Hawking Bacon
Professor Hawking (and Elon Musk) seem to be the sciency showbiz equivalent of bacon: getting their soundbites on subjects they scarcely know anything about makes everything better!
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A problem is P‑complete if the solution is easy to find, and NP‑complete if the answer is also easy to check. The paper shows that the n‑Queens problem can be cracked, but not a second time quickly.
This needs to be reformulated.
Please El Reg, can we have a diagramming tool to quickly upload a simple back-on-the envelope diagram to explain things?
I have never understood America's xenophobia and attitude towards immigrants and foreigners, when you consider the entire country consists of immigrants and foreigners.
OTOH, why should the US and Euroland be the only countries to have open gates for the huddled masses?
Apparently it's a moral thing to allow your kid's country to get swamped by random people wandering around looking for a better life in a somewhat economically successful countries, thus destroying them utterly (because economic resources happen to be finite, as constanly bemoaned by greens), but I don't see it.
"Your pension schemes and your medicart will be HURT!!!"
HA HA HA HA HA.
This is coming from golden parachuters, tax-squirrelers (not that there is anything wrong with that but one should not be hypocritical) and H1B Visa exploiters probably not batting an eye when the US starts yet another 20-year war and prints money for bailouts, subsidies and tech economy liftups.
I hope the honorable Bong and Garland of Flowers were at least cos-signatories of this particular peice of cuckery.
The Clay Mathematics Institute is offering $1m in prize money for solutions to these problems.
The Clay Mathematics Institute is silly because if some has the solution (as long as it is constructive) he would be RAKING it in and probably take over the very living brains of the Clay Institute Members by midnight.
Say Brain, what do you want to do tonight?
The same we do every day Pinky: Try to prove P=NP!
ARF!
Actual engineering stuff:
"Mettle Fatigue - VW’s Single-Point-of-Failure Ethics"
That's at least 80 a month out of taxed wages.
Plus weeatetee, Joe, plus weeatetee!
I can afford it but it still pisses me off to see people apparently occupied during the day to dismantle the company from within like dumb fcucks because God himself code-injected some exclusively CEO-targetd Genius Idea into their brain through the bottommost sphincter access port pulling in 5-figure salaries.
The commercial world, which calls itself the real world, runs on binary coded decimal
S'truth. Today on java.lang.BigDecimal until JSR 354 comes out. (actually you need a BigRational too)
See also: Why not use Double or Float to represent currency?
Maybe it will rip away some confederate statues, commemorative plaques to fall Confederate soldies, microaggressing tiling, swastika-adorned anchors (if there are any in the US) and racist rapist frat houses.
This goes under "really trying to keep the lid on"
Maybe they can succeed.
Social peace at any cost (including behaving like one of those mythical Wandering Nazis that one wants to battle so vigorously in case one finally finds them) is a good idea -- if one has a plan.
For some, the plan consists in getting to the Carribean mansion before SHTF.
Not so good for most.
Oh well, China can pick up the peaces.
Obama would not say the "I" word because...
He was also extremely busy killing civiies in Syria/Lybia and kissing Saudi arse. Was also ok with BLM nuking inner cities, who was at fault? Blue jackets.
Anyway, here's the short take:
Resurfacing the Truth is 100% allowed if you are an Establishment Construct like Obama and you give at least the impression of being a progressive do-gooder.
A crazy confused guy like Trump who opens up real grievances and causes contradictions and "unmentionable" problems to come to the fore shall be branded a Nazi and useful idiots fancying themselves "The Resistance" will be rolled out for an internal color revolution.
Especially if he's not onboard with Cold War II.
From here on, things will either be getting more crazy and then burn out or the lid is put on again and the whole pressure cooker will explode.
NYT finds out that CEOs are now the New Hope!
From iSteve's super crazy press review blog:
NYT: CEOs Speak Truth to Power
From the New York Times:
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The Moral Voice of Corporate America
By DAVID GELLES AUG. 19, 2017
The nation has split into political tribes. The culture wars are back, waged over transgender rights and immigration. White nationalists are on the march.
Amid this turbulence, a surprising group of Americans is testing its moral voice more forcefully than ever: C.E.O.s. …
Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan said, “The equal treatment of all people is one of our nation’s bedrock principles.” …
The forthright engagement of these and other executives with one of the most charged political issues in years — the swelling confidence of a torch-bearing, swastika-saluting, whites-first movement — is “a seminal moment in the history of business in America,” said Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation and a board member at PepsiCo.
“In this maelstrom, the most clarifying voice has been the voice of business,” he said. “These C.E.O.s have taken the risk to speak truth to power.”
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In 2017, the rich get not only richer but holier.
Comment:
LOL! We are now beyond Orwell. Winston is being tortured for the crime of having too much power.
I do no longer need to go to the hairdresser, my hairs gets frisquéed just by reading these thunderous vapid pronounciations by the truly worthy.
