How about... cookie management? I want my amazon/slashdot/gmail cookies, but um, why are there porno and advertising cookies on my computer? (wait, no. Don't answer that.)
The plan.... a bayesian filter on cookies! Or predict my browsing habits, and load the page before I click on it... or... FIND ME PORN THAT I LIKE!
(hey, this post is a stream of consciousness. I'm brainstorming. You're gunna get porn. deal with it.)
A few years ago, I took a course (Astro 10) at UC Berkeley that had ~900 students. The largest lecture hall holds 300. The solution was to provide videos of the lectures online, both streaming and archived. We were urged NOT to come to lecture, and instead view them online. These were a great resource in not only studying for tests, but also for casual learning. I pointed a few friends and relatives of mine to these online lectures as a great way to learn about astronomy.
I hope this is done more often, not with lecture notes or online material - it's useless. Live lectures however are not. Universities sell degrees, not educations. It would be easy to provide such resources to the general public; it could be a recruiting tool, advertising, etc. Since you're not going to get a degree no matter how many courses you watch online, it doesn't cheapen what the university offers for a *ahem* small fee.
No. We're not already there. Even though both governments are powerful, one is paranoid (China) and the other is confident (USA). China made the error that you need to censor people. It's like trying to put your thumb over a garden hose. At any pressure, no matter how hard you try, you're going to loose. If you actively inhibit speech, people will turn to underground means of expressing themselves, usually through political subversion. Pressure builds up, and eventually when collectively one BILLION people wake up and realize they've been had, the communist Chinese government is history. Whereas in America, there isn't even a hose. All that political pressure just evaporates into thin air. Why censor when you can capture the minds of the people directly, through subliminal media?
... it's the Chinese. Their government just serves as a reminder of how far we in America have yet to fall. Even though our rights have been eroded significantly, we'll always have China to remind us that the good old USA still remains the land of the free.
How do more people on cell phoes relieve disaster? I don't mean to be cynical, but there are much better tools for disaster workers, like radios and such.
So why don't you buy a few 200 gb hard drives? They'll be more accessable than dvds, cheaper than the blu-ray writer and media, they're scalable and probably most importantly, your data will still exist after a few years. Ever try to load a 5 year old CD-R?
Are these blu-ray disks as robust as normal CDs and DVDs (hah!) or do they decay like many CD-Rs? I recently tried to load a few old CD-Rs that had been lying around for a while... nothing. Errors all over the place. Will this thing be useful for archiving stuff or only for same-year viewing?
Of course not. Haven't you seen "The Corporation"?
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I've joined a group at LBNL (berkeley lab) that could use this. They have a database of molecular data, and they need a way to visualize it using a web interface.
And this is news? Maybe if somebody got that scramjet working, or if somebody built a huge open-air particle accelerator between the two locations... but this isn't even remotely interesting.
That's right, I hate to say it, but recording killed music as it existed. Now, we have 2-3 minute soundbites that are played over and over in replication on thousands of cd players and computers. Gone are the complexities of performance. We've abandoned a culture of performers for a culture of listners.
Quid festin | atio | swallonis | est aether | fug(a) unon | usti
It would be a stretch, but the last syllable of aetherfuga and first syllable of unonusti elide. But you're right, I should change unonusti to inonusti. I did my best to make words for "airspeed" and "velocity".. and for that matter "swallow". I'm amazed someone got it, good job!
It has to be airtight and radiation-shielded to begin with. Radiation shielding isn't so much of a problem, now that weight doesn't really matter. Then, you'll need some sort of air recycling device, and a way to remove heat (space is cold, but vacuum is as good an insulator as you'll get.) That's pretty much it, actually. Oh, and bring some food. And that reminds me, you'll need a toilet (non-trivial.)
FS searching has absolutely sucked until this. Find By Content from Apple was a step forward, but it never worked too well. Here's hoping this search will make it into OS X!
When I took linear algebra I was wondering if there was a practical approach to this
If by "this" you mean spam filtering, then cool. But if you're talking about applications in general... Are you kidding? Linear algebra is probably the most useful stuff you'll ever learn, especially if you're into computers. It's the stuff CG is made of. EVERYTHING uses linear algebra.
So here's a guess on how this works: So you've got your document vector. You also have a vector space, call it S for "spam". Choose your basis for S to be a bunch of words commonly found in spam. Now, orthogonally project your document vector into S, take the Euclidian norm and if it's too long -- zap it! It's spam!
I know it was said in jest, to turn in the authors of windows registry and update as those at fault for the security problems, however I'm inclined to agree. Although some would say this is kin in the analog world to blaming a robbed homeowner who didn't lock every second story window and didn't buy baseball-bat-proof glass, I believe it's more along the lines of blaming a vehicle manufacturer for faulty locking mechanisms on its car's doors. All the while Microsoft is trying to catch the thieves running around with stolen cars, when it was their mistake in designing the faulty cars in the first place. Yeah, the analogy sucks, but it's the best I can come up with.
