with the black box you and the dealer will know if the failure correlates with out of spec operation, or not. this will make warranty response more objective.
And what is this innate quality? Some would say it's nothign more than a consequence of evolutionary resultant brain structure.
Part of being human is wanting to know how things work. Another part is a desire for consistancy. There is growing evidence that these desires are consistant with our brain structure. I venture that there is a distribution of power among humans in the 'strength' of these two desires. The result. At one extreme, some want to learn more about humans at any cost and at the other, some want to run around in the woods naked and living on berries and roots.
As long as tolerance does not deprive anyone of his individual liberty to pursue his own life, how can one argue against denying either extreme, let alone those in between.
I read recently, thanks to heads up from another/.er, an interesting book. "On Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins. His model of the human brain places intelligence in the neocortex. Humans have. by far, the largest neocortex. There is plenty of evidence including a structural-functional description. His consideration of philosophcal implications, what is a soul, etc. is especially interesting.
With his model size does matter and the size that matters is that of the neocortex. It would be interesting to see if a large brained creature, say a chimp, would be show nore or less intelligence if given the brain structure of a small brained creature that has a much greater neocortical density (lots of folds).
Why do assume 'subhuman'? Maybe super human. I bet this is the unspoken motivation behind opposition to research.
There are 10 kinds of people. Those who wqnt to keep things the way they are and those who want to learn and explore. This difference is independent of race and will likely be independent of species. FISH or CUT BAIT.
"...imagine what a mouse with human brain cells (mentioned in the article) would feel like- it'd almost certainly feel unwell"
Would you rather be feeling 'unwell' or not feeling at all?
The mouse-human brain I imagine is walking around in a state of nirvana. Behind his little beady mouse eyes the mouse is laughing at us all because he KNOWs the true meaning of life.
Your buffalo/yak/cow was walking around 'confused'? Did a smiling porpoise relate this information. Did he indicate confusion through bdy language? Facial expression? Hoofing in Morris's code? Maybe he couldn't make up his mind about dinner. "Hmmmm... alfafa hay or bermuda hay, i can't decide, i had sushi yesterday. which one is the low carb hay again?"
YES! Let posters rate the story./. archives would be enhanced by story ratings. For example, "a rectal thermometer makes a poor radio antenna" might hide a really good story that someone scanning the archives would otherwise be inclined fast forward past.
It's a machine for crying out loud
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Spies Riding Shotgun
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"You can't shut it off, and you can't manipulate it,"
Sounds like a challange to me!
"...the driver who races his Miata one weekend and files a warranty claim the next. What are the chances that his data recorder will rat him out"
The automakers will have to drastically change their advertising. You can't sell a 'aports car' based on performance driving and later argue that using the vehicle as advertised violates it's warranty! Hell, Chrysler is HAPPY if you race their Neon! They will even sell you parts to hot-rod it that don't void the warranty and with others it's the old wink wink nudge nudge, take this out before you bring it in for warranty work. No, car dealers will NOT use performance driving to void your warranty. The manufacturers won't let them. THEY WANT TO SELL THE CARS!. Feedback to manufacturers from performance cars might even give us better cars! I still don't like it happening without my permission though.
One would think that, 'you own the car, you own the data' would apply. You certainly own the recorder and hacking it could be a lot of fun.
"A second highly-monochromatic red laser (674 nm) is then aimed at the cold ion, and tuned to two very precisely defined energy states in the cold ion. Once the laser is locked on to this precise energy or frequency interval it becomes very stable."
ASIDE: Strontium give the nice red you see in fireworks.
Physical constants are defined in terms of time. We only know that they are constants so far as we can measure the passage of time. Our model of the universe is based on constancy. With a better clock we can refine or if necessary change the model.
If you care to learn about time, take a tour of the Navel Observatory's Time Service Department.
Re:Better than a Volcano
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Hacking Vodka
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Why is there no benzene taste to anhydrous alcohol?
It was easy to taste it in the Perrier.
Unfortunately I had guzzled half the bottle before noticing. Not much chance of that with the anhydrous alcohol. This event on a cross country Delta flight. The taste stays with you for days. It's not something one would forget. Anhydrous alchohol used to show up at military surplus auctions. Back when everything that wasn't munitions or classified went to auction. These days you can't even buy perfectly good surplus paint and you can forget anything with a luminous dial.
"do you all live in caves are has your anti-MS bias really clouded your judgement that much?"
Perhaps it's just unfamiliar nomenclature and knowing another route to the same cathouse. It took forever for someone to actually explain what they are so perhaps the bias was anti-'button pushing'.
AWK is tool that lets you write scripts for editing.
Plenty of tutorials about. I'm no expert so I use them.
Quoting from the intro to one.
