If you went-in working toward a PhD in CS/applied statistics...shouldn't you finish with a PhD in CS/applied statistics? There would need to be a compelling reason to make a drastic change at the last possible second.
(Of course, if the program you'd graduate under is closing...then the quality of it's name is uncertain. That might decide the matter in itself.)
In industry, what you actually did probably matters more. It's the same thing in academia, only names of universities and where you've been published matter more than in industry. If your CV shows all tier 1 publications, that's helpful. If your degree's from a tier 1 university then you could teach at a tier 1 university. (speaking in gross generals)
Not without a fuckton of mods. A 15 year old GMC Safari (a huge fucking van) has a better 0 to 60 and quarter mile time than a 2012 prius.
You probably wont care about what speed you're going at (within reason) once sitting in a car becomes kin to sitting in front of the tv. Sit down, tune out, and wait until you arrive where you're going.
Of course, there will be a lag. There might even be three generations of people who insist the 'new fangled' driving system sucks. But, when drunk driving and vehicle related deaths sharply decrease and you *don't* have to fear the winter roads for the first time...I bet you and others will put up with it.
I know I look forward to the day where the fragmented Ego of the crowd is off the road.
"Starting" to shift? Libraries haven't been about books in at least 10 years (since I became a librarian). In fact, the "it's not about books" thing was a long-tired cliche even then.
that might become $0 at the name brand school while the $50k remains $50k at the state school.
In my experience, that's wrong. My state school moved very aggressively to help me with tuition. My tuition actually became negative...let's see a big name school do that for an average student. (And I was academically average.)
Unless you're planning on getting one degree (bachelor's) and trucking out of academia for life, don't go to a big name university for undergrad. They're expensive and the material and lessons do not change enough to warrant the cost.
If you *are* planning on getting one degree and trucking out of academia for life...still don't go to a big name U. You probably know exactly what you want to study, so apply to a program that's well known for that degree. There's still no need to hit a top 10 college in that case because undergrad material really isn't ground breaking stuff. (It can be, in the later classes, and in those cases you're walking the line toward further academia.)
Don't be such an asshole. College rewards those who have the ambition to do the work, not those who are just good at passing tests.
Yep, though I still think test grades are weighted too much in college courses. I don't care what the discipline is, a one hour test over all the material does NOT approximate "a day in the life" of someone who's mastered that material.
PS I hate tests, standardized crap tests infinitely more than other tests.
I used to have a zip file with a ton of free-use black and white cigarette/tabacco commercials. I'm sure they still exist on torrent sites. They're free and *legal*, and some will make your head spin in three different directions all at once. Then they can delete them and use your gift as a gift;)
Oh, I knew they were trying to refer to the second parameter of a normal distribution. But, whatever symbol we *use* for the variance (std dev) is just a symbol. We could call it: "a", "alpha", "sigma", "theta", all with various subscripts, and so on and so forth. Ever heard of six-theta_2 ? Six-theta_2 refers to 6 times the standard deviation of an estimated, normal curve. The term six-theta_2 only makes sense because we filled in the crucial parts (that shouldn't be left out).
Saying "sigma" without any qualifications leaves much to be assumed. I'm being persnickety about terms because the terminology lacked definiteness.
Is this sigma terminology coming from some discipline? I've taken plenty of grad statistics and we've always called them alpha-significance levels.
From wikipedia:
The term Six Sigma originated from terminology associated with manufacturing, specifically terms associated with statistical modeling of manufacturing processes
So...the MBAs went and redefined some terms? And we're using them to summarize an empirical physics paper's results...why?
Na, the freebsd desktop/server post earlier today was the troll post.
But I think slashdot kind of runs off these posts. It's a chance for us all to post screenshots and trade comments on each other's rigs. It's like an auto show with no chicks. Ever.
For many people, in my experience, expressing hate more quickly passes the 'urge to talk about' than love. Plus, if you're pissed then you want to be heard. But, if you're happy, who cares who's talking? (Side note: the more visible something is, the more attention any changes will see. "New Coke", for example.)
I think that's what's going on with the latest GUIs. Change always has it's subtractors, and GUIs see *tons* of use.
I'm almost hoping that many of them will drop out so that future semesters can go more smoothly.
Don't worry, they do. Once they do, the classes will get much more difficult and faster paced. Also, the professors will become much more pushy and less and less helpful/receptive to fallers-behind.
I mean think about it, in Star Trek, engineering officers had the most demanding work keeping the ships in one piece, and none of them ever made captain.
