When his parents would show up at daycare and ask where my friend's clothes were, he had no idea.
At my school, when a kindergartener had to bring an important piece of paper home to his parents, they stapled it to his shirt so that he wouldn't lose it on the bus.
I'm in college now and have lost an embarrasing number of plastic mugs in class.
If schools can get kids to keep track of their RFID devices, I'll be impressed.
I always thought the rules of "starving artist" were that you played a bunch of loud, disinterested bars, wrote lots of deep introspective lyrics, had your friend make wonderful art, spent lots of money to get them put onto CD, and then got told by the record execs that they already have your market niche covered. When we played, we would've been overjoyed if people were downloading our music on Napster!
There have been on the order of a few hundred hijackers worldwide. The number of passenger-flights is on the order of billions, with probably on the order of 100 million unique passengers.
If we use Bayes's rule, the prior probability of NotTerrorist is essentially 1. Even if we use a more advanced technique, how can that little data be mined effectively?
I don't think JetBlue has ever been hijacked, so what can be concluded from their data? Regardless of passenger profile, none were terrorists. Which leads us to a convenient one-color scheme.
There's not a whole lot of strategy in Monopoly. You buy when you can. If you'd like to play a similar game that has lots of strategy facets, check out Fast Food Franchise.
Don't let Parker Bros. get a monopoly on board games!
I first got into programming at a two-week summer class in 1990. The teacher asked students to write a "program" to brush your teeth or make a peanut butter and jelly sandwitch. One program ran:
Take two slices of bread from the bag
*teacher tears a hole in the bag and removes two slices* Open the jar of peanut butter
*after a few failed attempts, teacher manages to remove the lid* Put the peanut butter on the bread
*teacher sets the jar of peanut butter on the bag of bread*
I love being literal-minded, and that example emblazoned on my mind "Be specific, or the computer won't do what you want." Anything that could be that literal was an obvious match for me!
Running this example of programming will pique the interest of kids who think like geeks. It will also provide a concrete concept of a program to kids. Finally, it gives you a chance to look silly (an important part of teaching elementary school kids) while getting the kids to think about the way to solve the problem (the educational bit). And as a bonus, you don't have to carry a laptop and a projector.
I'm not sure how well kindergarteners would deal with this, but I think it would be a great exercise for both third- and fifth-graders. FWIW, I took that computer programming camp after my fourth-grade year back in 1990 when Apple II was a pretty cool thing. They taught BASIC and Logo, we built robots, and played with lasers. And now look where it's gotten me!
That the US government will fund radio for citizens in the Middle East, but funding for radio for US citizens is constantly in danger of disappearing.
Also, if "we" are to fight radical Islamists, we need to challenge their social order. What better way to confront rules restricting women's dress than by letting Iranians see women without clothes? Yet the Farsical Anonymizer blocks porn sites.
Was Trip'D not a 3DO game? That's been my one experience with the console, and quite a fun game. (It's essentially an enhanced competitive Tetris.) I'd love to see a PC version.
We should hope (in sort of a perverse Pascal's wager sense) that global warming is human-caused, because that would indicate it can be human-cured.
Regardless of whose fault it is, global warming could have a huge impact on human life. So if the planet is warming for any reason, we need to prepare for that eventuality. Humans can adapt to new environments with amazing rapidity, but this could be a very costly and painful transition.
Are there ways we can cool the planet? It could be worthwhile to get in the climate change game, even if we're not major players.
To expand this idea, I think it would be really cool to underline, highlight, or otherwise make stand out individual lines. I don't have a good idea how to manage this technically, but the ability to quickly flip through a textbook and focus on highlighted material is quite helpful. User-definable stylesheets would allow people to use their own scheme for visually annotating text, e.g. larger text is important, green text is confusing. The challenge is storing where everyone's marked.
In fact, one reason I like used textbooks (aside from their lower price tag) is that someone has already highlighted the important bits. Sharing bookmarks, margin notes, and highlighting between study partners would be neat (but also possibly a mess).
The Aral sea used to be the 4th largest lake in the world. (Quick quiz: name the top 3.) It's now the 12th largest. (Slower quiz: name the intervening 8.)
Not only has it lost half its surface area since 1985, it seems to have lost two thirds since 1960. outlines are interesting. I wonder what it's like on that island that's almost a peninsula.
And while this has little to do with global warming, it's a prescient example of significant human-caused environmental change.
"If we can learn how to translate even Klingon into English, then most human languages are easy by comparison," [Dr. Knight] said.
That's not really the case. Klingon was created through conscious effort and hasn't evolved many (any?) warts over time. Its structure is akin to well-understood human languages.
Now take Turkish, which has concatenative grammar. Adjectives are applied by tacking suffixes on to the word, sometimes changing spelling of previous chunks. Thus, a 20-word English phrase may correspond to a single Turkish word and extremely long words may be reasonably assumed to be unique. Statistical techniques can work with Turkish, but it requires some work up front to extract tokens. \b\B+\b doesn't help much. German (and, I think, Greek) are like this to a lesser extent.
Statistical approaches are often quite effective in language processing, much to the surprise and disheartening of linguists. They're far from perfect, but often the best thing so far.
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I hope Version 2 of this plan will pay me not to use Windows.
... of about $90 for an Operating System that's invulnerable to virii.
When his parents would show up at daycare and ask where my friend's clothes were, he had no idea.
At my school, when a kindergartener had to bring an important piece of paper home to his parents, they stapled it to his shirt so that he wouldn't lose it on the bus.
I'm in college now and have lost an embarrasing number of plastic mugs in class.
If schools can get kids to keep track of their RFID devices, I'll be impressed.
... when an EULA prevents you from lending your hammer to your neighbor.
Made from contented donors.
