OT: Simple maths question

Isn't that like removing one disk from a RAID 0? Only half the data remains. You'd have forgotten 50% of what had happened in your life. Or does your brain have redundancy?

I would have given her the job for thinking outside the box.

But why was there a publicly usable microwave in a convenience store?

I find pale skin makes people look very ill. Even worse when someone has a tan on some parts and not others. Eg. they have a good tan on their arms and none on their chest, then take their shirt off. The stark contrast exaggerates it. Naked women with no tan on their naughty bits but plenty elsewhere look ridiculous. If you're going to sunbathe, it should always be all over.

I've never seen so many red lines in a sentence. Could you type that again?

They may be dumb blondes, but I'd like one (or more).

For some reason our =A32 coins, although everybody likes them, are very = difficult to find. I can only assume most shop assistants (what is the = word for a person who serves you in a shop?) are too thick to use them. = If I get given =A33.50 change, I get three =A31 coins instead of a =A32= and a =A31 coin.

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Bikini e pareo, camicia di pizzo e shorts, top e gonna di crochet!

We don't use those terms anymore, that's my point. We just use a number. There are only two words, pounds and pence.

We don't really know.

Fraid not.

Must be, or replicated, anyway.

Yes, quite a bit does have to be relearned but they don't end up as unable to speak as a baby for some reason and don't have to be treated like a baby does either.

It doesn't work like that.

Now there is a damn good question... Many rats and rabbits have died in the search.

This is where it starts to get chewy:

AI has been the grail of computing and one of the branches is the study of neural networks. If you assume the neurons communicate via the electrochemical interfaces between the dendrites and other neurons, with high degree of interconnectivity you can try modeling them process mathematically, which computers are good at. Hebb started the ball rolling but there was a little speed bump when Minsky pointed out the model couldn't even handle an XOR.

Hopfield came out with a better model in the early '80s and he was followed by McClellan and Rumelhart.

I was working in the Boston area in the early '80s and had a couple of seminars concerning neural nets. The groundwork was there but the computing power wasn't. AI shifted toward expert systems, which are just glorified decision trees, and didn't do much for image recognition.

Neural networks are hot again and it's mostly because of the massive increase of computing power since the '80s. They aren't exact models of physiological neural networks because of the back propagation.

Short answer, you kicked over a rock with a lot of strange stuff under it. Like I said if I was starting over again that's where I would be. I had all the pieces but it wasn't the right time to put them together. It's like airplanes; the idea was there and people were building gliders but until lightweight engines were developed it wasn't going to fly, so to speak.

As I said in another longer post, think distributive computing. They are everyplace and nowhere.

That would be a normal day at US schools. Seeing your buddy's brains running down the classroom wall imparts a little gravity to the situation.

All kids think they're a special protected species. When I was a kid adults were quick to disabuse us of that notion. Today the adults put them on the news and say what wonderful wisdom they have and 16 year olds should be able to vote.

The storage capacity of the human brain interests me:

Firstly, how do two neurons connecting hold 2.5kB, or 20,000 bits?

Secondly, the page claims the total storage of the brain is 2.5 million = GB - that's only 420 times the storage in my desktop computer (6TB), whi= ch doesn't seem enough to remember everything that's ever happened to yo= u.

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An ostrich=E2=80=99s eye is bigger than its brain.

So we have a lot of redundancy in data storage then. I guess that's maybe why some memories are stronger than others, the more important ones are stored multiple times.

Administrator...

I get begging emails and snailmails from the alumni association. Straight to the trash. In the '60s RPI would trade places with MIT or Stanford for #1 in any given year. Now it's tied #30. That doesn't keep them from charging $52,000 a year. Shirley's got to eke out a living somehow.

No, it's well inside the predictable box. Getting a clean urine sample and trying to switch it out for your gold plated methedrine piss is part of the game. Room temperature samples don't make it.

You don't have them? How do you heat up your frozen burritos? Seriously, the stores all sell prepackaged frozen stuff and the mike is to heat it up. Some might have actual hot food but you might be better off rolling the dice with the frozen. Christ knows how long those chicken nuggets have been under the infrared and he ain't talking.

The sad part is a lot of people live on that expensive crap.

I don't lay around trying to tan but I do spend a lot of time outdoors in a t-shirt; hence the expression red neck.

Why do they call a University a "school"? Toddlers go to kindergarten or nursery or playgroup. Then from 5 to 12 they go to primary school, and from 13 to 18 secondary school (these two get fudged together in some places, of even have a "middle school"). Over 18s go to college, or if they're clever university. But you can't have a 20 year old at school!

Is it different for drug tests? Because when I've taken a urine sample to a doctor I can have pissed it out a few hours beforehand, so it will indeed be at room temperature.

I have a microwave oven in my own home, don't you? If you want food ready to eat, you go to a McDonalds and they've cooked it for you.

Doesn't it cost more to buy frozen food in a shop where you can heat it for "free"? Thee shop has to pay for maintainence of the microwaves, the electricity to run them, the shop floor space to house them, and the wages for the cleaners to clean them.

Don't you ever see yourself in the mirror and think the tshirt covered bit looks revolting?