Education is like building a skyscraper. The floor never moves upward, but the roof can be set so high up. The rest of the world lives for the high roof, and we Americans tie a rope between the ceiling and the floor and say "you cannot be taller than one story", and it can only be made of simple materials. All that rope does is hold the world down. It does not move the anything up.
The modern American education system is a few swans tied to a herd of deer, trying to get the deer to fly. The deer don't want to fly - they are heavy. They are not built for flight. They are built for something else. They want to run around in the woods and eat plants. The swans were made to fly.
This is the ideal case - to differentiate the best and worst. Make a school for the deer that teaches to deer , and make one for swans that lets them fly. Don't chain the ceiling down. Academically and intellectually our nation clearly demonstrates the consequences of forcing EVERYONE to live in these mud-huts. Foisting education on the children of uninvolved parents, and upon children who do not want to learn, should not be required. Allowing truly great students to be as great as they can - this is a good thing. We shouldn't tie them to the floor. They carry the world of tomorrow on their backs and they are going to make it good - lets help them to make it amazingly great.
The efficiency of capitalism requires multiple, independent vendors who compete against each other for sales. The current education system is clearly a state-owned and sponsored monopoly. This monopoly has failed badly by every measure. Dollars may be the inefficient measure - but they exist as hours of the lives of citizens taken by force. We take the most hours out of tax-paying citizens lives in order to pay for this state-instituted monopoly, and by every measure we are at the bottom level of outcome for the free world.
Reason suggests that we should be able to say to Taiwan, bring your education system here, and run it with your people in your ways, but using English, and we will send a statistically relevant sample of students there. Corporal discipline - whatever. If you can have better educational outcomes than our schools then we will move our federal dollars to pay you to do a better job at teaching our youth then our current failed federal monopoly can.
Things like charter schools - they are not actual competition. They are the beginning of actual competition, but they don't really count as a functional replacement. An actual replacement would take away dollars and students that would otherwise go to the state-monopoly. The pro-monopolists are whining that they don't like "eau de competition" but they aren't talking actual value. There are tangible, critical, internationally significant consequences that come from raising generations of children to be stupid and underperforming.
Modern American Public schools are pretty bad. If you are going to compare charter, then compare it to the actual public schools (corruption, non-education, etcetera) instead of comparing Charter to the ideal and assuming that modern state-instituted education is better than the private offering - which is what Charter is.
Note to self, never buy a Ford, or any vehicle with built-in GPS. You know that both Insurance and "Law" "enforcement" are now going to be going NSA on Ford to look at private human behaviors. Will there be a "I drove to McDonalds" tax for fat people on Obamacare?
HR eiter in-company, or out-company (headhunter) loves to play God. Yes they manage payroll, taxes, paperwork, and even a little bit of personalities and do a stellar job. Who doesn't appreciate someone who minimizes potential beef with the IRS. When they play HR they do great, but when they pretend to read minds or futures, they do less well.
Consider engineers, for example. The HR folks are not engineers. They typically are afraid of equations, so algebra, calculus, and differential equations - prerequisites for engineering - are off the table. The only things left are to hope someone else who hasn't used their degree in 15 years (engineering managers) can tell the difference. (It is a good bet that if you haven't used Diff-Eq in 5 years, you aren't any good at it anymore.) HR can try to "hack it" using indirect indicators, GPA, keywords in the resume. As far as I have seen they can be somewhat easily bluffed by a pretty face of a good talker. The problem with that is that it puts folks who are pretty boys with good talk where it should put butt-kicking rock-stars who are going to change the world.
One of my favorite articles, for its lack of implementation or even serious consideration is the ignoble winner: "The Peter Principle revisited". http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0455
This article gives a really basic, but extensible, framework against things like "frequency of review cycle" can be compared with actual ability to differentiate talent or maximize it in the organization. Use of the structure shows that there are organizational policies and structures that can actually reject talent. You can put in the 100% people, perfect talents, and the performance of the overall organization goes down. If you input some simple parameters you can determine that there is a peak after organizational performance goes down, and never returns to the peak.
This is a sandbox problem that could educate these folks because it gives them some great levers for getting to data-driven understanding.
