Hotmail is (and was) a stronger brand for free webmail than Outlook is. Most people who know Outlook as something other than "that crappy email client that comes with Windows?" probably aren't in the market for free webmail accounts.
It's not a silly idea, in the right context. Companies running drug trials will be all over this. Noncompliance is a huge problem and, worse, it's currently a nearly unmeasureable problem.
That's great. From a public health perspective, if you want to decide for yourself that you've had enough of your antibiotics, perhaps you shouldn't get them next time. Or if you have TB and aren't following the treatment schedule you should probably be quarantined. Or if you've agreed to the terms of a clinical trial and aren't following the medication schedule you should be bounced out of it.
If you don't want to take your heart medication, nobody cares.
The data for the NASA graph has a lot of missing or marked bad data points at the beginning. The Surfacestations graph somehow shows data from before 1900 that's missing in the NASA source.
It looks more like the greatest temperature rise is located in the interior of the continent, away from oceans. It doesn't really co-localize very well with mountains.
You're right. I didn't read the article properly, with the approved Stallman interpretation (licensed under the GPL v3+).
But the article doesn't really say much at all. I was referring to the various comments, hand wringing, navel gazing and decrying done by various adherents.
Pop music has always used a limited number of chords. The variety of transitions between them has gone down. To use your analogy, if your food only uses four DNA bases and they're all arranged in the same order you won't have as much variety in your food.
I didn't say it was required, just that it's a good idea. A pure verifying-signatures-notary is a pretty niche job. Most notaries do other things, often working in banks or performing some of the same jobs as lawyers, negotiating contracts and mortgages and things. I certainly prefer that people doing things like that be able to understand, for example, compound interest.
Don't automatically give him too much credit. Most people who use statistics today don't have the slightest idea how they work, or how to actually do them themselves. Thus the rampant bad stats issues.
If this guy does social science research he probably dumps numbers into his stats package of choice (or more likely has a gad student do it) and wouldn't know where to start if he actually had to code up his own.
It's strange that free software, which is supposed to have all these advantages over proprietary, is so threatened by something as simple as the availability of some games on Linux.
Steam will be in some repos and not in others, valve will make a double click installer, and the only people who will care will be "freedom zealots" and a few people who chose the wrong distro and have to google how to install steam.
You know, the worst situations people walk into regarding the things you mentioned probably involve credit and interest. and how do you understand interest? With algebra.
I certainly prefer my banker to know algebra, and so should the lawyer and notary. Social studies (history plus geography) was ALSO required when I was in school. And if you haven't noticed, studying and actually solving a lot of those "social realities" that have such a big impact in everyday life depends on statistics, which is... math.
And if nothing else, you learn that some things are hard and the people who work to master them are worthy of respect. Except this guy seems to have missed all of those lessons. Maybe he somehow dodged out of required math?
The study I'm currently working on is running about a 2-5% mortality rate from the immunoablation and transplant. It is an autologous transplant though, so there's no risk of rejection.
Still, bone marrow is hard to come by, it is more dangerous if you're using a donor, and HIV infections can be very well controlled.
No. You're correct, I should have been more specific and said "unbeatable given a choice of starting positions" but for a game to be solved, at the very least, you have to be able to say, from the beginning of the game, whether two perfect players are going to win, lose or draw. You cannot do that with poker, so it cannot be solved.
Who are you playing against? With people at very different skill levels, for non-trivial length games, poker is undoubtedly dominated by skill. There are enough hands in most games that the luck factor is fairly diluted. Between players of similar skill, luck is much more important.
"Solved" means you can program a computer to be provably unbeatable. Any decent programmer should be able to write a chess or poker or go program that will beat most human players most of the time. That's not solved.
Poker, of any form, is impossible to solve because it has an element of luck. I suppose you could theoretically "soft solve" it by writing a program that is statistically unbeatable though.
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It's only a silly idea if it's silly in all contexts. What was your second sentence about?
Hotmail is (and was) a stronger brand for free webmail than Outlook is. Most people who know Outlook as something other than "that crappy email client that comes with Windows?" probably aren't in the market for free webmail accounts.
Second and third best reasons not to use webmail.
