As a Modeling and Sim PhD student this article was fascinating. There was great stuff in there on why picking the correct parameters is important. There was great stuff in there on why V&V is important. Most of all, since it appears that neither the author nor (from the authors description) wall street understands these lessons, there was great stuff in there on why people need to be M&S majors and why people need to hire them. The author described the financial modeling approach in a way that would be akin to a civil engineer building a bridge that supports two tons, then testing by plopping down a two ton weight on a single point on the bridge, and yelling I'm finished.
"Microsoft is a devout monopolist and it WILL kill anything that threatens that monopoly, no matter how savage or ugly they have to get to do so." I expect this out of most every large corporation that doesn't have some sort of partial or total collusion with their peer competitors. In fact there are plenty of FOSS project members that act like this as well (although not as common). This is one reason we have a government to place limits on the "free" market.
I had a coworker that went to work on an automated harvesting farm implement. We will still need to deal with scarcity of certain elements but gathering raw materials, particularly organic ones can be theoretically solved with automation as well. For non-renewables, we probably can harvest from other galactic bodies much better with automation than with live human miners.
And so it should be, there was an article the year before last I think talking about how that a key component to some of our submarine launched nuclear weaponry was lost to us because it was so secret no one wrote it down. We need to be careful that we don't lose the engineering knowledge of these systems in case we have a critical, but more civil use for the devices.
Awww, but this would be fun. How long after implementation before some group of hackers has his office and home computer ringing the cops for violations every few minutes?
I'm an introvert. My parents were introverts. My wife is an introvert. Can someone explain what "normal parents" do with their toddlers? We take our kids to the park occasionally but distance prohibits doing it every day. We let them play outside, but they require constant supervision due to their age. They do have some activities with children their age a couple times a week. But I think they probably have what this organization would consider significant screen exposure.
Interesting, a few articles down it says Amazon is chasing writers. I'm glad to get the old greedy distribution systems out of the way, but how long before these become our new content hoarding overlords?
Sorry I think I see the problem in my wording. NASA software development heavily influenced early Software Engineering as with many other Engineering disciplines. Not that NASA funding somehow supports all of those engineering disciplines. My point was you can't say the private sector is $X dollars more efficient because they say went to the moon at current year dollars Apollo plus $X.
Particularly in the fields of software testing and VV&A, NASA set the gold standards. As you say, they aren't reasonable for most products but not everyone can use pi to 3 trillion digits either. I need to brush up but I seem to recall some of the standard software process models being NASA documented if not developed. It is not the case for all NASA teams, but in my SE courses NASA was something that came up often.
Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering all lean heavily on research done with public funds with NASA and the DoD. SpaceX isn't building a rocket from scratch. It is building on a public knowledge funded by your (or your parents/grandparents) tax dollars down to the very fundamentals of defining a process. At some point, there is a need to spin off public works to private corporations but that does not undermine the necessity of government involvement in high risk activities.
The major job of government isn't to produce; it is to secure the peaceful and fair transaction of business between any intermixing of corporation and individual. That means protecting from foreign invasion, protecting corporations and individuals from theft, protecting individuals against market collusion, protecting individuals from murder, protecting individuals and corporations from natural disaster,... It isn't perfect. However, the idea of trusting my fate to private groups that aren't working directly for me and have no transparency standards whatsoever is at least as scary as a monstrous central government.
Actually, if this were to really take off, we would probably still buy toys, except they would be DRM print limited model files that we printed our own selves. Toy manufacturers would have the same cow that every other IP owner had 5 years ago and will start clamping down on sharing non-licensed 3d models of their IP.
Yeah but others do and they don't care one bit about sending a single person into orbit much less to another planet. You have to sell the benefit of sending anything and you have to sell the benefit of sending a person.
