That analysis is from February 2014, the current report is from an experiment taking place for "32 days in March 2014"(that's a quote from the pdf linked in TFS) .
Not to mention the fact that the opening statements of your linked article directly contradicts the report. Your link says that it took place in Italy with Andrea Rossi's equipment, but according to the pdf in TFS the experiment took place in Switzerland with their own factory calibrated never before used equipment.
So unless the authors of that link you provided had a time machine back in February and are also delusional, they couldn't possibly be referring to this experiment.
Swedes most certainly do not, as our superior language (no bias here!) has two different words that describe what a geological continent is (kontinent) and what a geopolitical part of the world is (världsdel).
Just because English with it's hundreds of thousands of words don't make that distinction doesn't mean other languages don't.
The irony about that is that Sony in the form of Sony Music Entertainment are listed on the AARC website under "our friends", suggesting that they would be on the receiving end of those royalties...
My google fu yields the following: http://www.world-aluminium.org/statistics/primary-aluminium-smelting-energy-intensity/ Efficiency varies around the world between 13000-16000 kWh per 1000kg of aluminium.
Assuming the entire quoted weight of 100kg is aluminium (which according to the article the batteries are "made mostly of aluminium"), that's at best 50% efficient assuming your ballpark estimate of 600 kWh. Compared to an internal combustion engine that's not too shabby.
However, I feel like a demonstration like this probably used an extremely lightweight car in order to maximize the range for the test. I'm thinking 600 kWh is probably a bit too optimistic.
Just a minor nit-pick but you are incorrect in asserting that the EU has a population of ~750 million. *Europe* certainly has, but the EU does not (not all countries in Europe are members) and does in fact have a population of almost exactly half a billion (~505 million).
If it's 50 people per tutor then that itself might be the issue.
I'm currently studying medicine in Sweden (on my second semester, which is somewhat equivalent to "pre med" in the US system) and we are using PBL and focusing on it quite strongly.
Every week we have two PBL-meetings which usually involves a typical case regarding the subject the week's learning is supposed to be about (this week it's about memory and forming memories on a neuronal level in the brain and the case is about an old man forgetting things and getting lost while driving his car).
Anyway, we are in 9 person groups, 1 paid tutor who's usually a lecturer or scientist working at the university and 8 students. It's really hard to not actively take part in such a small group which seems to be the entire point.
This is of course not the only thing we do, we still have lectures as usual but they are not mandatory in any way other than the practical exercises. So far I'm liking it very much and it seems to be an extremely effective way to teach. We need to present our findings for our peers on a weekly basis and the opening session usually includes a lot of debating and discussions which help you "get into" the studying.
"Untreated" when referring to drinking water is an incredibly vague statement. Where I live, the city of Helsingborg, Sweden the water is "untreated" in the sense that it is pumped as is from a lake 80 km away through a long tunnel. It is then pumped into the groundwater at the edge of the city where it is pumped up and into the city's plumbing system which supplies almost 100k households.
It's untreated in the sense that no artificial chemicals or filtering is taking place, but soil sediment filtering is one of the most ancient and effective ways of filtering water so there is a massive difference compared to an untreated open air reservoir where pretty much anything can go die and decompose.
Pencils never contained lead though. It's a misunderstanding from when graphite was discovered back in the 16th century and people thought it was a type of lead and called it "black lead" or "plumbago".
The map does not seem to take into account artificial means of holding back the ocean(dikes, for example). The Netherlands are in fact below sea level(about 25% of it according to wikipedia) so in that context, the map makes perfect sense.
As far as I know, the model states that humans migrated from Africa a couple of hundred thousand years ago. Footsteps in Britain from "humans" 1 million years ago would seem to contradict this? Or does this simple mean that these footprints are a Neanderthal precursor species or something similar that's not actually "proper" humans?
Anyone with some more knowledge of this care to shine a light on this?
Who says you need to do it in secret? All you would need to do is convince someone to let you do it, either through being in on it, or some other covert means.
And what, exactly, is the reasoning for taxing those extremely fuel efficient cars? I thought the entire point of a fuel tax was to discourage consumption of fossil fuels. Wouldn't the effect of a "tax free" electric vehicle be exactly what you would be trying to accomplish through fuel tax policy?
