I think home ownership here is seen as a proxy. Overall the housing market is correlated with the real estate market. If home ownership is affordable, then rents can not be completely insane.
And in just about every civilised society to do so is perfectly acceptable and you still have right of way as a pedestrian.
Now which civilized society are you talking about specifically? I just checked a bunch of countries and none of them allow pedestrians to cross outside a crosswalk or intersection.
Like most of Europe?
In France, it is illegal to cross the street away from a pedestrian path IF there is a pedestrian cross within 50 meters. But in any case, once the pedestrian is on the street, the pedestrian has right of way, even if the cross is illegal. The only place where pedestrian do not have right of way is on the interstate. (Autoroute.)
Read the article, it talks about that too. The article claims the $/student is higher than in the 60s, but dropped somewhat from the 90s. Also the article claims that the administrative layers became bloated in the universities.
This match what I see in practice; though I haven't crunched numbers. There is less money per student than there used to be; I wasn't around in the 60s but it certainly feels like there is funds than 20 years ago. Also a lot of funds these days go to what I would call non academic expenses like a gyms, student health centers, on-campus dining options. While I understand the value of these, they pull money away from running classes. The number of administrators we have today seems also a lot higher than it used to. I am not always sure what the administration actual contribution is; it is hard to tell.
I doubt this is good enough. There is grade inflation of course. But I don't think that it is the real problem. You only get grades twice a year because most universities are on a semester system. Therefore, it could take a year before you actually get the data you need to make a decision. By then it is probably too late.
The problem is that grades won't make the difference between: -These were really tough classes for me. -I got sick and could not quite follow. -my mom lost her job and I needed to start working flipping burgers.
Only the third case is really a cause of dropping out.
Well not really. The new interpretation gives a model at $8.55 an hour. That's barely minimum wage or under minimum wage. Note that it is pointed out by the researcher themselves, ~40% of the workers made below the minimum wage in their state.
What I remember are slashdotters saying they don't see how you make a living out of it. The numbers seem to line up in their favor. Below $2000 a month, you are not quite making it in most cities (where uber is likely to actually work). That about 8 hours of working for uber every day of the month. Not quite making a living.
I think they obviously have. I live in a city with google fiber depending where you are in the city. And the other ISPs have been trying to cut down prices in the areas served by google fiber.
Where I live where Google Fiber is available, spectrum fiber actively cut its price to $30/month (for 12 month). While three blocks away, spectrum fiber is still about $70/month. Difference is Google fiber does not go there.
I don't see how you can keep these secret now. We have MS degree in AI all over the country and the world. We are talking about thousands, maybe tens of thousands of MS graduates in that particular topic a year. That does not count the hundreds or thousands of PhD graduate in AI a year. Or the millions of computer and math savvy graduates at all levels a year who can just pick up a 20 years old book and train themselves.
Too many people know already, the barrier of entry of also not too high. It seems really hard to curb this now.
Random algorithms do not always produce the same answers. We like them for that reason. I haven't RTFA (this is/. afterall) but I suspect that there are a lot of unspecified parameters and experimental settings that were left out of papers and which are actually critical.
Couldn't we use simpler test that are easier to solve with computers? Such as "which of these 100 numbers of 1000 digits are prime?", you have 5 seconds to answer.
No human can ever beat this so you'd have to use some automated tool. Why weird computer vision task?
As much as I like Net Neutrality, this does not quite pass the "smell test" in my book. I really dislike attempts at bypassing a law or rule by leveraging a technicality. Even it may be legal, I feel like this is what is wrong with modern business practices.
So I think it is great to get Net Neutrality in the law and passed by Congress. The thing is that you did not need to repeal the FCC ruling in order to achieve that.
Congress could already have written a law that enacts Net Neutrality and at the same time repeal the FCC ruling that is no longer necessary.
In other words, you usually don't sell your car and THEN buy a new one. You try to do that in a single transaction.
What are you talking about? It takes 2 minutes to make coffee. The time to go to starbucks is more than the time to make coffee. (And you'll get better coffee.)
What he is really saying is that he does not drink coffee out of home. And provided the shit they serve you for coffee in chain store nowadays, I can't say I blame him.
Any chance you have some pointers on how to do fuzzing correctly? Could be fun to use some of that in testing students code to point out mistakes early on.
