Why not install a touchscreen 7" monitor in your dash, and have a carputer? Mount the reasonably powerful laptop w/broken screen in the trunk, wire it in to a power supply, attach a USB GPS antenna, and go from the audio out to the amp / speakers?
All the MP3s you can store, instant access to the OBD-II information, "free" GPS, and (with Backtrack III or the like), war-driving capability. Have it get email from your wireless access point and read it to you on the way to work. Keep a copy of the local yellow pages on the drive, and look up the nearest Cuban restaurant.
There are a lot of great "front ends" out there, and most all of them are skinnable to your heart's content.
Hope that this helps / is something in which you might have interest.
I don't think that he is looking for the formal maths training that would be given to a math major. After calculus, and a little bit of differential equations, math sort of "splits" into a variety of different areas that, while interesting, aren't normally used on a day-to-day basis. Even most of calculus is more than a large percentage of the population would ever have a work-related use for.
Once you learn how to get a best fit line, do percents, fractions, basic geometry, understand the concept of functions and how to plot them, and learn how to do basic derivation (polynomials only!) then you are way ahead of the game.
I also have a math degree, and have never had anyone run up to me saying "quick -- we need this integral solved over this region before the big meeting!" Unless you are in a rather technical job, I feel that learning Excel can do more for you than 2 years of math classes.
Most of math for me has been learning how to learn. If you can wrap your head around a lot of the more esoteric structures in higher maths, then most anything else work can throw at you becomes really straightforward. Of course, my head is wired that way, and math comes easy for me. (ymmv)
It may be hard for someone like the anonymous coward above to understand, but I can definitely see how a lack of math skills can be holding someone back. Not being able to add fractions or screwing up percentages (percent change is based upon the starting amount, so use it in the bottom of the fraction, etc.) can really make you look bad, especially if your boss caught it before you did.
Any sort of advanced math is very easy in which to develop bad habits. Advanced math "build", unlike other subjects in those same grades. If you didn't "get" Death of a Salesman, you still have a shot at understanding Moby Dick. However, if you did not "get" fractions or percentages, then you really can't go a lot further.
If your math skills (or, rather, lack thereof) are holding you back, think of the tutor as an investment.
On a side note, you would be surprised at the proof of "bad math skills" that can be seen in the corporate world. People rarely / never stop to do a reality check. "Can it be that 105% of the people required to take the training have taken it?" Ugh.
"Retailers goofed and posted most of the specs of the forthcoming TiVo Series 3 Lite, which Ars says may be called 'TiVo HD' at launch. A comparison with the standard Series 3 shows that for a savings of $300, you only lose the OLED screen (do you need a screen on your TiVo?), the glowing remote (which you can pickup for $50 anyway), THX certification (worthless) and 90GB of storage. Looks like it may be a TiVo hacker's dream."
The 90GB is what you LOSE, in addition to the remove, OLED screen, THX, etc.
You LOSE 90GB (250->160), not HAVE 90GB storage.
Damn. If you don't RTFA, at least parse the/. story correctly...
1 in 7 is not statistically significant? Says who? Against which distribution? A rear-loaded F-distribution could easily have 1/7 be so far out there that it meets any given level of expected confidence...
And what if I think that 20% or 50% is significant? Not everyone runs their experiments at the book-generated, easily available 10%, 5%, 1%, etc. levels of statistical signficance. Maybe 15% or 20% will be ok for me.
You may want to look into Nonparametric statistics. Not everyone can take 30 samples and look at the chart on the inner cover of the STAT101 book for the results... (example : how much stress can a 10' gear costing $10,000 take before breaking? I doubt that they will give you 30 of them to break...)
Real men roll their distributions. The binomial theorem rulez.
Trying to document or preserve RAM contents in aggregate is subject to an analog of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle -- if we try to read it, we change it. Running the program to copy a segment of RAM takes up space somewhere in RAM, changing it. How can we accurately capture a RAM dump at any point in time -- by definition, it would have to include the addresses of the RAM dump program as it traverses all of the addresses, thus proving it is not an accurate capture of the state of the machine BEFORE WE RAN THE DUM PROGRAM.
