Apple convinced people to pay for some of their music and cellphone apps with low prices and convenience. I am hoping for a "three-peat" later this year in the ebook world. $10-$15 ebooks are still too pricey.
I always thought books would have been "liberated" first in the digital world because text has a lower bandwidth than music or video. However there is a high entry cost of converting to text. So the system had to wait until it had enough bandwidth to support photos of text which are easy to make.
China ended Avatar's run today, the largest grossing film ever in China. The governemnt complained there were too many foreign films in China and not enough native ones.
The mistake is presume that the factors are independent of one another. When you assume independence you can take the logical intersection of the probabilities which is multiplying less-than-unity probabilities together. You can obtain a rather small result choosing enough factors. But if the factors are correlated, the correct mathematics is the largest probability number. Both the astronomical conditions and girlfriend factors are correlated to some degree makeing the results less than valid.
This is the identical mistake made valuating debt securities. The mathematical underpinning was that you can offload most of the risk into a "junk tranch" by assuming failures like foreclosures are statistically independent. By "drake equation magic", i.e. multiplying probabilities to obtain the group probability, the group risk appears rather small. Independence is a decent assumption during good economic times because economic failures are more individual luck or actions. But during a recession, economic failures are correlated, making the group statistical model invalid. The so-called good-risk securities turned into garbage and the junk securities became gold.
I fear since a economics grad student does not understand probability like so many of his peers, this does not bode well for the future economy.
They can tweet you when then have finished doing something.
People talked about wiring up appliances to do this in the past,
but wires are too cumbersome. Its likely you'll get the whole wireless device, CPU and OS on a single chip at some point for almost nothing.
Believe it or not, an auto major does a fair amount of advance testing before shipping. The papers announced last week the Volt battery factory had begun production in Warren Michigan.
Several factions benefit from people becoming perpetual victims of some perceived illness. First are the so-called victims themselves whom qualify for remedy programs and government disability. Second are the venders of these programs like psychiatrists and drug companies. Third are politician who leverage these slights to further these careers.
You dont know whether Apple will accept the App or not until you finished and submitted it to Apple. By then you have invested man-months of developer time and maybe some marketing bucks too. The acceptance rate is pretty high. But there are horror stories such as mention in the CNBC Plant of the Apps documentary.
One thing that surprised me in my early stints of software companies of all sizes was how little the R&D department is in some of the more mature companies. That is because they ad sales, support, marketing, etc. Google is now in its "awkward teen years" in this regard.
I notice a number of other industries are copying Apple's iPhone App commercials now. This would work perfectly for the drug industry: "Have this disease? theres a drug for it!".
This paradigm is so deeply ingrained in the American psyche now that I automatically wonder about some new medicine for all the new disease syndromes we hear about. There are substances for mental health and physical fitness. Even herbal remedies are squished into pill shapes to make them seem more "medical".
Both are from the mid-19th century according to the New York Museum of Sex
. Sex applications incorporates new technology quicky. They were among the first developers of internet credit card transactions and internet video.
Astronomers have announced over 500 extra-solar planets and they have barely begun looking. So there are a lot of processes out there creating planets in spite of hypothetical process which may destroy them.
I could use my stanford.edu or mit.edu alumni forwarding addresses in a job search.
But I have been pretty lucky and haven't needed to cold-call a job app in a couple of decades.
The argument from an article in Wired years back suggested that government security camera feeds be made available for realtime public viewing. That could then check abusive uses of this system when you have "the watched watching the watchers".
Ditto for open source software, like for computer security or voting. More eyes can spot more flaws.
The method of fingerprint identification was more of a learned-craft than based on rigorous scientific testing up to 30 years ago. What saved its butt was that identification was computerized in the 1970s. If the algorithms gave too many false matches, then the technique would collapsed like a house of cards. But the algorithms appear to work reliably. I recall some defense lawyers attacking the fingerprint method at that time, much like the early years of DNA matching.
Some of the old-timers will remember the post-Sputnik elementary-school math books where you spent the first couple weeks of the year on set theory. I thought it was a waste of time then, and still think so. But that stuff reappeared in college digital electronics courses, desiging gate-arrays etc.
I believe the intention was to teach "logical thought" as a premise for doing mathematics. But elementary school math must be brutal and make you memorize the dull algorithms of tables and long division for you to succeed.
This is got to be the longest-running MicroSoft joke: announcing vaporware as soon as a competitor does. Windows is the classic example: announced in 1984 when the Mac graphical interface was delivered. But not an usuable version until 3.1 six years later.
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Apple convinced people to pay for some of their music and cellphone apps with low prices and convenience. I am hoping for a "three-peat" later this year in the ebook world. $10-$15 ebooks are still too pricey.
I always thought books would have been "liberated" first in the digital world because text has a lower bandwidth than music or video. However there is a high entry cost of converting to text. So the system had to wait until it had enough bandwidth to support photos of text which are easy to make.
