I would be for this if there weren't better options that are not available to me because of the shitty music industry. I want to use Pandora because it already does tailor made playlists that use much better algorithms and show me new music. But the music industry has no interest in letting customers find lesser known bands and no interest in letting people listen to what they want to. Instead the music industry is entirely invested in a few brands they want to sell and they will MAKE you like them. This will be the same few hundred tracks looped to what they want to sell you, and not giving you what you would be interested in.
I got into comics pretty heavily about 5 years ago and have fallen in love with the medium, the power of pictures and words is something that is overlooked by many (including many comic writers). It is an extremely expensive hobby though, so here are some tips to manage that:
Use the library: I first started getting into comics though libraries, they are fantastic and you can get a huge selection. Plus it's a great way to explore the genre, grab a bunch and if you don't like something, no sweat, move on to another book. In Canada (at least where I am in Canada) they separate the adult graphic novels from the all ages stuff, which is great cause some of those adult books can get very sexually explicit and violent. But it's also a way to help you sort for stuff you like, if you want biographies and mature content you have a separate section than the all ages which is where you will find most of your Marvel and DC content (though both have some adult content too)
Bargain bins: Most comic stores will have bargain bins were you can get graphic novels for about $5 or floppies for $.25-$1. Those are a good place to sample new stuff and I have found most of my favorite books in those.
Piracy sites: I won't be specific here cause I don't want to advertise any sites but I do pirate a lot of stuff, especially all the new series from Marvel/DC. Not many have the money to buy every new number 1 from Marvel DC to find the new good series, nor do I think a person should have to buy a book to sample it. There is also the problem that Marvel has been relaunching books once a year, this is a terrible business practice and should NOT be supported. So I usually pirate the first couple issues and if I like it I will buy them.
Marvel Unlimited: This is a good way to get old comics. It's a digital subscription service that allows you to read a TON of the back catalog. I find that the 80s and the early 2000s are two extremely good era's for Marvel and there is lots of good stuff on Marvel Unlimited.
It took me a while to hone in on the types of books I really like and it took a lot of experimenting with new types of books and a lot of just straight up gambling with random books from the bargain bin. But I feel I have a pretty good grasp on what I like now. As for science fiction here are some good ones to start on:
Ocean/Orbiter by Warren Ellis: collects 2 stories, he is known as one of the best comic writers and these two stories are my favorite. Orbiter is an uplifting story of a dystopia that finds it's love for space again
Orbital by Sylvain Runberg: (yes, can get confusing with the above comic) European comic and a bit Star Trekian in it where it's attempting to solve conflicts between species with politics. Not 100% successful cause then there would be no action, a nice blend of action and politics.
Star Trek Broken Mirror: Speaking of Star Trek. Takes place in the Mirror TNG Universe where the Federation Empire has been pushed back to earth. Oddly, Barclay is one of the main characters.
The Metabarons by Jodorworsky: If you want a weird space epic this is the best of the best. It follows a lineage of Metabarons as they become the most powerful warriors in the galaxy and how the traditions have come to be. It is mythical and beautiful.
The Nikopol Trilogy by Enki Bilal: Distant future and Ra has returned to earth because he needs to procreate so his lineage is preserved. There was a weird movie based on it call Immortal, half animated and half CGI character but before they could do that properly, so it's very visually weird but very well made.
There is also TONS of Marvel sci-fi, with stuff like Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Guardians of the Galaxy. Too much for me too list. But I hope this starts you off well. Oh, at some point you should read Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, it is one of the only good analysis's of the comic medium and is a must read for fans of comics. Happy reading!
You are forgetting how fast technology is accelerating. I don't want to trivialize how big an obstacle living in space or another planet is, that is huge. But hawking said 1,000 years (I think he is generous), look back that amount and things are unrecognizable. Look 100 years back and it is just the same. Moores law doesn't just seem to be a guidline for processing power, i believe there was an article about it being about total knowledge (sorry, on phone and can't find relivant link). I am not going to cite the singularity as solving these problems, because out political and economic systems can't seem to evolve as fast as out technological ones can. A method to solve this problem may be multiple colonies in space. Which would allow a ground up reinvention of politics and economics.
