That guy's name doesn't sound too Slovenian to me. Oh, that's right, that's because he was born and educated in Austria!
It's like in any other field: it's not what you have, it's what you do with it. There's very little that's new for me in ML class, but I'm taking it anyway as a refresher. It's been years since I've done anything ML related, and it's an easy going intro course so that I don't have to doze off reading Duda & Hart again. I'm also applying things at a more advanced level outside of the class (while teaching my kid how to program, and what computers can do if you know your shit).
For the reference, I have never studied in the US, and I graduated with MSc in CS/EE with honors from the most hardcore school in my home country. If I could go back and trade our super-advanced (well, for its time) ML course for what Prof. Ng is teaching, I would do that in a heartbeat. This is some extremely practical stuff, and he handholds folks through applying it correctly and points out the gotchas. That's exactly what most non-scientists need. No one stops you from going deeper into things on your own.
>> Any conflict with China or NK would be a conventional war, and U.S., as any other conventional army, is well prepared to fight those
That's exactly the line of thinking Hitler had when invading the USSR. Three years in, he probably regretted it, as his troops were freezing to death and fighting the insurgents (in addition to conventional war). Wars are only "conventional" in the beginning.
What the US is not prepared for is fighting the enemy which actually has somewhat contemporary defensive weapons in abundant quantities, including anti-aircraft and anti-ship systems. This is the sole reason why Iran hasn't been invaded yet. It is one thing when a thousand soldiers die in a year, it's another when thousands die each day.
:-) Have you considered the possibility that toppling enemies without installing your own puppets has a strong potential to produce even worse enemies? And puppets eventually lead to worse enemies too. Saddam was Rumsfeld's boy, Osama was a CIA operative. Maybe we should just mind our own business here in the US? Besides, why was Saddam and "enemy" of the US in the first place? Enemy of Israel, that I would (borderline) agree, but the US? And Osama has been in Pakistan for the past 8-9 years or so, but we for some reason did not declare war on Pakistan. Why? Because Pakistan has the nukes. Iran doesn't have the nukes, but it's armed well enough to make any military action against it an extremely costly and PR-disastrous endeavor. Aircraft will be shot down, ships will be sunk, thousands of troops will be killed each day. This is not going to go over well here at home. And once they build the nukes, it's game over pretty much.
On the account of China, all they have to do to topple the regime here is stop their exports for a couple of months, stop buying US securities, and start selling whatever they already have. That'll fuck the US pretty good. It'll fuck them pretty good, too, but they're not used to living in luxury anyway, so they'll survive.
Folks who have never done research have this romanticized notion that researchers just sit there and think up new stuff all day long, and it works beautifully the first time they hit the button, and revolutionizes the life as we know it every time. Truth is, 99% of the research done today is incremental at best, folks just combine existing stuff into something borderline new and try it out, then tweak it some, and try it out again. That's what research is — you go down the alleys to see if they're blind, and most of the time they are. 90% of it is fruitless waste of time and money, you just don't know which 90%. The remaining 10% makes it more than worthwhile, but the core thing to understand here is that it's incredibly hard, and _expensive_ work which most of the time produces a "no" and "try something else". When people fund something out of their own pocket, they generally expect a return on their investment and get pissed off with negative outcomes.
Both China and North Korea are nuclear-capable countries with 1M+ strong armies. US army can't defeat a handful of towelheads in Afghanistan. It's completely useless against North Korea or China.
China is run by an engineer. The US is run by a not-terribly-successful lawyer. That's all you need to know. I bet Obama (let alone his predecessors) doesn't even know what a "hackerspace" is and what it could be useful for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY85UiPBAo0. He's talking about Microsoft there, but the same applies to Android (though not to Google as a whole). Ironically, Android too has the shittiest fonts and design of the three major smartphone platforms, and Microsoft is showing good taste with Windows Phone 7.