Disclaimer: this is my personal thoughts, I'm not qualified to have an actual opinion, and even if I did this wouldn't be it.
Shared interposer can be very good for memory. It is likely less good than shared die, but much better than shared on the motherboard through a buss. A typical die can have 30k solderballs on it. It goes through the interposer and a few thousand are exposed to the motherboard. This means the die talks to itself through the interposer. This also leads to a suggestion that a shared-interposer memory could be close in performance to on-die memory. It doesn't have to run through the interposer-motherboard solderballs, motherboard routing, or time-shares of an on-motherboard buss. It might even not be exposed to the motherboard - on interposer dedicated bandwidth could be extensively optimized.
This is, of course, conjecture on my part. Personally I like the idea of a (very good sized) cluster, optimized, sharing a single piece of silicon. I like that someone else worked out the kinks, and it will run pretty-much plug and play with my existing compiler/development environment. Personally, I think this thing looks like it has warp drive.:D
US to China: you stole the result of a $400 Billion warplane technology development process, so we are writing that value off of what we owe you in national debt.
If we billed them for IP stolen then we would very quickly make up the $16 Trillion we owe.
They see stuff at their friends houses. The reason their friends have it is because it was more marketable than the stuff we grew up with. So I can't exactly relive my childhood joy with my kiddos. They are pushed away from it by the same stuff that made the new stuff what is new.
Now I have a Wii. Not the Wii-U or the modern stuff. I have the first-generation Wii. There is still an okay used-game market. It is probably approximately equivalent accessible experience. So I can get games that are old-ish and the older-ish of the newer systems, and though I cannot re-live the glory days, I have a more easily crossed bridge to participate with my kiddos in their glory days.
The only reason that there is no legal writ is because the average person hasn't been forced to think through it. Please remember this is rule OF the poeple BY the people, at least in theory, in the US.
If you do something odious enough to make the average person think it through, they will usually find a way to work against the odious and in the actual public good.
What a harmless looking comment. It is, in fact, so innocuous looking that it would make a great bookmark for someone in the NSA doing a followup search.
I think your "law" is really just an approximate measure of the technical pervasiveness of the NSA tracking and the social consequences of that.
The Phx AZ traffic light system is built with the data capacity to provide realtime high-resolution imaging that would support online/real-time tracking of individuals. You can (and I have) called 911 to report individuals walking in traffic, and the dispacher was able to identify the individual by color of clothing and where they were. This isn't the speeding-ticket camera, this is city-based camera built into/onto the traffic lights. Whether or not people realize or value it - privacy stopped existing in the USA a long time ago, and it isn't coming back. Big brother thinks he should be trusted AND spends accordingly on infrastructure. These folks like their billion-dollar a year budgets, and the sense of power. That isn't going to change any time soon. The next person you give that billion dollar a year budget and all that power too is going to go just as big-brother as the last guy. Power corrupts, remember?
Maybe the jurisdictions that are opting out of red-light cameras operated by third-parties already have their own infrastructure that makes the third party irrelevant.
Those guards meant to do good. They didn't mean to do anything wrong. What they were doing was "making justice" and the bad guys deserved it - they are after all "bad". (think extraordinary rendition) But now the guards find out they are unpopular, so what do they do?
They want a pat on the back from the warden. That makes children feel better, right - daddy telling them something their conscience does not.
Whether or not they "broke the letter" of the law they radically transgressed the fundamentals of freedom as the world understands it and million and millions of people are offended by this offensive behavior.
The important thing isn't about congratulating guards. It is to establish guidelines for "good" and for "evil" that are valid, that are universal, and then the guards who live by them don't need pats on the back. It will also keep you from actually spying on all the grandma's in the world in order to find a non-grandma terrorist. Grandma actually has a right to not be spied on, or permanently recorded, without judicial protections. Maybe someone needs to tell the NSA that they shouldn't be spying on Grandma. Seriously.
It has many of the properties of gold, without being tied to matter. It is not the monopoly money that the world currently runs on. If/when the monopoly-money bubble pops, the world crashes, and anything is good. But governments currently own enough actual gold and high-end trade-engineering enough to control the price of gold. Not (yet) so with Bitcoin.
