i wonder if the book is absolutely necessary? he said in the video that will go through some chunks of the book but not all of it. how much of a disadvantage would it be to not have it?
I took an A.I. course in college my senior year and one of the very first assignments we were tackled with was the classical N-Queens problem and different variants of the problem was introduced. Since then I have been intrigued by A.I., specifically in terms of games like starcraft so this will be very helpful.
One thing that i havent looked at closely was that it was noted on one of the links that there were some prerequisites that the students had to meet before taking this course. I'm not sure what those are exactly but i will take a look.
If you haven't done so already I would recommend the google 2 step authenticator. its the same mechanism as the blizzard authenticator. the problem is, just like with the browser issue(using the same machine trying to manage multiple gmail accounts), I cannot find a way to link up my google authenticator app(you download this as part of the 2-step process) for multiple gmail accounts. the google authenticator app needs a way to go back and forth between gmail accounts or somehow link up your various gmail accounts with the app so the 6 digit key is available no matter which gmail you are currently trying to log in to.
postgres also supports geospatial operations, in case you happen to be in that sort of work and don't want to pay silly license fees to people like ESRI.
I had a hard time finding work before this job that I have now. Companies still want and operate against technologies such as BEA TUXEDO(i had to look that up because I had never heard of it before), VBA Access / MS SQL 2008, MFC(MFC??? "Really?!", I said to myself. "Microsoft doesn't even support it anymore"). Other skills of epic proportions included excel, crystal reports, clearcase, fortran...yes ALL IN ONE job posting. I am telling you, there are jobs like this everywhere. EVERYWHERE. Sooner or later business clients are going to wake up and realize that they can run more smoothly with the latest technological advances and the companies not investing in infrastructure for future client growth or to even keep their existing contracts will go out of business.
so if vertical swipes are ok and everyone is doing it, then what is so special about horizontal swipes? seems to me that the term 'obvious' applies here clearly.
the patent should NOT lie in the fact that you can slide something across the screen. The patent should lie in the implementation. Besides I have an android incredible 2. I have to slide down to unlock. How is that different then unlocking it vertically? Why aren't they trying to sue HTC?
that would save $300+ million per year. Whether or not you agree with abortion or not and whether or not the previous caught on tape lies they have been involved in, I think most of us are decent minded enough to agree that we shouldn't be funding a company that could easily raise enough money on their own. I really dont know the amount that we as taxpayers pay in 2011 but it was more than 300 million last year or the year before. there are roughly 300 million in the US. Why not give every american tax breaks with this extra money? Heck, if Obama really wanted a nanny state he would take the $300 million and give 1 million to each american.
Yeah i am in the Tampa area. If you can find some software development work, the pay is great. I am making 75K doing some C++, Objective-C, some OpenGL. Even if i were to get offered a job for $200K i STILL don't think that i would break even because for a 4 bedroom house with a family you just cant be living in some 1 bedroom closet close to downtown. That involves riding a train for an hour 1 way, that is assuming that I would even want to bother working on wall street.
Also consider the benefits of living in the middle of florida. Disney stuff(not that i am a fan of mickey but still), sea world, busch gardens, multiple water parks, close to a great number of amenities such as the arts and concerts. Because of the 9 month summers that means you can practically go camping or swimming at a good quantity of beaches that are accessible from anywhere. The water stays nice, cool and comfortable starting in March and all the way into October. Theres also great food and great shopping.
So whether you are single or have a family its a great place to live. I did some calculations and i would have to make around $185K a year to come close to breaking even, that is the same kind of house. Thats not counting the fact that NYC has state taxes and not counting the fact of having to travel to wherever it is that i were to work would be a 2 hour commute each day. Thats 40 hours a month, a whole work week just commuting. Now take into account you have no where near the family environment as far as fun stuff to do. No beaches(ok well maybe you can go swimming 2 or 3 months out of the year) is a big deal.
just food for thought. take it for what it might be worth.
yeah but the cost of housing costs about 3 or 4 times as much for what i am living in now. how much does a 3,000 sq ft home cost in the NYC suburbs anyway? I am also aware of the fact that if i want to maintain that same sort of lifestyle then i am not going to be living in city which is not going to work with kids - but maybe if people do end up working 100 hour weeks, then it is probably more suited to people that have no family at all to take care of. So what are we talking about here? A 1 hour commute one way? No thanks. I also doubt that the bonus would still not make up for what I would get to break even - just a hunch.
I get e-mails ALL the time from these people up in NYC. If i so much as wink at my resume online differently I can always be certain that I will be receiving many opening jobs in the trading and banking industry. In fact, throughout my career, this has always been the case. I live in Florida. Why in the world would they be trying to recruit me from florida and why have I always gotten e-mails from them. Is it because they have a lot of people leaving? Do people get frequent burnout? Are they just spamming?
