Read. Learn. Write. Write. Write. Share what you learn. Formulate new ideas. Discuss them with other people. Prepare to feel stupid. Do the whole process again.
I hate to say it, but people have book smart and they have monkey smart. You may have the former, but it doesn't sound like you have the latter. You may now feel free to exact monkey justice.
My first job out of college was found at a career fair. My second was found through Monster. My third was found through the Sunday classifieds.
Every job was obtained through "job bazzars." Not one was gained through personal contacts. Even my ex, who can get "ten letters of recommendations from multi-millionares," couldn't pull the right strings (althogh she tried... I think) to help me find work.
All three jobs were great, too. I'm still at the third, and hope that I can work here until I die.
The best part about portage is when you start a big update, and say "hey, I'll do it overnight when I don't need the computer." Then you come to work the next morning and find that the third package install, which probably started less than 10 minutes after you left, has crashed or is waiting for user input. You can't beat a packaging system like that!
He's a crank for his "this looks like a snowflake, therefore this explains snowflakes" attitude.
Not entirely, since part of what his is doing is exercising the scientific method. To recap:
1: devise theory (usually an equation)
2: test theory against nature
3: If theory does not match nature, revise theory and go back to step 1.
4: It theory does match nature, go back to step 2
The longer you stay away from step 1, the better your theory is.
I'm not trying to be a Wolfram defender or apologist, but he is a bright guy who made important contributions to both the theory (early research) and practice (Mathematica) of mathematics. He may be a bit of a loon, but it can be dangerous to dicount smart loons.
It looks much better. No more Grand-Mal-Man for me! You might be able to improve your ghost AI with an A-star search algorithm.
I think that dropping to a Celeron 300 to reproduce the flicker is more of an indictment against Java on OS X than is it against PPC chips in general. My 800 G3 is comparable to my 900 P3.
Oh come on. This "engine on fire" thing has been beaten to death. I've driven two escorts, and never had that problem. The only bad things that ever happed to me were an emergency brake failure (in a parking lot) and a brake failure (at 70 mph on I-25.
For the brake failure, I was grateful that the emergency brake worked. For the emergency brake failure, I was grateful for the telephone pole that kept it from rolling down the hill when I was trading in the car at my local Honda dealership.
Gandalf telling Frodo to spare Gollum's life was very important. If Frodo, Sam, or anyone else had killed Gollum (as they wanted to do) Sauron would have won.
That's what I ask everyone who complains about how the Matrix trilogy ended. "What did you want to happen?"
Really, ask yourself where the story could have gone. In the world of the Matrix, humans have very little power. The machines could easily crush them. To fix that problem, a menace to the machines that only the humans could fix had to be created. Thus viral Agent Smith is introduced. The humans in Zion were toast, and Neo saved them in the only way they could be saved: through a truce. A truce also makes sense in the Matrix mythology. Originally the machines wanted peaceful coexistence with humans. Humans regularly showed themselves to lack any sense of humanity, and in the end the machines preserved their creators even though they didn't need to.
Flame me for being a fanboy, or for trying to prop up a series of lackluster movies (and they were lackluster), but the trilogy told the only story it could reasonably tell.
I was once offered a job because my resume was the only one that had no spelling errors on it. It was a short term paid research position right out of college, and the project directors were looking for someone who paid attention to quality and detail. All of the other applicants set the bar at spelling.
If you're applying for a job there, you should tell him that. He might be so ashamed that he will resign his position, and offer leadership of the company to you!
His poor grammar doesn't keep him from being a boss, but in his world your poor grammer keeps him from being your boss.
I had to give a presentation on a SAT reduction problem. I read the paper that I was having trouble with before going to bed one night (much to the annoyance of my girlfriend), and gave up on trying to understand it. The next day when I gave the paper a shot again, it read like a Dan Brown novel. By the time the presentation came around I knew enough to bluff that I didn't know nearly enough about the subject to be an expert.
I have not heard of any AI programming that includes periods of random fact-matching to simulate sleep. I do not follow the current technology, so if anybody is aware of AIs that are programmed to have a "dream" process, let us know.
Simulated annealing might be said to simulate this kind of behavior. Many AI heuristics work by using local search. Simulated annealing allows for the heuristic direct the search in ways that aren't optimal locally in the hopes that that the "bad" local choices will help the heuristic to climb out of local minima. As the search progresses the heuristic allows for less local error, on the assumption that the longer you search the closer to optimal you reach.
I have yet to try this on a 20-dollar bill. Either it only detects 20 dollar bills and higher, or the quality of the bill (i.e. slightly creased) dramatically affects whether the software detects currency.
You may have noticed that the 20-dollar bill has gone through several revisions, but the one-dollar bill is the same old style that you used over a decade ago. Why? There is no money in forging one-dollar bills.
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You've got to be kidding me. What started out as a funny show became a wank-a-thon for Alda and his ego.
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Enough of this Phoenix/Thunderbird/Fire Bird/Fire Fox/Camino shit. Again, in case you missed it:
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Read. Learn. Write. Write. Write. Share what you learn. Formulate new ideas. Discuss them with other people. Prepare to feel stupid. Do the whole process again.
I hate to say it, but people have book smart and they have monkey smart. You may have the former, but it doesn't sound like you have the latter. You may now feel free to exact monkey justice.
