But this isn't just one isolated incident with a very large deviation from the mean. Yes, they apologized, but I wouldn't be terribly surprised if something like this happened again sometime soon, with no apologies to follow, and that's the real alarming part.
Europe always gets hit first in disaster movies. Case in point - Scotland was first to freeze in The Day After Tomorrow. Though I bet a new ice age would be much less destructive that this...
[Just kidding. Though I will keep Vista on my machine for a while longer, I actually think 7 is a pretty good OS...]
while i was reading this, i thought you were claiming that the same voice message resulted in the two transcripts... needless to say, i was about to declare this bullsh!t.
I've always imagined it feels the same way as fasting for, say, 4 or 5 days, except instead of the pain from the hunger there's a kind of blissful self-confidence...
uh-oh, was that detailed enough to raise suspicions?
Since I'm taking Machine Learning right now, I can't help but rephrase the problem like this:
If God was asking whether person X is weird or not, he'd measure P(is person X weird).
But then person Y is asking the question, the best they can do is measure P(is person X weird | person Y) = P(is person X weird AND person Y) / P(person Y). Now, it's not immediately clear what P(person Y) means, but one could assume that it means the same thing as 1 - P(is person Y weird), since weirdness is, in a way, distance from the mean.
Actually, I don't think this is a phenomenon limited just to programmers. In fact, I think the roots of this "mode of inquiry" lie in mathematics. I'm a computer scientist, with deep roots in mathematics, and I've noticed that very often, when I'm having a discussion about any sort of method of doing something with fellow CS people (say, a method of decreasing overfitting in ML), I tend to start wondering about extreme cases, multiple (or infinite) successive applications of said method, etc, while such questions usually don't interest other CS people as much. In mathematics, however, one usually has to [rigorously] consider every possible "input" before making an assertion, which is a property, of course, that is somewhat carried over into programming, and CS in general.
Produce more energy. Promote gender equality (which reduces fertility rates to sustainable levels, without Chinese-style draconian population control methods).
True, and limiting population growth before it "limits itself" through poverty resulting in starvation and disease is the only way to avoid said starvation and disease. Unfortunately the only way to limit population growth, other than quasi-tyrannical and unrealistic government regulation (such as China's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy), seems to be through education (for example, http://www.popline.org/docs/0037/052752.html). And we all know how hopeless that is...
well, the "demand" will still be there in the form of people with money and vacation time. it's just that other popular destinations will take up the slack.
The truth is that for the average, say, Bengali, those things don't really matter that much. Sure, your government is horribly corrupt, and so are the police, healthcare system, etc. But if you've got enough money to get a nice apartment/home, and support your family's future, you're going to have a pretty happy life, filled with parties and religious/traditional festivals and holidays spent with your [extended] family. As opposed to here in the US, where being upper middle class means working 60 hours a week, seeing your kids 20 minutes a day, and having about a week of vacation time a year...
Actually that's misleading too. I'm a foreign undergrad student (soon to be graduate, hopefully *fingers crossed*), and the sheer number of NSF-funded summer internships and other opportunities that are closed to me since I'm not a citizen is mind-boggling. Don't get me wrong, I'm not whining or anything - it's only fair for a gov't to take special care of its own citizens, and to expect anything else would be absurd - I'm just pointing out that american citizens still have it a lot better than int'l students.
And, of course, Google MosquitoView - every blood sucker in the world will be genetically engineered to have offspring with tiny antennas that upload everything they see to Google. Africa, of course, will have the best coverage, and a lot of exciting shots of children getting malaria that will soon kill them. Oh, the possibilities for real-time betting games...
Yes, and in fact the first thing that came to my mind was "oh geez, if this technology gets in the hands of [insert big tier-1 ISP here], its "bye bye net neutrality".
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this is one of the most perfect analogies i've ever seen. personal experience, perhaps?
wait, you pay for software? how strange...
But this isn't just one isolated incident with a very large deviation from the mean. Yes, they apologized, but I wouldn't be terribly surprised if something like this happened again sometime soon, with no apologies to follow, and that's the real alarming part.
