I think that tools like this should be great for strange medical cases (the "zebras"). As you mentioned there's too much for a person to keep in their head so the predominant idea is to always go for the more mundane/common causes of an issue. This frequently leads people (like my wife) to suffer for years because specialist after specialist proceeds to think of common causes. If you have something rare/odd you have to stumble across the doctor that happens to be familiar with whatever your rare condition is. A machine could compute a likelihood much more easily and say "Here are the potential conditions". Then it's easy to go down the list and start ruling things out as appropriate.
The ant workers/defenders wouldn't be the ones affected by this trap anyway. The breeding males do nothing but eat and mate. With ants evolution has stronger pressures on the colony as a whole than any individual ant
That's just messed up. I tend to use those expressions when I'm telling the truth but I don't really want to because it's going to make me look bad to some degree. i.e. "Honestly, I'm not really sure how to solve this problem"
I'm also familiar with coursera.org and udacity.com These aren't textbooks but have a bunch of small video lectures in whatever course they're offering and may be worth looking into.
I'm guessing that it very well may not have been brand new in that case. In the past my brother in law would open and install games along with using whatever access codes were present. He would then shrink wrap the box again and return it to the store.
I would argue that the hypothetical 3rd grader in question is correct. As a note I majored in computer science and math and still don't have my multiplication tables memorized. In third grade I simply computed the answers in my head every time and was able to do this quickly. Now I have portions of the multiplication table memorized and compute from there. i.e. for 8x7 I do 8x5 + 8x2
There's absolutely no reason that you need to memorize the multiplication tables. Arithmetic is a small subset of math and most mathematicians suck at it so discounting someone that hasn't memorized a small subset of arithmetic is just stupid.
I just want to reply to the portion about math and fractions in particular since I have a great story.
My father-in-law had a friend over and they were talking while he was trying to bake something. The recipe asked for 2/3 of a cup of sugar (Note: exact amount may be incorrect) and he was doubling the recipe. He asked her "Can you measure the sugar out for me? Remember that we're doubling the recipe". To which her reply was "Sorry, i can't do that. I can't do fractions."
I think the title is saying there was an attack that tried to get data (Users' data was the target) from AT&T ('Targeted attack' on AT&T). Definitely a confusing headline but not actually redundant.
From what I remember studies have shown that chiropractic "medicine" only helps lower back pain as well as traditional medicine. Even then, it only matches the effectiveness of traditional medicine. For all other issues, including upper back pain, chiropracty (is that a word?) has been shown to be less effective than traditional medicine. Due to that I really don't see much point in it existing as a practice but people think it helps so I guess that's the reason it's around.
IIRC, Google does NOT use the bounce rate and has explicitly said so. Bounce rate is too noisy to get a sense of whether or not a site is legitimate. Sites like Stack Exchange should have a high bounce rate while sites like Amazon should have a low bounce rate. Both are examples of high quality websites that should rank highly.
Using keepass with a master password as the dog's name is FAR preferable to using the same password for all accounts. Someone cracking, or even targeting, keepass or her personally are practically nil. The chances are so small that I'd say it doesn't really matter what your keepass password is. Sure, ideally it's strong but if not, oh well.
"Veggies + eggs, dairy, and fish is the closest to pacifist that anyone can universally safely go."
Universally? Really? My wife would beg to differ considering she has anaphylactic allergies to eggs, dairy, and fish. I don't think there's any diet that will really work out universally.
Very true but I think monopolies form in the first place due to a lack of education on the consumer side (generally). With perfect knowledge, etc... competitors could more easily pop up even to monopolies. Since this is reality and not theory things just don't work out that way for MANY reasons.
My point was that to have a perfect free market it IS necessary for ALL consumer to be educated about ALL products. As we both stated, that's obviously impossible so mistakes are to be expected. I certainly don't think communism is the right approach and I don't think pure capitalism is either. The best answer lies somewhere in between due to the shortcomings of people. I don't know where the ideal approach lies on the continuum and it probably changes from one society to the next. I personally think something closer to capitalism works much better than those close to communism in practice.
I agree with this and will add a bit. The failing of capitalism is not in accounting for greed. For capitalism to work you need an educated consumer base. This is where capitalism fails in reality. Marketers intentionally deceive consumers which wouldn't be a problem with an educated consumer base (they would be able to catch the deception). The problem is that it's literally impossible to be educated about all products on the market so you simply can't have the educated consumer base necessary for free markets to operate as theories would indicate.
