One of the reasons a baby is given a vitamin K shot at birth is to address their low blood levels at birth, which can also be addressed by leaving the cord attached until the placenta stops pumping and the cord turns white. This of course helps with other issues, particularly in having enough red blood cells to adequately transport oxygen to the organs. I hadn't heard the stem cell argument, which I'd be less concerned about but sounds like another good reason to wait.
Of course the main reason vitamin K is administered by shot and in infant formula is for blood coagulation in case the baby is injured in the first month when levels are low. Hopefully a one-month-old is not exposed to many circumstances which would result in cuts and bruises. It seems possible that there are developmental reasons for the initially low v-K levels (because nature/evolution often has a reason for such discrepancies), but I am not aware of any research on the topic.
It's also old news that giving birth on your back without moving around is just about the most painful and inconvenient way to do it, but birth wards continue to promote this because it is also the most convenient position for the doctor.
Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens didn't make any secrets about his political views. If there were personally damaging revelations in there (criminal or moral confession) I could see insisting it only be published after his death. But 100 years later? The only reason I see for that is the autobiagraphies contain socially damaging information about people who were close to him, so that it might not only hurt them but their descendants.
Exactly, it's not some secret classified military weapon, which is how it is being treated. It's a phone, slightly improved over a model that millions use, lose and break all the time. The police should have treated like every other report of a lost phone.
Graphics: Matlab has a huge library of very usable graphics functions. However it is nonetheless lacking in certain areas. GUIs is one of them (you can only embed Matlab graphics in a Matlab GUI, and the various methods to build a GUI in Matlab mostly sucks compared to what is possible outside of Matlab).
It took me a long time to figure out Matlab graphics. Their "guide" function is nice for mocking up GUIs, but is not anything you want to use for making them. Handle graphics should be used the way they were originally designed; as OO objects managed by set and get. Since then I haven't found anything I want to do with Matlab graphics that I can't. It is total control.
Dev environment: All functions in all toolboxes are in the same namespace in Matlab, and it's beginning hard to find creative new names for my own function, all the most if they replicate some Matlab's built-in capability. Python's namespace / module imports solves this problem very nicely.
Yup, been an issue for awhile. However the 2008 class-definition and package-definition components go a long way to address it. They're moving towards becoming a primarily object-oriented language. Of course Python is already there, but Matlab has recognized the weakness and is moving forcefully to correct it. And sometimes there is an advantage is showing up late, means you can learn from someone else's mistakes. Although here I mostly see learning from what was successful.
There's a big difference between profitless civil copyright infringement and a violent felony. This is more like someone sneaking across your yard to photograph some pages of a book your neighbor carelessly left out on their deck. Except even That constitutes a greater crime, with criminal trespass, etc. If anything the police should be investigating the person who accessed the WiFi point without the owner's permission. I don't have a fence around my front yard, but that shouldn't be construed as an open invitation to have a picnic in it.
the reason why matlab is so widely used is the same as the reason why FORTAN is widely used: there was an era when it truly was the best tool available... but because it's the only thing that the instructors know how to use.
Ya, momentum is definitely part of why Matlab is popular, but you ignore all of the other reasons I list, which are significant. Those are features you just can't get in a single package elsewhere.
I don't expect Matlab to be king forever, it is showing its age and there are many contenders for the crown. Perhaps Python+ will be the succesor. But it's going to take more than momentum to get there, the community will need to address the feature gap, and offer clearer advantages than "free".
It's not Matlab competing with raw Python in your example, but with the compiled C and Fortran of NumPy. They're going to be about the same speed. Matlab and Python are both interpretive languages, so pretty slow. However, the slowest most intensive parts have been compiled to get the "best" of both worlds, ease of use and speed.
Python has it's strengths, but there are good reasons Matlab is so widely used:
Price: There is a price to everything, Matlab's is up-front and what you get is guaranteed support and development. If there is a bug or serious shortcoming you know someone is working on it like their job depends on it. Graphics: Matlab has the most feature-rich and usable graphical environment of any of its would-be competitors, none of which do 3D well. Speed: Core Matlab operations are highly optimized in C; properly vectorized Matlab code will run much faster than what most programmers could write in C themselves. Interoperability: Java and.Net calls can be made from the Matlab command line, integrating compiled C is well-supported and very straightforward. Python can do these things, but it's not automatic or well-documented. Documentation: it's there, and it's good. Dev Environment: the debugging tools, profiler, and lint integration are really helpful.
