so while you can argue that any good programmer with knowledge of a handful languages would be able to easily understand Python code, it's not really aimed at the good programmers in the first place.
It's aimed at someone who's familiar enough with programming to be doing web dev and serious enough about writing good code to bother using this app. Those people will have no trouble with python, which really isn't all that hard, especially since the apps source is basically self commenting and really clean. I know almost nothing about web dev, but don't have much trouble following the code (granted, I code in python).
It's simply that they will choose not to enroll in my classes. Then all my sections will get canceled. Yeah, I have tenure, but my life is going to get pretty miserable if every class I teach is canceled every single semester.
See, you need to con your school into taking the approach my school has: they have to give you the only sections of required courses. We've got a few situations like this, but there's one truly god awful tenured professor who brings in too much funding for them to shelve, so he's usually the only option for a course required for multiple majors. He's done stuff that's borderline illegal (discrimination stuff), but nobody lodges formal complaints (lots of people have complained informally) 'cause the dept. is so bad at responding to complaints that it's not seen as worth it. I also have major issues with his teaching style (memorization over learning), but I acknowledge that's just subjective.
I learned about this at a remote resort in Mexico and was bouncing up and down 'cause the other option was using their on site internet room which charged something like $10 per 30 min.
Visalab is sending along 2 backup cars, 4 maintenance trucks, and 2 media vans with the two auto-vehicles, so they could probably just have someone get out and drive the cars (or just sit at the wheel) in the parts where they'll get in legal trouble for having the cars be autonomous. There are also long stretches (like Russia), where the cars will be the only thing on the road.
She's not my student (I'm undergrad myself). I don't think she wants to learn a new software package, but I'll send her a link to Nvivo (it looks good). For her thesis she needs categorical data, but this might be a good place to start in terms of her thinking about how she wants to sift through the data.
They're trying to figure out if you're lying, trying to make yourself look good, trying to make yourself look bad, or otherwise screwing with the survey answers. They actually need to be about 10 pages for reliability purposes and the like. The field is called psychometrics, and I've gotta agree with the OP on his rant. I just looked at the data someone collected for her masters thesis, and it's all open ended survey stuff, so she's crying at the thought of getting it into a usable form in SPSS and a good chunk of the data will either have to chucked or reworked to get anything useful out of it.
True, but the wives are also bringing in supplemental income, at least in all the families I know of overseas where the husband is learning.
I actually agree with you and the article and everything else. I'm not a fan of the kollel system by any stretch of the imagination, I think it's wreaked all sorts of havoc on orthodox Jewish culture (mostly by brainwashing a few generations into believing this is the best path for everyone and anyone), I've got quite a few friends who've been burned or burned out by it, and I currently am very averse to marrying into it. (I'm an orthodox female.)
many of which women are forbidden from carrying out
But I don't want to carry 'em out and quite happy that I don't have too. For the record, I'm an orthodox female and I seriously don't feel oppressed, nor do many of the girls I know.
Even among Orthodox Jews, it is not common to have the women be the primary breadwinner so the man can afford to spend all his waking hours studying Torah.
Depends on the circle. Quite a few of my friends/cohorts are supporting their husbands 'cause they're in that religious community; the more modern orthodox crowd tends to not do out and most of the more orthodox circles set limits on how long a husband can be learning so that couples can eventually get off welfare.
It means "high school education then teaching at the Yeshiva")
So lots of my friends are kollel wives and still more want to be, so I have a pretty good idea of how the culture wants. I'm the odd girl out for not wanting it. Almost all of them have masters degrees (linguistics, special ed, speech therapy, etc.) and even the ones that teach at a yeshiva have real college degrees. At least in New York, even the ultra-orthodox girls take some form of post-secondary education.
Um, not quite. Far as I've been told, the whole tattoo thing is some weird form of urban myth Jewish moms tell their kids so that they won't run out to get one. hillel article on it. There's also a secondary reason why people are allowed burial if they've got tattoos; if they do teshuvah (apologize to God/redeem themselves) for the act of getting the tattoo, it's all basically sorted out.
