Slobodan Cuk of "Cuk's converter" fame (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%86uk_converter) is not very convinced. From the commentaries:
I could not find anywhere in a number of public announcements the efficiency achieved for any of the top three designs! It appears then that efficiency was NOT a criterion at all in Google's Little Box challenge, but only Power Density and resulting total volume! I spent 42 years in Power Electronics with the main goal of improving efficiency and reducing magnetics size tenfold without increasing switching frequency! Both are the prime factors enabling smaller size and weight! Without the efficiency objective and novel systems solutions, the glorification of the power density alone sends absolutely wrong signals to Power Electronics industry and misleads young engineers as to what is really important! This is one man’s opinion, I invite yours! Dr. Slobodan Cuk
Aging is one of the main drivers for many incurable diseases like Alzheimer, Parkinson but anyway I find it difficult to "cure" aging before solving riddles like cancer.
The longest-living person whose dates of birth and death were verified to the modern norms of Guinness World Records and the Gerontology Research Group was Jeanne Calment, a French woman who lived to 122. The maximum (recorded) life span for humans has increased from 103 in 1798 to 110 years in 1898, 115 years in 1986, and 122.45 years since Calment's death in 1997 (See List of the verified oldest people and List of verified supercentenarians who died before 1980), among steady improvements in overall life expectancy. Reduction of infant mortality has accounted for most of this increased average longevity, but since the 1960s mortality rates among those over 80 years have decreased by about 1.5% per year. "The progress being made in lengthening lifespans and postponing senescence is entirely due to medical and public-health efforts, rising standards of living, better education, healthier nutrition and more salubrious lifestyles."[3]
The main improvement was in childbirth mortality thanks to sanitation and vaccines. Life span and life expectancy are not the same thing.
What repulses conservatives is the fact of someone not being hetero normative. As I said before, a trans person is one who adopts (through a lot of work) a very defined hetero normative sexual identity.
If a gay person wants to be "cured" i.e. adopt an hetero normative identity he will be accepted and congratulated. I know, it is not the same, but the common thing here is being hetero normative.
Some trans persons could pass as a perfectly *normal* person, regarding their sexual behavior, in the eyes of other people.
That's interesting that that's your experience. I've found it interesting that it seems like many religious conservatives don't object to trans* the way they do to homosexuality.
Strange world we live in
It is not strange. Every trans person assumes a very well defined *hetero* sexual identity.
Our pediatrician once told me, every kid should have eaten a pound of dirt by the time they're two. While she didn't mean it literally (at least not that much dirt), she's talked about the 'immune system needing exercise', and that helicopter parenting actually denies kids a certain amount of exposure that's healthy. To be clear she's NOT an anti-vaxxer, on the contrary, but thinks both natural and pharm assisted immunity/resistance is a good idea.
I can't tell if you're trying to be funny, or if you are actually as stupendously ignorant about science as you're post portrays you to be.... it's very hard to tell in writing. I generally try to give people the benefit of doubt, but i get the vibe you're not trying to be funny.
Science is based on observation and experimentation. What that means is, the more exacting observations we make, and the more fine tuned our experimentation, the more precise our knowledge becomes... that's pretty basic, 4th-6th grade level science. If you want something that once said never, ever changes, regardless of new information, then stick to religion.
This is not science, is public health policy. One is supposed to be based in the other, but it is now always like that.
"Liberty", Individualism are all tenents of Libertarianism or simple Right wing ideology, so it is no surprise that Silicon Valley is against (or indiferent) to the Government or the State.
There is this idea, that there are choices that go beyond "left or right", choices that are not subjective but objective and universal.
Anytime that someone tells me that he has "no ideology" or "no political stance" I suspect he is a closeted right winger.
If you can live with less than perfect results (wasted space) you could apply pareto's principle, and start working with a list of file sizes in descending order and dedup manually until you recovered enough space. Chance are that 20% of files make up for 80% of space.