There's a bunch of papers on this, including from throughout Einstein's career. He changed his mind several times on this. The basic idea is since relativity explains gravity as not exerting a force but warping space, every chunk of matter put a bend in the universe, which all bends the same way (closer) and eventually bends back on itself. Like if one kept putting kinks in a wire, eventually it would form a loop.
Totally. Dark matter, dark energy, relativistic gravity, the big bang, and an expanding universe are all theories which are increasingly in conflict with the empirical evidence. Seems like a good time to set the problematic theories aside and try interpreting the data without use of unsupported presumptions.
BUT in an even greater coincidence, they came up with a nearly identical Unicode scheme, and are equally lazy about actually specifying which encoding they are using.
The mathematical model is General Relativity, which postulates that gravity warps the universe back upon itself like the surface of a 4 dimensional sphere. So you could fly off into space and arrive at the same point 14 billion years later from the other direction, or a bit later if you weren't traveling at light speed;-) Personally I think it's a bit silly, but that puts me way out of line with mainstream cosmology.
Treasure in shipwrecks leads to big arguments over ownership centuries later. You don't lose you property rights just because you misplace or are deprived of something (in the old days the big problem was property that departed on its own, i.e., livestock... the owner had to pay damages for what the critter ate or broke, but it was still his).
I was a commercial fisherman for quite awhile, and it is common knowledge that if everyone leaves a ship in danger, it is considered "abandoned" and anyone has salvage rights. Just have to board the ship. One of the reasons captains are so reluctant to leave their sinking ship. I knew one captain who reclaimed the wreck of a ship he had built and sold (The Abby Joe, forget his name) this way, after earlier salvagers had claimed the electronics and engine.
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One of the reasons a baby is given a vitamin K shot at birth is to address their low blood levels at birth, which can also be addressed by leaving the cord attached until the placenta stops pumping and the cord turns white. This of course helps with other issues, particularly in having enough red blood cells to adequately transport oxygen to the organs. I hadn't heard the stem cell argument, which I'd be less concerned about but sounds like another good reason to wait.
Of course the main reason vitamin K is administered by shot and in infant formula is for blood coagulation in case the baby is injured in the first month when levels are low. Hopefully a one-month-old is not exposed to many circumstances which would result in cuts and bruises. It seems possible that there are developmental reasons for the initially low v-K levels (because nature/evolution often has a reason for such discrepancies), but I am not aware of any research on the topic.
It's also old news that giving birth on your back without moving around is just about the most painful and inconvenient way to do it, but birth wards continue to promote this because it is also the most convenient position for the doctor.
+1 common sense
Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens didn't make any secrets about his political views. If there were personally damaging revelations in there (criminal or moral confession) I could see insisting it only be published after his death. But 100 years later? The only reason I see for that is the autobiagraphies contain socially damaging information about people who were close to him, so that it might not only hurt them but their descendants.
Humans have fewer genes than corn. And who's got the most features? Wonder how we did it...
disappointing
Anyway, why shouldn't we use the nuclear option to control the oil leak?
Time for ocean to recover from leak: 100-200 years.
Half life of Plutonium-239: 24,000 years.
Exactly, it's not some secret classified military weapon, which is how it is being treated. It's a phone, slightly improved over a model that millions use, lose and break all the time. The police should have treated like every other report of a lost phone.
Graphics: Matlab has a huge library of very usable graphics functions. However it is nonetheless lacking in certain areas. GUIs is one of them (you can only embed Matlab graphics in a Matlab GUI, and the various methods to build a GUI in Matlab mostly sucks compared to what is possible outside of Matlab).
It took me a long time to figure out Matlab graphics. Their "guide" function is nice for mocking up GUIs, but is not anything you want to use for making them. Handle graphics should be used the way they were originally designed; as OO objects managed by set and get. Since then I haven't found anything I want to do with Matlab graphics that I can't. It is total control.
Dev environment: All functions in all toolboxes are in the same namespace in Matlab, and it's beginning hard to find creative new names for my own function, all the most if they replicate some Matlab's built-in capability. Python's namespace / module imports solves this problem very nicely.
Yup, been an issue for awhile. However the 2008 class-definition and package-definition components go a long way to address it. They're moving towards becoming a primarily object-oriented language. Of course Python is already there, but Matlab has recognized the weakness and is moving forcefully to correct it. And sometimes there is an advantage is showing up late, means you can learn from someone else's mistakes. Although here I mostly see learning from what was successful.