Prohibiting organ donations has as much to do with the belief in the messiah and the eventual resurrection of the dead, which works out better if everyone is intact, as with desecration of the dead. Because the messianic stuff is usually the reason for the most radical stances, most mainstream Orthodox Rabbis often don't have any problem with organ donation so long as it's going to save a life. A secondary reason for allowing donation but not advocating signing the card is because of a fear that death may be hastened if a person seems to be in a vegetable state and has an organ for harvesting. Hastening death is a big bad sin, 'cause God is the one in ultimate control of when time ends.
Just about every modern orthodox Jewish law traces back to the Shulchan Aruch
t has also been argued that trafficking in human organs on the black market and laundering the money is also religiously permitted
And the sane Orthodox people (including the ones living in/related to people in these communities) are all just as horrified by the Deal scandal as everybody else in America. I didn't say that Rabbis don't sometimes say really bad things are alright, (and honestly it's a much smaller minority than the news makes it out to be) just that they're often far more sensible than given credit for.
The funny thing about the far right Jews is that most of the guys are in some form of learning program, so the women are often the primary breadwinners. This leads to the average Jewish woman on the far right having more education and job training than her husband.
Maybe this will open up more discussion of the religious permissibility of organ donations, which is a topic that's nowhere near as black and white as some people make it out to be. Plenty of orthodox rabbis also say donating is permissible (as far as I've heard from members of the New York ultra-orthodox contingent) in a lot of circumstances, but their voices seem to get drowned out far too often. I'd love to see some real discussion of the topic, so while yeah the measure is radical, it's also kind of brilliant. It's also an interesting approach to tackling the religious/secular divide in Israel, which makes the American one look downright friendly.
The main point of the openDAP project is to facilitate remote collaboration on data, and there are already a few organizations that use it to share data. I've used the python variant for NetCDF files and found it pretty happy and the web interface is clean. The best part of the OpenDAP project is probably that the data doesn't need to be downloaded/copied to be processed, which is really important for anyone who can't afford the racks of harddrives some of these datasets need.
You know, the towers could have been built before his apartment went up. New construction and all that, and there's tons of it, even in places like Harlem, so he could actually afford a penthouse in a few select neighborhoods. Though he also should have covered in class; hell my E&M professor spends quite a few lectures ranting about this topic.
I don't want to wait months for some company to wade through licensure and waiting for completed books
I've paid for books and stacked up a collection, but then the publisher decided to drop half the series I'm buying and I'm hesitant to pick up new titles (ones I've read) 'cause I don't want a half complete collection. I think the unreliability of the big US publishers (tokyopop, ADV) keeps as many fans from buying legit stuff as anything else does.
I've used SPSS for a psych class, figured SAS was similar. I do basic stats stuff in python and am actively encouraged to learn R, so doing it in matlab probably wouldn't phase me.
It's gonna be used in my applied stats course next semester. Took me a few minutes to even put the two together, and had never heard of it before the professor mentioned it. All I know about them is that they offer certification.
Dorms with full kitchens/baths that make cheaper apartments look like doll houses for a fraction of the price.
I want your dorms. The ones my school offers cost more than equivalent apartments in the neighborhoods. Yearly rent with a roommate costs me about half what a shared dorm room would, and I get my own kitchen out of it.
$640 a month? I doubt that'd get you anything in NYC.
It would in the skeevier parts of the city. My rent's $850 (though I split with a roommate) for an approx 200sqft studio in Harlem, but that's cause I'm in a great building close to campus. Rents go down to about $600 for studios in parts of the neighborhood.
because engineering is a world of black and white thinking, and it doesn't challenge their religious dogma
Knowing a lot of religious social conservatives (being a religious social liberal myself), there's a simpler reason. All the people I know want to get married, have kids, do all the normal socially conservative things, and engineering is the fastest path to all that 'cause it comes with great pay for only 4/5 years of work. The article says as much when it talks about how the countries these people are from were pushing engineering as the stable well paying route to success.
Most other professional degrees take longer for less pay, though you'll also probably find a very high percentage of religious social conservatives in jobs like accounting and the therapies (occupational therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, social work to a lesser extent). (The therapies are where most of the orthodox Jewish girls I know end up.)
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so while you can argue that any good programmer with knowledge of a handful languages would be able to easily understand Python code, it's not really aimed at the good programmers in the first place.
