He not only lacks technical skills he clearly not even competent as a CEO because he missed the golden opportunity to highlight the success of chess.com: "We did not anticipate the huge popularity of chess.com which caused us to exceed two billion chess games which were more games than some of the code could handle. We apologise for the oversight and will be issuing a patch which will let us grow to 2^63, or over 9 quintillion games.".
Failing because you did not anticipate being a huge success makes you look a lot better than just failing because you think it is impossible to foresee overflowing an integer variable.
Maths should actually be safe from this because pure maths is abstract and has absolute proof on its side. Science is where the problems will be: Big Bang vs. Creationism, climate change, evolution etc. Even something as simple as special relativity seems to attract controversy of a kind from those with their own crazy theories to peddle.
The United States has the largest GDP in the world
That depends on how you measure GDP. If you use puchasing power parity which is designed to remove the effects of the international currency markets that skew rates in a way that may have little to do with actual GDP then the EU beats the US.
However, even third place (China is first) still means the US is clearly a world power. While the trend does not seem to be a positive one for the US especially recently given your president the same could be said for the EU too.
I expect that an 80-90% accuracy means that in a group of X people is correctly identifies 80-90% of the people who later go on to attempt suicide. However, if you ignore the false positive rate then I can make an even simpler algorithm that is 100% accurate: simply tag everyone as a suicide risk.
I wish that those reporting on medicine had a basic grasp of science and simple statistics so that they could ask the relevant questions such as: what is the false positive rate?, does 80-90% mean that your statistical error is 10%?, what is the successful rate of doctors predicting suicide risk?, is this algorithm i.e. the types of questions that are critical in determining whether this algorithm is actually useful!
F90 pretty much lost all significance. The only people I'm aware of using Fortran still in my field are older theorists who learnt F77 and still use it. If you are willing to update you programming language knowledge chances are you would not upgrade to F90 given the prevalence of C++ and Python.
It may be different in the US but since Apple moved their manufacturing to the US the recent increases in the US dollar have caused their prices to increase from what was already high to what is now frankly obscene. At the same time, they have slipped to being ~1 year behind the latest CPUs and GPUs making Macs even worse value for money.
I'm a faculty member and while I could afford their prices and would prefer MacOS to Windows. However, the fact that I could pay $2k Canadian less for a top-end laptop and get a more recent CPU and GPU plus twice the memory and both USB-A and C ports was enough to make me switch and use the Linux Windows subsystem.
Couldn't we just ban politicians from making laws about shit they have no clue about?
This is why we have a parliamentary system. May has no clue about a lot of things and the recent election as very clearly demonstrated that to everyone, including her own party. While she may not have a clue about encryption on the Internet there will be people in her own party who do (or at least their advisors).
At best this is nothing more than a cynical ploy to distract everyone while she is still weak and reeling from the election, at worst she really is this ignorant. Either way, it is unlikely to save her from her own MPs who, if they haven't figured it out yet, will soon know how brain-dead this idea is when it is presented in the Commons for the opposition to pull apart and hit her over the head with.
Even if you ignore reality and call winning the election electing a PM we still had an "elected" PM from 2010-2016 and again now in 2017...at least until they boot her out. In 2010 and in 2017 the Tories won the election by being the party with the most seats and the largest share of the vote. They may not have had a majority but they still won. All this illustrates is why thinking of our PM as elected does not really work because the reality is that they are chosen by the MPs whom we vote for.
is he suggesting that Apple's computers weren't even an option to him at that point?
I expect so on a student budget. Apple's computers are not an option to many students given their currently insane pricing. This has always been an issue but a few years ago they seemed to get the pricing right and I saw a lot of students in my lectures with Mac laptops, now it is down to just one or two with most have Dell, HP or low-end MS Surface devices.
If the Tories had anyone who could provide decent, nevermind strong and stable, leadership this would not have been an issue. Instead, they have had Cameron who just went with the flow wherever it led and May who stubbornly refuses to bend a millimetre. A real leader knows when to bend and when not to.
However after a result like this I'm not sure how long the government will last. If the DUP force the Tories into looking at a soft Brexit to preserve the open border with Ireland the rabid right-wing, Eurosceptic side of the party could well end up bringing the government down if they felt they might do better in an election.
Unless you have other evidence that the speaker is a complete and utter moron, of course.
It's a report from a local US TV station's news talking about a message from the TSA. I think it very likely that there is at least one utter moron involved.
The headline is worse than that. It implies that Einstein didn't believe in the existence of the phenomenon in question...
