I hear you and think very similarly ( our son taught himself to read at 3 1/2 so he could understand street sings ) except for one thing. We had a great genetic counselor who took the tack not that anything was wrong with our son but instead wanted to make sure he could be the best he could be. This included a) engaging with peers but more importantly b) being able to explain and show his passion to his friends while at the same time understanding theirs.
I can't tell you how much the latter has impacted his life, while his friends where playing batman he could build them a signal light as opposed to his past behavior of just being in the corner doing his own thing. Now his friends come over to see what cool thing he is doing.
I can't say how typical this is, I have met through the years a wide range from kids like him to kids who simply cannot relate to anyone else, so YMMV.
At some level I think most kids would be helped by the "therapy" he went through though, it really was more about engagement to find common connections than trying to "fix" him and the practical occupational therapy gave him awesome small motor control which eludes his "normal" classmates.
Selfishly, this was all for the better since my little dude is just like me, if he's broken then so am I. Fortunately he just had a fast track to what took me thirty years to learn. I do feel lucky to have found therapists that feel this way and I do think being diagnosed certainly helped with insurance payments.
I hope all goes well with your future, life is hard enough either way.
"these taxes could be used to offset the costs of highway maintenance...The mileage tax is being considered instead of an increase in the gas tax in order to tax hybrids, EVs, and conventional automobiles equally."
If this were really the case then the gasoline tax is both a great proxy for miles driven and the weight of the vehicle (heavier vehicles consume more gasoline and also damage roads more per mile). It also fosters the purchase of lighter, more fuel efficient vehicles.
Your exact reasoning is why I made this:
Confidence Levels
Some people are still surprised that with 6-10 people, an r^2 of 0.9 might not mean what they think it does.
all the calls to methods as well as accesses to class properties are interpreted
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It's also not quite true. Objective-c message passing is quite fast, only 4x the cost of a virtual table call in C++. If you are really interested in what happens behind the scene, see obj-c fast-path
I have used matplotlib for journal plots and actually gave away a copy at a conference I ran so I have to say I really do like the book overall, but if you scan through the pages, you might be turned off.
There was no such confusion and again, I have to disagree. Perhaps we are considering different starting points, while you may see convention, I think about how the conventions were started. I think there is more leeway than you may give credit for. It took a great deal of artistic skill and thought to come up with exploded views for example:
Now, of course future works may be considered derivative. In any case,
I think in many cases, having constraints actually is quite beneficial to artistic endeavors.
Likewise, a technically good drawing that doesn't (try to) convey anything beyond the drawing, is not in fact art, in much the same way a security camera recording is not art.
I think this is fundamentally wrong. The symbolism in technical drawings is not realism, it is implied realism. Having tried to do it multiple times, just the abstraction of information into a usable form is as much art as it is skill.
Quoting a song about a name change causing possible attribution error and attributing the wrong name to the author strikes me as the epitome of irony, but YMMV.
Ironically, this song was written by the Four Lads not They might be Giants, which just goes to show how names and attribution are indeed lost to history.
I'm being a bit tongue in cheek here, but maybe you are rather missing the point of Python which is "batteries included." The python standard library contains much more than Python, did K&R include:
A web server
An xml parser
Email parser
GUI package
Windows COM interface
And so on.
It's kind of surprising that Learning python is only 1000 pages, which is not too say that it isn't too wordy.
I completely agree, at some level this seems like an implementation detail. A good example is how The Secret Of Monkey Island(TM) was ported to the iPhone. This had exactly the same problems as Flash. Being a port of an old point-and-click game they had issues with hover-over and they were able to form a solution for these issues.
I thought it strange at first that it used a virtual cursor instead of just tapping on an object on the screen but it actually ended up working better and they were able to use the same engine underneath the hood. But the thing was, you moved the cursor with your finger and your finger didn't obscuring what the virtual cursor was pointing out.
Now, that being said I'm not sure I would want to have two different idioms but saying that it can't be done is just stupid.
I'm in complete agreement with you if the goal is near 100% automation, false positives are maddening and prohibitive as I mentioned with the Sentinel system. And I will also say that our goals were quite different than yours appear to be. We didn't expect very good false positive rates, but we had quite good false negative rates. However, the main aspect was that we did use the sensor fusion date to guide checkpoint interrogations.
