How exactly? I usually move my arms around just a little, but I never stretch anything. My hands are short, and I I'd be using my pinky for any of my typing, I'd probably be stretching my hands apart more. That doesn't feel so good. Through the years I've kind of approximated touch-typing, except I just use three fingers on each hand. And I feel fine about it.
I was also wondering, simply because I don't know, how does touch typing help you with all the !"#$%&/()={}'s ? Typing symbols is the hardest and slowest thing I do, especially when writing all that LaTeX and all that C. Does it really make such a difference?
Ok, I'm making one argument. In no real context. Make of it what you will and work out the rest of the arguments yourselves.
A lot of music IS really expensive. I already named symphonies as an example. In other cases, studio musicians are needed, that have trained for years and years, and only play in the studio, and need to get by playing that kind of thing. Or are you, on principle, against people making a living off of studio work? There is honest-to-goodness music out there that simply cannot be played without professionals. If anybody here likes jazz, he can hopefully recognize the amount of time needed to make one functional player. And that player is likely to HAVE to devote his or her life to it because that music is hard.
Studio production - good studio production - also takes time and CAN be expensive. Especially when many people are involved. Seriously, just because some people have been able to make music cheap in their bedrooms, don't start thinking that's all there is to music. And that that's ADEQUATE for music as a whole.
Like I said, I'm not making any other arguments. Just that making music is NOT CHEAP.
Yeah, I know. That was also not my point. My only point was that a lot of music IS expensive. I might want to find better example... but hey!
It's an independent concern of mine, that musical craftsmanship seems to get rarer every day. I'm, not a fan of this tax either; if at some theoretic level it's "right" - musicians are getting compensation for their hard work - it's probably much too complex to implement in practice and will only be exploited greedy people that aren't musicians.
That's not the point. I mainly wanted to make counter-point against all those comments here that say the same thing: "Hah, making music is easy! And cheap!" It's ignorant and kind of offensive actually.
Not all music is that cheap. Some of it requires trained musicians that depend on salary and expensive equipment. I happen to think, personally, that the world would be poorer without symphonies (as an example) and these cost quite a bit of money.
Like: "You became a musician. You didn't seriously expect to make money did you?" Nobody should ever make music. It's stupid and financially irresponsible.
I remember when I installed Slackware My order for each module was well planned out I get the Core then Network first Install though then I boot into Slackware then Get the Games.
No more of this marketing research bullshit. Haven't you guys done enough? Can I at least play my video games without being bombarded by more stupid ads and product placements?
On the lighter side though, we now have www.cracked.com. Cracked used to be a kind of a Mad rip-off, but is now doing fantastic as an internet magazine.
on your computer. Or in something else, also on your computer. Then send your work to yourself in e-mail. Legal or not... Nobody is going to take away from me things that I wrote. To much of MY TIME and MY LIFE and effort went into it. Even if I just copied it from somewhere. I have a copy of every math homework I ever handed in during my two and a half year of study. And all the notes. Even the ones I turned in and the lecturer kept, as a part of my examination (excepting only those that I wrote with pencil in a three hour written exam).
I'm disregarding the legal question on this one. I consider this to be my personal right and there is nothing anyone can do about it, simply for the practical reason that it's already been copied, by me, into too many places.
I know what you're talking about with the overthinking, but I don't think that's the problem. Let's say you're at a social function and just about analyzed the whole thing and worked out that you had a chance with some girl with a 95% probability. Would you really DO anything about it?
The overthinking argument is a rationalization. It has more to do with being afraid. I won't offer any further analysis of the cause of that, since most of what I've come up with is bullshit anyway. But one thing with shyness or social awkwardness is that people are not as judgemental as you think they are and probably care less about you than you'd even like to admit. Being around people and gradually realizing that what you say and do matters much less than you think is the key here. And making a fool out of yourself and realizing that people just don't give a rats ass about it (and have surprisingly short memories) are the keys of getting rid of those problems.
And when you've finally learned to blend in and socialize you realize something: Normal people are boring!
Or maybe they're out of their expertise. Really, should everyone be thinking computer-related problems through when they can ask the experts? There are a lot of problems related, for example, to finance, that I'd rather have my bank doing. I don't see them frowning on me for not knowing something I asked them.