"Awk, named after its developers Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan, is a programming language which permits easy manipulation of structured data and the generation of formatted reports. "
It's possible, but this RDB and AWK impaired person was able to answer the question that dozens of excel impaired couldn't or wouldn't. See my other posts on topic. I can see it's handy, but I still can't see a friggin book on the topic. Then again, there was this book on the shelf at Fry;s the other day. Something about Windows XP hacks. It was nothing more than a list of all the features in windows and the suggestion that you might want to modify them and tha the registry was the place to do it and that the tool was the registry editor. Nothing, ZIP, NADA on what you might want to change, why you might want to change it, what sections of the registry affected that feature. So yes, maybe a whole book. Is it mostly screen shots. I love screen shots. They let me compare my screen with the shot in the book so I can verify that I pushed the right buttons. I apologize but I feel like Homer Simpson sitting at his control panel when confronted by all those buttons. GUIitis? Ya think?
Thanks. I can see it's utility for quick and dirty and as you said limited size. While awaiting your reply I did a little google research and posted what I found elsewhere in this thread. Basically you rearrange the presentation and the magic rearranges the calculation squares so the right boxes show expected results. I'm new to GUI's so drag and drop is still a bit of a mystery;-)
OK, I did a little research. A pivot table is a fancy name for a feature in Excel that adjusts the calculation squares in your spreadsheet as you change the presentation format. This allows you to look at the data in your spreadsheet in a bunch of different formats without having to rearrange all the calculation squares yourself. I can see some aura of elegance there for the RDB and AWK impaired. You guessed it, I don't use excel.
This is not flame bait. It's reality if you use mass transit in a large city. How would the moderator propose these cartoon cars be maintained without massive intrusions into peoples privacy?
Beats me and I wrote the friggin thing. My response to your, " How does making fun of the UN count as "Score:5, Informative"? The person didn't actually discuss the Kyoto Protocol. So, let me." The post wasn't about the Kyoto protocol, it was about the politics of signing the Kyoto ptrotocol. My point was the acid analogy. The treaty is a joke without enforcement. The UN, while a political palyer, is pretty much irrelevant when it comes to responsibility to "the peoples" referenced in their charter. Genocide isn't humerous but the UN's handling of it is high black comedy.
The electoral college is not going to change it's mind because 4 college kids misinterpreted their results. The only votes Bush 'stole' in these three counties were the Hispanic votes. He stole them fair and square, not through electronic trickery. The 4 kids may be able to manipulate numbers, but they aren't too swift when it comes to weighting their input and drawing conclusions from the results.
You might want to consider the relative rate of increase in emmissions since 1990 for the nations involved, along with an extrapolation of that rate to 2012. You'll find the US is doing very well in reducing greenhouse gasses. You might also consider how the US responded to the problem of freon and upper atmospheric ozone depletion. In this light the acid analogy is appropriate.
Based on UN response to immediate crises around the world (Sudan Rwanda Iraq) I sispect consequences will be studies into why the offender was not able to comply, how it might make him feel, how other nations feel about it, maybe a letter of reprimand and a 10 year extension. The UN is very sensitive when it comes to "the peoples". So why didn't the US sign? If you're not gonna trip, why fake taking the acid?
Irregularities does not have the same connotation as differences. Yet their "irregularities" is merely the difference in fit between what their model predicts and what they measured. Sure, you might call this an irregularity if you are fitting multiple data sets to a model and one of the sets doesn't fit. In this case, they have one model and one data set.
"Compared to counties with paper ballots, counties with electronic voting machines were significantly more likely to show increases for President Bush between 2000 and 2004. This effect cannot be explained by differences between counties in income, number of voters, change in voter turnout, or size of the Hispanic/Latino population."
* The effect cannot be explained within the framework of their model.
They state that their analysis takes account of:
- number of voters
- median income
- Hispanic population
- change in voter turnout between 2000 and 2004
- support for President Bush in 2000 election
- support for Dole in 1996 election
The counties with evote are the three largest counties. One should be careful in weighting the significance of the variables and data points. These three counties significantly skew the chosen fit.The change in turnout, past Bush support, and Dole support are not really relevent when comparing different demographics (three most populus counties with others). The Hispanic vote is basically 'in the noise' outside of these three counties and there was a major shift in Hispanic vote between the Dole-Bush contest and the Kerry-Bush contest. A little research will show that the shift in Hispanic vote was very significant in the 2004 election. Here is one of many sources. Google will find many more.
"Rather than packing into a large carriage with a hundred smelly strangers, with PRT you get a private car." Yes, you get a private car with a feces and vomit smeared interior or maybe even a dead hobo in it. Hell, this happens on commuter trains now, even with cameras and conductors. The only fix is a complete lack of privacy as to where you're going and when.
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with the black box you and the dealer will know if the failure correlates with out of spec operation, or not. this will make warranty response more objective.
