I was at a computer talk this week where a the speaker called on people in the audience to read captions on the slides. A caption balloon would pop up emphasizing an important point abut a figure. You had to stay alert in case you were called.
Another trick is to insert a short quiz slide now and then. Have the audience vote on the right answer.
Other people liberally sprinkle their talks with humorous pictures. They always include the URL at the bottom or end credits if borrowing someone else's image.
Eliminated or minimize the dreaded Ambien PowerPoint word outline slide. Use photos, diagrams, videos, or key-prhrase slides as much as possible.
It came out nearly the same time as C++ which. You had to buy Objective from its vendor or Apple which C++ was was free. ObjectC was ahead of C++ in quality for many years, but languished due to its price. I used ObjectIveC as a NeXT computer developer.
AT&T's C language tromped the competition being nearly free at universities int he 1970s and 1980s. The just charged distribution costs. Ditto C++ over ObjectiveC. ObjectiveC had the advantage of commercial support and more Smalltalk-like roots than C++. But only Apple uses it.
In mos operating systems Java is free.
Monday is the Persian New Year, the biggest Iranian holiday. Guard may be lower that day. Also the less fatalities if fewer people working at the nuclear sites.
rather than hiring new employees. Why incur the cost of more overhead then? The largest overhead is medical benefits, about $10K a family. then comes other benefits, office space, computers, etc.
Or more generally, smart phones have increased the number of game developers by a order of magnitude or two. Even if most of those games are not that good. In the past you need specialized game hardware or high end PC.
Its been proposed numerous times in the States to add an "insurance-at-the-pump tax" per gallon. In my situation that would work out $1.70 a gallon last year (16K miles $800 insurance). In the UK where petro is $8-$9 per US gallon already, such a tax would be hardly noticeable. This would have the added incentive of punishing heavy carbon users (big cars or many miles). Then you need a government bureaucracy to administer such insurance.
Stanford computer science enrollment of undergraduates more less tracks IPO fever in SIlicon Valley with peaks in the late 1990s and now . The same trend was observed at MIT. In both places 85% of the undergraduates are US citizens and 65% are women and/or minorities. This seems to say that quick money is the draw.
In the ivies 20% to 40% of undergraduates take jobs in financial services, with the number directly tracking the salaries offered in these fields too. The mid 2000s was a peak, late 2000s a low.
Seismology uses similar model-based reconstruction algorithms. the danger is you can force the data into something that looks a lot like the input model if you are not careful. Technically this get stuck on on a false local minimum in an optimization problem.
First you have propose a decay scenario, several which exist for the Higgs. This scenario suggests what particle tracks will hit one of several hundred sub-detectors (several thousand in the LHC) for various angles and distances (lifetimes). And may have to be search for a wide set of rotations. Maybe only one per trillion collision events out of trillions recorded in petabytes of data. This is a multi-week supercomputer run for each scenario. An ambiguous result, the back to the drawing board, propose a new decay candidate and another calculation. Or as they plan do for half of every year, run the collider again to collect trillions more interesting collisions.
Last years LHC proposed energy "bump" was only five contending events out of several trillion studied.
You can see from their fairly good records the wheel (and horse) was not used their first thousand years of dynasties, expect on toys. Not for the large pyramid construction, unless you count rollers. The Hittites, possible the first Indo-European group in the area, used horses and chariots as did lots of other Indo-European groups. (Moses happened after the Hittites, so THAT movie is accurate.) The Indo-Europeans may have co-developed the cart and horse labor technology.
Often either a customer or the cashier makes an arithmetic mistake and neither catches it.
If the errors didnt average out over time, then I might have said something.
Dont want to slow down the line.
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It has to be as true as the journalist can depict it. Anything short of one's ability and ethics is essentially a lie.
I was at a computer talk this week where a the speaker called on people in the audience to read captions on the slides. A caption balloon would pop up emphasizing an important point abut a figure. You had to stay alert in case you were called.
Another trick is to insert a short quiz slide now and then. Have the audience vote on the right answer.
Other people liberally sprinkle their talks with humorous pictures. They always include the URL at the bottom or end credits if borrowing someone else's image.
