Unfortunately for you, the sociopaths we need to worry about are smart enough to avoid your list of signs. They are aware of the signals (after all they tend to have to deal with other sociopaths), and so the sociopaths make sure they don't measure abnormally high as sociopaths!
Now to you or I, this would seem like a noble act in educating people on good security measure
You are advocating walking into a woman's house while she is gardening out the back, and leaving a note in her knicker drawer explaining why her knickers are insecure.
There is a social norm of not invading privacy, even when it is possible to do so.
Do students prefer to use machines that have a view out of the window?
Did the sun shine in the window during the day?
Was the error distribution at night the same?
Was the pile offcenter? (the cone depends upon location)
If the engineer presumed it was Alpha (or Beta, or Neutron) radiation then that is not a good sign they are that clued up. Although gamma could be a possibility.
I have not been to the US since the introduction of its id/facist-checkpoint/visa requirements. In the past I have skied there for months, always enjoyed it there, and it is an easy stopover for me. US travel no more for me!
I have also travelled to Rio - and it is the only place I have ever been mugged - but I would still go back. Hopefully they can clean up the pestulent beaches where the sea is loaded with desease...
'Follow me to Pormpuraaw, a small Aboriginal community on the western edge of Cape York, in northern Australia. I came here because of the way the locals, the Kuuk Thaayorre, talk about space. Instead of words like "right," "left," "forward," and "back," which, as commonly used in English, define space relative to an observer, the Kuuk Thaayorre, like many other Aboriginal groups, use cardinal-direction terms â" north, south, east, and west â" to define space.1 This is done at all scales, which means you have to say things like "There's an ant on your southeast leg" or "Move the cup to the north northwest a little bit." One obvious consequence of speaking such a language is that you have to stay oriented at all times, or else you cannot speak properly. The normal greeting in Kuuk Thaayorre is "Where are you going?" and the answer should be something like " Southsoutheast, in the middle distance." If you don't know which way you're facing, you can't even get past "Hello."'
That being said writing a performance filesystem for Windows is much less easy than for Linux.
I have often wondered why there is not an XP replacement filesystem for consumers with better performance characteristics. XP degrades over time and one of the causes appears to be file access speeds degrading over time (it happens on XP systems without viruses or cruft).
Perhaps there is too much "noise" on the internet spamming optimising systems, so a working system can't get known? But perhaps a well known brandname could do it? Or is it due to non-file-system causes like registry-cruft and patch-cruft?
Iceland is a close-knit society. The anger there is fueled by a sense of betrayal that people from big heterogeneous countries can't fully appreciate.
New Zealand is also a small country and the fact that we all know each helps keep everyone honest. Many of us are only one or two steps removed from anyone in power, so abuses of power seem to be kept under control. Rich politicians can't deny poverty, because usually there are multiple people in their extended family getting welfare support.
I think the fraudsters will be dealt with - because in Iceland people can actually personally do something to affect the fraudsters - unlike a larger country where action is usually impotent.
You most probably think you are a better driver than average: "Swenson (1981) surveyed students the US, asking them to compare their driving safety and skill to the other people in the experiment. For driving skill, almost all of the US sample (93%) put themselves in the top 50%. For safety, 88% put themselves in the top 50%."
Although it is shame it is hard to find cost/benefit analyses of fatalities versus value of time - in the limit we should make the speed limit zero and reduce fatalities to zero... US speed limit increases fatalities
PS: I have seen plenty of near misses caused by hurried drivers avoiding slow drivers.
PPS: I really loath slow drivers.
PPPS: I agree 100% driving is a pleasure when everyone is driving the same speed. e.g. in Queensland tight controls on speeding made my tourist driving very pleasant on single and dual carriageways since everone drove at very similar speeds close to the limit. However I despise speeding tickets personally. I found conflicting statistics about whether the tight speed controls in Oz actually saves lives though.
it's a whole lot more risk than my WRX going 10 (or 25) over
Insurance-premium divided by car value is an extremely good metric for risk. Insurance companies use various proxies to increase premiums for those who speed. WRX's have a higher premium than a small bus.
That is to say, you are wrong for the average WRX driver, or the average speeder.
Plenty of programming requires virtually no understanding of the metal. When you program SQL statements, you change your memory allocation patterns, use pointer foo, and use gdb to help?
Assembler skills do not help with Javascript DOM programming. I use tools to help detect memory leaks (in the browser) and performance issues (unpredictable shit - not simple O(n2) problems), and the techniques for avoiding or fixing problems bear no relation to machine code. I do have some basis for my opinions: I started with basic and assembler, and my first job was doing embedded development where knowledge of the internals did matter.