Hey! But current depends on voltage! (and V on I - and R of course). Large voltages and low impedance will produce high currents. The TIME for engaging the protective devices is crucial. I bet that MOVs are faster than fuses or breakers.
The Aleph In Borges' story, the Aleph is a point in space that contains all other points. Anyone who gazes into it can see everything in the universe from every angle simultaneously, without distortion, overlapping or confusion. The story continues the theme of infinity found in several of Borges' other works, such as The Book of Sand
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius In the story, an encyclopedia article about a mysterious country called Uqbar is the first indication of a massive conspiracy of intellectuals to imagine (and thereby create) a world known as Tlön
The Garden of Forking Paths According to Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, "The concept Borges described in 'The Garden of Forking Paths'—in several layers of the story, but most directly in the combination book and maze of Ts'ui Pên—is that of a novel that can be read in multiple ways, a hypertext novel.
The Book Of Sand The titular "Book of Sand" is the Book of all Books, and is a monster. The story tells how this book came into the possession of a fictional version of Borges himself, and of how he ultimately disposed of it.
“For a century the dynamics of modern society was governed by a double movement: the market expanded continuously but this movement was met by a countermovement checking the expansion in definite directions. Vital though such a countermovement was for the protection of society, in the last analysis it was incompatible with the selfregulation of the market, and thus with the market system itself. “That system developed in leaps and bounds; it engulfed space and time, and by creating bank money it produced a dynamic hitherto unknown. By the time it reached its maximum extent, around 1914, every part of the globe, all its inhabitants and yet unborn generations, physical persons as well as huge fictitious bodies called corporations, were comprised in it. A new way of life spread over the planet with a claim to universality unparalleled since the age when Christianity started out on its career, only this time the movement was on a purely material level. “Yet simultaneously a countermovement was on foot. This was more than the usual defensive behaviour of society faced with change; it was a reaction against a dislocation which attacked the fabric of society, and which would have destroyed the very organization of production that the market had called into being” (Polanyi, 1957: 130).
The market, once it considers land, labor and money as "fictitious commodities" (fictitious because each possesses qualities that are not expressed in the formal rationality of the market) “subordinate[s] the substance of society itself to the laws of the market.”[1] This, he argues, results in massive social dislocation, and spontaneous moves by society to protect itself. In effect, Polanyi argues that once the free market attempts to separate itself from the fabric of society, social protectionism is society’s natural response; this he calls the ‘counter movement’. Polanyi did not see economics as a subject closed off from other fields of enquiry, indeed he saw economic and social problems as inherently linked. He ended his work with a prediction of a socialist society, noting, "after a century of blind 'improvement', man is restoring his 'habitation.'"
The Church-Turing thesis has been alleged to have some profound implications for the philosophy of mind.[37] There are also some important open questions which cover the relationship between the Church-Turing thesis and physics, and the possibility of hypercomputation. When applied to physics, the thesis has several possible meanings:
1. The universe is equivalent to a Turing machine; thus, computing non-recursive functions is physically impossible. This has also been termed the strong Church-Turing thesis (not to be confused with the previously mentioned SCTT) and is a foundation of digital physics.
2. The universe is not equivalent to a Turing machine (i.e., the laws of physics are not Turing-computable), but incomputable physical events are not "harnessable" for the construction of a hypercomputer. For example, a universe in which physics involves real numbers, as opposed to computable reals, might fall into this category.
3. The universe is a hypercomputer, and it is possible to build physical devices to harness this property and calculate non-recursive functions. For example, it is an open question whether all quantum mechanical events are Turing-computable, although it is known that rigorous models such as quantum Turing machines are equivalent to deterministic Turing machines. (They are not necessarily efficiently equivalent; see above.) John Lucas and, more famously, Roger Penrose[38] have suggested that the human mind might be the result of some kind of quantum-mechanically enhanced, "non-algorithmic" computation, although there is no scientific evidence for this proposal.