There is certain 'traps in science' although I think the term is very inappropriate. How many times have you heard someone call a certain field of study a dead end or a career killer. The opposite is true as well and string theory is a good example of how over-excitement can happen in a field, it was scene as the place to go for any theoretical physicists, and very few have panned out with any substance. PhD supervisors are sought for their fields of expertise and if you study cold fusion it is a career killer, unless you find some new novel idea, which is very unlikely.
With a good portion of the regular population, I would think you have a point. However, that doesn't explain the large amount of funding the anti-AGW has. This is a lot closer to acid rain and even closer to ozone depletion. In both cases the funding has been remarkably simple (even the same scientists being used to argue against all three). Yes, it is more about economics, specifically of keeping entrenched industry operating at the status quo. Change is disruptive, that is what these people are fighting against.
Well... honestly, no, that's not science. If you look at attempts to formalize the scientific method, you probably won't see a step that is, "convince other people", and there's a reason for that. The process of convincing other people is political, and not really a scientific process.
Yes, that part of science is political but it is still part of the scientific process. You can't separate science from humanity, thus it is a CULTURE. That culture has many aspects, like the process you speak of, but part of it is convincing others that one theory is better than another. It effects, not only what is studied and funded, but what methods are favored and in the end taught.
There was a great CBC program on this recently, I can't link to it directly cause for some stupid reason the internet filter at work thinks CBC is a bad site to visit... But it's on CBC Radio One, Ideas and called Knowledge and Democracy. A sociologist of science explains this very well.
I want a study that compares the emissions of cattle to those of how many bison there used to be in North America. We've slaughtered so many animals that my gut instinct is that cattle emissions are less than that of the population devastation we've had on wild animals.
As a tangential topic, I want to see us transition from cattle to bison. Emissions are supposedly less (from what I remember), but they are also easier to feed in the winter, as they can still graze and won't need as much feed. As a bonus it would bring back the population, even if it is domesticated.
Since most star systems are binary this is false. A brown dwarf is a star that is just under the mass needed to ignite fusion but they are still intensely hot in the infrared spectrum. Jupiter is still several times too small to be a brown dwarf.
That is probably what consumers what, but the goal of autonomous cars is much grander than that. They market it as driving for you as a way to sell it because safety sells, at least when it comes to cars. The goal is actually to network transportation to make it much more effective, so instead of having 1 self-driving car, the whole road is self-driving. This way they can route around congestion, bad weather, construction, etc.
Canadian here, I thought that's how it's always done, at least that my experience in Physics. Absolutely NO emphasis was getting the right answer (except for your calculations, even wrong data can be calculated to arrive at some outrageous number), instead marks are on proper note keeping, data COLLECTION and calculation, and of course the conclusion and what-not. That's where you talk about what may have gone wrong and you do not even talk about human error, that can always happen (and the experiment started from scratch to try and fix the human error) and we all SHOULD know that doing an experiment just once is not enough to draw any proper conclusion
I think it was Democritus, but it could be a different Greek, who said that there will always be slaves until we have automatons to do the boring, uninteresting and menial jobs. That without complex machines there will always be slaves. So they did think about it critically but didn't really see an alternative, or that alternative would only present itself when technology was advanced enough.
It saddens me that whenever NDGT and Nye are brought up on Slashdot there is such a terrible knee jerk reaction. So many posters and scientists seem to think that if someone communicates science they are automatically wrong and don't understand science. This is the exact attacks Sagan had to deal with when he published his paper on global warming, they attacked him because he loved to communicate science and was good at it as clearly is shown in Cosmos. It saddens me that the community hasn't changed at all.
