the6threplicant

I call it the cultural event horizon.

But how do you become ideological in the first place.

Either you're a conspiracy theorist and believe so many weird things that adding another believe won't top the cart.

Or is it that we want to believe explanations that we understand (or think we do) and not believe what we don't understand (science).

Or the bugs that disappear when you're debugging and then come back hen you're not.

Great so people hostile to your research (eg Republicans) can turn your research political because they can take your notes out of context (try using the word "trick" in your research journal or emails) and use it against you or your research area.

The number of discussions I have had with the staff in mathematics and computer science about the need for such journals would last years. Everyone pretty much wants them because they know the need of saying "hey I already did this and we got nowhere - try something else" is so crucial for science and mathematics.

Fun fact: If they cut you open to remove your appendix and find out that it isn't inflamed or infected then they still remove it since the scar left after surgery is universally known that you already had an appendectomy and so doctors, on seeing the scar, will rule out anything to do with the appendix as a possible cause for your harrowing abdominal pain.

So to eliminate this possible confusion surgeons - all around the world - always follow this unwritten rule.

Evernote is one of those applications that I use in a permanent WORN mode (Write Once Read Never). :)

I'm still waiting for the killer extension where I can take all my restaurant reviews (for a city) and dump them on a map to see the closest one to me.

A comment from someone who has actually read the article: https://np.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/9ely8y/why_the_w...

For example:

...the EFF argue that the idea of what constitutes a link is not fully defined. I'm not sure what they're talking about. Recitals 31-36 set out the concepts in article 11, fairly clearly. They make it clear that what is being protected is substantial or harmful copying of significant portions of the text. They also make it clear what organisations this will affect - press organisations - with a fairly clear description of what a press organisation might constitute. (FWIW, memes are not covered, and anyone you hear talking about "banning memes" is getting their news from very poor sources.)

I think you have found most people's problems, not just with Evernote, but with all other clipping services: it's write often, read once (if at all).

My biggest gripe with the clipper when used on pdf's is the lack of any metadata searching in the pdf for a title suggestion.

I hate that I have to type in the title of the pdf as the title is usually "PDF - www.example.com".

Can I ask where there people from different castes there or is it totally ignored?

They'll need phones with two SIM cards. Every Indian IT person I've met in India always look at me with disdain, but also :), when I tell them I can only have one SIM in my phone.

But that's the beauty of this calculation it just takes one splinter group of one splinter group and they could easily populate the whole galaxy in under 10-100 million years - which, being the conclusion that Fermi found, is nothing at the time scales of when our galaxy was formed.

I love the Drake equation.

It's like the shortest shorthand for "Where is your civilisation at?"

If you go from left to right, each value determines where you are in the history of galactic civilisations:

R* : you need to understand galaxies and star formation (1930-70s)

fP : you need to have space telescopes (we are here) ne : we'll probably have this number in the next 10-20 years

fe : might need at least 30 years before we can detect life via atmosphere spectroscopy

fi : 100 years, maybe?

fc : same as above but with more time since we need more than one other data point

L : we're at a Star Trek level civilisation - we know of each civilisation's Shakespeare and Einstein, their history etc. Now we can learn how long technological civilisations last.

The problem is all of these institutional systems rely a lot on people being in "good faith". From the president to the police-man.

I feel like our institutions are being populated by people who just want to destroy them instead of improving them or even debating their worth.

Maxwell's equations show that the speed of light is invariant in all inertial reference frames. In other words, the speed of light is the same no matter what speed you are going. This was a bigger inspiration to Einstein than the MM experiments.

It's literally him and David Attenborough that have the job everyone wants.

I was reading about the Hong Kong episode for Parts Unknown just yesterday where his girlfriend directed it and they used a famous cinematographer too that Anthony always wanted to work with.

I read Kitchen Confidential when it came out. A hge fan and followed him ever since.

Sympathy goes out to his young daughter and his friends and family.

TL;DR: Invest in blue-sky research since you might never know when you need it.

This reminds me of the thick manila envelopes I got in the mail at university. "I have discovered a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem that is at most two pages long." Starts off with the wrong definition of a prime number. Ugh!

Your link reminds me of those manila envelopes. Cargo cult science indeed!

The other figure to look at is the amount of money spent. If it's similar to the hardware percentage then you're right, if on the other hand, macOS users spend more on games then a rethink is in order.

Copernicus also used epicycles - since he assumed orbits to be circular instead of elliptical (as Kepler deduced).

Remember when the right wing groups were up in arms about the censoring of non-liberal news by the news moderators and FB had to reorganise the whole team.

Now we know the so-called liberal bias was that they were censoring all the (mostly) right wing fake news stories coming from the Russian backed troll teams.

Is this what is bricking Safari on the occasional YouTube video? Sometimes a reload works, other times I need to copy the URL and paste in a new tab.

Except those on the right are members of Congress and the President himself while those on the left are fringe groups and internet comments.

See the difference?

If you replace scientists with coders then what you're saying is that programmers should allow people to see your code at any time, instead of allowing them to release the code when they see fit.

Since she states:

The first step is we need to upload all existing scientific research content and make that digital content accessible to anyone anywhere with the internet. Google is doing that. I admire sci-hub's efforts in this space. Sci-hub's team has done what I am too afraid to do myself.

The second step is we need to record all new information generated by today's scientists digitally.

There has been a lot of examples generated by computer proving conjectures of their existence, I think a people now call this experimental mathematics. For instance in finite geometries, construction of new generalized quadrangles, flocks etc.

Does the Drake equation include us, that is, Earth? In other words do we know that N > 0 (since we exist) or can N = 0 (since we're not included).

To me it shows why "big government" is a necessity (as well as a curse).

You can't regulate a company that is bigger than the enforcer of the regulations.

Hopefully when we start using voice activation as much as we now use the mouse, then the open office space will become a thing of the past.

One can hope.