This was a poor choice? The choice to kill him if he could not be captured alive? I'm sure they wanted to take him alive if they could, but there was a firefight.
It was not a poor choice to strike when they had the chance. It was a once-in-a-decade opportunity.
Computational Biology is a hot area in computer science (I'm sure they've invented a better name for it though), and that is science by any definition.
As a counterpoint to the other replies that say they have no driver issues : I have a Lenovo laptop with some ATI card and it BSODs when an external monitor is connected. It's the ATI drive that is crashing, and I have updated it.
The laptop is close to two years old though, so maybe they are better now. I'll never find out...
Actually, I don't think the effects in Transformers were good enough in some ways. The morphing was always a blur and never looked plausible. The effects were excellent by most standards, but since the subject is so unbelievable, they must get better in order to suspend my disbelief.
I logged in just to post about Children of Men and then saw your comment. I agree -- those were amazing scenes. There's no need to make the actors suffer through repeated 10 minute takes, and faking them with CGI is a good use of technology I think.
I have a litter of puppies and I want to sell them only for enough to cover my own costs. I want to give even the poor a chance to have a puppy. I want my puppies to go to the most appreciative homes. I would prefer that they weren't hoarded by Bulgarian programmers who resell my puppies at a higher price and then throw the unsold puppies in the dumpster.
Stats is important but without knowing some calculus how can you relate a density function (e.g. the "bell curve") to a probability of an event (the average is close to zero)? I've seen how stats is taught to students without calculus and it's painful. Understanding linear regression is a lot easier if you know how to differentiate.
I totally agree about the trig identities being useless, but that trick in the derivation of the quadratic formula is useful. If you deal with normal distributions in statistics, you will be completing the square all the time.
One minor correction. Rather than "virtually all papers you find there have ended up published in peer-reviewed publications" it should read "virtually all papers that have ended up published in peer-reviewed publications started there"
Every game worth playing is also released for wii or PC? If you had said PS3 or PC, I would almost believe you, but there is little to no overlap with the wii.
Maybe they don't memorize API's and rely on autocomplete a bit more? I've written libraries for my own uses, and after a vacation I can't even use those from memory.
These days the fingerprint could easily consist of millions of variations. You'd have no chance of framing someone without a sample of their DNA. If you had a sample, there would be no point in synthesizing it.
Can't speak for the east coast, but have you ever been to Seattle or San Francisco? You'll find many bars with excellent selections of microbrews on tap. These breweries have no long history of trial and error, and it has nothing to do with prohibition; many are less than 20 years old! They are young because microbrews have only recently become trendy.
I believe that many of these quantities still are tabled. Computers are getting quicker, but data sets are growing even more rapidly and these approximations still matter. There are many good methods that don't find use because the answers can't be tabled and take too long to compute through permutation or simulation.
For restricted areas, the bus system in Seattle isn't too bad. If you work downtown or near one of the main roads, the bus is preferable to driving (because parking is a pita). You could choose a house or apartment near a bus stop., but most of us can't be picky about where we work, so if that's not near one then you're SOL anyway.
Much research in statistics is focused on very applied problems in computational biology. You are right that statisticians do not perform the experiments; it's unrealistic to expect them to have the lab experience necessary. The mathematical statisticians are working on problems such as multiple testing (in many studies there are hundreds of thousands of hypotheses being tested) and inferences of very high dimensional data. These are relevant topics and the work is motivated by the recent shift in the types of data we collect in experiments.
Some interesting subsets of computer science (machine learning and AI) are now focused on statistical models. You have pointed out that much statistical work isn't developed by statisticians. That doesn't mean the field is dead -- it is thriving!
Some Bayesians who rely on MCMC and may not care as much, but generally it is still important to find models with closed form likelihoods and optimization updates. Applied statisticians work hard to keep things in closed form precisely because it matters in practice (but not in theory).
The authors didn't mention any numerical difficulties. Maybe it would have been worth contacting one of them for help--assuming you're not one of them.
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Just a nitpick. This happened in Dublin, California -- not Dublin, Ireland.
This was a poor choice? The choice to kill him if he could not be captured alive? I'm sure they wanted to take him alive if they could, but there was a firefight.
It was not a poor choice to strike when they had the chance. It was a once-in-a-decade opportunity.
Grad students usually get paid -- but barely enough to live.
One person is willing to sell for $10.25 and this is the lowest price out there. Someone else is willing to pay $10 and this is the highest offer.
I have no idea why such a spread would be sustained if HFTs were deprived of millisecond execution times.
