You know, when I was in undergrad, I had an inclination to Physics, Math, that sort of stuff. I was good at science stuff, was interested in Engineering. I went into EE because some ppl that I trusted told me to. I am sure that I would have done as well in CS. I also had an inclination towards mechanical engg. It's just that at that age, it's not about doing the thing that one has a passion for. Primarily because many ppl (me for sure) are not sure what their passion is.
And then if there has to be some criteria for deciding what field one should get into, why not have money or career prospects as a criteria ? Besides, it's not like someone inclined towards accounting is getting into CS, Comp E is close to CS anyway.
Many research ppl that I have spoken to were not sure about their research area till they got to grad school. Once in grad school, ppl started to work on whatever area that they were funded from. Another observation that i have is that tt's really hard to be interested in one thing narrowly all your life. Ultimately I think that ppl go to school to learn how to think. Not to learn some specifics.
I wonder how having a second processor would help. I mean, if instead the game developers were to write physics simulation as a different thread, then there would be the potential of using just a dual processor machine. Intel recently said that 75% of the chips it would produce in 2006 will be dual core. I would rather see a second processor which can be used by the rest of my system rather than a special purpose processor which is useless when I am not playing games.
>>Exactly what (s)he said. I find it amazing/scary that anyone in science would use Excel as a primary tool
It's not that hard to see someone using Excel for scientific purposes. It has a lot of powerfull and easy to use functions that normally people would not imagine are in there.
Linear algebra anyone ? Matrix computations of all kind. Infact if you click on Tools->plugins and select 'solver', you will be plesently surprised by what you find. Excel comes with a solver plugin builtin. There are a lot of solvers out there that charge a lot of money, and give student/free versions that are restricted to 300 or 500 variables. The excel solver has no such restrictions.
Linear optimizations, Integer programming, heuristic based optimizations, it's all in there.
Just because it's a Microsoft product does not mean that it is full of shit. I have used the Excel solver many times, It sure beats coding in C++ and using the cplex libraries (which are pretty expensive).
BUT, they also mask email addresses in postings, consider this job posting posted on Dec 05 2004,
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 14:31:34 -0800
Subject: Job at Apple Computer Cupertino, California
Apple Computer
High performance and Numerics engineer position for Mac OS X math
library development.
---snip---
Please email your resume to:
k...@apple.com
Now, How do i reply to that person ? Because he has not posted it on the moderated group comp.compilers, but the moderator bunches up job postings and sends them together.
That was the title on a t-shirt that we printed for a grad student who was working with me. It had a screen capture of a solitare game in progress with an MSN chat window minimized. This guy played solitare for 6-7 hours a day and even our professor would come in the lab and say to him that he would like to talk to him sometime when he is done with his solitare. Now, this guy was one of the most brilliant computer scientist I have ever met. He was working on theoretical computer science and network theory. But he played a lot of solitare, and that did'nt get in his way of publishing 7 papers in the two years of his masters stay at my university. We were only hoping that he would stay back for a Ph.D.
The point of this post is that it's irrelevant how much solitare someome plays.
This could be analogous to two people in moderate shape being able to pile more wood in total, than a single person who's in great shape.
hmm... in 6 years of architecture research i have never heard anyone talk about SMT like that. it's not even analogous:)
gore is actually still used these days... atleast in DMV manuals. for e.g. in arizona MVD manual, it states that it is illegal to be in a gore point. that is the triangular portion when a road connects to a freeway and there is a triangular portion before the road joins the freeway.
The data can be obtained even without a password by someone willing enough to take the trouble of removing the hard disk, attaching it to another machine as a second drive, mounting it under any OS that can read NTFS/fat32, and simply reading the data.
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A wise man once said to me:
Knowing is not knowing. Training is knowing.
I bet if enough people started doing this, the manufacturers would relent on ink cartridge prices.
They already know about this. The printers available these days have very little ink in them. It's called a demo ink cartridge.
