The above recollection is not correct. Coke was considered an improvement in quality, and brought about an "alteration which all England admired"—the coke process allowed for a lighter roast of the malt, leading to the creation of what by the end of the 17th century was called pale ale. The coke production process was not known since the 1500s. A more primitive process existed and was the reason why it was not popular for use in the production of iron. "In 1709, Abraham Darby I established a coke-fired blast furnace to produce cast iron. Coke's superior crushing strength allowed blast furnaces to become taller and larger. The ensuing availability of inexpensive iron was one of the factors leading to the Industrial Revolution." Additionally, "in 1768 John Wilkinson built a more practical oven for converting coal into coke. Wilkinson improved the process by building the coal heaps around a low central chimney built of loose bricks and with openings for the combustion gases to enter, resulting in a higher yield of better coke. With greater skill in the firing, covering and quenching of the heaps, yields were increased from about 33% to 65% by the middle of the 19th century. The Scottish iron industry expanded rapidly in the second quarter of the 19th century, through the adoption of the hot-blast process in its coalfields."
Would it not be preferable to just have the motherboard require a switch accessible by users when the case is fully assembled set to allow firmware updates?
Any law restricting the use of free speech of the public that is directed to a private corporation would be violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
From the linked paper: "To be explicit, the proof of RH in this paper is by contradiction and this is not accepted as valid in ZF, it does require choice. I fully expect that the most general version of the Riemann Hypothesis will be an undecidable problem in the Gödel sense.", which gets as the heart of my (others?) problem with the "Millennium prize problems". They do not specify the axioms for which the "proof" should use. These prizes are based on social acceptance and not a firm mathematical basis. Additionally, Dr. Atiyah's is a proof by countradiction / counterexample using the axioms of ZFC. So, given this is not P vs NP or the Navier-Stokes, Dr. Atiyah "may" receive the $1 million per the "Scientific Advisory Board of CMI":
"In the case of the P versus NP problem and the Navier-Stokes problem, the SAB will consider the award of the Millennium Prize for deciding the question in either direction. In the case of the other problems if a counterexample is proposed, the SAB will consider this counterexample after publication and the same two-year waiting period as for a proposed solution will apply. If, in the opinion of the SAB, the counterexample effectively resolves the problem then the SAB may recommend the award of the Prize. If the counterexample shows that the original problem survives after reformulation or elimination of some special case, then the SAB may recommend that a small prize be awarded to the author. The money for this prize will not be taken from the Millennium Prize Problem fund, but from other CMI funds."
On the one hand, I would like to give Peter and Jacok a big round of applause for taking the time to understand and publish the error in the original publication (shoveling stool). On the other hand, even though it is still possible that there may be a solution if Mochizuki was really that confident to have claimed to have the solution instead of asking for review, then given what I know about Japanese culture I would be more worried that Mochizuki is heading towards Aokigahara right about now than the possibility that he could be somehow "banned" from submitting a PDF to the interwebz.
Literal "challenge" killer app: break the bank account encryption and take all the money. Am I only one who is getting peeved with poorly thought up "challenges" that are too vague to even attempt that are just thinly veiled advertising? I mean where is the end date or am I missing something?
"A major apartment fire in 1950 killed eight,[5] a mudslide in 1965 killed seven and the town's Charleson school burned down on the night between December 21 and 22, 1969"
Plebs think they're joining the cool HFT club by coming up with a nanosecond standard while the dark pools got a trailer out back in the datacenter keeping track of the attoseconds.
And what about esophageal cancer or oral cancer? Eating a known carcinogen deserves a Darwin award. In a terms of risk, it would be more appropriate to be more concerned with any caffeine and theobromine, which is what caffeine is metabolized into, in cocoa products. Caffeine and theobromine would seem to be easier targets for being labeled as carcinogenic than acrylamide if the actual purpose was to label just coffee as a carcinogen, but acrylamide is found in more products. So, seeming as how it would allow for more lawsuits, it seems to have had a higher desirability to be labeled as a carcinogen.
Coffee, including decaffeinated types, among other cacao compounds is linked to cancer as they contain theobromine. Additionally, caffeine is metabolised in the liver into 12% theobromine, 4% theophylline, and 84% paraxanthine. "Theobromine is known to induce gene mutations in lower eukaryotes and bacteria. In 1991 and 1997, research by the International Agency for Research on Cancer had shown that genetic mutations occurred in higher eukaryotic cells, specifically cultured mammalian cells." So, even if the coffee, along with other cacao compounds, was cooked at a low enough temperature to not produce acrylamide it still has carcinogenic potential.
