It's incredible to think that that one ink blot had such a profound effect on the US today.
I'm... not so sure about that. Jefferson's mindset had a profound impact on the formation of the US and its laws and liberties today, and this inkblot itself gives us insight into his thoughts, but the article itself notes that the entire line was removed from the final draft. The actual Declaration of Independence does not include this text, altered or otherwise, at all.
Much of the weak-signal specifications for any RF device are usually determined on a test bench or in an anechoic chamber where conditions are controlled. The ugly reality of someone's sweaty, meaty hand seldom makes it into the engineers lexicon.
I work for an RF company, too, and we have one final testing phase after the weak signal bench test: Road Test. You take the prototype and a mobile lab's worth of spectrum analyzers out in a van and drive it around city and country while the passengers call and talk and text and test GPS and data to see exactly what happens.
And this is the reason why people still play Rogue, and will be tapping away at Nethack and Dwarf Fortress long after WoW is gone.
I am not trying to claim that these games will ever be as "successful" (read: profitable) as World of Warcraft, but I would say they far more closely approach video-games-as-art.
This patent would be much less necessary if cities would install intelligent traffic lights that allowed traffic to flow and thus minimized idling engines.
Drive by the South Bay, some time. We have a very intelligent traffic light system on all of the major roads. The problem is that there are just too many vehicles trying to travel down these same roads, so waiting at a traffic light is a sad necessity if you ever want cross traffic and left turns to have the chance to get by. I understand how this wait can be minimized with an intelligent control system, but you are limited by the massive delay of a long line of stopped cars resuming acceleration one by one.
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What the hell was that black smoke thing in the first series?
The evil son of a semi-deity who protected the island's Garden-of-Eden life force, if I remember correctly. And no, it is not supposed to make any more sense than that.
Jack (and then Hurley) inherited the mantle of smoke-monster's brother--the good son--while smoke-monster had Locke killed and then took Locke's form for the rest of the series--so they did not have to ditch one of the better actors after killing off his character.
The current problem is that these rockets tend to shred themselves to pieces except for their fragile payload, and drop anything that is left into the ocean. This is considered by many to be a waste of an otherwise good rocket. Now, the feasibility and economics of repairing and reusing what is essentially a long tube filled with exploding fuel is a completely different story...
Just wondering if said condition is Marfan Syndrome, or the semi-related connective tissue disorders (CTD) of [certain types of] EDS, or Loews-Dietz Syndrome.
My wife is on the board of directors of the National Marfan Foundation (which also addresses related CTD's), and runs a chapter in California. If you like, I am sure that she could hook you up with excellent doctors, medical advice, and/or network groups, if you so desire. Also, there is an annual nationwide conference coming up in Houston from July 8-11. It's kind of a big deal.
Though I am sure that Sony is just thrilled that the Air Force has purchased bundles upon bundles of their loss leader PS3 (likely without a single game to soften the blow), and now wants to special order devices and continue doing so.
I noticed that the majority of actual images of ball lightning that Google turns up fall into one of three categories: Illustrations, pictures of scientific experiments, or variationsonthispicture.
Though I do think that this description of ball lightning sounds as viable as the TMS theory. (Summary: A lightning strike heats fractal silicon "fluff balls" on the Earth's surface which can burn violently and hold themselves aloft like ashes from a fire.) Perhaps we are looking at two entirely different phenomenon: TMS causing the "cool" ball lightning which can mysteriously appear indoors or in airplane cockpits and then disappears without doing damage, and the burning silicon vapor explaining the "hot" ball lightning which has been reported to cause damage and leave scorch marks wherever it goes.
A ball went from the warehouse floor in to the office area (I believe it went through a wall to do this) and stopped above an employee's head, where it dissipated suddenly.
I just can't see this entirely being a hallucination if it can be tracked with your eyes.
Actually, this ability to be "tracked" is common in color/light optical hallucinations that are produced in the "front end" of your brain's visual processing, as opposed to more life-like and realistic (i.e. a deceased relative) visual hallucinations that occur father down the image-processing pipeline.
You can demonstrate this on your own: Look just to the side of a small, bright light source for a few seconds, then look away, ideally towards a blank wall or other plain surface. (Don't stare into the sun or a laser or anything... I don't want people responding with "OMG now I'm blind!") If you did not focus directly on the light source to begin with, the "echo" of the light should appear slightly off center. As you move your eyes and/or head to try and focus on the echo, it will move away as the spot is fixed with respect to your retina, giving you the illusion of being able to "track" this visual phenomenon across a room or other space.
