I've often thought that the grammatical structures of the various languages, profoundly affects the way people think. There has always seemed to be an unusually high number of Indian mathematicians, German/Scotts engineers, Irish poets, etc. IS this just playing into stereotypes, or does the way that words are strung together affect the thought patterns, making it easier to do, or create certain things. Clearly there are some economic issues - to create math, all one needs is a paper and pencil, but I think there is more to that. Moreover, if everyone starts to speak the same language, or if some languages die out, will we lose a group of people who may be talented in a useful area?
I think the Iranians are just using the British rocket as an easy means to do launch testing of their own equipment. If thie "scientific" equipment does well under launch conditions, reports the proper inertial guidance, then it's an easy way to to do testing.
They also take care of the largest population of patients with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, where the people self mutilate themselves, biting off their lips/tongues,fingers, etc. They often have most of their teeth prophylatically extracted to prevent bodily harm. What's worse is that they know when they are about to start doing it, and will ask for help to be restrained.
New Jersey is also the state with the most Nobel prize laureates (although, I'm not sure about that now, since a few died).
Apparently to the mysterious Space lakes, melting ice is taboo, akin to cannibalism among humans. Thus they have been trapped under the weight of "dead" frozen space lake beings. They have been using a subtle form of mind control on the lesser humans to increase the planets temperature, thus freeing them from their ghastly, icy confines.
To me it's useful - if I get a SMART warning, then I'm definitely backing up my drive and will replace it before it croaks.
Sensitivity/specificity always presents a balancing act of testing, and they are usually in a push/pull relationship. If you make a test too sensitive, then you get too many false positives, and wind up over treating something (i.e. the test says it might fail so you replace the drive even though it's not going to - a false alert)
If you make the test too specific, then usually you wind up decreasing it's sensitivity, or ability to detect something. Now you get false negatives, so when the test works, you can be sure that it's accurate, but it always doesn't detect the problem.
What you want to know is the Positive Predictive Value PPV, which is determnined by the formula PPV=TP/(TP+FP). TP= true positives, FP = false positives Also useful is the Negative Predictive Value NPV, or this formula NPV=TN/(FN+TN) where TN = true negative, FN = false negative.
What information these give are as such. If a test is positive (i.e. the drive temperature is >80 C), then it accurately will predict that the drive will fail. If the test is negative (drive temp 40 C0 then it accurately predicts that the drive is ok.
I would say the 10,000 hours is a bit low for just medical school. Here's my calculation of hors spent learning/training.
Let's see I did 4 years med schoool (80 hours a week), 5 years of residency(90-120 hrs/week) and a 2 year fellowship (70 hours/week) So I get 80hrs*44weeks*4years=14,000 hours medschool (10k classroom/reading + 4k time in clinical teaching rotaions) residencey 100 hrs*48 weeks *5 years =24,000 (Surgical training+studying) fellowship 70hrs*50weeks*2 years=7000 hours (Advanced Surgical training+studying)
45,000 hours of studying/training to call myself a certain type of surgical subspecialist
So let's see normal person works 40 hrs/week * 50 weeks = 2000 hours/year = Great I've studied medicine as much as some people (21 years) who get to retire, and I'm just starting.
Many more amputations come from motor vehicle accidents, gunshots, tumors, diabetes. I alone did about 10 last year. One of my colleagues just got back from Iraq - he amputated over 600 limbs in 40 years or so, and he's just one surgeon. I'm sure the army has around a 50 or so orthopaedic surgeons at the minimum.
But, I usually go to the movies for the plot/story, not for the explosions. Although Jurassic park, and a few others really didn't need any dialogue. It would have been just as good to see the dinosaurs run around for 80 minutes or so.
Generally the only time I actual understand what the band is singing about, is when I'm just about tired of the song. Even then I really don't hear what they're saying most of the time. When I sang for my band, the lyrics usually changed a fair amount every time I sang the song. I did keep some of the words the same, just because of the way they sounded.
If the words are the most important part of the song - then fine go listen to it, but you can drop the music part, since it's not the focus, and call it a poem, so I won't have to listen to it.
There are many quotes by our forefathers regarding this. It's a slow death, a slippery slope. We must avoid national security cards, mass DNA fingerprinting, etc, otherwise we will become like the old Soviet state, where you were screwed if you didn't have your "papers".
I started medical school fairly late - at age 29, and didn't finish my training until I was almost 40. I accepted a faculty position at a top 5 hospital (here in the States) just after finishing training.
So yeah, you can be wildly successful, even if you start out late. If you're happy at what you do, then it's not really like work, and you'll be good at what you do (although a bit of a drive like a bulldog does always help).
