I agree with that, there are too many humble indie bundle. So what I do is that I buy one once in a while. I still haven't finished braid (which I believe was in the second one). An other approach is to buy them for $1 if you are not that interested.
I played the tower defense game and it is somewhat classical. The downloads were quite slow, but that might have been the "first 6 hours" effects. They are also releasing a software to upadte all your "humble indie bundle games" for android so that you are always up to date. Which is pretty useful. (Not sure if they were doing that before or not.)
I am not saysing it is not a useful information. It is just ridiculous to have it on slashdot front page. What will be the next article: "Hammer reported to be useful with nails"?
I am completely wowed by that. Putting intervention forces in an embassy is really serious. Countrie might go to war on that. though I do not think ecuador is that much of a threat but still. I guess he still have tricks up his sleeves and they are actually afraid of him.
actualyl I do not think the 3ds is doing well. Maybe it is doing better than PS Vita, but about a year after release there are not many good games on the platform. The original DS had so much more success. I really believe that smartphone are killing the handheld market.
I am working in the academia doing High Performance Computing, Scheduling, Multi-Pbjective Optimization, Approximation Algorithms and Graph Analytics. I am using mathematics all the time.
Some part of it is actually straitght up mathematics: find a parameter set that optimize function f(x). Some part of it is linear algebra (dense, or sparse). A lot of it is combinatorial optimization: (e.g. counting or estimating the number of objets that have a given property). A significant part of is probability and statistics to perform result analysis.
Though most of it is not mathematics as OP probably means provided he is in high school. Most of the time you do not compute things yourself. You plug it in a mathematical software that does it for you. Thought some times the operations you need are not available and I need to write them. But the importance of knowing mathematics is to be able to pick the right tool, understand what it says, and, most importantly, understand what it DOES NOT say.
The training you get in mathematics is CRUCIAL to any kind of system analysis activity. Not necessarily because you will have a lot of equations to deal with, but because it trains the mind to see what is right and what is wrong. "Implication is not equivalence", "correlation is not causation", "monotonicity is not linearity", "random is not uniform" are the most classical example of simple mathematic mistakes people do all the time when they lack proper mathematical training. In CS or IT, such mistakes can cause a lot of pain...
"If a former employer decided to interview me just for kicks, I'd tell them to fuck off. I left the company for a reason. If I wanted to stay in touch, I wouldn't have left in the first place."
Well, it is not an hiring interview. That's a journalistic interview. I gladly collaborate with places I worked before. I am still in quite good term with them.
"Is it really necessary to say "Mr.Smith, you have a serious condition called 'pneumothorax'", followed by an explanation when you could simply say "Mr.Smith, your lung has collapsed."? "
I think it is important for a specialist to give you the actually name of your disease. You might see another doctor later that will be happy to know the actual name of the disease. Or you might be interested in knowing the disease you have. Or you might actually know what pneumothorax is (which I don't). Here is a case where I believe jargon is actually relevant.
If you look at the values on kickstarter, it is mainly composed of people that pre-bought the system (about $2.2 million). They are using the big number as a commercial stunt, they just pre-sold many system. Having it on kickstarter makes it public.
That's it. It is in my opinion, the ONLY advantage of C over C++. There is no ambiguity EVER on what an operation mean. There is no weird boxing, type-cast, hidden function calls.
Don't get me wrong, I love C++. But C is SO MUCH easier to understand becasue each operation does exactly what it says. It might not be very expressive, but it is never ambiguous.
I believe this question is actually very interesting. And I do not have a full answer to it. My mother-tongue is french and I live in the US now; so I speak english fluently. I also know some spanish and some korean.
I believe that there is a very tight relation between how we speak and how think. There are concept that are more easily expressed in a language than in an other one. It helps bridging notion together that would not be otherwise. I believe languages greatly contribute to "mental imagery". I believe knowing more languages allows me to think in a more diverse way.
I might be wrong, but I believe dropping all languages but one will make our mind converge. And that is not a good thing. G. Orwell introduced newspeak to achieve mind control, that's not a random idea. Knowing languages are good to think. I do not want them to disappear.
I do not know about windows compatibility. But I programmed for that chip, it supports almost directly programming using openmp, intel cilk or intel TBB.
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I agree with that, there are too many humble indie bundle. So what I do is that I buy one once in a while. I still haven't finished braid (which I believe was in the second one). An other approach is to buy them for $1 if you are not that interested.
I played the tower defense game and it is somewhat classical. The downloads were quite slow, but that might have been the "first 6 hours" effects. They are also releasing a software to upadte all your "humble indie bundle games" for android so that you are always up to date. Which is pretty useful. (Not sure if they were doing that before or not.)
I am not saysing it is not a useful information. It is just ridiculous to have it on slashdot front page. What will be the next article: "Hammer reported to be useful with nails"?
I am completely wowed by that. Putting intervention forces in an embassy is really serious. Countrie might go to war on that. though I do not think ecuador is that much of a threat but still. I guess he still have tricks up his sleeves and they are actually afraid of him.
properly handling C++ template can be a very CPU-bound process unfortunately.
