Perhaps the citation age limit is part of the field since I know that my CS colleagues rarely publish papers and instead focus on conferences because they claim it is rare to have a research topic that is still cutting edge by the time it has gone through the writing, review and publication process which can take up to a year. Certainly it does not apply in physics - I cited papers all the way back to 1932 in my thesis and 1963 for papers.
As for degrading, we are part of society and as society moves away from meritocratic ideals such as equality of opportunity in favour of equality of outcomes it has an impact on all aspects of society, including academia.
The memo was justified in the interest of fairness and clarity, I and I get the intent, but on the face of it is absurd. The focus should be on the quality of the research, not the reputation of the journal.
Agreed but the problem is how do you fairly evaluate a colleagues research at a global level when you do not work in that area? Given the need to do this high quality, peer-reviewed journals make sense since, if your colleague can get his/her work published in one then clearly the rest of their field also think their research is high quality.
I bet Apple halfway wishes they could just do away with laptops and desktops.
It's not just a wish, it is effectively what they are doing! The Mac Pro model they sell as new is now 4-5 years old and the mac mini has half the computing power of a laptop and their laptops are slowly morphing into tablets having already lost the function keys and all but one port.
The only way the claim makes any sense is that the allies had modern technology and the Nazis did not. Otherwise the Nazis would not have used an enigma code machine.
True, but neither would he have used an enigma code machine either. The only way to make any sense of the bizarre headline is to assume that the Nazis had WWII technology while the allies had modern technology. Hence the war would be won by a very brief, limited salvo of missiles and not decoding communications - which might have only taken 13 minutes to do but requires a much longer time frame to have an effect on the war.
a legal right . Which exist primary as a object of a law.
Yes, but US law is similar to UK law in that you basically have the right to do anything unless there is a law saying that you cannot. In this system laws do not grant rights, they take them away. The result is that the only thing giving you a right is an absence of laws taking it away. This is a far weaker statement than other countries, like Canada, whose charter of rights and freedoms guarantees the freedom of thought, belief, opinion, association etc. as a matter of law and so binds everyone, including private institutions, companies etc. to not infringe those rights.
That does not mean that you have freedom from consequences but it does mean that e.g. being fired by your employer had better be related to practical considerations and not ideological differences. For example, a health worker can (and should!) be fired for publicly supporting the anti-vax movement but not for advocating for or against a national health service.
Notice how the government doesn't give you these rights -- you have them regardless of whether the government recognizes them.
No, actually you don't have any rights at all. All you have is a restriction on the US government passing several laws. This is a very important distinction because if you actually had a "right" to free speech private companies would also have to respect that right. As it is they can fire you and/or make your life hell if they happen to disagree with you...as Google has done in the past.
Atari is wrong to have accepted an interview to talk about an unfinished product
I know it's Slashdot but if you RTFA it states that: "Atari was extremely clear about the reason it had invited us – during the very busy Games Developer Conference – to meet up with it". I think that's one of the reasons why the Reg journalist was so annoyed with them.
This is a disaster entirely of Ataris own making. They invited a journalist from a technically-savvy website to see product that wasn't there being presented by a guy with no technical knowledge of it. Even they knew that this was going to turn out badly by the end if you listen to one of the clips.
...but then how will the manager know that the reason they are losing business is that one of their wait staff is useless? Not tipping only hurts the waiter but bad service hurts the restaurant's business too. While there will certainly be some people who have utterly unreasonable expectations these should be randomly distributed between all the wait staff and so affect all of them equally. When the primary objective of your job is to keep random members of the public happy surveys are a very good way to measure job performance. The fact that some of your customers are complete gits is sadly part of the job and how you deal with them matters.
States have no right to regulate interstate commerce.
True, but I lived in the US for a while in Michigan and they had a campaign to get people to declare out of state purchases on their tax form so the state could collect the tax and so I asked my American colleagues how this was legal. Apparently the dodge they used was that this technically was not a sales tax but a "use" tax i.e. you had to pay in order to "use" the product in Michigan and the tax was not technically on the purchase. Slimy, but probably legal unless you can afford a very expensive legal team.
I bet there are quite a few who would happily pay for them if they removed the license restrictions they added to the driver that prevents the use of their cards (with their driver at least) in a data centre - unless used for blockchain processing.