Whatever you do, do it well - don't do anything half-assed. Just like Yoda said "Do or do not, there is no try." That fricken quote runs thru my head every week - it's a great way to get things done.
And it's a fairly standard tool on any network with Dumb terminals. Otherwise you'd monopolize the CPU when writing your own code with an unfortunate infinite loop, like I used to do often, when learning PASCAL. If that happened, a simple call to the Operator would shut down your loop, and let you build up CPU time again. That happened to me twice before I routinely started to include count-up aborts in my programs.
Your analogy would be closer if it said surgeons who believed faith healing was possible were barred, regardless of their ability to conduct surgery.
I would say your analogy is flawed - perhaps better would be if a surgeon didn't believe antibiotics prevented infection - they could get thru the procedure, only to later have problems. Thus it's appropriate that they lose their license.
What if the US spends less money on defense , and instead behaves less like a dick. Instead we should concentrate on being a little less arrogant, and be more world friendly. Foreign relations has really taken a turn or the worse in the last 6 years or so. Or we can continue the current trend, and then just travel everywhere in personal sized mini tanks, with anti missile/IUD technology.
People keep on trying to put bandages on the problem, instead of addressing what is actually wrong, kind of like treating a fever with some aspirin, instead of treating the infection.
So if these suits do catch on, and if they are really bullet proof, maybe we'll have to go back to pick-axes and other medieval weapons that were used against the knights. The evening news would be much cooler to watch police taking out a suited up robber with a shield and a pick.=, instead of some lousy shoot out.
A logical extension of Microsofts argument would be that NO outside software can be trusted, unless you pay the special fee to MSoft so that it's "certified", otherwise they'll refuse to take the blame for anything. That just reaffirms my belief in the parent posts argument, that it's the OSs fault.
If the manufacturers were smart, the warning label would read -WARNING -do not use this product for anything, and please leave it in it's original packaging.
That way anything that the buyer does is their own fault.
What if he gets a leak on one of his computers? It looks like from his set up that the whole pool could then be pumped into his computer room. Condensation will also be a problem if his pool is colder than his house.
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I've often thought that the grammatical structures of the various languages, profoundly affects the way people think. There has always seemed to be an unusually high number of Indian mathematicians, German/Scotts engineers, Irish poets, etc. IS this just playing into stereotypes, or does the way that words are strung together affect the thought patterns, making it easier to do, or create certain things. Clearly there are some economic issues - to create math, all one needs is a paper and pencil, but I think there is more to that. Moreover, if everyone starts to speak the same language, or if some languages die out, will we lose a group of people who may be talented in a useful area?
I think the Iranians are just using the British rocket as an easy means to do launch testing of their own equipment. If thie "scientific" equipment does well under launch conditions, reports the proper inertial guidance, then it's an easy way to to do testing.
They also take care of the largest population of patients with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, where the people self mutilate themselves, biting off their lips/tongues,fingers, etc. They often have most of their teeth prophylatically extracted to prevent bodily harm. What's worse is that they know when they are about to start doing it, and will ask for help to be restrained.
New Jersey is also the state with the most Nobel prize laureates (although, I'm not sure about that now, since a few died).
Apparently to the mysterious Space lakes, melting ice is taboo, akin to cannibalism among humans. Thus they have been trapped under the weight of "dead" frozen space lake beings. They have been using a subtle form of mind control on the lesser humans to increase the planets temperature, thus freeing them from their ghastly, icy confines.
To me it's useful - if I get a SMART warning, then I'm definitely backing up my drive and will replace it before it croaks.
Sensitivity/specificity always presents a balancing act of testing, and they are usually in a push/pull relationship. If you make a test too sensitive, then you get too many false positives, and wind up over treating something (i.e. the test says it might fail so you replace the drive even though it's not going to - a false alert)
If you make the test too specific, then usually you wind up decreasing it's sensitivity, or ability to detect something. Now you get false negatives, so when the test works, you can be sure that it's accurate, but it always doesn't detect the problem.
What you want to know is the Positive Predictive Value PPV, which is determnined by the formula PPV=TP/(TP+FP). TP= true positives, FP = false positives
Also useful is the Negative Predictive Value NPV, or this formula NPV=TN/(FN+TN) where TN = true negative, FN = false negative.
What information these give are as such. If a test is positive (i.e. the drive temperature is >80 C), then it accurately will predict that the drive will fail. If the test is negative (drive temp 40 C0 then it accurately predicts that the drive is ok.
I would say the 10,000 hours is a bit low for just medical school. Here's my calculation of hors spent learning/training.
