Why should they? Engineers are on the application side of things....they use the existing tools (equations) to build other things. They don't need to know exactly how the tools work as long as they can be trusted to work. The only courses I had that were proof intensive were on the more pure math side of things, linear algebra and number theory, that I took because they sounded interesting and useful. There were some proofs mentioned during lecture for the calc -> diff. eq. and a couple of numerical courses, but we were never tested on them.
The ars article is light on details, but it looks like the author is leaning towards training a neural net to do the pattern matching since he mentions http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA320924
I probably wouldn't go the FFT route since a neural net or wavelets probably work better...but I also haven't done anything of the sort in the past 5-10 years, so maybe things got better. You're looking at the audio signature to determine lean fuel?
What question were you asking? The last time I opened a ticket with Red Hat was shortly after RHEL6 came out. It was answered accurately within about 8 hours, and it wasn't a priority 1 kind of issue.
But this is precisely why it makes this system useful AND should please teachers. If the system works well for grammar and ( hopefully programmable) essay structure, then the teachers can focus on the content, style, and finer points of writing. A computer can correct to/too/two, and if it frees up more time for the expert that is being paid to grade in depth, this is a good thing.
That is exactly what my last 3 English teachers did. They would mark improper grammar and spelling errors, but generally did not care as long as the content was effectively presented. These courses were all generally above the required university-level writing courses though, so it wasn't like we were turning in a bunch of youtube comments. At that point, our teachers let us into the secret of English writing...grammar really doesn't exist as long as your writing is understandable.
My theatre teacher took a different approach though and would make us re-write a paper that had grammatical errors. He also did not point out what they were. In those instances, we had to rely on our classmates to check our work.
For the haters: SaaS = Web 2.0 IaaS = VM PaaS = Don't have a single dismissive equivalency for this one, but I'm thinking one of those point and click things where you move blocks around to make a "program".
For the parent, thanks for the concise descriptions that I can point to...and I do consider all the *aaS buzzwords since they generally describe things that have existed for years. The *aaS trick is mostly automation. I'm thinking "click button and get a VM" vs "poke admin and get a VM".
Learning to write shell scripts is also an essential skill, but stick with a mainstream shell. Csh is godawful, and zsh is too obscure for the enterprise. Ksh implementations used to be very spotty, especially when moving scripts between Solaris and Linux.
Learn some of the other tools like awk, sed, grep, cut, sort and uniq.
There's a huge shortage of decent Unix admins and a glut of Windows admins. Most of the Unix Admins we interview can't script unless they're stealing from something someone else wrote and most don't understand the innards of how the OS even works.
zsh isn't too obscure for the enterprise...it comes with RHEL. zsh tricks are better left after learning sh, bash, and ksh though.
Speaking from the small window of the world that I can see... tons. SuSE is the preferred distro for anything that VMWare puts out today since, you know, they own the distro. That means that all of the pre-built appliances for their management services and apps are built on SuSE. Beyond that it's the distribution that IBM uses on any strange architecture they decide to run linux on, for example Watson is SuSE running on Power. I figured it would have been AIX but I was wrong. Beyond that, I'm told that it's also the preferred internal architecture for SAP development and if they can suggest an OS to you for the app servers, that's what it is... although officially they are OS agnostic. I don't think you get near any of those things without a pretty big checkbook, so I'll go ahead and call them professional.
That is a bizarre world indeed. Since when does VMWare own SuSE? Last a heard they were bought from Novell by Attachmate, and I don't see where anything has changed there.
Programmers can continuously get things wrong until they get it right, testing and refining along the way. While "simpler", an electrician needs to get it right the first time.
How is giving preferential treatment to the highest corporate bidder == small, constitutionally limited government? Or banning gay marriage? Or limiting women's choices? Or cutting entitlement programs to shift funding over to the military? I'm ok with the small, constitutionally limited government that conservatives always talk about, I just don't want the social and moral legislation that always seems to be mentioned in the next breath.
So you have a syllabus. Is it handwritten or did you type it up on a computer? If you typed it up on a computer, then you will have a file saved. If you take that file and save it somewhere that can be easily accessed...like maybe some shared storage space on the department's webserver, then there is no syllabus for anybody to keep track of. How hard is it to copy a file to a webserver?
Not sure about where you are, but I've found that places in Tampa are generally having a hard time finding the right person. Last couple times I've hired somebody, it took months until we finally found somebody from out of town in both cases. I also recently changed jobs and heard that I was pretty much the only qualified person they talked to.
Also, there is the difference between looking for "a job" and "the job you want". I've only worked a handful of places, and I can see that the company can make a huge difference. The last place I worked was kind of a "I need a job, oh there's a job" situation, and it was not good.
