I think the most important question that you have to ask yourself is not about hard or difficult university is. But actually where you want to go with your company. Are you happy with its position in the market place? Do you forsee a period of growth in the company or is the company at a point where there isn't much room to grow in the short to medium term.
The next thing you need to think about is the staff that you currently have. How much of your role can you delegate? For instance do you have a capable member of staff to meet with clients?
It isn't uncommon for business owners to want go back and get qualified but in the situation you're in you might want to consider a greater slant on business skills. After all, if you know what you're talking about technically do you really need a sheet of paper to tell you that?
And who said Opensource lacked leadership?
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I think this disproves the myth earlier in the week that OpenSource can not be innovative and groundbreaking. Of course it isn't the norm;)
Very very insightful. Your thoughts do bring back to my mind the Amstrad Megadrive. This was a bit of a flop, mainly because well most prefered the snes to the megadrive.
The applications for linux on a console are also pretty well documented for developing countries. I'm sure someone (most likely either MS, Sony or Nintendo) will see this very good way to drive up sales. "Much more than a console". The smart money must be on Sony or Nintendo packing Linux into future systems or MS chucking on some version of windows.
One problem with relying on TV sets is that you can be restricted to crappy resolution rates if you have a crap tv.
This points out quite a simple problem with P2P systems. You are never garunteed to get the file you want.
There is already an excellent 'fingerprinting' service for mp3s called Moodlogic. I'm sure some p2p app will eventually search by someform of 'fingerprint' to identify files more accurately. However it requires greater user participation in accurately identifying movies and mp3s.
Of course since this is all illegal its a moot point anyway:)
Exactly. To get technical its all down to the definition of how knowledge is shared. If the knowledge is common. i.e. The following statement (For all) I know everything that everyone else knows. Then you have a 'borg' like collective.
Or if the knowledege of the world is distributed (i.e. if all our knowledge was pooled we would all know everything - doesn't imply its common). Then you don't have a 'borg' like collective.
Who cares anyway. Its all a bunch of tree hugging hippy propoganda.
>Sounds like a genetic algorithm might work well, with a human viewer providing the fitness test.
Hate to do this, but that is utter nonsense. A prerequirement of a genetic algorithm is to use a reasonably simple fitness function. The ammount of evaluation involved means that it would be completely impractical to have a human viewer evaluate each member of each new population interactively. Especially when the attractiveness is in running a batch job and letting it run unattended exploring the search space. It would seem plausible to perhaps allow some human manipulation at some stages (especially when distinguishing minor differences i.e. near convergence).
You wouldn't have to worry about keeping the look and the feel and such if you had a proper evaluation function. The GA would explore the search space for you and give solutions without the proper look and feel less of an opportunity to 'breed'.
It seems reasonable to suggest that a fitness funcition that compares a font to some other representation of a font (i.e. for copying purposes) is possible but I don't know enough about fonts to be sure.
I don't think it is comes down to the repsect of fellow professionals. I think its more about the respect of decision makers.
Like it or not decision makers, the suits, management are the people to impress when it comes down to career progress. I think we'd all like the respect of fellow pros but the respect of management is a lot harder to gain.
I think it normally requires insight into how some aspect of IT is going to fit into the business. i.e. saving/making the company money.
This sort of thing would be an absolute god send for those involved in AI. But any comparison of techniques requiring runtime analysis would be an absolute god send.
That'd be much peferable to running some particular piece of code for a week or whatever on a workstation that some bunch of 1st year undergrads are using night and day. (All for one result - then realising you'd made a mistake in said code)
It would speed up research in so many diverse fields.
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I think the most important question that you have to ask yourself is not about hard or difficult university is. But actually where you want to go with your company. Are you happy with its position in the market place? Do you forsee a period of growth in the company or is the company at a point where there isn't much room to grow in the short to medium term.
The next thing you need to think about is the staff that you currently have. How much of your role can you delegate? For instance do you have a capable member of staff to meet with clients?
It isn't uncommon for business owners to want go back and get qualified but in the situation you're in you might want to consider a greater slant on business skills. After all, if you know what you're talking about technically do you really need a sheet of paper to tell you that?
I think this disproves the myth earlier in the week that OpenSource can not be innovative and groundbreaking. Of course it isn't the norm;)
But I patent anyway of using the internet to make money.
Very very insightful. Your thoughts do bring back to my mind the Amstrad Megadrive. This was a bit of a flop, mainly because well most prefered the snes to the megadrive.
The applications for linux on a console are also pretty well documented for developing countries. I'm sure someone (most likely either MS, Sony or Nintendo) will see this very good way to drive up sales. "Much more than a console". The smart money must be on Sony or Nintendo packing Linux into future systems or MS chucking on some version of windows.
One problem with relying on TV sets is that you can be restricted to crappy resolution rates if you have a crap tv.
This points out quite a simple problem with P2P systems. You are never garunteed to get the file you want. There is already an excellent 'fingerprinting' service for mp3s called Moodlogic. I'm sure some p2p app will eventually search by someform of 'fingerprint' to identify files more accurately. However it requires greater user participation in accurately identifying movies and mp3s. Of course since this is all illegal its a moot point anyway:)
> And TTT was written a ways before the WTC was built...
Are you serious? Didn't Tolkien win the Booker prize for it?????;)
Exactly. To get technical its all down to the definition of how knowledge is shared. If the knowledge is common. i.e. The following statement (For all) I know everything that everyone else knows. Then you have a 'borg' like collective. Or if the knowledege of the world is distributed (i.e. if all our knowledge was pooled we would all know everything - doesn't imply its common). Then you don't have a 'borg' like collective. Who cares anyway. Its all a bunch of tree hugging hippy propoganda.
>Sounds like a genetic algorithm might work well, with a human viewer providing the fitness test.
Hate to do this, but that is utter nonsense. A prerequirement of a genetic algorithm is to use a reasonably simple fitness function. The ammount of evaluation involved means that it would be completely impractical to have a human viewer evaluate each member of each new population interactively. Especially when the attractiveness is in running a batch job and letting it run unattended exploring the search space. It would seem plausible to perhaps allow some human manipulation at some stages (especially when distinguishing minor differences i.e. near convergence).
You wouldn't have to worry about keeping the look and the feel and such if you had a proper evaluation function. The GA would explore the search space for you and give solutions without the proper look and feel less of an opportunity to 'breed'.
It seems reasonable to suggest that a fitness funcition that compares a font to some other representation of a font (i.e. for copying purposes) is possible but I don't know enough about fonts to be sure.
I don't think it is comes down to the repsect of fellow professionals. I think its more about the respect of decision makers. Like it or not decision makers, the suits, management are the people to impress when it comes down to career progress. I think we'd all like the respect of fellow pros but the respect of management is a lot harder to gain. I think it normally requires insight into how some aspect of IT is going to fit into the business. i.e. saving/making the company money.
This sort of thing would be an absolute god send for those involved in AI. But any comparison of techniques requiring runtime analysis would be an absolute god send.
That'd be much peferable to running some particular piece of code for a week or whatever on a workstation that some bunch of 1st year undergrads are using night and day. (All for one result - then realising you'd made a mistake in said code)
It would speed up research in so many diverse fields.