it's also possible that geoengineering doesn't fix the problem the way the problem happens to be.
Adding aerosols (the only reasonably feasible geoengineering project) doesn't counteract the specific problems of excess greenhouse very well.
More aerosols is a whole lot like lowering the incoming solar flux. Problem is that it will make more of a difference in the tropics and in daytime, but the greenhouse effect is making more of a difference in the polar regions and at night.
And that's because the physics of the geoengineering is pretty different from the physics of the problem.
So to be effective you have to add a new climate change of roughly similar magnitude as the existing one from greenhouse gases, but it doesn't really offset the actual climate change, it's just a new, and large perturbation. Getting some statistical number to go down doesn't help, because nobody lives in a globally space and time averaged place.
I don't see anything in the Heisenberg equation for the equations of motion for quantum choosing which sometimes do and don't fork.
It's conservation of bafflement: solve all the problems in one space by putting all the mumbo-jumbo into a new and undefined baffling phenomenon in physics for which you can't write dynamical equations.
They were aggressively atheist, but otherwise expressing any kind of politically incorrect thought got you a long cold and hungry rest-of-your-life-goodbye.
And yet they were state-of-the-art in rocketry, and catching up very rapidly in nuclear weapons, which, after their first bomb (designed by espionage), was mostly an indigenous capacity.
"don't our radar systems read at altitudes low enough for them? Because (1) there's too much interference from other structures to make it cheap and (2) none of our planes can even safely fly that low!"
Are modern radar systems incapable of tracking helicopters without a transponder?
It's the equivalent of Gresham's law. If some gold coins get debased, then people will not exchange the good ones, only the bad ones.
Similarly, people will do the same with very valuable battery packs, the recently manufactured ones with full capacity will disappear from the changing station and only bad ones will be available. If anybody gets a good one in exchange by accident (some newbie), they would sell it at a high price, and buy a lower quality one and trade that one back in.
"Are Shipping Operations Managers hired from the driver pool or the mechanic pool?"
They ought to be hired from somebody who has worked in shipping and knows shipping AND operations.
"Are CFOs hired from tellers or account clerks?"
No, they are hired from people who know and train managers and account clerks and have probably earned a CPA or masters in finance.
The head of global R&D is not hired from the electronics techs or the machinists. The head of global R&D is (or should be) hired from the most experienced and successful research scientists, and understands what everybody in the organization should be doing and has sufficient technical knowledge to "BS Check" everything that everybody is doing.
"Are hospital administrators selected from the best nursing staff or even the interns?"
They ought to be selected from the best nurse managers who have learned some substantial amount of business and negotiating experience and also knows how the operations get run. In practice they're hired from immense clutches of soulless demon liches.
The physical world, and the hardware in the computer, is stateful, not-stateless. There is a finite amount of storage, which can be overwritten.
The idiomatic programming model for functional language isn't like this.
In a functional language to ensure you get fast code, you have to both have a mental model of the program, and a much more complex mental model of the transformations that your functional compiler might (or might not!) apply. This is often exceptionally hard.
A human, like a numerical programmer, has some clever knowledge about how best to order and arrange things to map to an efficient implementation in a stateful world.
Take, for example, a production-level SVD algorithm. You could probably express a SVD method in a functional way. Would it be fast, and have low memory usage, no needless temporaries? (in high performance computing these always go together) Well maybe but you'd have to really massage things in light of a particular implementation's optimizer & quirks. That isn't something scientists have the desire to do.
In practice, the capability of imperative, but data-parallel languages best map to their user's knowledge and capabilities and existing technology for quality execution.
Most "modern computer languages" also have mediocre support for reliable and fast numerical computing.
The problem is that "modern computer langauges" are designed by PhD's in computer science who know what they learned in grad school, which is heavy on the "delegates? Anonymous functions? Closures? Reflection" axis of desiderata and pffs away questions of fast numerical support with "link to C"---mostly because something like that wouldn't be seen as New And Cool by tenure committees.
Uh, no---we want good quality, productive and high level language to write NEW algorithms, which must be fast, and make use of some data structures of moderate sophistication---and the speed can't suffer when we use capabilities beyond Fortran 77.
Maybe a particularly intelligent Indian or Chinese or Thai might actually write a textbook on such fast-moving subjects as linear algebra, classical mechanics or electromagnetism, manufacture and price it for the local market, just like they are able to supply billions of people with all sorts of other goods at prices they can afford?
In physics, there are rare particle interactions which take place when a combination of individually rare things happen. They are called "forbidden" interactions, they aren't truly forbidden, they are just forbidden by the normal physics (e.g. conservation law) which governs most of of the transitions. It isn't frequent, but because Avogadro's number is so large, these forbidden interactions do occur.
So, is that's what's happening now?
A paranoid drama queen looking for publicity meets sociopath stalker?
Profoundly mentally ill people may encounter one another every once in a while.
We should get the particle detectors out, we may see a jet of high energy stuff. Maybe a Higgs will show up?
So you've worked for five years on this but haven't yet thought about the business model until now?
Instead of asking slashdot, how about this radical suggestion: talk to a potential customer.