Since when is a star trek reference substitutable for actual evidence?!
A lot of students are urged by their parents to go into STEM because they think the kids will make a lot of money. Once the kids are in college, they often realize that if their only goal is to make a lot of money, they are much better off getting an undergraduate degree in business. Unless you're in particular subfields such as finance, business is by far the easiest major.
Yes, and even that perception is a little misguided. Engineers have an initially higher return on their education, but additional years of experience and education don't enjoy constant wage increases. So, if you want your kid to be middle class, an engineer's career isn't so bad a choice. But if you want your kid to be able to shoot for the financial moon, medicine, the legal profession, or some similarly 'high peak-income' field might be more desirable.
As for STEM, I wish people would realize mathematical ability is learned. Yes, bright stars like Ramanujan *seem* to indicate some people have mathematical ability few if any could ever 'learn'. But, from my time as a mathematician, I know the real "trick" is time. If you spend 100 hours studying math then, at the end, you'll be 100 hours more experienced with mathematics than at the beginning. To a very, very large extent, the difference between a BS in math and a PhD in math *is* the time spent doing math. (Neglecting the related lessons of doing research and writing papers. Learning how to research and write aren't innate human abilities that only some able to do.) In short, reinforce the desire to work on projects in your kids. They'll be more likely to sit down and devote the hundreds/thousands of hours into studying that a STEM field requires.
if you claim over a decade of experience with C then you probably should have the first sixteen powers of two memorized.
I wouldn't know the relation, but of course there's always short cuts. The trouble with short cuts is they can be wrong. In particular, human memory is contextual. Maybe you can't remember what 2^10 is if you're mountain biking a thousand miles from home, on vacation. It'd be silly to ask an 'out of context' question and make a serious judgement on your recall in that case. It's a little easier to believe an interviewer shouldn't be too tied to context, but tests are definitely out of usual context.
Things that can be looked up in a reference manual or on the internet should be left out of interviews
Yeah, I agree. Unless it's a job that requires instant recall, don't test people on what amounts to memorizing log tables.
Test people with what they're going to be doing. If the guy's got to work a shovel, give him a shovel. (Trivial example.) If it calls for analysis, give him something requiring thought and time. I think that's the real problem with tests. They're mixing the types of test. Analytical work is rarely done on the same time frame as digging a hole.
This is a great step into pushing it out and making developers accept that just because I want to use their app I don't mean to give them full access to everything on my system - not even everything I can access with my user account.
Yeah, I completely agree. I read it as a security announcement as well. Moves like this could seriously put a dent in the potential number of viruses and trojans OS X will accrue as it gains market share.
Uhh, I want my stuff separate from system stuff. I want to be able to back-up my stuff without including standard stuff.
System essentials should be in/bin. Non-essentials in/usr/bin, and my stuff in/usr/local/bin.
Fedora has jumped the shark.
I agree. I suspect the libraries are the more 'needed' change, but your point is valid even there.
What I'd like to know is what's wrong with the FreeBSD file system, and why don't they just 'do that'? IIRC, everything non-standard is in/usr/local. Some configs are in/etc, but most (all?) non-base configs live in/usr/local/etc. If you blow your system away and have backups of/usr/local and/etc under FreeBSD then you can just reinstall the base system and be 'fine' (aside from the local user files, but that's an obvious restore/backup situation.)
This smells a lot like "we want to do things our own way" (tm). I suppose that's fine, but don't act like you're doing humanity a service by wiping your butt with a different hand;)
Yep, all life's a set of games, and the rules, parameters, and players change from game to game. Any 'random' game can be approximated with a flip of a die or some other game a casino might host, but that doesn't make every game a casino game.
But if you think of Apple as "The House" and the Apple Application Developers as "The Gamblers" the saying that "The House always wins" resonates.
The correct term would be "the market creator always wins", which isn't necessarily true. If no one wants the devices your app store is available on then you're definitely not winning by any measure. (I suspect the Kobo bookstore will go this route eventually, even though I love my kobo.)
This "it's a casino!" rhetoric is entertaining, but it is only rhetoric.
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The rules are arbitrarily created to make for the best viewing experience. There's also a zillion of them.
You had me until you converted currencies wrong. 21,250 pounds = 1.3520 * (21,250) dollars = 28730 dollars, 25,500 pounds = 34476 dollars.
