Hahahah, yes, strain like a slave to optimize your idealized quasisolution to within a few more percent.
Meanwhile, the real world is changing the data an order of magnitude more quickly, so your solution is almost immediately obsolete. Sometimes it's better to settle for redundant fail-safe heuristics, than a "perfect" solution to an obsolete problem.
Bullshit, William Buckley was an elitist motherfucker and he deserved to be in a few respects, even though he was really just a "personality" more than a real player. Do you think Paul Wolfowitz and Henry Kissinger aren't elitist? Why don't you call one of them up and ask if next time you're in Washington or around Harvard, maybe you could pick up a beer and chat about politics, maybe you could even offer, as an equal, some of your insights into military and economic strategies. (Here's a hint though, if you get your meeting with them: don't actually try to discuss creationism with them. It would be quite a gaffe.)
Conservatives are not "anti-elitist" in any sense, except to the extent that it's an effective line for selling their agenda to the masses.
In short, you're not a moron for being an elitist or anti-elitist. You're a moron for actually believing that conservatives are anti-elitist.
New math was a disaster, but pinning it all on the liberals is a little bit circular reasoning which requires already your identification of elitist/anti-elitist on party lines.
Notice that the Mellon Foundation is also one of the major sponsors of Zotera, the opensource replacement for Endnote featured on/. for bringing about a lawsuit. Not that there's a connection; I'm just saying that it looks like their philanthropic interest is in enriching/enabling scholarly discourse, not in coddling developers. Even the world of charity can be ruthless - people want their donations to change the world, not just subsidize some programmers. It seems some people are learning that open-source can easily work against developers, even when they're working on "good" projects.
Also, if it moves to Bulgaria shouldn't it at least be renamed to Sofiya?
Wait, I know how to solve the problem! The original authors should have claimed exclusive copyrights to the source code and distributed only binaries. Maybe they could even file for a patent on some of their methods.
Well, if those three are the default groups given to all incoming users, then anyone capable of induction will know that you have one (even if you aren't using it, but again they will induce that you probably are).
On the other hand, if you don't have a few groups by default, the feature will likely go unused, or be used poorly.
Unix file permissions would be a lot easier without "write" and "execute", neither of which are really relevant here, so we're down to read. Also there's nothing strange like "execute on a directory means you're able to enter that directory". Finally, we can leave users out of the permissions entirely, and it's down to groups, of which most people can do great with 3 ("personal", "family" and "work") and the implied "self" with full access. A folder-dropping analogy would work, and at the early stages of the learning curve, even if they make the worst mistakes possible, it'd be the same as facebook today.
I think the problem is that it will make your "work" people curious as hell about what's in the other folders and vice-versa. I don't know if that's a flaw though.
The problem with wild weekend stories, is that it only takes one person photographing you, and someone tagging that photo, to share your story. Even if you're not on facebook.
But seriously, the "aging" Budweiser undergoes is not to develop flavor; the beechwood chips are there just to help clarify the solution, and let the carbon dioxide from fermentation settle out on something.
Beechwood is actually used for its lack of flavor, and it's presoaked in baking soda to remove even more. It's not at all for "aging" the way wine or (especially) whisk[e?]y is. They could just as well use aluminum scraps or fish byproduct as many breweries do. (This is in contrast to Australian wines, which are generally made in industrial conditions, but do use charred oak chips for flavor.)
Tommyknocker here. Someone just mentioned an IBM 2314 in a response to a comment of mine. This inspired me to check up on you and I'm surprised to find such a recent and serendipitously topical post!
Thanks again for taking Wheel and me through the-newspaper-you-worked-for-before-"the newspaper you worked for"'s data systems. We had a great time. Hope all is well with you and your wife and kids.
Uh, life is life, right? What does the choice or lack of choice really matter? Many of the consequences of life are not choices.
Or another way, would you support someone's free will decision to die a good death (eu-thanatos), if he were stricken randomly by a debilitating and painful illness, and not support the same if he brought it on himself?
Eh, at least she admitted she was being a politician. As she said, there were five more weeks left. The quote is a bit out of context, and at least she gave an honest answer as opposed to her current debate "techniques".
I'll take my "operating system" on ROM please. My Commodore 64 would be ready for me as soon as I pressed the switch. Of course, this was followed by loading a program from an audio cassette...
I think it's pretty close - at a rough educated guess, I'd say that after 500 cycles without disciplined use (see below), you'll be around 30% of factory capacity. (I'm assuming a cycle every 1.5 days)
Supposedly keeping the battery between 30% to 70% charge is helpful; there are utilities for this for laptops, don't know about PSP. Running it all the way down is very bad, and when I got lazy about it, my battery life did plummet (though it may have just "aged" independently, it seems connected).
High temperature is bad too, but there's not much you can do about this usually, especially with a PSP. However, it's worth saying that my thinkpad X-series battery (which is at the edge of the laptop, at the hinge) is faring a lot better than my iBook battery which was planted right atop the circuits.:-/
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The most striking to me is Blackwater. Notice that back then Blackwater was basically just a huge gun range and training center for law enforcement and citizens. They really took advantage of the "growth opportunities" provided by 9/11.
