>The Intel of 2015 still has a very solid competitor eating into its profits: the Intel of 2010-13. I am typing this on a 2600K I bought in 2011, and I have no intention of upgrading any time soon. I have went from 8 GB of RAM to 16 GB, from a 128 GB SSD to a 480 GB SSD, and I upgraded my monitor setup. But my desktop processor is still more than twice as fast as my 4300U work laptop, which I never worry about being slow. I wouldn't be that surprised if this processor lasts me until 2020, unless it stops working before then.
Ditto. Last week, a nagging voice in the back of my head told me it couldn't be possible for my 2600K to still be a viable CPU and to look into upgrading. After checking out CPU benchmarks for the latest round of CPUs, I was sort of surprised to see there not being any significant improvement. I'll probably wait another generation or two before my next CPU upgrade.
>"So", you ask, "what does he think of that?" I'm glad you asked!
I just went to one of his talks at the end of September. He has nothing against working with other people, per se, in fact he spoke repeatedly about needing to match people of different strengths together. Such as on the invention of the Disk ][, he partnered with a person who was better at OS stuff than himself (since he wasn't a wizard in that area), and together they got the thing built in record time (why? because Woz says they'd bribed him with a Vegas trip if he could get it to work) and drastically cheaper than any disk drive done before.
He also said Steve Jobs was invaluable in the success of Apple, despite him having (this is almost a direct quote) no technical skills, no real education, and never having achieved anything technical in nature in his life (all of his projects were failures). But Woz said that Jobs knew how to look at things from a different perspective, even very simple things like reordering the colors on the Apple logo so that they were more balanced (ever notice it's not in ROYGBIV order?) or knowing how to market and sell the product and make people believe in it. Woz never wanted to have anything to do with that world, so he found the partnership very valuable. Even before founding Apple, Jobs would come down from Oregon a couple times a year and see what Woz had invented, and go around the country selling the products.
What you quoted was arguing against design by committee which is a very different thing.
Have you ever read the story of the Disk II? (http://apple2history.org/history/ah05/) Woz used his brains to design a disk drive radically simpler and cheaper than how it had ever been done before. But it wasn't just him. He worked with Randy Wigginton night and day to get it worked for CES '78.
And what makes you think it's antithetical to being a team player? I used to work for a contractor where minor practical jokes by everyone on the team all the time. It made work more enjoyable, and kept our mental skills sharp.
>It's probably funny to people who don't have to earn a living. I expect I'd have considered it hilarious back in high school... but now, if a colleague did this, I'd probably demand he be fired.
Great. You just fired young Steve Wozniak. I heard him talk a couple weeks ago, and the man was an inveterate prankster. He also encouraged all the young kids in the audience to try to think up clever pranks to pull on people as a way of honing their mental skills.
> (Items of limited supply aren't really addressed by the show, like how do they decide who gets to live in the prime waterfront apartment in San Francisco?)
Captain Kirk owned a private cabin on public lands in Yosemite, grandfathered in from before it was a national park, that he inherited.
With no money to exchange items, the system would simply freeze the status quo in place for centuries. It's not good.
>(I'm betting that it's Very Few, since "alt med" that is proven successful isn't "alt med" anymore.)
While I acknowledge the meme, alt med is actually defined by every major medical organization in the world as something that is not used as part of mainstream medicine. It's not an assessment of effectiveness.
Quite a bit of the drugs in the alt med bible were wholly ineffective, and quite a few more had weak or modest medicinal purposes (tea alone had hundreds of studies showing its mild effectiveness in many different areas), and a fair number had significant medical effects.
Alt med is (or was, I haven't checked recently) a mandatory class at UCSF Pharmacy School, since even if the future pharmacists aren't going to be doing traditional medicine, there are a number of significant drug/drug interactions with alt meds.
>Exactly. A 99.95% failure rate is -- to say the least -- Bad.
1) When Western pharmaceutical companies are doing a screen, how many of those chemicals turn out not to work on malaria?
2) Where do pharmaceutical companies look when they're screening new chemicals?
3) How many of the TCM drugs were effective against malaria, just not "wonder drug" effective?
4) How many of the TCM drugs screened were effective at other diseases?
Until you can answer those questions, you cannot make that conclusion.
I've done contract work for P&G before investigating new drugs for treating ischemic heart disease, and have read through UCSF's "alt med bible" detailing all the thousands of studies on the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of various alt med drugs.
>Correction... quite a few of the shooters have been on drugs...
