This is a late post and nobody will read it, but I will say it here anyway.
Free translation between all languages is just a nice to have compared to the real thrust and purpose of their effort: Human Intermediate Language, and the compilers / reflectors that go with it. It's a hard nut to crack, but this is a natural progression for Google. And applied at Google scale with Google resources... well that could be scary powerful.
I would guess they already have a proof of concept and some execs are shitting themselves over the possibilities. Strong A.I. or something that looks like it is not too far behind. Ask the whole goddamn internet what all of human civilization thinks the meaning of life is, and actually get brilliant results back, with citations, in the language of your choice. This is why they brought Ray on.
This situation is like a religious debate - it's a social thing that has nothing to do with who has the best arguments. If you go down the route of explaining your point of view in a well-reasoned way, don't be surprised when you're ignored for reasons that seem to not make any sense, or at least have nothing to do with the well-being of the project.
Look around the ponderously inefficient, devastated landscape of medium to large-scale engineering. There are no meritocracies.
In no uncertain terms, this will be a pissing contest - let it be known IMMEDIATELY that you are on the warpath and you must get your way. Even if it is completely against your nature... be the asshole. Be the alpha type you may hate. FIGHT AND WIN according to the stupid and predictable primate rules of social structure and power that we all live by - power is taken, not given.
HTML and anything like it is the wrong thing to put a standards body on. Authoring (human "readable") is a level in the abstraction chain where innovation and competition is supposed to occur, not this ponderous shit. Sticking with HTML as the standard has easily set us back ten years from where we could have been, and I fear it will continue to stifle innovation for decades to come.
This isn't an either-or / where's-the-third option question - exceptions and return values just need to be used for what they're best suited.
Use exceptions for error conditions that can be generalized, i.e., they need no more information than this for a domain-specific (client/service/DAL) Policy to decide what to do.
1. Is it a genuine error, or a stopping condition encountered in normal operation?
2. Does it contain a message intended for the end-user to see?
3. Should it be logged?
No need for try/catch blocks everywhere for this since you've generalized it.
Error conditions that can't or shouldn't be integrated into a generalized exception-handling policy... these should relay information through function return values as part of an application's business process, not through exceptions.
I read (I think it was in 'death by black hole') that the more massive the black hole, the less gravity you experience at the event horizon. For a 1 trillion mass black hole, supposedly it would only have 10g at its event horizon. For still greater masses, you could have 1g, something reasonable for both a human and a spaceship to deal with... in theory, you could hover a ship with a person in it at the very boundary of such an event horizon... how sharp would this boundary be? I'd lower a string to see where and how it gets clipped.
The OP actually glanced off what I consider a big issue with modern IDEs. Especially for over-engineered projects, there is a clear need to be able to view files that change together, grouped together, regardless of how the Separation of Concerns has been implemented. The idea of using the file system as organizer needs to die. Code is data and should get the support a real database makes possible.
The numerical simulation scenario could reveal itself in the distributions of the highest energy cosmic rays exhibiting a degree of rotational symmetry breaking that reflects the structure of the underlying lattice.
This sounds similar to looking for aliasing artifacts. Right?
Among the observables that are considered are the muon g-2 and the current differences between determinations of alpha, but the most stringent bound on the inverse lattice spacing of the universe, b^(-1) >~ 10^(11) GeV, is derived from the high-energy cut off of the cosmic ray spectrum.
This is do not understand, I thought we already had a theory predicting and explaining a high-energy cutoff.
The part of the sociopaths brain that connects their present action to future consequences simply does not work. No matter how severe the punishment, the sociopath won't even consider it when hurting someone. That's why these people are constantly in an out of jail.
Lack of empathy and lack of self-control are independent traits. Of course, the most obvious sociopaths have both.
So what are you suggesting? If he as sociopathic as you suggest, then simply pressing charges won't change anything, so you'd have to lock him up to get him out of harms way. You couldn't lock him up forever of course (what court would do that?), so eventually he'd get out again.
Eventually, that's exactly what they do. The parole process assigns heavy weight to a test for sociopathy. If you score high, which means, you're still a sociopath (this never changes, but they re-apply the test every time) then you don't get paroled.
Some day a-la a an old Voyager episode they may have a cure for it, but right now the prevailing wisdom is to keep them locked up forever, because a death sentence is actually more expensive.
So don't watch them and read the books instead.
Personally I couldn't give a flying f if the movie(s) deviate from the words Tolkien wrote or if stuff is added that wasn't in the book (but is in the LOTR appendices). Movies are like a magic show. If you watch David Copperfield and do nothing but complain how such-and-such is not physically possible then GTFO. Same with movies. As long as the move has pace and the story is compelling then sit back and enjoy the show.