OK, it has something to do with integrals, in the sense that 2+2=4 is an integration problem. My point was that sin^2+cos^2=1 is elementary, and your suggestion that knowing its derivation (geometrically or with power series) is in the domain of esoteric eggheads is very disturbing.
They are wasting their time on something enjoyable; mspaint "masterpieces" are comparable to playing WoW or doing macrame (all 3 of these things are great, don't get me wrong).
On the other hand, it's disgusting to have so much productivity and economy wasted on shoe-horning the godawful Excel into pretending intelligence. Not to mention how error-prone it is; a mistake in MSPaint is mildly annoying; a rounding error or outright bogus value in science is close to lying.
If you're willing to spend hours setting it up, and getting it to "sort of" work with touch-ups required every few days. Maybe I'm a dolt, but I never got any of the embedded-R interfaces to work satisfactorily. The documentation was always just too out-dated, and there were too many surprises and inconsistencies. By the time I worked them out, it would have been easier to do it another way.
If you're in a unix environment, I suggest looking at littleR which makes the R libraries usable in unix "piping" style. Useful for batch processing, but of course not good for real-time.
In windows, you're going to have a hard time with either of these. That RExcel mentioned above looks interesting, even though it offends my sensibilities.;-)
If you ever get around to reading the last sentence of my post, please add to it the following: "Further, even if P faithfully captures `tractability', a P=NP proof would not necessarily give any insight on practical algorithm design."
The solution to this problem and a practical demonstration would be worth billions, possibly even trillions, of dollars...
How's that exactly? As you said, "everyone knows or at least strongly suspects" the answer. Further, there are plenty of results developed on either assumption, that P=NP, or P\neq NP (and even that it's undecidable), so I don't really understand where the economic value comes in. Even if we prove P=NP (even suggesting this to most serious theorists will produce a laugh), it would likely just mean that the heuristic that "P means real-world tractable" is broken.
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Hahahah, yes, strain like a slave to optimize your idealized quasisolution to within a few more percent.
Meanwhile, the real world is changing the data an order of magnitude more quickly, so your solution is almost immediately obsolete. Sometimes it's better to settle for redundant fail-safe heuristics, than a "perfect" solution to an obsolete problem.
Bullshit, William Buckley was an elitist motherfucker and he deserved to be in a few respects, even though he was really just a "personality" more than a real player. Do you think Paul Wolfowitz and Henry Kissinger aren't elitist? Why don't you call one of them up and ask if next time you're in Washington or around Harvard, maybe you could pick up a beer and chat about politics, maybe you could even offer, as an equal, some of your insights into military and economic strategies. (Here's a hint though, if you get your meeting with them: don't actually try to discuss creationism with them. It would be quite a gaffe.)
Conservatives are not "anti-elitist" in any sense, except to the extent that it's an effective line for selling their agenda to the masses.
In short, you're not a moron for being an elitist or anti-elitist. You're a moron for actually believing that conservatives are anti-elitist.
New math was a disaster, but pinning it all on the liberals is a little bit circular reasoning which requires already your identification of elitist/anti-elitist on party lines.
Notice that the Mellon Foundation is also one of the major sponsors of Zotera, the opensource replacement for Endnote featured on /. for bringing about a lawsuit. Not that there's a connection; I'm just saying that it looks like their philanthropic interest is in enriching/enabling scholarly discourse, not in coddling developers. Even the world of charity can be ruthless - people want their donations to change the world, not just subsidize some programmers. It seems some people are learning that open-source can easily work against developers, even when they're working on "good" projects.
Also, if it moves to Bulgaria shouldn't it at least be renamed to Sofiya?
Wait, I know how to solve the problem! The original authors should have claimed exclusive copyrights to the source code and distributed only binaries. Maybe they could even file for a patent on some of their methods.
Well, if those three are the default groups given to all incoming users, then anyone capable of induction will know that you have one (even if you aren't using it, but again they will induce that you probably are).
On the other hand, if you don't have a few groups by default, the feature will likely go unused, or be used poorly.
Unix file permissions would be a lot easier without "write" and "execute", neither of which are really relevant here, so we're down to read. Also there's nothing strange like "execute on a directory means you're able to enter that directory". Finally, we can leave users out of the permissions entirely, and it's down to groups, of which most people can do great with 3 ("personal", "family" and "work") and the implied "self" with full access. A folder-dropping analogy would work, and at the early stages of the learning curve, even if they make the worst mistakes possible, it'd be the same as facebook today.
I think the problem is that it will make your "work" people curious as hell about what's in the other folders and vice-versa. I don't know if that's a flaw though.
The problem with wild weekend stories, is that it only takes one person photographing you, and someone tagging that photo, to share your story. Even if you're not on facebook.
