Sweet reductio ad absurdum.
The issue is that there are spectrums to every job. Not all jobs in the same field require the same level of knowledge or technical skill. And some fields, those who need a higher level of knowledge or technical skill might be the majority, or the minority.
Personally, I've worked at two very different EE jobs. One of them is very demanding, and required application of many of the advanced concepts I learned from college, and I had to learn things even beyond that to stay effective. The other, however, could have likely been done by someone with some years of hands on learning, it was not at the high end of technical challenge for my field.
Lumping these types of things together is what causes people to get arrogant and huffy and start claiming college is useless. There are TWO issues:
1: It's going to be hard for you to know if you need college for the type of job you want to do in your field until you get into it or at least try it.
2: The abundance of graduates in a particular field allows employers to stop even wondering how demanding THEIR job is, and just require a degree in the field necessary.
Oh man I wish I could mod this up. He did not represent himself as a licensed engineer or claim credentials as such. If he had, that would be a crime.
And FWIW my good friend who is a licensed P.E. could not even put "engineering" in the title of his side business because he wasn't offering true engineering services. I suspect the same can be said for medical and other industries.
However we all know he was really just using it in this case to try to give himself some credibility, not claim anything he was not.
One things for certain though, he is obviously not well versed enough to know yet that challenging ranking ideas unprovoked as an outsider is likely to get you looked upon with ire. I've dealt with many proud superiors in my field (EE). Usually I had to do it on my own time and and then present it once it worked and was provable.
I actually believe if self-driving cars take off, drive times will go down. The programmers of the cars can do a lot to alleviate the bad behaviors people have gotten in to that just makes heavy traffic worse.
Such as:
-Tailgating in traffic jams, allowing no room for merging or changing lanes, causing everyone to have to slam on their brakes when someone does need to move lanes.
-Waiting until the absolute last second to merge when lanes are reduced.
-Essentially acting as a completely un-damped spring, speeding up and slowing down to stay exactly right behind the car in front, allowing all kinds of nasty resonances and standing waves.
Not having a blatant indication there was a puzzle to be solved was part of the puzzle. They were hoping for someone like him to be observant and curious enough to solve it.
His students are probably lucky to have him.
Attempting to down play it just sounds like petty jealousy.
This reminds me of one the anecdotes I picked up from one of my college engineering professors in regards to his philosophies on tests:
"Would you fly in an airplane forcibly designed in one hour with no notes?"
And before someone starts busting my balls, yes students should learn the underlying fundamental mechanics of the subject matter. It's more of a protest of the unnecessary aspect of memorizing the details that have no bearing on someone's understanding.
I know the best insurance is having competent IT pros that can make ransomware no more than a minor inconvenience, but I suspect there are many small/medium businesses that would find this a cheaper alternative than staffing such a department.
This type of thing already did happen once with DDT. It was a bit of fight, but it did happen. People expressed concern about it for ~10 years or so before it was finally banned. It was pretty strongly connected to population decline in many birds.
I've thought about this a lot. I waver between a few thoughts.
Capitalistic arrogance: After gaining enough success, these people begin to believe they are largely responsible for the success of such a large organization. Much like celebrities mistakenly begin to believe they are the pillars of the society just because they look good on tv. This especially feels true when lower employees are getting the boot and the CEO is getting a bonus.
or maybe
Because they can. The CEO's salary distributed among the rest of the people in a gigantic company usually adds up to a value most people wouldn't miss over the course of a year.
Apart from the very tired "But what about if someone shoots it down/steals it" criticism, I couldn't help but wonder to myself what happens if the land and/or landscaping around the property is less than ideal. Like un-mowed grass, or very rock/treacherous terrain. Perhaps it can drop the package from a small height?
I won't deny it looks very cool. But I'm still holding out skepticism to how well this delivery model scales up to the volume amazon truly deals with.
Am I the only one who immediately thought about all the breeds of dogs humans have essentially bred to suffer because they were artifically selected to have such smooshed, huge faces they can barely breath, and also can't even deliver their own puppies without a C-section?
