Francis Collins also believes that Jesus rode dinosaurs. He was once a respected scientist, but then he took a short step off a long intellectual pier. Why should I give his advice any consideration?
Because you don't want to commit an ad hominim fallacy?
Despite the advances made in evolutionary science, there still persists this belief that everything has a reason. This is a legacy meme from ancient religions and schools of philosophy. Everything does NOT need to have a teleological cause. It might be that fingerprints developed because they rendered some advantage, or it might be that they happened randomly, and persisted because they did not cause a disadvantage. You're scientists, so quit with the magical thinking.
How many lines does it take you to parallelize this with pthreads in C?
for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++)
c[i] = a[i] + b[i];
If it takes you more than 2 lines, then your "language" is too hard to be used everywhere by everyone.
Point 1: This is an absurdly simple example
Point 2: assuming 1000 divides cleanly into variable 'threadcount' and you have a function called 'start_the_thread(int *, static int*, static int*, size)...
for (i = 0; i < 1000; i += (1000 / threadcount))
start_the_thread(c+i, a+i, b+i, 1000/threadcount);
Maybe it doesn't look clean, but it is 2 lines. And I'm sure someone else could do it a lot better that that.
Trust me, you don't. What's the point in open-sourcing a bunch of custom code hacked together and rewritten 100 times for the benefit of 5-10 people in a specific organization?
a perfectly valid scientific inquiry in no way mandates that government must fund it. This is still a colossal waste of money. There was another story similar about studying Chinese prostitutes in China on a federal grant..this time in the millions of dollars.
I dunno, it has a potentially large benefit. What if we found out what causes the extra infections, and use that information to help prevention here and around the globe? The US isn't in a bubble, and things like HIV in eastern Asia have a significant impact on HIV spread in the US. Considering how costly it is to treat even 10 people for AIDS for a lifetime, $178,000 (or whatever it was) is a steal if we can prevent a few cases of it.
Is it a study to determine why they have a higher rate than drug using prostitutes in other countries? If so, then its a perfectly valid scientific inquiry.
I'm surprised that introductory algebra is such a politically polarized topic... I can only imagine the debates in calculus, what with the ongoing Newton/Leibniz war..
That sounds great in theory.. Problem is, the non-compete still forces you to avoid any job that could in any way compete with the company you work for (which is to say, anything involving your skillset). So they can continue to pay you incredibly low wages to keep you from working for anyone else, even if you quit. This keeps you from looking for a better job, and in some cases would prevent you from getting a job after you're laid off (though you would at least get some amount of money for continuing the non-compete).
Eh, its not so bad once you learn the syntax. It's amazing how many people believe God doesn't listen to their prayers, when all they had to do was perform some simple debugging. Alternatively, I hear you can pray in python now, though its significantly less responsive.
You want them all damned - you say swines just to make sure.
Or he might damn just one swine and then where would we be? Back at square one, that's where.
GCC (God's Communication Compiler)
Compiling...
Error Line 1: Unrecognized token 'swines'
I wrote some of the best code in my life as an undergrad the morning after a night of drinking and weed smoking. These days I abstain from drunkenness and being stoned.. Any the quality of my code suffers.
include a button to boost the energy allocated to that application
I thought the chip gets the power, not the application. Am I reading this right?
That's what I thought.. And if, by this, they really mean that the process gets a higher priority.. Well, what's special about that? Lots of OSes have had that feature for years.
No, you don't understand - 'flaunt' doesn't mean what you think it does. You flaunt wealth (that you have) and flout rules (that you despise/ignore).
Of course, people got this wrong enough that even the dictionary grudgingly gives flaunt the alternate meaning of 'ignore'.
No, I got it right, and you have no sense of humor.. He's flaunting his (Sun's) rules, making poor google feel bad about itself. It's an alternate explanation of the meaning of that sentence, with the assumption that the guy typed exactly what he meant.
I shit you not, they put me in a cube in the middle of an inbound call center. On top of that, they gave me a 1.2Ghz celeron as my dev machine (this was in 2006).
If my experience of moving from minimum wage to upper-middle class in the span of 3 years has taught me anything, its that the amount you're paid is inversely proportional to how hard you work. I still work, but not nearly as hard as when I was an intern. And when I was an intern, I didn't work nearly as hard as when I was a janitor. Looking up on the pay scale, I see that most of the execs at my company make $300-500k to sit around and talk out thier asses, and come up with ideas that lose the company millions of dollars.
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If only I had some mod points..
Francis Collins also believes that Jesus rode dinosaurs. He was once a respected scientist, but then he took a short step off a long intellectual pier. Why should I give his advice any consideration?
Because you don't want to commit an ad hominim fallacy?
(s)he must be pretty bright.. Or at least have a good memory and a lot of patience...
