Am I just a vim noob? After doing a search and loving the nice highlighting, is there a way to unhighlight the search term without doing a "/lkasjdfkjdfdf"? In less(1), you'd hit u but haven't found anything for vim.
You can use:nohlsearch to turn off highlighting. And addin
nmap <Tab>/:nohlsearch<CR>
to your.vimrc file will let you turn of the highlighting with Tab /
The problem with recommendation systems is that they use too little information to catagorize their subject.
What they need to do is copy the methods of the Music Genome Project (www.pandora.com), and list a larger set of attributes for the films. This way it can recommend films by checking many more characteristics, such as director, tone, writer, or subject.
In this contest, you run your own code and submit the results to NetFlix to be scored. This means that you can use any other data (e.g. A Movie Genome projct) you can compile to enhance your rankings. Netflix apparently specifically designed the contest to allow this.
Does that mean his cellphone is a threat to national security!?
Yes. Cell phones (except for specifically aproved governement issue ones) are not allowed in areas where classified research takes place.
And why wouldn't we worry that the Chineese government would pressure Levaneo to bug their laptops. The united states government bugged a Xerox machine in the Soviet embassy (link). This seems like a perfectly rational safeguard.
Open source software is even more heavily male dominated than academia. The Debian women project has some ideas about why this might be and how to fix it. (http://women.alioth.debian.org/faqs/)
Um, his book looks like it's about the CIA. TFA is about the NSA. This is a new and different way in which the government has been infringing the rights of people.
Anyhow, why would it matter if he had written about it in his book. Wonton abuse of power is still news worthy, even if it is reported multiple times.
Let's say an evil villain accused you of killing someone. You turned around and said to the Judge, "But Your Honor, HE killed people!..." The Judge would say "We aren't here to discuss him. He's not the one on trial."
Yes. That's what a trial is supposed to do: sort out one particular issue. If your evil doer committed the murder in question, then that would be relavent. The legal system is intended to be blind to matters of personality, and trials are supposed to rest solely on facts. Things don't work perfectly, of course, but what you're complaing about is a feature--- not a bug.
All you need to get is your date of birth, social security, and mother's maiden name (maybe zip code of residence) and you can take out a home loan in someone elses name.
Not anymore. Now federal money laundering regulations require presenting govenment issued photo idea to open account. They also ask a series a probing person questions about your sources of income and about your employment status. This is all new within the last year.
Jeff
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This is part of the nuclear stewardship program. The US has a few thousand nukes that need to be maintianed, but not tested due to treaty restrictions. Therefore, intricate computer simulations are used to run virtual weapons tests.
The "tuna can" in this experiments is being subjected to high stresses, and measuring its response lets the researchers validate their simulation's predictions. If the simulation predicts the behavior of the can, it's more likely to acurately describe a nuclear device.
It's worthy of note that one of the more obscure aspects of Einstein's theorum of Relativity is Frame Dragging, which predicts that time and space will be dragged around a spinning object's mass.
Um... actually this is a result of general, not special, relativity. The centenial of that paper isn't for another decade or so.
The difference is that (in broad terms) general relativity concerns gravity and special relativity concerns objects moving at high speeds.
Free Market arguments don't apply to local phone comapies. They have monopolies in their areas and close to local governments... This is arguably a good thing, but it's not possible for another company to come in and start putting down new phone lines. No chance for competion -> free market reasoning does not apply.
Not really, local phone are regulated monopolies. Back in the government (FCC) was supposed to ensure that they acted fairly and in the interest of consumers. Government regulations dictate, for example, that you get to pick your long distance carrier, as opposed to being required to use one selected by your local phone company. DSL should not work any differently.
Why not go after the 419 spammers who are stealing people's life savings? Or how about the fake pills and illegal drugs?
In this case it makes lots of sense. It's really hard for the FTC to go after a bunch of asshats like 419 spammers and phishers who operate completely illicitely and launder thier money. It's relatively easy for them to go after companies (e.g. porn sites) that do things like take credit cards and operate like real buisnesses.
