I've been using laptops in classes since the early 1990s, back when I was taking coursework for my PhD. It doesn't bother me to lecture to a classroom of students using them.
We've been studying the inferior colliculus, and some of the processing there appears unexpectedly complex, suggesting that speech recognition software may not be using the full set of cues that the auditory system has available to it.
At least the US economy has some cool nerds to hire. The UK requires students to specialise at 14-16, and the result is whole classes of computing students who have not a clue about how their work will be applied, particularly in science and engineering.
I tried to solve this problem using approximation techniques and found it failed to converge and instead showed chaotic dynamics. Genetic algorithm techniques did converge, but not to a global solution. The paper was published about 15 years ago in a collection of social systems modelling studies.
These technologies were developed about 30 years for the US Government (Multics). See Karger and Schell. Pity that patent trolls can't be sued for misusing the patent system.
When I was working on similar systems in America, we estimated (in our internal risk analyses) that information in a local police database accessible to the average user could be acquired by unauthorised outside users for about $1000. The corresponding figure for a national police agency database was about $10,000. If the information was more valuable than that, additional safeguards were needed. The UK Government proposal is basically flying in the face of that.
I've been noticing a lot of the pump and dump spam recently, partly because non-existant addresses associated with a domain I own have been used as return addresses. I've also recently learned that the address of an academic website I maintain on a university server was poisoned on at least one major DNS so people accessing the website were redirected to a fake site that attempted to take over their machine. It's really getting rough out there.
I'm currently an American teaching at a university in the UK. Back in America, I was active in Democratic party politics, but that puts me on the right wing here. I don't expect the ID card scheme to work--the average New Labour minister has never run anything as large as a corner shop and is clueless about information technology.
Quite common here, nowadays. On the other hand, the prisons are getting overcrowded, and the percentage of real crimes solved and resulting in a conviction is down markedly.
The judge appears to have made a narrow decision, possibly because he felt that Apple Corps was using the suit as a whip to extract some money. At least the lawyers made some money.
When I went to the UK to teach at university, I had similar experiences. I brought some of my money with me to buy a house and use in EU-based venture capital investments, but I quickly learned that the UK financial services industry was rapacious. I bought the house and sent the rest back to my US investment manager. To avoid getting whipsawed by exchange rate movements, I do invest in European businesses, but from a secure American base.
Sounds like a lovely way to learn how actions lead to rewards without the complications of the actor-critic approach. I'd like to see whether this learning is able to propagate the rewards backwards in a way that allows a change in reward to affect actions. At the same time, I'd like to know whether this can be used to learn the continuous dependence of the final rewards on the actions chosen. Finally, I'd like to know whether this reversal is more general--that is, can plans be reversed? If so, it provides a general learning mechanism for causation.
There does seem to be a 'general intelligence' that covaries among the various intelligences. The twins data suggests it is at least 50% heritable, BUT the connection between DNA and actual performance is very indirect, and there are a lot of phenomena that *appear* to be inherited through the genome but are actually inherited via other mechanisms. "The early development of an embryo is not controlled by its own DNA, but by the architecture of the egg and by maternal effect genes." (Cohen and Stewart, the Collapse of Chaos, Penguin, 2000) There is a suspicion that the Flynn Effect reflects those mechanisms, and this result may be similar. On the other hand, the specialised intelligence being assessed is mathematical and scientific, and there is no evidence that it can develop in the absence of effective schooling. My experience as an American teaching UK students at university suggests that educational policies of the last twenty years in the UK have not been friendly to math and science.
We're several years away from being able to do spectrographic studies of rocky planets orbiting other stars (or rocky moons), but once we reach that point, it will probably be only time until we detect free oxygen and/or other molecules that disappear rapidly in the absence of life.
I'd love to know something about the post-cranial anatomy. This is a big Sivapithecus, a ground-dwelling relative of the orang-utan. Sivapithecus seems to have had a generalised way of moving on the ground, neither bipedal nor knuckle-walking. I'd like to see what the increased mass caused G to evolve.
It depends. My mother ended up a housewife, after doing some work on the Manhattan Project. On the other hand, she dabbled in small venture capital investments and made a couple of million that way.
It's probably easier if you're several years younger than it is for someone who's only a year or two younger. You don't really start to have a social life until your age peers begin to show up.
Lots of modules (classes) run for nine months. Then if you fail any element of assessment (very common), you get to retry at least once (another three months). Besides, most students here don't buy textbooks, instead reading them at the library (if they even bother). Heh...
My wife got tired of Internet Explorer crashing and taking the operating system with it, so I bought her a copy of Opera for her Windows machine. She's very happy with it. I use Safari on a Mac laptop as my primary browser, but I maintain an extensive collection of other browsers to allow me to test websites. I even use lynx from time to time.
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Do a three-year computer science degree in the UK. You will only see computer science.
I've been using laptops in classes since the early 1990s, back when I was taking coursework for my PhD. It doesn't bother me to lecture to a classroom of students using them.
We've been studying the inferior colliculus, and some of the processing there appears unexpectedly complex, suggesting that speech recognition software may not be using the full set of cues that the auditory system has available to it.