Also true. But in the case of the Santa Barbara shooter, he received all the mental health care he asked for, and still killed a bunch of people.
I agree that it's a good idea to give free mental health care to the dangerously ill (and we do in most cases), but a lot of people do receive treatment and it doesn't help.
>If you are confused, or your attention is diverted, SLOW DOWN. I say this as a non-commercial driver who has logged $WAY_TOO_GODDAMN_MANY miles behind the wheel.
Driving too fast isn't really a problem in traffic in downtown SF. You're not going to break the speed limit because there's CARS EVERYWHERE.
What the problem is (having lived there for four years) is the hideously bad road signage. You're expected to be able to read two paragraphs of text on a sign within two seconds, to try to figure the fuck out if you're even allowed to be where you are, since the rules change as often as Calvinball. "No left turns except on Mondays through Fridays 7AM to 9AM and 4PM to 6PM". Sign below that: "Except on holidays." Sign below that: "Except MUNI and busses" Sign below that: "Except taxis" is an example of the kind of idiotic sign they expect drivers to be able to read and process while still avoiding pedestrians sporadically jumping into the street.
You also sometimes end up on a Muni line, and you don't know if you're supposed to be there. The answer? Sometimes. Sometimes not.
Then you have the irrational geometry of the city streets themselves, leading to super awesome signs like this: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker...
I once got a ticket from a sign that had six negative modifiers on it, and got it overturned because the bloody cop didn't work through the logic on it correctly and I did.
I teach computer science, and I occasionally get students asking how they could work for a living and still be able to travel, go outdoors, etc. and not be stuck in a cubicle. Do you have any advice for them, such as how to find jobs or clients to work on? How did you get where you were today?
> The fans said no. The choices we're stuck with suck. We'd rather not vote for anyone.
I don't think you can equate the people who voted in these Hugos with the fan population in general. Maybe they match up, maybe they don't. But you can't just say they're the fans speaking, when it's very clear the 40% uptick in voting at the Hugos this year was due to the controversy. Both camps attracted additional people for political reasons, and more anti-puppies signed up than pro-puppies.
Just because they voted the way you wanted them to doesn't mean you get to use bad statistics and say they're "the fans" or representative of "the fans".
>If you really want to prove that the benchmark is crap, then by all means make meaningful suggestions to _any_ of the existing machine benchmarks.
That's a bit facetious. If you've been around the benchmarking world as long as you say you have, you'll know that the compiler settings are *always* a cause of controversy.
Nobody is happy when compiler settings are made that don't favor their side (whatever it is).
>Instead of spending $68 Billion on a single high speed rail line between 2 cities that are already linked by several adequate transportation options, maybe we should use a fraction of that money for water projects?
We passed a $45B water bond last year, but about 90% of it is going to be wasted, it seems.
>Since the decriminalisation in 2001 drug usage has actually dropped in Portugal.
For some values of "dropped".
From Wikipedia, since decriminalization: "Reported lifetime use of "all illicit drugs" increased from 7.8% to 12%, lifetime use of cannabis increased from 7.6% to 11.7%, cocaine use more than doubled, from 0.9% to 1.9%, ecstasy nearly doubled from 0.7% to 1.3%, and heroin increased from 0.7% to 1.1%"
Heh. I was at Princeton last year, and apparently everyone there had a Nash story about him just walking in to a random room with his sweater on, doing something weird, and then moving on.
When I moved into a new house, there was a problem with my landline, and it was randomly dialing numbers. Constantly. We had the police show up randomly a couple times as it dialed 911 for us, and I once got a bill for a couple thousand dollars.
They eventually got around to waiving the fees and repairing the problem with the line, but my handiman almost got arrested when the police showed up and found a guy on a ladder drilling a hole through a wall.
Not only was I worked on VR for the military and entertainment 20 years ago, but I corresponded a bit with Valve's own Michael Abrash several years ago on reducing latency in VR headsets.
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>The Intel of 2015 still has a very solid competitor eating into its profits: the Intel of 2010-13. I am typing this on a 2600K I bought in 2011, and I have no intention of upgrading any time soon. I have went from 8 GB of RAM to 16 GB, from a 128 GB SSD to a 480 GB SSD, and I upgraded my monitor setup. But my desktop processor is still more than twice as fast as my 4300U work laptop, which I never worry about being slow. I wouldn't be that surprised if this processor lasts me until 2020, unless it stops working before then.
