As I said elsewhere I HATE flying. Flying is not confortable. I could work in a train during this time. At the same time, you can avoid the jet lag more easily since the trip is longer. When I fly from Europe to the USA it always take me more than two days to catch up with the time.
So depending on the price and what I have to do, I might take the train.
il would be something like 50 hours from paris beijing considering the track of the peiking paris track : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_to_Paris . The actual trip would probably be more direct.
Flying the same distance is 10 hours on direct flight and 15/20 with one connection.
Taking the train you will avoid the jetlag and can have more room to work or do what ever in the train. You could also stop during the trip to see the tajmahal.
We don't know how much it will cost, if the price is comparable to flying, I might do that since I HATE flying.
Wii used to be cheaper than the other ones. Today, the wii and the xbox 360 are at the same price ( $199 ). But the games for the wii are cheaper. They are a lot of very fun games on the wii for $15. I don't think it is the case for xbox 360 (but I don't own one so I do not know for sure)
Exactly. My parent tried my wii when they were visiting me for holidays. As soon as they came back they bought a wii. Guess what they are playing the most : wii sport and link crossbow training !
And damn they are good at those games since they have been playing it about one hour a day last year. How should we call them 'casual hardcore gamers' ?
I played mario kart on the wii using the wheel and that was really fun. Not more fun or less fun than using a 'classical' gamepad. Just differently fun.
Wiimote can not be the optimal controller to do the job well. But I am not trying to optimize my karting play. I am trying to have fun!
There are two things here. Several things can happen in term of 'scheduling theory'
-you can have 'super linear speed up' : put 2 workers and go 4 times faster. Think about building an ikea furniture that REQUIRES 2 people alone. Or about specialized workers : it might be better to add a microwave to a kitchen than a second oven. In computer systems, cache/memory can lead to super linear speed or dedicated hardware acceleration like graphic cards.
-you can have 'linear speed up' : put 2 workers and go 2 times faster. This is usally the case when the problem can be divided in a lot of independent task like painting 20000 doors. In computer systems this happens when uncompressing videos for instance.
-you can have 'sublinear speed up' : put 2 workers and go 1.3 times faster. This happens when you need to do extra work to allow some several workers to work at the same time. As in tagging files so that other people can handle them (In computer science, computing a prefix sum array in parallel follows this principle). It also happens when there is not enough work for everybody (the 9 pregnant women case)
-you can also have 'negative speed up' : put 2 workers and go 1.3 times slower. This happens when people get in each others way fighting for the brush to paint. In computer systems, this is often the case when adding processors increase communication too much.
I guess it is also important to understand how professors are hired. They are hired by heir expertise and not by their taching skills. In fact they never have been taught how to teach.
By the way, I think at this age a student should be able to overcome the boreness of a teaching to understand what's behind.
If a student is not paying attention in my class, I just kick him out. Because he makes my job more difficult and I want to do my job well. I am not going to report him not being in class/lecture and in fact I just don't care who is here and who is not. But if you are in my lecture/class, you are working on it. Otherwise, go get a coffee, I might even pay for it.
You are right. Students vary a lot from one year to the other (at least in France). And they may need details or more time to get it on different aspects every year. As a lecturer, you need to understand from the audience by watching their reaction. And I think it would be more difficult with students writing on laptops.
I just think it is not possible to build such useful data. I am working in parallel computing through a theoretical scheduling perspective. Each single paper you see is interested in a slightly different model which needs slightly different parameters or have a look at slightly different metrics.
Despite I would love to have a database that provides the instances of all those guys as well as their implementations and results, I do not believe it is going to happen. Since every scientist need different parameters they will all end up with different databases. This will remove the interested of having such a database to begin with.
However, it is obvious to me that we want the data that were used to generated the results available so that reviewers can have a look at them.
