The government also says (on page 39) that the new law provides nothing more than what is already present in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (2000).
It specifically refers to "the ability to remove any encryption applied by the CSP to whom the notice relates" (my emphasis), and not to end-to-end encryption.
If for each individual score < P Si > = 0, then < P (Mean of Si) > = 0. No correlation in the beginning ensures no correlation in the end.
Think of each as a function that take a candidate and outputs a score which is perturbed from the "true" score by an error function.
In this case, the individual scores are correlated to the performance, and the distribution of the mean depends on the expectations of each "error function". The expectation of the mean of Si does not converge to P, but to P + the mean of the expectations. The CLT reduces the standard error of the mean but does not reduce the bias.
[...] while there is no correlation between the scores that any individual interviewer gives candidates and the job performance post-hire, there is a strong correlation between the mean scores given by the four to five interviewers who interview a candidate and post-hire performance.
So, the performance does not correlate with the individual scores but it correlates with their mean ? How does this even work?!
The original paper tells a somewhat different story:
Importance of religion or spirituality, but not frequency of attendance, was associated with thicker cortices in [various cerebral regions], independent of familial risk.
> once you graduate you owe the French state 10 years of your life
The ten years include the duration of the studies (four years, at the Ecole Normale Supérieure). For those who go on to do a PhD, this removes another three years from the ten.
Russia is also a party to the European Convention on Human Rights, so the Strasbourg court can prevent it from extraditing Snowden if he can face the death punishment (less certain about torture, since Russia failed to ratify the relevant protocol). Holder is simply preparing his extradition request to Moscow.
I've been using Brief (add-on for Firefox) for about two months, and I'm quite satisfied. Getting used to the bookmark integration took some time, but it's not so bad. It can import feeds exported from Google Reader. More details here.
It is Euclid who proved that there are infinitely many prime numbers. And the proof is not exactly by contradiction (although you might say that it is used at some step). Anyway, he doesn't start by saying "There are only N primes".
The data obtained by two independent experiments (CMS and ATLAS, both at the LHC) is in excellent agreement for the mass of the particle. The results are also coherent with those obtained by two experiments (CDF and D0) based at the Fermilab.
Something has been found, with a very high statistical relevance (five sigma level, so there is only a chance in a few million that this is a fluctuation). Whether this something is indeed the Higgs boson as predicted depends on its detailed behaviour, so it will take more time to find out. It does however look like it, or a close relative...
Notice that no computers where involved in the proof — this is classical mathematical proof involving logical deductions rather than exhaustive search.
Computers were involved to some extent. From Tao's blog:
The first refinement, which is only available in the five primes case, is to take advantage of the numerical verification of the even Goldbach conjecture up to some large {N_0} (we take {N_0=4\times 10^{14}}, using a verification of Richstein [...])
It would be no great loss to any journal in particular to not accept work from Princeton.
It would be very dangerous for any journal to have to acknowledge publicly that they refuse publication based on the institution of the authors, because they must (at least appear to) be fair and objective. They will most likely add another item on the copyright form, to the effect that: "If you belong to institutions A, B or C you do not have to turn over copyright to us".
The paper appeared in the journal Nano Letters, not to be confused with ACS Nano (although both journals belong to the American Chemical Society).
Link: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl100499x
The first laser was created in 1960. The structure of DNA was discovered in 1953 (I suppose it took a while for the molecular biology revolution to unfold). Integrated circuit - 1958.
Actually, V/m is a field strength; eV/m would be the force applied by said field to an elementary charge. But I do agree that the grand parent doesn't make much sense
What we really need is Microsoft to allow removal of any and all programs that are not basic for an operating system. Yes, even Internet Explorer.
Not so sure that we need to remove them. I would rather have other applications installed alongside them and set as default.
I'm running WinXP Home on my laptop and I use both WMP (for playing DVDs) and IE (for Windows Update). For all other purposes, I use Winamp and Firefox, respectively. I read my email using Thunderbird (never used Outlook). I think integration is fairly decent (far from perfect, though) and, once file type associations are correctly set, you don't need to bother about the original apps being installed.
My question is: When will we see a manufacturer ship this kind of setup ? Three icons on the desktop, labeled "Internet", "Email" and "Music/Video" (and maybe a fourth for "Work" pointing to an office suite.) Not very soon, probably. This would be much more detrimental to Microsoft than shipping Windows XP N. By the way, on such a system will WMP not be reinstalled on the first run of Windows Update ?
In my experience, Web of Science is vastly superior to Google Scholar in terms of coverage. If a publication is out there, it will find it. The user interface is somewhat restrictive, but I can live with that.
This said, Google Scholar is fairly good when it comes to recent publications. And for researchers who cannot afford WOS or SCOPUS, it can be a life saver.
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[...] most passwords on the system are of the form: Capital lower lower lower lower lower lower digit punctuation.
How do you know that ? Do you store the passwords as plain text ?
