Hmm... People can infer bigotry where none exists.
In New Zealand, a few years back, a researcher was concerned about the prevalence of an antisocial disease in a particular ethnic group, and was trying to propose reasonable remedial action to help reduce the incidence of the disease. He got accused of being racist, as though merely identifying a problem area, was bigotry.
If you fell into a pile of shit, and someone said "You're all shitty, let us help clean you up." Would you accuse them of being insulting, or would you graciously accept help???
(1) People who insist that there are no differences
That's pretty rare. I mean I'm sure you can find them but you can find flat-earther's too so there's not much to be found cherrypicking nutters.
This leads to stupid things like insisting that exactly half of the students in computer science classes should be female
Like when? What we do know is there was a dramatic drp down from about 37% in the early 1980s. Biology doesn't change significantly over the course of 1 generation.
or that 50% of nurses should be male
There are no significant voices saying that.
( I suspect most people, of any gender, would prefer most nurses to be female!)
Why on earth would people care? Especially as the majority of people are tending towards overweight or obese and one job of nurses is to move people who can't move themselves easily. At some point that requires upper body strength.
One place I worked there was female colleague I chatted with occasionally. She was, as far I can remember technically competent -- and definitely feminine. I remember talking to her husband who claimed there was no difference between men & women. I've never met anyone who insists the world is flat. I made no comment on how frequent problem (1) was.
Your comment wrt Computer Science, is not relevant to what I stated. I made no comment about percentages of females vs males in Computer Science. I also pointed out earlier, that there other forces at work aside from biology.
Your comment wrt Nurses. The number of people who are very vocal about an issue, tends to be considerably less than the number of people who have a particular preference. Also, I made no comment to suggest that there should be no male nurses (note that the word 'most' is not a synonym for the word 'all'). So your comments here are either irrelevant and/or fallacious.
Everything in the fucking world is about this stupid fucking gender gap shit. Is there not a single site I can go to which isn't infected with this crap? If there's a "gender gap" and females are more negatively affected then it's a disaster and something needs to be done. If there's a "gender gap" and males are doing worse then there's no problem at all and maybe even a sign of progress. What a bunch of toxic shit. Let's just do what we can to help HUMANS. Stop dividing everyone, pitting everyone against each other, and generally finding any conceivable way we can to create civil war. Jesus christ people. I've had it.
Well there are differences between men & women in many areas that are statistically significant. These are due to biological, cultural, and other causes. Unfortunately, a lot of political agendas confuse the issue (just look at the issue of marital violence -- it is a very real problem, leading to many people being seriously hurt).
This causes at least 3 types of problems:
(1) People who insist that there are no differences, either due to ignorance or ideology (or both). This leads to stupid things like insisting that exactly half of the students in computer science classes should be female (by the way, my wife has an MSc in Computer Science), or that 50% of nurses should be male ( I suspect most people, of any gender, would prefer most nurses to be female!).
(2) People who insist that a particular gender can't or shouldn't do something, This is almost invariable due to cultural bias. However, sometimes there is a valid scientific basis: women are more susceptible to alcohol per Kg, and the dangers to an unborn child are greatest shortly after conception when the woman may not realize that she maybe pregnant -- so women need to take more care for health reasons (don't know of any gender difference relating to alcohol induced anti social behaviour -- though I'm not saying that there isn't a difference).
(3) People who insist that a particular gender is superior to the other. Note that even if one gender is statistically superior to the other in one quality, it does not necessarily follow that all individuals of one gender are better than the other (I even been wiped of the chess board by an old woman who was probably at least 30 years older than myself, and I can easily thrash most social Chess players).
she requested to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. When she made the appeal, she recounted in a 2017 interview with NPR that the guidance counselor wasn't supportive of her dream to become a scientist.
I don't understand what teachers or councilors like that are thinking
"I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am."
Heisenberg Navigation & Propulsion Systems, delivering unrivalled precision & accuracy (see note a), far surpassing anything else on the market!
News Flash: top military commanders are horrified at Trump's tweet saying that Heisenberg equipped ICBM's will be configured to deliver nuclear strike capability in seconds!
There are two types of countries in the world. Those that use the metric system and those that have walked on the moon.
