Posts by Ian Bush

No, it only finds "elbow"

Possibly not if you pay the local kids a few quid to look after them

Re: Hilarious

A genuine laugh out loud moment that one ...

The doubly worrying thing is that a *good* sum() function is non-trivial, especially if dealing with floating point. So much so that I will roll my own if I really need accuracy, who knows who wrote the library functions for all the compilers I need to support?

All the molecules in the host's undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance with the theory of indeterminacy.

Re: LO 7.6 - Outline View

Indeed - give me EDLIN every time

Ian (emacs user)

Re: Aaaaargh!

Please see the British education system

Re: oxbridge

Note both Oxford and Cambridge give BAs for all their first degrees - I hold a BA (Oxon) in Chemistry

But a large part of the problem is successive ministers have seen the science and technology budget as there to fund their own pet projects, rather than supporting any coherent national plan. IMO millions have been hived away and wanted that way. Boris Johnson and George Osborne are especially at fault here.

Re: No tar and feathers please! I'll go peacefully

No. Some MPs form the government, but not all. Quoting https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/role/relations-with-other-institutions/parliament-government/

"Parliament and the Government are different. They have different roles and do different things."

"HM Government consists of the Prime Minister, their Cabinet and junior ministers, supported by the teams of non-political civil servants that work in government departments."

And

"Parliament is there to represent our interests and make sure they are taken into account by the Government. The Government cannot make new laws or raise new taxes without Parliament's agreement.

Parliament is made up of people we have elected and people who have been appointed. They sit in two separate Houses:

The House of Commons, where all the people we have elected at the General Election work, as MPs, for the next five years. This includes people in other political parties, as well as those in the winning party who were not chosen to be ministers."

Thus all MPs are members of the House of Commons, but not all MPs are members of the Government

Re: Oh shit..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leather_Goddesses_of_Phobos

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Genius! Have one of these

More than that, it's quite possible that the games are analysed afterwards by some software to find indicators as to whether it is a human playing, or if there is computer "assistance". I can't tell you about the Go world, but this certainly happens in Chess - any rated online tournament will likely be sent for analysis, and yes, people have been disqualified and/or banned for use of a computer having been detected by this method. Ken Regan (https://www.buffalo.edu/news/experts/ken-regan-faculty-expert-chess.html) is probably the best known researcher in this area.

Re: Wow!

At least a factor of 10 too small

Re: how to prove it

"We know now that the antibodies created thanks to those shots tend to be pretty much gone after two months already"

Link to peer-reviewed research, please

Well to convert the archaic units to something I understand that's 0.38Jb (https://www.theregister.com/2007/10/28/additional_reg_standards/). Nope, not going to put my back out.

Re: Leftover core, or an ark ship?

Nah, it would have been eaten by the enormous mutant space goat

Re: "SwiftML [..] can perform as accurately as DFT programmes in some cases."

"To be sure, 6 minutes instead of 16 years is quite the improvement, but only some cases ?

I do hope that they know which cases, because it would be a shame if they applied it wrong yet still used the answer that their statistical analysis machine gave them."

Well speaking as somebody who develops DFT codes on HPC machines I would use the following technical term to describe their comparison: Bollocks. You can solve systems with a few thousand atoms relatively easily on a few 10s or 100s of cores on a modern HPC machine, maybe 1200 hours is fair, but 16 years, WTF are they on?

Oh, and of course out of a quantum mechanical calculation you get the wavefunction which allows deep insight into the properties of the system under investigation. Out of curve fitting you get the fitted curve. Don't get me wrong, this can be extremely useful in certain circumstances. But what is being presented here is complete over-sell - "News: Drawing a line through some points is quicker and easier than solving the fundamental laws of nature, film at 11!!!"

You can see it happening already - it's blocked some of your vowels, replacing them with stars