There are many other technical possibilities which fall outside or between these three categories, but these serve to illustrate the range of the concept.
Here in Argentina.
Sometimes the shops run out of spare parts. Then they take someone else almost functioning laptop and take the good parts out. They fix one computer and wait for the spare parts to arrive for repairing the lobotomized laptop. If they arrive, they will charge you for the old and new parts. If not, they would return your computer saying that they had not been able to repair it. So you get back your computer with far more problems than before.
Executive Summary
Lithium Ion batteries are rapidly becoming the technology of choice for the next generation of Electric
Vehicles - Hybrid, Plug In Hybrid and Battery EVs. The automotive industry is committed increasingly to
Electrified Vehicles to provide Sustainable Mobility in the next decade. LiIon is the preferred battery
technology to power these vehicles.
To achieve required cuts in oil consumption, a significant percentage of the world automobile fleet of 1 billion
vehicles must be electrified in the coming decade. Ultimately all production, currently 60 Million vehicles per
year, will be replaced with highly electrified vehicles â" PHEVs and BEVs.
Analysis of Lithium's geological resource base shows that there is insufficient Lithium available in the Earth's
crust to sustain Electric Vehicle manufacture in the volumes required, based solely on LiIon batteries.
Depletion rates would exceed current oil depletion rates and switch dependency from one diminishing
resource to another. Concentration of supply would create new geopolitical tensions, not reduce them. http://www.evworld.com/library/lithium_shortage.pdf
ALS it's not related to myelin loss. ALS is a disease of the motor neurons which start to die and nobody knows why, even less if it is autoimmune or not.
And MS is thought to be autoimmune but that is not a certainty like in Lupus or rheumatoid arthritis.
Totally off topic, but it seems that you know something about the subject and I have a question. When a file is encrypted through a strong algorithm and there are private keys between the parts, it is still necessary to add something like MD5 to preserve integrity? I mean, in this particular case, it appears that confidentiality assures data integrity (in the general case, of course) ? Is it possible in this context to alter an encrypted file without violating confidentiality?
Thanks
Therefore, there was always more fanfare around American launches, simply because NASA made itself more accessible to the public than the equivalent Soviet agency.
Tell me then why did Americans send a man to the moon in the first place?
This paper http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/DonohueLevittTheImpactOfLegalized2001.pdf, explains this relation.
We offer evidence that legalized abortion has contributed significantly to recent crime reductions. Crime began to fall roughly eighteen years after abortion legalization. The five states that allowed abortion in 1970 experienced declines earlier than the rest of the nation, which legalized in 1973 with Roe v. Wade.
States with high abortion rates in the 1970s and 1980s experienced greater crime reductions in the 1990s. In high abortion states, only arrests of those born after abortion legalization fall relative to low abortion states. Legalized abortion appears to account for as much as 50 percent of the recent drop in crime.
Or, you can read the book "Freakonomics" for a less technical explanation by the same authors of that paper.
Even while at ARPAnet, he says he was unsure how long the technology could work, especially since the system didn't ensure that information packets would arrive at their destination. His fears crystallized in the late 1990s when he saw companies begin to use the Internet to make phone calls and consumers begin to dabble in online video.'" Excuse me if I miss something, but isn't UDP capable of handling that kind of data? In fact, a few packets missed don't affect phone calls or online video.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol
UDP does not guarantee reliability or ordering in the way that TCP does. Datagrams may arrive out of order, appear duplicated, or go missing without notice. ....
Common network applications that use UDP include the Domain Name System (DNS), streaming media applications such as IPTV, Voice over IP (VoIP), Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) and online games.
Slashdot Mirror
He relinquished his chemical weapons in 2013
Apparently he and Putin lied about it. I'm as shocked as you are.
Source?
And let them take care of it. After all it is their territory.