Ironically, to go to the moon they used the metric system...
I actually learnt most about the metric system from an American Physics text book in 1967.
Its scary that the country that got on the Moon first elected that dangerously incompetent Trump, who doesn't 'believe' that Global Warming to is real.
Watching *compressed* video is very difficult. I prefer to run it through a decompression tool first. One slight miscalculation on my Fourier Transforms and everything goes to hell.:-P
The U.S. has pretty much always used billion, but in England 1,000 million historically was called a milliard. A billion was a million millions (or 1,000 milliards) so I think there's still some hesitance to use the term as it is leaves everyone a bit nonplussed.
million = (1000000)^1 billion = (1000000)^2 trillion = (1000000)^3
Remember how the world champ of Go was obliterated by the "alien" neural network based AI? How do you think it would work out if we applied the same training concepts to chess? I know Deep Blue was new and amazing but I feel like we have advanced to the point where Deep Blue could get destroyed by a completely unconventional approach through neural network AI. I want to see that. I want to see human players completely obliterated and left dumbfounded.
The rules of Go are far simpler than the rules of Chess, but Go requires a lot more thought. So Go suits using a neural net better than Chess.
I can beat most social Chess players with out any real effort, but in draughts (I think it is called checkers in Trumpistan) I have to work much harder, as in Chess I can just glance at the board for a few seconds to make what appears to be a reasonable move. I have watched people playing Go, but it looks like a lot of hard work, but I've never played the game.
Chess is visual richer, than either Go or draughts, so it is easier for me to play.
Burroughs was clever and designed its mainframe series (B6700 etc) to use 48-bit words consisting of either 8 6-bit or 6 8-bit bytes. The hardware could handle either (when dealing with character strings).
Quite a few years later I was working on a Control Data Cyber series which still used 6-bit characters, in a 60-bit word. Text processing on that was so painful I wrote my own, in Pascal, which handled everything internally as ASCII.
You'd think that people with the skills to install Linux would realize that there's more than one way to install Linux on a computer. There's several quite capable VMs that I'm aware of with excellent support for running Linux on macOS. There's Parallels, VMWare, VirtualBox, just off the top of my head. I suspect that in no time we'll see ESXi get signed for Apple hardware for the people that take things up a notch on virtual machines, like myself.
If the goal is to test software on multiple platforms then I'm a bit doubtful one needs to run on the metal anyway. The only things that I can think of that need that kind of access to hardware would be drivers, and someone is not likely to write Linux drivers for Apple hardware this quickly except for things like getting it booting, which is exactly what people are working on right now.
Dual booting is for chumps. If you can't dig up real hardware or figure out how to run a VM then you are simply getting ahead of yourself. Make it work on the hardware and OS you got, then worry about making some money or dig through some university dumpsters for some hardware.
This is a made up problem since the hardware just came out. If this persists for a while then I might see an issue. My guess is someone figures this out next month but Slashdot won't post it because it's news where people can't go on bashing Apple.
It makes more sense to run Linux on the hardware, and to use VM's for other O/S's. One has far more control over one's box with Linux -- as far as I am aware, neither Microsoft nor Apple allow people to both view their source code and to complete modified versions, with rare exceptions.
So using a VM to run Linux is not an appropriate solution.
I initially misread "the BCAT-CS study, which investigates the dynamic forces that exist between sediment particles" as "the BCAT-CS study, which investigates the dynamic forces that exist between sentient particles" but I corrected myself within a few hundred milliseconds...
About 0.5% (precise figure depends on definitions and locality) of children are born with sexual parts that are neither purely male nor purely female.
Due to variations in peoples brains, people can identify with the body of the opposite sex.
Severe and prolonged emotional stress, normally associated with childhood abuse, can lead to people with distinct multiple personalities. The same individual may have personalities from mixed genders
So, using the word 'they' is far more appropriate than 'he/she' etc. It seems more than a trifle daft to specify a gender, when gender is not relevant to the discussion of something involved in one or more humans.
The use of: 'they', 'their', and 'them' should be more widespread, when referring to one or more people, and/or where gender is nor relevant.
I started using gender appropriate language, long before the current PC craze started.
