I have been down the startup road a few times in my career. Most of the time, things don't go as planned and the people who make out the best at the end of the game are the debtors of the company. They get paid first. So try and make sure you are on that list. The promises behind stock options are great, but most of the time you are better off being explicitly owed.
Agree. If federal student aid was capped at 1000 X minimum wage per year (like it effectively was in 1981) then tuitions everywhere would come down. The country has been hoodwinked by the Universities that education is valuable and therefore must be expensive. I got a great education in the 80's for a pittance by today's standards that I paid for entirely on my own. I borrowed money for school, but it was a safety blanket that I fortunately did not need to tap and was able to pay back when I graduated without ever having had to pay a dime of interest. These for-profit schools are taking advantage of the marketing campaigns and congressional payoffs of the major schools, setting up in a strip center with low overhead and making a killing off of the backs of the students they trick into going into debt for their programs.
"You don't need any math more complex than simple algebra."
I can only partially agree with this statement.
Software implementations do not live in a vacuum. If the domain you are developing software for depends on higher math then the software engineers working in that domain NEED to have an understanding of higher math, physics, etc. depending on the domain. I have seen disasters when this is not true. For instance I know of a software team that was charged with computing locations based on the TDOA algorithm for the US military. However earlier in their data pipeline they had truncated nanosecond accurate times to milliseconds because that programmer couldn't conceive of why anyone would ever need time to be more accurate than milliseconds. The team as a whole could not understand why their location results seemed random (+/- a continent). They had no understanding of hyperbolic math, the implications of the speed of light or any of the other basic things they needed to understand to solve the problem. They had been handed an algorithm which they had dutifully translated into code, so in their mind the problem must lie with the mathematician that gave them the algorithm. The mathematician was not a software engineer and was not in a position to use a debugger to notice that the times had been truncated. When the team was told what was wrong via a very specific bug report regarding the truncated times, they, as a group were angry and killed the messenger.
You are equating "hash function" and "cryptographic hash function" with your assertion "one of the key properties of a hash function is that small changes in the input result in a completely changed output". Not all hash functions are cryptographic hash functions. Inside operating systems you may see a hash function that is no more than a simple masking of bits because that is all that is required.
You are right and wrong. For Texas schools at least, the real number is 4X and that is bad enough without the hyperbole. First, we need to accept an inflation factor and I think the best one in this case is the minimum wage that most college students would make on a part time basis. In 1981 a year of college cost around 716 minimum wage hours (based on my actual expenses). Today a year at UT costs around 3,000 minimum wage hours according to UT's estimates. What has changed? All of the facilities are much nicer and the square footage of facilities per student is at least 2X what it was in 1981. In other words all that tuition and fee money is going to construction companies, not to educating students.
In this light, I am afraid that providing money to the universities via taxes will just perpetuate the current insanity when what we really need is for universities to once again become efficient at providing education.
By making money readily available to the universities via grants and loans over the last 40 years, the universities have greatly expanded their ability to spend money on marble and mahogany. The efficiency of education delivered to students as measured proportionate to the minimum wage has declined by around 4X factor since 1981 here in Texas. In 1981 a year of college cost around 716 minimum wage hours (based on my actual expenses). Today a year at UT costs around 3,000 minimum wage hours according to UT's estimates. What has changed? All of the facilities are much nicer and the square footage of facilities per student is at least 2X what it was in 1981. In other words all that tuition and fee money is going to construction companies, not to educating students.
In this light, I am afraid that providing money to the universities via taxes will just perpetuate the current insanity when what we really need is for universities to once again become efficient at providing education.
3 guys decided that an organization established by Congress, performing duties as directed by the executive branch and monitored by the judicial branch was doing something illegal? That's right up there with me and my drinking buddies thinking that toll roads should be illegal.
