Honestly, I do not know understand why it is an issue to dislike someone because they are Muslim. It's not like disliking a person because they are brown, or black or whatever color.
It does make you an asshole (whether it makes you a racist or not is a semantic question). But there are lots of asshole in the world, so the impact is not that large. What is an issue is when a branch government (federal or local) uses that criterion to curb people's freedoms and rights. Now I am no constitutional lawyer so I won't comment on whether it does infringe or not on freedom of religion. But I do see how the argument can be made.
Exactly, I am one of them. I used to have chronic back pain. Eventually I got to a point when I could barely sit on a chair for 10 minutes. So I went to see a chiropractor. He guessed scoliosis and checked with an x-ray. I got significantly better on day one. I went there about three times a week for about a month. I still go every month or so. Never had back pain anywhere near I used to have for 10 years before.
Am I imagining it? I really don't think so. Are other treatment just as effective or better? Maybe. Probably.
Can it cure cancer or the flu? I haven't met a chiropractor who claim they can. Maybe there are some BS-artist. But we have people claiming they have a perpetual energy machine, does that make physics BS?
What else are the testers to do? Show random films? Then the manufacturers will complain that the test for their TV set had more bright scenes and therefore was unfair to them. Tests have to be identical, so there's no way around using a standard film.
There are solutions to this. You can release a new film every year and report performance across the multiple years of testing. That way you'll be able to see that the TV released in 2016 consumes much more energy on the 2017 film. You'll also be able to see trends from one manufacturer to the next that can point to monkey business
This is harder to do than it looks. But there are efforts to do that. Writing a good textbook takes years. It is at least a full time 1 year effort; maybe 2 or 3. Making it useful as an open source book is an even harder task. Someone needs to pay for the effort. In the US, NSF may be a good place to look for this kind of funding. I have been in contact with some program managers there to do just that. And they are receptive to the idea. So it is probably a matter of time.
Well accessibility can be a lot of things. It is not uniquely being blind. You could have bad vision (make the text bigger), colorblindness (make sure important color schemes have symbols associated with them), deafness (make sure there are subtitles), deafness to particular sound (make sure they are not critical, or if they are, add a visual cue).
Does EVERYTHING need to have a layer of PC-based "everyone must be able to do everything" applied to it?
Well, I don't think it is about having everything doable by everyone. But I think it can be about making sure that you do not prevent a fraction of the population from playing your game simply because you did not think of a way to make it easier on people.
I give you an example, I am colorblind. Some games can be difficult to play for me: Starcraft (the original) was quite difficult on games with many players because I could not tell the difference in color on the mini map. But that can be solved. For instance, frozen bubble used to be impossible for me to play, until I found there is a colorblind mode.
Magic the gathering also relies on a color scheme, but added an icon which makes telling the different kind of magic easy even if you can not tell colors apart.
Don't think of it as bing politically correct, but rather as enabling the most people to play your game without significantly altering the game mechanics.
Who knows, but it makes sense. Amazon has been interested in having brick and mortar stores for a while. And they are also interested in grocery delivery. I see two angles: -use the Whole Foods network to serve as relay point for their regular deliveries -add a food delivery department to Whole Foods
The electoral college is working as designed. If one were to ignore the votes in New York City and Los Angeles -- not even the states of New York and California, but just the two most populous cities across the fruited plain -- Trump wins by half a million votes.
This is an argument I don't quite understand. Why do people keep on making these absurd comments: "If you remove this carefully defined stronghold of one of the candidate, then the other one would have won." That is usually what happens in close races when you remove strongholds. Every time I hear that argument come by, what I really hear is "I don't like this vote, so I am going to pretend it does not exists".
Also, note that the electoral college, does not give more power to rural areas. It gives more power to low population states.
What gives more power to rural areas is the winner takes all rule. By congressional district, you would still have an electoral college with a reinforcement of less populated states, but you would have an election that represent better the population decision.
Winner takes all, and gerrymandering are just tools for the minority to impose its will in a broken electoral system.
But if you could easily est in a real environment, then you should be able to see major discrepency between testing and driving environment. If driving around a circular track doubles the readings compared to the testing environment, you can probably cry foul and investigate.