Technical articles and opinions should have a level of proof and logic behind them. Incomplete arguments should be noted, and invalid arguments should be immediately identifiable. Furthermore, authors should be forced to stand on the merits of their arguments rather than some alleged claim to authority such as, "I've been a teacher at a major University for 15 years..." And they should be forced to create psudonyms that don't imply and opinion. (For instance, no one named "Alexander Hamilton" should be allowed on the forum, and certainly not to comment on the Federal Budget.)
Any other ideas?
What if my name actually is Alexander Hamilton?...and you think that people shouldn't talk about anything about which they have an opinion or form opinions based on anything other than bulletproof logic founded on verifiable proof? You sound like somebody who would be no fun at a party.
I think the "what suck why" phrasing goes an extra step into emphasizing the dismissive attitude. His objections are so far beneath you that he does not even deserve the time it takes to create a properly formatted sentence with all of those useless articles.
So how can one pass the HR screen and get an interview with "programming knowledge", and even a CompEng degree, but with otherwise no experience? The few times I did make it past HR, nobody ever really tried to figure out what I could do practically. It was all questions about academics.
At the University of Florida (a "best value" school), graduate tuition is $524.56 / credit hour for a resident. Undergrad is $204 / credit hour. Non-resident undergrad courses are....$947 / credit hour. Where did you go to school?
I've responded like this in the past when someone claims that employers are being disingenuous, but I'll do it again...if there are any good Java or front-end JavaScript developers in the SF bay area, respond and I'll tell you how to apply...these are $150k+ jobs, so we're not low-balling candidates.
Is $150k in San Francisco really that great though? Using two different cost of living calculators to translate San Francisco to Raleigh, NC (which is close to average), $150k turns into either $74k or $86k. How accurate is that? Are people living around San Francisco that underpaid for where they live compared to workers someplace that isn't insanely expensive? Even using the high $86k number, that sounds more like a good side of average programmer with 5 years experience. $150k is what good programmers I know in central FL with ~5 years experience are making, and cost of living there is under the national average.
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Why should they? Engineers are on the application side of things....they use the existing tools (equations) to build other things. They don't need to know exactly how the tools work as long as they can be trusted to work. The only courses I had that were proof intensive were on the more pure math side of things, linear algebra and number theory, that I took because they sounded interesting and useful. There were some proofs mentioned during lecture for the calc -> diff. eq. and a couple of numerical courses, but we were never tested on them.
Hmmm...how about something www.capistranoswallows.com running on a raspberry pi to present a webpage like http://www.abevigoda.com/
The ars article is light on details, but it looks like the author is leaning towards training a neural net to do the pattern matching since he mentions http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA320924
I probably wouldn't go the FFT route since a neural net or wavelets probably work better...but I also haven't done anything of the sort in the past 5-10 years, so maybe things got better. You're looking at the audio signature to determine lean fuel?
What question were you asking? The last time I opened a ticket with Red Hat was shortly after RHEL6 came out. It was answered accurately within about 8 hours, and it wasn't a priority 1 kind of issue.
But this is precisely why it makes this system useful AND should please teachers. If the system works well for grammar and ( hopefully programmable) essay structure, then the teachers can focus on the content, style, and finer points of writing. A computer can correct to/too/two, and if it frees up more time for the expert that is being paid to grade in depth, this is a good thing.
That is exactly what my last 3 English teachers did. They would mark improper grammar and spelling errors, but generally did not care as long as the content was effectively presented. These courses were all generally above the required university-level writing courses though, so it wasn't like we were turning in a bunch of youtube comments. At that point, our teachers let us into the secret of English writing...grammar really doesn't exist as long as your writing is understandable.
My theatre teacher took a different approach though and would make us re-write a paper that had grammatical errors. He also did not point out what they were. In those instances, we had to rely on our classmates to check our work.
For the haters:
SaaS = Web 2.0
IaaS = VM
PaaS = Don't have a single dismissive equivalency for this one, but I'm thinking one of those point and click things where you move blocks around to make a "program".
For the parent, thanks for the concise descriptions that I can point to...and I do consider all the *aaS buzzwords since they generally describe things that have existed for years. The *aaS trick is mostly automation. I'm thinking "click button and get a VM" vs "poke admin and get a VM".
Learning to write shell scripts is also an essential skill, but stick with a mainstream shell. Csh is godawful, and zsh is too obscure for the enterprise. Ksh implementations used to be very spotty, especially when moving scripts between Solaris and Linux.
Learn some of the other tools like awk, sed, grep, cut, sort and uniq.
There's a huge shortage of decent Unix admins and a glut of Windows admins. Most of the Unix Admins we interview can't script unless they're stealing from something someone else wrote and most don't understand the innards of how the OS even works.
zsh isn't too obscure for the enterprise...it comes with RHEL. zsh tricks are better left after learning sh, bash, and ksh though.
