There are lots of things to be done, however, I don't know if the explanations can reductionistic anymore. I was listening to a speech by DeGrasse or Kaku about this and wondered. There was a book in the 1980s called "The end of Physics." The easy stuff has been done and is well documented. I read an article of how when quantum theory was first formulated, scientists were able to apply the physics of drum vibrations (done 200 years earlier) towards understanding electron orbitals.
Understanding and predicting DNA/RNA is going to be filled with all sorts of strange heuristics. Sort of like driving around NYC during rush hour during a bomb threat. Physics and pure math have an eloquence to them. Applied Math or Physics and Chemistry don't, or once those parts are teased out, they become pure math and theoretical physics..
Understanding human brain thoughts and artificial intelligence are going to be great areas to be explored.
Yes, I'd love to hear a meeting start with an Atheist like Hitchens or Dawkins. I am sure that if Hitchens were to compare Religion to North Korea, https://www.youtube.com/watch?... .he would no longer get invited to offer equal time.
America tolerates descent, as long as it is marginalized and not making headway.
'The further you get away from your education the less knowledge you have of the new technologies, and technology is always moving forward.'"
I guess that assumes that
1) We, as techworkers, don't learn from our experience.
2) That there is no carry over of concepts from one tech to another.
3) That the technology changes so much that we cannot or do not learn new stuff constantly in the process of working and learning.
4) The technology is the sole thing. There are businesses to be understood and adequately communicated and documented. There is misinterpretation between two engineers who speak the same language, so of course there will be misinterpretation amongst different cultures and standards.
I think there have been plenty of times where I really did things right was after I did them wrong the first time. Other times, one must know a lot to be productive. Yes, we can write 100K lines of code, but if we don't understand how it all interrelates to other components, most of that is not used.
5) That foreigners want to work as slaves for their American masters. I bet within the next decade, we will lose our ability to do any technology here because we will have lost the number of experienced workers to do the design and architecture. I welcome that because it is the only way that the elite will see that tech just doesn't happen overnight. A society that looses its competitive edge will not get it back easily. Look at Germany after WWII. Prior to WW1, Germany was the scientific and intellectual powerhouse in the world. look at the number of Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry. Since the end of WWII, most intellectuals left to contribute elsewhere. After WWII, there has been a massive brain drain on its economy at a time when Germany needed to rebuild its cities and infrastructure. Another point in fact is that many German rocket scientists went back in the 1970's.
Very soon, you will have major businesses spring up in India and China run by people who repatrioted after learning here. If you ever talk to your Indian counterparts, you will learn that many of them intend to return after their 7 year visa runs out. They know that they are not wanted here, so this will happen from a variety of factors.
By design, the Enigma had an extra encryption permutation wheel which was always set to 0. Had that been used, the difficulty in cracking the codes would have been far more difficult by 1943 standards. The Nazi's were too arrogant and did not want to deal with the extra logistics involved with having to communicate this extra setting. Shows you what happens when bureaucrats instead of engineers make decisions.
As a student, my education was good. I was in the honors track in upstate NY in the high school system. I ended up going to a top rated university with a degree in mathematics.
However, the job market was tough and continues to be so. While as I like programming,
I really am not happy with the things I have done nor the way that my life has turned out.
I must say that I was over-educated for my current role in society. I know of plenty of other people in a similar situation, probably because I took the time to get to know them. People with Ph. D. in Physics working as part time faculty for minimum wage (if you count lecture preparation time) for a couple of hours a week. I know of Ph. Ds in Chemistry working as farmers and M Sc. philosophy students working as hair dressers. At one time, these were very bright and idealistic people who "thought" that if they just finish the program, they would find jobs. I think that bright people delude themselves into thinking that somehow the world will just hire them because they are bright.
A lawyer/accountant/psychologist/judge creates problems and circumstances that he knows you will have to pay him extra to get out of. Ask anyone who has gone through a divorce or bankruptcy.
I have nothing to hide, but then I really know that getting cooperation from the Chinese as requested by the West is really going to be a pain in the ass. Well, its about time that I start being a pain in the ass, for up to know, that was a privilege and right of the elite.
However we are current pursuing efforts at mind reading and using minds to control devices using a feedback device which measures activity in regions of the brain. 50 years ago, this would have been considered bunk, so there obviously has been some progress.