I teach Computer Science and I have the same experience you have.
Yes reading the textbook is dead but it always was a dumb way of lecturing. If lecturing consists in speaking for 3 hours with no interactions with the room, then yes it is not effective. But does anyone actually lecture like this? This is not a problem with lecturing, it is a problem with the lecturer. Reading the textbook is something the students do not do in practice. They barely even read the assignments before they do them.
The problem is that students do not do homework anymore and almost never on time. So flipped classroom degenerate in bad recitation and bad lab sessions. Because they are doing some work inclass that will look like your final, then the measured student performance improves, but I am not sure their actual understanding improve much. And in particular, I am highly unconvinced that for a student that work outside of class for the prescribed amount of time (usually 3 hours per contact hour) it has any benefits. over the more classic lecture/Q&A/office hours.
Same here. I haven't used MS products except for some basic compatibility with MS users in over 10 years. I don't have a Facebook account and I am very happy not to have one. I have never used apple products nor anyone in my family. Amazon and Google are the remaining ones. I probably could do without Amazon, as I mostly use their retail business and not really their cloud business. And retail has dozens of competitors, maybe not quite as good, but up there.
Google is a harder one to live without. Their search engine really works well; I haven't seen a good competitor. Their mapping app is also pretty good, and much better than OpenStreetMap (despite I love them). Android has its flaws, but it works and allow compatibility across many devices, so it is hard to pass. I am no fan of youtube, but it also get the job done.
Well, I have to disagree. People look at citation to get a quick and dirty idea of how popular a paper or a researcher is. But that is only really used as a first initial filter. Most universities look at impact. And citations can be used as a proxy for impact, but really impact is what people are looking at. Citation patterns are quite important to understand the structure of a field. And be able to mine the work automatically. So I am quite happy to see an effort to make these data more public.
My guess is that the current provider was trying to milk Apple for licensing their GPUs and Apple looked at it and said "we probably can design something as good, let's cut them out".
Well, I am not sure that outsourcing to Europe is actually cheaper because this compares gross salary which means little in practice. I'll take France as an example because I grew up there (moved to the US when I was 25).
In France, your gross salary includes part of the taxes and fees that the employee pays (charges salariales), but it does not contain the taxes and fees that are paid by the employer on the behalf of the employee (charges patronales). These charges patronales can be between 25% and 50% of the gross salary of the employee. And that is before things like company matching contribution to retirement accounts which are also not accounted for in the gross salary.
I am not sure it makes sense to talk about rent in Seoul, Korea. Many people are living on the jeonse system where you give a massive security deposit that the landlord will invest (and give you back when you leave) in exchange for the rent to be very low or even free.
So speaking of "rent" might be very biased. Any Korean around to give feed back on these numbers?
It is a weird definition of overhead. Overhead is usually defined as the part of administrative expenses as opposed to research expenses. But even like that 72% would not be that big necessarily.
When applying to NSF grant, public state universities have indirect cost, often labeled "overhead", which rate is roughly 50% for public universities (it is negociated per university, but that's roughly what it is.) What that 50% overhead means is that if $1 goes to the research (paying faculty in summer time when they do additional research, research assistant, travel, hardware(sometimes)), then an additional $.5 goes to indirect cost (keeping the buildings up, the lights up, the admin staff to do accounting,...) But remember that public universities do not depend on research funding for many things. Some funds directly come from the state and some funds come from the students. If you are looking at research-only institution that do not have that stable and high source of income, the overhead is usually much larger. Some places have an overhead of 100%. I don't know in which category NASA falls, but my guess is that they look more like a national lab, than a public state university.
My machine is setup the way I need to develop my codes. Sure, when I deploy web code, I usually deploy it in a VM. (Though probably I should switch to container.) But what benefit would I have in developing a C library in a VM?
FMA instructions are Fused Multiply Add instruction. Usually their are on SIMD registers and allow you to do "a += b *c". Modern cores can do that on a vector in a single cycle. Actually, they may be able to do more than one FMA on a vector register in a single cycle.
FMA are most commonly used to compute dot product, and are therefore very helpful in linear algebra. (And so they are useful in a ton of data mining algorithms.)