I would vote for it. I wish it was on a US ballot somewhere. They should tie the head to the feet and keep the organism from becomming too serpent-like.
I wonder if Cisco can sue for damage to business. I know that if a government blunder cost me $35 billion, I would be pretty unhappy. Seriously that is nearly 12 US presidential elections bought worth of lost revenue.
When I look at the Goodput vs. Bandwidth being capped for QIC, and the statement that most folks don't use more than that, my thought was "so why does it exist in TCP?".
Is this something exploited primarily by hackers but not giving any value to normal humans?
Read "Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith and take microeconomics 101.
Service economy is a transitionary state where you have no creation of value, and the money hasn't yet been drained, and poverty. People pass around the same dollar bills, but only a tiny minority actually create value. Given the natural system perturbations that must come - that is an unsustainable model. It is the glass vase on the top of the wobbly table. It must crash.
I hate a number of their ads. You couldn't pay me enough to click on them. Seriously.
Now that I know they (might) have mouse-based tracking all I have to do is figure out what their (weak) logic is and then try that as an avenue to reduce the uninteresting ads. Why do I get commercials in spanish if I don't speak spanish?
It sounds like the power-plant builders with have the coal-burning anyway. That is what other comments seem to suggest.
The question is no longer IF there is coal-burning, but how. How is important, right? Because there are some clean-ish ways to burn it and there are some very cheap, very polluting ways to burn it. Given a 3rd world budget and engineering do you think they are going to spend the time and talent making it clean-ish, or do you think they are going to minimize short-term expenses and maximize short-term profits?
It is a drop in the bucket of our policies, according to other comments, so there is no "real" economic cost.
In conclusion this is a decision that has the superficial appearance of being green while maximizing levels of pollution for tomorrows world. Doesn't that qualify as "politics as usual"?
Best is meaningless without a measure of goodness. (from Optimization) You are going to get a slew of candidate bests but folks aren't going to often articulate what makes it best. there will conflicting or even mutually exclusive rubrics.
The goal of the language might include: - inexpensive (starving college student budget) - employable (typically used and valued in your post degree career) - fast enough (not every grad student needs to run on a supercomputer to get their job done) - great breadth and depth of libraries
IMO the "R" language does some of these really well. - It imports into JMP, SAS, and Python so you can wrapper it for your job. - It is engineered and maintained by stats/math grad students so it is wide, deep, and mostly correct - It is open source so it is free
Personally I use MatLab, which was taught in school and it hurts for the following reason: - where I work is JMP-dominant, so it is pulling teeth to stay in the $5k/yr CAL. - nobody else here speaks the language (statistically speaking) so I have to do extensive hand-holding to share the code - If I am not connected by VPN to the work CAL server, I can't turn on my software
As long as I am not doing CFD I find the interpreted language is good enough. Computers today are much better than the supercomputers of 15 years ago. We have smart-phones with better CPU's than a bleeding edge Pentium II yesteryear.
So they did it fast, but not right, and now they are paying more than they would have to do it properly in the first place?
This is an old story. You know what they say about those who do not learn from history, right? So if you (NSA/whomever) haven't learned yet, then it is unlikely you will start learning now. I'm going to learn from history and suggest that you aren't going to learn this time either. And maybe you can learn from my learning, and show yourself better than a zero-order player of games.
I see a video game in the theme of "Team America" where the subject is that you get to be the red cross and go punish violators. This sort of PR could end badly.
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Education is like building a skyscraper. The floor never moves upward, but the roof can be set so high up. The rest of the world lives for the high roof, and we Americans tie a rope between the ceiling and the floor and say "you cannot be taller than one story", and it can only be made of simple materials. All that rope does is hold the world down. It does not move the anything up.
The modern American education system is a few swans tied to a herd of deer, trying to get the deer to fly. The deer don't want to fly - they are heavy. They are not built for flight. They are built for something else. They want to run around in the woods and eat plants. The swans were made to fly.