You will note that the best scoring criteria for our data fusion was when an individual went between checkpoints, and was interrogated by a trained guard. What I meant by enhanced interrogation at checkpoints is a little more subtle.
As opposed to:
Danger: Phil is in facility X!
consider
Guard at checkpoint:Phil, we noticed that you went into facility X where you don't normally go, could you tell us why?
As the Israeli's will tell you, nothing beats a good, well trained, interrogator, and the more information he has the better. I will agree that our facilities had far fewer people in them than in an airport so what it boils down to is that you can't interrogate everybody so triage will need to be done.
And you are quite right that detecting objects being left behind was quite complicated. We had two particular benefits (1) We were more worried about objects leaving the facility than entering and particular objects at that and (2) we were in complete (almost) control of the facility with regards to checkpoints.
All that being said, the intrusion detection system from EDS simply sucked. Our best success was using it to toggle the camera priorities, i.e. we didn't show alerts we just cycled the cameras to view the hotspots first, again we used it to guide human intervention rather than supplant it.
I agree and disagree at the same time. I worked on a similar stillborn project named AMISS (Advanced Material Information and Security System) fourteen years ago at a government lab designed to protect theft of nuclear material. There was a particular system from EDS called Sentinel used to identify intrusion and was used in places like rail yards. For a particular use case the false positive rate was staggeringly high and users quickly learned to ignore the alerts.
However, when we used our data fusion algorithms to augment the history of a person at a checkpoint (simulated) false positives were okay, they just enhanced the interrogation.
The problem is false negatives which is much harder to quantify. Of course we had access to a scintillator that could identify trace radioactive potassium from the banana you had for lunch...
Pensions are a good thing if they are fully funded. This means that the money is put into a pension scheme while the people are still working not by expecting future generations to magically come up with the past 20+ years of missing investment growth. This can add a small overhead but is similar to a 401(k). The problems arise when:
People live longer
Governments/Organizations dip into the funds or the funds aren't fully funded
While biased, there is a good introduction here.
Note: I don't have a pension.
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I hate to bring this up, but this reminds me of why the majority of american taxpayers prefer a tax system that hurts themselves. i.e. they imagine themselves being rich and don't want to screw themselves when they (never) get there.
Having been through this, there are three likely outcomes in decreasing probability.
What you do stinks and you'll be embarrassed looking at it two years down the line.
What you do is ok and gives you a paycheck and knowledge for the next task
What you do is great.
Assuming the latter greatness, in my experience the likelihood of the university patenting your algorithm is vanishingly small. But if they do, great! You are a young researcher with a patent. Chances are the Univeristy will profit share ( in theory at least. At one institution the patent office made just enough money to, you guessed it, fund the patent office ). If they don't, you are a young researcher with a patent. Sounds like graduate school gave your career a boost. Ten years down the line I'd rather have a patent under my name than the software I wrote.
In either case, publish. Publishing is the GPL of the academic community. I have had greater success making my source code GPL when I talked to my principal investigator about supplementary materials for publications than at any other time. If this fails at least you'll know whether the algorithm is patented before publication, if it isn't, you will be able to use the algorithm in the future free and clear. If it is, I'll repeat myself: you are a young researcher with a patent AND a publication.
Absolutely.
First they came for the indirect links and I did nothing. Then they came for the doubly indirect links and...
Perhaps they should just take the $4 million dollar fine and divide it by the exponentially increasing number of sites that link. We could all link then and just pay our 0.2 cents, this way they could get the ipod tax they always wanted...
Agreed. In fact from my own professional history, if you have a job and convince your employers that open source is a good idea, when they fire you you can take your work with you. Open source is great job security from the perspective of keeping your toolset alive from position to position.
I agree, but in this case there is no teacher's dilemma. If you can explain the concept in a sentence, it is obvious:
We'll keep your credit card on file.
This is the essence of 1-click. Now, I'm not saying that just saying it makes it possible, but, come-on, if you said this to any web-designer from 1988 on, they could have implemented it (perhaps not securely, but, whatever.)
It depends on the application. I have done quite a bit of work with Jean-Claude Wippler metakit database. It is essentially a column based store with some clever underpinnings to make it relational as well. We mainly used it to track molecules and assay results coming off of our plate-readers. The nice thing is that this streaming data can be saved to disk and used in our LIMS system. What it does really well is scan and sort columns, the throughput is really quite amazing. It gets pretty slow for relational queries, but has the benefit that results of queries are persistant in the sense you can chain them together in a relational algebra fashion.
