Challenge accepted. In the last 10 years: -Malala Yousafzai is a nobel peace prize winner and she is from pakistan. https://www.nobelprize.org/nob... -Aziz Sancar was born and educated in turkey (difficult to tell whether he is of muslim faith or not, but he was probably at least raised in that culture) and is a chemistry nobel prize recipient. -Maryam Mirzakhani was born and educated (up to bachelor) in Iran and received a Fields medal.
Well, there is a misconception that "it is published therefore it has been thoroughly reviewed". That is not what the reviewing part of the publication process does. Peer reviewing actually start at publication when other lab will try to reproduce the result or incorporate parts of the work into their own work. And at that point you will see whether it is correct or not.
You never have complete experimental protocols today. Because it is not often clear what matters and what doesn't. Also these protocols can be very complex to write. So you provide only a high level view of the experiments. And when others will try to reproduce it, they will use their own setting. If they can reproduce it as is, perfect. If they can't, they'll start trying to narrow down the important parameters. And we will get a better understanding of the phenomenon as a result.
You should not just cancel all H1B. Many of them are certainly needed. H1B is not only for the tech industry, it is for a whole range of industries. And you can not believe that the US always has all the skills they need.
No that is good for everyone. Because the american worker (citizen or permanent resident) would only be competing against legal alien, and not the population of the entire world. These work visa could still be restricted per field and have wage lower bounds.
What we would gain with visa portability is visa holders would become indistinguishable from the american worker to the companies. Then doing statistics on them to decide how many new visa to emit the year after and how to change the minimum wages bounds.
Well, yes and no. H1B are not actually that portable. The only thing that "portability" means is once you have an H1B, any new H1B application for you is no longer capped for quotas. But you still need a new H1B visa.
That means that your new employer still needs to fill a full application for your new H1B visa. That is an expensive process, and many companies do not want to do that or do not have the legal department to follow up with that.
So while yes, H1B are more flexible that people think, they are not as flexible as would be useful to level the playing field.
It may already be in google maps without you knowing. It is just a matter of weighting differently turns depending on whether they are left or right turns. Actually provided the shit ton on data that google has, they may actually be able to estimate the cost of each turn for each light.
As usual, there is no perfect metric. But there are first cut indicators. Things like bug reported per line of code, size of the diff after a code review, simple measures of code readability, how many bugs closed of particular categories,... Metrics never tell you the entire story, but that gives a quick idea of who is doing what kind of code is being written. You'll need to look deeper into particular developers to put things in context.
I have no idea how the system is built in practice. But the lock does not HAVE TO be on the network if you use a public key encryption system. The lock could read an encrypted stream of bits from the keycard, decypher it with the lock's public key and check the expiration date of the keycard (encoded in the stream of bits) against its internal clock. Now, that has drawback, in particular it prevents easily baning a keycard after it was emitted (since you would need to be able to tell the lock which is not on the network). But the lock does not have to be network connected.
> The field of view is very small and needs to increase ninefold for the hololens to be really useful outside niche applications.
The headset is not too heavy and is fairly balanced on your head. But I still wouldn't wear it out of very particular use cases. So I don't think it will in the current form ever be used "casually". It is going to be either for entertainment or for a particular business use.
The field of view is a bit small, but I still can imagine dozens of applications even at that size. And frankly I do not see how a bigger field of view would make it more applicable: it would be nice, but that wouldn't change the game.
In practice you often already have an classified expense report because each college and each department typically have its own budget. Expenses are most of the time already classified as full time salaries, assistantship, equipment,... And they are often already tagged as research expense, educational expense, building maintenance, etc. because different sources of money can only pay for some type of expenses.
So my guess is that every university has a pretty good idea of the real cost of having students in different majors. Though the funding comes from many sources as well. For instance in state schools, professors salary are paid by the state, and not out of tuition. TA positions are typically paid out of tuition. Building can sometimes be paid out of state money, tuition, or even alumni donations depending on the building. Many uncommon hard to classify expenses are often paid out of the overhead charged by the university on federal grants. The accounting of a university is fairly complicated.
