I've got a PhD in CS, and I grew up with the U.S. education system of the 1970's and 80's. I had playground time, and little formalized national testing. I'll bet few of the Turing award winners or ACM Fellows were educated in the manner advocated by today's politicians and Plutocrats.
If they're so eager to make good computer scientists, one might ask if they're willing to reproduce the educational environments of those luminaries.
I did all of my phd work on an m6500 years ago, and thanks to having bought an extended fix-everything-on-site-no-matter-what warranty, it's still going strong.
I occasionally have the budget to buy a modern version of that laptop, but Dell continues to disappoint by offering only a 16:9 screen. Not sure why they keep on doing that; for coding I'd much rather have a taller screen, especially for that much money.
My only other beef is with the video cards. I really don't care about 3D. I don't want to spend the heat, battery life, or money on a fancy OpenGL card, especially since their Linux drivers often suck (I'm especially looking at you, AMD). So I'd be extra happy if they'd offer a version of the m6x00 that just used Intel's graphics. They're plenty good for what I want these days.
Well that was my point about having very plastic brains. I'm not a neuroscientist, and I don't know how much details like (I have specifically four major appendages to control; two arms, two legs) are baked into the brain from day 0, vs. being just one of the configurations to which a very young brain can adapt.
I.e., if we take a sufficiently young human with a very plastic brain, can we give them two additional arms, or a flagellum, or whatever, and have it all work out well?
Pretty much never seen an entire city or neighborhood redlined into crappy schools unless they were black. Where exactly are the underperforming schools where Asians make up 50 % of the population ?
Bacterial concrete is ideal for constructing underground retainers for hazardous waste
Okay, so the bacteria are going to be in the walls, exposed to mutagens and/or radiation, and unobserved by humans for years at a time. I want movie rights!
They've invested billions if not trillions in the surveillance networks and infrastructure.
Is anyone going to really believe it's all been mothballed at the stroke of a pen?
I won't.
I don't think its the sunk money that matters to them. It's the heady feeling of autocracy and superpowers which they'll never give up. The NSA and CIA are significantly staffed by bad, treasonous, anti-democratic people.
Also, at least one of his cheating allegations was investigated and overturned by their university's administration. This sounds mostly like sour grapes.
Maybe. In a kind-of related note, though, I heard of one Brown CS professor who found pretty damning evidence that some students had cheated, and the University refused to do anything at all about it.
I can understand how a professor's patience would reach a limit.
That don't justify his particular response, I'm just saying I can see why he'd lose it.
(1) Each student was graded according to his or her own merit.
(2) The prof. should perhaps have sued the school for a hostile workplace. And maybe the disruptive students arrested for disorderly conduct and/or suspended.
Germans are essentially stupid when it comes to totalitarianism in any form. After all, this is the country that hat to start and lose _two_ world wars in order to find out that they are may not be the master-race.
Damn, lots of Stasi victims are still of working age even. You'd hope the Germans had developed more antibodies against this crap.
No disrespect to GCC, but why not LLVM?
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Given the nice, modular nature of LLVM, I would think even the GCC developers would find it to be a more enjoyable best to work on.
Any idea why most GCC developers don't simply port their front-ends / back-ends of choice to LLVM, and walk away from GCC?
I know there's the licensing issue, which I assume matters to some heavy-duty OSS advocates. But in my experience most programmers who work with OSS aren't super passionate about GPL vs. Berkeley -style licensing.
When they ace it, end up in one of the ultra competitive CS schools (or work environment) and haven't been exposed to whatever it is that causes female students to not do well right now, all in one shot? It would even out eventually, but the first few batches will be in for a rude awakening.
Can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs! Well, actually, if they're female eggs than the federal government will be all over you. But if they're male eggs, screw `em. Because, you know, equality.
I appreciate your comment. I suspect that everyone is to some extent ideologically driven. I think it matters quite a bit what the ideology is, and what ours is, and how strongly each of us clings to it, if we hope to come to agreement on an issue.
Either way, welcome to the wrong side of history.
Could you explain more about when you mean by being on the "wrong side of history"? I find it an interesting concept, but I'm not positive what you mean by it.
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I've got a PhD in CS, and I grew up with the U.S. education system of the 1970's and 80's. I had playground time, and little formalized national testing. I'll bet few of the Turing award winners or ACM Fellows were educated in the manner advocated by today's politicians and Plutocrats.
If they're so eager to make good computer scientists, one might ask if they're willing to reproduce the educational environments of those luminaries.
I did all of my phd work on an m6500 years ago, and thanks to having bought an extended fix-everything-on-site-no-matter-what warranty, it's still going strong.
