If you want the equivalent of a College B.S. in machine learning 18 months of intense training is more than you'd actually get during your 4 years at college. possibly even more than a masters. If you are looking for PhD level, then 18 months maybe isn't there entirely. But over the next year or two of work experience, in a job emphasizing research in AI with a good mentor, would definitely produce pHD level graduates. I know this because I've seen it done at my company, producing major leaders through this process.
I just adore the Keynote/Pages interface. Actually I adore the previous version where it had the NextStep Inspector interface. The new one isn't as good. But both are a step way above Microsoft's office.
What galls me with Pages and Keynote is they aren't compatible with Zotero the footnoting/reference manager. Ergo I must use Microsoft Office. oh the agony of that.
If only there was a work alike for keynote or pages interface but was open source. Then we'd have something.
Copy a good interface if you are going to copy something!
what I infer from this is that even free form lenses are surfacing the back surface only. It also seems to show that the intermediate focal distance are still a keyhole even with the best possible lens they can make.
thanks again. To inquire further what added measurements are needed. I'm always a bit galled when I get my perscription and they leave off the pupilary distances-- they refer me to the optics shop for that. Yet my insurance favors their preferred online vendors who of course ask for my pupilary distance. Fortunately that number isn't too hard to come up with but it's frustrating it's not part of the prescription. Hence my wonder about what other measurements are needed. I'd guess maybe eyeglass to eyeball matters too, and the vertical centering as well. And yet it also seems like those might not matter much too since during the day your glasses may be worn slightly differently (pushed in, natural position, or pulled down a bit) and it doesn't seem to matter acutely. Or rather the effect is not so distorting as the hourglass of the progressive. My current glasses are said to be HD and "digital" and also said to be custom ground. But from what you are telling me those are marketing terms that are just saying they are a step up from trifocals glued together. Not double sided custom or aspheric. (which also makes one wonder, if you can grind a glass arbitrarily, why would one bother with spherical optics-- everything should just be aspheric because, why not?)
I don't know why people use sprint when the sprint MNVO's seem to be better in price and offer the same service.
There's two MNVO phone companies that use Sprint towers (and some t-mobile towers) that I suspect are growing fast. One is Republic Wireless and the other is Freedompop. If you don't use your phone a lot then freedom pop is totally free. Republic wireless just reshuffled their plans but up until recently unlimited calling and texting was $10 a month. That plan is now only available on some handsets but not newer phones.:-(
Of the two Republic wireless has wonderful customer service-- basically they let their customers help each other through the forums. And it works really well as the expert customers know a heck of a lot more than your typical call center monkey. The voice quality is awesome and they have the most highly functional blended voip system I've ever come across. It smokes the one verizon and t-mobile offer.
Freedom pop has a diabolically deceptive website designed explicitly to trick you into paying for services that are not required then hiding the links in 6 point font two scroll pages down on the screen. Their customer response is incpompetent and slow. And they make ludicrous mistakes like shipping you two phones when you order one, or shipping you broken phones rather than new ones. On the otherhand once you get it all sorted out and get a working phone and turn off all the extra charges they lard onto your bill, it acutally is free to use for the first 400 to 500 minutes of cell or text and 500Mb of data. So one can't complain too much!
My main remaining greivance with freedom pop is it seems that the minutes I use on voip over my home wifi still get counted towards that total.
Of the two, republic is better if you are a moderate user. It's also less frustrating to deal with them. if you are a very light weigh user freedom pop is free. But adding additional minutes isn't as cheap as Republic wireless (it's unlimited for $10)
interesting. One possibile problem there might be that half the light is being scattered into each focal regime. So not only is losing half the light but there's a blinding blur equally bright all the time.
The shocking thing about progressive lenses when you first get them is that in the mid range they have almost no lateral field of view. Look at a wide computer monitor and only the central 6 inches are in focus. You have to learn to scan your head not your eyes to see the whole screen. This is one reason why they make computer-specific glasses by the way.
As someone who knows a little bit about optics I found this surprising. You would sort have expected that a progressive lens could be made sort of like a fresnel lens with connected regions of varialbe focal length. Doing that ought to give you a wide field of view at each vertical layer. But evidently this is not how they are made.
What I'm describing here isn't just my own experience it's well documented and you can find many illustrations of progressive lenses that show the usable part of the eye glasses is hourglass shaped. Very narrow in the middle so turning your eyes looks through the bad regions on the side when in the middle depth focal range. Companies compete to brag how their lenses have a wider middle region.