These days, with the internet, there is opportunity to do hobbyist science like Zooniverse and OEIS. Do you know of other math projects like OEIS that the public can contribute too?
The Liberals ran on a very evidence based policy platform, and they have so far been honoring this. Not only have they reinstituted the long form but they made a new cabinet portfolio for Science, which is in charge of repairing our fundamental science and bringing evidence to people and government.
What about other 'best practices' in coding. Big O is important to think about but it isn't the only thing you should hired or not upon, even in coding. Tidiness and documentation should also be looked at, I don't see how a timed 'exam' would allow the interviewer to see these things. Especially since some people code very differently when timed, or some people clean up the code after they are done and some do it right from the start (what do I know, I'm a very amateur coder).
This man was hiking, he video tapes the eruption and then has to escape it on foot. If you want to see his life and death part skip to 2 minutes where he says "I honest to god think I'm dead." Cause he can't breath. He does survive though.
I find it very different. Watching sports is very passive, sure you talk to others and learn stats and what not, but all that knowledge is passive. When you roleplay you explore ideas and concepts. Sure, some games are more comedy with friends and is more about just having fun, but other games are challenges that people collaborate, plan and execute complex ideas. I would say it's more like playing a sport in those games, by which I mean mental team sport, because each person can have their role on the 'field'.
In the west we are just starting to understand some of those ideas. For example, in Canada the supreme court has ordered the government to come up with a law about assisted suicide, they say it is a right for a patient that is unable to do it themselves. The Liberal government is supposed to have 6 months to make the law (may be extended since it was supposed to be the Conservatives to do it, but they wouldn't touch it). This type of suicide is not wacky, I would argue that our idea of death IS wacky.
By that...time-yes, I went there-we would have a much more complex time system, not based on individual clocks but maybe pulsars and some sort of relativistic conversion. Planets with larger suns, and larger planets have seconds moving slower compared to lighter ones, planets rotating faster would also have slower seconds. My guess is that conversions would have to be based on pulsars and your planet would have to convert your time to the pulsar time and the other planet convert to their planets time. Thus, galactic time and planetary time.
Software just isn't good at pattern recognition and this is far from the first project to seek the public's help in these type of things, but this could potentially harness more participation than previous attempts. Zooniverse started with getting people to classify types of galaxies, now they have a few dozen science projects that use the pattern recognition humans do better than computers. These areas of science span physics, anthropology, biology, and linguistics, even a project that you can sift through LHC data to help find exotic matter (haven't done that one so I don't know how good it is. I did the Planet Hunters one for a while and they managed to locate 7 exo-planets that year using the Kepler data.
Just watched The Fantastic Mr Feynman and found it interesting that while everyone put on sunglasses for the first test, he did some quick calculations and just got behind normal glass to block the UV. He was the only person to see that first test with the true naked eye. Must have been amazing and horrifying at the same time.
"So here's my petition. I'd like time to always move forward, and the same rate of 1 second per second. I'd like it to not jump, leap, crawl, rewind, fast forward, restart, end , or eject."
Sorry, Albert Einstein isn't here to take your petition, please leave a message and when time travel is invented he will read it.
The main reason for the leap second is for astronomers to keep very precise measurements on the relation of the earth and the sky. They date everything to a very arbitrary date, but for the software to calculate sky's as they would have been at a certain date or in the future they calculate all this. It may not seem like a second is not much, but as others have stated it adds up, and it builds up quickly, especially for astronomers.
As well they should! Whether you think any of them are doing good deeds or not, they are using a drastically different method of letting the public know about this stuff. Wikileaks will publish anything online, without redacted lines, Snowden goes through one journalist and it is that person that decides what should be published and what should be kept secret. Also, since he is going through a journalist the information is still being parsed today. Even if the government doesn't think Snowden is a whistleblower, he is doing MORE than his part in making sure he is doing this as responsibly as possible.