I occasionally have the budget to buy a modern version of that laptop, but Dell continues to disappoint by offering only a 16:9 screen. Not sure why they keep on doing that; for coding I'd much rather have a taller screen, especially for that much money.
My only other beef is with the video cards. I really don't care about 3D. I don't want to spend the heat, battery life, or money on a fancy OpenGL card, especially since their Linux drivers often suck (I'm especially looking at you, AMD). So I'd be extra happy if they'd offer a version of the m6x00 that just used Intel's graphics. They're plenty good for what I want these days.
As though millions of divorce lawyers just orgasmed at once.
I see. Thanks for the correction. You're right, I did miss that detail.
Well that was my point about having very plastic brains. I'm not a neuroscientist, and I don't know how much details like (I have specifically four major appendages to control; two arms, two legs) are baked into the brain from day 0, vs. being just one of the configurations to which a very young brain can adapt.
I wonder what the limits of this are.
I.e., if we take a sufficiently young human with a very plastic brain, can we give them two additional arms, or a flagellum, or whatever, and have it all work out well?
Pretty much never seen an entire city or neighborhood redlined into crappy schools unless they were black.
Where exactly are the underperforming schools where Asians make up 50 % of the population ?
Oh, they don't exist .
Hanoi?
Okay, so the bacteria are going to be in the walls, exposed to mutagens and/or radiation, and unobserved by humans for years at a time. I want movie rights!
Can you imagine the number of lawsuits this is going to bring against the people who installed it?
It was actually called "White Angel", until 2008 when Lucas decided it wasn't urban enough, and CG'd the titular character.
They've invested billions if not trillions in the surveillance networks and infrastructure.
Is anyone going to really believe it's all been mothballed at the stroke of a pen?
I won't.
I don't think its the sunk money that matters to them. It's the heady feeling of autocracy and superpowers which they'll never give up. The NSA and CIA are significantly staffed by bad, treasonous, anti-democratic people.
The law may or may not be on the plaintiff's side.
Either way, the employer should be beaten with a tire iron, in my opinion.
> Does anyone actually use modern FORTRAN though?
Some physics models do.
Maybe. In a kind-of related note, though, I heard of one Brown CS professor who found pretty damning evidence that some students had cheated, and the University refused to do anything at all about it.
I can understand how a professor's patience would reach a limit.
That don't justify his particular response, I'm just saying I can see why he'd lose it.
I think two outcomes should have been upheld:
(1) Each student was graded according to his or her own merit.
(2) The prof. should perhaps have sued the school for a hostile workplace. And maybe the disruptive students arrested for disorderly conduct and/or suspended.
Well, not before coming across Netflix's Jeeves and Wooster videos. Now I'm not so sure.
Whoa there. You wouldn't steel a car, would you???
Germans are essentially stupid when it comes to totalitarianism in any form. After all, this is the country that hat to start and lose _two_ world wars in order to find out that they are may not be the master-race.
Beim dritten Mal ist ein Charme!
Damn, lots of Stasi victims are still of working age even. You'd hope the Germans had developed more antibodies against this crap.
Given the nice, modular nature of LLVM, I would think even the GCC developers would find it to be a more enjoyable best to work on.
Any idea why most GCC developers don't simply port their front-ends / back-ends of choice to LLVM, and walk away from GCC?
I know there's the licensing issue, which I assume matters to some heavy-duty OSS advocates. But in my experience most programmers who work with OSS aren't super passionate about GPL vs. Berkeley -style licensing.
I did cover bi. I don't know enough about transsexuals to know where they fit into this schema.
If it's a matter of not having students who are sexually attracted to each other, they have a serious logistical problem:
I'm not positive, but I think you'd need something like this:
When they ace it, end up in one of the ultra competitive CS schools (or work environment) and haven't been exposed to whatever it is that causes female students to not do well right now, all in one shot? It would even out eventually, but the first few batches will be in for a rude awakening.
Can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs! Well, actually, if they're female eggs than the federal government will be all over you. But if they're male eggs, screw `em. Because, you know, equality.
Nice explanation, thanks for taking the time.
I got the sense that you were implying that the right side of history == the more moral position. Is that where you were going with that?
I appreciate your comment. I suspect that everyone is to some extent ideologically driven. I think it matters quite a bit what the ideology is, and what ours is, and how strongly each of us clings to it, if we hope to come to agreement on an issue.
Could you explain more about when you mean by being on the "wrong side of history"? I find it an interesting concept, but I'm not positive what you mean by it.