I was not aware of this, thank you for the information. There is some concern in certain circles, that the US government response is influenced by the domestic auto bailout. I will recalibrate my opinion based on the baseline response outside the US.
I'd love to see some conclusive evidence on these rumors (the black box stuff, not the bullshit "women can't drive" part). Do you have any links handy? Would be greatly appreciated, kthx.
It is when the reason for the suppression is a law. That is, they (ostensibly) don't really "want" to do it otherwise. If you can't grok that even a little bit, then shut up and let the citizens talk.
If you only want the protein, then just mix up a whey protein isolate-shake. MM-mmm. I recommend the strawberry flavor. Also use ice if possible, it covers up the graininess.
There's practically no difference between being frozen for one day, or arbitrarily long. There are only two dangers: contraction of metal and joints while freezing; and condensation/expansion while thawing. I'm sure the rice helped with the condensation, although putting it under a lamp couldn't have helped; better to warm it as slowly as possible.
I do this as a teaching exercise in my intro stats class: give the instructions; split into two teams; leave; and come back in when a student knocks on the door. You can spot the difference almost immediately, with a sequence of about 50 "tosses".
It also shows them that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Usually, both of the teams gets approximately 50/50 distribution of H/T (within the margin of statistical significance), so this test is shown inadequate. However, once you write down the run-lengths (i.e., HHTHHHHHTTT -> 2,1,5,3) for each sequence, it's totally obvious to everyone (and can also be formalized by comparing it to a sequence of independent negative-binomial draws).
Note, it's important to split the people into teams. This way, even if one clever/knowledgable person tries to introduce long runs, the rest of the team will shout him/her down.:)
The name aside, MIT Press publishes plenty of totally non-mathematical (and even outright flaky) books, and it's good that they do. They're in the business of interesting (which they do quite well), not necessarily rigorous.
I've read Computational Beauty of Nature. It'd call it moderately mathy, but it's definitely not coherent about it. The math is there and it's interesting, but it's not systematically developed and you can basically skip it, for all its relevance to the book as a whole.
For a simple example, you could mix up about half the labels on Figure 1 and it would still make as much sense. It's pretty subjective. People have been throwing dynamical systems at Life for decades and it hasn't given us very profound insights, imho. The profundity is added by the viewer. That's the criticism here.
Of course they didn't call it "A Computational Theory of Nature", so whatever. I'm going to take my clothes out of the dryer and pour another gin. Bye!
Yes, yes. "The real free market, is the one we will never have."
So why bring it up at all?
Look at it this way, the only parties explicitly concerned about IP law are the socialists and the Greens (and the Pirate Party of course). Are they then supporters of your mythical ideal free market?
I've not seen yet a serious libertarian candidate (yes, I realize this is almost an oxymoron) who didn't support the status quo in IP law. Maybe a few vague and totally unsubstantiated promises for "reform", but that's it.
As this is the case, yeah, I'd say one of the main tenets of any seriously proposed "free" market is draconian intellectual property law.
T.S. Eliot never cited anyone but Jack Shit (well, not formally; he bragged about it in interviews and commentary). Same for Dostoevsky. Of course they were doing legitimate extrapolation, and writing for an audience familiar with the background. The point of "The Waste Land" was its jagged non-synthesis.
It still seems totally different from this case, but maybe I'm just getting old...
Speaking of things coming around, I remember reading an article a decade ago citing Eliot to legitimize the "remix culture" in music. Heh.
It was a great ad on many levels. For one, its emotional content countered the Bing! attack (of claiming more relevant results), without appearing to be defensive.
If you want to be cynical, point out how the slashdot summary is pandering to its own stereotypes and in so doing missing the point entirely.
Taking competent notes from good professors at the doctoral level, has saved me hours (which have added up to days) of reading the material myself and even given me totally new insight (which arguably counts as saving "infinite time"). Sometimes. And only if they're good. Sometimes I don't even realize how good they were, until years afterward.
But it's true, that even then it's often "wasted", but 1) you often know what the good part is at first; and 2) just writing the notes engages my brain.