As far as I can tell: the apparent continuity of Space & Time requires Quantum Fuzziness, otherwise there would be no continuity -- as there would be no connection between Past & Future, nor between anything separated in Space.
Without this fuzziness, even elementary particles like quarks could not hold themselves together, how else could one part of a quark stay in connection with the other parts?
Remember that Einstein taught us that Space & Time are commingled -- events that appear simultaneous will not be so to an second observer that is moving wrt to the first.
Space & Time Fuzziness allows us to control our feet, as our heads are experiencing time at a faster rate than our feet (General Relativity shows that things deeper in a gravitational field will experience time running slower). Note that if you live to be a hundred, the cumulative difference will be less than one microsecond!
Also Relativity shows why things moving art different speeds experience Time at different rates.
So even parts of the same quark will experience Time differently. Again this fuzziness is required to hold it together - albeit, fuzzily!
This Quantum Fuzziness is consistent with Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.
"Nothing" exists at a point in Space & Time. A bullet does not exist at a single point in Space. If you fire a rifle and the bullet hits armour, the front of the bullet stops while the back of it keeps moving for a while -- partly because a bullet is not perfectly rigid (this the most noticeable effect), and partly because it takes time for the back of the bullet to notice the front part has stopped (Relativity again). Without Space & Time Fuzziness, how would the back of the bullet 'find out' that the the front part has stopped?
Rockets are like aircraft in that they go fast and above the water & sea, they are like sailing ships because they can take years to get anywhere & there are brief periods of excitement with long boring parts.
I think it makes sense to have a Space Force, but the way Trump trumpets it, it behoves Russia & China to get in on the act for their self preservation.
Trump comes across as a spoilt child who says mine!, Mine!!, MINE!!! - as they don't want to play with other children, unless they always get their own way!
abundance of life, the earliest fossils indicate that life started as soon as there were proper conditions, some even speculate that there might be intelligent life;-)
[...]
I've investigated Earth life forms extensively, and found no conclusive evidence for Intelligent Life -- in fact, quite the reverse.
Humans claim to be the most intelligent lifeform, yet they Elected Trump in the USA. Also look at the huge predilection for insisting that things are true, despite obvious conflict with Reality, such as: Flat Earthers, Creationists, and Global Warming Denialists!
"$15 charge on each metric ton of carbon dioxide emitted"
I own a farm and forest land. My forests and fields absorb about 1,400 tons of carbon dioxide a year from the air as well as cleaning the air of dust, filtering the water (I'm at the top of the water shed) and other benefits to society.
If they are going to charge $15/ton to emit carbon dioxide then then they should be sending me a check for $21,000 for my services of removing said carbon dioxide. Fair is fair.
I agree with you, giving a Carbon Rebate to people to remove CO2 and other carbon gasses from the atmosphere is a good idea, as well as being fair. As it will encourage more people to do so.
SpaceX and other companies (like Blue Origin) will start using lots of methane as rocket fuel. Making methane from water and atmospheric CO2, is way better than burning petroleum, as it is far more carbon neutral. We could end with methane replacing natural gas, oil, and coal, for all heavy transport where electricity is not a viable option (like ocean going cargo ships).
It's introduction of the metric system by the back door. The use of metric units will not stand. Instead of $15 per tonne they should charge a proper rate: €14 per long ton.
Metric units are a lot easier to use than the old Imperial Units that I was taught at school.
What is the ratio of 6 lb 5 oz to 8 st 7 lb? In Kg it is a lot easier.
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So any time someone states a genuine difference between males & women, they are being sexist???
You are being way too simplistic, the comment you object to has little to do with competence, as other people have covered in more detail.
I'm glad bigotry has a pure justification.
Hmm... People can infer bigotry where none exists.
In New Zealand, a few years back, a researcher was concerned about the prevalence of an antisocial disease in a particular ethnic group, and was trying to propose reasonable remedial action to help reduce the incidence of the disease. He got accused of being racist, as though merely identifying a problem area, was bigotry.
If you fell into a pile of shit, and someone said "You're all shitty, let us help clean you up." Would you accuse them of being insulting, or would you graciously accept help???
(1) People who insist that there are no differences
That's pretty rare. I mean I'm sure you can find them but you can find flat-earther's too so there's not much to be found cherrypicking nutters.