China ended Avatar's run today, the largest grossing film ever in China. The governemnt complained there were too many foreign films in China and not enough native ones.
scholarship as undergrad and assistentships as grad
Dot only driving or walking, but more bicyclists talk on their phones too. And get into accidents.
The greedy company wants to put ads into your email. So they keep the mail stored in plain text.
I generally presume the NSA or google is reading any plain text anyways and dont dicuss anything I wouldnt want them to see.
The mistake is presume that the factors are independent of one another. When you assume independence you can take the logical intersection of the probabilities which is multiplying less-than-unity probabilities together. You can obtain a rather small result choosing enough factors. But if the factors are correlated, the correct mathematics is the largest probability number. Both the astronomical conditions and girlfriend factors are correlated to some degree makeing the results less than valid.
This is the identical mistake made valuating debt securities. The mathematical underpinning was that you can offload most of the risk into a "junk tranch" by assuming failures like foreclosures are statistically independent. By "drake equation magic", i.e. multiplying probabilities to obtain the group probability, the group risk appears rather small. Independence is a decent assumption during good economic times because economic failures are more individual luck or actions. But during a recession, economic failures are correlated, making the group statistical model invalid. The so-called good-risk securities turned into garbage and the junk securities became gold.
I fear since a economics grad student does not understand probability like so many of his peers, this does not bode well for the future economy.
Theya re like 99% against GM on the other side of the ocean. You cant get a pro-GM result published in a European-based journal.
They can tweet you when then have finished doing something. People talked about wiring up appliances to do this in the past, but wires are too cumbersome. Its likely you'll get the whole wireless device, CPU and OS on a single chip at some point for almost nothing.
People are spoiled by 80Hz+ now. E-paper is one-half Hertz and too slow.
Believe it or not, an auto major does a fair amount of advance testing before shipping. The papers announced last week the Volt battery factory had begun production in Warren Michigan.
Several factions benefit from people becoming perpetual victims of some perceived illness. First are the so-called victims themselves whom qualify for remedy programs and government disability. Second are the venders of these programs like psychiatrists and drug companies. Third are politician who leverage these slights to further these careers.
You dont know whether Apple will accept the App or not until you finished and submitted it to Apple. By then you have invested man-months of developer time and maybe some marketing bucks too. The acceptance rate is pretty high. But there are horror stories such as mention in the CNBC Plant of the Apps documentary.
One thing that surprised me in my early stints of software companies of all sizes was how little the R&D department is in some of the more mature companies. That is because they ad sales, support, marketing, etc. Google is now in its "awkward teen years" in this regard.
I notice a number of other industries are copying Apple's iPhone App commercials now. This would work perfectly for the drug industry: "Have this disease? theres a drug for it!".
This paradigm is so deeply ingrained in the American psyche now that I automatically wonder about some new medicine for all the new disease syndromes we hear about. There are substances for mental health and physical fitness. Even herbal remedies are squished into pill shapes to make them seem more "medical".
Both are from the mid-19th century according to the New York Museum of Sex
. Sex applications incorporates new technology quicky. They were among the first developers of internet credit card transactions and internet video.
It is too damn slow for me. Thank god, the smarter places like Amazon are also providing much of their ebook tecnology on non-epaper platforms.
Astronomers have announced over 500 extra-solar planets and they have barely begun looking. So there are a lot of processes out there creating planets in spite of hypothetical process which may destroy them.
I could use my stanford.edu or mit.edu alumni forwarding addresses in a job search. But I have been pretty lucky and haven't needed to cold-call a job app in a couple of decades.
The argument from an article in Wired years back suggested that government security camera feeds be made available for realtime public viewing. That could then check abusive uses of this system when you have "the watched watching the watchers".
Ditto for open source software, like for computer security or voting. More eyes can spot more flaws.
The method of fingerprint identification was more of a learned-craft than based on rigorous scientific testing up to 30 years ago. What saved its butt was that identification was computerized in the 1970s. If the algorithms gave too many false matches, then the technique would collapsed like a house of cards. But the algorithms appear to work reliably. I recall some defense lawyers attacking the fingerprint method at that time, much like the early years of DNA matching.
Some of the old-timers will remember the post-Sputnik elementary-school math books where you spent the first couple weeks of the year on set theory. I thought it was a waste of time then, and still think so. But that stuff reappeared in college digital electronics courses, desiging gate-arrays etc.
I believe the intention was to teach "logical thought" as a premise for doing mathematics. But elementary school math must be brutal and make you memorize the dull algorithms of tables and long division for you to succeed.
This is got to be the longest-running MicroSoft joke: announcing vaporware as soon as a competitor does. Windows is the classic example: announced in 1984 when the Mac graphical interface was delivered. But not an usuable version until 3.1 six years later.
Say you have have a technology that is 99% effective. (neither Star Wars nor scanning is close to this).
Then the detractors say: "Why bother? The 1% that can evade it can cause incalculable harm!".
But the promoters counter: "The enemy is not going to waste their time on this approach anymore if it mostly succeeds. They'll develop other attacks."
Where do we sign up to help?