> A divorce lawyer doesn't just get hired into a corporate law position.
I think the situation is that if I were to say well, "I need a divorce lawyer specializing in divorces of a white woman and white man with 2 children in their teens, both couples working and making between $30K-$100K [each] who own 25% of a house whose market value is around $300K and whose reasons for divorce are that the man has been cheating on his wife." There are strategies in a divorce that work better if the couple makes more or if the children are younger.
I have had so many job applications rejected because they were looking for 3 years of C# and 2 in MS-SQL while I had 5 in C++ and 2 in Java and 3 in IBM DB SQL all on Windows.
Will it be possible to identify his tomb after all these years? How are we sure that even if we find such an ornately decorated tomb, that Khan is the one buried there, instead of some relative or whatnot. I don't know, but many cultures have superstitions about their corpse in the afterlife, so that might be a motivation to "hide" the real corpse?
There are lots of services that one gets from the government which come with all sorts of catchs. Obviously you never read your student bullitin and talked to people who were expelled. What right did Brown University have in expelling Amy Carter?
After quoting a time schedule and costs, my previous manager once told me that "[He] doesn't know how to do that task nor understand the technical issues but doesn't think it should take or cost that much!" I guess if you can buy MS Word for $700, that is the ball park for any software task. I wish I had told him that he needs to buy a copy of MS Word and his problem is solved. Unfortunately, most workers in the US revere top level executives as some sort of business geniuses. Call me "anti-business", but I believe most were lucky that they got in when the going was good and managed to hold on. I remember reading about William Penn (who at one time owned the land which became Pennsylvania). He leveraged himself too much and went bankrupt and died penniless. Since that time, our bankruptcy laws haven been changed to protect the wealthy and given them a chance to "reorganize" and keep "creditors at bay" until they get their finances in order. A case in point is Donald Trump who should be working selling hot dogs on 57th since the mid-1980's. Listening to him for half an hour on his "reality show" makes me want to puke. It would be good if that was his occupation, but his show was just a way to stay in the limelight for a bit longer.
The Soviet Union collapsed largely due to the cost of Chernobyl and the economic costs due to military expenditures in trying to match Reagan's SDI (Star Wars) initiative. The Soviet economy was much better off during the Cold War than it was at any other time, even NOW. Gorbachev was a Mongol whose nation was conquered by the USSR and wanted to see the USSR collapse. An arrangement was orchestrated by which he became a private business man worth billions after leaving office. Just as Americans were taught to fear the Soviets, the Soviets were taught to distrust and fear the Americans.
What I was truly surprised about was that the USSR did not launch all of its missiles fearing that the US would attack when it was down (a.k.a. in Israel as "The Samson Option").
After having seen men land on the moon, it seemed a bit of a letdown that we only set our sites on flying 300 miles above earth. I had expected a mission to Mars much earlier on. Yes, it is expensive, but compared to the cost of wars that we had not questioned, it would have been cheap. Even the Cold War could have been averted had the US wanted to, as it was driving the USSR broke even before Chernobol. However, having the Soviets as a boogie man was a great play to get the public to spend a fortune. However, most of the population is really not able to affect the political process. All parties are owned by those who have the money to pay for the fanfare of elections. Fundamentally, there are trivial differences between the Democrats and Republicans. Carter, Clinton, and Obama really haven't changed the course of the status quo. With all the fanfare surrounding the Affordable Care Act, the truth of the matter is that previously, the uninsured left huge bills unpaid which were picked up buy driving up costs for everyone else. Similarly, the Vietnam War did not end because of mass public protest, but because of the realization that more bombs and money was spent on it then in all of WWII. Thirdly, the fact that we live in a republic rather than a democracy was evident during the TARP bank bail out in 2007, where most elected officials acknowledged that the majority of the population was against it, but the powers that be made sure that the investors would get their money back or the economy would be sunk.
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There are lots of things to be done, however, I don't know if the explanations can reductionistic anymore. I was listening to a speech by DeGrasse or Kaku about this and wondered. There was a book in the 1980s called "The end of Physics."
