Damn wrong. There's two possible situations: you are in a rural area, and there is a small risk of any given fire spreading off a property. These are handled by volunteer depts. Due to the fact that they don't have much pull on the town budget, these depts are usually are stuck putting out barns where the is a significant loss (eg. ~1k of cattle are already dead).
The other situation is that it's an urban area, in which case, there is a lot spent on fire prevention. This is because there is very, very good reason not to let ANY fire spread beyond the building. The very, very good reason is that the insurance company is going to be obligated to pay for what the fire dept didn't do.
In either case, it's better for the company to fund the dept, in the former because they can mitigate damages, and in the latter because a single decent fire would bankrupt them.
My basic problem with methods like this, is that it continues to reward the expedient, eg. short term thinking. While I realize that the new administration has to pick their battles, they will not cause long term 'change' unless they change incentives. And changing incentives first and foremost means changing the balance in compensation 'per customer' between short and long term company interests.
The only way, that I am aware, to kick start this in an area of natural monopoly... (not to mention massive subsidies which have been exploited), is to either form a government competitor, or enforce line leasing agreements so that the barrier to entrance is reduced.
The problem with VAR is not the measure itself, which is assuredly useful if one understands the limitations.
The problem is that once any risk measure (that is say, 95%+ 'reliable') becomes institutionalized as the gold standard, catastrophic failure of the financial system is inevitable (at least according to the general black swan theory).
Why? Because any firm that doesn't optimize profit against the risk criteria is going to have a lower P/R, and will lose capital to firms who are more 'efficient' at investing as long as things are 'normal'. This will result in the firm either folding, or being acquired.
If the firm does optimize to the risk criteria however, they stick a ton of risk into the tails of the risk distribution, which isn't measured, and so they'll get taken out when the black swan hits (ie. a rare event occurs, and all that hidden risk smacks them upside the head).
(and yes, I know this is a very simplified explanation).
My grandpa used PC's since the early 80s. He taught us all how to work with a computer. As he got older and his eyesight deteriorated, he had a major problem keeping xp malware off his computer. It wasn't that he didn't know what to do, but he wasn't sure what he was clicking. But even with the VASTLY improved vista support for font sizing, it was not much help. He had already rejected OSX as being too much change.. but he had the same response to Vista.
This is a problem that windows will most likely never solve.. how to keep the initial adopters who are not experts understanding what is going on.. And continue expansion.
While this is true, I'd just like to point out that if you don't follow the regular vaccination schedules, you'd better be willing to fight with school bureaucracies about providing antibody counts in lieu of proofs-of-vaccination at every step of the way.
This is a particular problem if you ever move between states (which often not only have differing requirements but will often force a retest of for all antibodies or more booster shots), and will definitely be a hassle if your daughter goes to college in another state.
On Neural Nets at least.. The only text book that I can think of offhand which is decent is Duda, Hart and Stork
Hawkins, like many others, has ripped off many of his ideas from Steve Grossberg (in this case, the ART model). Although he's not very easy to read, especially if you start much earlier than say, Ellias and Grossberg, 1975. You should also check out the work of people like Jack Cowan, Rajesh Rao, Christof Koch , Tom Poggio, David McLaughlin, Bard Ermentrout, among many, many others. I think the above names are sufficient to start a survey.
HP has already done some internal research within the same group on using memristor chips with neural network type logic.
They also have a major collaborative grant proposal underway for studying the use of memristor chips as the basis for neural networks, but it hasn't been finalized.
Well, seeing that the closed sandwich was apparently invented about a hundred years after Newton's theory of gravity, it may just be that Einstein got frustrated with improving his food.
The submitter is in a research institute. Some labs in that institute have patient data, and therefore require significant security like disk encryption.
His lab works with a protozoa, and has massive computational requirements. There will never be any patient data near his lab, because the people who work with patients are in a different lab (think different department in business). They do not need disk encryption.
You say Truecrypt has "1% overhead", PGP presumably has some other "% overhead." The submitter is asking what the details of that overhead for PGP, truecrypt etc are. Whats the CPU usage, memory usage? Are disk performance penalties constant, or are they dependent on average file size, number of files, format of those files, etc etc etc. "1% overhead" may hide whopping huge performance penalties for specialist users.