Just for the record, I'm talking about math/stats here. I guess law is different (?) and, yeah, taking notes on Java syntax would drive me up a tree.
re: "will this be on the exam": I'd always hated those schmucks. And then I started teaching. Now it's so far beyond hate that it's just looped over to "incomprehensibly backwards" and I just block it out. (shudder)
I think that's what the parent was talking about, the "nursing pen". The downside is, they're bulky and compounding on that, as a previous poster said, ballpoints take a lot of pressure to use, and cause fatigue.
Typewriter: yeah, I used to type personal letters with a mechanical typewriter (this was around 1999-01, so it was purely for kicks). I think it was a Royal. It is a lot of anachronistic fun, but I think it distracted me from the actual writing. It was practically ideal for filling in forms, though!
I use a bundle of matte-finish 0.5mm rollerball pens in different colors. It's not hard to juggle them once you get used to it and, not being ballpoints, they're easier to handle.
I used to think taking notes in colors was childish, but once I set up a system in advance for using the colors, it helped me prioritize my focus. I take primary notes in black; technical details in blue; citations and references in green; and commentary/annotation in red. One of my deficiencies in learning is that I just try to cram everything into my brain at once. Although it often works, I'm dumb enough that it sometimes fails catastrophically. The color-coding helps with that.
Sansa Fuze (what I have) plays ogg and flac and I think the non-DRM Windows format whatever that is, in case you're looking for one. It has USB-device and MTP modes. It's about US$60 for the 8 gig version, and falling.
Another annoying thing is that neither Amarok nor Rhythmbox (linux) can make playlists. There's a hack using Easytag and specifying the directories right, but it's just too much bother.
I'm sure Sandisk owning most of the patents on microSD influences things a bit. Also, it's totally against the iPod "simplicity" design (or more cynically, the "buy a new iPod every other year" design).
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I was not aware of this, thank you for the information. There is some concern in certain circles, that the US government response is influenced by the domestic auto bailout. I will recalibrate my opinion based on the baseline response outside the US.
Yes, it is suspicious and makes one wonder about the extent of the "pro-America" propaganda machine.
I'd love to see some conclusive evidence on these rumors (the black box stuff, not the bullshit "women can't drive" part). Do you have any links handy? Would be greatly appreciated, kthx.
It is when the reason for the suppression is a law. That is, they (ostensibly) don't really "want" to do it otherwise. If you can't grok that even a little bit, then shut up and let the citizens talk.
Meat includes fat.
If you only want the protein, then just mix up a whey protein isolate-shake. MM-mmm. I recommend the strawberry flavor. Also use ice if possible, it covers up the graininess.
There's practically no difference between being frozen for one day, or arbitrarily long. There are only two dangers: contraction of metal and joints while freezing; and condensation/expansion while thawing. I'm sure the rice helped with the condensation, although putting it under a lamp couldn't have helped; better to warm it as slowly as possible.
Uh, chill out and get out of your basement.
I do this as a teaching exercise in my intro stats class: give the instructions; split into two teams; leave; and come back in when a student knocks on the door. You can spot the difference almost immediately, with a sequence of about 50 "tosses".
It also shows them that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Usually, both of the teams gets approximately 50/50 distribution of H/T (within the margin of statistical significance), so this test is shown inadequate. However, once you write down the run-lengths (i.e., HHTHHHHHTTT -> 2,1,5,3) for each sequence, it's totally obvious to everyone (and can also be formalized by comparing it to a sequence of independent negative-binomial draws).
Note, it's important to split the people into teams. This way, even if one clever/knowledgable person tries to introduce long runs, the rest of the team will shout him/her down. :)
The name aside, MIT Press publishes plenty of totally non-mathematical (and even outright flaky) books, and it's good that they do. They're in the business of interesting (which they do quite well), not necessarily rigorous.
I've read Computational Beauty of Nature. It'd call it moderately mathy, but it's definitely not coherent about it. The math is there and it's interesting, but it's not systematically developed and you can basically skip it, for all its relevance to the book as a whole.
For a simple example, you could mix up about half the labels on Figure 1 and it would still make as much sense. It's pretty subjective. People have been throwing dynamical systems at Life for decades and it hasn't given us very profound insights, imho. The profundity is added by the viewer. That's the criticism here.
Of course they didn't call it "A Computational Theory of Nature", so whatever. I'm going to take my clothes out of the dryer and pour another gin. Bye!
