I'd wager the network folks would kill to know how that heuristic is so cheaply computed.
I don't know if you can really call a bee brain "cheap." It's small, but animal brains aren't that well understood. Maybe if we could harness its power it could render 3D better than the latest nVidia card or beat Deep Blue at chess. That pinhead sized brain is controlling flight, processing input from compound eyes, integrating itself into a relatively complex social system, and apparently kicking our ass at traveling salesman. br>
Computers suck at most of those things, so I'd say the heuristic would be as hard to do as any of the others.
Your post is reasonable; people calling Palin dumb are kind of beating a dead horse, but put it in context. She could have been vice president, with no small chance of being promoted. A lot of folks don't want someone who is 'stupid (arguably)' in that position. Part of it is that if ask her supporters why they like her it's because "She's just like me, a normal American." I don't want the president to be just like me (residents of Redmond WA would probably also object, due to the fallout.)
As it stands I can spend an hour choosing string samples and mixing them to try and get the sound I want, where a real strings section would take 5 minutes and get it right on.
It's not just the time/effort. The members of a good orchestra have devoted their lives to mastering their instruments. They know the context of the piece being played. They will imbue their performance with some level of emotion. Computers can't do that.
MIDI orchestrations can be made to sound incredibly realistic. Some of the LA Scoring Strings demos are amazing, but it's an incredibly realistic simulation of soulless robots playing stringed instruments.
UI design is one of those areas of expertise that is both an "Art" and a "Science" at the same time.
The computer industry hasn't evolved to quite that level yet, people just don't realize that good UI design is hard.
It's hard because people don't approach it right. Unlike most interfaces in any given system, the quality of the one to/from a UI is judged based on millions of years of evolution. Humans are going to love and hate UIs for totally irrational reasons.
Because it's not too clear from the page: that's from the novel Anathem, which I would highly recommend to anyone (especially the type that reads about cables on/.)
Unfortunately it's pretty common to see regular office desktops with fast multicore CPUs and ridiculously low amounts of RAM (I've seen C2D 2+ GHz CPUs coupled with 512 megs of RAM, it ran slower than a low-end P4 with 2 gigs of RAM).
For an office machine 512 MB should be a ridiculously large amount of RAM. OS and application code has gone totally batshit crazy.
Maybe I'm missing something, but unless the 6-core system is clocked slower than the 4-core one, the 6-core system should outperform it easily in all tasks.
So here's my prediction: 60 years from now, you'll have old farts reminiscing about how these new bands kids listen to are all mindless crap, unlike the great music of Eminem, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spear and Lady Gaga that they grew up with. Those were the great musicians. Not because any is objectively better, but just because that's the point in time their tastes remained frozen.
Maybe, but longevity is one of the few objective measures of quality that can be applied to music. If people still get enjoyment from The Backstreet Boys 60 years from now (doubtful) it's good.
How often does anything that looks like an obfuscated C contest entry actually get committed to a repository ?
It happens all the time where I work. I maintain some old code written by an old hacker (he's got a credit in the K&R book!) Shit like this is not uncommon: *(&z + z) |= ~tqq + m ? u9 >> 2: 741 | w & 0x8F ? ~(~t11) : foo
Interesting paper (although the author openly admits to some hand waving.) Is there a major flaw in the premise that orbital launches can be done that cheaply? I would guess the comparison of the rocket engines to a DOHC turbo V8 might be questionable, but engine design is a one time cost. Seriously, what the hell is so hard about launching rockets?
Maybe this article is evidence that the answer is nothing.
I can't even remotely imagine playing ME2 on this kind of setup. Online games can hide latency by having the client extrapolate, but what they're selling seems totally unworkable. The internet is not a real time system, even with a tolerance of 100 ms or so.
And until OSX, Apple didn't even have minimize/maximize
They STILL don't have maximize. That green button makes the windows as big as the OS thinks it should be.
The worst part about that is that the response from Mac people is: "You don't really want to do that. You're thinking in primitive Windows-one-app-at-a-time terms. Once you're enlightened to the Mac philosophy you'll 'get it'."
