Comment Re:Apples and oranges (Score 1) 328
Accidentally modded this down, replying to erase the damage and point it it's a funny comment!
at this very moment, the search engine results show a huge number of interfering references to a site known as "slashdot", as well as RSS syndicated links to the same.
add -slashdot to the search terms and google will exclude pages related to slashdot
How about compiler being able to leverage Cuda hardware if found during execution? Might make for fatter binaries, but..... if it found GPU, it might help in some cases?
Well, the system of execution is often different from the system of compilation. So, you'd want to have the compiler-user specify that a CUDA-specific binary should be compiled alongside (afaik cuda/x86 fat binaries aren't a thing right now). And that falls into the realm of build system, not compiler. From what I've seen the build system (make in this case) relies on nvidia's compiler to builld the cuda libraries subsequent linking into the cuda executable along with the c* and fortran code.
2^32 - 1 = 4,294,967,296
2,147,483,647 = 2^31 -1
How exactly does one get a negative number of views?
2^32 - 1 != 4,294,967,296
I find it much more probable that life begins in milder, friendlier conditions and then adapts over time to harsher environments. Of course, everything is relative.
Ah, but mild and friendly is a relative term. I'm not sure our frame of reference is a valid example of mild and friendly...
In countless ways, spatiotemporally proximal organisms interact bi-directionally. For an extreme example: A student tends a dish of cells and the student's subsequent experiences (including chances of reproducing) are affected.
A succesful student gains momentum for a career boost, rocketing towards a tenure-track job-chase. Unsuccessful students are more likely to reproduce.
There's a wealth of useful equipment on eBay and other places, big expensive equipment is not out of the reach of the dedicated researcher. Ben Krasnow has three (I think) electron microscopes. I personally own a UV/VIS spectrophotometer. a microgram scale, and a Weston cell.
The idea that "research can only be done at the behest of government" or "is only associated with university" is a modern fiction. Government would *like* you to believe that everything depends on their whim and largesse, but it's not the only, nor even the best way.
Build a lab and start tinkering, or join a hackerspace. Lots of people do it. Lots of good science is done this way.
Electron microscopes are pricey. UV/VIS specs, mmg balances, and weston cells, not so much. High field NMR spectrometers and x-ray crystallography setups? You're dreaming. Thanks for playing!
The chemical layout of Tofacitinib looks fairly similar to estrogen. We've known for ages that giving MPB-afflicted men estrogen will result in hair regrowth. Unfortunately, it also makes them grow breasts, but that's besides the point.
Throwing my moderations in this disccusion to reply to this - there ought to be a "Wrong" mod option
...Really? They decided to use that acronym?
It's not an acronym.
God this sounds familiar..... and that's because I wrote a PhD thesis about building a system to do something a lot like this. It involved a fairly mediocre web interface wrapping a database of trust relationships specified by end users. A trusts B for 0.7 and B trusts C for 0.6 then you can put together a trust level between A and C by multiplying those together with some user-tweakable distance dropoff. Those trust levels were then measured against the levels required for access to shared data. Maybe you would allow anyone with a 0.7 or higher to read a given document and a 0.9 or higher to contribute to it. It was an interesting idea, but man did I get tired of it by the end. If for some bizarre reason anyone wants to read bits of it google books has some indexed and I probably have a pdf laying around somewhere....
I figured it could be quite useful, but I was so fed up with the work in mid-2007 that I never looked back at it.
Thanks for laboring through a thesis on the topic, it's an occasional daydream of mine and I would love a copy.
Which would work well if you could trust people to consistently submit "trust statements" truthfully and accurately. Sometimes people lie when they tell you who they trust and who they don't.
People lie but no so much when their lies are detremental to them. Such a web of trust could only be conned by 'fake' nodes which would have a very hard time developing any links to 'real' nodes.
Real Programmers don't eat quiche. They eat Twinkies and Szechwan food.