As in, find somebody who might actually be a paying customer. You do know who they are, right? If you don't, stop programming right away and figure it out and get at least 5 names of people with their email & telephone.
You don't necessarily do what they ask (they want the moon, documented and supported and customzied, for 99 cents), but you will find out more useful information to make your decision. Talk human-to-human, on the phone or in person.
What business model will result in getting revenue now? What are your customers' needs? What constrains their decisions to buy or not?
A suggestion: open-source common interface code necessary to link your system with a customers' existing software. Integration problems are often a big worry among customers.
not only that, but the blob of heat looks much bigger, as in "maybe this is actually a coyote and too big to eat" size.
By the way, the infrared jammer of heat-seeking missiles doesn't quite work like that. The missiles (older designs) have some kind of rotating "optical chopper" used to increase the signal to noise ratio of a point target and help with angular control. The IR detectors themselves were only one pixel or so. The jammer is designed with special knowledge (ahem) of the particular control systems and chopper technology used by likely enemy missiles and can make the missile's control system go unstable by pulsing a specially designed time-series, potentially unique for each missile version.
More modern missiles are probably immune and have far more sophisticated imaging IR detectors and good software. I.e. the jammer probably works against a 60's era Soviet MANPAD, but wouldn't work against modern in-service NATO or Russian SAM or air-air missile. And if it sees a likely 'jamming time-series' I'd guess that this is a good indication of "high value target".
Aztecs were such a nasty bunch of warmonger, racist, slaving fascist military dictators that their neighbors found the rapacious Spanish conquerors to be an improvement.
Should infidels who blaspheme believers with "April Fools" jesting be forcibly circumcised before the mujaheddin behead them in the name of Allah? -- Konfused in Kandahar
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Well, the effect was pretty strong, millions of new registered voters.
"Why don't you follow Lincoln's advice and eliminate your enemies by making them your friends?"
If Lincoln ever said that, and given that he was far from stupid, I can only assume he was being snarky and sarcastic in response to some idiot.
(as in, look how well that worked for Lincoln)
is that they're the cast of Jersey Shore.
GM went bankrupt and wiped out shareholders and most bondholders. Many contracts were abrogated as a result.
The US government expedited the bankruptcy with force (a good thing in the circumstance) and recapitalized with new money.
but they are still Leninist.
They're an aggressive Leninist-Capitalist state. Capitalism's money and Lenin's morals.
it's also possible that geoengineering doesn't fix the problem the way the problem happens to be.
Adding aerosols (the only reasonably feasible geoengineering project) doesn't counteract the specific problems of excess greenhouse very well.
More aerosols is a whole lot like lowering the incoming solar flux. Problem is that it will make more of a difference in the tropics and in daytime, but the greenhouse effect is making more of a difference in the polar regions and at night.
And that's because the physics of the geoengineering is pretty different from the physics of the problem.
So to be effective you have to add a new climate change of roughly similar magnitude as the existing one from greenhouse gases, but it doesn't really offset the actual climate change, it's just a new, and large perturbation. Getting some statistical number to go down doesn't help, because nobody lives in a globally space and time averaged place.
It's nonsensical.
When exactly is a "quantum choice" made?
I don't see anything in the Heisenberg equation for the equations of motion for quantum choosing which sometimes do and don't fork.
It's conservation of bafflement: solve all the problems in one space by putting all the mumbo-jumbo into a new and undefined baffling phenomenon in physics for which you can't write dynamical equations.
So, who does NOT live in an entropy gradient?
The dynamics of the Universe appear to have a strong positive Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy.
"In many cases their career and their wallet benefit more from those two papers in the high impact journal than the five in a lower impact one."
More like two papers in a high impact journal are more important than fifty in a lower ranked journal.
Cripes. A bleeeeeeping cooler-than-thou grad student *comic strip* snob.
May thy dissertation committee complain interminably about footnotes and papers you didn't cite, for ever and ever.
They were aggressively atheist, but otherwise expressing any kind of politically incorrect thought got you a long cold and hungry rest-of-your-life-goodbye.
And yet they were state-of-the-art in rocketry, and catching up very rapidly in nuclear weapons, which, after their first bomb (designed by espionage), was mostly an indigenous capacity.
"don't our radar systems read at altitudes low enough for them? Because (1) there's too much interference from other structures to make it cheap and (2) none of our planes can even safely fly that low!"
Are modern radar systems incapable of tracking helicopters without a transponder?
that lead to stagnation, decline and extinction if humans don't get sufficiently wise and active about mitigating them.
_Wish upon A Star_ works in Disney movies. Mother Nature is unimpressed.
It's the equivalent of Gresham's law. If some gold coins get debased, then people will not exchange the good ones, only the bad ones.
Similarly, people will do the same with very valuable battery packs, the recently manufactured ones with full capacity will disappear from the changing station and only bad ones will be available. If anybody gets a good one in exchange by accident (some newbie), they would sell it at a high price, and buy a lower quality one and trade that one back in.
"Are Shipping Operations Managers hired from the driver pool or the mechanic pool?"
