Is there any situation where interpreted languages are actually faster than said other languages?;-)
The sarcastic answer is development.
I'd say that both development and debugging are easier / faster with high[er] level languages — interpreted languages are usually higher level than compiled languages. Therefore, python/ruby should be faster than C (for development/debugging), but something like dylan (both high level and compiled) would be faster than python/ruby.
Life forms do not mutate/evolve/ during their lifespan; the mutations occur at the DNA copying phase when they are creating the next generation.
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Cancer is an obvious mutation of DNA during the course of a person's lifetime.
Viral infection mutates DNA in order to replicate (e.g. warts, influenza).
Our immune system mutates DNA in order to generate antigens for foreign bodies.
Additionally, your body is fixing DNA problems (not always correctly) all the time due to sun damage, free radicals, heavy metals, oxygen, and other nasty everyday stuff. I would actually say that even at birth, it's unlikely that any two cells in your body are alike in terms of the DNA they contain (except red blood cells...). They differ by a [usually] small, insignificant amount, but they'll still be different.
The load of one plug-in recharging (about 2 kilowatts) is roughly the same as that of four or five plasma television sets.
Sorry, I don't understand this idea of power rated by plasma TVs. Could you please give that in terms of the number of slow cookers required to have the same draw as one EV charge?
mine is "always put the opening brace on the same line, one true tab, else in same column as if, no braces for any single-line condition to a control structure (for, if, else, while, etc)"
Coding style like this makes me cringe, particularly the thing about no braces for single-line conditionals -- it makes it far too easy to make mistakes because you indent code and forget that indentation doesn't mean it's part of the conditional (unless you are using python, of course).
Here the first bit to the mp3 format of the song Nothing Else Matters from Metallica: 1
If it starts with the usual metadata, it probably begins with the string 'ID3', the hex values of which are 0x49 0x44 0x33. 49h is 01001001b, so the first bit is '0', not '1'.
I'm not convinced JRB has addressed one comment that seems to have been explained the best by Eleanor, and only lightly touched on by other comments attached to that blog post (e.g. voideka, clovis lark, george).
Put simply, people choose the path of least resistance, which is usually the path of least cost.
If Eleanor needed some music for an audition, any reasonable music would do. She wouldn't pay money if a popular work were available for free (but might pay a small amount of money for a popular work if it were easy to do that). If the creator of a particular work didn't choose to distribute a one-off version at no cost, Eleanor would probably search elsewhere for a gratis piece of music (possibly by a different creator). People do distribute sheet music for no cost, so this stuff will be around somewhere, even if only legal avenues are chosen.
It reminds me of a discussion about the costs of cellphone plans that I looked at recently. Someone compared costs of different networks, assuming a person sent around 3,000 text messages per month. They ended up with some costs on the order of $300-$500 per month, because their analysis didn't include limited-time plans. The reality is that no one would choose to pay that much for text messages, it just wouldn't make sense given that cheaper plans are available (around $10-$15 per month, maybe a bit less). Often, people in my country will keep two prepay cellphones (or two sim cards), so that they can take advantage of the best offer at a particular time.
Carroll added that manufacturers could address this problem by leasing the battery to users
How about having a user-removable battery (or at least, machine removable, but able to be operated by users). Battery stations replacing — or augmenting — petrol stations would be a nice touch as well, as mentioned in a TED talk I viewed over a year ago.
I seem to be finding this grammatical error more often these days, where people mean 'ensure', and say 'insure'. FTFA:
if you left the antenna at the top, the user was now pressing it into their head, insuring lots of tissue heating
That makes it sound like a good thing. You'll be getting money if your tissue heats up, right?
Just about every cell phone in current production has the antenna located at the bottom. This insures that the radiating portion of the antenna is furthest from the head.
I can't work this one out. It looks like they added an extra 'that', and maybe 'is' should be replaced by ', which is'.
I think Terry Pratchett's view of unicorns is appropriate for this. If you stick a long, straight, sharp pointy horn on a horse, it's going to be a vicious monster, not a prancing friend.
How about letting people view whatever they want, but if most other people don't want to see it, someone needs to wait a bit longer to see it. My idea is the following:
* Each user has an associated 'blur time', which is the amount of time before the picture will be completely visible with no distortion * When a user is encountered, the distortion starts at something large, and ramps down until zero at the blur time * The blur time is a function of the time taken for people to change to another user -- if they change before blur time is over (or shortly after blur time is over), then the blur time is increased, otherwise blur time is reduced * Blur time is capped at a particular time, say 10s
So if people really want to see everything, they just need to wait 10s after each change.
if a Ficus tree can win an election then anyone can if run against the right opponent.
We had a plant (an actual plant, green leaves and stuff) win an executive position in student association elections at Victoria University of Wellington a few years ago.
The good thing about plants is that they say nothing, and won't blow money on stuff the voters don't want.