When I was getting interested in this, I also came across kdb a relational database based on the K programming language. kdb is also a column based store with one huge benefit, the interpreter that analyzes the columns,K fits inside a level 1 cache. The throughput of kdb is immense which is why it is mainly used to track and analyze financial data and other streaming and real-time data. It used to be you could try it out for free, I'm not sure what the state is currently, but I suggest at least giving it a try, it's not cheap but it certainly changed my view of databases.
I was thinking along the same lines. I'm assuming that by "interface" we are talking about a scripting interface here since (as several other posters have noticed) text that appears on an inteface should be kept in seperate files for various reasons.
We have a programmer who even gets to write his own business cards. He ended up being our "princapal developer" so apparently we get to loan him out on occasion.
My solution was along the lines of "strings *.so | aspell" you might need to use c++filt to demangle c++ names.
aspell 0.5 handled compound words, but apparently doesn't anymore. However, during a quick search I found this which has the most obvious patent abstract I have ever seen and probably means that any solution to this problem will violate a patent!
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I hear you and think very similarly ( our son taught himself to read at 3 1/2 so he could understand street sings ) except for one thing. We had a great genetic counselor who took the tack not that anything was wrong with our son but instead wanted to make sure he could be the best he could be. This included a) engaging with peers but more importantly b) being able to explain and show his passion to his friends while at the same time understanding theirs. I can't tell you how much the latter has impacted his life, while his friends where playing batman he could build them a signal light as opposed to his past behavior of just being in the corner doing his own thing. Now his friends come over to see what cool thing he is doing. I can't say how typical this is, I have met through the years a wide range from kids like him to kids who simply cannot relate to anyone else, so YMMV. At some level I think most kids would be helped by the "therapy" he went through though, it really was more about engagement to find common connections than trying to "fix" him and the practical occupational therapy gave him awesome small motor control which eludes his "normal" classmates. Selfishly, this was all for the better since my little dude is just like me, if he's broken then so am I. Fortunately he just had a fast track to what took me thirty years to learn. I do feel lucky to have found therapists that feel this way and I do think being diagnosed certainly helped with insurance payments. I hope all goes well with your future, life is hard enough either way.
After just helping a runner who saw body pieces fly, I can tell you that the victims sure as hell can't tell the difference.
"these taxes could be used to offset the costs of highway maintenance...The mileage tax is being considered instead of an increase in the gas tax in order to tax hybrids, EVs, and conventional automobiles equally."
If this were really the case then the gasoline tax is both a great proxy for miles driven and the weight of the vehicle (heavier vehicles consume more gasoline and also damage roads more per mile). It also fosters the purchase of lighter, more fuel efficient vehicles.
Your exact reasoning is why I made this: Confidence Levels Some people are still surprised that with 6-10 people, an r^2 of 0.9 might not mean what they think it does.
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It's also not quite true. Objective-c message passing is quite fast, only 4x the cost of a virtual table call in C++. If you are really interested in what happens behind the scene, see obj-c fast-path
Now, namespaces are still a honking good idea.
I have used matplotlib for journal plots and actually gave away a copy at a conference I ran so I have to say I really do like the book overall, but if you scan through the pages, you might be turned off.
I'm not worried, given the speed at which my battery drains, this should reduce the attack vector considerably.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1942_Nash_Ambassador_X-ray.jpg
Now, of course future works may be considered derivative. In any case, I think in many cases, having constraints actually is quite beneficial to artistic endeavors.
Likewise, a technically good drawing that doesn't (try to) convey anything beyond the drawing, is not in fact art, in much the same way a security camera recording is not art.
I think this is fundamentally wrong. The symbolism in technical drawings is not realism, it is implied realism. Having tried to do it multiple times, just the abstraction of information into a usable form is as much art as it is skill.
Quoting a song about a name change causing possible attribution error and attributing the wrong name to the author strikes me as the epitome of irony, but YMMV.
Ironically, this song was written by the Four Lads not They might be Giants, which just goes to show how names and attribution are indeed lost to history.
It's kind of surprising that Learning python is only 1000 pages, which is not too say that it isn't too wordy.