We each have a finite amount of time for solving problems, and a finite number of abilities, each of which is at least somewhat specialised.
No one can be good at everything. And calling somebody an idiot for not being good at what YOU do is simply not fair.
Often, one does not need to know the solution x itself, but rather an approximation of the expectation value of some operator associated with x, e.g., xMx for some matrix M . In this case, when A is sparse and well-conditioned, with largest dimension n, the best classical algorithms can ïnd x and estimate xMx in O(n) time. Here, we exhibit a quantum algorithm for solving linear sets of equations that runs in O(log n) time, an exponential improvement over the best classical algorithm.
This is a long quote, which is at top of the actual paper cited (I'd trim it down, but I'd need to brush op on my linear algebra to be sure not to ruin it).
According to them, the best algorithms are O(n) and their algorithm improves that to O(log n). It has nothing to do with P vs NP but it is an exponential improvement anyway (going from n to log n), as promised in the summary.
Maybe they just wanted to have fun, and didn't think anything more of it. Just a little bit of "hey, let's behave like molecules, it'll be pretty funny".
I doubt any one of them HAD to do it. And I doubt any one of them was trying to advance their career. Did I miss out on any detail in the article? I honestly think they don't care one way or the other. And I honestly think they got a kick out of it.
I highly doubt that actually learning dance moves with the subject would improve it, but on the other hand I think people automatically do this when demonstrating something with the use of their hands. Just the other day I was demonstrating a convergent sequence to some of my class mates, and they all started laughing when I got carried away and started "dragging" the sequence along with my hands and pointing at the air.:-p
I think there even have been some experiments showing that people have better mental ability with their hands unrestrained. I wouldn't go so far as to call it dancing, but it's no doubt related.
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How exactly? I usually move my arms around just a little, but I never stretch anything. My hands are short, and I I'd be using my pinky for any of my typing, I'd probably be stretching my hands apart more. That doesn't feel so good. Through the years I've kind of approximated touch-typing, except I just use three fingers on each hand. And I feel fine about it. I was also wondering, simply because I don't know, how does touch typing help you with all the !"#$%&/()={}'s ? Typing symbols is the hardest and slowest thing I do, especially when writing all that LaTeX and all that C. Does it really make such a difference?
Yeah, I keep thinking that those people that type 120 wpm must be just intolerably verbose!
Good god I hope you're right. Making this kind of a tax is a shitty way to distribute money.
Ok, I'm making one argument. In no real context. Make of it what you will and work out the rest of the arguments yourselves.
A lot of music IS really expensive. I already named symphonies as an example. In other cases, studio musicians are needed, that have trained for years and years, and only play in the studio, and need to get by playing that kind of thing. Or are you, on principle, against people making a living off of studio work? There is honest-to-goodness music out there that simply cannot be played without professionals. If anybody here likes jazz, he can hopefully recognize the amount of time needed to make one functional player. And that player is likely to HAVE to devote his or her life to it because that music is hard.
Studio production - good studio production - also takes time and CAN be expensive. Especially when many people are involved. Seriously, just because some people have been able to make music cheap in their bedrooms, don't start thinking that's all there is to music. And that that's ADEQUATE for music as a whole.
Like I said, I'm not making any other arguments. Just that making music is NOT CHEAP.
Yeah, I know. That was also not my point. My only point was that a lot of music IS expensive. I might want to find better example... but hey! It's an independent concern of mine, that musical craftsmanship seems to get rarer every day. I'm, not a fan of this tax either; if at some theoretic level it's "right" - musicians are getting compensation for their hard work - it's probably much too complex to implement in practice and will only be exploited greedy people that aren't musicians. That's not the point. I mainly wanted to make counter-point against all those comments here that say the same thing: "Hah, making music is easy! And cheap!" It's ignorant and kind of offensive actually.
Not all music is that cheap. Some of it requires trained musicians that depend on salary and expensive equipment. I happen to think, personally, that the world would be poorer without symphonies (as an example) and these cost quite a bit of money.
Like: "You became a musician. You didn't seriously expect to make money did you?" Nobody should ever make music. It's stupid and financially irresponsible.
Oh, oh, because you wanted to be so different. Click the link, I know you want to!
There has GOT to be a porno out there where that happens.
