Find the sum of two X-dimensional matrices, with N elements along each axis. Should be O(N^X).. E.g., summing the corresponding values in two 1-dimensional arrays of length N should take O(N) time, summing the corresponding values in two square NxN matrices should be O(N^2), if they're "cube" matrices it should be O(N^3), et cetera.
I think the insights you're looking for aren't mathematical, they're practical.
In Montana, the only real speed limit I noticed was how fast you can go around a mountain bend without flying off into oblivion.
Same goes for parts of Arkansas. Locals must think Highway 7 is just peachy. We call it the highway of screaming death. You look at the speed limit and laugh. You'd have to be insane to actually go that fast along those turns.
I found one highway in Oklahoma where the speed limit was 75, though, and it was just a straight needle off into infine nothing (this *was* Oklahoma). I'd never seen a 75-mph speed limit sign before, I took it to mean, "We don't friggin care."
I have to wonder if all of these come from the same loser at home in his mom's basement, or if there's a clandestine network of losers in basements that have forged a tenuous alliance to further their common goal of spreading douchebaggery throughout every corner of the Internet.
What would be really great is if they built this API mapping system......and then ensured that the Windows Phone 7 API would map to the desktop Windows API......and then you put Wine on a Linux-based phone...
As I recall, in grade school we had imperial and metric units side-by-side. There was an implicit preference toward imperial units, but certainly we were familiar with the metric system. In middle and high school, we never used imperial units for anything where measurement was actually important to the topic at hand. (I.e., science.)
But of course, imperial units are almost always used informally. Americans have an intuition for them. If you say something is 60 centimeters long, I can tell you that what goes on in my head is something like, "Okay, 60% of a meter, which is just over a yard, so that probably ends up being just under 2 feet. Okay! Now I know how long that is." Americans are probably also better at gauging volume in 2-liter increments than 1-liter.
I wonder if it's roughly analogous to how many non-native speakers are about the English language. Yes, you learn it for business and seriousness and all that, but when you're hanging around with your friends drinking your country's national beer, you're going to be speaking your native tongue.
The reason that many people use a prepaid cell phone plan is because they need/use it, and it's cheaper for them. The reason that many people prefer contract plans is that with the amount (and features) that they use, it's cheaper for them. You don't think that someone who uses a lot of data on their phone, no matter what their income level, might notice that they'd save money if they switched to a contract plan? Or are you suggesting that low-income people are just too stupid to read a bill, and can't help but be hoodwinked?
The data rates for GoPhones may be exorbitantly high. You might argue that they're too high, and I won't disagree. But this stuff about income levels is all sorts of bullshit. What if AT&T decided to charge a million dollars per gigabyte? Would you lament the fate of those poor indigent souls forced to pay millions of dollars to watch YouTube videos on their phones? Or would you simply expect them to either get contracts, or go somewhere else?
That entrance exam seems to suggest that critical thinking skills weren't particularly well-regarded then, either. "Where is the source of [list of rivers]?" There are a few questions worth asking---"compare Athens to Sparta"---but generally most of that stuff is about rote memorization.
Thank goodness I'm not the only one who balked at GP's post. Seems like everyone around here treats evolution (at least, in the sense of mass extinction) as some sort of moral imperative.
I have the sense that an "appeal to nature" in ethics is the lowest form of logical fallacy. One cannot derive "what should be" from "what is."
l33tadj. 1. elite, highly adept esp. referring to a video game player, 2. worthy of praise "Dude, the OED put in an entry for l33t! That's some l33t dictionary pwnage!" -- some Anonymouse Coward on Slashdot
"His crown, a noble emblem of defeat For those who would make light of being l33t." --- William Shakespeare
"STFU NOOB, UR JUST JEALOUS CUZ WERE L33T AND U SUCK ASS" --- sipherot299lol, an anemic 13-year-old about to get a cap in his virtual avatar's ass
Someone down the thread posted that the PDF of the court case had the name redacted, but the information was not actually removed. I tried accessing the PDF from the ZDNet link, but it (the PDF itself) has apparently been removed.