I'd tend to second that. These days even a T1 and a good server only costs several hundred a month. There's no magical cloud out there, only many loud, grimy and over-obliged companies. If you want to reduce costs, go to the regions where there is excess bandwidth.
While there may eventually be a major market for extra processor cycles, it doesn't exist now, and trying to force the issue is early.
I totally agree in general. I've been very impressed with Zotero, and have found it adequate for basic academic needs. My main issue with it is that there's no method of syncing or consolidating and index or database between multiple comps. Since I do all my writing on my Mac laptop, I've moved over to http://mekentosj.com/papers/ which I've found to be exactly what I'm looking for.. It has the database feature, easy complex searches like Endnote, and costs ~$26 for students, ~$50 for others. But if you don't use a Mac, Zotero is definitely the best I've used. If you are up to keeping everything on a USB key, you can keep your papers consistent no matter the comp with Zotero.
Hey guys.. Our ears suck at 2khz bands (mostly on location). No evolution in it. The more important aspect (motor) was the major constraint. Language is late and hasn't had time to have a major impact on evolution of hearing. See Cunningham and colleagues.
Money and Politics look to be inseparable, but beyond that, there are good reasons to give subsidies to many development projects... So long as they manage to give a decent financial plan (unlike nearly every stadium...)
Most residential areas in the US are controlled by either a single board or housing authority these days. Both arrangements focus on maximizing value for owners in the short term, rather than considering further development.
One of the biggest problems that the US is going to have to overcome is taking the near suburbs and turning them into cities.
Who cares? As a New Yorker, who's HS (Stuyvesant) was in the drop zone of 9/11, and who's dad along with several others decided to continue thesis defenses as the towers burned because if you change you life, the terrorists win... I say let them come. Even with nukes. I'll take the chance. My parents will take the chance. I don't really care who gets Nucs these days because MAD works, to such an extent that NK and Iran etc, will think twice before exporting working nukes. Because if a nuke built in Iran goes off in the US, Iran will cease to exist, and they know it.
I have no solution, but to think that this is a major issue is not to understand politics.
Peer review and good editing, typesetting etc. are absolutely vital to academics as a first line of quality control. Even with unpaid referees, the value-added still has notable cost.
A more rational question would be: Is there any reason for journals to keep publishing in paper? This is especially true in most fields of science, where most papers have either a short useful life or are only useful in a super-specialized area. Spending university library budgets on getting many of these things in print seems like a waste, especially since many fields are moving to pre-print systems to get faster turnaround and exchange of ideas.
But while many journals should probably move to low-cost, online only distribution, that doesn't mean we have to throw the baby out with the bathwater. There are many things that PDFs are not sufficient, mostly to do with high resolution or large scale imagery. Certain types of cell staining, reproductions of art or rare and damaged papyrii for example, require a professional print job to be useful.
I think that many journals that can do so are already moving away from printing, because most university libraries can't afford to buy them all, and the low-prestige or specialized journals are seeing dipping subscriptions. The journal industry is already modernizing fairly quickly because of these budget pressures, and I don't think this will be a major issue for much longer.
(US) The GRE is not supposed to be equivalent to the SAT, much less IQ tests. Since learning how to read and write well is central to every career path out there, it is unsurprising that the literature sections are more competitive than the math.
But this has nothing to do with the original point, which is that basic (In a US curriculum I'd call through trig/algebra 3 basic) math is not what is used to be. Calc is easier to learn that a lot of the finer points of algebra, so why are we forcing people into doing 'pre-calc' when actually they'd be better off learning Calc after a year of basic algebra and geometry (so they don't have the false idea that it's difficult), and then work into linear algebra, more advanced techniques in algebra, etc..
If somebody sues for sexual harassment, etc, porn surfing in the office would be used as red flag evidence that the company tolerated or facilitated a hostile work environment for women.
I actually wasn't thinking about the spikes. If you look at the ESPN article I linked to a few posts up, they mention that the US Olympic committee is developing a carbon souled running shoe with Nike that returns a lot more energy than normal to the runner's stride, which is exactly what these legs are doing.
