I'm far from a Paultard, but the argument in favor of the Gold standard is that it enforces a boundary on how much money the government can have circulating around. Just like gold can't be produced out of thin air, neither can a tangibly-linked currency.
The best way to do things, of course, would be to have a government which spent within its means without the use of an external, arbitrary limit.
Nope. If anything, computers are waaay better at random play than people. People are terrible at generating sequences that pass randomness tests, whereas computers can do this quite well.
The statement seems to imply that if Canada, say, ceased to hand out agricultural subsidies and thereby terminated our agricultural industry, we'd be able to import the food cheaper than we were previously growing it ourselves, and further benefit by eliminating loss-making (subsidized) agricultural exports. Does that make any sense? Yes. This is related to Comparative advantage.
Or the asymptote: that the world would be economically better off if the world ceased food production altogether? Wrong asymptote. People will always need food. It will just be produced in the cheapest way possible. And yes, then the world will be better off.
The professor of my literary criticism class let us write a wikipedia page (or substantially add to an existing one) on a topic that interested us related to the course in lieu of taking a final. That "in lieu of" catch made him make us all swear not to tell anyone in the administration about the deed, so I guess it was more of a silent thing.
I did mine on one of the essays in the Norton anthology on the reading list, Realism in the Balance. I find it really cool that other people have edited the page, like I made a substantive contribution to human knowledge that was way better than scribbling about postmodernism for three hours in a blue book.
Genetic algorithms are the Ruby on Rails of optimization problems. If you can define a state space and a fitness function, you're almost certainly better off using (non-)linear programming, constraint programming, or a local search method like tabu search.
To quote the AI Bible (AIMA 2e, Russell and Norvig): [It] is not clear whether the appeal of genetic algorithms arises from their performance or from their aesthetically pleasing origins in the theory of evolution.
But because GAs are so intuitive for anyone who's taken high school bio, you get fluff pieces like this one...
The fact that you had to go down to #17 to find a song you recognized is not an indictment of Amazon's music service but rather of your complete obliviousness to any musical trend since the decline of hair metal.
The number one (and number five) song is Feist's catchy 1234, as featured in the most recent iPod ads. The number 10 song is Kanye's Stronger, which is shaping up to be this fall's Crazy. These are not obscure tracks.
And, umm...number 22 is Nirvana's Smells like Teen Spirit. You should probably listen to that one. If the most recent band you can identify is Blondie, it might just blow your mind.
No, I don't think it would have worked so well. Here's two reasons why:
1. Not enough traders. Who's going to provide the liquidity for such a market? Where are the large mass of uninformed traders that provide the impetus for better informed traders to take advantage of their status? What's the bid/ask spread going to look like? Where are the market makers going to come from? It's worth noting that Tradesports does really well (high-volume) on things like sports and very poorly on wonky political happenings, like the status of a Palestinian state.
2. If you take a prediction market and suddenly start using it to make decisions, it becomes a "decision market". In the case of national security, this becomes a very dangerous proposition - without a suitable amount of liquidity, the decision market is subject to manipulation. What happens when we shift resources to NYC when the real threat is in LA just because that's what the decision market tells us to do? Also, prediction markets have a noted bias (probably psychological) that conflates "extremely low" probability events with just "low" probability events. Not something to base national security on, once again.
and here's another one for good measure:
3. What's the point of having a professional intelligence community at all if they do worse than a collection of interested amateurs?
Comparitive Advantage theory works like this - say you that have country A that can produce wine for 3$ and cheese for 5$, and country B that can produce wine for 1$ and cheese for 1$.
Surprisingly the best thing for both countries is for A to produce excess wine, and B to produce excess cheese, and then for the two nations to engage in trade.
What this means, of course, is that cheesemakers in country A should now become winemakers. If there is friction in employment, and this doesn't happen, then does comparitive advantage theory still hold?
The alternative is to risk a sort of thought police situation, where people would be afraid to borrow a book from the library if they thought it would make others think they were going to commit a crime.
Under the USA Patriot act, of course, this is exactly the case - now that the Federal government can easily have access to your library records, any suspicious activity - books on communism, or on Islam, perhaps, could result in increased scrutiny.
And I think that Brandon Mayfield knows exactly what "increased scrutiny" can entail, hell, the FBI got two fingerprint "experts" to testify his prints were a 100% match.
First off, I've only been studying arabic for a year, and probably should have been paying more attention in class, so if I butcher this analysis, my apoligies.
Kana puts whatever comes after it in the past tense in MSA (I think or maybe it's Kanat sometimes and using Kana in all contexts is Levantine?)
