"Given enough data, Eagle's algorithms were able to predict what people -- especially professors and Media Lab employees -- would do next and be right up to 85 percent of the time."
You mean if I give you a constant stream of my position data for months you can predict a future point where I will be with up to 85% accuracy?
Massive privacy concerns aside, this is a pretty shitty algorithim if thats as good as a prediction as it can make. Humans are creatures of habit, in 9 months just about every geographical habit you have would make itself known, we even do random things in a periodic manner.
Still got a long way before this is ready to be sold into the hands of advertisers and cell phone makers. So I suppose I could be glad about that.
Fine. Whatever. Put ads in if you want, because you were going to anyway, nothing stopped you in the movies, but if my character needs a god damn Pizza-Hut ray gun to quash the evil Ceasar overlords Im going to personally shit in your Director of Marketing's coffee.
I was refering to client administration. You might want to explain to everyone that encounters a problem why they need to run one of those 10 scripts and what it does, but I smell a support nightmare.
A lot of people love to concentrate on making something really machine efficient but they soon forget the human element. If you want to run an ISP and not think about the people I dont think I would be leaving it to the "more qualified"
I know im arguing about usability in a Linux thread, but listen to me, dont tell me about 50 neat little scripts I can use to figure out what is YOUR problem why MY wireless ISP wont work.
If you must resort to small apps to figure out what the problem is please name them better than scanap and pingall, call them Happy Fix and bundle them all together to report a coherent message to the user and the administrator.
Now... when you here the words "open source" most people think of computer software programs like Linux...It is a model where the original "source code" can be modified and improved at little cost...and it's shared among users for free.
Well now... thanks to Rasmus Nielsen, beer is free too. At least the recipe is... in an industry where ingredients and processes are typically kept under constant poliece surveilance.
Rasmus Nielsen is one of the creators of the Vores OI beer recipe. We were able to trace the subject to his secluded home in Copehagen, Denmark.
Recipe for approx. 85 ltr. Vores Øl (Our Beer) (approx. 6% alchohol by volume).
Malt extract
For Vores Øl we use four types malted barley:
6 kg pilsner malt
4 kg münsner malt
1 kg caramel malt
1 kg lager malt
The malt is crushed and put in 55-60C hot water for 1-2 hours.
The mixture is filtered and the liquid now contains about 10 kg malt extract.
Taste and sugar
Besides malt we use:
60 g Tetnang bitter hops
50 g Hallertaver aroma hops
300 g Guarana beans
4 kg sugar
(Guarana beans can typically be bought at health food stores).
The malt extact is brought to a boil in a large pot with the hops and approx. 70 ltr. of water.
After half an hour, the Guarana beans and sugar are added.
The mixture simmers for about an hour, and is then filtered and cooled in a sealed container.
Fermentation
Yeast is added and the beer is fermented at room temperature for approx. 2 weeks.
When the beer is fully fermented it is transferred to bottles. First 4 g sugar is added per liter and some yeast from the bottom of the fermentation tanks for priming.
Vores Øl is then left in the bottles at room temperature for 8-10 days for carbonation. Then the beer is ready to enjoy; cold and refreshing.
Seriously, SATA hotswappable RAID 5, put an onboard controller on next gen motherboards, I dont care if its crappy compared to an expansion card, and you will have my money. Yeah we have RAID 0, 1 , 0+1, but no onboard commercial RAID 5 solution in mainstream motherboards. I know its more expenisve, but its also more efficient, and with every failed HD common users encounter the market gets bigger.
Politics, indeed. Since this is only one of the hurdles in getting the budget NASA needs to fulfill the promises by this administration, I am still wary. Ill believe it when I see cold hard funding translated into actual projects.
Im just glad they waiting this long, they let Intel take the first strides, that were almost backward (DDR2 performace was not better than DDR at launch, and im wondering if is now, also DDR2 was MUCH more expenisve than DDR).
Also to those with socket 939 boards, (like me), Id just do what I have always done, throw the cheapest processor that you can find in the system when you buy it, then wait till the socket line is at an end, then buy the last and fastest processor made for it when the price is lower because everyone else is upgrading their entire system to the new socket. You get the maximum performance gain with the lowest cost.
AMD's use of DDR2 wont bring revoultionary performance, but it will bring DDR2 prices down, and help stabalize the DDR2 market into hopefully something that can bring about some of the promises we were given at its launch.
I dont care who sponsors quakecon, neither do the people that run it or attend it, hell almost all of them probably have an AMD system anyway. Let Intel waste money trying to convince a market they abandonded to listen to their PR about how "cool and fast" their chips are.
"After measured deliberation and a public debate, the House has again provided the brave men and women of law enforcement with critical tools in their efforts to combat terrorism and protect us FROM the American people", Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said in a statement.
How many people were successfully prosecuted AS TERRORISTS under the Patriot Act again?
