I am not a security expert, but does it strike you as insane that a car apparently has a public IP address? Anyone whatsoever can just portscan your car and look for vulnerabilities. I just have no words.
The way I interpret the test is that the output must not be intended to be produced by some pre-programmed process. Not that you couldn't debug it which would obviously be impossible on anything short of a quantum computer.
On the other hand, I claim that if I train a neural network on some sheet music, it would be able to produce a new melody. And that melody would not be in any way pre-programmed (like a child learning from experience is not pre-programmed), and it will be original. Where can I collect my prize?
I live in the Silicon Valley, and I had a choice of moving to NYC, and chose not to. Basically for the same reason - not a great place to raise a family. In the valley, your huge companies aren't all on top of each other and their employees aren't always competing over the same one-mile-radius from the center. You have Google in Mountain View, Apple in Cupertino, Yahoo in Santa Clara, Facebook in Menlo Park, etc. That makes commutes saner and housing cheaper. And each of these cities has its own little "cultural" thing, and you can go to one of the larger cities for bigger events and places.
In 1953, when Stalin died, the Great Soviet Encyclopedia was in the middle of being published. In the reshuffle the chief of State Security, Lavrentiy Beria, was declared a spy, but his article was in the B volume which was already published. As a result, an update was sent to all libraries in the form of a page be glued on top of his article, and the encyclopedia has an unexpectedly long article on the Bering Sea.
So I looked at the Perl5To6 Manual, and it gave me a headache. Really, I had to get some medicine just now. There used to be 10 ways to do anything in Perl 5, and in Perl 6 there's 20. And operators are approaching APL in obscureness and number. It has ways of being even more terse at the expense of the maintainer's head possibly exploding. Some changes are very nice and clean up some weirdness, but they compensated for it with a vengeance.
There's macros, and more contexts (where function returns different things depending on how its value is getting used), and meta-operators, and operator overloading on never-before-seen scale, and weird variant types, and ways to embed an enum into any object, even more complicated regular expressions, and so on...
This is a great approach, but it has a big drawback: it relies on students' ignorance. If the class has anyone remotely interested in math, he'd know about this topic way before it's done in class. I learned basic calculus in 7th grade because I was curious about integral signs and what not. That was 3 years before I saw it in class. And there were several other kids in class who already saw it at that point. In fact we've discussed it in Physics (velocity, etc) before we talked about it in Math.
Interesting, Sergey's father faced the problem of having to compromise by abandoning his faith and culture in order to get the job he wanted (astronomer) or stay Jewish and be reduced/stunted in a select set of careers.
Actually, you have no clue. It was impossible to become non-Jewish in Soviet Union. Most Jews tried, I think. If it were possible, I think many would have succeeded. It has nothing to do with faith anyway, most people were atheists. It had to do with ethnicity, whether you parents were Jews.
You have to be careful about generalizations. They may all be amoral (or not, I don't especially care), but they happen to vote in certain predictable ways, different for each one, so by supporting a certain politician over another, you can in fact get different results. Just don't fall in love with them.
I think you are forgetting that the man is appealing to Putin, not against him, and very respectfully, too. It's an old Russian tradition - to appeal to the czar against evil officials. Putin rather likes playing rescuer, swooping in and punishing the evildoers. So it may well turn out allright for him.
You must be joking. There's lots of apps for Android. Probably fewer than for iPhone, but not dramatically so. I was able to find an app for any task I needed.
I'd say that's an indicator of the fact that Wikipedia has a million entries (after years of work), and Knol has maybe a few thousand. Let's see how fast it grows - that'd be a real indication.
The company that makes this has a website (cyberlover.ru - in Russian). They claim the software is to expedite picking up women by getting their phone number, pictures, etc. In any case, it's not available now and only has screenshots (same one as in the linked article). So who knows if anyone real has used it at all or it's all fake or a scam to sell this software.
It is not just the temperature that it's important, it's the heat conductivity. You can put your hand into an oven, if you don't touch any surface. The air temperature is basically the same as that of a metallic object inside the oven. But you won't get burned if you don't touch it, and you will if you do. The reason is obvious: it's the total amount of heat that causes burns. Air doesn't conduct heat well enough, but metal does. So does water.
There's a Russian historian/philosopher, Lev Gumilev who had some interesting ideas as to what causes nations' and enthnic groups' rise and fall. His theory was that when such a nation is born (usually in the fires of revolution, migration, war), its people are passionate and idealistic. This lets them defeat their enemies and establish themselves in relative security. The next stage, as the people feel more secure, the culture flourishes and you have a golden age. But after that people become more and more concerned with improving their lives and they become more cynical and "decadent", unwilling to take risks. After that someone comes and knocks them over (sometimes their neighbors, sometimes just some more passionate group in the same nation). Obviously, Rome is a good example to look at.
