If you believe that you would not act, and think exactly the same then you believe Free Will is beyond quantum mechanics; otherwise Free Will is just the synergistic response to a complex organism that has the capability to think of itself.
Actually, no. Ignoring the no cloning theorem for a moment, if two particles are in the exact same quantum state, then they can collapse to two different values. This is precisely the indeterminacy of quantum mechanics.
I am also at Pitt but I study physics. We can either take the first two comp sci courses (intermediate programming and data structures) or take chem 1 and 2. However, everyone is required to take the computational methods course which, like the grand parents course at CMU, uses VPython.
Unfortunately, most people opt for the chem sequence so that the computational methods course spends too much time, IMO, on programming basics (loops, arrays, conditionals, etc.) instead of devoting it entirely to writing physics simulations. However, Python and VPython are pretty easy to pick up so it wasn't that bad.
I agree. Further it is ridiculous that a dichotomy has been set up between believing in evolution and being a religious nutcase and believing in intelligent design. The fact is that many people say they believe in evolution despite not having studied it more than superficially. Blindly accepting a theory is very unscientific.
It is not the same as asking if someone believes in gravity because evidence of evolution is not as plainly visible. Moreover belief in gravity usually just means believing that things fall to planets; not many lay people understand that there's a gravitational attraction between _everything_.
So better questions to ask would be about educational policies involving intelligent design and evolution, scientific funding, etc. It shouldn't matter whether the candidate believes in evolution.
i don't think you understand PA law-- you can't record _anyone_ without his/her consent. so if this guy were recording someone who wasn't a cop, it would still be illegal.
Of course I would agree that we might want to lax security for the 85 year old grandmother type
the 85 year old grandmothers are probably one of the most gullible demographics so it wouldn't be too hard for a terrorist to somehow convince them to put something in their bags.
America seems to make a big deal out of sex in general. Was anyone else troubled when people threw a fit over GTA because of the sex in it and not because it condones killing cops and pedestrians?
The problem is that he is trying to persecute professors based on their writings and political activities and not on whether or not they are teaching and grading fairly. A professor can hold a view but still grade a paper that has an opposing viewpoint fairly.
...ever right? what happened to all those things that were supposed to happen by the year 2000 like flying cars, robots in every house, and everyone colonizing the moon. the only safe bet a futurist can make is that futurists in the future will be wrong.
So, presumably, he's not hosting the slaughterhouse images himself, but he's redirecting Fuddrucker's traffic to innocent third parties... The very thing he's pissed off at Fuddrucker's for doing.
The difference is that Fuddruckers embedded his flash file in their html while he redirected the visitors to the site with the slaughterhouse pics. Also, the purpose of that site is probably to make a statement about keeping people from eating food from places like Fuddruckers so it isn't unlikely that they welcomed the Fuddruckers traffic.
I do not know alot about savants but it seems to me that people who are able to instinctively perform arithmetic operations quickly suggest that mathematics is innate in humans, and possibly in nature, instead of being purely invented. Can anyone offer any further insite into this?
But what life skills are actually learned in sporting programs?
I'm willing to bet you didn't participate in sports as a child. Sports offer an abundance of life skills: discipline, team work, dedication, social skills, responsibility, etc. What about good health? It seems that schools should be encouraging athletic participation even more.
I just don't know what to believe!!! Earlier today slashdot tells me that gamers are delusional but now slashdot tells me they are regular! Thus, am I to conclude that regular people are delusional? But that contradicts the definition of regular. This is very troubling.
freeipods.com has been talked about before. There was even an article on wired about it a while back; http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,64614,00.html From everything I have read, it seems legit as far as people getting their ipods.
"HINT: I bet Czech schools don't spend millions of dollars (or preferred local currency) on state-of-the-art sports facilities and equipment."
If so much money is spent on sports facilities and equipment then why is obesity such a big (no pun intended) problem? Also, most of the money being spent on these sports facilities is from money raised by sports teams. So don't look down upon athletics like how most of you think athletes look down on "smart people."
