I read TFA, its still a clunky, hackerish and unrealistic approach. There is far better technology out there, and I;m no longer impressed just because someone managed to use Android.
Somebody send Geordi La Forge over there to straighten those people out. Nobody is going thru life poking their finger every which way, even blind people realize how dumb that looks.
Hell even Google's got the camera on glasses figured out, and you can do a earbud or cochlear implant if you still insist on doing sound waves.
Well what they are really saying is that the upper parts of a tree can diverge from each other and from their root stocks via natural methods.
Any orchard owner knows that its easy to graft dissimilar branches on a common root stock, producing, for example, two different types of apples from the same tree. Its easy, and farmers have been doing it for years. Who knows where this idea arose.
Now it turns out that nature can do roughly the same thing, without all the cutting and splicing, but rather, by gene mutation or cross pollination or what ever.
Clearly every seed germinates to a single plant, but over time, it appears that significant divergence can take place on a single living tree. This might be a significant evolutionary advantage, as some branches may survive frost, drought, or pests better than other branches. A built in diversity in a single tree.
Perhaps we have to start thinking of some of these trees as colonies of organisms rather than a single individual.
There are companies selling suites of forensics tools that blow thur any iphone security in a heart beat. Not to mention that every hacker can get into a stolen phone with any number of widely published tricks.
And with a good concept of math, you can get all those question, plus tell them there likely stock flow, better ways to organize inventory storage, and advance logistics regarding said inventory.
But the question would already be answered by Betty in the shipping department by looking up current inventory in the stock management system written by the business major with no significant math skills beyond double entry book keeping.
And all this would happen before the math major exdigitated and stopped pontificating in the board room.
This is not a complex question. It doesn't require a thesis.
What's to be done with 52,000 tons (47,174 metric tons) of dangerously radioactive spent fuel from commercial and defense nuclear reactors? With 91 million gallons (344.5 million liters) of high-level waste left over from plutonium processing, scores of tons of plutonium, more than half a million tons (453,592 metric tons) of depleted uranium, millions of cubic feet of contaminated tools, metal scraps, clothing, oils, solvents, and other waste? And with some 265 million tons (240 million metric tons) of tailings from milling uranium ore—less than half stabilized—littering landscapes?
Next time NASA should use a tether. That would likely have saved the vehicle. It seemed like a GNC failure to me. The engine worked fine since the vehicle was propelled upwards, but then it tilted to the right. It could also have tilted because the propellant was sloshing around in the tanks or something like that.
Fire-fighters show up at 8:30 after crash. Is 8 minutes good for response time? It does seem awfully slow, especially considering that they had to have been on standby just in case of something like this happening.
Then another 7 minutes to put it out. Very stubborn fire.
Bob, I'm going to go ahead and ask you to move our helium tanks a little further away. And don't forget that laptop on the chair. That would be terrific, OK?
Again, there are so many libraries out there (libcrypt) that most programmers never need to know anything about the underlying math to encrypt anything.
Look, this is what I meant when I mentioned chest thumping. Everybody wants to pretend they are launching rockets or defeating the CIA, or engineering the next skyscraper. Yet people who get those jobs look at programming like programmers look at typing. A skill.
Teaching cryptography to the programmer who will be writing your inventory system or your CRM system is ridiculous. Most programming jobs have nothing what so ever to do with any of these skills.
Well said. I've never had a single problem in NYC while visiting my sister, (other than winning an argument with her). And that includes walking all over the neighborhood at night with my sister, who is fairly fearless about that sort of thing (i.e. only been robbed once).
Programming changes the way you think. It does so in ways most useful in programming. Some of these are annoying.
Such as when the waitress say "If you need more coffee, my name is Sally", and I am left wondering what her name would be if I have enough coffee. I'm not sure it would be at all helpful to have the first derivative of Sally's profile pop into my mind and waste all that time reflecting on how Sally is just a stick figure.
But what I need from you at the moment is how many are in inventory right now, and can we fill this bulk order today or are we going to have to back order?
They use the information to serve their stockholders. Sometimes, that also involves serving the people from whom the information is gathered, sometimes it involves using are distributing that information in ways that are against the interests of the people from whom it was gathered.
It has nothing to do with shareholders. Shareholders would be the first to demand the cell carriers stop handing over cell records to any tin-star sheriff if that were legally possible. It ads cost, and has no possible upside. Other than that, cell carriers do not use my location for anything except tower load planning.
The bulk of programming jobs have nothing at all to do with math beyond the high school level. Its mostly counting beans and keeping records. Really, it is.
Gaming, (image rendering and manipulation), statistics, and rocket science are a few of the obvious areas that come to mind where more advanced maths may be necessary. Even these fields have packages available to do the heavy lifting once you figure out what it is that you want to do. Knowing what to do the key. This kind of programming constitutes about 1% of the available jobs and 98% of the chest thumping on slashdot.
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I read TFA, its still a clunky, hackerish and unrealistic approach. There is far better technology out there, and I;m no longer impressed just because someone managed to use Android.
Somebody send Geordi La Forge over there to straighten those people out.
Nobody is going thru life poking their finger every which way, even blind people realize how dumb that looks.
Hell even Google's got the camera on glasses figured out, and you can do a earbud or cochlear implant if you still insist on doing sound waves.
Well what they are really saying is that the upper parts of a tree can diverge from each other and from their root stocks via natural methods.
Any orchard owner knows that its easy to graft dissimilar branches on a common root stock, producing, for example, two different types of apples from the same tree. Its easy, and farmers have been doing it for years. Who knows where this idea arose.