When you start having shoes, or in an already pending case swimsuits (Speedo LZR Racer) that some countries can't afford (requires individual custom fitting, sometimes per event) I think you've already crossed the line into letting non-disabled athletes to using prosthetic enhancement. I don't see why the courtesy to do so shouldn't be extended to disabled athletes who need some mechanical replacement.
If you look at the full biomechanics, it isn't so clear that it's an advantage overall. Because the downside of these legs, because they're so springy, is that he is forced upright straight out of the blocks, and has to generate a lot more of the acceleration from his hips. This is a major consideration in a 400m race. If he had been seeking to run with these legs over a longer distance, it is probable that the IAAF analysis would have found the 'ankle efficiency' gain would outweigh the loss of acceleration efficiency, and he wouldn't have been allowed to use those particular legs.
But this, in my opinion, is little different than what shoes a runner is allowed to wear, or what swimsuit a swimmer is allowed. This is why the matter requires careful regulation. As the technology available for non-disabled athletes allows for better performance (within each event), the restrictions on prosthetics allowed for disabled athletes at the highest level should also be relaxed. I think we know enough about how the body works to regulate these things -- taking into consideration the event and the biomechanical advantages and costs -- in a way that allows extraordinary disabled athletes to compete in many events.
I think this article sums up my opinion fairly well. But using a moped is clearly enhancement. The IAAF didn't show that these particular legs allow superior overall biomechanics to a natural leg. But my main point is that this needs to be regulated, rather than banned. This is because there are already many border-line cases. Is this really very different from a runner with a titanium rod in their leg? Or with Speedo's new swimsuit that's causing controversy? What about Tiger Woods' LASIK surgery? Or Floyd Landis' artifical hip?
There are already many things that are currently allowed which are only different from these legs in degree, rather than kind. And that's why this guy should be able to compete.
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Damn wrong. There's two possible situations: you are in a rural area, and there is a small risk of any given fire spreading off a property. These are handled by volunteer depts. Due to the fact that they don't have much pull on the town budget, these depts are usually are stuck putting out barns where the is a significant loss (eg. ~1k of cattle are already dead).
The other situation is that it's an urban area, in which case, there is a lot spent on fire prevention. This is because there is very, very good reason not to let ANY fire spread beyond the building. The very, very good reason is that the insurance company is going to be obligated to pay for what the fire dept didn't do.
In either case, it's better for the company to fund the dept, in the former because they can mitigate damages, and in the latter because a single decent fire would bankrupt them.
My basic problem with methods like this, is that it continues to reward the expedient, eg. short term thinking. While I realize that the new administration has to pick their battles, they will not cause long term 'change' unless they change incentives. And changing incentives first and foremost means changing the balance in compensation 'per customer' between short and long term company interests.
The only way, that I am aware, to kick start this in an area of natural monopoly... (not to mention massive subsidies which have been exploited), is to either form a government competitor, or enforce line leasing agreements so that the barrier to entrance is reduced.
The problem with VAR is not the measure itself, which is assuredly useful if one understands the limitations.
The problem is that once any risk measure (that is say, 95%+ 'reliable') becomes institutionalized as the gold standard, catastrophic failure of the financial system is inevitable (at least according to the general black swan theory).
Why? Because any firm that doesn't optimize profit against the risk criteria is going to have a lower P/R, and will lose capital to firms who are more 'efficient' at investing as long as things are 'normal'. This will result in the firm either folding, or being acquired.
If the firm does optimize to the risk criteria however, they stick a ton of risk into the tails of the risk distribution, which isn't measured, and so they'll get taken out when the black swan hits (ie. a rare event occurs, and all that hidden risk smacks them upside the head).
(and yes, I know this is a very simplified explanation).
My grandpa used PC's since the early 80s. He taught us all how to work with a computer. As he got older and his eyesight deteriorated, he had a major problem keeping xp malware off his computer. It wasn't that he didn't know what to do, but he wasn't sure what he was clicking. But even with the VASTLY improved vista support for font sizing, it was not much help. He had already rejected OSX as being too much change.. but he had the same response to Vista.
This is a problem that windows will most likely never solve.. how to keep the initial adopters who are not experts understanding what is going on.. And continue expansion.