The government also says (on page 39) that the new law provides nothing more than what is already present in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (2000). It specifically refers to "the ability to remove any encryption applied by the CSP to whom the notice relates" (my emphasis), and not to end-to-end encryption.
Moses never reached his destination.
Think of each as a function that take a candidate and outputs a score which is perturbed from the "true" score by an error function.
In this case, the individual scores are correlated to the performance, and the distribution of the mean depends on the expectations of each "error function". The expectation of the mean of Si does not converge to P, but to P + the mean of the expectations. The CLT reduces the standard error of the mean but does not reduce the bias.
[...] while there is no correlation between the scores that any individual interviewer gives candidates and the job performance post-hire, there is a strong correlation between the mean scores given by the four to five interviewers who interview a candidate and post-hire performance.
So, the performance does not correlate with the individual scores but it correlates with their mean ? How does this even work?!
"Theranostics" is a contraction of "therapeutics" and "diagnostics". It's been a fashionable term in research over the last decade.
What is so risky about THF (and how did you destroy it ?)
They'll recommend that we subsidise a state-sponsored European alternative to Google, which will fail.
Don't laugh - they're mad enough to try it.
Such as Quaero, for instance ?
Link here: http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.co... (already included in the summary)
Importance of religion or spirituality, but not frequency of attendance, was associated with thicker cortices in [various cerebral regions], independent of familial risk.
Link
> once you graduate you owe the French state 10 years of your life The ten years include the duration of the studies (four years, at the Ecole Normale Supérieure). For those who go on to do a PhD, this removes another three years from the ten.
Mod parent up. This is not a microphone, it's a differential hot wire anemometer.
Russia is also a party to the European Convention on Human Rights, so the Strasbourg court can prevent it from extraditing Snowden if he can face the death punishment (less certain about torture, since Russia failed to ratify the relevant protocol). Holder is simply preparing his extradition request to Moscow.
I've been using Brief (add-on for Firefox) for about two months, and I'm quite satisfied. Getting used to the bookmark integration took some time, but it's not so bad. It can import feeds exported from Google Reader. More details here.
It is Euclid who proved that there are infinitely many prime numbers. And the proof is not exactly by contradiction (although you might say that it is used at some step). Anyway, he doesn't start by saying "There are only N primes".
The data obtained by two independent experiments (CMS and ATLAS, both at the LHC) is in excellent agreement for the mass of the particle. The results are also coherent with those obtained by two experiments (CDF and D0) based at the Fermilab. Something has been found, with a very high statistical relevance (five sigma level, so there is only a chance in a few million that this is a fluctuation). Whether this something is indeed the Higgs boson as predicted depends on its detailed behaviour, so it will take more time to find out. It does however look like it, or a close relative...
Notice that no computers where involved in the proof — this is classical mathematical proof involving logical deductions rather than exhaustive search.
Computers were involved to some extent. From Tao's blog:
The first refinement, which is only available in the five primes case, is to take advantage of the numerical verification of the even Goldbach conjecture up to some large {N_0} (we take {N_0=4\times 10^{14}}, using a verification of Richstein [...])
. See the paper by Richstein: http://www.ams.org/journals/mcom/2001-70-236/S0025-5718-00-01290-4/S0025-5718-00-01290-4.pdf
I was feeling really paranoid [...] Ozzy Osbourne
Oh really ?!
It would be no great loss to any journal in particular to not accept work from Princeton.
It would be very dangerous for any journal to have to acknowledge publicly that they refuse publication based on the institution of the authors, because they must (at least appear to) be fair and objective. They will most likely add another item on the copyright form, to the effect that: "If you belong to institutions A, B or C you do not have to turn over copyright to us".
The paper appeared in the journal Nano Letters, not to be confused with ACS Nano (although both journals belong to the American Chemical Society). Link: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl100499x
I'd say quite a lot happened since 1960...
Actually, V/m is a field strength; eV/m would be the force applied by said field to an elementary charge. But I do agree that the grand parent doesn't make much sense
For more details, the preprint of the Nature paper can be found here.
Not so sure that we need to remove them. I would rather have other applications installed alongside them and set as default.
I'm running WinXP Home on my laptop and I use both WMP (for playing DVDs) and IE (for Windows Update). For all other purposes, I use Winamp and Firefox, respectively. I read my email using Thunderbird (never used Outlook). I think integration is fairly decent (far from perfect, though) and, once file type associations are correctly set, you don't need to bother about the original apps being installed.
My question is: When will we see a manufacturer ship this kind of setup ? Three icons on the desktop, labeled "Internet", "Email" and "Music/Video" (and maybe a fourth for "Work" pointing to an office suite.) Not very soon, probably. This would be much more detrimental to Microsoft than shipping Windows XP N. By the way, on such a system will WMP not be reinstalled on the first run of Windows Update ?
This said, Google Scholar is fairly good when it comes to recent publications. And for researchers who cannot afford WOS or SCOPUS, it can be a life saver.