I can believe it. When I was a kid my dad, sister, and I got in an accident with a Domino's delivery guy that ran a red light. We never saw him coming because he was traveling down a 3 lane road and was in the middle between two semis.Luckily nobody was hurt but it easily could have been much worse.
I don't even think using Javascript is the issue. The problem is requiring Javascript for random crap. Graceful degradation is something most websites fail to adhere to even when it's easily possible.
Yup, I got the joke initially, just felt the need to respond. My point was actually that the studies show that (statistically) they are only effective at treating LOWER back pain. Neck pain, upper back, shoulder pain, etc... they are less effective than traditional medicine. So even for most problems chiropractors are associated with they're not very effective.
Unrelated, but where do you train jiu-jitsu (and which style)? I picked up BJJ about 4 months ago and have been loving it so far.
IIRC, studies have shown that chiropractors are as effective as traditional medicine for treating lower back pain and have worse results for everything else. Based on that, why even bother seeing them?
Even assuming the plane would fly anyway like the OP the emissions certainly aren't 0. The man does increase the weight of the plane slightly which leads to some amount of increased fuel.
I agree though that analyzing the situation as the OP did is amazingly stupid.
I definitely agree that 23% less gas is viable but those cars had a 30% difference in fuel efficiency not 3% as originally stated. For the example you would need to be comparing cars getting 10 mpg and 10.3 mpg.
When people discuss fuel efficency I find any changes less than 20% or so pretty unconvincing. Your driving habits alone (braking, acceleration, etc...) can account for somewhere in the range of a 30% difference in fuel economy. Small differences in traffic patterns etc... can compound these issues. I don't doubt that pure gasoline is more fuel efficient than gasoline with ethanol (I'm pretty sure science corroborates this). The question for me is whether or not you can actually notice the small difference. Due to the inherent noise in fuel efficiency measurements you would need to track both over a very long time in the real world or setup a controlled experiment.
3% is WELL within the range where slight differences in driving behavior or traffic patterns will overshadow the fuel efficiency increase. Also, how does a 3% increase in fuel efficiency lead to (roughly) 20% more driving before filling up?
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I think that tools like this should be great for strange medical cases (the "zebras"). As you mentioned there's too much for a person to keep in their head so the predominant idea is to always go for the more mundane/common causes of an issue. This frequently leads people (like my wife) to suffer for years because specialist after specialist proceeds to think of common causes. If you have something rare/odd you have to stumble across the doctor that happens to be familiar with whatever your rare condition is. A machine could compute a likelihood much more easily and say "Here are the potential conditions". Then it's easy to go down the list and start ruling things out as appropriate.
The ant workers/defenders wouldn't be the ones affected by this trap anyway. The breeding males do nothing but eat and mate. With ants evolution has stronger pressures on the colony as a whole than any individual ant
That's just messed up. I tend to use those expressions when I'm telling the truth but I don't really want to because it's going to make me look bad to some degree. i.e. "Honestly, I'm not really sure how to solve this problem"
I've never understood the idea that something natural is inherently better than something non-natural.
I'm also familiar with coursera.org and udacity.com These aren't textbooks but have a bunch of small video lectures in whatever course they're offering and may be worth looking into.
I'm guessing that it very well may not have been brand new in that case. In the past my brother in law would open and install games along with using whatever access codes were present. He would then shrink wrap the box again and return it to the store.
There's absolutely no reason that you need to memorize the multiplication tables. Arithmetic is a small subset of math and most mathematicians suck at it so discounting someone that hasn't memorized a small subset of arithmetic is just stupid.
My father-in-law had a friend over and they were talking while he was trying to bake something. The recipe asked for 2/3 of a cup of sugar (Note: exact amount may be incorrect) and he was doubling the recipe. He asked her "Can you measure the sugar out for me? Remember that we're doubling the recipe". To which her reply was "Sorry, i can't do that. I can't do fractions."