You are right that they are hard to change. You are wrong that they are usually associated with a government. They are usually associated with the deed of the property. When the property was subdivided, the creator of the individual parcels specified deed covenants that they thought would improve the value of the property. States have laws related to the type of super-majority required to change these deeds (often 90%), but even if everyone in your neighborhood agrees, good luck getting the banks all equally interested in making this change. Then you typically would have to re-close on the new deed and pay the associated costs of that. In other words, pretty much impossible.
Sample sizes of 8 and 13 respectively? Non-random?
The mutation rate in humans is only.003% per genome.
This is like trying to compare two different atomic bomb explosions given data on only 8 and 13 neutrons from each explosion. They don't even have enough samples to compute the genetic equivalent of temperature (what ever that may be), much less make over arching statements about the two populations. When they have done this analysis for at least 300 random samples from each population I would be interested in hearing the results.
Back before the PC was invented, I started a Computer Science Explorer post after one of my high school teachers suggested I do this. This allowed us to have access to the local community college's excellent computer facilities and we also were given a great mentor by the community college. We played games (mystery mansion and trek), worked on writing an interactive version of the game Risk in SPL and learned to hack in Fortran. We had a consistent group of 8 or so members for 3 years.
The point is, look for ways to use your status as a club to get access to interesting events and resources. I got more than I could ever have imagined for free by creating my club and it had a life long impact on my career.
Instead of focusing on disclosure, the bills should focus on ownership. A patent application is a public disclosure. The universities will simply file more patents making their research less useful to and less owned by the general public.
Microsoft also provides some nice face recognition software via their Windows Live Essentials package which does work on Windows.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/essentials-home
The face recognition code stores all of its state in a couple of SQLLite databases which makes it very easy to hack and integrate despite the complete lack of documentation.
Arterial roads are an attempt to solve a 2 dimensional problem (sprawl) with a 1 dimensional solution (linear roads). You can't add width to your line fast enough to make up for area growth at the end points. Elon Musk of all people should understand this. Is his little public donation a step toward a political life?
Dell's CFO nearly destroyed the company single handedly back in 1993 through excessive currency speculation. He managed to double down correctly on a billion dollar + trade to get out of the hole he created. But if he had bet wrong again, the history of Dell would have been drastically different. Why not just call it insurance like FDIC and make it optional? The government would set rates of each company based on the perceived risk. In the long run protected stocks will be viewed favorably by the market.
Dr. Davis's honors calculus class at the University of Texas trains your unconscious brain to perform calculus. http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/davis/davis_site/Kathy_Davis_Homepage.html
When I took this class years ago, there was a very difficult take-home test every week, handed out on Monday and collected eight days later on Tuesday. She instructed us to review the test before going to sleep on the first day and on the first morning work on the solution for just a few minutes. Every day we were told to work on it a little more before bed and just after waking. She would drop hints during the lecture, and laugh. If I remember correctly, some of the homework problems were originally solved over decades by famous mathematicians -- real mind f'ers. After two semesters of this, solving calculus proofs in this way became almost second nature. Dr. Davis is one of those instructors that repeatedly wins "best professor" awards. (She was actually a he when I took the class, but that’s a whole other story).
I was going to say the same thing. I suggest you look at companies like ManTech, CGI, possibly SAIC. If you live near a military base or government installation, try and identify who is providing their IT services and contact that company (the phone number for IT is often on the web site somewhere). These shops often have a mix of big and small business providers. I have worked with groups where the prime contractor had 8 employees, their favored sub 6 and then there was 3 people from 3 different minority/women-owned businesses. Competition for these contracts can be very competitive, which can result in the pay not being the best, but it is way better than WalMart greeter. For many of these people it is their first job out of college/trade-school so turn-over is high. Most of these primes would love for an experienced person to come in under one of their set-aside contracts. Some cities also have very active organizations related these sorts of jobs like the Charleston Defense Contractors Association. You could drop in on one of their meetings to see who is doing what.
