It's not that bad. Even worst case, it can be like a major organization making motions to move away from Windows towards Linux. The moment they do so, Microsoft, California and such start offering massive deals.
IE if Musk spends $1M surveying sites outside of the state of California and gets $300M in concessions from California to build the factory there? That's a rather crazy return on investment...
You need reinforcement in order to retain stuff long term. As for the 'same types of problems all the time', that's very much a factor, but something of a different issue than simply adjusting the off times of the school year.
Understanding is good, but you need practice to master a skill.
That doesn't mean it will be retained forever if you don't use it, but forgetting in a mere 3 months seems improbable.
As an adult, sure. With complete understanding, sure. But my original point isn't that you forget 'everything'. It's that you need time to get them back into the swing of working on schoolwork, and more time to review material from the year before to catch what the kids didn't retain. Don't forget that each kid will retain/lose different stuff, so you have to go over even more material.
Elsewhere I mentioned that it takes generally 3-10 reviews of something to have it permanently. Each reinforcement lasts longer.
You did learn it, but it wasn't reinforced. Not many people can learn stuff and retain it long periods with only 1 session. You're looking at more like 3 sessions, minimum in order to retain something long term. Many people will require a dozen reinforcements. Think of it like vaccination in a way. Some vaccines you're good with 1 shot. Some require a booster here or there - giving both shots at the same time doesn't work, you NEED separation. Some you need updates on pretty much an annual basis.
The analogy isn't perfect, of course. My point would be that by having such a sharp divide in the form of summer vacation, you lose a bunch of knowledge that hasn't been reinforced enough. It doesn't necessarily take long to provide that refresher, but if you had a shorter break and were rolling into coursework that uses said knowledge/technique if you're still capable of doing it it provides reinforcement without needing a refresher.
Finally, I'll note that I mentioned 'swing of school' for a reason - study habits and learning behaviors are often not reinforced over the summer, so it takes a while to get them to sit down, listen, and work in schooling again.
So we shouldn't ever actually graduate from school?
Graduate, sure. Stop learning? Never. The military really pushes this, the USAF for example really likes you taking classes, college ones especially. Take 2 classes a year and combine it with the schools they send you to and you have an associate's degree in 4-6 years. 12 years in you should have your bachelor's, etc...
Most will find a job that doesn't require any of it anyway.
Think of education like a hill with plateaus. IF they manage to get high enough, sure they'll descend, but they won't forget everything and will be more capable later on. Ergo, they won't be stuck in a job that doesn't require 'any of it'. This can actually influence the whole job market.
Still, I'm a fan of tailoring primary education to the student - IE I think it's a good idea to realize that not everyone is going to college, much less right after graduation, and for those individuals it's better to concentrate on more practical topics - such as making sure they darn well know how to budget, balance a checking account, eat healthy, etc... Remember, learning isn't just about being able to do a job or develop a career. It applies in your home life as well. Lots of poorly educated people end up going to expensive tax preparation places even with dead simple returns because they can't do them themselves.
Don't just teach the Pythagorean theorem by giving them homework assignments with 25 problems telling them to find the missing side of a triangle; that's monotonous nonsense and will never encourage understanding, which makes everything less meaningful and therefore forgettable.
But word problems are 'hard' when you don't have proper understanding of basic English* either. It takes a mix; finding the correct balance depends on the class mix.
The problem with long breaks is that if you've just finished pounding a basic level of geometry into their heads, after 3 months of not doing it you gotta pound it in again. Think of it like a construction project - if you stop halfway through and just throw tarps over everything then come back in three months odds are you're going to have to discard ruined supplies, replace stolen ones, and redo a fair bit of the work you've already done because the environment ruined it. It's actually cheaper & easier to do it all at once.
Information loss in education seems to be geometric - a day doesn't mean much at all, even a week doesn't take more than 10-15 minutes to get swinging again. Let them go for 3 months though, and you're spending your day on admin stuff, the next week getting them back into the work habit, and the next several weeks reviewing to make sure they have the underlaying skills for whatever work you're doing.