If you went-in working toward a PhD in CS/applied statistics...shouldn't you finish with a PhD in CS/applied statistics? There would need to be a compelling reason to make a drastic change at the last possible second.
(Of course, if the program you'd graduate under is closing...then the quality of it's name is uncertain. That might decide the matter in itself.)
In industry, what you actually did probably matters more.
It's the same thing in academia, only names of universities and where you've been published matter more than in industry. If your CV shows all tier 1 publications, that's helpful. If your degree's from a tier 1 university then you could teach at a tier 1 university. (speaking in gross generals)
Not without a fuckton of mods. A 15 year old GMC Safari (a huge fucking van) has a better 0 to 60 and quarter mile time than a 2012 prius.
You probably wont care about what speed you're going at (within reason) once sitting in a car becomes kin to sitting in front of the tv. Sit down, tune out, and wait until you arrive where you're going.
Of course, there will be a lag. There might even be three generations of people who insist the 'new fangled' driving system sucks. But, when drunk driving and vehicle related deaths sharply decrease and you *don't* have to fear the winter roads for the first time...I bet you and others will put up with it.
I know I look forward to the day where the fragmented Ego of the crowd is off the road.
"Starting" to shift? Libraries haven't been about books in at least 10 years (since I became a librarian). In fact, the "it's not about books" thing was a long-tired cliche even then.
Say that to my overdue book fees :) (whoops!)
that might become $0 at the name brand school while the $50k remains $50k at the state school.
In my experience, that's wrong. My state school moved very aggressively to help me with tuition. My tuition actually became negative...let's see a big name school do that for an average student. (And I was academically average.)
Unless you're planning on getting one degree (bachelor's) and trucking out of academia for life, don't go to a big name university for undergrad. They're expensive and the material and lessons do not change enough to warrant the cost.
If you *are* planning on getting one degree and trucking out of academia for life...still don't go to a big name U. You probably know exactly what you want to study, so apply to a program that's well known for that degree. There's still no need to hit a top 10 college in that case because undergrad material really isn't ground breaking stuff. (It can be, in the later classes, and in those cases you're walking the line toward further academia.)
Don't be such an asshole.
College rewards those who have the ambition to do the work, not those who are just good at passing tests.
Yep, though I still think test grades are weighted too much in college courses. I don't care what the discipline is, a one hour test over all the material does NOT approximate "a day in the life" of someone who's mastered that material.
PS I hate tests, standardized crap tests infinitely more than other tests.
I used to have a zip file with a ton of free-use black and white cigarette/tabacco commercials. I'm sure they still exist on torrent sites. They're free and *legal*, and some will make your head spin in three different directions all at once. Then they can delete them and use your gift as a gift ;)
Oh, I knew they were trying to refer to the second parameter of a normal distribution. But, whatever symbol we *use* for the variance (std dev) is just a symbol. We could call it: "a", "alpha", "sigma", "theta", all with various subscripts, and so on and so forth. Ever heard of six-theta_2 ? Six-theta_2 refers to 6 times the standard deviation of an estimated, normal curve. The term six-theta_2 only makes sense because we filled in the crucial parts (that shouldn't be left out).
Saying "sigma" without any qualifications leaves much to be assumed. I'm being persnickety about terms because the terminology lacked definiteness.
Is this sigma terminology coming from some discipline? I've taken plenty of grad statistics and we've always called them alpha-significance levels.
From wikipedia:
The term Six Sigma originated from terminology associated with manufacturing, specifically terms associated with statistical modeling of manufacturing processes
So...the MBAs went and redefined some terms? And we're using them to summarize an empirical physics paper's results...why?
Na, the freebsd desktop/server post earlier today was the troll post.
But I think slashdot kind of runs off these posts. It's a chance for us all to post screenshots and trade comments on each other's rigs. It's like an auto show with no chicks. Ever.
For many people, in my experience, expressing hate more quickly passes the 'urge to talk about' than love. Plus, if you're pissed then you want to be heard. But, if you're happy, who cares who's talking? (Side note: the more visible something is, the more attention any changes will see. "New Coke", for example.)
I think that's what's going on with the latest GUIs. Change always has it's subtractors, and GUIs see *tons* of use.
I'm almost hoping that many of them will drop out so that future semesters can go more smoothly.
Don't worry, they do. Once they do, the classes will get much more difficult and faster paced. Also, the professors will become much more pushy and less and less helpful/receptive to fallers-behind.
I mean think about it, in Star Trek, engineering officers had the most demanding work keeping the ships in one piece, and none of them ever made captain.
