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@Genecks I want to focus on Microbiology and Immunology, and I want to be involved in computational chemistry. Wouldn't my focus best be on a PhD as opposed to an MD? Thx Appolinaria, I'm so glad I'm finally getting this opportunity. I managed to enroll in a full 20 credits this semester. I just finally registered for an open seat in Chem this morning; was scared there for a sec. \o/

I said Master's because unless I take a direct entry PhD program I would have to enter into Master's first. Also I guess I was thinking if I do a short Master's, followed by the MD, I guess I figured that it would make it easier to go back for a PhD. I'm just worried that if I complete my Bachelors and then do the MD program, that I won't be able to qualify for PhD entrance after residency because too much time will have elapsed. I think I might just stay away from Med School. The only reason I was thinking Med School, was to both show off, and to gain more control over my research. Neither of these reasons are very good and I can just as easily gain more control over my research by being a well coordinated team player and by encouraging a team friendly environment. Thanks Genecks!

I don't, you are talking about two completely separate universes. I guess the only time I would introduce Logo to students would be in either an AP Computer Sciences class or in a Master's Computer Science Degree. AP students might benefit from the introduction of a functional language, as well as some tutelage about the history of Computer Sciences. In a Master's Degree a student might dissect one of the implementation's and do a study on how it could be conceived of as a learning tool for students. ActionScript as a learning tool is more about learning broad generalizations one can make across a number of languages, as well as introducing the student to the formalisms of Software Engineering.

Thank you for pointing that out to me. If you could maybe expand on your earlier statements with regard to "topological subslpace of [math] R^n [/math] for which the Hausdorff dimensiion is strictly greater than the topological dimension" - DrRocket O.O

Maybe look into the Gamma Function and Riemann Zeta Function, these seem to have properties that are considered 'fractal.' I've never bothered to study fractals, but I have noticed these while doing reading. A quick google for Gamma Function Fractals gave me this guys blog, he seems to have some interest.

From a learning perspective, I think that ActionScript and Flash make great teaching tools. It really helps to have that extra level of visual aid and flash projects can be a lot of fun. Flash projects will allow a student to experiment with more complete projects, and gain some satisfaction from their accomplishments. ActionScript makes full use of C-Like Syntax, is strongly typed, and can develop object-oriented code. It is also a great way to learn event driven programming. C++ is very dry and leaves entirely too much to the imagination. C++ is really a language that should be taught at an intermediate level when the student is a little more ready to get serious about what he or she is doing. There are a lot of rules, and there are entirely too many bad habits to learn that students should be aware of while they are picking them up.

ewwww I really didn't need to see that crack :/ I will be pretty pissed if the world ends. I didn't wait fifteen years to go to University, for the world to end just when I finally start classes. Maybe they can make a giant world encompassing cloak so as so I can be spared much hurt and humiliation.

I think that you want dd and not dw if you want to declare a 4byte word . . . .. big **IF** if you just want a 2byte word then it is fine . . . .

Like the traumatizing experience of giant dream bees swarming you as a child, serving to prepare you cognitively for the reality of war, government, and power as an adult? There is no doubt the utility of dreaming. Dreams are a revolutionary process by which the human has achieved a level of cognitive plasticity like never seen on earth before.

When you plugged your question into wolfram you omitted the arctangent. The value inside leads to a certain value that could be called . . . . maybe what wolfram alpha called it, non-existent. Another way of saying it would be the limit as x and y approaches 0 of [math] \frac{|x|+|y|}{x^2+y^2} [/math] tends to . . . . If you were to plug this value back into the original problem you would get a value not quite unlike . . . . I am not immediately familiar with the method( or identities or anything, right now my brain is computing funny little images ) you have used to solve the problem. I have however, used elementary mathematics to deduce that in fact the answer in the back of the book is the correct one.

I have never come across a formal definition for an internal or external library. Usually an external library refers to code that is sourced out and that was not explicitly written for the application or framework at hand. I have never read any article or other that used the term internal when describing a library expressed or even implied. Generally speaking an internal library is simply an application specific library or library. I guess if you had to formalize an answer to this, you could break the question down into its constituent parts and describe methods of creating or achieving internal and external libraries, and also go over the roles that each play. The problem with that though is, different operating systems use different methods to achieve the same goals, and also any descriptions made will be generalizations of desired functionality. List of Constituent Components: - Code - Linkage - Modularization - Ownership/Licensing I have no formal education in this matter, I simply do a lot of programming and work in the field so maybe there is something I have overlooked.

