Calculus may not be foundational in CS, but it is certainly foundational knowledge... and if you actually want to apply any of that CS knowledge you better know calculus. Here is a short list of areas where I've needed knowledge of calculus:
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Computer Graphics
Numerical Methods
Networking
Simulations
I'm sure there are more I don't know of, but that's where I've personally had experience
look at Mr. Elite University's $100k debt and have a good chuckle.
Except schools like Stanford and MIT offer free tuition for families making less than $100k and $75k respectively. My university took 50% off my tuition for all 4 years. It ended up costing less than state school and I graduated with $15k debt for an "elite" degree.
Guess why admissions are at an all time high? Students are coming in droves from China and India. Then they either go back to their home country or they return here from jobs at Microsoft and Google.
People know that a 3.3 at a place like MIT is a 4.3 anywhere else. I know a kid who has a 4.0 from a local state school. Impressive I guess until you look at the classes he took and realize none are really that hard.
SATs are a filter. They don't get you in. If you get a 1600 (or whatever the max is these days) you're now on par with 10,000 other kids who also got a 1600.
The valedictorian at my highschool, 5.0 GPA (AP scale), 1600 SAT, smartest guy I know, got rejected from MIT. He ended up going to U Penn, now works at Google. Another girl got into MIT with lower GPA and SAT, but she had like 400 extracurriculars and was involved in everything. Just goes to show it's not all grades that count.
I'm not so sure that a place like MIT is any more theoretical than some land grant college.
Not always. Some places, especially smaller colleges, treat CS as IT/Software Engineering, when we all know they are very different. The result is you come out of school with a degree in "computer science", but you lack foundational knowledge like calculus. All you really did was get a degree in programming.
It's also a lot more expensive.
Also not necessarily. Stanford is free for lower income families. I went to CMU and they gave me a grant (aka never have to pay it back) that covered half of tuition. In the end it cost me less than going to state school.
That's my newest investment strategy. From now on, I'm only investing in what 5 year olds know about. I already have major holdings in a local pony farm.
I've never seen the words "Google" and "concentration" in the same sentence. Although I can see that it's easy for them to grow new products without worrying about destroying revenues from others, since really only one product generates all their revenue (ads).
Actually makes sense.... Q32010 Windows phone 7 wasn't even released. Q32011 most people interested in WP7 are probably waiting for Mango to be released. The new mango handsets aren't even available on AT&T and Verizon yet.
Every access point in the world has the ability to shut off its SSID announcements.
If you're not broadcasting your SSID, Google will still map it. If you don't want them to, you'll actually have to broadcast an SSID, and append _nomap to it, since anyone can find your router's MAC address even if you're not broadcasting your SSID.
The available options are "Opt-out is OK" or "The service shouldn't exist".
Then the service shouldn't exist. Simple enough.
But then again, there may be a third option you're not considering. What are these location services used for? Checking into restaurants, tagging pictures with locations, checking the weather, etc. Where do I do these things? Mostly when I'm out on the town, or at home. So, make deals with Starbucks, AT&T, Barnes and Noble, etc. to use their SSIDs in the database. These companies have vast networks of wifi hotspots so it should cover a good deal of high traffic ground, especially in cities and urban areas. Then allow the user the option to store the location of his own home or work network locally on the phone to fill in the gaps.
The long looong loooooooonger run. A society where machines do 100% of the work is more of a philosophical exercise than practical matter; such a future is so far out its utterly silly to worry about such things seriously. Until then, robots will create jobs for people like me (robotics engineer) who will make the machines simple enough and push jobs down to less skilled individuals (robotics technician) and eventually you'll be able to take your robot to your friendly neighborhood corner robotics mechanic for repair.
The same thing that happened to people who made horse whips and carriages after the automobile was invented. That is, while yes old jobs were destroyed, more new jobs were created because of technological advances.
If the best and brightest are going into finance and law, and most politicians are financiers and lawyers, doesn't it follow that the best and brightest are politicians?
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I'm sure there are more I don't know of, but that's where I've personally had experience
They should have been doing liberal arts degrees
The liberal arts includes sciences like physics and biology. I think you mean "humanities."
look at Mr. Elite University's $100k debt and have a good chuckle.
Except schools like Stanford and MIT offer free tuition for families making less than $100k and $75k respectively. My university took 50% off my tuition for all 4 years. It ended up costing less than state school and I graduated with $15k debt for an "elite" degree.
if you can't beat the average for one of these schools, you have no business applying to its CS program.