Oh it's even worse because the reason Einstein (and everyone else) believed his theory of general relativity was correct was due to the Arthur Eddington's expedition to view the solar eclipse of 1919 where he observed that the sun bent the light of a distant star changing its apparent position!
What is even more insane is that both the articles linked in the summary start out mentioning this 1919 observation proving that the submitter either never read the articles he was submitting or did not understand what they were talking about. This article is clearly a contender for the most ignorant article on slashdot award.
I think you are missing the point here. Taking the statement completely at face value the argument seems to be that they want to ban batteries which have enough charge to detonate an explosive. If a terrorist has a battery and some explosives on a plane the problem is NOT that they have a bloody battery!
Potential employees at a nonprofit expect to receive salaries, and executives are no exception. If you don't pay them market-competitive salaries, then you are likely to get less talented workers.
The problem with this is that if they are not willing to give up a large fraction of their clearly enormous salaries they immediately lose their moral authority to ask others who earn far less than them to donate.
It used to be that big jobs like this were either an opportunity for someone up and coming to gain the experience to gain a big management position in a major company which they earned them the big money. Alternatively, it provided a corporate executive nearing retirement a way to use their skills to do some good for society after they had already earned their big money.
If a non-profit CEO thinks so little of the cause that they are not willing to accept a lower-than-market salary in return for the non-financial rewards of such a position they are in no position to ask anyone else to donate.
They've also got their geography slightly wrong. By the time this finally eventuates, if it ever does, the UK won't be part of Europe any more.
Unless you expect hyperloop construction to take place on a geological timescale they have the geography just fine. Geographically the UK will remain part of Europe regardless of what the idiots in Westminster decide to do politically.
Does the government have the right to refuse input on issues from specific people?
Yes - it's a right to free speech, not a right to be listened to. If you want a government to listen you have to use your freedom of speech to convince enough voters that you are correct then either they listen or you vote in a government which will at the next election.
Given the number of complete wackjobs out there with every insane point of view you can think of plus a few more it would be madness to require a government to listen to input from everyone. Having to persuade a reasonable number of the population that you know what you are talking about before a government will listen is a very reasonable filter. After all, if you can't persuade your fellow citizens you are unlikely to be able to persuade a government.
The CIA also faked all those meetings & communications between Russians & Flynn, Manafort, Kushner too
Well, the CIA have faked evidence of weapons of mass destruction before to justify a war. The only reason the above is not believable is that it's not in the interest of those in power in the US for the CIA to fake evidence of such meetings, not because the CIA wouldn't do such a thing.
It should also reduce sportspeople's salaries to less unreasonable levels. There are a huge amount of savings which can be made there before it will affect anything.
It's no joke. LEGO Mindstorms comes with a graphical flowchart-like language using LabVIEW to write programs. Of course, the system is hideously slow and inefficient compared to text and with EV3 the brick runs Linux so you can easily dump it for Python, C++ or whatever you like.
LabVIEW itself is also used for instrumental programming in some labs although I expect it is rather slow so its applications will be somewhat limited. I've never used it myself in particle physics but I believe some of my condensed matter colleagues use it as a slow control system for commercial instruments.
Why are they worried about making the same calls as doctors? What they should be doing is (obviously after the fact) comparing it to whether the patient actually had cancer. Nobody cares that Watson might only agree with doctors 73-96% of the time if, overall, it catches more cancers.
In fact, even if it has a comparable success rate but disagrees with doctors that's great because it means it is catching cancers that doctors are likely to miss.
Even if UPS and surge protection do not count, having a redundant system in a different data centre ready to take over regardless of the cause of the outage definitely does fall under IT. It is insane that a major company like BA did not have any such redundancy for such an important, mission critical application. It would have cost far less than the £100 million estimated cost of this incident not to mention avoiding the appalling publicity.
Even if there is no difference in the price to direct booking there is one huge advantage: Expedia oversells rooms. I've had the experience of making a reservation with Expedia and turning up at a small US town in the middle of nowhere with the wife and kids on holiday to find that they overbooked the room. Fortunately, the staff had realized this and booked the only other remaining hotel room in the town so, thanks to their thoughtfulness we were ok, but after that experience, I have only ever used Expedia to find hotels and will never, ever use them again to book a room.
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He not only lacks technical skills he clearly not even competent as a CEO because he missed the golden opportunity to highlight the success of chess.com: "We did not anticipate the huge popularity of chess.com which caused us to exceed two billion chess games which were more games than some of the code could handle. We apologise for the oversight and will be issuing a patch which will let us grow to 2^63, or over 9 quintillion games.".
