The thing is, physics IS cool. Physics gave us the atom bomb, the space program, the weapons our military use and the armor that keeps cops alive on the street. Anyone who has been in a serious car crash, you'd be a lot worse off if it weren't for safety advances through physics. From relativity to designing running shoes. This stuff is applicable everywhere.
Dancing and rap arent going to make physics "cool", (rap cant even make rap cool), physics is cool already and if kids cant see that... there's a bigger problem.
We should be encouraging achievement. Smart, inquisitive kids are shot down by their peers every day and our teachers just stand by and let it happen. Lets deal with that, then we'll see about rap and dancing.
while performance gains of 1-3% in a well defined set of tasks (in this case the benchmarks) is a marginal improvement well inside statistical error...
this is a really interesting idea.
Moving the genetic algorithm processing to another machine may be warranted. If you had a good idea of what you were going to be doing (heavy database work for instance), a dedicated machine could be used to find an optimal scheduling solution and then that could be implemented on the production machine.
or maintain a list of optimal solutions on the production machine and change based on context.
This implementation might not be all that useful but I hope it spurs interest and a lot more development in the area.
The author did an awesome job coming up with the idea.
Slashdot Mirror
i had to follow up to my absurdly short comment.
The thing is, physics IS cool. Physics gave us the atom bomb, the space program, the weapons our military use and the armor that keeps cops alive on the street. Anyone who has been in a serious car crash, you'd be a lot worse off if it weren't for safety advances through physics. From relativity to designing running shoes. This stuff is applicable everywhere.
Dancing and rap arent going to make physics "cool", (rap cant even make rap cool), physics is cool already and if kids cant see that... there's a bigger problem.
We should be encouraging achievement. Smart, inquisitive kids are shot down by their peers every day and our teachers just stand by and let it happen. Lets deal with that, then we'll see about rap and dancing.
gordon freeman
people who live a lifestyle that results in less sleep
are also prone to making bad eating decisions ie. the busy
guy that grabs fast food every day?
While I am definitely in favor of any study that could
be used to justify sleeping more (hooray for sleep),
"less sleep = fatness" seems like a bit of a leap.
while performance gains of 1-3% in a well defined set of tasks (in this case the benchmarks) is a marginal improvement well inside statistical error...
this is a really interesting idea.
Moving the genetic algorithm processing to another machine may be warranted. If you had a good idea of what you were going to be doing (heavy database work for instance), a dedicated machine could be used to find an optimal scheduling solution and then that could be implemented on the production machine.
or maintain a list of optimal solutions on the production machine and change based on context.
This implementation might not be all that useful but I hope it spurs interest and a lot more development in the area.
The author did an awesome job coming up with the idea.