I am really, really, really bad at organization and business. The entire math curriculum was design around the limitation of that calculator. Also it helped that most problems that the calculator was unable to solve by itself had a methodical solution taught in the textbook. So for the problems where the calculator was able to compute the correct answer, I would compute and pretty print the intermediary step backward from there. For the few problems that were beyond the calculator reach I would compute a lot of discriminants, keep the one that matched a known solutions family then I would extract the meaningful coefficient and pretty print the solution with the test used.Since that software was written on the ti-92 keyboard procrastinating instead of drilling myself with math problems in the directed exercise portion of the math classes.
Students need a calculator that is "dumb enough" to not write the entire exam for them.
The dumb one are quite intelligent nonetheless... For all my 1st year engineering math classes I built a software that actually did write the entire exam answer on a ti-92. It was wizard based so you only needed to select the problem type and type the equation. I had an A+ in all math classes so it worked quite well but since I was bragging about my edge, the professors there begged me not to share my software. They could not legally compel me to do so but they begged a lot since they would have to redo the entire math curriculum for that particular engineering school, I told them that I would not share my edge until I graduated and luckily for them, a virus built-into a game erased my calculator during a particularity boring chemistry class. That virus/game would format the flash memory of the calculator when you defeated the final boss. To add insult to injury, I had to train quite a bit to be able to defeat that boss (around 75Hr)....
for me RPN, LISP and FORTH are the same in that regard: instead of coding, you built the parse tree explicitly the way you wanted it to be, not the way the interpreter/compiler decide to interpret your code. You do not think about operator precedence and evaluation order, you explicitly formulate it the way you want it to be evaluated and event tough it seems like that explicitation should increase the cognitive load its most good programmers that I know found that it decrease it... Now, rightfully, you could ask why... and to that question I have no answer.
ot smoking (a popular recreational drug) has been shown to impede the creation of short term memory.
It is way more complex than that: Short term memory is like a pool of chunks of information. A typical person have a pool size of 7. Pot effect on short term memory can be modeled as frequently removing one random item from the pool. The number of items removed and it's frequency is a function of the individual, the quantity, quality and variety of the cannabis.
about your Sig, you are wrong by more than 20 years!!!
Alexander Sawchuk estimates that it was in June or July of 1973 when he, then an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California Signal and Image Processing Institute (SIPI), along with a graduate student and the SIPI lab manager, was hurriedly searching the lab for a good image to scan for a colleague's conference paper. They got tired of their stock of usual test images, dull stuff dating back to television standards work in the early 1960s. They wanted something glossy to ensure good output dynamic range, and they wanted a human face. Just then, somebody happened to walk in with a recent issue of Playboy.
The engineers tore away the top third of the centerfold so they could wrap it around the drum of their Muirhead wirephoto scanner, which they had outfitted with analog-to-digital converters (one each for the red, green, and blue channels) and a Hewlett Packard 2100 minicomputer. The Muirhead had a fixed resolution of 100 lines per inch and the engineers wanted a 512×512 image, so they limited the scan to the top 5.12 inches of the picture, effectively cropping it at the subject's shoulders.
I don't know if its still true or not but that blog used to be run by Allchin
Well he sign his book and comments as Raymond Chen...
Put ME in charge of MSFT and in less than 5 years, hell i could probably do it in under 3, I'd turn that ship around and be labeled another Steve Jobs.
I remember an ftp server for windows that prohibited it's usage by the military and police as the author felt that they were too corrupt and he was a Norwegian.... it was WarFTPD if I remember correctly
Those defective buggers are everywhere, TV, radio, amps even microwave oven. The number of otherwise perfectly working electronics gears gone to the dumpster because of a bad cap must be enormous. At first the excuse was that it was a batch of defective capacitor from a Chinese counterfeiter but now some TV companies make sure to buy those "defective" counterfeit piece as they usually fail a few days after the warranty when expose to theirs rated temperature...
The dadaist made me forget to write that:
You are confusing a part with the whole. What you refer to as the modern art movement is really the anti-art movement. Modern art is an umbrella term for art that was produced in the modern period (roughly 1850-1970). It covers masterpieces such as Country road in Provence by Night by van Gogh and The Scream by Edvard Munch, and aberrations such as Fountain by Marcel Duchamp and Black Square by Kasimir Malevich. I put the like to each articl ewikipedia pages so could see that Duchamp and Malevich also produced beautiful pieces...
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I am really, really, really bad at organization and business.
The entire math curriculum was design around the limitation of that calculator. Also it helped that most problems that the calculator was unable to solve by itself had a methodical solution taught in the textbook.
So for the problems where the calculator was able to compute the correct answer, I would compute and pretty print the intermediary step backward from there. For the few problems that were beyond the calculator reach I would compute a lot of discriminants, keep the one that matched a known solutions family then I would extract the meaningful coefficient and pretty print the solution with the test used.Since that software was written on the ti-92 keyboard procrastinating instead of drilling myself with math problems in the directed exercise portion of the math classes.
Students need a calculator that is "dumb enough" to not write the entire exam for them.
