we don't think it's the same thing. put briefly, we just think that your fairy tale pure capitalism can't exist, and that its supporters are naive dupes of the cronies and neo-feudalists.
uh, none of those movies are even close to obscene by today's legal standards. yes, the MPAA's raters may have problems with them, but that's a different issue having nothing to do with copyright protection or legal status.
a lot of it, but many packages use C routines for tight loops and such.
frankly i wouldn't trust translated numerical code from a parser without a lot of auditing, especially since R is a clusterfuck of kludges and julia is a moving target under development. there are so many R packages (currently 5,579) written by so many people without much development experience that even a minimal amount of manpowered auditing/revision would be too much, especially since many of the packages are under active development
a better solution would probably be to have julia provide an R emulator. the speed and memory hits will be substantial, but R is already crappy for speed and memory.
also, professors can use their flexible time to do private consulting. most schools have fairly permissive policies about this, with a limit of X hours per week. sure, if you're seeking tenure it might not be the smartest way to use your time, but a consultant who is active technical faculty at an Ivy League school can command quite a premium.
my friend uses julia, and every few weeks complains about some bug. the other day he mentioned that the latest release broke Bernoulli sampling (wtf?). the others have been pretty fundamental too.
this is a serious problem, of course. the other one is lack of libraries. R is an abysmal pile of shit, but at least it's a standard; pretty much 95%+ of applied stats is at least partially supported by someone's hacked-up library/package. julia is far, far short of that, and it appears that much of its community is more interested in pretty graphics, meta-wankery, and interface methodology than actual working statistics (not that there's anything wrong with that per se).
yeah, yeah, "fix it yourself," and it's on my list to write at least a basic survival analysis package for it. but i wouldn't blame anyone for not using it, and i wouldn't recommend it for doing stats as it is now.
yeah, subsidized. or maybe those $50 headphones didn't really cost $40 (lol) in shipping and retail markup, and they make plenty of profit but would prefer to keep as much as possible while not losing the business of people who have higher quality standards and not enough money to burn. yes, those people might buy sennheiser's more expensive stuff later, but that doesn't necessarily mean the return is taking a net loss.
but, yeah, pursuing a return on a noname $3 mouse seems pointless. i guess everyone draws the line somewhere. some people treat macbook pros as disposable.
you might be surprised. when my ~$50 sennheiser in-ear headphones broke, i sent them in under the 2-year warranty and got a free replacement. they probably cost ~$5 to manufacture, so they have plenty of margin for support; they just make more money if fewer people use what they are entitled to.
it is interesting. some people might even prefer a product with a supportive community but slightly more 'bugs'/tricks to one which is more reliable and/or over-rigidly documented.
uh, countries with legalized prostitution still have men buying women drinks. it's still cheaper than a whore (relative to the bar; if you go to an expensive bar, the 'equivalent' whore would be proportionally more expensive of course), and often you have more options, not to mention that the process as a whole is more enjoyable, at least for me.
btw, you don't need to spend a lot on drinks if you don't want to, and many schools of thought (both feminist and "PUA") say you shouldn't. you just need other redeeming qualities and a bit of spine. i've gotten laid at a fairly respectable rate without spending a cent.
no, it's not ironic. the simulator is just a fucking project they're hosting because it's 'cool'. they are not investing anything in it beyond a smidgen of bandwidth and disk space, and they are not endorsing it.
they're also not "betting heavily" on D-wave. it was a stab-in-the-dark just-in-case thing which they could afford with the coins under Sergei's couch cushions, and despite that i wouldn't be surprised if they're still regretting how hopeless their investment turned out to be. D-wave is bullshit.
*: unless D-wave secretly paid google a huge pile of cash for this implied endorsement. it's the only thing that would really make sense, but still seems really unlikely.
