What sources would you recommend for those having good backgrounds in medicine/biology who want to keep up with research and results from the leading edge in life extension work?
Agreed. Marital discord isn't an excuse for murder. There are so many alternatives to murder, surely someone as "intelligent" as Reiser could have thought his way through to one of them. What happened was that Reiser yielded his intellect to anger - and perhaps his intellect was his own worst enemy in convincing him he could get away with it - when the right thing, the humane thing to do would have been to think about his kids, remember that life is long and that in time, nothing his wife threatened to do would have mattered all that much. Too fucking bad, it's a tragedy all around. My sympathy is reserved for his children. It's probably a pretty heavy piece of baggage to know your dad is a killer, and that you don't have a mom because of him.
Thousands of men face worse circumstances than Reiser did, with lots less resources, and don't become murderers. Toss Reiser in the bin and forget him.
Why not some regular prismatic solid, whose flat surfaces would (I speculate) be easier to make? The dimensions would be measurable using interferometry just as with the spheres, ditto with X-ray for lattice parameters.
Two years ago, my wife and I coughed up ~ $600 for a Dyson vacuum cleaner, which was pretty much an unimaginable sum for a minor household appliance at the time. It's been worth every penny. Sometimes you really do get what you pay for.
I'd recommend that DARPA put its bucks into AI development that embodies evolutionary processes. After all, the only existence proof of intelligence we have is us, having these various (supposedly) intelligent interactions. How did we get to this point? Basically, take hydrogen, stir for ~13Gy under the conditions of natural selection (variance + selection + inheritance = evolution) and say "Hi" to your neighbor. No directing intelligence required, no infinitely-recursive homunculus problem, etc. - just dumb atoms and energy and time and feedback.
What seems lacking (to this observer, not a practitioner) in AI development is an interface that allows a human to provide feedback to a nascent AI as to what's an intelligent response and what's not. Like..."No, objects tossed in the air don't generally stay there, go review your physics and mechanics databases"...and..."Yes, there are probably strong influences of genetics (low mirror neuron count) and environment (early childhood exposure to lead, manganese, and/or abuse) in determining the propensity of humans toward violence. Check out XX J. Neurophys. and YY Pharmacol Biochem and Behavior, get back to me and tell me what you think."
We know evolution made at least one intelligent species. We're pretty sure that happened in the absence of any guiding intelligence. If we want to make a genuine AI (i.e., something smarter than we, with better abilities to predict and control reality), why not use evolution, the only process known to have succeeded, at least once, in creating intelligence from pretty much nada.
count - if your imaging leads to an arrest, the cops and the DA are happy. Give them a good, sharp image of the perps, and they'll maybe put more effort into it than for a blurry mess.
...of using explosive-driven MHD effects to launch a jet of molten metal compared with the current ways of achieving the same thing with explosive-driven shaped charge technology? The latter generates jets that stay pretty coherent over significant distances, and when coupled with various seeker technology is pretty good at killing tanks from the air or low-flying aircraft from the ground.
Would the MHD tech be more efficient in coupling explosive energy to the metal, which could make the weapons smaller or load more K.E. into the metal? Anybody care to speculate? Inquiring minds want to know....
Check out Jack McDevitt's Odyssey - moonriders blast the noob humans' new space-borne linac, presumably to keep the primates from destroying the known universe. Actually a nice read, good hard sci-fi.
You're probably thinking of argyria, which is a condition in which excess silver ions in the blood precipitate as nanoparticles in tissues served by the blood - including, of course, the skin, which turns a nice greyish-blue color. This can occur due to occupational exposure to silver or through excess consumption of silver dietary supplements. AFAIK, argyria doesn't impair the health of its victims, at least in the case of supplements. Most people stop taking silver when their friends start asking about countermeasures against zombies. Also, AFAIK, the color shift is not reversible.
that was missing until recently was the technology to do all this data capture (cameras, prints, retina scans, etc.), store it, and correlate/analyze it easily and cheaply. As little as ten years ago, the level of surveillance that is being put into place now would have been too expensive even for national governments. There's definitely a dark side to Moore's Law.
Judges have broad authority to set aside or nullify a jury verdict. Usually called "judgement non obstante veredicto", or judgement notwithstanding the verdict. If the judge strongly believes the jury got the facts and/or the applicable law very badly wrong, a jnov can be entered. It's unusual, as juries are accorded very strong cred as the triers of fact.
is around 900 mi NW of Kauai - has anybody calculated whether the engagement will be visible from Kauai? I'd assume a minimum intercept altitude of 100 miles, probably will be higher, but I don't have the orbital elements handy. Could be some good videos from those with telescopes > 6" mirror diameter.
Yeah - We have one data set from one location (Earth) regarding conditions that can give rise to life. To say that energy-driven local entropy-minimizing systems couldn't have arisen because it was too salty is more a comment on the limitations of the declaimant's thought than illumination of the range of conditions in which life might occur.