The name he gave was for a guy named Alfio Bardolla. I don't speak Italian, but a search for his name shows that he apparently does seminars on "how to invest in real estate." It seems that he does a lot of self-promotion. I found a discussion on a reviews forum where he had threatened to have a court shut down the site [auto-translated from Italian] because a user had provided an unfavorable review of his seminars, and said that his claims (e.g., "get rich, or your money back!") were overblown.
Well, Google has some answers for that as well. Apparently he gives seminars on "how to invest in real estate", it seems like he aggressively markets himself, and as far as I can tell he's previously threatened to shut down a website [auto-translation from Italian] because an unsatisfied customer posted an unfavorable review.
Well, certainly having a.xxx TLD would be a prerequisite for requiring adult sites to use it, but I'm not panicking about that...yet.
I would bet that the real reason the domain was created has nothing to do with either the pornographers or the moralist crusaders, and has everything to do with domain name registrars wanting a piece of action. I read somewhere about a week ago that over 200,000.xxx domain names had already been purchased. That's a tidy bit of cash, especially if adult websites in the future feel the need to register both.com/.net/whatever AND.xxx.
On the other hand, I don't really see this as being conducive to anything.
I don't know how the actual dialogue went down, but it does sound kind of like they're about to tell you that YOU, yes YOU can self publish for ONLY $19.99 plus tax!
Forget Microsoft. I remember reading one of those lists around a year ago. It mentioned Honeywell. When the A-bombs start flying, be assured that the guys making them were real swell guys.
First of all, as far as I can tell, there is no law against having sex with porcupines in Florida. A Google search of Florida code shows no hits for the term "porcupine." A search for documents including both the terms "sex" and "animal" doesn't show that bestiality is illegal per se. It is, however, illegal to fuck a porcupine (or animal of any kind) with children present, as it falls under general lewdness laws.
Of course, that doesn't mean that two drunk Russians would go through the trouble of searching the Florida code for said statute. On the other hand, while this story is widely circulated, it comes from rather...dubious sources. Many cite life.ru, which is in Russian and I can't read it---the most descriptive article I could find is from Pravda. It seems that the English-language articles haven't actually researched this, they've merely been copying from a single Russian-language source. Which might be bogus.
The image of the "medical record", far from verifying the claim, weakens it. That is not a medical record from Cedars-Sinai. First of all, there are too many typos. ("Docror's name", "blood pleasure"). Second, they would be confidential if they were, and wouldn't be leaked to a news article. Especially not from California to Russia. It looks like a bad attempt to make an English-language medical record by someone who doesn't speak English, and doesn't know what an American medical record looks like. So why would a Russian write his medical records in broken English? And why would "St. Petersburg, Russia" be considered a valid address at a doctor's office in St. Petersburg, Russia?
(Also, while there *is* a urologist at Cedars-Sinai named Friedman---not "Fridman"---he is a pediatrician.)
Besides all of this, assuming that someone *did* fuck a porcupine, it seems unreasonable that they would fly across the country before taking the spines out of their penis. Not only that, but the very next morning! What did they do, get wasted, go out in the woods to find a porcupine, fuck it, come back, and pack their bags for the red-eye to Los Angeles? They wouldn't have time, not with the TSA the way it is.
Speaking of which, I have a hard time believing that anyone who is wasted off their ass can go out into the woods and find a porcupine within an hour, anywhere. Also, porcupines tend to be nocturnal, so they would probably have had to look around at night. Wasted. In Florida, which, by the way IS NOT A NATIVE HABITAT FOR PORCUPINES!
There's too much wrong with this article. It reeks of bullshit. That being said, it's a funny story, if bogus.
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Find the sum of two X-dimensional matrices, with N elements along each axis. Should be O(N^X).. E.g., summing the corresponding values in two 1-dimensional arrays of length N should take O(N) time, summing the corresponding values in two square NxN matrices should be O(N^2), if they're "cube" matrices it should be O(N^3), et cetera.
I think the insights you're looking for aren't mathematical, they're practical.
In Montana, the only real speed limit I noticed was how fast you can go around a mountain bend without flying off into oblivion.