But in france, on ADSL, the advertised bandwidth is the ATM bandwidth. So when Free Telecom advertise 20Mbps it is actually 16Mbps. And for trying to use this bandwidth for downloading... Debian ISO... over bittorrent, you actually get 16Mbps (ok perhaps 15.8 but who cares).
So yes, there is an overhead between usefull bandwidth and advertised bandwidth which is constant by technology and usually written in the fine lines. Moreover, 20Mbps (atm) is a de facto standard in France, we tend to think that anything slower is slow.
Whereas where I live now (Columbus, OH) people tend to say "Wow 6Mbps!!"
-The books are ripped off, broken or people wrote on them.
-Last time I checked the 3 libraries close to me, they had less than 30% of the book I have at home.
-I think book is one of the cheapest entertainment. I read approximatively a page in 1 minute to 1.5 minutes (non native english speaker). The last 3 books I read are "halting state" by charles stross, 8 USD for 324 pages, "the dreaming void" by peter hamilton 9 USD for 600 pages and "the engines of god" by jack mcdevitt 8 USD for 418 pages. The price per hour are respectively 1.18 USD, 0.72 USD, 0.91 USD. This is approximatively 5 time cheaper than a movie at the cinema (just for me, not talking about my gf that join me for this 'boring science fiction' movie or if I join her to the latest 'same over again love story' ).
-I can still lend them to friend or even give them as gift.
-(Call this one luxury if you want) I like to have at home several books that I haven't read yet but that I will so that when I want to read a book, I can just pick the one that fit my mood NOW.
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It is in progress in fact. That was the point of intel 80 cores prototype.
I found funny that with time we keep doing the cycle external processor->co processor->ntergrate in CPU dye -> external processor
As I said elsewhere I HATE flying. Flying is not confortable. I could work in a train during this time. At the same time, you can avoid the jet lag more easily since the trip is longer. When I fly from Europe to the USA it always take me more than two days to catch up with the time.
So depending on the price and what I have to do, I might take the train.
Moreover, a 50hours long train trip is COOL ! :)
il would be something like 50 hours from paris beijing considering the track of the peiking paris track : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_to_Paris . The actual trip would probably be more direct.
Flying the same distance is 10 hours on direct flight and 15/20 with one connection.
Taking the train you will avoid the jetlag and can have more room to work or do what ever in the train. You could also stop during the trip to see the tajmahal.
We don't know how much it will cost, if the price is comparable to flying, I might do that since I HATE flying.
I find it funny that it is the french acronym for "Best Before"
Indeed, Most of the time using C for getting those CPU cycles will be useless.
The contest has a cpu time limit which seems to be reasonnable for a programming contest.
That's weird. Each time I joined a dev/support channel to ask a question I got a reasonable answer. I guess it depends on the project.
Wii used to be cheaper than the other ones. Today, the wii and the xbox 360 are at the same price ( $199 ). But the games for the wii are cheaper. They are a lot of very fun games on the wii for $15. I don't think it is the case for xbox 360 (but I don't own one so I do not know for sure)
Exactly. My parent tried my wii when they were visiting me for holidays. As soon as they came back they bought a wii. Guess what they are playing the most : wii sport and link crossbow training !
And damn they are good at those games since they have been playing it about one hour a day last year. How should we call them 'casual hardcore gamers' ?
Exactly!
I played mario kart on the wii using the wheel and that was really fun. Not more fun or less fun than using a 'classical' gamepad. Just differently fun.
Wiimote can not be the optimal controller to do the job well. But I am not trying to optimize my karting play. I am trying to have fun!
Let me observe one postless day to the memory of this child.
you can not be a manager since you did something useful! :)
There are two things here. Several things can happen in term of 'scheduling theory'
-you can have 'super linear speed up' : put 2 workers and go 4 times faster. Think about building an ikea furniture that REQUIRES 2 people alone. Or about specialized workers : it might be better to add a microwave to a kitchen than a second oven. In computer systems, cache/memory can lead to super linear speed or dedicated hardware acceleration like graphic cards.