The easy stuff has been done and is well documented. I read an article of how when quantum theory was first formulated, scientists were able to apply the physics of drum vibrations (done 200 years earlier) towards understanding electron orbitals.
Understanding and predicting DNA/RNA is going to be filled with all sorts of strange heuristics. Sort of like driving around NYC during rush hour during a bomb threat. Physics and pure math have an eloquence to them. Applied Math or Physics and Chemistry don't, or once those parts are teased out, they become pure math and theoretical physics..
Understanding human brain thoughts and artificial intelligence are going to be great areas to be explored.
Yes, I'd love to hear a meeting start with an Atheist like Hitchens or Dawkins. I am sure that if Hitchens were to compare Religion to North Korea,
.he would no longer get invited to offer equal time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
America tolerates descent, as long as it is marginalized and not making headway.
'The further you get away from your education the less knowledge you have of the new technologies, and technology is always moving forward.'"
I guess that assumes that
1) We, as techworkers, don't learn from our experience.
2) That there is no carry over of concepts from one tech to another.
3) That the technology changes so much that we cannot or do not learn new stuff constantly in the process of working and learning.
4) The technology is the sole thing. There are businesses to be understood and adequately communicated and documented. There is misinterpretation between two engineers who speak the same language, so of course there will be misinterpretation amongst different cultures and standards.
I think there have been plenty of times where I really did things right was after I did them wrong the first time. Other times, one must know a lot to be productive. Yes, we can write 100K lines of code, but if we don't understand how it all interrelates to other components, most of that is not used.
5) That foreigners want to work as slaves for their American masters. I bet within the next decade, we will lose our ability to do any technology here because we will have lost the number of experienced workers to do the design and architecture. I welcome that because it is the only way that the elite will see that tech just doesn't happen overnight. A society that looses its competitive edge will not get it back easily. Look at Germany after WWII. Prior to WW1, Germany was the scientific and intellectual powerhouse in the world. look at the number of Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry. Since the end of WWII, most intellectuals left to contribute elsewhere. After WWII, there has been a massive brain drain on its economy at a time when Germany needed to rebuild its cities and infrastructure. Another point in fact is that many German rocket scientists went back in the 1970's.
Very soon, you will have major businesses spring up in India and China run by people who repatrioted after learning here. If you ever talk to your Indian counterparts, you will learn that many of them intend to return after their 7 year visa runs out. They know that they are not wanted here, so this will happen from a variety of factors.
By design, the Enigma had an extra encryption permutation wheel which was always set to 0. Had that been used, the difficulty in cracking the codes would have been far more difficult by 1943 standards. The Nazi's were too arrogant and did not want to deal with the extra logistics involved with having to communicate this extra setting. Shows you what happens when bureaucrats instead of engineers make decisions.
As a student, my education was good. I was in the honors track in upstate NY in the high school system. I ended up going to a top rated university with a degree in mathematics. However, the job market was tough and continues to be so. While as I like programming, I really am not happy with the things I have done nor the way that my life has turned out. I must say that I was over-educated for my current role in society.
I know of plenty of other people in a similar situation, probably because I took the time to get to know them. People with Ph. D. in Physics working as part time faculty for minimum wage (if you count lecture preparation time) for a couple of hours a week. I know of Ph. Ds in Chemistry working as farmers and M Sc. philosophy students working as hair dressers. At one time, these were very bright and idealistic people who "thought" that if they just finish the program, they would find jobs. I think that bright people delude themselves into thinking that somehow the world will just hire them because they are bright.
A lawyer/accountant/psychologist/judge creates problems and circumstances that he knows you will have to pay him extra to get out of. Ask anyone who has gone through a divorce or bankruptcy.
I have nothing to hide, but then I really know that getting cooperation from the Chinese as requested by the West is really going to be a pain in the ass. Well, its about time that I start being a pain in the ass, for up to know, that was a privilege and right of the elite.
Yea, sort of missed that. Got that now.
That there is a universe out there where Sarah Palin is President.
Maybe two super-massive black holes passed close to each other and spun these off?
Sex , drugs, and rock 'n roll.
And got completely different results!
However we are current pursuing efforts at mind reading and using minds to control devices using a feedback device which measures activity in regions of the brain. 50 years ago, this would have been considered bunk, so there obviously has been some progress.