The series will revolve around Khan's earlier days as founder of a non-profit educational organization
I thought his early days involved leading hordes of horsemen from the Mongolian plains and performing so much rape and pillage that there is a fair chace you are related to him.
Charge $5 for the cup, don't charge for the soda, or charge a nominal amount. People will start bringing their own reusable cups or bottles very quickly.
Yes, just as you will go out of business very quickly giving free drinks away to those who bring their own cups.
Sure, but I question if the SAT is really the only good measure of that ability
I don't really know any details about SATs other than that they are standardized exams which, I would argue, are so far the best way we have of providing uniform standards across large numbers of students. In my province we have standardized diploma exams for certain subjects but the final mark is made up of 30% exam and 70% from what the school thinks is reasonable.
The schools have to publish their average diploma exam mark by subject and their average school mark. If you plot these there is a very striking inverse correlation so that the schools with the lowest diploma exam averages have far higher school mark averages. This strongly suggests that schools with poor diploma exam results inflate their student grades with a very lenient grading of their school work. So relying on different schools to grade to the same standards is clearly a far worse solution than standardized exams.
... or elect them to be the most powerful person in the world.
Actually, I would love to see a debate between this robot and Trump to see how it handles made-up facts, illogical assertions etc. Somehow logic and reason does not seem to work with him and he goes after emotion and feelings. Since I suspect that logic and facts are the only tools available to the program I suspect it will lose horribly - but regardless would still be an interesting debate to see.
I can tell you right now that more depends on the instructor than any test.
Obviously, the instructor has a significant effect on outcomes. However, no matter how good the instructor is, there are limits to what can be achieved in a single course. This is why we don't ask even our best instructors to teach advanced quantum mechanics or electrodynamics to first year students. It doesn't matter how good they are at teaching you cannot jump from secondary school level to upper-level undergraduate in one course and expect anyone to learn anything useful. Students have to have a sufficient background for the course being taught regardless of how good, or bad, the instructor is.
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Perhaps the citation age limit is part of the field since I know that my CS colleagues rarely publish papers and instead focus on conferences because they claim it is rare to have a research topic that is still cutting edge by the time it has gone through the writing, review and publication process which can take up to a year. Certainly it does not apply in physics - I cited papers all the way back to 1932 in my thesis and 1963 for papers.
As for degrading, we are part of society and as society moves away from meritocratic ideals such as equality of opportunity in favour of equality of outcomes it has an impact on all aspects of society, including academia.
The memo was justified in the interest of fairness and clarity, I and I get the intent, but on the face of it is absurd. The focus should be on the quality of the research, not the reputation of the journal.
Agreed but the problem is how do you fairly evaluate a colleagues research at a global level when you do not work in that area? Given the need to do this high quality, peer-reviewed journals make sense since, if your colleague can get his/her work published in one then clearly the rest of their field also think their research is high quality.
I bet Apple halfway wishes they could just do away with laptops and desktops.
It's not just a wish, it is effectively what they are doing! The Mac Pro model they sell as new is now 4-5 years old and the mac mini has half the computing power of a laptop and their laptops are slowly morphing into tablets having already lost the function keys and all but one port.
Will we ever get real macbooks ever again
No, sadly the nearest you can get now is a Dell or MS Surface Book in a tartan case.
The only way the claim makes any sense is that the allies had modern technology and the Nazis did not. Otherwise the Nazis would not have used an enigma code machine.
True, but neither would he have used an enigma code machine either. The only way to make any sense of the bizarre headline is to assume that the Nazis had WWII technology while the allies had modern technology. Hence the war would be won by a very brief, limited salvo of missiles and not decoding communications - which might have only taken 13 minutes to do but requires a much longer time frame to have an effect on the war.
a legal right . Which exist primary as a object of a law.
Yes, but US law is similar to UK law in that you basically have the right to do anything unless there is a law saying that you cannot. In this system laws do not grant rights, they take them away. The result is that the only thing giving you a right is an absence of laws taking it away. This is a far weaker statement than other countries, like Canada, whose charter of rights and freedoms guarantees the freedom of thought, belief, opinion, association etc. as a matter of law and so binds everyone, including private institutions, companies etc. to not infringe those rights.
That does not mean that you have freedom from consequences but it does mean that e.g. being fired by your employer had better be related to practical considerations and not ideological differences. For example, a health worker can (and should!) be fired for publicly supporting the anti-vax movement but not for advocating for or against a national health service.