But seriously, the "aging" Budweiser undergoes is not to develop flavor; the beechwood chips are there just to help clarify the solution, and let the carbon dioxide from fermentation settle out on something.
Beechwood is actually used for its lack of flavor, and it's presoaked in baking soda to remove even more. It's not at all for "aging" the way wine or (especially) whisk[e?]y is. They could just as well use aluminum scraps or fish byproduct as many breweries do. (This is in contrast to Australian wines, which are generally made in industrial conditions, but do use charred oak chips for flavor.)
http://www.theweekbehind.com/articles/beechwood.html
Matt,
Tommyknocker here. Someone just mentioned an IBM 2314 in a response to a comment of mine. This inspired me to check up on you and I'm surprised to find such a recent and serendipitously topical post!
Thanks again for taking Wheel and me through the-newspaper-you-worked-for-before-"the newspaper you worked for"'s data systems. We had a great time. Hope all is well with you and your wife and kids.
Uh, life is life, right? What does the choice or lack of choice really matter? Many of the consequences of life are not choices.
Or another way, would you support someone's free will decision to die a good death (eu-thanatos), if he were stricken randomly by a debilitating and painful illness, and not support the same if he brought it on himself?
Eh, at least she admitted she was being a politician. As she said, there were five more weeks left. The quote is a bit out of context, and at least she gave an honest answer as opposed to her current debate "techniques".
So I take it you won't be voting for Bob Barr?
MS-DOS 3.0? Hard drive? Disks?
I'll take my "operating system" on ROM please. My Commodore 64 would be ready for me as soon as I pressed the switch. Of course, this was followed by loading a program from an audio cassette...
I didn't know they made urinals out of beechwood.
I think it's pretty close - at a rough educated guess, I'd say that after 500 cycles without disciplined use (see below), you'll be around 30% of factory capacity. (I'm assuming a cycle every 1.5 days)
Supposedly keeping the battery between 30% to 70% charge is helpful; there are utilities for this for laptops, don't know about PSP. Running it all the way down is very bad, and when I got lazy about it, my battery life did plummet (though it may have just "aged" independently, it seems connected).
High temperature is bad too, but there's not much you can do about this usually, especially with a PSP. However, it's worth saying that my thinkpad X-series battery (which is at the edge of the laptop, at the hinge) is faring a lot better than my iBook battery which was planted right atop the circuits. :-/
The most striking to me is Blackwater. Notice that back then Blackwater was basically just a huge gun range and training center for law enforcement and citizens. They really took advantage of the "growth opportunities" provided by 9/11.
OK, it has something to do with integrals, in the sense that 2+2=4 is an integration problem. My point was that sin^2+cos^2=1 is elementary, and your suggestion that knowing its derivation (geometrically or with power series) is in the domain of esoteric eggheads is very disturbing.
*boggles* Are you serious? This has nothing to do with integrals.
It's from a quasiliterate conversation on Yahoo! Answers. A nice dramatic reenactment is here (flash warning): http://www.somethingawful.com/flash/shmorky/babby.swf
Now please excuse me while I run a couple monte carlo simulations in Excel.
I wish you were joking, but I know better...
They are wasting their time on something enjoyable; mspaint "masterpieces" are comparable to playing WoW or doing macrame (all 3 of these things are great, don't get me wrong).
On the other hand, it's disgusting to have so much productivity and economy wasted on shoe-horning the godawful Excel into pretending intelligence. Not to mention how error-prone it is; a mistake in MSPaint is mildly annoying; a rounding error or outright bogus value in science is close to lying.
If you're willing to spend hours setting it up, and getting it to "sort of" work with touch-ups required every few days. Maybe I'm a dolt, but I never got any of the embedded-R interfaces to work satisfactorily. The documentation was always just too out-dated, and there were too many surprises and inconsistencies. By the time I worked them out, it would have been easier to do it another way.
If you're in a unix environment, I suggest looking at littleR which makes the R libraries usable in unix "piping" style. Useful for batch processing, but of course not good for real-time.
In windows, you're going to have a hard time with either of these. That RExcel mentioned above looks interesting, even though it offends my sensibilities. ;-)
If you ever get around to reading the last sentence of my post, please add to it the following: "Further, even if P faithfully captures `tractability', a P=NP proof would not necessarily give any insight on practical algorithm design."
The solution to this problem and a practical demonstration would be worth billions, possibly even trillions, of dollars...
How's that exactly? As you said, "everyone knows or at least strongly suspects" the answer. Further, there are plenty of results developed on either assumption, that P=NP, or P\neq NP (and even that it's undecidable), so I don't really understand where the economic value comes in. Even if we prove P=NP (even suggesting this to most serious theorists will produce a laugh), it would likely just mean that the heuristic that "P means real-world tractable" is broken.
... except for when they sell it on eBay. That would count as an "exception" right?
I guess the question would be: in the UK, how much civil damages could you claim if an unofficial thug tore up your photo album and mementos?