Coyboy Neal
Best GNAA post ever?
Yes, yes. "The real free market, is the one we will never have."
So why bring it up at all?
Look at it this way, the only parties explicitly concerned about IP law are the socialists and the Greens (and the Pirate Party of course). Are they then supporters of your mythical ideal free market?
I've not seen yet a serious libertarian candidate (yes, I realize this is almost an oxymoron) who didn't support the status quo in IP law. Maybe a few vague and totally unsubstantiated promises for "reform", but that's it.
As this is the case, yeah, I'd say one of the main tenets of any seriously proposed "free" market is draconian intellectual property law.
Those damned activist judges on the Supreme Court, always working against individual liberties! What we need is more state governm...
Oh, wait.
The annotated edition, yes; this is what I called "commentary" above. It wasn't published like that originally.
T.S. Eliot never cited anyone but Jack Shit (well, not formally; he bragged about it in interviews and commentary). Same for Dostoevsky. Of course they were doing legitimate extrapolation, and writing for an audience familiar with the background. The point of "The Waste Land" was its jagged non-synthesis.
It still seems totally different from this case, but maybe I'm just getting old...
Speaking of things coming around, I remember reading an article a decade ago citing Eliot to legitimize the "remix culture" in music. Heh.
What's unforeseen here? and what would be learned in the accident? It seems that the stability of Li-Ion is well understood.
The risk is acceptably small, not unknown.
It was a great ad on many levels. For one, its emotional content countered the Bing! attack (of claiming more relevant results), without appearing to be defensive.
If you want to be cynical, point out how the slashdot summary is pandering to its own stereotypes and in so doing missing the point entirely.
This was even in the ad and it made me chuckle:
"how to assemble a crossbow"
I think consciously they left it in as a nod to the asocial male geek set.
Taking competent notes from good professors at the doctoral level, has saved me hours (which have added up to days) of reading the material myself and even given me totally new insight (which arguably counts as saving "infinite time"). Sometimes. And only if they're good. Sometimes I don't even realize how good they were, until years afterward.
But it's true, that even then it's often "wasted", but 1) you often know what the good part is at first; and 2) just writing the notes engages my brain.
Just for the record, I'm talking about math/stats here. I guess law is different (?) and, yeah, taking notes on Java syntax would drive me up a tree.
re: "will this be on the exam": I'd always hated those schmucks. And then I started teaching. Now it's so far beyond hate that it's just looped over to "incomprehensibly backwards" and I just block it out. (shudder)
I think that's what the parent was talking about, the "nursing pen". The downside is, they're bulky and compounding on that, as a previous poster said, ballpoints take a lot of pressure to use, and cause fatigue.
Typewriter: yeah, I used to type personal letters with a mechanical typewriter (this was around 1999-01, so it was purely for kicks). I think it was a Royal. It is a lot of anachronistic fun, but I think it distracted me from the actual writing. It was practically ideal for filling in forms, though!
I use a bundle of matte-finish 0.5mm rollerball pens in different colors. It's not hard to juggle them once you get used to it and, not being ballpoints, they're easier to handle.
I used to think taking notes in colors was childish, but once I set up a system in advance for using the colors, it helped me prioritize my focus. I take primary notes in black; technical details in blue; citations and references in green; and commentary/annotation in red. One of my deficiencies in learning is that I just try to cram everything into my brain at once. Although it often works, I'm dumb enough that it sometimes fails catastrophically. The color-coding helps with that.
Sansa Fuze (what I have) plays ogg and flac and I think the non-DRM Windows format whatever that is, in case you're looking for one. It has USB-device and MTP modes. It's about US$60 for the 8 gig version, and falling.
Another annoying thing is that neither Amarok nor Rhythmbox (linux) can make playlists. There's a hack using Easytag and specifying the directories right, but it's just too much bother.
I'm sure Sandisk owning most of the patents on microSD influences things a bit. Also, it's totally against the iPod "simplicity" design (or more cynically, the "buy a new iPod every other year" design).
If Kissinger (1973) didn't kill its credibility, then Arafat; Peres; Rabin (1994) did.
That's a good point. I'm just using the cheapest 8 gig card I could find. I'll keep it in mind when/if I upgrade to 16 gig eventually.