Comment #34698456 by Entrope (68843): "... So far, Wikileaks has published approximately nothing that is shocking or surprising or that reveals unlawful activity. ..."

Comment #34699254 by Entrope (68843): "I can't really go take a look. I like my job, and -- thanks probably to the indiscriminate behavior of Wikileaks -- I have been told not to go looking at the details or else I might not be able to continue doing my job."

So you haven't looked at the leaks, but you're sure that they reveal nothing of value. Approximately.

It's favoring change as opposed to being aversive to it (conservative), not to develop in stages. So yes, they don't call it progressive for nothing, but not because incremental development is their modus operandi.

Lagrange polynomial

Continuing your analogy notice that the simplest (measured as the numbers of terms) is unique. In the same way the simplest complete description is preferred in science, cf. Occam's razor. I'm not an expert on string theory, so I don't know if it's unnecessarily complicated, but I suspect a lot of prominent scientists would be called out if it were.

HURD!

They are terrorists! We should “put out a contract and maybe use a drone or something”

Weekend always screws it up, and I have to start over ramping up from monday.

There's nothing like a climate debate to revamp people's passion for scientific scepticism. Oddly it doesn't seem to happen with other topics. Let's recap:

Burnhard (1031106) calls ocean acidification a "ridiculous Green bandwagon" and lumps it in with other "idiotic claims". Modded interesting.

Rockoon (1252108) states that "All of those previous models are crap, but so too is this one most likely crap.". Modded insightful.

Mashiki (184564) lets us know that "Models are garbage, even hindcasted.". Modded interesting.

Let me add further scepticism: Unless you cite a paper that you published in a peer-reviewed journal to back up your claim, you don't get to dismiss models that have been accepted in peer-reviewed journals.

Perhaps Prof. Burnhard would enlighten us lesser folk as to why these claims are idiotic. Or maybe one of the moderators who modded the post interesting.

No, no. Joe Lieberman is totally a democrat. It's not like he torpedoed health care or anything.

"It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."

I recently completed a round the world trip that included the US, Australia, India, sub-Saharan Africa, and the cell phone experience in the US (which was mainly AT&T) was by far the worst. Dropped calls, no coverage in many places for no reason (certain block in NYC, on the freeway).

3G wasn't deployed in Africa when I was there, but for talking I would pick an African carrier over AT&T (or T-Mobile for that matter) any day.

"The well know Tai's method can in most cases be improved by fitting a quadratic curve under each section of the curve and then summing the respective areas below the quadratic curves. I call this method S. Impson's Rule."

After this I would publish improvements every three months, fitting higher and higher degree polynomials. Then: Profit!

I agree that the people who accomplished this have something to be truly proud of. But you're not one of them. Instead, you're part of the group that have done nothing whilst your country has betrayed every ideal set by the founding fathers. Torture, ignoring the constitution, invading countries for no good reason. All done in the last 10 years, and the majority were cheering while it happened. You have very little to be proud of.