From the abstract: "Conclusions: Green tea has thermogenic properties and promotes fat oxidation beyond that explained by its caffeine content per se. The green tea extract may play a role in the control of body composition via sympathetic activation of thermogenesis, fat oxidation, or both."
He doesn't understand computers, or that AI is just simulation.
Is the natural intelligence of the human brain a simulation? If so, a simulation of what? Why would strong AI be any different?
"I'm in the 30-40% camp that believes that there's really not anything magical about the human brain." But he doesn't see that it is analog, and that thoughts, memories, and emotions are chemical reactions while digital computers are complex abacuses working exactly like an abacus (except it ises base 2 instead of base 10).
See Planck for information about the discrete nature of the universe. See Kurzweil for information about the ongoing progress in the reverse-engineering of the humain brain, the most likely path to strong AI, as well as different estimates for the computational requirements of simulating the brain.
TFA is in fact a pretty good article, and you seem to be lacking the background to seriously criticize it.
I even have this fancy software (not sure if it's still published) called 'Desktop Sheet Music' published by Midisoft. It lets you enter the score, completely and 100% accurately, and then it's played back EXACTLY how the composer intended.
Wow. This has got to be one of the most uninformed and/or naive posts regarding music I have read in a long time. Musical notation is quite imprecise. Modern composers have been in fact often struggling to find out how to translate their musical ideas into sheet music. Sure, you can write a program that plays Bach pretty well. But get into the romantic and modern repertoire, and there is simply no way you can have software that does a good job at this today.
Sheet music leaves a lot of room for interpretation. This is why the Horowitz and Rubinstein of this world are important. This is why an orchestra conductor is the most important element of a symphonic or operatic performance, something few people are aware of.
There is also not a unique way of interpreting a piece of music. Composers themselves has been known to perform their own music differently at different times of their lives. Sometimes, they are impressed by the interpretation of their own music made by other musicians, interpretation that they had not necessarily intended.
And has anyone ever eaten out in Switzerland? The food alone would motivate me to leave the country. I like cheese, sure, but come on - a whole meal consisting of cheese? No wonder all those Swiss kids are going to India.
This is off-topic but... You don't now what you are talking about regarding the food. There is excellent food in Switzerland, being a country right in the middle of French and Italian influence, in particular. Also, places like Geneva are extremely cosmopolitan and you see all sorts of international cuisine there.
As for the cheese fondue... You like it or not, but it's not like you have to eat it everyday.
I suspect the German-speaking part of Switzerland is less interested in what other people call good food, but give a chance to the French- and Italian-speaking areas;-)
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The Sagers are actually manufactured by Clevo, a Taiwanese manufacturer. For example, the Sager 8790 is actually the Clevo D870P. Some resellers buy directly from Clevo, some, who cannot afford buying in volumes from Clevo, just buy Sagers and rebrand them. BTW the 8790 is now available with an 1680x1050 WSXGA+ display.
I bought a case from Koolance a couple of weeks ago because my new dual Athlon MP 2000+ was so noisy (I could hear it from everywhere in the house). The high-rpm fans on the CPUs made a lot of noise, and I had to leave the case open because the temperature inside got so high it caused a hard drive to fail after one night of operation (apparently heat makes hard disk failures more likely).
Koolance systems have a large radiator on top of the case, where three large fans blow the air out of the case through it. Accessories include CPU coolers, chipset coolers (for motherboard and graphics card), and hard drive coolers so that you don't need additional fans in your case in addition to the radiator fans and the power supply fans.
I took me several hours to assemble the system (in particular because you have to apply some kind of gap filler to your hard drive's PCB and let it dry - scary at first but apparently quite efficient and innocuous), but I can now say that it was worth it: the machine looks great, is quiet and cold. It's on the expensive side though, about $350 for the case with accessories (2 CPU coolers, 1 drive cooler, 1 second hard drive kit) without a power supply.
The PJB-100 now works with the latest Toshiba 40GB hard drives. Smaller than a Nomad, 10-hour battery, great community, open source software (but not the firmware unfortunately).
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Here is your study:
Efficacy of a green tea extract rich in catechin polyphenols and caffeine in increasing 24-h energy expenditure and fat oxidation in humans
From the abstract: "Conclusions: Green tea has thermogenic properties and promotes fat oxidation beyond that explained by its caffeine content per se. The green tea extract may play a role in the control of body composition via sympathetic activation of thermogenesis, fat oxidation, or both."
Wow. This has got to be one of the most uninformed and/or naive posts regarding music I have read in a long time. Musical notation is quite imprecise. Modern composers have been in fact often struggling to find out how to translate their musical ideas into sheet music. Sure, you can write a program that plays Bach pretty well. But get into the romantic and modern repertoire, and there is simply no way you can have software that does a good job at this today.
Sheet music leaves a lot of room for interpretation. This is why the Horowitz and Rubinstein of this world are important. This is why an orchestra conductor is the most important element of a symphonic or operatic performance, something few people are aware of.
There is also not a unique way of interpreting a piece of music. Composers themselves has been known to perform their own music differently at different times of their lives. Sometimes, they are impressed by the interpretation of their own music made by other musicians, interpretation that they had not necessarily intended.
And has anyone ever eaten out in Switzerland? The food alone would motivate me to leave the country. I like cheese, sure, but come on - a whole meal consisting of cheese? No wonder all those Swiss kids are going to India.
;-)
This is off-topic but... You don't now what you are talking about regarding the food. There is excellent food in Switzerland, being a country right in the middle of French and Italian influence, in particular. Also, places like Geneva are extremely cosmopolitan and you see all sorts of international cuisine there.
As for the cheese fondue... You like it or not, but it's not like you have to eat it everyday.
I suspect the German-speaking part of Switzerland is less interested in what other people call good food, but give a chance to the French- and Italian-speaking areas
The Sagers are actually manufactured by Clevo, a Taiwanese manufacturer. For example, the Sager 8790 is actually the Clevo D870P. Some resellers buy directly from Clevo, some, who cannot afford buying in volumes from Clevo, just buy Sagers and rebrand them. BTW the 8790 is now available with an 1680x1050 WSXGA+ display.
Something like this?
I bought a case from Koolance a couple of weeks ago because my new dual Athlon MP 2000+ was so noisy (I could hear it from everywhere in the house). The high-rpm fans on the CPUs made a lot of noise, and I had to leave the case open because the temperature inside got so high it caused a hard drive to fail after one night of operation (apparently heat makes hard disk failures more likely).
Koolance systems have a large radiator on top of the case, where three large fans blow the air out of the case through it. Accessories include CPU coolers, chipset coolers (for motherboard and graphics card), and hard drive coolers so that you don't need additional fans in your case in addition to the radiator fans and the power supply fans.
I took me several hours to assemble the system (in particular because you have to apply some kind of gap filler to your hard drive's PCB and let it dry - scary at first but apparently quite efficient and innocuous), but I can now say that it was worth it: the machine looks great, is quiet and cold. It's on the expensive side though, about $350 for the case with accessories (2 CPU coolers, 1 drive cooler, 1 second hard drive kit) without a power supply.
The PJB-100 now works with the latest Toshiba 40GB hard drives. Smaller than a Nomad, 10-hour battery, great community, open source software (but not the firmware unfortunately).