Additionally, "Bad weather aside, research shows that some conditions like shadows and sunlight low on the horizon and shining right into the lens can make the images useless. The camera may be working and the lens may be clean, but there are conditions that the camera cannot overcome." Low light conditions are also a problem compared to radar. Radar may not pick up small forgotten / misplaced items, but being able to recognizing them as is with the small distorted video image is a questionable use case. Liability for run-overs remains with the driver to do a walk around inspection. The use case for radar is big mobile objects such as other cars, motorcycles, people and animals.
Water from condensation, especially when frozen over, make it worth-less than turning my head around. Vehicle manufacturers, please replace the rear camera and add radar with screen.
AGESA is proprietary again since 2014. Even if AGESA was open source, or AMD released the BKDG and someone paid the $$$ for a coreboot port, the simple fact is the signed PSP is still needed for the platform to boot. Therefore, libreboot can never happen, and you don't really have full control over the machine. And that's assuming this isn't just an option to limit the UEFI firmware from talking to the PSP during boot. Best case is that the PSP still runs during boot but is somehow shut off after the BIOS loads. Worst case: AMD is simply making the BIOS not talk to the still active and still dangerous PSP.
Even in the best case scenario, the PSP is still active and still has control of your machine for at least a limited time window as AGESA has to bootstrap the ARM TrustZone. If it's disabled, it hopefully simply isn't booted. Or, perhaps, the CPU would prevent PSP from accessing memory, effectively disabling it (and all of ring 0 code, in fact). But, there would be no way to know that it was truly deactivated short of AMD releasing the source code showing that it does in fact shut down. If it shuts down then theoretically there should be no AMD / third party IP required, so AMD should be able to release stripped-down source code and binaries sans the third party IP. If they aren't willing to do that, don't just blindly take a nebulous BIOS option as evidence of security.
Disabling could be fully accomplished by preventing address translation, though the end user has no such capability.
With Ryzen, PSP is likely a client of the IMC directly, attached via the infinity fabric. A single flag should be able to disable that link - or, more exactly, prevent it from being initialized.
This would be the easiest way to disable the PSP, but isn't necessarily how this BIOS option works. Disabling the link is an option. However, only AMD can do that and AMD is on record as stating the PSP is mandatory and that they will not support it being disabled or allow anyone else to disable it.
Given ASRock's description, this particular [BIOS] option appears to disable the driver as a debug option intended to fix / work around boot problems related to the UEFI firmware's PSP driver, and has no bearing on the PSP core operation.
If so, then what does imply about the host of NotPetya, Merck and corporations in general? A further justification of corporate personhood? Is it in Merck's interest to keep NotPetya in order to bolster any legal challenges it may face with regards to certain legal challenges or even as a reason to reduce the supply/stockpile of the vaccine and increase the price and related profits given that it is an inelastic good? If so, would Merck be guilty of crimes by hosting NotPetya?
The expected value of goodwill and roaming fees from this outweighs the expected costs associated with patent royalty liabilities and negative goodwill costs for Space Data associated with a lawsuit for this situation?
Technical analysis is bullshit. If you want proof just look at bear sterns (I remember watching it drop from $30 to $10 in under 7 mins on scottrade), lehman bro. etc. Unless you're on the inside of the next scam (fundamentals all the way), your playing the lotto. Even on the smaller time scales, unless you have a damn fast and dedicated connection which would be for institutionals, you're not going to catch the arbitrage opportunities that come with trading the news - nobody is stupid enough to buy united airlines stock at $30 when they declare bankruptcy. You might think that you could get those last few orders that still appear on the level II screen, but the spread will go up and you'll bitch when your order isn't put through at the price you want because of back-filling orders. See http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=7484 for a description of how the FOREX scams work. The only "open-source" movement that might work at this point would be to create something like an OpenQuant clone or something like using interactive broker's api and mesh it with quantlib. But, all that would do though is speed up the release of new features into OpenQuant, which is a watered down version of the QuantDeveloper which is what the big boys use.
Title read incorrectly in the first post. The singularity was in the past (big bang). Inflation was period during when W 1. Future growth should level off as a horizontal asymptote.
