He said it was an add-on to study WiFi use around the world as part of his 20% project. I dont know if you have report or get approval for your 20% projects at Google or elsewhere. But after this is may be a good idea to have some supervision.
It would be like adding some metric measurement software to what we ship customers. Then have that send back these data. Our customers may be unsure then if their personal data in this software is being compromised.
Evolution is not directional, that is aiming toward a particular goal, say humans. It goes in both directions, both complexifying and simplifying in order to occupy all the ecological niches it can. Parasites and viruses may be examples of simplification of more complete organisms at one time. The organism in this article may be a simplification of a eukaryote too. Then maybe not.
Horizontal evolution means some genetic material did not come from your parent(s), but from other organisms during ingestion, symbiosis, sex, infection, etc. Unless their is an institutional mechanism for this like modern sex, successful horizontal transfers probably failed the vast majority of the time. But maybe the one in quadrillion attempt succeeded and conferred a retained advantage.
He says the collateralized debt tranches were computed assuming bad debt was independent and infrequent events. You then AND (multiply) risk probabilities together, getting a small number. But if events are correlated, then you OR probabilities, i.e take the largest value. During a significant economic downtown, bad debt events are correlated, i.e many people have the problem for the same reason. So during the downtown "high grade" tranches were really overrated, and "junk grade" were underrated, assuming there was someone bailing the debt out. Goldman Sachs and Paulson Funds bought a lot of junk grade at the peak of the boom and made a killing.
Obama cut the Mars budget 38%, mainly in punishment for doubling the Curiosity lander cost. Another MAVEN orbiter is in assembly. After than no new Mars probes funded. Takes 5-9 years to plan, launch and execute a probe. NASA ended development of triple-probe sample return project and a joint ESA Mars-probe.
And this is before conservative republicans chop the budget, which they could do with a congressional majority next year.
I assure you its more up to date than pens-and-quills. He is one of their dozen astronomers and they have state-of-art observatories around the world .
AAPL $12B profit versus XOM $9B Q1. The two generally go in hand-in-hand in market valuations, despite being substantially different businesses: valuable commodity versus high end electronics.
Geometry was probably invented 8000 years by surveyors, architects and astronomers. Algebra was invested by the Greeks in classical times. Descartes unified the two in the Coordinate System in the 1500s.
Since this took us so long, I would be surprised this concept is not intuitive to unmathed peoples.
Means that financial transactions must be believable. A bitcoin-like currency might achieve believability. But no the specific bitcoin currency which has been hacked and stolen from disks.
It appears that sometimes the start and end of the sub-ice ages could have been abrupt- as little as a decade from various paleo-climate observations. This is much faster than the change in causative factors like greenhouse gasses, earth orbit variation and solar variability, hence the moniker "non-linear". This would mean that our hunter-gather ancestors would have observed signficant seashore and weather changes from year to year.
Its not that easy to model a "non-linear" system in equations or a computer. In fact "non-linearity" is a tautology (circular definition) to explain why your computer model happened too fast or too slow than expected.
The US, having consumed most of its potential petroleum, developed these "unconventional" technologies first over the past decade. For the most part they can be applied to areas all around the world. That will retard "peak oil" to the later part of this century and give breathing room for alternative energy development.
Believe or not the USA was the leading oil producer for the first 80-90 years of the "Hydrocarbon Age (b 1859)". They squandered much of this on poor petroleum engineering practices and inefficient combustion engines.
I dont worry too much about gaming the system. To "fool" the grader you'll have to learn spelling, grammar and structural style - exactly what the test-makers want.
in the past it would have been just a customer list. but a lot more now. the new owners may have different intentions. imagine what tottering yahoo must have.
Few people here have mentioned the "goal" of programming. That should be to write programs to do fun and interesting things. I would put graphics, video games and smart phones in that category. Of the three I'd recommend smartphones. There have wide variety of devices to control inside them, e.g. location sensors. The OS/graphics is relatively simple compared to their more ornate desktop relatives. And clever smartphone program can be lucrative if it becomes popular. Your son can easily show off his work to his friends.
The most accessible smartphone OS is Android. Is base language is Java. Java is part of the half dozen C-like languages. Once you learn one you can learn the others more easily.
My first program implemented the graphical Conways Game of Life on a teletype in 1970 Darmouth BASIC. I stumbled on a listing recently and it wasnt too bad.
On one hand you want some authority to verify a chunk of digital money is valid and owned by given person. RSA certificates like they do with websites is one way. On the other hand, any centralized certificate authority can track the exchange. Bitcoin distributed the authentification to preserve anonymity. But this turned out to be hackable.
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A teacher and student still at the same are not appropriate friends until either leaves the school.
Darwin selection in action.
He said it was an add-on to study WiFi use around the world as part of his 20% project. I dont know if you have report or get approval for your 20% projects at Google or elsewhere. But after this is may be a good idea to have some supervision.
It would be like adding some metric measurement software to what we ship customers. Then have that send back these data. Our customers may be unsure then if their personal data in this software is being compromised.
