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Comment Re:I agree.. less math (Score 2) 583

I would submit the math requirements are common in the core requirements of any Bachelor of Sciences degree, rather than specific to a Computer Science major.

If you don't want to master basic college-level math to earn a sciences degree, then perhaps you should be lobbying academics to offer a Bachelor of Arts with a Applications Development major instead.

Comment Maybe a reference on the supervolcano assertion? (Score 1) 799

As far as I can tell, this idea that somehow this could become a supervolcano and an extinction event seems completely unsupported by the AC's post...

So please, could I have one cite from a scientist even possibly suggesting that? What was said by the software engineer in the examiner blog isn't supported by anything other than his assertion... and only really by his metaphor of calling it a volcano of oil.

I call this talking out of his ass unless more can be presented.

Comment Re:Roundup Ready soya patent about to run out (Score 1) 435

That'd be a hell of a smoking gun... if introduction of a Roundup2/soybeanRR2 comes soon... But... Is it even illegal? I'm having trouble thinking of a civil tort that would apply. I'm about to old man it, but we are not advanced enough to be mass deploying genetically engineered foods, pesticides & weeds. We'll end up doing what the nukes never did, but slowly: Leaving the whole surface dust.

Comment Evolution in a rapid lifecycle (Score 1) 435

I'd like the evolution deniers to come explain this. Yes, it only takes two successive reproductions for the resistance mutation to be successful. And pretty soon it's spreading all over the land mass. Billions and billions of chances for the right mutation to have occurred since the resistant crops and Roundup spraying combination was introduced. Roundup takes care of all the competition in the gene pool pretty efficiently! I just pray that the evolution deniers that couldn't forsee this don't conclude that an engineered virus is the best way to dispatch weeds next. Yeah, those never evolve and cross-over to species. Say corn and wheat? Oh, they'll just "patch that" with new virus-resistant corn and wheat? Sure. Because corporate profits should surely trump biodiversity in crops. Perhaps a little legislation and regulation to make sure we don't make the planet die?

Comment Re:It's not that big of deal (Score 1) 334

But fp is, by nature, slightly imprecise. Really, Really Small numbers would get lost in the noise.

No, they don't. Read the article posted earlier today for more information.

Now wait, you should know full well that "really, really" small numbers in single precision that are smaller than 0.00000x10^-126 are going to get lost.

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