Just as a driver's license can be annotated to show the driver needs glasses or cannot drive at night, perhaps they could create a category "allowed to use hands-free cell phone" & require a separate test for it.
Most modern displays also tend not to be able to show anything over 1920x1080 (or thereabouts, often much smaller), & yet we still use formats that support much larger images. Just as you can zoom, you can change the display exposure with an HDR image. I suspect the lack of support is more related to most cameras not producing HDR, while they do have resolutions higher than monitors.
We actually had this problem on a class project trying to process brand names & part numbers from English text, where spaces are separators or not at the whim of the manufacturer. Compound words make English word demarcation not quite so clear-cut, but granted, still easier than Chinese or Japanese.
Well, you eventually get a black hole if you pack them into a 2- or 3-dimensional array (not to mention heat problems in 3D). & if you put them in a line you start having problems with the speed of light. So miniaturization is important even if funding is unlimited.
Quantum computers give a square-root speedup to search operations (of which bitcoin mining is one). So all that would happen is that the difficulty would be roughly squared once most miners had sufficiently large & fast quantum computers. Since the square of the difficulty is nowhere near the limit, it would still be safe for a long time.
But yes, the first person to do it (if they had a powerful enough quantum computer—not the one in the article) would probably get all the blocks for the next few difficulty adjustments (assuming no one else noticed & did the same) pretty quickly.
Since bitcoin accounts use public-key cryptography, they might not be safe in the long run, though (depending upon which variety they use, which I do not know off hand).
1 meter is the distance light travels in 1/299792458 seconds. Yes, that involves the speed of light, but the constant is based upon the previous standard (a meter rod) that was in turn based upon the size of the Earth.
Likewise, a second is based upon Cesium, but I forget the constant or exactly how it relates off hand. It was chosen to make it be very nearly 1/86400 of a day, of course.
Just because there are nice prefixes does not mean the base units are any less arbitrary.
Huh, I was taught there are 14 tenses in English. Perhaps you (or some past teacher of yours) did not include the past & present emphatic tenses ("did"/"do" + verb).
Actually, that is unfortunately not the worst case. With improvements in object & face recognition technology they could additionally require that a human be viewing the device & no recording device of any sort be within view or refuse to display anything (except "DIE EVIL PIRATE!" of course).
I seem to remember upgrading to Windows 98 from Windows 95 OSR2 took about 30 minutes (or maybe that was for a clean install?). Then again, that is what the timer in the installer said...maybe it lied.
The less power the government has, the less power there is for them to abuse, & thus the less worthwhile it is for them to bother. Also, smaller programs often have fewer bugs, so perhaps a well-designed small government would be considerably harder to abuse in the first place.
The paper claims the algorithm is O(n^4*m), where n is the number of variables & m is the number of clauses, & for interesting instances m > n, so it is pretty slow.
Banning printing presses is just another unconstitutional way to restrict people's freedoms, & I could easily see that being pushed at some point. Especially if law-abiding citizens no longer have guns. I would most definitely not be satisfied by a call for banning of printing presses.
This points out that, while it is possible to update the kernel without rebooting, Microsoft appears to have patented (or at least applied for a patent on) the process. Which is annoying, given that Windows does not seem to use it.
Life is a different sort of thing than fusion or the weather, since it is the pattern & not the implementation that counts. If the implementation counted things like artificial limbs & hearts would be impossible since they are not biological (which is not to say that they are alive - just that they are in fact limbs & hearts, respectively, & not just simulations thereof).
A simulation of the weather cannot get you wet, but a (sufficiently accurate) simulation of a cat would sleep all day & ignore you except when hungry or desirous of petting just as well as a real cat would. Of course, simulated weather might get the simulated cat wet (which would be bad).
The simulation in Creatures (as far as I know) is insufficiently detailed for the above considerations to apply, but that does not mean it is in principle impossible to make a more accurate one.
A monad is a construction that hides all the tuple-passing so that the program is more readable. E.g. code using the IO monad passes an object of type World from one line to the next without having to explicitly write it as an argument. It looks like procedural code (such as do x <- getLine ; putStrLn ("Greetings, " ++ x)), but instead of messing with the world in the background the world gets passed around as just another value.
Speaking of physics...too bad we cannot make copies of the world, do computations in each, & then combine the different instances in various ways, or we could program time travel (among other things).
I am pretty sure that is at least NP-hard, if not worse. (Pseudo-)continuous tuning results in too many cases to check. Plus, what kills one person might be necessary to save someone else's life.
They used to charge for some apps. E.g. Equation Writer (which cost $15) appears to be unavailable for download at TI's site now that they only have free apps.
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Just as a driver's license can be annotated to show the driver needs glasses or cannot drive at night, perhaps they could create a category "allowed to use hands-free cell phone" & require a separate test for it.