Computational Biology is a hot area in computer science (I'm sure they've invented a better name for it though), and that is science by any definition.
As a counterpoint to the other replies that say they have no driver issues : I have a Lenovo laptop with some ATI card and it BSODs when an external monitor is connected. It's the ATI drive that is crashing, and I have updated it.
The laptop is close to two years old though, so maybe they are better now. I'll never find out...
Actually, I don't think the effects in Transformers were good enough in some ways. The morphing was always a blur and never looked plausible. The effects were excellent by most standards, but since the subject is so unbelievable, they must get better in order to suspend my disbelief.
I logged in just to post about Children of Men and then saw your comment. I agree -- those were amazing scenes. There's no need to make the actors suffer through repeated 10 minute takes, and faking them with CGI is a good use of technology I think.
I have a litter of puppies and I want to sell them only for enough to cover my own costs. I want to give even the poor a chance to have a puppy. I want my puppies to go to the most appreciative homes. I would prefer that they weren't hoarded by Bulgarian programmers who resell my puppies at a higher price and then throw the unsold puppies in the dumpster.
How long does the average black/white/hispanic citizen live in the US, and how long would they live in Germany?
Stats is important but without knowing some calculus how can you relate a density function (e.g. the "bell curve") to a probability of an event (the average is close to zero)? I've seen how stats is taught to students without calculus and it's painful. Understanding linear regression is a lot easier if you know how to differentiate.
I totally agree about the trig identities being useless, but that trick in the derivation of the quadratic formula is useful. If you deal with normal distributions in statistics, you will be completing the square all the time.
One minor correction. Rather than
"virtually all papers you find there have ended up published in peer-reviewed publications"
it should read
"virtually all papers that have ended up published in peer-reviewed publications started there"
Every game worth playing is also released for wii or PC? If you had said PS3 or PC, I would almost believe you, but there is little to no overlap with the wii.
Maybe they don't memorize API's and rely on autocomplete a bit more? I've written libraries for my own uses, and after a vacation I can't even use those from memory.
The words "rapid ambulation" made that so so much funnier. This joke must have been between the lines.
These days the fingerprint could easily consist of millions of variations. You'd have no chance of framing someone without a sample of their DNA. If you had a sample, there would be no point in synthesizing it.
There's hope it can be brought down to a few hundred dollars soon, but sequencing a new human genome currently costs several thousand dollars.
Can't speak for the east coast, but have you ever been to Seattle or San Francisco? You'll find many bars with excellent selections of microbrews on tap. These breweries have no long history of trial and error, and it has nothing to do with prohibition; many are less than 20 years old! They are young because microbrews have only recently become trendy.
I believe that many of these quantities still are tabled. Computers are getting quicker, but data sets are growing even more rapidly and these approximations still matter. There are many good methods that don't find use because the answers can't be tabled and take too long to compute through permutation or simulation.
and this is an even less round about way of saying "I'm a douche." He made some good points.
For restricted areas, the bus system in Seattle isn't too bad. If you work downtown or near one of the main roads, the bus is preferable to driving (because parking is a pita). You could choose a house or apartment near a bus stop., but most of us can't be picky about where we work, so if that's not near one then you're SOL anyway.
Much research in statistics is focused on very applied problems in computational biology. You are right that statisticians do not perform the experiments; it's unrealistic to expect them to have the lab experience necessary. The mathematical statisticians are working on problems such as multiple testing (in many studies there are hundreds of thousands of hypotheses being tested) and inferences of very high dimensional data. These are relevant topics and the work is motivated by the recent shift in the types of data we collect in experiments.
Some interesting subsets of computer science (machine learning and AI) are now focused on statistical models. You have pointed out that much statistical work isn't developed by statisticians. That doesn't mean the field is dead -- it is thriving!
Some Bayesians who rely on MCMC and may not care as much, but generally it is still important to find models with closed form likelihoods and optimization updates. Applied statisticians work hard to keep things in closed form precisely because it matters in practice (but not in theory).
Your Story Is Somewhat Humorous But I Did Not Laugh?
Thank you for saying what so many are afraid to (for fear of offtopic mod)
> This GCV is used in Q-value routine of 2003 to determine false discovery rates by smoothing over the P-values of thousands of genes
Are you referring to this paper ?
http://www.genomine.org/papers/Storey_Tibs_PNAS_2003.pdf
The authors didn't mention any numerical difficulties. Maybe it would have been worth contacting one of them for help--assuming you're not one of them.