The tense, "inteh" as you describe, is embedded in the verb, which starts with "ta-", that is implying second person male (or third person female), i.e. "Used to you speak..." => "Did you speak".
The way I learned arabic colloquially growing up, which was Levantine, in the Jerusalem area, all the "k" became "ch" and while there were verb conjuagtions, it seemed like more of the time there were substitutions for conjugated verbs based on possessives, such as, "bidee ishrab shai" => "I want to drink tea" instead of MSA, which would be (I think) "ureed an ashrab shai". It looks like colloquial Iraqi eschews verb conjugation entirely, perhaps?
Regardless, I enjoyed reading about your experiences. It's always refreshing to see a thread that could contain loads of ignorant, anti-Arab sentiments turn out to be full of interesting memories such as yours.
You might want to try one of these Quill Mice, theyre expensive as all get out, but they have a nice feel - when you click you can really feel it in different muscles than normal. I tried one out and thought the position was pretty comfortable.
Sure, college is expensive. But more and more I view it as a progressive tax system. All the elite colleges have need-based financial aid. In my room next year, 2 people will be receiving 10,000+ financial aid GRANTS, not loans, and the third will be receiving nearly a full scholarship.
My family isn't rich - but we're not exactly middle class either (100k per year, im the only child). Genreally the only folks who are paying 45,000 a year are those who are rich enough so that it's not a financial burden. Now, fine, there may be extenuating or special circumstances but in my experience financial aid officers are more than willing to listen to you and give you extra money if you can show you deserve it. The only real difference in price is between an "elite" school and a state school. Some of my friends were forced to turn down "elite" schools just because of the enormous disparity in price between an elite school and a state school with an academic scholarship.
Signed, An incoming freshman at one of the #1 ranked schools.
As is detailed here and here, Toms Hardware recently performed a media blackout at a Public event, the Million Man Lan Party.
They are currently threatening to sue an online journalist (who happens to be a poor college student) for libel regarding his reporting of this story. Fortunately, the friendly folks at Hardocp have stepped in to provide some legal assistance for the guy, to make sure he is not railroaded into pulling down his editorial describing THG's media shenanigans.
Do your part for Internet Free Speech. Boycott Toms Hardware Guide.
The Defendants have denied and continue to deny each and all of the claims and contentions alleged by the Plaintiffs and any violation of law. The Court has not made any determination as to the merits of any of the claims or defenses of the parties to this Litigation.
So they were not "Found Guilty" of anything. Yes, the judge may have had nasty things to say about them, but legally, they werent found guilty.
No...this is the standard thing you see in the back of magazines (usually Parade) all the time.
When you signed up as a claimant, you accepted the terms of the settlement. You said "Yes, the state attorneys general came up with a solution that I find to be adequate".
As pursuant to that, you can't personally do anything else against the industry in terms of price fixing....When you registered, the issue became closed to you.
Me? I haven't bought a CD in years. This money is going into an iPod, so I can play all those lovely 192 kbps mp3s....yummm....
Umm....I realize the Islamic press has a tendency to describe everything from America as Zionist...but in this case...
You realize that the movie portrays the "last hope of humanity" as a city known as Zion, whose inhabitants are the result of a gradual migration and represent the forces of good, besieged by the forces of evil that surround them.
So yeah, I can see how it could be viewed as promoting Zionist beliefs.
I remember watching on Dateline a couple years back about a murder trial, and apparently one of the major pieces of eveidence was a saved AIM conversation. They got one the AOL execs to testify that there was no way of verifying if it was a real transcript because AOL doesnt keep logs.
I think theres an sf project do do AIM sniffing though, but still, AOL doesnt log your conversations.
Yeah. As is clear from this site, MIT's admitted student pool for the class of 2007 was 51% and 49% female. Of course, the yield of female students is much less than males at MIT, so the class will likely be around 45% male. FYI, Harvard's admitted student pool was 52% male and 48% female, but their entering class of 2007 is 51% male and 49% female (w00t go Crimson!).
Most people think of the note as C# because it is the third sharp added as you move up the circle of fifths. The A major scale includes a C#. D flat, on the other hand, does not arrive until 4 flats, in the A flat major scale. As a string player, I can tell you we play in multiple sharps far more than multiple flats (Who ever heard of a violin concerto in A flat?).
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I'm far from a Paultard, but the argument in favor of the Gold standard is that it enforces a boundary on how much money the government can have circulating around. Just like gold can't be produced out of thin air, neither can a tangibly-linked currency.
The best way to do things, of course, would be to have a government which spent within its means without the use of an external, arbitrary limit.
