Because that waste is dangerous for millennia. And when they spill some, nuclear power companies won't clean up. Even when it's above my aquifer. They Add nuclear weapons and rouge states, it's pretty scary.
When one of these plants blows up, killing thousands of people via radiation poisoning and relocating hundreds of thousands, it kinda enrages those who have been calling for the governments to facilitate safe, clean, renewable energy for 40 fucking years instead of subsidizing nuclear bombs being built where we live.
Tobii is THE leader and defacto industry standard in eye tracking, they have offices in 4 countries. Other equipment requires that they keep their head still, with a Tobii, after a single calibration and a participant can not only move their head around, they can get out of the chair, come back, and keep on going.
Of course their research equipment goes for >$30,000. I know an HCI person who just happened to take some tracking equipment home at his last day of a bankrupt.com startup... No one will ever miss it!
I used to sell for the network that Sprint uses for it's "4g" coverage- it's total crap. Even at fixed positions, the signal waxes and wanes significantly. Only the most naive of customers were really satisfied with it, the rest hated it.
Maybe this test was at a good location, but the overall experience is just as spotty as current data networks.
Bigger issue: We have to send astronauts out in space to tie balloons to all this junk, one at a time. So..... wouldn't that cost a heck of a lot of money in terms of man-hours?
Yeah, and why haven't cheap Chinese clones flooded the market with $20 knockoffs? That's the REAL solution to this problem: then schools and TI will be all about owning their own hardware for standardized testing.
Using Packer (with variable renaming and 64bit encoding) it get's down to 105,177 -over 30% reduction in size. Using Gzip, it could easily get below 50K.
Odd how we have used double blind studies and statistics to tell us which treatments work the best, which is how we pulled ourselves out of the Freudian "They want to sit in their office, put people on their couch (or, more modern, in a comfy chair) and get 100 bucks an hour for listening to some idiot whine."
Oh, and most of us have to get a masters or PhD, so shove your "struggle with statistics" right where you got the rest of your information.
Except, if you had read this story, you would have found that the antidepressant = placebo story to be incorrect due to poor statistical reasoning: "Another concern is the common strategy of combining results from many trials into a single “meta-analysis,” a study of studies. In a single trial with relatively few participants, statistical tests may not detect small but real and possibly important effects. In principle, combining smaller studies to create a larger sample would allow the tests to detect such small effects. But statistical techniques for doing so are valid only if certain criteria are met. For one thing, all the studies conducted on the drug must be included — published and unpublished. And all the studies should have been performed in a similar way, using the same protocols, definitions, types of patients and doses. When combining studies with differences, it is necessary first to show that those differences would not affect the analysis, Goodman notes, but that seldom happens. “That’s not a formal part of most meta-analyses,” he says.
Meta-analyses have produced many controversial conclusions. Common claims that antidepressants work no better than placebos, for example, are based on meta-analyses that do not conform to the criteria that would confer validity. "
Troll, the parent is commenting on the very valid point that many computers are able to "win" chess games only because they their math processing is really fast. The whole human intelligence vs. animal/computer is rather silly anyway, they are just different. When modeling human intelligence, the closer you are mimicking the real processes, the more interesting it becomes, not if you are just surpassing it's ability to do math!
When going against a human brain, there is no question that basic math can be done faster by the average calculator than the average human.
The interesting problem sets in AI are the analogous to crypto: brute forcing any solution is rather boring, but when the AI can simulate human processes, or "breaking" the code through a better understanding of it, is very interesting indeed.
Analyzing past human patterns and mimicking them is akin to optimizing a password list. It shows off horsepower- but in the end it's a low level optimization focused on one particular instance, pretty boring compared to teams that break one-way hashes...
I agree with the parent, do you really want to work with these people? Anyone who isn't smart enough to follow their own privacy and security policies isn't smart enough to run a company. I would threaten to quit, personally.
-Zach
This sounds like trolling, I know, but neither does Ubuntu. The package management system sounds great until you put someone in front of it who can screw it up- namely me!
A wiki is what we used at my old networking company (Stability Networks) that specialized in Small Business contract work.
Recently I have grown rather fond of Google App's Wiki. It's free, relatively powerful, and (most importantly) very user friendly. I use it at my current company.
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Because that waste is dangerous for millennia. And when they spill some, nuclear power companies won't clean up. Even when it's above my aquifer. They Add nuclear weapons and rouge states, it's pretty scary.
When one of these plants blows up, killing thousands of people via radiation poisoning and relocating hundreds of thousands, it kinda enrages those who have been calling for the governments to facilitate safe, clean, renewable energy for 40 fucking years instead of subsidizing nuclear bombs being built where we live.
That's why.
Tobii is THE leader and defacto industry standard in eye tracking, they have offices in 4 countries. Other equipment requires that they keep their head still, with a Tobii, after a single calibration and a participant can not only move their head around, they can get out of the chair, come back, and keep on going.