-you can have 'linear speed up' : put 2 workers and go 2 times faster. This is usally the case when the problem can be divided in a lot of independent task like painting 20000 doors. In computer systems this happens when uncompressing videos for instance.
-you can have 'sublinear speed up' : put 2 workers and go 1.3 times faster. This happens when you need to do extra work to allow some several workers to work at the same time. As in tagging files so that other people can handle them (In computer science, computing a prefix sum array in parallel follows this principle). It also happens when there is not enough work for everybody (the 9 pregnant women case)
-you can also have 'negative speed up' : put 2 workers and go 1.3 times slower. This happens when people get in each others way fighting for the brush to paint. In computer systems, this is often the case when adding processors increase communication too much.
instead of the google translation of a 2 paragraphs-long article ?
I guess it is also important to understand how professors are hired. They are hired by heir expertise and not by their taching skills. In fact they never have been taught how to teach.
By the way, I think at this age a student should be able to overcome the boreness of a teaching to understand what's behind.
If a student is not paying attention in my class, I just kick him out. Because he makes my job more difficult and I want to do my job well. I am not going to report him not being in class/lecture and in fact I just don't care who is here and who is not. But if you are in my lecture/class, you are working on it. Otherwise, go get a coffee, I might even pay for it.
You are right. Students vary a lot from one year to the other (at least in France). And they may need details or more time to get it on different aspects every year. As a lecturer, you need to understand from the audience by watching their reaction. And I think it would be more difficult with students writing on laptops.
I just think it is not possible to build such useful data. I am working in parallel computing through a theoretical scheduling perspective.
Each single paper you see is interested in a slightly different model which needs slightly different parameters or have a look at slightly different metrics.
Despite I would love to have a database that provides the instances of all those guys as well as their implementations and results, I do not believe it is going to happen. Since every scientist need different parameters they will all end up with different databases. This will remove the interested of having such a database to begin with.
However, it is obvious to me that we want the data that were used to generated the results available so that reviewers can have a look at them.
I believe it is BS too.
But in france, on ADSL, the advertised bandwidth is the ATM bandwidth. So when Free Telecom advertise 20Mbps it is actually 16Mbps. And for trying to use this bandwidth for downloading... Debian ISO... over bittorrent, you actually get 16Mbps (ok perhaps 15.8 but who cares).
So yes, there is an overhead between usefull bandwidth and advertised bandwidth which is constant by technology and usually written in the fine lines. Moreover, 20Mbps (atm) is a de facto standard in France, we tend to think that anything slower is slow.
Whereas where I live now (Columbus, OH) people tend to say "Wow 6Mbps!!"
It is not that I have 3 times more book than them. Juste that they almost have no science fiction but I have a lot of them.
or perhaps, you should get a real e book reader instead of using a mobile phone to do that...
but, but, it is from APPLE!!!!
*faints*
So do I. I never use library for several reasons:
-The books are ripped off, broken or people wrote on them.
-Last time I checked the 3 libraries close to me, they had less than 30% of the book I have at home.
-I think book is one of the cheapest entertainment. I read approximatively a page in 1 minute to 1.5 minutes (non native english speaker). The last 3 books I read are "halting state" by charles stross, 8 USD for 324 pages, "the dreaming void" by peter hamilton 9 USD for 600 pages and "the engines of god" by jack mcdevitt 8 USD for 418 pages. The price per hour are respectively 1.18 USD, 0.72 USD, 0.91 USD. This is approximatively 5 time cheaper than a movie at the cinema (just for me, not talking about my gf that join me for this 'boring science fiction' movie or if I join her to the latest 'same over again love story' ).
-I can still lend them to friend or even give them as gift.
-(Call this one luxury if you want) I like to have at home several books that I haven't read yet but that I will so that when I want to read a book, I can just pick the one that fit my mood NOW.
Make a song out of it as for emergency numbers : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK4Xye7AErE
but will it run crysis ?