I went to my 20th out of morbid curiosity. So did 250 of the 400 in my graduating class as well.
The best story was the two people who had not seen each other in 20 years drunkenly decided to "get nostalgic" in a closet while their respective spouses were still at the bar. Comedic interruption occurs, followed by divorces in the following weeks.
Facebook kept the story alive for all to follow and keep dignity at a minimum.
And if I'm a business owner and interviewing 100 people and one of them "will be homeless in a few months" what obligation do I have to discount the other 99 people in favor of the one?
Multiple laser eye surgeons assured me that there was absolutely no chance of flap movement after 14 days when I researched it.
Funny--my father in law, an ophthalmologist, makes a great living fixing the corneas of people who believed exactly what you were told.
This is why I still wear glasses. My vision is too important to leave to surgeons who say "absolutely no chance" just as I wouldn't like to fly with people who say "absolutely no chance"
The contractor who takes away my garbage. They skipped pickups. Enough complaints and they were forced out of holding the monopoly in my town. I have a new contractor who costs the same and has better service performance
Page 1. Look at the plots on page 1. Total comp from State & local is $10/hr more than private or Civilian.
Second, according to a recent study at the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee, education level is higher among government workers than peer private sector, so your comment of "government jobs are good for people in relatively low-skilled jobs" makes me think you're either making everything up or worse, people in government are reaching for jobs not to their ability yet wanting to be paid like they are working to their ability.
[From the summary]DHS's areas of interest include software assurance, enterprise security metrics, usable security, as well as the challenges posed by insider threats
Call me naive but is sounds to me like DHS wants to stick around a while. Or am I still too new here?
The fascinating part to me is people *knew* there was a link. It was in the literature. People with PhD's and MD's were trotted out saying to the masses "You don't have my education, my experience. This Autism link is real. Big Pharma is poisoning you"
I see a lot of similarities to Global warming ^C^C^C^C Climate Change arguments.
I can tell you that in abdominal surgery, it doesn't take a refined sense of smell to determine nationality (or at least their nationality of food preference) of the patient.
I am serious and you are wrong. I don't have a clear idea what you mean about space and power due to programmability. FPGAs are soft coded hardware. If by the nature of being able to code it and change it you mean "overhead" then fine. But even with that overhead, they are still more efficient. You might be thinking of raw speed instead of FLOPS/Watt.
From "A Comparative Study on ASIC, FPGAs, GPUs and General Purpose Processors in the O(N^2) Gravitational N-body Simulation "
"In this paper, we describe the implementation of gravitational force calculation for N-body simulations in the context of astrophysics. It will describe high performance implementations on general purpose processors, GPUs, and FPGAs, and compare them using a number of criteria including speed performance, power efficiency and cost of development. These results show that, for gravitational force calculation and many-body simulations in general, GPUs are very competitive in terms of performance and performance per dollar figures, whereas FPGAs are competitive in terms of performance per Watt figures."
Sure thing GPUs doing backprojection--FBP, Cone beam, or some iterative methods) are similar to CT is usually used for. MRI--not so much. MRI is a memory intensive application, not a computation application, and performance tracks with memory latency, not OPS. GPU's have very fast memory architecture. That doesn't mean it's all good. They are all the rage at medical conferences but alas, the long term viability is not there. They are great for research and for researching algorithms but for long term support? No thanks, I'll pass until the junction temperature is lower than the surface of the sun.
Maybe you're confusing speed with FLOPS/Watt? It's the "per Watt" that changes the playing field.
In addition, your three points: 1.) What will go wrong? If by go wrong you mean harder to program, you're right. If you mean they are more prone to fail, mmmmmm, I'm not sure why FPGAs are used in embedded military avionics applications over CPUs and certainly--most certainly--GPUs. 2.) Run hotter than an ASIC? Depends on the fab. It should be cooler.. 3.) I don't know if you're serious on this point. I have a Virtex 5 with DSP slices on my research desk and with it running full tilt I can easily touch it and it does not have a heat sink. Try even running a GPU without a heat sink.
Two things--if there's a failure, then there's a problem. The machines for years used to use military grade hardware. Machines that were designed in 1992, sold in 1994 are still running strong today. Then to cut costs, the OEMs switched to more commodity hardware and they've effectively sucked in uptime since. You make it sound like it's no big deal to call tech support. It is a big deal. To put it in dollar terms, we had a machine go down for technically 4 hours. The tech was there, made the diagnosis of the failure, and turned the machine off until is could be repaired. That took 4 days. The outcome? $100K in revenue put at risk, much of it lost.