Ditto. Last week, a nagging voice in the back of my head told me it couldn't be possible for my 2600K to still be a viable CPU and to look into upgrading. After checking out CPU benchmarks for the latest round of CPUs, I was sort of surprised to see there not being any significant improvement. I'll probably wait another generation or two before my next CPU upgrade.
>"So", you ask, "what does he think of that?" I'm glad you asked!
I just went to one of his talks at the end of September. He has nothing against working with other people, per se, in fact he spoke repeatedly about needing to match people of different strengths together. Such as on the invention of the Disk ][, he partnered with a person who was better at OS stuff than himself (since he wasn't a wizard in that area), and together they got the thing built in record time (why? because Woz says they'd bribed him with a Vegas trip if he could get it to work) and drastically cheaper than any disk drive done before.
He also said Steve Jobs was invaluable in the success of Apple, despite him having (this is almost a direct quote) no technical skills, no real education, and never having achieved anything technical in nature in his life (all of his projects were failures). But Woz said that Jobs knew how to look at things from a different perspective, even very simple things like reordering the colors on the Apple logo so that they were more balanced (ever notice it's not in ROYGBIV order?) or knowing how to market and sell the product and make people believe in it. Woz never wanted to have anything to do with that world, so he found the partnership very valuable. Even before founding Apple, Jobs would come down from Oregon a couple times a year and see what Woz had invented, and go around the country selling the products.
What you quoted was arguing against design by committee which is a very different thing.
>He made the Apple I and II alone. Not in teams.
Have you ever read the story of the Disk II? (http://apple2history.org/history/ah05/) Woz used his brains to design a disk drive radically simpler and cheaper than how it had ever been done before. But it wasn't just him. He worked with Randy Wigginton night and day to get it worked for CES '78.
So no Apple Computer then? All right.
And what makes you think it's antithetical to being a team player? I used to work for a contractor where minor practical jokes by everyone on the team all the time. It made work more enjoyable, and kept our mental skills sharp.
>It's probably funny to people who don't have to earn a living. I expect I'd have considered it hilarious back in high school... but now, if a colleague did this, I'd probably demand he be fired.
Great. You just fired young Steve Wozniak. I heard him talk a couple weeks ago, and the man was an inveterate prankster. He also encouraged all the young kids in the audience to try to think up clever pranks to pull on people as a way of honing their mental skills.
>If you tell Siri "Siri, call me David", and Siri then addresses you by that name, is *that* machine learning?
I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
> (Items of limited supply aren't really addressed by the show, like how do they decide who gets to live in the prime waterfront apartment in San Francisco?)
Captain Kirk owned a private cabin on public lands in Yosemite, grandfathered in from before it was a national park, that he inherited.
With no money to exchange items, the system would simply freeze the status quo in place for centuries. It's not good.
>(I'm betting that it's Very Few, since "alt med" that is proven successful isn't "alt med" anymore.)
While I acknowledge the meme, alt med is actually defined by every major medical organization in the world as something that is not used as part of mainstream medicine. It's not an assessment of effectiveness.
Quite a bit of the drugs in the alt med bible were wholly ineffective, and quite a few more had weak or modest medicinal purposes (tea alone had hundreds of studies showing its mild effectiveness in many different areas), and a fair number had significant medical effects.
Alt med is (or was, I haven't checked recently) a mandatory class at UCSF Pharmacy School, since even if the future pharmacists aren't going to be doing traditional medicine, there are a number of significant drug/drug interactions with alt meds.
>Exactly. A 99.95% failure rate is -- to say the least -- Bad.
1) When Western pharmaceutical companies are doing a screen, how many of those chemicals turn out not to work on malaria?
2) Where do pharmaceutical companies look when they're screening new chemicals?
3) How many of the TCM drugs were effective against malaria, just not "wonder drug" effective?
4) How many of the TCM drugs screened were effective at other diseases?
Until you can answer those questions, you cannot make that conclusion.
I've done contract work for P&G before investigating new drugs for treating ischemic heart disease, and have read through UCSF's "alt med bible" detailing all the thousands of studies on the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of various alt med drugs.
>Correction... quite a few of the shooters have been on drugs...
Also true. But in the case of the Santa Barbara shooter, he received all the mental health care he asked for, and still killed a bunch of people.
I agree that it's a good idea to give free mental health care to the dangerously ill (and we do in most cases), but a lot of people do receive treatment and it doesn't help.
>If you are confused, or your attention is diverted, SLOW DOWN. I say this as a non-commercial driver who has logged $WAY_TOO_GODDAMN_MANY miles behind the wheel.