Let's see I did 4 years med schoool (80 hours a week), 5 years of residency(90-120 hrs/week) and a 2 year fellowship (70 hours/week)
So I get 80hrs*44weeks*4years=14,000 hours medschool (10k classroom/reading + 4k time in clinical teaching rotaions)
residencey 100 hrs*48 weeks *5 years =24,000 (Surgical training+studying)
fellowship 70hrs*50weeks*2 years=7000 hours (Advanced Surgical training+studying)
45,000 hours of studying/training to call myself a certain type of surgical subspecialist
So let's see normal person works 40 hrs/week * 50 weeks = 2000 hours/year = Great I've studied medicine as much as some people (21 years) who get to retire, and I'm just starting.
A partner of mine,who was an orthopaedic surgeon in Iraq for 4 years, did over 600 amputations, and he's just one surgeon.
That number is waaay lowballing the actual number.
Many more amputations come from motor vehicle accidents, gunshots, tumors, diabetes. I alone did about 10 last year.
One of my colleagues just got back from Iraq - he amputated over 600 limbs in 40 years or so, and he's just one surgeon. I'm sure the army has around a 50 or so orthopaedic surgeons at the minimum.
Since anyone buying milk is probably not Chinese.
And he is speaking in COBOL
But, I usually go to the movies for the plot/story, not for the explosions. Although Jurassic park, and a few others really didn't need any dialogue. It would have been just as good to see the dinosaurs run around for 80 minutes or so.
Generally the only time I actual understand what the band is singing about, is when I'm just about tired of the song. Even then I really don't hear what they're saying most of the time. When I sang for my band, the lyrics usually changed a fair amount every time I sang the song. I did keep some of the words the same, just because of the way they sounded.
If the words are the most important part of the song - then fine go listen to it, but you can drop the music part, since it's not the focus, and call it a poem, so I won't have to listen to it.
There are many quotes by our forefathers regarding this. It's a slow death, a slippery slope. We must avoid national security cards, mass DNA fingerprinting, etc, otherwise we will become like the old Soviet state, where you were screwed if you didn't have your "papers".
Anyone remember this Onion article a few years back, that divulged why Gates and Microsoft have done so well?
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29743/
I started medical school fairly late - at age 29, and didn't finish my training until I was almost 40. I accepted a faculty position at a top 5 hospital (here in the States) just after finishing training.
So yeah, you can be wildly successful, even if you start out late. If you're happy at what you do, then it's not really like work, and you'll be good at what you do (although a bit of a drive like a bulldog does always help).
Whatever you do, do it well - don't do anything half-assed. Just like Yoda said
"Do or do not, there is no try." That fricken quote runs thru my head every week - it's a great way to get things done.
And it's a fairly standard tool on any network with Dumb terminals. Otherwise you'd monopolize the CPU when writing your own code with an unfortunate infinite loop, like I used to do often, when learning PASCAL. If that happened, a simple call to the Operator would shut down your loop, and let you build up CPU time again. That happened to me twice before I routinely started to include count-up aborts in my programs.
I would say your analogy is flawed - perhaps better would be if a surgeon didn't believe antibiotics prevented infection - they could get thru the procedure, only to later have problems. Thus it's appropriate that they lose their license.
He's facing UP TO 100 years of punishment -these are typically not given the max.
What if the US spends less money on defense , and instead behaves less like a dick. Instead we should concentrate on being a little less arrogant, and be more world friendly. Foreign relations has really taken a turn or the worse in the last 6 years or so. Or we can continue the current trend, and then just travel everywhere in personal sized mini tanks, with anti missile/IUD technology.
People keep on trying to put bandages on the problem, instead of addressing what is actually wrong, kind of like treating a fever with some aspirin, instead of treating the infection.
So if these suits do catch on, and if they are really bullet proof, maybe we'll have to go back to pick-axes and other medieval weapons that were used against the knights. The evening news would be much cooler to watch police taking out a suited up robber with a shield and a pick.=, instead of some lousy shoot out.
A logical extension of Microsofts argument would be that NO outside software can be trusted, unless you pay the special fee to MSoft so that it's "certified", otherwise they'll refuse to take the blame for anything. That just reaffirms my belief in the parent posts argument, that it's the OSs fault.
If the manufacturers were smart, the warning label would read -WARNING -do not use this product for anything, and please leave it in it's original packaging.
That way anything that the buyer does is their own fault.
What if he gets a leak on one of his computers? It looks like from his set up that the whole pool could then be pumped into his computer room. Condensation will also be a problem if his pool is colder than his house.
That's my favorite appellation, but my wife likes the Demi-Sec
in a spaceship as a source of meat - a big cancerous lump of it that continuously regrew as a source of food.