I disagree with the article's assumption that interesting programming errors are due to people being unable to express themselves "naturally" in code. Rather, I find that almost all errors worthy of debugging come not understanding the problem domain correctly.
I'm more worried about another slammer-type attack that floods the Internet.
While I think that is a completely valid and important concern, it overlooks something key. If terrorists/gangesters/whomever want to damage US financial systems, it's good thing that slammer type attacks are the first thing to come to mind. One of the things that made the WTC such an appealing target on 9/11 was that private corporate networks were dependant on services provide in the towers. The hijackers managed to take down the New York Stock echange for five (?) days, by damaging critical infrastructure. If putting the federal reserve system on the public internet, encourages DOS attacks and decreases the incentive to blow things up (including people), I'm all for it.
Perhaps Im wrong and this cariculum will teach excelent data structure usage, and algorithim analysis and AI and compiler design and low level architecture. But at this point i kind of doubt it.
Not to mention that I don't see a course description which includes automata theory or functional programming. These students may learn to be computer programmers, but that's very different from being computer scientists.
If my office mate ever tried to use voice dictation for his perl code, his body would be discovered with a microphone embedded in a very uncomfortable place:)
Even though C# is a standardized language the.Net framework is not. I'm not sure we can be confident that Microsoft can't legally stop open source implementations of the the framework. Does anyone know what protection mono (and.gnu) have against legal threats?
But when you bought the old chess game it didn't specify it would work on the new OS? And this is the programmers fault for not making things compatible with technology 10 years in the future?
It's the fault of OS programmer for not making things compatible with legacy software.
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Am I just a vim noob? After doing a search and loving the nice highlighting, is there a way to unhighlight the search term without doing a "/lkasjdfkjdfdf"? In less(1), you'd hit u but haven't found anything for vim. :nohlsearch to turn off highlighting. And addin
:nohlsearch<CR>
.vimrc file will let you turn of the highlighting with Tab /
You can use
nmap <Tab>/
to your
The problem with recommendation systems is that they use too little information to catagorize their subject.
What they need to do is copy the methods of the Music Genome Project (www.pandora.com), and list a larger set of attributes for the films. This way it can recommend films by checking many more characteristics, such as director, tone, writer, or subject.
In this contest, you run your own code and submit the results to NetFlix to be scored. This means that you can use any other data (e.g. A Movie Genome projct) you can compile to enhance your rankings. Netflix apparently specifically designed the contest to allow this.
Does that mean his cellphone is a threat to national security!?
Yes. Cell phones (except for specifically aproved governement issue ones) are not allowed in areas where classified research takes place.
And why wouldn't we worry that the Chineese government would pressure Levaneo to bug their laptops. The united states government bugged a Xerox machine in the Soviet embassy (link). This seems like a perfectly rational safeguard.
--Jeff
Open source software is even more heavily male dominated than academia. The Debian women project has some ideas about why this might be and how to fix it. (http://women.alioth.debian.org/faqs/)
Um, his book looks like it's about the CIA. TFA is about the NSA. This is a new and different way in which the government has been infringing the rights of people.
Anyhow, why would it matter if he had written about it in his book. Wonton abuse of power is still news worthy, even if it is reported multiple times.
Let's say an evil villain accused you of killing someone. You turned around and said to the Judge, "But Your Honor, HE killed people! ..." The Judge would say "We aren't here to discuss him. He's not the one on trial."
Yes. That's what a trial is supposed to do: sort out one particular issue. If your evil doer committed the murder in question, then that would be relavent. The legal system is intended to be blind to matters of personality, and trials are supposed to rest solely on facts. Things don't work perfectly, of course, but what you're complaing about is a feature--- not a bug.
All you need to get is your date of birth, social security, and mother's maiden name (maybe zip code of residence) and you can take out a home loan in someone elses name.
Not anymore. Now federal money laundering regulations require presenting govenment issued photo idea to open account. They also ask a series a probing person questions about your sources of income and about your employment status. This is all new within the last year.
