Showing posts with label world. Show all posts
Showing posts with label world. Show all posts

Thursday, February 14, 2013

U.S., the Saudi Arabia of tomorrow | Synopsis

U.S., the Saudi Arabia of tomorrow

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Ghitis: It is genuinely transformational that the U.S. is quiting its addiction to foreign oil Regardless of energy independence, we have to keep exploring green energy, she states Ghitis: It's valuable for the U.S. to not rely on unpredictable, undemocratic Middle East for oil

Editor's note: Frida Ghitis is a world affairs reporter for The Miami Herald and World Politics Review. A former CNN manufacturer and correspondent, she is the author of "The End of Revolution: A Changing World in the Age of Live Television." Follow her on Twitter: @ FridaGColumns. (CNN)-- We pay a lot of attention to transformations when they arise all of a sudden and violently, but when an improvement arrives slowly and in harmony it's simple to miss.

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Frida Ghitis

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President Obama

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David Frum

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William Bennett

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Company: Twitter

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Country: United States

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Country: Iran

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Country: Saudi Arabia

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Region: Middle East

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Continent: America

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FieldTerminology: natural gas

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FieldTerminology: oil markets

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FieldTerminology: oil production

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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Randomness: Rules for computing classical probabilities might depend on quantum randomness | Synopsis

Randomness: Rules for computing classical probabilities might depend on quantum randomness

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For all the deference to “laws” of nature that supposedly govern everything that happens, the truth is that randomness rules the world. Everywhere you look, randomness is at work, in all the processes described by the mathematics of probability. The temperature of the air and the capriciousness of the weather all depend on random collisions of molecules. Computers operate on the principles of information theory, which is rooted in quantifying probabilities. Time rushes onward and disorder replaces order by virtue of the probabilistic second law of thermodynamics. Randomness determines everything from who gets real medicine in clinical trials to which team gets the ball first at football games. Yet despite its pervasive importance, randomness has always remained rather mysterious. It’s not easy to define, and nobody has ever articulated very clearly exactly where randomness comes from — at least not to every scientist’s satisfaction.

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Andreas Albrecht

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0.157275“We have a plausibility argument that the outcome of a coin flip is truly a quantum measurement,” write Albrecht ...
0.110097“We have a plausibility argument that the outcome of a coin flip is truly a quantum measurement,” write Albrecht and Phillips, of the University of California, Davis. “The 50-50 outcome of a coin toss may in principle be derived from quantum physics … with no reference to classical notions of how we must ‘quantify our ignorance.’”
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Daniel Phillips

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0.187099“Our claim is that probabilities are only proven and reliable tools if they have clear values determined from the quantum state,” Albrecht and Phillips write. ...
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Davis

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Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

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Sport: football

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City: Lincoln

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Company: quantum

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