*To be fair, any language the word problems are written in.
Kids should have at least a couple of months out of the year when they can just not worry about their studies and have fun and BE KIDS.
Sure. Give them 2-3 weeks a season. 3 months off in the summer currently means that they spend the first month back getting back into the swing of schooling and relearning some of what they've forgotten.
I happen to agree with you. We're downright illogical about our sports, but given the number of government built stadiums out there that sports teams normally get dedicated access to for next to nothing, it's not out of line to expect some concessions.
If there's no driver in the seat, that's extremely dangerous too.
Which is more dangerous, a car without a driver but with lane control and adaptive cruise so it'll at least try to not plow into something ahead of it, or a stopped car in the middle of a freeway?
I'd say the latter is the more critically dangerous solution.
I'm with many of the others - you need to either be completely autonomous or give the drivers a good chunk of control.
They're actually doing studies regarding this with military drones. They're finding that too much automation, not enough for the operator to control results in straying attention. As a result one of the things they were considering was removing some of the automation.
Everybody who does clinical research knows that most of the drugs that work great in mice, work reasonably well in monkeys, passably well in Phase I trials, poorly in Phase II trials, and not at all in Phase III trials.
This reminds me of the problems with using animal models in drug testing. To put it bluntly, if you go back to drugs that were used before mice drug trials were 'the way to go', an awful lot of our 'go to' drugs would never pass the mice trials.
So if there is a child-porn detection tool, is it available to the public to automatically block an illegal images from web sites and email?
From what I know, all such solutions are currently both propitiatory and somewhat confidential. The known child-porn detection tools only trigger on KNOWN images; IE they have an image file known to be CP, which they then run through a processor to develop what's probably a few hashes - MD5 for quickness, plus the more complex 'fingerprint' software solutions that will find the image even if it's resized, palette or format changed, cropped, and such. Then you run the detection system on a similar(or even the same) platform as your antivirus.
The problem with a public database is that those with the stuff could use it to test their own material for avoiding detection. Not that a password protected encrypted compressed file such as zip or rar wouldn't stop greater than 99% of detection systems.
The problem is that when you run a newspaper, you don't run the newspaper - the advertisers are your gods and masters, and you have no say in the matter.
You have to avoid becoming dependent upon any one(or smallish cartel) of advertisers then.
Thought the comment elsewhere of a BBC style organization does seem to have some good points.
I have the impression that the newspapers that were pressing for this law don't realise that, despite what they may think, they really are not in a position of power, apropos the internet.
They want money. Indeed, if I was google my first step would be to de-index those companies, completely. What happens when your traffic drops by 90% and your physical circulation numbers start dropping?
The proper way to go is the same as TV, radio, and yes, your printed copy - sell advertising so that every time somebody hits your paper they see them. If you're 'good', put the advertising on the same server as the content so ad blockers have a harder time blocking them; making YOUR advertising a selling point. Just don't get so annoying with it that the ad-blockers engage in an active campaign.
You dont need to create new images to evade signatures...
It depends on the hash technology. If it's simply a MD5 hash, what you say is correct. There are image-specific checkers that would provide a match even if you resize the image. It takes a lot more juice and is 'less accurate' though.
Still, that's a lot of work for non-professionals to do. Also, see 'most criminals are stupid'.
Are you sure you replied to the correct post? I'm sorry, but your comment doesn't follow Joe and the AC's comments. You talk about previous convictions, while they're talking about the comprehensiveness of the system in catching CP images.
IE the system is limited, it can only find old known images.
If somebody starts 'going into full creep mode' you simply report it to the police. Don't delete it, don't touch it, report it to the police. They can use information gathered from it to hopefully track down the sender.