As an engineering intern, I was paid more than friends that had already graduated college with other degrees (business/marketing/etc). If you took my hourly rate and ran it for a year, yeah it would have been in the 50K-60K range. Cost of living wasn't an issue. You could have all housing provided for you and have 3 roommates, or take a lump housing stipend at the beginning. The money I made and saved helped support me throughout the rest of the school year. And this WASN'T California.
The unfortunate truth is some careers make more than others. So much more so, in some cases, that even a low level peon (intern) can make more in that career than an experience person in another career. I'm an engineer, I think I make good money. But tell that to the Neurosurgeon who has enough in his bank account to pay off my entire mortgage if he wanted to (this is not hyperbole, I've seen it).
The difference is we actively attempt to overcome those non-idealities in electronics to get a deterministic result.
They same cannot necessarily be said for neural networks. At times their core functionality works with the non-ideal features ofor the system.
While it sounds like corporate mumbo-jumbo, it serves two important purposes.
1: It puts the employee on notice. I have seen this, but luckily never been on the receiving end. The most recent one, the employee was offered to be placed on the plan or take a severance and leave. The only catch was that if they chose the plan and failed, it would have been a boot. No severance, no nothing. Truthfully, your review should not go from good to "you're an inch from fired" without you having heard something in between. That's bad management. If you are sliding, your manager should give you feedback right then and there, not surprise you with it in a review.
2: It gives HR a fallback to prove they took reasonable measures before firing the employee. Hard to argue a wrongful termination after that unless there's some obvious discriminatory behavior or something.
On Semiconductor also bought Fairchild. Analog devices also has approval from SEC to buy Linear Technologies. Texas Instruments bought National Semiconductor some time ago.
Working in the industry it's been interesting to see what happens with all these acquisitions. It's NOT fun, however, when someone buys the company who happens to make a very unique part, then cans that whole product line, forcing you to redesign the product (which may or may not have a replacement part).
I'm down with this. I say we should have tax incentives for LESS kids, not more kids. I'm counting down the days until I can go into a doctor's office and ask for a vasectomy and not be laughed out based on my age and lack of kids.
I had someone endorse me for a software package from a competitor. Not just any old software, one in which our companies got in a bitter lawsuit over, and everyone from my company is forbidden to even visit the website for. (No joke, if they notice too much traffic to that company's website, the whole company gets a nastygram.) So yeah, I wouldn't mind a way to add some credibility to the endorsements.
And of course I have the slew of endorsements that I am not qualified for from friends and other people who have little to no background in my field. From those people, it just feels kind of like a friendly pat on the back more than a real endorsement. I have taken to ignoring them instead of accepting them when I am given the choice, but whaddayagonnado.
All the most "whoa" moments are cherry picked to make it sound like something from ex-machina. When in fact the thing is entertainingly goofy looking and barely more sentient than a chat bot.
Mmmm, I disagree a little. A centrifuge does only one thing: spin something very fast. And it has no prior control over what you put into it, so the user must take on the responsibility of making sure the load is balanced. Of course, the maker of the centrifuge certainly could put some sort of out of balance detection. Who knows, some might already.
With the washing machine, though, it does a bunch of other things first. You could try to balance the clothes out first (you should), but that doesn't mean they'll necessarily end up that way before it spins. I sloshes them around, it adds water, it removes water, it sloshes them some more. It actually wouldn't surprise me if this was an unfortunate corner case where the detection mechanism failed, and it just happen to be failed in a situation where it ended up severely unbalanced, leading to the thing basically trying to spontaneously disassemble.
I suspect if the washing machine manual came with the warning "If you don't balance your clothes, this washer very well might sling itself apart, and cause personal injury or property damage" people would pay much more attention. But it probably doesn't because it's not supposed to happen.
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Sweet reductio ad absurdum. The issue is that there are spectrums to every job. Not all jobs in the same field require the same level of knowledge or technical skill. And some fields, those who need a higher level of knowledge or technical skill might be the majority, or the minority.
Personally, I've worked at two very different EE jobs. One of them is very demanding, and required application of many of the advanced concepts I learned from college, and I had to learn things even beyond that to stay effective. The other, however, could have likely been done by someone with some years of hands on learning, it was not at the high end of technical challenge for my field.