Woz hasn't done shit since 1978. His last achievement was Apple II, and then not all of it. The Macintosh was Steve's baby in all but the name (Jef Raskin contributed the name). Apple was Steve's baby in all _including_ the name (it was named after the farm commune he went to in his early 20's). That's not to say Woz was not important early on, but he hasn't done shit for the company for the past 30+ years aside from getting in line and buying products.
Work to support yourself. I did. Started 3 years before graduating. Was it hard? Sure. Did it affect my grades? Maybe, though I still graduated with honors. I was debt free a couple of years after getting my M.Sc. Quit blaming your parents for "not teaching you money management skills". You're adults. You're supposed to think for yourselves, and money management is not something that's impossible to learn.
I generally like it, but PDF reader really sucks ass in webOS. It renders PDFs at a single resolution and does not re-render as you zoom in. This alone is a good incentive for me to replace webOS with Gingerbread.
Free food and soda? I'd rather take an extra week of vacation a year and an office with an actual door I can close when I need to concentrate. And yes, I do work there, and I like working there, but let's put things in perspective a little bit here.
Most people don't file mail into folders to make it easier to find. They do this to NOT READ the email that they know doesn't matter (which in a typical corporate environment is close to 90%). In Outlook, users can even set archival and deletion periods for such mail and get rid of it automatically. That's what I used to do when I had Outlook.
Btrfs seems to have been in development forever, and the developers on the one hand say that it's mostly stable, but on the other there are still some pretty scare bugs. It doesn't make a terrible amount of sense for Oracle to develop two next-gen CoW filesystems.
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Disgusted with some people here dancing on the coffin.
WTF is wrong with you? "Walled garden" my ass. It was his garden. Don't like it — buy something else, he never forced anyone to buy Apple products. The guy was a visionary. If it wasn't for him, the tech industry would be where it was 10 years ago, if that. Had Apple not released iPhone, your Android would look like ass today, which is what it looked like shortly before iPhone was released. That's assuming there'd even _be_ Android. Your PC laptops would be 1.5 inches thick and would have a battery life of 1 hour. Had NeXT not existed, Tim Berners Lee might not have invented the web. Had Steve not taken those typography classes way back when, chances are we'd have shitty monospaced fonts everywhere. Linux would be a lot more CDE like, and Windows would not look the same either, assuming there'd even be Windows. There would be no Toy Story, no Cars, no Up, no Finding Nemo, all computers would be made of shitty beige plastic, USB, CD/DVDs and WiFi would be set back years, there'd be no Chrome, no usable Clang and LLVM, no mainstream UNIX OSs, no DRM-free downloadable music, no ideas for other people to rip off.
Steve's reach extended far beyond Apple and iPhone. The guy simply gave a lot to this world, while not really taking much for himself. He has put a dent in the universe. You may glorify him or vilify him, but you can't ignore him. And if you're a decent human being, you can't cheer his death either.
They do. There are a lot of Russian programmers working here in the US contributing quite heavily and positively to "the world of software". It's just that good news aren't as exciting.
Engineer is really a third rate profession in an oil and gas rich country like Russia. Everyone wants to be a boss of some kind and to sit just a wee bit closer to the pipe. A few companies that manage to pull together good talent generally either work for the local market (because US is impossible to get into if you're not a US company), or offer outsourcing, or just keep low profile. Kaspersky writes antiviruses, but it was almost a decade before he figured out a viable strategy to enter the US market. Yandex works on the local market. Google, Cisco and Intel have dev offices there. I suspect many other large multinationals do, too.
ISuppli routinely lowballs estimates. Sure, the components cost this much. But how much does it cost to deliver them to the factory, put the devices together, test them, package them, write software for them, run the cloud services, etc, etc. It all costs money, and the fewer devices you sell, the greater fraction some of these costs are. So in a way, costs can't even be estimated until you know the overhead, and until you sell N units. And then Apple will sue their ass, further adding to the cost.
That doesn't really help. They will still track you, they just won't be able to link that data to your user profile. It is valuable even without a user profile. Say they notice that you visit a lot of "gadgets" sites. They can sell you to Microsoft (who buys FB data) and Microsoft will know you're interested in gadgets, so they'll show you more gadget ads.
