Correctly done, Medical testing is made more accurate by gathering additional data.
Basic tests are generally inexpensive but have a pretty high false positive rate. The key here is to have a very low false negative rate first and then minimize the false positive rate with additional tests.
If a positive result is obtained additional data is gathered using different tests aimed at eliminating the false positives. This additional testing is often more invasive and expensive, however it drastically reduces the number of false positives.
The premise this article is based on is just repeating the initial screening over and over. That's not what happens.
Ridiculous. The early 80's is when inflation ended. Inflation started in the '60s due to LBJ's guns and butter program and exploded in the '70s due to the oil price shock.
1. A graphical user interface on a computer having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs that when executed by the one or more processors generate the graphical user interface on a display device of the computer, the graphical user interface comprising: a graphic of an athletic playing field or a portion thereof, and a plurality of player positions on the athletic playing field, wherein at least some of the player positions have superimposed thereon thumbnail images selected by a first user, and wherein the thumbnail images provide links which, when selected by a user, provide access to corresponding profiles in an online social network, and wherein the athletic playing field graphic and the plurality of player positions containing thumbnail images selected by the first user are viewable by a second user who accesses a page corresponding to the first user, and wherein the first user and second user are both members of a same online social network.
In other words it's images of athletes linked in a particular way to via a social network.
Looking at the evidence means examining the facts to determine if a direct causal chain exists. Police are looking for evidence such as photographs taken at the time of the robbery showing pictures of an individual holding a gun or stuffing a pillowcase with money.
The police are NOT looking at coincidences like Joe was not at work at the same time the bank robbery occurred.
There is a BIG difference between correlation and causation. You can use correlation to rule out a hypothesis. However you cannot use it to prove a hypothesis. This is why an alibi is exculpatory but lack of one means little.
This distinction unfortunately escapes many conspiracy theorists.
The most useful way I have found of thinking in a relatively simple yet robust mathematical way about SQL and relational databases is in terms of set theory.
For example a standard join can be considered as finding the intersection of two sets.
This this level of abstraction should be usable by someone with your level of mathematical training.
That's not how it works. Your EU country spies on it's EU citizens at the request of whoever wants the information. It would be a gross waste of effort for every country to have to spy on every other country. Allies share information.
If I was doing it I'd use a combination of 3 techniques:
1 Plain text for human readability 2 QR codes for scanning and error correction 3 Redundant Gold stabilized Azo dye CDRs with ECC codes for fast machine readability
How can you answer a poll like this? There is no way because we simply don't have the facts needed.
Only history will be able to tell, and it might take a long time for enough to be declassified, and the research to be done to determine what the effects of this surveillance program, both good and bad were.
I think 45-55 is the worst age. It's when money demands because of kids in school and getting married are the highest, and technical jobs are precarious. The combination is horribly stressful.
I'm 63 now, working in software development after a career change at 50 from a traditional engineering field. Thank God I don't live in a dysfunctional place like Silicon Valley. I've had no problem finding decent and even fun jobs, although the names are nothing you would recognize and there are no useful stock perks.
Once I hit 55 or so things got much easier. The kids are out on their own and the house is paid off. With the recent run up in the stock market I'm sitting on a 7 figure nest egg - if I got laid off now I'd probably retire.
The idea that life is over at 30 seems to be specific to a particular type of manager who mostly lives in one small part of the country. It just isn't the case when I've been out looking for jobs. In fact some of the managers I've worked with have told me that dealing with the sub-30s is a giant pain. Giant egos and can't relate to coworkers, customers or managers.
If Americans are so ignorant and uneducated how do you account for the fact that Americans have won 3 times more Nobel Prizes than the citizens of any other nation?
If they are so cowardly please explain why the only footprints on the moon were put there by Americans?
If America is so broken, why is English the international language today?
The phenomenon described here has nothing to do with patents. Every single US patent issued since the beginning of the Republic is available, for free. It is only the last 20 years that have any restrictions on practicing the patent, and a lot of these are available because the owner has not paid the maintenance fees.
Patents themselves are not covered by copyright, so they are free to be duplicated and passed around. There is also a research exemption that allows you to (usually) conduct R&D on the invention without infringement.
The key problem here with copyright is ridiculous term. It should be 20 years, just like patents. And there should be a maintenance fee so that these things will expire even sooner if the owner takes no interest in them.
