In case anyone hasn't put two and two together*, Amazon's Mechanical Turk is named in reference to the chess playing Turk from the article. Amazon's FAQ has more info.
I think the OP meant that these are in fact "percentage points." The financial press usually accurately presents this by giving information in terms of basis points, a scaled shortcut for "percentage points". This eliminates potential confusion that over whether you mean a change in the reported percentage number or a percentage change in the reported percentage number. That is, a 3 percentage point drop from 6% to 3% is actually a 50% drop in the rate.
A sad state of affairs. The Economist had interesting coverage of the event from both the run-up to the "election" and its result.
NOTHING was left to chance in Russia's parliamentary election. As polling stations closed on December 2nd, large lorries with military and riot police surrounded Moscow's main squares. There was no need for them: the city was quiet and nobody was protesting. Nor was there any need for the "tourist" buses ferrying voters from far-flung regions to cast multiple ballots in one polling station after another. "We have been going around polling stations since lunch time," grumbled one man, "and they have not paid us yet." http://economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10268185 http://economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10217312
No, that's the National Geographic version. The report is a little different; although, they state that as the state of the art advances, the results available to you will be updated accordingly. Anyone done this?
The two frameworks fill different needs. Rails might be great for a completely new product, where you can fully take advantage of its "Convention over Configuration" motto as well as its neat integration between M, V, and C.
Catalyst aims to be an extensible framework. Sure, there are recommendations for new projects, such as using DBIx::Class as the ORM, or Template Toolkit for your view, but these aren't written in stone. Each layer is flexible. You can use CPAN modules to build your own models and views. Want world GDP data? Make a model that calls WebService::CIA. Have your own custom database model already? Use it! (SixApart did this with Catalyst + their partitioned database system + Memcached).
Catalyst is a little rough around the edges for some of the simpler cases that you might use RoR for, such as a plain old CRUD form system, which Rails will nicely generate for you, but for more complex applications Catalyst is not a bad choice.
Yes, and yes. You say lay people; are you a lawyer? You can't compel self-incrimination in the United States, which is what compelling the recall of a key would amount to. In a criminal case, the burden of proof lies with the prosecution. In any case, you can't get inside the brain of the defendant to know whether he even knows the information sought.
If such a law were enacted in the US, we would be protected, ostensibly, by the 5th amendment to the Constitution. I say ostensibly because apparently the Constitution is "just a piece of paper" now, and we (some of us) have forgotten about the rule of law.
So, this could happen here. Easily. We need to find some way to restore the rule of law here lest we become like that other large country just across the Bering Strait from us.
The word "State" has at least two meanings. There are 50 states in the United States. California is a state for example. This is the sense that you picked up on in your post. From what I've read of Dada's posts, he is probably using the other meaning of the word. Used in the singular, "the state" can be synonymous with "government", as in "L'État, c'est moi".
I suspect that Ron Paul will participate in forthcoming debates. He has already participated in major media-sponsored debates, and he has been raising impressive amounts of money. He ended the last quarter with over $5 million cash on hand raised mainly from individual contributors. He is getting hard to ignore, and he is going for the Republican nomination instead of running as an independent.
Ralph Nader, on the other hand, hasn't much of a chance given that he is not (to my knowledge) going for a major party nomination. It's a shame that third parties are marginalized in the electoral process.
I just finished college, and I am currently (until the 10 Nov.) on a bit of a hiatus from doing any work that remotely requires the use of my brain. For the past couple months I have been working at a small breakfast cafe that operates out of a house built around 1900.
As old as the house is, it has slightly unnerving properties: the floors creak, drafts blow napkins and receipts, etc.. I find it very easy to come up with reasonable naturalistic explanations for what my co-workers consider paranormal. All of the servers at this restaurant believe that it is inhabited by a ghost -- one that interacts with the world we experience. A poltergeist.
Most also believe in astrology and homeopathy. One server recently paid ~ $15 for a chalk tablet cold remedy. No matter how hard I try to dispel these harmful beliefs, I am (ironically) met with skepticism. For instance, today someone told me that they believed in symbols foretelling the future. I suggested that any notion of psychic ability is likely due to confirmation bias -- we are more likely to remember when our intuition was correct than when it had failed us. I also told this person about the JREF/Randi Prize.
At this point in most of my conversations with my mystically inclined associates, some "scientific explanation" is offered dealing with photons, leptons, "we're all made of light," and other new-agey pseudo-quantum-physics.
I am at the point where I have almost given up, except to always ask people to examine how they know what they proclaim to know without resorting to their feelings. I find it very hard to not come across as condescending when having these conversations.
As they say: "SC Johnson, a family company." There is no public market for the company's stock -- it is all privately held. I know you were making a joke, but I thought some might find this interesting given the size and success of the company.
No iPod required. The music store has, since its inception, allowed the burning of purchases to CDs (action restricted by DRM, but the final product is a real, DRM-free CD). You could also listen to the tracks using the iTunes on your computer, stream it to other authorized computers using iTunes, and stream it to your home entertainment system with Airport Express or Apple TV.
What's changed is that you now have even more flexibility. You can now stream it using anything that understands the (documented) AAC format. Play it on many more portable music players. Remix it using Audacity or other audio editing software.
You still don't need an iPod to use the iTunes music store. Now its just way more flexible, especially if you don't have an iPod.
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In case anyone hasn't put two and two together*, Amazon's Mechanical Turk is named in reference to the chess playing Turk from the article. Amazon's FAQ has more info.
* 5, for large values of two.
