In general, most of the students came from magnet schools that you have to test into. These schools sometimes have relationships with local universities or labs, so there are research progams avaliable to the students. I think the average timeframe for the research was about a year, with some people spending more time (the 7th place winner spent 4 years on her research!) and some people spending less. Also, several students worked completely on their own (like the ninth place winner, she built and concieved her project in her basement). IMO those are the most impressive projects.
As for the "soft" sciences, in the top forty projects, there were two behavioral and social sciences projects. I think the reason why they didn't win isn't because of the quality of their projects, but the rigourous judging that all the finalists had to go through. They made it clear that they weren't just looking for the best project, but future leaders in science. We had four interview sessions, and the judges also observed us when we were presenting our projects at the NAS to the public.
"The molecules described in the current report have just one "speed bump;' now that researchers have confirmed that the theoretical designs work, they are synthesizing molecules with more bumps.
"The calculations show that the more bumps, the better," said Kuzyk."
It seems like they have to manually synthesize each molecule with certain specifications. It would be impossible to produce enough of the new material to use for optical technologies.
Keep in mind that what is deemed an unacceptable drug in the developed world can be a huge benefit to developing nations. For example, lets say I have a very cheap drug that cures malaria in 80% of patients, but causes severe side effects in the remaining 20%. Clearly, this is unacceptable in the USA or other developed nations. However, in many countries in Africa, where millions of people die from malaria every year, this drug is perfect - its cheap, and it cures most of the patients. Regardless of the reletively high side effects, the benefit is enough that a drug like this would be considered a godsend by nearly all sub-saharan nations.
There are alternatives... like for example, allowing generics to be sold in 3rd world countries while preserving the patent in the USA & other developed nations. Or they could do zone pricing, where certain zones get cheaper drugs. The latter might even bring in a profit for the company, allowing them to sell to consumers (in developing countries) who previously could not afford the patent-inflated prices.
Yes, I'm aware that there could be issues with this (smuggling the cheaper drugs back into developed countries), but I'd say that the benefits (millions of lives saved or improved) vastly outweighs the effort required to overcome these barriers.
But if that donation ends up distorting what our children are learning, then its not worth it. I'd rather have crappy facilities and truth rather than a well-equipped system that teaches children to doubt global warming and alternative energy sources.
Yes but the east germans weren't brainwashed into thinking that their "Dear Leader" was the greatest man in the history of humankind, and that the outside world is a terrible hellhole. Nearly all North Koreans believe that the living condintions in NK are much better than anywhere else. I bet there are more Mexicans who want to cross into the US than North Koreans who want to cross into South Korea.
UN: the hacker seems to have left an unintelligible string of words in your system. We're not sure what it means.
"All your base are belong to us... bitch"
I think that whats interesting to see what happens to wikipedia as time passes.
Initially, from the time when it was first concieved till now, it is open for everyone to edit. It accumulates a massive amount of information, and the quality of that information increases over time.
But what happens when wikipedia gets to the point where nearly all mainstream information is covered, and the only stuff thats missing is really really rare topics, or really field specific topics? At that point, most of the articles will be of sufficiant quality that edits are no longer required.
Of course, as new discoveries are made, there needs to be additions, but at this point, the majority of the edits to existing articles will be vandalism. So over time, won't the ratio of helpful/new information to vandalism/biased information decrease?
Citizendium seems to be based partly on this sort of thinking, and it seems to me that tighter control over who can edit would be the next logical step.
So basically, the RIAA can have the information on the hard drive. All this ruling means is that the RIAA has to pay a little extra money. Its not like that will stop them from suing people...
Well... since this is wikipedia, one would need a computer to access this information. Presumably, in the case of a worldwide disaster where all current infrastructure is destroyed, no one would have a computer, so theres no point in wikifying the information.
is supposed to burn more calories than it contains, so would be a "calorie burning food"
but this is a drink, so... is it supposed to increase your metabolism or something?
I'm glad that the US is getting more games like this. In Korea, nearly all multiplayer games are free, and the way the gaming companies (Nexon, NCSoft, NetMarble) get revenue is through selling enhancements for the game. The game itself is free, so anyone can download the client and play.