Someone at Google blew the whistle? If 'someone at Google' was able to look inside, how do we know they didn't put it inside in the first place? If you rent an apartment and your landlord has the master key, the police are going to have a VERY hard time convincing the court that you are the guilty party when the only reason they investigated you in the first place was because your landlord tipped off the police.
Not to mention that partially via the means of gaining the evidence can be used to prove that said landlord regularly enters your property.
I've heard of drug runners using spots on other people's properties to stash their product. Things like the access panel on a hot tub, often leads to a fairly large cavity that's checked only once a blue moon by the owner.
I wonder if Google has some explanation why they were poking around in his specific mailbox? Did he have text within the emails that tripped an alarm in their system that tries to decide what advertising to serve you?
I'm wondering a little differently. I wonder how plugged in that gate representative must of been to find and successfully identify the source of the tweet and call the family off the plane before it left.
I say this because I don't see some SWA social media monitoring department demanding the tweet be removed in that fashion. I figure it was the 'dissed' gate rep herself that did it.
This was the deal for me. Reading about the 3D stuff I might need to go back, but when I went in for the procedure I ended up being declined because the risk to my night vision was too high.
More seriously, it's one of the reasons I suggested 600V. I'm surprised you didn't pick up on that part. I wasn't suggesting running 12V through the racks, I was suggesting running 600 VDC. Which, of course, creates it's own issues. Such as a certain amount of theft prevention, but increases turnover in techs.;)
For a 1% power loss over 1 metre at 700A, you need 0000AWG cable. It's about 1kg of copper (that's a single conductor, you'd need one for the return path, another kg and another 1% power loss)
Bah, just use the chassis as return; the frames might only be steel, but there's a good amount of it. That and I suggest 600V for truly limiting the amount of power lost through cables.;)
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It's not that bad. Even worst case, it can be like a major organization making motions to move away from Windows towards Linux. The moment they do so, Microsoft, California and such start offering massive deals.
IE if Musk spends $1M surveying sites outside of the state of California and gets $300M in concessions from California to build the factory there? That's a rather crazy return on investment...
And you expect students in the lower achievement half to do that on their own?
You need reinforcement in order to retain stuff long term. As for the 'same types of problems all the time', that's very much a factor, but something of a different issue than simply adjusting the off times of the school year.
Understanding is good, but you need practice to master a skill.
That doesn't mean it will be retained forever if you don't use it, but forgetting in a mere 3 months seems improbable.
As an adult, sure. With complete understanding, sure. But my original point isn't that you forget 'everything'. It's that you need time to get them back into the swing of working on schoolwork, and more time to review material from the year before to catch what the kids didn't retain. Don't forget that each kid will retain/lose different stuff, so you have to go over even more material.
Elsewhere I mentioned that it takes generally 3-10 reviews of something to have it permanently. Each reinforcement lasts longer.
You did learn it, but it wasn't reinforced. Not many people can learn stuff and retain it long periods with only 1 session. You're looking at more like 3 sessions, minimum in order to retain something long term. Many people will require a dozen reinforcements. Think of it like vaccination in a way. Some vaccines you're good with 1 shot. Some require a booster here or there - giving both shots at the same time doesn't work, you NEED separation. Some you need updates on pretty much an annual basis.
The analogy isn't perfect, of course. My point would be that by having such a sharp divide in the form of summer vacation, you lose a bunch of knowledge that hasn't been reinforced enough. It doesn't necessarily take long to provide that refresher, but if you had a shorter break and were rolling into coursework that uses said knowledge/technique if you're still capable of doing it it provides reinforcement without needing a refresher.
Finally, I'll note that I mentioned 'swing of school' for a reason - study habits and learning behaviors are often not reinforced over the summer, so it takes a while to get them to sit down, listen, and work in schooling again.
So we shouldn't ever actually graduate from school?
Graduate, sure. Stop learning? Never. The military really pushes this, the USAF for example really likes you taking classes, college ones especially. Take 2 classes a year and combine it with the schools they send you to and you have an associate's degree in 4-6 years. 12 years in you should have your bachelor's, etc...