It's not a silly idea, in the right context. Companies running drug trials will be all over this. Noncompliance is a huge problem and, worse, it's currently a nearly unmeasureable problem.
That's great. From a public health perspective, if you want to decide for yourself that you've had enough of your antibiotics, perhaps you shouldn't get them next time. Or if you have TB and aren't following the treatment schedule you should probably be quarantined. Or if you've agreed to the terms of a clinical trial and aren't following the medication schedule you should be bounced out of it.
If you don't want to take your heart medication, nobody cares.
The data for the NASA graph has a lot of missing or marked bad data points at the beginning. The Surfacestations graph somehow shows data from before 1900 that's missing in the NASA source.
It looks more like the greatest temperature rise is located in the interior of the continent, away from oceans. It doesn't really co-localize very well with mountains.
It's five year old hardware. If you want to run the latest and greatest you need to have a machine from the last half decade. Sounds reasonable.
You're right. I didn't read the article properly, with the approved Stallman interpretation (licensed under the GPL v3+).
But the article doesn't really say much at all. I was referring to the various comments, hand wringing, navel gazing and decrying done by various adherents.
Didn't even make it through the summary hey?
Pop music has always used a limited number of chords. The variety of transitions between them has gone down. To use your analogy, if your food only uses four DNA bases and they're all arranged in the same order you won't have as much variety in your food.
"Next up will be complaining that Western books use only a couple hundred words rather than the thousands they used to use."
There are also usually a few extra instruments around in classical music.
Regular western music only has 12 notes.
You have very little idea of what a banker is, do you? Or algebra for that matter?
Have you heard of interest? That's kind of what banks are all about. And it requires algebra.
I didn't say it was required, just that it's a good idea. A pure verifying-signatures-notary is a pretty niche job. Most notaries do other things, often working in banks or performing some of the same jobs as lawyers, negotiating contracts and mortgages and things. I certainly prefer that people doing things like that be able to understand, for example, compound interest.
Don't automatically give him too much credit. Most people who use statistics today don't have the slightest idea how they work, or how to actually do them themselves. Thus the rampant bad stats issues.
If this guy does social science research he probably dumps numbers into his stats package of choice (or more likely has a gad student do it) and wouldn't know where to start if he actually had to code up his own.
It's strange that free software, which is supposed to have all these advantages over proprietary, is so threatened by something as simple as the availability of some games on Linux.
Steam will be in some repos and not in others, valve will make a double click installer, and the only people who will care will be "freedom zealots" and a few people who chose the wrong distro and have to google how to install steam.
You know, the worst situations people walk into regarding the things you mentioned probably involve credit and interest. and how do you understand interest? With algebra.
I certainly prefer my banker to know algebra, and so should the lawyer and notary. Social studies (history plus geography) was ALSO required when I was in school. And if you haven't noticed, studying and actually solving a lot of those "social realities" that have such a big impact in everyday life depends on statistics, which is... math.
Give the guy a break. He can't do algebra. That means he can't do statistics.
And if nothing else, you learn that some things are hard and the people who work to master them are worthy of respect. Except this guy seems to have missed all of those lessons. Maybe he somehow dodged out of required math?
The study I'm currently working on is running about a 2-5% mortality rate from the immunoablation and transplant. It is an autologous transplant though, so there's no risk of rejection.
Still, bone marrow is hard to come by, it is more dangerous if you're using a donor, and HIV infections can be very well controlled.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solved_game
No. You're correct, I should have been more specific and said "unbeatable given a choice of starting positions" but for a game to be solved, at the very least, you have to be able to say, from the beginning of the game, whether two perfect players are going to win, lose or draw. You cannot do that with poker, so it cannot be solved.
Who are you playing against? With people at very different skill levels, for non-trivial length games, poker is undoubtedly dominated by skill. There are enough hands in most games that the luck factor is fairly diluted. Between players of similar skill, luck is much more important.
"Solved" means you can program a computer to be provably unbeatable. Any decent programmer should be able to write a chess or poker or go program that will beat most human players most of the time. That's not solved.
Poker, of any form, is impossible to solve because it has an element of luck. I suppose you could theoretically "soft solve" it by writing a program that is statistically unbeatable though.