Worse than not really caring, they sort of actively dislike accurate, non-sensationalized information. This is why, in the U.S., the History Channel, which started as an attempt to make a cable network about history, has turned into a channel that mainly shows things about ancient aliens and the like.
If they wanted to, they could certainly do the 2nd part. They can't legally blackmail you, but there are plenty of legal things they could do to make your life miserable. For example, they could start websites to name-and-shame people who hold particular unpopular views. As long as they accurately identified the views, that wouldn't be libelous.
Here's a more recent study with similar conclusions, studying high-school students in Taiwan. However another study, testing something slightly different, found that when students were given a quiz after reading a chapter in either a paper or electronic textbook, they did equally well.
It's probably news because white people are being raided now, whereas previously it was only scary black people like Fred Hampton who got murdered by militarized police.
Wouldn't that bias the system against legitimate small inventors whose invention was ripped off by a giant corporation? They wouldn't be allowed to file suit near their home, but would have to travel to the state where the corporation is headquartered to sue them. And the corporation could itself judge-shop by placing its headquarters in districts known to be friendly to corporate defendants.
My impression is that it's been going the opposite direction in the U.S., but could change again. It used to be quite common for CS research groups to have substantial programming staff. That's what Richard Stallman's job was in the MIT AI Lab, for example, and he was one of a number of hackers from non-academic backgrounds on the AI-Lab staff (Richard Greenblatt and Russell Noftsker were two of the others). But in those days there was generous and fairly unrestricted funding, so folks like Marvin Minsky had a ton of money lying around to keep programmers on their lab's payroll. These days grants are typically tied to 3-year projects and more regulated.
The term is usually "research programmer" or something similar. However they're often time-limited positions rather than indefinite. A common arrangement is that a university gets a big grant, and needs to bring in some extra programmers to help out on the project for the ~3 years of a typical grant. The best-funded labs do keep some programming staff on semi-permanent payroll, though, because they always get a new round of grants before the previous ones run out.
I'd just start looking at job listings in the area you care about and see what skills or experience they ask for. Familiarity with data-analysis tools is often a plus, e.g. be conversant in R, be able to make some nice visualizations of data, etc. But that's only one area; there are plenty of others.
There are a lot of friendly projects fwiw, and many love any kind of new contributor, of any skill level, whether they're submitting technical contributions or documentation or even just comments on common use-cases that worked for them or didn't. Kernel development is probably the worst place to start, for a variety of reasons.
I've recently had good experiences interacting with the Racket and git-annex maintainers, to pick two examples.
I think (2) is something people often miss. If you're a n00b who posts something stupid on LKML, you are not going to get massive old-school-Usenet-style flames. When heated LKML arguments make it to Slashdot, it's almost always a case where both sides are actually reasonably known, like the maintainers of two different Linux subsystems having strong disagreements over direction. You don't find Linus flaming a college kid, both because that would be unnecessarily mean, and because it wouldn't be worth his time to write out long heated posts just to rebut n00bs.
This is talking about less foreign business for U.S.-based companies, e.g. European companies getting wary of hosting their stuff on a U.S.-based cloud provider. It is not discussing immigration, which doesn't have much to do with the NSA.
Less foreign business for U.S.-based companies would probably not increase the number of U.S.-based engineering jobs.
Since this was literally the same link, not just the same story but via a different source, it seems like there could be a pretty simple automated dupe-checker that flags it and tells the editors: a story with the same link was posted in the past N weeks, are you sure you want to post?
As far as I can tell, it's basically a vanity plate that isn't supposed to have any legal difference. You can also get special plates if you're a military veteran, if you have an amateur radio license, and miscellaneous other things.
It does seem to raise some risk of special treatment, specially in the legislator case.
I like to think that would be true, but honestly about 50% of the things I click on in a Google search are Wikipedia articles, even when I didn't initially search Wikipedia directly.
At least Linpack performs actual linear algebra, so coding to that particular test will help some people with real workloads (i.e. scientific software that uses Linpack). It's definitely not representative of everyone's workload, though.
It was built in Japan, which has dominated commercial shipbuilding over the past 40 years. It doesn't dominate quite as much anymore, but it still has a large share of the market. It's basically Japan and South Korea building most ships; China is spending massive amounts of money to break into the market, but is still under 10%.