How is this "yourself" that you are asking him to act like any more "real" or "fake" than any other set of behaviors he or she may adapt given the circumstances?
1) Quit what you're doing, go eat a pizza or something for your last hours alive. Maybe spend it with your loved ones.
Having Celiac disease, I have to say that pizza idea hits close to home. I think that would certainly be my choice in either case, just because I'd get to eat a pizza.
Any discussion of the history of speech recognition is incomplete without a reference to Microsoft's famous Windows Vista "double the killer delete select all" botch-up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klU2zt1KdUY
Is it just me or do those numbers look too close to be statistically significant?
The summary mentions a sample size of 512. The standard error of the mean decreases by the square root of the sample size. For 95 % certainty, if the standard deviation of their measured data is less than (32 percentage points - 23 percentage points)*sqrt(512)/1.96 = 104 "percentage points", which is quite likely, (see a tutorial), then you *can* say that this is statistically significant.
If you want some real details and not my back of the envelope calculations of dubious quality, you can see the actual slides [PDF], which does have details on the statistical significance of the results.
Long story short, they're significant at the level tested (95 %, generally good enough for these kinds of studies).
The point I want them to learn is not that $PARENT won't let them buy a toy with their lunch, it's that some foods eaten more than sparingly will do bad things to you.
Unfortunately, that lesson has little impact on 4 year olds. They seem to prefer the shiny toy, regardless of justification, until it comes down to little more than "Because I said so".
My old lab had a dozen such floppy-craving lab tools, including an oscilloscope which ran Windows XP and came with touch screen Solitaire (it sat unused... too slow). For all of them, we just had two or three floppies which had been passed around for years. They were the old, hardy kind of 3.5" disk which didn't mysteriously fail to format after a year or two, and we never needed to save more than a megabyte or two of plots, at once.
So despite all of our lab tools, we did not contribute a cent to this mysterious floppy market in TFA.
If the production run says we're only going to have 3 out of 4 possible cores (with cache), they're not going to bother testing the fourth core (and its cache) if the first three test successfully. Worse, if they're calling for 2 cores out of 4, they test and get two good ones and DO NOT TEST the third and fourth core.
You don't seem to realize how the economics of this really works out. Nobody will set up a production run before hand and say "this line only needs to produce 3 usable cores". Nobody will do this because no fabrication process has 100 % yield... in fact, most cutting-edge runs have far less.
Let's say your fabrication process produces 1M chips per run, and we have the capacity to do 2 runs at once. You set up a '2-core' run, and find that 95% (950k) of the results have two working cores. Well, that seems great, now you can sell this 95 % at your bargain bin price. However, your '4-core' run may have had a yield of only 40 % (400k)... now, you have to spend more time and money producing more 4-cores to meet demand (lets say... 750k each), while you are selling perfectly good 4-cores at a 2-core price.
Instead, all of the chips will be fabricated and tested at a 4-core 'level'. If 1 core fails, put it in the 3-core bin. If 2 cores fail, put it in the 2-core bin. If your yield was better than you expected, then you can bump some 4-cores down to the lower bins to meet demand. If your yield was poor, you are drawing from a much larger sample of chips (2M, so 40 % yield --> 800k 4-cores), so you don't have to produce more to fill the demand!
Pinhead? Even that is fairly optimistic at this point, when the pictured "carpet cloaks" can hide an object up to 1 micrometer long. Most dust mites won't fit into this invisibility cloak.
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It's incredible to think that that one ink blot had such a profound effect on the US today.
I'm... not so sure about that. Jefferson's mindset had a profound impact on the formation of the US and its laws and liberties today, and this inkblot itself gives us insight into his thoughts, but the article itself notes that the entire line was removed from the final draft. The actual Declaration of Independence does not include this text, altered or otherwise, at all.
Much of the weak-signal specifications for any RF device are usually determined on a test bench or in an anechoic chamber where conditions are controlled. The ugly reality of someone's sweaty, meaty hand seldom makes it into the engineers lexicon.