Second, those long term support contracts are extremely expensive and no, they do not keep compatible boards available for years to come. They depend on users upgrading their machines and selling their old machines back. Well, people are holding on to their machines a lot longer than they used to and it's putting the OEMs into a corner. I know several of the suppliers to the OEMs and they've told the OEMs to take a flying leap about long term support. Long term support isn't free, it isn't trivial, and the major OEMs are reaching a crunch point of inventory available for spares.
I think this is a great development. I've been using FPGAs in medical imaging for about 15 years. The groups that use the GPUs are getting great performance--definitely--but seeing as how MRI and CT machines are placed and need to run for 10, 15 20 years, I don't see how the GPUs will survive that time. One large OEM was pushing the GPUs for their architecture and I can't believe it will be successful if success is measured on the longevity scale. I'm sure the service sales guy will clean up.
Why do GPUs fail? I'm not sure of the exact modes of failure but the amount of heat has got to have something to do with it. FPGAs will run much cooler and in the FLOPS/Watt game, will win.
I say it's near perfect marketing if your hypothesis of younger people buying iPads is correct and the simple Gallup demographic information is correct.
"Portland residents will vote Nov. 2 on a proposal to give legal residents who are not U.S. citizens the right to vote in local elections, joining places like San Francisco and Chicago that have already loosened the rules or are considering it."
"Portland residents will vote Nov. 2 on a proposal to give legal residents who are not U.S. citizens the right to vote in local elections, joining places like San Francisco and Chicago that have already loosened the rules or are considering it."
I know people in the Twin Cities carry concealed quite often--enough that the hospital I sometimes go to work has a "no guns allowed in building" sign and a locker where you can check-in your weapon is full.
Wisconsin is open carry (no concealed carry) and recently there's been some activity with people doing everyday things (pick up garbage, going out to dinner) while openly carrying. Police--especially the police-state type of police--of course freak out until after they arrest someone and realize it is within their right to openly carry.
Then the police are hit with a lawsuit (I believe that's what's going to happen in a recent Madison, WI case)
The pendulum of a government-sponsored police state has swung too far for people in my region to feel comfortable. The gun-rights advocates are pushing it back in their own way. When Obama was elected, you could not easily find ammunition to buy. It was being scooped up as fast as it could be delivered to sporting stores. It was not because a bunch a crazy citizens thought a black-man president was going to take away their weapons, it was because the message of $400 spent on 1000 bullets is heard much more clearly than any angry saying on a bumper sticker.
You missed the point. When abortion is random, only pro-life people seem to care. When a specific group is targeted (like the g-g-g-parent about homosexuals not being human) will people speak so callously about abortion?
If an identity such as homosexuality, deafness, baldness, short, or fat could be eliminated, I suspect people would rethink abortion, which would cause a rethinking of when an embryo has rights.
If a $5 test would determine if an embryo would turn out to be a gay man, and that test was sold right next to the morning-after pill, would people callously say "an embryo isn't human"
Calling an embryo a person is much more of a stretch than calling a homosexual a non-person.
So when a genetic test for homosexuality is developed, will there be special rights given to an embryo so that a parent will not be allowed to abort it?
Well, I guess "work" then is a matter of definition and yours is an expensive one. Healthcare is not expensive because of a particular treatment cost, it's expensive because of ongoing and symptom-treatments that are often at odds with lifestyle.
My statement earlier is accurate when you acknowledge that treating symptoms is not a cure and in medicine, we often call a cure something that works as opposed to something that treats symptoms and may not have a disease state change or outcome.
Uhhh, no. Not nonsense. Please tell me which drug fixes Alzheimer's. Sure, there are drugs that alleviate the symptoms. But once a diagnosis of Alzheimer's is made, you've got Alzheimer's. I know of zero people who "used to" have Alzheimer's.
And maybe you're being funny, but Yaws is treated by penicillin, which is an antibiotic.
Diabetes: try not taking medication. You still have diabetes. Same with hypertension.
A "Z" disease is Zollinger-Ellison. It is characterized by tumors on the pancreas or small intestine. Treatment? Either manage the symptoms (thereby not curing it) or surgery to remove the tumors.
I don't want to create a scandal, but I do imaging--mostly brain and breast, not surgery. Most of what I look at is confirming whether to do surgery or not--or more properly put, giving an ordering GP or surgeon the information needed to determine a best recommendation for whether to do surgery or not. My research is in making the imaging machine more efficient--either lowering the radiation dose for CT or consulting on designing a better coil for MRI.
Don't get me wrong--PT really helps people and their lives. But putting down the cheeseburger or stopping smoking would have helped more.