The last "recruiter" to e-mail me wanted to know if I was looking for a 'great' opportunity in the banking industry writing C++ applications with a big whopping salary of $100,000 with a 12 month contract. Since i was tired of these people wasting their time trying to contact me I e-mailed them back and asked why they thought I would just get up and move from Florida to New York for a 1 year contract and i tried to get confirmation of a starting salary of $100,000 a year. He e-mailed back stating that $100,000 was indeed the starting salary with great 'benefits'. So i e-mailed back and informed him that i was already making $75,000 there and no state taxes so $100K really wasn't that great of a deal, especially considering that I would have to make 4 times my current salary that I am making now just to come close to breaking even in NYC. Incidentally I never got another e-mail back from him.
When you have a family, there is no way I am giving up a house to move to NYC to live in a one bedroom closet for the same price as my 4 bedroom house. - with less income coming in.
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one thing that is obvious that i forgot to mention is that just making it to the resume review, females were ahead 3.63%. That could show that females are better writers that just know more about how to get someones attention. It would be interesting to find out exactly what one had to do or what their resume had to show to even get to that stage? Did they throw resumes out that were clearly not prepared? spelling errors? bad objective(even though we all know the objective is to get the flippin job because we want experience and have bills to pay.)
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go ahead and make fun. i was typing as i was working and it came out wrong. please stop the spelling nazi police. perhaps a one time edit would suffice?
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Even though this was a small sample, as Joel mentioned lets look at the numbers:
Made it to resume review: Female - 75.68%, Male - 72.05%
Made it to the coding stage: Female - 28.38%, Male - 26.49%
Made it to phone interview: Female - 0.054%, Male - 0.099%
In person interview: Female - 0.041%, Male - 0.0565%
Received an offer: Female - 0.041%, Male - 0.0194%
Official Hire: Female - 0.014%, Male - Male - 0.013%
Even though this was a small sample, is there anything we can derive from this? The last stat to me doesn't matter as much, even though the numbers were for all intensive purposes the same percentage, even though there were 8 times more male applicants.
If we were to break down the stages the women had better percentages up to the phone interview. Does this show or should this show that the males did better at the coding assignment? If we can agree that that is what happened then the whole "boys play with computers more, tinker, etc etc" might have 'some' truth to it. Before the phone interview the females led by nearly 2%. By the time the phone interview came around, the males had gained that 2% but additional ground on top of the that.
However 100% of those females that made it to the in person interview made it to the offer stage while the men lost the ground that they gained during the coding stage. Does this mean perhaps that the males had poorer social skills to cause some doubt in their ability to do the work or perhaps be a good fit? Did the women wear low tops?(i am not suggesting the Joel and his interviewers are biased regarding to this, but i am just babbling there).
Would be interesting to see what others think or perhaps what Joel thinks of the numbers after he printed them(assuming that he wasnt keeping track as things progressed through the entire process.
i still am amazed that companies still want to pay IBM tons of money for things like rational rose and clear case. seriously only a very minute amount of companies need 10% of what clear case specializes in that other things like CVS, SVN or git cannot already do.
just as a final word to that - school loans may be one of the very few things that are still required to continue to pay back even if you file for bankruptcy. So yeah, you get school loans - pay it off or fly off to mexico.
doesn't apple have to give the app the 'apple blessing' with a signed signature before you can put it on an iThingWhateverItIs? If that's the case what about the one that i own? can I not test it on my on tablet without interference? Assuming that mine is NOT jailbroken that is. It seems silly that I should be able to sell my app or give it away to whomever i want who has bought the device and totally circumvent apple through blessing the app and/or through the app store.
their job is to sell us the bandwidth - not control how the bandwidth is used. Caps on specific services should be banned and are the central part of net neutrality. How can an ISP say, "if you use our specific services your bandwidth cap isn't effected, but you go outside and use other services - then that's when we start counting how much data you consume." Shouldn't this be downright illegal and anti-competitive?
Actually OpenGL 4.0/4.1 has finally caught up to DirectX 11, especially with advanced API features such as tesselation. It has also moved away from state based to object based which takes away a lot of headache as you are now supposed to write shaders for everything. OpenGL has made somewhat of a comeback as well. If works for every platform, including PS3 and it would be perfect for Mac, but Apple, even though they are on the freaking Architecture Review Board, are about 2 years behind writing a driver for OpenGL 3.0 despite helping to the write the spec for it. Unbelievable to me really. Lion will bring OpenGL to 3.2 or 3.3 maybe but they will still be a good year behind OpenGL 4.0 out of the gate.
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i found the quote: "PrerequisitesA solid understanding of probability and linear algebra will be required."
i wonder if the book is absolutely necessary? he said in the video that will go through some chunks of the book but not all of it. how much of a disadvantage would it be to not have it?
