I actually found more similarities to Beowulf in some of the elements of the story (particularly in the description and actions of the Rohirrim), while the only major similarity I see to Wagner is the "ring that enables its bearer to rule the world".
Yep, sensitivity and specificity. Your solution would have 100% sensitivity, since it would predict every earthquake correctly, but it would be useless because the specificity would be 0%. To accurately assess the correctness of a predictor, you need to know both figures.
I know a bunch of people who have GPAs in the 3.9s, and none of them spent a lot of time in the library. Where they did spend a lot of time was the lab, making things - and not always because they were assigned, either...
What may cause difficulty in a large corporation is being the best in the classroom then suddenly getting thrown into the job market at the bottom of the hierarchy*, along with all of the other new grads. That's a harsh adjustment for anyone to make.
*There's nothing wrong with this: if they really are that good and if the company recognizes talent, they won't be staying there long.
Humans rape, murder and enslave because it is part of our instincts. Instincts that have been bred into us for millenia. Those same instincts aren't going to magically be transferred to artificial life.
They will be if we're creating copies of the human brain.
The police don't realize that it's a plush prop from a Monty Python skit, though. They get a call that says "There's a bomb". I'm sure most of these turn out to be nothing, but I'd prefer they come running rather than debate whether it's worth their time to come down there. It models how they'd respond if the bomb were real.
Data mining and databases aren't really the same thing (although mining is often performed on databases). Data mining is actually pretty similar to AI: it involves tasks such as classification, clustering, and feature extraction that require constructing statistical models and learning about the dataset in question. The techniques involve more linear algebra and statistics than many CS undergrads will take. Moreover, mining isn't explicitly demanded in industry (certainly not at the level that programming is, at least). I suspect most people are unaware of it.
Interestingly, I have seen more women in the software engineering program at my school than in the CS one (although both are still male-dominated), despite the curriculum and skills significantly overlapping at the undergraduate level. The mean grades don't differ significantly either. So it doesn't sound like a difference in ability.
Also, the distribution is much closer to uniform when considering only international students.
It seems like an image problem: CS is nerdy. CS is uncool. CS will require you to stay inside coding shut out from other people for long periods of time. This is the image most people have of the field; its only redeeming quality to them is the pay.
I suspect that this would quickly change if they would just have an opportunity to try it earlier on. Instead of going through great lengths to get more women to enroll in CS during college, have we tried just sticking a one-quarter course in basic programming into the high school curriculum? That would probably work wonders if they could find teachers for it.
Like Big Brother. We tend to know little of his personal actions and convictions; we think of him primarily as "the head of Microsoft". In a way, he's synonymous with the company, so it's strange to see him doing something so personal as complaining about a product he downloaded (although as he says, it's part of his job).
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I actually found more similarities to Beowulf in some of the elements of the story (particularly in the description and actions of the Rohirrim), while the only major similarity I see to Wagner is the "ring that enables its bearer to rule the world".
Larry Wall has just sent out a memo to "unlink" you.
Unless it's something you care about, opt out by blacklisting the sender. You won't get more spam from them then.
There's someone named Zeno with whom I think you'd get along...
Hawking radiation hasn't been disproved, and you'd better hope for the sake of the planet that he's right about that one when the LHC starts back up.
Yes, but it's a minority of 535 people in a country with 300 million and we call it "Congress".
You need butterflies.
thou.duckest((FreakinHaskell) oldjoke, swine);
Yep, sensitivity and specificity. Your solution would have 100% sensitivity, since it would predict every earthquake correctly, but it would be useless because the specificity would be 0%. To accurately assess the correctness of a predictor, you need to know both figures.
I know a bunch of people who have GPAs in the 3.9s, and none of them spent a lot of time in the library. Where they did spend a lot of time was the lab, making things - and not always because they were assigned, either...
What may cause difficulty in a large corporation is being the best in the classroom then suddenly getting thrown into the job market at the bottom of the hierarchy*, along with all of the other new grads. That's a harsh adjustment for anyone to make.
*There's nothing wrong with this: if they really are that good and if the company recognizes talent, they won't be staying there long.
They will be if we're creating copies of the human brain.
Then the solution is simple: vote everyone out of office and replace them with ventriloquists.
The police don't realize that it's a plush prop from a Monty Python skit, though. They get a call that says "There's a bomb". I'm sure most of these turn out to be nothing, but I'd prefer they come running rather than debate whether it's worth their time to come down there. It models how they'd respond if the bomb were real.
When weighed against a possible loss of lives, the cost of an hour's business at a Windmill is insignificant.
They already did, but they keep starting over when they get to the end... Really, It Can't Ever Return, Considering the Author's Remark.
But lack thereof may prevent you...
I doubt anyone is simplifying the tax code anytime soon.
Data mining and databases aren't really the same thing (although mining is often performed on databases). Data mining is actually pretty similar to AI: it involves tasks such as classification, clustering, and feature extraction that require constructing statistical models and learning about the dataset in question. The techniques involve more linear algebra and statistics than many CS undergrads will take. Moreover, mining isn't explicitly demanded in industry (certainly not at the level that programming is, at least). I suspect most people are unaware of it.
So in other words, Net Neutrality saved the web?
Then they should have built the LHC in Soviet Russia.
That's no moon...
But having that happen three dozen times stretches credibility a bit. It's not that easy.
Interestingly, I have seen more women in the software engineering program at my school than in the CS one (although both are still male-dominated), despite the curriculum and skills significantly overlapping at the undergraduate level. The mean grades don't differ significantly either. So it doesn't sound like a difference in ability.
Also, the distribution is much closer to uniform when considering only international students.
It seems like an image problem: CS is nerdy. CS is uncool. CS will require you to stay inside coding shut out from other people for long periods of time. This is the image most people have of the field; its only redeeming quality to them is the pay.
I suspect that this would quickly change if they would just have an opportunity to try it earlier on. Instead of going through great lengths to get more women to enroll in CS during college, have we tried just sticking a one-quarter course in basic programming into the high school curriculum? That would probably work wonders if they could find teachers for it.
They were even giving away Visual Studio 2008 for free to students under that Dreamspark program a while ago. Not sure if they're still doing that.
Like Big Brother. We tend to know little of his personal actions and convictions; we think of him primarily as "the head of Microsoft". In a way, he's synonymous with the company, so it's strange to see him doing something so personal as complaining about a product he downloaded (although as he says, it's part of his job).
That's what I got out of it anyway.