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12/07/09
He was a truly astonishing man who worked without fanfare in a nondescript job in a small Canadian high school.
12/07/09
Io9 Commentariat, SALUTE!!
12/08/09
Funny...he didn't LOOK like a mentat.
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"See you later alligator."
"In a while crocodile."
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In fact, I'm not sure of where it comes from in classic Universal Century (UC). In UC Lunar Titanium is renamed to Gundarium alloy after being used to armor the Gundam.
ok. enough Gundam babbling from me.
12/07/09
Thanks io9, for making me fail this semester!!! XD
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When taking a test, or writing an essay, or even verbally answering something, I would recall various pages in the text, and remember where on the page I had seen it, I.e: pg. 53, 3rd paragraph, 4th sentence. (Even where I had read the passage originally [library, bedroom, etc.]) After that, I could remember the necessary information (or quote) almost verbatim.
12/07/09
sometimes it's called Cathedral Memory...because everyone knew all the different places in a church (nave, apse, altar etc) they could place items to remember is specifics spots...then just walk through their Cathedral to remember things...
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I do somewhat of the same thing when I'm memorizing lines (especially from Shakespeare--I mean, I swear Old Bill sometimes didn't write English...) Anyway, I visualize where the line is on the page and it jogs my memory. I also learn the last line of two of someone else's speech that leads into mine. I'm finding that now I don't need to know that I know the line--the line is there, even if I can't remember it until I need it. Mostly I use something that's close to hypnosis--progressive relaxation then repeat the line in my head. just before I go to sleep.
BTW, the guy who's credited with the "memory palace" where objects are associated with furniture, etc. was Simonides of Ceo, back in 500BC.
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I will refrain from commenting on those who did their damnedest to ban stem cell research.
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This joke was written in 1999
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Hang on. That's a very US-centric view. Out here in Asia, and indeed in Europe, the airline market has been evolving rapidly towards modern and efficient in the last 10 years.
"Computer processors will hit 10GHz by 2010. We haven't even seen 4GHz yet. Whose law"
Actually this one is correct, if not in the specific number. Instead of just increasing the MHz, chip makers have expanded out into multiple cores, in effect achieving the same increase in processing power. 4 cores with 2.5 GHz is, in all the ways that matter, the same as 1 core with 10GHz. Also, every MHz nowadays is probably more efficient.
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Moore's. We have 7GHz single-core processors (admittedly liquid helium cooled) and 2-cpu 4-core 3GHz boxen. 2*4*3 = 24GHz of processing power. Or 4-core 6.5GHz (26GHz) if you want one really fast liquid cooled CPU.
Due to the fact that the die printing process is continually getting smaller (22nm?) we continue to adhere to Moore's law, which has more to say on transistor density than on raw clock rates.
12/02/09