I think it is a crime to let people out of CS school without knowing Java/C++ in this day and age. OOP has issues (I still think OO is a cult:) but you have to realize that there are a lot of practical and theoretical work done in OOP.
Also I was taught some functional programing in C. You don't really need a special language. Teaching someone Standard ML is a waste of their time when you could be teaching the same concepts in a more popular language.
It is like teaching short story writing in Western Innovative Tibetan rather than English, French, or Chinese.
its likely that Iran would have continued as a democratic constitutional monarchy instead of becoming the strict Muslim state it is today.
Yeah, because look at all the other liberal muslim democracies in the middle east...oh wait.
I agree that Western intervention has not helped the middle east, but I think you have to ignore cultural realities to imagine stable liberal democracies forming (without significant cultural reform, which takes generations).
It is likely that Iran would have ended up like Egypt: a socialist autocracy that claims to be a democracy. Egypt is shortly to become an islamist autocracy that claims to be a democracy. Which is what Iran is.
All you had to do was know what the definition of a derivative was
Yes, but what percentage of Americans do you think know what the definition of a derivative is? Only 6% of US high school students currently take calculus. I suspect no more than 20% of college students take calculus. I would guestimate that no more than 5% of Americans in general (of all ages now living) know what a derivative is.
Top US college majors are 1) Business 2) Social sciences and history 3) Health professions and related clinical sciences 4) Education 5) Psychology 6) Visual and performing arts.
How can one say that health fields are not a form of applied science? Business has a reasonable amount of math in terms of finance and there is plenty of statistics in business process management such as six-sigma. Social sciences are of course a form of science, and even educators need to learn about the science of childhood development and scientific results about what works in the classroom.
The truth is that there is a large demand for professional businesspeople, health professionals, and educators in the US.
On the other hand, I think most people would not be studying social sciences, history, psychology, or art if these majors did not receive significant subsidy either directly from tax dollars in state schools or indirectly in government loans (that end up not getting paid off). If students had to pay the full way on these majors up front, they would pretty much vanish!
Private equity companies present a plan to their investors and banks on how they can improve a company, and if they sell that to them they can move ahead.
They then offer the existing company's shareholders more money than the company is worth on the market today. And if they can sell that to them they can move ahead.
They optimize a company like a programmer refactoring code.
The private equity company only makes a profit if they can prove to whoever buys it that they have actually improved the value of the company.
Often the choice is between a company going under (and losing all the jobs) and being rescued by private equity (and losing the jobs that are not providing value to the company).
Sometimes existing corporate executives try to hold on to their jobs rather than be taken over by the private equity that will improve the value of the company to the shareholders.
Dark beers contain 3 to 424 micrograms per liter of 4-methylimidazole, compared to soft drinks which have been found to have 37 to 613 micrograms per liter.
Whenever I visit family in the US, I notice the latency seems to be much higher there. I wonder if some or all ISP's intentionally insert delays to pump up latency and make the speed feel really low,
There is a growing feeling that Internet routers are buffering too many packets when they really just should be dropping them (known as Bufferbloat). Packets should not be held at a router for more than a few miliseconds for processing. If they need to be held any longer, they should really just be dropped, and TCP congestion avoidance can then do its job by throttling down your connection.
I should note that this data is for graduates from 2000. I have seen other data that the percentage of women graduating with a math degree has fallen a bit since then.
Among students who majored in liberal arts, business or other fields, 73% of white students and about 63% of black and Latino students finished their degrees in five years.
Forty-one percent of American students who start off majoring in science, math, engineering or technology fields graduate from those programs within six years.
The question is whether this "winnowing" is due to lack of preparation of the students before college, or simply a non-educational strategy of signaling that the students who "survive" are of high quality, in which case the institution should consider not calling itself a "higher learning" institution but a "better signaling" institution.
Students in general are choosing non-STEM majors. Top US graduating majors are 1) Business 2) Social sciences and history 3) Health professions and related clinical sciences 4) Education 5) Psychology 6) Visual and performing arts.
I feel pretty bad for anyone who took out loans for majors #2 or #6 and think they can pay them back...#5 will have a rough time as well. Education doesn't pay well on day 1, but if you can stick it out for 10 years and sneak a graduate degree you can do OK, depending on your union contract.