Slobodan Cuk of "Cuk's converter" fame (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%86uk_converter) is not very convinced. From the commentaries:
I could not find anywhere in a number of public announcements the efficiency achieved for any of the top three designs! It appears then that efficiency was NOT a criterion at all in Google's Little Box challenge, but only Power Density and resulting total volume!
I spent 42 years in Power Electronics with the main goal of improving efficiency and reducing magnetics size tenfold without increasing switching frequency! Both are the prime factors enabling smaller size and weight! Without the efficiency objective and novel systems solutions, the glorification of the power density alone sends absolutely wrong signals to Power Electronics industry and misleads young engineers as to what is really important! This is one man’s opinion, I invite yours!
Dr. Slobodan Cuk
Aging is one of the main drivers for many incurable diseases like Alzheimer, Parkinson but anyway I find it difficult to "cure" aging before solving riddles like cancer.
Life span in 1798 was 103!
From wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The longest-living person whose dates of birth and death were verified to the modern norms of Guinness World Records and the Gerontology Research Group was Jeanne Calment, a French woman who lived to 122. The maximum (recorded) life span for humans has increased from 103 in 1798 to 110 years in 1898, 115 years in 1986, and 122.45 years since Calment's death in 1997 (See List of the verified oldest people and List of verified supercentenarians who died before 1980), among steady improvements in overall life expectancy. Reduction of infant mortality has accounted for most of this increased average longevity, but since the 1960s mortality rates among those over 80 years have decreased by about 1.5% per year. "The progress being made in lengthening lifespans and postponing senescence is entirely due to medical and public-health efforts, rising standards of living, better education, healthier nutrition and more salubrious lifestyles."[3]
The main improvement was in childbirth mortality thanks to sanitation and vaccines. Life span and life expectancy are not the same thing.
I would think that Jenner is an outliner,
What repulses conservatives is the fact of someone not being hetero normative. As I said before, a trans person is one who adopts (through a lot of work) a very defined hetero normative sexual identity.
If a gay person wants to be "cured" i.e. adopt an hetero normative identity he will be accepted and congratulated. I know, it is not the same, but the common thing here is being hetero normative.
Some trans persons could pass as a perfectly *normal* person, regarding their sexual behavior, in the eyes of other people.
That's interesting that that's your experience. I've found it interesting that it seems like many religious conservatives don't object to trans* the way they do to homosexuality.
Strange world we live in
It is not strange. Every trans person assumes a very well defined *hetero* sexual identity.
Our pediatrician once told me, every kid should have eaten a pound of dirt by the time they're two. While she didn't mean it literally (at least not that much dirt), she's talked about the 'immune system needing exercise', and that helicopter parenting actually denies kids a certain amount of exposure that's healthy. To be clear she's NOT an anti-vaxxer, on the contrary, but thinks both natural and pharm assisted immunity/resistance is a good idea.
Probably she was thinking about the Hygiene Hipothesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
I can't tell if you're trying to be funny, or if you are actually as stupendously ignorant about science as you're post portrays you to be.... it's very hard to tell in writing. I generally try to give people the benefit of doubt, but i get the vibe you're not trying to be funny.
Science is based on observation and experimentation. What that means is, the more exacting observations we make, and the more fine tuned our experimentation, the more precise our knowledge becomes... that's pretty basic, 4th-6th grade level science. If you want something that once said never, ever changes, regardless of new information, then stick to religion.
This is not science, is public health policy. One is supposed to be based in the other, but it is now always like that.
Dr. Melik: This morning for breakfast he requested something called "wheat germ, organic honey and tiger's milk."
Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties.
Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or ... hot fudge?
Dr. Aragon: Those were thought to be unhealthy ... precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.
Dr. Melik: Incredible.
http://dowdnotesonnapkins.blog...
"Liberty", Individualism are all tenents of Libertarianism or simple Right wing ideology, so it is no surprise that Silicon Valley is against (or indiferent) to the Government or the State.