It's aimed at someone who's familiar enough with programming to be doing web dev and serious enough about writing good code to bother using this app. Those people will have no trouble with python, which really isn't all that hard, especially since the apps source is basically self commenting and really clean. I know almost nothing about web dev, but don't have much trouble following the code (granted, I code in python).
It's simply that they will choose not to enroll in my classes. Then all my sections will get canceled. Yeah, I have tenure, but my life is going to get pretty miserable if every class I teach is canceled every single semester.
See, you need to con your school into taking the approach my school has: they have to give you the only sections of required courses. We've got a few situations like this, but there's one truly god awful tenured professor who brings in too much funding for them to shelve, so he's usually the only option for a course required for multiple majors. He's done stuff that's borderline illegal (discrimination stuff), but nobody lodges formal complaints (lots of people have complained informally) 'cause the dept. is so bad at responding to complaints that it's not seen as worth it. I also have major issues with his teaching style (memorization over learning), but I acknowledge that's just subjective.
I learned about this at a remote resort in Mexico and was bouncing up and down 'cause the other option was using their on site internet room which charged something like $10 per 30 min.
Visalab is sending along 2 backup cars, 4 maintenance trucks, and 2 media vans with the two auto-vehicles, so they could probably just have someone get out and drive the cars (or just sit at the wheel) in the parts where they'll get in legal trouble for having the cars be autonomous. There are also long stretches (like Russia), where the cars will be the only thing on the road.
She's not my student (I'm undergrad myself). I don't think she wants to learn a new software package, but I'll send her a link to Nvivo (it looks good). For her thesis she needs categorical data, but this might be a good place to start in terms of her thinking about how she wants to sift through the data.
Do you know what they are driving at?
They're trying to figure out if you're lying, trying to make yourself look good, trying to make yourself look bad, or otherwise screwing with the survey answers. They actually need to be about 10 pages for reliability purposes and the like. The field is called psychometrics, and I've gotta agree with the OP on his rant. I just looked at the data someone collected for her masters thesis, and it's all open ended survey stuff, so she's crying at the thought of getting it into a usable form in SPSS and a good chunk of the data will either have to chucked or reworked to get anything useful out of it.
In the US, that's true. In Israel, the ultra-orthodox have Government subsidies.
True, but the wives are also bringing in supplemental income, at least in all the families I know of overseas where the husband is learning.
I actually agree with you and the article and everything else. I'm not a fan of the kollel system by any stretch of the imagination, I think it's wreaked all sorts of havoc on orthodox Jewish culture (mostly by brainwashing a few generations into believing this is the best path for everyone and anyone), I've got quite a few friends who've been burned or burned out by it, and I currently am very averse to marrying into it. (I'm an orthodox female.)
many of which women are forbidden from carrying out
But I don't want to carry 'em out and quite happy that I don't have too. For the record, I'm an orthodox female and I seriously don't feel oppressed, nor do many of the girls I know.
Even among Orthodox Jews, it is not common to have the women be the primary breadwinner so the man can afford to spend all his waking hours studying Torah.
Depends on the circle. Quite a few of my friends/cohorts are supporting their husbands 'cause they're in that religious community; the more modern orthodox crowd tends to not do out and most of the more orthodox circles set limits on how long a husband can be learning so that couples can eventually get off welfare.
It means "high school education then teaching at the Yeshiva")
So lots of my friends are kollel wives and still more want to be, so I have a pretty good idea of how the culture wants. I'm the odd girl out for not wanting it. Almost all of them have masters degrees (linguistics, special ed, speech therapy, etc.) and even the ones that teach at a yeshiva have real college degrees. At least in New York, even the ultra-orthodox girls take some form of post-secondary education.
Um, not quite. Far as I've been told, the whole tattoo thing is some weird form of urban myth Jewish moms tell their kids so that they won't run out to get one. hillel article on it. There's also a secondary reason why people are allowed burial if they've got tattoos; if they do teshuvah (apologize to God/redeem themselves) for the act of getting the tattoo, it's all basically sorted out.
Prohibiting organ donations has as much to do with the belief in the messiah and the eventual resurrection of the dead, which works out better if everyone is intact, as with desecration of the dead. Because the messianic stuff is usually the reason for the most radical stances, most mainstream Orthodox Rabbis often don't have any problem with organ donation so long as it's going to save a life. A secondary reason for allowing donation but not advocating signing the card is because of a fear that death may be hastened if a person seems to be in a vegetable state and has an organ for harvesting. Hastening death is a big bad sin, 'cause God is the one in ultimate control of when time ends.