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The above recollection is not correct. Coke was considered an improvement in quality, and brought about an "alteration which all England admired"—the coke process allowed for a lighter roast of the malt, leading to the creation of what by the end of the 17th century was called pale ale. The coke production process was not known since the 1500s. A more primitive process existed and was the reason why it was not popular for use in the production of iron. "In 1709, Abraham Darby I established a coke-fired blast furnace to produce cast iron. Coke's superior crushing strength allowed blast furnaces to become taller and larger. The ensuing availability of inexpensive iron was one of the factors leading to the Industrial Revolution." Additionally, "in 1768 John Wilkinson built a more practical oven for converting coal into coke. Wilkinson improved the process by building the coal heaps around a low central chimney built of loose bricks and with openings for the combustion gases to enter, resulting in a higher yield of better coke. With greater skill in the firing, covering and quenching of the heaps, yields were increased from about 33% to 65% by the middle of the 19th century. The Scottish iron industry expanded rapidly in the second quarter of the 19th century, through the adoption of the hot-blast process in its coalfields."
Would it not be preferable to just have the motherboard require a switch accessible by users when the case is fully assembled set to allow firmware updates?
Any law restricting the use of free speech of the public that is directed to a private corporation would be violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
What is the "real link" and why would it disappoint me?
From the linked paper: "To be explicit, the proof of RH in this paper is by contradiction and this is not accepted as valid in ZF, it does require choice. I fully expect that the most general version of the Riemann Hypothesis will be an undecidable problem in the Gödel sense.", which gets as the heart of my (others?) problem with the "Millennium prize problems". They do not specify the axioms for which the "proof" should use. These prizes are based on social acceptance and not a firm mathematical basis. Additionally, Dr. Atiyah's is a proof by countradiction / counterexample using the axioms of ZFC. So, given this is not P vs NP or the Navier-Stokes, Dr. Atiyah "may" receive the $1 million per the "Scientific Advisory Board of CMI": "In the case of the P versus NP problem and the Navier-Stokes problem, the SAB will consider the award of the Millennium Prize for deciding the question in either direction. In the case of the other problems if a counterexample is proposed, the SAB will consider this counterexample after publication and the same two-year waiting period as for a proposed solution will apply. If, in the opinion of the SAB, the counterexample effectively resolves the problem then the SAB may recommend the award of the Prize. If the counterexample shows that the original problem survives after reformulation or elimination of some special case, then the SAB may recommend that a small prize be awarded to the author. The money for this prize will not be taken from the Millennium Prize Problem fund, but from other CMI funds."
On the one hand, I would like to give Peter and Jacok a big round of applause for taking the time to understand and publish the error in the original publication (shoveling stool). On the other hand, even though it is still possible that there may be a solution if Mochizuki was really that confident to have claimed to have the solution instead of asking for review, then given what I know about Japanese culture I would be more worried that Mochizuki is heading towards Aokigahara right about now than the possibility that he could be somehow "banned" from submitting a PDF to the interwebz.
Literal "challenge" killer app: break the bank account encryption and take all the money. Am I only one who is getting peeved with poorly thought up "challenges" that are too vague to even attempt that are just thinly veiled advertising? I mean where is the end date or am I missing something?
"A major apartment fire in 1950 killed eight,[5] a mudslide in 1965 killed seven and the town's Charleson school burned down on the night between December 21 and 22, 1969"
Plebs think they're joining the cool HFT club by coming up with a nanosecond standard while the dark pools got a trailer out back in the datacenter keeping track of the attoseconds.
And what about esophageal cancer or oral cancer? Eating a known carcinogen deserves a Darwin award. In a terms of risk, it would be more appropriate to be more concerned with any caffeine and theobromine, which is what caffeine is metabolized into, in cocoa products. Caffeine and theobromine would seem to be easier targets for being labeled as carcinogenic than acrylamide if the actual purpose was to label just coffee as a carcinogen, but acrylamide is found in more products. So, seeming as how it would allow for more lawsuits, it seems to have had a higher desirability to be labeled as a carcinogen.
Coffee, including decaffeinated types, among other cacao compounds is linked to cancer as they contain theobromine. Additionally, caffeine is metabolised in the liver into 12% theobromine, 4% theophylline, and 84% paraxanthine. "Theobromine is known to induce gene mutations in lower eukaryotes and bacteria. In 1991 and 1997, research by the International Agency for Research on Cancer had shown that genetic mutations occurred in higher eukaryotic cells, specifically cultured mammalian cells." So, even if the coffee, along with other cacao compounds, was cooked at a low enough temperature to not produce acrylamide it still has carcinogenic potential.