While this is true, I'd just like to point out that if you don't follow the regular vaccination schedules, you'd better be willing to fight with school bureaucracies about providing antibody counts in lieu of proofs-of-vaccination at every step of the way.
This is a particular problem if you ever move between states (which often not only have differing requirements but will often force a retest of for all antibodies or more booster shots), and will definitely be a hassle if your daughter goes to college in another state.
On Neural Nets at least.. The only text book that I can think of offhand which is decent is Duda, Hart and Stork
Hawkins, like many others, has ripped off many of his ideas from Steve Grossberg (in this case, the ART model). Although he's not very easy to read, especially if you start much earlier than say, Ellias and Grossberg, 1975. You should also check out the work of people like Jack Cowan, Rajesh Rao, Christof Koch , Tom Poggio, David McLaughlin, Bard Ermentrout, among many, many others. I think the above names are sufficient to start a survey.
HP has already done some internal research within the same group on using memristor chips with neural network type logic.
They also have a major collaborative grant proposal underway for studying the use of memristor chips as the basis for neural networks, but it hasn't been finalized.
Well, seeing that the closed sandwich was apparently invented about a hundred years after Newton's theory of gravity, it may just be that Einstein got frustrated with improving his food.
Then repeat after me: Stay away from the test tubes!
The submitter is in a research institute. Some labs in that institute have patient data, and therefore require significant security like disk encryption.
His lab works with a protozoa, and has massive computational requirements. There will never be any patient data near his lab, because the people who work with patients are in a different lab (think different department in business). They do not need disk encryption.
You say Truecrypt has "1% overhead", PGP presumably has some other "% overhead." The submitter is asking what the details of that overhead for PGP, truecrypt etc are. Whats the CPU usage, memory usage? Are disk performance penalties constant, or are they dependent on average file size, number of files, format of those files, etc etc etc. "1% overhead" may hide whopping huge performance penalties for specialist users.
I'd tend to second that. These days even a T1 and a good server only costs several hundred a month. There's no magical cloud out there, only many loud, grimy and over-obliged companies. If you want to reduce costs, go to the regions where there is excess bandwidth.
While there may eventually be a major market for extra processor cycles, it doesn't exist now, and trying to force the issue is early.
I totally agree in general. I've been very impressed with Zotero, and have found it adequate for basic academic needs. My main issue with it is that there's no method of syncing or consolidating and index or database between multiple comps. Since I do all my writing on my Mac laptop, I've moved over to http://mekentosj.com/papers/ which I've found to be exactly what I'm looking for.. It has the database feature, easy complex searches like Endnote, and costs ~$26 for students, ~$50 for others. But if you don't use a Mac, Zotero is definitely the best I've used. If you are up to keeping everything on a USB key, you can keep your papers consistent no matter the comp with Zotero.
There is no appeal from the circuit courts except to the supreme court. Thus, only cases accepted by the supreme court can be overturned.
I don't have the time to vet the claims of this article, but it seems that the 'statistics' of claimed discrimination are BS..
http://www.american.com/archive/2008/march-april-magazine-contents/why-can2019t-a-woman-be-more-like-a-man
Hey guys.. Our ears suck at 2khz bands (mostly on location). No evolution in it. The more important aspect (motor) was the major constraint. Language is late and hasn't had time to have a major impact on evolution of hearing. See Cunningham and colleagues.
Money and Politics look to be inseparable, but beyond that, there are good reasons to give subsidies to many development projects... So long as they manage to give a decent financial plan (unlike nearly every stadium...)
Most residential areas in the US are controlled by either a single board or housing authority these days. Both arrangements focus on maximizing value for owners in the short term, rather than considering further development.
One of the biggest problems that the US is going to have to overcome is taking the near suburbs and turning them into cities.
Dude, read "Bad Samaritans" by H-J Chang.. or "Adams' Fallacy" by D-K Foley. In making a statement like this you ignore history.
Who cares? As a New Yorker, who's HS (Stuyvesant) was in the drop zone of 9/11, and who's dad along with several others decided to continue thesis defenses as the towers burned because if you change you life, the terrorists win... I say let them come. Even with nukes. I'll take the chance. My parents will take the chance. I don't really care who gets Nucs these days because MAD works, to such an extent that NK and Iran etc, will think twice before exporting working nukes. Because if a nuke built in Iran goes off in the US, Iran will cease to exist, and they know it.
