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I was doing (youtube video).

Made my day

Hezachkoun?

3D chips have been a big buzz but the reports I have seen so far, they are having a lot of trouble with heat. It is a neat concept and will definitely relieve some of the interconnect problems of "flat" chips but still, it's not clear how effective the technique will be in real life and whether people will start adopting it.

It is entirely unclear whether Moore's Law will continue to hold in the next decade. Even now we are hitting all sorts of obstacles that is making the process of shrinking feature size (and hence the Moore's Law) effect less and less "feasible". I mean once you reach to insulators down to a couple of atoms thick, there is only so much more you can push things. Also, sub-threshold leakage currents and all sorts of other parasitics are taking over and making it very difficult to continue to shrink transistors like we have been before. However, even though "quantum" computing is still mainly sci fi, I think in the next decade or so we might see a huge boost from nano-photonics ... essentially replacing on-chip copper or other metal interconnects with optics (light). That will give a very significant boost to the available on chip interconnect bandwidth and density which will very drastically change the kinds of designs we can achieve. If you really think about it, even though feature sizes have been shrinking and we have been cramming more and more transistors on the chips, the amount of available interconnect has not really been increasing by any significant factor (at least nothing comparable to how the number of transistors have been increasing). But in any case, I really doubt that even in 25 years silicon technologies will produce chips that are anywhere near the capabilities of the human brain. Sure they will do some fantastic number of instructions per second ... but the current computing paradigms are very far from what human brains do.

Now there's a paradoxical generalization

Domino is definitely our resident expert on multiverses and vacuum bubbles. By the way, I was wrong Domino .. it wasn't you, it was Dave who posted the video here.

Hahahaha about the flights ... that's why I drive from WI to CA any chance I get. Just roll down the windows when needed The worst one was a flight I had from chicago to DC a few months ago ... there was this bald guy reading the bible and I could swear every verse he would say a haleluja and let one rip. That has definitely been the worst flight I have ever been on (a second close one was the one I had the seat 2 rows away from the bathroom and some old lady went in about 1/2 way into the flight (detroit to LA).

Note to self: Don't go to Ed's house for dinner on "Mexican" night.

It's a statement I would use myself as an example but I wasn't fully a product of US schools. However, I will put up my brother against 99% of people from Armenia. He is 100% a product of US public schools and I can guarantee you he will beat every single one of them in terms of how much he knows. The US is very very large which means you get a very wide range of people in terms of their intellect. The stupid are very stupid and the smart are very smart while the average are very average These "clip" shows that selectively pick and show only the stupid do not show a full picture of the "level" of the people. Of course it wouldn't be very funny to show clips of people that know answers to questions now would it?

Weren't you the one who originally posted this video here somewhere?

You really think you will get much better answers if you randomly stop people on the streets in Armenia and ask them general triva questions?

I HIGHLY doubt he is going to leave

I will try to watch that documentary if time permits. I just wanted to point out the fact that even though the French are so much better and Canada is a much more wonderful place to live, Shahan has still made the CHOICE to live in the US.

Anon, instead of "compromise" I would use the word "trade-off". Life is about different trade-offs. Being single has certain benefits and certain disadvantages. Being in a relationship has other benefits and other disadvantages. Just like anything else in life, one ends up tradeing off some of these benefits and disadvantages for each other. So for example, as a single guy, one might be able to walk around the house and belch and fart freely at any time. This is an advantage that one might choose to trade-off for some other benefits that a relationship might entail. It's not really a "compromise" though it could be looked at as such.

It's not just Americans ... the whole world is full of idiots ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMFsuBlkoIQ

I don't see any problems with marrying one's cousin. The only problem might be if you want to have kids ... in that case, don't have your own ... just adopt one (maybe from Armenia).

In socialism, the useless people benefit while the more ambitious, driven, talented and harder working ones suffer. In capitalism, it's the other way around which seems to make a lot more sense to me. This whole idea of "communal entitlement" is fundamentally flawed as has been proven in practice as well many times over.

Ok between Canada and man-whoring myself, I might stick with man-whoring ... but I still agree that high levels of debt (i.e. spending way beyond one's earning power) is probably not a good idea.

Hey, I am all with Shahan here ... show me a country where I can maintain the same level of life style I have here, not be forced to earn wages (by renting/whoring myself out to employers), and not have any debt ... I'll pack up move there tomorrow ... heck scratch that ... I'll move there today!

Cat predicts deaths of nursing home residents By Ray Henry The Associated Press Jul. 25, 2007 02:12 PM http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/pics/breaking/0725deathcat.jpg Link to article PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours. His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means they have less than four hours to live. "He doesn't make too many mistakes. He seems to understand when patients are about to die," said Dr. David Dosa in an interview. He describes the phenomenon in a poignant essay in Thursday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. "Many family members take some solace from it. They appreciate the companionship that the cat provides for their dying loved one," said Dosa, a geriatrician and assistant professor of medicine at Brown University. The 2-year-old feline was adopted as a kitten and grew up in a third-floor dementia unit at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. The facility treats people with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and other illnesses. After about six months, the staff noticed Oscar would make his own rounds, just like the doctors and nurses. He'd sniff and observe patients, then sit beside people who would wind up dying in a few hours. Dosa said Oscar seems to take his work seriously and is generally aloof. "This is not a cat that's friendly to people," he said. Oscar is better at predicting death than the people who work there, said Dr. Joan Teno of Brown University, who treats patients at the nursing home and is an expert on care for the terminally ill She was convinced of Oscar's talent when he made his 13th correct call. While observing one patient, Teno said she noticed the woman wasn't eating, was breathing with difficulty and that her legs had a bluish tinge, signs that often mean death is near. Oscar wouldn't stay inside the room though, so Teno thought his streak was broken. Instead, it turned out the doctor's prediction was roughly 10 hours too early. Sure enough, during the patient's final two hours, nurses told Teno that Oscar joined the woman at her bedside. Doctors say most of the people who get a visit from the sweet-faced, gray-and-white cat are so ill they probably don't know he's there, so patients aren't aware he's a harbinger of death. Most families are grateful for the advanced warning, although one wanted Oscar out of the room while a family member died. When Oscar is put outside, he paces and meows his displeasure. ( ) No one's certain if Oscar's behavior is scientifically significant or points to a cause. Teno wonders if the cat notices telltale scents or reads something into the behavior of the nurses who raised him. Nicholas Dodman, who directs an animal behavioral clinic at the Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and has read Dosa's article, said the only way to know is to carefully document how Oscar divides his time between the living and dying. If Oscar really is a furry grim reaper, it's also possible his behavior could be driven by self-centered pleasures like a heated blanket placed on a dying person, Dodman said. Nursing home staffers aren't concerned with explaining Oscar, so long as he gives families a better chance at saying goodbye to the dying. Oscar recently received a wall plaque publicly commending his "compassionate hospice care."

This is great! I'm sure demand will be huge which will only help in adding more classes like this. If students can fill the classes to above the limit, it will be easy to justify expanding them.

I don't think I could live anywhere outside the US for any extended periord of time. Well, of course I "could" .. but I wouldn't want to.

Yah apprently in Glendale you can Mos .. let me guess .. he already has transformers so that's not it. Wii and PS3 are already out dated ... iPhone probably not very useful in his case. Hmmmm ... I'm going to guess maybe a battery operated jeep he can drive around?