Jeff
This is part of the nuclear stewardship program. The US has a few thousand nukes that need to be maintianed, but not tested due to treaty restrictions. Therefore, intricate computer simulations are used to run virtual weapons tests.
The "tuna can" in this experiments is being subjected to high stresses, and measuring its response lets the researchers validate their simulation's predictions. If the simulation predicts the behavior of the can, it's more likely to acurately describe a nuclear device.
Jeff
... Sandia National Lab's Z-Machine is about 20-times more powerful (http://www.sandia.gov/media/z290.htm)
It's worthy of note that one of the more obscure aspects of Einstein's theorum of Relativity is Frame Dragging, which predicts that time and space will be dragged around a spinning object's mass.
Um... actually this is a result of general, not special, relativity. The centenial of that paper isn't for another decade or so.
The difference is that (in broad terms) general relativity concerns gravity and special relativity concerns objects moving at high speeds.
--Jeff
Or maybe IBM just couldn't supply the chips that they promised. Nothing to see here...
Free Market arguments don't apply to local phone comapies. They have monopolies in their areas and close to local governments... This is arguably a good thing, but it's not possible for another company to come in and start putting down new phone lines. No chance for competion -> free market reasoning does not apply.
--Jeff
2 it's a private business providing a service
Not really, local phone are regulated monopolies. Back in the government (FCC) was supposed to ensure that they acted fairly and in the interest of consumers. Government regulations dictate, for example, that you get to pick your long distance carrier, as opposed to being required to use one selected by your local phone company. DSL should not work any differently.
--Jeff
Do you have a reference for this?
Why not go after the 419 spammers who are stealing people's life savings? Or how about the fake pills and illegal drugs?
In this case it makes lots of sense. It's really hard for the FTC to go after a bunch of asshats like 419 spammers and phishers who operate completely illicitely and launder thier money. It's relatively easy for them to go after companies (e.g. porn sites) that do things like take credit cards and operate like real buisnesses.
Jeff
I disagree with the article's assumption that interesting programming errors are due to people being unable to express themselves "naturally" in code. Rather, I find that almost all errors worthy of debugging come not understanding the problem domain correctly.
jeff
I'm more worried about another slammer-type attack that floods the Internet.
While I think that is a completely valid and important concern, it overlooks something key. If terrorists/gangesters/whomever want to damage US financial systems, it's good thing that slammer type attacks are the first thing to come to mind. One of the things that made the WTC such an appealing target on 9/11 was that private corporate networks were dependant on services provide in the towers. The hijackers managed to take down the New York Stock echange for five (?) days, by damaging critical infrastructure. If putting the federal reserve system on the public internet, encourages DOS attacks and decreases the incentive to blow things up (including people), I'm all for it.
Jeff
This could be awesome on laptops. Replace the monitor with a minaturized projector and display the image on any close by surgace...
jeff
Perhaps Im wrong and this cariculum will teach excelent data structure usage, and algorithim analysis and AI and compiler design and low level architecture. But at this point i kind of doubt it.
Not to mention that I don't see a course description which includes automata theory or functional programming. These students may learn to be computer programmers, but that's very different from being computer scientists.
voice recognition is nowhere near popular
If my office mate ever tried to use voice dictation for his perl code, his body would be discovered with a microphone embedded in a very uncomfortable place:)
Jeff
You're lucky. I type at about 30 wpm with low accuracy. And it sucks. Hard.
As a programmer, and halfway decent touch typing class could make my life much much better.
Jeff
Even though C# is a standardized language the .Net framework is not. I'm not sure we can be confident that Microsoft can't legally stop open source implementations of the the framework. Does anyone know what protection mono (and .gnu) have against legal threats?
Jeff
But when you bought the old chess game it didn't specify it would work on the new OS? And this is the programmers fault for not making things compatible with technology 10 years in the future?
It's the fault of OS programmer for not making things compatible with legacy software.
Jeff
If the FCC could effectively (technologically) stop spam, this would inply that have the ability to block arbitrary emails. That is a bad thing.
Sooner or later, you'll need to debug something without a source-level debugger.
printf?