BECAUSE WE ARE STILL BEARING SOME OF THE SCARS OF OUR BRIEF SKIRMISH with II-B English, it is natural that we should be enchanted by Mr. George Bernard Shaw's current campaign for a simplified alphabet.
Obviously, as Mr. Shaw points out, English spelling is in much need of a general overhauling and streamlining. However, our own resistance to any changes requiring a large expenditure of mental effort in the near future would cause us to view with some apprehension the possibility of some day receiving a morning paper printed in-to us-Greek.
Our own plan would achieve the same end as the legislation proposed by Mr. Shaw, but in a less shocking manner, as it consists merely of an acceleration of the normal processes by which the language is continually modernized.
As a catalytic agent, we would suggest that a National Easy Language Week be proclaimed, which the President would inaugurate, outlining some short cut to concentrate on during the week, and to be adopted during the ensuing year. All school children would be given a holiday, the lost time being the equivalent of that gained by the spelling short cut.
In 1946, for example, we would urge the elimination of the soft c, for which we would substitute "s." Sertainly, such an improvement would be selebrated in all sivic-minded sircles as being suffisiently worth the trouble, and students in all sities in the land would be reseptive to- ward any change eliminating the nesessity of learning the differense be- tween the two letters.
In 1947, sinse only the hard "c" would be left, it would be possible to substitute "k" for it, both letters being pronounsed identikally. Imagine how greatly only two years of this prosess would klarify the konfusion in the minds of students. Already we would have eliminated an entire letter from the alphabet. Typewriters and linotypes, kould all be built with one less letter, and a11 the manpower and materials previously devoted to making "c's" kould be turned toward raising the national standard of living.
In the fase of so many notable improvements, it is easy to foresee that by 1948, "National Easy Language Week" would be a pronounsed sukses. All skhool tshildren would be looking forward with konsiderable exsitement to the holiday, and in a blaze of national publisity it would be announsed that the double konsonant "ph" no longer existed, and that the sound would henseforth be written "f" in all words, This would make sutsh words as "fonograf" twenty persent shorter in print.
By 1949, public interest in a fonetik alfabet kan be expekted to have inkreased to the point where a more radikal step forward kan be taken without fear of undue kritisism. We would therefore urge the elimination, at that time of al unesesary double leters, whitsh, although quite harmles, have always ben a nuisanse in the language and a desided deterent to akurate speling. Try it yourself in the next leter you write, and se if both writing and reading are not fasilitated.
With so mutsh progres already made, it might be posible in 1950 to delve further into the posibilities of fonetik speling. After due konsidera- tion of the reseption aforded the previous steps, it should be expedient by this time to spel al difthongs fonetikaly. Most students do not realize that the long "i" and "y," as in "time" and "by," are aktualy the difthong "ai," as it is writen in "aisle" and that the long "a" in "fate," is in reality the difthong "ei" as in "rein." Although perhaps not imediately aparent, the saving in taime and efort wil be tremendous when we leiter elimineite the sailent "e," as meide posible bai this last tsheinge.
For, as is wel known, the horible mes of "e's' apearing in our writen language is kaused prinsipaly bai the present nes
Looks to me like all the major western democracies are engaging in this sort of thing.
The original article seems to indicate that this is actually illegal in France. Interesting. At least they could have passed a secret law and set up a secret court to make it appear better.
Who next to be exposed? Germany? Surely with the all those ex-Ministerium fur Staatssicherheit employees to draw from it would have been easy.
Europe is still pretty much dependent on the US military because it doesn't want to pay for its own defense.
Personally I think the US should pull out of NATO and let Europe pay for its own defense. It would be a huge boon the US economy to be able to spend all that money on US infrastructure. In fact the US should provide Europe with a bill for all the military aid plus the Marshall Plan since 1910 or so. It would pay off the US National debt and then some.
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Correctly done, Medical testing is made more accurate by gathering additional data.
Basic tests are generally inexpensive but have a pretty high false positive rate. The key here is to have a very low false negative rate first and then minimize the false positive rate with additional tests.
If a positive result is obtained additional data is gathered using different tests aimed at eliminating the false positives. This additional testing is often more invasive and expensive, however it drastically reduces the number of false positives.
The premise this article is based on is just repeating the initial screening over and over. That's not what happens.
Ridiculous. The early 80's is when inflation ended. Inflation started in the '60s due to LBJ's guns and butter program and exploded in the '70s due to the oil price shock.