This leads to stupid things like insisting that exactly half of the students in computer science classes should be female
Like when? What we do know is there was a dramatic drp down from about 37% in the early 1980s. Biology doesn't change significantly over the course of 1 generation.
or that 50% of nurses should be male
There are no significant voices saying that.
( I suspect most people, of any gender, would prefer most nurses to be female!)
Why on earth would people care? Especially as the majority of people are tending towards overweight or obese and one job of nurses is to move people who can't move themselves easily. At some point that requires upper body strength.
One place I worked there was female colleague I chatted with occasionally. She was, as far I can remember technically competent -- and definitely feminine. I remember talking to her husband who claimed there was no difference between men & women. I've never met anyone who insists the world is flat. I made no comment on how frequent problem (1) was.
Your comment wrt Computer Science, is not relevant to what I stated. I made no comment about percentages of females vs males in Computer Science. I also pointed out earlier, that there other forces at work aside from biology.
Your comment wrt Nurses. The number of people who are very vocal about an issue, tends to be considerably less than the number of people who have a particular preference. Also, I made no comment to suggest that there should be no male nurses (note that the word 'most' is not a synonym for the word 'all'). So your comments here are either irrelevant and/or fallacious.
Everything in the fucking world is about this stupid fucking gender gap shit. Is there not a single site I can go to which isn't infected with this crap? If there's a "gender gap" and females are more negatively affected then it's a disaster and something needs to be done. If there's a "gender gap" and males are doing worse then there's no problem at all and maybe even a sign of progress. What a bunch of toxic shit. Let's just do what we can to help HUMANS. Stop dividing everyone, pitting everyone against each other, and generally finding any conceivable way we can to create civil war. Jesus christ people. I've had it.
Well there are differences between men & women in many areas that are statistically significant. These are due to biological, cultural, and other causes. Unfortunately, a lot of political agendas confuse the issue (just look at the issue of marital violence -- it is a very real problem, leading to many people being seriously hurt).
This causes at least 3 types of problems:
(1) People who insist that there are no differences, either due to ignorance or ideology (or both). This leads to stupid things like insisting that exactly half of the students in computer science classes should be female (by the way, my wife has an MSc in Computer Science), or that 50% of nurses should be male ( I suspect most people, of any gender, would prefer most nurses to be female!).
(2) People who insist that a particular gender can't or shouldn't do something, This is almost invariable due to cultural bias. However, sometimes there is a valid scientific basis: women are more susceptible to alcohol per Kg, and the dangers to an unborn child are greatest shortly after conception when the woman may not realize that she maybe pregnant -- so women need to take more care for health reasons (don't know of any gender difference relating to alcohol induced anti social behaviour -- though I'm not saying that there isn't a difference).
(3) People who insist that a particular gender is superior to the other. Note that even if one gender is statistically superior to the other in one quality, it does not necessarily follow that all individuals of one gender are better than the other (I even been wiped of the chess board by an old woman who was probably at least 30 years older than myself, and I can easily thrash most social Chess players).
I don't understand what teachers or councilors like that are thinking
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but, But, BUT, she was a only a girl!!! :-)
"I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am."
Heisenberg Navigation & Propulsion Systems, delivering unrivalled precision & accuracy (see note a), far surpassing anything else on the market!
News Flash: top military commanders are horrified at Trump's tweet saying that Heisenberg equipped ICBM's will be configured to deliver nuclear strike capability in seconds!
Note (a): accuracy subject to the limitations of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle: see http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.g...
Unidentified, and flying, but we haven't determined if it is an object or not.
Are you thinking it might have been a struct or a scalar?
More probably a Tensor!
There are two types of countries in the world.
Those that use the metric system and those that have walked on the moon.
Ironically, to go to the moon they used the metric system...
I actually learnt most about the metric system from an American Physics text book in 1967.
Its scary that the country that got on the Moon first elected that dangerously incompetent Trump, who doesn't 'believe' that Global Warming to is real.
Watching *compressed* video is very difficult. I prefer to run it through a decompression tool first. One slight miscalculation on my Fourier Transforms and everything goes to hell. :-P
All F'd up???