Ugh.
Additionally, who do we want to sue to run them out of business? That is, if I don't like company X, I can sue them and force them to record every byte of RAM over time. This would take oodles and oodles of storage, dollars that not many companies -- even Micro$oft -- could afford (if applied to enough servers...)
Can they prove it was her page? Hell, can they prove it was her?
If she has not represented that it was her page (i.e., either in legal documents or with emails that say "hey, look at my mypsace page at http:///") can they definitively prove that it was either her page or even a picture of her?
If not, and the certificate prohibition still stands, then I think that a new Fark contest could be photoshopping the administrators who took steps to relieve her of the teaching certificate into, um, "compromising positions."
Stupid should hurt. Last night, for a lot of people, it looks like it did.
All of your tax information should be available from producers (i.e., people for whom you did work / from whom you gained interest, etc.) by mid to late January. Why wait the 90+ days to file at the last minute?
"stop trying to turn the very beneficial concept of socialism into a derogatory slur."
Yeah, the Chinese, Venezuelans, Bolivians, and former Soviet Russians love it. Socialism is beneficial for those that are below the median for production of income. A main tenant of socialism is that income is "distributed," so it is ok to re-distribute it. All this time, I thought that income was *earned.* Silly me.
And how is my statement a derogatory slur?
"Who will pay for the 'monitoring?'" / "the same people who pay for their universal healthcare, which, despite its defficiencies, at least doesnt leave 47 million and growing paying without the most basic of medical coverage."
Good, you answered my rhetoric question. Clearly, those who pay taxes will fund it. Of course, should we be paying teachers or the school system in general for policing websites like MySpace or Facebook for "bullying." Clearly, a bullying standard would need to be created. If I say "plasmacutter eats nust", is that bullying? What is nust? Is that a bad word? Is it a nonsense word? (yes) So how does one legislatively define bullying?
Will any of this spent money be recouped? How much should the taxpayers of Ontario or Canada overall pay to prevent one student being saved from a bully? $100? $1000? $10000? $100000? Is it worth it at that point?
This looks like the opportunity for a lot of very expensive bullcrap.
"as a student just out of the age range for coverage under my parent's group plan, i can attest that perscriptions [sic] cost me more per month than i pay for textbooks each semester."
Sorry to hear that. I hope you feel better soon.
"I dont know about how greedy you are, but i'd be more than happy to have a higher income or payroll tax knowing that i wont be leeched for my entire life savings if god forbid something serious were to happen to me."
I am rather greedy, thanks. I think that the money I work hard to earn in a profitable trade after investing in my own education should stay *mine*, and not be confiscated at gun point to pay for health care for people I don't know. To mitigate [being] "leeched for my entire life savings if god forbid[sic] something serious were to happen to me," I (wisely, in my opinion) invest some of the non-confiscated money I earned through hard work in private health insurance. I have had "something serious" happen to me a few times so far in my life, and have survived financially.
Buck up, little camper (eh?) The government should not be taking care of everyone's every boo boo. At somepoint we all need to act like adults.
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And by "emersion," you mean "immersion," yes?
Or do you really think that his "coming out" is the best way to learn a language?
(BTW, those Engrish lesions are combing along nicly.)
Um, is it a dupe if it is more than *two* years old? This was in the first WIRED magazine I got, in March of 2007 (issue 15.04, per the URL given.)
I hate to be rant-y, but is this "News for nerds?" If you are going to point to WIRED articles, at least nab them from the latest article...
ALT+0105 on the keypad. Recreate any ASCII character with simple numbers.
Why not install a touchscreen 7" monitor in your dash, and have a carputer? Mount the reasonably powerful laptop w/broken screen in the trunk, wire it in to a power supply, attach a USB GPS antenna, and go from the audio out to the amp / speakers?
