The second big learning curve are of all the best practices of a successful software company. I was under the delusion once that beacause Imwrote nifty programs in high school and college, I could code commercially. No way. We insiders call this academic software, an euphemism fior semi-crap.
A commercial coder must know about source control, writing tests, continuous compilation and delivery, specification systems, training and so on. I call these best practrices in comparison the emerging academic discipline of of rigorous software design. Best practices include corporate culture and dev-lead style as well formal engineering.
You dont have to work for a commercial company to learn these practices. Some of the better open source cooperations in Github incorporate them. Somto,can learn partipating in them.
I used to be able to sit down with an intensive read through of the reference manual, then immediately code it.
A prblem these days with dusappearance of most bookstores, its harder to get abhold of the reference manual.
A computer was someone who performed bulk computations ob paper or adding machine. Many were employed by military and insurance companies. During th first World War the profession shifted to female and stayed that way. The first machine computers in the 1940s where called electronic computers to distinguish from people. Then the bare word shifted meaning to just the machine. Some human computers became early coders, perhaps the highest fraction of females ever in that profession than any later time.
In social primate troops everyone watches everyone else as much as possible. Then they regulate hierachy and economic sharing. Gossip is for filling in the details when some members go out of view for a while. Maybe some have gone off hunting or foraging. Or visiting relatives in another troop.
News is distilled gossip.
Coding is not unlike trying to write, stringing symbols together into meaningful sentences. Writing prose would better than reading. But reading is helpful for improving writing.
I woud be happier to see universal understanding science and arithmetic. Coding is a special case of STEM. There is so much misunderstanding of basic science on both sides of the poltical spectrum
In the early decades each mainframe had tens of coders. Now there are hundreds of billions CPUs driving everything from microwaves, to cars (dozens) and media players to name a few. Every citizen in a developed compant has a couple hundred of thes CPU setvants. And the number of coders has grown more slowly to a few million at most. The future Internet of Things predicts thousands of CPUs per human. Hardware and software with expand into every imaginable niche.
If you consider Watson a high end chatbot, then it does more than mere pattern matching. Although I would not consider Watson to have any deep undestanding of its domains.
Back in the 1970s when the academics were solving the games of checkers and making robot arms pile blocks, Ray made some really useful AI products like text-to-speech readers for the blind. Though considered a solved-problem now, it wasnt easy when computers were measured in kilobytes and kiloflops.
Denver and Boulder each have have a Startup Week, mostly free seminars to encourage techies and businessmen to talk to each other. I've learned there are native VCs, incubators, coding academies, etc. plus there are major branches of all the major SV companies. Google is building a new 2000 person campus in Boulder.
One of the more interesting theme sections this months Boulder Startup Week was you guessed it, the cannabis industry. With over a thousand licensesd businesses there is a need for tech support services. Especially withnthe labyrinth of state and federal laws. There is even a cannabis startup incubator called Boulder Canopy.
TSA just doesnt have the budget to hire more workers nor allowed to pay overtime. A US Congress that wants smaller government and dislikes Big Brother TSA in particular has strangled the budget. There are certainly enough security fees on airplane tickets to pay for TSA. TSA has no shortage of interested applicants. Its one of thecrare service jobs that pays substantially above minimum wage without college or trade training.
TSA is not the only agency micromanaged by an antipathic Congress. The IRS and National Park Service are agencies with more revenues than they are allowed to spend and suffering too.
Before there was a viable replacement. He hoped the replacement would be in 2014. Probably not realistically until the early 2020s. There have to be several full configuration unmanned tests before building trust.
The shuttle were rated for a hundred missions each. They retired less than a third into their lifetimes.
This article says an era is 50 years. Others mention broad periods like the stone age. I suggest an era is length of direct eyewitness: your grandfathers stories of his grandfather's life compared to your life. For the vast amount of human history, there'd be nearly no change during these five generations.
- big jump in 1850s with railroads and modern corporation
- last new machines jets, rockets, atomics, tvs, computers by 1950s. They've only changed in degree since then.