Same goes for parts of Arkansas. Locals must think Highway 7 is just peachy. We call it the highway of screaming death. You look at the speed limit and laugh. You'd have to be insane to actually go that fast along those turns.
I found one highway in Oklahoma where the speed limit was 75, though, and it was just a straight needle off into infine nothing (this *was* Oklahoma). I'd never seen a 75-mph speed limit sign before, I took it to mean, "We don't friggin care."
I have to wonder if all of these come from the same loser at home in his mom's basement, or if there's a clandestine network of losers in basements that have forged a tenuous alliance to further their common goal of spreading douchebaggery throughout every corner of the Internet.
Right! Lowering the risks of shooting people will indubitably increase the amount of situations in which we're willing to shoot people.
What would be really great is if they built this API mapping system... ...and then ensured that the Windows Phone 7 API would map to the desktop Windows API... ...and then you put Wine on a Linux-based phone...
I was going to say, if they took out the "r", Stream could be an excellent platform for delivering games over the tubes.
As I recall, in grade school we had imperial and metric units side-by-side. There was an implicit preference toward imperial units, but certainly we were familiar with the metric system. In middle and high school, we never used imperial units for anything where measurement was actually important to the topic at hand. (I.e., science.)
But of course, imperial units are almost always used informally. Americans have an intuition for them. If you say something is 60 centimeters long, I can tell you that what goes on in my head is something like, "Okay, 60% of a meter, which is just over a yard, so that probably ends up being just under 2 feet. Okay! Now I know how long that is." Americans are probably also better at gauging volume in 2-liter increments than 1-liter.
I wonder if it's roughly analogous to how many non-native speakers are about the English language. Yes, you learn it for business and seriousness and all that, but when you're hanging around with your friends drinking your country's national beer, you're going to be speaking your native tongue.
The reason that many people use a prepaid cell phone plan is because they need/use it, and it's cheaper for them. The reason that many people prefer contract plans is that with the amount (and features) that they use, it's cheaper for them. You don't think that someone who uses a lot of data on their phone, no matter what their income level, might notice that they'd save money if they switched to a contract plan? Or are you suggesting that low-income people are just too stupid to read a bill, and can't help but be hoodwinked?
The data rates for GoPhones may be exorbitantly high. You might argue that they're too high, and I won't disagree. But this stuff about income levels is all sorts of bullshit. What if AT&T decided to charge a million dollars per gigabyte? Would you lament the fate of those poor indigent souls forced to pay millions of dollars to watch YouTube videos on their phones? Or would you simply expect them to either get contracts, or go somewhere else?
That entrance exam seems to suggest that critical thinking skills weren't particularly well-regarded then, either. "Where is the source of [list of rivers]?" There are a few questions worth asking---"compare Athens to Sparta"---but generally most of that stuff is about rote memorization.
Samzenpus, I'm filtering your articles. This is ten levels of stupid.
Thank goodness I'm not the only one who balked at GP's post. Seems like everyone around here treats evolution (at least, in the sense of mass extinction) as some sort of moral imperative.
I have the sense that an "appeal to nature" in ethics is the lowest form of logical fallacy. One cannot derive "what should be" from "what is."
Oxford English Dictionary:
l33t adj. 1. elite, highly adept esp. referring to a video game player, 2. worthy of praise
"Dude, the OED put in an entry for l33t! That's some l33t dictionary pwnage!"
-- some Anonymouse Coward on Slashdot
"His crown, a noble emblem of defeat
For those who would make light of being l33t."
--- William Shakespeare
"STFU NOOB, UR JUST JEALOUS CUZ WERE L33T AND U SUCK ASS"
--- sipherot299lol, an anemic 13-year-old about to get a cap in his virtual avatar's ass
Someone down the thread posted that the PDF of the court case had the name redacted, but the information was not actually removed. I tried accessing the PDF from the ZDNet link, but it (the PDF itself) has apparently been removed.
The name he gave was for a guy named Alfio Bardolla. I don't speak Italian, but a search for his name shows that he apparently does seminars on "how to invest in real estate." It seems that he does a lot of self-promotion. I found a discussion on a reviews forum where he had threatened to have a court shut down the site [auto-translated from Italian] because a user had provided an unfavorable review of his seminars, and said that his claims (e.g., "get rich, or your money back!") were overblown.