Treat it as an interpretation of the story rather than some attempt to visually display the book verbatim and I'm sure you will enjoy it.
With that argument you could invalidate practically any cinematic criticism regardless of merit.
My problem with the adaptation has nothing to do with deviation per se, but how it was done. Not that you ("GTFO") care, of course.
In addition to preserving the works of humankind, the archive is for helping citizens "better understand the issues and candidates in the 2012 U.S. elections by allowing them to search closed captioning transcripts to borrow relevant television news programs.
I would think it would be more important to use it to better understand the failings of the US mainstream media and its blind and relentless support of the two-party system.
It limits your personal liability. If you are doing consulting, there is always the possibility that you will err and have someone come after you. Better for them to come after your business than yourself personally and possibly lose your home and other belongings. (They still can but it does make it harder.) It is cheap and easy to incorporate and I can't think of many downsides other than trying to save the $50....
It's not just $50 in some states. Here in Mass you have to pay $500 and also file some paperwork every year, even just for an LLC.
Considering the possibility that this is found unconstitutional in October, is there any process that could be invoked to initiate a full, independent investigation of this program, especially the secret bits? Something along the lines of responding to "it's for national security" with "we don't believe you, we're going to check everything you've done so far".
I agree with the cautions on trusting an instructor, yet at the same time a student is not a good judge either. If I am learning something for the first time, how am I to know that what I've been taught is good until I have a chance to put it to use?
The measure of quality of instruction has absolutely nothing to do with how well the course's content can be applied practically.
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You have a problem dude,
Yeah, probably.
I'm not totally wrong though.
This is a late post and nobody will read it, but I will say it here anyway.
Free translation between all languages is just a nice to have compared to the real thrust and purpose of their effort: Human Intermediate Language, and the compilers / reflectors that go with it. It's a hard nut to crack, but this is a natural progression for Google. And applied at Google scale with Google resources... well that could be scary powerful.
I would guess they already have a proof of concept and some execs are shitting themselves over the possibilities. Strong A.I. or something that looks like it is not too far behind. Ask the whole goddamn internet what all of human civilization thinks the meaning of life is, and actually get brilliant results back, with citations, in the language of your choice. This is why they brought Ray on.
This situation is like a religious debate - it's a social thing that has nothing to do with who has the best arguments. If you go down the route of explaining your point of view in a well-reasoned way, don't be surprised when you're ignored for reasons that seem to not make any sense, or at least have nothing to do with the well-being of the project.
Look around the ponderously inefficient, devastated landscape of medium to large-scale engineering. There are no meritocracies.
In no uncertain terms, this will be a pissing contest - let it be known IMMEDIATELY that you are on the warpath and you must get your way. Even if it is completely against your nature... be the asshole. Be the alpha type you may hate. FIGHT AND WIN according to the stupid and predictable primate rules of social structure and power that we all live by - power is taken, not given.
As to what? Javascript?
I bet you've never, ever used a unit test in your life.
A whole generation, ruined.
HTML and anything like it is the wrong thing to put a standards body on. Authoring (human "readable") is a level in the abstraction chain where innovation and competition is supposed to occur, not this ponderous shit. Sticking with HTML as the standard has easily set us back ten years from where we could have been, and I fear it will continue to stifle innovation for decades to come.
This isn't an either-or / where's-the-third option question - exceptions and return values just need to be used for what they're best suited.
Use exceptions for error conditions that can be generalized, i.e., they need no more information than this for a domain-specific (client/service/DAL) Policy to decide what to do.
1. Is it a genuine error, or a stopping condition encountered in normal operation?
2. Does it contain a message intended for the end-user to see?
3. Should it be logged?
No need for try/catch blocks everywhere for this since you've generalized it.
Error conditions that can't or shouldn't be integrated into a generalized exception-handling policy... these should relay information through function return values as part of an application's business process, not through exceptions.
It's not complicated.
I read (I think it was in 'death by black hole') that the more massive the black hole, the less gravity you experience at the event horizon. For a 1 trillion mass black hole, supposedly it would only have 10g at its event horizon. For still greater masses, you could have 1g, something reasonable for both a human and a spaceship to deal with... in theory, you could hover a ship with a person in it at the very boundary of such an event horizon... how sharp would this boundary be? I'd lower a string to see where and how it gets clipped.
If more people dislike the law than like the law, the law will change.
No, it doesn't work like that. Not here.
The OP actually glanced off what I consider a big issue with modern IDEs. Especially for over-engineered projects, there is a clear need to be able to view files that change together, grouped together, regardless of how the Separation of Concerns has been implemented. The idea of using the file system as organizer needs to die. Code is data and should get the support a real database makes possible.