Actually if I were a criminal looking for a place to rob or someone to ransom, I would look at estate value more than salaries. And we already pretty much know the value of housing based on public databases.
And 'work history' is also a tool of corporate espionage. When you are a key person in an industry, who you are working with will give competitors an idea about new products and strategic decision making.
Interesting, I never thought of that. Though for most employment/global statistics usage, history 2 years back might just be good enough.
> That said, astronauts are obsolete technology. Robots can do it cheaper and better.
Isn't latency a problem for many things? Sure if you can program the robot to do everything it won't matter too much. And semi autonomous robots could do many things. But if you need human decision, then you need about 3 minutes for any sensing data to reach earth and then 3 minutes for even an immediate reaction to get back to mars.
I think you are overestimating how much power these heaters consume. I used to warm my apartment in Grenoble with 800W heaters. (one per window kind of thing). So You could easily get that with processors. You are also ignoring storage and memory in your wattage count.
Also, even if you have a lower power heater, it is still a good thing if it is free to you. because you can let that heater on 24/7. While your conventional heater will probably go in and out during the day. Maybe you are using a 2000W heater, but it is not running 24 hours a day. The integral is heating is mostly what matters.
Think also of all the case where you are not home (or in that room) but you still do not want your home/room to get too cold. A smaller heater would do that.
> [flipped classrom] is much more difficult if I have more than a dozen or so students.
That is my main complain about the flipped classroom craziness we see these days. They assume that we all have classes of less than 30 students.
This semester, I teach 110 students. Even with 2 TAs, the idea that we can actually talk to each student every week is a pipe dream. We can not even have recitation with lead b the TA because we do not have space to hold these sessions. Even if we had room, over half our students are working 25hours or more a week and probably would not have time to show up.
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I think home ownership here is seen as a proxy. Overall the housing market is correlated with the real estate market. If home ownership is affordable, then rents can not be completely insane.
And in just about every civilised society to do so is perfectly acceptable and you still have right of way as a pedestrian.
Now which civilized society are you talking about specifically? I just checked a bunch of countries and none of them allow pedestrians to cross outside a crosswalk or intersection.
Like most of Europe?
In France, it is illegal to cross the street away from a pedestrian path IF there is a pedestrian cross within 50 meters. But in any case, once the pedestrian is on the street, the pedestrian has right of way, even if the cross is illegal.
The only place where pedestrian do not have right of way is on the interstate. (Autoroute.)
Read the article, it talks about that too. The article claims the $/student is higher than in the 60s, but dropped somewhat from the 90s.
Also the article claims that the administrative layers became bloated in the universities.
This match what I see in practice; though I haven't crunched numbers.
There is less money per student than there used to be; I wasn't around in the 60s but it certainly feels like there is funds than 20 years ago.
Also a lot of funds these days go to what I would call non academic expenses like a gyms, student health centers, on-campus dining options. While I understand the value of these, they pull money away from running classes.
The number of administrators we have today seems also a lot higher than it used to. I am not always sure what the administration actual contribution is; it is hard to tell.
I doubt this is good enough. There is grade inflation of course.
But I don't think that it is the real problem. You only get grades twice a year because most universities are on a semester system.
Therefore, it could take a year before you actually get the data you need to make a decision. By then it is probably too late.
The problem is that grades won't make the difference between:
-These were really tough classes for me.
-I got sick and could not quite follow.
-my mom lost her job and I needed to start working flipping burgers.
Only the third case is really a cause of dropping out.
Well not really. The new interpretation gives a model at $8.55 an hour. That's barely minimum wage or under minimum wage. Note that it is pointed out by the researcher themselves, ~40% of the workers made below the minimum wage in their state.
What I remember are slashdotters saying they don't see how you make a living out of it. The numbers seem to line up in their favor. Below $2000 a month, you are not quite making it in most cities (where uber is likely to actually work). That about 8 hours of working for uber every day of the month. Not quite making a living.
I have been dong that too. It works pretty well!
I think they obviously have. I live in a city with google fiber depending where you are in the city. And the other ISPs have been trying to cut down prices in the areas served by google fiber.
Where I live where Google Fiber is available, spectrum fiber actively cut its price to $30/month (for 12 month). While three blocks away, spectrum fiber is still about $70/month. Difference is Google fiber does not go there.
