You can measure the bit in 1 of 3 dimensions. Let's say the bank measured it in dimension x out of x, y, and z. Now if you want to measure it, you can measure it in any of those dimensions. If you measure in x, you don't mess it up, but if you measure in y or z, you mess up the x reading and it gets randomized. Now if you have 64 bits, then you have to guess all 64 dimensions correctly, or you'll mess something up just by measuring it in a different dimension than what the issuing bank measured. Now all the bank has to do is record which dimensions the bill was measured in and what they got 0, or 1. If someone tried to measure it or made a fake one, then the bank will see all wrong numbers, either scrambled because of wrong measuring, or wrong because whoever issued the fake currency put in different random settings.
Yet there is a whole field of AI called genetic algorithms. It doesn't randomly change the object code, but the 'dna' of the algorithm used to solve a specific problem does change via mutations generation to generation. Most of the offspring generate mutations that are unhelpful and get discarded via natural selection, but the rare helpful mutations tend to stick around and combine together. It doesn't matter how often it occurs unless you are worried about how fast evolution needs to happen.
There certainly may be a diminished need for traffic enforcement leading to fewer police cars on the road, but having cars completely ignore police and just driving on is going to cause problems in emergencies. The police do need to pull over supect passengers and vehicles for contraband such as drugs, child porn, illegal guns, etc. There are also observed crimes such as someone in the car waving a gun around in the car on the road. Then you do have the malfunction and damaged vehicles such as with the equivalent of a broken turning signal. While these are certainly rarer circumstances than today's traffic monitoring, I don't think it's a good idea for these cars to ignore police having 'some' unforeseen reason to pull them over.
I've found this guy to be funny and entertaining during his gameplays. Disclaimer: it's not me, and I don't subscribe to him. First video for MW3 campaign gameplay: http://www.youtube.com/user/SSoHPKC#p/u/6/GtB_6a3vSC0 His channel in case he changes stuff around: http://www.youtube.com/user/SSoHPKC It's worth a watch if you haven't got the game yet and want to see someone playing it for a bit.
Actually, the ostrich does not bury it's head in the sand during times of trouble.
When threatened, Ostriches run away, but they can cause serious injury and death with kicks from their powerful legs. Their legs can only kick forward. Contrary to popular belief, Ostriches do not bury their heads in sand.
Projects like this will depend on federal spending. Private industry is not going to go haul asteroids to LEO to mine it any time soon just for proof of concept.
That's really not a very good reason to abort plans to get rid of something that wasn't worth it on its own merit. If you outlaw the item, _someone_ is going to lose their jobs. By the same token, a federal government shouldn't outlaw anything because people in the country (the constituents) might lose jobs.
No. In ENM, Penrose was saying that there is something we don't understand in physics that is needed to explain consciousness. This is because all of physics that we understand can be simulated on a turing machine, and the first part of his book contained a proof that the human brain could do something a turing machine cannot. He included QM in the laws of physics that can be simulated (albeit very slowly) on a turing machine. The part of QM that he stated that _may_ have something to do with consciousness was related to what he called reduction, as in reduction from wave state to certainty, because the causes for this are not (according to him at that time) fully understood.
Ever ride shotgun? How much trouble have you had going to a cool store and stop to check it out? You'll be able to do it more with this as there's no strict driver to argue and say no.
I'm not seeing the point of putting both licenses on the same code. They don't seem compatible like that. With one license you achieve a stock of code that moves in an out of proprietary and sharable. The other license keeps the code forever sharable/modifiable with no exception. I can't see a way to make them work in tangent unless the code only follows gpl rules, and then the bsd license becomes redundant for that segment of code.
Can someone please enlighten me as to the point of this?
I wonder how much control can be given to the players. Would they be allowed to make hiring decisions after being shown various resumes? Or firing and promotion decisions? I'm curious if this experiment can make certain class of farm manager redundant if it works really well.
Such anonymous donations are often political, in which case they help further the ends or beliefs of the donator. Often, they are to charities which personally mean a lot to a person. For example if a loved one died from a disease, and the donation is given to research fighting that disease, this is because it makes the donator feel better, as if they are helping the person posthumously. Revenge may be another cause. There are many non-altruistic causes one might donate anonymously.
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I`d rather be a doctor than a representative, regardless of how few or many can be of either.
I believe then you get subsidized if you're too poor to afford the health insurance.
Wait.. what? Passwords don't change but implanted chips do?
They're only 2 keys apart on dvorak keyboard.