I took an A.I. course in college my senior year and one of the very first assignments we were tackled with was the classical N-Queens problem and different variants of the problem was introduced. Since then I have been intrigued by A.I., specifically in terms of games like starcraft so this will be very helpful.
One thing that i havent looked at closely was that it was noted on one of the links that there were some prerequisites that the students had to meet before taking this course. I'm not sure what those are exactly but i will take a look.
If you haven't done so already I would recommend the google 2 step authenticator. its the same mechanism as the blizzard authenticator. the problem is, just like with the browser issue(using the same machine trying to manage multiple gmail accounts), I cannot find a way to link up my google authenticator app(you download this as part of the 2-step process) for multiple gmail accounts. the google authenticator app needs a way to go back and forth between gmail accounts or somehow link up your various gmail accounts with the app so the 6 digit key is available no matter which gmail you are currently trying to log in to.
postgres also supports geospatial operations, in case you happen to be in that sort of work and don't want to pay silly license fees to people like ESRI.
I had a hard time finding work before this job that I have now. Companies still want and operate against technologies such as BEA TUXEDO(i had to look that up because I had never heard of it before), VBA Access / MS SQL 2008, MFC(MFC??? "Really?!", I said to myself. "Microsoft doesn't even support it anymore"). Other skills of epic proportions included excel, crystal reports, clearcase, fortran...yes ALL IN ONE job posting. I am telling you, there are jobs like this everywhere. EVERYWHERE. Sooner or later business clients are going to wake up and realize that they can run more smoothly with the latest technological advances and the companies not investing in infrastructure for future client growth or to even keep their existing contracts will go out of business.
yeah but I don't click, read or even acknowledge, consciously or unconsciously ads. so what good will it do them if they have 'valuable' data or not?
so if vertical swipes are ok and everyone is doing it, then what is so special about horizontal swipes? seems to me that the term 'obvious' applies here clearly.
the patent should NOT lie in the fact that you can slide something across the screen. The patent should lie in the implementation. Besides I have an android incredible 2. I have to slide down to unlock. How is that different then unlocking it vertically? Why aren't they trying to sue HTC?
that would save $300+ million per year. Whether or not you agree with abortion or not and whether or not the previous caught on tape lies they have been involved in, I think most of us are decent minded enough to agree that we shouldn't be funding a company that could easily raise enough money on their own. I really dont know the amount that we as taxpayers pay in 2011 but it was more than 300 million last year or the year before. there are roughly 300 million in the US. Why not give every american tax breaks with this extra money? Heck, if Obama really wanted a nanny state he would take the $300 million and give 1 million to each american.
Yeah i am in the Tampa area. If you can find some software development work, the pay is great. I am making 75K doing some C++, Objective-C, some OpenGL. Even if i were to get offered a job for $200K i STILL don't think that i would break even because for a 4 bedroom house with a family you just cant be living in some 1 bedroom closet close to downtown. That involves riding a train for an hour 1 way, that is assuming that I would even want to bother working on wall street. Also consider the benefits of living in the middle of florida. Disney stuff(not that i am a fan of mickey but still), sea world, busch gardens, multiple water parks, close to a great number of amenities such as the arts and concerts. Because of the 9 month summers that means you can practically go camping or swimming at a good quantity of beaches that are accessible from anywhere. The water stays nice, cool and comfortable starting in March and all the way into October. Theres also great food and great shopping. So whether you are single or have a family its a great place to live. I did some calculations and i would have to make around $185K a year to come close to breaking even, that is the same kind of house. Thats not counting the fact that NYC has state taxes and not counting the fact of having to travel to wherever it is that i were to work would be a 2 hour commute each day. Thats 40 hours a month, a whole work week just commuting. Now take into account you have no where near the family environment as far as fun stuff to do. No beaches(ok well maybe you can go swimming 2 or 3 months out of the year) is a big deal. just food for thought. take it for what it might be worth.
yeah but the cost of housing costs about 3 or 4 times as much for what i am living in now. how much does a 3,000 sq ft home cost in the NYC suburbs anyway? I am also aware of the fact that if i want to maintain that same sort of lifestyle then i am not going to be living in city which is not going to work with kids - but maybe if people do end up working 100 hour weeks, then it is probably more suited to people that have no family at all to take care of. So what are we talking about here? A 1 hour commute one way? No thanks. I also doubt that the bonus would still not make up for what I would get to break even - just a hunch.
I get e-mails ALL the time from these people up in NYC. If i so much as wink at my resume online differently I can always be certain that I will be receiving many opening jobs in the trading and banking industry. In fact, throughout my career, this has always been the case. I live in Florida. Why in the world would they be trying to recruit me from florida and why have I always gotten e-mails from them. Is it because they have a lot of people leaving? Do people get frequent burnout? Are they just spamming?