The U.S. has pretty much always used billion, but in England 1,000 million historically was called a milliard. A billion was a million millions (or 1,000 milliards) so I think there's still some hesitance to use the term as it is leaves everyone a bit nonplussed.
million = (1000000)^1
billion = (1000000)^2
trillion = (1000000)^3
The initial letters indicate the power.
Pity the Americans messed things up! :-(
Remember how the world champ of Go was obliterated by the "alien" neural network based AI? How do you think it would work out if we applied the same training concepts to chess? I know Deep Blue was new and amazing but I feel like we have advanced to the point where Deep Blue could get destroyed by a completely unconventional approach through neural network AI. I want to see that. I want to see human players completely obliterated and left dumbfounded.
The rules of Go are far simpler than the rules of Chess, but Go requires a lot more thought. So Go suits using a neural net better than Chess.
I can beat most social Chess players with out any real effort, but in draughts (I think it is called checkers in Trumpistan) I have to work much harder, as in Chess I can just glance at the board for a few seconds to make what appears to be a reasonable move. I have watched people playing Go, but it looks like a lot of hard work, but I've never played the game.
Chess is visual richer, than either Go or draughts, so it is easier for me to play.
Burroughs was clever and designed its mainframe series (B6700 etc) to use 48-bit words consisting of either 8 6-bit or 6 8-bit bytes. The hardware could handle either (when dealing with character strings).
Quite a few years later I was working on a Control Data Cyber series which still used 6-bit characters, in a 60-bit word. Text processing on that was so painful I wrote my own, in Pascal, which handled everything internally as ASCII.
The B6700 had 52 bit words, the extra bits were for flags and parity!
see: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/arc...
We had one when I was at University: https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/...
Why can't you just run Linux in a VM?
Exactly.
You'd think that people with the skills to install Linux would realize that there's more than one way to install Linux on a computer. There's several quite capable VMs that I'm aware of with excellent support for running Linux on macOS. There's Parallels, VMWare, VirtualBox, just off the top of my head. I suspect that in no time we'll see ESXi get signed for Apple hardware for the people that take things up a notch on virtual machines, like myself.
If the goal is to test software on multiple platforms then I'm a bit doubtful one needs to run on the metal anyway. The only things that I can think of that need that kind of access to hardware would be drivers, and someone is not likely to write Linux drivers for Apple hardware this quickly except for things like getting it booting, which is exactly what people are working on right now.
Dual booting is for chumps. If you can't dig up real hardware or figure out how to run a VM then you are simply getting ahead of yourself. Make it work on the hardware and OS you got, then worry about making some money or dig through some university dumpsters for some hardware.
This is a made up problem since the hardware just came out. If this persists for a while then I might see an issue. My guess is someone figures this out next month but Slashdot won't post it because it's news where people can't go on bashing Apple.
It makes more sense to run Linux on the hardware, and to use VM's for other O/S's. One has far more control over one's box with Linux -- as far as I am aware, neither Microsoft nor Apple allow people to both view their source code and to complete modified versions, with rare exceptions.
So using a VM to run Linux is not an appropriate solution.
I initially misread
"the BCAT-CS study, which investigates the dynamic forces that exist between sediment particles"
as
"the BCAT-CS study, which investigates the dynamic forces that exist between sentient particles"
but I corrected myself within a few hundred milliseconds...
Isn't all this what the singular 'they' is for?
About 0.5% (precise figure depends on definitions and locality) of children are born with sexual parts that are neither purely male nor purely female.
Due to variations in peoples brains, people can identify with the body of the opposite sex.
Severe and prolonged emotional stress, normally associated with childhood abuse, can lead to people with distinct multiple personalities. The same individual may have personalities from mixed genders
So, using the word 'they' is far more appropriate than 'he/she' etc. It seems more than a trifle daft to specify a gender, when gender is not relevant to the discussion of something involved in one or more humans.
The use of: 'they', 'their', and 'them' should be more widespread, when referring to one or more people, and/or where gender is nor relevant.
I started using gender appropriate language, long before the current PC craze started.
As far as I can tell: the apparent continuity of Space & Time requires Quantum Fuzziness, otherwise there would be no continuity -- as there would be no connection between Past & Future, nor between anything separated in Space.