I have yet to find a good explanation of why this has to be the case. My guess here is that the cosmetic goal of elminating "lines" like you see in tri-focals, comes at the cost of blending the divergent edges in the outer edge of the lens, creating a rubbish region. But I'm not sure if that's the sole explanation. Why can't a gontinuously graded lens strength also form a smooth blend? It should. So I think maybe there is another explanation. Anyone know?
It's not that you can't use these. Having all focal distances accessible at the same time is great. But you have to learn to point your nose at whatever you want to look at. FOr some prescriptions this is worse than others. and for some people they get headaches.
Thus with that introduction, I sense that these autofocus lenses are remarkably interesting because they are another way to have all ranges available. One can imagine the time lag in adjustment is going to cause awful results at first. SO I can't imagine these things succeeding in the market. But it would be nice if i'm wrong.
All you have to do is insist that any person hired on H1B receive a salary 25% higher than the highest paid equivalent level US person in the company. If they are willing to pay the premium then it's pretty clear it's not bullsh*t to say they are more qualified for the job. I've seen proposals to simply fix the salary at say $150K . but a fixed salary can't span the distance from academia to industry or across various types of work.
As someone who handles a lot of resumes I plainly see that many foreign applicants are infact more qualified in some cases. So I don't think they should end the H1B program. They just need to end the abuse of it.
well at 40K miles its about 10 earth radii. A dart thrown at that radius has about a 1% chance of intersecting within the earth's atmosphere. Since we haven't had a major earth impact in a couple hundred years one might guess that similarly close events are something like 10,000 years apart if they were random events. Thus observing more than one in your life suggests they are not random.
Digging a little I googled up this explanation of why they did something seemingly insane with pure oxygen.
there were two reasons given: 1. Weight. having a mixed gas system required added pounds. 2. they planned to run it at 5 PSI in space, which was considered a safe level of oxygen. 5PSI would be the equivalent partial pressure as 33% oxygen at sea level. So perhaps not that much more than normal.
However, in the test run they ran it at 16PSI oxygen. They needed to have positive pressure inside relative to the outside (so the doors would be shut).
I still don't get it. Surely this would always be true. Regardless of the pressure used in space, they would need to start at sea level and need a high pressure of oxygen,
I find this puzzling. I'm guessing there's more to this story and on the face of it, it seems insane to run pure oxygen at 16 PSI.
I read the article but still I don't get why pure oxygen. While nitrogen narcosis is always a risk it's something that's easy to manage so it seems insane to try to avoid that with a pure oxygen environment which is an almost unmanageable risk.. The story says the danger of oxygen was not appreciated. Huh????? no way is that true. So I repeat why did they use pure oxygen??? makes no sense.
Conveniently, Net Neutrality is going to die since il Cheeto appointed the man from Verizon to regulate it. SO Sprint can make their service the priory one and not use any data charges.
Oh so I can pay 2x and get something 2x faster. Wow. And I could pay 2x of $60 and get a whole chromebook or used laptop that was 8x faster. Or a I could buy a cheap android phone and have my rockchip with a touch screen and battery for that $60.
they just don't understand the price point logic of $35.
Likewise going the other way you can buy a cheaper and more powerful board like a Pine or an Orange PI, save yourself $10 in parts and then pay about $300 in time and effort (assuming your time is worth $50/hour) to get a linux distro and and all the needed packages that actually works on it. the orange PI's are junk because a usabale software set only gets ported a year or more after the board has been on the market. I bought one once, and had to download several different distro's for it till I got one with drivers that would support the Key board, Blue tooth, and screen I was using. And even then it was only using just 1 of it's 4 processors and no graphics acceleration from the Mali chip. that took hours to wade through. then when I tried to install other code the libraries didn't compile. Fast forward 3 years, and it works fine now but the rasperry PI 3 eclipsed it.
The whole point of the RPI is a bomb proof little circuit that has loads of well testd software so it's not the project, it's the thing you put into the project.
So of all the possible people on all possible planes it's the flight crew? And of all the batteries on planes, it's from a device that isn't particularly renown for bursting into flames? It would probably be more likely if the pilots were smuggling something and that caught fire.
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If you want the equivalent of a College B.S. in machine learning 18 months of intense training is more than you'd actually get during your 4 years at college. possibly even more than a masters. If you are looking for PhD level, then 18 months maybe isn't there entirely. But over the next year or two of work experience, in a job emphasizing research in AI with a good mentor, would definitely produce pHD level graduates. I know this because I've seen it done at my company, producing major leaders through this process.
