I don't use Advantage 2 (the one mentioned by Parent) but I've used the Freestyle and Freestyle Pro (https://www.kinesis-ergo.com/shop/freestyle-pro/) on my Mac systems for over a decade, replacing the no-longer-made KeyTronic Flex Pro (which I used on Windows and Mac machines). I built a simple platform so I can crank these up to near vertical, and they saved me from what probably would have been crippling CTS. Takes a while to get used to this orientation, but if you're a touch typist (and who isn't these days?) it gets to feeling normal pretty quickly. The only time I hunt for keys is if I'm typing in some line-noise-like password. Your hands and wrists (and forearms) will thank you.
From what little I remember from when neural networks made their first buzzword splash back in the 1990s I think all the buzzwords in the summary are basically saying that they need an architecture that is really fast at doing multiplication of large matrices. Yes? If so, this really is not in any way a new problem - fast matrix math has been a staple of high performance computing since day 1, and these guys are just saying (I think) they want to build a processor designed just for that purpose. Or am I missing something, blinded by the sheer wonderfulness of their choice of buzz-ness?
What scientists (and engineers) call this is a POSITIVE feedback loop, in which an action causes a reaction which then increases the level of the original action. This sort of loop is highly unstable and can lead to extreme behavior in the system. There are also negative feedback loops, in which the reaction decreases the level of the original action. This is a stable behavior, and one that is quite often designed into all sorts of systems on purpose. If warming in the arctic ends up releasing large amounts of methane gas (something that has been postulated for a long time) that could end up making many of today's estimates of how fast the climate will change look very conservative.
Does anyone here have any experience with their POP!_OS flavor of Linux? I'm getting tired of waiting for Apple to remember that it is (was?) in the computer business and am looking to come back to Linux. I like the System76 hardware, but I'm not sure what distro to use (I used CentOS last time out).
This has happened before. If you google 'skylab ionosphere' you'll find that a large hole was made in the ionosphere during the launch of the Skylab space habitat. After a bit if study it was decided that this was due to the injection of water and other materials into the ionosphere which caused the sudden large decrease in ionization. Basically, this injection changed the electron loss rate in the area to the point where it was much greater than the solar EUV-driven electron production rate. The shock wave can create the ripples, but not the large hole. This will happen any time the main boosters are running when the rocket passes through the main part of the ionosphere (roughly 300-400 km up).
Didn't know this was a contest. Wrote my first professional code in the summer of 1968 at Kitt Peak National Observatory on a CDC 3200, and wrote my last program yesterday on a Mac (both in Fortran). My first "program" of sorts was on an analog computer kit that I helped put together in my 6th grade class in 1962.
CES isn't about how successful a company is today, it's about the future. Yes, Apple is still financially successful, but they are 'eating their seed corn' in that they are living on past technological leaps and have become rudderless as far as future tech is concerned (or they are way out ahead and Apple's legendary secrecy is keeping it all under wraps). My own feeling is that leadership is focused on fashion, or internal fighting over the company's direction/future, and there is no real work/plan for future products beyond getting rid of the tab at the top of the iPhone X display.
You cannot ‘solve’ a problem that is only identifiable through statistics (there are more male programmers than female) or anecdotes (my career was held back by sexist men in management). If hard facts can be documented of bias in hiring practices, or in how promotions are made, or how supervisors do their jobs, then you can identify problems that can be fixed. I believe this sort of thing is being done all over the US by companies that want to be gender-neutral, or at least don’t want to leave themselves open to clearly-supported lawsuits.
The only ‘solution’ to a statistics-defined problem is the solution-du-jour of quotas. If the population has X% of some identifiable sub-population (female, black, smokers, whatever), then the company will have X% of people of that sub-population in every job. This is not a solution, this is a hack on a major scale. It solves nothing, and arguably makes everything worse.
There is absolutely no place for sexism of any kind, male-on-female or female-on-male, in our society. However, sexism is not fixed by quotas.
A question for lawyerly types - would the hashtag #FraudNewsCNN be viewed in a legal sense as accusing CNN of committing fraud in their news coverage? If so, and if the poster cannot prove fraud, I'd think that could leave the poster (and others who use the hashtag?) open to a slander charge.
I guess the Tolkien Estate etal LLP Inc folks never read "Bored of the Rings" by the good folks at the Havard Lampoon? Maybe their lawyers can't read, only watch video.
... is that the iCar will be really thin, will have a battery that lasts only 30 minutes (or 30 miles), will have only one multi-use port (door/window/hood/trunk), and you won't be able to open it up to make upgrades or repairs. But it will come in gold and pink, and did I mention it would be thin?