Computers having problems playing randomly?
Nope. If anything, computers are waaay better at random play than people. People are terrible at generating sequences that pass randomness tests, whereas computers can do this quite well.
The professor of my literary criticism class let us write a wikipedia page (or substantially add to an existing one) on a topic that interested us related to the course in lieu of taking a final. That "in lieu of" catch made him make us all swear not to tell anyone in the administration about the deed, so I guess it was more of a silent thing.
I did mine on one of the essays in the Norton anthology on the reading list, Realism in the Balance. I find it really cool that other people have edited the page, like I made a substantive contribution to human knowledge that was way better than scribbling about postmodernism for three hours in a blue book.
Also, English classes are really, really easy.
Genetic algorithms are the Ruby on Rails of optimization problems. If you can define a state space and a fitness function, you're almost certainly better off using (non-)linear programming, constraint programming, or a local search method like tabu search.
To quote the AI Bible (AIMA 2e, Russell and Norvig): [It] is not clear whether the appeal of genetic algorithms arises from their performance or from their aesthetically pleasing origins in the theory of evolution.
But because GAs are so intuitive for anyone who's taken high school bio, you get fluff pieces like this one...
The fact that you had to go down to #17 to find a song you recognized is not an indictment of Amazon's music service but rather of your complete obliviousness to any musical trend since the decline of hair metal.
The number one (and number five) song is Feist's catchy 1234, as featured in the most recent iPod ads. The number 10 song is Kanye's Stronger, which is shaping up to be this fall's Crazy. These are not obscure tracks.
And, umm...number 22 is Nirvana's Smells like Teen Spirit. You should probably listen to that one. If the most recent band you can identify is Blondie, it might just blow your mind.
I see it lacking the features of the iPhone ...
I don't think you understand:
It doesn't need a camera, dre.
No, I don't think it would have worked so well. Here's two reasons why:
1. Not enough traders. Who's going to provide the liquidity for such a market? Where are the large mass of uninformed traders that provide the impetus for better informed traders to take advantage of their status? What's the bid/ask spread going to look like? Where are the market makers going to come from? It's worth noting that Tradesports does really well (high-volume) on things like sports and very poorly on wonky political happenings, like the status of a Palestinian state.
2. If you take a prediction market and suddenly start using it to make decisions, it becomes a "decision market". In the case of national security, this becomes a very dangerous proposition - without a suitable amount of liquidity, the decision market is subject to manipulation. What happens when we shift resources to NYC when the real threat is in LA just because that's what the decision market tells us to do? Also, prediction markets have a noted bias (probably psychological) that conflates "extremely low" probability events with just "low" probability events. Not something to base national security on, once again.
and here's another one for good measure:
3. What's the point of having a professional intelligence community at all if they do worse than a collection of interested amateurs?
Ferdinand Kuernberger (1821-1879), on America:
"They make tallow out of cattle and money out of men."
Kant figured this out back in the mid-nineteenth century...
Kant died in 1804.
A surprisingly trenchant observation!
Comparitive Advantage theory works like this - say you that have country A that can produce wine for 3$ and cheese for 5$, and country B that can produce wine for 1$ and cheese for 1$.
Surprisingly the best thing for both countries is for A to produce excess wine, and B to produce excess cheese, and then for the two nations to engage in trade.
What this means, of course, is that cheesemakers in country A should now become winemakers. If there is friction in employment, and this doesn't happen, then does comparitive advantage theory still hold?
The alternative is to risk a sort of thought police situation, where people would be afraid to borrow a book from the library if they thought it would make others think they were going to commit a crime.
Under the USA Patriot act, of course, this is exactly the case - now that the Federal government can easily have access to your library records, any suspicious activity - books on communism, or on Islam, perhaps, could result in increased scrutiny.
And I think that Brandon Mayfield knows exactly what "increased scrutiny" can entail, hell, the FBI got two fingerprint "experts" to testify his prints were a 100% match.
First off, I've only been studying arabic for a year, and probably should have been paying more attention in class, so if I butcher this analysis, my apoligies.
..." => "Did you speak".
Kana puts whatever comes after it in the past tense in MSA (I think or maybe it's Kanat sometimes and using Kana in all contexts is Levantine?)
The tense, "inteh" as you describe, is embedded in the verb, which starts with "ta-", that is implying second person male (or third person female), i.e. "Used to you speak
The way I learned arabic colloquially growing up, which was Levantine, in the Jerusalem area, all the "k" became "ch" and while there were verb conjuagtions, it seemed like more of the time there were substitutions for conjugated verbs based on possessives, such as, "bidee ishrab shai" => "I want to drink tea" instead of MSA, which would be (I think) "ureed an ashrab shai". It looks like colloquial Iraqi eschews verb conjugation entirely, perhaps?