I don't understand why people are upset about the redefinition of unemployment. How unemployment is measured is very clear. Now, one can agree or disagree on how we call those things, which is why we measure unemployement with 6 metrics called U-1 to U-6.
If you think U-3 is a better representative than U-6, then fine, use the U-3. But at the end of the day, they are different statistics that show different trends.
Refining metrics to find the one that is appropriate is what we do all the time in science. We pick the metrics that show the properties of the phenomena we try to explain. We do the same things in finance, we look at stock price, total valuation, dividend per share, price to earning ratio,...
The problem is complex so we use many indices to try to make sense of it.
Interestingly, about half of the game in that top 100 list are available for Linux. That is about the same number available for Mac. Obviously they are all available for windows.
I have been casually playing on Debian using steam. And I do find enough game to keep me entertained. I am not sure whether Unity, steam OS, or the need to port games to mobile systems contributed to the increase in gaming support for Linux. But Linux definitely seems to have reasonable gaming options.
But to make text to speech sounds like someone, you certainly still need a sample of voice and intonation. Certainly it is machine learned and reconstructed afterward. But you probably need a training sample, isn't it? How big would that be ?
I think they are not clear on what the problem was. And their reputation can not afford an other catastrophe. So it makes some sense to go to a different manufacturer while investigated what happened.
"Apple tried. Google tried. Samsung is about to try. And all of them learn sooner or later that these projects have 5-year ramps and 10 years of support, that the hardware is 10x costlier than they are used to, and that the OEMs and end-customers have zero tolerance for their "move fast, break shit" attitude."
Well, Samsung is a big conglomerate with part of the business is building ships, airplanes, and tanks. So they probably can manage a car:)
I'm not saying people shouldn't have holidays, but how do you run a business or country that closes down for a month?
I don't understand, lots of businesses work like that. In the US, almost no business happen between thanksgiving and new year. Universities are essentially closed from Dec 20 to Jan 7. If you are a camping equipment company, I bet your sales department much between September and January. My parents contract salesman and representative for a gardening furniture/cooking company. Their business is February to July. The rest of the year is just there to prepare the next season.
It actually makes sense to have entire department off (probably besides one guy) for an entire month. You don't have to worry about scheduling time off for the employees to make sure you have 80% capacity at all time. You can tell your business associates "In July, no one is there." And since everyone is gone at the same time, you are pretty sure that the department will run at about 100% the rest of the time.
Now I am not saying it is possible for every single company and every single department. But overall, there are advantages.
That said... heh, 20 weeks is a lot, that's like 5 months.
Actually I am not sure I agree with that. It is not just about the kid being taken care of, it is about ensuring that the parents (both of them) will actually bond with the little one. Bonding with the kid happens for both the mother and the father in the first few month after birth. If society want its fathers to be invested in the life of their kid so they don't bail out, it makes sense in investing in that relationship.
Assuming you take two 20 weeks leave (~ 2 kids in average), that's only about 2% of your active time (assuming people work about 40 years). For the company, it is not that expensive, (assuming you don't hire exclusively 20-35 years old): a 2% overhead to ensure your employees would love working for you, that's not bad. And if employees only have a 2% RoI, your business is in trouble.
I am always wondering when I read slashdot. It seems like every other slashdotter has the single worse cinema experience ever. I go the the movies fairly often (every other week or so), and I have trouble with "uncivil patrons" maybe once a year. What are we doing differently? I go there usually on friday or saturday either at 10pm or midnight. Usually at my local AMC. I almost never have any problem. Maybe timing or location makes the difference?
I am not sure why they are talking about that. Similar measures happen almost every year in Paris. Pollution goes high and they shut down local traffic for a few days and promote public transportation as an alternative. It is the first time I see it on Slashdot, but it happens frequently.
Provided some simple apps can be north of 100MB, I very much welcome that you can update without redownloading everything. That is particularly true for apps that insist on being at the latest version to run.
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What ? This is slashdot! Since when do we read things before disagreeing with them?!
Challenge accepted. In the last 10 years:
-Malala Yousafzai is a nobel peace prize winner and she is from pakistan. https://www.nobelprize.org/nob...