The kicker: This woman was a 5th grade teacher
I think the comment was in response to "...circa 1993 years ago". 2012-1993 = 19
Made me think of this video I saw for the first time a few weeks ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4xpOsCcWIw
I think the title is saying there was an attack that tried to get data (Users' data was the target) from AT&T ('Targeted attack' on AT&T). Definitely a confusing headline but not actually redundant.
From what I remember studies have shown that chiropractic "medicine" only helps lower back pain as well as traditional medicine. Even then, it only matches the effectiveness of traditional medicine. For all other issues, including upper back pain, chiropracty (is that a word?) has been shown to be less effective than traditional medicine. Due to that I really don't see much point in it existing as a practice but people think it helps so I guess that's the reason it's around.
IIRC, Google does NOT use the bounce rate and has explicitly said so. Bounce rate is too noisy to get a sense of whether or not a site is legitimate. Sites like Stack Exchange should have a high bounce rate while sites like Amazon should have a low bounce rate. Both are examples of high quality websites that should rank highly.
Using keepass with a master password as the dog's name is FAR preferable to using the same password for all accounts. Someone cracking, or even targeting, keepass or her personally are practically nil. The chances are so small that I'd say it doesn't really matter what your keepass password is. Sure, ideally it's strong but if not, oh well.
Universally? Really? My wife would beg to differ considering she has anaphylactic allergies to eggs, dairy, and fish. I don't think there's any diet that will really work out universally.
Very true but I think monopolies form in the first place due to a lack of education on the consumer side (generally). With perfect knowledge, etc... competitors could more easily pop up even to monopolies. Since this is reality and not theory things just don't work out that way for MANY reasons.
My point was that to have a perfect free market it IS necessary for ALL consumer to be educated about ALL products. As we both stated, that's obviously impossible so mistakes are to be expected. I certainly don't think communism is the right approach and I don't think pure capitalism is either. The best answer lies somewhere in between due to the shortcomings of people. I don't know where the ideal approach lies on the continuum and it probably changes from one society to the next. I personally think something closer to capitalism works much better than those close to communism in practice.
I agree with this and will add a bit. The failing of capitalism is not in accounting for greed. For capitalism to work you need an educated consumer base. This is where capitalism fails in reality. Marketers intentionally deceive consumers which wouldn't be a problem with an educated consumer base (they would be able to catch the deception). The problem is that it's literally impossible to be educated about all products on the market so you simply can't have the educated consumer base necessary for free markets to operate as theories would indicate.
I can believe it. When I was a kid my dad, sister, and I got in an accident with a Domino's delivery guy that ran a red light. We never saw him coming because he was traveling down a 3 lane road and was in the middle between two semis.Luckily nobody was hurt but it easily could have been much worse.
I don't even think using Javascript is the issue. The problem is requiring Javascript for random crap. Graceful degradation is something most websites fail to adhere to even when it's easily possible.
Yup, I got the joke initially, just felt the need to respond. My point was actually that the studies show that (statistically) they are only effective at treating LOWER back pain. Neck pain, upper back, shoulder pain, etc... they are less effective than traditional medicine. So even for most problems chiropractors are associated with they're not very effective.
Unrelated, but where do you train jiu-jitsu (and which style)? I picked up BJJ about 4 months ago and have been loving it so far.
IIRC, studies have shown that chiropractors are as effective as traditional medicine for treating lower back pain and have worse results for everything else. Based on that, why even bother seeing them?
I agree though that analyzing the situation as the OP did is amazingly stupid.
I definitely agree that 23% less gas is viable but those cars had a 30% difference in fuel efficiency not 3% as originally stated. For the example you would need to be comparing cars getting 10 mpg and 10.3 mpg. When people discuss fuel efficency I find any changes less than 20% or so pretty unconvincing. Your driving habits alone (braking, acceleration, etc...) can account for somewhere in the range of a 30% difference in fuel economy. Small differences in traffic patterns etc... can compound these issues. I don't doubt that pure gasoline is more fuel efficient than gasoline with ethanol (I'm pretty sure science corroborates this). The question for me is whether or not you can actually notice the small difference. Due to the inherent noise in fuel efficiency measurements you would need to track both over a very long time in the real world or setup a controlled experiment.
3% is WELL within the range where slight differences in driving behavior or traffic patterns will overshadow the fuel efficiency increase. Also, how does a 3% increase in fuel efficiency lead to (roughly) 20% more driving before filling up?