To me, a research scientist used to be the person that did experiments, made notes, maintained a log book, drew conclusions, and published papers.
Now, when I see the job adverts, the research scientist is now the one writing research grant applications, visiting sponsors, making presentations at world conferences, leading a team, drawing up budget requests.
Data scientist seems to a combination of AI programmer and database programmer.
In the 1990's, Microsoft were all go, they were knocking down the UNIX workstation vendors, and making them replace their operating systems with Windows NT, the one true "multi-threaded" standard for workstations applications. And they improved on that with Windows XP, even if did take them a couple of service packs.
Then it's a natural conclusion for Microsoft to decide that if workstations with different monitor sizes have the same GUI, then everything else from mobile phones and tablets should do the same. It would have made more sense to have the mobile GUI run as an application over a desktop system, and just give users the choice.
Modern engineering systems using physics based model that are run on accurate geometric models of the terrain, the underlying rock geology, rainfall and a high resolution model of the proposed construction structure (Finite Element Analysis) . All of that geometry is acquired using laser scanners, radar mapping, geological investigation, geophysics, geomagnetics. Then all that data is used to run the simulation.
Modern game engines use physics based systems that work with geometric models created by artists and animators.
A lot of people in the South of the UK travel to other parts of Europe by ferry, airplane and chunnel train. So the "relevant areas" become most of Europe.
Imagine if the argument were over a weather map of the USA . You have your regional channels producing a local weather report, but the national channels have to provide a whole map of the USA.
The flat projection of the UK as used from the 1970's is what everyone is happy with, especially if the land is green, and sea is blue.
But that isn't as technically sophisticated as having a nice curvy sphere terrain map with digitally animated rain clouds and snow-storms that you can whizz around.
That's very true. Back in the late 1980's, when everyone was warning the government about how house prices in the South were becoming unaffordable, they were called "a bunch of moaning minneys". Then interest rates had to rise in quick succession over a period of weeks to stop runaway inflation, and then the property market collapsed, until another debt fueled economic boom by New Labour started things off again.
RBOS blew a lot of money on buying up golf courses - one for a new campus, so they could move all of their small but expensive offices out of the city, and another golf course was for their executives.
You just load all your data into GPU memory, with one data element per thread, then at each stage, use one thread to compare pairs of data. There's a very specific pattern which is specified by this web page.
Many of the Africans wanted to avoid a boycott of South-African products because they knew they themselves would be hurt financially. The main support for the boycott of South Africa and the complete destruction of a democratic first-world economy came from Cultural Marxists.
They would only be able to sail the ship if they had access to the all the computer system that control the engines, steering and navigation. Those computer system could easily be shut down remotely.
It was the other way round. Ford (the automobile company) developed the production line so that everyone could afford a car and enjoy living in the city and being able to drive out in the countryside during the weekends. Then customers had a better idea. They would all live in the countryside and drive into the cities. That displaced the existing farm workers who then ended up moving into the cities, leading to blockbusting of luxury apartment blocks and white flight. Blockbusting meant that large comfortable apartments with four or more bedrooms were subdivided into smaller apartments.
Meanwhile the oil and gas companies saw what was happening and gave things an extra push by closing down the tram and railway lines so that everyone had to drive a car to get to work. By the time everyone had moved out into the countryside, there wasn't any left, it had all become suburbs.
Both programs are effective in the kind of engagements that we've found ourselves in during the last couple of decades and both are paid for. It's maintenance only, as opposed to development.
Exactly. Who owns or has investments in all those R&D companies? You either pay money to keep those air bases open, the aircraft maintained, the support crews and pilots trained and their families fed, or spend money on research to design new fighters/interceptors/bomber drones that can be operated remotely.
It's like writing an essay. The quality of the source code really depends on a number of things; whether it was something new or familiar to the programmer, how distracting/peaceful the environment was, how much time was available to polish up and refine the code, and whether there was any framework that they could use (such as node based programming, GUI widgets, or the TCP/IP network layer models, template files for writing new modules).
It's known that the date of birth and geographic latitude does affect personality, but that's down to how sunlight affects the mothers' hormones, and consequently brain development while in the womb.
I think this "No Losers" bologna came from those schools which just had a single annual school sports day. Everyone attended (ninety plus students in each year), and each year in each race, the same half dozen students kept winning. So six students go home with a handful of medals, and everyone else go back home empty handed. And that was the one and only competition there was. No spelling bees, science fairs, art exhibitions, book reading competitions.
