Is that really so strange? I know tons of people 40+ who go out clubbing regularly, all the way up to one guy who's 65 and still managed to make it out for a week-long psy-trance festival in Hungary a bunch of us were going to after having a stroke 6 months before. Generally it's the youngsters who flake first as well, no stamina for a weekend-long party lol.
With you on that, it's very rare the lyrics get me, I'm more of a rhythm and timbre man myself... which accounts for my liking hip-hop and death metal amongst other things lol:)
Currently it's mostly BZP in pills in the UK, although with the current popularity of methylone and methedrone and the shortage of MDMA over here I'm sure they'll be used as well.
It's from various game theoretical studies of the iterated Prisoner's Dilemna, which show that "Tit for Tat" is the optimal algorithm in most setups i.e. nice by default, then copy what your opponent did in the last turn.
Discovered speed at 18, and only now after 14 years of taking speed about 4 out of 5 weekdays (less at the weekends, which are more for enjoying a nap and/or going out and other stuff) am I in the process of seeking a diagnosis of ADD... took realising that my normal self-image is of me when I'm on amphetamines, rather than the apathetic, unfocused and un-engaged person that I become most of the time. And that meant a) I didn't want to be going to a dealer aged 65 and b) separating speed from other drugs so that my usage of them can change naturally.
First time I heard about ADD was when I was 20 and going out with a girl who was much the same... we were both like "lucky bastards" for kids being prescribed amphetamine, took another 9 years before I met someone who had it and told me adults could have it and to look into it...
Having it all sorted out will be the best thing I've ever done, but I'm guessing I'll miss some of the intensity... lol, I already look back fondly on my year where every week was pretty much wake up Monday morning, stay awake all week at work or coding and learning stuff at home, go Friday night out clubbing and manage to catch a couple of hours at someone's house afterwards before crashing and then sleeping pretty much till Monday again:)
GFA Basic was what got me properly into programming, thank you ST Format magazine!
But now I'd also go with Python, it's the only language that I've used that just lets you get straight into the fun bits of coding and doesn't get in your way. Especially with IPython:)
Or if you want a better example than the god-awful hardstyle that V!NCENT posted, try the concert Jeff Mills (perhaps the biggest name in techno) did with the Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra:
Electronic music is a huge umbrella term, there's plenty of melodic stuff, and also a ton of stuff that's melodically simple but complex in terms of texture and rhythm. I find stuff like this inspiring though
After spending a year or so staying awake for 5 days at a time almost every week I can tell you that you can get used to it... for me hallucinations started around the 4 day point, by the end of that year they wouldn't kick in until I'd been awake nearly six days.
Something like Docato then? All the content is in XML, you can define different content types using XML schemas, use XQuery to extract content in whatever format you want and then use XSLT to manage publication. You can't check a resource back in unless it validates against the appropriate schema.
It doesn't even need that much - religion is a perfect social and cultural fit for both the genetic inter-tribe/family bond and the xenophobia that's instinctive to those outside our group... at least back before the march of civilisation. As we expand our boundaries of what we consider our "in-group" religion has to redefine itself to fit, something its finding increasingly difficult to do.
You're certainly right about what we know now... but saying science will never answer these questions is equally just an assertion. Certainly there's a lot of scientific thinking about why the Universe exists and what could've caused it. I'd thoroughly recommend reading The Goldilocks Enigma, which takes these theories as well as the God hypothesis, and follows each to its logical conclusion... going to re-read it once my mate's done with my copy:)
It was pretty much only Teller who pushed for the hydrogen bomb - Oppenheimer and the others were against it, believing the atom bomb was "good enough" for any use.
Morals are what we call the expression of inherent drives that come from our genes. They're absolute in one sense - we all share the same basic set of drives and thus moral urges - but they're just another mechanism to enable us to better pass our genes along. Most of them are readily identifiable as mechanisms for social living, tending to drive us towards the tit-for-tat solution to the iterated Prisoner's Dilemna... it's a fascinating subject, it basically boils down to the fact that given natural selection, we've evolved the morals necessary for our genes to have the best chance of being passed on.