Lumping these types of things together is what causes people to get arrogant and huffy and start claiming college is useless. There are TWO issues:
1: It's going to be hard for you to know if you need college for the type of job you want to do in your field until you get into it or at least try it.
2: The abundance of graduates in a particular field allows employers to stop even wondering how demanding THEIR job is, and just require a degree in the field necessary.
Oh man I wish I could mod this up. He did not represent himself as a licensed engineer or claim credentials as such. If he had, that would be a crime.
And FWIW my good friend who is a licensed P.E. could not even put "engineering" in the title of his side business because he wasn't offering true engineering services. I suspect the same can be said for medical and other industries.
However we all know he was really just using it in this case to try to give himself some credibility, not claim anything he was not.
One things for certain though, he is obviously not well versed enough to know yet that challenging ranking ideas unprovoked as an outsider is likely to get you looked upon with ire. I've dealt with many proud superiors in my field (EE). Usually I had to do it on my own time and and then present it once it worked and was provable.
I actually believe if self-driving cars take off, drive times will go down. The programmers of the cars can do a lot to alleviate the bad behaviors people have gotten in to that just makes heavy traffic worse.
Such as:
-Tailgating in traffic jams, allowing no room for merging or changing lanes, causing everyone to have to slam on their brakes when someone does need to move lanes.
-Waiting until the absolute last second to merge when lanes are reduced.
-Essentially acting as a completely un-damped spring, speeding up and slowing down to stay exactly right behind the car in front, allowing all kinds of nasty resonances and standing waves.
Not having a blatant indication there was a puzzle to be solved was part of the puzzle. They were hoping for someone like him to be observant and curious enough to solve it.
His students are probably lucky to have him.
Attempting to down play it just sounds like petty jealousy.
Yo dawg, we heard you like phones, so we put a phone on your phone so you can use a phone while you use your phone, dawg!
This reminds me of one the anecdotes I picked up from one of my college engineering professors in regards to his philosophies on tests:
"Would you fly in an airplane forcibly designed in one hour with no notes?"
And before someone starts busting my balls, yes students should learn the underlying fundamental mechanics of the subject matter. It's more of a protest of the unnecessary aspect of memorizing the details that have no bearing on someone's understanding.
I know the best insurance is having competent IT pros that can make ransomware no more than a minor inconvenience, but I suspect there are many small/medium businesses that would find this a cheaper alternative than staffing such a department.
Dunno why it hasn't been said, but SpaceX did not design the turbopump in their engines.
This type of thing already did happen once with DDT. It was a bit of fight, but it did happen. People expressed concern about it for ~10 years or so before it was finally banned. It was pretty strongly connected to population decline in many birds.
So yearly sales went from 10 per year to 24 per year?
Haha, I kid, I kid.
You can also read SpaceX's status updates about it here: http://www.spacex.com/news/201...
I've thought about this a lot. I waver between a few thoughts.
Capitalistic arrogance: After gaining enough success, these people begin to believe they are largely responsible for the success of such a large organization. Much like celebrities mistakenly begin to believe they are the pillars of the society just because they look good on tv. This especially feels true when lower employees are getting the boot and the CEO is getting a bonus.
or maybe
Because they can. The CEO's salary distributed among the rest of the people in a gigantic company usually adds up to a value most people wouldn't miss over the course of a year.
Apart from the very tired "But what about if someone shoots it down/steals it" criticism, I couldn't help but wonder to myself what happens if the land and/or landscaping around the property is less than ideal. Like un-mowed grass, or very rock/treacherous terrain. Perhaps it can drop the package from a small height?
I won't deny it looks very cool. But I'm still holding out skepticism to how well this delivery model scales up to the volume amazon truly deals with.
Am I the only one who immediately thought about all the breeds of dogs humans have essentially bred to suffer because they were artifically selected to have such smooshed, huge faces they can barely breath, and also can't even deliver their own puppies without a C-section?