The only solution is block them through your hosts file, like I did, or at least block their cookies. That way your browser won't load their cookies and you won't be tracked.
The model where entire stores are classified as food, clothing, etc breaks down in the US. Here most stores seem to sell everything, from drugs, to clothing, to groceries.
I want a common taxonomy of goods, and I want to be able automatically split my receipts and bills by categories. Say, I went to a Fred Meyer and bought some groceries, and a pair of socks. I want to have, in standardized electronic form, the information about how much I spent on groceries (with further breakdown between e.g. dairy, vegetables, ice cream and so on) and socks. I want to have info on how much I paid for the socks. I want to have the info how much I paid in sales tax. Same with any other store. I'm sure Fred Meyer already has (and mines) this data. I want this to be accessible and standardized across stores.
If this information is not available to me with these electronic wallets, they can shove them up their ass. There's nothing in them for me. If it is, I'm fine with Google knowing that I bought lettuce yesterday.
By the end of 2012, FB will be "old news". Not quite MySpace 2.0, but the trend will begin to point there. They should IPO now. Trouble is, the moment they IPO (well, 6 months after, due to the quiet period), a lot of employees who have a significant amount of options will exercise them and move on. I have a couple of friends who work there, and while they like working there overall, that's exactly what they intend to do.:-)
Other than Windows, is there any other OS that people actually have to reboot every couple of weeks? I forget when I last had to reboot the MacBook Pro I'm typing this on. Probably a couple of months back. Same with my company issue Linux Thinkpad. Fix the motherfucking reboots. I don't care how long it takes to boot if I only reboot it once in a couple of months.
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Yeah, that's why there are so many Nobel prize winners from Slovenia. Because your education system is superior.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Slovenian_Nobel_laureates
That guy's name doesn't sound too Slovenian to me. Oh, that's right, that's because he was born and educated in Austria!
It's like in any other field: it's not what you have, it's what you do with it. There's very little that's new for me in ML class, but I'm taking it anyway as a refresher. It's been years since I've done anything ML related, and it's an easy going intro course so that I don't have to doze off reading Duda & Hart again. I'm also applying things at a more advanced level outside of the class (while teaching my kid how to program, and what computers can do if you know your shit).
For the reference, I have never studied in the US, and I graduated with MSc in CS/EE with honors from the most hardcore school in my home country. If I could go back and trade our super-advanced (well, for its time) ML course for what Prof. Ng is teaching, I would do that in a heartbeat. This is some extremely practical stuff, and he handholds folks through applying it correctly and points out the gotchas. That's exactly what most non-scientists need. No one stops you from going deeper into things on your own.
>> Any conflict with China or NK would be a conventional war, and U.S., as any other conventional army, is well prepared to fight those
That's exactly the line of thinking Hitler had when invading the USSR. Three years in, he probably regretted it, as his troops were freezing to death and fighting the insurgents (in addition to conventional war). Wars are only "conventional" in the beginning.
What the US is not prepared for is fighting the enemy which actually has somewhat contemporary defensive weapons in abundant quantities, including anti-aircraft and anti-ship systems. This is the sole reason why Iran hasn't been invaded yet. It is one thing when a thousand soldiers die in a year, it's another when thousands die each day.
:-) Have you considered the possibility that toppling enemies without installing your own puppets has a strong potential to produce even worse enemies? And puppets eventually lead to worse enemies too. Saddam was Rumsfeld's boy, Osama was a CIA operative. Maybe we should just mind our own business here in the US? Besides, why was Saddam and "enemy" of the US in the first place? Enemy of Israel, that I would (borderline) agree, but the US? And Osama has been in Pakistan for the past 8-9 years or so, but we for some reason did not declare war on Pakistan. Why? Because Pakistan has the nukes. Iran doesn't have the nukes, but it's armed well enough to make any military action against it an extremely costly and PR-disastrous endeavor. Aircraft will be shot down, ships will be sunk, thousands of troops will be killed each day. This is not going to go over well here at home. And once they build the nukes, it's game over pretty much.