Most modern displays also tend not to be able to show anything over 1920x1080 (or thereabouts, often much smaller), & yet we still use formats that support much larger images. Just as you can zoom, you can change the display exposure with an HDR image. I suspect the lack of support is more related to most cameras not producing HDR, while they do have resolutions higher than monitors.
My applied cryptography professor was fond of saying that biometrics are just a password you cannot change.
...unless you have a head-mounted display & a supply of webcams.
Would those be flying sharks?
If you could push data to it at 2GB/s continuously, 120PB would fill in about 1.9 years.
We actually had this problem on a class project trying to process brand names & part numbers from English text, where spaces are separators or not at the whim of the manufacturer. Compound words make English word demarcation not quite so clear-cut, but granted, still easier than Chinese or Japanese.
Well, you eventually get a black hole if you pack them into a 2- or 3-dimensional array (not to mention heat problems in 3D). & if you put them in a line you start having problems with the speed of light. So miniaturization is important even if funding is unlimited.
Quantum computers give a square-root speedup to search operations (of which bitcoin mining is one). So all that would happen is that the difficulty would be roughly squared once most miners had sufficiently large & fast quantum computers. Since the square of the difficulty is nowhere near the limit, it would still be safe for a long time.
But yes, the first person to do it (if they had a powerful enough quantum computer—not the one in the article) would probably get all the blocks for the next few difficulty adjustments (assuming no one else noticed & did the same) pretty quickly.
Since bitcoin accounts use public-key cryptography, they might not be safe in the long run, though (depending upon which variety they use, which I do not know off hand).
Switch it to vertical sub-pixel rendering (if your OS supports it, which I thought they all did).
Oops, I meant for that to be a reply to the next comment. Oh, well.
1 meter is the distance light travels in 1/299792458 seconds. Yes, that involves the speed of light, but the constant is based upon the previous standard (a meter rod) that was in turn based upon the size of the Earth.
Likewise, a second is based upon Cesium, but I forget the constant or exactly how it relates off hand. It was chosen to make it be very nearly 1/86400 of a day, of course.
Just because there are nice prefixes does not mean the base units are any less arbitrary.
Not too heavy if paid in antimatter (at current rates — if you made that much antimatter it would drop a lot).
Huh, I was taught there are 14 tenses in English. Perhaps you (or some past teacher of yours) did not include the past & present emphatic tenses ("did"/"do" + verb).
Actually, that is unfortunately not the worst case. With improvements in object & face recognition technology they could additionally require that a human be viewing the device & no recording device of any sort be within view or refuse to display anything (except "DIE EVIL PIRATE!" of course).
I seem to remember upgrading to Windows 98 from Windows 95 OSR2 took about 30 minutes (or maybe that was for a clean install?). Then again, that is what the timer in the installer said...maybe it lied.
The less power the government has, the less power there is for them to abuse, & thus the less worthwhile it is for them to bother. Also, smaller programs often have fewer bugs, so perhaps a well-designed small government would be considerably harder to abuse in the first place.
The paper claims the algorithm is O(n^4*m), where n is the number of variables & m is the number of clauses, & for interesting instances m > n, so it is pretty slow.
Banning printing presses is just another unconstitutional way to restrict people's freedoms, & I could easily see that being pushed at some point. Especially if law-abiding citizens no longer have guns. I would most definitely not be satisfied by a call for banning of printing presses.
This points out that, while it is possible to update the kernel without rebooting, Microsoft appears to have patented (or at least applied for a patent on) the process. Which is annoying, given that Windows does not seem to use it.
Life is a different sort of thing than fusion or the weather, since it is the pattern & not the implementation that counts. If the implementation counted things like artificial limbs & hearts would be impossible since they are not biological (which is not to say that they are alive - just that they are in fact limbs & hearts, respectively, & not just simulations thereof).
A simulation of the weather cannot get you wet, but a (sufficiently accurate) simulation of a cat would sleep all day & ignore you except when hungry or desirous of petting just as well as a real cat would. Of course, simulated weather might get the simulated cat wet (which would be bad).
The simulation in Creatures (as far as I know) is insufficiently detailed for the above considerations to apply, but that does not mean it is in principle impossible to make a more accurate one.
A monad is a construction that hides all the tuple-passing so that the program is more readable. E.g. code using the IO monad passes an object of type World from one line to the next without having to explicitly write it as an argument. It looks like procedural code (such as do x <- getLine ; putStrLn ("Greetings, " ++ x)), but instead of messing with the world in the background the world gets passed around as just another value.
Speaking of physics...too bad we cannot make copies of the world, do computations in each, & then combine the different instances in various ways, or we could program time travel (among other things).
I once wrote a lambda-calculus evaluator in QBASIC (before I heard of Scheme & later Haskell), so I guess so. :)
I am pretty sure that is at least NP-hard, if not worse. (Pseudo-)continuous tuning results in too many cases to check. Plus, what kills one person might be necessary to save someone else's life.
They used to charge for some apps. E.g. Equation Writer (which cost $15) appears to be unavailable for download at TI's site now that they only have free apps.