I have to wonder how/if this research translates into the games arena. Recently, there have been several attempts to make games playable by humans but which negate the computer's advantage of massive search. These games include Arimaa, Octi, and Havannah. One speculates whether it would be possible to design a game that is equally difficult, and a fair contest, between humans and computers.
I remember the film Spin which was made of out takes from wild feeds of politicians and church leaders appealing to their constituents for money. It showed them making outrageous remarks not realizing they were on the air at the time.
A similar observation was made at the Palmerton, PA superfund site. The nearby Blue Mountain was the recipient of toxic fumes spewed from a nearby tin processing plant for almost a century. The resultant depositions killed almost all the vegetation on the mountainside, which furthermore, did not decay because of the dearth of micro organism capable of living there.
"...concentrations of cadmium, lead, and zinc in the soil were so high as to prevent regeneration. In fact, metals levels stopped all microbial activity, creating a biological desert where trees that had been dead for 20 or more years could not decompose. "
Nature does indeed have a lot of fusion reactors, but there are none on this planet. If you want to see one, look up on a sunny day. If you want to see thousands, look up on a starry night.
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I agree with 22/7, which has been named Pi Approximation Day. It is a lot closer to Pi than 3/14!
Why move a dangerous asteroid into lunar orbit? That's a little too close to home should something go wrong. If they want to study it, just send a probe to bring back pieces of it.
It was never published AFAIK, but there was a documentary film made about Darger and his book which mostly summarized the plot, including animations of many of the illustrations. Worth seeking out IMHO.
While it has never been more important to be passionate, there's not so much to be passionate about. From [a study on UK supermarkets] on 'The realities of leadership': 'Almost every aspect of work for every kind of employee, from shopfloor worker to the general store manager, was set out, standardised and occasionally scripted by the experts at head office.'...fewer of us have much influence over how to do our daily tasks than before...even though we're regularly told by our employers, our business magazines and our television software adverts that work is a place of exploration and fulfillment.
So, what is left for managers to manage? Primarily the answer is 'people management': motivating, beginning with 'getting the day started' meetings they concentrate on meeting targets by, as one manager put it, 'ensuring they (staff) are motivated, trained, they're quick to do the job, and hyped up, and they're going to go out there and deliver'.
Excerpted from the book "Talk Normal: Stop the Business Speak, Jargon and Waffle" by Tim Phillips
I'm pretty sure that at least one plant was previously identified as American , and that would be the sunflower. These botanists have taken the idea a lot further though. Their paper is well researched, but I will leave it to the peer review process to ultimately determine its veracity. The identification of Nahuatl words in the script seems a bit of a stretch IMHO.
One of the photos in the TFA shows a Lunokhod, one of the Russian landers made in the 70's, only a few hundred kilometers away. Maybe Jade Rabbit can swing by for visit.
This story reminds of the game Mercenaries 2: World in Flames which takes place in Venezuela. The game was promptly banned a it was believed to be propaganda against Hugo Chavez, the president at the time. That was in 2006. Venezuela since banned all violent video games in 2010
Exactly what part of electronics manufacturing needs to be automated? The cheap prices and mass production of electronics we currently enjoy is partly due to widespread use of pick-and-place machines and wave soldering machines. I'm sure there are some manual steps in the assembly, but that is only the last 10 - 20% of the labor involved in manufacturing. The bulk of it has been automated for decades.
There is simply nothing I can say to anyone who hasn't done it...
I've made several hundred jumps myself. When asked to explain it, I refer to Charles Lindbergh who put it into words better than I ever could:
"...when I decided that I too must pass through the experience of a parachute jump, life rose to a higher level, to a sort of exhilarated calmness. The thought of crawling out onto the struts and wires hundreds of feet above the earth, and then giving up even that tenuous hold of safety and of substance, left me a feeling of anticipation mixed with dread, of confidence restrained by caution, of courage salted through with fear. How tightly should one hold onto life? How loosely give it rein? What gain was there for such a risk? I would have to pay in money for hurling my body into space. There would be no crowd to watch and applaud my landing. Nor was there any scientific objective to be gained. No, there was deeper reason for wanting to jump, a desire I could not explain.
It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of man — where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane; where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same instant." Charles A. Lindbergh, 'The Spirit of St Louis,' 1953
In some situations I find myself asking "What would Richard Feynman do?" I don't always follow what the answer would be, but it invariably lightens up the moment!
Indeed. As they get more gain out of this antenna, it has to be pointed with more precision. Being inflatable, if the antenna has any kind of wobble after movement... well that's just one more aggravating detail.
The NSA/CIA/FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms want to suppress Pastafarianism because the colanders work just like tin foil hats! As an aside, we nerds can determine the wavelength of the brain control waves by measuring the size of the colander holes.
If this project is real, where are the rocket designs? Where are the hundreds of engineers and scientists working on the project? In fact there is NOT A SINGLE ONE! Not one person with scientific, engineering or technical knowledge has been identified as working on this. There are no want ads to hire those hundreds of engineers either.
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I have to wonder how/if this research translates into the games arena. Recently, there have been several attempts to make games playable by humans but which negate the computer's advantage of massive search. These games include Arimaa, Octi, and Havannah. One speculates whether it would be possible to design a game that is equally difficult, and a fair contest, between humans and computers.
I remember the film Spin which was made of out takes from wild feeds of politicians and church leaders appealing to their constituents for money. It showed them making outrageous remarks not realizing they were on the air at the time.