My understanding of oil drilling is that an unregulated well will gush at a much higher rate than a regulated one.
Maybe you meant 1 billion in 3 months. At that rate it would take about 30 years to hit 1 trillion barrels.
I keep being told I am a 'nice guy'. I need to cure this nice guy syndrome as fast as possible.
Getting drunk and stealing a plane might be a good place to start.
There's a big difference between profitless civil copyright infringement and a violent felony. This is more like someone sneaking across your yard to photograph some pages of a book your neighbor carelessly left out on their deck. Except even That constitutes a greater crime, with criminal trespass, etc. If anything the police should be investigating the person who accessed the WiFi point without the owner's permission. I don't have a fence around my front yard, but that shouldn't be construed as an open invitation to have a picnic in it.
Gnuplot is solid, I'm surprised I don't hear of it with Python. How do you connect them? My impression was there isn't a good link available.
the reason why matlab is so widely used is the same as the reason why FORTAN is widely used: there was an era when it truly was the best tool available... but because it's the only thing that the instructors know how to use.
Ya, momentum is definitely part of why Matlab is popular, but you ignore all of the other reasons I list, which are significant. Those are features you just can't get in a single package elsewhere.
I don't expect Matlab to be king forever, it is showing its age and there are many contenders for the crown. Perhaps Python+ will be the succesor. But it's going to take more than momentum to get there, the community will need to address the feature gap, and offer clearer advantages than "free".
It's not Matlab competing with raw Python in your example, but with the compiled C and Fortran of NumPy. They're going to be about the same speed. Matlab and Python are both interpretive languages, so pretty slow. However, the slowest most intensive parts have been compiled to get the "best" of both worlds, ease of use and speed.
Python has it's strengths, but there are good reasons Matlab is so widely used:
Price: There is a price to everything, Matlab's is up-front and what you get is guaranteed support and development. If there is a bug or serious shortcoming you know someone is working on it like their job depends on it. .Net calls can be made from the Matlab command line, integrating compiled C is well-supported and very straightforward. Python can do these things, but it's not automatic or well-documented.
Graphics: Matlab has the most feature-rich and usable graphical environment of any of its would-be competitors, none of which do 3D well.
Speed: Core Matlab operations are highly optimized in C; properly vectorized Matlab code will run much faster than what most programmers could write in C themselves.
Interoperability: Java and
Documentation: it's there, and it's good.
Dev Environment: the debugging tools, profiler, and lint integration are really helpful.
There's a bunch of papers on this, including from throughout Einstein's career. He changed his mind several times on this. The basic idea is since relativity explains gravity as not exerting a force but warping space, every chunk of matter put a bend in the universe, which all bends the same way (closer) and eventually bends back on itself. Like if one kept putting kinks in a wire, eventually it would form a loop.
Totally. Dark matter, dark energy, relativistic gravity, the big bang, and an expanding universe are all theories which are increasingly in conflict with the empirical evidence. Seems like a good time to set the problematic theories aside and try interpreting the data without use of unsupported presumptions.
BUT in an even greater coincidence, they came up with a nearly identical Unicode scheme, and are equally lazy about actually specifying which encoding they are using.
The mathematical model is General Relativity, which postulates that gravity warps the universe back upon itself like the surface of a 4 dimensional sphere. So you could fly off into space and arrive at the same point 14 billion years later from the other direction, or a bit later if you weren't traveling at light speed ;-)
Personally I think it's a bit silly, but that puts me way out of line with mainstream cosmology.
+1 informative
Interesting law; 5 years minimum for damaging Fed property with fire...
Treasure in shipwrecks leads to big arguments over ownership centuries later. You don't lose you property rights just because you misplace or are deprived of something (in the old days the big problem was property that departed on its own, i.e., livestock ... the owner had to pay damages for what the critter ate or broke, but it was still his).
I was a commercial fisherman for quite awhile, and it is common knowledge that if everyone leaves a ship in danger, it is considered "abandoned" and anyone has salvage rights. Just have to board the ship. One of the reasons captains are so reluctant to leave their sinking ship. I knew one captain who reclaimed the wreck of a ship he had built and sold (The Abby Joe, forget his name) this way, after earlier salvagers had claimed the electronics and engine.
It's a great interface, clean and stable, I use it to stay in touch with my non-American friends.