The evidence that this time reference to a gender in relation to her achievements is relevant. When the project application reviews for Hubble switched to double-blind (where the reviewers only see the content of the proposed research, but not the identities of the proposers), the success rate of female-led applications went from being roughly half of that of male-led applications to being roughly the same (actually a bit more).
A look at the original reports reveals that actually both the "threefold" and the "by 400%" claims are completely wrong.
The number ranges (apparently there are regulations banning Apple from giving specific numbers) for the requests are: 750-999 for 1H2015, 2750-2999 for 1H2016, 13250-13499 for 1H2017. Taking the mean to represent each band, we can see that from 2015 to 2017 the number of requests actually increased 15.3 times (or by 1430 percent if you like that notation). The increase from 2015 to 2016 was 3.3 times (or 230%) and the increase from 2016 to 2017 was 4.7 times (or 370%).
The number ranges for the affected accounts are: 250-499 for 1H2015, 2000-2249 for 1H2016, 9000-9249 for 1H2017. So, from 2015 to 2017 the number of affected accounts increased 24.4 times (or by 2340 percent). The increase from 2015 to 2016 was 5.7 times (or 470%) and the increase from 2016 to 2017 was 4.3 times (or 330%).
The Gardener and Perelman books already recommended by other commenters are good, as I can confirm based on my own experience.
Though not tested on my younger self (too old for that), the books by Al Sweigart, especially the one about crypto, also look good if you want some math designed to be implemented on a computer.
While not 3D-printed, similar things have been done long before by Nikolai Aldunin. A TIME gallery features some pictures, among them perhaps most relevant at the moment a set of seven camels (plus three palm trees) in the eye of a needle and most impressive for me personally a flea fitted with horse shoes, saddle and stirrups. While TIME reported on him in 2008, most of the work is much older. I remember going to an exhibition in late 1980s.
The/. summary has copied the expression from the medium.com report. But if you read the paragraph this comes from, the description makes it clear they really mean the growth is exponential, they just use the wrong term and the/. submitter did not correct this either.
The TopCoder reference is a really odd one. Code written in programming contests is generally not written to be maintainable. Rather, the focus is on submitting it fast and having it pass all tests. TopCoder contests, with their challenge phase (where participants review competitors' code and benefit from finding bugs in there), seems to particularly encourage writing obfuscated (and therefore unmaintainable) code.
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Could anyone recommend a good tutorial for photo touch-up using the GIMP? Everything I have found so far is for Photoshop. Being a newbie in both the photography and GIMP departments, and having never used Photoshop at all, it's quite hard to translate Photoshop advice to GIMP (it seems the terminology used by the two tools does not overlap too much).
On this police state thing... I've been to well over 15 countries in my life. Leaving aside the border controls where every last one of them asked to see my passport, in only two of them I have had police stop me on the street to check my ID: Belorussia and USA. Go figure...
Estonia is also planning to issue smart cards as national ID cards starting from 2002. The project's website has very limited information in English, but the card will feature asymmetric cryptography (as it is designed to be main instrument to implement the digital signatures passed into law on March 8, 2000) and currently the project is in stage of tendering offers from smart card producers.
Since I was involved in the initial research, I have a couple of useful links:
Consider just one fact: Blowfish was published in 1993, while Neither Blowfish nor Serpent were published before 1998. That makes over 3 times of difference in time the community has had to adopt the algorithm. Also consider that cryptography is a conservative business by definition: an algorithm cannot be proven secure, it can only be shown to be immune to known attacks and certain amount of labour from analysts trying to devise new kinds of attacks specific to this cipher. The amount of labour takse time to accumulate.
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The evidence that this time reference to a gender in relation to her achievements is relevant. When the project application reviews for Hubble switched to double-blind (where the reviewers only see the content of the proposed research, but not the identities of the proposers), the success rate of female-led applications went from being roughly half of that of male-led applications to being roughly the same (actually a bit more).
No matter how wild a claim about "SJW" or liberals, any demand for evidence will be met with downmods.