Why on earth would you want to use a laptop to browse the internet if you have a desktop? Tiny screen, crappy speakers, no mouse... when did it become hip to use crippled devices?
I've looked around for USB sound cards that include a line-in jack, but I haven't been too impressed by the selection.
It's one of the most saturated segments of audio gear: Sweetwater has 119 models. For audio stuff it's frequently a good call to buy a "professional" product; the consumer stuff is designed with the - mostly correct - assumption that people don't care about audio quality.
I swear... Some of this stuff, it takes longer to get it out of the plastic than it does to build the server.
I've come to believe that one of the most essential tools for computer building is a sharp knife. Freeing the components from their packaging, cutting liquid cooling tubes, stabbing anyone who questions your choice of CPU; there are endless uses for a good knife.
This is among the dumbest things I've ever seen on the internet. Guilty or innocent, you're going to get more scrutiny from the cops if you don't cooperate. Once you're indicted everything the guy says is probably true, but when there's a bar fight and someone gets killed, do you really want to be the one person in the crowd who says, by omission "I will not deny that I killed that guy?"
I had the first edition of the Learning Python book and didn't find it that useful. The old 1.5 version of Python Essential Reference was way better. Even being new to programming, I found it very readable. I expect the new versions are just as good. It's clear and concise; the chapter on classes is 6 pages, but taught me everything I needed to know. It's one of the few dead tree resources that I still refer to. From total noob to 10 year veteran that book's served me well.
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I'd wager the network folks would kill to know how that heuristic is so cheaply computed.
I don't know if you can really call a bee brain "cheap." It's small, but animal brains aren't that well understood. Maybe if we could harness its power it could render 3D better than the latest nVidia card or beat Deep Blue at chess. That pinhead sized brain is controlling flight, processing input from compound eyes, integrating itself into a relatively complex social system, and apparently kicking our ass at traveling salesman.
br> Computers suck at most of those things, so I'd say the heuristic would be as hard to do as any of the others.
Your post is reasonable; people calling Palin dumb are kind of beating a dead horse, but put it in context. She could have been vice president, with no small chance of being promoted. A lot of folks don't want someone who is 'stupid (arguably)' in that position. Part of it is that if ask her supporters why they like her it's because "She's just like me, a normal American." I don't want the president to be just like me (residents of Redmond WA would probably also object, due to the fallout.)
As it stands I can spend an hour choosing string samples and mixing them to try and get the sound I want, where a real strings section would take 5 minutes and get it right on.
It's not just the time/effort. The members of a good orchestra have devoted their lives to mastering their instruments. They know the context of the piece being played. They will imbue their performance with some level of emotion. Computers can't do that.
MIDI orchestrations can be made to sound incredibly realistic. Some of the LA Scoring Strings demos are amazing, but it's an incredibly realistic simulation of soulless robots playing stringed instruments.
UI design is one of those areas of expertise that is both an "Art" and a "Science" at the same time.
The computer industry hasn't evolved to quite that level yet, people just don't realize that good UI design is hard.
It's hard because people don't approach it right. Unlike most interfaces in any given system, the quality of the one to/from a UI is judged based on millions of years of evolution. Humans are going to love and hate UIs for totally irrational reasons.
Because it's not too clear from the page: that's from the novel Anathem, which I would highly recommend to anyone (especially the type that reads about cables on /.)
If so you don't need eduction. Find a startup that's hiring smart people.
First of all, I would love it if they could make it easier to relocate your cache folder,
I haven't tried it, but on Vista/Windows 7 I've read reports from people who used symlinks successfully to link to Steam game data on other drives.
Unfortunately it's pretty common to see regular office desktops with fast multicore CPUs and ridiculously low amounts of RAM (I've seen C2D 2+ GHz CPUs coupled with 512 megs of RAM, it ran slower than a low-end P4 with 2 gigs of RAM).
For an office machine 512 MB should be a ridiculously large amount of RAM. OS and application code has gone totally batshit crazy.