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The plan.... a bayesian filter on cookies! Or predict my browsing habits, and load the page before I click on it... or... FIND ME PORN THAT I LIKE!
(hey, this post is a stream of consciousness. I'm brainstorming. You're gunna get porn. deal with it.)
here you go.
...which is why the parent is 4 informative. Only on slashdot will you get rewarded for biting the hand that feeds you!
I hope this is done more often, not with lecture notes or online material - it's useless. Live lectures however are not. Universities sell degrees, not educations. It would be easy to provide such resources to the general public; it could be a recruiting tool, advertising, etc. Since you're not going to get a degree no matter how many courses you watch online, it doesn't cheapen what the university offers for a *ahem* small fee.
More than 2,000 observed supernovae disagree with you.
No. We're not already there. Even though both governments are powerful, one is paranoid (China) and the other is confident (USA). China made the error that you need to censor people. It's like trying to put your thumb over a garden hose. At any pressure, no matter how hard you try, you're going to loose. If you actively inhibit speech, people will turn to underground means of expressing themselves, usually through political subversion. Pressure builds up, and eventually when collectively one BILLION people wake up and realize they've been had, the communist Chinese government is history. Whereas in America, there isn't even a hose. All that political pressure just evaporates into thin air. Why censor when you can capture the minds of the people directly, through subliminal media?
... it's the Chinese. Their government just serves as a reminder of how far we in America have yet to fall. Even though our rights have been eroded significantly, we'll always have China to remind us that the good old USA still remains the land of the free.
How do more people on cell phoes relieve disaster? I don't mean to be cynical, but there are much better tools for disaster workers, like radios and such.
hmm... I'll bet it was my ballpoint pen labeling spree...
So why don't you buy a few 200 gb hard drives? They'll be more accessable than dvds, cheaper than the blu-ray writer and media, they're scalable and probably most importantly, your data will still exist after a few years. Ever try to load a 5 year old CD-R?
Are these blu-ray disks as robust as normal CDs and DVDs (hah!) or do they decay like many CD-Rs? I recently tried to load a few old CD-Rs that had been lying around for a while... nothing. Errors all over the place. Will this thing be useful for archiving stuff or only for same-year viewing?
Of course not. Haven't you seen "The Corporation"?
I've joined a group at LBNL (berkeley lab) that could use this. They have a database of molecular data, and they need a way to visualize it using a web interface.
And this is news? Maybe if somebody got that scramjet working, or if somebody built a huge open-air particle accelerator between the two locations... but this isn't even remotely interesting.
... but why exactly is this so important? Can we use this number in any way, or is it just another prime?
That's right, I hate to say it, but recording killed music as it existed. Now, we have 2-3 minute soundbites that are played over and over in replication on thousands of cd players and computers. Gone are the complexities of performance. We've abandoned a culture of performers for a culture of listners.
Quid festin | atio | swallonis | est aether | fug(a) unon | usti
It would be a stretch, but the last syllable of aetherfuga and first syllable of unonusti elide. But you're right, I should change unonusti to inonusti. I did my best to make words for "airspeed" and "velocity" .. and for that matter "swallow". I'm amazed someone got it, good job!
Go Monty Python!
It has to be airtight and radiation-shielded to begin with. Radiation shielding isn't so much of a problem, now that weight doesn't really matter. Then, you'll need some sort of air recycling device, and a way to remove heat (space is cold, but vacuum is as good an insulator as you'll get.) That's pretty much it, actually. Oh, and bring some food. And that reminds me, you'll need a toilet (non-trivial.)
uhm... no. "density of air is so much higher" may be true on the ground, but when you're sending a blimp to LEO, it's a whole 'nuther matter.
So that makes it ~$1,000 per ton to LEO. That's still WAY cheaper than current rates.
Eh? That's the coolest thing I've seen in a while, if it's at all possible. Kinda blows the x-prize away.
FS searching has absolutely sucked until this. Find By Content from Apple was a step forward, but it never worked too well. Here's hoping this search will make it into OS X!
If by "this" you mean spam filtering, then cool. But if you're talking about applications in general... Are you kidding? Linear algebra is probably the most useful stuff you'll ever learn, especially if you're into computers. It's the stuff CG is made of. EVERYTHING uses linear algebra.
So here's a guess on how this works: So you've got your document vector. You also have a vector space, call it S for "spam". Choose your basis for S to be a bunch of words commonly found in spam. Now, orthogonally project your document vector into S, take the Euclidian norm and if it's too long -- zap it! It's spam!
I know it was said in jest, to turn in the authors of windows registry and update as those at fault for the security problems, however I'm inclined to agree. Although some would say this is kin in the analog world to blaming a robbed homeowner who didn't lock every second story window and didn't buy baseball-bat-proof glass, I believe it's more along the lines of blaming a vehicle manufacturer for faulty locking mechanisms on its car's doors. All the while Microsoft is trying to catch the thieves running around with stolen cars, when it was their mistake in designing the faulty cars in the first place. Yeah, the analogy sucks, but it's the best I can come up with.
Any idea on who those "ten leading notebook manufacturers" are?