"Then why not avoid [...] sites with bad spelling?"
That one actually sounds like a good idea ! :)
actualyl I do not think the 3ds is doing well. Maybe it is doing better than PS Vita, but about a year after release there are not many good games on the platform. The original DS had so much more success. I really believe that smartphone are killing the handheld market.
"Metro was a stupid name; first thing that occurs to people when they hear it is something along the lines of sexual orientation."
no, I think about a way of transportation; and I think many people do the same.
These exemples are simple interpolation/extrapolation.
Other exemples involves: how does a computer compute sine, cosine, sqrt ?
How does any programming language work ? (Hint: it is not called lambda CALCULUS because it sounds fancy)
How to solve systems of equations? (also known as "where does curves intersect?")
I am working in the academia doing High Performance Computing, Scheduling, Multi-Pbjective Optimization, Approximation Algorithms and Graph Analytics. I am using mathematics all the time.
Some part of it is actually straitght up mathematics: find a parameter set that optimize function f(x). Some part of it is linear algebra (dense, or sparse). A lot of it is combinatorial optimization: (e.g. counting or estimating the number of objets that have a given property). A significant part of is probability and statistics to perform result analysis.
Though most of it is not mathematics as OP probably means provided he is in high school. Most of the time you do not compute things yourself. You plug it in a mathematical software that does it for you. Thought some times the operations you need are not available and I need to write them. But the importance of knowing mathematics is to be able to pick the right tool, understand what it says, and, most importantly, understand what it DOES NOT say.
The training you get in mathematics is CRUCIAL to any kind of system analysis activity. Not necessarily because you will have a lot of equations to deal with, but because it trains the mind to see what is right and what is wrong. "Implication is not equivalence", "correlation is not causation", "monotonicity is not linearity", "random is not uniform" are the most classical example of simple mathematic mistakes people do all the time when they lack proper mathematical training. In CS or IT, such mistakes can cause a lot of pain...
"If a former employer decided to interview me just for kicks, I'd tell them to fuck off. I left the company for a reason. If I wanted to stay in touch, I wouldn't have left in the first place."
Well, it is not an hiring interview. That's a journalistic interview. I gladly collaborate with places I worked before. I am still in quite good term with them.
Just as a curiosity, why do you have a single file of more than 30K lines? Isn't that way over the top?
"Is it really necessary to say "Mr.Smith, you have a serious condition called 'pneumothorax'", followed by an explanation when you could simply say "Mr.Smith, your lung has collapsed."? "
I think it is important for a specialist to give you the actually name of your disease. You might see another doctor later that will be happy to know the actual name of the disease. Or you might be interested in knowing the disease you have. Or you might actually know what pneumothorax is (which I don't). Here is a case where I believe jargon is actually relevant.
"At this stage, Qualcomm is apparently worried about frying cats."
It's not a bug, it is a feature!
"Portland has an annual Naked Bike Ride event. The police who follow the riders are there to protect them, not arrest them."
No, the police just go to have the best spot! That's why everybody call them 'pigs'!
Thanks to you, I just gave them 5 bucks!
If you look at the values on kickstarter, it is mainly composed of people that pre-bought the system (about $2.2 million). They are using the big number as a commercial stunt, they just pre-sold many system. Having it on kickstarter makes it public.
real life measure of your userbase? Not in term of "I promise I'll buy one!", but in term of "I already committed money to it!" ?
It seems a little late, though.
Tomorrow on slashdot:
"Can all questions in headlines be answered by 'no' ?"
That's it. It is in my opinion, the ONLY advantage of C over C++. There is no ambiguity EVER on what an operation mean. There is no weird boxing, type-cast, hidden function calls.
Don't get me wrong, I love C++. But C is SO MUCH easier to understand becasue each operation does exactly what it says. It might not be very expressive, but it is never ambiguous.
well, none of my machines (all running Linux) were affected by the problem. I guess the bug only appeared in some systems.
Experts have no clue what will happen and guess like everybody.
I believe this question is actually very interesting. And I do not have a full answer to it. My mother-tongue is french and I live in the US now; so I speak english fluently. I also know some spanish and some korean.
I believe that there is a very tight relation between how we speak and how think. There are concept that are more easily expressed in a language than in an other one. It helps bridging notion together that would not be otherwise. I believe languages greatly contribute to "mental imagery". I believe knowing more languages allows me to think in a more diverse way.
I might be wrong, but I believe dropping all languages but one will make our mind converge. And that is not a good thing. G. Orwell introduced newspeak to achieve mind control, that's not a random idea. Knowing languages are good to think. I do not want them to disappear.
the exascale here refers to 10^18 flop/s. One chip will of course not achieve that. But a bunch of them might.
I do not know about windows compatibility. But I programmed for that chip, it supports almost directly programming using openmp, intel cilk or intel TBB.
I benchmarked a prototype version of the card of unstructured memory access kernels (graph algorithms) http://bmi.osu.edu/hpc/papers/Saule12-MTAAP.pdf