Injury is the trauma I wrote about. It can be a hit to the sternum by a steering wheel or a 50 cal bullet to the calf. (Yes, a 50 cal to the calf will cause cardiac arrest a day or two later)
Going into shock won't cause the cardiac arrest itself. The arrest is usually caused by something else cascading--perhaps blood pressure dropping.
The issue is that people think the disease is the arrest. It's not. The other aspects of life (poor eating, putting yourself into the path of a bullet) are the issue. The arrest is merely the symptom.
That said, sometimes you should treat the symptom. I don't want to go into surgery without anesthesia. Anesthesia is not really *necessary* for a positive outcome of the surgery. But it helps alleviate the pain. Which is a symptom of being cut open.
That said, going back to your anaphylaxis argument, treating the symptom of an allergic reaction will not cure the allergic reaction. It will merely make it "survivable" until your own body can compensate.
So if you want a lifetime full of symptom-relief, expect an expensive healthcare system. Most of the people in the ER (I walk out of the hospital through the ER) are there for symptom relief. They think that by taking pain medication they are better. They are not healthier, they just feel better. They think that when they have the flu there is something medicine can do. There isn't anything medicine can do but make you *feel* better and then extract large sums of money. OK, maybe Tamiflu would help but you don't need to go to the ER for that.
If you want a lifetime of healthy living, it's time to start taking responsibility for your health and not treating the symptoms.
My argument isn't perfect but it is a way to consider healthcare.
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I went to my 20th out of morbid curiosity. So did 250 of the 400 in my graduating class as well.
The best story was the two people who had not seen each other in 20 years drunkenly decided to "get nostalgic" in a closet while their respective spouses were still at the bar. Comedic interruption occurs, followed by divorces in the following weeks.
Facebook kept the story alive for all to follow and keep dignity at a minimum.
Thank you Facebook.
And if I'm a business owner and interviewing 100 people and one of them "will be homeless in a few months" what obligation do I have to discount the other 99 people in favor of the one?
Multiple laser eye surgeons assured me that there was absolutely no chance of flap movement after 14 days when I researched it.
Funny--my father in law, an ophthalmologist, makes a great living fixing the corneas of people who believed exactly what you were told.
This is why I still wear glasses. My vision is too important to leave to surgeons who say "absolutely no chance" just as I wouldn't like to fly with people who say "absolutely no chance"
The contractor who takes away my garbage. They skipped pickups. Enough complaints and they were forced out of holding the monopoly in my town. I have a new contractor who costs the same and has better service performance
McCain was the last Democrat I voted for in a Presidential election
"most government workers are paid less than equivalent civil sector workers"
Bull. Shit.
Do your own homework. Why let facts get in the way of your lie?
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ecec.pdf
Page 1. Look at the plots on page 1. Total comp from State & local is $10/hr more than private or Civilian.
Second, according to a recent study at the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee, education level is higher among government workers than peer private sector, so your comment of "government jobs are good for people in relatively low-skilled jobs" makes me think you're either making everything up or worse, people in government are reaching for jobs not to their ability yet wanting to be paid like they are working to their ability.
[From the summary]DHS's areas of interest include software assurance, enterprise security metrics, usable security, as well as the challenges posed by insider threats
Call me naive but is sounds to me like DHS wants to stick around a while. Or am I still too new here?
The fascinating part to me is people *knew* there was a link. It was in the literature. People with PhD's and MD's were trotted out saying to the masses "You don't have my education, my experience. This Autism link is real. Big Pharma is poisoning you"
I see a lot of similarities to Global warming ^C^C^C^C Climate Change arguments.
I can tell you that in abdominal surgery, it doesn't take a refined sense of smell to determine nationality (or at least their nationality of food preference) of the patient.
I am serious and you are wrong. I don't have a clear idea what you mean about space and power due to programmability. FPGAs are soft coded hardware. If by the nature of being able to code it and change it you mean "overhead" then fine. But even with that overhead, they are still more efficient. You might be thinking of raw speed instead of FLOPS/Watt.
From "A Comparative Study on ASIC, FPGAs, GPUs and General Purpose Processors in the O(N^2) Gravitational N-body Simulation
"
"In this paper, we describe the implementation of gravitational force calculation for N-body simulations in the context of astrophysics. It will describe high performance implementations on general purpose processors, GPUs, and FPGAs, and compare them using a number of criteria including speed performance, power efficiency and cost of development. These results show that, for gravitational force calculation and many-body simulations in general, GPUs are very competitive in terms of performance and performance per dollar figures, whereas FPGAs are competitive in terms of performance per Watt figures."