I found Japanese unbelievably daunting, even more so then Mandarin
That would be because Mandarin is a fairly easy language to learn (the hard bit is the characters), while Japanese is insanely difficult to learn (the easy bit is the characters).
How about 'gallons per centi-mile', with abbreviation gpcm. Then you can laugh at the people who get metrically confused and think it stands for 'gallons per centimetre' or 'gallons per cubic metre' [or 'gallons per cubic mile'] -- although the 'centi' prefix is more of an SI thing, and less of an imperial thing.
I do. I'm signed up with powershop, which provides various specials that you can purchase in advance to save a bit of money.
For example, they had a "winter" special, offered three months before the start of winter, and I could purchase blocks of 150 units of electricity over three months of winter (50 units per month). Now that New Zealand is experiencing winter, electricity prices have risen by about 3 cents per unit, so I've saved a bit of money by doing that (about $4 saving, where I could have made about $1 by keeping the money in the bank).
They have better one-off specials, but you need to be watching the online shop like a hawk to get those.
sorry, got my wires crossed. False positive rate is the proportion of true positive results that weren't positive. False negative rate is the proportion of true negative results that weren't negative.
Just working on test data, that's specificity (or false negative rate if you view it from the other side). It's a different statistic to false positive rate.
Another related statistic is positive predictive value: if you have a positive result, what's the chance that it's a true positive? You need prevalence data for that, i.e. what is prior probability of a bubble occuring in the real world.
This is a case where the lab notes and emails written during the development of this technology become incredibly useful. Little things can become quite important in invalidating patents: a single date written on some reagents that weren't chucked out, a record of a person coming in to count cells in the lab, an email sent to discuss "something odd" that was observed.
On a side note, keeping [biotechnology] patents is an expensive process, and it's difficult to justify holding back research because of patent litigation. It is somewhat common for scientists to ignore patents and plough ahead in the name of research for the greater good ("the greater good").
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Is there any situation where interpreted languages are actually faster than said other languages? ;-)
The sarcastic answer is development.
I'd say that both development and debugging are easier / faster with high[er] level languages — interpreted languages are usually higher level than compiled languages. Therefore, python/ruby should be faster than C (for development/debugging), but something like dylan (both high level and compiled) would be faster than python/ruby.
A decent lawyer will point out that the envelope could have been sealed later
You mean after it had been dated by the postal service during their handling of the envelope?
Life forms do not mutate/evolve/ during their lifespan; the mutations occur at the DNA copying phase when they are creating the next generation.
VZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZLA
Additionally, your body is fixing DNA problems (not always correctly) all the time due to sun damage, free radicals, heavy metals, oxygen, and other nasty everyday stuff. I would actually say that even at birth, it's unlikely that any two cells in your body are alike in terms of the DNA they contain (except red blood cells...). They differ by a [usually] small, insignificant amount, but they'll still be different.
[Shameless Plug] SVGcave isn't particularly wonderful, but it does demonstrate a few things that can be done with html5 (SVG, not canvas).
The load of one plug-in recharging (about 2 kilowatts) is roughly the same as that of four or five plasma television sets.
Sorry, I don't understand this idea of power rated by plasma TVs. Could you please give that in terms of the number of slow cookers required to have the same draw as one EV charge?
mine is "always put the opening brace on the same line, one true tab, else in same column as if, no braces for any single-line condition to a control structure (for, if, else, while, etc)"
Coding style like this makes me cringe, particularly the thing about no braces for single-line conditionals -- it makes it far too easy to make mistakes because you indent code and forget that indentation doesn't mean it's part of the conditional (unless you are using python, of course).
Here the first bit to the mp3 format of the song Nothing Else Matters from Metallica: 1
If it starts with the usual metadata, it probably begins with the string 'ID3', the hex values of which are 0x49 0x44 0x33. 49h is 01001001b, so the first bit is '0', not '1'.
This thread has crystallized what I suspect is the "Slashdot-approved" stance with regards to protecting material.
I like to think that the Slashdot view is 'pay to create' rather than 'pay to distribute'.
I'm not convinced JRB has addressed one comment that seems to have been explained the best by Eleanor, and only lightly touched on by other comments attached to that blog post (e.g. voideka, clovis lark, george).
Put simply, people choose the path of least resistance, which is usually the path of least cost.
If Eleanor needed some music for an audition, any reasonable music would do. She wouldn't pay money if a popular work were available for free (but might pay a small amount of money for a popular work if it were easy to do that). If the creator of a particular work didn't choose to distribute a one-off version at no cost, Eleanor would probably search elsewhere for a gratis piece of music (possibly by a different creator). People do distribute sheet music for no cost, so this stuff will be around somewhere, even if only legal avenues are chosen.