Modern technology includes thermonuclear missiles. One of those on Hitler's bunker and the entire thing would be over in a lot less than 13 minutes.
Is it just me or does "air gap" sound like the kind thing best implemented in hardware?
Yes, but in practice, it tends to get implemented between the ears of management.
Notice how the government doesn't give you these rights -- you have them regardless of whether the government recognizes them.
No, actually you don't have any rights at all. All you have is a restriction on the US government passing several laws. This is a very important distinction because if you actually had a "right" to free speech private companies would also have to respect that right. As it is they can fire you and/or make your life hell if they happen to disagree with you...as Google has done in the past.
Atari is wrong to have accepted an interview to talk about an unfinished product
I know it's Slashdot but if you RTFA it states that: "Atari was extremely clear about the reason it had invited us – during the very busy Games Developer Conference – to meet up with it". I think that's one of the reasons why the Reg journalist was so annoyed with them.
This is a disaster entirely of Ataris own making. They invited a journalist from a technically-savvy website to see product that wasn't there being presented by a guy with no technical knowledge of it. Even they knew that this was going to turn out badly by the end if you listen to one of the clips.
Don't like the service? Don't tip.
I would guess this should affect draft beer in bars
Not real draft beers since these come from a cask, not a pressurized keg.
States have no right to regulate interstate commerce.
True, but I lived in the US for a while in Michigan and they had a campaign to get people to declare out of state purchases on their tax form so the state could collect the tax and so I asked my American colleagues how this was legal. Apparently the dodge they used was that this technically was not a sales tax but a "use" tax i.e. you had to pay in order to "use" the product in Michigan and the tax was not technically on the purchase. Slimy, but probably legal unless you can afford a very expensive legal team.
I bet there are quite a few who would happily pay for them if they removed the license restrictions they added to the driver that prevents the use of their cards (with their driver at least) in a data centre - unless used for blockchain processing.
6. Unplug phone.
7. Put do not disturb sign on the door.
4. Set A/C to desired temperature.
5. Unplug listening device again.
What if unplugging is not allowed or impossible? :-)
Hotel floors can be very slippery when carrying glasses of water.
Have you ever thought that might possibly change if you start handing out free drinks?
The series will revolve around Khan's earlier days as founder of a non-profit educational organization
I thought his early days involved leading hordes of horsemen from the Mongolian plains and performing so much rape and pillage that there is a fair chace you are related to him.
Charge $5 for the cup, don't charge for the soda, or charge a nominal amount. People will start bringing their own reusable cups or bottles very quickly.
Yes, just as you will go out of business very quickly giving free drinks away to those who bring their own cups.
Clearly, that post must have been the last straw for you.
Sure, but I question if the SAT is really the only good measure of that ability
I don't really know any details about SATs other than that they are standardized exams which, I would argue, are so far the best way we have of providing uniform standards across large numbers of students. In my province we have standardized diploma exams for certain subjects but the final mark is made up of 30% exam and 70% from what the school thinks is reasonable.
The schools have to publish their average diploma exam mark by subject and their average school mark. If you plot these there is a very striking inverse correlation so that the schools with the lowest diploma exam averages have far higher school mark averages. This strongly suggests that schools with poor diploma exam results inflate their student grades with a very lenient grading of their school work. So relying on different schools to grade to the same standards is clearly a far worse solution than standardized exams.
... or elect them to be the most powerful person in the world.
Actually, I would love to see a debate between this robot and Trump to see how it handles made-up facts, illogical assertions etc. Somehow logic and reason does not seem to work with him and he goes after emotion and feelings. Since I suspect that logic and facts are the only tools available to the program I suspect it will lose horribly - but regardless would still be an interesting debate to see.
I can tell you right now that more depends on the instructor than any test.
Obviously, the instructor has a significant effect on outcomes. However, no matter how good the instructor is, there are limits to what can be achieved in a single course. This is why we don't ask even our best instructors to teach advanced quantum mechanics or electrodynamics to first year students. It doesn't matter how good they are at teaching you cannot jump from secondary school level to upper-level undergraduate in one course and expect anyone to learn anything useful. Students have to have a sufficient background for the course being taught regardless of how good, or bad, the instructor is.