You are presuming that teaching shitty programmers Assembly will teach them to be good programmers. More likely you are a good Assembler programmer, so reflectively assume that "good" programmers must know assembler.
Why would you want to limit a new learner to the languages of your own time? Your learning trajectory (similar to my own) is dependent upon what was the best available to you at the time. The best languages available now, with active communities and good ecologies, are generally not languages we had available as beginners.
A new programmer should be encouraged to follow their own interests and select languages suitable for those interests e.g. PHP, Ruby or django are all fine choices for beginning web server programming. Caveat: I would be more careful about the initial language if you think the new programmer will stick with the first language they learn -- I have seen that trait in 2 out of the 3 best programmers I personally know (sticking with one language ecology and learning it backwards is at odds with the stereotypical "eclectic" guru programmer - perhaps I just haven't met the right sort of guru programmer.)
If helping someone learn a language, perhaps go with a language you do not know in a domain you are unfamiliar with e.g. helping with C on an Arduino if you are a PHP web programmer. Exploration and discovery are critical. A beginner can be motivated by learning to do something better than their teacher (constantly being told what you could improve can de-motivate).
Thousands of "Lloyd's names" were signed up for a reinsurance reverse lottery, and lost. They lost the game in the 90's, and there is still fallout thirty years later. The important point is that people signed up to play (even if the game turned out to be rigged).
I know you said you were looking for something more electronics, but for Physics there is no reason not to just stick with stuff that is the most fun and engaging: real hardware, and things that do something physical or make a sound. A lot of electronics projects are just tedious whereas movement or sounds give great feedback!
Everyone loves taking old CDROMs apart. Connect a LED to the motor and pull the drive in and out - very satisfying, cheap, simple and easily leads to discussion of physics. This video has some fun things to try with a small motor: http://www.youtube.com/v/WnWJki-zwsE. The most consistent positive response I have had is playing with the tray on old CDROMs using a battery to make it go in and out - kids and adults get a real kick out of it! They love the gear mechanisms too!
Personally I feel more can be learnt by pulling something familiar apart - many people have never had the opportunity to pull apart something and understand the workings. Even better if you can use the parts in some simple manner (for some reason using a *real* part from something else is more exciting!). Making something from new components is often simplified to the point where it is too detached from obvious real world usage, and loses the interest of students.
I would hope you can find a suitable source for recycled bits; we have a local computer recycler with cheap stuff - boxes of old speakers from PCs, or boxes of old CDROMs, etc. But small motors and speakers can be bought cheaply.
I also love self-made bolt+wire electromagnets (a favorite classic), speakers + sound sources, switches, relays, and potentiometers.
Anything to do with sound just engages. I have just had play with a speaker and 12V - fun sound with metal surfaces! Sparks are awesome if you can supply them - votage and a speaker (or motor inductance) is enough;) The pencil line and speaker idea in another post was interesting, but probably needs to be amplified (I just measured an HB pencil line as 10's of kOhms for a multiply overdrawn dark line) - beautiful example of resistance though.
On average, IQ scores have been decreasing over the years.
Unfortunately those bastard conspiring europeans keep "renormalising" IQ's, so the graph of the average IQ over time remains a straight line (absurd though it seems).
One of their other techniques is detecting highQ people and removing them from the gene pool. Renormalisation is a modern version of the nazi euphemisation programme.
We have found it to be fast and reliable, and because it is less popular I believe it is less likely virus writers write their viruses to avoid detection by NOD32.
I don't have the slightest idea how you would write a database that is pure-functional
IANACS, but I think some version control systems could be pure functional databases. If the revision were a parameter to all calls, and checkins branch, then the result from the same operation (even if it were repeated) could be made to return exactly the same result (although trickier with writes).
isolation levels are also relevant? Conventional databases that store all history also relevant?
I agree it would be nice to see a CS type give a correct answer...
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Unfortunately for you, the sociopaths we need to worry about are smart enough to avoid your list of signs. They are aware of the signals (after all they tend to have to deal with other sociopaths), and so the sociopaths make sure they don't measure abnormally high as sociopaths!
Now to you or I, this would seem like a noble act in educating people on good security measure
You are advocating walking into a woman's house while she is gardening out the back, and leaving a note in her knicker drawer explaining why her knickers are insecure.
