Actually, Sweden is even worse with only 12% female graduates in computer science related degrees. The situation is similar in all the Nordic countries. Those countries also happen to have the highest gender equality rating in the world (discounting some feminist crazies who believe the situation for women in Sweden is just as bad as in Afghanistan). It actually seems that the more freedom women get, the more inclined they are to choose gender stereotyped careers. Maybe on average more men prefer technology and more women prefer nursing? What's so inherently bad about that?
For more than a century, it has been accepted that about 620,000 Americans died in the the bloodiest, most devastating conflict in American history
But I really think that statement should be qualified with "bloodiest, most devastating conflict involving only Americans." The Indian genocide, World War II, Vietnam War and possibly even the Iraq Wars were deadlier. Non-American causalties should also be counted in body counts.
Good for you. I had access to a computer at age seven and I'm now a software developer. Ask anyone else on slashdot who seem to be good at technology and you'll find that they had computers in their lives at a very early age. There seem to be some anecdotal connection between being exposed to technology at a young age and excelling at it as an adult. Not everyone who grew up with a c64 became a Linus Torvalds but there are no Linus Torvaldses who did not have access to a c64 (or equivalent home computer).
Installation and maintenance of the database firewall isn't cheap either. A sensible company has to consider the probability of a successful SQL injection attack times the amount of damage caused versus the monthly cost of running the firewall.
Not only that, they can also figure out the probability that you are gay based on the number of gay people you have friended on Facebook. Or if you are tagged in photos that also features known gay males. Soon enough you'll see online ads for nail polish and ymca records..
Er no it wouldn't. There are hundreds of studies that show that women are worse than men on a wide range of tasks. Not the least, almost everything that is physically challenging. I hate this notion people have that research is somehow censored to be politically correct and that it is therefore not trustworthy.
Because you want to do arbitrages between London and Tokyo?:) That's basically all HFT is about - finding which two exchanges values a stock differently and cashing in on the difference.
So what? Life contains much fascinating fun stuff other than being around women. I for one, would have loved to attend this event in person, but sadly wont have the money or the time to spare.
China beat the other capitalists at their own game. By forcing the other players out of the market and then establishing a monopoly. Now they are crying foul because they lost the game? It's their rare earth metals so just pay them what they want or start making your own! You cant just demand that the rules be changed because now you're being screwed, while previously you enjoyed screwing someone else over.
It is not hard to create a model that works perfectly on observed data. But then you run into the problem of overfitting and your model loses any general predictability it had. To counter overfitting you need to have separate datasets for training and testing otherwise the model will depend on random details in the data. The proof of the pudding is in the eating and if you're model is good enough, you should be able to make money on sports betting on it.
Call me a conspiracy nut, but I wouldn't think that the DHS would let their wordlist get released if all they were doing was matching texts on specific terms. That is no better than a really dumb bayesian spam filter and would easily be defeated with childishly simple methods. When it comes to content filtering and semantic extraction, the science has moved way beyond such simple methods. Actually it is a very interesting research topic and I would love to have a job working with developing such models for the DHS if it wasn't for such an immoral purpose.
Likely other signals they use to extract information is the dates and times when messages are sent and from which ip addresses. Also how well written they are and what kinds of spelling and grammatical errors. Native speakers of semitic languages such as Arabic make different kinds of spelling errors than Germanic language speakers. That's just from the top of my head. My point is that government surveillance organisations aren't as dumb as the article seem to suggest.
That's exactly how Palestine was colonized by Zionists in the 1930-40:s. Except not everyone was free to join, only those of Jewish ancestry. I'd imagine the same thing would happen now as it did then - if you have enough money you can buy your way through.
Here's the gist of the article, and also an explanation of why it isn't really interesting at all:
“This is a fascinating phenomenon and nobody has really much idea of what’s going on. What we do know is that it’s absolutely essential to not jump to conclusions about what’s going on. Time and time again over the decades past demographers have been brutally misled by short-term phenomena, by statistics gathered only over a few years. Blips happen for all manner of impenetrable reasons. In this case we’re talking about people born in a small segment of time, around 1900, and most of them born in particular countries and going through certain types of life they might not have gone through had they been born 20 years previously or 20 years later. There are many factors called ‘cohort effects’ that can cause early life phenomena to have an influence on longevity.”
Bottom line: don’t believe the hype.
Stupidity is not a valid excuse. Each person is responsible for his or her own actions and "they told me to do it" does not take away your own responsibility. In 2003, there were 14 million people demonstrating globally against Bush's war plans, millions of those were Americans. No one was forced to be ignorant, no one was forced not to read up on the real motives behind the war and no one was forced to go around the world killing people that had never done them any harm. They did it on their own violition and should, if the world was just, be punished for it just like Bush himself.
And yet, despite what the economists tell us, they rock us all when it comes to living standards. Least number of homeless people, least amount of murder per capita in the world, healthiest population and the most high-tech gadgets in the world. All over the world you see Japanese tourists spending money like crazy because they think our prices are so low. The economists doesn't know shit because they have it all backwards. Normal people see economy and growth rates as a means to make our lives better and improve our society. Economists see society and peoples lives as a means to jack up the growth rates and maximize GDP.
Insert the obligatory comment about how one could easily fool this sytem and therefore their research is completely useless. The researchers did not think about people changing their shoes, but the slashdotters did!
