Slashdot has been getting infested with non-nerds lately. mathematician referred to as "not nerdy enough". world confirmed coming to an end. news at 11.
there is no way vote swapping would work anyway. voting is private, and you can't prove how you voted even if you wanted to.
note that this is intentional. (and it's the reason all those voter-receipt-check-that-your-vote-was-counted ideas don't show you HOW you voted) imagine your boss at work saying "everyone bring in your voter receipt wednesday if you want to get a pay check friday!" (or your union leader, who might say "if you want your wife to not have any 'accidents'.")
this always seems to be self-evident to me, that the "first life" was probably not very life-ish at all. little more than a crystal. (after all, they're self-replicating in the right circumstances, right?;)
no, it was an official psychologist-given-test score. was given to me when my parents got divorced. (at 11, as part of a package of "is my child depressed" evaluations....duh! his family just dissolved!) i wasn't told what it was until i was 18 tho.
but it's not the end-all-be-all that people make it out to be. it'll tell you someone has good spacial reasoning skills, or similar traits. but that's about it. i know enough to know just how retarded i am compared to the really smart people out there. (hint: when you find them, latch on and suck their noggin for ideas - good food for thought)
btw, the success rate for birth control is measured by couples, not by every time you have sex. so the pill is 99% effective == 99% of couples using it properly won't get pregnant. NOT 99 times out of 100 times they have sex. (thank dog, or else i'd have a couple of little tykes floating around!;)
since they're down, try http://allurstuff.com/. it's pretty much the same idea (free web-based classified ads), but all ajax-ish and you can search using google maps. (to know if it's worth driving all the way across town for that new bean bag chair;)
yeah, pimping my own warez, i know...but you gotta start somewhere, right?
well, congrads on setting an unnecessary upper bound on the types of programming problems you're willing and able to tackle. being able to partition a problem into subtasks, understanding their interdependencies and devising the proper inter-process communication mechanism for sharing results and data, while non-trivial, is not infeasible. and it's necessary. supercomputers are all clusters now, and in many ways always have been. server farms are the norm now, and are being built at an alarming rate. there ARE actual mhz limits in this world, and compensating for the old von-neumann bottleneck with bigger and bigger caches is a generating a horrible ROI, silicon wise. so if you can't grow up, grow out.
the whole "carburetors are good enough / fuel injection is for pussies" argument will only turn you into that grouchy old man whining about where all the ASM jobs have gone. multithreading on multiprocessor/cluster systems (and non-uniform memory architectures) are the future.
(btw, i left my cushy programming gig to pursue my phd in exactly this area - gotta love volunteered poverty:)
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but I assume that a rails or grails application runs as a cgi, with a new process starting every time a user does something in a web interface.
yeah, this assumption is quite wrong. i don't know of *any* even remotely popular language targeting web apps that does this. (django, ruby, java, php,.net, you name it) this was proven not to scale over a decade ago.:)
no, the king is never captured - just put into a position from where there is no escape.
Checkmate (frequently shortened to mate) is a situation in chess (and in other boardgames of the chaturanga family) in which one player's king is under attack and there is no way to meet that threat; it is a check from which there is no escape. The king is never actually captured -- the game ends as soon as the king is checkmated.
not just YES, but DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN YES, THANK YOU JESUS! (and coming from a non-christian, no less)
i'm working on my phd in computer science right now. math was my undergrad, and every single course i took i'm finding of use. all that practice w/ proofs? hello, algorithms. abstract algebra? automata. graph theory? AI, baby! even probability, the series i suspected i would use the least when taking, has probably been the *most* useful. (machine learning, AI, NLP, you name it it has probabilities). and let's not forget both numerical and complex analysis... knowing the math behind the the techniques/applications you're learning in CS...i almost feel like i'm cheating it becomes so easy.
short answer: take every math class you can get your grubby little hands on.
How do they plan to keep making money going forward? I'm not trying to be negative or cynical, but it's surely the most interesting question as an external observer.
well, considering that this question has been answered here, there and virtually everywhere, repeatedly, for the last 5-6-7 years now, if you are not trying to be negative or cynical, one must suspect you of trolling.
i'm not trying to be mean, just a casual observation from an external observer.
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haha....omg, who are the morons who moderated this informative? =p
Hey, here's a question. Would a Vegan drive a volkswagon that runs off of animal fat grease? What a delimma... it's already dead,
i would say no. that hamburger is already dead, and they don't eat that. =P
(btw, i like ordering veal when eating w/ vegans......mmmmm torture is tasty =P )
there is no way vote swapping would work anyway. voting is private, and you can't prove how you voted even if you wanted to.
note that this is intentional. (and it's the reason all those voter-receipt-check-that-your-vote-was-counted ideas don't show you HOW you voted) imagine your boss at work saying "everyone bring in your voter receipt wednesday if you want to get a pay check friday!" (or your union leader, who might say "if you want your wife to not have any 'accidents'.")
this always seems to be self-evident to me, that the "first life" was probably not very life-ish at all. little more than a crystal. (after all, they're self-replicating in the right circumstances, right? ;)
no, it was an official psychologist-given-test score. was given to me when my parents got divorced. (at 11, as part of a package of "is my child depressed" evaluations....duh! his family just dissolved!) i wasn't told what it was until i was 18 tho.