More because they feel they can manage their own land resources better than the Eurocrats in London or Brussels can. As an example, have a look at the situation in Somerset and Devon. Eurocrats pay farmers to cut down trees and clear land, but those trees helped remove water from the ground. Then the Eurocrats fund a scheme to return the rivers to their natural state and create a bird sanctuary. But those rivers helped remove heavy rainfall from the ground. Result? Third world living conditions for thousands of people for weeks.
Worst case scenario, your phone updates the email app just when you are sending an email, or you travel to a different city/country for an interview will all the details on the phone, and... for some reason the phone gets an "update" which completely bricks the phone, and you scrambling trying to recover the address of your hotel to tell the taxi driver.
Your problem with trying to run Internet over overhead power and telephone lines are problems with crosstalk (two adjacent cables being in use at the same time, interference to and from external source like faulty car engines. The only solution would really be to have a fibre-optic network that could be leased out as VPN's to third parties like mobile-phone network providers.
It is a severe problem for the media conglomerates. They are losing their ability to manipulate and direct public opinion, simply because users choose web forums like slashdot. And many users are deliberately unsubscribing from cable simply because they dislike the political bias, hate the programming quality, don't have the money to spend, or even the time.
It's two decades ago now, but I used to watch Discovery 2000 between 1994 and 2001, and it was really the most interesting channel. Everything from what the visual/special effects companies were doing to the latest in technology. But now that Youtube is available, all those companies now make their own videos podcasts that rival the quality of a program segment, and anyone can create their own tech channel from a quick search of the latest podcasts.
That's what they tried to do quite recently when smartphones came out. One Canadian telecoms company tried charging "Skype minutes" because the internet service was destroying their profits from international phone calls.
Dimples work with golfballs, the dimples act as "turbulators", creating a turbulent boundary layer between the air and the golfball, which is supposed to reduce drag. But to do that to skating suit, would have to increase the size of the player first, then add the dimples.
These editors do require more than just placing blocks on the screen. They require inter-connections to be made between the data inputs and outputs (for an image processing pipeline). For the Qt editor you need to define link widgets together to define them as "buddies" (if the slider moves, then that sends a message to the text display as well as the color box). Each widget also has to send messages to parents, children and buddies for resize, open, close, value changed, button pressed/released, slider moved. So there are all these interconnect lines that show what goes to where, and it can get messy.
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To me, a research scientist used to be the person that did experiments, made notes, maintained a log book, drew conclusions, and published papers.
Now, when I see the job adverts, the research scientist is now the one writing research grant applications, visiting sponsors, making presentations at world conferences, leading a team, drawing up budget requests.
Data scientist seems to a combination of AI programmer and database programmer.
In the 1990's, Microsoft were all go, they were knocking down the UNIX workstation vendors, and making them replace their operating systems with Windows NT, the one true "multi-threaded" standard for workstations applications. And they improved on that with Windows XP, even if did take them a couple of service packs.
Then it's a natural conclusion for Microsoft to decide that if workstations with different monitor sizes have the same GUI, then everything else from mobile phones and tablets should do the same. It would have made more sense to have the mobile GUI run as an application over a desktop system, and just give users the choice.
Solar power did work - but the utilities suddenly saw it was eating into their peak demand profits.
Modern engineering systems using physics based model that are run on accurate geometric models of the terrain, the underlying rock geology, rainfall and a high resolution model of the proposed construction structure (Finite Element Analysis) . All of that geometry is acquired using laser scanners, radar mapping, geological investigation, geophysics, geomagnetics. Then all that data is used to run the simulation.
Modern game engines use physics based systems that work with geometric models created by artists and animators.
A lot of people in the South of the UK travel to other parts of Europe by ferry, airplane and chunnel train. So the "relevant areas" become most of Europe.
Imagine if the argument were over a weather map of the USA . You have your regional channels producing a local weather report, but the national channels have to provide a whole map of the USA.
The flat projection of the UK as used from the 1970's is what everyone is happy with, especially if the land is green, and sea is blue.
But that isn't as technically sophisticated as having a nice curvy sphere terrain map with digitally animated rain clouds and snow-storms that you can whizz around.
That's very true. Back in the late 1980's, when everyone was warning the government about how house prices in the South were becoming unaffordable, they were called "a bunch of moaning minneys". Then interest rates had to rise in quick succession over a period of weeks to stop runaway inflation, and then the property market collapsed, until another debt fueled economic boom by New Labour started things off again.
RBOS blew a lot of money on buying up golf courses - one for a new campus, so they could move all of their small but expensive offices out of the city, and another golf course was for their executives.
Yes, they are called compute shaders. There are several parallel algorithm, of of which is called the bitonic sort.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
You just load all your data into GPU memory, with one data element per thread, then at each stage, use one thread to compare pairs of data.
There's a very specific pattern which is specified by this web page.