A similar observation was made at the Palmerton, PA superfund site. The nearby Blue Mountain was the recipient of toxic fumes spewed from a nearby tin processing plant for almost a century. The resultant depositions killed almost all the vegetation on the mountainside, which furthermore, did not decay because of the dearth of micro organism capable of living there.
"...concentrations of cadmium, lead, and zinc in the soil were so high as to prevent regeneration. In fact, metals levels stopped all microbial activity, creating a biological desert where trees that had been dead for 20 or more years could not decompose. "
http://www.mabiosolids.org/upl...
Nature does indeed have a lot of fusion reactors, but there are none on this planet. If you want to see one, look up on a sunny day. If you want to see thousands, look up on a starry night.
I agree with 22/7, which has been named Pi Approximation Day. It is a lot closer to Pi than 3/14!
Why move a dangerous asteroid into lunar orbit? That's a little too close to home should something go wrong.
If they want to study it, just send a probe to bring back pieces of it.
It was never published AFAIK, but there was a documentary film made about Darger and his book which mostly summarized the plot, including animations of many of the illustrations. Worth seeking out IMHO.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt03...
While it has never been more important to be passionate, there's not so much to be passionate about. ...fewer of us have much influence over how to do our daily tasks than before...even though we're regularly told by our employers, our business magazines and our television software adverts that work is a place of exploration and fulfillment.
From [a study on UK supermarkets] on 'The realities of leadership': 'Almost every aspect of work for every kind of employee,
from shopfloor worker to the general store manager, was set out, standardised and occasionally scripted by the experts at head office.'
So, what is left for managers to manage? Primarily the answer is 'people management': motivating, beginning with 'getting the day started' meetings they concentrate on meeting targets by, as one manager put it, 'ensuring they (staff) are motivated, trained, they're quick to do the job, and hyped up, and they're going to go out there and deliver'.
Excerpted from the book "Talk Normal: Stop the Business Speak, Jargon and Waffle" by Tim Phillips
for vegetables!
I'm pretty sure that at least one plant was previously identified as American , and that would be the sunflower. These botanists have taken the idea a lot further though. Their paper is well researched, but I will leave it to the peer review process to ultimately determine its veracity. The identification of Nahuatl words in the script seems a bit of a stretch IMHO.
One of the photos in the TFA shows a Lunokhod, one of the Russian landers made in the 70's, only a few hundred kilometers away. Maybe Jade Rabbit can swing by for visit.
I found the episode of History Detectives in which the story of the Moon Museum etched chip is covered. See:
http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/video/2097342856//
Mod parent up! I was hoping to hear about more space art projects. Does anyone know of any more?
What if it was 3D printed? ...
Funny you should mention that as someone was selling (somewhat imperfect) replicas on Shapeways
I'll be happy to attend said Olympics so long as I get to meet Julia Dietze
The convoluted story of Sherlock Holmes ownership was covered in a New Your Times piece a while back when the recent crop of movies came out
This story reminds of the game Mercenaries 2: World in Flames which takes place in Venezuela. The game was promptly banned a it was believed to be propaganda against Hugo Chavez, the president at the time. That was in 2006. Venezuela since banned all violent video games in 2010
Exactly what part of electronics manufacturing needs to be automated? The cheap prices and mass production of electronics we currently enjoy is partly due to widespread use of pick-and-place machines and wave soldering machines. I'm sure there are some manual steps in the assembly, but that is only the last 10 - 20% of the labor involved in manufacturing. The bulk of it has been automated for decades.
There is simply nothing I can say to anyone who hasn't done it...
I've made several hundred jumps myself. When asked to explain it, I refer to Charles Lindbergh who put it into words better than I ever could:
"...when I decided that I too must pass through the experience of a parachute jump, life rose to a higher level, to a sort of exhilarated calmness. The thought of crawling out onto the struts and wires hundreds of feet above the earth, and then giving up even that tenuous hold of safety and of substance, left me a feeling of anticipation mixed with dread, of confidence restrained by caution, of courage salted through with fear. How tightly should one hold onto life? How loosely give it rein? What gain was there for such a risk? I would have to pay in money for hurling my body into space. There would be no crowd to watch and applaud my landing. Nor was there any scientific objective to be gained. No, there was deeper reason for wanting to jump, a desire I could not explain.
It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of man — where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane; where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same instant."
Charles A. Lindbergh, 'The Spirit of St Louis,' 1953
Rabid fans and the curious may enjoy this (very fictional) film about Ada's life: Conceiving Ada (1997)
If these laws had been applied in another era, two well known scientists would have been jailed for cheating at roulette . (Those would be Edward Thorp and Claude Shannon)
In some situations I find myself asking "What would Richard Feynman do?" I don't always follow what the answer would be, but it invariably lightens up the moment!
Indeed. As they get more gain out of this antenna, it has to be pointed with more precision. Being inflatable, if the antenna has any kind of wobble after movement... well that's just one more aggravating detail.
The NSA/CIA/FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms want to suppress Pastafarianism because the colanders work just like tin foil hats! As an aside, we nerds can determine the wavelength of the brain control waves by measuring the size of the colander holes.
If this project is real, where are the rocket designs? Where are the hundreds of engineers and scientists working on the project? In fact there is NOT A SINGLE ONE! Not one person with scientific, engineering or technical knowledge has been identified as working on this. There are no want ads to hire those hundreds of engineers either.