Of course their research equipment goes for >$30,000. I know an HCI person who just happened to take some tracking equipment home at his last day of a bankrupt .com startup... No one will ever miss it!
Wake me up when they get to ~80 millseconds.
They could have just borrowed it from another governmental organization...
Wait, did I miss a meme being born?
There are plenty of independent retailers who will give you cash instead of a phone, if you ask politely.
T-Mobile even had some unofficial support for jail-broken iPhone users early on.
Mod parent up.
I used to sell for the network that Sprint uses for it's "4g" coverage- it's total crap. Even at fixed positions, the signal waxes and wanes significantly. Only the most naive of customers were really satisfied with it, the rest hated it.
Maybe this test was at a good location, but the overall experience is just as spotty as current data networks.
Bigger issue: We have to send astronauts out in space to tie balloons to all this junk, one at a time. So..... wouldn't that cost a heck of a lot of money in terms of man-hours?
Super glue is cheap.
Yeah, and why haven't cheap Chinese clones flooded the market with $20 knockoffs? That's the REAL solution to this problem: then schools and TI will be all about owning their own hardware for standardized testing.
I know Lingustics research has turned into computer programming, haven't most of the sciences turned to computer for their theoretical research?
And trust me, WE NEED REAL PROGRAMMERS! Biologists and psychologists shouldn't be writing machine learning programs...
Using Packer (with variable renaming and 64bit encoding) it get's down to 105,177 -over 30% reduction in size. Using Gzip, it could easily get below 50K.
Odd how we have used double blind studies and statistics to tell us which treatments work the best, which is how we pulled ourselves out of the Freudian "They want to sit in their office, put people on their couch (or, more modern, in a comfy chair) and get 100 bucks an hour for listening to some idiot whine."
Oh, and most of us have to get a masters or PhD, so shove your "struggle with statistics" right where you got the rest of your information.
Except, if you had read this story, you would have found that the antidepressant = placebo story to be incorrect due to poor statistical reasoning:
"Another concern is the common strategy of combining results from many trials into a single “meta-analysis,” a study of studies. In a single trial with relatively few participants, statistical tests may not detect small but real and possibly important effects. In principle, combining smaller studies to create a larger sample would allow the tests to detect such small effects. But statistical techniques for doing so are valid only if certain criteria are met. For one thing, all the studies conducted on the drug must be included — published and unpublished. And all the studies should have been performed in a similar way, using the same protocols, definitions, types of patients and doses. When combining studies with differences, it is necessary first to show that those differences would not affect the analysis, Goodman notes, but that seldom happens. “That’s not a formal part of most meta-analyses,” he says.
Meta-analyses have produced many controversial conclusions. Common claims that antidepressants work no better than placebos, for example, are based on meta-analyses that do not conform to the criteria that would confer validity. "
Troll, the parent is commenting on the very valid point that many computers are able to "win" chess games only because they their math processing is really fast. The whole human intelligence vs. animal/computer is rather silly anyway, they are just different. When modeling human intelligence, the closer you are mimicking the real processes, the more interesting it becomes, not if you are just surpassing it's ability to do math!
When going against a human brain, there is no question that basic math can be done faster by the average calculator than the average human.
The interesting problem sets in AI are the analogous to crypto: brute forcing any solution is rather boring, but when the AI can simulate human processes, or "breaking" the code through a better understanding of it, is very interesting indeed.
Analyzing past human patterns and mimicking them is akin to optimizing a password list. It shows off horsepower- but in the end it's a low level optimization focused on one particular instance, pretty boring compared to teams that break one-way hashes...
I agree with the parent, do you really want to work with these people? Anyone who isn't smart enough to follow their own privacy and security policies isn't smart enough to run a company. I would threaten to quit, personally. -Zach
Yes. To bad there isn't a Google Shopping version of lmgtfy.com
Why the hell haven't they put the same spam filters that they use for Gmail on the discussion lists?
Which is why I am a usability engineer, and tried applying for the Ubuntu Add/Remove usability testing internship : )
A wiki is what we used at my old networking company (Stability Networks) that specialized in Small Business contract work. Recently I have grown rather fond of Google App's Wiki. It's free, relatively powerful, and (most importantly) very user friendly. I use it at my current company.
Xerox is about to announce a "solid ink" machine capable of 11x17 sizes that is waaaay more environmentally friendly.
No mention/pictures of the electric fence, is it on the ship, do they electrify the water around the ship, wtf?
I was thinking about building a trebuchet and launching shit at his house... Underground or not, his freaking Yacht will be messy.
Anyone still have a war dialer hanging about?
sudo ping -f www.jonesday.com
It'll be a great place to hand out OpenOffice CD's on a Sunday afternoon. I love living in Seattle.