I work for an RF company, too, and we have one final testing phase after the weak signal bench test: Road Test. You take the prototype and a mobile lab's worth of spectrum analyzers out in a van and drive it around city and country while the passengers call and talk and text and test GPS and data to see exactly what happens.
*That* is testing.
I don't think "most people dislike" this, Nerdfest.
Wait... did you just ad-hom him, or were your calling him by his nickname?
Still waiting for a Nethack bot that can ascend.
And this is the reason why people still play Rogue, and will be tapping away at Nethack and Dwarf Fortress long after WoW is gone.
I am not trying to claim that these games will ever be as "successful" (read: profitable) as World of Warcraft, but I would say they far more closely approach video-games-as-art.
Whoosh, AC #2.
Just wooooooosh.
This patent would be much less necessary if cities would install intelligent traffic lights that allowed traffic to flow and thus minimized idling engines.
Drive by the South Bay, some time. We have a very intelligent traffic light system on all of the major roads. The problem is that there are just too many vehicles trying to travel down these same roads, so waiting at a traffic light is a sad necessity if you ever want cross traffic and left turns to have the chance to get by. I understand how this wait can be minimized with an intelligent control system, but you are limited by the massive delay of a long line of stopped cars resuming acceleration one by one.
What the hell was that black smoke thing in the first series?
The evil son of a semi-deity who protected the island's Garden-of-Eden life force, if I remember correctly. And no, it is not supposed to make any more sense than that.
Jack (and then Hurley) inherited the mantle of smoke-monster's brother--the good son--while smoke-monster had Locke killed and then took Locke's form for the rest of the series--so they did not have to ditch one of the better actors after killing off his character.
There are plenty of rockets which don't blow up... or at least shouldn't.
The current problem is that these rockets tend to shred themselves to pieces except for their fragile payload, and drop anything that is left into the ocean. This is considered by many to be a waste of an otherwise good rocket. Now, the feasibility and economics of repairing and reusing what is essentially a long tube filled with exploding fuel is a completely different story...
Good luck, engineers.
And then given names by a pubescent, giggling 8th grader.
"Top kill"? "Junk shot"?
Really?
Which one was it again?
Just wondering if said condition is Marfan Syndrome, or the semi-related connective tissue disorders (CTD) of [certain types of] EDS, or Loews-Dietz Syndrome.
My wife is on the board of directors of the National Marfan Foundation (which also addresses related CTD's), and runs a chapter in California. If you like, I am sure that she could hook you up with excellent doctors, medical advice, and/or network groups, if you so desire. Also, there is an annual nationwide conference coming up in Houston from July 8-11. It's kind of a big deal.
Feel free to e-mail me if you wish.
Though I am sure that Sony is just thrilled that the Air Force has purchased bundles upon bundles of their loss leader PS3 (likely without a single game to soften the blow), and now wants to special order devices and continue doing so.
I still see Sony being less than thrilled.
Apparently it also affects cameras too.
http://www.google.com/images?q=ball+lightning&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=48vpS-vZB8T7lwfijKn_Cg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQsAQwAA
I noticed that the majority of actual images of ball lightning that Google turns up fall into one of three categories: Illustrations, pictures of scientific experiments, or variations on this picture.
Though I do think that this description of ball lightning sounds as viable as the TMS theory. (Summary: A lightning strike heats fractal silicon "fluff balls" on the Earth's surface which can burn violently and hold themselves aloft like ashes from a fire.) Perhaps we are looking at two entirely different phenomenon: TMS causing the "cool" ball lightning which can mysteriously appear indoors or in airplane cockpits and then disappears without doing damage, and the burning silicon vapor explaining the "hot" ball lightning which has been reported to cause damage and leave scorch marks wherever it goes.
Apparently it also affects cameras too. http://www.google.com/images?q=ball+lightning&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=48vpS-vZB8T7lwfijKn_Cg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQsAQwAA
And your opponent, if you play your cards right.
A ball went from the warehouse floor in to the office area (I believe it went through a wall to do this) and stopped above an employee's head, where it dissipated suddenly. I just can't see this entirely being a hallucination if it can be tracked with your eyes.
Actually, this ability to be "tracked" is common in color/light optical hallucinations that are produced in the "front end" of your brain's visual processing, as opposed to more life-like and realistic (i.e. a deceased relative) visual hallucinations that occur father down the image-processing pipeline.