Between game theory and evolutionary genetics, we can explain why we have morals... and why any kind of socially-living creature would most likely have similar qualities (the caveat being that intelligence brings with it an amazing ability to interpret things in all kinds of ways!) Sure beats God as a theory, which can't explain evil, let alone good.
would just extract a particular column, you'd probably create an object for each line using New-Object and set properties on it for the data you're extracting so you can perform further processing - see here for a function that does it automatically based on the first line containing headings.
The holographic principle is that there is no difference at all between the information stored on the boundary and the information inside the boundary - they are the same thing. Imagine a TV playing a film - it looks like there's a 3-D world obeying the laws we know, but it's just a 2-D screen - all of the information is in the screen, and the size of the screen limits the amount of information the 3-D world "inside" the screen can have.
And if you overlap boundaries... well, you've just got a bigger boundary, that's all. Black holes and so on are where the principle was developed, but it's about the fundamental limits to information processing in the Universe, which turn about to be proportional to surface area, not volume...
It's more of a fundamental statement about the nature of horizons of any kind - whether that be the event horizon of a black hole, the horizon around an accelerating observer caused by the Unruh effect, or the horizon formed by the limit of the observable Universe. Any horizon implies that the information is constrained by the area of that horizon, and therefore whatever is inside the horizon must be specified by the exact same amount of information, which means things must be fuzzier than just plain quantum theory says.
Two overlapping horizons just makes one bigger horizon. And the holographic principle is talking about any arbitrary horizon at all - pick any volume of spacetime you want, the information inside is contrained by its boundary. There won't be any disagreement over what's going on on/within the boundary, its that the boundary determines how much information there is, not what's inside it.
Slashdot Mirror
Is that really so strange? I know tons of people 40+ who go out clubbing regularly, all the way up to one guy who's 65 and still managed to make it out for a week-long psy-trance festival in Hungary a bunch of us were going to after having a stroke 6 months before. Generally it's the youngsters who flake first as well, no stamina for a weekend-long party lol.
With you on that, it's very rare the lyrics get me, I'm more of a rhythm and timbre man myself... which accounts for my liking hip-hop and death metal amongst other things lol :)
Actually, if you want to cut accidents, then this is what you want to do rather than adding more obstacles...
Currently it's mostly BZP in pills in the UK, although with the current popularity of methylone and methedrone and the shortage of MDMA over here I'm sure they'll be used as well.
It's from various game theoretical studies of the iterated Prisoner's Dilemna, which show that "Tit for Tat" is the optimal algorithm in most setups i.e. nice by default, then copy what your opponent did in the last turn.
http://www.iterated-prisoners-dilemma.net/
Discovered speed at 18, and only now after 14 years of taking speed about 4 out of 5 weekdays (less at the weekends, which are more for enjoying a nap and/or going out and other stuff) am I in the process of seeking a diagnosis of ADD... took realising that my normal self-image is of me when I'm on amphetamines, rather than the apathetic, unfocused and un-engaged person that I become most of the time. And that meant a) I didn't want to be going to a dealer aged 65 and b) separating speed from other drugs so that my usage of them can change naturally.
First time I heard about ADD was when I was 20 and going out with a girl who was much the same... we were both like "lucky bastards" for kids being prescribed amphetamine, took another 9 years before I met someone who had it and told me adults could have it and to look into it...
Having it all sorted out will be the best thing I've ever done, but I'm guessing I'll miss some of the intensity... lol, I already look back fondly on my year where every week was pretty much wake up Monday morning, stay awake all week at work or coding and learning stuff at home, go Friday night out clubbing and manage to catch a couple of hours at someone's house afterwards before crashing and then sleeping pretty much till Monday again :)
GFA Basic was what got me properly into programming, thank you ST Format magazine!
But now I'd also go with Python, it's the only language that I've used that just lets you get straight into the fun bits of coding and doesn't get in your way. Especially with IPython :)
Or if you want a better example than the god-awful hardstyle that V!NCENT posted, try the concert Jeff Mills (perhaps the biggest name in techno) did with the Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wPbNf1jhzM
Electronic music is a huge umbrella term, there's plenty of melodic stuff, and also a ton of stuff that's melodically simple but complex in terms of texture and rhythm. I find stuff like this inspiring though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r45BFelcBw0
Try Download Helper, it detects any video streams that start playing and allow you to download them. It's worked on every site I've tried it on.
"Without hierarchy." As in the boss-worker or landlord-tenant hierarchies that exist in anarcho-capitalism.
