but, considering this is a class to expand people's experience with computing systems, the goal is not necessarily to lure her into switching to using a different OS. The goal is education, not marketing.
Ah, yes, in funding Catholic parishes to care for children in utter safety, the Salvation Army to provide equally for straight people and GLBT people, and for missionary organizations to civilize the heathen hordes. Right. Based on your sig, you're none too enthusiastic about religious causes, but the vast majority of social charities are mainly fronts for religious organizations to evangelize and push their own social agenda . Government-run social programs at least have some semblance of accountability to society at large. At the very least, your response merits a big fat [citation needed]
Those obscure Chinese characters that no one can write by hand
Um, over a billion people can write them in... wait for it... China! Yes, they do have computers there, and yes, they do type and read Chinese characters with them.
maybe, once you know the form of your function. But it takes at least basic knowledge of calculus to e.g. know why and how conjugate priors can make Bayesian methods easier
I haven't used Calculus or Physics since college. What a waste of time that could have been spent helping me learn to write... robots, speech recognition, video recognition, OCR... You know PROGRAMMING stuff.
So, um, how do you think we write computer programs that deal with the uncertainty involved in robotics, speech recognition, video processing, and OCR? The most successful approaches involve optimizing various objective functions with respect to (possibly labeled) data, which almost always involves either climbing (or descending) a gradient to some optimum, or (in Bayesian approaches) integrating out certain parameters. How are you going to do these things without calculus? Your professors were trying to give you the foundation to do these cool things.
Every linux command works a little differently. Wouldn't it be nice if ever command had a --getCMDLineOptionsJSON that returned JSON that bash could use to auto complete...powershell's "tab" will autocomplete --arguments.... At the very least it would nice if they all implemented --version
here you go. Try typing "ls -" then push tab twice. magic!
I'm not a lawyer, but if we're just talking about what the word "rape" means in English, then you're absolutely right that it does have a specific definition: non-consensual sexual contact. It doesn't have to be a stranger jumping out of a bush for it to be rape. It doesn't have to involve a knife or a gun or a fist to be rape. If an individual says she (or he) is not ok with any kind of sexual activity, including sex without a condom, and you proceed to engage in that activity (by force or deceit or whatever), then it is rape.
By arguing that only some kinds of non-consensual sexual activity count as rape, you're contributing to a culture that turns a blind eye to the kind of rape (non-stranger, little or no physical force involved, etc.) that is most common. This gives rapists cover from their peer group and license to think that what they do is not really rape; David Lisak, for example, has built a research career out of interviewing rapists, and 6% of men will self-report as rapists as long as the word "rape" is not used. Please stop.
I think the hole in your logic may be that 0.333... == 1/3. I think 0.333... may only be a very close numerical approximation of 1/3, but 1/3 cannot be expressed absolutely as a number (even assuming infinite 3s).
um, no. 0.333... is the decimal expansion of 1/3. It just has a clumsy decimal (base-10) expansion. The ternary (base 3) expansion is quite simple: 0.1.
Is there there a way to stop ISPs from throttling all encrypted traffic?
What if the sites I want to visit don't offer encryption? I might ask the site webmaster to offer encryption, but they could easily respond by telling me to pressure my ISP to sign a deal with the website. This is exactly what happens with small sports networks: if you're in a part of the US that doesn't get the Big Ten network, you can ask them for access to an online stream for their big ticket games (men's basketball and football), and they'll tell you they won't do that, and you should call your cable provider and get them to put the Big Ten network on basic cable paying the Big Ten network such-and-such per subscriber. Meanwhile, the Big Ten network has the technology; I live in the UK right now, where there is not a chance of getting the Big Ten network on basic cable, and they're happy to sell me an online streaming subscription.
Ten to one it's just so they get more accurate performance on automatic essay grading. Most tests that are administered to a large number of students rely on Latent Semantic Analysis for essay grading, and perfect spelling means they don't have to deal with Out Of Vocaublary errors.
That's not true at all. A study takes a controlled sample of individual stories about a real event, whether by generating the sample in a laboratory experiment or being extremely careful about the collection of the sample in an observational study. You can't just haphazardly gather observations and expect to have reliably sampled a target population.
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To be fair, santorum can result from heterosexual anal sex as well.
but, considering this is a class to expand people's experience with computing systems, the goal is not necessarily to lure her into switching to using a different OS. The goal is education, not marketing.