-Aziz Sancar was born and educated in turkey (difficult to tell whether he is of muslim faith or not, but he was probably at least raised in that culture) and is a chemistry nobel prize recipient.
-Maryam Mirzakhani was born and educated (up to bachelor) in Iran and received a Fields medal.
Well, there is a misconception that "it is published therefore it has been thoroughly reviewed". That is not what the reviewing part of the publication process does. Peer reviewing actually start at publication when other lab will try to reproduce the result or incorporate parts of the work into their own work. And at that point you will see whether it is correct or not.
You never have complete experimental protocols today. Because it is not often clear what matters and what doesn't. Also these protocols can be very complex to write. So you provide only a high level view of the experiments. And when others will try to reproduce it, they will use their own setting. If they can reproduce it as is, perfect. If they can't, they'll start trying to narrow down the important parameters. And we will get a better understanding of the phenomenon as a result.
You should not just cancel all H1B. Many of them are certainly needed. H1B is not only for the tech industry, it is for a whole range of industries. And you can not believe that the US always has all the skills they need.
No that is good for everyone. Because the american worker (citizen or permanent resident) would only be competing against legal alien, and not the population of the entire world. These work visa could still be restricted per field and have wage lower bounds.
What we would gain with visa portability is visa holders would become indistinguishable from the american worker to the companies. Then doing statistics on them to decide how many new visa to emit the year after and how to change the minimum wages bounds.
Well, yes and no. H1B are not actually that portable. The only thing that "portability" means is once you have an H1B, any new H1B application for you is no longer capped for quotas. But you still need a new H1B visa.
That means that your new employer still needs to fill a full application for your new H1B visa. That is an expensive process, and many companies do not want to do that or do not have the legal department to follow up with that.
So while yes, H1B are more flexible that people think, they are not as flexible as would be useful to level the playing field.
It may already be in google maps without you knowing. It is just a matter of weighting differently turns depending on whether they are left or right turns. Actually provided the shit ton on data that google has, they may actually be able to estimate the cost of each turn for each light.
As usual, there is no perfect metric. But there are first cut indicators. ...
Things like bug reported per line of code, size of the diff after a code review, simple measures of code readability, how many bugs closed of particular categories,
Metrics never tell you the entire story, but that gives a quick idea of who is doing what kind of code is being written. You'll need to look deeper into particular developers to put things in context.
I have no idea how the system is built in practice. But the lock does not HAVE TO be on the network if you use a public key encryption system.
The lock could read an encrypted stream of bits from the keycard, decypher it with the lock's public key and check the expiration date of the keycard (encoded in the stream of bits) against its internal clock.
Now, that has drawback, in particular it prevents easily baning a keycard after it was emitted (since you would need to be able to tell the lock which is not on the network). But the lock does not have to be network connected.
> The field of view is very small and needs to increase ninefold for the hololens to be really useful outside niche applications.
The headset is not too heavy and is fairly balanced on your head. But I still wouldn't wear it out of very particular use cases. So I don't think it will in the current form ever be used "casually". It is going to be either for entertainment or for a particular business use.
The field of view is a bit small, but I still can imagine dozens of applications even at that size. And frankly I do not see how a bigger field of view would make it more applicable: it would be nice, but that wouldn't change the game.
In practice you often already have an classified expense report because each college and each department typically have its own budget. Expenses are most of the time already classified as full time salaries, assistantship, equipment, ... And they are often already tagged as research expense, educational expense, building maintenance, etc. because different sources of money can only pay for some type of expenses.
So my guess is that every university has a pretty good idea of the real cost of having students in different majors.
Though the funding comes from many sources as well. For instance in state schools, professors salary are paid by the state, and not out of tuition. TA positions are typically paid out of tuition. Building can sometimes be paid out of state money, tuition, or even alumni donations depending on the building. Many uncommon hard to classify expenses are often paid out of the overhead charged by the university on federal grants. The accounting of a university is fairly complicated.
I don't understand why people are upset about the redefinition of unemployment. How unemployment is measured is very clear. Now, one can agree or disagree on how we call those things, which is why we measure unemployement with 6 metrics called U-1 to U-6.
If you think U-3 is a better representative than U-6, then fine, use the U-3. But at the end of the day, they are different statistics that show different trends.