I just adore the Keynote/Pages interface. Actually I adore the previous version where it had the NextStep Inspector interface. The new one isn't as good. But both are a step way above Microsoft's office.
What galls me with Pages and Keynote is they aren't compatible with Zotero the footnoting/reference manager. Ergo I must use Microsoft Office. oh the agony of that.
If only there was a work alike for keynote or pages interface but was open source. Then we'd have something.
Copy a good interface if you are going to copy something!
I found this video.
https://youtu.be/KFlBGd01jxk
what I infer from this is that even free form lenses are surfacing the back surface only. It also seems to show that the intermediate focal distance are still a keyhole even with the best possible lens they can make.
thanks again. To inquire further what added measurements are needed. I'm always a bit galled when I get my perscription and they leave off the pupilary distances-- they refer me to the optics shop for that. Yet my insurance favors their preferred online vendors who of course ask for my pupilary distance. Fortunately that number isn't too hard to come up with but it's frustrating it's not part of the prescription. Hence my wonder about what other measurements are needed. I'd guess maybe eyeglass to eyeball matters too, and the vertical centering as well. And yet it also seems like those might not matter much too since during the day your glasses may be worn slightly differently (pushed in, natural position, or pulled down a bit) and it doesn't seem to matter acutely. Or rather the effect is not so distorting as the hourglass of the progressive. My current glasses are said to be HD and "digital" and also said to be custom ground. But from what you are telling me those are marketing terms that are just saying they are a step up from trifocals glued together. Not double sided custom or aspheric. (which also makes one wonder, if you can grind a glass arbitrarily, why would one bother with spherical optics-- everything should just be aspheric because, why not?)
Trying to decide where to meet for lunch while on the phone and you want to look at a map or check yelp.
I don't know why people use sprint when the sprint MNVO's seem to be better in price and offer the same service.
There's two MNVO phone companies that use Sprint towers (and some t-mobile towers) that I suspect are growing fast. One is Republic Wireless and the other is Freedompop. If you don't use your phone a lot then freedom pop is totally free. Republic wireless just reshuffled their plans but up until recently unlimited calling and texting was $10 a month. That plan is now only available on some handsets but not newer phones. :-(
Of the two Republic wireless has wonderful customer service-- basically they let their customers help each other through the forums. And it works really well as the expert customers know a heck of a lot more than your typical call center monkey. The voice quality is awesome and they have the most highly functional blended voip system I've ever come across. It smokes the one verizon and t-mobile offer.
Freedom pop has a diabolically deceptive website designed explicitly to trick you into paying for services that are not required then hiding the links in 6 point font two scroll pages down on the screen. Their customer response is incpompetent and slow. And they make ludicrous mistakes like shipping you two phones when you order one, or shipping you broken phones rather than new ones. On the otherhand once you get it all sorted out and get a working phone and turn off all the extra charges they lard onto your bill, it acutally is free to use for the first 400 to 500 minutes of cell or text and 500Mb of data. So one can't complain too much!
My main remaining greivance with freedom pop is it seems that the minutes I use on voip over my home wifi still get counted towards that total.
Of the two, republic is better if you are a moderate user. It's also less frustrating to deal with them. if you are a very light weigh user freedom pop is free. But adding additional minutes isn't as cheap as Republic wireless (it's unlimited for $10)
wow. that's great information. answers my puzzle. thanks. I wonder why it's hard to customize both sides if you can do one side.
interesting. One possibile problem there might be that half the light is being scattered into each focal regime. So not only is losing half the light but there's a blinding blur equally bright all the time.
The shocking thing about progressive lenses when you first get them is that in the mid range they have almost no lateral field of view. Look at a wide computer monitor and only the central 6 inches are in focus. You have to learn to scan your head not your eyes to see the whole screen. This is one reason why they make computer-specific glasses by the way.
As someone who knows a little bit about optics I found this surprising. You would sort have expected that a progressive lens could be made sort of like a fresnel lens with connected regions of varialbe focal length. Doing that ought to give you a wide field of view at each vertical layer. But evidently this is not how they are made.
What I'm describing here isn't just my own experience it's well documented and you can find many illustrations of progressive lenses that show the usable part of the eye glasses is hourglass shaped. Very narrow in the middle so turning your eyes looks through the bad regions on the side when in the middle depth focal range. Companies compete to brag how their lenses have a wider middle region.