Ah, yes, in funding Catholic parishes to care for children in utter safety, the Salvation Army to provide equally for straight people and GLBT people, and for missionary organizations to civilize the heathen hordes. Right. Based on your sig, you're none too enthusiastic about religious causes, but the vast majority of social charities are mainly fronts for religious organizations to evangelize and push their own social agenda . Government-run social programs at least have some semblance of accountability to society at large. At the very least, your response merits a big fat [citation needed]
the legally obscene - is already illegal
what are you talking about
Here's a tip for "clean code" you might appreciate:
Those obscure Chinese characters that no one can write by hand
Um, over a billion people can write them in... wait for it... China! Yes, they do have computers there, and yes, they do type and read Chinese characters with them.
i more or less assume that that's what all "shortened" links are ;)
obligatory SMBC.
maybe, once you know the form of your function. But it takes at least basic knowledge of calculus to e.g. know why and how conjugate priors can make Bayesian methods easier
I haven't used Calculus or Physics since college. What a waste of time that could have been spent helping me learn to write... robots, speech recognition, video recognition, OCR... You know PROGRAMMING stuff.
So, um, how do you think we write computer programs that deal with the uncertainty involved in robotics, speech recognition, video processing, and OCR? The most successful approaches involve optimizing various objective functions with respect to (possibly labeled) data, which almost always involves either climbing (or descending) a gradient to some optimum, or (in Bayesian approaches) integrating out certain parameters. How are you going to do these things without calculus? Your professors were trying to give you the foundation to do these cool things.
Every linux command works a little differently. Wouldn't it be nice if ever command had a --getCMDLineOptionsJSON that returned JSON that bash could use to auto complete...powershell's "tab" will autocomplete --arguments.... At the very least it would nice if they all implemented --version
here you go. Try typing "ls -" then push tab twice. magic!
But what good is a tool that requires six fingers to use?
wow, emacs haters are out in force today...
I'm not a lawyer, but if we're just talking about what the word "rape" means in English, then you're absolutely right that it does have a specific definition: non-consensual sexual contact. It doesn't have to be a stranger jumping out of a bush for it to be rape. It doesn't have to involve a knife or a gun or a fist to be rape. If an individual says she (or he) is not ok with any kind of sexual activity, including sex without a condom, and you proceed to engage in that activity (by force or deceit or whatever), then it is rape.
By arguing that only some kinds of non-consensual sexual activity count as rape, you're contributing to a culture that turns a blind eye to the kind of rape (non-stranger, little or no physical force involved, etc.) that is most common. This gives rapists cover from their peer group and license to think that what they do is not really rape; David Lisak, for example, has built a research career out of interviewing rapists, and 6% of men will self-report as rapists as long as the word "rape" is not used. Please stop.
I think the hole in your logic may be that 0.333... == 1/3. I think 0.333... may only be a very close numerical approximation of 1/3, but 1/3 cannot be expressed absolutely as a number (even assuming infinite 3s).
um, no. 0.333... is the decimal expansion of 1/3. It just has a clumsy decimal (base-10) expansion. The ternary (base 3) expansion is quite simple: 0.1.
Here is your Useless Use of Cat Award ;)
Is there there a way to stop ISPs from throttling all encrypted traffic?
What if the sites I want to visit don't offer encryption? I might ask the site webmaster to offer encryption, but they could easily respond by telling me to pressure my ISP to sign a deal with the website. This is exactly what happens with small sports networks: if you're in a part of the US that doesn't get the Big Ten network, you can ask them for access to an online stream for their big ticket games (men's basketball and football), and they'll tell you they won't do that, and you should call your cable provider and get them to put the Big Ten network on basic cable paying the Big Ten network such-and-such per subscriber. Meanwhile, the Big Ten network has the technology; I live in the UK right now, where there is not a chance of getting the Big Ten network on basic cable, and they're happy to sell me an online streaming subscription.
Ten to one it's just so they get more accurate performance on automatic essay grading. Most tests that are administered to a large number of students rely on Latent Semantic Analysis for essay grading, and perfect spelling means they don't have to deal with Out Of Vocaublary errors.
diplomats used to communicate by telegraph, which was the first large scale communication system to transmit messages by cables.
anything's possible.
That's not true at all. A study takes a controlled sample of individual stories about a real event, whether by generating the sample in a laboratory experiment or being extremely careful about the collection of the sample in an observational study. You can't just haphazardly gather observations and expect to have reliably sampled a target population.
How Insightful, Interesting, and Informative of you!
Yes, I know. I grew up near Cincinnati and have two degrees from Ohio State.
That's the costumed mascot. Ohio State sports generally are the Buckeyes.
The mascot for Ohio University is the Bobcats
wow, apt-get just keeps getting slower!