They ought to be hired from somebody who has worked in shipping and knows shipping AND operations.
"Are CFOs hired from tellers or account clerks?"
No, they are hired from people who know and train managers and account clerks and have probably earned a CPA or masters in finance.
The head of global R&D is not hired from the electronics techs or the machinists. The head of global R&D is (or should be) hired from the most experienced and successful research scientists, and understands what everybody in the organization should be doing and has sufficient technical knowledge to "BS Check" everything that everybody is doing.
"Are hospital administrators selected from the best nursing staff or even the interns?"
They ought to be selected from the best nurse managers who have learned some substantial amount of business and negotiating experience and also knows how the operations get run. In practice they're hired from immense clutches of soulless demon liches.
The physical world, and the hardware in the computer, is stateful, not-stateless. There is a finite amount of storage, which can be overwritten.
The idiomatic programming model for functional language isn't like this.
In a functional language to ensure you get fast code, you have to both have a mental model of the program, and a much more complex mental model of the transformations that your functional compiler might (or might not!) apply. This is often exceptionally hard.
A human, like a numerical programmer, has some clever knowledge about how best to order and arrange things to map to an efficient implementation in a stateful world.
Take, for example, a production-level SVD algorithm. You could probably express a SVD method in a functional way. Would it be fast, and have low memory usage, no needless temporaries? (in high performance computing these always go together) Well maybe but you'd have to really massage things in light of a particular implementation's optimizer & quirks. That isn't something scientists have the desire to do.
In practice, the capability of imperative, but data-parallel languages best map to their user's knowledge and capabilities and existing technology for quality execution.
Most "modern computer languages" also have mediocre support for reliable and fast numerical computing.
The problem is that "modern computer langauges" are designed by PhD's in computer science who know what they learned in grad school, which is heavy on the "delegates? Anonymous functions? Closures? Reflection" axis of desiderata and pffs away questions of fast numerical support with "link to C"---mostly because something like that wouldn't be seen as New And Cool by tenure committees.
Uh, no---we want good quality, productive and high level language to write NEW algorithms, which must be fast, and make use of some data structures of moderate sophistication---and the speed can't suffer when we use capabilities beyond Fortran 77.
Maybe a particularly intelligent Indian or Chinese or Thai might actually write a textbook on such fast-moving subjects as linear algebra, classical mechanics or electromagnetism, manufacture and price it for the local market, just like they are able to supply billions of people with all sorts of other goods at prices they can afford?
"Is treating your people like humans, keeping them invested and paying them fairly just an outdated, naive notion over there?"
No, it's considered to be a fellow traveler with Communism.
for an ultra-secure implementation of "Angry JDAMs"
In physics, there are rare particle interactions which take place when a combination of individually rare things happen. They are called "forbidden" interactions, they aren't truly forbidden, they are just forbidden by the normal physics (e.g. conservation law) which governs most of of the transitions.
It isn't frequent, but because Avogadro's number is so large, these forbidden interactions do occur.
So, is that's what's happening now?
A paranoid drama queen looking for publicity meets sociopath stalker?
Profoundly mentally ill people may encounter one another every once in a while.
We should get the particle detectors out, we may see a jet of high energy stuff. Maybe a Higgs will show up?
So you've worked for five years on this but haven't yet thought about the business model until now?
Instead of asking slashdot, how about this radical suggestion: talk to a potential customer.
As in, find somebody who might actually be a paying customer. You do know who they are, right? If you don't, stop programming right away and figure it out and get at least 5 names of people with their email & telephone.
You don't necessarily do what they ask (they want the moon, documented and supported and customzied, for 99 cents), but you will find out more useful information to make your decision. Talk human-to-human, on the phone or in person.
What business model will result in getting revenue now? What are your customers' needs? What constrains their decisions to buy or not?
A suggestion: open-source common interface code necessary to link your system with a customers' existing software. Integration problems are often a big worry among customers.
not only that, but the blob of heat looks much bigger, as in "maybe this is actually a coyote and too big to eat" size.
By the way, the infrared jammer of heat-seeking missiles doesn't quite work like that. The missiles (older designs) have some kind of rotating "optical chopper" used to increase the signal to noise ratio of a point target and help with angular control. The IR detectors themselves were only one pixel or so. The jammer is designed with special knowledge (ahem) of the particular control systems and chopper technology used by likely enemy missiles and can make the missile's control system go unstable by pulsing a specially designed time-series, potentially unique for each missile version.
More modern missiles are probably immune and have far more sophisticated imaging IR detectors and good software. I.e. the jammer probably works against a 60's era Soviet MANPAD, but wouldn't work against modern in-service NATO or Russian SAM or air-air missile. And if it sees a likely 'jamming time-series' I'd guess that this is a good indication of "high value target".
Aztecs were such a nasty bunch of warmonger, racist, slaving fascist military dictators that their neighbors found the rapacious Spanish conquerors to be an improvement.
Should infidels who blaspheme believers with "April Fools" jesting be forcibly circumcised before the mujaheddin behead them in the name of Allah? -- Konfused in Kandahar