Because Pi day is supposed to be fun and we aren't taking this so seriously, so stop bitching?
I remember when I installed Slackware My order for each module was well planned out I get the Core then Network first Install though then I boot into Slackware then Get the Games.
You're multitasking right now, aren't you?
I also heard they're hiring unnecessarily sarcastic douchebags. Apparently students are getting lazy.
The good news is that after killing two people with one blow, he won't be killing anyone else.
Oh, aren't you a ray of sunshine. I happen to find them hilarious.
No more of this marketing research bullshit. Haven't you guys done enough? Can I at least play my video games without being bombarded by more stupid ads and product placements?
On the lighter side though, we now have www.cracked.com. Cracked used to be a kind of a Mad rip-off, but is now doing fantastic as an internet magazine.
on your computer. Or in something else, also on your computer. Then send your work to yourself in e-mail. Legal or not... Nobody is going to take away from me things that I wrote. To much of MY TIME and MY LIFE and effort went into it. Even if I just copied it from somewhere. I have a copy of every math homework I ever handed in during my two and a half year of study. And all the notes. Even the ones I turned in and the lecturer kept, as a part of my examination (excepting only those that I wrote with pencil in a three hour written exam).
I'm disregarding the legal question on this one. I consider this to be my personal right and there is nothing anyone can do about it, simply for the practical reason that it's already been copied, by me, into too many places.
No. The cool factor for Apple is this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EbCyibkNB0&feature=rec-fresh+div
I know what you're talking about with the overthinking, but I don't think that's the problem. Let's say you're at a social function and just about analyzed the whole thing and worked out that you had a chance with some girl with a 95% probability. Would you really DO anything about it?
The overthinking argument is a rationalization. It has more to do with being afraid. I won't offer any further analysis of the cause of that, since most of what I've come up with is bullshit anyway. But one thing with shyness or social awkwardness is that people are not as judgemental as you think they are and probably care less about you than you'd even like to admit. Being around people and gradually realizing that what you say and do matters much less than you think is the key here. And making a fool out of yourself and realizing that people just don't give a rats ass about it (and have surprisingly short memories) are the keys of getting rid of those problems.
And when you've finally learned to blend in and socialize you realize something: Normal people are boring!
Which in turn reminds me of this song, by the Klein Four Group: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTby_e4-Rhg
Or maybe they're out of their expertise. Really, should everyone be thinking computer-related problems through when they can ask the experts? There are a lot of problems related, for example, to finance, that I'd rather have my bank doing. I don't see them frowning on me for not knowing something I asked them.
We each have a finite amount of time for solving problems, and a finite number of abilities, each of which is at least somewhat specialised.
No one can be good at everything. And calling somebody an idiot for not being good at what YOU do is simply not fair.
... I was doing some private browsing.
Often, one does not need to know the solution x itself, but rather an approximation of the expectation value of some operator associated with x, e.g., xMx for some matrix M . In this case, when A is sparse and well-conditioned, with largest dimension n, the best classical algorithms can ïnd x and estimate xMx in O(n) time. Here, we exhibit a quantum algorithm for solving linear sets of equations that runs in O(log n) time, an exponential improvement over the best classical algorithm.
This is a long quote, which is at top of the actual paper cited (I'd trim it down, but I'd need to brush op on my linear algebra to be sure not to ruin it).
According to them, the best algorithms are O(n) and their algorithm improves that to O(log n). It has nothing to do with P vs NP but it is an exponential improvement anyway (going from n to log n), as promised in the summary.
Maybe they just wanted to have fun, and didn't think anything more of it. Just a little bit of "hey, let's behave like molecules, it'll be pretty funny".
I doubt any one of them HAD to do it. And I doubt any one of them was trying to advance their career. Did I miss out on any detail in the article? I honestly think they don't care one way or the other. And I honestly think they got a kick out of it.
I highly doubt that actually learning dance moves with the subject would improve it, but on the other hand I think people automatically do this when demonstrating something with the use of their hands. Just the other day I was demonstrating a convergent sequence to some of my class mates, and they all started laughing when I got carried away and started "dragging" the sequence along with my hands and pointing at the air. :-p
I think there even have been some experiments showing that people have better mental ability with their hands unrestrained. I wouldn't go so far as to call it dancing, but it's no doubt related.