Despite the advances made in evolutionary science, there still persists this belief that everything has a reason. This is a legacy meme from ancient religions and schools of philosophy. Everything does NOT need to have a teleological cause. It might be that fingerprints developed because they rendered some advantage, or it might be that they happened randomly, and persisted because they did not cause a disadvantage. You're scientists, so quit with the magical thinking.
Where exactly did he get his numbers? I wonder?
Well, when each song download is worth $200,000...
That's because it wasn't in the milky way! The post you linked to says nothing about OTHER galaxies!
How many lines does it take you to parallelize this with pthreads in C?
for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++) c[i] = a[i] + b[i];
If it takes you more than 2 lines, then your "language" is too hard to be used everywhere by everyone.
Point 1: This is an absurdly simple example
Point 2: assuming 1000 divides cleanly into variable 'threadcount' and you have a function called 'start_the_thread(int *, static int*, static int*, size)...
for (i = 0; i < 1000; i += (1000 / threadcount))
start_the_thread(c+i, a+i, b+i, 1000/threadcount);
Maybe it doesn't look clean, but it is 2 lines. And I'm sure someone else could do it a lot better that that.
There was a guy who collected 10000 pounds a few years back for living to be 100.. Sorry, no time to track down the link.
Trust me, you don't. What's the point in open-sourcing a bunch of custom code hacked together and rewritten 100 times for the benefit of 5-10 people in a specific organization?
I mean, we *could* clone the microbes preserved in amber.. But that's just not as exciting, is it?
Seems like now that they've gone and made 1984 a reality, they need new material to work off of.
Really? I'd say we're closer to Brave New World these days.. Don't forget to take your soma--err, i mean Paxil.
a perfectly valid scientific inquiry in no way mandates that government must fund it. This is still a colossal waste of money. There was another story similar about studying Chinese prostitutes in China on a federal grant..this time in the millions of dollars.
I dunno, it has a potentially large benefit. What if we found out what causes the extra infections, and use that information to help prevention here and around the globe? The US isn't in a bubble, and things like HIV in eastern Asia have a significant impact on HIV spread in the US. Considering how costly it is to treat even 10 people for AIDS for a lifetime, $178,000 (or whatever it was) is a steal if we can prevent a few cases of it.
Is it a study to determine why they have a higher rate than drug using prostitutes in other countries? If so, then its a perfectly valid scientific inquiry.
I'm surprised that introductory algebra is such a politically polarized topic...
I can only imagine the debates in calculus, what with the ongoing Newton/Leibniz war..
That sounds great in theory.. Problem is, the non-compete still forces you to avoid any job that could in any way compete with the company you work for (which is to say, anything involving your skillset). So they can continue to pay you incredibly low wages to keep you from working for anyone else, even if you quit. This keeps you from looking for a better job, and in some cases would prevent you from getting a job after you're laid off (though you would at least get some amount of money for continuing the non-compete).
Eh, its not so bad once you learn the syntax. It's amazing how many people believe God doesn't listen to their prayers, when all they had to do was perform some simple debugging. Alternatively, I hear you can pray in python now, though its significantly less responsive.
Not if you want god to damn them all.
You want them all damned - you say swines just to make sure. Or he might damn just one swine and then where would we be? Back at square one, that's where.
GCC (God's Communication Compiler) Compiling...
Error Line 1: Unrecognized token 'swines'
Funny, my wife and I had been thinking about moving to Boulder..
...Mexican swines!
Isn't 'swine' both singular and plural, like 'deer'?
I wrote some of the best code in my life as an undergrad the morning after a night of drinking and weed smoking. These days I abstain from drunkenness and being stoned.. Any the quality of my code suffers.
include a button to boost the energy allocated to that application
I thought the chip gets the power, not the application. Am I reading this right?
That's what I thought.. And if, by this, they really mean that the process gets a higher priority.. Well, what's special about that? Lots of OSes have had that feature for years.
No, you don't understand - 'flaunt' doesn't mean what you think it does. You flaunt wealth (that you have) and flout rules (that you despise/ignore).
Of course, people got this wrong enough that even the dictionary grudgingly gives flaunt the alternate meaning of 'ignore'.
No, I got it right, and you have no sense of humor.. He's flaunting his (Sun's) rules, making poor google feel bad about itself. It's an alternate explanation of the meaning of that sentence, with the assumption that the guy typed exactly what he meant.
No, you don't understand. He's actually saying that he is a dick for flaunting the rules, and embarrassing Google to prove his own superiority.
I shit you not, they put me in a cube in the middle of an inbound call center. On top of that, they gave me a 1.2Ghz celeron as my dev machine (this was in 2006).
If my experience of moving from minimum wage to upper-middle class in the span of 3 years has taught me anything, its that the amount you're paid is inversely proportional to how hard you work. I still work, but not nearly as hard as when I was an intern. And when I was an intern, I didn't work nearly as hard as when I was a janitor. Looking up on the pay scale, I see that most of the execs at my company make $300-500k to sit around and talk out thier asses, and come up with ideas that lose the company millions of dollars.