Speaking from the small window of the world that I can see... tons. SuSE is the preferred distro for anything that VMWare puts out today since, you know, they own the distro. That means that all of the pre-built appliances for their management services and apps are built on SuSE. Beyond that it's the distribution that IBM uses on any strange architecture they decide to run linux on, for example Watson is SuSE running on Power. I figured it would have been AIX but I was wrong. Beyond that, I'm told that it's also the preferred internal architecture for SAP development and if they can suggest an OS to you for the app servers, that's what it is... although officially they are OS agnostic. I don't think you get near any of those things without a pretty big checkbook, so I'll go ahead and call them professional.
That is a bizarre world indeed. Since when does VMWare own SuSE? Last a heard they were bought from Novell by Attachmate, and I don't see where anything has changed there.
Since they're all pretty much the same these days, what is it that you're striking out and changing?
Or send him to the upside-down-ternet
Programmers can continuously get things wrong until they get it right, testing and refining along the way. While "simpler", an electrician needs to get it right the first time.
How is giving preferential treatment to the highest corporate bidder == small, constitutionally limited government? Or banning gay marriage? Or limiting women's choices? Or cutting entitlement programs to shift funding over to the military? I'm ok with the small, constitutionally limited government that conservatives always talk about, I just don't want the social and moral legislation that always seems to be mentioned in the next breath.
flava-flav? that you?
So you have a syllabus. Is it handwritten or did you type it up on a computer?
If you typed it up on a computer, then you will have a file saved.
If you take that file and save it somewhere that can be easily accessed...like maybe some shared storage space on the department's webserver, then there is no syllabus for anybody to keep track of.
How hard is it to copy a file to a webserver?
They have a 3.8 rating on Glassdoor....that is pretty good. Google's rating is 4.1.
Not sure about where you are, but I've found that places in Tampa are generally having a hard time finding the right person. Last couple times I've hired somebody, it took months until we finally found somebody from out of town in both cases. I also recently changed jobs and heard that I was pretty much the only qualified person they talked to.
Also, there is the difference between looking for "a job" and "the job you want". I've only worked a handful of places, and I can see that the company can make a huge difference. The last place I worked was kind of a "I need a job, oh there's a job" situation, and it was not good.
Technical articles and opinions should have a level of proof and logic behind them. Incomplete arguments should be noted, and invalid arguments should be immediately identifiable. Furthermore, authors should be forced to stand on the merits of their arguments rather than some alleged claim to authority such as, "I've been a teacher at a major University for 15 years..." And they should be forced to create psudonyms that don't imply and opinion. (For instance, no one named "Alexander Hamilton" should be allowed on the forum, and certainly not to comment on the Federal Budget.)
Any other ideas?
What if my name actually is Alexander Hamilton? ...and you think that people shouldn't talk about anything about which they have an opinion or form opinions based on anything other than bulletproof logic founded on verifiable proof? You sound like somebody who would be no fun at a party.
That is normal. I can't think of any company that has called back and said I didn't get the position.
There are real jobs on Craigslist? I think I would immediately be suspicious of any job posting I found there.
I think the "what suck why" phrasing goes an extra step into emphasizing the dismissive attitude. His objections are so far beneath you that he does not even deserve the time it takes to create a properly formatted sentence with all of those useless articles.
So how can one pass the HR screen and get an interview with "programming knowledge", and even a CompEng degree, but with otherwise no experience? The few times I did make it past HR, nobody ever really tried to figure out what I could do practically. It was all questions about academics.
At the University of Florida (a "best value" school), graduate tuition is $524.56 / credit hour for a resident. Undergrad is $204 / credit hour. Non-resident undergrad courses are....$947 / credit hour. Where did you go to school?
You will end up with easy-if you do this. Beneficiaries can probably think of it Nigerian spam message.
Sake...no accent. If you're going to be pretentious and pedantic, then at least do it right.*
*Not typed in Kanji or Hiragana for those more pedantic than I because I am lazy
I've responded like this in the past when someone claims that employers are being disingenuous, but I'll do it again...if there are any good Java or front-end JavaScript developers in the SF bay area, respond and I'll tell you how to apply...these are $150k+ jobs, so we're not low-balling candidates.
Is $150k in San Francisco really that great though? Using two different cost of living calculators to translate San Francisco to Raleigh, NC (which is close to average), $150k turns into either $74k or $86k. How accurate is that? Are people living around San Francisco that underpaid for where they live compared to workers someplace that isn't insanely expensive? Even using the high $86k number, that sounds more like a good side of average programmer with 5 years experience. $150k is what good programmers I know in central FL with ~5 years experience are making, and cost of living there is under the national average.