Driving too fast isn't really a problem in traffic in downtown SF. You're not going to break the speed limit because there's CARS EVERYWHERE.
What the problem is (having lived there for four years) is the hideously bad road signage. You're expected to be able to read two paragraphs of text on a sign within two seconds, to try to figure the fuck out if you're even allowed to be where you are, since the rules change as often as Calvinball. "No left turns except on Mondays through Fridays 7AM to 9AM and 4PM to 6PM". Sign below that: "Except on holidays." Sign below that: "Except MUNI and busses" Sign below that: "Except taxis" is an example of the kind of idiotic sign they expect drivers to be able to read and process while still avoiding pedestrians sporadically jumping into the street.
You also sometimes end up on a Muni line, and you don't know if you're supposed to be there. The answer? Sometimes. Sometimes not.
Then you have the irrational geometry of the city streets themselves, leading to super awesome signs like this:
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker...
I once got a ticket from a sign that had six negative modifiers on it, and got it overturned because the bloody cop didn't work through the logic on it correctly and I did.
Quite a few of the shooters in the last couple years have been actively receiving mental health care.
$100 will get you a RasPi with the official touchscreen monitor that just came out.
It's more than sufficient for most purposes, but if you're going to have them writing long essays, buying a cheap keyboard would also be a good idea.
I teach computer science, and I occasionally get students asking how they could work for a living and still be able to travel, go outdoors, etc. and not be stuck in a cubicle. Do you have any advice for them, such as how to find jobs or clients to work on? How did you get where you were today?
>In categories where "No award" won, more than 50% of fans voted for that as their first choice.
My point is that you can't equate "the fans" with "people who vote in the Hugos". The populations are not equivalent.
> The fans said no. The choices we're stuck with suck. We'd rather not vote for anyone.
I don't think you can equate the people who voted in these Hugos with the fan population in general. Maybe they match up, maybe they don't. But you can't just say they're the fans speaking, when it's very clear the 40% uptick in voting at the Hugos this year was due to the controversy. Both camps attracted additional people for political reasons, and more anti-puppies signed up than pro-puppies.
Just because they voted the way you wanted them to doesn't mean you get to use bad statistics and say they're "the fans" or representative of "the fans".
> while forcing them to act as employees in all respects (can't work for anyone else, work when we say or we fire you, use our phone, etc, etc)
I don't drive for Uber, but as I understand it drivers can set their own hours? Or am I wrong?
>If you really want to prove that the benchmark is crap, then by all means make meaningful suggestions to _any_ of the existing machine benchmarks.
That's a bit facetious. If you've been around the benchmarking world as long as you say you have, you'll know that the compiler settings are *always* a cause of controversy.
Nobody is happy when compiler settings are made that don't favor their side (whatever it is).
>Instead of spending $68 Billion on a single high speed rail line between 2 cities that are already linked by several adequate transportation options, maybe we should use a fraction of that money for water projects?
We passed a $45B water bond last year, but about 90% of it is going to be wasted, it seems.
>Since the decriminalisation in 2001 drug usage has actually dropped in Portugal.
For some values of "dropped".
From Wikipedia, since decriminalization: "Reported lifetime use of "all illicit drugs" increased from 7.8% to 12%, lifetime use of cannabis increased from 7.6% to 11.7%, cocaine use more than doubled, from 0.9% to 1.9%, ecstasy nearly doubled from 0.7% to 1.3%, and heroin increased from 0.7% to 1.1%"
Heh. I was at Princeton last year, and apparently everyone there had a Nash story about him just walking in to a random room with his sweater on, doing something weird, and then moving on.
>The Brainteaser Elon Musk Used To Ask New SpaceX Engineers, Because His Old Question Got Slashdotted.
I'm sure he'll just pick another one from his Big Book of Riddles for 5th Graders.
When I moved into a new house, there was a problem with my landline, and it was randomly dialing numbers. Constantly. We had the police show up randomly a couple times as it dialed 911 for us, and I once got a bill for a couple thousand dollars.
They eventually got around to waiving the fees and repairing the problem with the line, but my handiman almost got arrested when the police showed up and found a guy on a ladder drilling a hole through a wall.
My memory must be lying, too.
Not only was I worked on VR for the military and entertainment 20 years ago, but I corresponded a bit with Valve's own Michael Abrash several years ago on reducing latency in VR headsets.
>B: That's peculiar, let's have a long technical discussion.
If only there was some way of adding "versions" to things electronically.