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Well in your defense. You [high energy physics] process far more data in an hour than they are talking about producing in years.
I shouldn't say they. I work with next gen DNA data on a daily basis. The main problem is everyone in biology uses awful flat ascii files for so many things. And databases... well most are so badly done because they are literally done by someone reading the "SQL for Dummies" book as he does it.
The last but not least of the problems are experimental design. Too often things are sequenced because you just sequence it, a bit like a machine that goes ping.
Compare the largest airplane to a average sized cargo ship. Also compare the fuel cost per kg. You will see that air cargo is very very niche market compared to shipping.
Who says no information travels faster than light? It always seemed arbitrary to me.
How else do you describe the laws of the universe we inhabit? Gravity that falls off in strength 1/r^2? Who says that should be so? Why should things not be able to go faster than light, why should time slow down when moving faster or when closer to a massive object?
Well no one really said this is the way is must be. What has been said is that is the way it *is* from what we see and measure. It is quite arbitrary. But we have a lot of experiments and data that says its that way. These same measurements say nothing goes faster than light. We even (Einstein) came up with math that predicts these observations with high accuracy.
A good example is the different atomic clocks around the world for a very accurate universal time "constant". The biggest error with these clocks is a constant drift of the clocks that are at high altitude compared to the ones at low altitude. The clocks closer to earth tick slower. Its the same set of laws that things we see follow that also predicts that you can't accelerate something to go faster than light, and if you could transmit information faster than light then you can violate causality. aka time travel.
The universe is not required to fit our expectations of it.
Its not. Its a stupid laymen interpretation of tunneling. Try and sent information and it doesn't work because of the probabilistic nature of tunneling.
I say this as someone working on such projects. Really volunteer, we need you. Your perspective may change significantly when you see what it is really like working on these things. And worse, working with people who post issues. NOTE: this is not necessarily your user base, just the ones who are prepared to say something, or worse, rant.
Also if you are prepared to help in some way*, and are otherwise polite. You will get a much better response. Perhaps not all you need, and perhaps not when you need it. But don't be fooled. Even when you have commercially supported software, you probably won't get that either. At least in my experience.
*this can be as small as "if someone helps me understand this properly, i will write some documentation". Ok so perhaps not that small. Don't forget many of us are not paid to do this. Its our weekends.
Bullshit. As a low value trader back when i had to use a phone to make orders I paid far less than that in broker fees. $1000 of shares typically attracted about $1 of fees.
Bigger trucks do use a diesel electric drive train. Once you are big enough then they become worth it. Even for longer hauls. However big in this case is mining big. About 200 tons IIRC.
...instead of actually considering the low-probability scenarios.
Low probability scenarios happen by definition rarely. These are not important cases to consider when one considers the total or average safety of driving. Driver-less cars could, even if implemented poorly, save a lot of lives.
I use supercomputers all the time for my work. I am at university so this perhaps is a government one. But we are not idiots and use it quite effectively thank you very much. In most of the supercomputers in the EU at least are for universities. They are mostly used quite well. At least all the ones i have used. Which is quite a few of them.
I should say that most of these where in fact amateur rockets. As in we build the motors as well. I suspect a composite motor would be better with keeping the heat where it should be.
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Well in your defense. You [high energy physics] process far more data in an hour than they are talking about producing in years.
I shouldn't say they. I work with next gen DNA data on a daily basis. The main problem is everyone in biology uses awful flat ascii files for so many things. And databases... well most are so badly done because they are literally done by someone reading the "SQL for Dummies" book as he does it.
The last but not least of the problems are experimental design. Too often things are sequenced because you just sequence it, a bit like a machine that goes ping.
You haven't meet the determined homeless.
Locks keep honest people out. Nothing more.
Compare the largest airplane to a average sized cargo ship. Also compare the fuel cost per kg. You will see that air cargo is very very niche market compared to shipping.
Algae still requires a food source..
I think you missed biology 101 in high school. Plants that are photosynthetic make their own food from sunlight, water and carbon dioxide.
Who says no information travels faster than light? It always seemed arbitrary to me.
How else do you describe the laws of the universe we inhabit? Gravity that falls off in strength 1/r^2? Who says that should be so? Why should things not be able to go faster than light, why should time slow down when moving faster or when closer to a massive object?
Well no one really said this is the way is must be. What has been said is that is the way it *is* from what we see and measure. It is quite arbitrary. But we have a lot of experiments and data that says its that way. These same measurements say nothing goes faster than light. We even (Einstein) came up with math that predicts these observations with high accuracy.
A good example is the different atomic clocks around the world for a very accurate universal time "constant". The biggest error with these clocks is a constant drift of the clocks that are at high altitude compared to the ones at low altitude. The clocks closer to earth tick slower. Its the same set of laws that things we see follow that also predicts that you can't accelerate something to go faster than light, and if you could transmit information faster than light then you can violate causality. aka time travel.
The universe is not required to fit our expectations of it.
So in other words not faster than light. I mean light in a vacuum goes faster than light in water....
Its not. Its a stupid laymen interpretation of tunneling. Try and sent information and it doesn't work because of the probabilistic nature of tunneling.
Well of course lots of people. Also most projects are so far from complete..........
I say this as someone working on such projects. Really volunteer, we need you. Your perspective may change significantly when you see what it is really like working on these things. And worse, working with people who post issues. NOTE: this is not necessarily your user base, just the ones who are prepared to say something, or worse, rant.
Also if you are prepared to help in some way*, and are otherwise polite. You will get a much better response. Perhaps not all you need, and perhaps not when you need it. But don't be fooled. Even when you have commercially supported software, you probably won't get that either. At least in my experience.
*this can be as small as "if someone helps me understand this properly, i will write some documentation". Ok so perhaps not that small. Don't forget many of us are not paid to do this. Its our weekends.
The original dev may well not be working on the project anymore. Putting you in a no worse position to write it than anyone else.
Bullshit. As a low value trader back when i had to use a phone to make orders I paid far less than that in broker fees. $1000 of shares typically attracted about $1 of fees.
Nice post. I will perhaps quote you when explaining HFT to other if that ok.
Even better i could have a few beers on the way to work!
Well my great grand daddy loved to ride around on his horse and cart. Nothing he loved more...... Now he can't even park it at the local pub!
Stupid Luddites.
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Comparing traffic jams to cancer is retarded.
Bigger trucks do use a diesel electric drive train. Once you are big enough then they become worth it. Even for longer hauls. However big in this case is mining big. About 200 tons IIRC.
...instead of actually considering the low-probability scenarios.
Low probability scenarios happen by definition rarely. These are not important cases to consider when one considers the total or average safety of driving. Driver-less cars could, even if implemented poorly, save a lot of lives.
Why don't you help out. Writing documentation is even more thankless than bug fixing.
No, it is not. The job of an ISP is to deliver traffic from their paying customers to other paying customers...
That is not an internet. That is just a net.
I use supercomputers all the time for my work. I am at university so this perhaps is a government one. But we are not idiots and use it quite effectively thank you very much. In most of the supercomputers in the EU at least are for universities. They are mostly used quite well. At least all the ones i have used. Which is quite a few of them.
I should say that most of these where in fact amateur rockets. As in we build the motors as well. I suspect a composite motor would be better with keeping the heat where it should be.
..potentially important history (which belongs to us all)..
Then all of us (the tax payer) should pay for it.
What i find funny is that people went to a superman movie after probably seeing the trailer, and expected shawshank redemption.
Action movies, like zombies movies are a genre. Don't expect it not to be an action movie.
It easy for superman to solve all problems