If they have actually uncovered predictors, and not simply the inevitable patterns within a noisy data set, could I defeat this study's model by selecting my targets with a mostly random process? If I had eight potential targets, could I toss a coin four times, eliminating half the targets each time to reach the final selection? Or for a single target, pick the time of attack in much the same way?
With these detectors in place, some kid with a mineral collection (uraninite, carnotite, tc.) can cause a major shitstorm by grinding up a specimen and sprinkling it around. If the detectors are smart enough to reject medical isotopes, this would still show up as (Horrors Be!): URANIUM IN THE WILD! Oh noze! Call Dick Cheney! The terrists are here!
The Toshiba device is a reactor. It incorporates a steam generator to harvest heat carried by molten sodium from the nuclear core. This steam then turns a turbine generator set. RTGs use thermoelectric junctions that develop small voltages when heated. RTGs have been used on outer-planet space missions when there's not enough solar flux to meet mission power needs with photovoltaics. RTGs are simple, reliable, and very inefficient in terms of their electrical power density. A 10MWe RTG would probably have to be at least 100x the volume of the Toshiba reactor.
It may be that a larger fraction of foreign students than domestic students come here paying the full non-resident college fees (no scholarships, loans, etc.). This brings more $ to the schools.
against this system. It's a mm-wave (that is, really high freq microwave) radiator, I would guess around 100GHz, given the gyrotron sources that can be procured these days. Raytheon says it can be highly collimated, to the point where it can target an individual in a crowd.
Corner reflectors are metallic reflectors that consist of three planes intersecting at right angles - like you sliced the corner of a cube off, hence the name. They have the property of reflecting any incident ray (wave) back along the incoming path - exactly (depends on fab precision) and without having to aim. See for operation. Works with light, works with radar.
The smaller the wave, the smaller the corner reflector can be. So for mm waves, a corner reflector with an aperture of a centimeter or so ought to be effective as a retroreflector. It's not too hard to imagine how to make sheets of corner reflectors that could be used as shields. Since the microwave energy would be directed right back to the antenna, it could damage the transmitting electronics unless they've done a good job with circulators and dummy loads.
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What sources would you recommend for those having good backgrounds in medicine/biology who want to keep up with research and results from the leading edge in life extension work?
Agreed. Marital discord isn't an excuse for murder. There are so many alternatives to murder, surely someone as "intelligent" as Reiser could have thought his way through to one of them. What happened was that Reiser yielded his intellect to anger - and perhaps his intellect was his own worst enemy in convincing him he could get away with it - when the right thing, the humane thing to do would have been to think about his kids, remember that life is long and that in time, nothing his wife threatened to do would have mattered all that much. Too fucking bad, it's a tragedy all around. My sympathy is reserved for his children. It's probably a pretty heavy piece of baggage to know your dad is a killer, and that you don't have a mom because of him. Thousands of men face worse circumstances than Reiser did, with lots less resources, and don't become murderers. Toss Reiser in the bin and forget him.
Why not some regular prismatic solid, whose flat surfaces would (I speculate) be easier to make? The dimensions would be measurable using interferometry just as with the spheres, ditto with X-ray for lattice parameters.
Two years ago, my wife and I coughed up ~ $600 for a Dyson vacuum cleaner, which was pretty much an unimaginable sum for a minor household appliance at the time. It's been worth every penny. Sometimes you really do get what you pay for.
I'd recommend that DARPA put its bucks into AI development that embodies evolutionary processes. After all, the only existence proof of intelligence we have is us, having these various (supposedly) intelligent interactions. How did we get to this point? Basically, take hydrogen, stir for ~13Gy under the conditions of natural selection (variance + selection + inheritance = evolution) and say "Hi" to your neighbor. No directing intelligence required, no infinitely-recursive homunculus problem, etc. - just dumb atoms and energy and time and feedback. What seems lacking (to this observer, not a practitioner) in AI development is an interface that allows a human to provide feedback to a nascent AI as to what's an intelligent response and what's not. Like..."No, objects tossed in the air don't generally stay there, go review your physics and mechanics databases"...and..."Yes, there are probably strong influences of genetics (low mirror neuron count) and environment (early childhood exposure to lead, manganese, and/or abuse) in determining the propensity of humans toward violence. Check out XX J. Neurophys. and YY Pharmacol Biochem and Behavior, get back to me and tell me what you think." We know evolution made at least one intelligent species. We're pretty sure that happened in the absence of any guiding intelligence. If we want to make a genuine AI (i.e., something smarter than we, with better abilities to predict and control reality), why not use evolution, the only process known to have succeeded, at least once, in creating intelligence from pretty much nada.
I'm willing to bet that TJ, a master craftsman of the English language if ever there were one, didn't misuse "it's" for "its"!! (line 6 in the quote)
count - if your imaging leads to an arrest, the cops and the DA are happy. Give them a good, sharp image of the perps, and they'll maybe put more effort into it than for a blurry mess.