After spending a year or so staying awake for 5 days at a time almost every week I can tell you that you can get used to it... for me hallucinations started around the 4 day point, by the end of that year they wouldn't kick in until I'd been awake nearly six days.
No, it's someone using Comet Cursor and Bonzai Buddy...
70% is that you? Either way, your post seriously reminds me of "The Moon: A Ridiculous Liberal Myth" lol :)
Ah, I remember that article :)
Something like Docato then? All the content is in XML, you can define different content types using XML schemas, use XQuery to extract content in whatever format you want and then use XSLT to manage publication. You can't check a resource back in unless it validates against the appropriate schema.
I assume he means this.
It doesn't even need that much - religion is a perfect social and cultural fit for both the genetic inter-tribe/family bond and the xenophobia that's instinctive to those outside our group... at least back before the march of civilisation. As we expand our boundaries of what we consider our "in-group" religion has to redefine itself to fit, something its finding increasingly difficult to do.
You're certainly right about what we know now... but saying science will never answer these questions is equally just an assertion. Certainly there's a lot of scientific thinking about why the Universe exists and what could've caused it. I'd thoroughly recommend reading The Goldilocks Enigma, which takes these theories as well as the God hypothesis, and follows each to its logical conclusion... going to re-read it once my mate's done with my copy :)
No, the probability of you being you is 1.
It was pretty much only Teller who pushed for the hydrogen bomb - Oppenheimer and the others were against it, believing the atom bomb was "good enough" for any use.
Morals are what we call the expression of inherent drives that come from our genes. They're absolute in one sense - we all share the same basic set of drives and thus moral urges - but they're just another mechanism to enable us to better pass our genes along. Most of them are readily identifiable as mechanisms for social living, tending to drive us towards the tit-for-tat solution to the iterated Prisoner's Dilemna... it's a fascinating subject, it basically boils down to the fact that given natural selection, we've evolved the morals necessary for our genes to have the best chance of being passed on.
Between game theory and evolutionary genetics, we can explain why we have morals... and why any kind of socially-living creature would most likely have similar qualities (the caveat being that intelligence brings with it an amazing ability to interpret things in all kinds of ways!) Sure beats God as a theory, which can't explain evil, let alone good.
Literal numbers have been objects since Python 2.2, which was released on the 21st December, 2001.
>>> dir(4)
['__abs__',
'__add__',
'__and__',
'__class__',
'__cmp__',
'__coerce__',
'__delattr__',
'__div__',
'__divmod__',
'__doc__',
'__float__',
'__floordiv__',
'__format__',
'__getattribute__',
'__getnewargs__',
'__hash__',
'__hex__',
'__index__',
'__init__',
'__int__',
'__invert__',
etc.
You can create subclasses using class foo(int). Everything is an object in Python.
Something like
gc test.txt |% { $_.Split("`t")[2] }
would just extract a particular column, you'd probably create an object for each line using New-Object and set properties on it for the data you're extracting so you can perform further processing - see here for a function that does it automatically based on the first line containing headings.
The holographic principle is that there is no difference at all between the information stored on the boundary and the information inside the boundary - they are the same thing. Imagine a TV playing a film - it looks like there's a 3-D world obeying the laws we know, but it's just a 2-D screen - all of the information is in the screen, and the size of the screen limits the amount of information the 3-D world "inside" the screen can have.
And if you overlap boundaries... well, you've just got a bigger boundary, that's all. Black holes and so on are where the principle was developed, but it's about the fundamental limits to information processing in the Universe, which turn about to be proportional to surface area, not volume...
It's more of a fundamental statement about the nature of horizons of any kind - whether that be the event horizon of a black hole, the horizon around an accelerating observer caused by the Unruh effect, or the horizon formed by the limit of the observable Universe. Any horizon implies that the information is constrained by the area of that horizon, and therefore whatever is inside the horizon must be specified by the exact same amount of information, which means things must be fuzzier than just plain quantum theory says.
Two overlapping horizons just makes one bigger horizon. And the holographic principle is talking about any arbitrary horizon at all - pick any volume of spacetime you want, the information inside is contrained by its boundary. There won't be any disagreement over what's going on on/within the boundary, its that the boundary determines how much information there is, not what's inside it.