You know, when I was in undergrad, I had an inclination to Physics, Math, that sort of stuff. I was good at science stuff, was interested in Engineering. I went into EE because some ppl that I trusted told me to. I am sure that I would have done as well in CS. I also had an inclination towards mechanical engg.
It's just that at that age, it's not about doing the thing that one has a passion for. Primarily because many ppl (me for sure) are not sure what their passion is.
And then if there has to be some criteria for deciding what field one should get into, why not have money or career prospects as a criteria ?
Besides, it's not like someone inclined towards accounting is getting into CS, Comp E is close to CS anyway.
Many research ppl that I have spoken to were not sure about their research area till they got to grad school. Once in grad school, ppl started to work on whatever area that they were funded from.
Another observation that i have is that tt's really hard to be interested in one thing narrowly all your life. Ultimately I think that ppl go to school to learn how to think. Not to learn some specifics.
9. All your code base are belong to us
It goes on to say that
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"fundamentally new approaches are needed to address the more serious structural weaknesses of the IT infrastructure"
Read as
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I wonder how having a second processor would help. I mean, if instead the game developers were to write physics simulation as a different thread, then there would be the potential of using just a dual processor machine.
Intel recently said that 75% of the chips it would produce in 2006 will be dual core.
I would rather see a second processor which can be used by the rest of my system rather than a special purpose processor which is useless when I am not playing games.
>>Exactly what (s)he said. I find it amazing/scary that anyone in science would use Excel as a primary tool
It's not that hard to see someone using Excel for scientific purposes. It has a lot of powerfull and easy to use functions that normally people would not imagine are in there.
Linear algebra anyone ? Matrix computations of all kind. Infact if you click on Tools->plugins and select 'solver', you will be plesently surprised by what you find. Excel comes with a solver plugin builtin. There are a lot of solvers out there that charge a lot of money, and give student/free versions that are restricted to 300 or 500 variables. The excel solver has no such restrictions.
Linear optimizations, Integer programming, heuristic based optimizations, it's all in there.
Just because it's a Microsoft product does not mean that it is full of shit. I have used the Excel solver many times, It sure beats coding in C++ and using the cplex libraries (which are pretty expensive).
BUT, they also mask email addresses in postings, consider this job posting posted on Dec 05 2004, Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 14:31:34 -0800 Subject: Job at Apple Computer Cupertino, California Apple Computer High performance and Numerics engineer position for Mac OS X math library development. ---snip--- Please email your resume to: k...@apple.com Now, How do i reply to that person ? Because he has not posted it on the moderated group comp.compilers, but the moderator bunches up job postings and sends them together.
That was the title on a t-shirt that we printed for a grad student who was working with me. It had a screen capture of a solitare game in progress with an MSN chat window minimized. This guy played solitare for 6-7 hours a day and even our professor would come in the lab and say to him that he would like to talk to him sometime when he is done with his solitare.
Now, this guy was one of the most brilliant computer scientist I have ever met. He was working on theoretical computer science and network theory. But he played a lot of solitare, and that did'nt get in his way of publishing 7 papers in the two years of his masters stay at my university. We were only hoping that he would stay back for a Ph.D.
The point of this post is that it's irrelevant how much solitare someome plays.
This could be analogous to two people in moderate shape being able to pile more wood in total, than a single person who's in great shape. :)
hmm... in 6 years of architecture research i have never heard anyone talk about SMT like that. it's not even analogous
4 mechanical and 4 natural limbs. adds up to eight.
gore is actually still used these days... atleast in DMV manuals. for e.g. in arizona MVD manual, it states that it is illegal to be in a gore point. that is the triangular portion when a road connects to a freeway and there is a triangular portion before the road joins the freeway.
The data can be obtained even without a password by someone willing enough to take the trouble of removing the hard disk, attaching it to another machine as a second drive, mounting it under any OS that can read NTFS/fat32, and simply reading the data.