Sure, go home, crack open a book on programming and sip a cold one. Do some chapter projects, get to know a bit everyday and you'll learn a lot. Start with other peoples samples and learn how to improve or change parts to do what you want.
But unless your truly devoted you won't be part of the code staff anytime before your project is done. At the very least you'll gain an understanding of how it works and what causes delays.
Some people are pretty amazing... there was a kid who learned C coding and submitted his first Linux patch within 6 months of touching a computer for the first time. But chances are that you don't have 8,000 hours time and a rabid passion to devote to get to that level of understanding.
Well I think it's a huge waste of existing space. I'm excited to see such a cool Apple project, but if you take a look at the existing buildings and area you'll see that they are very nice condition. There are at least 17 large to medium size offices, the majority of which have many years of usable life left in them.
Of course, several questions loom over such a project... and nobody asked him anything related. For instance, what will happen with the tons and tons of refuse generated from the destruction and cleanup of the existing building and asphalt? Since they are going to generate their own electricity, will they fall under EPA rules or will they be exempt since it isn't sold? How much fuel and water will be stored on site - and will it be located next to the apartments?
Of course, the coup de grâce was the comment on the Kaiser cement plant... Yes I'm going to build a freak-ass huge building with tons of cement and glass... but I'd be really happy if you kicked out the cement plant located 3 blocks away. Nice...
Here's her quote: "he who warned the British that they weren't gonna be taking away our arms, by ringing those bells and, making sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we're gonna be secure and we were gonna be free."
We can positively say that Palin has an awful and twisted way of telling the story... but she's definitely not completely wrong, and certainly not 100% right... perhaps she's just terrible at telling stories.
You're all being more idiotic than Palin... Here's Revere alerting the British (though no mention or arms):
"I observed a wood at a small distance, and made for that. When I got there, out started six officers on horseback, and ordered me to dismount. One of them, who appeared to have the command, examined me where I came from and what my name was: I told him. He asked if I was an express: I answered in the affirmative. He demanded what time I left Boston: I told him; and added that their troops had catched aground in passing the river, and that there would be five hundred Americans there in a short time for I had alarmed the country all the way up." -Massachusetts Historical Society's Collections, First Series, Vol. V pp. 106ff.
Thanks for that - I truly appreciate your scales of magnitude analogies, as of course I'm not a neurobiologist.
I think another thing CompSci people tend to forget is that all biological cells are like instantiated objects, the "software code" to generate the object is the "hardware" itself.
First - I *did* say that neurons were not analogous to transistors.
Second - I *did* say that there is absolutely no proof that QM is involved with the brain, and in fact said it was unlikely to ever be found.
So what's your point? I was actually making a point - WHAT WE KNOW NOW ISN'T FINALITY. It's possible, just not probable - and it's harnessing the improbable that makes humans what they are.
I think they are connected. But wait, hear me out.
First off, consider the brain. A supercomputer capable of complex logical and illogical(creative) operations. An advanced image, sound, touch and smell processor with noise suppression and extremely high fidelity. A memory storage system capable of storing DECADES of observed data, with advanced compression, keyword-like index, and meta storage of multiple multimedia types together. A complete autonomous maintenance and life support system which directs multiple organs each with numerous functions. Thousands of functions which run simultaneously in real time!
All running within an average of one hundred billion neurons. Don't get me wrong, a neuron is not truly analogous to the transistor... but right now we've got 3 billion count chips out - and so far they're not making pottery or scratching cave paintings, much less doing half the functions described above.
As a good counter example of quantum applications in biology, consider the recent discovery of quantum coherence in photosynthetic systems.
I'll be the first to admit that there is *absolutely no scientific evidence* of quantum-type processes in the brain, and what we do know of physics tends to discount any possibility that we'll every find such processes. However - it was only a year ago that we discovered quantum biology systems in photosynthesis.
Biology, at it's heart is a molecular-level science. It only makes sense that the evolution of biological life would take advantage of quantum mechanics.
Now that you've stooped to epic lows and have arrived at Slashdot, how did you arrive at our nerdy doorway? Do you find that you represent a generation of solitary coders, or are you actually a cool person disguised as a nerd? In other words, do you feel comfortable talking about how many cycles various move instructions take and whether the x86 instruction set is at once one of the universes's greatest achievements and also a momentous failure?
