So Aaron Swartz did not get fairly treated by the justice system. THIS DOES NOT IMPLY THAT EVERYONE ELSE SHOULD GET THE SAME TREATMENT. The justice system is what needs to change.
Been playing since the 3AM release. It's worked *nearly* perfect. The achievement server has been up and down, but that does not impact any aspect of gameplay.
If Facebook has taught us anything at all, it's that trust becomes a non-issue for people, as long as the "vanity" and "convenience" payoffs are high enough.
The job of police and prosecutors is to establish guilt. They are not there to help you. They are there to harm you in any way they can. Do not talk to them at all if you can avoid it.
Don't Talk To Cops is a video detailing exactly how someone who is PURELY INNOCENT can have their words twisted to prove their "guilt". If you have not watched this, watch it. Make your kids watch it too.
Yep, it totally ignores cases where multiple threads can be chewing on the same piece of RAM without conflict. My domain is image processing, and as long as each thread can access its own sub-chunk of the image, parallelizing my code takes near-zero overhead. I don't have to split the data into chunks at all.
I solved this problem by getting a good set of isolation headphones. When I'm trying to seriously work on something, I put them on, and I can't hear the outside world at all. It takes people that much more effort to bug me - they have to tap me on the shoulder. So a lot of non-serious requests just never happen.
+1, with you on all counts. I started out working mostly from home. It meant that all my waking hours were taken up either working, or feeling guilty that I wasn't working. I would feel obligated to work well into the night, especially if I'd been lazier about working during the day. No one was counting my hours or anything, I just constantly felt guilty for not being more productive. Now I come into work, and I feel less guilty for relaxing at home.
But I have a 5-minute commute, and I'm wishing it was longer, because sometimes work still manages to come home with me. And I find myself wandering into work on off-days just out of boredom (granted, I have a cool job.) Maybe something around a 15-minute transit time would work better.
I think they had a different purpose in mind: recognizing scientists who are already awesome, so as to hold them up as inspirational figures. Other prizes exist for up-and-coming researchers.
I can't speak for most of the scientists on the list, but two days ago I had the pleasure of seeing Cornelia Bargmann speak, and she was AMAZING. Some of her talks are on Youtube, and I highly recommend them: Genes, the brain and behavior
Consider this: Once you've put progress on a bar, you can't take it off. Suppose you start a process that should take 20 minutes, and do the first 5 minutes, progress is now at 25%. But then, partway through, something unexpected happens and you realize the process is actually going to take 40 minutes. You can't take the progress "back" now, that would disorient the user. So you have to rescale the remainder of the bar.
A $2380 computer today is worth approximately $0 in ten years. Pretending for a moment that the depreciation is linear, you lose $238 per year for owning that computer.
Not to mention bandwidth costs, maintenance (you gonna fend off all those Chinese hackers yourself?), air conditioning, lying awake at night wondering if your server's still running...
Look, running a server is a fine hobby. But don't pretend you're running a business here. How many businesses do you know that do their own hosting?! If it was so cost-effective, they surely would be.
You may not be familiar with SciPy / NumPy. They are the scientific computing side of Python. They support matrix operations and linear algebra at least as well as Matlab does. Underneath, both NumPy and Matlab are just LAPACK anyway. Here, have a relevant wiki article.
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So Aaron Swartz did not get fairly treated by the justice system. THIS DOES NOT IMPLY THAT EVERYONE ELSE SHOULD GET THE SAME TREATMENT. The justice system is what needs to change.
Been playing since the 3AM release. It's worked *nearly* perfect. The achievement server has been up and down, but that does not impact any aspect of gameplay.
If Facebook has taught us anything at all, it's that trust becomes a non-issue for people, as long as the "vanity" and "convenience" payoffs are high enough.
The job of police and prosecutors is to establish guilt. They are not there to help you. They are there to harm you in any way they can. Do not talk to them at all if you can avoid it.
Don't Talk To Cops is a video detailing exactly how someone who is PURELY INNOCENT can have their words twisted to prove their "guilt". If you have not watched this, watch it. Make your kids watch it too.
I think that's the right button.
Since when can corporations act like governments?
Yep, it totally ignores cases where multiple threads can be chewing on the same piece of RAM without conflict. My domain is image processing, and as long as each thread can access its own sub-chunk of the image, parallelizing my code takes near-zero overhead. I don't have to split the data into chunks at all.
See subject line, FTFY.
I solved this problem by getting a good set of isolation headphones. When I'm trying to seriously work on something, I put them on, and I can't hear the outside world at all. It takes people that much more effort to bug me - they have to tap me on the shoulder. So a lot of non-serious requests just never happen.
+1, with you on all counts. I started out working mostly from home. It meant that all my waking hours were taken up either working, or feeling guilty that I wasn't working. I would feel obligated to work well into the night, especially if I'd been lazier about working during the day. No one was counting my hours or anything, I just constantly felt guilty for not being more productive. Now I come into work, and I feel less guilty for relaxing at home.
But I have a 5-minute commute, and I'm wishing it was longer, because sometimes work still manages to come home with me. And I find myself wandering into work on off-days just out of boredom (granted, I have a cool job.) Maybe something around a 15-minute transit time would work better.
This is one of her better talks.
It's a little more technical, but also more exciting.
I think they had a different purpose in mind: recognizing scientists who are already awesome, so as to hold them up as inspirational figures. Other prizes exist for up-and-coming researchers.
I can't speak for most of the scientists on the list, but two days ago I had the pleasure of seeing Cornelia Bargmann speak, and she was AMAZING. Some of her talks are on Youtube, and I highly recommend them:
Genes, the brain and behavior
They're accessible enough for the general public.
That is all.
Look at other articles he has written. He is consistently pro-oil and anti-environmentalist.
See: Dirty Hippies get arrested for obstructing the utopian big oil future.
This guy is an oil shill.
You can do meaningful mathematics research with nothing but pencil and paper.
You're thinking of philosophers. Mathematicians need a pencil, paper, and a trash can.
Consider this: Once you've put progress on a bar, you can't take it off. Suppose you start a process that should take 20 minutes, and do the first 5 minutes, progress is now at 25%. But then, partway through, something unexpected happens and you realize the process is actually going to take 40 minutes. You can't take the progress "back" now, that would disorient the user. So you have to rescale the remainder of the bar.
A $2380 computer today is worth approximately $0 in ten years. Pretending for a moment that the depreciation is linear, you lose $238 per year for owning that computer.
Not to mention bandwidth costs, maintenance (you gonna fend off all those Chinese hackers yourself?), air conditioning, lying awake at night wondering if your server's still running...
Look, running a server is a fine hobby. But don't pretend you're running a business here. How many businesses do you know that do their own hosting?! If it was so cost-effective, they surely would be.
That's no moon...
With only one button on it. The button says "PAY".
My voice is my passport. Verify me.
Boy are they gonna be mad when they find out about Starcraft!
Thanks! As a scientist looking to switch away from Matlab, this was really informative! Somebody get this guy some mod points :)
You may not be familiar with SciPy / NumPy. They are the scientific computing side of Python. They support matrix operations and linear algebra at least as well as Matlab does. Underneath, both NumPy and Matlab are just LAPACK anyway. Here, have a relevant wiki article.
Plenty of reasons.
All wives are programmers.
Programmer?!
I hardly know her!