Not only this, but with a genetic algorithm you test your algorithm on some known training data. Once you get an algorithm that fits your training data with some chosen degree of accuracy you declare your algorithm "done", and can go use it. With Wikipedia you have no "done" phase. You are pulling the results from Wikipedia at random times, which could be the equivalent of the genetic algorithm going haywire before it has settled into its correct phase.
For drug companies, the profit is in treatments, not cures, not vaccines. So most of the research money goes into treatments for things that will produce a heavy profit, and keeps you on their treatments. What's the point in producing a $50 one-time shot that will fix your ills if they can instead get you on a $200-a-month pill regimen that comes with some side effects that you'll want to take another set of pills for?
If a company takes this kind of attitude then it is ripe to be surpassed by any other company who can come up with the cure and sell it. People will pay for the cure if they can get it, and once they are cured they will have no more use for company A's "treatments". Company B makes big profits from selling the cure. Company A's sales drop dramatically and they realize that they should have sold the cure in the first place.
And one other thing: there will always be some new disease that will need to be researched and cured. Curing polio hasn't stopped any companies from researching and selling AIDS drugs for profit. Or diabetes. Or erectile dysfunction. (The list goes on.)
A revolutionary product? Really? Seems to me like it's just another x86 processor with a few new tricks. Certainly faster, certainly better, but revolutionary? Try evolutionary.
You do yourself a great disservice if you plan to stay in a country without learning their language. You will always have a a barrier in your work, civic participation (think voting), and your ability to travel within the country. It's nice that the people at the local grocery store speak your language (spanish, italian, etc.) but what happens when you go on a cross-country trip and nobody does? How can you run for president, congress, whatever, if you can't speak what most of your constituents speak? How can you carry on a debate with others who don't speak your language? How can you have one of those fancy New York City big-money jobs if you don't speak english?
Being bilingual is cool. But I don't think it does you any good to reject the majority language.
And this, my friends, makes it worth it. I still can't figure out how the hell people can stand gaps in their music where no gap should exist. (I.e. tracks that have continuity between them.)
the RNA in a virus has 90% of what it takes genetically to make a human.
I don't think so. This page says viruses have 3-100 genes, and this page says humans have 20,000 - 25,000 genes. That makes it anywhere from 0.012% to 0.5%. Not even close to 90%.
It seems to me that the analog of changing the format of a flat text file would be to change the database schema. I can't think of any reason why a file format would change any more or less often than a schema change. It is probably easier to adjust to a schema change though, considering a change to the schema would probably just require an updated query as opposed to rewriting the parser. But it still would require changes.
How come everyone here is a "n00b", and yet they've installed Ubuntu a ton of times, tried out Fedora on a couple of higher end comps... to act as servers..., etc. When do you become a non-n00b?
But it still is true that you are making a context switch. Concentrating on the meeting/whatever, when the phone rings. What do you do? Either you pick it up and focus on that for a while, or you look at the caller id and focus on that for 3 seconds. It may not be as long, but it is still stealing your focus.
Yes, but if you loose a pass card anyone who finds it and has the ability can clone it. With an implantable chip you can't lose it. Cloning it would require the participation of the owner. Or, should I say the person, since they are pretty much owned by their company.:P
I've got about 1/4 of the lightbulbs in my house switched to flourescent. The twisty compact flourescent bulbs I have turn on almost immediately, such that I never notice any delay. Now, they do take 20-30 seconds to come up to full brightness, but that is not a problem, because they still put out plenty of light from the beginning.
The only bulb that doesn't come on immediately is the 46 watt cf bulb in the garage, and that is only when it is cold in there -- say mid-upper 30s farenheit and below. But even it still lights within 1 second.
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Not only this, but with a genetic algorithm you test your algorithm on some known training data. Once you get an algorithm that fits your training data with some chosen degree of accuracy you declare your algorithm "done", and can go use it. With Wikipedia you have no "done" phase. You are pulling the results from Wikipedia at random times, which could be the equivalent of the genetic algorithm going haywire before it has settled into its correct phase.
It does mean what he think it means if he always thinks in base 2, like any self-respecting computer nerd does.
