StringJunky

RIP George

And to you Mordred.

Yes, it's a fair way off but I don't think it's fanciful. At that point though AI may be pretty autonomous if it can do that. The Three Laws may be around then.

I think Delta is right, in principle, because we acquire data and the so called imagination is where we permutate that data; we don't just pull ideas out of thin air... they are constructs derived from stored information. If an AI can model random permutations then test them from known formulas to see if they work they are doing the same as a human. The vast majority of people's ideas fail and so will the AI but they'll get through them alot faster.

I think you are on the right track. Phytoplankton perform a very important task of providing most of the world's oxygen, sequestering CO2 and seeding clouds by creating condensation nuclei, from the sulphur compounds they produce, that end up above the ocean surface, increasing the planet's albedo. They help reflect UV rays away from the Earth and keep it cooler. They are a very critical part of the Earth's homoestatic mechanism from what I can see. Algae are the most fundamental organism and every single higher organism relies on them, directly or indirectly. Even viruses need them because if they have no hosts they cannot replicate. The solution to helping mitigate climate change and the burden of increasing human population seems to be to increase their presence.

Awesome.

Your idea is treating the symptom rather than the cause and there is a simpler way. The food is already on the bottom of the ocean, so, you need to get it up there to the algae. Long story short: global warming is causing more thermoclines to develop and for longer. These thermoclines block the natural upwelling of nutrient-laden cooler water from the bottom to the surface. I think it would be more effective to mechanically raise the bottom water to the top to feed the phytoplankton. http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Richerson/ESP30/Ocean%20Systems%20I.pdf More from Google on thermoclines: https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=thermoclines%20nutrients%20phytoplankton

1/10 000 x100 = 0.01%

X-rays are ionising and microwaves from phones are not. What this means is that x-rays can cause atoms to lose electrons and open them up to reacting with some other atoms that may be in the neighbourhood and potentially cause problems with cellular replication by altering parts of their DNA. Microwaves warm things up if they are the right frequency but don't do this greatly in phones.

It is seeded with a substance (the inoculum) that populates the digester with bacteria.

Plus-minus. If some device is, say, 6 volts plus-minus 1 volt it means that it is 6v within a variation of 1v either side.

It would certainly get you focused as you attempted to see through the noise

Serifs or no, for the purposes of legibility seems rather fuzzy in conclusions I've read. Typified by this one: The answer seems to be, to use non serif and serif together where ambiguities may arise. Humans seem to like consistency/uniformity though and I imagine it wouldn't be popular because it may jar aesthetically.

I would nuance that with:

...and Lego wheels at that, with the axles turned upwards.

Right.

Never thought of that. Yeah, that's a clear font. Right. Does the fact that TNR is used a lot reflect the age/generation of the authors?

I find the demand for that kind of spacing rather excessive.

Function asked about fonts in his status update which inspired this question. What fonts do you think are the right ones in this field and which ones do universities and journals specify, in your experience?

He's passed with flying colours, so far.

He - and lots of other people - need to learn what logic means, as answered by Strange

Yeah, that's what I found out looking it up. I knew what the chlorides did - affect the internal ionic properties/balance of organisms causing them to effectively drown with water - but didn't know the acetate.

I'm going back to chewing Lego.

If the allocation is limited and any excluded/disadvantaged group needs benefit of such a policy. yes.

Sometimes social engineering is necessary or else it won't happen; it's worked here. Yes, it causes some resentment to the generation it negatively affects but long term it positively shifts the direction and benefits the country eventually.