I'd say infrastructure is needed no matter what, so justifying a distance tax based on road usage seems like it misses the entire crux of the issue.
While their compliance rate has indeed gone down, a 70% increase coupled with only 10 pp decrease mean that they actually comply with more requests. In fact, it works out to be a 15% increase in the total amount of requests that were complied with.
I stopped reading after your first paragraph. The foundation of modern science have absolutely nothing to do with judeo-christians other than the fact that it was developed during the renaissance by (mainly, but not only) Christian scientists(many of them very much not in the spirit of their religion, look up Galileo Galilei). The renaissance itself took almost all of its principles of science from the ancient greeks where Judaism was rare at best and Christianity did not even exist yet. The rest was a mix of chinese/indian/arabic scholarly thought that was brought to Europe by the silk road and other trade routes that the scholars of Europe then developed further.
The sheer audacity of taking credit away from the Greeks and orientals(for lack of a better catch-all for the eastern civilizations) for the foundations of science is to me an amazing piece of ignorance that just baffles the bloody mind.
Just how ignorant are you? Stuff like this should be common knowledge and require no proof. Ever heard of clean air/water regulation? How about abolishing stuff like the truck system? It would take at most 5 minutes of googling or wikipedia searching to find this stuff out.
Just in case you are too lazy, here are some links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_air_act (note how the criticisms stated all involve net profits and outsourcing as a result of cleaner air, look up the air quality in Mumbai or New Delhi if you get the chance...) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_store The system noted above gave rise the the union United Mine Workers which helped secure the rights of coal miners and other abused workers. Without government supporting the right of unions to exist this would have been impossible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Mine_Workers
Not only that, but the brilliant solution you suggest is in use in, you guessed it, Diablo 2(cloud characters= closed bnet, offline characters= open bnet/singleplayer/lan).
What it all boils down to is that Blizzard is doing the exact same thing they did with SC2. That is, removing features sorely missed by some of the paying customers(in the case of SC2, LAN) to try and squeeze some money out of pirates. Pirates who probably just won't play the game instead of actually buying it, although I admit that's mostly speculation on my part.
Watched the video. He basically made a small furnace out of clay where he got copper and iron out of ores found in the area(malachite for copper, no idea about the iron, don't remember).
Basically, the video is just a proof of concept of how you would make a battery to use as a telegraph using only stone age materials combined with knowledge. The video ends after he uses a voltmeter to measure his "battery" made out of clay and the aforementioned iron/copper(he gets like 1V out of it or something).
Of course it can make a huge difference, but no matter how good your multitasking is, tanks still don't shoot up...
The point is, it's really easy to just outsmart an RTS AI once you figure out its tendencies. No matter how good it's multitasking is your own won't be bad enough that your flying units all of a sudden forget how to shoot down.
Having an intricate knowledge of counters and economy and timings(at least as far as starcraft goes) has always been superior to multitasking, but only to a point. There are things that you can take advantage of with near-perfect multitasking and control, but you need to actually know what to do with that control(and so far, no AIs do). A good example of what you can use AI for is in the article video demonstrating mutalisk/scourge control at a level which no human player would be able to accomplish. The only problem is that a human player would know that the AI is capable of that and just play around it.
An example would be some extremely mechanical starcraft players(NaDa, a korean progamer comes to mind) being able to just completely outdo their opponents with pure control and multitasking. The problem here though is that those players have such an immensely better understanding of the strategy and tactics of the game than a programmed AI can ever come close to even if it's not their strong suit(compared to other progamers who play more with smarts than raw hand speed). Their multitasking wasn't what won them games but rather a combination of their abilities. They still had far and away stronger decision making than your average player(or any kind of AI).
A bot would always be superior in multitasking, but the most important ability in Starcraft(which the article is about) is decision making which is really hard to program for an RTS bot. Or at least, so it would seem as I've never seen an RTS AI that hasn't cheated and at the same time been challenging.
It doesn't matter if you have the best multitasking in the world if the opponent can just outright kill you cause it has more stuff.
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That analysis is from February 2014, the current report is from an experiment taking place for "32 days in March 2014"(that's a quote from the pdf linked in TFS) .
Not to mention the fact that the opening statements of your linked article directly contradicts the report. Your link says that it took place in Italy with Andrea Rossi's equipment, but according to the pdf in TFS the experiment took place in Switzerland with their own factory calibrated never before used equipment.