One other issue is that while more women than men are now attending college (57% women/43% men), women are even more likely to choose non-STEM majors. In Business, the female/male ratio is nearly 50/50, but in the #2 top major group of Social Sciences, it is 64/36 in favor of women. In #3 Health, it is 76/24. In #4 Education, it is 77/23.
In CS the female/male ratio is 30/70, in Engineering it is 17/83.
Physical sciences are closer to even (47/53) while Math is slightly more female (58/48).
For conventional computers, as soon as you have "and" and "not" in gate-form, you can do everything, as you can just connect them together. For quantum computers that is not true, as all elements performing the complete computation need to be entangled the whole time.
For qbit-based Quantum Computing, the universal gate is Controlled Not (CNOT) gate, which can be used to realize any quantum computation.
But you are correct that in many quantum computations, large number of qubits may need to have coherent entangled states, and that is has proven challenging to scale up large numbers of entangled qubits.
How can the mesh be resonant to a square wave (with lots of high frequency harmonics over a huge band)?
I can imagine it being resonant to a single frequency sine wave.
But if the clock mesh is powered by a sine wave, you have to turn it back into a square wave to drive gates, and to do that you have to compare the clock voltage level with some known voltage levels, and there you may have process inaccuracies.
Primitive hunter gather tribes were probably very peaceful
You may want to read War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage . The author estimates that typical pre-historic tribal combat casualty rate of 0.5% per year, a hundred times that of the US homicide rate of 0.005% per year.
They're called control rods. We tend to think of the control rods as being an on/off switch, but what happens in you insert the control rods 20% or 50% of the way in? You get fission, but at a lower rate.
Boiling Water Reactors (BWR) also control power through how fast the core recirculation pumps are running. The faster they run, the fewer steam bubbles there are. Steam bubble voids reduce neutron moderation by water, so faster pumps allow more chain reactions.
That is exactly how I feel. As a Network Engineer myself I share their frustration with old, grumpy, white men who sit on capital hill raining down laws that would effect my job and customers without understanding the technology itself, nor the gravity their actions would have on the Internet community at large.
Congratulations, you've become another corporate special interest! Now you can spend as much as you want on political advertisements to forward your position.
Mail Sped by Electronics Predicted by Summerfield; One-Day Delivery Sought Between Any 2 Cities --Many 'Ifs' in Plan ELECTRONIC MAIL SEEN IN A DECADE Senate to Study Bill Full Report Planned 'Pattern' for Country Fire From Two Sides Question of 'Intangibles'
WASHINGTON, April 27--The Post Office Department envisions a five-to-ten-year transition to the electronic age...
Threaten them (the US) with calling in all the outstanding monitary loans it owes. You know, "sign this, or become the next Greece" sort of thing.
US Federal debt is sold in varying maturities, some bonds and TIPS do not mature until 2041.
Also US Federal debt remains one of the few safe places for international investors (such as banks or foreign reserves held by countries trying to stabilize their currency). Global BASEL capital requirements on banks make it particularly beneficial for banks to hold US Federal debt (considered "risk free").
US Federal debt is not purchased because people like the US. It is purchased because it is an economic necessity in an unstable world.
DC teachers approved a contract in 2010 that had 20% salary increases, $20k-$30k max bonuses for merit pay, but allowed teacher quality to trump teacher seniority in firing decisions (imagine that!).
Here is the reality: societies with oppressive governments, be they dictators or pseudo-democrats, have oppressive governments because they have oppressive cultures.
Revolution is an opportunity for small, marginal political change. Yes, Russia is not quite an unfree as it used to be, and Iraq is slightly less free, but neither of these countries compare with freedom in the West (or even when compared with some countries in South America like Chile). Until their oppressive cultures change, government there will not change much.
This should be kept in mind when trying to evaluate the cost/benefit ratio of military intervention in foreign countries to achieve political change.
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Carnegie-Mellon has dropped OOP from their CS requirements
Wow, and they are replacing it with imperative & functional programming.
I think it is a crime to let people out of CS school without knowing Java/C++ in this day and age. OOP has issues (I still think OO is a cult :) but you have to realize that there are a lot of practical and theoretical work done in OOP.
Also I was taught some functional programing in C. You don't really need a special language. Teaching someone Standard ML is a waste of their time when you could be teaching the same concepts in a more popular language.
It is like teaching short story writing in Western Innovative Tibetan rather than English, French, or Chinese.
its likely that Iran would have continued as a democratic constitutional monarchy instead of becoming the strict Muslim state it is today.
