Why initially hypothesize powder on the surface? I suppose on one hand you've got the asteroid's weak gravity hovering it up as it goes through space. On the other hand there's high velocity impacts of tiny particles adding enough energy to liberate the finer stuff.
I can remember dabbling with fractals as a basis for creating artificial landscapes back in the 80's. (And no, it wasn't my lawn which you can kindly depart from.)
It's interesting to see the level of detail, and the types of asymmetries and other 'imperfections' . It'd also be interesting to determine statistical probabilities of a reasonably close match to an actual person.
I think this is a type of prisoner's dilemma with each algorithm starting or arriving at the conclusion that the other algorithm is 'rational' in terms of maintaining a higher price. The issue is that the algorithm does not take into account the consumer's benefit which society, in the form of commerce regulation laws, require of it (theoretically). So while it's relatively rational to agree on maintaining a higher price it's still (theoretically) illegal and thus the agreement effectively becomes de facto collusion.
I think realtime is what's significant here given the frame rates and resolution. That's an impressive amount of computation whereas historically crude analog (blur or special filters on the lens) techniques had to be used if makeup wasn't available or enough.
I'd think this runs both ways with corporations as they're just as likely to get hassled as to hassle someone. Perhaps the big boys will just pay each other off or otherwise collude to keep the small fry at bay. Disgusting.
For the best students, some of the hangup is indeed getting the first ideas down.
These kids need to be encouraged to read more. Reading can provide a set of templates for an initial draft. The rough analogy is that it's easier to code when you've got examples to build on.
Also from the about page it looks like they're trying to get you to sign up for an email list in the likely event they come out with a commercial product (better output resolution, version updates, access to an api &c).
Industries that still rely on fax machines usually have little incentive to improve productivity, especially if the status quo can be deemed good enough. This is particularly true for government agencies. When politicians attempt to foist productivity improvements on the bureaucrats the outcome often doesn't bode well. It typically takes some kind of crisis for such improvements to be implemented.
blunter assumptions about alien life -- starting with the idea that it would appear on the surface
Life evolves to fit environmental niches. It's not a stretch to hypothesize that some sort of continual environmental change might also be required for life to kick in - let alone evolve. I think you're likely to see more environmental change on a planet's surface. While you may be able to transplant life somewhere like Europa, the chance of it actually beginning there might be a lot less than if it were more dynamic.
In the meantime, engineers have continued planning for the two-gyro mode... Tests of the mode, in which onboard computers only used data from two gyros, showed the resulting images were nearly identical to those taken with three gyros. One of scientists' main concerns about switching to a two-gyro system had been that âoejitterâ in the telescope would produce blurry images.
...the long times and poor scheduling are a result of poor transit policy in America
For cities like LA, with a few exceptions, there's no practical solution involving public transport as it's impossible to cover either a) the large distances required without making several stops and/or transfers and/or b) the last mile (in reality two or three) to get to one's destination. What's left is to encourage policies that reduce the need use roads regardless of the means of transport. Not as simple.
Writing code is a trivial side issue related to solving other problems, not an end to itself.
It's not trivial, which is kind of the point. That being said, I agree it doesn't have to be an end unto itself and there's no reason why it couldn't be more incorporated into existing classes. For example, I had one of my lab classes write short vbs scripts to control simulated instruments. Math has always been included in many non-math courses, skipping the theorem/proof concepts. The same can and should be done for basic software development.
Security camera video evidence of the attack was deemed inadmissible after a judge ruled police had obtained it without a warrant.
That always bothered me about the American legal system. Depending on the nature and type of evidence it's possible that withholding it does not serve justice. If evidence is obtained illegally then a judge should decide whether it should still be admitted and require the party who violated the rules to be fined or otherwise disciplined so they'll have an incentive not to do it again. Withholding legitimate (per the judge) evidence, no matter how it was obtained, can affect justice. Thus in this case the video should be admitted and the police who obtained it without a warrant should be fined several thousand dollars.
In many fields...t takes more time to get up to the state of the art.
I'd say that's more true in STEM than in other fields, though the mitigating factor from a career standpoint is that "state of the art" is often a specialty with little broad application. A PhD in a STEM field can easily tag a person as over qualified for most jobs.
Good question. Theoretically they've already got the infrastructure and brand. However since their business model isn't capital intensive there's a relatively low barrier to entry. There's something of a network effect where you're more likely to find a ride with the more popular app. However the ride likelihood is based on human drivers. Thus there's a fair chance that the company with the best/popular self--driving car comes up with its own ride hailing app to capture that revenue stream.