And look at http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/130834/ISVLSI_FINAL.pdf Check Fig 8. This is from Microsoft et al, and they say the FPGA is the iteration per joule winner. CUDA came in last from the processors measured.
Sure thing GPUs doing backprojection--FBP, Cone beam, or some iterative methods) are similar to CT is usually used for. MRI--not so much. MRI is a memory intensive application, not a computation application, and performance tracks with memory latency, not OPS. GPU's have very fast memory architecture. That doesn't mean it's all good. They are all the rage at medical conferences but alas, the long term viability is not there. They are great for research and for researching algorithms but for long term support? No thanks, I'll pass until the junction temperature is lower than the surface of the sun.
Maybe you're confusing speed with FLOPS/Watt? It's the "per Watt" that changes the playing field.
In addition, your three points:
1.) What will go wrong? If by go wrong you mean harder to program, you're right. If you mean they are more prone to fail, mmmmmm, I'm not sure why FPGAs are used in embedded military avionics applications over CPUs and certainly--most certainly--GPUs.
2.) Run hotter than an ASIC? Depends on the fab. It should be cooler..
3.) I don't know if you're serious on this point. I have a Virtex 5 with DSP slices on my research desk and with it running full tilt I can easily touch it and it does not have a heat sink. Try even running a GPU without a heat sink.
Two things--if there's a failure, then there's a problem. The machines for years used to use military grade hardware. Machines that were designed in 1992, sold in 1994 are still running strong today. Then to cut costs, the OEMs switched to more commodity hardware and they've effectively sucked in uptime since. You make it sound like it's no big deal to call tech support. It is a big deal. To put it in dollar terms, we had a machine go down for technically 4 hours. The tech was there, made the diagnosis of the failure, and turned the machine off until is could be repaired. That took 4 days. The outcome? $100K in revenue put at risk, much of it lost.
Second, those long term support contracts are extremely expensive and no, they do not keep compatible boards available for years to come. They depend on users upgrading their machines and selling their old machines back. Well, people are holding on to their machines a lot longer than they used to and it's putting the OEMs into a corner. I know several of the suppliers to the OEMs and they've told the OEMs to take a flying leap about long term support. Long term support isn't free, it isn't trivial, and the major OEMs are reaching a crunch point of inventory available for spares.
I think this is a great development. I've been using FPGAs in medical imaging for about 15 years. The groups that use the GPUs are getting great performance--definitely--but seeing as how MRI and CT machines are placed and need to run for 10, 15 20 years, I don't see how the GPUs will survive that time. One large OEM was pushing the GPUs for their architecture and I can't believe it will be successful if success is measured on the longevity scale. I'm sure the service sales guy will clean up.
Why do GPUs fail? I'm not sure of the exact modes of failure but the amount of heat has got to have something to do with it. FPGAs will run much cooler and in the FLOPS/Watt game, will win.
From TFA:
"It remains to be seen how stable the molecule is in a solid form," says Tore Brinck.
And until then, this is a premature press release to be criticising the shape shuttle solid rockets.
Someone must need to re-up on their grant.
Those who buy Apple products, such as the iPad, tend to be younger college student types, and to draw a correlation, overwhelmingly liberal.
I don't know what the iPad demographics are other than anecdote--they aren't just for younger people.
But to your point--Those younger people will be growing up after buying iPads will become more conservative as they age to 30 years old. http://www.gallup.com/poll/120857/conservatives-single-largest-ideological-group.aspx
I say it's near perfect marketing if your hypothesis of younger people buying iPads is correct and the simple Gallup demographic information is correct.
All my cats respond to voice and gesture commands, easily.
That's easy when your commands are "sit still," "nap," "blow me off," and "lick your ass"
[citation]
http://www.kansas.com/2010/10/24/1555918/portland-may-let-noncitizens-vote.html [kansas.com]
"Portland residents will vote Nov. 2 on a proposal to give legal residents who are not U.S. citizens the right to vote in local elections, joining places like San Francisco and Chicago that have already loosened the rules or are considering it."
[citation]
http://www.kansas.com/2010/10/24/1555918/portland-may-let-noncitizens-vote.html
"Portland residents will vote Nov. 2 on a proposal to give legal residents who are not U.S. citizens the right to vote in local elections, joining places like San Francisco and Chicago that have already loosened the rules or are considering it."
I know people in the Twin Cities carry concealed quite often--enough that the hospital I sometimes go to work has a "no guns allowed in building" sign and a locker where you can check-in your weapon is full.