I have yet to find a good explanation of why this has to be the case. My guess here is that the cosmetic goal of elminating "lines" like you see in tri-focals, comes at the cost of blending the divergent edges in the outer edge of the lens, creating a rubbish region. But I'm not sure if that's the sole explanation. Why can't a gontinuously graded lens strength also form a smooth blend? It should. So I think maybe there is another explanation. Anyone know?
It's not that you can't use these. Having all focal distances accessible at the same time is great. But you have to learn to point your nose at whatever you want to look at. FOr some prescriptions this is worse than others. and for some people they get headaches.
Thus with that introduction, I sense that these autofocus lenses are remarkably interesting because they are another way to have all ranges available. One can imagine the time lag in adjustment is going to cause awful results at first. SO I can't imagine these things succeeding in the market. But it would be nice if i'm wrong.
Monsanto is planning to sue the moon if any pollen from their corn get there.
All you have to do is insist that any person hired on H1B receive a salary 25% higher than the highest paid equivalent level US person in the company. If they are willing to pay the premium then it's pretty clear it's not bullsh*t to say they are more qualified for the job. I've seen proposals to simply fix the salary at say $150K . but a fixed salary can't span the distance from academia to industry or across various types of work.
As someone who handles a lot of resumes I plainly see that many foreign applicants are infact more qualified in some cases. So I don't think they should end the H1B program. They just need to end the abuse of it.
well at 40K miles its about 10 earth radii. A dart thrown at that radius has about a 1% chance of intersecting within the earth's atmosphere. Since we haven't had a major earth impact in a couple hundred years one might guess that similarly close events are something like 10,000 years apart if they were random events. Thus observing more than one in your life suggests they are not random.
The article is 6 times less better english speaking than above average. One day I go to park went, There see I a man grinding a monkey's organ.
What kind of english is that?
So is a rotating fan a time crystal?
Digging a little I googled up this explanation of why they did something seemingly insane with pure oxygen.
there were two reasons given:
1. Weight. having a mixed gas system required added pounds.
2. they planned to run it at 5 PSI in space, which was considered a safe level of oxygen. 5PSI would be the equivalent partial pressure as 33% oxygen at sea level. So perhaps not that much more than normal.
However, in the test run they ran it at 16PSI oxygen. They needed to have positive pressure inside relative to the outside (so the doors would be shut).
I still don't get it. Surely this would always be true. Regardless of the pressure used in space, they would need to start at sea level and need a high pressure of oxygen,
I find this puzzling. I'm guessing there's more to this story and on the face of it, it seems insane to run pure oxygen at 16 PSI.
I read the article but still I don't get why pure oxygen. While nitrogen narcosis is always a risk it's something that's easy to manage so it seems insane to try to avoid that with a pure oxygen environment which is an almost unmanageable risk.. The story says the danger of oxygen was not appreciated. Huh????? no way is that true. So I repeat why did they use pure oxygen??? makes no sense.
Conveniently, Net Neutrality is going to die since il Cheeto appointed the man from Verizon to regulate it. SO Sprint can make their service the priory one and not use any data charges.
Oh so I can pay 2x and get something 2x faster. Wow. And I could pay 2x of $60 and get a whole chromebook or used laptop that was 8x faster. Or a I could buy a cheap android phone and have my rockchip with a touch screen and battery for that $60.
they just don't understand the price point logic of $35.
Likewise going the other way you can buy a cheaper and more powerful board like a Pine or an Orange PI, save yourself $10 in parts and then pay about $300 in time and effort (assuming your time is worth $50/hour) to get a linux distro and and all the needed packages that actually works on it. the orange PI's are junk because a usabale software set only gets ported a year or more after the board has been on the market. I bought one once, and had to download several different distro's for it till I got one with drivers that would support the Key board, Blue tooth, and screen I was using. And even then it was only using just 1 of it's 4 processors and no graphics acceleration from the Mali chip. that took hours to wade through. then when I tried to install other code the libraries didn't compile. Fast forward 3 years, and it works fine now but the rasperry PI 3 eclipsed it.
The whole point of the RPI is a bomb proof little circuit that has loads of well testd software so it's not the project, it's the thing you put into the project.
So the word they were looking for was Registrar.
OR just the infinitive . "To Register". China orders app stores to register
Oxygen is not stored. it's produced on demand for those masks.
The don't use O2 on planes.
So of all the possible people on all possible planes it's the flight crew? And of all the batteries on planes, it's from a device that isn't particularly renown for bursting into flames? It would probably be more likely if the pilots were smuggling something and that caught fire.
I note that there are sustainable banana farms and chiquita is supposedly one of these
http://business-ethics.com/201...