Refining metrics to find the one that is appropriate is what we do all the time in science. We pick the metrics that show the properties of the phenomena we try to explain. We do the same things in finance, we look at stock price, total valuation, dividend per share, price to earning ratio, ...
The problem is complex so we use many indices to try to make sense of it.
Jar-Jar Abrams cured me.
What are you talking about, Abrams never worked on Star Trek.
*rocks back and forth* Abrams never worked on Star Trek. Abrams never worked on Star Trek.
yes you can build a beowulf cluster of it. It was done on previous generation of r-pi.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/b...
Interestingly, about half of the game in that top 100 list are available for Linux. That is about the same number available for Mac. Obviously they are all available for windows.
I have been casually playing on Debian using steam. And I do find enough game to keep me entertained. I am not sure whether Unity, steam OS, or the need to port games to mobile systems contributed to the increase in gaming support for Linux. But Linux definitely seems to have reasonable gaming options.
Opinions ?
But to make text to speech sounds like someone, you certainly still need a sample of voice and intonation. Certainly it is machine learned and reconstructed afterward. But you probably need a training sample, isn't it?
How big would that be ?
I think they are not clear on what the problem was. And their reputation can not afford an other catastrophe. So it makes some sense to go to a different manufacturer while investigated what happened.
"Apple tried. Google tried. Samsung is about to try. And all of them learn sooner or later that these projects have 5-year ramps and 10 years of support, that the hardware is 10x costlier than they are used to, and that the OEMs and end-customers have zero tolerance for their "move fast, break shit" attitude."
Well, Samsung is a big conglomerate with part of the business is building ships, airplanes, and tanks. So they probably can manage a car :)
I'm not saying people shouldn't have holidays, but how do you run a business or country that closes down for a month?
I don't understand, lots of businesses work like that. In the US, almost no business happen between thanksgiving and new year.
Universities are essentially closed from Dec 20 to Jan 7.
If you are a camping equipment company, I bet your sales department much between September and January.
My parents contract salesman and representative for a gardening furniture/cooking company. Their business is February to July. The rest of the year is just there to prepare the next season.
It actually makes sense to have entire department off (probably besides one guy) for an entire month. You don't have to worry about scheduling time off for the employees to make sure you have 80% capacity at all time. You can tell your business associates "In July, no one is there." And since everyone is gone at the same time, you are pretty sure that the department will run at about 100% the rest of the time.
Now I am not saying it is possible for every single company and every single department. But overall, there are advantages.
That said ... heh, 20 weeks is a lot, that's like 5 months.
Actually I am not sure I agree with that. It is not just about the kid being taken care of, it is about ensuring that the parents (both of them) will actually bond with the little one. Bonding with the kid happens for both the mother and the father in the first few month after birth. If society want its fathers to be invested in the life of their kid so they don't bail out, it makes sense in investing in that relationship.
Assuming you take two 20 weeks leave (~ 2 kids in average), that's only about 2% of your active time (assuming people work about 40 years). For the company, it is not that expensive, (assuming you don't hire exclusively 20-35 years old): a 2% overhead to ensure your employees would love working for you, that's not bad. And if employees only have a 2% RoI, your business is in trouble.
The amazing thing to me is that the linux kernel doesn't even have a testsuite like GCC or binutils (correct me if I'm wrong).
There is a test suite here.
I am always wondering when I read slashdot. It seems like every other slashdotter has the single worse cinema experience ever. I go the the movies fairly often (every other week or so), and I have trouble with "uncivil patrons" maybe once a year.
What are we doing differently? I go there usually on friday or saturday either at 10pm or midnight. Usually at my local AMC. I almost never have any problem.
Maybe timing or location makes the difference?
I am not sure why they are talking about that. Similar measures happen almost every year in Paris. Pollution goes high and they shut down local traffic for a few days and promote public transportation as an alternative.
It is the first time I see it on Slashdot, but it happens frequently.
Provided some simple apps can be north of 100MB, I very much welcome that you can update without redownloading everything. That is particularly true for apps that insist on being at the latest version to run.
Maybe the thief was a car ! Modern AI can be scary!