For many nations, it's easy to guess which stage they are at. You could say that, say, China is clearly being reborn. France is looking back at its past glories. The US is an unusual case. It's sort of still in its golden age, held there by the immigrants who keep renewing it past where the nation could normally stay without becoming decadent. The space program is a good indicator. If it is cancelled, it would mean that the US is finally on its way down. It does not matter to me whether it is the economically right thing to do, its the right thing to do if we don't want to end up where the other empires usually do - decaying into the dust as its young and vigorous neighbors go forward.
One really cool way to explore the advanced google features is to play The Gwigle game. If you could get through the entire thing in less than a few hours, I'd be really impressed. The last problem is particularly cute.
There's good reason why there's so much regulation of banking & finance. It used to be a free-for-all, with rampant fraud on both sides: borrowers and lenders. Do you really feel confident enough not to be fooled by fraudsters of various sorts? It's sort of like phishing, only imagine you are computer-incompetent, because I doubt your (and my, and most people's) understanding of finance is good enough to detect the more sophisticated financial fraud out there. This is like a honeypot for thieves of the worst sort, because there's no tangible goods involved anywhere, it's just money - numbers in people's accounts.
Let's say you can't freely express your ideas. But you have a choice between being a peasant farmer and a doctor or an engineer. Which would you rather be? If you are smart, you still want to get educated and make the best life you can. Freedom has very little to do with usefulness of education.
I couldn't agree more, but it's always amazing to me how many people see their job as a major part of their worth as a human being
But work is a major part of your life. It takes about half of your waking hours. Your hobby can't come near it. Call me stupid, but not being satisfied during majority of your time is only marginally better than not being satisfied at all. Of course you don't need to go crazy over it, but it's pretty damn important, and being happy doing what you do there is also pretty damn important.
According to the FAQ the advertiser can't see your phone number, so they can't add you to their list and annoy you if you decide not to order anything from them. That's pretty nice.
I am amazed. It manages to look similar to the old one (horns) for someone who knows, yet if you don't know it does not suggest anything demonlike. Which is precisely what they wanted, I guess.
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I am not a security expert, but does it strike you as insane that a car apparently has a public IP address? Anyone whatsoever can just portscan your car and look for vulnerabilities. I just have no words.
Someone making authoritative comments on Slashdot, and yet not well-versed in the Tolkien lore? How could this be? :)
Galadriel was not a Firstborn at all, she was of the royal house of the Noldor, being a daughter of Finarfin.
Saruman was certainly a maia - how is that unclear? It says so in the Unfinished Tales.
Come on, "bug" is slang for something filed in a bugs tracker.
The way I interpret the test is that the output must not be intended to be produced by some pre-programmed process. Not that you couldn't debug it which would obviously be impossible on anything short of a quantum computer.
On the other hand, I claim that if I train a neural network on some sheet music, it would be able to produce a new melody. And that melody would not be in any way pre-programmed (like a child learning from experience is not pre-programmed), and it will be original. Where can I collect my prize?
It's a deeply flawed study. Basically, it's cherry-picking with a vengeance. There's a good discussion at Language Log: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=7715
I live in the Silicon Valley, and I had a choice of moving to NYC, and chose not to. Basically for the same reason - not a great place to raise a family. In the valley, your huge companies aren't all on top of each other and their employees aren't always competing over the same one-mile-radius from the center. You have Google in Mountain View, Apple in Cupertino, Yahoo in Santa Clara, Facebook in Menlo Park, etc. That makes commutes saner and housing cheaper. And each of these cities has its own little "cultural" thing, and you can go to one of the larger cities for bigger events and places.
In 1953, when Stalin died, the Great Soviet Encyclopedia was in the middle of being published. In the reshuffle the chief of State Security, Lavrentiy Beria, was declared a spy, but his article was in the B volume which was already published. As a result, an update was sent to all libraries in the form of a page be glued on top of his article, and the encyclopedia has an unexpectedly long article on the Bering Sea.
Hear, hear! Complete waste of time.
So I looked at the Perl5To6 Manual, and it gave me a headache. Really, I had to get some medicine just now. There used to be 10 ways to do anything in Perl 5, and in Perl 6 there's 20. And operators are approaching APL in obscureness and number. It has ways of being even more terse at the expense of the maintainer's head possibly exploding. Some changes are very nice and clean up some weirdness, but they compensated for it with a vengeance.
There's macros, and more contexts (where function returns different things depending on how its value is getting used), and meta-operators, and operator overloading on never-before-seen scale, and weird variant types, and ways to embed an enum into any object, even more complicated regular expressions, and so on ...