Did you mean delvr? Results 1-10 of 12,000.
I think the OP meant that these are in fact "percentage points." The financial press usually accurately presents this by giving information in terms of basis points, a scaled shortcut for "percentage points". This eliminates potential confusion that over whether you mean a change in the reported percentage number or a percentage change in the reported percentage number. That is, a 3 percentage point drop from 6% to 3% is actually a 50% drop in the rate.
Here I am, thinking that someone in Japan had come up with a cellphone that could recommend wine pairings.
I'm sorry, I'm American, and I've got to ask: Who is Osama bin Laden?
http://economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10217312
No, that's the National Geographic version. The report is a little different; although, they state that as the state of the art advances, the results available to you will be updated accordingly. Anyone done this?
The two frameworks fill different needs. Rails might be great for a completely new product, where you can fully take advantage of its "Convention over Configuration" motto as well as its neat integration between M, V, and C.
Catalyst aims to be an extensible framework. Sure, there are recommendations for new projects, such as using DBIx::Class as the ORM, or Template Toolkit for your view, but these aren't written in stone. Each layer is flexible. You can use CPAN modules to build your own models and views. Want world GDP data? Make a model that calls WebService::CIA. Have your own custom database model already? Use it! (SixApart did this with Catalyst + their partitioned database system + Memcached).
Catalyst is a little rough around the edges for some of the simpler cases that you might use RoR for, such as a plain old CRUD form system, which Rails will nicely generate for you, but for more complex applications Catalyst is not a bad choice.
Yes, and yes. You say lay people; are you a lawyer? You can't compel self-incrimination in the United States, which is what compelling the recall of a key would amount to. In a criminal case, the burden of proof lies with the prosecution. In any case, you can't get inside the brain of the defendant to know whether he even knows the information sought.
Thank you for the context. Scary.
This isn't a law in the US ... yet.
This is in Great Britain, not in the US.
If such a law were enacted in the US, we would be protected, ostensibly, by the 5th amendment to the Constitution. I say ostensibly because apparently the Constitution is "just a piece of paper" now, and we (some of us) have forgotten about the rule of law.
So, this could happen here. Easily. We need to find some way to restore the rule of law here lest we become like that other large country just across the Bering Strait from us.
Hmmm...
The word "State" has at least two meanings. There are 50 states in the United States. California is a state for example. This is the sense that you picked up on in your post. From what I've read of Dada's posts, he is probably using the other meaning of the word. Used in the singular, "the state" can be synonymous with "government", as in "L'État, c'est moi".
I suspect that Ron Paul will participate in forthcoming debates. He has already participated in major media-sponsored debates, and he has been raising impressive amounts of money. He ended the last quarter with over $5 million cash on hand raised mainly from individual contributors. He is getting hard to ignore, and he is going for the Republican nomination instead of running as an independent.
Ralph Nader, on the other hand, hasn't much of a chance given that he is not (to my knowledge) going for a major party nomination. It's a shame that third parties are marginalized in the electoral process.
Thank you. I'm listening to an episode right now and find it very interesting.
Compelling evidence?
Ghosts: Blurred photos (user error, fraud)
Neutrinos: observation at Kamiokande, Super-Kamiokande, experiments with/near reactors, etc.
I just finished college, and I am currently (until the 10 Nov.) on a bit of a hiatus from doing any work that remotely requires the use of my brain. For the past couple months I have been working at a small breakfast cafe that operates out of a house built around 1900.
As old as the house is, it has slightly unnerving properties: the floors creak, drafts blow napkins and receipts, etc.. I find it very easy to come up with reasonable naturalistic explanations for what my co-workers consider paranormal. All of the servers at this restaurant believe that it is inhabited by a ghost -- one that interacts with the world we experience. A poltergeist.
Most also believe in astrology and homeopathy. One server recently paid ~ $15 for a chalk tablet cold remedy. No matter how hard I try to dispel these harmful beliefs, I am (ironically) met with skepticism. For instance, today someone told me that they believed in symbols foretelling the future. I suggested that any notion of psychic ability is likely due to confirmation bias -- we are more likely to remember when our intuition was correct than when it had failed us. I also told this person about the JREF/Randi Prize.
At this point in most of my conversations with my mystically inclined associates, some "scientific explanation" is offered dealing with photons, leptons, "we're all made of light," and other new-agey pseudo-quantum-physics.
I am at the point where I have almost given up, except to always ask people to examine how they know what they proclaim to know without resorting to their feelings. I find it very hard to not come across as condescending when having these conversations.
As they say: "SC Johnson, a family company." There is no public market for the company's stock -- it is all privately held. I know you were making a joke, but I thought some might find this interesting given the size and success of the company.
Thanks, I'll pick it up. I've seen the movie, and I've heard really good things about Philip K Dick around these parts.
Moreover, wouldn't the existence of such a prescient system influence outcomes?
No iPod required. The music store has, since its inception, allowed the burning of purchases to CDs (action restricted by DRM, but the final product is a real, DRM-free CD). You could also listen to the tracks using the iTunes on your computer, stream it to other authorized computers using iTunes, and stream it to your home entertainment system with Airport Express or Apple TV.
What's changed is that you now have even more flexibility. You can now stream it using anything that understands the (documented) AAC format. Play it on many more portable music players. Remix it using Audacity or other audio editing software.
You still don't need an iPod to use the iTunes music store. Now its just way more flexible, especially if you don't have an iPod.
"You can do this 1 in 30 times and still have 97% positive feedback."
Give deliciousness a chance. :D