Lastly... have you ever met your southern doppelgänger?
I can't vouch for the veracity of the information, but according to some nuclear biological scientist: the same number of people die from radiation damage no matter if it is dispersed or concentrated, given a constant population density and a long range projection.
So spreading the radioactive waste only spreads the risk per individual to a large population, basically. I don't see how this is good... but whatever.
First off, there are no new chips required... this standard is designed to operate off existing 3gpp type interfaces over gsm/cdma/etc.. The standard is pretty open ended on the handset as far as protocols, only specifying that the message be presented in a an attention getting way.
The interesting thing I think is how to secure the federal gateway... I'm guessing they'll use a dedicated frame relay from the federal CMAS system to the commercial gateways.
These standards are being published by ANSI, they are J-STD-100, J-STD-101, J-STD-102. You may be able to find some of the documents on the 3gpp2.org web site.
That's a pretty cool project! But I do think they still suffer the same latency problems - in order to take advantage of the GPU's full throughput - they have to have a huge number of client connections (chosen solution) or a very deep queue (hard to optimize, only works with larger file sizes).
Certainly this is a great solution for what it is - but it's not a general purpose solution. And you can get a much more reliable and supported solution out there. (e.g. BIG-IP SSL Accelerator, which uses certified FIPS 140-2 hardware.)
As someone who's doing a lot of the same work, this is pretty spectacular! I'm surprised they get > 100MB/sec in software - but I guess that's due to using ECB mode vs. CBC. I think the real I/O limit here is probably in the user/kernel mem copies - context switch weight can be optimized with good buffer alignments.
We did a lot of testing with CUDA under openssl 3-4 years ago - in the end it was better to just stick with software. The latencies are the real killers.
Formal and informal - have IM available during work hours, it's less formal and fast. Let email be for hashing out big issues and letting people know your sick 'having a team chat is good, but it can get a bit overwhelming for more than 4 people, so use it for meetings.
Screen sharing - we use gotomeeting, it's good stuff and works on nearly anything.
Weekly targets - you need to get people used committing to goals and reaching them. If people are done early, then I usually let them off for the day as long as they are available for questions etc. Absolutely let people know they're doing a good job too- often it's hard to judge how things are going just through text, so a phone meeting once a week is fine - I don't do video conference all that much - too many technical glitches, but here and there it's helpful.
Not imaginary, but projects can include lots of non-developer time. Management, administration, testing & qa, equipment and documentation. If I "throw the whole company" at an issue it can all be included in costs as long as it is recorded.
Well it's quite possible to "book" the value of a project much higher than you may actually outlay at any present time. Remember, these costs get deducted, deprecated and ultimately reduce tax burdens.
Whatever his financial responsibilities are, I'm sure they are weighing upon him. I'm sure we all have financial responsibilities we don't enjoy... just part of life. We all miss the budget or the life plan at some point, complaining about it is pretty common place. I'm pretty sure running a campaign is really expensive... just missing work for a few months out of the year probably is costly!
Anyone in America with a major disease and average income is an almost guaranteed bankruptcy.
In my mind, the only people who have a right to complain are the street beggars living off the fat of the people. They truly have no home, no income. nothing,
I imagine we'll be seeing this used in autonomous vehicles pretty soon. Having four kinects on board with some basic processing could definitely replace some or all of the bulky LIDAR systems.
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MIT did that back in the early '90's. Maybe that was the inspiration?
We use goto's all the time in C code. There's nothing wrong with their use. We often use them in a similar way to "try/catch" scenarios.
For instance, we have macros like such::
#define MEMORY_CHECK_GOTO_DONE(x) if(x == NULL) { err = REPORT_ERROR("Allocation failed", ERROR_ALLOCATION); goto DONE }
Works nicely and far fewer typos - which is what you need when you're writing a lot of code.
Sure, go home, crack open a book on programming and sip a cold one. Do some chapter projects, get to know a bit everyday and you'll learn a lot. Start with other peoples samples and learn how to improve or change parts to do what you want.
But unless your truly devoted you won't be part of the code staff anytime before your project is done. At the very least you'll gain an understanding of how it works and what causes delays.
Some people are pretty amazing... there was a kid who learned C coding and submitted his first Linux patch within 6 months of touching a computer for the first time. But chances are that you don't have 8,000 hours time and a rabid passion to devote to get to that level of understanding.