This is the ideal case - to differentiate the best and worst. Make a school for the deer that teaches to deer , and make one for swans that lets them fly. Don't chain the ceiling down. Academically and intellectually our nation clearly demonstrates the consequences of forcing EVERYONE to live in these mud-huts. Foisting education on the children of uninvolved parents, and upon children who do not want to learn, should not be required. Allowing truly great students to be as great as they can - this is a good thing. We shouldn't tie them to the floor. They carry the world of tomorrow on their backs and they are going to make it good - lets help them to make it amazingly great.
The efficiency of capitalism requires multiple, independent vendors who compete against each other for sales. The current education system is clearly a state-owned and sponsored monopoly. This monopoly has failed badly by every measure. Dollars may be the inefficient measure - but they exist as hours of the lives of citizens taken by force. We take the most hours out of tax-paying citizens lives in order to pay for this state-instituted monopoly, and by every measure we are at the bottom level of outcome for the free world.
Reason suggests that we should be able to say to Taiwan, bring your education system here, and run it with your people in your ways, but using English, and we will send a statistically relevant sample of students there. Corporal discipline - whatever. If you can have better educational outcomes than our schools then we will move our federal dollars to pay you to do a better job at teaching our youth then our current failed federal monopoly can.
Things like charter schools - they are not actual competition. They are the beginning of actual competition, but they don't really count as a functional replacement. An actual replacement would take away dollars and students that would otherwise go to the state-monopoly. The pro-monopolists are whining that they don't like "eau de competition" but they aren't talking actual value. There are tangible, critical, internationally significant consequences that come from raising generations of children to be stupid and underperforming.
Here is a perspective on actual value: http://go.worldbank.org/GOBJ17VV90
Read where it says "Why focus on learning outcomes".
Modern American Public schools are pretty bad. If you are going to compare charter, then compare it to the actual public schools (corruption, non-education, etcetera) instead of comparing Charter to the ideal and assuming that modern state-instituted education is better than the private offering - which is what Charter is.
Note to self, never buy a Ford, or any vehicle with built-in GPS.
You know that both Insurance and "Law" "enforcement" are now going to be going NSA on Ford to look at private human behaviors.
Will there be a "I drove to McDonalds" tax for fat people on Obamacare?
HR eiter in-company, or out-company (headhunter) loves to play God. Yes they manage payroll, taxes, paperwork, and even a little bit of personalities and do a stellar job. Who doesn't appreciate someone who minimizes potential beef with the IRS. When they play HR they do great, but when they pretend to read minds or futures, they do less well.
Consider engineers, for example. The HR folks are not engineers. They typically are afraid of equations, so algebra, calculus, and differential equations - prerequisites for engineering - are off the table. The only things left are to hope someone else who hasn't used their degree in 15 years (engineering managers) can tell the difference. (It is a good bet that if you haven't used Diff-Eq in 5 years, you aren't any good at it anymore.) HR can try to "hack it" using indirect indicators, GPA, keywords in the resume. As far as I have seen they can be somewhat easily bluffed by a pretty face of a good talker. The problem with that is that it puts folks who are pretty boys with good talk where it should put butt-kicking rock-stars who are going to change the world.
One of my favorite articles, for its lack of implementation or even serious consideration is the ignoble winner: "The Peter Principle revisited". http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0455
This article gives a really basic, but extensible, framework against things like "frequency of review cycle" can be compared with actual ability to differentiate talent or maximize it in the organization. Use of the structure shows that there are organizational policies and structures that can actually reject talent. You can put in the 100% people, perfect talents, and the performance of the overall organization goes down. If you input some simple parameters you can determine that there is a peak after organizational performance goes down, and never returns to the peak.
This is a sandbox problem that could educate these folks because it gives them some great levers for getting to data-driven understanding.
Disclaimer: this is my personal thoughts, I'm not qualified to have an actual opinion, and even if I did this wouldn't be it.
Shared interposer can be very good for memory. It is likely less good than shared die, but much better than shared on the motherboard through a buss. A typical die can have 30k solderballs on it. It goes through the interposer and a few thousand are exposed to the motherboard. This means the die talks to itself through the interposer. This also leads to a suggestion that a shared-interposer memory could be close in performance to on-die memory. It doesn't have to run through the interposer-motherboard solderballs, motherboard routing, or time-shares of an on-motherboard buss. It might even not be exposed to the motherboard - on interposer dedicated bandwidth could be extensively optimized.
