If there wasn't all the illegals to push aside, how hard do you think it would be for a senior software engineer married to an american citizen to just come in? I doubt i'd have had to even be either of those to do so.
There are no quotas for spouses of American citizens. As a spouse (assuming you're in a heterosexual marriage), you can get an Immediate Relative visa after just the processing time for the visa, and immediately apply for an Adjustment of Status to become a permanent resident ("green-card holder"). While you wait for the Adjustment Of Status to process, you can get an Employment Authorization Document (EAD). From what I've read, the whole process takes between 6 months and a year, and you can work as soon as you get the EAD.
Anyway, IMHO, undocumented immigrants are not the right target for frustration with long and complicated immigration policies. The proper target is American xenophobia and the policies it enables. Undocumented immigration happens because, for centuries, Western powers have siphoned wealth from what is now the third world. Anti-immigration policies are just one component of a strategy to maintain and, when possible, exacerbate imbalances rooted in colonialism.
I think I'd find failing 90% of the time completely demoralising, but it's certainly true that if you never fail then you're probably not exploring really interesting possibilities.
W - Most if the debt racked up after getting a Democrat Congress.
Um, no. The debt under W was racked up after invading and occupying two countries on the other side of the world and giving millionaires a tax cut. Fiscal conservatism would have used the surplus after the Clinton years to pay off some of the debt: borrow when you have to, pay it off when you can.
The point is that this law, at least as it's being enforced, makes murder indistinguishable from legitimate self-defense. The officers show up, ask the shooter what happened, the shooter claims self-defense, and there's almost nothing in the way of independent investigation. That's why people are upset, and why it looks like this law is a de facto legalization of murder.
additionally, the point isn't just that heat was dissipated, but rather that a specific quantity was dissipated as predicted by thermodynamics and information theory.
Computer memory is a bunch of mechanical switches. The point is that they have a lot of sources of heat aside from reductions in the information content of the physical system. The researchers built a switch that was as efficient as possible so the vast majority of heat dissipation could be attributed to changes in the information content of the switch. Real computer memory will have heat dissipation due to changes in information content along with heat dissipation from such things as moving read/write heads.
Additionally, the prediction was a great deal more specific than "durrr it will get more hot," it was more: "the heat will change by this particular amount, relative to the ambient temperature, as predicted by these equations,"
Landauer's claim was about the relationship between entropy as used in information theory and entropy as used in thermodynamics: specifically, that entropy in information theory is identical to the entropy in thermodynamics. The scientists used this set-up so they could measure a change of exactly one bit (the information-theoretic conception of entropy) while controlling outside heat influences (the thermodynamics conception of entropy), and see if the change in information corresponded to the change in heat as predicted by thermodynamics and information theory.
Without precisely controlling the change in information and precisely measuring the change in heat, the result is much less clear. That's why they used this methodology and equipment. Moreover, as this is empirical evidence for a very general identity between heat and information, the result will hold for computer memory as well.
More precisely, it means that difference is probably non-zero in the population being sampled. And what is the population being sampled? It's people who play sudoku on the internet. Does that generalize to the population at large? Well, maybe. For the purposes of making conclusions about the population at large, this "study" has a potentially huge sampling bias.
There also seem to be potential problems with multiple testing, but the paper doesn't go into enough detail to be sure.
In short, you shouldn't trust an answer just because you got it by doing some math on a computer.
As a follow-up, the resulting binary packages are also simple. They are a perfectly vanilla xz-zipped tarball (Really! download and extract the package for bash) containing:
The files in the tarball relative to/.
A small metadata file recording e.g. dependencies, any configuration files that should be backed up.
(Optional) A small file containing bash functions that will be executed before and after installation, upgrades, or removal.
That might be the intent, but, for a lot of software patents, at least, the language is too vague and broad to for things to work out this way. They're written with the intent of catching as many possible technologies in the same net; disclosure is not a concern.
I was thinking about taking the programming course at my high school (I didn't know the horrors of Visual Basic at that time). The teacher heard that I knew perl, and asked if I could help out with a script the school had been having trouble with. I thought that sounded like it might be a fun project (I'd never been able to touch production code before), and said I'd come by after school to take a look at the code. I showed up, and the teacher gave me a ten-page printout of this convoluted perl script, and told me that I could just circle any problem I found and write notes in the margin when giving it back...
My guess is that it has to do with the rise of github and bitbucket, together with version control systems that aren't completely dependent on a central repository. Sourceforge used to be the go-to place for coordinating open-source project development, but not so much anymore.
More likely the field has just moved on to new problems and methods, and the GP doesn't know enough about these new areas to have noticed. In a lot of domains, we've gotten about as far as we can get with deterministic, rule-based algorithms, and the vast majority of research on statistical methods has happened since the beginning of the 90's. Bayesian methods in particular have proliferated only in the last five years or so.
If the thief hadn't stolen it, customs would have confiscated it anyway.