As an engineering intern, I was paid more than friends that had already graduated college with other degrees (business/marketing/etc). If you took my hourly rate and ran it for a year, yeah it would have been in the 50K-60K range. Cost of living wasn't an issue. You could have all housing provided for you and have 3 roommates, or take a lump housing stipend at the beginning. The money I made and saved helped support me throughout the rest of the school year. And this WASN'T California.
The unfortunate truth is some careers make more than others. So much more so, in some cases, that even a low level peon (intern) can make more in that career than an experience person in another career. I'm an engineer, I think I make good money. But tell that to the Neurosurgeon who has enough in his bank account to pay off my entire mortgage if he wanted to (this is not hyperbole, I've seen it).
The difference is we actively attempt to overcome those non-idealities in electronics to get a deterministic result. They same cannot necessarily be said for neural networks. At times their core functionality works with the non-ideal features ofor the system.
While it sounds like corporate mumbo-jumbo, it serves two important purposes. 1: It puts the employee on notice. I have seen this, but luckily never been on the receiving end. The most recent one, the employee was offered to be placed on the plan or take a severance and leave. The only catch was that if they chose the plan and failed, it would have been a boot. No severance, no nothing. Truthfully, your review should not go from good to "you're an inch from fired" without you having heard something in between. That's bad management. If you are sliding, your manager should give you feedback right then and there, not surprise you with it in a review. 2: It gives HR a fallback to prove they took reasonable measures before firing the employee. Hard to argue a wrongful termination after that unless there's some obvious discriminatory behavior or something.
Sounds like another Schrodinger's douchebag. "Oh, you took that serious? Well.. uh.... it was a joke!"
On Semiconductor also bought Fairchild. Analog devices also has approval from SEC to buy Linear Technologies. Texas Instruments bought National Semiconductor some time ago.
Working in the industry it's been interesting to see what happens with all these acquisitions. It's NOT fun, however, when someone buys the company who happens to make a very unique part, then cans that whole product line, forcing you to redesign the product (which may or may not have a replacement part).
I'm down with this. I say we should have tax incentives for LESS kids, not more kids. I'm counting down the days until I can go into a doctor's office and ask for a vasectomy and not be laughed out based on my age and lack of kids.
I had someone endorse me for a software package from a competitor. Not just any old software, one in which our companies got in a bitter lawsuit over, and everyone from my company is forbidden to even visit the website for. (No joke, if they notice too much traffic to that company's website, the whole company gets a nastygram.) So yeah, I wouldn't mind a way to add some credibility to the endorsements.
And of course I have the slew of endorsements that I am not qualified for from friends and other people who have little to no background in my field. From those people, it just feels kind of like a friendly pat on the back more than a real endorsement. I have taken to ignoring them instead of accepting them when I am given the choice, but whaddayagonnado.
Does anyone else not find it hilarious there are reports of a covert CIA "cyberattack" plastered all over the Internet?
"Hey, we're gonna attack Russia soon, but don't tell anyone, k?" *nudge* *nudge* *wink* *wink*
All the most "whoa" moments are cherry picked to make it sound like something from ex-machina. When in fact the thing is entertainingly goofy looking and barely more sentient than a chat bot.
Mmmm, I disagree a little. A centrifuge does only one thing: spin something very fast. And it has no prior control over what you put into it, so the user must take on the responsibility of making sure the load is balanced. Of course, the maker of the centrifuge certainly could put some sort of out of balance detection. Who knows, some might already.
With the washing machine, though, it does a bunch of other things first. You could try to balance the clothes out first (you should), but that doesn't mean they'll necessarily end up that way before it spins. I sloshes them around, it adds water, it removes water, it sloshes them some more. It actually wouldn't surprise me if this was an unfortunate corner case where the detection mechanism failed, and it just happen to be failed in a situation where it ended up severely unbalanced, leading to the thing basically trying to spontaneously disassemble.
I suspect if the washing machine manual came with the warning "If you don't balance your clothes, this washer very well might sling itself apart, and cause personal injury or property damage" people would pay much more attention. But it probably doesn't because it's not supposed to happen.
People without goals are used by those that have them.