On the account of China, all they have to do to topple the regime here is stop their exports for a couple of months, stop buying US securities, and start selling whatever they already have. That'll fuck the US pretty good. It'll fuck them pretty good, too, but they're not used to living in luxury anyway, so they'll survive.
Folks who have never done research have this romanticized notion that researchers just sit there and think up new stuff all day long, and it works beautifully the first time they hit the button, and revolutionizes the life as we know it every time. Truth is, 99% of the research done today is incremental at best, folks just combine existing stuff into something borderline new and try it out, then tweak it some, and try it out again. That's what research is — you go down the alleys to see if they're blind, and most of the time they are. 90% of it is fruitless waste of time and money, you just don't know which 90%. The remaining 10% makes it more than worthwhile, but the core thing to understand here is that it's incredibly hard, and _expensive_ work which most of the time produces a "no" and "try something else". When people fund something out of their own pocket, they generally expect a return on their investment and get pissed off with negative outcomes.
Both China and North Korea are nuclear-capable countries with 1M+ strong armies. US army can't defeat a handful of towelheads in Afghanistan. It's completely useless against North Korea or China.
China is run by an engineer. The US is run by a not-terribly-successful lawyer. That's all you need to know. I bet Obama (let alone his predecessors) doesn't even know what a "hackerspace" is and what it could be useful for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY85UiPBAo0. He's talking about Microsoft there, but the same applies to Android (though not to Google as a whole). Ironically, Android too has the shittiest fonts and design of the three major smartphone platforms, and Microsoft is showing good taste with Windows Phone 7.
Woz hasn't done shit since 1978. His last achievement was Apple II, and then not all of it. The Macintosh was Steve's baby in all but the name (Jef Raskin contributed the name). Apple was Steve's baby in all _including_ the name (it was named after the farm commune he went to in his early 20's). That's not to say Woz was not important early on, but he hasn't done shit for the company for the past 30+ years aside from getting in line and buying products.
Work to support yourself. I did. Started 3 years before graduating. Was it hard? Sure. Did it affect my grades? Maybe, though I still graduated with honors. I was debt free a couple of years after getting my M.Sc. Quit blaming your parents for "not teaching you money management skills". You're adults. You're supposed to think for yourselves, and money management is not something that's impossible to learn.
I generally like it, but PDF reader really sucks ass in webOS. It renders PDFs at a single resolution and does not re-render as you zoom in. This alone is a good incentive for me to replace webOS with Gingerbread.
>> just type this into your Location bar: https://www.google.com/
Bad advice. This will just forward to http://www.google.com/
To get encrypted search using POST requests (where unencrypted URLs can't be tracked), use
https://encrypted.google.com/
Free food and soda? I'd rather take an extra week of vacation a year and an office with an actual door I can close when I need to concentrate. And yes, I do work there, and I like working there, but let's put things in perspective a little bit here.
It's only product placement if you pay for it. They proudly have never paid a single movie or TV show to use Macs.
Most people don't file mail into folders to make it easier to find. They do this to NOT READ the email that they know doesn't matter (which in a typical corporate environment is close to 90%). In Outlook, users can even set archival and deletion periods for such mail and get rid of it automatically. That's what I used to do when I had Outlook.
Or they could just release a good product so that cool people would use it on screen on their own. Apple has never done "product placement".
Btrfs seems to have been in development forever, and the developers on the one hand say that it's mostly stable, but on the other there are still some pretty scare bugs. It doesn't make a terrible amount of sense for Oracle to develop two next-gen CoW filesystems.
Disgusted with some people here dancing on the coffin.