Without this fuzziness, even elementary particles like quarks could not hold themselves together, how else could one part of a quark stay in connection with the other parts?
Remember that Einstein taught us that Space & Time are commingled -- events that appear simultaneous will not be so to an second observer that is moving wrt to the first.
Space & Time Fuzziness allows us to control our feet, as our heads are experiencing time at a faster rate than our feet (General Relativity shows that things deeper in a gravitational field will experience time running slower). Note that if you live to be a hundred, the cumulative difference will be less than one microsecond!
Also Relativity shows why things moving art different speeds experience Time at different rates.
So even parts of the same quark will experience Time differently. Again this fuzziness is required to hold it together - albeit, fuzzily!
This Quantum Fuzziness is consistent with Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.
"Nothing" exists at a point in Space & Time. A bullet does not exist at a single point in Space. If you fire a rifle and the bullet hits armour, the front of the bullet stops while the back of it keeps moving for a while -- partly because a bullet is not perfectly rigid (this the most noticeable effect), and partly because it takes time for the back of the bullet to notice the front part has stopped (Relativity again). Without Space & Time Fuzziness, how would the back of the bullet 'find out' that the the front part has stopped?
Why should Russia wage a conventional war with the USA, when it's considerable safer and cheaper to elect a puppet like Trump?
Rockets are like aircraft in that they go fast and above the water & sea, they are like sailing ships because they can take years to get anywhere & there are brief periods of excitement with long boring parts.
I think it makes sense to have a Space Force, but the way Trump trumpets it, it behoves Russia & China to get in on the act for their self preservation.
Trump comes across as a spoilt child who says mine!, Mine!!, MINE!!! - as they don't want to play with other children, unless they always get their own way!
What is the CA FTB?
Caribbean Associated Flying Transport Board???
And.. I responded to the wrong thread. So much for posting whilst half asleep.
You will be PUNished! :-)
I see potential in this approach, and I will meditate on a solution. Ohmmmm..
Perhaps it should be phased in slowly?
I think the connection between Theory and Practice is so weak, that it is creating reactance that would add to the impedance slowing its introduction.
Perhaps it should be field tested, some some people might consider the idea too shocking to support.
The whole thing might be a transitory flash in the pan, but it might spark people into thinking of better techniques.
Using it might reduce the instance of terminal cases, by prevent some cases of Assault and Battery?
[...]
Earth:
abundance of life, the earliest fossils indicate that life started as soon as there were proper conditions, some even speculate that there might be intelligent life ;-)
[...]
I've investigated Earth life forms extensively, and found no conclusive evidence for Intelligent Life -- in fact, quite the reverse.
Humans claim to be the most intelligent lifeform, yet they Elected Trump in the USA. Also look at the huge predilection for insisting that things are true, despite obvious conflict with Reality, such as: Flat Earthers, Creationists, and Global Warming Denialists!
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Ah! Now I know what Big Data means...
"$15 charge on each metric ton of carbon dioxide emitted"
I own a farm and forest land. My forests and fields absorb about 1,400 tons of carbon dioxide a year from the air as well as cleaning the air of dust, filtering the water (I'm at the top of the water shed) and other benefits to society.
If they are going to charge $15/ton to emit carbon dioxide then then they should be sending me a check for $21,000 for my services of removing said carbon dioxide. Fair is fair.
I agree with you, giving a Carbon Rebate to people to remove CO2 and other carbon gasses from the atmosphere is a good idea, as well as being fair. As it will encourage more people to do so.
SpaceX and other companies (like Blue Origin) will start using lots of methane as rocket fuel. Making methane from water and atmospheric CO2, is way better than burning petroleum, as it is far more carbon neutral. We could end with methane replacing natural gas, oil, and coal, for all heavy transport where electricity is not a viable option (like ocean going cargo ships).
It's introduction of the metric system by the back door. The use of metric units will not stand. Instead of $15 per tonne they should charge a proper rate: €14 per long ton.
Metric units are a lot easier to use than the old Imperial Units that I was taught at school.
What is the ratio of 6 lb 5 oz to 8 st 7 lb? In Kg it is a lot easier.