- the worldwide internet and mobile computer came late 1990s and early 2000s
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Stephen wrote a grand proposal to compute physics with cellular automata. It builds on Von Neumans early work 70 years ago. Stephen never showed any really deep physics in this book, but says its coming.
Buildings and roads should be designed for the maximum likely accelerations. These accelarations can be deduced from geophysical studies. Laws must enforce building codes. There are many places in the US where high quake accelerations are known, e.g. New York, Boston, D.C., Oklahoma, and building codes are woefully inadequate.
I am a geophysicist and webdo not know the immediate cause of an earthquake. Scientists have been researching many possibilites for a half century with little luck. There are still more ideas more funding that could aid.
VxWorks is an ancient version of realtime UNIX. It has been rigorously tested for decades.
That doesnt mean they still find new bugs. The 2003 Mars rovers had defective relatively new flash memory drivers. The free memory list was broken. The flash appeared full and caused continuous safety reboots. The driver was patched from Earth.
This quake was the fourth largest in measurement history, one of the rare magnitude 9 earthquakes. It was thought this area would max out at a mid 8 from historical earthquakes and estimation of the maximum potential fault break size. But what happened is three fault segments broke in quick succession, creating a super quake.
A similar thing happened in Sichuan China a few years earlier. Three faults broke making a quake larger than anticipated.
So seismologists are revising their ideas about California faults. Perhaps multiple faults could break together, creating a quake larger than any measured int he past 2000 years.
Bootleg cellphones are common in prisons - most inmates do not have cell phone privileges.
Inmates run businesses of them, talked to friend etc. I've read of great lengths to get batteries charged.
Yet FCC band blockers in prisons for safety reasons.
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The second big learning curve are of all the best practices of a successful software company. I was under the delusion once that beacause Imwrote nifty programs in high school and college, I could code commercially. No way. We insiders call this academic software, an euphemism fior semi-crap. A commercial coder must know about source control, writing tests, continuous compilation and delivery, specification systems, training and so on. I call these best practrices in comparison the emerging academic discipline of of rigorous software design. Best practices include corporate culture and dev-lead style as well formal engineering. You dont have to work for a commercial company to learn these practices. Some of the better open source cooperations in Github incorporate them. Somto,can learn partipating in them.
I used to be able to sit down with an intensive read through of the reference manual, then immediately code it. A prblem these days with dusappearance of most bookstores, its harder to get abhold of the reference manual.
A computer was someone who performed bulk computations ob paper or adding machine. Many were employed by military and insurance companies. During th first World War the profession shifted to female and stayed that way. The first machine computers in the 1940s where called electronic computers to distinguish from people. Then the bare word shifted meaning to just the machine. Some human computers became early coders, perhaps the highest fraction of females ever in that profession than any later time.
Bitcoin was only way to buy in. A bunch of eager Chinese bid price up. I suspect something similar.
In social primate troops everyone watches everyone else as much as possible. Then they regulate hierachy and economic sharing. Gossip is for filling in the details when some members go out of view for a while. Maybe some have gone off hunting or foraging. Or visiting relatives in another troop. News is distilled gossip.
Coding is not unlike trying to write, stringing symbols together into meaningful sentences. Writing prose would better than reading. But reading is helpful for improving writing.
I woud be happier to see universal understanding science and arithmetic. Coding is a special case of STEM. There is so much misunderstanding of basic science on both sides of the poltical spectrum
In the early decades each mainframe had tens of coders. Now there are hundreds of billions CPUs driving everything from microwaves, to cars (dozens) and media players to name a few. Every citizen in a developed compant has a couple hundred of thes CPU setvants. And the number of coders has grown more slowly to a few million at most. The future Internet of Things predicts thousands of CPUs per human. Hardware and software with expand into every imaginable niche.
If you consider Watson a high end chatbot, then it does more than mere pattern matching. Although I would not consider Watson to have any deep undestanding of its domains.
