The unfortunate thing is that what they want could have been easily accomplished by requiring smaller p values, and also effect sizes (or the confidence intervals). Instead, it seems that the consensus is on using bayesian tools, and the standard ways of using the bayesian equivalents of t-tests[1] typically requires a smaller number of samples than frequentist methods depending on their prior.
[1] http://www.sumsar.net/blog/201...
What you don't get, is if this succeeds, what is to prevent our employers from insisting that each of us wear it while we work? If your argument is that we will somehow restrict it to cops, what differentiates cops from other government employees (facing similar flak - either for not working full time, or inefficiency and such)
Is raising the bar on cops worth it to lose this freedom?
You may want to read this short story which has such a thing as its premise.
http://marshallbrain.com/manna...
Sci-Am is not an innocent bystander. The wired article claims that it is one of the partners of Sci-Am network (I dont know how they got that information.).
I had the same reasons as you have, though in my case, it was a disillusionment due to solving the same problems over and over again, with the solid knowledge that the kind of problems asked of me would be very similar in future too. I started with a bachelor's, and stayed in the industry working at one of the large behemoths for 10 years.
When I realised that I am getting disillusioned, I took my masters via one of the universities offering remote campus, which gave me some confidence that I actually liked what I was planning to do. Once my masters was complete, I resigned, and got into a university for my Ph.D. in my chosen field. I am on my third year now, to hopefully finish in another three. I hope to either join a research institution or stay with academics as a professor after completion.
What I can offer you advice is that, be sure of what you want, and where you want it. Life in gradschool is very different from life in the industry, with different demands. I particularly feel that a Ph.D. feels like working in a startup, with you on the look out for opportunities, and once realized, having to move very fast to do the research before it is taken up by others.
Did you know that similar to the previous study, another effect found was that expert programmers rarely if ever look at code comments. On the other hand, novices spent majority of their time on comments if they are available instead of looking at the code. I can find the citation a little later since I don't have access to my bib db right now.
It is perhaps sad, but I seem to be seeing better comments after I set my prefs to +1 flaimbait|offtopic|troll and -5 funny. The parent is an example of why it works.
I do not think the GP did any wrong in making his post stand out. He should be encouraged to explore the limits of the medium rather than be censured (which I believe is close to heart for the hacker culture).
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| And if all you're sending are images, you're not sending them as XML to begin with are you.
hmmm maybe
It does not need to be written in java, you can instanciate a pool of JVMs on the db and use it (the same way native webservers allow servlets on them.) This is the model followed by oracle who also support java stored procedures.
It might be useful and faster than java in the Desktop for the reason that you can make do with a single (or pooled) JVM(s) on the database (which starts up once and stays there.) Pretty similar to servlet model. So the slow and memmory hungry model will not apply.
From the wiki GW and here : The gravitational wave has been indirectly shown to exist by showing that the evolution of orbit of the binary system is in precise agreement with the loss of energy predicted by gravitational waves.
Note that this was not done by LIGO. It was observed using convensional Radio telescopes. More over the LIGO is a *direct* detector of Gravitational waves. So I would like to know if LIGO has ever detected gravitational waves. If not the claim is questionable.
Any instrument needs to be calibrated before it can be used for detection. Which means
that it has to detect gravitational waves *directly* on some event that is known to
produce gravity waves. Apparently LIGO
has not been able to detect *any* waves directly until now. Until it does that I think
the grandparents question (If the gravity waves exist at all) holds good.
Since LIGO has not been able to detect any waves, I do not understand how they can claim
tha non-detection is a major event.
Neutrinos effects (Their interaction with matter) were detected after they were predicted. but in this case the dark matter is the theory used to 'justify' the results.
Also the other difference is that the neutrino interactions were detected in Earth, and is repeatable in a controlled environment, while the dark matter effects are detected in faraway galaxies. (which is what the GP is pointing out by asking for its detection in earth).
The scientific calculator of Casio that some of us used for Engineering cost 650 Rs ~ 13$ But Casio is Japanese company.
The calculator by Orpat (An Indian company) that I used for my Exam, cost Rs 250 ~ 5$. Orpat was not as advanced as casio at that time in terms of functions provided, but this was 11 years ago. I do not know that status now. But starting from that, it (10$laptop) sure looks like it is doable.
If you honestly care about your work, and are not afraid to leave your comforts in US,
come to India, Most private companies here do value your skills and knowledge, and most
of the time your promotions/awards are based on the work that you do. While the salary
is going to be 1/10 th of what you have in US, the cost of living is 1/20 th, so it kind of
evens out.