I have no solution, but to think that this is a major issue is not to understand politics.
Peer review and good editing, typesetting etc. are absolutely vital to academics as a first line of quality control. Even with unpaid referees, the value-added still has notable cost.
A more rational question would be: Is there any reason for journals to keep publishing in paper? This is especially true in most fields of science, where most papers have either a short useful life or are only useful in a super-specialized area. Spending university library budgets on getting many of these things in print seems like a waste, especially since many fields are moving to pre-print systems to get faster turnaround and exchange of ideas.
But while many journals should probably move to low-cost, online only distribution, that doesn't mean we have to throw the baby out with the bathwater. There are many things that PDFs are not sufficient, mostly to do with high resolution or large scale imagery. Certain types of cell staining, reproductions of art or rare and damaged papyrii for example, require a professional print job to be useful.
I think that many journals that can do so are already moving away from printing, because most university libraries can't afford to buy them all, and the low-prestige or specialized journals are seeing dipping subscriptions. The journal industry is already modernizing fairly quickly because of these budget pressures, and I don't think this will be a major issue for much longer.
(US) The GRE is not supposed to be equivalent to the SAT, much less IQ tests. Since learning how to read and write well is central to every career path out there, it is unsurprising that the literature sections are more competitive than the math.
But this has nothing to do with the original point, which is that basic (In a US curriculum I'd call through trig/algebra 3 basic) math is not what is used to be. Calc is easier to learn that a lot of the finer points of algebra, so why are we forcing people into doing 'pre-calc' when actually they'd be better off learning Calc after a year of basic algebra and geometry (so they don't have the false idea that it's difficult), and then work into linear algebra, more advanced techniques in algebra, etc..
Actually, yes.. If you're around Boston.
If somebody sues for sexual harassment, etc, porn surfing in the office would be used as red flag evidence that the company tolerated or facilitated a hostile work environment for women.
I actually wasn't thinking about the spikes. If you look at the ESPN article I linked to a few posts up, they mention that the US Olympic committee is developing a carbon souled running shoe with Nike that returns a lot more energy than normal to the runner's stride, which is exactly what these legs are doing.
When you start having shoes, or in an already pending case swimsuits (Speedo LZR Racer) that some countries can't afford (requires individual custom fitting, sometimes per event) I think you've already crossed the line into letting non-disabled athletes to using prosthetic enhancement. I don't see why the courtesy to do so shouldn't be extended to disabled athletes who need some mechanical replacement.
If you look at the full biomechanics, it isn't so clear that it's an advantage overall. Because the downside of these legs, because they're so springy, is that he is forced upright straight out of the blocks, and has to generate a lot more of the acceleration from his hips. This is a major consideration in a 400m race. If he had been seeking to run with these legs over a longer distance, it is probable that the IAAF analysis would have found the 'ankle efficiency' gain would outweigh the loss of acceleration efficiency, and he wouldn't have been allowed to use those particular legs.
But this, in my opinion, is little different than what shoes a runner is allowed to wear, or what swimsuit a swimmer is allowed. This is why the matter requires careful regulation. As the technology available for non-disabled athletes allows for better performance (within each event), the restrictions on prosthetics allowed for disabled athletes at the highest level should also be relaxed. I think we know enough about how the body works to regulate these things -- taking into consideration the event and the biomechanical advantages and costs -- in a way that allows extraordinary disabled athletes to compete in many events.
I think this article sums up my opinion fairly well. But using a moped is clearly enhancement. The IAAF didn't show that these particular legs allow superior overall biomechanics to a natural leg. But my main point is that this needs to be regulated, rather than banned. This is because there are already many border-line cases. Is this really very different from a runner with a titanium rod in their leg? Or with Speedo's new swimsuit that's causing controversy? What about Tiger Woods' LASIK surgery? Or Floyd Landis' artifical hip?
There are already many things that are currently allowed which are only different from these legs in degree, rather than kind. And that's why this guy should be able to compete.