The “learn to code for fun and profit” narrative is designed to support the claim that all the people who are losing good jobs to automation and offshore mania only need to take a short course in programming to be making the big bucks. The truth that not everyone is suited to be a programmer, and that the “big bucks” programming jobs are becoming as endangered by offshoring as factory jobs, kills that narrative and forces those who are supposed to be running this country to come up with real solutions to the very real employment problems of large numbers of people in the Rust Belt, Coal Belt, You Name It Belt. Those solution are difficult to find, and cost money to implement, which means no tax cuts for the one percenters. Can’t have that, so everyone must become a programmer because that’s the job of the future. Rinse and repeat.
Every time another "ogodtheskyisfalling" article comes out covering a new/improved malware based on the leaked NSA toolbox I'm looking for a quick summary early in the article that says "this beastie will be a problem for Windows, probably Win7 and earlier; will not be a problem for Linux; probably won't be a problem for OS X." Or even a simple 0-10 ranking of "no problemo" to "burn your computer NOW!" for each of the three major platforms placed somewhere prominent in the article would be nice. For my less-techie friends/relatives who get all hyped up with every new WormKillerTorpedoBot_Comrade exploit, it could give them an idea if they should be worried and figure out what to do, or not. For me, I can avoid reading pages and pages of turgid tech-prose about something that, not running anything on Windows, I don't need to care about. So how about it Tech Pundits of America, how about a little help here?
Uber has learned what airlines have long known - you can screw the customer over at will and with little fear of retribution because you're not the one at the pointy end of the customer-interface spear. Gate agents and check-in agents take 90% of the heat for airline behavior, and Uber drivers, who aren't getting any of the extra cash, will take the heat for the Uber higher-ups who make the policy, set the prices, and rake in the cash. Capitalism, gotta love it.
Nope, not really. This is strictly a radiation-belt, high-energy electrons thing. The geomagnetic storm impact of what's referred to as a Carrington event is not going to be mitigated by this effect. It might speed up the reduction of the fluxes in the high-energy electron radiation belts after the storm, which would cut down on the length of time that satellites in certain orbits have enhanced conditions for spacecraft charging events, but that's about it. This whole thing is a can of Pretty Paint on something that, while interesting from a scientific viewpoint (hey, I enjoyed it when I first learned about it in the 1970s), it's not really world-changing in any sense of the word.
Oops - for ELF in my post read VLF. My irritation with NASA fuzzed my brain. For those interested in the physics/math behind all this, take a look at "Particle Diffusion in the Radiation Belts" by Michael Schulz and Lou Lanzerrotti (published in 1974 - NOT news).
This effect has been known, and studied, for many years. One of the early discoverers, and researchers into the effect, was Robert Helliwell of Stanford. ELF generated by lightning, which is happening around the world all the time, was triggering this cleaning-out of the earth's inner radiation belt long before the first submarine ever existed. I'm afraid this is old news in a typical NASA PR flack package. I suspect there are people waiting in the wings ready to propose setting up large ELF transmitters along the equatorward edge of the auroral zone so as to clean out the radiation belts on a routine basis. I believe this sort of thing was even proposed (may still be on the books) as a way to dump out an artificial radiation belt generated by a high altitude nuclear explosion (like the Starfish experiment back in 1962) should some Bad Guys decide to do that as part of an attack on satellite assets.
Actually, this isn't inserting politics into science as stated, it's more like a continuation of the removal of science and all its annoying reliance on real facts from politics/governance.
Dumped one of these into my mail trash just before I visited/. Suppsedly from 'office@metroroof.com' (a local vendor I used last year) to 'hhhhhhhhh@mailinator.com' with a bcc to my address. Told me that 'Jasmine Crews has shared a document on Google Docs with you." Had a button to click on reading 'Open in Docs'. I wonder what percent of people actually click on these things?
Old. My first programming (1967) was done on a programmable Wang calculator on hand-punched cards, followed closely by learning Fortran II on CDC Big Iron. However, I really didn't start learning the skills of programming a computer until I took a class in CDC assmbly language (SCOPE) programming a couple of years later. That down-to-the-metal level of programming taught me what was going on in the machine that the Fortran compliler had been hiding from me. Made me a much better programmer than I would have been otherwise.
What these journals need to do in retraction lists like this is to group the articles by the organizations at which the lead author works. That might generate some higher-level angst than just calling our the authors.
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Good god man, don't tell Apple about this!