Just about every modern orthodox Jewish law traces back to the Shulchan Aruch
t has also been argued that trafficking in human organs on the black market and laundering the money is also religiously permitted
And the sane Orthodox people (including the ones living in/related to people in these communities) are all just as horrified by the Deal scandal as everybody else in America. I didn't say that Rabbis don't sometimes say really bad things are alright, (and honestly it's a much smaller minority than the news makes it out to be) just that they're often far more sensible than given credit for.
oppressing women
The funny thing about the far right Jews is that most of the guys are in some form of learning program, so the women are often the primary breadwinners. This leads to the average Jewish woman on the far right having more education and job training than her husband.
Maybe this will open up more discussion of the religious permissibility of organ donations, which is a topic that's nowhere near as black and white as some people make it out to be. Plenty of orthodox rabbis also say donating is permissible (as far as I've heard from members of the New York ultra-orthodox contingent) in a lot of circumstances, but their voices seem to get drowned out far too often. I'd love to see some real discussion of the topic, so while yeah the measure is radical, it's also kind of brilliant. It's also an interesting approach to tackling the religious/secular divide in Israel, which makes the American one look downright friendly.
The main point of the openDAP project is to facilitate remote collaboration on data, and there are already a few organizations that use it to share data. I've used the python variant for NetCDF files and found it pretty happy and the web interface is clean. The best part of the OpenDAP project is probably that the data doesn't need to be downloaded/copied to be processed, which is really important for anyone who can't afford the racks of harddrives some of these datasets need.
You know, the towers could have been built before his apartment went up. New construction and all that, and there's tons of it, even in places like Harlem, so he could actually afford a penthouse in a few select neighborhoods. Though he also should have covered in class; hell my E&M professor spends quite a few lectures ranting about this topic.
I don't want to wait months for some company to wade through licensure and waiting for completed books
I've paid for books and stacked up a collection, but then the publisher decided to drop half the series I'm buying and I'm hesitant to pick up new titles (ones I've read) 'cause I don't want a half complete collection. I think the unreliability of the big US publishers (tokyopop, ADV) keeps as many fans from buying legit stuff as anything else does.
_Can you convert a packed unsigned value into a float?
Am I given the scale and offset?
I've used SPSS for a psych class, figured SAS was similar. I do basic stats stuff in python and am actively encouraged to learn R, so doing it in matlab probably wouldn't phase me.
According to the article, he's got a girlfriend. Even if he didn't, he's hot, smart, and employable so I doubt his real odds are all that low.
It's gonna be used in my applied stats course next semester. Took me a few minutes to even put the two together, and had never heard of it before the professor mentioned it. All I know about them is that they offer certification.
Dorms with full kitchens/baths that make cheaper apartments look like doll houses for a fraction of the price.
I want your dorms. The ones my school offers cost more than equivalent apartments in the neighborhoods. Yearly rent with a roommate costs me about half what a shared dorm room would, and I get my own kitchen out of it.
$640 a month? I doubt that'd get you anything in NYC.
It would in the skeevier parts of the city. My rent's $850 (though I split with a roommate) for an approx 200sqft studio in Harlem, but that's cause I'm in a great building close to campus. Rents go down to about $600 for studios in parts of the neighborhood.
who turn out to be good at not cheating on their wives
Since when?
Ikea sells the pots for $10.
because engineering is a world of black and white thinking, and it doesn't challenge their religious dogma
Knowing a lot of religious social conservatives (being a religious social liberal myself), there's a simpler reason. All the people I know want to get married, have kids, do all the normal socially conservative things, and engineering is the fastest path to all that 'cause it comes with great pay for only 4/5 years of work. The article says as much when it talks about how the countries these people are from were pushing engineering as the stable well paying route to success.
Most other professional degrees take longer for less pay, though you'll also probably find a very high percentage of religious social conservatives in jobs like accounting and the therapies (occupational therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, social work to a lesser extent). (The therapies are where most of the orthodox Jewish girls I know end up.)