The dumb one are quite intelligent nonetheless... For all my 1st year engineering math classes I built a software that actually did write the entire exam answer on a ti-92. It was wizard based so you only needed to select the problem type and type the equation. I had an A+ in all math classes so it worked quite well but since I was bragging about my edge, the professors there begged me not to share my software. They could not legally compel me to do so but they begged a lot since they would have to redo the entire math curriculum for that particular engineering school, I told them that I would not share my edge until I graduated and luckily for them, a virus built-into a game erased my calculator during a particularity boring chemistry class. That virus/game would format the flash memory of the calculator when you defeated the final boss. To add insult to injury, I had to train quite a bit to be able to defeat that boss (around 75Hr)....
for me RPN, LISP and FORTH are the same in that regard: instead of coding, you built the parse tree explicitly the way you wanted it to be, not the way the interpreter/compiler decide to interpret your code. You do not think about operator precedence and evaluation order, you explicitly formulate it the way you want it to be evaluated and event tough it seems like that explicitation should increase the cognitive load its most good programmers that I know found that it decrease it... Now, rightfully, you could ask why... and to that question I have no answer.
I see... happy happy fun time for you :P
Never heard the expression : too many cooks spoiled the broth ?
Teva challenged the validity of the Pfizer patent, claiming it did not meet the law's disclosure requirements.
ot smoking (a popular recreational drug) has been shown to impede the creation of short term memory.
It is way more complex than that: Short term memory is like a pool of chunks of information. A typical person have a pool size of 7. Pot effect on short term memory can be modeled as frequently removing one random item from the pool. The number of items removed and it's frequency is a function of the individual, the quantity, quality and variety of the cannabis.
Locking the door ?
Do you know what is the shell life of a dentist ?
Why update winamp when could use version 2.666 with the MAD 24bit decoder plugin and be ready to rock in less than a millisecond!!! ?
On LSD times stretches....
Alexander Sawchuk estimates that it was in June or July of 1973 when he, then an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California Signal and Image Processing Institute (SIPI), along with a graduate student and the SIPI lab manager, was hurriedly searching the lab for a good image to scan for a colleague's conference paper. They got tired of their stock of usual test images, dull stuff dating back to television standards work in the early 1960s. They wanted something glossy to ensure good output dynamic range, and they wanted a human face. Just then, somebody happened to walk in with a recent issue of Playboy.
The engineers tore away the top third of the centerfold so they could wrap it around the drum of their Muirhead wirephoto scanner, which they had outfitted with analog-to-digital converters (one each for the red, green, and blue channels) and a Hewlett Packard 2100 minicomputer. The Muirhead had a fixed resolution of 100 lines per inch and the engineers wanted a 512×512 image, so they limited the scan to the top 5.12 inches of the picture, effectively cropping it at the subject's shoulders.
People aren't objects.People aren't objects.
Yes they are, they all extends the IrrationalActor class !
This must have been a mistake:
acro service corporation, computer programmer/analyst
$1,250,000
2011-01-04
that number is the lowest*1 pay level at my institution for a software engineer and we are located in a small town
1- In practice it is impossible to be hired at that level they require 3yr of experience for a job and each year gives you a level
try a hard link
I don't know if its still true or not but that blog used to be run by Allchin
Well he sign his book and comments as Raymond Chen...
Put ME in charge of MSFT and in less than 5 years, hell i could probably do it in under 3, I'd turn that ship around and be labeled another Steve Jobs.
I my opinion Raymond Chen should at least have been put in charge of Windows and maybe CEO instead of Mr Chair. :
some random good post on that blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/01/02/9265754.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/09/09/10208136.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/11/22/1122581.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/01/18/355177.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/10/17/55345.aspx
I remember an ftp server for windows that prohibited it's usage by the military and police as the author felt that they were too corrupt and he was a Norwegian.... it was WarFTPD if I remember correctly
Your making sense like the guy from The Old New Thing blog at MSDN, stop it now !!!
Else, watch out for flying chair...
Those defective buggers are everywhere, TV, radio, amps even microwave oven. The number of otherwise perfectly working electronics gears gone to the dumpster because of a bad cap must be enormous. At first the excuse was that it was a batch of defective capacitor from a Chinese counterfeiter but now some TV companies make sure to buy those "defective" counterfeit piece as they usually fail a few days after the warranty when expose to theirs rated temperature...
Aderrall is for poor people, Vyvanse is the fancy stuff and Desoxyn (adderral made of a tenth of the mg but with meth salts instead) is on the rise...
My wife takes her ninja star and I take my longsword, then we call 911. :P
ghrelin acetate is a substance know to cause this
The dadaist made me forget to write that :
You are confusing a part with the whole. What you refer to as the modern art movement is really the anti-art movement. Modern art is an umbrella term for art that was produced in the modern period (roughly 1850-1970). It covers masterpieces such as Country road in Provence by Night by van Gogh and The Scream by Edvard Munch, and aberrations such as Fountain by Marcel Duchamp and Black Square by Kasimir Malevich.
I put the like to each articl ewikipedia pages so could see that Duchamp and Malevich also produced beautiful pieces...
s/noticed but/unnoticed to/