So unless the authors of that link you provided had a time machine back in February and are also delusional, they couldn't possibly be referring to this experiment.
That's supposed to be "varldsdel" with two dots over the a.
Swedes most certainly do not, as our superior language (no bias here!) has two different words that describe what a geological continent is (kontinent) and what a geopolitical part of the world is (världsdel).
Just because English with it's hundreds of thousands of words don't make that distinction doesn't mean other languages don't.
That was a very nice read, thank you for the link!
The irony about that is that Sony in the form of Sony Music Entertainment are listed on the AARC website under "our friends", suggesting that they would be on the receiving end of those royalties...
:)
Feedback loop?!
Except all the major sources of CO2 are also the sources of the particulates that cause smog?
My google fu yields the following:
http://www.world-aluminium.org/statistics/primary-aluminium-smelting-energy-intensity/
Efficiency varies around the world between 13000-16000 kWh per 1000kg of aluminium.
Assuming the entire quoted weight of 100kg is aluminium (which according to the article the batteries are "made mostly of aluminium"), that's at best 50% efficient assuming your ballpark estimate of 600 kWh. Compared to an internal combustion engine that's not too shabby.
However, I feel like a demonstration like this probably used an extremely lightweight car in order to maximize the range for the test. I'm thinking 600 kWh is probably a bit too optimistic.
Just a minor nit-pick but you are incorrect in asserting that the EU has a population of ~750 million. *Europe* certainly has, but the EU does not (not all countries in Europe are members) and does in fact have a population of almost exactly half a billion (~505 million).
If it's 50 people per tutor then that itself might be the issue.
I'm currently studying medicine in Sweden (on my second semester, which is somewhat equivalent to "pre med" in the US system) and we are using PBL and focusing on it quite strongly.
Every week we have two PBL-meetings which usually involves a typical case regarding the subject the week's learning is supposed to be about (this week it's about memory and forming memories on a neuronal level in the brain and the case is about an old man forgetting things and getting lost while driving his car).
Anyway, we are in 9 person groups, 1 paid tutor who's usually a lecturer or scientist working at the university and 8 students. It's really hard to not actively take part in such a small group which seems to be the entire point.
This is of course not the only thing we do, we still have lectures as usual but they are not mandatory in any way other than the practical exercises. So far I'm liking it very much and it seems to be an extremely effective way to teach. We need to present our findings for our peers on a weekly basis and the opening session usually includes a lot of debating and discussions which help you "get into" the studying.
"Untreated" when referring to drinking water is an incredibly vague statement. Where I live, the city of Helsingborg, Sweden the water is "untreated" in the sense that it is pumped as is from a lake 80 km away through a long tunnel. It is then pumped into the groundwater at the edge of the city where it is pumped up and into the city's plumbing system which supplies almost 100k households.
It's untreated in the sense that no artificial chemicals or filtering is taking place, but soil sediment filtering is one of the most ancient and effective ways of filtering water so there is a massive difference compared to an untreated open air reservoir where pretty much anything can go die and decompose.
You are incorrect. The definition of "oxidation" is contrary to popular belief not "to react with oxygen".
Oxidation is by definition: A loss of electrons, or an increase in oxidation state.
What you are referring to is simply *one* example of oxidation and not the entire definition.
Yes, but but only the political union, not the economic one.
Pencils never contained lead though. It's a misunderstanding from when graphite was discovered back in the 16th century and people thought it was a type of lead and called it "black lead" or "plumbago".
The map does not seem to take into account artificial means of holding back the ocean(dikes, for example). The Netherlands are in fact below sea level(about 25% of it according to wikipedia) so in that context, the map makes perfect sense.
As far as I know, the model states that humans migrated from Africa a couple of hundred thousand years ago. Footsteps in Britain from "humans" 1 million years ago would seem to contradict this? Or does this simple mean that these footprints are a Neanderthal precursor species or something similar that's not actually "proper" humans?
Anyone with some more knowledge of this care to shine a light on this?
Who says you need to do it in secret? All you would need to do is convince someone to let you do it, either through being in on it, or some other covert means.