Hell, +/- 1000 pounds would probably be good enough, and even that might be more sensitive than actually needed. A typical shipping container weighs on the order of ~30,000-50,000 pounds (~15,000-25,000 kg). A ship isn't going to sink because a declared-as-40,000 lb container was actually 40,050 lbs. Even if a company loading 1,000 containers systemically mis-declared by 50 lbs and they all got loaded in some asymmetrical way, that'd still only be a 50,000 lbs error, equal to about one shipping container. A modern cargo ship is not going to sink because of an asymmetric load, or an over-load, equal to one shipping container.
If underdeclaring weight became a stability problem sufficient to sink the ship, my guess is that a substantial number of the containers were reporting numbers way off the real values.
Above a certain level, though, you start to pull in the wrong kinds of people. You can definitely get a better professor for $100k than $60k, and probably can get a top one for $200k. But if you're paying an administrator $600k? Now you start pulling in people who don't care about academia, and are just in it for the money. I think it might be better not incentivizing them to jump to academia; academic administration is becoming a revolving door of people from industry and government doing 3-year stints to put on their CV, when it would be better served by people with some kind of actual knowledge about, and commitment to, research and education.
"UC officials believe that her Cabinet experiences –- which include helping to lead responses to hurricanes and tornadoes and overseeing some anti-terrorism measures — will help UC administer its federal energy and nuclear weapons labs and aid its federally funded research in medicine and other areas."
It's a good thing there's no need to have the head of a university system have experience in anything like education or research. All that matters is those security-industry connections!
Kind of a tangent, but fwiw the Vatican no longer handles its own prosecutions or imprisonments. Under the Lateran Treaty of 1929, the Vatican has autonomy in policing, but prosecution is handled by the Vatican handing the prisoner over to the Italian court system and requesting them to be prosecuted:
At the request of the Holy See, or by its delegate who may be appointed in single cases or permanently, Italy shall provide within her for the punishment of offences committed within the Vatican City, save and except when the author of the offence shall have taken refuge in Italian territory, in which event he shall immediately be proceeded against according to the provisions of the Italian laws.
There are fields with worse job prospects, yes, like much of the humanities. But the kind of person who can do well in an EE program has better alternatives these days. Hell, you have better prospects making websites in Ruby.
Whether the U.S. having a bunch of web-devs and no hard engineering talent is good long-term is another story. But today, if you want a well-paying job, pick up a web technology, not EE.
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Worse than not really caring, they sort of actively dislike accurate, non-sensationalized information. This is why, in the U.S., the History Channel, which started as an attempt to make a cable network about history, has turned into a channel that mainly shows things about ancient aliens and the like.
And here we have an illustration of your garden-variety Daily Mail reader.
If they wanted to, they could certainly do the 2nd part. They can't legally blackmail you, but there are plenty of legal things they could do to make your life miserable. For example, they could start websites to name-and-shame people who hold particular unpopular views. As long as they accurately identified the views, that wouldn't be libelous.
Here's a more recent study with similar conclusions, studying high-school students in Taiwan. However another study, testing something slightly different, found that when students were given a quiz after reading a chapter in either a paper or electronic textbook, they did equally well.
That was the 1990s, which was coincidentally exactly the time that libertarians like Radley Balko got interested in police violence.
It's probably news because white people are being raided now, whereas previously it was only scary black people like Fred Hampton who got murdered by militarized police.
Most importantly (and practically), they know to start acting cute before somebody kills them. Let me know when an AI program can do that.
Brb, writing a grant proposal, "KAW-AI-I: Towards technologies for emotionally manipulative artificial agents".
Wouldn't that bias the system against legitimate small inventors whose invention was ripped off by a giant corporation? They wouldn't be allowed to file suit near their home, but would have to travel to the state where the corporation is headquartered to sue them. And the corporation could itself judge-shop by placing its headquarters in districts known to be friendly to corporate defendants.
My impression is that it's been going the opposite direction in the U.S., but could change again. It used to be quite common for CS research groups to have substantial programming staff. That's what Richard Stallman's job was in the MIT AI Lab, for example, and he was one of a number of hackers from non-academic backgrounds on the AI-Lab staff (Richard Greenblatt and Russell Noftsker were two of the others). But in those days there was generous and fairly unrestricted funding, so folks like Marvin Minsky had a ton of money lying around to keep programmers on their lab's payroll. These days grants are typically tied to 3-year projects and more regulated.
The term is usually "research programmer" or something similar. However they're often time-limited positions rather than indefinite. A common arrangement is that a university gets a big grant, and needs to bring in some extra programmers to help out on the project for the ~3 years of a typical grant. The best-funded labs do keep some programming staff on semi-permanent payroll, though, because they always get a new round of grants before the previous ones run out.