I don't remember EVER talking about the bias of different projections. Never actually looked at a globe in class. I don't remember seeing different projections ever in class. I saw Mercator as a modern map and various medieval maps like T-and-O.
Never thought of the problem of projection before xkcd's famous comic.
(Note, I was educated in France.)
Regarding the difference of projection, I guess that is a nice thing to show in a geography class to show the difficulty of mapping. And of representing things in general.
A flat tax on consumption is fine as long as you do not dig too deeply in it.
The main purpose of taxation is to provide a global pool of money to accomplish tax that can not be efficiently performed by each taxed entity.
You do not expect each citizen to build the 10 yard of road in front of his/her house. You pool money in, and the the global entity (government) will pave the road. Flat taxes are a reasonable way to gather fund for activities that touch all part of your country, like education, unemployment funds, defense spending.
The problem with a flat consumption tax is that it does not allow you to tax more activities that causes a particular stress on particular aspect of your society.
For instance, if two modes of transportation have widely different impact on the cost of maintenance of the globally owned infrastructure, you want the cost of that maintenance to be attached to the entity, goods, that are using them. If flying cost to the company $1 per product, and driving cost $2 per product, then the companies will fly. However, if the maintenance cost of flying by the government is $10 per product, while driving would only cost $2 per product, this is a catastrophy because the government bleeds money for each product flown. Because the real cost of flying does not appear in the company balance sheet, the company will not care. So you need the real cost, or at least something that looks like the real cost to appear in the companies balance sheet.
That is why we see things like taxation on gas (to recoup some of the road cost), or taxation on electronics (to recoup the cost of recycling them when they get to the garbage), or airport tax (to recoup the cost monitoring flights, the runway, security,...).
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Honestly, I do not know understand why it is an issue to dislike someone because they are Muslim. It's not like disliking a person because they are brown, or black or whatever color.
It does make you an asshole (whether it makes you a racist or not is a semantic question). But there are lots of asshole in the world, so the impact is not that large.
What is an issue is when a branch government (federal or local) uses that criterion to curb people's freedoms and rights. Now I am no constitutional lawyer so I won't comment on whether it does infringe or not on freedom of religion. But I do see how the argument can be made.
Exactly, I am one of them. I used to have chronic back pain. Eventually I got to a point when I could barely sit on a chair for 10 minutes. So I went to see a chiropractor.
He guessed scoliosis and checked with an x-ray. I got significantly better on day one. I went there about three times a week for about a month. I still go every month or so.
Never had back pain anywhere near I used to have for 10 years before.
Am I imagining it? I really don't think so.
Are other treatment just as effective or better? Maybe. Probably.
Can it cure cancer or the flu? I haven't met a chiropractor who claim they can. Maybe there are some BS-artist. But we have people claiming they have a perpetual energy machine, does that make physics BS?
What else are the testers to do? Show random films? Then the manufacturers will complain that the test for their TV set had more bright scenes and therefore was unfair to them. Tests have to be identical, so there's no way around using a standard film.
There are solutions to this. You can release a new film every year and report performance across the multiple years of testing. That way you'll be able to see that the TV released in 2016 consumes much more energy on the 2017 film. You'll also be able to see trends from one manufacturer to the next that can point to monkey business
This is harder to do than it looks. But there are efforts to do that.
Writing a good textbook takes years. It is at least a full time 1 year effort; maybe 2 or 3. Making it useful as an open source book is an even harder task. Someone needs to pay for the effort.
In the US, NSF may be a good place to look for this kind of funding. I have been in contact with some program managers there to do just that. And they are receptive to the idea. So it is probably a matter of time.
Well accessibility can be a lot of things. It is not uniquely being blind.
You could have bad vision (make the text bigger), colorblindness (make sure important color schemes have symbols associated with them), deafness (make sure there are subtitles), deafness to particular sound (make sure they are not critical, or if they are, add a visual cue).
Note that there have been FPS for blind people.
Does EVERYTHING need to have a layer of PC-based "everyone must be able to do everything" applied to it?