I don't see how you can keep these secret now. We have MS degree in AI all over the country and the world. We are talking about thousands, maybe tens of thousands of MS graduates in that particular topic a year. That does not count the hundreds or thousands of PhD graduate in AI a year. Or the millions of computer and math savvy graduates at all levels a year who can just pick up a 20 years old book and train themselves.
Too many people know already, the barrier of entry of also not too high. It seems really hard to curb this now.
Random algorithms do not always produce the same answers. We like them for that reason. /. afterall) but I suspect that there are a lot of unspecified parameters and experimental settings that were left out of papers and which are actually critical.
I haven't RTFA (this is
Couldn't we use simpler test that are easier to solve with computers?
Such as "which of these 100 numbers of 1000 digits are prime?", you have 5 seconds to answer.
No human can ever beat this so you'd have to use some automated tool. Why weird computer vision task?
Note AP CS and AP CSP are different classes. AP CS is meant to be more technical. AP CSP is meant to be less technical but "inspire" more.
As much as I like Net Neutrality, this does not quite pass the "smell test" in my book. I really dislike attempts at bypassing a law or rule by leveraging a technicality.
Even it may be legal, I feel like this is what is wrong with modern business practices.
So I think it is great to get Net Neutrality in the law and passed by Congress. The thing is that you did not need to repeal the FCC ruling in order to achieve that.
Congress could already have written a law that enacts Net Neutrality and at the same time repeal the FCC ruling that is no longer necessary.
In other words, you usually don't sell your car and THEN buy a new one. You try to do that in a single transaction.
> So, why would someone go to a coffeeshop?
The reason I used to is because I am not at home next to my coffee machine every day.
> Because they enjoy the experience somehow.
Well, getting coffee could also be your leg-stretching time of the day.
What are you talking about? It takes 2 minutes to make coffee. The time to go to starbucks is more than the time to make coffee.
(And you'll get better coffee.)
What he is really saying is that he does not drink coffee out of home. And provided the shit they serve you for coffee in chain store nowadays, I can't say I blame him.
How dare you compare clusterfucks to the Trum administration!? Clusterfucks are insulted!
No, this is not a grammar error. The exam is called "AP Computer Science A".
Any chance you have some pointers on how to do fuzzing correctly? Could be fun to use some of that in testing students code to point out mistakes early on.
Actually if I were a criminal looking for a place to rob or someone to ransom, I would look at estate value more than salaries. And we already pretty much know the value of housing based on public databases.
And 'work history' is also a tool of corporate espionage. When you are a key person in an industry, who you are working with will give competitors an idea about new products and strategic decision making.
Interesting, I never thought of that. Though for most employment/global statistics usage, history 2 years back might just be good enough.
> It makes me wonder if anyone has ever researched the changes that would occur in an environment with increased gravity.
I believe there is prior work on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
> That said, astronauts are obsolete technology. Robots can do it cheaper and better.
Isn't latency a problem for many things? Sure if you can program the robot to do everything it won't matter too much. And semi autonomous robots could do many things. But if you need human decision, then you need about 3 minutes for any sensing data to reach earth and then 3 minutes for even an immediate reaction to get back to mars.
Or am I missing something?
who gets paid in pounds lol
If that's worth anything, my doctor says I should get rid of 60 !
I think you are overestimating how much power these heaters consume. I used to warm my apartment in Grenoble with 800W heaters. (one per window kind of thing). So You could easily get that with processors. You are also ignoring storage and memory in your wattage count.
Also, even if you have a lower power heater, it is still a good thing if it is free to you. because you can let that heater on 24/7. While your conventional heater will probably go in and out during the day. Maybe you are using a 2000W heater, but it is not running 24 hours a day. The integral is heating is mostly what matters.
Think also of all the case where you are not home (or in that room) but you still do not want your home/room to get too cold. A smaller heater would do that.
> [flipped classrom] is much more difficult if I have more than a dozen or so students.
That is my main complain about the flipped classroom craziness we see these days. They assume that we all have classes of less than 30 students.
This semester, I teach 110 students. Even with 2 TAs, the idea that we can actually talk to each student every week is a pipe dream. We can not even have recitation with lead b the TA because we do not have space to hold these sessions. Even if we had room, over half our students are working 25hours or more a week and probably would not have time to show up.