And what, exactly, is the reasoning for taxing those extremely fuel efficient cars? I thought the entire point of a fuel tax was to discourage consumption of fossil fuels. Wouldn't the effect of a "tax free" electric vehicle be exactly what you would be trying to accomplish through fuel tax policy?
I'd say infrastructure is needed no matter what, so justifying a distance tax based on road usage seems like it misses the entire crux of the issue.
While their compliance rate has indeed gone down, a 70% increase coupled with only 10 pp decrease mean that they actually comply with more requests. In fact, it works out to be a 15% increase in the total amount of requests that were complied with.
I stopped reading after your first paragraph. The foundation of modern science have absolutely nothing to do with judeo-christians other than the fact that it was developed during the renaissance by (mainly, but not only) Christian scientists(many of them very much not in the spirit of their religion, look up Galileo Galilei). The renaissance itself took almost all of its principles of science from the ancient greeks where Judaism was rare at best and Christianity did not even exist yet. The rest was a mix of chinese/indian/arabic scholarly thought that was brought to Europe by the silk road and other trade routes that the scholars of Europe then developed further.
The sheer audacity of taking credit away from the Greeks and orientals(for lack of a better catch-all for the eastern civilizations) for the foundations of science is to me an amazing piece of ignorance that just baffles the bloody mind.
Just how ignorant are you? Stuff like this should be common knowledge and require no proof. Ever heard of clean air/water regulation? How about abolishing stuff like the truck system? It would take at most 5 minutes of googling or wikipedia searching to find this stuff out.
Just in case you are too lazy, here are some links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_air_act (note how the criticisms stated all involve net profits and outsourcing as a result of cleaner air, look up the air quality in Mumbai or New Delhi if you get the chance...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_store
The system noted above gave rise the the union United Mine Workers which helped secure the rights of coal miners and other abused workers. Without government supporting the right of unions to exist this would have been impossible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Mine_Workers
Oh if I still had my mod points from last week, thank you parent for that article link!
Not only that, but the brilliant solution you suggest is in use in, you guessed it, Diablo 2(cloud characters= closed bnet, offline characters= open bnet/singleplayer/lan).
What it all boils down to is that Blizzard is doing the exact same thing they did with SC2. That is, removing features sorely missed by some of the paying customers(in the case of SC2, LAN) to try and squeeze some money out of pirates. Pirates who probably just won't play the game instead of actually buying it, although I admit that's mostly speculation on my part.
Watched the video. He basically made a small furnace out of clay where he got copper and iron out of ores found in the area(malachite for copper, no idea about the iron, don't remember).
Basically, the video is just a proof of concept of how you would make a battery to use as a telegraph using only stone age materials combined with knowledge. The video ends after he uses a voltmeter to measure his "battery" made out of clay and the aforementioned iron/copper(he gets like 1V out of it or something).
Of course it can make a huge difference, but no matter how good your multitasking is, tanks still don't shoot up...
The point is, it's really easy to just outsmart an RTS AI once you figure out its tendencies. No matter how good it's multitasking is your own won't be bad enough that your flying units all of a sudden forget how to shoot down.
Having an intricate knowledge of counters and economy and timings(at least as far as starcraft goes) has always been superior to multitasking, but only to a point. There are things that you can take advantage of with near-perfect multitasking and control, but you need to actually know what to do with that control(and so far, no AIs do). A good example of what you can use AI for is in the article video demonstrating mutalisk/scourge control at a level which no human player would be able to accomplish. The only problem is that a human player would know that the AI is capable of that and just play around it.
An example would be some extremely mechanical starcraft players(NaDa, a korean progamer comes to mind) being able to just completely outdo their opponents with pure control and multitasking. The problem here though is that those players have such an immensely better understanding of the strategy and tactics of the game than a programmed AI can ever come close to even if it's not their strong suit(compared to other progamers who play more with smarts than raw hand speed). Their multitasking wasn't what won them games but rather a combination of their abilities. They still had far and away stronger decision making than your average player(or any kind of AI).
A bot would always be superior in multitasking, but the most important ability in Starcraft(which the article is about) is decision making which is really hard to program for an RTS bot. Or at least, so it would seem as I've never seen an RTS AI that hasn't cheated and at the same time been challenging.
It doesn't matter if you have the best multitasking in the world if the opponent can just outright kill you cause it has more stuff.