All the MP3s you can store, instant access to the OBD-II information, "free" GPS, and (with Backtrack III or the like), war-driving capability. Have it get email from your wireless access point and read it to you on the way to work. Keep a copy of the local yellow pages on the drive, and look up the nearest Cuban restaurant.
There are a lot of great "front ends" out there, and most all of them are skinnable to your heart's content.
Hope that this helps / is something in which you might have interest.
http://www.mp3car.com/
Aghar?
No, not the city in Afghanistan, but the slow-witted, loveable creatures in the Dragonlance series of books, described here.
This was my 1st thought, anyway, and I was pleased to see that someone beat me to it!
Who ever said that the US was a democracy? Frankly, the concept of it being one scares the hell out of me.
Republic, people. The US is a republic, not a democracy.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html
45% of inane quotes about Statistics misspeel at least one word! Or at the Very least, screw up the Capitalization!
(NOTE: Yes, I know.)
Want to give something costly and that the recipient probably doesn't need?
The perfect gift? Chemotherapy!
After giving this gift, the recipient will think of you for each and every day of their (remaining) life!
"Nearly one in four people, or 1.3 billion--a majority of humanity--live on less than $1 per day.."
Since when is 1 in 4 a majority? A plurality, perhaps, but by no means a majority.
Damn wealth enviers can't even do the math right!
So much for my career aspirations at the LAPD...
Once you learn how to get a best fit line, do percents, fractions, basic geometry, understand the concept of functions and how to plot them, and learn how to do basic derivation (polynomials only!) then you are way ahead of the game.
I also have a math degree, and have never had anyone run up to me saying "quick -- we need this integral solved over this region before the big meeting!" Unless you are in a rather technical job, I feel that learning Excel can do more for you than 2 years of math classes.
Most of math for me has been learning how to learn. If you can wrap your head around a lot of the more esoteric structures in higher maths, then most anything else work can throw at you becomes really straightforward. Of course, my head is wired that way, and math comes easy for me. (ymmv)
It may be hard for someone like the anonymous coward above to understand, but I can definitely see how a lack of math skills can be holding someone back. Not being able to add fractions or screwing up percentages (percent change is based upon the starting amount, so use it in the bottom of the fraction, etc.) can really make you look bad, especially if your boss caught it before you did.
Any sort of advanced math is very easy in which to develop bad habits. Advanced math "build", unlike other subjects in those same grades. If you didn't "get" Death of a Salesman, you still have a shot at understanding Moby Dick. However, if you did not "get" fractions or percentages, then you really can't go a lot further.
If your math skills (or, rather, lack thereof) are holding you back, think of the tutor as an investment.
On a side note, you would be surprised at the proof of "bad math skills" that can be seen in the corporate world. People rarely / never stop to do a reality check. "Can it be that 105% of the people required to take the training have taken it?" Ugh.
"Retailers goofed and posted most of the specs of the forthcoming TiVo Series 3 Lite, which Ars says may be called 'TiVo HD' at launch. A comparison with the standard Series 3 shows that for a savings of $300, you only lose the OLED screen (do you need a screen on your TiVo?), the glowing remote (which you can pickup for $50 anyway), THX certification (worthless) and 90GB of storage. Looks like it may be a TiVo hacker's dream."
/. story correctly...
The 90GB is what you LOSE, in addition to the remove, OLED screen, THX, etc.
You LOSE 90GB (250->160), not HAVE 90GB storage.
Damn. If you don't RTFA, at least parse the
It only makes sense to run airliners on algae. The use of biofuels for mass transportation has been around since at least the 1940s...
I mean, didn't Mussolini get the trains to run on thyme?
(My apologies to xkcd, http://www.xkcd.com/c282.html)
You want some cheese with that whine?
Seriously, though... bringing in alleged bribery of government officials? How does this add value to the discussion?
Feh.
Good thing you aren't a Phd... er, wait...
1 in 7 is not statistically significant? Says who? Against which distribution? A rear-loaded F-distribution could easily have 1/7 be so far out there that it meets any given level of expected confidence...