"the innate quality of being human"
And what is this innate quality? Some would say it's nothign more than a consequence of evolutionary resultant brain structure.
Part of being human is wanting to know how things work. Another part is a desire for consistancy. There is growing evidence that these desires are consistant with our brain structure. I venture that there is a distribution of power among humans in the 'strength' of these two desires. The result. At one extreme, some want to learn more about humans at any cost and at the other, some want to run around in the woods naked and living on berries and roots.
As long as tolerance does not deprive anyone of his individual liberty to pursue his own life, how can one argue against denying either extreme, let alone those in between.
I read recently, thanks to heads up from another /.er, an interesting book. "On Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins. His model of the human brain places intelligence in the neocortex. Humans have. by far, the largest neocortex. There is plenty of evidence including a structural-functional description. His consideration of philosophcal implications, what is a soul, etc. is especially interesting.
With his model size does matter and the size that matters is that of the neocortex. It would be interesting to see if a large brained creature, say a chimp, would be show nore or less intelligence if given the brain structure of a small brained creature that has a much greater neocortical density (lots of folds).
Why do assume 'subhuman'? Maybe super human. I bet this is the unspoken motivation behind opposition to research.
There are 10 kinds of people. Those who wqnt to keep things the way they are and those who want to learn and explore. This difference is independent of race and will likely be independent of species. FISH or CUT BAIT.
"...imagine what a mouse with human brain cells (mentioned in the article) would feel like- it'd almost certainly feel unwell"
Would you rather be feeling 'unwell' or not feeling at all?
The mouse-human brain I imagine is walking around in a state of nirvana. Behind his little beady mouse eyes the mouse is laughing at us all because he KNOWs the true meaning of life.
Your buffalo/yak/cow was walking around 'confused'? Did a smiling porpoise relate this information. Did he indicate confusion through bdy language? Facial expression? Hoofing in Morris's code? Maybe he couldn't make up his mind about dinner. "Hmmmm... alfafa hay or bermuda hay, i can't decide, i had sushi yesterday. which one is the low carb hay again?"
"Wow. A super intelligent mouse"
Whoa! Aren't you making some assumptions here? Why would a mouse sized human brain be more intelligent than a human sized mouse brain?
YES! /. archives would be enhanced by story ratings.
Let posters rate the story.
For example, "a rectal thermometer makes a poor radio antenna" might hide a really good story that someone scanning the archives would otherwise be inclined fast forward past.
"You can't shut it off, and you can't manipulate it,"
Sounds like a challange to me!
"...the driver who races his Miata one weekend and files a warranty claim the next. What are the chances that his data recorder will rat him out"
The automakers will have to drastically change their advertising. You can't sell a 'aports car' based on performance driving and later argue that using the vehicle as advertised violates it's warranty! Hell, Chrysler is HAPPY if you race their Neon! They will even sell you parts to hot-rod it that don't void the warranty and with others it's the old wink wink nudge nudge, take this out before you bring it in for warranty work. No, car dealers will NOT use performance driving to void your warranty. The manufacturers won't let them. THEY WANT TO SELL THE CARS!. Feedback to manufacturers from performance cars might even give us better cars! I still don't like it happening without my permission though.
One would think that, 'you own the car, you own the data' would apply. You certainly own the recorder and hacking it could be a lot of fun.
"A second highly-monochromatic red laser (674 nm) is then aimed at the cold ion, and tuned to two very precisely defined energy states in the cold ion. Once the laser is locked on to this precise energy or frequency interval it becomes very stable."
ASIDE: Strontium give the nice red you see in fireworks.
Physical constants are defined in terms of time. We only know that they are constants so far as we can measure the passage of time. Our model of the universe is based on constancy. With a better clock we can refine or if necessary change the model.
If you care to learn about time, take a tour of the Navel Observatory's Time Service Department.
Why is there no benzene taste to anhydrous alcohol?
It was easy to taste it in the Perrier.
Unfortunately I had guzzled half the bottle before noticing.
Not much chance of that with the anhydrous alcohol.
This event on a cross country Delta flight.
The taste stays with you for days.
It's not something one would forget.
Anhydrous alchohol used to show up at military surplus auctions. Back when everything that wasn't munitions or classified went to auction. These days you can't even buy perfectly good surplus paint and you can forget anything with a luminous dial.
No confidence vote for Annan
"do you all live in caves are has your anti-MS bias really clouded your judgement that much?"
Perhaps it's just unfamiliar nomenclature and knowing another route to the same cathouse. It took forever for someone to actually explain what they are so perhaps the bias was anti-'button pushing'.
AWK is tool that lets you write scripts for editing.
Plenty of tutorials about. I'm no expert so I use them.
Quoting from the intro to one. "Awk, named after its developers Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan, is a programming language which permits easy manipulation of structured data and the generation of formatted reports. "
Be careful, you'll never be the same again.