Hurr Durr Herp Derp
The article is wrong.
This is what Google patented:
1. A graphical user interface on a computer having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs that when executed by the one or more processors generate the graphical user interface on a display device of the computer, the graphical user interface comprising: a graphic of an athletic playing field or a portion thereof, and a plurality of player positions on the athletic playing field, wherein at least some of the player positions have superimposed thereon thumbnail images selected by a first user, and wherein the thumbnail images provide links which, when selected by a user, provide access to corresponding profiles in an online social network, and wherein the athletic playing field graphic and the plurality of player positions containing thumbnail images selected by the first user are viewable by a second user who accesses a page corresponding to the first user, and wherein the first user and second user are both members of a same online social network.
In other words it's images of athletes linked in a particular way to via a social network.
Looking at the evidence means examining the facts to determine if a direct causal chain exists. Police are looking for evidence such as photographs taken at the time of the robbery showing pictures of an individual holding a gun or stuffing a pillowcase with money.
The police are NOT looking at coincidences like Joe was not at work at the same time the bank robbery occurred.
There is a BIG difference between correlation and causation. You can use correlation to rule out a hypothesis. However you cannot use it to prove a hypothesis. This is why an alibi is exculpatory but lack of one means little.
This distinction unfortunately escapes many conspiracy theorists.
The most useful way I have found of thinking in a relatively simple yet robust mathematical way about SQL and relational databases is in terms of set theory.
For example a standard join can be considered as finding the intersection of two sets.
This this level of abstraction should be usable by someone with your level of mathematical training.
Sorry for all you conspiracy theorists, but:
Correlation does not imply causation.
Hydraulic fracturing has been used in oil production since the 1950's, and has been used in over a million wells.
It is not controversial.
Don't forget the Trilateral Commission, Lizard People, Masons AND the Illuminati all have roles in this too.
That's not how it works. Your EU country spies on it's EU citizens at the request of whoever wants the information. It would be a gross waste of effort for every country to have to spy on every other country. Allies share information.
If I was doing it I'd use a combination of 3 techniques:
1 Plain text for human readability
2 QR codes for scanning and error correction
3 Redundant Gold stabilized Azo dye CDRs with ECC codes for fast machine readability
How can you answer a poll like this? There is no way because we simply don't have the facts needed.
Only history will be able to tell, and it might take a long time for enough to be declassified, and the research to be done to determine what the effects of this surveillance program, both good and bad were.
I think 45-55 is the worst age. It's when money demands because of kids in school and getting married are the highest, and technical jobs are precarious. The combination is horribly stressful.
I'm 63 now, working in software development after a career change at 50 from a traditional engineering field. Thank God I don't live in a dysfunctional place like Silicon Valley. I've had no problem finding decent and even fun jobs, although the names are nothing you would recognize and there are no useful stock perks.
Once I hit 55 or so things got much easier. The kids are out on their own and the house is paid off. With the recent run up in the stock market I'm sitting on a 7 figure nest egg - if I got laid off now I'd probably retire.
The idea that life is over at 30 seems to be specific to a particular type of manager who mostly lives in one small part of the country. It just isn't the case when I've been out looking for jobs. In fact some of the managers I've worked with have told me that dealing with the sub-30s is a giant pain. Giant egos and can't relate to coworkers, customers or managers.
If Americans are so ignorant and uneducated how do you account for the fact that Americans have won 3 times more Nobel Prizes than the citizens of any other nation?
If they are so cowardly please explain why the only footprints on the moon were put there by Americans?
If America is so broken, why is English the international language today?
The phenomenon described here has nothing to do with patents. Every single US patent issued since the beginning of the Republic is available, for free. It is only the last 20 years that have any restrictions on practicing the patent, and a lot of these are available because the owner has not paid the maintenance fees.
Patents themselves are not covered by copyright, so they are free to be duplicated and passed around. There is also a research exemption that allows you to (usually) conduct R&D on the invention without infringement.
The key problem here with copyright is ridiculous term. It should be 20 years, just like patents. And there should be a maintenance fee so that these things will expire even sooner if the owner takes no interest in them.
Europe's economy is in desperate need of this. Much more so that the US economy.
It would have been a totally stupid move to delay it.
BECAUSE WE ARE STILL BEARING SOME OF THE SCARS OF OUR BRIEF SKIRMISH with II-B English, it is natural that we should be enchanted by Mr. George Bernard Shaw's current campaign for a simplified alphabet.
