Hey restaurant guy, good on you for deleting the FB, if not for the privacy problems, at least for the fact that your time is now better spent on more productive things.
Hasn't anyone ever seen the spy movies where people buy disposable, prepaid phones to avoid being tracked? If Jason Bourne is concerned about it, isn't that good enough for the rest of us?;)
I find myself needing calculus only when a programming project involves calculus. It's a useful skill to be good with calculus, but it's not necessary to know. It's probably good to have students learn rudimentary calculus to sharpen their abstract thinking skills, anyways.
+1 to this! I'm a CS undergrad and my mind is blown when I realize how dumb our machines are sometimes (and doubly blown when someone at Google or Microsoft talks about how they've managed to wrangle that stupid technology in incredibly clever ways to do something pretty neat). Watson is an impressive technological feat because it's the first major step towards computer understanding of English semantics. Which is crazy, because English has no formal semantic definition at all!
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Hey restaurant guy, good on you for deleting the FB, if not for the privacy problems, at least for the fact that your time is now better spent on more productive things.
Hasn't anyone ever seen the spy movies where people buy disposable, prepaid phones to avoid being tracked? If Jason Bourne is concerned about it, isn't that good enough for the rest of us? ;)
I find myself needing calculus only when a programming project involves calculus. It's a useful skill to be good with calculus, but it's not necessary to know. It's probably good to have students learn rudimentary calculus to sharpen their abstract thinking skills, anyways.
Seriously, this guy is about one step away from saving his urine in jars
He's got nothing on Bear Grylls.
According to this link http://www.newsweek.com/2011/02/13/is-alex-trebek-in-jeopardy.html Alex only films 2x a week, several shows a day. I reckon he probably doesn't want to bend over backwards for IBM and their little robot :3
+1 to this! I'm a CS undergrad and my mind is blown when I realize how dumb our machines are sometimes (and doubly blown when someone at Google or Microsoft talks about how they've managed to wrangle that stupid technology in incredibly clever ways to do something pretty neat). Watson is an impressive technological feat because it's the first major step towards computer understanding of English semantics. Which is crazy, because English has no formal semantic definition at all!