Depends how you define "global output". Germany is the world's largest exporter. The USA is the world's largest importer. Just because we have a large GDP does not mean that the extra energy that we use goes into producing more "stuff". It just means that we're much richer than most other countries so the average US citizen can consume a lot more. (For instance, using dryers rather than hanging out laundry, etc)
Right. The problem is that nearly all other types of instruments require so much dexterity (look at the violin for instance) that we wouldn't be able to build a robot that could mechanically produce decent sound.
I think it would be much easier to create better synthesizers and just have the robots use the synths... I mean the guy says a lot of stuff about how its important that the robot is able to use audio and visual cues, but I dont think that has anything to do with actually playing the music mechanically.
Synthesizers are getting much better, and I think for some musicals they dont even bother with a pit orchestra.
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But a game provides a more interactive experience - rather than observing the charactor, you are the charactor.
Its all up to personal preference, but I can see how a story told in the form of a game can actually strengthen the plotline and emotional involvement of the players.
I think they're dividing each axis into 2 - instead of x y and z, they have forwards, back, right, left, up, and down. So technically, its actually 3 axis.
CIA agent: Sir, the terrorists seem to be using some sort of code... Terrorist 1: d00d these guys are camping. Terrorist 2: fuxing n00bs. use noob stick gogo pwn them. Terrorist 1: OMG lag!!! they r using som hax. cia clan sux i'm out. Terrorist 2: *shoots terrorist 1* Terrorist 1: why u TKing??? fag Terrorist 2: gg no re
Yes, I'm sure that if some teenager goes on a homicidal rampage, its the game that was the problem. Surely this teenager would have been an outstanding law-abiding citizen otherwise.
I wonder what they did with the cats that tested positive for the glycoprotein Fel d1 (the one that causes the allergies)...
I mean, it says the processed a "huge number" of cats looking for the "small fraction" that didnt have the protein. No mention of the fate of the ones that did have it. Poor cats T_T
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In general, most of the students came from magnet schools that you have to test into. These schools sometimes have relationships with local universities or labs, so there are research progams avaliable to the students. I think the average timeframe for the research was about a year, with some people spending more time (the 7th place winner spent 4 years on her research!) and some people spending less. Also, several students worked completely on their own (like the ninth place winner, she built and concieved her project in her basement). IMO those are the most impressive projects. As for the "soft" sciences, in the top forty projects, there were two behavioral and social sciences projects. I think the reason why they didn't win isn't because of the quality of their projects, but the rigourous judging that all the finalists had to go through. They made it clear that they weren't just looking for the best project, but future leaders in science. We had four interview sessions, and the judges also observed us when we were presenting our projects at the NAS to the public.
"The molecules described in the current report have just one "speed bump;' now that researchers have confirmed that the theoretical designs work, they are synthesizing molecules with more bumps. "The calculations show that the more bumps, the better," said Kuzyk."
It seems like they have to manually synthesize each molecule with certain specifications. It would be impossible to produce enough of the new material to use for optical technologies.
Keep in mind that what is deemed an unacceptable drug in the developed world can be a huge benefit to developing nations. For example, lets say I have a very cheap drug that cures malaria in 80% of patients, but causes severe side effects in the remaining 20%. Clearly, this is unacceptable in the USA or other developed nations. However, in many countries in Africa, where millions of people die from malaria every year, this drug is perfect - its cheap, and it cures most of the patients. Regardless of the reletively high side effects, the benefit is enough that a drug like this would be considered a godsend by nearly all sub-saharan nations.
There are alternatives... like for example, allowing generics to be sold in 3rd world countries while preserving the patent in the USA & other developed nations. Or they could do zone pricing, where certain zones get cheaper drugs. The latter might even bring in a profit for the company, allowing them to sell to consumers (in developing countries) who previously could not afford the patent-inflated prices. Yes, I'm aware that there could be issues with this (smuggling the cheaper drugs back into developed countries), but I'd say that the benefits (millions of lives saved or improved) vastly outweighs the effort required to overcome these barriers.
But if that donation ends up distorting what our children are learning, then its not worth it. I'd rather have crappy facilities and truth rather than a well-equipped system that teaches children to doubt global warming and alternative energy sources.
carbon tax will affect you based on the amount of energy you use... if you dont buy a lot of gas, then you wont have to pay those taxes.