You can measure the bit in 1 of 3 dimensions. Let's say the bank measured it in dimension x out of x, y, and z. Now if you want to measure it, you can measure it in any of those dimensions. If you measure in x, you don't mess it up, but if you measure in y or z, you mess up the x reading and it gets randomized. Now if you have 64 bits, then you have to guess all 64 dimensions correctly, or you'll mess something up just by measuring it in a different dimension than what the issuing bank measured. Now all the bank has to do is record which dimensions the bill was measured in and what they got 0, or 1. If someone tried to measure it or made a fake one, then the bank will see all wrong numbers, either scrambled because of wrong measuring, or wrong because whoever issued the fake currency put in different random settings.
Yet there is a whole field of AI called genetic algorithms. It doesn't randomly change the object code, but the 'dna' of the algorithm used to solve a specific problem does change via mutations generation to generation. Most of the offspring generate mutations that are unhelpful and get discarded via natural selection, but the rare helpful mutations tend to stick around and combine together. It doesn't matter how often it occurs unless you are worried about how fast evolution needs to happen.
There certainly may be a diminished need for traffic enforcement leading to fewer police cars on the road, but having cars completely ignore police and just driving on is going to cause problems in emergencies. The police do need to pull over supect passengers and vehicles for contraband such as drugs, child porn, illegal guns, etc. There are also observed crimes such as someone in the car waving a gun around in the car on the road. Then you do have the malfunction and damaged vehicles such as with the equivalent of a broken turning signal. While these are certainly rarer circumstances than today's traffic monitoring, I don't think it's a good idea for these cars to ignore police having 'some' unforeseen reason to pull them over.
Almonds used to contain more cyanide than the domesticated ones today. Occasionally you find a bitter almond. That's the cyanide you're tasting.
I've found this guy to be funny and entertaining during his gameplays. Disclaimer: it's not me, and I don't subscribe to him.
First video for MW3 campaign gameplay: http://www.youtube.com/user/SSoHPKC#p/u/6/GtB_6a3vSC0
His channel in case he changes stuff around: http://www.youtube.com/user/SSoHPKC
It's worth a watch if you haven't got the game yet and want to see someone playing it for a bit.
Actually, the ostrich does not bury it's head in the sand during times of trouble.
When threatened, Ostriches run away, but they can cause serious injury and death with kicks from their powerful legs. Their legs can only kick forward. Contrary to popular belief, Ostriches do not bury their heads in sand.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrich
Projects like this will depend on federal spending. Private industry is not going to go haul asteroids to LEO to mine it any time soon just for proof of concept.
That's really not a very good reason to abort plans to get rid of something that wasn't worth it on its own merit. If you outlaw the item, _someone_ is going to lose their jobs. By the same token, a federal government shouldn't outlaw anything because people in the country (the constituents) might lose jobs.
Reminds me of Ender's Game.
Ah, finally. Thank you, that's one annoyance gone.
That doesn't work. I need to strafe and turn at the same time, like I used to do when I played doom back in the early 90s.
No. In ENM, Penrose was saying that there is something we don't understand in physics that is needed to explain consciousness. This is because all of physics that we understand can be simulated on a turing machine, and the first part of his book contained a proof that the human brain could do something a turing machine cannot. He included QM in the laws of physics that can be simulated (albeit very slowly) on a turing machine. The part of QM that he stated that _may_ have something to do with consciousness was related to what he called reduction, as in reduction from wave state to certainty, because the causes for this are not (according to him at that time) fully understood.
The lowest price would be free and they _give_ you in game perks.
Guess karma has a price.
The server may be open source as well. But if they don't release the binary, they don't have to release the code.
Ever ride shotgun? How much trouble have you had going to a cool store and stop to check it out? You'll be able to do it more with this as there's no strict driver to argue and say no.
How would gpl'ing their search engine code make them release it? It's not like the binary is floating around as a torrent.
I'm not seeing the point of putting both licenses on the same code. They don't seem compatible like that. With one license you achieve a stock of code that moves in an out of proprietary and sharable. The other license keeps the code forever sharable/modifiable with no exception. I can't see a way to make them work in tangent unless the code only follows gpl rules, and then the bsd license becomes redundant for that segment of code.
Can someone please enlighten me as to the point of this?
To the fourth power.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_axle_weight_rating
I wonder how much control can be given to the players. Would they be allowed to make hiring decisions after being shown various resumes? Or firing and promotion decisions? I'm curious if this experiment can make certain class of farm manager redundant if it works really well.
Such anonymous donations are often political, in which case they help further the ends or beliefs of the donator.
Often, they are to charities which personally mean a lot to a person. For example if a loved one died from a disease, and the donation is given to research fighting that disease, this is because it makes the donator feel better, as if they are helping the person posthumously. Revenge may be another cause. There are many non-altruistic causes one might donate anonymously.