Elinks [the mighty text browser] provided this feature long long back, using Lua scripting to rewrite the pages on the fly see here on howto do it in elinks.
[Quoted [If it's "work eighteen hours with no breaks, no air conditioning and if you get carpel tunnel that's your own damned fault, and if you miss a quote you miss pay for the day (which might be just enough to buy food at $0.25/day) , and we employ the twelve year olds who's other choice is prostitution so the constant threat of 'perform or die' is hanging over their head 24/7" - then your sarcasm might not be met.]]
Could you please specify where you got this information from? From what I can see in the article, It says nothing about the working conditions of the people involved.
What makes you think that they employ 12 year olds? and what really makes you think that 12 year olds who are good enough to be game players would otherways be sexualy exploited ?
[first of all It needs access to computers which is affordable only in middle class families, and those people do not really have to go into things like prostitution to support themselves.]
What really was your motivation in tying up these two unrelated matters? If it was to grab attention, it seems you got it already, though I think it merrits "-5 really mean".
While wages are generally low in the developing countries, It is not as low as 0.25$'s a day, In fact in almost any place computers are involved, it is enough to lead an affluent life. The jobs like this [game playing] would be especially sought after.
Please do try to check your inferences with the actual world before shooting off something like this, would you?
He cant be for two reasons, 1) His language is arc, a variant of lisp, not exactly a functional language, nor does it look like one from the available material that he has released. Lisp is a multi-paradigm language that is only incidently functional. 2) He does not seem too keen to be building up a community:)
Is there a difference between the two ? (velocity for one orbit and two orbits)
I thought the orbital velocity for earth was a constant at a constant height???
[with very low friction at that altitude, the deceleration is pretty much low.]
which any new user might logicaly use to remove all the dot-files that litter his home directory. Try doing that as root, and you can learn to reinstall the system the same day.
[as that a mass of neurons this small can't be concscious.] There you go asserting things again to which you have no proof.
[that behaviour is not as complicated as that shown by organisms that we can reasonably assume to be conscious - people.] Do you think a baby is concious? If yes, is a cat that is able to exhibit more complex behavior than the baby , concious? Where is your dividing line?
Third world was the non-aligned world,
perhaps a misnomer today since the second world [Communist world aligned against the US-Led block] is no more [except china N-Corea etc.]
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The unfortunate thing is that what they want could have been easily accomplished by requiring smaller p values, and also effect sizes (or the confidence intervals). Instead, it seems that the consensus is on using bayesian tools, and the standard ways of using the bayesian equivalents of t-tests[1] typically requires a smaller number of samples than frequentist methods depending on their prior. [1] http://www.sumsar.net/blog/201...
What you don't get, is if this succeeds, what is to prevent our employers from insisting that each of us wear it while we work? If your argument is that we will somehow restrict it to cops, what differentiates cops from other government employees (facing similar flak - either for not working full time, or inefficiency and such) Is raising the bar on cops worth it to lose this freedom? You may want to read this short story which has such a thing as its premise. http://marshallbrain.com/manna...
Sci-Am is not an innocent bystander. The wired article claims that it is one of the partners of Sci-Am network (I dont know how they got that information.).
I had the same reasons as you have, though in my case, it was a disillusionment due to solving the same problems over and over again, with the solid knowledge that the kind of problems asked of me would be very similar in future too. I started with a bachelor's, and stayed in the industry working at one of the large behemoths for 10 years. When I realised that I am getting disillusioned, I took my masters via one of the universities offering remote campus, which gave me some confidence that I actually liked what I was planning to do. Once my masters was complete, I resigned, and got into a university for my Ph.D. in my chosen field. I am on my third year now, to hopefully finish in another three. I hope to either join a research institution or stay with academics as a professor after completion. What I can offer you advice is that, be sure of what you want, and where you want it. Life in gradschool is very different from life in the industry, with different demands. I particularly feel that a Ph.D. feels like working in a startup, with you on the look out for opportunities, and once realized, having to move very fast to do the research before it is taken up by others.
Did you know that similar to the previous study, another effect found was that expert programmers rarely if ever look at code comments. On the other hand, novices spent majority of their time on comments if they are available instead of looking at the code. I can find the citation a little later since I don't have access to my bib db right now.
It is perhaps sad, but I seem to be seeing better comments after I set my prefs to +1 flaimbait|offtopic|troll and -5 funny. The parent is an example of why it works.