It reminds me of a discussion about the costs of cellphone plans that I looked at recently. Someone compared costs of different networks, assuming a person sent around 3,000 text messages per month. They ended up with some costs on the order of $300-$500 per month, because their analysis didn't include limited-time plans. The reality is that no one would choose to pay that much for text messages, it just wouldn't make sense given that cheaper plans are available (around $10-$15 per month, maybe a bit less). Often, people in my country will keep two prepay cellphones (or two sim cards), so that they can take advantage of the best offer at a particular time.
Carroll added that manufacturers could address this problem by leasing the battery to users
How about having a user-removable battery (or at least, machine removable, but able to be operated by users). Battery stations replacing — or augmenting — petrol stations would be a nice touch as well, as mentioned in a TED talk I viewed over a year ago.
I seem to be finding this grammatical error more often these days, where people mean 'ensure', and say 'insure'. FTFA:
if you left the antenna at the top, the user was now pressing it into their head, insuring lots of tissue heating
That makes it sound like a good thing. You'll be getting money if your tissue heats up, right?
Just about every cell phone in current production has the antenna located at the bottom. This insures that the radiating portion of the antenna is furthest from the head.
I can't work this one out. It looks like they added an extra 'that', and maybe 'is' should be replaced by ', which is'.
I'd just prefer a new .dot TLD for slashdot. It would provoke even more confusion telling people to go to "haycht-tee-tee-pee-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot-dot".
I think Terry Pratchett's view of unicorns is appropriate for this. If you stick a long, straight, sharp pointy horn on a horse, it's going to be a vicious monster, not a prancing friend.
How about letting people view whatever they want, but if most other people don't want to see it, someone needs to wait a bit longer to see it. My idea is the following:
* Each user has an associated 'blur time', which is the amount of time before the picture will be completely visible with no distortion
* When a user is encountered, the distortion starts at something large, and ramps down until zero at the blur time
* The blur time is a function of the time taken for people to change to another user -- if they change before blur time is over (or shortly after blur time is over), then the blur time is increased, otherwise blur time is reduced
* Blur time is capped at a particular time, say 10s
So if people really want to see everything, they just need to wait 10s after each change.
if a Ficus tree can win an election then anyone can if run against the right opponent.
We had a plant (an actual plant, green leaves and stuff) win an executive position in student association elections at Victoria University of Wellington a few years ago.
The good thing about plants is that they say nothing, and won't blow money on stuff the voters don't want.
I found Japanese unbelievably daunting, even more so then Mandarin
That would be because Mandarin is a fairly easy language to learn (the hard bit is the characters), while Japanese is insanely difficult to learn (the easy bit is the characters).
How about 'gallons per centi-mile', with abbreviation gpcm. Then you can laugh at the people who get metrically confused and think it stands for 'gallons per centimetre' or 'gallons per cubic metre' [or 'gallons per cubic mile'] -- although the 'centi' prefix is more of an SI thing, and less of an imperial thing.
The final Order bars the defendants from providing purchasers with the means to disguise the product as an innocent file or e-mail attachment.
I'll do it for them:
1. rename 'malicious_software.exe' 'unicorns_with_flowers.jpg.exe'
2. attach to email
Does anyone pre-pay for electricity?
I do. I'm signed up with powershop, which provides various specials that you can purchase in advance to save a bit of money.
For example, they had a "winter" special, offered three months before the start of winter, and I could purchase blocks of 150 units of electricity over three months of winter (50 units per month). Now that New Zealand is experiencing winter, electricity prices have risen by about 3 cents per unit, so I've saved a bit of money by doing that (about $4 saving, where I could have made about $1 by keeping the money in the bank).
They have better one-off specials, but you need to be watching the online shop like a hawk to get those.
sorry, got my wires crossed. False positive rate is the proportion of true positive results that weren't positive. False negative rate is the proportion of true negative results that weren't negative.
Just working on test data, that's specificity (or false negative rate if you view it from the other side). It's a different statistic to false positive rate.
Another related statistic is positive predictive value: if you have a positive result, what's the chance that it's a true positive? You need prevalence data for that, i.e. what is prior probability of a bubble occuring in the real world.
Looks like the people who were involved in Deepwater Horizon are in a pile of deep brown stuff.
This is a case where the lab notes and emails written during the development of this technology become incredibly useful. Little things can become quite important in invalidating patents: a single date written on some reagents that weren't chucked out, a record of a person coming in to count cells in the lab, an email sent to discuss "something odd" that was observed.
On a side note, keeping [biotechnology] patents is an expensive process, and it's difficult to justify holding back research because of patent litigation. It is somewhat common for scientists to ignore patents and plough ahead in the name of research for the greater good ("the greater good").
And it'll work, too.
As long as there aren't dogs and those meddling kids involved.
Mod parent down, I don't like the tone of that comment.It needs to be dropped a couple of semitones.