There are two towns in Michigan named Podunk.
No wonder Shaq makes more money than I do. He's taller!
I can't bring my box-cutter on my next shuttle trip?
The wonderful strip Cat and Girl covered this phenomenon.
I always thought the rules of "starving artist" were that you played a bunch of loud, disinterested bars, wrote lots of deep introspective lyrics, had your friend make wonderful art, spent lots of money to get them put onto CD, and then got told by the record execs that they already have your market niche covered. When we played, we would've been overjoyed if people were downloading our music on Napster!
There have been on the order of a few hundred hijackers worldwide. The number of passenger-flights is on the order of billions, with probably on the order of 100 million unique passengers.
If we use Bayes's rule, the prior probability of NotTerrorist is essentially 1. Even if we use a more advanced technique, how can that little data be mined effectively?
I don't think JetBlue has ever been hijacked, so what can be concluded from their data? Regardless of passenger profile, none were terrorists. Which leads us to a convenient one-color scheme.
There's not a whole lot of strategy in Monopoly. You buy when you can. If you'd like to play a similar game that has lots of strategy facets, check out Fast Food Franchise.
Don't let Parker Bros. get a monopoly on board games!
In Communist China, "Make Money Fast!" is a political statement.
I first got into programming at a two-week summer class in 1990. The teacher asked students to write a "program" to brush your teeth or make a peanut butter and jelly sandwitch. One program ran:
Take two slices of bread from the bag
*teacher tears a hole in the bag and removes two slices*
Open the jar of peanut butter
*after a few failed attempts, teacher manages to remove the lid*
Put the peanut butter on the bread
*teacher sets the jar of peanut butter on the bag of bread*
I love being literal-minded, and that example emblazoned on my mind "Be specific, or the computer won't do what you want." Anything that could be that literal was an obvious match for me!
Running this example of programming will pique the interest of kids who think like geeks. It will also provide a concrete concept of a program to kids. Finally, it gives you a chance to look silly (an important part of teaching elementary school kids) while getting the kids to think about the way to solve the problem (the educational bit). And as a bonus, you don't have to carry a laptop and a projector.
I'm not sure how well kindergarteners would deal with this, but I think it would be a great exercise for both third- and fifth-graders. FWIW, I took that computer programming camp after my fourth-grade year back in 1990 when Apple II was a pretty cool thing. They taught BASIC and Logo, we built robots, and played with lasers. And now look where it's gotten me!
Fuel prices to drop for my hovercar.
That the US government will fund radio for citizens in the Middle East, but funding for radio for US citizens is constantly in danger of disappearing.
Also, if "we" are to fight radical Islamists, we need to challenge their social order. What better way to confront rules restricting women's dress than by letting Iranians see women without clothes? Yet the Farsical Anonymizer blocks porn sites.
... it's CGTAATTCGATTA and not CAGTAGCTATTTA?
Was Trip'D not a 3DO game? That's been my one experience with the console, and quite a fun game. (It's essentially an enhanced competitive Tetris.) I'd love to see a PC version.
After the dot-com bust, I can understand why NASA is having trouble getting funding for the Space Wide Webb.
Sorry.
We should hope (in sort of a perverse Pascal's wager sense) that global warming is human-caused, because that would indicate it can be human-cured.
Regardless of whose fault it is, global warming could have a huge impact on human life. So if the planet is warming for any reason, we need to prepare for that eventuality. Humans can adapt to new environments with amazing rapidity, but this could be a very costly and painful transition.
Are there ways we can cool the planet? It could be worthwhile to get in the climate change game, even if we're not major players.
To expand this idea, I think it would be really cool to underline, highlight, or otherwise make stand out individual lines. I don't have a good idea how to manage this technically, but the ability to quickly flip through a textbook and focus on highlighted material is quite helpful. User-definable stylesheets would allow people to use their own scheme for visually annotating text, e.g. larger text is important, green text is confusing. The challenge is storing where everyone's marked.
In fact, one reason I like used textbooks (aside from their lower price tag) is that someone has already highlighted the important bits. Sharing bookmarks, margin notes, and highlighting between study partners would be neat (but also possibly a mess).
The Aral sea used to be the 4th largest lake in the world. (Quick quiz: name the top 3.) It's now the 12th largest. (Slower quiz: name the intervening 8.)
Not only has it lost half its surface area since 1985, it seems to have lost two thirds since 1960. outlines are interesting. I wonder what it's like on that island that's almost a peninsula.
And while this has little to do with global warming, it's a prescient example of significant human-caused environmental change.
"If we can learn how to translate even Klingon into English, then most human languages are easy by comparison," [Dr. Knight] said.
That's not really the case. Klingon was created through conscious effort and hasn't evolved many (any?) warts over time. Its structure is akin to well-understood human languages.
Now take Turkish, which has concatenative grammar. Adjectives are applied by tacking suffixes on to the word, sometimes changing spelling of previous chunks. Thus, a 20-word English phrase may correspond to a single Turkish word and extremely long words may be reasonably assumed to be unique. Statistical techniques can work with Turkish, but it requires some work up front to extract tokens. \b\B+\b doesn't help much. German (and, I think, Greek) are like this to a lesser extent.
Statistical approaches are often quite effective in language processing, much to the surprise and disheartening of linguists. They're far from perfect, but often the best thing so far.
Wasn't there a treaty signed that specifically gave firewalls to the Indians? Could that treaty have been broken?
- Run a large company with financial interest in a U.S. invasion of Iran.
- Launder money to someone without ties to your company.
- Have him bet heavily on an Iranian-backed terrorist attack.
- Let the President declare war.
- Make bank on arms sales and infrastructure contracts.
If you stand to make a couple billion in the process, you can easily recoup the costs of wrongly predicting an attack.