The original Titanic ran on coal, something like 800 tons a day. Natural gas has about twice the BTUs per weight.
Evolution is not directional, that is aiming toward a particular goal, say humans. It goes in both directions, both complexifying and simplifying in order to occupy all the ecological niches it can. Parasites and viruses may be examples of simplification of more complete organisms at one time. The organism in this article may be a simplification of a eukaryote too. Then maybe not.
Horizontal evolution means some genetic material did not come from your parent(s), but from other organisms during ingestion, symbiosis, sex, infection, etc. Unless their is an institutional mechanism for this like modern sex, successful horizontal transfers probably failed the vast majority of the time. But maybe the one in quadrillion attempt succeeded and conferred a retained advantage.
He says the collateralized debt tranches were computed assuming bad debt was independent and infrequent events. You then AND (multiply) risk probabilities together, getting a small number. But if events are correlated, then you OR probabilities, i.e take the largest value. During a significant economic downtown, bad debt events are correlated, i.e many people have the problem for the same reason. So during the downtown "high grade" tranches were really overrated, and "junk grade" were underrated, assuming there was someone bailing the debt out. Goldman Sachs and Paulson Funds bought a lot of junk grade at the peak of the boom and made a killing.
Obama cut the Mars budget 38%, mainly in punishment for doubling the Curiosity lander cost. Another MAVEN orbiter is in assembly. After than no new Mars probes funded. Takes 5-9 years to plan, launch and execute a probe. NASA ended development of triple-probe sample return project and a joint ESA Mars-probe.
And this is before conservative republicans chop the budget, which they could do with a congressional majority next year.
A priest did suggest the expansion of the universe before Hubble (the man) documented it. Put the "Fear of Creation" back into astronomer's souls.
I assure you its more up to date than pens-and-quills. He is one of their dozen astronomers and they have state-of-art observatories around the world .
AAPL $12B profit versus XOM $9B Q1. The two generally go in hand-in-hand in market valuations, despite being substantially different businesses: valuable commodity versus high end electronics.
Geometry was probably invented 8000 years by surveyors, architects and astronomers. Algebra was invested by the Greeks in classical times. Descartes unified the two in the Coordinate System in the 1500s.
Since this took us so long, I would be surprised this concept is not intuitive to unmathed peoples.
Means that financial transactions must be believable. A bitcoin-like currency might achieve believability. But no the specific bitcoin currency which has been hacked and stolen from disks.
It appears that sometimes the start and end of the sub-ice ages could have been abrupt- as little as a decade from various paleo-climate observations. This is much faster than the change in causative factors like greenhouse gasses, earth orbit variation and solar variability, hence the moniker "non-linear". This would mean that our hunter-gather ancestors would have observed signficant seashore and weather changes from year to year.
Its not that easy to model a "non-linear" system in equations or a computer. In fact "non-linearity" is a tautology (circular definition) to explain why your computer model happened too fast or too slow than expected.
Over the hill by 40. I wonder if that will impress women.
The US, having consumed most of its potential petroleum, developed these "unconventional" technologies first over the past decade. For the most part they can be applied to areas all around the world. That will retard "peak oil" to the later part of this century and give breathing room for alternative energy development.
Believe or not the USA was the leading oil producer for the first 80-90 years of the "Hydrocarbon Age (b 1859)". They squandered much of this on poor petroleum engineering practices and inefficient combustion engines.
Some states are pushing colleges to specialize and develop a critical mass of faculty and graduate students in what they specialize.
I dont worry too much about gaming the system. To "fool" the grader you'll have to learn spelling, grammar and structural style - exactly what the test-makers want.
The rob grader can check spelling, grammar, structural style. The human grader can check for content accuracy and essay quality and creativity.
I've always wondered if 50% or more cheat on tests and papers in college, how does that fall to zero by PhD? Well I guess it does not.
in the past it would have been just a customer list. but a lot more now. the new owners may have different intentions. imagine what tottering yahoo must have.
Few people here have mentioned the "goal" of programming. That should be to write programs to do fun and interesting things. I would put graphics, video games and smart phones in that category. Of the three I'd recommend smartphones. There have wide variety of devices to control inside them, e.g. location sensors. The OS/graphics is relatively simple compared to their more ornate desktop relatives. And clever smartphone program can be lucrative if it becomes popular. Your son can easily show off his work to his friends.
The most accessible smartphone OS is Android. Is base language is Java. Java is part of the half dozen C-like languages. Once you learn one you can learn the others more easily.
My first program implemented the graphical Conways Game of Life on a teletype in 1970 Darmouth BASIC. I stumbled on a listing recently and it wasnt too bad.
On one hand you want some authority to verify a chunk of digital money is valid and owned by given person. RSA certificates like they do with websites is one way. On the other hand, any centralized certificate authority can track the exchange. Bitcoin distributed the authentification to preserve anonymity. But this turned out to be hackable.
Its a totally preventable death. So sad.
Steve sister is probably the inspiration for the Homer's mother "Mona Simpson". And her ex-husband possible the the surname for the family itself.