That's not even close to what you said, but it's much more reasonable.
Guess why admissions are at an all time high? Students are coming in droves from China and India. Then they either go back to their home country or they return here from jobs at Microsoft and Google.
All this with a 3.3 GPA.
People know that a 3.3 at a place like MIT is a 4.3 anywhere else. I know a kid who has a 4.0 from a local state school. Impressive I guess until you look at the classes he took and realize none are really that hard.
SATs are a filter. They don't get you in. If you get a 1600 (or whatever the max is these days) you're now on par with 10,000 other kids who also got a 1600.
The valedictorian at my highschool, 5.0 GPA (AP scale), 1600 SAT, smartest guy I know, got rejected from MIT. He ended up going to U Penn, now works at Google. Another girl got into MIT with lower GPA and SAT, but she had like 400 extracurriculars and was involved in everything. Just goes to show it's not all grades that count.
I'm not so sure that a place like MIT is any more theoretical than some land grant college.
Not always. Some places, especially smaller colleges, treat CS as IT/Software Engineering, when we all know they are very different. The result is you come out of school with a degree in "computer science", but you lack foundational knowledge like calculus. All you really did was get a degree in programming.
It's also a lot more expensive.
Also not necessarily. Stanford is free for lower income families. I went to CMU and they gave me a grant (aka never have to pay it back) that covered half of tuition. In the end it cost me less than going to state school.
They aren't PC box shifters like those that have been paying the fees.
Not all of them are PC manufacturers. One example I can think of is Onkyo, who manufactures stereo equipment.
Depends on what your goal is. If you want to kill as many people as possible it sounds like a great weapon.
and all affordable replacements have secure boot that can't be turned of
Pretty big assumption you're making there.
That's my newest investment strategy. From now on, I'm only investing in what 5 year olds know about. I already have major holdings in a local pony farm.
I've never seen the words "Google" and "concentration" in the same sentence. Although I can see that it's easy for them to grow new products without worrying about destroying revenues from others, since really only one product generates all their revenue (ads).
75%? Did you just not count Vista? I know it sucked and all but I think it's still Windows...
I think a better caption for that graph is pre-antitrust and post-antitrust.
Actually makes sense.... Q32010 Windows phone 7 wasn't even released. Q32011 most people interested in WP7 are probably waiting for Mango to be released. The new mango handsets aren't even available on AT&T and Verizon yet.
They're not mapping SSIDs (not unique), they're mapping MAC addresses (unique), which I can find easily even if you're not broadcasting an SSID.
Every access point in the world has the ability to shut off its SSID announcements.
If you're not broadcasting your SSID, Google will still map it. If you don't want them to, you'll actually have to broadcast an SSID, and append _nomap to it, since anyone can find your router's MAC address even if you're not broadcasting your SSID.
The available options are "Opt-out is OK" or "The service shouldn't exist".
Then the service shouldn't exist. Simple enough.
But then again, there may be a third option you're not considering. What are these location services used for? Checking into restaurants, tagging pictures with locations, checking the weather, etc. Where do I do these things? Mostly when I'm out on the town, or at home. So, make deals with Starbucks, AT&T, Barnes and Noble, etc. to use their SSIDs in the database. These companies have vast networks of wifi hotspots so it should cover a good deal of high traffic ground, especially in cities and urban areas. Then allow the user the option to store the location of his own home or work network locally on the phone to fill in the gaps.
This food motif
Yes but he missed "nom" de plume through mispelling. What a waste of another perfectly good food reference.
or at least in the longer run
The long looong loooooooonger run. A society where machines do 100% of the work is more of a philosophical exercise than practical matter; such a future is so far out its utterly silly to worry about such things seriously. Until then, robots will create jobs for people like me (robotics engineer) who will make the machines simple enough and push jobs down to less skilled individuals (robotics technician) and eventually you'll be able to take your robot to your friendly neighborhood corner robotics mechanic for repair.
The same thing that happened to people who made horse whips and carriages after the automobile was invented. That is, while yes old jobs were destroyed, more new jobs were created because of technological advances.
If the best and brightest are going into finance and law, and most politicians are financiers and lawyers, doesn't it follow that the best and brightest are politicians?
They've actually stopped sending the cupcakes now.
http://www.winrumors.com/microsoft-breaks-with-tradition-no-cake-for-firefox-8/
"We didn’t do it since we thought it was getting to be overkill,” said a Microsoft spokesperson. “Every six weeks is a lot of cupcakes”
Sound like they're all PC related... what about the console versions?