidence that the old strategy wasn't working? Or will it be our allies and their families being hunted down and killed?
If wikileaks had been more careful, they could have met their political objectives and upheld their journalistic standards. All without anyone dying for it.
100 deaths for 100 lives is a bad trade when 200 lives and no deaths is so easily possible.
You might want to read my post. I'd say read it again, but this is slashdot.
The part that I object to is the part that is getting people killed right now. Can you comprehend this? There are people that are fucking dead right now because of Julian's ego, and more are joining them tomorrow.
Make no mistake, by the standards of any state in the union, Julian is a murderer.
Wikileaks is probably moribund now because of how they handled this. But this is the internet, so there will be a replacement sooner or later. I can only hope that the replacement learns the right lessons here.
The leaked data can fit (broadly) into 4 categories.
1) Junk. Unavoidable in any large data/document set.
2) "This is what war looks like." Gun camera footage, etc. Kudos for releasing this. The people back home should be able to see this so they can make informed decisions.
3) "Our plan isn't working very well." We all knew this already. No harm in releasing it, and drawing attention to it might foster real debate.
4) Shit that is going to get people killed. There is no journalistic value in publishing a list of villagers that are helping us. The world does not benefit from knowing which people in the Taliban were feeding us information. These people are DEAD, some already and some soon to be. And Julian killed them just as surely as if he had pulled the trigger himself.
So, after the leak hangs and Julian goes into hiding, if you decide to start Wikileaks 2.0, please try really hard not to help our enemies kill our friends. We want to support your cause and we think that it is important to make the truth available to the people so they can make informed decisions. But we have limits, so you need to have some decency and exercise some discretion.
Everyone knows the real Optimus Prime is made from trucks, not cars.
Were you trying to be funny?
Your examples are the PC, a true free market creation that has improved by several orders of magnitude by any reckoning, and the four most heavily regulated (aka not-free) industries in the country, namely airlines, cable, telecom and banking.
Imagine that.
So the NIMBY hordes are secretly funded by the oil industry? Seems unlikely to me considering that the oil industry hasn't been able to build any new refineries here for decades because of essentially the same NIMBY nutjobs.
Now I won't have to suffer through yet another pointless UI animation for an action that should be instant.
The problem is pressure. There isn't a pumpjack on the sea floor using suction to draw the petroleum out of the well. It is coming out by itself, and under very high pressure.
You could weld a valve onto the top, but if you try to close it, the pressure will seek relief elsewhere. If you get really, really lucky, it just blows out the weld and rejects the valve. Much more likely, however, it would split the pipe under the sea floor where we don't have access. The only hope of capturing anything is if the breech remains above the surface.
One day in July or August BP will suddenly get shit under control and the leak will stop over night. That will be the day the two relief wells come online and provide means to reduce the well pressure. BP started drilling these relief wells in April, and they take a few months to come online. Everything else is window dressing.
I don't see a first amendment issue here. I find the notion of removing works from the public domain (for any reason) to be abhorrent, but the court is correct when it says there are no first amendment issues.
It isn't. A retrograde landing at KSC would come in from the Atlantic Ocean.
An orbit requires two things, altitude and transverse velocity. There are no shortcuts for altitude, so we have to do it entirely the hard way, with rockets. On the other hand, everything on the surface of the earth (not counting the poles) has transverse velocity already, because the earth is turning. This gift of velocity is towards the east, and is related to the launch site's latitude, greater at the equator, less at the poles. This is one of the two reasons why we nearly always launch to the east. Anyone know the second reason?
When we launch to the east to take advantage of this gift, we call that a prograde orbit. Launching into a retrograde orbit requires burning fuel for 100% of the required transversal, plus enough to overcome the initial eastward velocity from the launch site.
A southward launch from California can be used for a polar orbit, but I don't think the shuttle has ever actually done it. I think the Air Force insisted that the shuttle be capable of this mission, which would be a single-orbit spy flight over the Soviet Union.
When a hospital does this, they call it triage, and there is no outrage.
If we take as given that resources are finite, then not every case of juvenile delinquency can get the full service treatment, so we must find a way to allocate resources efficiently. The point of this analysis is to estimate which cases need more intervention, and which need less.
The teenager that is having problems with his girlfriend and acts out by picking a fight, or damaging some property, or whatever, is probably going to be fine with a slap on the wrist and some hands-off "supervision" like a call to his probation officer once a month. Why waste time and money by making him jump through more hoops?
This is the decision that the software is made for, not for finding people off the street to oppress.
I think Downey would be happy to do an Avengers movie, even if it weren't already required by his Iron Man contract.
And why do I think this? Fuck D.C. Comics.
I bet that the emulator doesn't have a pipeline.
Ok, so a city in Kansas is hiring people to go wave at other people? Do I have it right? Or is this an old story about Topeka?
I'd buy one.