You can demonstrate this on your own: Look just to the side of a small, bright light source for a few seconds, then look away, ideally towards a blank wall or other plain surface. (Don't stare into the sun or a laser or anything... I don't want people responding with "OMG now I'm blind!") If you did not focus directly on the light source to begin with, the "echo" of the light should appear slightly off center. As you move your eyes and/or head to try and focus on the echo, it will move away as the spot is fixed with respect to your retina, giving you the illusion of being able to "track" this visual phenomenon across a room or other space.
An honest question...
How is this "yourself" that you are asking him to act like any more "real" or "fake" than any other set of behaviors he or she may adapt given the circumstances?
1) Quit what you're doing, go eat a pizza or something for your last hours alive. Maybe spend it with your loved ones.
Having Celiac disease, I have to say that pizza idea hits close to home. I think that would certainly be my choice in either case, just because I'd get to eat a pizza.
Any discussion of the history of speech recognition is incomplete without a reference to Microsoft's famous Windows Vista "double the killer delete select all" botch-up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klU2zt1KdUY
EVERY PENNY THESE GUYS MAKE COMES OUT OF OUR POCKET.
I see you have not the foggiest idea how "investments" and "fluidity" make the economy work.
Hint: When the Great Depression hit, the money lost by the traders on Wall Street did not suddenly spew forth into the hands of "us".
I just read it as though the poster gave an evil sigh.
Like the kind you give after eating sushi.
Is it just me or do those numbers look too close to be statistically significant?
The summary mentions a sample size of 512. The standard error of the mean decreases by the square root of the sample size. For 95 % certainty, if the standard deviation of their measured data is less than (32 percentage points - 23 percentage points)*sqrt(512)/1.96 = 104 "percentage points", which is quite likely, (see a tutorial), then you *can* say that this is statistically significant.
If you want some real details and not my back of the envelope calculations of dubious quality, you can see the actual slides [PDF], which does have details on the statistical significance of the results.
Long story short, they're significant at the level tested (95 %, generally good enough for these kinds of studies).
The point I want them to learn is not that $PARENT won't let them buy a toy with their lunch, it's that some foods eaten more than sparingly will do bad things to you.
Unfortunately, that lesson has little impact on 4 year olds. They seem to prefer the shiny toy, regardless of justification, until it comes down to little more than "Because I said so".
My old lab had a dozen such floppy-craving lab tools, including an oscilloscope which ran Windows XP and came with touch screen Solitaire (it sat unused... too slow). For all of them, we just had two or three floppies which had been passed around for years. They were the old, hardy kind of 3.5" disk which didn't mysteriously fail to format after a year or two, and we never needed to save more than a megabyte or two of plots, at once.
So despite all of our lab tools, we did not contribute a cent to this mysterious floppy market in TFA.
If the production run says we're only going to have 3 out of 4 possible cores (with cache), they're not going to bother testing the fourth core (and its cache) if the first three test successfully. Worse, if they're calling for 2 cores out of 4, they test and get two good ones and DO NOT TEST the third and fourth core.
You don't seem to realize how the economics of this really works out. Nobody will set up a production run before hand and say "this line only needs to produce 3 usable cores". Nobody will do this because no fabrication process has 100 % yield... in fact, most cutting-edge runs have far less.
Let's say your fabrication process produces 1M chips per run, and we have the capacity to do 2 runs at once. You set up a '2-core' run, and find that 95% (950k) of the results have two working cores. Well, that seems great, now you can sell this 95 % at your bargain bin price. However, your '4-core' run may have had a yield of only 40 % (400k)... now, you have to spend more time and money producing more 4-cores to meet demand (lets say... 750k each), while you are selling perfectly good 4-cores at a 2-core price.
Instead, all of the chips will be fabricated and tested at a 4-core 'level'. If 1 core fails, put it in the 3-core bin. If 2 cores fail, put it in the 2-core bin. If your yield was better than you expected, then you can bump some 4-cores down to the lower bins to meet demand. If your yield was poor, you are drawing from a much larger sample of chips (2M, so 40 % yield --> 800k 4-cores), so you don't have to produce more to fill the demand!
Pinhead? Even that is fairly optimistic at this point, when the pictured "carpet cloaks" can hide an object up to 1 micrometer long. Most dust mites won't fit into this invisibility cloak.