And what if I think that 20% or 50% is significant? Not everyone runs their experiments at the book-generated, easily available 10%, 5%, 1%, etc. levels of statistical signficance. Maybe 15% or 20% will be ok for me.
You may want to look into Nonparametric statistics. Not everyone can take 30 samples and look at the chart on the inner cover of the STAT101 book for the results... (example : how much stress can a 10' gear costing $10,000 take before breaking? I doubt that they will give you 30 of them to break...)
Real men roll their distributions. The binomial theorem rulez.
Ugh.
Additionally, who do we want to sue to run them out of business? That is, if I don't like company X, I can sue them and force them to record every byte of RAM over time. This would take oodles and oodles of storage, dollars that not many companies -- even Micro$oft -- could afford (if applied to enough servers...)
Dumbasses.
s/potnetially/potentially/
If this is the case, then where are:
Each of these is available (potnetially under a branded name, i.e., Ford Mustang vs. generic "automobile") as a product in 2007.
Or is this just a huge slashvertisement for the PC World advertisers?
Is, like, Richard Greico your cousin or something? Is *he* your cool relation?
Cigars.
And lying about it.
Ok, so "smoking" isn't completely accurate... but you get the picture.
(Shudder.)
Ok, DON'T picture it...
If she has not represented that it was her page (i.e., either in legal documents or with emails that say "hey, look at my mypsace page at http:///") can they definitively prove that it was either her page or even a picture of her?
If not, and the certificate prohibition still stands, then I think that a new Fark contest could be photoshopping the administrators who took steps to relieve her of the teaching certificate into, um, "compromising positions."
Heh-heh.
Didn't someone do a TV show about this?
All of your tax information should be available from producers (i.e., people for whom you did work / from whom you gained interest, etc.) by mid to late January. Why wait the 90+ days to file at the last minute?
The IRS has a word for people like this...
Yeah, the Chinese, Venezuelans, Bolivians, and former Soviet Russians love it. Socialism is beneficial for those that are below the median for production of income. A main tenant of socialism is that income is "distributed," so it is ok to re-distribute it. All this time, I thought that income was *earned.* Silly me.
"Who will pay for the 'monitoring?'" / "the same people who pay for their universal healthcare, which, despite its defficiencies, at least doesnt leave 47 million and growing paying without the most basic of medical coverage."And how is my statement a derogatory slur?
Good, you answered my rhetoric question. Clearly, those who pay taxes will fund it. Of course, should we be paying teachers or the school system in general for policing websites like MySpace or Facebook for "bullying." Clearly, a bullying standard would need to be created. If I say "plasmacutter eats nust", is that bullying? What is nust? Is that a bad word? Is it a nonsense word? (yes) So how does one legislatively define bullying?
Will any of this spent money be recouped? How much should the taxpayers of Ontario or Canada overall pay to prevent one student being saved from a bully? $100? $1000? $10000? $100000? Is it worth it at that point?
"as a student just out of the age range for coverage under my parent's group plan, i can attest that perscriptions [sic] cost me more per month than i pay for textbooks each semester."This looks like the opportunity for a lot of very expensive bullcrap.
"I dont know about how greedy you are, but i'd be more than happy to have a higher income or payroll tax knowing that i wont be leeched for my entire life savings if god forbid something serious were to happen to me."Sorry to hear that. I hope you feel better soon.
I am rather greedy, thanks. I think that the money I work hard to earn in a profitable trade after investing in my own education should stay *mine*, and not be confiscated at gun point to pay for health care for people I don't know. To mitigate [being] "leeched for my entire life savings if god forbid[sic] something serious were to happen to me," I (wisely, in my opinion) invest some of the non-confiscated money I earned through hard work in private health insurance. I have had "something serious" happen to me a few times so far in my life, and have survived financially.
Buck up, little camper (eh?) The government should not be taking care of everyone's every boo boo. At somepoint we all need to act like adults.