I thought it strange at first that it used a virtual cursor instead of just tapping on an object on the screen but it actually ended up working better and they were able to use the same engine underneath the hood. But the thing was, you moved the cursor with your finger and your finger didn't obscuring what the virtual cursor was pointing out.
Now, that being said I'm not sure I would want to have two different idioms but saying that it can't be done is just stupid.
You will note that the best scoring criteria for our data fusion was when an individual went between checkpoints, and was interrogated by a trained guard. What I meant by enhanced interrogation at checkpoints is a little more subtle.
As opposed to:
Danger: Phil is in facility X!
consider
Guard at checkpoint:Phil, we noticed that you went into facility X where you don't normally go, could you tell us why?
As the Israeli's will tell you, nothing beats a good, well trained, interrogator, and the more information he has the better. I will agree that our facilities had far fewer people in them than in an airport so what it boils down to is that you can't interrogate everybody so triage will need to be done.
And you are quite right that detecting objects being left behind was quite complicated. We had two particular benefits (1) We were more worried about objects leaving the facility than entering and particular objects at that and (2) we were in complete (almost) control of the facility with regards to checkpoints.
All that being said, the intrusion detection system from EDS simply sucked. Our best success was using it to toggle the camera priorities, i.e. we didn't show alerts we just cycled the cameras to view the hotspots first, again we used it to guide human intervention rather than supplant it.
However, when we used our data fusion algorithms to augment the history of a person at a checkpoint (simulated) false positives were okay, they just enhanced the interrogation.
The problem is false negatives which is much harder to quantify. Of course we had access to a scintillator that could identify trace radioactive potassium from the banana you had for lunch...
Absolutely indeed, in fact didn't Valve hire the author of bittorrent to do exactly this to distribute their DRM'd material?
While biased, there is a good introduction here. Note: I don't have a pension.
Having been through this, there are three likely outcomes in decreasing probability.
Assuming the latter greatness, in my experience the likelihood of the university patenting your algorithm is vanishingly small. But if they do, great! You are a young researcher with a patent. Chances are the Univeristy will profit share ( in theory at least. At one institution the patent office made just enough money to, you guessed it, fund the patent office ). If they don't, you are a young researcher with a patent. Sounds like graduate school gave your career a boost. Ten years down the line I'd rather have a patent under my name than the software I wrote.
In either case, publish. Publishing is the GPL of the academic community. I have had greater success making my source code GPL when I talked to my principal investigator about supplementary materials for publications than at any other time. If this fails at least you'll know whether the algorithm is patented before publication, if it isn't, you will be able to use the algorithm in the future free and clear. If it is, I'll repeat myself: you are a young researcher with a patent AND a publication.
First they came for the indirect links and I did nothing. Then they came for the doubly indirect links and...
Perhaps they should just take the $4 million dollar fine and divide it by the exponentially increasing number of sites that link. We could all link then and just pay our 0.2 cents, this way they could get the ipod tax they always wanted...
Sadly, this is not true. The underlying GUI toolkit is Qt which is not based on Cocoa yet.
Agreed. In fact from my own professional history, if you have a job and convince your employers that open source is a good idea, when they fire you you can take your work with you. Open source is great job security from the perspective of keeping your toolset alive from position to position.
We'll keep your credit card on file.
This is the essence of 1-click. Now, I'm not saying that just saying it makes it possible, but, come-on, if you said this to any web-designer from 1988 on, they could have implemented it (perhaps not securely, but, whatever.)
I think he is trying to convince you that hemp is a getaway fuel, not a gateway fuel.
When I was getting interested in this, I also came across kdb a relational database based on the K programming language. kdb is also a column based store with one huge benefit, the interpreter that analyzes the columns,K fits inside a level 1 cache. The throughput of kdb is immense which is why it is mainly used to track and analyze financial data and other streaming and real-time data. It used to be you could try it out for free, I'm not sure what the state is currently, but I suggest at least giving it a try, it's not cheap but it certainly changed my view of databases.
Just my two cents.
We have a programmer who even gets to write his own business cards. He ended up being our "princapal developer" so apparently we get to loan him out on occasion.
My solution was along the lines of "strings *.so | aspell" you might need to use c++filt to demangle c++ names.
aspell 0.5 handled compound words, but apparently doesn't anymore. However, during a quick search I found this which has the most obvious patent abstract I have ever seen and probably means that any solution to this problem will violate a patent!