There is this idea, that there are choices that go beyond "left or right", choices that are not subjective but objective and universal.
Anytime that someone tells me that he has "no ideology" or "no political stance" I suspect he is a closeted right winger.
If you can live with less than perfect results (wasted space) you could apply pareto's principle, and start working with a list of file sizes in descending order and dedup manually until you recovered enough space. Chance are that 20% of files make up for 80% of space.
More info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
Hey! But current depends on voltage! (and V on I - and R of course). Large voltages and low impedance will produce high currents. The TIME for engaging the protective devices is crucial. I bet that MOVs are faster than fuses or breakers.
(From wikipedia)
The Aleph
In Borges' story, the Aleph is a point in space that contains all other points. Anyone who gazes into it can see everything in the universe from every angle simultaneously, without distortion, overlapping or confusion. The story continues the theme of infinity found in several of Borges' other works, such as The Book of Sand
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
In the story, an encyclopedia article about a mysterious country called Uqbar is the first indication of a massive conspiracy of intellectuals to imagine (and thereby create) a world known as Tlön
The Garden of Forking Paths
According to Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, "The concept Borges described in 'The Garden of Forking Paths'—in several layers of the story, but most directly in the combination book and maze of Ts'ui Pên—is that of a novel that can be read in multiple ways, a hypertext novel.
The Book Of Sand
The titular "Book of Sand" is the Book of all Books, and is a monster. The story tells how this book came into the possession of a fictional version of Borges himself, and of how he ultimately disposed of it.
Can you name a single EU country that is self-sufficient in oil? .
Norway
http://artsandscience.concordia.ca/polanyi/conf/pdf/Palacios.pdf
“For a century the dynamics of modern society was governed by a double movement: the market expanded continuously but this movement was met by a countermovement
checking the expansion in definite directions. Vital though such a countermovement was for the protection of society, in the last analysis it was incompatible with the selfregulation of the market, and thus with the market system itself.
“That system developed in leaps and bounds; it engulfed space and time, and by creating bank money it produced a dynamic hitherto unknown. By the time it reached its maximum extent, around 1914, every part of the globe, all its inhabitants and yet unborn generations, physical persons as well as huge fictitious bodies called corporations, were comprised in it. A new way of life spread over the planet with a claim to universality unparalleled since the age when Christianity started out on its career, only this time the movement was on a purely material level.
“Yet simultaneously a countermovement was on foot. This was more than the usual defensive behaviour of society faced with change; it was a reaction against a dislocation which attacked the fabric of society, and which would have destroyed the very organization of production that the market had called into being” (Polanyi, 1957: 130).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Transformation_(book)
The market, once it considers land, labor and money as "fictitious commodities" (fictitious because each possesses qualities that are not expressed in the formal rationality of the market) “subordinate[s] the substance of society itself to the laws of the market.”[1] This, he argues, results in massive social dislocation, and spontaneous moves by society to protect itself. In effect, Polanyi argues that once the free market attempts to separate itself from the fabric of society, social protectionism is society’s natural response; this he calls the ‘counter movement’. Polanyi did not see economics as a subject closed off from other fields of enquiry, indeed he saw economic and social problems as inherently linked. He ended his work with a prediction of a socialist society, noting, "after a century of blind 'improvement', man is restoring his 'habitation.'"
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that was said of binary systems?
It applies to any kind of computation, using binary or decimal or any representation system.
In fact we are talking about the Church-Turing thesis here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_thesis/
The Church-Turing thesis has been alleged to have some profound implications for the philosophy of mind.[37] There are also some important open questions which cover the relationship between the Church-Turing thesis and physics, and the possibility of hypercomputation. When applied to physics, the thesis has several possible meanings:
1. The universe is equivalent to a Turing machine; thus, computing non-recursive functions is physically impossible. This has also been termed the strong Church-Turing thesis (not to be confused with the previously mentioned SCTT) and is a foundation of digital physics.
