can I have pizza with my college roommate if he lives in Uganda? that "real world" argument is pretty and all, but the whole point of the internet in the first place was to allow easy long-range communication.
+5 awesome rant. BTW, you may be able to see smaller features than the average person if you're wearing contacts. that's due to receptor density in the retina, doesn't have anything to do with corrective glasses/contacts.
I manage about 60TB of collected data owned or funded by a combination of private/individual funds, internal funds, corporate funds, publishing houses, NIH, NSF and other grants
Holy crap! man, there are all kinds of people on/., aren't there... thanks for the answer, btw.
i've seen such figures comparing CPU efficiency (though can't find them now). unsurprisingly, the distribution looks like a bell curve, with the mid-range CPU's having best overall power efficiency.
wrong. they may still look at the code for grading. but catching cheating is a much harder problem: in terms of complexity, grading is O(n) while verifying for similar submissions is O(n^2) or worse. also, in big classes you may have multiple TA, each grading a subset of the submissions. hence may be impossible for them to find such similarities.
no, that's not true. these code comparison tools look for deeper similarities as well. if you were to manually copy my code, with your own indentation, comments, spacing, etc., you'd still get caught, because a slightly interpreted version of your code would look exactly the same as mine.
suggestion: how about replacing normal captcha for submitting as AC with something a bit more complicated? a set of differential equations, perhaps? or maybe require the poster to prove the collatz conjecture, and define a turing machine that can verify the proof?
that's not necessarily insanity. perhaps their decisions are optimal under a very small discount factor (which makes sense, since they could die any day now).
though based on the description it seems these things are pretty tiny... even for single-celled organisms. i wonder how their average cell mass compares to some of the more usual critters we know and love.
i'm pretty sure that the tail was composed of normal gases and dust, not plasma. i'd think that the heat from the meteor would dissipate too quickly in the atmosphere to for a trail of plasma to be visible.
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free speech is a right in Bazil, anonymity while doing so is not though
and you think the two can be separated? now i've seen everything.
I'm adding Brazil to the blacklist, along with UK, Australia, China, Iran, and a few other places hell-bent on destroying free speech.
can I have pizza with my college roommate if he lives in Uganda? that "real world" argument is pretty and all, but the whole point of the internet in the first place was to allow easy long-range communication.
+5 awesome rant. BTW, you may be able to see smaller features than the average person if you're wearing contacts. that's due to receptor density in the retina, doesn't have anything to do with corrective glasses/contacts.
as a nihilist i don't believe the post exists. [/toofar]
Muslims will fucking kill you.
did anybody else think of jeff dunham while reading this?
if you look at the article directly, you'll burn out your retinas!
I manage about 60TB of collected data owned or funded by a combination of private/individual funds, internal funds, corporate funds, publishing houses, NIH, NSF and other grants
Holy crap! man, there are all kinds of people on /., aren't there... thanks for the answer, btw.
does anyone know if the NSF has similar requirements?
i've seen such figures comparing CPU efficiency (though can't find them now). unsurprisingly, the distribution looks like a bell curve, with the mid-range CPU's having best overall power efficiency.
wrong. they may still look at the code for grading. but catching cheating is a much harder problem: in terms of complexity, grading is O(n) while verifying for similar submissions is O(n^2) or worse. also, in big classes you may have multiple TA, each grading a subset of the submissions. hence may be impossible for them to find such similarities.
no, that's not true. these code comparison tools look for deeper similarities as well. if you were to manually copy my code, with your own indentation, comments, spacing, etc., you'd still get caught, because a slightly interpreted version of your code would look exactly the same as mine.
either that, or this is yet another "accidental" leak by apple.
suggestion: how about replacing normal captcha for submitting as AC with something a bit more complicated? a set of differential equations, perhaps? or maybe require the poster to prove the collatz conjecture, and define a turing machine that can verify the proof?
so god is black? hmm...
for the not-so-little guys! (i.e. google & co)
that's not necessarily insanity. perhaps their decisions are optimal under a very small discount factor (which makes sense, since they could die any day now).
must resist.... ah heck, i'll say it: [citation needed]
Plato: “The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” As true now as it has ever been.
first you'd have to be stupid enough to give your real name to a pirated porn game...
though based on the description it seems these things are pretty tiny... even for single-celled organisms. i wonder how their average cell mass compares to some of the more usual critters we know and love.
they found life even there?? what's next, finding living organisms on C-SPAN?
i'm pretty sure that the tail was composed of normal gases and dust, not plasma. i'd think that the heat from the meteor would dissipate too quickly in the atmosphere to for a trail of plasma to be visible.
how is this "insightful"??? funny yes, but who the hell would... AAH! that's it, i'm declaring myself insane...
[citation needed]. what other than nicotine is addictive in, say, a regular Camel?