Back in the 1970s when the academics were solving the games of checkers and making robot arms pile blocks, Ray made some really useful AI products like text-to-speech readers for the blind. Though considered a solved-problem now, it wasnt easy when computers were measured in kilobytes and kiloflops.
Denver and Boulder each have have a Startup Week, mostly free seminars to encourage techies and businessmen to talk to each other. I've learned there are native VCs, incubators, coding academies, etc. plus there are major branches of all the major SV companies. Google is building a new 2000 person campus in Boulder. One of the more interesting theme sections this months Boulder Startup Week was you guessed it, the cannabis industry. With over a thousand licensesd businesses there is a need for tech support services. Especially withnthe labyrinth of state and federal laws. There is even a cannabis startup incubator called Boulder Canopy.
TSA just doesnt have the budget to hire more workers nor allowed to pay overtime. A US Congress that wants smaller government and dislikes Big Brother TSA in particular has strangled the budget. There are certainly enough security fees on airplane tickets to pay for TSA. TSA has no shortage of interested applicants. Its one of thecrare service jobs that pays substantially above minimum wage without college or trade training. TSA is not the only agency micromanaged by an antipathic Congress. The IRS and National Park Service are agencies with more revenues than they are allowed to spend and suffering too.
You get the other service, cable or internet, for only 30% more than a high priced first service.
Before there was a viable replacement. He hoped the replacement would be in 2014. Probably not realistically until the early 2020s. There have to be several full configuration unmanned tests before building trust. The shuttle were rated for a hundred missions each. They retired less than a third into their lifetimes.
This article says an era is 50 years. Others mention broad periods like the stone age. I suggest an era is length of direct eyewitness: your grandfathers stories of his grandfather's life compared to your life. For the vast amount of human history, there'd be nearly no change during these five generations.
- big jump in 1850s with railroads and modern corporation - last new machines jets, rockets, atomics, tvs, computers by 1950s. They've only changed in degree since then. - the worldwide internet and mobile computer came late 1990s and early 2000s -
1) coal and steam power, automated manufacturing, trains, steamboats, urbanization 2) oil and electricity, internal combustion, planes, radio, rockets, movies 3) compurt-aided everything, internet
Stephen wrote a grand proposal to compute physics with cellular automata. It builds on Von Neumans early work 70 years ago. Stephen never showed any really deep physics in this book, but says its coming.
Note that floating point numbers is just one of several ways of representing precision in a computer. Some alternatives like unum may be better.
Buildings and roads should be designed for the maximum likely accelerations. These accelarations can be deduced from geophysical studies. Laws must enforce building codes. There are many places in the US where high quake accelerations are known, e.g. New York, Boston, D.C., Oklahoma, and building codes are woefully inadequate.
I am a geophysicist and webdo not know the immediate cause of an earthquake. Scientists have been researching many possibilites for a half century with little luck. There are still more ideas more funding that could aid.
VxWorks is an ancient version of realtime UNIX. It has been rigorously tested for decades. That doesnt mean they still find new bugs. The 2003 Mars rovers had defective relatively new flash memory drivers. The free memory list was broken. The flash appeared full and caused continuous safety reboots. The driver was patched from Earth.
That was a factor in 2012 accident Inwas in. The insrance company subpoena cellphone records and the result was obvious.
This quake was the fourth largest in measurement history, one of the rare magnitude 9 earthquakes. It was thought this area would max out at a mid 8 from historical earthquakes and estimation of the maximum potential fault break size. But what happened is three fault segments broke in quick succession, creating a super quake.
A similar thing happened in Sichuan China a few years earlier. Three faults broke making a quake larger than anticipated.
So seismologists are revising their ideas about California faults. Perhaps multiple faults could break together, creating a quake larger than any measured int he past 2000 years.
Bootleg cellphones are common in prisons - most inmates do not have cell phone privileges. Inmates run businesses of them, talked to friend etc. I've read of great lengths to get batteries charged. Yet FCC band blockers in prisons for safety reasons.