My guess is that it is more likely the result of a series of genetic mergers over time than something that evolved over a billion years ago and then spawned the other trees which in turn lost information. That would make it more complex than many of its decendents and this sort of complexity usually moves in the other direction in evolution. We know blue-green algae exchange DNA with each other. A similar set of processes much later in time could have resulted in this species which managed collect DNA from a set of primitive peers that as a collection gave a significant evolutionary advantage.
Superhydrophobic usually also means superlipophilic. It may shed water, but finger print grease is forever. Once you get enough grease on it, it won't seem so self-cleaning anymore.
Now it looks like it is called Learning For Life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_for_Life. I founded an Explorer Post at the local community college in 1978 after a high school teacher told me it might give me free access to the college's computers... and it did! They had an awesome set up for the era: an HP3000 with smart terminals. I learned Fortran and SPL. We learned to hack in Fortran and implemented a computer version of the game Risk in SPL. Our mentor patched our account creation into the bootloader after a while so our accounts wouldn't go away between semesters. I learned all kinds of stuff.
This last year our son started at a charter school. It has turned out to be an excellent fit for our son. One of the things that became obvious as we were having to make the choice between a charter school and a magnet science program was that all children in all charter schools have parents who are concerned about their children's education and are at least willing to put forth the energy to apply for the charter school. I would say in general that parental involvement in the school is a major thing to consider and the type of parental involvement. Make sure that the level and types of activities expected of the parents (both in writing and through peer pressure) are in agreement with where you think the efforts should be applied. My son attended a highly rated private school for first grade, but the social dynamics of the wealthy mothers and the pressure that my wife felt to do things like extravagantly decorating the classrooms for the holidays were somewhat surreal and in conflict with our own objectives. The parental focus was very narcissistic and not really on the kids at that particular school. If I had not experienced this first hand I would not have ever have thought to make it a consideration.
The article uses the verb 'can' in a number of places where 'might be possible' is probably more appropriate. They also don't mention the extremely short shelf life of silver nanotubules. Typical univeristy research hype piece.
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I have been down the startup road a few times in my career. Most of the time, things don't go as planned and the people who make out the best at the end of the game are the debtors of the company. They get paid first. So try and make sure you are on that list. The promises behind stock options are great, but most of the time you are better off being explicitly owed.
Agree. If federal student aid was capped at 1000 X minimum wage per year (like it effectively was in 1981) then tuitions everywhere would come down. The country has been hoodwinked by the Universities that education is valuable and therefore must be expensive. I got a great education in the 80's for a pittance by today's standards that I paid for entirely on my own. I borrowed money for school, but it was a safety blanket that I fortunately did not need to tap and was able to pay back when I graduated without ever having had to pay a dime of interest. These for-profit schools are taking advantage of the marketing campaigns and congressional payoffs of the major schools, setting up in a strip center with low overhead and making a killing off of the backs of the students they trick into going into debt for their programs.
"You don't need any math more complex than simple algebra."
I can only partially agree with this statement.
Software implementations do not live in a vacuum. If the domain you are developing software for depends on higher math then the software engineers working in that domain NEED to have an understanding of higher math, physics, etc. depending on the domain. I have seen disasters when this is not true. For instance I know of a software team that was charged with computing locations based on the TDOA algorithm for the US military. However earlier in their data pipeline they had truncated nanosecond accurate times to milliseconds because that programmer couldn't conceive of why anyone would ever need time to be more accurate than milliseconds. The team as a whole could not understand why their location results seemed random (+/- a continent). They had no understanding of hyperbolic math, the implications of the speed of light or any of the other basic things they needed to understand to solve the problem. They had been handed an algorithm which they had dutifully translated into code, so in their mind the problem must lie with the mathematician that gave them the algorithm. The mathematician was not a software engineer and was not in a position to use a debugger to notice that the times had been truncated. When the team was told what was wrong via a very specific bug report regarding the truncated times, they, as a group were angry and killed the messenger.
You are equating "hash function" and "cryptographic hash function" with your assertion "one of the key properties of a hash function is that small changes in the input result in a completely changed output". Not all hash functions are cryptographic hash functions. Inside operating systems you may see a hash function that is no more than a simple masking of bits because that is all that is required.