Regardless, I enjoyed reading about your experiences. It's always refreshing to see a thread that could contain loads of ignorant, anti-Arab sentiments turn out to be full of interesting memories such as yours.
Provided, of course, that those executives are paid the marginal product of their labor.
A situation, I assure you, no one at the middle-manager level or above wishes to be in.
You might want to try one of these Quill Mice, theyre expensive as all get out, but they have a nice feel - when you click you can really feel it in different muscles than normal. I tried one out and thought the position was pretty comfortable.
Sure, college is expensive. But more and more I view it as a progressive tax system. All the elite colleges have need-based financial aid. In my room next year, 2 people will be receiving 10,000+ financial aid GRANTS, not loans, and the third will be receiving nearly a full scholarship.
My family isn't rich - but we're not exactly middle class either (100k per year, im the only child). Genreally the only folks who are paying 45,000 a year are those who are rich enough so that it's not a financial burden. Now, fine, there may be extenuating or special circumstances but in my experience financial aid officers are more than willing to listen to you and give you extra money if you can show you deserve it. The only real difference in price is between an "elite" school and a state school. Some of my friends were forced to turn down "elite" schools just because of the enormous disparity in price between an elite school and a state school with an academic scholarship.
Signed,
An incoming freshman at one of the #1 ranked schools.
Ah yes....the infamous "X voting method is unfair" post.
You realize that a third party that strong will never arise in American politics?
Far more likely the vote to be, say 7 (Clinton) 6 (Bush) 2 (Perot), than the 8 - 5 - 4 scenario you describe.
As is detailed here and here, Toms Hardware recently performed a media blackout at a Public event, the Million Man Lan Party.
They are currently threatening to sue an online journalist (who happens to be a poor college student) for libel regarding his reporting of this story. Fortunately, the friendly folks at Hardocp have stepped in to provide some legal assistance for the guy, to make sure he is not railroaded into pulling down his editorial describing THG's media shenanigans.
Do your part for Internet Free Speech. Boycott Toms Hardware Guide.
Read the settlement....here's the pertinent quote
The Defendants have denied and continue to deny each and all of the claims and contentions alleged by the Plaintiffs and any violation of law. The Court has not made any determination as to the merits of any of the claims or defenses of the parties to this Litigation.
So they were not "Found Guilty" of anything. Yes, the judge may have had nasty things to say about them, but legally, they werent found guilty.
No...this is the standard thing you see in the back of magazines (usually Parade) all the time.
When you signed up as a claimant, you accepted the terms of the settlement. You said "Yes, the state attorneys general came up with a solution that I find to be adequate".
As pursuant to that, you can't personally do anything else against the industry in terms of price fixing....When you registered, the issue became closed to you.
Me? I haven't bought a CD in years. This money is going into an iPod, so I can play all those lovely 192 kbps mp3s....yummm....
(or maybe tuition....heh)
That's right.
So everyone who's getting the money has agreed that the music companies didn't fix prices.
In effect, if you're getting that 13 dollar check, don't bitch about the cost of CDs, you lost that right when you agreed to the settlement.
Umm....I realize the Islamic press has a tendency to describe everything from America as Zionist...but in this case...
You realize that the movie portrays the "last hope of humanity" as a city known as Zion, whose inhabitants are the result of a gradual migration and represent the forces of good, besieged by the forces of evil that surround them.
So yeah, I can see how it could be viewed as promoting Zionist beliefs.
I remember watching on Dateline a couple years back about a murder trial, and apparently one of the major pieces of eveidence was a saved AIM conversation. They got one the AOL execs to testify that there was no way of verifying if it was a real transcript because AOL doesnt keep logs.
I think theres an sf project do do AIM sniffing though, but still, AOL doesnt log your conversations.
Yeah. As is clear from this site, MIT's admitted student pool for the class of 2007 was 51% and 49% female. Of course, the yield of female students is much less than males at MIT, so the class will likely be around 45% male. FYI, Harvard's admitted student pool was 52% male and 48% female, but their entering class of 2007 is 51% male and 49% female (w00t go Crimson!).
Most people think (D flat) instead of C#.
Most people think of the note as C# because it is the third sharp added as you move up the circle of fifths. The A major scale includes a C#. D flat, on the other hand, does not arrive until 4 flats, in the A flat major scale. As a string player, I can tell you we play in multiple sharps far more than multiple flats (Who ever heard of a violin concerto in A flat?).