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And shooting idiots like you in the brain can stop you from reproducing. Doesn't mean it is ethical or even legal.
Is that a rhetorical question? The answer is because that is the way the law (DMCA) is written.
Actually, Sweden is even worse with only 12% female graduates in computer science related degrees. The situation is similar in all the Nordic countries. Those countries also happen to have the highest gender equality rating in the world (discounting some feminist crazies who believe the situation for women in Sweden is just as bad as in Afghanistan). It actually seems that the more freedom women get, the more inclined they are to choose gender stereotyped careers. Maybe on average more men prefer technology and more women prefer nursing? What's so inherently bad about that?
For more than a century, it has been accepted that about 620,000 Americans died in the the bloodiest, most devastating conflict in American history
But I really think that statement should be qualified with "bloodiest, most devastating conflict involving only Americans." The Indian genocide, World War II, Vietnam War and possibly even the Iraq Wars were deadlier. Non-American causalties should also be counted in body counts.
Good for you. I had access to a computer at age seven and I'm now a software developer. Ask anyone else on slashdot who seem to be good at technology and you'll find that they had computers in their lives at a very early age. There seem to be some anecdotal connection between being exposed to technology at a young age and excelling at it as an adult. Not everyone who grew up with a c64 became a Linus Torvalds but there are no Linus Torvaldses who did not have access to a c64 (or equivalent home computer).
Installation and maintenance of the database firewall isn't cheap either. A sensible company has to consider the probability of a successful SQL injection attack times the amount of damage caused versus the monthly cost of running the firewall.
This is not news for nerds - this is news for fags. Who gives a shit about random hollywood celebrities anyway.
Not only that, they can also figure out the probability that you are gay based on the number of gay people you have friended on Facebook. Or if you are tagged in photos that also features known gay males. Soon enough you'll see online ads for nail polish and ymca records..
Er no it wouldn't. There are hundreds of studies that show that women are worse than men on a wide range of tasks. Not the least, almost everything that is physically challenging. I hate this notion people have that research is somehow censored to be politically correct and that it is therefore not trustworthy.
Thanks from me too. I'm forced to use Windows at work and have long been looking for a good multiple workspaces program without finding anything.
Because you want to do arbitrages between London and Tokyo? :) That's basically all HFT is about - finding which two exchanges values a stock differently and cashing in on the difference.
Anyone else read that as "Sweden moves towards classless economy"? Alas, then I woke up. :/
Yup, national statistics from the OECD are easily countered by anecdotal evidence from your friends. That's the scientific method alright!
Probably -- the rest of us can read.
So what? Life contains much fascinating fun stuff other than being around women. I for one, would have loved to attend this event in person, but sadly wont have the money or the time to spare.
No you dont you liar! You make a playlist of mp3s and play them in your favourite player completely without paying a cent.
China beat the other capitalists at their own game. By forcing the other players out of the market and then establishing a monopoly. Now they are crying foul because they lost the game? It's their rare earth metals so just pay them what they want or start making your own! You cant just demand that the rules be changed because now you're being screwed, while previously you enjoyed screwing someone else over.
It is not hard to create a model that works perfectly on observed data. But then you run into the problem of overfitting and your model loses any general predictability it had. To counter overfitting you need to have separate datasets for training and testing otherwise the model will depend on random details in the data. The proof of the pudding is in the eating and if you're model is good enough, you should be able to make money on sports betting on it.
Who is Dr Manhattan and why would they want to animate his penis?
Call me a conspiracy nut, but I wouldn't think that the DHS would let their wordlist get released if all they were doing was matching texts on specific terms. That is no better than a really dumb bayesian spam filter and would easily be defeated with childishly simple methods. When it comes to content filtering and semantic extraction, the science has moved way beyond such simple methods. Actually it is a very interesting research topic and I would love to have a job working with developing such models for the DHS if it wasn't for such an immoral purpose.
Likely other signals they use to extract information is the dates and times when messages are sent and from which ip addresses. Also how well written they are and what kinds of spelling and grammatical errors. Native speakers of semitic languages such as Arabic make different kinds of spelling errors than Germanic language speakers. That's just from the top of my head. My point is that government surveillance organisations aren't as dumb as the article seem to suggest.
That's exactly how Palestine was colonized by Zionists in the 1930-40:s. Except not everyone was free to join, only those of Jewish ancestry. I'd imagine the same thing would happen now as it did then - if you have enough money you can buy your way through.
Stupidity is not a valid excuse. Each person is responsible for his or her own actions and "they told me to do it" does not take away your own responsibility. In 2003, there were 14 million people demonstrating globally against Bush's war plans, millions of those were Americans. No one was forced to be ignorant, no one was forced not to read up on the real motives behind the war and no one was forced to go around the world killing people that had never done them any harm. They did it on their own violition and should, if the world was just, be punished for it just like Bush himself.
And yet, despite what the economists tell us, they rock us all when it comes to living standards. Least number of homeless people, least amount of murder per capita in the world, healthiest population and the most high-tech gadgets in the world. All over the world you see Japanese tourists spending money like crazy because they think our prices are so low. The economists doesn't know shit because they have it all backwards. Normal people see economy and growth rates as a means to make our lives better and improve our society. Economists see society and peoples lives as a means to jack up the growth rates and maximize GDP.
Insert the obligatory comment about how one could easily fool this sytem and therefore their research is completely useless. The researchers did not think about people changing their shoes, but the slashdotters did!