I was just recently accepted to an Undergraduate Program in Chemistry, and I will finally be going to school. I had applied for the summer term but am thinking I will go to the school tomorrow to see if I can make that a little sooner and enroll for the winter term. It has taken me fifteen years to get to this point, because of the type of person that I am. Regardless, I will only be completing 45 - 60 credits at this school and will be transferring to UBC for their Biochemistry program the following year. I've been looking over a lot of information and have been planning my path to education and I am feeling pretty lucky with the way things might work out. I'm curious though, UBC has an MD/PhD program that I could take. It is seven years in length, which is pretty much the length of their MD program in addition to taking a PhD. This is appealing to me because it is an incorporated program and I would love to have my feet in both doors. It looks like I may be able to complete my BScH in twenty-four months and so the addition of seven years is not really all that bad an idea for me. My question is, if I completed a BScH and I decided to complete the MD program first and separately, how long would be a wise amount of time to limit myself to for applying for a Masters? I know I am getting ahead of myself here, but twenty-four months is such a small quantity of time. Also with the limited enrollment of the Masters program, I need to get the requisite lab time and so on. I don't know if I will be financially in any position to take the MD/PhD program and may have to take them separately. I would really like to have both though, I would ultimately like to be working in Biomedical research as both a researcher and a Doctor. Thx as always, Beka:D

Unicode does not map all values. If you try to encode your data onto Unicode you will not have a straightforward one-to-one mapping of values. When combined with the human condition, encoding variants and the need to compile manageable code you will have a mess. It is not that it can't be done, it's just not practical for your purposes, even despite it having been used for demonstration. **** Feel free to disagree with me and the fine Hat above, but you are swimming in the wrong direction. **** The fact that you are asking how to accomplish the abomination further supports the idea that there will result a mess. Integer representation under any base will encode your data and will not break your algorithm, composition or no . . . . . Unicode may encode your data but your success rate will vary pending your experience and this conversation suggests a lack thereof. I am not saying any of this to be rude or mean. I really do hope you all the best in your endeavor and am therefor giving you what I believe to be the best advice. Peace to you good stranger, Beka:D

I can't recommend a website, no. I would recommend reading books on the individual topics en lieu. Go over Electricity and Magnetism, Computing and Logic, Basic Circuits. You will have to learn how to build on and for a specialized Linux kernel. I really don't know how little it is you know . . . . Look over the specifications on the device and then look stuff up on the internet

You would have to build an external module to handle the encoding of the solar sensor array. You could then add a few subroutines to the embedded software to read and store the data, and to incorporate the proper behaviourism. Mechanical connection can be made through the UART port provided. It's not really a question of can it be done, it's how much time do you have to throw it together, or how fast can you learn. It's a nice little project, nothing too difficult for someone with an intermediate level of knowledge.

The links provided, however pragmatically related to the topic at hand, add very little insight into the problem. The links presented simply defer the discussion to materials that at best summarize a good amount of knowledge and details that, although related, have very little to do with summarizing intelligence; especially from a biological standpoint. If this was an attempt at distinguishing mechanical logic from conceptual intelligence, I was also unable to decipher your meanings. Why is there a link to Family Guy in this thread? And also, why didn't you answer the question? -- or better -- I would love to hear what you were thinking. Thanks Gramps, Beka:D <3

Step 1: Step 2: Step 3: Step 4: ?? Step 5: $Profit$ Are you asking if it is possible to configure this robotic device to operate off of a charge developed through a solar cell? If this is the case it really isn't a matter of connecting a peripheral device, as much as it is about bypassing the supplied power source in favour of a solar panel. In either case the tasks are both accomplished in a number of different ways. Could you describe the problem in more detail?