> A divorce lawyer doesn't just get hired into a corporate law position.
I think the situation is that if I were to say well, "I need a divorce lawyer specializing in divorces of a white woman and white man with 2 children in their teens, both couples working and making between $30K-$100K [each] who own 25% of a house whose market value is around $300K and whose reasons for divorce are that the man has been cheating on his wife."
There are strategies in a divorce that work better if the couple makes more or if the children are younger.
I have had so many job applications rejected because they were looking for 3 years of C# and 2 in MS-SQL while I had 5 in C++ and 2 in Java and 3 in IBM DB SQL all on Windows.
Next story, some Jewish archaeologist will claim to have found Jesus's body!
Will it be possible to identify his tomb after all these years? How are we sure that even if we find such an ornately decorated tomb, that Khan is the one buried there, instead of some relative or whatnot. I don't know, but many cultures have superstitions about their corpse in the afterlife, so that might be a motivation to "hide" the real corpse?
There are lots of services that one gets from the government which come with all sorts of catchs. Obviously you never read your student bullitin and talked to people who were expelled. What right did Brown University have in expelling Amy Carter?
That we haven't found Martians!
As many species are going extinct, the "common cockroach" is flourishing and multiplying.
After quoting a time schedule and costs, my previous manager once told me that "[He] doesn't know how to do that task nor understand the technical issues but doesn't think it should take or cost that much!" I guess if you can buy MS Word for $700, that is the ball park for any software task. I wish I had told him that he needs to buy a copy of MS Word and his problem is solved.
Unfortunately, most workers in the US revere top level executives as some sort of business geniuses. Call me "anti-business", but I believe most were lucky that they got in when the going was good and managed to hold on. I remember reading about William Penn (who at one time owned the land which became Pennsylvania). He leveraged himself too much and went bankrupt and died penniless. Since that time, our bankruptcy laws haven been changed to protect the wealthy and given them a chance to "reorganize" and keep "creditors at bay" until they get their finances in order. A case in point is Donald Trump who should be working selling hot dogs on 57th since the mid-1980's. Listening to him for half an hour on his "reality show" makes me want to puke. It would be good if that was his occupation, but his show was just a way to stay in the limelight for a bit longer.
The Soviet Union collapsed largely due to the cost of Chernobyl and the economic costs due to military expenditures in trying to match Reagan's SDI (Star Wars) initiative. The Soviet economy was much better off during the Cold War than it was at any other time, even NOW. Gorbachev was a Mongol whose nation was conquered by the USSR and wanted to see the USSR collapse. An arrangement was orchestrated by which he became a private business man worth billions after leaving office.
Just as Americans were taught to fear the Soviets, the Soviets were taught to distrust and fear the Americans. What I was truly surprised about was that the USSR did not launch all of its missiles fearing that the US would attack when it was down (a.k.a. in Israel as "The Samson Option").
Will someone point out that Snowdon is probably revealing info to the Russians? After all, everyone wants SOMETHING!!
the other 40% get it from Fox News. The rest don't care.
After having seen men land on the moon, it seemed a bit of a letdown that we only set our sites on flying 300 miles above earth. I had expected a mission to Mars much earlier on. Yes, it is expensive, but compared to the cost of wars that we had not questioned, it would have been cheap. Even the Cold War could have been averted had the US wanted to, as it was driving the USSR broke even before Chernobol. However, having the Soviets as a boogie man was a great play to get the public to spend a fortune. However, most of the population is really not able to affect the political process. All parties are owned by those who have the money to pay for the fanfare of elections. Fundamentally, there are trivial differences between the Democrats and Republicans. Carter, Clinton, and Obama really haven't changed the course of the status quo. With all the fanfare surrounding the Affordable Care Act, the truth of the matter is that previously, the uninsured left huge bills unpaid which were picked up buy driving up costs for everyone else. Similarly, the Vietnam War did not end because of mass public protest, but because of the realization that more bombs and money was spent on it then in all of WWII. Thirdly, the fact that we live in a republic rather than a democracy was evident during the TARP bank bail out in 2007, where most elected officials acknowledged that the majority of the population was against it, but the powers that be made sure that the investors would get their money back or the economy would be sunk.
Who has a pic of a naked Woz in his inbox?