I do not think the GP did any wrong in making his post stand out. He should be encouraged to explore the limits of the medium rather than be censured (which I believe is close to heart for the hacker culture).
| And if all you're sending are images, you're not sending them as XML to begin with are you. hmmm maybe
It does not need to be written in java, you can instanciate a pool of JVMs on the db and use it (the same way native webservers allow servlets on them.) This is the model followed by oracle who also support java stored procedures.
It might be useful and faster than java in the Desktop for the reason that you can make do with a single (or pooled) JVM(s) on the database (which starts up once and stays there.) Pretty similar to servlet model. So the slow and memmory hungry model will not apply.
From the wiki GW and here : The gravitational wave has been indirectly shown to exist by showing that the evolution of orbit of the binary system is in precise agreement with the loss of energy predicted by gravitational waves. Note that this was not done by LIGO. It was observed using convensional Radio telescopes. More over the LIGO is a *direct* detector of Gravitational waves. So I would like to know if LIGO has ever detected gravitational waves. If not the claim is questionable.
Any instrument needs to be calibrated before it can be used for detection. Which means that it has to detect gravitational waves *directly* on some event that is known to produce gravity waves. Apparently LIGO has not been able to detect *any* waves directly until now. Until it does that I think the grandparents question (If the gravity waves exist at all) holds good. Since LIGO has not been able to detect any waves, I do not understand how they can claim tha non-detection is a major event.
Neutrinos effects (Their interaction with matter) were detected after they were predicted.
but in this case the dark matter is the theory used to 'justify' the results.
Also the other difference is that the neutrino interactions were detected in Earth, and is
repeatable in a controlled environment, while the dark matter effects are detected in faraway galaxies.
(which is what the GP is pointing out by asking for its detection in earth).
cost 650 Rs ~ 13$ But Casio is Japanese company.
The calculator by Orpat (An Indian company) that I used for my Exam, cost
Rs 250 ~ 5$. Orpat was not as advanced as casio at that time in terms of
functions provided, but this was 11 years ago. I do not know that status
now. But starting from that, it (10$laptop) sure looks like it is doable.
If you honestly care about your work, and are not afraid to leave your comforts in US, come to India, Most private companies here do value your skills and knowledge, and most of the time your promotions/awards are based on the work that you do. While the salary is going to be 1/10 th of what you have in US, the cost of living is 1/20 th, so it kind of evens out.
Elinks [the mighty text browser] provided this feature long long back, using Lua scripting to rewrite the pages on the fly
see here on howto do it in elinks.
mallu?
Could you please specify where you got this information from?
From what I can see in the article, It says nothing about the working conditions of the people involved.
What makes you think that they employ 12 year olds? and what really makes you think that 12 year olds who are good enough to be game players would otherways be sexualy exploited ?
[first of all It needs access to computers which is affordable only in middle class families, and those people do not really have to go into things like prostitution to support themselves.]
What really was your motivation in tying up these two unrelated matters? If it was to grab attention, it seems you got it already, though I think it merrits "-5 really mean".
While wages are generally low in the developing countries, It is not as low as 0.25$'s a day, In fact in almost any place computers are involved, it is enough to lead an affluent life. The jobs like this [game playing] would be especially sought after.
Please do try to check your inferences with the actual world before shooting off something like this, would you?
He cant be for two reasons, :)
1) His language is arc, a variant of lisp, not exactly a functional language, nor does it look like one from the available material that he has released. Lisp is a multi-paradigm language that is only incidently functional.
2) He does not seem too keen to be building up a community
Actualy the quote looks better if u say, :)
"dont assume, it makes an ass out of u & me "
I thought the orbital velocity for earth was a constant at a constant height???
[with very low friction at that altitude, the deceleration is pretty much low.]
Go on, try it,.... :)
rm -rf
which any new user might logicaly use to remove all the dot-files that litter his home directory. Try doing that as root, and you can learn to reinstall the system the same day.
There you go asserting things again to which you have no proof.
[that behaviour is not as complicated as that shown by organisms that we can reasonably assume to be conscious - people.]
Do you think a baby is concious? If yes, is a cat that is able to exhibit more complex behavior than the baby , concious? Where is your dividing line?
Third world was the non-aligned world,
perhaps a misnomer today since the second world [Communist world aligned against the US-Led block] is no more [except china N-Corea etc.]
This is becoming too much,, can we have a moderation system for write ups too ? please ?