Maybe I'm missing something, but unless the 6-core system is clocked slower than the 4-core one, the 6-core system should outperform it easily in all tasks.
memcpy ((void *) dest, (void *) src, 1000000);
So here's my prediction: 60 years from now, you'll have old farts reminiscing about how these new bands kids listen to are all mindless crap, unlike the great music of Eminem, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spear and Lady Gaga that they grew up with. Those were the great musicians. Not because any is objectively better, but just because that's the point in time their tastes remained frozen.
Maybe, but longevity is one of the few objective measures of quality that can be applied to music. If people still get enjoyment from The Backstreet Boys 60 years from now (doubtful) it's good.
I bet I'm not alone on this one. Some jackass writes a O(n^3) solution to a O(log n) problem and when I question it, the guy quotes Knuth.
hurricanes might drive the oil deeper into the wetlands, doing harm to one of the critical ecosystems in the area.
It's worse than you think.
How often does anything that looks like an obfuscated C contest entry actually get committed to a repository ?
It happens all the time where I work. I maintain some old code written by an old hacker (he's got a credit in the K&R book!) Shit like this is not uncommon:
*(&z + z) |= ~tqq + m ? u9 >> 2: 741 | w & 0x8F ? ~(~t11) : foo
Interesting paper (although the author openly admits to some hand waving.) Is there a major flaw in the premise that orbital launches can be done that cheaply? I would guess the comparison of the rocket engines to a DOHC turbo V8 might be questionable, but engine design is a one time cost. Seriously, what the hell is so hard about launching rockets?
Maybe this article is evidence that the answer is nothing.
I can't even remotely imagine playing ME2 on this kind of setup. Online games can hide latency by having the client extrapolate, but what they're selling seems totally unworkable. The internet is not a real time system, even with a tolerance of 100 ms or so.
I heard that the iPad is mostly made of atoms created by previous supernovae. Isn't that why this story was posted?
And until OSX, Apple didn't even have minimize/maximize
They STILL don't have maximize. That green button makes the windows as big as the OS thinks it should be.
The worst part about that is that the response from Mac people is: "You don't really want to do that. You're thinking in primitive Windows-one-app-at-a-time terms. Once you're enlightened to the Mac philosophy you'll 'get it'."
I think we're going to have to go back to the patronage model.
I would donate $10,000 for a new season of Firefly.
Why on earth would you want to use a laptop to browse the internet if you have a desktop? Tiny screen, crappy speakers, no mouse... when did it become hip to use crippled devices?
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a yo-yo".
Neal Stephenson
I've looked around for USB sound cards that include a line-in jack, but I haven't been too impressed by the selection.
It's one of the most saturated segments of audio gear: Sweetwater has 119 models. For audio stuff it's frequently a good call to buy a "professional" product; the consumer stuff is designed with the - mostly correct - assumption that people don't care about audio quality.
I swear... Some of this stuff, it takes longer to get it out of the plastic than it does to build the server.
I've come to believe that one of the most essential tools for computer building is a sharp knife. Freeing the components from their packaging, cutting liquid cooling tubes, stabbing anyone who questions your choice of CPU; there are endless uses for a good knife.
I think you need to review the "Don't talk to the police" video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
This is among the dumbest things I've ever seen on the internet. Guilty or innocent, you're going to get more scrutiny from the cops if you don't cooperate. Once you're indicted everything the guy says is probably true, but when there's a bar fight and someone gets killed, do you really want to be the one person in the crowd who says, by omission "I will not deny that I killed that guy?"
I had the first edition of the Learning Python book and didn't find it that useful. The old 1.5 version of Python Essential Reference was way better. Even being new to programming, I found it very readable. I expect the new versions are just as good. It's clear and concise; the chapter on classes is 6 pages, but taught me everything I needed to know. It's one of the few dead tree resources that I still refer to. From total noob to 10 year veteran that book's served me well.
can someone give the "particle physics for dummies" equivalent here?
I think you'll find that this page makes it all pretty clear.