This is also quite distinct from the event horizo
For an instant, before I saw "Read the rest of this comment...", I thought, OMG, the post got sucked in!
The numerical simulation scenario could reveal itself in the distributions of the highest energy cosmic rays exhibiting a degree of rotational symmetry breaking that reflects the structure of the underlying lattice.
This sounds similar to looking for aliasing artifacts. Right?
Among the observables that are considered are the muon g-2 and the current differences between determinations of alpha, but the most stringent bound on the inverse lattice spacing of the universe, b^(-1) >~ 10^(11) GeV, is derived from the high-energy cut off of the cosmic ray spectrum.
This is do not understand, I thought we already had a theory predicting and explaining a high-energy cutoff.
The title had me thinking of a scene out of The Wall, with hobbits on a conveyor belt being dropped into a grinder oozing cash out of it.
Never mixed Pink Floyd with Tolkien before. I usually don't get really creative, screwed up images like that unless I'm dreaming. Thanks, Slashdot!
That would be the surest way to kill creativity and enforce a timid mediocrity.
Coming from MIT myself, troll, I can say that they would kick you out for your attitude.
The part of the sociopaths brain that connects their present action to future consequences simply does not work. No matter how severe the punishment, the sociopath won't even consider it when hurting someone. That's why these people are constantly in an out of jail.
Lack of empathy and lack of self-control are independent traits. Of course, the most obvious sociopaths have both.
So what are you suggesting? If he as sociopathic as you suggest, then simply pressing charges won't change anything, so you'd have to lock him up to get him out of harms way. You couldn't lock him up forever of course (what court would do that?), so eventually he'd get out again.
Eventually, that's exactly what they do. The parole process assigns heavy weight to a test for sociopathy. If you score high, which means, you're still a sociopath (this never changes, but they re-apply the test every time) then you don't get paroled.
Some day a-la a an old Voyager episode they may have a cure for it, but right now the prevailing wisdom is to keep them locked up forever, because a death sentence is actually more expensive.
So don't watch them and read the books instead. Personally I couldn't give a flying f if the movie(s) deviate from the words Tolkien wrote or if stuff is added that wasn't in the book (but is in the LOTR appendices). Movies are like a magic show. If you watch David Copperfield and do nothing but complain how such-and-such is not physically possible then GTFO. Same with movies. As long as the move has pace and the story is compelling then sit back and enjoy the show. Treat it as an interpretation of the story rather than some attempt to visually display the book verbatim and I'm sure you will enjoy it.
With that argument you could invalidate practically any cinematic criticism regardless of merit.
My problem with the adaptation has nothing to do with deviation per se, but how it was done. Not that you ("GTFO") care, of course.
character out of my favorite books. I wonder if these movies tend to be less appealing to people that actually read the books. Or is it just me.
In addition to preserving the works of humankind, the archive is for helping citizens "better understand the issues and candidates in the 2012 U.S. elections by allowing them to search closed captioning transcripts to borrow relevant television news programs.
I would think it would be more important to use it to better understand the failings of the US mainstream media and its blind and relentless support of the two-party system.
The picture in TFA looks like it could be the prototype of a vulcan ship!
That is exactly the first thing I thought when I saw that (and the second thought was, wait... is that a football?).
Or you could just remove the law of excluded middle without having to introduce a third / null value.
This also has some interesting uses in quantum mechanics.
It limits your personal liability. If you are doing consulting, there is always the possibility that you will err and have someone come after you. Better for them to come after your business than yourself personally and possibly lose your home and other belongings. (They still can but it does make it harder.) It is cheap and easy to incorporate and I can't think of many downsides other than trying to save the $50....
It's not just $50 in some states. Here in Mass you have to pay $500 and also file some paperwork every year, even just for an LLC.
A Conservative MP is seeking to change the law to close a loophole which allows paedophiles to legally possess written accounts of child abuse.
I may or may not agree with his position, but he's not proposing anything that would ban books.
Considering the possibility that this is found unconstitutional in October, is there any process that could be invoked to initiate a full, independent investigation of this program, especially the secret bits? Something along the lines of responding to "it's for national security" with "we don't believe you, we're going to check everything you've done so far".
I know, crazy question.
I agree with the cautions on trusting an instructor, yet at the same time a student is not a good judge either. If I am learning something for the first time, how am I to know that what I've been taught is good until I have a chance to put it to use?
The measure of quality of instruction has absolutely nothing to do with how well the course's content can be applied practically.
so these goals don't seem mutually exclusive to me