Well I think it's a huge waste of existing space. I'm excited to see such a cool Apple project, but if you take a look at the existing buildings and area you'll see that they are very nice condition. There are at least 17 large to medium size offices, the majority of which have many years of usable life left in them.
So they're going to build a new building? Great!
Of course, several questions loom over such a project... and nobody asked him anything related. For instance, what will happen with the tons and tons of refuse generated from the destruction and cleanup of the existing building and asphalt? Since they are going to generate their own electricity, will they fall under EPA rules or will they be exempt since it isn't sold? How much fuel and water will be stored on site - and will it be located next to the apartments?
Of course, the coup de grâce was the comment on the Kaiser cement plant... Yes I'm going to build a freak-ass huge building with tons of cement and glass... but I'd be really happy if you kicked out the cement plant located 3 blocks away. Nice...
Oh yeah, because when you think Entertainment Mogul - the first thing that comes to mind is a Republican? Are you on crack agin??
* Doug Morris, CEO Sony Music (Formerly CEO of Universal Music), Democrat: http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/douglas-morris.asp?cycle=08
* Lucian Grainge, CEO Universal Music (Owned by Vivendi), Foreign. Democrat PAC: http://www.opensecrets.org/usearch/index.php?q=Universal+Music&sa=Search&cx=010677907462955562473%3Anlldkv0jvam&cof=FORID%3A11
* Roger Faxon, CEO EMI (Under ownership of Citigroup), Foreign. No open records of contributions
* Lyor Cohen, CEO Warner Music, Democrat: http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/lyor-cohen.asp?cycle=08
(Foreigners can't make political contributions (at least not directly to campaigns), so I looked up PAC funding.)
Here's her quote:
"he who warned the British that they weren't gonna be taking away our arms, by ringing those bells and, making sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we're gonna be secure and we were gonna be free."
We can positively say that Palin has an awful and twisted way of telling the story... but she's definitely not completely wrong, and certainly not 100% right... perhaps she's just terrible at telling stories.
You're all being more idiotic than Palin... Here's Revere alerting the British (though no mention or arms):
"I observed a wood at a small distance, and made for that. When I got there, out started six officers on horseback, and ordered me to dismount. One of them, who appeared to have the command, examined me where I came from and what my name was: I told him. He asked if I was an express: I answered in the affirmative. He demanded what time I left Boston: I told him; and added that their troops had catched aground in passing the river, and that there would be five hundred Americans there in a short time for I had alarmed the country all the way up." -Massachusetts Historical Society's Collections, First Series, Vol. V pp. 106ff.
Thanks for that - I truly appreciate your scales of magnitude analogies, as of course I'm not a neurobiologist.
I think another thing CompSci people tend to forget is that all biological cells are like instantiated objects, the "software code" to generate the object is the "hardware" itself.
First - I *did* say that neurons were not analogous to transistors.
Second - I *did* say that there is absolutely no proof that QM is involved with the brain, and in fact said it was unlikely to ever be found.
So what's your point? I was actually making a point - WHAT WE KNOW NOW ISN'T FINALITY. It's possible, just not probable - and it's harnessing the improbable that makes humans what they are.
I think they are connected. But wait, hear me out.
First off, consider the brain. A supercomputer capable of complex logical and illogical(creative) operations. An advanced image, sound, touch and smell processor with noise suppression and extremely high fidelity. A memory storage system capable of storing DECADES of observed data, with advanced compression, keyword-like index, and meta storage of multiple multimedia types together. A complete autonomous maintenance and life support system which directs multiple organs each with numerous functions. Thousands of functions which run simultaneously in real time!
All running within an average of one hundred billion neurons. Don't get me wrong, a neuron is not truly analogous to the transistor... but right now we've got 3 billion count chips out - and so far they're not making pottery or scratching cave paintings, much less doing half the functions described above.
As a good counter example of quantum applications in biology, consider the recent discovery of quantum coherence in photosynthetic systems.
I'll be the first to admit that there is *absolutely no scientific evidence* of quantum-type processes in the brain, and what we do know of physics tends to discount any possibility that we'll every find such processes. However - it was only a year ago that we discovered quantum biology systems in photosynthesis.