Europe always gets hit first in disaster movies. Case in point - Scotland was first to freeze in The Day After Tomorrow. Though I bet a new ice age would be much less destructive that this...
[Just kidding. Though I will keep Vista on my machine for a while longer, I actually think 7 is a pretty good OS...]
it sounds to me like a bunch of pigs are getting gang-raped and chopped to pieces by escaped criminally insane convicts.
while i was reading this, i thought you were claiming that the same voice message resulted in the two transcripts... needless to say, i was about to declare this bullsh!t.
except, of course, there might be a 0.001% chance that you'll die tomorrow, which means that 100% uptime is wasted anyway.
yep, they did evil all right...
I've always imagined it feels the same way as fasting for, say, 4 or 5 days, except instead of the pain from the hunger there's a kind of blissful self-confidence...
uh-oh, was that detailed enough to raise suspicions?
Since I'm taking Machine Learning right now, I can't help but rephrase the problem like this:
If God was asking whether person X is weird or not, he'd measure P(is person X weird).
But then person Y is asking the question, the best they can do is measure P(is person X weird | person Y) = P(is person X weird AND person Y) / P(person Y). Now, it's not immediately clear what P(person Y) means, but one could assume that it means the same thing as 1 - P(is person Y weird), since weirdness is, in a way, distance from the mean.
Actually, I don't think this is a phenomenon limited just to programmers. In fact, I think the roots of this "mode of inquiry" lie in mathematics. I'm a computer scientist, with deep roots in mathematics, and I've noticed that very often, when I'm having a discussion about any sort of method of doing something with fellow CS people (say, a method of decreasing overfitting in ML), I tend to start wondering about extreme cases, multiple (or infinite) successive applications of said method, etc, while such questions usually don't interest other CS people as much. In mathematics, however, one usually has to [rigorously] consider every possible "input" before making an assertion, which is a property, of course, that is somewhat carried over into programming, and CS in general.
fusion is asymptotically here!
Produce more energy. Promote gender equality (which reduces fertility rates to sustainable levels, without Chinese-style draconian population control methods).
And educate, for the love of God, educate!!!
True, and limiting population growth before it "limits itself" through poverty resulting in starvation and disease is the only way to avoid said starvation and disease. Unfortunately the only way to limit population growth, other than quasi-tyrannical and unrealistic government regulation (such as China's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy), seems to be through education (for example, http://www.popline.org/docs/0037/052752.html). And we all know how hopeless that is...
so corals have herpes? wow, your mom's really been busy, hasn't she...
well, the "demand" will still be there in the form of people with money and vacation time. it's just that other popular destinations will take up the slack.
Well, writing one line of useful comments for the Linux kernel is still more valuable than writing an entire, say, iPhone app in my book...
They're real wet blankets for the world's economy...
The truth is that for the average, say, Bengali, those things don't really matter that much. Sure, your government is horribly corrupt, and so are the police, healthcare system, etc. But if you've got enough money to get a nice apartment/home, and support your family's future, you're going to have a pretty happy life, filled with parties and religious/traditional festivals and holidays spent with your [extended] family. As opposed to here in the US, where being upper middle class means working 60 hours a week, seeing your kids 20 minutes a day, and having about a week of vacation time a year...
well duh, Europeans get much better from DHS that people from certain other parts of the world...
Actually that's misleading too. I'm a foreign undergrad student (soon to be graduate, hopefully *fingers crossed*), and the sheer number of NSF-funded summer internships and other opportunities that are closed to me since I'm not a citizen is mind-boggling. Don't get me wrong, I'm not whining or anything - it's only fair for a gov't to take special care of its own citizens, and to expect anything else would be absurd - I'm just pointing out that american citizens still have it a lot better than int'l students.
You, sir, have once again accidentally the english language.
And, of course, Google MosquitoView - every blood sucker in the world will be genetically engineered to have offspring with tiny antennas that upload everything they see to Google. Africa, of course, will have the best coverage, and a lot of exciting shots of children getting malaria that will soon kill them. Oh, the possibilities for real-time betting games...
Yes, and in fact the first thing that came to my mind was "oh geez, if this technology gets in the hands of [insert big tier-1 ISP here], its "bye bye net neutrality".
how good are your knees?