Many of the Africans wanted to avoid a boycott of South-African products because they knew they themselves would be hurt financially.
The main support for the boycott of South Africa and the complete destruction of a democratic first-world economy came from Cultural Marxists.
They would only be able to sail the ship if they had access to the all the computer system that control the engines, steering and navigation. Those computer system could easily be shut down remotely.
It was the other way round. Ford (the automobile company) developed the production line so that everyone could afford a car and enjoy living in the city and being able to drive out in the countryside during the weekends. Then customers had a better idea. They would all live in the countryside and drive into the cities. That displaced the existing farm workers who then ended up moving into the cities, leading to blockbusting of luxury apartment blocks and white flight. Blockbusting meant that large comfortable apartments with four or more bedrooms were subdivided into smaller apartments.
Meanwhile the oil and gas companies saw what was happening and gave things an extra push by closing down the tram and railway lines so that everyone had to drive a car to get to work. By the time everyone had moved out into the countryside, there wasn't any left, it had all become suburbs.
Both programs are effective in the kind of engagements that we've found ourselves in during the last couple of decades and both are paid for. It's maintenance only, as opposed to development.
Exactly. Who owns or has investments in all those R&D companies? You either pay money to keep those air bases open, the aircraft maintained, the support crews and pilots trained and their families fed, or spend money on research to design new fighters/interceptors/bomber drones that can be operated remotely.
It's like writing an essay. The quality of the source code really depends on a number of things; whether it was something new or familiar to the programmer, how distracting/peaceful the environment was, how much time was available to polish up and refine the code, and whether there was any framework that they could use (such as node based programming, GUI widgets, or the TCP/IP network layer models, template files for writing new modules).
It's known that the date of birth and geographic latitude does affect personality, but that's down to how sunlight affects the mothers' hormones, and consequently brain development while in the womb.
I think this "No Losers" bologna came from those schools which just had a single annual school sports day. Everyone attended (ninety plus students in each year), and each year in each race, the same half dozen students kept winning. So six students go home with a handful of medals, and everyone else go back home empty handed. And that was the one and only competition there was. No spelling bees, science fairs, art exhibitions, book reading competitions.
More because they feel they can manage their own land resources better than the Eurocrats in London or Brussels can.
As an example, have a look at the situation in Somerset and Devon. Eurocrats pay farmers to cut down trees and clear land, but those trees helped remove water from the ground. Then the Eurocrats fund a scheme to return the rivers to their natural state and create a bird sanctuary. But those rivers helped remove heavy rainfall from the ground. Result? Third world living conditions for thousands of people for weeks.
http://www.theguardian.com/env...
And apparently there is a new weather phenomenon called super-thunder which can shatter windows:
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/st...
Worst case scenario, your phone updates the email app just when you are sending an email, or you travel to a different city/country for an interview will all the details on the phone, and ... for some reason the phone gets an "update" which completely bricks the phone, and you scrambling trying to recover the address of your hotel to tell the taxi driver.
Your problem with trying to run Internet over overhead power and telephone lines are problems with crosstalk (two adjacent cables being in use at the same time, interference to and from external source like faulty car engines. The only solution would really be to have a fibre-optic network that could be leased out as VPN's to third parties like mobile-phone network providers.
It is a severe problem for the media conglomerates. They are losing their ability to manipulate and direct public opinion, simply because users choose web forums like slashdot. And many users are deliberately unsubscribing from cable simply because they dislike the political bias, hate the programming quality, don't have the money to spend, or even the time.
It's two decades ago now, but I used to watch Discovery 2000 between 1994 and 2001, and it was really the most interesting channel.
Everything from what the visual/special effects companies were doing to the latest in technology.
But now that Youtube is available, all those companies now make their own videos podcasts that rival the quality of a program segment, and anyone can create their own tech channel from a quick search of the latest podcasts.
That's what they tried to do quite recently when smartphones came out. One Canadian telecoms company tried charging "Skype minutes" because the internet service was destroying their profits from international phone calls.
Dimples work with golfballs, the dimples act as "turbulators", creating a turbulent boundary layer between the air and the golfball, which is supposed to reduce drag. But to do that to skating suit, would have to increase the size of the player first, then add the dimples.
This video is probably the best explanation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
These editors do require more than just placing blocks on the screen. They require inter-connections to be made between the data inputs and outputs (for an image processing pipeline). For the Qt editor you need to define link widgets together to define them as "buddies" (if the slider moves, then that sends a message to the text display as well as the color box). Each widget also has to send messages to parents, children and buddies for resize, open, close, value changed, button pressed/released, slider moved. So there are all these interconnect lines that show what goes to where, and it can get messy.
Blender: http://blackspike.com/blender-...