Now it turns out that nature can do roughly the same thing, without all the cutting and splicing, but rather, by gene mutation or cross pollination or what ever.
Clearly every seed germinates to a single plant, but over time, it appears that significant divergence can take place on a single living tree. This might be a significant evolutionary advantage, as some branches may survive frost, drought, or pests better than other branches. A built in diversity in a single tree.
Perhaps we have to start thinking of some of these trees as colonies of organisms rather than a single individual.
There are companies selling suites of forensics tools that blow thur any iphone security in a heart beat.
Not to mention that every hacker can get into a stolen phone with any number of widely published tricks.
yet you post a hearty reply the same minute the story is posted
See that little asterisk behind his Slashdot ID?
You too could have one of those if you weren't A) so cheap, and B) posting as AC.
2500 psi tanks as long as a semi trailer punctured by flying debris can ruin your whole day.
You can hear the tech asking the dispatcher to warn the fire crews about those "tanks on the trailer" in the video.
And with a good concept of math, you can get all those question, plus tell them there likely stock flow, better ways to organize inventory storage, and advance logistics regarding said inventory.
But the question would already be answered by Betty in the shipping department by looking up current inventory in the stock management system written
by the business major with no significant math skills beyond double entry book keeping.
And all this would happen before the math major exdigitated and stopped pontificating in the board room.
This is not a complex question. It doesn't require a thesis.
Reading comprehension 101: Read ALL THE WAY to the END of a sentence.
stop handing over cell records to any tin-star sheriff if that were legally possible.
How can you quote something and STILL miss it?
Even barrels and barrels of dirt.
What's to be done with 52,000 tons (47,174 metric tons) of dangerously radioactive spent fuel from commercial and defense nuclear reactors? With 91 million gallons (344.5 million liters) of high-level waste left over from plutonium processing, scores of tons of plutonium, more than half a million tons (453,592 metric tons) of depleted uranium, millions of cubic feet of contaminated tools, metal scraps, clothing, oils, solvents, and other waste? And with some 265 million tons (240 million metric tons) of tailings from milling uranium ore—less than half stabilized—littering landscapes?
Its a long article, but worth the read: Half Life—The Lethal Legacy of America's Nuclear Waste.
No, leave that stuff there, just move the 2500 psi tanks further back.
Waste Storage is not limited to spent fuel.
Spent fuel is not the largest source of waste by volume.
The major stock holders all care about all those things.
The small holders are just along for the ride are just.
The box didn't say anything about Algebra. Just some new form of math called turbotax.
Next time NASA should use a tether. That would likely have saved the vehicle. It seemed like a GNC failure to me. The engine worked fine since the vehicle was propelled upwards, but then it tilted to the right. It could also have tilted because the propellant was sloshing around in the tanks or something like that.
Gee, why didn't THEY think of that.....
Fire-fighters show up at 8:30 after crash. Is 8 minutes good for response time? It does seem awfully slow, especially considering that they had to have been on standby just in case of something like this happening.
Then another 7 minutes to put it out. Very stubborn fire.
Bob, I'm going to go ahead and ask you to move our helium tanks a little further away. And don't forget that laptop on the chair. That would be terrific, OK?
Only if you intend to roll your own.
Again, there are so many libraries out there (libcrypt) that most programmers never need to know anything about
the underlying math to encrypt anything.
Look, this is what I meant when I mentioned chest thumping. Everybody wants to pretend they are launching rockets or defeating the CIA, or engineering the next skyscraper. Yet people who get those jobs look at programming like programmers look at typing. A skill.
Teaching cryptography to the programmer who will be writing your inventory system or your CRM system is ridiculous.
Most programming jobs have nothing what so ever to do with any of these skills.
Ah, no. It doesn't.
I've written systems like that. JIT Inventory systems are no where near that complex.
Well said.
I've never had a single problem in NYC while visiting my sister, (other than winning an argument with her).
And that includes walking all over the neighborhood at night with my sister, who is fairly fearless about that sort of thing (i.e. only been robbed once).
Math changes the way you think.
Programming changes the way you think.
It does so in ways most useful in programming. Some of these are annoying.
Such as when the waitress say "If you need more coffee, my name is Sally", and I am left wondering what her name would be if I have enough coffee.
I'm not sure it would be at all helpful to have the first derivative of Sally's profile pop into my mind and waste all that time reflecting on how Sally is just a stick figure.
You may think you don't use algebra, but you do it every time you use a variable.
So then what I fill in on my income tax forms is Algebra?
Excellent Pedantry Mr Nemesis.
But what I need from you at the moment is how many are in inventory right now, and can we fill this bulk order today or are we going to have to back order?
Too late. Already been done.
They use the information to serve their stockholders. Sometimes, that also involves serving the people from whom the information is gathered, sometimes it involves using are distributing that information in ways that are against the interests of the people from whom it was gathered.
It has nothing to do with shareholders.
Shareholders would be the first to demand the cell carriers stop handing over cell records to any tin-star sheriff if that were legally possible.
It ads cost, and has no possible upside. Other than that, cell carriers do not use my location for anything except tower load planning.
The bulk of programming jobs have nothing at all to do with math beyond the high school level.
Its mostly counting beans and keeping records. Really, it is.
Gaming, (image rendering and manipulation), statistics, and rocket science are a few of the obvious areas that come to mind where more advanced maths may be necessary. Even these fields have packages available to do the heavy lifting once you figure out what it is that you want to do. Knowing what to do the key. This kind of programming constitutes about 1% of the available jobs and 98% of the chest thumping on slashdot.