Most will find a job that doesn't require any of it anyway.
Think of education like a hill with plateaus. IF they manage to get high enough, sure they'll descend, but they won't forget everything and will be more capable later on. Ergo, they won't be stuck in a job that doesn't require 'any of it'. This can actually influence the whole job market.
Still, I'm a fan of tailoring primary education to the student - IE I think it's a good idea to realize that not everyone is going to college, much less right after graduation, and for those individuals it's better to concentrate on more practical topics - such as making sure they darn well know how to budget, balance a checking account, eat healthy, etc... Remember, learning isn't just about being able to do a job or develop a career. It applies in your home life as well. Lots of poorly educated people end up going to expensive tax preparation places even with dead simple returns because they can't do them themselves.
Don't just teach the Pythagorean theorem by giving them homework assignments with 25 problems telling them to find the missing side of a triangle; that's monotonous nonsense and will never encourage understanding, which makes everything less meaningful and therefore forgettable.
But word problems are 'hard' when you don't have proper understanding of basic English* either. It takes a mix; finding the correct balance depends on the class mix.
The problem with long breaks is that if you've just finished pounding a basic level of geometry into their heads, after 3 months of not doing it you gotta pound it in again. Think of it like a construction project - if you stop halfway through and just throw tarps over everything then come back in three months odds are you're going to have to discard ruined supplies, replace stolen ones, and redo a fair bit of the work you've already done because the environment ruined it. It's actually cheaper & easier to do it all at once.
Information loss in education seems to be geometric - a day doesn't mean much at all, even a week doesn't take more than 10-15 minutes to get swinging again. Let them go for 3 months though, and you're spending your day on admin stuff, the next week getting them back into the work habit, and the next several weeks reviewing to make sure they have the underlaying skills for whatever work you're doing.
*To be fair, any language the word problems are written in.
Kids should have at least a couple of months out of the year when they can just not worry about their studies and have fun and BE KIDS.
Sure. Give them 2-3 weeks a season. 3 months off in the summer currently means that they spend the first month back getting back into the swing of schooling and relearning some of what they've forgotten.
I happen to agree with you. We're downright illogical about our sports, but given the number of government built stadiums out there that sports teams normally get dedicated access to for next to nothing, it's not out of line to expect some concessions.
How complicated can it be?
Extremely. Though I wasn't figuring on simulating the brain to the point that the simulation would be sapient. More like a series of tissues cultures.
Putting them on the same server as the content won't slow Adblock Pro down by more than a couple of seconds while I tune the frames to kill.
Like I said, 'engage in an active campaign' and 'don't annoy'.
If there's no driver in the seat, that's extremely dangerous too.
Which is more dangerous, a car without a driver but with lane control and adaptive cruise so it'll at least try to not plow into something ahead of it, or a stopped car in the middle of a freeway?
I'd say the latter is the more critically dangerous solution.
I'm with many of the others - you need to either be completely autonomous or give the drivers a good chunk of control.
They're actually doing studies regarding this with military drones. They're finding that too much automation, not enough for the operator to control results in straying attention. As a result one of the things they were considering was removing some of the automation.
Oh, and because I didn't realize neavs's bias at first, a couple more links:
NPR, and BBC.
What we really need is a human body simulator, down to the molecules.
Everybody who does clinical research knows that most of the drugs that work great in mice, work reasonably well in monkeys, passably well in Phase I trials, poorly in Phase II trials, and not at all in Phase III trials.
This reminds me of the problems with using animal models in drug testing. To put it bluntly, if you go back to drugs that were used before mice drug trials were 'the way to go', an awful lot of our 'go to' drugs would never pass the mice trials.
So if there is a child-porn detection tool, is it available to the public to automatically block an illegal images from web sites and email?