This is a great approach, but it has a big drawback: it relies on students' ignorance. If the class has anyone remotely interested in math, he'd know about this topic way before it's done in class. I learned basic calculus in 7th grade because I was curious about integral signs and what not. That was 3 years before I saw it in class. And there were several other kids in class who already saw it at that point. In fact we've discussed it in Physics (velocity, etc) before we talked about it in Math.
Interesting, Sergey's father faced the problem of having to compromise by abandoning his faith and culture in order to get the job he wanted (astronomer) or stay Jewish and be reduced/stunted in a select set of careers.
Actually, you have no clue. It was impossible to become non-Jewish in Soviet Union. Most Jews tried, I think. If it were possible, I think many would have succeeded. It has nothing to do with faith anyway, most people were atheists. It had to do with ethnicity, whether you parents were Jews.
You have to be careful about generalizations. They may all be amoral (or not, I don't especially care), but they happen to vote in certain predictable ways, different for each one, so by supporting a certain politician over another, you can in fact get different results. Just don't fall in love with them.
I think you are forgetting that the man is appealing to Putin, not against him, and very respectfully, too. It's an old Russian tradition - to appeal to the czar against evil officials. Putin rather likes playing rescuer, swooping in and punishing the evildoers. So it may well turn out allright for him.
You must be joking. There's lots of apps for Android. Probably fewer than for iPhone, but not dramatically so. I was able to find an app for any task I needed.
I'd say that's an indicator of the fact that Wikipedia has a million entries (after years of work), and Knol has maybe a few thousand. Let's see how fast it grows - that'd be a real indication.
The company that makes this has a website (cyberlover.ru - in Russian). They claim the software is to expedite picking up women by getting their phone number, pictures, etc. In any case, it's not available now and only has screenshots (same one as in the linked article). So who knows if anyone real has used it at all or it's all fake or a scam to sell this software.
It is not just the temperature that it's important, it's the heat conductivity. You can put your hand into an oven, if you don't touch any surface. The air temperature is basically the same as that of a metallic object inside the oven. But you won't get burned if you don't touch it, and you will if you do. The reason is obvious: it's the total amount of heat that causes burns. Air doesn't conduct heat well enough, but metal does. So does water.
I don't get your point. So she's a ScD, and not a PhD. It's basically the same thing.
There's a Russian historian/philosopher, Lev Gumilev who had some interesting ideas as to what causes nations' and enthnic groups' rise and fall. His theory was that when such a nation is born (usually in the fires of revolution, migration, war), its people are passionate and idealistic. This lets them defeat their enemies and establish themselves in relative security. The next stage, as the people feel more secure, the culture flourishes and you have a golden age. But after that people become more and more concerned with improving their lives and they become more cynical and "decadent", unwilling to take risks. After that someone comes and knocks them over (sometimes their neighbors, sometimes just some more passionate group in the same nation). Obviously, Rome is a good example to look at.
For many nations, it's easy to guess which stage they are at. You could say that, say, China is clearly being reborn. France is looking back at its past glories. The US is an unusual case. It's sort of still in its golden age, held there by the immigrants who keep renewing it past where the nation could normally stay without becoming decadent. The space program is a good indicator. If it is cancelled, it would mean that the US is finally on its way down. It does not matter to me whether it is the economically right thing to do, its the right thing to do if we don't want to end up where the other empires usually do - decaying into the dust as its young and vigorous neighbors go forward.
One really cool way to explore the advanced google features is to play The Gwigle game. If you could get through the entire thing in less than a few hours, I'd be really impressed. The last problem is particularly cute.
There's good reason why there's so much regulation of banking & finance. It used to be a free-for-all, with rampant fraud on both sides: borrowers and lenders. Do you really feel confident enough not to be fooled by fraudsters of various sorts? It's sort of like phishing, only imagine you are computer-incompetent, because I doubt your (and my, and most people's) understanding of finance is good enough to detect the more sophisticated financial fraud out there. This is like a honeypot for thieves of the worst sort, because there's no tangible goods involved anywhere, it's just money - numbers in people's accounts.
Let's say you can't freely express your ideas. But you have a choice between being a peasant farmer and a doctor or an engineer. Which would you rather be? If you are smart, you still want to get educated and make the best life you can. Freedom has very little to do with usefulness of education.
I couldn't agree more, but it's always amazing to me how many people see their job as a major part of their worth as a human being
But work is a major part of your life. It takes about half of your waking hours. Your hobby can't come near it. Call me stupid, but not being satisfied during majority of your time is only marginally better than not being satisfied at all. Of course you don't need to go crazy over it, but it's pretty damn important, and being happy doing what you do there is also pretty damn important.
According to the FAQ the advertiser can't see your phone number, so they can't add you to their list and annoy you if you decide not to order anything from them. That's pretty nice.
I am amazed. It manages to look similar to the old one (horns) for someone who knows, yet if you don't know it does not suggest anything demonlike. Which is precisely what they wanted, I guess.