For heaven's sake, is it too much for you to read the symmary? It's not even like you have to click on a link.
No, it's not too much, I read the summary+TFA quite thoroughly. Is it too much for you to mentally parse responses to your comments before replying? My point was that if you code in Matlab correctly, you don't really need JIT. Hence it's absence should not be a showstopper for Octave.
Yes, that's why you vectorize your loops... it's what Matlab was made for. And if you can't (or don't want) to vectorize, your write a mex function and call it from within a matlab script (or the command line).
You spelled 'no' wrong. The parent of your comment had exactly the right point. Python may be great as a general scripting language, but for specifically math/statistical applications, Matlab is wonderful. You say that "Python is the sort of language you don't actually have to think about- you think about the problem rather than how to solve it", but that's exactly true for Matlab. Matlab syntax is completely intuitive, provided you bother to learn the syntax. I've known plenty of people who came to Matlab, hated it, but then after a couple months started to love it. That is, of course, if they didn't have to pay for it.
I don't buy that for a second. Even if you bought every single toolbox available (which no one would do because they cover such a broad set of tasks), it wouldn't add up to 15 grand per license.
I've only dealt with Matlab on the academic side, but I can say I've had good relations with their customer service. The last time I interacted with them, I had to buy new licenses for our research group; I had read through the various options and thought I had found the cheapest configuration that would meet our requirements, spoke with the sales rep, and he spent some time on his own digging around and found an even cheaper way to get what we needed.
My [admittedly uneducated] guess is that maybe "the math man" in your company is a moron at the negotiation table...
If you want to argue execs deserve huge pay because so much money is at stake, then they should also stand to leave the company hundreds of millions poorer than they came into it, if they underperform.
This is the whole purpose behind corporations; they were originally given the rights and privileges of a human being in order to alleviate much of the risk to the execs. If the company goes bankrupt, the people associated with the corporation (particularly, the execs) get off scott-free. The movie The Corporation gives a pretty good (albeit somewhat biased) overview of the history, legal structure of corps.
I think you're the only poster who's got it right in the specifics. The OP didn't exactly state Nyquist's theorem correctly... it is, if there is a BAND-LIMITED signal, I can exactly reproduce it by sampling at >= twice the band-limiting frequency.
Band limiting the signal ("anti-aliasing"... or your "analog filter before the ADC") is the key, because without this, there will be artifacts like you describe. And those ARE audible to our ears below 22 kHz.
How do you know that we won't go back to some form of tape in the future?
Well I don't of course, but I'd say it's unlikely. However many spoolable storage media you can think of, I think that there's certainly a trend in electronic technology to go with fewer and fewer moving parts. You just can't achieve that with any sort of tape drive.
[a little off-topic, i know] That just reminds me of something striking in the original quote, "...has not helped you conjure up the stolen data tapes..."
So let me get this straight. They have hyper-space interstellar travel, blaster guns, light sabers, intelligent robots, hover cars, space stations the size of a moon.... and they still store data, on TAPE ?
Imeem now has the royal flush of record labels supporting its media-sharing service, each getting a cut of the advertising revenues generated by their catalog
gee... i wonder why they agreed to drop legal action against imeem.
Iced stairwells, auditorium beach parties, disassembled-and-reassembled-in-the-dorm-room vehicles (oh, wait, I already did that one) and Big Fscking Lasers.
Reminds me of a quote I heard one time: "Coding in C++ is like high school sex. A lot of people talk about doing it, not a lot of people actually do it, and those who do, do it poorly."
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A loop, by its nature, continues. If that didn't make sense, start reading this sentence again.
Pete and re'Pete were sitting on a wall. Pete fell off, who is left?
Although now you've ruled out any possibility of a threesome.
;-)
Not necessarily. No one said his wife had to be involved in the threesome
For heaven's sake, is it too much for you to read the symmary? It's not even like you have to click on a link.
No, it's not too much, I read the summary+TFA quite thoroughly. Is it too much for you to mentally parse responses to your comments before replying? My point was that if you code in Matlab correctly, you don't really need JIT. Hence it's absence should not be a showstopper for Octave.
Yes, that's why you vectorize your loops... it's what Matlab was made for. And if you can't (or don't want) to vectorize, your write a mex function and call it from within a matlab script (or the command line).
The short answer is yes.