You are right and wrong. For Texas schools at least, the real number is 4X and that is bad enough without the hyperbole. First, we need to accept an inflation factor and I think the best one in this case is the minimum wage that most college students would make on a part time basis. In 1981 a year of college cost around 716 minimum wage hours (based on my actual expenses). Today a year at UT costs around 3,000 minimum wage hours according to UT's estimates. What has changed? All of the facilities are much nicer and the square footage of facilities per student is at least 2X what it was in 1981. In other words all that tuition and fee money is going to construction companies, not to educating students.
In this light, I am afraid that providing money to the universities via taxes will just perpetuate the current insanity when what we really need is for universities to once again become efficient at providing education.
By making money readily available to the universities via grants and loans over the last 40 years, the universities have greatly expanded their ability to spend money on marble and mahogany. The efficiency of education delivered to students as measured proportionate to the minimum wage has declined by around 4X factor since 1981 here in Texas. In 1981 a year of college cost around 716 minimum wage hours (based on my actual expenses). Today a year at UT costs around 3,000 minimum wage hours according to UT's estimates. What has changed? All of the facilities are much nicer and the square footage of facilities per student is at least 2X what it was in 1981. In other words all that tuition and fee money is going to construction companies, not to educating students.
In this light, I am afraid that providing money to the universities via taxes will just perpetuate the current insanity when what we really need is for universities to once again become efficient at providing education.
3 guys decided that an organization established by Congress, performing duties as directed by the executive branch and monitored by the judicial branch was doing something illegal? That's right up there with me and my drinking buddies thinking that toll roads should be illegal.
You are right that they are hard to change. You are wrong that they are usually associated with a government. They are usually associated with the deed of the property. When the property was subdivided, the creator of the individual parcels specified deed covenants that they thought would improve the value of the property. States have laws related to the type of super-majority required to change these deeds (often 90%), but even if everyone in your neighborhood agrees, good luck getting the banks all equally interested in making this change. Then you typically would have to re-close on the new deed and pay the associated costs of that. In other words, pretty much impossible.
Sample sizes of 8 and 13 respectively? Non-random? .003% per genome.
The mutation rate in humans is only
This is like trying to compare two different atomic bomb explosions given data on only 8 and 13 neutrons from each explosion. They don't even have enough samples to compute the genetic equivalent of temperature (what ever that may be), much less make over arching statements about the two populations. When they have done this analysis for at least 300 random samples from each population I would be interested in hearing the results.
Presenting solutions has to be #1. It is not optional. If you don't present solutions you are just a whiner.
Ahhh user FIELD; password SERVICE. The good ol' days.
Back before the PC was invented, I started a Computer Science Explorer post after one of my high school teachers suggested I do this. This allowed us to have access to the local community college's excellent computer facilities and we also were given a great mentor by the community college. We played games (mystery mansion and trek), worked on writing an interactive version of the game Risk in SPL and learned to hack in Fortran. We had a consistent group of 8 or so members for 3 years. The point is, look for ways to use your status as a club to get access to interesting events and resources. I got more than I could ever have imagined for free by creating my club and it had a life long impact on my career.
Instead of focusing on disclosure, the bills should focus on ownership. A patent application is a public disclosure. The universities will simply file more patents making their research less useful to and less owned by the general public.
Microsoft also provides some nice face recognition software via their Windows Live Essentials package which does work on Windows. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/essentials-home The face recognition code stores all of its state in a couple of SQLLite databases which makes it very easy to hack and integrate despite the complete lack of documentation.
Arterial roads are an attempt to solve a 2 dimensional problem (sprawl) with a 1 dimensional solution (linear roads). You can't add width to your line fast enough to make up for area growth at the end points. Elon Musk of all people should understand this. Is his little public donation a step toward a political life?
Try adding MTI to your search terms.