From what I know, all such solutions are currently both propitiatory and somewhat confidential. The known child-porn detection tools only trigger on KNOWN images; IE they have an image file known to be CP, which they then run through a processor to develop what's probably a few hashes - MD5 for quickness, plus the more complex 'fingerprint' software solutions that will find the image even if it's resized, palette or format changed, cropped, and such. Then you run the detection system on a similar(or even the same) platform as your antivirus.
The problem with a public database is that those with the stuff could use it to test their own material for avoiding detection. Not that a password protected encrypted compressed file such as zip or rar wouldn't stop greater than 99% of detection systems.
The problem is that when you run a newspaper, you don't run the newspaper - the advertisers are your gods and masters, and you have no say in the matter.
You have to avoid becoming dependent upon any one(or smallish cartel) of advertisers then.
Thought the comment elsewhere of a BBC style organization does seem to have some good points.
I have the impression that the newspapers that were pressing for this law don't realise that, despite what they may think, they really are not in a position of power, apropos the internet.
They want money. Indeed, if I was google my first step would be to de-index those companies, completely. What happens when your traffic drops by 90% and your physical circulation numbers start dropping?
The proper way to go is the same as TV, radio, and yes, your printed copy - sell advertising so that every time somebody hits your paper they see them. If you're 'good', put the advertising on the same server as the content so ad blockers have a harder time blocking them; making YOUR advertising a selling point. Just don't get so annoying with it that the ad-blockers engage in an active campaign.
You dont need to create new images to evade signatures...
It depends on the hash technology. If it's simply a MD5 hash, what you say is correct. There are image-specific checkers that would provide a match even if you resize the image. It takes a lot more juice and is 'less accurate' though.
Still, that's a lot of work for non-professionals to do. Also, see 'most criminals are stupid'.
Are you sure you replied to the correct post? I'm sorry, but your comment doesn't follow Joe and the AC's comments. You talk about previous convictions, while they're talking about the comprehensiveness of the system in catching CP images.
IE the system is limited, it can only find old known images.
If somebody starts 'going into full creep mode' you simply report it to the police. Don't delete it, don't touch it, report it to the police. They can use information gathered from it to hopefully track down the sender.
Someone at Google blew the whistle? If 'someone at Google' was able to look inside, how do we know they didn't put it inside in the first place? If you rent an apartment and your landlord has the master key, the police are going to have a VERY hard time convincing the court that you are the guilty party when the only reason they investigated you in the first place was because your landlord tipped off the police.
Not to mention that partially via the means of gaining the evidence can be used to prove that said landlord regularly enters your property.
I've heard of drug runners using spots on other people's properties to stash their product. Things like the access panel on a hot tub, often leads to a fairly large cavity that's checked only once a blue moon by the owner.
I wonder if Google has some explanation why they were poking around in his specific mailbox? Did he have text within the emails that tripped an alarm in their system that tries to decide what advertising to serve you?
I'm wondering a little differently. I wonder how plugged in that gate representative must of been to find and successfully identify the source of the tweet and call the family off the plane before it left.
I say this because I don't see some SWA social media monitoring department demanding the tweet be removed in that fashion. I figure it was the 'dissed' gate rep herself that did it.
This was the deal for me. Reading about the 3D stuff I might need to go back, but when I went in for the procedure I ended up being declined because the risk to my night vision was too high.
You'd end up with servers welded to the rack.
Then you're not using big enough racks!
More seriously, it's one of the reasons I suggested 600V. I'm surprised you didn't pick up on that part. I wasn't suggesting running 12V through the racks, I was suggesting running 600 VDC. Which, of course, creates it's own issues. Such as a certain amount of theft prevention, but increases turnover in techs. ;)
For a 1% power loss over 1 metre at 700A, you need 0000AWG cable. It's about 1kg of copper (that's a single conductor, you'd need one for the return path, another kg and another 1% power loss)
Bah, just use the chassis as return; the frames might only be steel, but there's a good amount of it. That and I suggest 600V for truly limiting the amount of power lost through cables. ;)