My first job out of college was found at a career fair.
My second was found through Monster.
My third was found through the Sunday classifieds.
Every job was obtained through "job bazzars." Not one was gained through personal contacts. Even my ex, who can get "ten letters of recommendations from multi-millionares," couldn't pull the right strings (althogh she tried... I think) to help me find work.
All three jobs were great, too. I'm still at the third, and hope that I can work here until I die.
This coming from a user who identifies himself as "syco." Up is down. Black is white. Awesome is pure shit.
The best part about portage is when you start a big update, and say "hey, I'll do it overnight when I don't need the computer." Then you come to work the next morning and find that the third package install, which probably started less than 10 minutes after you left, has crashed or is waiting for user input. You can't beat a packaging system like that!
Homophobe.
Is that a MMF triangle, or a MFF triangle?
Not entirely, since part of what his is doing is exercising the scientific method. To recap:
1: devise theory (usually an equation)
2: test theory against nature
3: If theory does not match nature, revise theory and go back to step 1.
4: It theory does match nature, go back to step 2
The longer you stay away from step 1, the better your theory is.
I'm not trying to be a Wolfram defender or apologist, but he is a bright guy who made important contributions to both the theory (early research) and practice (Mathematica) of mathematics. He may be a bit of a loon, but it can be dangerous to dicount smart loons.
Such brilliance and distinction could not be captured in an inifinite numbers of words!
Is that a countable number of infinite words, or an uncountable number of infinite words?
It looks much better. No more Grand-Mal-Man for me! You might be able to improve your ghost AI with an A-star search algorithm. I think that dropping to a Celeron 300 to reproduce the flicker is more of an indictment against Java on OS X than is it against PPC chips in general. My 800 G3 is comparable to my 900 P3.
Bad as in Powerglove bad?
Microsoft pays public radio programs to use WMA, and WMA only.
Oh come on. This "engine on fire" thing has been beaten to death. I've driven two escorts, and never had that problem. The only bad things that ever happed to me were an emergency brake failure (in a parking lot) and a brake failure (at 70 mph on I-25.
For the brake failure, I was grateful that the emergency brake worked. For the emergency brake failure, I was grateful for the telephone pole that kept it from rolling down the hill when I was trading in the car at my local Honda dealership.
Gandalf telling Frodo to spare Gollum's life was very important. If Frodo, Sam, or anyone else had killed Gollum (as they wanted to do) Sauron would have won.
Oh, you just have to rent these movies:
Dr. Strangelove
Being John Malkovich
Koyansquatti
Yeah, you'll like those.
That's what I ask everyone who complains about how the Matrix trilogy ended. "What did you want to happen?"
Really, ask yourself where the story could have gone. In the world of the Matrix, humans have very little power. The machines could easily crush them. To fix that problem, a menace to the machines that only the humans could fix had to be created. Thus viral Agent Smith is introduced. The humans in Zion were toast, and Neo saved them in the only way they could be saved: through a truce. A truce also makes sense in the Matrix mythology. Originally the machines wanted peaceful coexistence with humans. Humans regularly showed themselves to lack any sense of humanity, and in the end the machines preserved their creators even though they didn't need to.
Flame me for being a fanboy, or for trying to prop up a series of lackluster movies (and they were lackluster), but the trilogy told the only story it could reasonably tell.
Mac OS X 10.3 using Java 1.4.1, G3 800 mhz iBook.
I was once offered a job because my resume was the only one that had no spelling errors on it. It was a short term paid research position right out of college, and the project directors were looking for someone who paid attention to quality and detail. All of the other applicants set the bar at spelling.
If you're applying for a job there, you should tell him that. He might be so ashamed that he will resign his position, and offer leadership of the company to you!
His poor grammar doesn't keep him from being a boss, but in his world your poor grammer keeps him from being your boss.
I would have written sooner, but I had to recover from my seizure first.
I would comment on the gameplay. For seizure inducing flicker, I give the game a 10.
Yet another personal experience.
I had to give a presentation on a SAT reduction problem. I read the paper that I was having trouble with before going to bed one night (much to the annoyance of my girlfriend), and gave up on trying to understand it. The next day when I gave the paper a shot again, it read like a Dan Brown novel. By the time the presentation came around I knew enough to bluff that I didn't know nearly enough about the subject to be an expert.
I have not heard of any AI programming that includes periods of random fact-matching to simulate sleep. I do not follow the current technology, so if anybody is aware of AIs that are programmed to have a "dream" process, let us know.
Simulated annealing might be said to simulate this kind of behavior. Many AI heuristics work by using local search. Simulated annealing allows for the heuristic direct the search in ways that aren't optimal locally in the hopes that that the "bad" local choices will help the heuristic to climb out of local minima. As the search progresses the heuristic allows for less local error, on the assumption that the longer you search the closer to optimal you reach.
Yellow Dog, yeah I'd believe that. Gentoo? Why the hell would I want to spend a month compiling Gentoo for an old server box?
I have yet to try this on a 20-dollar bill. Either it only detects 20 dollar bills and higher, or the quality of the bill (i.e. slightly creased) dramatically affects whether the software detects currency.
You may have noticed that the 20-dollar bill has gone through several revisions, but the one-dollar bill is the same old style that you used over a decade ago. Why? There is no money in forging one-dollar bills.