For drug companies, the profit is in treatments, not cures, not vaccines. So most of the research money goes into treatments for things that will produce a heavy profit, and keeps you on their treatments. What's the point in producing a $50 one-time shot that will fix your ills if they can instead get you on a $200-a-month pill regimen that comes with some side effects that you'll want to take another set of pills for?
If a company takes this kind of attitude then it is ripe to be surpassed by any other company who can come up with the cure and sell it. People will pay for the cure if they can get it, and once they are cured they will have no more use for company A's "treatments". Company B makes big profits from selling the cure. Company A's sales drop dramatically and they realize that they should have sold the cure in the first place.
And one other thing: there will always be some new disease that will need to be researched and cured. Curing polio hasn't stopped any companies from researching and selling AIDS drugs for profit. Or diabetes. Or erectile dysfunction. (The list goes on.)
Yeah, that's pretty funny. Whoever wrote that didn't know English very well. Oh, you weren't commenting on the grammar? (j/k)
You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, and redhead.
I can't speak about most software, but .NET is pretty well documented for most things.
A revolutionary product? Really? Seems to me like it's just another x86 processor with a few new tricks. Certainly faster, certainly better, but revolutionary? Try evolutionary.
Peace.
The only question that matters, though, is: Do you like it enough to buy it?
Sometimes you can't tell the difference.
You do yourself a great disservice if you plan to stay in a country without learning their language. You will always have a a barrier in your work, civic participation (think voting), and your ability to travel within the country. It's nice that the people at the local grocery store speak your language (spanish, italian, etc.) but what happens when you go on a cross-country trip and nobody does? How can you run for president, congress, whatever, if you can't speak what most of your constituents speak? How can you carry on a debate with others who don't speak your language? How can you have one of those fancy New York City big-money jobs if you don't speak english?
Being bilingual is cool. But I don't think it does you any good to reject the majority language.
That's why we need the Opteron. To do our single digit math for us.
216 W of actual power consumed!
Wow! This thing consumes actual power! I need to upgrade my computer, I guess. I'm only consuming theoretical power with mine.
And this, my friends, makes it worth it. I still can't figure out how the hell people can stand gaps in their music where no gap should exist. (I.e. tracks that have continuity between them.)
Ipod Linux has a hard time playing a bunch of formats in real time at many bitrates. That is a killer for playing music.
Where does the term "being in the red" come from, if not from the color of the ink?
the RNA in a virus has 90% of what it takes genetically to make a human.
I don't think so. This page says viruses have 3-100 genes, and this page says humans have 20,000 - 25,000 genes. That makes it anywhere from 0.012% to 0.5%. Not even close to 90%.
A million pounds? That's about 450,000 kilograms for you metric folks. I thought they used metric in Britain.
New? What about Street Fighter 2? Pretty much the same game aside from the blood, and not being so cartoony.
It seems to me that the analog of changing the format of a flat text file would be to change the database schema. I can't think of any reason why a file format would change any more or less often than a schema change. It is probably easier to adjust to a schema change though, considering a change to the schema would probably just require an updated query as opposed to rewriting the parser. But it still would require changes.
How come everyone here is a "n00b", and yet they've installed Ubuntu a ton of times, tried out Fedora on a couple of higher end comps ... to act as servers..., etc. When do you become a non-n00b?
But it still is true that you are making a context switch. Concentrating on the meeting/whatever, when the phone rings. What do you do? Either you pick it up and focus on that for a while, or you look at the caller id and focus on that for 3 seconds. It may not be as long, but it is still stealing your focus.
Once you put Rockbox on your Ipod it won't have a warranty either.
Lose a pass card. Lose a pass card.
Yes, but if you loose a pass card anyone who finds it and has the ability can clone it. With an implantable chip you can't lose it. Cloning it would require the participation of the owner. Or, should I say the person, since they are pretty much owned by their company. :P
I've got about 1/4 of the lightbulbs in my house switched to flourescent. The twisty compact flourescent bulbs I have turn on almost immediately, such that I never notice any delay. Now, they do take 20-30 seconds to come up to full brightness, but that is not a problem, because they still put out plenty of light from the beginning.
The only bulb that doesn't come on immediately is the 46 watt cf bulb in the garage, and that is only when it is cold in there -- say mid-upper 30s farenheit and below. But even it still lights within 1 second.