Biology, at it's heart is a molecular-level science. It only makes sense that the evolution of biological life would take advantage of quantum mechanics.
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Lets see what happens when we send Congress through this thing?
Now that you've stooped to epic lows and have arrived at Slashdot, how did you arrive at our nerdy doorway? Do you find that you represent a generation of solitary coders, or are you actually a cool person disguised as a nerd? In other words, do you feel comfortable talking about how many cycles various move instructions take and whether the x86 instruction set is at once one of the universes's greatest achievements and also a momentous failure?
Lastly... have you ever met your southern doppelgänger?
I can't vouch for the veracity of the information, but according to some nuclear biological scientist: the same number of people die from radiation damage no matter if it is dispersed or concentrated, given a constant population density and a long range projection.
So spreading the radioactive waste only spreads the risk per individual to a large population, basically. I don't see how this is good... but whatever.
First off, there are no new chips required... this standard is designed to operate off existing 3gpp type interfaces over gsm/cdma/etc.. The standard is pretty open ended on the handset as far as protocols, only specifying that the message be presented in a an attention getting way.
The interesting thing I think is how to secure the federal gateway... I'm guessing they'll use a dedicated frame relay from the federal CMAS system to the commercial gateways.
These standards are being published by ANSI, they are J-STD-100, J-STD-101, J-STD-102. You may be able to find some of the documents on the 3gpp2.org web site.
If you've got $850 bucks laying around, you can read all three interface specifications yourself below:
Device presentation specs:
http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=J-STD-100
Federal CMAS gateway specification (http specs):
http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=J-STD-101
Federal CMAS gateway specification (testing specs):
http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=J-STD-102
That's a pretty cool project! But I do think they still suffer the same latency problems - in order to take advantage of the GPU's full throughput - they have to have a huge number of client connections (chosen solution) or a very deep queue (hard to optimize, only works with larger file sizes).
Certainly this is a great solution for what it is - but it's not a general purpose solution. And you can get a much more reliable and supported solution out there. (e.g. BIG-IP SSL Accelerator, which uses certified FIPS 140-2 hardware.)
As someone who's doing a lot of the same work, this is pretty spectacular! I'm surprised they get > 100MB/sec in software - but I guess that's due to using ECB mode vs. CBC. I think the real I/O limit here is probably in the user/kernel mem copies - context switch weight can be optimized with good buffer alignments.
We did a lot of testing with CUDA under openssl 3-4 years ago - in the end it was better to just stick with software. The latencies are the real killers.
Now it all makes sense... You're the reason they send in SWAT teams!
Just to add a bit to this excellent advise -
Formal and informal - have IM available during work hours, it's less formal and fast. Let email be for hashing out big issues and letting people know your sick 'having a team chat is good, but it can get a bit overwhelming for more than 4 people, so use it for meetings.
Screen sharing - we use gotomeeting, it's good stuff and works on nearly anything.
Weekly targets - you need to get people used committing to goals and reaching them. If people are done early, then I usually let them off for the day as long as they are available for questions etc. Absolutely let people know they're doing a good job too- often it's hard to judge how things are going just through text, so a phone meeting once a week is fine - I don't do video conference all that much - too many technical glitches, but here and there it's helpful.
Good luck!
No, that's ESR(3702).... He used to post here a while back...
Not imaginary, but projects can include lots of non-developer time. Management, administration, testing & qa, equipment and documentation. If I "throw the whole company" at an issue it can all be included in costs as long as it is recorded.
Well it's quite possible to "book" the value of a project much higher than you may actually outlay at any present time. Remember, these costs get deducted, deprecated and ultimately reduce tax burdens.
Or maybe it was just hookers and blow...
Whatever his financial responsibilities are, I'm sure they are weighing upon him. I'm sure we all have financial responsibilities we don't enjoy... just part of life. We all miss the budget or the life plan at some point, complaining about it is pretty common place. I'm pretty sure running a campaign is really expensive... just missing work for a few months out of the year probably is costly!
Anyone in America with a major disease and average income is an almost guaranteed bankruptcy.
In my mind, the only people who have a right to complain are the street beggars living off the fat of the people. They truly have no home, no income. nothing,
I imagine we'll be seeing this used in autonomous vehicles pretty soon. Having four kinects on board with some basic processing could definitely replace some or all of the bulky LIDAR systems.