If I ran a medical insurance company, those tapes could let me know whose applications to deny and whose to accept. Very valuable indeed.
...of using explosive-driven MHD effects to launch a jet of molten metal compared with the current ways of achieving the same thing with explosive-driven shaped charge technology? The latter generates jets that stay pretty coherent over significant distances, and when coupled with various seeker technology is pretty good at killing tanks from the air or low-flying aircraft from the ground. Would the MHD tech be more efficient in coupling explosive energy to the metal, which could make the weapons smaller or load more K.E. into the metal? Anybody care to speculate? Inquiring minds want to know....
Check out Jack McDevitt's Odyssey - moonriders blast the noob humans' new space-borne linac, presumably to keep the primates from destroying the known universe. Actually a nice read, good hard sci-fi.
You're probably thinking of argyria, which is a condition in which excess silver ions in the blood precipitate as nanoparticles in tissues served by the blood - including, of course, the skin, which turns a nice greyish-blue color. This can occur due to occupational exposure to silver or through excess consumption of silver dietary supplements. AFAIK, argyria doesn't impair the health of its victims, at least in the case of supplements. Most people stop taking silver when their friends start asking about countermeasures against zombies. Also, AFAIK, the color shift is not reversible.
that was missing until recently was the technology to do all this data capture (cameras, prints, retina scans, etc.), store it, and correlate/analyze it easily and cheaply. As little as ten years ago, the level of surveillance that is being put into place now would have been too expensive even for national governments. There's definitely a dark side to Moore's Law.
Judges have broad authority to set aside or nullify a jury verdict. Usually called "judgement non obstante veredicto", or judgement notwithstanding the verdict. If the judge strongly believes the jury got the facts and/or the applicable law very badly wrong, a jnov can be entered. It's unusual, as juries are accorded very strong cred as the triers of fact.
is around 900 mi NW of Kauai - has anybody calculated whether the engagement will be visible from Kauai? I'd assume a minimum intercept altitude of 100 miles, probably will be higher, but I don't have the orbital elements handy. Could be some good videos from those with telescopes > 6" mirror diameter.
Yep, exactly! Once in awhile, a lottery ticket pays off, too.
Yeah - We have one data set from one location (Earth) regarding conditions that can give rise to life. To say that energy-driven local entropy-minimizing systems couldn't have arisen because it was too salty is more a comment on the limitations of the declaimant's thought than illumination of the range of conditions in which life might occur.
If they have actually uncovered predictors, and not simply the inevitable patterns within a noisy data set, could I defeat this study's model by selecting my targets with a mostly random process? If I had eight potential targets, could I toss a coin four times, eliminating half the targets each time to reach the final selection? Or for a single target, pick the time of attack in much the same way?
are never bored. They constantly see a complex, beautiful universe and never lack for engaging questions and challenges.
With these detectors in place, some kid with a mineral collection (uraninite, carnotite, tc.) can cause a major shitstorm by grinding up a specimen and sprinkling it around. If the detectors are smart enough to reject medical isotopes, this would still show up as (Horrors Be!): URANIUM IN THE WILD! Oh noze! Call Dick Cheney! The terrists are here!
that have emergence of HERVs at the core of their plotlines are Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Children, by Greg Bear. Good reads, both.
The Toshiba device is a reactor. It incorporates a steam generator to harvest heat carried by molten sodium from the nuclear core. This steam then turns a turbine generator set. RTGs use thermoelectric junctions that develop small voltages when heated. RTGs have been used on outer-planet space missions when there's not enough solar flux to meet mission power needs with photovoltaics. RTGs are simple, reliable, and very inefficient in terms of their electrical power density. A 10MWe RTG would probably have to be at least 100x the volume of the Toshiba reactor.
This is useful, on-point information. Thanx, AC
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It may be that a larger fraction of foreign students than domestic students come here paying the full non-resident college fees (no scholarships, loans, etc.). This brings more $ to the schools.
against this system. It's a mm-wave (that is, really high freq microwave) radiator, I would guess around 100GHz, given the gyrotron sources that can be procured these days. Raytheon says it can be highly collimated, to the point where it can target an individual in a crowd. Corner reflectors are metallic reflectors that consist of three planes intersecting at right angles - like you sliced the corner of a cube off, hence the name. They have the property of reflecting any incident ray (wave) back along the incoming path - exactly (depends on fab precision) and without having to aim. See for operation. Works with light, works with radar. The smaller the wave, the smaller the corner reflector can be. So for mm waves, a corner reflector with an aperture of a centimeter or so ought to be effective as a retroreflector. It's not too hard to imagine how to make sheets of corner reflectors that could be used as shields. Since the microwave energy would be directed right back to the antenna, it could damage the transmitting electronics unless they've done a good job with circulators and dummy loads.