Obviously, as Mr. Shaw points out, English spelling is in much need of a general overhauling and streamlining. However, our own resistance to any changes requiring a large expenditure of mental effort in the near future would cause us to view with some apprehension the possibility of some day receiving a morning paper printed in-to us-Greek.
Our own plan would achieve the same end as the legislation proposed by Mr. Shaw, but in a less shocking manner, as it consists merely of an acceleration of the normal processes by which the language is continually modernized.
As a catalytic agent, we would suggest that a National Easy Language Week be proclaimed, which the President would inaugurate, outlining some short cut to concentrate on during the week, and to be adopted during the ensuing year. All school children would be given a holiday, the lost time being the equivalent of that gained by the spelling short cut.
In 1946, for example, we would urge the elimination of the soft c, for which we would substitute "s." Sertainly, such an improvement would be selebrated in all sivic-minded sircles as being suffisiently worth the trouble, and students in all sities in the land would be reseptive to- ward any change eliminating the nesessity of learning the differense be- tween the two letters.
In 1947, sinse only the hard "c" would be left, it would be possible to substitute "k" for it, both letters being pronounsed identikally. Imagine how greatly only two years of this prosess would klarify the konfusion in the minds of students. Already we would have eliminated an entire letter from the alphabet. Typewriters and linotypes, kould all be built with one less letter, and a11 the manpower and materials previously devoted to making "c's" kould be turned toward raising the national standard of living.
In the fase of so many notable improvements, it is easy to foresee that by 1948, "National Easy Language Week" would be a pronounsed sukses. All skhool tshildren would be looking forward with konsiderable exsitement to the holiday, and in a blaze of national publisity it would be announsed that the double konsonant "ph" no longer existed, and that the sound would henseforth be written "f" in all words, This would make sutsh words as "fonograf" twenty persent shorter in print.
By 1949, public interest in a fonetik alfabet kan be expekted to have inkreased to the point where a more radikal step forward kan be taken without fear of undue kritisism. We would therefore urge the elimination, at that time of al unesesary double leters, whitsh, although quite harmles, have always ben a nuisanse in the language and a desided deterent to akurate speling. Try it yourself in the next leter you write, and se if both writing and reading are not fasilitated.
With so mutsh progres already made, it might be posible in 1950 to delve further into the posibilities of fonetik speling. After due konsidera- tion of the reseption aforded the previous steps, it should be expedient by this time to spel al difthongs fonetikaly. Most students do not realize that the long "i" and "y," as in "time" and "by," are aktualy the difthong "ai," as it is writen in "aisle" and that the long "a" in "fate," is in reality the difthong "ei" as in "rein." Although perhaps not imediately aparent, the saving in taime and efort wil be tremendous when we leiter elimineite the sailent "e," as meide posible bai this last tsheinge.
For, as is wel known, the horible mes of "e's' apearing in our writen language is kaused prinsipaly bai the present nes
You mean Russ Tice, William Binney, Thomas Andrews Drake, Mark Klein and Thomas Tamm?
Not one of them served a day in jail. That's a far better fate than Snowden is likely to experience.
Pretty much we are done.
Looks to me like all the major western democracies are engaging in this sort of thing.
The original article seems to indicate that this is actually illegal in France. Interesting. At least they could have passed a secret law and set up a secret court to make it appear better.
Who next to be exposed? Germany? Surely with the all those ex-Ministerium fur Staatssicherheit employees to draw from it would have been easy.
Bolivia and the US are not exactly bosom buddies.
Europe is being totally hypocritical about this. They spy on the US like crazy and everyone knows it.
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/14/news/14iht-spy_.html?pagewanted=1
Europe is still pretty much dependent on the US military because it doesn't want to pay for its own defense.
Personally I think the US should pull out of NATO and let Europe pay for its own defense. It would be a huge boon the US economy to be able to spend all that money on US infrastructure. In fact the US should provide Europe with a bill for all the military aid plus the Marshall Plan since 1910 or so. It would pay off the US National debt and then some.
Yes, both have very dirty hands. Europe much more so though.
There were some pretty nasty genocidal maniacs running around in Europe just 60 years ago. Much more recently than the US Civil War.
Of course Europeans don't want to be reminded of that, or the incredible history of wars in their past.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Europe
Nope. This affects only air travel on EU carriers to the US.
The only hurt would be to the EU.