There is a social norm of not invading privacy, even when it is possible to do so.
a script that fires up an instance on the moment your website is accessed, and shuts it down afterward
Except: "Each partial instance-hour consumed will be billed as a full hour." - from http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing
Do students prefer to use machines that have a view out of the window?
Did the sun shine in the window during the day?
Was the error distribution at night the same?
Was the pile offcenter? (the cone depends upon location)
If the engineer presumed it was Alpha (or Beta, or Neutron) radiation then that is not a good sign they are that clued up. Although gamma could be a possibility.
Did you look at the reviews of the model you knew was good to see if it had the same number or type of negative reviews?
I have not been to the US since the introduction of its id/facist-checkpoint/visa requirements. In the past I have skied there for months, always enjoyed it there, and it is an easy stopover for me. US travel no more for me!
I have also travelled to Rio - and it is the only place I have ever been mugged - but I would still go back. Hopefully they can clean up the pestulent beaches where the sea is loaded with desease...
Spatial cognition has been shown to be culturally variable
I love the example given in Language and Cognition: Investigating the Sapir-Wharf hypothesis:
'Follow me to Pormpuraaw, a small Aboriginal community on the western edge of Cape York, in northern Australia. I came here because of the way the locals, the Kuuk Thaayorre, talk about space. Instead of words like "right," "left," "forward," and "back," which, as commonly used in English, define space relative to an observer, the Kuuk Thaayorre, like many other Aboriginal groups, use cardinal-direction terms â" north, south, east, and west â" to define space.1 This is done at all scales, which means you have to say things like "There's an ant on your southeast leg" or "Move the cup to the north northwest a little bit." One obvious consequence of speaking such a language is that you have to stay oriented at all times, or else you cannot speak properly. The normal greeting in Kuuk Thaayorre is "Where are you going?" and the answer should be something like " Southsoutheast, in the middle distance." If you don't know which way you're facing, you can't even get past "Hello."'
Sorry - replying to undo my moderation mistake.
That being said writing a performance filesystem for Windows is much less easy than for Linux.
I have often wondered why there is not an XP replacement filesystem for consumers with better performance characteristics. XP degrades over time and one of the causes appears to be file access speeds degrading over time (it happens on XP systems without viruses or cruft).
Perhaps there is too much "noise" on the internet spamming optimising systems, so a working system can't get known? But perhaps a well known brandname could do it? Or is it due to non-file-system causes like registry-cruft and patch-cruft?
Iceland is a close-knit society. The anger there is fueled by a sense of betrayal that people from big heterogeneous countries can't fully appreciate.
New Zealand is also a small country and the fact that we all know each helps keep everyone honest. Many of us are only one or two steps removed from anyone in power, so abuses of power seem to be kept under control. Rich politicians can't deny poverty, because usually there are multiple people in their extended family getting welfare support.
I think the fraudsters will be dealt with - because in Iceland people can actually personally do something to affect the fraudsters - unlike a larger country where action is usually impotent.
Me thinking well of my skill makes me incompetent.
you said it - not me.
Speed doesn't lead to greater accidents, speed differentials do.
Sounds like you work in financial markets ;)
You most probably think you are a better driver than average: "Swenson (1981) surveyed students the US, asking them to compare their driving safety and skill to the other people in the experiment. For driving skill, almost all of the US sample (93%) put themselves in the top 50%. For safety, 88% put themselves in the top 50%."
perfectly safe
: Higher speed limit leads to deaths and declining accident rates are due to safer cars.
Although it is shame it is hard to find cost/benefit analyses of fatalities versus value of time - in the limit we should make the speed limit zero and reduce fatalities to zero... US speed limit increases fatalities
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PS: I have seen plenty of near misses caused by hurried drivers avoiding slow drivers.
PPS: I really loath slow drivers.
PPPS: I agree 100% driving is a pleasure when everyone is driving the same speed. e.g. in Queensland tight controls on speeding made my tourist driving very pleasant on single and dual carriageways since everone drove at very similar speeds close to the limit. However I despise speeding tickets personally. I found conflicting statistics about whether the tight speed controls in Oz actually saves lives though.
From page 43 (table 4b) of government Road casualties Great Britain 2007" report:
Read into that what you will, but two orders of magnitude requires some good explanations.
it's a whole lot more risk than my WRX going 10 (or 25) over
Insurance-premium divided by car value is an extremely good metric for risk. Insurance companies use various proxies to increase premiums for those who speed. WRX's have a higher premium than a small bus.
That is to say, you are wrong for the average WRX driver, or the average speeder.