I don't consider myself any kind of warrior, but how's that for evidence: http://www.stsci.edu/news/news...?
A look at the original reports reveals that actually both the "threefold" and the "by 400%" claims are completely wrong.
The number ranges (apparently there are regulations banning Apple from giving specific numbers) for the requests are: 750-999 for 1H2015, 2750-2999 for 1H2016, 13250-13499 for 1H2017. Taking the mean to represent each band, we can see that from 2015 to 2017 the number of requests actually increased 15.3 times (or by 1430 percent if you like that notation). The increase from 2015 to 2016 was 3.3 times (or 230%) and the increase from 2016 to 2017 was 4.7 times (or 370%).
The number ranges for the affected accounts are: 250-499 for 1H2015, 2000-2249 for 1H2016, 9000-9249 for 1H2017. So, from 2015 to 2017 the number of affected accounts increased 24.4 times (or by 2340 percent). The increase from 2015 to 2016 was 5.7 times (or 470%) and the increase from 2016 to 2017 was 4.3 times (or 330%).
The Gardener and Perelman books already recommended by other commenters are good, as I can confirm based on my own experience. Though not tested on my younger self (too old for that), the books by Al Sweigart, especially the one about crypto, also look good if you want some math designed to be implemented on a computer.
Perelman seconded, from my own experience.
Seconded, from my own experience.
While not 3D-printed, similar things have been done long before by Nikolai Aldunin. A TIME gallery features some pictures, among them perhaps most relevant at the moment a set of seven camels (plus three palm trees) in the eye of a needle and most impressive for me personally a flea fitted with horse shoes, saddle and stirrups. While TIME reported on him in 2008, most of the work is much older. I remember going to an exhibition in late 1980s.
The /. summary has copied the expression from the medium.com report. But if you read the paragraph this comes from, the description makes it clear they really mean the growth is exponential, they just use the wrong term and the /. submitter did not correct this either.
The TopCoder reference is a really odd one. Code written in programming contests is generally not written to be maintainable. Rather, the focus is on submitting it fast and having it pass all tests. TopCoder contests, with their challenge phase (where participants review competitors' code and benefit from finding bugs in there), seems to particularly encourage writing obfuscated (and therefore unmaintainable) code.
A book co-written by a father-son team as the son learns Python programming developing small games
http://www.manning.com/sande/
And when you're done with that, move on to slightly bigger games, still in Python
http://inventwithpython.com/
For the same effect on classic hardware, you might want to look at https://sharemind.cyber.ee/.
Yes, I do have some friends in the project team.
Could anyone recommend a good tutorial for photo touch-up using the GIMP? Everything I have found so far is for Photoshop. Being a newbie in both the photography and GIMP departments, and having never used Photoshop at all, it's quite hard to translate Photoshop advice to GIMP (it seems the terminology used by the two tools does not overlap too much).
In many places, they may be available, but not necessarily allowed. Especially the PuTTY part. And they are not necessarily very anonymous either.
This reminds me of the (now rather old) Fuzz papers.
On this police state thing... I've been to well over 15 countries in my life. Leaving aside the border controls where every last one of them asked to see my passport, in only two of them I have had police stop me on the street to check my ID: Belorussia and USA. Go figure...
Estonia is also planning to issue smart cards as national ID cards starting from 2002. The project's website has very limited information in English, but the card will feature asymmetric cryptography (as it is designed to be main instrument to implement the digital signatures passed into law on March 8, 2000) and currently the project is in stage of tendering offers from smart card producers.
Since I was involved in the initial research, I have a couple of useful links:
Consider just one fact: Blowfish was published in 1993, while Neither Blowfish nor Serpent were published before 1998. That makes over 3 times of difference in time the community has had to adopt the algorithm. Also consider that cryptography is a conservative business by definition: an algorithm cannot be proven secure, it can only be shown to be immune to known attacks and certain amount of labour from analysts trying to devise new kinds of attacks specific to this cipher. The amount of labour takse time to accumulate.