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we don't think it's the same thing. put briefly, we just think that your fairy tale pure capitalism can't exist, and that its supporters are naive dupes of the cronies and neo-feudalists.
they were all released in the late 90s or 2000s, when the "climate" for legal obscenity was the same as now.
and my axe!
uh, none of those movies are even close to obscene by today's legal standards. yes, the MPAA's raters may have problems with them, but that's a different issue having nothing to do with copyright protection or legal status.
i couldn't agree more.
a lot of it, but many packages use C routines for tight loops and such.
frankly i wouldn't trust translated numerical code from a parser without a lot of auditing, especially since R is a clusterfuck of kludges and julia is a moving target under development. there are so many R packages (currently 5,579) written by so many people without much development experience that even a minimal amount of manpowered auditing/revision would be too much, especially since many of the packages are under active development
a better solution would probably be to have julia provide an R emulator. the speed and memory hits will be substantial, but R is already crappy for speed and memory.
also, professors can use their flexible time to do private consulting. most schools have fairly permissive policies about this, with a limit of X hours per week. sure, if you're seeking tenure it might not be the smartest way to use your time, but a consultant who is active technical faculty at an Ivy League school can command quite a premium.
yes, R is written for people who know what they are doing.
my friend uses julia, and every few weeks complains about some bug. the other day he mentioned that the latest release broke Bernoulli sampling (wtf?). the others have been pretty fundamental too.
this is a serious problem, of course. the other one is lack of libraries. R is an abysmal pile of shit, but at least it's a standard; pretty much 95%+ of applied stats is at least partially supported by someone's hacked-up library/package. julia is far, far short of that, and it appears that much of its community is more interested in pretty graphics, meta-wankery, and interface methodology than actual working statistics (not that there's anything wrong with that per se).
yeah, yeah, "fix it yourself," and it's on my list to write at least a basic survival analysis package for it. but i wouldn't blame anyone for not using it, and i wouldn't recommend it for doing stats as it is now.
this has become tedious. now on slashdot is the time when we dance.
yeah, subsidized. or maybe those $50 headphones didn't really cost $40 (lol) in shipping and retail markup, and they make plenty of profit but would prefer to keep as much as possible while not losing the business of people who have higher quality standards and not enough money to burn. yes, those people might buy sennheiser's more expensive stuff later, but that doesn't necessarily mean the return is taking a net loss.
but, yeah, pursuing a return on a noname $3 mouse seems pointless. i guess everyone draws the line somewhere. some people treat macbook pros as disposable.
you might be surprised. when my ~$50 sennheiser in-ear headphones broke, i sent them in under the 2-year warranty and got a free replacement. they probably cost ~$5 to manufacture, so they have plenty of margin for support; they just make more money if fewer people use what they are entitled to.
it is interesting. some people might even prefer a product with a supportive community but slightly more 'bugs'/tricks to one which is more reliable and/or over-rigidly documented.
+5, Informative.
uh, countries with legalized prostitution still have men buying women drinks. it's still cheaper than a whore (relative to the bar; if you go to an expensive bar, the 'equivalent' whore would be proportionally more expensive of course), and often you have more options, not to mention that the process as a whole is more enjoyable, at least for me.
btw, you don't need to spend a lot on drinks if you don't want to, and many schools of thought (both feminist and "PUA") say you shouldn't. you just need other redeeming qualities and a bit of spine. i've gotten laid at a fairly respectable rate without spending a cent.
sorry i missed it; must have been the new coversheet.
no, but i must have missed the memo.
holy shit! slashdot now accepts (a subset of) unicode input without mangling it! welcome to the 21st century.
is whoring legal in switzerland? for €50K in the "VIP room" i'd better get a blowjob along with my watch and souvenir suit.
no, it's not ironic. the simulator is just a fucking project they're hosting because it's 'cool'. they are not investing anything in it beyond a smidgen of bandwidth and disk space, and they are not endorsing it.
they're also not "betting heavily" on D-wave. it was a stab-in-the-dark just-in-case thing which they could afford with the coins under Sergei's couch cushions, and despite that i wouldn't be surprised if they're still regretting how hopeless their investment turned out to be. D-wave is bullshit.
*: unless D-wave secretly paid google a huge pile of cash for this implied endorsement. it's the only thing that would really make sense, but still seems really unlikely.
simulation does not mean it is in real-time, you ignorant slut.
uh, does destruction of property not merit prison time?
eh, it was okay, but probably not the best. did they do a 3-d remake? what channel is it on?
huh? their shareholders and regulators seem to understand just fine, as suggested by the cited SEC filing.
Publicly-traded technical advertising company announces expectation of profit in advertising on tech devices. Stop the presses.