These questions are a little unusual for somebody who is completing a graduate degree. Your data can simply be the set of the first 11000 integers, where each integer from 1 to 11000 would be in essence a character representation or encoding of your data. The fact that it is a multi-character representation or encoding of your data is somewhat irrelevant. I strongly suggest that you do not attempt to use Unicode. If it is absolutely imperative that the data be visually compressed to some degree I would suggest using maybe base 128. I mean really, could you imagine having to memorize the significance of a set consisting of 11000 characters? It would simply be impossible. A purpose for doing so would be difficult to establish as well. The computing device will still be working with sets of integers whose values each have been assigned a character symbol representation. What is it that you think you are accomplishing by doing so? As always I may be blind to some important piece of information. I hadn't posted because of this, but your response to Schrödinger's hat suggests that my assumptions are correct and that you are drawing unnecessary conclusions from the information that was made available to you.

For starters the OP was a question with regards to the quality of each. I stated that the quality of a DFA is that it can be reduced to canonical form! This was not my attempt at describing what a DFA is considered to be, but what quality it possesses. The statement the OP made about 'powers' was suggestive to me of his reading of this very title, and if this is the case, our personal opinions on the matter are fairly irrelevant. The books explanation of this is formal and sensible and I do not feel the need to justify what the book is trying to propose; it isn't really mine to be justifying anyway. The OP seemed to be concerned with homework and my original post was simply an attempt to either make obvious what the poster was already reviewing or to incite the OP to post a more detailed question. If you wish to disagree with the literature I would ask you to give your reasoning behind your statements before I make arguments against your proposals and in favour of the aforementioned literature. You have clearly stated that NFA or Automata as a whole are not capable of being in several states at once and have gone so far as to call it disturbing, but you give no reason why. You make a rather vague statement with respect to implementers of such behaviour being 'quantum' but give no justification or explanation. Forgive me here Khaled but your qualifications are not enough for me to take you at face value. Granted I am the least expert opinion, which is why I am formulating my opinions from literature and not from my own experience. I don't believe you have noted any objections to NFA being alleviated from the restriction of constant space, or my assertion that NFA are more easily formulated, so I will not address these points. And also, my signature was simply a statement about my persons and my own qualities. The series is divergent, as am I

I used to look for the meaning, logic, or reasoning behind my dreaming and the content within. I've discussed my dreams with hundreds of individuals over the years and also to a few psychologists and psychiatrists. Dreams are pretty important to me because I spend a significant amount of time in dream state; regardless of the time translation. From the insight I've gained from others, the clarity, duration, and diversity of my dreams tends towards an extreme that the people I have discussed with do not experience. If I was to make on opinion about the importance of dreaming based on my own experience, I would have to chalk dreaming up to something similar to masturbation for the imagination. I know this analogy isn't a pretty one but I think it's a realistic interpretation of what we are experiencing. I think that for the most part, the individual decides subconsciously to what degree they are willing to participate and in what capacity. I think people like Ophelia who wake up with a moment of clarity do so because that is what they really wanted, a moment. If others wish to deliberate on some life events or to practice for that future hypothetical, then this is how dreaming will manifest. Of coarse if you are like me and your sole purpose in life is to best life itself, well . . . . the dream world can become a pretty intriguing place to dwell!

It has been noted that evolution and survival =/= intelligence. I think this truth is most clearly seen in the decisions that intelligent entities make that directly harm that individual. A Fireman can risk his life to save another. Is this an intelligent act, and is it supporting of a definition that might be given? It isn't simply a reaction to an outside stimuli which provokes a response that would support survival. It is however an example of evolution, where the survival of the species is dependent on the roles played by individuals and how their responses to outside stimuli affects the species as a whole. This is therefor not an example of intelligence but in fact evidence that survival and evolution are reactionary devices which require no thought beyond the evolved mechanism. Harm as play is counter intuitive to the idea that intelligence is an evolved reactionary mechanism by which an intelligent entity could enable itself towards survival. Often harm as play can have serious consequences that can be manifested as terminal to said entity. So is the ability to logically inflict harm on oneself a test of intelligence? A definition that I might give to the notion of intelligence would be . . . . Intelligence: The ability for an evolving entity to perceive the effects of outside stimuli on its internal construct, and to make decisions about how it might react towards these stimuli. The ability for one to excel at the notion of being intelligent would therefore be a conclusion of which entity was more capable of acquiring their own expected result. No one flame me, I'm just participating. That means you Mr. . . . .