I don't use Advantage 2 (the one mentioned by Parent) but I've used the Freestyle and Freestyle Pro (https://www.kinesis-ergo.com/shop/freestyle-pro/) on my Mac systems for over a decade, replacing the no-longer-made KeyTronic Flex Pro (which I used on Windows and Mac machines). I built a simple platform so I can crank these up to near vertical, and they saved me from what probably would have been crippling CTS. Takes a while to get used to this orientation, but if you're a touch typist (and who isn't these days?) it gets to feeling normal pretty quickly. The only time I hunt for keys is if I'm typing in some line-noise-like password. Your hands and wrists (and forearms) will thank you.
From what little I remember from when neural networks made their first buzzword splash back in the 1990s I think all the buzzwords in the summary are basically saying that they need an architecture that is really fast at doing multiplication of large matrices. Yes? If so, this really is not in any way a new problem - fast matrix math has been a staple of high performance computing since day 1, and these guys are just saying (I think) they want to build a processor designed just for that purpose. Or am I missing something, blinded by the sheer wonderfulness of their choice of buzz-ness?
What scientists (and engineers) call this is a POSITIVE feedback loop, in which an action causes a reaction which then increases the level of the original action. This sort of loop is highly unstable and can lead to extreme behavior in the system. There are also negative feedback loops, in which the reaction decreases the level of the original action. This is a stable behavior, and one that is quite often designed into all sorts of systems on purpose. If warming in the arctic ends up releasing large amounts of methane gas (something that has been postulated for a long time) that could end up making many of today's estimates of how fast the climate will change look very conservative.
Does anyone here have any experience with their POP!_OS flavor of Linux? I'm getting tired of waiting for Apple to remember that it is (was?) in the computer business and am looking to come back to Linux. I like the System76 hardware, but I'm not sure what distro to use (I used CentOS last time out).
This has happened before. If you google 'skylab ionosphere' you'll find that a large hole was made in the ionosphere during the launch of the Skylab space habitat. After a bit if study it was decided that this was due to the injection of water and other materials into the ionosphere which caused the sudden large decrease in ionization. Basically, this injection changed the electron loss rate in the area to the point where it was much greater than the solar EUV-driven electron production rate. The shock wave can create the ripples, but not the large hole. This will happen any time the main boosters are running when the rocket passes through the main part of the ionosphere (roughly 300-400 km up).
Didn't know this was a contest. Wrote my first professional code in the summer of 1968 at Kitt Peak National Observatory on a CDC 3200, and wrote my last program yesterday on a Mac (both in Fortran). My first "program" of sorts was on an analog computer kit that I helped put together in my 6th grade class in 1962.
CES isn't about how successful a company is today, it's about the future. Yes, Apple is still financially successful, but they are 'eating their seed corn' in that they are living on past technological leaps and have become rudderless as far as future tech is concerned (or they are way out ahead and Apple's legendary secrecy is keeping it all under wraps). My own feeling is that leadership is focused on fashion, or internal fighting over the company's direction/future, and there is no real work/plan for future products beyond getting rid of the tab at the top of the iPhone X display.
Sure we're wise - look who we elected President! OK, so we're fsck'd.
You cannot ‘solve’ a problem that is only identifiable through statistics (there are more male programmers than female) or anecdotes (my career was held back by sexist men in management). If hard facts can be documented of bias in hiring practices, or in how promotions are made, or how supervisors do their jobs, then you can identify problems that can be fixed. I believe this sort of thing is being done all over the US by companies that want to be gender-neutral, or at least don’t want to leave themselves open to clearly-supported lawsuits.
The only ‘solution’ to a statistics-defined problem is the solution-du-jour of quotas. If the population has X% of some identifiable sub-population (female, black, smokers, whatever), then the company will have X% of people of that sub-population in every job. This is not a solution, this is a hack on a major scale. It solves nothing, and arguably makes everything worse.
There is absolutely no place for sexism of any kind, male-on-female or female-on-male, in our society. However, sexism is not fixed by quotas.
Interesting response, however I was asking for the opinion of lawyerly types, not trolls.
A question for lawyerly types - would the hashtag #FraudNewsCNN be viewed in a legal sense as accusing CNN of committing fraud in their news coverage? If so, and if the poster cannot prove fraud, I'd think that could leave the poster (and others who use the hashtag?) open to a slander charge.
I guess the Tolkien Estate etal LLP Inc folks never read "Bored of the Rings" by the good folks at the Havard Lampoon? Maybe their lawyers can't read, only watch video.
Code Monkeys? (Sorry, couldn't let that pass.)