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I would be for this if there weren't better options that are not available to me because of the shitty music industry. I want to use Pandora because it already does tailor made playlists that use much better algorithms and show me new music. But the music industry has no interest in letting customers find lesser known bands and no interest in letting people listen to what they want to. Instead the music industry is entirely invested in a few brands they want to sell and they will MAKE you like them. This will be the same few hundred tracks looped to what they want to sell you, and not giving you what you would be interested in.
I got into comics pretty heavily about 5 years ago and have fallen in love with the medium, the power of pictures and words is something that is overlooked by many (including many comic writers). It is an extremely expensive hobby though, so here are some tips to manage that:
Use the library: I first started getting into comics though libraries, they are fantastic and you can get a huge selection. Plus it's a great way to explore the genre, grab a bunch and if you don't like something, no sweat, move on to another book. In Canada (at least where I am in Canada) they separate the adult graphic novels from the all ages stuff, which is great cause some of those adult books can get very sexually explicit and violent. But it's also a way to help you sort for stuff you like, if you want biographies and mature content you have a separate section than the all ages which is where you will find most of your Marvel and DC content (though both have some adult content too)
Bargain bins: Most comic stores will have bargain bins were you can get graphic novels for about $5 or floppies for $.25-$1. Those are a good place to sample new stuff and I have found most of my favorite books in those.
Piracy sites: I won't be specific here cause I don't want to advertise any sites but I do pirate a lot of stuff, especially all the new series from Marvel/DC. Not many have the money to buy every new number 1 from Marvel DC to find the new good series, nor do I think a person should have to buy a book to sample it. There is also the problem that Marvel has been relaunching books once a year, this is a terrible business practice and should NOT be supported. So I usually pirate the first couple issues and if I like it I will buy them.
Marvel Unlimited: This is a good way to get old comics. It's a digital subscription service that allows you to read a TON of the back catalog. I find that the 80s and the early 2000s are two extremely good era's for Marvel and there is lots of good stuff on Marvel Unlimited.
It took me a while to hone in on the types of books I really like and it took a lot of experimenting with new types of books and a lot of just straight up gambling with random books from the bargain bin. But I feel I have a pretty good grasp on what I like now. As for science fiction here are some good ones to start on:
Ocean/Orbiter by Warren Ellis: collects 2 stories, he is known as one of the best comic writers and these two stories are my favorite. Orbiter is an uplifting story of a dystopia that finds it's love for space again
Orbital by Sylvain Runberg: (yes, can get confusing with the above comic) European comic and a bit Star Trekian in it where it's attempting to solve conflicts between species with politics. Not 100% successful cause then there would be no action, a nice blend of action and politics.
Star Trek Broken Mirror: Speaking of Star Trek. Takes place in the Mirror TNG Universe where the Federation Empire has been pushed back to earth. Oddly, Barclay is one of the main characters.
The Metabarons by Jodorworsky: If you want a weird space epic this is the best of the best. It follows a lineage of Metabarons as they become the most powerful warriors in the galaxy and how the traditions have come to be. It is mythical and beautiful.
The Nikopol Trilogy by Enki Bilal: Distant future and Ra has returned to earth because he needs to procreate so his lineage is preserved. There was a weird movie based on it call Immortal, half animated and half CGI character but before they could do that properly, so it's very visually weird but very well made.
There is also TONS of Marvel sci-fi, with stuff like Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Guardians of the Galaxy. Too much for me too list. But I hope this starts you off well. Oh, at some point you should read Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, it is one of the only good analysis's of the comic medium and is a must read for fans of comics. Happy reading!
You are forgetting how fast technology is accelerating. I don't want to trivialize how big an obstacle living in space or another planet is, that is huge. But hawking said 1,000 years (I think he is generous), look back that amount and things are unrecognizable. Look 100 years back and it is just the same. Moores law doesn't just seem to be a guidline for processing power, i believe there was an article about it being about total knowledge (sorry, on phone and can't find relivant link). I am not going to cite the singularity as solving these problems, because out political and economic systems can't seem to evolve as fast as out technological ones can. A method to solve this problem may be multiple colonies in space. Which would allow a ground up reinvention of politics and economics.