I recall from my days in aerospace when the $bigName company decided it wanted to be system integrators and subcontract everything else. No capital, a few (albeit expensive) laborers and profit. The problem was that this was a highly specialized market and the subcontractors said hold on, we can do system integration too. There went that market.
I think it's a little more complicated than the graph. The first thing that jumped at me was a 60% increase in faculty with only an 8% increase in students. Then it dawned on me that faculty do research, bring in grant funding and that this funding could be covering some of the staff. I don't think universities were performing anywhere near the same level of research they were 30+ years ago. That's not to say there's no administrative waste, only that items such as health care and pensions are probably major considerations as well.
Not a single reply which bore any relevance to the topic.
The original article is only a couple pages of which most is an overview of the moon's geological history that includes a short period where there may have been liquid water. Well, water equals the chance for some type of life. No new data (like today's Mars post), nothing to see here move along.
Gizmodo goes beyond the original article with:
And there are obviously not the same water-created features on the Moon that we see here on Earth or on Mars, like drainage channels - though maybe these existed and were eroded by small meteors and solar winds.
Which is just plain wrong. The original article only references erosion of a lunar atmosphere by these events.
The comedy in most Burns and Allen skits is based on Gracie's parsing the ambiguity of the language. Passing the Turing test should include the computer replying in those instances with "I see what you did there".
blaming Twitter's character limitations for his many factual errors
My daughter eventually convinced me that Twitter indeed could be put to meaningful use. The best was broadcasting status from environmental sensors - taking it out of the hands of idiots.
Since when netstat or ifconfig are "performance hogs"?
It'd have been nice if some specific examples were provided.
You just use them on the odd occasion
Even if the newer versions run 5x faster does it really matter in context and is it really worth the extra speed for what appears to be greater complexity? One appealing feature of Unix back in the day was it's relatively simplified approach to operating system design (e.g. devices were files). Linux is no longer Unix.
I think the jury is still out on this for both foreign and domestic issues. China (South Sea) and Russia (Crimea, Ukraine, Syria) haven't changed and even excluding Syria the Mideast is still a massive, well, shit hole The current Korean Kumbaya moment will need to stand the test of time to demonstrate its value. It's also as much or more due in large part to the recent Korean president whose attitude towards the North differs from his predecessor. Domestically Trump's unpredictability has, if anything, hindered his working with Congress, limiting any accomplishments to something a little more than a 'triangulating' Democrat might achieve.
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Why initially hypothesize powder on the surface? I suppose on one hand you've got the asteroid's weak gravity hovering it up as it goes through space. On the other hand there's high velocity impacts of tiny particles adding enough energy to liberate the finer stuff.
I can remember dabbling with fractals as a basis for creating artificial landscapes back in the 80's. (And no, it wasn't my lawn which you can kindly depart from.)
It's interesting to see the level of detail, and the types of asymmetries and other 'imperfections' . It'd also be interesting to determine statistical probabilities of a reasonably close match to an actual person.
I think this is a type of prisoner's dilemma with each algorithm starting or arriving at the conclusion that the other algorithm is 'rational' in terms of maintaining a higher price. The issue is that the algorithm does not take into account the consumer's benefit which society, in the form of commerce regulation laws, require of it (theoretically). So while it's relatively rational to agree on maintaining a higher price it's still (theoretically) illegal and thus the agreement effectively becomes de facto collusion.
It'd be nice if they could throw some of their money at the non-profit maintaining the observatory.
I think realtime is what's significant here given the frame rates and resolution. That's an impressive amount of computation whereas historically crude analog (blur or special filters on the lens) techniques had to be used if makeup wasn't available or enough.
I'd think this runs both ways with corporations as they're just as likely to get hassled as to hassle someone. Perhaps the big boys will just pay each other off or otherwise collude to keep the small fry at bay. Disgusting.
These kids need to be encouraged to read more. Reading can provide a set of templates for an initial draft. The rough analogy is that it's easier to code when you've got examples to build on.
Also from the about page it looks like they're trying to get you to sign up for an email list in the likely event they come out with a commercial product (better output resolution, version updates, access to an api &c).
One thing just as annoying as hip Buddhists in the West is someone from the West deciding only Asians can be "actual".