Well, I don't think it is about having everything doable by everyone. But I think it can be about making sure that you do not prevent a fraction of the population from playing your game simply because you did not think of a way to make it easier on people.
I give you an example, I am colorblind. Some games can be difficult to play for me: Starcraft (the original) was quite difficult on games with many players because I could not tell the difference in color on the mini map. But that can be solved. For instance, frozen bubble used to be impossible for me to play, until I found there is a colorblind mode.
Magic the gathering also relies on a color scheme, but added an icon which makes telling the different kind of magic easy even if you can not tell colors apart.
Don't think of it as bing politically correct, but rather as enabling the most people to play your game without significantly altering the game mechanics.
Who knows, but it makes sense. Amazon has been interested in having brick and mortar stores for a while. And they are also interested in grocery delivery.
I see two angles:
-use the Whole Foods network to serve as relay point for their regular deliveries
-add a food delivery department to Whole Foods
The electoral college is working as designed. If one were to ignore the votes in New York City and Los Angeles -- not even the states of New York and California, but just the two most populous cities across the fruited plain -- Trump wins by half a million votes.
This is an argument I don't quite understand. Why do people keep on making these absurd comments: "If you remove this carefully defined stronghold of one of the candidate, then the other one would have won." That is usually what happens in close races when you remove strongholds. Every time I hear that argument come by, what I really hear is "I don't like this vote, so I am going to pretend it does not exists".
Also, note that the electoral college, does not give more power to rural areas. It gives more power to low population states.
What gives more power to rural areas is the winner takes all rule. By congressional district, you would still have an electoral college with a reinforcement of less populated states, but you would have an election that represent better the population decision.
Winner takes all, and gerrymandering are just tools for the minority to impose its will in a broken electoral system.
Now I wish I could mod this post: "funny, -1" :)
But if you could easily est in a real environment, then you should be able to see major discrepency between testing and driving environment. If driving around a circular track doubles the readings compared to the testing environment, you can probably cry foul and investigate.
I teach Computer Science and I have the same experience you have.
Yes reading the textbook is dead but it always was a dumb way of lecturing.
If lecturing consists in speaking for 3 hours with no interactions with the room, then yes it is not effective. But does anyone actually lecture like this? This is not a problem with lecturing, it is a problem with the lecturer.
Reading the textbook is something the students do not do in practice. They barely even read the assignments before they do them.
The problem is that students do not do homework anymore and almost never on time. So flipped classroom degenerate in bad recitation and bad lab sessions. Because they are doing some work inclass that will look like your final, then the measured student performance improves, but I am not sure their actual understanding improve much.
And in particular, I am highly unconvinced that for a student that work outside of class for the prescribed amount of time (usually 3 hours per contact hour) it has any benefits. over the more classic lecture/Q&A/office hours.
Same here. I haven't used MS products except for some basic compatibility with MS users in over 10 years. I don't have a Facebook account and I am very happy not to have one. I have never used apple products nor anyone in my family.
Amazon and Google are the remaining ones. I probably could do without Amazon, as I mostly use their retail business and not really their cloud business. And retail has dozens of competitors, maybe not quite as good, but up there.
Google is a harder one to live without. Their search engine really works well; I haven't seen a good competitor. Their mapping app is also pretty good, and much better than OpenStreetMap (despite I love them). Android has its flaws, but it works and allow compatibility across many devices, so it is hard to pass. I am no fan of youtube, but it also get the job done.
French citizen in North America voted on Saturday (local time). Our votes were counted yesterday.
But, they are also saying pocky's might be impacted. That's a real problem!
Of course I could just read the article, but I don't want to lose my Slashdot cred... so what's going on?
I am sorry. You lost your Slashdot cred when you read the summary!
Well, I have to disagree. People look at citation to get a quick and dirty idea of how popular a paper or a researcher is.
But that is only really used as a first initial filter. Most universities look at impact. And citations can be used as a proxy for impact, but really impact is what people are looking at.
Citation patterns are quite important to understand the structure of a field. And be able to mine the work automatically. So I am quite happy to see an effort to make these data more public.
My guess is that the current provider was trying to milk Apple for licensing their GPUs and Apple looked at it and said "we probably can design something as good, let's cut them out".