... is that the iCar will be really thin, will have a battery that lasts only 30 minutes (or 30 miles), will have only one multi-use port (door/window/hood/trunk), and you won't be able to open it up to make upgrades or repairs. But it will come in gold and pink, and did I mention it would be thin?
The “learn to code for fun and profit” narrative is designed to support the claim that all the people who are losing good jobs to automation and offshore mania only need to take a short course in programming to be making the big bucks. The truth that not everyone is suited to be a programmer, and that the “big bucks” programming jobs are becoming as endangered by offshoring as factory jobs, kills that narrative and forces those who are supposed to be running this country to come up with real solutions to the very real employment problems of large numbers of people in the Rust Belt, Coal Belt, You Name It Belt. Those solution are difficult to find, and cost money to implement, which means no tax cuts for the one percenters. Can’t have that, so everyone must become a programmer because that’s the job of the future. Rinse and repeat.
Every time another "ogodtheskyisfalling" article comes out covering a new/improved malware based on the leaked NSA toolbox I'm looking for a quick summary early in the article that says "this beastie will be a problem for Windows, probably Win7 and earlier; will not be a problem for Linux; probably won't be a problem for OS X." Or even a simple 0-10 ranking of "no problemo" to "burn your computer NOW!" for each of the three major platforms placed somewhere prominent in the article would be nice. For my less-techie friends/relatives who get all hyped up with every new WormKillerTorpedoBot_Comrade exploit, it could give them an idea if they should be worried and figure out what to do, or not. For me, I can avoid reading pages and pages of turgid tech-prose about something that, not running anything on Windows, I don't need to care about. So how about it Tech Pundits of America, how about a little help here?
Uber has learned what airlines have long known - you can screw the customer over at will and with little fear of retribution because you're not the one at the pointy end of the customer-interface spear. Gate agents and check-in agents take 90% of the heat for airline behavior, and Uber drivers, who aren't getting any of the extra cash, will take the heat for the Uber higher-ups who make the policy, set the prices, and rake in the cash. Capitalism, gotta love it.
Nope, not really. This is strictly a radiation-belt, high-energy electrons thing. The geomagnetic storm impact of what's referred to as a Carrington event is not going to be mitigated by this effect. It might speed up the reduction of the fluxes in the high-energy electron radiation belts after the storm, which would cut down on the length of time that satellites in certain orbits have enhanced conditions for spacecraft charging events, but that's about it. This whole thing is a can of Pretty Paint on something that, while interesting from a scientific viewpoint (hey, I enjoyed it when I first learned about it in the 1970s), it's not really world-changing in any sense of the word.
Oops - for ELF in my post read VLF. My irritation with NASA fuzzed my brain. For those interested in the physics/math behind all this, take a look at "Particle Diffusion in the Radiation Belts" by Michael Schulz and Lou Lanzerrotti (published in 1974 - NOT news).
This effect has been known, and studied, for many years. One of the early discoverers, and researchers into the effect, was Robert Helliwell of Stanford. ELF generated by lightning, which is happening around the world all the time, was triggering this cleaning-out of the earth's inner radiation belt long before the first submarine ever existed. I'm afraid this is old news in a typical NASA PR flack package. I suspect there are people waiting in the wings ready to propose setting up large ELF transmitters along the equatorward edge of the auroral zone so as to clean out the radiation belts on a routine basis. I believe this sort of thing was even proposed (may still be on the books) as a way to dump out an artificial radiation belt generated by a high altitude nuclear explosion (like the Starfish experiment back in 1962) should some Bad Guys decide to do that as part of an attack on satellite assets.
Actually, this isn't inserting politics into science as stated, it's more like a continuation of the removal of science and all its annoying reliance on real facts from politics/governance.
Dumped one of these into my mail trash just before I visited /. Suppsedly from 'office@metroroof.com' (a local vendor I used last year) to 'hhhhhhhhh@mailinator.com' with a bcc to my address. Told me that 'Jasmine Crews has shared a document on Google Docs with you." Had a button to click on reading 'Open in Docs'. I wonder what percent of people actually click on these things?
Old. My first programming (1967) was done on a programmable Wang calculator on hand-punched cards, followed closely by learning Fortran II on CDC Big Iron. However, I really didn't start learning the skills of programming a computer until I took a class in CDC assmbly language (SCOPE) programming a couple of years later. That down-to-the-metal level of programming taught me what was going on in the machine that the Fortran compliler had been hiding from me. Made me a much better programmer than I would have been otherwise.
What these journals need to do in retraction lists like this is to group the articles by the organizations at which the lead author works. That might generate some higher-level angst than just calling our the authors.