Eliminated or minimize the dreaded Ambien PowerPoint word outline slide. Use photos, diagrams, videos, or key-prhrase slides as much as possible.
Errors in GPS results have been unwound to tell thinks about atmospheric ionization, general relativity, and now planck's constant.
It came out nearly the same time as C++ which. You had to buy Objective from its vendor or Apple which C++ was was free. ObjectC was ahead of C++ in quality for many years, but languished due to its price. I used ObjectIveC as a NeXT computer developer.
AT&T's C language tromped the competition being nearly free at universities int he 1970s and 1980s. The just charged distribution costs. Ditto C++ over ObjectiveC. ObjectiveC had the advantage of commercial support and more Smalltalk-like roots than C++. But only Apple uses it.
In mos operating systems Java is free.
Monday is the Persian New Year, the biggest Iranian holiday. Guard may be lower that day. Also the less fatalities if fewer people working at the nuclear sites.
rather than hiring new employees. Why incur the cost of more overhead then? The largest overhead is medical benefits, about $10K a family. then comes other benefits, office space, computers, etc.
Designers thought of them as minaturized desktops.
Apples [perhaps accidental] innovation was to consider them enlarge smartphones.
Or more generally, smart phones have increased the number of game developers by a order of magnitude or two. Even if most of those games are not that good. In the past you need specialized game hardware or high end PC.
And you have create a quadrillion for everyone you detect. It will be a while before Apple puts neutrino sources and receivers in an iPhone :-)
Its been proposed numerous times in the States to add an "insurance-at-the-pump tax" per gallon. In my situation that would work out $1.70 a gallon last year (16K miles $800 insurance). In the UK where petro is $8-$9 per US gallon already, such a tax would be hardly noticeable. This would have the added incentive of punishing heavy carbon users (big cars or many miles). Then you need a government bureaucracy to administer such insurance.
The first solution seems to be more government intervention.
Whats the point of caffeine-free coffee then?
Stanford computer science enrollment of undergraduates more less tracks IPO fever in SIlicon Valley with peaks in the late 1990s and now . The same trend was observed at MIT. In both places 85% of the undergraduates are US citizens and 65% are women and/or minorities. This seems to say that quick money is the draw.
In the ivies 20% to 40% of undergraduates take jobs in financial services, with the number directly tracking the salaries offered in these fields too. The mid 2000s was a peak, late 2000s a low.
They were writing them in ancient Greece and Rome.
Larry asked Steve's advice about returning as CEO. Steve basically said "keep it simple".
Seismology uses similar model-based reconstruction algorithms. the danger is you can force the data into something that looks a lot like the input model if you are not careful. Technically this get stuck on on a false local minimum in an optimization problem.
A portable clipboard communicator.
This is the end of an era. New ships of the same name often reappear in a future decade or war.
First you have propose a decay scenario, several which exist for the Higgs. This scenario suggests what particle tracks will hit one of several hundred sub-detectors (several thousand in the LHC) for various angles and distances (lifetimes). And may have to be search for a wide set of rotations. Maybe only one per trillion collision events out of trillions recorded in petabytes of data. This is a multi-week supercomputer run for each scenario. An ambiguous result, the back to the drawing board, propose a new decay candidate and another calculation. Or as they plan do for half of every year, run the collider again to collect trillions more interesting collisions. Last years LHC proposed energy "bump" was only five contending events out of several trillion studied.
Star Trek IV scene in S.F. bus
Too many distractions at home while watching a television movie.
You can see from their fairly good records the wheel (and horse) was not used their first thousand years of dynasties, expect on toys. Not for the large pyramid construction, unless you count rollers. The Hittites, possible the first Indo-European group in the area, used horses and chariots as did lots of other Indo-European groups. (Moses happened after the Hittites, so THAT movie is accurate.) The Indo-Europeans may have co-developed the cart and horse labor technology.
Often either a customer or the cashier makes an arithmetic mistake and neither catches it. If the errors didnt average out over time, then I might have said something. Dont want to slow down the line.
I mean reproduction.