WTF is wrong with you? "Walled garden" my ass. It was his garden. Don't like it — buy something else, he never forced anyone to buy Apple products. The guy was a visionary. If it wasn't for him, the tech industry would be where it was 10 years ago, if that. Had Apple not released iPhone, your Android would look like ass today, which is what it looked like shortly before iPhone was released. That's assuming there'd even _be_ Android. Your PC laptops would be 1.5 inches thick and would have a battery life of 1 hour. Had NeXT not existed, Tim Berners Lee might not have invented the web. Had Steve not taken those typography classes way back when, chances are we'd have shitty monospaced fonts everywhere. Linux would be a lot more CDE like, and Windows would not look the same either, assuming there'd even be Windows. There would be no Toy Story, no Cars, no Up, no Finding Nemo, all computers would be made of shitty beige plastic, USB, CD/DVDs and WiFi would be set back years, there'd be no Chrome, no usable Clang and LLVM, no mainstream UNIX OSs, no DRM-free downloadable music, no ideas for other people to rip off.
Steve's reach extended far beyond Apple and iPhone. The guy simply gave a lot to this world, while not really taking much for himself. He has put a dent in the universe. You may glorify him or vilify him, but you can't ignore him. And if you're a decent human being, you can't cheer his death either.
They do. There are a lot of Russian programmers working here in the US contributing quite heavily and positively to "the world of software". It's just that good news aren't as exciting.
Engineer is really a third rate profession in an oil and gas rich country like Russia. Everyone wants to be a boss of some kind and to sit just a wee bit closer to the pipe. A few companies that manage to pull together good talent generally either work for the local market (because US is impossible to get into if you're not a US company), or offer outsourcing, or just keep low profile. Kaspersky writes antiviruses, but it was almost a decade before he figured out a viable strategy to enter the US market. Yandex works on the local market. Google, Cisco and Intel have dev offices there. I suspect many other large multinationals do, too.
ISuppli routinely lowballs estimates. Sure, the components cost this much. But how much does it cost to deliver them to the factory, put the devices together, test them, package them, write software for them, run the cloud services, etc, etc. It all costs money, and the fewer devices you sell, the greater fraction some of these costs are. So in a way, costs can't even be estimated until you know the overhead, and until you sell N units. And then Apple will sue their ass, further adding to the cost.
That doesn't really help. They will still track you, they just won't be able to link that data to your user profile. It is valuable even without a user profile. Say they notice that you visit a lot of "gadgets" sites. They can sell you to Microsoft (who buys FB data) and Microsoft will know you're interested in gadgets, so they'll show you more gadget ads.
The only solution is block them through your hosts file, like I did, or at least block their cookies. That way your browser won't load their cookies and you won't be tracked.
The model where entire stores are classified as food, clothing, etc breaks down in the US. Here most stores seem to sell everything, from drugs, to clothing, to groceries.
I want a common taxonomy of goods, and I want to be able automatically split my receipts and bills by categories. Say, I went to a Fred Meyer and bought some groceries, and a pair of socks. I want to have, in standardized electronic form, the information about how much I spent on groceries (with further breakdown between e.g. dairy, vegetables, ice cream and so on) and socks. I want to have info on how much I paid for the socks. I want to have the info how much I paid in sales tax. Same with any other store. I'm sure Fred Meyer already has (and mines) this data. I want this to be accessible and standardized across stores.
If this information is not available to me with these electronic wallets, they can shove them up their ass. There's nothing in them for me. If it is, I'm fine with Google knowing that I bought lettuce yesterday.
By the end of 2012, FB will be "old news". Not quite MySpace 2.0, but the trend will begin to point there. They should IPO now. Trouble is, the moment they IPO (well, 6 months after, due to the quiet period), a lot of employees who have a significant amount of options will exercise them and move on. I have a couple of friends who work there, and while they like working there overall, that's exactly what they intend to do. :-)
Wave is still there. Just sayin'.
Other than Windows, is there any other OS that people actually have to reboot every couple of weeks? I forget when I last had to reboot the MacBook Pro I'm typing this on. Probably a couple of months back. Same with my company issue Linux Thinkpad. Fix the motherfucking reboots. I don't care how long it takes to boot if I only reboot it once in a couple of months.