This is, of course, conjecture on my part. Personally I like the idea of a (very good sized) cluster, optimized, sharing a single piece of silicon. I like that someone else worked out the kinks, and it will run pretty-much plug and play with my existing compiler/development environment. Personally, I think this thing looks like it has warp drive. :D
US to China: you stole the result of a $400 Billion warplane technology development process, so we are writing that value off of what we owe you in national debt.
If we billed them for IP stolen then we would very quickly make up the $16 Trillion we owe.
They see stuff at their friends houses. The reason their friends have it is because it was more marketable than the stuff we grew up with. So I can't exactly relive my childhood joy with my kiddos. They are pushed away from it by the same stuff that made the new stuff what is new.
Now I have a Wii. Not the Wii-U or the modern stuff. I have the first-generation Wii. There is still an okay used-game market. It is probably approximately equivalent accessible experience. So I can get games that are old-ish and the older-ish of the newer systems, and though I cannot re-live the glory days, I have a more easily crossed bridge to participate with my kiddos in their glory days.
The only reason that there is no legal writ is because the average person hasn't been forced to think through it.
Please remember this is rule OF the poeple BY the people, at least in theory, in the US.
If you do something odious enough to make the average person think it through, they will usually find a way to work against the odious and in the actual public good.
What a harmless looking comment. It is, in fact, so innocuous looking that it would make a great bookmark for someone in the NSA doing a followup search.
I think your "law" is really just an approximate measure of the technical pervasiveness of the NSA tracking and the social consequences of that.
The Phx AZ traffic light system is built with the data capacity to provide realtime high-resolution imaging that would support online/real-time tracking of individuals. You can (and I have) called 911 to report individuals walking in traffic, and the dispacher was able to identify the individual by color of clothing and where they were. This isn't the speeding-ticket camera, this is city-based camera built into/onto the traffic lights. Whether or not people realize or value it - privacy stopped existing in the USA a long time ago, and it isn't coming back. Big brother thinks he should be trusted AND spends accordingly on infrastructure. These folks like their billion-dollar a year budgets, and the sense of power. That isn't going to change any time soon. The next person you give that billion dollar a year budget and all that power too is going to go just as big-brother as the last guy. Power corrupts, remember?
Maybe the jurisdictions that are opting out of red-light cameras operated by third-parties already have their own infrastructure that makes the third party irrelevant.
I wonder if there are going to be local/city-level disclosures about tracking of girlfriends using this system like there were for the NSA.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/23/nsa-officers-sometimes-spy-on-love-interests/
HE isn't saying commit biological suicide. He is saying "do what Snowden did" - it is an American figure of speech.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/spill+guts
Those guards meant to do good. They didn't mean to do anything wrong.
What they were doing was "making justice" and the bad guys deserved it - they are after all "bad". (think extraordinary rendition)
But now the guards find out they are unpopular, so what do they do?
They want a pat on the back from the warden. That makes children feel better, right - daddy telling them something their conscience does not.
Whether or not they "broke the letter" of the law they radically transgressed the fundamentals of freedom as the world understands it and million and millions of people are offended by this offensive behavior.
The important thing isn't about congratulating guards. It is to establish guidelines for "good" and for "evil" that are valid, that are universal, and then the guards who live by them don't need pats on the back. It will also keep you from actually spying on all the grandma's in the world in order to find a non-grandma terrorist. Grandma actually has a right to not be spied on, or permanently recorded, without judicial protections. Maybe someone needs to tell the NSA that they shouldn't be spying on Grandma. Seriously.
It has many of the properties of gold, without being tied to matter.
It is not the monopoly money that the world currently runs on. If/when the monopoly-money bubble pops, the world crashes, and anything is good. But governments currently own enough actual gold and high-end trade-engineering enough to control the price of gold. Not (yet) so with Bitcoin.
impo.
I would vote for it. I wish it was on a US ballot somewhere. They should tie the head to the feet and keep the organism from becomming too serpent-like.