Additionally, "Bad weather aside, research shows that some conditions like shadows and sunlight low on the horizon and shining right into the lens can make the images useless. The camera may be working and the lens may be clean, but there are conditions that the camera cannot overcome." Low light conditions are also a problem compared to radar. Radar may not pick up small forgotten / misplaced items, but being able to recognizing them as is with the small distorted video image is a questionable use case. Liability for run-overs remains with the driver to do a walk around inspection. The use case for radar is big mobile objects such as other cars, motorcycles, people and animals.
Water from condensation, especially when frozen over, make it worth-less than turning my head around. Vehicle manufacturers, please replace the rear camera and add radar with screen.
AGESA is proprietary again since 2014. Even if AGESA was open source, or AMD released the BKDG and someone paid the $$$ for a coreboot port, the simple fact is the signed PSP is still needed for the platform to boot. Therefore, libreboot can never happen, and you don't really have full control over the machine. And that's assuming this isn't just an option to limit the UEFI firmware from talking to the PSP during boot. Best case is that the PSP still runs during boot but is somehow shut off after the BIOS loads. Worst case: AMD is simply making the BIOS not talk to the still active and still dangerous PSP. Even in the best case scenario, the PSP is still active and still has control of your machine for at least a limited time window as AGESA has to bootstrap the ARM TrustZone. If it's disabled, it hopefully simply isn't booted. Or, perhaps, the CPU would prevent PSP from accessing memory, effectively disabling it (and all of ring 0 code, in fact). But, there would be no way to know that it was truly deactivated short of AMD releasing the source code showing that it does in fact shut down. If it shuts down then theoretically there should be no AMD / third party IP required, so AMD should be able to release stripped-down source code and binaries sans the third party IP. If they aren't willing to do that, don't just blindly take a nebulous BIOS option as evidence of security. Disabling could be fully accomplished by preventing address translation, though the end user has no such capability. With Ryzen, PSP is likely a client of the IMC directly, attached via the infinity fabric. A single flag should be able to disable that link - or, more exactly, prevent it from being initialized. This would be the easiest way to disable the PSP, but isn't necessarily how this BIOS option works. Disabling the link is an option. However, only AMD can do that and AMD is on record as stating the PSP is mandatory and that they will not support it being disabled or allow anyone else to disable it. Given ASRock's description, this particular [BIOS] option appears to disable the driver as a debug option intended to fix / work around boot problems related to the UEFI firmware's PSP driver, and has no bearing on the PSP core operation.
If so, then what does imply about the host of NotPetya, Merck and corporations in general? A further justification of corporate personhood? Is it in Merck's interest to keep NotPetya in order to bolster any legal challenges it may face with regards to certain legal challenges or even as a reason to reduce the supply/stockpile of the vaccine and increase the price and related profits given that it is an inelastic good? If so, would Merck be guilty of crimes by hosting NotPetya?
The expected value of goodwill and roaming fees from this outweighs the expected costs associated with patent royalty liabilities and negative goodwill costs for Space Data associated with a lawsuit for this situation?
Movie P.S. Anyone able to recommend a bank that offers an app with Post quantum cryptography?
Technical analysis is bullshit. If you want proof just look at bear sterns (I remember watching it drop from $30 to $10 in under 7 mins on scottrade), lehman bro. etc. Unless you're on the inside of the next scam (fundamentals all the way), your playing the lotto. Even on the smaller time scales, unless you have a damn fast and dedicated connection which would be for institutionals, you're not going to catch the arbitrage opportunities that come with trading the news - nobody is stupid enough to buy united airlines stock at $30 when they declare bankruptcy. You might think that you could get those last few orders that still appear on the level II screen, but the spread will go up and you'll bitch when your order isn't put through at the price you want because of back-filling orders. See http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=7484 for a description of how the FOREX scams work. The only "open-source" movement that might work at this point would be to create something like an OpenQuant clone or something like using interactive broker's api and mesh it with quantlib. But, all that would do though is speed up the release of new features into OpenQuant, which is a watered down version of the QuantDeveloper which is what the big boys use.
Title read incorrectly in the first post. The singularity was in the past (big bang). Inflation was period during when W 1. Future growth should level off as a horizontal asymptote.
Fools, there is no singularity. The evidence: S=k*log(W). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_in_thermodynamics_and_information_theory If anything we're on the left edge of the log curve, which would make the derivative look exponential.