If you have to interface with the environment through a machine, does it make sense to do it on location versus remotely? There is an analytical way to answer this (and NASA is really good at it.) Furthermore, does your dream of value outweigh someone's dream of no human starving to death here? Does your dream of value outweigh someone else's nightmare of Iran blowing up our only real ally in a region that hates us? Does your dream of value outweigh the risk of not supporting failing industries that are core to our nation's economy? Those are even bigger questions with even more difficult answers.
Not to mention that a manned mission would be much easier with in situ resource utilization that would necessitate a lot of unmanned research and prep work.
This seems like a narrow solution space problem from society. Well the kid is too smart to be in high school, guess we should throw him into a more advanced learning institution. Many advanced kids need a mentor just as badly as many children who are behind their classmates. Even moreso, many parents aren't equipped to be a mentor for an advanced student particularly one this advanced. Bouncing me from school to school to find the best fit for my abilities and my family's income hampered me both socially with my fellow students and my connection with teachers who could have mentored me. At 31, I'm still playing catch-up to my potential.
There have been a couple of scientists that I've called poop and hair, but I've never felt the need to generalize that to a definition of the entire group.
Shame on you for wanting to impose restrictive regulations on the free market... so that you can freely choose your service provider like you should be able to in a free market.
Try having a mortage with them, I didn't even choose them as a lender and I have to pay thousands of dollars out of pocket to switch to another lender. On top of that I have no guarantee if I choose another lender they won't sell my mortgage back into BAC.
As a BAC mortgage customer, (because my mortgage was sold to Countrywide which was then bought out by BAC) that is an entirely believable statement with past corraborating evidence. Although not this long term, the BAC website is regularly degraded or unresponsive altogether. If it didn't cost me 1%-2% of my mortgage in fees to change lenders I would.
Security here is set so stringently that certificate failures pop up on almost every website. I quickly reached the point where it was impractical to browse while verifying all the certificates were valid manually. (Side note: slashdot is giving me one right now.)
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So, the US congress is now making laws that have jurisdiction everywhere except for the US? No wonder we can't find time to pass a budget.
As a Modeling and Sim PhD student this article was fascinating. There was great stuff in there on why picking the correct parameters is important. There was great stuff in there on why V&V is important. Most of all, since it appears that neither the author nor (from the authors description) wall street understands these lessons, there was great stuff in there on why people need to be M&S majors and why people need to hire them. The author described the financial modeling approach in a way that would be akin to a civil engineer building a bridge that supports two tons, then testing by plopping down a two ton weight on a single point on the bridge, and yelling I'm finished.
"Microsoft is a devout monopolist and it WILL kill anything that threatens that monopoly, no matter how savage or ugly they have to get to do so." I expect this out of most every large corporation that doesn't have some sort of partial or total collusion with their peer competitors. In fact there are plenty of FOSS project members that act like this as well (although not as common). This is one reason we have a government to place limits on the "free" market.
I had a coworker that went to work on an automated harvesting farm implement. We will still need to deal with scarcity of certain elements but gathering raw materials, particularly organic ones can be theoretically solved with automation as well. For non-renewables, we probably can harvest from other galactic bodies much better with automation than with live human miners.
And so it should be, there was an article the year before last I think talking about how that a key component to some of our submarine launched nuclear weaponry was lost to us because it was so secret no one wrote it down. We need to be careful that we don't lose the engineering knowledge of these systems in case we have a critical, but more civil use for the devices.
Awww, but this would be fun. How long after implementation before some group of hackers has his office and home computer ringing the cops for violations every few minutes?
I'm an introvert. My parents were introverts. My wife is an introvert. Can someone explain what "normal parents" do with their toddlers? We take our kids to the park occasionally but distance prohibits doing it every day. We let them play outside, but they require constant supervision due to their age. They do have some activities with children their age a couple times a week. But I think they probably have what this organization would consider significant screen exposure.
Is anyone surprised that students are signing up for the job?
Interesting, a few articles down it says Amazon is chasing writers. I'm glad to get the old greedy distribution systems out of the way, but how long before these become our new content hoarding overlords?