I'd just start looking at job listings in the area you care about and see what skills or experience they ask for. Familiarity with data-analysis tools is often a plus, e.g. be conversant in R, be able to make some nice visualizations of data, etc. But that's only one area; there are plenty of others.
There are a lot of friendly projects fwiw, and many love any kind of new contributor, of any skill level, whether they're submitting technical contributions or documentation or even just comments on common use-cases that worked for them or didn't. Kernel development is probably the worst place to start, for a variety of reasons.
I've recently had good experiences interacting with the Racket and git-annex maintainers, to pick two examples.
I think (2) is something people often miss. If you're a n00b who posts something stupid on LKML, you are not going to get massive old-school-Usenet-style flames. When heated LKML arguments make it to Slashdot, it's almost always a case where both sides are actually reasonably known, like the maintainers of two different Linux subsystems having strong disagreements over direction. You don't find Linus flaming a college kid, both because that would be unnecessarily mean, and because it wouldn't be worth his time to write out long heated posts just to rebut n00bs.
It's pretty clearly a parody, not a trademark misuse that could cause confusion in the marketplace.
This is talking about less foreign business for U.S.-based companies, e.g. European companies getting wary of hosting their stuff on a U.S.-based cloud provider. It is not discussing immigration, which doesn't have much to do with the NSA.
Less foreign business for U.S.-based companies would probably not increase the number of U.S.-based engineering jobs.
Since this was literally the same link, not just the same story but via a different source, it seems like there could be a pretty simple automated dupe-checker that flags it and tells the editors: a story with the same link was posted in the past N weeks, are you sure you want to post?
As far as I can tell, it's basically a vanity plate that isn't supposed to have any legal difference. You can also get special plates if you're a military veteran, if you have an amateur radio license, and miscellaneous other things.
It does seem to raise some risk of special treatment, specially in the legislator case.
I like to think that would be true, but honestly about 50% of the things I click on in a Google search are Wikipedia articles, even when I didn't initially search Wikipedia directly.
At least Linpack performs actual linear algebra, so coding to that particular test will help some people with real workloads (i.e. scientific software that uses Linpack). It's definitely not representative of everyone's workload, though.
Is Weston the only choice, or is there anything vaguely analogous to i3 or dwm in terms of how windows are laid out and managed?
It was built in Japan, which has dominated commercial shipbuilding over the past 40 years. It doesn't dominate quite as much anymore, but it still has a large share of the market. It's basically Japan and South Korea building most ships; China is spending massive amounts of money to break into the market, but is still under 10%.
Hell, +/- 1000 pounds would probably be good enough, and even that might be more sensitive than actually needed. A typical shipping container weighs on the order of ~30,000-50,000 pounds (~15,000-25,000 kg). A ship isn't going to sink because a declared-as-40,000 lb container was actually 40,050 lbs. Even if a company loading 1,000 containers systemically mis-declared by 50 lbs and they all got loaded in some asymmetrical way, that'd still only be a 50,000 lbs error, equal to about one shipping container. A modern cargo ship is not going to sink because of an asymmetric load, or an over-load, equal to one shipping container.
If underdeclaring weight became a stability problem sufficient to sink the ship, my guess is that a substantial number of the containers were reporting numbers way off the real values.
Above a certain level, though, you start to pull in the wrong kinds of people. You can definitely get a better professor for $100k than $60k, and probably can get a top one for $200k. But if you're paying an administrator $600k? Now you start pulling in people who don't care about academia, and are just in it for the money. I think it might be better not incentivizing them to jump to academia; academic administration is becoming a revolving door of people from industry and government doing 3-year stints to put on their CV, when it would be better served by people with some kind of actual knowledge about, and commitment to, research and education.
"UC officials believe that her Cabinet experiences –- which include helping to lead responses to hurricanes and tornadoes and overseeing some anti-terrorism measures — will help UC administer its federal energy and nuclear weapons labs and aid its federally funded research in medicine and other areas."
It's a good thing there's no need to have the head of a university system have experience in anything like education or research. All that matters is those security-industry connections!
Kind of a tangent, but fwiw the Vatican no longer handles its own prosecutions or imprisonments. Under the Lateran Treaty of 1929, the Vatican has autonomy in policing, but prosecution is handled by the Vatican handing the prisoner over to the Italian court system and requesting them to be prosecuted:
There are fields with worse job prospects, yes, like much of the humanities. But the kind of person who can do well in an EE program has better alternatives these days. Hell, you have better prospects making websites in Ruby.
Whether the U.S. having a bunch of web-devs and no hard engineering talent is good long-term is another story. But today, if you want a well-paying job, pick up a web technology, not EE.