kx has been doing this for ~4 years in the financial space. There's also at least one company selling software based on it in other industries...
kx is on its second major version and legitimately handles 1m-100m records per second and historical/real time databases in memory and on disk of unlimited size using standard linux/solaris/win hardware, filesystems, etc.
q, the latest version, is the k language w/ sql syntax embedded.
As yet another CS undergrad, I'll state my 2 cents as well.
I find that in liberal arts departments (Art History, mainly) the classes are focused around exposing you to elements of the material you could not otherwise see. Like exposure to a professor with extensive knowledge and background in the subject that is capable of bringing out aspects of your opinion you didn't know existed. Or a reading list and discussion topics that work as a catalyst to thinking about the subject in a way that reading self-selected materials cannot provide. A well designed syllabus is a truly valuable thing.
In hard science classes, I find the best professors to be those who practice the science themselves and can explain complex structures in language at the level of the student.
In computer science, which strikes me as having aspects of both liberal arts and hard sciences (not to mention business), most of the classes I've taken at CU mostly miss the mark. In programming classes I find that what I'm really doing is looking for an easiest solution at every regardless of whether its any good. Not because I'm being lazy, but because of sheer workload and futility of even attempting to go the depths necessary to have any actual experience with the subject.
In worse cases, I find that my classes do nothing but assign homework and expect you to go googling for how to approach the problem. When you go back to the professor with a question, the response is usually "well, that's the assignment" or if you're lucky he'll point you toward a tutorial someplace at ibm.com. The analogy is a teacher of modernist painting who just tells the class to go wander around the 20th century wing of the Met for a few dozen hours a week and then write a paper describing Picasso's influences and why he used so much darn blue paint.
It irritates me to no end the amount of work that these classes demand on the assumption that you'll somehow learn it. I agree with JiNG. Mostly, you end up forcing through it because there's no time for anything else. And by the end you're so fed up with having to find the best resources on the web that you begin to wonder if that 35k should be going in the other direction.
you guys are going to get us all in trouble! Don't you know China's an ally in the fight against evil-doers? As a member of the us media, you can't go around talking about their non-goodness anymore.
Too late now, expect a call from Ashcroft any minute...
This article is funny because it tries to come across as a balanced view, but very selectively and superficially compares lin vs win. Even the language used to describe the differences intimates at the not-so-hidden biases.
That is all aside from the obvious fact that there aren't too many places left that don't already have legacy systems to think about. Even a new company must take into account what its employees have at home, what they're used to etc.
Maybe I shouldn't expect a more balanced look from sites with linux in the url, but most all of these types of articles have their mind made up before the first sentance.
this is exactly the kind of governing style that Machiavelli advocated, though not necessarily the whole "eliminate" thing...
The need for govt to internalize dissent in order to keep critics from actually revolting against the system is an effective way to ensure the stability of the society.
Interesting parallels...or am I just thinking about this stuff because I just took my philosophy final?
I read an article in the New Yorker a few weeks ago that said that the govt puts an error into the gps signal to make it less accurate for all those who don't have the decoder. This is intended to make the US info from gps more accurate than any commercial info, or more importantly, enemy info.
without putting in too much effort to find out my self, how accurate are these two standards? My understanding was that govt decoded GPS is accurate to about a meter, while the commercially available stuff is accurate to about 3 meters. This article says "a typical GPS receiver can determine its position to about 22 yards."
hey, don't knock the TI's! I wrote a real useful, um, physics equation calculator on my trusty high-school-supplied-TI-81.
and then I became the coolest guy in school when I was able to link the program to everyone else to help them study.
As a side note, the program was horribly used when students actually used it on their tests instead of doing the math themselves. Who'd a though they'd think of using my harmless equations for evil...