At least the US economy has some cool nerds to hire. The UK requires students to specialise at 14-16, and the result is whole classes of computing students who have not a clue about how their work will be applied, particularly in science and engineering.
If the manager's first job is to facilitate the work of her programmers, then, yes, she should stay if it makes a contribution.
I tried to solve this problem using approximation techniques and found it failed to converge and instead showed chaotic dynamics. Genetic algorithm techniques did converge, but not to a global solution. The paper was published about 15 years ago in a collection of social systems modelling studies.
Nasty problem...
Most young professionals work on a masters part-time. A good employer will pay the fees.
They are. Or at least they were when I was involved in FAA security. Consider the agenda of the source of the report.
These technologies were developed about 30 years for the US Government (Multics). See Karger and Schell. Pity that patent trolls can't be sued for misusing the patent system.
When I was working on similar systems in America, we estimated (in our internal risk analyses) that information in a local police database accessible to the average user could be acquired by unauthorised outside users for about $1000. The corresponding figure for a national police agency database was about $10,000. If the information was more valuable than that, additional safeguards were needed. The UK Government proposal is basically flying in the face of that.
I've been noticing a lot of the pump and dump spam recently, partly because non-existant addresses associated with a domain I own have been used as return addresses. I've also recently learned that the address of an academic website I maintain on a university server was poisoned on at least one major DNS so people accessing the website were redirected to a fake site that attempted to take over their machine. It's really getting rough out there.
Unlikely. We're talking about a novel outline from the 1950s.
I'm currently an American teaching at a university in the UK. Back in America, I was active in Democratic party politics, but that puts me on the right wing here. I don't expect the ID card scheme to work--the average New Labour minister has never run anything as large as a corner shop and is clueless about information technology.
Quite common here, nowadays. On the other hand, the prisons are getting overcrowded, and the percentage of real crimes solved and resulting in a conviction is down markedly.
The judge appears to have made a narrow decision, possibly because he felt that Apple Corps was using the suit as a whip to extract some money. At least the lawyers made some money.
When I went to the UK to teach at university, I had similar experiences. I brought some of my money with me to buy a house and use in EU-based venture capital investments, but I quickly learned that the UK financial services industry was rapacious. I bought the house and sent the rest back to my US investment manager. To avoid getting whipsawed by exchange rate movements, I do invest in European businesses, but from a secure American base.
Sounds like a lovely way to learn how actions lead to rewards without the complications of the actor-critic approach. I'd like to see whether this learning is able to propagate the rewards backwards in a way that allows a change in reward to affect actions. At the same time, I'd like to know whether this can be used to learn the continuous dependence of the final rewards on the actions chosen. Finally, I'd like to know whether this reversal is more general--that is, can plans be reversed? If so, it provides a general learning mechanism for causation.
I've been using a neural modelling programme called
GENESIS for over ten years. Does Symantec intend to buy the rights to the name or what?
There does seem to be a 'general intelligence' that covaries among the various intelligences. The twins data suggests it is at least 50% heritable, BUT the connection between DNA and actual performance is very indirect, and there are a lot of phenomena that *appear* to be inherited through the genome but are actually inherited via other mechanisms. "The early development of an embryo is not controlled by its own DNA, but by the architecture of the egg and by maternal effect genes." (Cohen and Stewart, the Collapse of Chaos, Penguin, 2000) There is a suspicion that the Flynn Effect reflects those mechanisms, and this result may be similar. On the other hand, the specialised intelligence being assessed is mathematical and scientific, and there is no evidence that it can develop in the absence of effective schooling. My experience as an American teaching UK students at university suggests that educational policies of the last twenty years in the UK have not been friendly to math and science.
We're several years away from being able to do spectrographic studies of rocky planets orbiting other stars (or rocky moons), but once we reach that point, it will probably be only time until we detect free oxygen and/or other molecules that disappear rapidly in the absence of life.
I'd love to know something about the post-cranial anatomy. This is a big Sivapithecus, a ground-dwelling relative of the orang-utan. Sivapithecus seems to have had a generalised way of moving on the ground, neither bipedal nor knuckle-walking. I'd like to see what the increased mass caused G to evolve.
It depends. My mother ended up a housewife, after doing some work on the Manhattan Project. On the other hand, she dabbled in small venture capital investments and made a couple of million that way.
It's probably easier if you're several years younger than it is for someone who's only a year or two younger. You don't really start to have a social life until your age peers begin to show up.
Lots of modules (classes) run for nine months. Then if you fail any element of assessment (very common), you get to retry at least once (another three months). Besides, most students here don't buy textbooks, instead reading them at the library (if they even bother). Heh...
My wife got tired of Internet Explorer crashing and taking the operating system with it, so I bought her a copy of Opera for her Windows machine. She's very happy with it. I use Safari on a Mac laptop as my primary browser, but I maintain an extensive collection of other browsers to allow me to test websites. I even use lynx from time to time.
Coffee and diet coke, although washing the diet coke from the keyboard was successful. I believe the difference is the sugar.