Yes but the east germans weren't brainwashed into thinking that their "Dear Leader" was the greatest man in the history of humankind, and that the outside world is a terrible hellhole. Nearly all North Koreans believe that the living condintions in NK are much better than anywhere else. I bet there are more Mexicans who want to cross into the US than North Koreans who want to cross into South Korea.
UN: the hacker seems to have left an unintelligible string of words in your system. We're not sure what it means. "All your base are belong to us... bitch"
If the title of a news article was "UN institutes Cracker profiling" the non-slashdot crowd would interpret it as "UN is racist against white people"
I think that whats interesting to see what happens to wikipedia as time passes.
Initially, from the time when it was first concieved till now, it is open for everyone to edit. It accumulates a massive amount of information, and the quality of that information increases over time.
But what happens when wikipedia gets to the point where nearly all mainstream information is covered, and the only stuff thats missing is really really rare topics, or really field specific topics? At that point, most of the articles will be of sufficiant quality that edits are no longer required.
Of course, as new discoveries are made, there needs to be additions, but at this point, the majority of the edits to existing articles will be vandalism. So over time, won't the ratio of helpful/new information to vandalism/biased information decrease?
Citizendium seems to be based partly on this sort of thinking, and it seems to me that tighter control over who can edit would be the next logical step.
So basically, the RIAA can have the information on the hard drive. All this ruling means is that the RIAA has to pay a little extra money. Its not like that will stop them from suing people...
Well... since this is wikipedia, one would need a computer to access this information. Presumably, in the case of a worldwide disaster where all current infrastructure is destroyed, no one would have a computer, so theres no point in wikifying the information.
I thought that Microsoft was providing all the songs that you bought on itunes for free? I remember reading that in a previous /. article.
is supposed to burn more calories than it contains, so would be a "calorie burning food" but this is a drink, so... is it supposed to increase your metabolism or something?
I'm glad that the US is getting more games like this. In Korea, nearly all multiplayer games are free, and the way the gaming companies (Nexon, NCSoft, NetMarble) get revenue is through selling enhancements for the game. The game itself is free, so anyone can download the client and play.
Dear al-Qaeda, let's so double the killer delete wmd all
Good point... How will the aliens know how to decode the signal?
APM (Actions Per Minute) becomes APPM (Action Potentials Per Minuite)
Depends how you define "global output". Germany is the world's largest exporter. The USA is the world's largest importer.
Just because we have a large GDP does not mean that the extra energy that we use goes into producing more "stuff". It just means that we're much richer than most other countries so the average US citizen can consume a lot more. (For instance, using dryers rather than hanging out laundry, etc)
Right. The problem is that nearly all other types of instruments require so much dexterity (look at the violin for instance) that we wouldn't be able to build a robot that could mechanically produce decent sound.
I think it would be much easier to create better synthesizers and just have the robots use the synths... I mean the guy says a lot of stuff about how its important that the robot is able to use audio and visual cues, but I dont think that has anything to do with actually playing the music mechanically.
Synthesizers are getting much better, and I think for some musicals they dont even bother with a pit orchestra.
But a game provides a more interactive experience - rather than observing the charactor, you are the charactor. Its all up to personal preference, but I can see how a story told in the form of a game can actually strengthen the plotline and emotional involvement of the players.
I think they're dividing each axis into 2 - instead of x y and z, they have forwards, back, right, left, up, and down. So technically, its actually 3 axis.
CIA agent: Sir, the terrorists seem to be using some sort of code...
Terrorist 1: d00d these guys are camping.
Terrorist 2: fuxing n00bs. use noob stick gogo pwn them.
Terrorist 1: OMG lag!!! they r using som hax. cia clan sux i'm out.
Terrorist 2: *shoots terrorist 1*
Terrorist 1: why u TKing??? fag
Terrorist 2: gg no re
Yes, I'm sure that if some teenager goes on a homicidal rampage, its the game that was the problem. Surely this teenager would have been an outstanding law-abiding citizen otherwise.
I wonder what they did with the cats that tested positive for the glycoprotein Fel d1 (the one that causes the allergies)... I mean, it says the processed a "huge number" of cats looking for the "small fraction" that didnt have the protein. No mention of the fate of the ones that did have it. Poor cats T_T