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kx has been doing this for ~4 years in the financial space. There's also at least one company selling software based on it in other industries...
kx is on its second major version and legitimately handles 1m-100m records per second and historical/real time databases in memory and on disk of unlimited size using standard linux/solaris/win hardware, filesystems, etc.
q, the latest version, is the k language w/ sql syntax embedded.
www.kx.com
yikes, who's that kid with the crosseyed flashlight in his eye on the front page?
which wireless adapter would this be?
I haven't been able to find such a thing for anything close to that price...I'm also looking for campus connectivity.
As yet another CS undergrad, I'll state my 2 cents as well.
I find that in liberal arts departments (Art History, mainly) the classes are focused around exposing you to elements of the material you could not otherwise see. Like exposure to a professor with extensive knowledge and background in the subject that is capable of bringing out aspects of your opinion you didn't know existed. Or a reading list and discussion topics that work as a catalyst to thinking about the subject in a way that reading self-selected materials cannot provide. A well designed syllabus is a truly valuable thing.
In hard science classes, I find the best professors to be those who practice the science themselves and can explain complex structures in language at the level of the student.
In computer science, which strikes me as having aspects of both liberal arts and hard sciences (not to mention business), most of the classes I've taken at CU mostly miss the mark. In programming classes I find that what I'm really doing is looking for an easiest solution at every regardless of whether its any good. Not because I'm being lazy, but because of sheer workload and futility of even attempting to go the depths necessary to have any actual experience with the subject.
In worse cases, I find that my classes do nothing but assign homework and expect you to go googling for how to approach the problem. When you go back to the professor with a question, the response is usually "well, that's the assignment" or if you're lucky he'll point you toward a tutorial someplace at ibm.com. The analogy is a teacher of modernist painting who just tells the class to go wander around the 20th century wing of the Met for a few dozen hours a week and then write a paper describing Picasso's influences and why he used so much darn blue paint.
It irritates me to no end the amount of work that these classes demand on the assumption that you'll somehow learn it. I agree with JiNG. Mostly, you end up forcing through it because there's no time for anything else. And by the end you're so fed up with having to find the best resources on the web that you begin to wonder if that 35k should be going in the other direction.
you guys are going to get us all in trouble! Don't you know China's an ally in the fight against evil-doers? As a member of the us media, you can't go around talking about their non-goodness anymore.
Too late now, expect a call from Ashcroft any minute...
Darrell
I agree.
This article is funny because it tries to come across as a balanced view, but very selectively and superficially compares lin vs win. Even the language used to describe the differences intimates at the not-so-hidden biases.
That is all aside from the obvious fact that there aren't too many places left that don't already have legacy systems to think about. Even a new company must take into account what its employees have at home, what they're used to etc.
Maybe I shouldn't expect a more balanced look from sites with linux in the url, but most all of these types of articles have their mind made up before the first sentance.
fp?
ok, off topic, but nevertheless...
this is exactly the kind of governing style that Machiavelli advocated, though not necessarily the whole "eliminate" thing...
The need for govt to internalize dissent in order to keep critics from actually revolting against the system is an effective way to ensure the stability of the society.
Interesting parallels...or am I just thinking about this stuff because I just took my philosophy final?
I read an article in the New Yorker a few weeks ago that said that the govt puts an error into the gps signal to make it less accurate for all those who don't have the decoder. This is intended to make the US info from gps more accurate than any commercial info, or more importantly, enemy info.
without putting in too much effort to find out my self, how accurate are these two standards? My understanding was that govt decoded GPS is accurate to about a meter, while the commercially available stuff is accurate to about 3 meters. This article says "a typical GPS receiver can determine its position to about 22 yards."
Which one's right?
hey, don't knock the TI's! I wrote a real useful, um, physics equation calculator on my trusty high-school-supplied-TI-81.
and then I became the coolest guy in school when I was able to link the program to everyone else to help them study.
As a side note, the program was horribly used when students actually used it on their tests instead of doing the math themselves. Who'd a though they'd think of using my harmless equations for evil...
-Darrell