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If you believe that you would not act, and think exactly the same then you believe Free Will is beyond quantum mechanics; otherwise Free Will is just the synergistic response to a complex organism that has the capability to think of itself.
Actually, no. Ignoring the no cloning theorem for a moment, if two particles are in the exact same quantum state, then they can collapse to two different values. This is precisely the indeterminacy of quantum mechanics.
I am also at Pitt but I study physics. We can either take the first two comp sci courses (intermediate programming and data structures) or take chem 1 and 2. However, everyone is required to take the computational methods course which, like the grand parents course at CMU, uses VPython. Unfortunately, most people opt for the chem sequence so that the computational methods course spends too much time, IMO, on programming basics (loops, arrays, conditionals, etc.) instead of devoting it entirely to writing physics simulations. However, Python and VPython are pretty easy to pick up so it wasn't that bad.
I agree. Further it is ridiculous that a dichotomy has been set up between believing in evolution and being a religious nutcase and believing in intelligent design. The fact is that many people say they believe in evolution despite not having studied it more than superficially. Blindly accepting a theory is very unscientific.
It is not the same as asking if someone believes in gravity because evidence of evolution is not as plainly visible. Moreover belief in gravity usually just means believing that things fall to planets; not many lay people understand that there's a gravitational attraction between _everything_.
So better questions to ask would be about educational policies involving intelligent design and evolution, scientific funding, etc. It shouldn't matter whether the candidate believes in evolution.
i don't think you understand PA law-- you can't record _anyone_ without his/her consent. so if this guy were recording someone who wasn't a cop, it would still be illegal.
if that is the case then why have none of the artists objected to what he does?
"procrastination is like masturbation: it's all good until you realized that you just fucked yourself"
How come in talks about AI, people always assume that something that is intelligent is likely to be sentient? There is no basis for this.
America seems to make a big deal out of sex in general. Was anyone else troubled when people threw a fit over GTA because of the sex in it and not because it condones killing cops and pedestrians?
The problem is that he is trying to persecute professors based on their writings and political activities and not on whether or not they are teaching and grading fairly. A professor can hold a view but still grade a paper that has an opposing viewpoint fairly.
...ever right? what happened to all those things that were supposed to happen by the year 2000 like flying cars, robots in every house, and everyone colonizing the moon. the only safe bet a futurist can make is that futurists in the future will be wrong.
So, presumably, he's not hosting the slaughterhouse images himself, but he's redirecting Fuddrucker's traffic to innocent third parties... The very thing he's pissed off at Fuddrucker's for doing.
The difference is that Fuddruckers embedded his flash file in their html while he redirected the visitors to the site with the slaughterhouse pics. Also, the purpose of that site is probably to make a statement about keeping people from eating food from places like Fuddruckers so it isn't unlikely that they welcomed the Fuddruckers traffic.
I do not know alot about savants but it seems to me that people who are able to instinctively perform arithmetic operations quickly suggest that mathematics is innate in humans, and possibly in nature, instead of being purely invented. Can anyone offer any further insite into this?
But what life skills are actually learned in sporting programs?
I'm willing to bet you didn't participate in sports as a child. Sports offer an abundance of life skills: discipline, team work, dedication, social skills, responsibility, etc. What about good health? It seems that schools should be encouraging athletic participation even more.
I just don't know what to believe!!! Earlier today slashdot tells me that gamers are delusional but now slashdot tells me they are regular! Thus, am I to conclude that regular people are delusional? But that contradicts the definition of regular. This is very troubling.
freeipods.com has been talked about before. There was even an article on wired about it a while back; http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,64614,00.html From everything I have read, it seems legit as far as people getting their ipods.
Actually, current versions of AIM do support encryption.
...is that these people have jobs and so many literate people do not.
"HINT: I bet Czech schools don't spend millions of dollars (or preferred local currency) on state-of-the-art sports facilities and equipment."
If so much money is spent on sports facilities and equipment then why is obesity such a big (no pun intended) problem? Also, most of the money being spent on these sports facilities is from money raised by sports teams. So don't look down upon athletics like how most of you think athletes look down on "smart people."