Mozilla are holier-than-you kids with diversity (and bug-fixing) issues, but the IEEE should be staid enough to stay out of this and not beclown itself. I'm a bit embarrassed on their behalf and I suspect this will lead to some noises in the ranks. I can't remember them coming out against BLM or Obama's non-pronounciations against undocumented shopping? Or, more relevant to engineering ethics. his boastful killing spree using drones and predilection for mas surveillance?
Meanwhile, right-wing blogger Anatoly Karlin writes better stuff than any journalist: The Ascent of Society 282
Europe famously has hate speech laws, which run the gamut from banning Nazi propaganda to criticizing mass immigration.
Russia’s version of it is Article 282, which has been used on everyone from genuine Neo-Nazis and radical Islamists to the nationalist pundit Konstantin Krylov for stating that it’s “time to do away with this strange economic model [of federal subsidies to the Caucasus]“.
And yet if the United States has an exceptional degree of respect for absolute freedom of speech, encodified in the First Amendment, this is mitigated by its organic “Society 282,” as the Russian nationalist Egor Prosvirnin has poetically called it.
In the days the Unite the Rite march in Charlottesville, in which one antifa counter-protester was killed by a Neo-Nazi going postal with his car (the MSM version of events; reality might be rather different), Society 282 has gone on a veritable purge of Alt Right and Dissident Right content on cyberspace...
The game was developed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wosniak in 1975, following Atari's hit game, Pong. Jobs said the $5,000 he was paid for Breakout served as seed money for his nascent company, Apple
I rhink the story is that he got 7000, told the Woz that they gave him 4000 and "here's half for you", and then used the 5000 as he saw fit.
100% Jobs from the get go. SAD!
Well, pace Feynman, "understanding" just means creating a syntax processor inside your head (aka. "program") that can simulate what's going in the problem domain you want to be able to handle (whether the problem domain is correctly described or underspecified by the information you have about it is another matter).
Some people are just unable to do so for complex-enough problem domains (this can be seen in undergrads quite clearly, which is why 50% drop out each year and some barrel through leisurly at 18). So sorry, mission impossible in general, Feynman.
Interestingly, you can go recurisve and blackbox the blackbox, maybe leaving out detail until the person in front of you "gets it".
(Whole populations seem to be predisposed to being better/worse at blackboxing some problem domains, this is probably why the "Journal of Computational Intelligence" is now dominated by Chinese, oops, getting into HBD here, better shut up. No Golden Retriever icon? Penguin, then!)
Very perceptive.
You can read the whole paper at nature here.
Indeed, QCD is not involved. We stay in QED and use virtuals particles from the weak force ("heavy light", innit) or fermions to interacdt with:
One of the key features of Maxwell’s equations is their linearity in both the sources and the fields, from which follows the superposition principle. This forbids effects such as light-by-light (LbyL) scattering, γγ right arrow γγ, which is a purely quantum-mechanical process. It was realized in the early history of quantum electrodynamics (QED) that LbyL scattering is related to the polarization of the vacuum1. In the standard model of particle physics, the virtual particles that mediate the LbyL coupling are electrically charged fermions or W± bosons.
So.... electromagnetism starts to get into the nonlinear regime, a bit like gravity.
(This also explains the lightshow under space-orbital lasers about to fire as seen in "Akira", I'm sure)
... and whatever is Hitler.
It's been appropriated by straight-out low-IQ and hysterical thought enforcers and politicians out for a quick rallying so much that it's become meaningless.
See, you have this guy who is looking for some aggro & pushback and keeps hearing from the baying (and let's face it, variously challenged) hordes of people-minding-your-business that he's a Nazi. So, what will he do? Come with a Nazi flag of course to make things clear. What are you going to do about it?
How many adepts of the ancient germanic-bureaucratic-socialistic movement are there now, for real? A few hundred? You can only listen to tape re-runs of Goebbels a limited number of times.
Here, at least an interesting take: Codes of the Underworld
That’s the way to read the alt-right and the stuff they say and do on-line with respect to non-whites, Jews and women. They don’t actually spend a lot of time talking and writing about these groups. They spend most of their time talking about how to organize themselves, the issues that face white identity movements and the philosophical points of their thing. The offensive memes and the racists language are mostly signalling. If you freak out over Hitler themed twitter avatars, then you are never going to be in their thing.
As with bike culture, it is defensive signalling to ward off entryists and the posers, but it is also a signal that joining their thing is more than just a secret handshake. If you are on-line talking about white identity, you’re never going back to the squaresville world of normie politics. You are rejecting that world as illegitimate in favor of the new thing. In effect, the racist memes are an offer. Accept it as a price of admission, but understand that by accepting the offer you are leaving the old morality behind for the new moral framework.
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The jury is still out as to whether the alt-right is the long hoped for response to the rise of the New Left in the 1960’s. Ironically, the worst thing that could happen for the alt-right is for Trump to be everything his critics in Washington claim. White identity politics can only flourish when whites believe they must be an intolerant minority, battling other intolerant minorities for space. What is clear is that the alt-right is not another Tea Party. It has staying power because it is a cultural movement, not a political one.
Deplorable icon, of course. Go Deplorables!