There is certain 'traps in science' although I think the term is very inappropriate. How many times have you heard someone call a certain field of study a dead end or a career killer. The opposite is true as well and string theory is a good example of how over-excitement can happen in a field, it was scene as the place to go for any theoretical physicists, and very few have panned out with any substance. PhD supervisors are sought for their fields of expertise and if you study cold fusion it is a career killer, unless you find some new novel idea, which is very unlikely.
With a good portion of the regular population, I would think you have a point. However, that doesn't explain the large amount of funding the anti-AGW has. This is a lot closer to acid rain and even closer to ozone depletion. In both cases the funding has been remarkably simple (even the same scientists being used to argue against all three). Yes, it is more about economics, specifically of keeping entrenched industry operating at the status quo. Change is disruptive, that is what these people are fighting against.
Well... honestly, no, that's not science. If you look at attempts to formalize the scientific method, you probably won't see a step that is, "convince other people", and there's a reason for that. The process of convincing other people is political, and not really a scientific process.
Yes, that part of science is political but it is still part of the scientific process. You can't separate science from humanity, thus it is a CULTURE. That culture has many aspects, like the process you speak of, but part of it is convincing others that one theory is better than another. It effects, not only what is studied and funded, but what methods are favored and in the end taught.
There was a great CBC program on this recently, I can't link to it directly cause for some stupid reason the internet filter at work thinks CBC is a bad site to visit... But it's on CBC Radio One, Ideas and called Knowledge and Democracy. A sociologist of science explains this very well.
I want a study that compares the emissions of cattle to those of how many bison there used to be in North America. We've slaughtered so many animals that my gut instinct is that cattle emissions are less than that of the population devastation we've had on wild animals.
As a tangential topic, I want to see us transition from cattle to bison. Emissions are supposedly less (from what I remember), but they are also easier to feed in the winter, as they can still graze and won't need as much feed. As a bonus it would bring back the population, even if it is domesticated.
Since most star systems are binary this is false. A brown dwarf is a star that is just under the mass needed to ignite fusion but they are still intensely hot in the infrared spectrum. Jupiter is still several times too small to be a brown dwarf.
That is probably what consumers what, but the goal of autonomous cars is much grander than that. They market it as driving for you as a way to sell it because safety sells, at least when it comes to cars. The goal is actually to network transportation to make it much more effective, so instead of having 1 self-driving car, the whole road is self-driving. This way they can route around congestion, bad weather, construction, etc.
Canadian here, I thought that's how it's always done, at least that my experience in Physics. Absolutely NO emphasis was getting the right answer (except for your calculations, even wrong data can be calculated to arrive at some outrageous number), instead marks are on proper note keeping, data COLLECTION and calculation, and of course the conclusion and what-not. That's where you talk about what may have gone wrong and you do not even talk about human error, that can always happen (and the experiment started from scratch to try and fix the human error) and we all SHOULD know that doing an experiment just once is not enough to draw any proper conclusion
I think it was Democritus, but it could be a different Greek, who said that there will always be slaves until we have automatons to do the boring, uninteresting and menial jobs. That without complex machines there will always be slaves. So they did think about it critically but didn't really see an alternative, or that alternative would only present itself when technology was advanced enough.
It saddens me that whenever NDGT and Nye are brought up on Slashdot there is such a terrible knee jerk reaction. So many posters and scientists seem to think that if someone communicates science they are automatically wrong and don't understand science. This is the exact attacks Sagan had to deal with when he published his paper on global warming, they attacked him because he loved to communicate science and was good at it as clearly is shown in Cosmos. It saddens me that the community hasn't changed at all.