Failing because you did not anticipate being a huge success makes you look a lot better than just failing because you think it is impossible to foresee overflowing an integer variable.
Maths should actually be safe from this because pure maths is abstract and has absolute proof on its side. Science is where the problems will be: Big Bang vs. Creationism, climate change, evolution etc. Even something as simple as special relativity seems to attract controversy of a kind from those with their own crazy theories to peddle.
The United States has the largest GDP in the world
That depends on how you measure GDP. If you use puchasing power parity which is designed to remove the effects of the international currency markets that skew rates in a way that may have little to do with actual GDP then the EU beats the US.
However, even third place (China is first) still means the US is clearly a world power. While the trend does not seem to be a positive one for the US especially recently given your president the same could be said for the EU too.
I expect that an 80-90% accuracy means that in a group of X people is correctly identifies 80-90% of the people who later go on to attempt suicide. However, if you ignore the false positive rate then I can make an even simpler algorithm that is 100% accurate: simply tag everyone as a suicide risk.
I wish that those reporting on medicine had a basic grasp of science and simple statistics so that they could ask the relevant questions such as: what is the false positive rate?, does 80-90% mean that your statistical error is 10%?, what is the successful rate of doctors predicting suicide risk?, is this algorithm i.e. the types of questions that are critical in determining whether this algorithm is actually useful!
F90 discarded white space significance in 1990.
F90 pretty much lost all significance. The only people I'm aware of using Fortran still in my field are older theorists who learnt F77 and still use it. If you are willing to update you programming language knowledge chances are you would not upgrade to F90 given the prevalence of C++ and Python.
It may be different in the US but since Apple moved their manufacturing to the US the recent increases in the US dollar have caused their prices to increase from what was already high to what is now frankly obscene. At the same time, they have slipped to being ~1 year behind the latest CPUs and GPUs making Macs even worse value for money.
I'm a faculty member and while I could afford their prices and would prefer MacOS to Windows. However, the fact that I could pay $2k Canadian less for a top-end laptop and get a more recent CPU and GPU plus twice the memory and both USB-A and C ports was enough to make me switch and use the Linux Windows subsystem.
Couldn't we just ban politicians from making laws about shit they have no clue about?
This is why we have a parliamentary system. May has no clue about a lot of things and the recent election as very clearly demonstrated that to everyone, including her own party. While she may not have a clue about encryption on the Internet there will be people in her own party who do (or at least their advisors).
At best this is nothing more than a cynical ploy to distract everyone while she is still weak and reeling from the election, at worst she really is this ignorant. Either way, it is unlikely to save her from her own MPs who, if they haven't figured it out yet, will soon know how brain-dead this idea is when it is presented in the Commons for the opposition to pull apart and hit her over the head with.
Even if you ignore reality and call winning the election electing a PM we still had an "elected" PM from 2010-2016 and again now in 2017...at least until they boot her out. In 2010 and in 2017 the Tories won the election by being the party with the most seats and the largest share of the vote. They may not have had a majority but they still won. All this illustrates is why thinking of our PM as elected does not really work because the reality is that they are chosen by the MPs whom we vote for.
is he suggesting that Apple's computers weren't even an option to him at that point?
I expect so on a student budget. Apple's computers are not an option to many students given their currently insane pricing. This has always been an issue but a few years ago they seemed to get the pricing right and I saw a lot of students in my lectures with Mac laptops, now it is down to just one or two with most have Dell, HP or low-end MS Surface devices.
Tory back benchers have a lot to answer for.
If the Tories had anyone who could provide decent, nevermind strong and stable, leadership this would not have been an issue. Instead, they have had Cameron who just went with the flow wherever it led and May who stubbornly refuses to bend a millimetre. A real leader knows when to bend and when not to.
However after a result like this I'm not sure how long the government will last. If the DUP force the Tories into looking at a soft Brexit to preserve the open border with Ireland the rabid right-wing, Eurosceptic side of the party could well end up bringing the government down if they felt they might do better in an election.
Unless you have other evidence that the speaker is a complete and utter moron, of course.
It's a report from a local US TV station's news talking about a message from the TSA. I think it very likely that there is at least one utter moron involved.
To be fair they are trying for defence in depth, which is reasonable.
In principle yes but not in this particular case because many airlines handily provide a 110V power socket at your seat.
The headline is worse than that. It implies that Einstein didn't believe in the existence of the phenomenon in question...