Well, Google has some answers for that as well. Apparently he gives seminars on "how to invest in real estate", it seems like he aggressively markets himself, and as far as I can tell he's previously threatened to shut down a website [auto-translation from Italian] because an unsatisfied customer posted an unfavorable review.
Interesting...I tried to get that PDF so I could see for myself, but I get a 404 from ZDNet link. Perhaps someone realized this and it was removed.
I *can* say that I'm the OP's wife. I bet you could, too, if you wanted to.
As a result of financial problems he had been barred by all mobile companies.
Huh? It's not like it's hard to get a TracPhone or whatever. Especially not if you're in France.
Well, certainly having a .xxx TLD would be a prerequisite for requiring adult sites to use it, but I'm not panicking about that...yet.
I would bet that the real reason the domain was created has nothing to do with either the pornographers or the moralist crusaders, and has everything to do with domain name registrars wanting a piece of action. I read somewhere about a week ago that over 200,000 .xxx domain names had already been purchased. That's a tidy bit of cash, especially if adult websites in the future feel the need to register both .com/.net/whatever AND .xxx.
On the other hand, I don't really see this as being conducive to anything.
Errr, top-level domain, oops.
Excuse the pun.
This is exactly why we didn't want the .xxx domain name. It seems like it exists for the sole purpose of being censored.
I don't know how the actual dialogue went down, but it does sound kind of like they're about to tell you that YOU, yes YOU can self publish for ONLY $19.99 plus tax!
Forget Microsoft. I remember reading one of those lists around a year ago. It mentioned Honeywell. When the A-bombs start flying, be assured that the guys making them were real swell guys.
I don't really believe that story.
First of all, as far as I can tell, there is no law against having sex with porcupines in Florida. A Google search of Florida code shows no hits for the term "porcupine." A search for documents including both the terms "sex" and "animal" doesn't show that bestiality is illegal per se. It is, however, illegal to fuck a porcupine (or animal of any kind) with children present, as it falls under general lewdness laws.
Of course, that doesn't mean that two drunk Russians would go through the trouble of searching the Florida code for said statute. On the other hand, while this story is widely circulated, it comes from rather...dubious sources. Many cite life.ru, which is in Russian and I can't read it---the most descriptive article I could find is from Pravda. It seems that the English-language articles haven't actually researched this, they've merely been copying from a single Russian-language source. Which might be bogus.
The image of the "medical record", far from verifying the claim, weakens it. That is not a medical record from Cedars-Sinai. First of all, there are too many typos. ("Docror's name", "blood pleasure"). Second, they would be confidential if they were, and wouldn't be leaked to a news article. Especially not from California to Russia. It looks like a bad attempt to make an English-language medical record by someone who doesn't speak English, and doesn't know what an American medical record looks like. So why would a Russian write his medical records in broken English? And why would "St. Petersburg, Russia" be considered a valid address at a doctor's office in St. Petersburg, Russia?
(Also, while there *is* a urologist at Cedars-Sinai named Friedman---not "Fridman"---he is a pediatrician.)
Besides all of this, assuming that someone *did* fuck a porcupine, it seems unreasonable that they would fly across the country before taking the spines out of their penis. Not only that, but the very next morning! What did they do, get wasted, go out in the woods to find a porcupine, fuck it, come back, and pack their bags for the red-eye to Los Angeles? They wouldn't have time, not with the TSA the way it is.
Speaking of which, I have a hard time believing that anyone who is wasted off their ass can go out into the woods and find a porcupine within an hour, anywhere. Also, porcupines tend to be nocturnal, so they would probably have had to look around at night. Wasted. In Florida, which, by the way IS NOT A NATIVE HABITAT FOR PORCUPINES!
There's too much wrong with this article. It reeks of bullshit. That being said, it's a funny story, if bogus.
I'm a Texan. Your country is too damn cold.
HA! And which country would *that* be?
(No, seriously, I need to figure out which language courses to take.)