Since when is a star trek reference substitutable for actual evidence?!
A lot of students are urged by their parents to go into STEM because they think the kids will make a lot of money. Once the kids are in college, they often realize that if their only goal is to make a lot of money, they are much better off getting an undergraduate degree in business. Unless you're in particular subfields such as finance, business is by far the easiest major.
Yes, and even that perception is a little misguided. Engineers have an initially higher return on their education, but additional years of experience and education don't enjoy constant wage increases. So, if you want your kid to be middle class, an engineer's career isn't so bad a choice. But if you want your kid to be able to shoot for the financial moon, medicine, the legal profession, or some similarly 'high peak-income' field might be more desirable.
As for STEM, I wish people would realize mathematical ability is learned. Yes, bright stars like Ramanujan *seem* to indicate some people have mathematical ability few if any could ever 'learn'. But, from my time as a mathematician, I know the real "trick" is time. If you spend 100 hours studying math then, at the end, you'll be 100 hours more experienced with mathematics than at the beginning. To a very, very large extent, the difference between a BS in math and a PhD in math *is* the time spent doing math. (Neglecting the related lessons of doing research and writing papers. Learning how to research and write aren't innate human abilities that only some able to do.) In short, reinforce the desire to work on projects in your kids. They'll be more likely to sit down and devote the hundreds/thousands of hours into studying that a STEM field requires.
We'll see it in the US in 2018 for $17k.
I want one...
if you claim over a decade of experience with C then you probably should have the first sixteen powers of two memorized.
I wouldn't know the relation, but of course there's always short cuts. The trouble with short cuts is they can be wrong. In particular, human memory is contextual. Maybe you can't remember what 2^10 is if you're mountain biking a thousand miles from home, on vacation. It'd be silly to ask an 'out of context' question and make a serious judgement on your recall in that case. It's a little easier to believe an interviewer shouldn't be too tied to context, but tests are definitely out of usual context.
Things that can be looked up in a reference manual or on the internet should be left out of interviews
Yeah, I agree. Unless it's a job that requires instant recall, don't test people on what amounts to memorizing log tables.
Test people with what they're going to be doing. If the guy's got to work a shovel, give him a shovel. (Trivial example.) If it calls for analysis, give him something requiring thought and time. I think that's the real problem with tests. They're mixing the types of test. Analytical work is rarely done on the same time frame as digging a hole.
This is a great step into pushing it out and making developers accept that just because I want to use their app I don't mean to give them full access to everything on my system - not even everything I can access with my user account.
Yeah, I completely agree. I read it as a security announcement as well. Moves like this could seriously put a dent in the potential number of viruses and trojans OS X will accrue as it gains market share.
These people don't have an outlet to keep away the mosquitoes with a nightlight....
They'll shoot a satellite up into orbit and beam the light down evenly across all of Africa so that nobody has to pay. ...oh, right.
(I had the same question...)
Uhh, I want my stuff separate from system stuff. I want to be able to back-up my stuff without including standard stuff.
System essentials should be in /bin. Non-essentials in /usr/bin, and my stuff in /usr/local/bin.
Fedora has jumped the shark.
I agree. I suspect the libraries are the more 'needed' change, but your point is valid even there.
What I'd like to know is what's wrong with the FreeBSD file system, and why don't they just 'do that'? IIRC, everything non-standard is in /usr/local. Some configs are in /etc, but most (all?) non-base configs live in /usr/local/etc. If you blow your system away and have backups of /usr/local and /etc under FreeBSD then you can just reinstall the base system and be 'fine' (aside from the local user files, but that's an obvious restore/backup situation.)
This smells a lot like "we want to do things our own way" (tm). I suppose that's fine, but don't act like you're doing humanity a service by wiping your butt with a different hand ;)
Yep, all life's a set of games, and the rules, parameters, and players change from game to game. Any 'random' game can be approximated with a flip of a die or some other game a casino might host, but that doesn't make every game a casino game.
But if you think of Apple as "The House" and the Apple Application Developers as "The Gamblers" the saying that "The House always wins" resonates.
The correct term would be "the market creator always wins", which isn't necessarily true. If no one wants the devices your app store is available on then you're definitely not winning by any measure. (I suspect the Kobo bookstore will go this route eventually, even though I love my kobo.)
This "it's a casino!" rhetoric is entertaining, but it is only rhetoric.
I could pay them a visit. What would you /. ers do? Egg 'em?