Oh it's even worse because the reason Einstein (and everyone else) believed his theory of general relativity was correct was due to the Arthur Eddington's expedition to view the solar eclipse of 1919 where he observed that the sun bent the light of a distant star changing its apparent position!
What is even more insane is that both the articles linked in the summary start out mentioning this 1919 observation proving that the submitter either never read the articles he was submitting or did not understand what they were talking about. This article is clearly a contender for the most ignorant article on slashdot award.
I think you are missing the point here. Taking the statement completely at face value the argument seems to be that they want to ban batteries which have enough charge to detonate an explosive. If a terrorist has a battery and some explosives on a plane the problem is NOT that they have a bloody battery!
Potential employees at a nonprofit expect to receive salaries, and executives are no exception. If you don't pay them market-competitive salaries, then you are likely to get less talented workers.
The problem with this is that if they are not willing to give up a large fraction of their clearly enormous salaries they immediately lose their moral authority to ask others who earn far less than them to donate.
It used to be that big jobs like this were either an opportunity for someone up and coming to gain the experience to gain a big management position in a major company which they earned them the big money. Alternatively, it provided a corporate executive nearing retirement a way to use their skills to do some good for society after they had already earned their big money.
If a non-profit CEO thinks so little of the cause that they are not willing to accept a lower-than-market salary in return for the non-financial rewards of such a position they are in no position to ask anyone else to donate.
They've also got their geography slightly wrong. By the time this finally eventuates, if it ever does, the UK won't be part of Europe any more.
Unless you expect hyperloop construction to take place on a geological timescale they have the geography just fine. Geographically the UK will remain part of Europe regardless of what the idiots in Westminster decide to do politically.
Does the government have the right to refuse input on issues from specific people?
Yes - it's a right to free speech, not a right to be listened to. If you want a government to listen you have to use your freedom of speech to convince enough voters that you are correct then either they listen or you vote in a government which will at the next election.
Given the number of complete wackjobs out there with every insane point of view you can think of plus a few more it would be madness to require a government to listen to input from everyone. Having to persuade a reasonable number of the population that you know what you are talking about before a government will listen is a very reasonable filter. After all, if you can't persuade your fellow citizens you are unlikely to be able to persuade a government.
LabVIEW is a compiled language. It is fast. If you do it right, easily as fast as C.
Not when you include the time it takes to write the program as well as run it!
Why limit it to athletes?
Those are the only ones likely to be affected by people watching eSports which is what we were talking about.
The CIA also faked all those meetings & communications between Russians & Flynn, Manafort, Kushner too
Well, the CIA have faked evidence of weapons of mass destruction before to justify a war. The only reason the above is not believable is that it's not in the interest of those in power in the US for the CIA to fake evidence of such meetings, not because the CIA wouldn't do such a thing.
It should also reduce sportspeople's salaries to less unreasonable levels. There are a huge amount of savings which can be made there before it will affect anything.
It's no joke. LEGO Mindstorms comes with a graphical flowchart-like language using LabVIEW to write programs. Of course, the system is hideously slow and inefficient compared to text and with EV3 the brick runs Linux so you can easily dump it for Python, C++ or whatever you like.
LabVIEW itself is also used for instrumental programming in some labs although I expect it is rather slow so its applications will be somewhat limited. I've never used it myself in particle physics but I believe some of my condensed matter colleagues use it as a slow control system for commercial instruments.
Why are they worried about making the same calls as doctors? What they should be doing is (obviously after the fact) comparing it to whether the patient actually had cancer. Nobody cares that Watson might only agree with doctors 73-96% of the time if, overall, it catches more cancers.
In fact, even if it has a comparable success rate but disagrees with doctors that's great because it means it is catching cancers that doctors are likely to miss.
Even if UPS and surge protection do not count, having a redundant system in a different data centre ready to take over regardless of the cause of the outage definitely does fall under IT. It is insane that a major company like BA did not have any such redundancy for such an important, mission critical application. It would have cost far less than the £100 million estimated cost of this incident not to mention avoiding the appalling publicity.
Even if there is no difference in the price to direct booking there is one huge advantage: Expedia oversells rooms. I've had the experience of making a reservation with Expedia and turning up at a small US town in the middle of nowhere with the wife and kids on holiday to find that they overbooked the room. Fortunately, the staff had realized this and booked the only other remaining hotel room in the town so, thanks to their thoughtfulness we were ok, but after that experience, I have only ever used Expedia to find hotels and will never, ever use them again to book a room.