Yeah, because look at all the other liberal muslim democracies in the middle east...oh wait.
I agree that Western intervention has not helped the middle east, but I think you have to ignore cultural realities to imagine stable liberal democracies forming (without significant cultural reform, which takes generations).
It is likely that Iran would have ended up like Egypt: a socialist autocracy that claims to be a democracy. Egypt is shortly to become an islamist autocracy that claims to be a democracy. Which is what Iran is.
Did you view it in Chrome? :)
All you had to do was know what the definition of a derivative was
Yes, but what percentage of Americans do you think know what the definition of a derivative is? Only 6% of US high school students currently take calculus. I suspect no more than 20% of college students take calculus. I would guestimate that no more than 5% of Americans in general (of all ages now living) know what a derivative is.
Top US college majors are 1) Business 2) Social sciences and history 3) Health professions and related clinical sciences 4) Education 5) Psychology 6) Visual and performing arts.
How can one say that health fields are not a form of applied science? Business has a reasonable amount of math in terms of finance and there is plenty of statistics in business process management such as six-sigma. Social sciences are of course a form of science, and even educators need to learn about the science of childhood development and scientific results about what works in the classroom.
The truth is that there is a large demand for professional businesspeople, health professionals, and educators in the US.
On the other hand, I think most people would not be studying social sciences, history, psychology, or art if these majors did not receive significant subsidy either directly from tax dollars in state schools or indirectly in government loans (that end up not getting paid off). If students had to pay the full way on these majors up front, they would pretty much vanish!
As it stands China without a major development still lacks major resources for most things.
China now has a trade deficit with the rest of the world. Part of that is due to copper prices, also increases in soybean imports.
Private equity companies present a plan to their investors and banks on how they can improve a company, and if they sell that to them they can move ahead.
They then offer the existing company's shareholders more money than the company is worth on the market today. And if they can sell that to them they can move ahead.
They optimize a company like a programmer refactoring code.
The private equity company only makes a profit if they can prove to whoever buys it that they have actually improved the value of the company.
Often the choice is between a company going under (and losing all the jobs) and being rescued by private equity (and losing the jobs that are not providing value to the company).
Sometimes existing corporate executives try to hold on to their jobs rather than be taken over by the private equity that will improve the value of the company to the shareholders.
you could work at a state level to just have your state not participate in it.
Indeed most of Arizona does not observe daylight savings time, although parts of the Navaho Nation in Arizona do.
Dark beers contain 3 to 424 micrograms per liter of 4-methylimidazole, compared to soft drinks which have been found to have 37 to 613 micrograms per liter.
Bad news, roasted coffee samples had 0.307 to 1.241 mg/kg of 4-MI
Whenever I visit family in the US, I notice the latency seems to be much higher there. I wonder if some or all ISP's intentionally insert delays to pump up latency and make the speed feel really low,
There is a growing feeling that Internet routers are buffering too many packets when they really just should be dropping them (known as Bufferbloat). Packets should not be held at a router for more than a few miliseconds for processing. If they need to be held any longer, they should really just be dropped, and TCP congestion avoidance can then do its job by throttling down your connection.
Did Rob move to DC ???????
How will Holland survive without him?????
Math is 58/42, sorry math error :)
I should note that this data is for graduates from 2000. I have seen other data that the percentage of women graduating with a math degree has fallen a bit since then.
One issue is the large "winnowing out" of STEM majors in college:
Among students who majored in liberal arts, business or other fields, 73% of white students and about 63% of black and Latino students finished their degrees in five years.
Forty-one percent of American students who start off majoring in science, math, engineering or technology fields graduate from those programs within six years.
The question is whether this "winnowing" is due to lack of preparation of the students before college, or simply a non-educational strategy of signaling that the students who "survive" are of high quality, in which case the institution should consider not calling itself a "higher learning" institution but a "better signaling" institution.
Students in general are choosing non-STEM majors. Top US graduating majors are 1) Business 2) Social sciences and history 3) Health professions and related clinical sciences 4) Education 5) Psychology 6) Visual and performing arts.
I feel pretty bad for anyone who took out loans for majors #2 or #6 and think they can pay them back...#5 will have a rough time as well. Education doesn't pay well on day 1, but if you can stick it out for 10 years and sneak a graduate degree you can do OK, depending on your union contract.