Sorry I think I see the problem in my wording. NASA software development heavily influenced early Software Engineering as with many other Engineering disciplines. Not that NASA funding somehow supports all of those engineering disciplines. My point was you can't say the private sector is $X dollars more efficient because they say went to the moon at current year dollars Apollo plus $X.
Particularly in the fields of software testing and VV&A, NASA set the gold standards. As you say, they aren't reasonable for most products but not everyone can use pi to 3 trillion digits either. I need to brush up but I seem to recall some of the standard software process models being NASA documented if not developed. It is not the case for all NASA teams, but in my SE courses NASA was something that came up often.
Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering all lean heavily on research done with public funds with NASA and the DoD. SpaceX isn't building a rocket from scratch. It is building on a public knowledge funded by your (or your parents/grandparents) tax dollars down to the very fundamentals of defining a process. At some point, there is a need to spin off public works to private corporations but that does not undermine the necessity of government involvement in high risk activities.
The major job of government isn't to produce; it is to secure the peaceful and fair transaction of business between any intermixing of corporation and individual. That means protecting from foreign invasion, protecting corporations and individuals from theft, protecting individuals against market collusion, protecting individuals from murder, protecting individuals and corporations from natural disaster, ... It isn't perfect. However, the idea of trusting my fate to private groups that aren't working directly for me and have no transparency standards whatsoever is at least as scary as a monstrous central government.
I have a friend with a catalog that says that Eastern European women will come to me for a small fee and a green card.
Actually, if this were to really take off, we would probably still buy toys, except they would be DRM print limited model files that we printed our own selves. Toy manufacturers would have the same cow that every other IP owner had 5 years ago and will start clamping down on sharing non-licensed 3d models of their IP.
I think they make a hardware solution for this called a tripod...
Yeah but others do and they don't care one bit about sending a single person into orbit much less to another planet. You have to sell the benefit of sending anything and you have to sell the benefit of sending a person.
If you have to interface with the environment through a machine, does it make sense to do it on location versus remotely? There is an analytical way to answer this (and NASA is really good at it.) Furthermore, does your dream of value outweigh someone's dream of no human starving to death here? Does your dream of value outweigh someone else's nightmare of Iran blowing up our only real ally in a region that hates us? Does your dream of value outweigh the risk of not supporting failing industries that are core to our nation's economy? Those are even bigger questions with even more difficult answers.
Not to mention that a manned mission would be much easier with in situ resource utilization that would necessitate a lot of unmanned research and prep work.
This seems like a narrow solution space problem from society. Well the kid is too smart to be in high school, guess we should throw him into a more advanced learning institution. Many advanced kids need a mentor just as badly as many children who are behind their classmates. Even moreso, many parents aren't equipped to be a mentor for an advanced student particularly one this advanced. Bouncing me from school to school to find the best fit for my abilities and my family's income hampered me both socially with my fellow students and my connection with teachers who could have mentored me. At 31, I'm still playing catch-up to my potential.
There have been a couple of scientists that I've called poop and hair, but I've never felt the need to generalize that to a definition of the entire group.
Shame on you for wanting to impose restrictive regulations on the free market ... so that you can freely choose your service provider like you should be able to in a free market.
Try having a mortage with them, I didn't even choose them as a lender and I have to pay thousands of dollars out of pocket to switch to another lender. On top of that I have no guarantee if I choose another lender they won't sell my mortgage back into BAC.
As a BAC mortgage customer, (because my mortgage was sold to Countrywide which was then bought out by BAC) that is an entirely believable statement with past corraborating evidence. Although not this long term, the BAC website is regularly degraded or unresponsive altogether. If it didn't cost me 1%-2% of my mortgage in fees to change lenders I would.
Security here is set so stringently that certificate failures pop up on almost every website. I quickly reached the point where it was impractical to browse while verifying all the certificates were valid manually. (Side note: slashdot is giving me one right now.)