These days, with the internet, there is opportunity to do hobbyist science like Zooniverse and OEIS. Do you know of other math projects like OEIS that the public can contribute too?
The Liberals ran on a very evidence based policy platform, and they have so far been honoring this. Not only have they reinstituted the long form but they made a new cabinet portfolio for Science, which is in charge of repairing our fundamental science and bringing evidence to people and government.
What about other 'best practices' in coding. Big O is important to think about but it isn't the only thing you should hired or not upon, even in coding. Tidiness and documentation should also be looked at, I don't see how a timed 'exam' would allow the interviewer to see these things. Especially since some people code very differently when timed, or some people clean up the code after they are done and some do it right from the start (what do I know, I'm a very amateur coder).
This man was hiking, he video tapes the eruption and then has to escape it on foot. If you want to see his life and death part skip to 2 minutes where he says "I honest to god think I'm dead." Cause he can't breath. He does survive though.
I find it very different. Watching sports is very passive, sure you talk to others and learn stats and what not, but all that knowledge is passive. When you roleplay you explore ideas and concepts. Sure, some games are more comedy with friends and is more about just having fun, but other games are challenges that people collaborate, plan and execute complex ideas. I would say it's more like playing a sport in those games, by which I mean mental team sport, because each person can have their role on the 'field'.
He failed his save against the illusionary spell /sarcasm
In the west we are just starting to understand some of those ideas. For example, in Canada the supreme court has ordered the government to come up with a law about assisted suicide, they say it is a right for a patient that is unable to do it themselves. The Liberal government is supposed to have 6 months to make the law (may be extended since it was supposed to be the Conservatives to do it, but they wouldn't touch it). This type of suicide is not wacky, I would argue that our idea of death IS wacky.
By that...time-yes, I went there-we would have a much more complex time system, not based on individual clocks but maybe pulsars and some sort of relativistic conversion. Planets with larger suns, and larger planets have seconds moving slower compared to lighter ones, planets rotating faster would also have slower seconds. My guess is that conversions would have to be based on pulsars and your planet would have to convert your time to the pulsar time and the other planet convert to their planets time. Thus, galactic time and planetary time.
That breaks my brain though....
Software just isn't good at pattern recognition and this is far from the first project to seek the public's help in these type of things, but this could potentially harness more participation than previous attempts. Zooniverse started with getting people to classify types of galaxies, now they have a few dozen science projects that use the pattern recognition humans do better than computers. These areas of science span physics, anthropology, biology, and linguistics, even a project that you can sift through LHC data to help find exotic matter (haven't done that one so I don't know how good it is. I did the Planet Hunters one for a while and they managed to locate 7 exo-planets that year using the Kepler data.
Just watched The Fantastic Mr Feynman and found it interesting that while everyone put on sunglasses for the first test, he did some quick calculations and just got behind normal glass to block the UV. He was the only person to see that first test with the true naked eye. Must have been amazing and horrifying at the same time.
"So here's my petition. I'd like time to always move forward, and the same rate of 1 second per second. I'd like it to not jump, leap, crawl, rewind, fast forward, restart, end , or eject." Sorry, Albert Einstein isn't here to take your petition, please leave a message and when time travel is invented he will read it.
The main reason for the leap second is for astronomers to keep very precise measurements on the relation of the earth and the sky. They date everything to a very arbitrary date, but for the software to calculate sky's as they would have been at a certain date or in the future they calculate all this. It may not seem like a second is not much, but as others have stated it adds up, and it builds up quickly, especially for astronomers.
As well they should! Whether you think any of them are doing good deeds or not, they are using a drastically different method of letting the public know about this stuff. Wikileaks will publish anything online, without redacted lines, Snowden goes through one journalist and it is that person that decides what should be published and what should be kept secret. Also, since he is going through a journalist the information is still being parsed today. Even if the government doesn't think Snowden is a whistleblower, he is doing MORE than his part in making sure he is doing this as responsibly as possible.