Wisconsin is open carry (no concealed carry) and recently there's been some activity with people doing everyday things (pick up garbage, going out to dinner) while openly carrying. Police--especially the police-state type of police--of course freak out until after they arrest someone and realize it is within their right to openly carry.
Then the police are hit with a lawsuit (I believe that's what's going to happen in a recent Madison, WI case)
The pendulum of a government-sponsored police state has swung too far for people in my region to feel comfortable. The gun-rights advocates are pushing it back in their own way. When Obama was elected, you could not easily find ammunition to buy. It was being scooped up as fast as it could be delivered to sporting stores. It was not because a bunch a crazy citizens thought a black-man president was going to take away their weapons, it was because the message of $400 spent on 1000 bullets is heard much more clearly than any angry saying on a bumper sticker.
You missed the point. When abortion is random, only pro-life people seem to care. When a specific group is targeted (like the g-g-g-parent about homosexuals not being human) will people speak so callously about abortion?
If an identity such as homosexuality, deafness, baldness, short, or fat could be eliminated, I suspect people would rethink abortion, which would cause a rethinking of when an embryo has rights.
If a $5 test would determine if an embryo would turn out to be a gay man, and that test was sold right next to the morning-after pill, would people callously say "an embryo isn't human"
I doubt it.
Never exist? You sure? Positive? "Never" is such an absolute word.
What happens when someone can predict brain gender via any means possible? Do parents get to abort it if it does not line up with their wishes?
Calling an embryo a person is much more of a stretch than calling a homosexual a non-person.
So when a genetic test for homosexuality is developed, will there be special rights given to an embryo so that a parent will not be allowed to abort it?
Well, I guess "work" then is a matter of definition and yours is an expensive one. Healthcare is not expensive because of a particular treatment cost, it's expensive because of ongoing and symptom-treatments that are often at odds with lifestyle.
My statement earlier is accurate when you acknowledge that treating symptoms is not a cure and in medicine, we often call a cure something that works as opposed to something that treats symptoms and may not have a disease state change or outcome.
Uhhh, no. Not nonsense. Please tell me which drug fixes Alzheimer's. Sure, there are drugs that alleviate the symptoms. But once a diagnosis of Alzheimer's is made, you've got Alzheimer's. I know of zero people who "used to" have Alzheimer's.
And maybe you're being funny, but Yaws is treated by penicillin, which is an antibiotic.
Diabetes: try not taking medication. You still have diabetes. Same with hypertension.
A "Z" disease is Zollinger-Ellison. It is characterized by tumors on the pancreas or small intestine. Treatment? Either manage the symptoms (thereby not curing it) or surgery to remove the tumors.
I don't want to create a scandal, but I do imaging--mostly brain and breast, not surgery. Most of what I look at is confirming whether to do surgery or not--or more properly put, giving an ordering GP or surgeon the information needed to determine a best recommendation for whether to do surgery or not. My research is in making the imaging machine more efficient--either lowering the radiation dose for CT or consulting on designing a better coil for MRI.
Don't get me wrong--PT really helps people and their lives. But putting down the cheeseburger or stopping smoking would have helped more.
Bill
Injury is the trauma I wrote about. It can be a hit to the sternum by a steering wheel or a 50 cal bullet to the calf. (Yes, a 50 cal to the calf will cause cardiac arrest a day or two later)
Going into shock won't cause the cardiac arrest itself. The arrest is usually caused by something else cascading--perhaps blood pressure dropping.
The issue is that people think the disease is the arrest. It's not. The other aspects of life (poor eating, putting yourself into the path of a bullet) are the issue. The arrest is merely the symptom.
That said, sometimes you should treat the symptom. I don't want to go into surgery without anesthesia. Anesthesia is not really *necessary* for a positive outcome of the surgery. But it helps alleviate the pain. Which is a symptom of being cut open.
That said, going back to your anaphylaxis argument, treating the symptom of an allergic reaction will not cure the allergic reaction. It will merely make it "survivable" until your own body can compensate.
So if you want a lifetime full of symptom-relief, expect an expensive healthcare system. Most of the people in the ER (I walk out of the hospital through the ER) are there for symptom relief. They think that by taking pain medication they are better. They are not healthier, they just feel better. They think that when they have the flu there is something medicine can do. There isn't anything medicine can do but make you *feel* better and then extract large sums of money. OK, maybe Tamiflu would help but you don't need to go to the ER for that.
If you want a lifetime of healthy living, it's time to start taking responsibility for your health and not treating the symptoms.
My argument isn't perfect but it is a way to consider healthcare.