Three closely related questions about the rare books collections at the Library of Congress:
1. I know there is some kind of effort going on to digitize the rare books collections, but can it be sped up? There are many high-quality low-cost archival book scanners out there (such as the ones developed at diybookscanner.org).
2. It gets really annoying to have to receive paper copies of books when copies are requested. Why not DVDs of high-quality images?
3. Why is there no outreach by the LoC to smaller, cheaper book scanning efforts? The Internet Archive, DIYBookscanner.org, and Decapod all come to mind.
Correction, I think: T cells focus on protein markers. This is why one of the patients died: the protein marker associated with the cancerous cells also turned out to be present on healthy lung tissue.
Fascinating. My screenplay is released under a Creative Commons license. There's no reason why a movie studio couldn't release a movie based on the screenplay (with my permission)... except that they want exclusive rights? That makes no sense.
OMG, that's insane! It's like that Real Genius scene came to life, where the prof teaches the students, then the students get replaced by tape recorders, then the prof gets replaced by a reel-to-reel!
I've found that the best way to help an open source project is with documentation. Not necessarily user manuals, but just code commenting. There's plenty of code that has zero explanation about what a particular function does, or how it works. If you've found a project that fits this, then start working on documentation so that (a) you will understand what the code does, (b) everyone else following you will understand what the code does, and (c) the developers themselves will understand what the code does, because sometimes you find bugs just by trying to figure out what the code does.
That being said, (warning: personal opinion ahead) I second the opinion that you should stay away from template classes. There are plenty of worthy numerical projects out there that do not rely on a maze of twisty little code fragments, all alike.
"More than one third (36%) of the 343 respondents to a recent poll said they are looking to move to a new employer in the next six months." Why are they so certain that it will be different with any other employer?
I read somewhere "on the Internet" that when you're given a lie detector test for clearance, they actually expect you to lie at some point, and if you're totally honest, you fail. Do you think that's true?
Israel has had nuclear capabilities (~20 bombs) during the '73 war and did not use it, even though the Arab military success at the beginning of the war was definitely more than "very little provocation".
Probably because they didn't need to. Israel counterattacked with conventional weapons so successfully that they were forced to give up the land they gained. It was a complete rout.
Alphanumeric characters? Sheer luxury! We had to get up each day before we went to sleep, clean out the bit bucket on top of the rubbish tip we lived in, with our tongues, and then we had to flip switches to enter our movements in binary, and pay mill owner for the privilege, and when we got home our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance on our graves, singing Halleluia!
But you try telling the young people that. They won't believe you!
With Mandarin it felt almost like I was learning two separate languages at the same time, spoken Mandarin and written Mandarin.
That's because you are: you got the problem in one. Not only do you have to learn what the base logogram means, but also how it sounds. You might be able to get away with mapping logogram-to-meaning (in your native language) first, then mapping meaning-to-sounds later, a la Heisig's Remembering the Kanji.
It's possible that the difference in culture is due to America having been settled by religious outcasts. Outcasts who believed that work was the way to God. This is likely why we Americans tend to think of the poor and homeless as having done something wrong: after all, if one were a proper, hard-working, God-fearing person, then one would be rewarded in this life and the life to come. Ergo, they are to be shunned.
This may also explain why we Americans seem to value corporations above humans: corporations keep humans working as is proper for God-fearing people, lest they slack off and sin.
I'm not condoning it, I'm just saying there's a history here. America, Inc. is not just a random culture that sprung up after World War II.
...it's the people supporting the bits. At my company, storage is also insanely expensive compared to the personal consumer space, but that's because unlike the personal consumer space, our data centers have high reliability, and lots of personnel (along with their 401k plans, insurance, office space, and other expenses) who have to be paid to support the systems.
Well, I certainly agree that technology wouldn't necessarily make education work better. But that's also no reason to go back to one-room wooden schoolhouses presided over by a schoolmarm. Tech is the context, and by not introducing tech into the classroom, you will be educating students who are not prepared to live in the context.
I hope the (soon to become) MeeGo line will be relevant.
Readers should not confuse this with, in order of increasing danger, the LG Migo, which "is perfect for your kid's first phone," the Bhutanese Migo, which is "known by the Nepalese and Tibetans as the Yeti, and to the Chinese and Soviets as the Alma," or the Lovecraft Mi-Go, which "are large, pinkish, fungoid, crustacean-like entities the size of a man with a 'convoluted ellipsoid' composed of pyramided, fleshy rings and covered in antennae where a head would normally be."
Slashdot Mirror
OK, my visual cortex is officially due for repair. I read the headline as "New Technique Promises Much Faster Hot Damn Write Speeds"
Good article, BTW.
The fallacy could be a faulty generalization fallacy, specifically a hasty generalization. That is, given:
If A then Z.
If B then Z.
If C then Z.
A = X and (other things).
B = X and (other things).
C = X and (other things).
We faultily conclude, therefore, that for all D = X and (other things), the statement "D then Z" is true.
For want of a rad-hard chip, the board died.