2. The universe is not equivalent to a Turing machine (i.e., the laws of physics are not Turing-computable), but incomputable physical events are not "harnessable" for the construction of a hypercomputer. For example, a universe in which physics involves real numbers, as opposed to computable reals, might fall into this category.
3. The universe is a hypercomputer, and it is possible to build physical devices to harness this property and calculate non-recursive functions. For example, it is an open question whether all quantum mechanical events are Turing-computable, although it is known that rigorous models such as quantum Turing machines are equivalent to deterministic Turing machines. (They are not necessarily efficiently equivalent; see above.) John Lucas and, more famously, Roger Penrose[38] have suggested that the human mind might be the result of some kind of quantum-mechanically enhanced, "non-algorithmic" computation, although there is no scientific evidence for this proposal.
There are many other technical possibilities which fall outside or between these three categories, but these serve to illustrate the range of the concept.
Here in Argentina. Sometimes the shops run out of spare parts. Then they take someone else almost functioning laptop and take the good parts out. They fix one computer and wait for the spare parts to arrive for repairing the lobotomized laptop. If they arrive, they will charge you for the old and new parts. If not, they would return your computer saying that they had not been able to repair it. So you get back your computer with far more problems than before.
Executive Summary
Lithium Ion batteries are rapidly becoming the technology of choice for the next generation of Electric Vehicles - Hybrid, Plug In Hybrid and Battery EVs. The automotive industry is committed increasingly to Electrified Vehicles to provide Sustainable Mobility in the next decade. LiIon is the preferred battery technology to power these vehicles.
To achieve required cuts in oil consumption, a significant percentage of the world automobile fleet of 1 billion vehicles must be electrified in the coming decade. Ultimately all production, currently 60 Million vehicles per year, will be replaced with highly electrified vehicles â" PHEVs and BEVs.
Analysis of Lithium's geological resource base shows that there is insufficient Lithium available in the Earth's crust to sustain Electric Vehicle manufacture in the volumes required, based solely on LiIon batteries.
Depletion rates would exceed current oil depletion rates and switch dependency from one diminishing resource to another. Concentration of supply would create new geopolitical tensions, not reduce them.
http://www.evworld.com/library/lithium_shortage.pdf
ALS it's not related to myelin loss. ALS is a disease of the motor neurons which start to die and nobody knows why, even less if it is autoimmune or not.
And MS is thought to be autoimmune but that is not a certainty like in Lupus or rheumatoid arthritis.
You got it very well, I meant symmetric encryption. Thank you very much
Totally off topic, but it seems that you know something about the subject and I have a question. When a file is encrypted through a strong algorithm and there are private keys between the parts, it is still necessary to add something like MD5 to preserve integrity? I mean, in this particular case, it appears that confidentiality assures data integrity (in the general case, of course) ? Is it possible in this context to alter an encrypted file without violating confidentiality?
Thanks
Tell me then why did Americans send a man to the moon in the first place?
We offer evidence that legalized abortion has contributed significantly to recent crime reductions. Crime began to fall roughly eighteen years after abortion legalization. The five states that allowed abortion in 1970 experienced declines earlier than the rest of the nation, which legalized in 1973 with Roe v. Wade. States with high abortion rates in the 1970s and 1980s experienced greater crime reductions in the 1990s. In high abortion states, only arrests of those born after abortion legalization fall relative to low abortion states. Legalized abortion appears to account for as much as 50 percent of the recent drop in crime.
Or, you can read the book "Freakonomics" for a less technical explanation by the same authors of that paper.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol
UDP does not guarantee reliability or ordering in the way that TCP does. Datagrams may arrive out of order, appear duplicated, or go missing without notice.
Common network applications that use UDP include the Domain Name System (DNS), streaming media applications such as IPTV, Voice over IP (VoIP), Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) and online games.