you are right.

the error function is the cumulative normal distribution, besides a factor and an offset. i got the factor wrong (see the other answer to my post).

hey, thanks for spotting the error!

wish I could moderate the answer up.

The standard deviation of IQ seems to be 15

octave:16> erfc((197-100)/15)
ans = 5.9493e-20

That means only a fraction of 5*10^-20 of total humankind would exceed his intelligence.

Let me make a few remarks:
-That would mean humankind could exists in it current size for another 10^11 years without finding a second one like him
-Normal itelligence tests dont resolve in that region. It's pretty impossible to design a tests which ca resolve between 100 and 140 and at the same time distinct between 180 and 190. i am not sure if designing a test between 190 and 197

-The most likely other option is that the distribution of measured IQs is heavy tailed (instead of normal). In that case, the IQ measurement needs to be corrected for that.

I wish that journalists would turn their brain on and not off at every number they cite

as long as US and China have technological balance, they will behave reasonably, since no side will have exagerated fear.

And it has stagnated because it conquered everything up ato a realistc marke penetration for a single platform.

Then dont offer flatrates. I am perfectly fine with paying per GB. But i am not fine with paying for a flatrate, and when i hit an (conditions undisclosed or changing) limit, the providers decides (based on his calculation what a GB *should* cost) to do weird shit with my packets.

That being said, I believe everybody would be better off without flatrates. The people who need much less transfer than the provider includes in the flatrate calculation, and the providers, since the people would really have incentives to reduce data (and peak) usage.

I would also appeciate a "slow flatrate" + "high speed metered" model where the *user* can select which protocols he wants to slow down and which are important. (O, i understand. That woudl get in the way of asking for the fees for quicker transport from the provider).

As long as enough money to live a decent life arrives on my account for doing nerdish things related to physics, programming and engineering, i dont mind that at all.

Even if it was not his fault, it was his responsibility. If you accept a senior-author position on a paper, then you have responsibility for the scientific integrity. You also accept the impact factor very willingly.

That does by no way mean that your career should be completely over after one mistake happening under your supervision.Let alone that, a society in which one mistake after a very sucessful and long scientific career pressures a man to kill himself should strongly question its own standards in dealing with mistakes.

I worked for four years in Japan in research and there are two different versions which i would perfectly believe:

a) He did what every good Japanese boss does: Stand to your employees. This is something which is not wlle understood by westeners, but if an institution/group is under attack from the outside then the highest rank defends. That means, if you are a postdoc, and somebody tried to attack your students, you will take the hits. Likewise, if you are a group leader and postdoc messes up, you will defend him/her. So he defended his student, and fell.

b) He did something which bad Japanese scientists do: tell their employees how the data has to be interpreted and let them work the data until it looks fine (while convincing yourself that everything is allright). I have seen that happen before (usually they would not fake the data but misinterpret it in way that it hurts.). Now it would have come out;.

4.4e9/((30.0*8400*2e9/2)/1000) = 0.01746031746031746

So i arrive at roughly 1-1.7cent/kwh for dismantling. which is not extremely bad but it's far from nothing

And just because the plant itself does not create emissions it does not mean that it is "emission free".

Well. I mean, if you read the terms and conditions of gmail before you clock accept, it should become pretty clear that they have the right to do pretty much everything they want with your data. To me using gmail is less like doing something in your provate flat but more like posting something on the marketplace.

scite/notepad++: scintilla based, leightweight

vi: for editing system files (i like the fact that it usually takes 2 keystrokes to do harm.

the editor integrated in eclipse in order to edit java and xml

formerly i used emacs when doing development, but now i prefer full IDEs

yes.the point is: ms supports running windows 3.1 apps by providing the virtual machine in a standard os of ms.

that's a devotion to a platform (the previous post complained about ms letting developers stand in the rain).

What? I mean, Nokia announced the death of symbian well in advance (5 years before i stopped using symbian). And remind me - how long could you execute binaries built for Windows 3.1 on the current windows? Oh - allright if it is a 32 bit version of Windows 7/8 then it still may work....

Ironically this disturbed me very much in the beginning. But the desktop still is there.

Yeah, actually i bought OS/2 instead of windoes 3.1/windows 95. In 1993.

You forgot NT 4.0 and NT 3.51

I did not reject windows. I did just not see any reason to switch from linux in the last 20 years and pay for a newly installed computer. I think XP is OK - were are cheap used licenses around.

I find windows 8.1 similar enough and all the features which are mandatory for me are embedded, and the price point of the tablets seems ok.