I recently took the FE exam and this was the best of all allowed calculators. It made some of the problems substantially faster to solve.
http://www.casio-usa.com/products/Calculators_%26_Dictionaries/Fraction_%26_Scientific/FX-115ESPLUS/
Interpolation, Polar-Rect, symbolic integration and differentiation, Root finding, and the option of symbolic interface.
It is not bad for $20 US at any Walmart.
I wonder if Cisco can sue for damage to business. I know that if a government blunder cost me $35 billion, I would be pretty unhappy. Seriously that is nearly 12 US presidential elections bought worth of lost revenue.
When I look at the Goodput vs. Bandwidth being capped for QIC, and the statement that most folks don't use more than that, my thought was "so why does it exist in TCP?".
Is this something exploited primarily by hackers but not giving any value to normal humans?
I wonder what Gary Kasparov thinks about this idea. He is a bit of a thorn or a blackened eye to some Russian politicians.
A post like this in a forum like this would not be out of character for them.
Yes, it is a little bit of a conspiracy theorist idea. Sadly, folks in governments like to conspire. ;)
Read "Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith and take microeconomics 101.
Service economy is a transitionary state where you have no creation of value, and the money hasn't yet been drained, and poverty. People pass around the same dollar bills, but only a tiny minority actually create value. Given the natural system perturbations that must come - that is an unsustainable model. It is the glass vase on the top of the wobbly table. It must crash.
I hate a number of their ads. You couldn't pay me enough to click on them. Seriously.
Now that I know they (might) have mouse-based tracking all I have to do is figure out what their (weak) logic is and then try that as an avenue to reduce the uninteresting ads. Why do I get commercials in spanish if I don't speak spanish?
It sounds like the power-plant builders with have the coal-burning anyway. That is what other comments seem to suggest.
The question is no longer IF there is coal-burning, but how. How is important, right? Because there are some clean-ish ways to burn it and there are some very cheap, very polluting ways to burn it. Given a 3rd world budget and engineering do you think they are going to spend the time and talent making it clean-ish, or do you think they are going to minimize short-term expenses and maximize short-term profits?
It is a drop in the bucket of our policies, according to other comments, so there is no "real" economic cost.
In conclusion this is a decision that has the superficial appearance of being green while maximizing levels of pollution for tomorrows world. Doesn't that qualify as "politics as usual"?
Best is meaningless without a measure of goodness. (from Optimization) You are going to get a slew of candidate bests but folks aren't going to often articulate what makes it best. there will conflicting or even mutually exclusive rubrics.
The goal of the language might include:
- inexpensive (starving college student budget)
- employable (typically used and valued in your post degree career)
- fast enough (not every grad student needs to run on a supercomputer to get their job done)
- great breadth and depth of libraries
IMO the "R" language does some of these really well.
- It imports into JMP, SAS, and Python so you can wrapper it for your job.
- It is engineered and maintained by stats/math grad students so it is wide, deep, and mostly correct
- It is open source so it is free
Personally I use MatLab, which was taught in school and it hurts for the following reason:
- where I work is JMP-dominant, so it is pulling teeth to stay in the $5k/yr CAL.
- nobody else here speaks the language (statistically speaking) so I have to do extensive hand-holding to share the code
- If I am not connected by VPN to the work CAL server, I can't turn on my software
As long as I am not doing CFD I find the interpreted language is good enough. Computers today are much better than the supercomputers of 15 years ago. We have smart-phones with better CPU's than a bleeding edge Pentium II yesteryear.
I particularly like RStudio as an IDE.
http://www.rstudio.com/
So they did it fast, but not right, and now they are paying more than they would have to do it properly in the first place?
This is an old story. You know what they say about those who do not learn from history, right?
So if you (NSA/whomever) haven't learned yet, then it is unlikely you will start learning now. I'm going to learn from history and suggest that you aren't going to learn this time either. And maybe you can learn from my learning, and show yourself better than a zero-order player of games.
I see a video game in the theme of "Team America" where the subject is that you get to be the red cross and go punish violators. This sort of PR could end badly.
While looking around at NSA/FISA mandated backdoors both Adobe Flash and Java should be explored.