What are you talking about?? Customs only cares about expensive gifts, expensive items you intend to sell (including counterfeits), and items that might introduce invasive species or diseases. I'm an American who has been in and out of the US several times with my laptop, and I've never encountered any problem with customs. "abroad" is not some scary, law-less pit of oppression. Try getting out sometime.
I take Jesus as described in the Bible as basis for my morality.
And how is that any less arbitrary than the GP, particularly in the absence of reliable evidence that there was anything special about Jesus? I agree that metaphysical questions about the origin of morality are hard, but falling back on religion only pushes back the question one more step.
What is being suggested is that someone hid the changes (which would require manual access to the git files).
My understanding is this would not be too hard, but apparently it is?
What do you mean by "git files"? If you mean the files tracked by git, then yes, it is very hard. The two links provided in the summary explain how git uses cryptographic hashes to verify the current files and history. Alternatively, you might mean the git program itself. The attackers could conceivably have swapped in a modified git binary to ignore hash mismatches. But this would be discovered when anybody on a non-compromised machine ran git fsck, or recompiled git (using a compiler from a non-compromised machine). So this is hard to do silently as well.
So if they're coding that "whitespace separates words", then any text written in Mandarin will consist of sentences with one single word? Mandarin and many other Asian languages (other Chinese dialects, Korean, Japanese, Thai) do not use whitespace to indicate word boundary.
Look at the proceedings of any major NLP conference in the last five years (e.g. ACL 2011 or EMNLP 2010) and you'll find a number of papers on unsupervised word segmentation.
I won't find language AI interesting until we have true language learning. Sure, this may be better than previous attempts at language AI, but when there are limiting assumptions built into the foundation of the code, I find it hard to believe that it will ever be able to "learn" any language.
Do you mean that? You won't even find AI interesting until we have solved the entire problem of language acquisition? I don't know about you, but problems strike me as much less interesting once we have solved them, and consider progress towards that solution extremely interesting.
How is it abuse when the data is supposedly collected in an anonymizing fashion?
anonymizing social datais extremely hard. If you're confident that the dataset is sufficiently anonymized, then you've probably erased all of the interesting data.
ok, people who are actually radical leftists have almost as many issues with Obama as they did with Bush. Seriously, where do you get your notion of what constitutes a "radical leftist"? Just because Glenn Beck, in all his journalistic integrity and informed criticism, makes no distinction between Emma Goldman on the one hand, and Barack Obama on the other, doesn't mean that there is none.
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If there wasn't all the illegals to push aside, how hard do you think it would be for a senior software engineer married to an american citizen to just come in? I doubt i'd have had to even be either of those to do so.
There are no quotas for spouses of American citizens. As a spouse (assuming you're in a heterosexual marriage), you can get an Immediate Relative visa after just the processing time for the visa, and immediately apply for an Adjustment of Status to become a permanent resident ("green-card holder"). While you wait for the Adjustment Of Status to process, you can get an Employment Authorization Document (EAD). From what I've read, the whole process takes between 6 months and a year, and you can work as soon as you get the EAD.
Anyway, IMHO, undocumented immigrants are not the right target for frustration with long and complicated immigration policies. The proper target is American xenophobia and the policies it enables. Undocumented immigration happens because, for centuries, Western powers have siphoned wealth from what is now the third world. Anti-immigration policies are just one component of a strategy to maintain and, when possible, exacerbate imbalances rooted in colonialism.
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I think I'd find failing 90% of the time completely demoralising, but it's certainly true that if you never fail then you're probably not exploring really interesting possibilities.
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W - Most if the debt racked up after getting a Democrat Congress.
Um, no. The debt under W was racked up after invading and occupying two countries on the other side of the world and giving millionaires a tax cut. Fiscal conservatism would have used the surplus after the Clinton years to pay off some of the debt: borrow when you have to, pay it off when you can.
Guess who taxes and spend?
Tax and spend is better than spend and spend.
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The point is that this law, at least as it's being enforced, makes murder indistinguishable from legitimate self-defense. The officers show up, ask the shooter what happened, the shooter claims self-defense, and there's almost nothing in the way of independent investigation. That's why people are upset, and why it looks like this law is a de facto legalization of murder.
additionally, the point isn't just that heat was dissipated, but rather that a specific quantity was dissipated as predicted by thermodynamics and information theory.
Computer memory is a bunch of mechanical switches. The point is that they have a lot of sources of heat aside from reductions in the information content of the physical system. The researchers built a switch that was as efficient as possible so the vast majority of heat dissipation could be attributed to changes in the information content of the switch. Real computer memory will have heat dissipation due to changes in information content along with heat dissipation from such things as moving read/write heads.