Well, I am not sure that outsourcing to Europe is actually cheaper because this compares gross salary which means little in practice. I'll take France as an example because I grew up there (moved to the US when I was 25).
In France, your gross salary includes part of the taxes and fees that the employee pays (charges salariales), but it does not contain the taxes and fees that are paid by the employer on the behalf of the employee (charges patronales). These charges patronales can be between 25% and 50% of the gross salary of the employee. And that is before things like company matching contribution to retirement accounts which are also not accounted for in the gross salary.
Do you really want me to spend 2000 characters describing my lunch or that amazing bowel movement I just had?
In 140 characters or 2000, I'd rather you don't describe it.
I am not sure it makes sense to talk about rent in Seoul, Korea. Many people are living on the jeonse system where you give a massive security deposit that the landlord will invest (and give you back when you leave) in exchange for the rent to be very low or even free.
So speaking of "rent" might be very biased. Any Korean around to give feed back on these numbers?
It is a weird definition of overhead. Overhead is usually defined as the part of administrative expenses as opposed to research expenses. But even like that 72% would not be that big necessarily.
When applying to NSF grant, public state universities have indirect cost, often labeled "overhead", which rate is roughly 50% for public universities (it is negociated per university, but that's roughly what it is.) ...)
What that 50% overhead means is that if $1 goes to the research (paying faculty in summer time when they do additional research, research assistant, travel, hardware(sometimes)), then an additional $.5 goes to indirect cost (keeping the buildings up, the lights up, the admin staff to do accounting,
But remember that public universities do not depend on research funding for many things. Some funds directly come from the state and some funds come from the students.
If you are looking at research-only institution that do not have that stable and high source of income, the overhead is usually much larger. Some places have an overhead of 100%.
I don't know in which category NASA falls, but my guess is that they look more like a national lab, than a public state university.
I am confused. Why would I develop in a VM?
My machine is setup the way I need to develop my codes. Sure, when I deploy web code, I usually deploy it in a VM. (Though probably I should switch to container.) But what benefit would I have in developing a C library in a VM?
FMA instructions are Fused Multiply Add instruction. Usually their are on SIMD registers and allow you to do "a += b *c". Modern cores can do that on a vector in a single cycle. Actually, they may be able to do more than one FMA on a vector register in a single cycle.
FMA are most commonly used to compute dot product, and are therefore very helpful in linear algebra. (And so they are useful in a ton of data mining algorithms.)
yeah, exactly.
I don't remember EVER talking about the bias of different projections. Never actually looked at a globe in class. I don't remember seeing different projections ever in class. I saw Mercator as a modern map and various medieval maps like T-and-O.
Never thought of the problem of projection before xkcd's famous comic.
(Note, I was educated in France.)
Regarding the difference of projection, I guess that is a nice thing to show in a geography class to show the difficulty of mapping. And of representing things in general.
A flat tax on consumption is fine as long as you do not dig too deeply in it.
The main purpose of taxation is to provide a global pool of money to accomplish tax that can not be efficiently performed by each taxed entity.
You do not expect each citizen to build the 10 yard of road in front of his/her house. You pool money in, and the the global entity (government) will pave the road. Flat taxes are a reasonable way to gather fund for activities that touch all part of your country, like education, unemployment funds, defense spending.
The problem with a flat consumption tax is that it does not allow you to tax more activities that causes a particular stress on particular aspect of your society.
For instance, if two modes of transportation have widely different impact on the cost of maintenance of the globally owned infrastructure, you want the cost of that maintenance to be attached to the entity, goods, that are using them. If flying cost to the company $1 per product, and driving cost $2 per product, then the companies will fly. However, if the maintenance cost of flying by the government is $10 per product, while driving would only cost $2 per product, this is a catastrophy because the government bleeds money for each product flown. Because the real cost of flying does not appear in the company balance sheet, the company will not care. So you need the real cost, or at least something that looks like the real cost to appear in the companies balance sheet.
That is why we see things like taxation on gas (to recoup some of the road cost), or taxation on electronics (to recoup the cost of recycling them when they get to the garbage), or airport tax (to recoup the cost monitoring flights, the runway, security, ...).