Dell's CFO nearly destroyed the company single handedly back in 1993 through excessive currency speculation. He managed to double down correctly on a billion dollar + trade to get out of the hole he created. But if he had bet wrong again, the history of Dell would have been drastically different. Why not just call it insurance like FDIC and make it optional? The government would set rates of each company based on the perceived risk. In the long run protected stocks will be viewed favorably by the market.
Dr. Davis's honors calculus class at the University of Texas trains your unconscious brain to perform calculus. http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/davis/davis_site/Kathy_Davis_Homepage.html When I took this class years ago, there was a very difficult take-home test every week, handed out on Monday and collected eight days later on Tuesday. She instructed us to review the test before going to sleep on the first day and on the first morning work on the solution for just a few minutes. Every day we were told to work on it a little more before bed and just after waking. She would drop hints during the lecture, and laugh. If I remember correctly, some of the homework problems were originally solved over decades by famous mathematicians -- real mind f'ers. After two semesters of this, solving calculus proofs in this way became almost second nature. Dr. Davis is one of those instructors that repeatedly wins "best professor" awards. (She was actually a he when I took the class, but that’s a whole other story).
I was going to say the same thing. I suggest you look at companies like ManTech, CGI, possibly SAIC. If you live near a military base or government installation, try and identify who is providing their IT services and contact that company (the phone number for IT is often on the web site somewhere). These shops often have a mix of big and small business providers. I have worked with groups where the prime contractor had 8 employees, their favored sub 6 and then there was 3 people from 3 different minority/women-owned businesses. Competition for these contracts can be very competitive, which can result in the pay not being the best, but it is way better than WalMart greeter. For many of these people it is their first job out of college/trade-school so turn-over is high. Most of these primes would love for an experienced person to come in under one of their set-aside contracts. Some cities also have very active organizations related these sorts of jobs like the Charleston Defense Contractors Association. You could drop in on one of their meetings to see who is doing what.
My guess is that it is more likely the result of a series of genetic mergers over time than something that evolved over a billion years ago and then spawned the other trees which in turn lost information. That would make it more complex than many of its decendents and this sort of complexity usually moves in the other direction in evolution. We know blue-green algae exchange DNA with each other. A similar set of processes much later in time could have resulted in this species which managed collect DNA from a set of primitive peers that as a collection gave a significant evolutionary advantage.
Superhydrophobic usually also means superlipophilic. It may shed water, but finger print grease is forever. Once you get enough grease on it, it won't seem so self-cleaning anymore.
Now it looks like it is called Learning For Life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_for_Life. I founded an Explorer Post at the local community college in 1978 after a high school teacher told me it might give me free access to the college's computers ... and it did! They had an awesome set up for the era: an HP3000 with smart terminals. I learned Fortran and SPL. We learned to hack in Fortran and implemented a computer version of the game Risk in SPL. Our mentor patched our account creation into the bootloader after a while so our accounts wouldn't go away between semesters. I learned all kinds of stuff.
This last year our son started at a charter school. It has turned out to be an excellent fit for our son. One of the things that became obvious as we were having to make the choice between a charter school and a magnet science program was that all children in all charter schools have parents who are concerned about their children's education and are at least willing to put forth the energy to apply for the charter school. I would say in general that parental involvement in the school is a major thing to consider and the type of parental involvement. Make sure that the level and types of activities expected of the parents (both in writing and through peer pressure) are in agreement with where you think the efforts should be applied. My son attended a highly rated private school for first grade, but the social dynamics of the wealthy mothers and the pressure that my wife felt to do things like extravagantly decorating the classrooms for the holidays were somewhat surreal and in conflict with our own objectives. The parental focus was very narcissistic and not really on the kids at that particular school. If I had not experienced this first hand I would not have ever have thought to make it a consideration.
Military systems have been providing location based alerting to soldiers for decades now.
The article uses the verb 'can' in a number of places where 'might be possible' is probably more appropriate. They also don't mention the extremely short shelf life of silver nanotubules. Typical univeristy research hype piece.