The term they should have used (and what law enforcement uses now, after more than a few wrongful death lawsuits, is the term of "Less lethal". Did any of the Kirtland Air Force Base participants have a pre existing heart condition? I bet they didnt let pregnant women participate.
Im so glad that when every time one of these proportedly nonlethal weapons pops up its run under a FULL and accurate barrage of labratory and set up tests, which almost never reveal the compounding issues that lead to death in real world enviroments.
The news.com article asks a few of the many lurking questions to this system. We all know this device is going to Iraq to go through real world testing before its used here in the US. Someone is counting on all the "little kinks" that are more than likely deadly will be ironed out under the public eye.
I find it highly ironic that our testing of this indescriminant weapon will be used in our even more indescriminant war.
Terrorists dont use large crowds as weapons, if you stop and think at why this weapon would be needed, its ultimately crowd control on our home front. Now why would we need that? Lakers winning again? I highly doubt it. Someone had a plan when they initated and funded the development of this, and it doesnt look like a good one.
Because they didnt check the hidden system folder with all the videos the husband has.
"Honey why does our recording thingy say it is out of space"
"Oh you know those hard drives arent built like they used to be, must be uh, bad sectors , Ill move all of my I mean ill move in another hard drive."
"So we can figure out the number of people who view hackaday by dividing 72,500 by 1.4, which gives us roughly 51,800 daily viewers."
Wrong. Bad sample population, low sample size with ONE DAY, NO inclusion of error propagation across statistical barriers. When you multiply estimates, you multiply error as well.
"With this knowlege, you can easily estimate the traffic to other sites. If we go by the 471 million estimate, Slashdot gets a whopping 380,000 daily readers."
Pretty sure I F5 more than that.
"Alexa... Alexa... Alexa...etc."
I dont know about you but Alexa is bordering on adware with this. Call me paranoid, I dont care.
Also not everyone (like me) would sign up and run a dumb banner like this on their browser, so your sample excluedes pretty much everyone that got hit with the smarts bat growing up.
Perhaps im missing some gross humorous overtone, but mod article -1 Statistical Chicanery
Slashdot Mirror
from the woooooooooo-woooooooooooo dept.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubb_Rubb/
Yous asposed to be awake on sataun' when the aurora comes.
"Given enough data, Eagle's algorithms were able to predict what people -- especially professors and Media Lab employees -- would do next and be right up to 85 percent of the time."
You mean if I give you a constant stream of my position data for months you can predict a future point where I will be with up to 85% accuracy?
Massive privacy concerns aside, this is a pretty shitty algorithim if thats as good as a prediction as it can make. Humans are creatures of habit, in 9 months just about every geographical habit you have would make itself known, we even do random things in a periodic manner.
Still got a long way before this is ready to be sold into the hands of advertisers and cell phone makers. So I suppose I could be glad about that.
Fine. Whatever. Put ads in if you want, because you were going to anyway, nothing stopped you in the movies, but if my character needs a god damn Pizza-Hut ray gun to quash the evil Ceasar overlords Im going to personally shit in your Director of Marketing's coffee.
You just described the formula for a successful meeting!
I was refering to client administration. You might want to explain to everyone that encounters a problem why they need to run one of those 10 scripts and what it does, but I smell a support nightmare.
A lot of people love to concentrate on making something really machine efficient but they soon forget the human element. If you want to run an ISP and not think about the people I dont think I would be leaving it to the "more qualified"
I know im arguing about usability in a Linux thread, but listen to me, dont tell me about 50 neat little scripts I can use to figure out what is YOUR problem why MY wireless ISP wont work.
If you must resort to small apps to figure out what the problem is please name them better than scanap and pingall, call them Happy Fix and bundle them all together to report a coherent message to the user and the administrator.
Now
Well now
Recipe for approx. 85 ltr. Vores Øl (Our Beer) (approx. 6% alchohol by volume).
Malt extract
For Vores Øl we use four types malted barley:
6 kg pilsner malt
4 kg münsner malt
1 kg caramel malt
1 kg lager malt
The malt is crushed and put in 55-60C hot water for 1-2 hours.
The mixture is filtered and the liquid now contains about 10 kg malt extract.
Taste and sugar Besides malt we use:
60 g Tetnang bitter hops
50 g Hallertaver aroma hops
300 g Guarana beans
4 kg sugar
(Guarana beans can typically be bought at health food stores).
The malt extact is brought to a boil in a large pot with the hops and approx. 70 ltr. of water.
After half an hour, the Guarana beans and sugar are added.
The mixture simmers for about an hour, and is then filtered and cooled in a sealed container.
Fermentation
Yeast is added and the beer is fermented at room temperature for approx. 2 weeks.
When the beer is fully fermented it is transferred to bottles. First 4 g sugar is added per liter and some yeast from the bottom of the fermentation tanks for priming.
Vores Øl is then left in the bottles at room temperature for 8-10 days for carbonation. Then the beer is ready to enjoy; cold and refreshing.
