Comment Re:How is this news? (Score 1) 65
I'd be surprised if they were still doing it within the last two decades. Sounds more like the sort of thing you'd have seen in the Ray Harryhausen era.
I'd be surprised if they were still doing it within the last two decades. Sounds more like the sort of thing you'd have seen in the Ray Harryhausen era.
More relevant car analogy: If you have the specs for a car (hp, torque, weight, drag coefficients, etc.) that had not yet been built you could prove mathematically, without it ever actually happening or the car even existing at the time except on paper, whether or not the car could accelerate to 60 mph.
Not sure about this. They're claiming a proof for the possibility of a particular mechanism behind an event which has already happened.
It still feels like there's an oxymoron* here somewhere...
(*don't!)
What they are saying here is that, according to the math, the universe could have formed this way.
Right, but what if someone comes along later with more math that proves it couldn't have formed this way? What would that do to this "proof"?
Maybe this is the bit that counts:
The proof is developed within a mathematical framework known as the Wheeler-DeWitt equation.
Proving something as possible within a certain framework isn't the same as proving it's possible, full stop. Right?
Mathematical Proof That the Cosmos Could Have Formed Spontaneously From Nothing
What does this mean, really? Either a thing did or didn't happen. What does it mean to have proved that it could have happened?
Is there room for someone to come along later and prove that it couldn't have happened for reasons not yet understood?
What if we discover the universe didn't form spontaneously from nothing? Would that disprove this "proof"?
Car analogy time: if I see a car at a certain place, and I measure its speed at 60mph, then I could claim to have "proven" that it could have been 60 miles away an hour ago - based on the little evidence I have. But if I then find out it can't go any faster than 60mph, and the hood is cold, that might prove that it couldn't have been 60 miles away an hour ago.
So, is this just a badly-worded headline, or am I just very very tired?
Hint: it could be both.
Have you actually registered and looked at live data?
The author himself states, in response to a comment making the same point as you, that:
The actual bike data that you download from the TFL website contains customer record numbers
NYC eyes Google Glass for restaurant inspections
including, possibly, the much-maligned Google goggles
So if the city wanted to use Google Glass
I don't see any evidence that NYC is actually looking at Google Glass. For all the information in the article, they may have already discounted it. Perhaps they never even considered it.
In other words, made-up shit.
He was working on New Years Eve
Friends don't let friends commit drunk.
You're green and fuzzy with a bad aftertaste?
Hey, at least they got some punctuation in there.
Science is hard, and we figured out the easy stuff like how to bang the rocks together first.
The latest evidence is a 'Correspondence' published in the journal Nature
That's not evidence that we're running out of things to discover.
seems to confirm the common feeling of an increasing time needed to achieve new discoveries in basic natural sciences—a somewhat worrisome trend
What's worrisome about it? It's awesome that a hairless ape has come so far in understanding how the universe works for little more than the sheer pleasure of understanding*.
*also, patent royalties.
there is no anti-virus software to deal with
You're not ready.
Yes. Why do people keep asking this?
Because men and women are different, and are allowed to lean toward different fields if it suits them, either individually or en masse. It doesn't automatically mean something is broken.
I don't know for sure why it exists, but I suspect it has to do with boys being encouraged during high school (and to some extent college as well) to pursue sports and "manly" activities rather than their studies
Could it also have something to do with the fact that men and women are different? Just throwin' it out there.
There is already an inequality in schools in that subject...
There's also a complete inequality in girls graduating high school, enrolling in college, and graduating college.
I'm not saying that's okay, but let's not forget that there is, fundamentally, an inequality between boys and girls. Full stop.* They're not the same thing.
(*I was going to pander to the mainly US audience, but in the context it may not have worked so well)
There is a lack of women in STEM fields.
Who says? Was there a meeting where it was decided how many women there should be in STEM fields?
We need women in these fields.
Even if a greater proportion than among men don't want to be in them?
I say we do what we can to balance the gender inequality in the IS and IT areas.
And I say we just make sure that those women who want to go into IS and IT don't suffer discrimination, and stop trying to pressure everyone into being dissatisfied with anything other than equal numbers.
Would anyone who reads French be able to give a less jovial and more accurate interpretation of what the French article says?
Call me cynical, but I have a hunch we may not be getting the full story from the Guardian's "article."
Also:
New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails
It's not a law.
God help those who do not help themselves. -- Wilson Mizner