You spelled 'no' wrong. The parent of your comment had exactly the right point. Python may be great as a general scripting language, but for specifically math/statistical applications, Matlab is wonderful. You say that "Python is the sort of language you don't actually have to think about- you think about the problem rather than how to solve it", but that's exactly true for Matlab. Matlab syntax is completely intuitive, provided you bother to learn the syntax. I've known plenty of people who came to Matlab, hated it, but then after a couple months started to love it. That is, of course, if they didn't have to pay for it.
Ended up being about fifteen grand for one seat.
I don't buy that for a second. Even if you bought every single toolbox available (which no one would do because they cover such a broad set of tasks), it wouldn't add up to 15 grand per license.
I've only dealt with Matlab on the academic side, but I can say I've had good relations with their customer service. The last time I interacted with them, I had to buy new licenses for our research group; I had read through the various options and thought I had found the cheapest configuration that would meet our requirements, spoke with the sales rep, and he spent some time on his own digging around and found an even cheaper way to get what we needed.
My [admittedly uneducated] guess is that maybe "the math man" in your company is a moron at the negotiation table...
If you want to argue execs deserve huge pay because so much money is at stake, then they should also stand to leave the company hundreds of millions poorer than they came into it, if they underperform.
This is the whole purpose behind corporations; they were originally given the rights and privileges of a human being in order to alleviate much of the risk to the execs. If the company goes bankrupt, the people associated with the corporation (particularly, the execs) get off scott-free. The movie The Corporation gives a pretty good (albeit somewhat biased) overview of the history, legal structure of corps.
This was not just a sonic boom. This was a superheated fireball explosively expanding with a momentum toward the ground.
So it was a sonic BADDA boom!
I think you're the only poster who's got it right in the specifics. The OP didn't exactly state Nyquist's theorem correctly... it is, if there is a BAND-LIMITED signal, I can exactly reproduce it by sampling at >= twice the band-limiting frequency.
Band limiting the signal ("anti-aliasing"... or your "analog filter before the ADC") is the key, because without this, there will be artifacts like you describe. And those ARE audible to our ears below 22 kHz.
How do you know that we won't go back to some form of tape in the future?
Well I don't of course, but I'd say it's unlikely. However many spoolable storage media you can think of, I think that there's certainly a trend in electronic technology to go with fewer and fewer moving parts. You just can't achieve that with any sort of tape drive.
How did we get on this topic again?
[a little off-topic, i know] That just reminds me of something striking in the original quote, "...has not helped you conjure up the stolen data tapes..."
So let me get this straight. They have hyper-space interstellar travel, blaster guns, light sabers, intelligent robots, hover cars, space stations the size of a moon.... and they still store data, on TAPE ?
hmm... and neither had I, until you pointed out the reference.
And in case anyone else hasn't, here's the clip
i watched all 6 star trek series
you mean, *5* star trek series. "enterprise" doesn't count, man.
Emphasize the talent angle, I suppose.
yeah, and stay away from questions involving u.s. americans giving maps to south africa and the iraq.
Storing their logs in /dev/nul is the most likely way they deal with 650 GB of logs.
/dev/null! ;-)
Well geez.. in that case I sure hope they do regular backups of
Imeem now has the royal flush of record labels supporting its media-sharing service, each getting a cut of the advertising revenues generated by their catalog
gee... i wonder why they agreed to drop legal action against imeem.
Wow, that's an incredible video.
Ok, it's official: if I'm ever diagnosed with a terminal illness, I'm doing THAT!
Iced stairwells, auditorium beach parties, disassembled-and-reassembled-in-the-dorm-room vehicles (oh, wait, I already did that one) and Big Fscking Lasers.
And blackjack! and hookers!
and to continue your quote...
1. God creates dinosaurs
2. God destroys dinosaurs
3. God creates man
4. Man destroys God
5. Man creates dinosaurs
Ellie: "[6.] Dinosaurs eat man. [7.] Woman inherits the earth."
mod parent up
+1 quoting-perhaps-my-favorite-Douglas-Adams-passage
(wrestle the [creature] 'till it dies) > sedation > mind control
well I, for one, welcome our new mind-controlling wasp overlords!
Yeah - make it like the Truman show, but with more gorillas and crocodiles!
And blackjack. And hookers. In fact, forget the gorillas and crocodiles!
That researcher seems to be holding the head of the 'vacuum cleaner' fairly close to his...
Isn't it surprising how badly I spell ?
Yeah, you really should wear some deodorant.
Reminds me of a quote I heard one time: "Coding in C++ is like high school sex. A lot of people talk about doing it, not a lot of people actually do it, and those who do, do it poorly."