Trusting the Danish for your free beer is quite another.
*ducks*
Seriously, SATA hotswappable RAID 5, put an onboard controller on next gen motherboards, I dont care if its crappy compared to an expansion card, and you will have my money. Yeah we have RAID 0, 1 , 0+1, but no onboard commercial RAID 5 solution in mainstream motherboards. I know its more expenisve, but its also more efficient, and with every failed HD common users encounter the market gets bigger.
Politics, indeed. Since this is only one of the hurdles in getting the budget NASA needs to fulfill the promises by this administration, I am still wary. Ill believe it when I see cold hard funding translated into actual projects.
Whitedust commented that the flaws in Tor could be fixed by moving away from the Onion network to an extended "Onion Ring" network.
mi blurries hide teh nudity!!1 GIMME LAWYRZ PLX!!1
Im just glad they waiting this long, they let Intel take the first strides, that were almost backward (DDR2 performace was not better than DDR at launch, and im wondering if is now, also DDR2 was MUCH more expenisve than DDR).
Also to those with socket 939 boards, (like me), Id just do what I have always done, throw the cheapest processor that you can find in the system when you buy it, then wait till the socket line is at an end, then buy the last and fastest processor made for it when the price is lower because everyone else is upgrading their entire system to the new socket. You get the maximum performance gain with the lowest cost.
AMD's use of DDR2 wont bring revoultionary performance, but it will bring DDR2 prices down, and help stabalize the DDR2 market into hopefully something that can bring about some of the promises we were given at its launch.
I bolded the part of the quote that was not said but the meaning that lurks behind it. It was a literary device, not a literal quote you cockgobbler.
See how it works?
I dont care who sponsors quakecon, neither do the people that run it or attend it, hell almost all of them probably have an AMD system anyway. Let Intel waste money trying to convince a market they abandonded to listen to their PR about how "cool and fast" their chips are.
"After measured deliberation and a public debate, the House has again provided the brave men and women of law enforcement with critical tools in their efforts to combat terrorism and protect us FROM the American people", Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said in a statement.
How many people were successfully prosecuted AS TERRORISTS under the Patriot Act again?
Scientists were foiled, however, in their attempts to set the microwave weapon's clock.
Nonlethal weaponry is a horseshit myth.
The term they should have used (and what law enforcement uses now, after more than a few wrongful death lawsuits, is the term of "Less lethal". Did any of the Kirtland Air Force Base participants have a pre existing heart condition? I bet they didnt let pregnant women participate.
Im so glad that when every time one of these proportedly nonlethal weapons pops up its run under a FULL and accurate barrage of labratory and set up tests, which almost never reveal the compounding issues that lead to death in real world enviroments.
The news.com article asks a few of the many lurking questions to this system. We all know this device is going to Iraq to go through real world testing before its used here in the US. Someone is counting on all the "little kinks" that are more than likely deadly will be ironed out under the public eye.
I find it highly ironic that our testing of this indescriminant weapon will be used in our even more indescriminant war.
Terrorists dont use large crowds as weapons, if you stop and think at why this weapon would be needed, its ultimately crowd control on our home front. Now why would we need that? Lakers winning again? I highly doubt it. Someone had a plan when they initated and funded the development of this, and it doesnt look like a good one.
I guess Mormans dont like lots of people coming unannounced. Well at least they dont have to answer the door to turn away every http request.
Why dont you concentrate on things that make all mmorpgs suck?
SomethingAwful has a hilarious yet very insightful look at your typical mmorpg.
If im going to risk my life killing zombies for the good of the earth you better not make me pay for ammo as well.
"The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
hosted the first Grand Challenge Project last year,
offering a reward of $1 million.
This year,
the prize money has been doubled,
making the competition all the more interesting."
Because they didnt check the hidden system folder with all the videos the husband has.
"Honey why does our recording thingy say it is out of space" "Oh you know those hard drives arent built like they used to be, must be uh, bad sectors , Ill move all of my I mean ill move in another hard drive."
Horrible Horrible "study".
"So we can figure out the number of people who view hackaday by dividing 72,500 by 1.4, which gives us roughly 51,800 daily viewers."
Wrong. Bad sample population, low sample size with ONE DAY, NO inclusion of error propagation across statistical barriers. When you multiply estimates, you multiply error as well.
"With this knowlege, you can easily estimate the traffic to other sites. If we go by the 471 million estimate, Slashdot gets a whopping 380,000 daily readers."
Pretty sure I F5 more than that.
"Alexa... Alexa... Alexa...etc."
I dont know about you but Alexa is bordering on adware with this. Call me paranoid, I dont care.
Also not everyone (like me) would sign up and run a dumb banner like this on their browser, so your sample excluedes pretty much everyone that got hit with the smarts bat growing up.
Perhaps im missing some gross humorous overtone, but mod article -1 Statistical Chicanery
From: The Collective Internet
To: White Wolf
told u so, kthxbai
p.s. i r0ll 20's