Industries that still rely on fax machines usually have little incentive to improve productivity, especially if the status quo can be deemed good enough. This is particularly true for government agencies. When politicians attempt to foist productivity improvements on the bureaucrats the outcome often doesn't bode well. It typically takes some kind of crisis for such improvements to be implemented.
Life evolves to fit environmental niches. It's not a stretch to hypothesize that some sort of continual environmental change might also be required for life to kick in - let alone evolve. I think you're likely to see more environmental change on a planet's surface. While you may be able to transplant life somewhere like Europa, the chance of it actually beginning there might be a lot less than if it were more dynamic.
I found this from thirteen years ago:
For cities like LA, with a few exceptions, there's no practical solution involving public transport as it's impossible to cover either a) the large distances required without making several stops and/or transfers and/or b) the last mile (in reality two or three) to get to one's destination. What's left is to encourage policies that reduce the need use roads regardless of the means of transport. Not as simple.
It's not trivial, which is kind of the point. That being said, I agree it doesn't have to be an end unto itself and there's no reason why it couldn't be more incorporated into existing classes. For example, I had one of my lab classes write short vbs scripts to control simulated instruments. Math has always been included in many non-math courses, skipping the theorem/proof concepts. The same can and should be done for basic software development.
That always bothered me about the American legal system. Depending on the nature and type of evidence it's possible that withholding it does not serve justice. If evidence is obtained illegally then a judge should decide whether it should still be admitted and require the party who violated the rules to be fined or otherwise disciplined so they'll have an incentive not to do it again. Withholding legitimate (per the judge) evidence, no matter how it was obtained, can affect justice. Thus in this case the video should be admitted and the police who obtained it without a warrant should be fined several thousand dollars.
I'd say that's more true in STEM than in other fields, though the mitigating factor from a career standpoint is that "state of the art" is often a specialty with little broad application. A PhD in a STEM field can easily tag a person as over qualified for most jobs.
Good question. Theoretically they've already got the infrastructure and brand. However since their business model isn't capital intensive there's a relatively low barrier to entry. There's something of a network effect where you're more likely to find a ride with the more popular app. However the ride likelihood is based on human drivers. Thus there's a fair chance that the company with the best/popular self--driving car comes up with its own ride hailing app to capture that revenue stream.
I recall from my days in aerospace when the $bigName company decided it wanted to be system integrators and subcontract everything else. No capital, a few (albeit expensive) laborers and profit. The problem was that this was a highly specialized market and the subcontractors said hold on, we can do system integration too. There went that market.
Here's a link.
One has to wonder had it not been for Google whether East Cut would have been yet another one of those ill-fated efforts.
I think it's a little more complicated than the graph. The first thing that jumped at me was a 60% increase in faculty with only an 8% increase in students. Then it dawned on me that faculty do research, bring in grant funding and that this funding could be covering some of the staff. I don't think universities were performing anywhere near the same level of research they were 30+ years ago. That's not to say there's no administrative waste, only that items such as health care and pensions are probably major considerations as well.
The original article is only a couple pages of which most is an overview of the moon's geological history that includes a short period where there may have been liquid water. Well, water equals the chance for some type of life. No new data (like today's Mars post), nothing to see here move along.
Gizmodo goes beyond the original article with:
Which is just plain wrong. The original article only references erosion of a lunar atmosphere by these events.
The comedy in most Burns and Allen skits is based on Gracie's parsing the ambiguity of the language. Passing the Turing test should include the computer replying in those instances with "I see what you did there".
My daughter eventually convinced me that Twitter indeed could be put to meaningful use. The best was broadcasting status from environmental sensors - taking it out of the hands of idiots.
It'd have been nice if some specific examples were provided.
Even if the newer versions run 5x faster does it really matter in context and is it really worth the extra speed for what appears to be greater complexity? One appealing feature of Unix back in the day was it's relatively simplified approach to operating system design (e.g. devices were files). Linux is no longer Unix.
I think the jury is still out on this for both foreign and domestic issues. China (South Sea) and Russia (Crimea, Ukraine, Syria) haven't changed and even excluding Syria the Mideast is still a massive, well, shit hole The current Korean Kumbaya moment will need to stand the test of time to demonstrate its value. It's also as much or more due in large part to the recent Korean president whose attitude towards the North differs from his predecessor. Domestically Trump's unpredictability has, if anything, hindered his working with Congress, limiting any accomplishments to something a little more than a 'triangulating' Democrat might achieve.