The last "recruiter" to e-mail me wanted to know if I was looking for a 'great' opportunity in the banking industry writing C++ applications with a big whopping salary of $100,000 with a 12 month contract. Since i was tired of these people wasting their time trying to contact me I e-mailed them back and asked why they thought I would just get up and move from Florida to New York for a 1 year contract and i tried to get confirmation of a starting salary of $100,000 a year. He e-mailed back stating that $100,000 was indeed the starting salary with great 'benefits'. So i e-mailed back and informed him that i was already making $75,000 there and no state taxes so $100K really wasn't that great of a deal, especially considering that I would have to make 4 times my current salary that I am making now just to come close to breaking even in NYC. Incidentally I never got another e-mail back from him.
When you have a family, there is no way I am giving up a house to move to NYC to live in a one bedroom closet for the same price as my 4 bedroom house. - with less income coming in.
one thing that is obvious that i forgot to mention is that just making it to the resume review, females were ahead 3.63%. That could show that females are better writers that just know more about how to get someones attention. It would be interesting to find out exactly what one had to do or what their resume had to show to even get to that stage? Did they throw resumes out that were clearly not prepared? spelling errors? bad objective(even though we all know the objective is to get the flippin job because we want experience and have bills to pay.)
go ahead and make fun. i was typing as i was working and it came out wrong. please stop the spelling nazi police. perhaps a one time edit would suffice?
Even though this was a small sample, as Joel mentioned lets look at the numbers:
Made it to resume review: Female - 75.68%, Male - 72.05%
Made it to the coding stage: Female - 28.38%, Male - 26.49%
Made it to phone interview: Female - 0.054%, Male - 0.099%
In person interview: Female - 0.041%, Male - 0.0565%
Received an offer: Female - 0.041%, Male - 0.0194%
Official Hire: Female - 0.014%, Male - Male - 0.013%
Even though this was a small sample, is there anything we can derive from this? The last stat to me doesn't matter as much, even though the numbers were for all intensive purposes the same percentage, even though there were 8 times more male applicants.
If we were to break down the stages the women had better percentages up to the phone interview. Does this show or should this show that the males did better at the coding assignment? If we can agree that that is what happened then the whole "boys play with computers more, tinker, etc etc" might have 'some' truth to it. Before the phone interview the females led by nearly 2%. By the time the phone interview came around, the males had gained that 2% but additional ground on top of the that.
However 100% of those females that made it to the in person interview made it to the offer stage while the men lost the ground that they gained during the coding stage. Does this mean perhaps that the males had poorer social skills to cause some doubt in their ability to do the work or perhaps be a good fit? Did the women wear low tops?(i am not suggesting the Joel and his interviewers are biased regarding to this, but i am just babbling there).
Would be interesting to see what others think or perhaps what Joel thinks of the numbers after he printed them(assuming that he wasnt keeping track as things progressed through the entire process.
What was Napolean Dynamite based on?
i still am amazed that companies still want to pay IBM tons of money for things like rational rose and clear case. seriously only a very minute amount of companies need 10% of what clear case specializes in that other things like CVS, SVN or git cannot already do.
he was involved with Chicago actually.
just as a final word to that - school loans may be one of the very few things that are still required to continue to pay back even if you file for bankruptcy. So yeah, you get school loans - pay it off or fly off to mexico.
doesn't apple have to give the app the 'apple blessing' with a signed signature before you can put it on an iThingWhateverItIs? If that's the case what about the one that i own? can I not test it on my on tablet without interference? Assuming that mine is NOT jailbroken that is. It seems silly that I should be able to sell my app or give it away to whomever i want who has bought the device and totally circumvent apple through blessing the app and/or through the app store.
their job is to sell us the bandwidth - not control how the bandwidth is used. Caps on specific services should be banned and are the central part of net neutrality. How can an ISP say, "if you use our specific services your bandwidth cap isn't effected, but you go outside and use other services - then that's when we start counting how much data you consume." Shouldn't this be downright illegal and anti-competitive?
then what is the best thing for that group? perhaps that would answer the question on the other end of the spectrum
Actually OpenGL 4.0/4.1 has finally caught up to DirectX 11, especially with advanced API features such as tesselation. It has also moved away from state based to object based which takes away a lot of headache as you are now supposed to write shaders for everything. OpenGL has made somewhat of a comeback as well. If works for every platform, including PS3 and it would be perfect for Mac, but Apple, even though they are on the freaking Architecture Review Board, are about 2 years behind writing a driver for OpenGL 3.0 despite helping to the write the spec for it. Unbelievable to me really. Lion will bring OpenGL to 3.2 or 3.3 maybe but they will still be a good year behind OpenGL 4.0 out of the gate.
I can't believe some companies are still looking for MFC developers..despite MS switching to WPF. UNbelievable.