My favourite cell documentary is this. Has more information about the various transport mechanisms in the cell itself. Simply awesome - have watched several times to understand better. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzcTgrxMzZk
In the qualia / physical world distinction, I wonder if there are good reasons we see things the way we do.
Take colors: colors map to wavelengths of light. I wonder if there is a good reason for our perceptions of color to have red be lower frequency and indigo be higher frequency. I guess what I'm wondering is if our brain mapped these differently, it would be suboptimal in some way - perhaps the 'mixing' of colors would work out less 'well' (e.g. red+yellow=orange wouldn't work in the new layout as well.) If so, then perhaps one could use evolutionary selection pressures as an explanation to lead us to the qualia we have.
Thanks for doing this Peter. I am currently thinking of accepting a US computer programming job (part in US, part in Canada) and am thinking of using a TN visa to travel back and forth (1 week per month in US, 3 weeks in Canada.) Do I need to be concerned about what might occur if Donald Trump et al decide to drop NAFTA?
Most of those floor traders is running a small business (2/3 guys/girls) based on past contacts and trader know-how (such as it is - some better, some worse.) It's really more of a 'bazaar' for small, likely well connected, trading firms rather than anything else. It has been 'hard' for them in recent years as order flow has moved to the largest, too-big-to-fail brokers (GS, JMP etc). But certainly the NYSE gets a lot out of the media coverage, but the brokers themselves are not owned by the NYSE.
I'd be happy to pay my $45.71 per person per year. The BBC makes amazing shows - I don't see that Canada can't do the same. As Canadians, if we believe that we have something to say to the world, we need to fund saying it.
If you haven't yet, check out Noam Chomsky - he holds the US up to their supposed 'good guy' status - fascinating. Andrew Bacevich, a retired Colonel, also has lots of interesting things to say on this. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFpXFFPEZ9w
'Between 1946 and 1958, the equivalent of more than two hundred million tons of TNT was detonated (on the inhabited Marshall Islands by the US Military) — like a Hiroshima every day for almost forty years.'
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The local language grew full of horrible expressions for birth defects: “jellyfish” (babies born without bones), “grapes” (spontaneously aborted clumps of tissue), “turtles,” “octopuses,” “apples,” “devils.” The Crossroads tests were the beginning of one of the more disturbing American nuclear legacies—a trade of flesh for knowledge.
Has anyone looked at SciDB (http://www.paradigm4.com/) as a replacement for KDB. Seems like it would fit the bill and has a community edition. I do see some usage in the financial markets.
This is great. Wasn't too clear on exactly how this is used from the documents (e.g. do I just run 'python') - didn't seem that there where any 'imports' either.
It has quite practical advice as well as a framework helping one navigate.