Dr, it doesn't matter how you perceive women, if you are not a breeder.
Plenty of programming requires virtually no understanding of the metal. When you program SQL statements, you change your memory allocation patterns, use pointer foo, and use gdb to help?
Assembler skills do not help with Javascript DOM programming. I use tools to help detect memory leaks (in the browser) and performance issues (unpredictable shit - not simple O(n2) problems), and the techniques for avoiding or fixing problems bear no relation to machine code. I do have some basis for my opinions: I started with basic and assembler, and my first job was doing embedded development where knowledge of the internals did matter.
You are presuming that teaching shitty programmers Assembly will teach them to be good programmers. More likely you are a good Assembler programmer, so reflectively assume that "good" programmers must know assembler.
Why would you want to limit a new learner to the languages of your own time? Your learning trajectory (similar to my own) is dependent upon what was the best available to you at the time. The best languages available now, with active communities and good ecologies, are generally not languages we had available as beginners.
A new programmer should be encouraged to follow their own interests and select languages suitable for those interests e.g. PHP, Ruby or django are all fine choices for beginning web server programming. Caveat: I would be more careful about the initial language if you think the new programmer will stick with the first language they learn -- I have seen that trait in 2 out of the 3 best programmers I personally know (sticking with one language ecology and learning it backwards is at odds with the stereotypical "eclectic" guru programmer - perhaps I just haven't met the right sort of guru programmer.)
If helping someone learn a language, perhaps go with a language you do not know in a domain you are unfamiliar with e.g. helping with C on an Arduino if you are a PHP web programmer. Exploration and discovery are critical. A beginner can be motivated by learning to do something better than their teacher (constantly being told what you could improve can de-motivate).
Thousands of "Lloyd's names" were signed up for a reinsurance reverse lottery, and lost. They lost the game in the 90's, and there is still fallout thirty years later. The important point is that people signed up to play (even if the game turned out to be rigged).
Agree totally - I wish I had read it before writing my own post!
I know you said you were looking for something more electronics, but for Physics there is no reason not to just stick with stuff that is the most fun and engaging: real hardware, and things that do something physical or make a sound. A lot of electronics projects are just tedious whereas movement or sounds give great feedback!
Everyone loves taking old CDROMs apart. Connect a LED to the motor and pull the drive in and out - very satisfying, cheap, simple and easily leads to discussion of physics. This video has some fun things to try with a small motor: http://www.youtube.com/v/WnWJki-zwsE. The most consistent positive response I have had is playing with the tray on old CDROMs using a battery to make it go in and out - kids and adults get a real kick out of it! They love the gear mechanisms too!
Personally I feel more can be learnt by pulling something familiar apart - many people have never had the opportunity to pull apart something and understand the workings. Even better if you can use the parts in some simple manner (for some reason using a *real* part from something else is more exciting!). Making something from new components is often simplified to the point where it is too detached from obvious real world usage, and loses the interest of students.
I would hope you can find a suitable source for recycled bits; we have a local computer recycler with cheap stuff - boxes of old speakers from PCs, or boxes of old CDROMs, etc. But small motors and speakers can be bought cheaply.
I also love self-made bolt+wire electromagnets (a favorite classic), speakers + sound sources, switches, relays, and potentiometers.
Anything to do with sound just engages. I have just had play with a speaker and 12V - fun sound with metal surfaces! Sparks are awesome if you can supply them - votage and a speaker (or motor inductance) is enough ;) The pencil line and speaker idea in another post was interesting, but probably needs to be amplified (I just measured an HB pencil line as 10's of kOhms for a multiply overdrawn dark line) - beautiful example of resistance though.
This was part of the .iq war.
On average, IQ scores have been decreasing over the years.
Unfortunately those bastard conspiring europeans keep "renormalising" IQ's, so the graph of the average IQ over time remains a straight line (absurd though it seems).
One of their other techniques is detecting highQ people and removing them from the gene pool. Renormalisation is a modern version of the nazi euphemisation programme.
...because I hope it doesn't become common.
We have found it to be fast and reliable, and because it is less popular I believe it is less likely virus writers write their viruses to avoid detection by NOD32.
I don't have the slightest idea how you would write a database that is pure-functional
IANACS, but I think some version control systems could be pure functional databases. If the revision were a parameter to all calls, and checkins branch, then the result from the same operation (even if it were repeated) could be made to return exactly the same result (although trickier with writes).
isolation levels are also relevant? Conventional databases that store all history also relevant?
I agree it would be nice to see a CS type give a correct answer...