Additionally, the prediction was a great deal more specific than "durrr it will get more hot," it was more: "the heat will change by this particular amount, relative to the ambient temperature, as predicted by these equations,"
Landauer's claim was about the relationship between entropy as used in information theory and entropy as used in thermodynamics: specifically, that entropy in information theory is identical to the entropy in thermodynamics. The scientists used this set-up so they could measure a change of exactly one bit (the information-theoretic conception of entropy) while controlling outside heat influences (the thermodynamics conception of entropy), and see if the change in information corresponded to the change in heat as predicted by thermodynamics and information theory.
Without precisely controlling the change in information and precisely measuring the change in heat, the result is much less clear. That's why they used this methodology and equipment. Moreover, as this is empirical evidence for a very general identity between heat and information, the result will hold for computer memory as well.
More precisely, it means that difference is probably non-zero in the population being sampled. And what is the population being sampled? It's people who play sudoku on the internet. Does that generalize to the population at large? Well, maybe. For the purposes of making conclusions about the population at large, this "study" has a potentially huge sampling bias.
There also seem to be potential problems with multiple testing, but the paper doesn't go into enough detail to be sure.
In short, you shouldn't trust an answer just because you got it by doing some math on a computer.
That might be the intent, but, for a lot of software patents, at least, the language is too vague and broad to for things to work out this way. They're written with the intent of catching as many possible technologies in the same net; disclosure is not a concern.
+1 idealist. If only...
I was thinking about taking the programming course at my high school (I didn't know the horrors of Visual Basic at that time). The teacher heard that I knew perl, and asked if I could help out with a script the school had been having trouble with. I thought that sounded like it might be a fun project (I'd never been able to touch production code before), and said I'd come by after school to take a look at the code. I showed up, and the teacher gave me a ten-page printout of this convoluted perl script, and told me that I could just circle any problem I found and write notes in the margin when giving it back...
I decided not to take the programming course.
My guess is that it has to do with the rise of github and bitbucket, together with version control systems that aren't completely dependent on a central repository. Sourceforge used to be the go-to place for coordinating open-source project development, but not so much anymore.
Maybe all the low hanging fruits are taken?
More likely the field has just moved on to new problems and methods, and the GP doesn't know enough about these new areas to have noticed. In a lot of domains, we've gotten about as far as we can get with deterministic, rule-based algorithms, and the vast majority of research on statistical methods has happened since the beginning of the 90's. Bayesian methods in particular have proliferated only in the last five years or so.
If the thief hadn't stolen it, customs would have confiscated it anyway.
What are you talking about?? Customs only cares about expensive gifts, expensive items you intend to sell (including counterfeits), and items that might introduce invasive species or diseases. I'm an American who has been in and out of the US several times with my laptop, and I've never encountered any problem with customs. "abroad" is not some scary, law-less pit of oppression. Try getting out sometime.
I take Jesus as described in the Bible as basis for my morality.
And how is that any less arbitrary than the GP, particularly in the absence of reliable evidence that there was anything special about Jesus? I agree that metaphysical questions about the origin of morality are hard, but falling back on religion only pushes back the question one more step.
What is being suggested is that someone hid the changes (which would require manual access to the git files). My understanding is this would not be too hard, but apparently it is?
What do you mean by "git files"? If you mean the files tracked by git, then yes, it is very hard. The two links provided in the summary explain how git uses cryptographic hashes to verify the current files and history. Alternatively, you might mean the git program itself. The attackers could conceivably have swapped in a modified git binary to ignore hash mismatches. But this would be discovered when anybody on a non-compromised machine ran git fsck, or recompiled git (using a compiler from a non-compromised machine). So this is hard to do silently as well.
If people want to remove their own foreskins, it's no skin off my "nose", just don't do it to other people.
TFTFY
Also, completely in agreement with everything you said
So if they're coding that "whitespace separates words", then any text written in Mandarin will consist of sentences with one single word? Mandarin and many other Asian languages (other Chinese dialects, Korean, Japanese, Thai) do not use whitespace to indicate word boundary.
Look at the proceedings of any major NLP conference in the last five years (e.g. ACL 2011 or EMNLP 2010) and you'll find a number of papers on unsupervised word segmentation.
I won't find language AI interesting until we have true language learning. Sure, this may be better than previous attempts at language AI, but when there are limiting assumptions built into the foundation of the code, I find it hard to believe that it will ever be able to "learn" any language.
Do you mean that? You won't even find AI interesting until we have solved the entire problem of language acquisition? I don't know about you, but problems strike me as much less interesting once we have solved them, and consider progress towards that solution extremely interesting.
How is it abuse when the data is supposedly collected in an anonymizing fashion?
anonymizing social data is extremely hard. If you're confident that the dataset is sufficiently anonymized, then you've probably erased all of the interesting data.
ok, people who are actually radical leftists have almost as many issues with Obama as they did with Bush. Seriously, where do you get your notion of what constitutes a "radical leftist"? Just because Glenn Beck, in all his journalistic integrity and informed criticism, makes no distinction between Emma Goldman on the one hand, and Barack Obama on the other, doesn't mean that there is none.