For want of a board, the software couldn't cope.
For want of good software, the engine start failed.
For want of engine start, the probe died.
For want of a probe, the human race didn't detect the slimy aliens from Phobos and all perished in a hot and somewhat greasy fireball.
Libera te tutemet ex inferis!
The Library of Congress does serve Congress. First. Then it serves the broader US Government. Then it serves the public.
Three closely related questions about the rare books collections at the Library of Congress:
1. I know there is some kind of effort going on to digitize the rare books collections, but can it be sped up? There are many high-quality low-cost archival book scanners out there (such as the ones developed at diybookscanner.org).
2. It gets really annoying to have to receive paper copies of books when copies are requested. Why not DVDs of high-quality images?
3. Why is there no outreach by the LoC to smaller, cheaper book scanning efforts? The Internet Archive, DIYBookscanner.org, and Decapod all come to mind.
Correction, I think: T cells focus on protein markers. This is why one of the patients died: the protein marker associated with the cancerous cells also turned out to be present on healthy lung tissue.
The introns have also been deciphered:
AGTTACCATGGGA /* Support new standard RFC -3374, Oxygen as Fuel */ GGCTTCAAA....
Fascinating. My screenplay is released under a Creative Commons license. There's no reason why a movie studio couldn't release a movie based on the screenplay (with my permission)... except that they want exclusive rights? That makes no sense.
OMG, that's insane! It's like that Real Genius scene came to life, where the prof teaches the students, then the students get replaced by tape recorders, then the prof gets replaced by a reel-to-reel!
Maybe they got rid of "Who, What, Where, When, How (and in investigative journalism, Why)" since the time I was in school.
So something like Zork or any interactive fiction that uses Z-Code would be banned?
I've found that the best way to help an open source project is with documentation. Not necessarily user manuals, but just code commenting. There's plenty of code that has zero explanation about what a particular function does, or how it works. If you've found a project that fits this, then start working on documentation so that (a) you will understand what the code does, (b) everyone else following you will understand what the code does, and (c) the developers themselves will understand what the code does, because sometimes you find bugs just by trying to figure out what the code does. That being said, (warning: personal opinion ahead) I second the opinion that you should stay away from template classes. There are plenty of worthy numerical projects out there that do not rely on a maze of twisty little code fragments, all alike.
"More than one third (36%) of the 343 respondents to a recent poll said they are looking to move to a new employer in the next six months." Why are they so certain that it will be different with any other employer?
I don't know, but any submission where half the sentences are questions surely demands answers!
I read somewhere "on the Internet" that when you're given a lie detector test for clearance, they actually expect you to lie at some point, and if you're totally honest, you fail. Do you think that's true?
The Rover makes a sword out of it!
Probably because they didn't need to. Israel counterattacked with conventional weapons so successfully that they were forced to give up the land they gained. It was a complete rout.
...because that's what I can do with my physical books, and we want parity, right? Right?
Alphanumeric characters? Sheer luxury! We had to get up each day before we went to sleep, clean out the bit bucket on top of the rubbish tip we lived in, with our tongues, and then we had to flip switches to enter our movements in binary, and pay mill owner for the privilege, and when we got home our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance on our graves, singing Halleluia!
But you try telling the young people that. They won't believe you!
That's because you are: you got the problem in one. Not only do you have to learn what the base logogram means, but also how it sounds. You might be able to get away with mapping logogram-to-meaning (in your native language) first, then mapping meaning-to-sounds later, a la Heisig's Remembering the Kanji.
It's possible that the difference in culture is due to America having been settled by religious outcasts. Outcasts who believed that work was the way to God. This is likely why we Americans tend to think of the poor and homeless as having done something wrong: after all, if one were a proper, hard-working, God-fearing person, then one would be rewarded in this life and the life to come. Ergo, they are to be shunned. This may also explain why we Americans seem to value corporations above humans: corporations keep humans working as is proper for God-fearing people, lest they slack off and sin. I'm not condoning it, I'm just saying there's a history here. America, Inc. is not just a random culture that sprung up after World War II.
...it's the people supporting the bits. At my company, storage is also insanely expensive compared to the personal consumer space, but that's because unlike the personal consumer space, our data centers have high reliability, and lots of personnel (along with their 401k plans, insurance, office space, and other expenses) who have to be paid to support the systems.
Well, I certainly agree that technology wouldn't necessarily make education work better. But that's also no reason to go back to one-room wooden schoolhouses presided over by a schoolmarm. Tech is the context, and by not introducing tech into the classroom, you will be educating students who are not prepared to live in the context.
Readers should not confuse this with, in order of increasing danger, the LG Migo, which "is perfect for your kid's first phone," the Bhutanese Migo, which is "known by the Nepalese and Tibetans as the Yeti, and to the Chinese and Soviets as the Alma," or the Lovecraft Mi-Go, which "are large, pinkish, fungoid, crustacean-like entities the size of a man with a 'convoluted ellipsoid' composed of pyramided, fleshy rings and covered in antennae where a head would normally be."