I have an idea for a single invention (realistic and attainable) that not only solves the above but also all environmental problems, overpopulation issues, poverty and all disease. Frankly it makes all other inventions obsolete.
Being unsatisfied is a gradient. From what I've seen of people 80+, many of them look forward to death. At some point in one's life the mere goal of not pissing oneself becomes a serious challenge. Any person who takes solace through insisting that the elderly endure a degenerate life against...
I'm not "planning" on killing myself, I might very well find life as an old man satisfactory. I'm only leaving it as an available option that I would readily execute should I find myself in the position of being old and unsatisfied. Although ultimately the whole concept goes beyond growing old...
For some perhaps. I fear the pain of living and dying but I don't fear death. When the time comes that death becomes the more favorable option I can't imagine what difficulties I could possibly stumble upon. Even at the age of 27 I have no major objections to being dead; At the same time I have...
I consider myself more on the activist side of aging.
When I reach the point where age has produced a large impact on my quality of life and there are no prospects for improvement, I would not sit around and wait for the inevitable. I would happily end it with little hesitation.
For the sake of being able to answer your question I will have to pretend you did not say that.
If we assume that the brain is an analog system then there is no absolute answer. We can suggest to say how much data we need to process to replicate the phenomenon to high accuracy. I'll assume an...
I find that to be misleading. Nothing from vehicle physics to collision detection to parallel programming of the implementation is simple. You can come up with a few garbagety side-scrollers as examples to the contrary but 3D game physics for any respectable game would have top engineers crying...
It was amongst the first programming languages I've learned. I still use it for occasional tinkering but it's far too slow for me to love, that and I very much dislike duck-typed programming.
I find the difference between 30 and 60 FPS dramatic, even with frame-blur (film). 30 is especially distressing when the camera pans at a high rate. I do hope 60 FPS becomes a common standard reasonably soon.
Because bad programs cannot be fixed, they must be written as if the original had never existed. The difference between a program that works and one that works well is vastly greater than that between a program that works and one that doesn't work at all.
It's also a bit arrogant to think that it's not hard to program well. :wink:
I'd also comment on the computer scientist's inability to do science but I won't push those buttons. Computer scientists aren't inherently better programmers than scientists of any other kind. Here too programming is...
Integrate[A (x)*x^2*Cos[n*x], {x, 0, Infinity}] does not converge so no definite integral... if I understood that correctly.
edit: Integrate[a[x]*x^2*Cos[n*x], {x, 0, Infinity}]. Or is this what you want? a is a function of x in this one not a variable. Here too you will not get a definite...
It certainly would not slow things down (unless the cores themselves are slower), but it won't speed things up either. For value's sake it's best to keep it at most 4 cores, but 2 would be ideal.