One other issue is that while more women than men are now attending college (57% women/43% men), women are even more likely to choose non-STEM majors. In Business, the female/male ratio is nearly 50/50, but in the #2 top major group of Social Sciences, it is 64/36 in favor of women. In #3 Health, it is 76/24. In #4 Education, it is 77/23.
In CS the female/male ratio is 30/70, in Engineering it is 17/83.
Physical sciences are closer to even (47/53) while Math is slightly more female (58/48).
Given the choice between letting tens of thousands of people die so that we can look tough or sending some food... I'm gonna send the food.
Much of the food is likely to end up profiting government elites...exactly how much will make it to the starving masses is unclear.
For conventional computers, as soon as you have "and" and "not" in gate-form, you can do everything, as you can just connect them together. For quantum computers that is not true, as all elements performing the complete computation need to be entangled the whole time.
Actually for conventional computers, to implement any binary function you only need either NAND or NOR, the "universal gates".
For qbit-based Quantum Computing, the universal gate is Controlled Not (CNOT) gate, which can be used to realize any quantum computation.
But you are correct that in many quantum computations, large number of qubits may need to have coherent entangled states, and that is has proven challenging to scale up large numbers of entangled qubits.
How can the mesh be resonant to a square wave (with lots of high frequency harmonics over a huge band)?
I can imagine it being resonant to a single frequency sine wave.
But if the clock mesh is powered by a sine wave, you have to turn it back into a square wave to drive gates, and to do that you have to compare the clock voltage level with some known voltage levels, and there you may have process inaccuracies.
Primitive hunter gather tribes were probably very peaceful
You may want to read War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage . The author estimates that typical pre-historic tribal combat casualty rate of 0.5% per year, a hundred times that of the US homicide rate of 0.005% per year.
One existing hunter-gatherer tribe in New Guinea has a homicide rate 40 times greater than the 1980 homicide rate in the United States.
They're called control rods. We tend to think of the control rods as being an on/off switch, but what happens in you insert the control rods 20% or 50% of the way in? You get fission, but at a lower rate.
Boiling Water Reactors (BWR) also control power through how fast the core recirculation pumps are running. The faster they run, the fewer steam bubbles there are. Steam bubble voids reduce neutron moderation by water, so faster pumps allow more chain reactions.
That is exactly how I feel. As a Network Engineer myself I share their frustration with old, grumpy, white men who sit on capital hill raining down laws that would effect my job and customers without understanding the technology itself, nor the gravity their actions would have on the Internet community at large.
Congratulations, you've become another corporate special interest! Now you can spend as much as you want on political advertisements to forward your position.
But did you call it "email"?
The first NYT reference I can find is William Safire's On Language column November 27, 1983, where it is presented as a fairly new term.
This NYTArticle from April 28, 1957 says:
Mail Sped by Electronics Predicted by Summerfield; One-Day Delivery Sought Between Any 2 Cities --Many 'Ifs' in Plan ELECTRONIC MAIL SEEN IN A DECADE Senate to Study Bill Full Report Planned 'Pattern' for Country Fire From Two Sides Question of 'Intangibles'
WASHINGTON, April 27--The Post Office Department envisions a five-to-ten-year transition to the electronic age...
Threaten them (the US) with calling in all the outstanding monitary loans it owes. You know, "sign this, or become the next Greece" sort of thing.
US Federal debt is sold in varying maturities, some bonds and TIPS do not mature until 2041.
Also US Federal debt remains one of the few safe places for international investors (such as banks or foreign reserves held by countries trying to stabilize their currency). Global BASEL capital requirements on banks make it particularly beneficial for banks to hold US Federal debt (considered "risk free").
US Federal debt is not purchased because people like the US. It is purchased because it is an economic necessity in an unstable world.
DC teachers approved a contract in 2010 that had 20% salary increases, $20k-$30k max bonuses for merit pay, but allowed teacher quality to trump teacher seniority in firing decisions (imagine that!).
Here is the reality: societies with oppressive governments, be they dictators or pseudo-democrats, have oppressive governments because they have oppressive cultures.
Revolution is an opportunity for small, marginal political change. Yes, Russia is not quite an unfree as it used to be, and Iraq is slightly less free, but neither of these countries compare with freedom in the West (or even when compared with some countries in South America like Chile). Until their oppressive cultures change, government there will not change much.
This should be kept in mind when trying to evaluate the cost/benefit ratio of military intervention in foreign countries to achieve political change.