It's possible, but this RDB and AWK impaired person was able to answer the question that dozens of excel impaired couldn't or wouldn't. See my other posts on topic. I can see it's handy, but I still can't see a friggin book on the topic. Then again, there was this book on the shelf at Fry;s the other day. Something about Windows XP hacks. It was nothing more than a list of all the features in windows and the suggestion that you might want to modify them and tha the registry was the place to do it and that the tool was the registry editor. Nothing, ZIP, NADA on what you might want to change, why you might want to change it, what sections of the registry affected that feature. So yes, maybe a whole book. Is it mostly screen shots. I love screen shots. They let me compare my screen with the shot in the book so I can verify that I pushed the right buttons. I apologize but I feel like Homer Simpson sitting at his control panel when confronted by all those buttons. GUIitis? Ya think?
Thanks. I can see it's utility for quick and dirty and as you said limited size. While awaiting your reply I did a little google research and posted what I found elsewhere in this thread. Basically you rearrange the presentation and the magic rearranges the calculation squares so the right boxes show expected results. I'm new to GUI's so drag and drop is still a bit of a mystery ;-)
OK, I did a little research. A pivot table is a fancy name for a feature in Excel that adjusts the calculation squares in your spreadsheet as you change the presentation format. This allows you to look at the data in your spreadsheet in a bunch of different formats without having to rearrange all the calculation squares yourself. I can see some aura of elegance there for the RDB and AWK impaired. You guessed it, I don't use excel.
Please enlighten me. I understand relational databases. 'push these buttons and out pops a report in this format is NOT an explanation'.
This is not flame bait. It's reality if you use mass transit in a large city. How would the moderator propose these cartoon cars be maintained without massive intrusions into peoples privacy?
Beats me and I wrote the friggin thing. My response to your, " How does making fun of the UN count as "Score:5, Informative"? The person didn't actually discuss the Kyoto Protocol. So, let me." The post wasn't about the Kyoto protocol, it was about the politics of signing the Kyoto ptrotocol. My point was the acid analogy. The treaty is a joke without enforcement. The UN, while a political palyer, is pretty much irrelevant when it comes to responsibility to "the peoples" referenced in their charter. Genocide isn't humerous but the UN's handling of it is high black comedy.
So there's a whole book dedicted to a friggin format change? Awk handles this with ease.
The electoral college is not going to change it's mind because 4 college kids misinterpreted their results. The only votes Bush 'stole' in these three counties were the Hispanic votes. He stole them fair and square, not through electronic trickery. The 4 kids may be able to manipulate numbers, but they aren't too swift when it comes to weighting their input and drawing conclusions from the results.
You might want to consider the relative rate of increase in emmissions since 1990 for the nations involved, along with an extrapolation of that rate to 2012. You'll find the US is doing very well in reducing greenhouse gasses. You might also consider how the US responded to the problem of freon and upper atmospheric ozone depletion. In this light the acid analogy is appropriate.
Based on UN response to immediate crises around the world (Sudan Rwanda Iraq) I sispect consequences will be studies into why the offender was not able to comply, how it might make him feel, how other nations feel about it, maybe a letter of reprimand and a 10 year extension. The UN is very sensitive when it comes to "the peoples". So why didn't the US sign? If you're not gonna trip, why fake taking the acid?
Irregularities does not have the same connotation as differences. Yet their "irregularities" is merely the difference in fit between what their model predicts and what they measured. Sure, you might call this an irregularity if you are fitting multiple data sets to a model and one of the sets doesn't fit. In this case, they have one model and one data set.
"Compared to counties with paper ballots, counties with electronic voting machines were significantly more likely to show increases for President Bush between 2000 and 2004. This effect cannot be explained by differences between counties in income, number of voters, change in voter turnout, or size of the Hispanic/Latino population."
* The effect cannot be explained within the framework of their model.
They state that their analysis takes account of:
- number of voters
- median income
- Hispanic population
- change in voter turnout between 2000 and 2004
- support for President Bush in 2000 election
- support for Dole in 1996 election
The counties with evote are the three largest counties. One should be careful in weighting the significance of the variables and data points. These three counties significantly skew the chosen fit.The change in turnout, past Bush support, and Dole support are not really relevent when comparing different demographics (three most populus counties with others).
The Hispanic vote is basically 'in the noise' outside of these three counties and there was a major shift in Hispanic vote between the Dole-Bush contest and the Kerry-Bush contest.
A little research will show that the shift in Hispanic vote was very significant in the 2004 election. Here is one of many sources. Google will find many more.
"Rather than packing into a large carriage with a hundred smelly strangers, with PRT you get a private car."
Yes, you get a private car with a feces and vomit smeared interior or maybe even a dead hobo in it. Hell, this happens on commuter trains now, even with cameras and conductors. The only fix is a complete lack of privacy as to where you're going and when.