;)
but it's not the end-all-be-all that people make it out to be. it'll tell you someone has good spacial reasoning skills, or similar traits. but that's about it. i know enough to know just how retarded i am compared to the really smart people out there. (hint: when you find them, latch on and suck their noggin for ideas - good food for thought)
btw, the success rate for birth control is measured by couples, not by every time you have sex. so the pill is 99% effective == 99% of couples using it properly won't get pregnant. NOT 99 times out of 100 times they have sex. (thank dog, or else i'd have a couple of little tykes floating around!
oh, the study compared GRADES, not intelligence. never mind... i guess i was right in the middle of the pack then.
(not that IQ scores mean much either, but it makes for a funny tag line)
That's already the case for graduate education at most universities, engineering credit hours cost more. Substantially more in many cases.
if you're paying for your own tuition in a graduate engineering program, you're doing something wrong.
i once had a prof tell me "if you can't qualify for even a TA, you really shouldn't be here...but we'll still take your money".
what's really ironic is back in the day (say mid 90s) ati was the ONLY option you had if you wanted X to work...
since they're down, try http://allurstuff.com/. it's pretty much the same idea (free web-based classified ads), but all ajax-ish and you can search using google maps. (to know if it's worth driving all the way across town for that new bean bag chair ;)
yeah, pimping my own warez, i know...but you gotta start somewhere, right?
I suspect that modern graphics cards are really just ultra-high-speed multicore floating-point coprocessors
with the nv8xxx series, you're exactly right. 128 semi-independent 32-bit cores, and ass-loads of (unfortunately non-uniform) memory bandwidth.
ATI's latest however is quite a bit different. a smaller number (6-8 i think?) of ultra-wide 256-bit cores. (think transmeta)
there is a whole community of users btw co-opting these cards for non-graphics applications.
Microsoft has consistently supported choice, so it took no steps to hinder ISO/IEC's ratification of ODF 1.0
barf. let's see.... 3/16 = 0.1875 lies per word [OOXML_feature__counted_as_word_6_counts_lies]
moi
well, congrads on setting an unnecessary upper bound on the types of programming problems you're willing and able to tackle. being able to partition a problem into subtasks, understanding their interdependencies and devising the proper inter-process communication mechanism for sharing results and data, while non-trivial, is not infeasible. and it's necessary. supercomputers are all clusters now, and in many ways always have been. server farms are the norm now, and are being built at an alarming rate. there ARE actual mhz limits in this world, and compensating for the old von-neumann bottleneck with bigger and bigger caches is a generating a horrible ROI, silicon wise. so if you can't grow up, grow out.
:)
the whole "carburetors are good enough / fuel injection is for pussies" argument will only turn you into that grouchy old man whining about where all the ASM jobs have gone. multithreading on multiprocessor/cluster systems (and non-uniform memory architectures) are the future.
(btw, i left my cushy programming gig to pursue my phd in exactly this area - gotta love volunteered poverty
hah. wow. if any comment has ever deserved a +5 informative, this would be it. :-P
license?
but I assume that a rails or grails application runs as a cgi, with a new process starting every time a user does something in a web interface.
.net, you name it) this was proven not to scale over a decade ago. :)
yeah, this assumption is quite wrong. i don't know of *any* even remotely popular language targeting web apps that does this. (django, ruby, java, php,
heh. was my post not obvious enough in its joking-ness for ya? ;p
ohhhh... ctrl-k. that's one key faster than my ctrl-l + tab! :)
danke!
Do what works for pirates. Bury it.
;p
isn't that just security through obscurity?
no, the king is never captured - just put into a position from where there is no escape.
Checkmate (frequently shortened to mate) is a situation in chess (and in other boardgames of the chaturanga family) in which one player's king is under attack and there is no way to meet that threat; it is a check from which there is no escape. The king is never actually captured -- the game ends as soon as the king is checkmated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkmate
not just YES, but DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN YES, THANK YOU JESUS!
(and coming from a non-christian, no less)
i'm working on my phd in computer science right now. math was my undergrad, and every single course i took i'm finding of use. all that practice w/ proofs? hello, algorithms. abstract algebra? automata. graph theory? AI, baby! even probability, the series i suspected i would use the least when taking, has probably been the *most* useful. (machine learning, AI, NLP, you name it it has probabilities). and let's not forget both numerical and complex analysis... knowing the math behind the the techniques/applications you're learning in CS...i almost feel like i'm cheating it becomes so easy.
short answer: take every math class you can get your grubby little hands on.
> > While the tiny black holes should evaporate quickly...
> The biggest word in that sentence is should.
i thought the biggest word was "evaporate".
How do they plan to keep making money going forward?
I'm not trying to be negative or cynical, but it's surely the most interesting question as an external observer.
well, considering that this question has been answered here, there and virtually everywhere, repeatedly, for the last 5-6-7 years now, if you are not trying to be negative or cynical, one must suspect you of trolling.
i'm not trying to be mean, just a casual observation from an external observer.
really? i would love to see the section of copyright law that enshrines this allowable use.
(note that i agree with that it should, but currently it doesn't)