I, too, like my Canon LIDE 20 because it takes up little room in my little apartment.
However, I really disliked the software that came with it. To size the scanning box, I had to type in margin measurements!
Fortunately, my old Paprport scanner software worked with the new scanner - it shows you a picture of the document and lets you resize a box, by grabbing the corners with the mouse, over the piece in which you're interested. Unfortunately, this software is on the list of things that will be broken by SP2 for XP.
The text of the article does not suppport the 1/3 bad claim exactly. Instead, it reports that 1/6 of initial reports are subsequently contradicted and another 1/6 are subsequently only weakly supported.
Estimating from this range, the true number is probably somewhere in between, say 22.2% (=2/9) which is between 16.7% and 33.3%, or 24.5% which is the aveage of these?
You are tight to bring some historical perspective to this.
However,
> People were out of jobs
have you heard of Tom De Lay's tactics to force
lobbyists to hire only Republicans? Or of the
U.S. geologist fired after noting the ecological
damage that would be caused by oil-drilling in
the Alaskan National Wildlife Area?
True, it does not yet approach the excess of the
McCarthy era. However, if I fall off a 20-story building, I see no reason to be complacent for
the first 19 stories of the plunge.
With Guantanomo, we've already started a "parallel
'justice' system". Many of you are probably familiar with the concept of running a new system in parallel with the old one before pulling the plug on the one to be replaced.
This, along with abuses codified by
the PATRIOT Act (yes, even more stupidly, PATRIOT
is an acronym) are the start of an "upgrade" that loses many of the advantages of version 17.76.
Basically, a fairly average high-school student was well along the way to building his own working nuclear reactor using radioactive substances taken from common devices (like smoke detectors).
He had worked out a sequence to get different radioactive materials from the ones he started with to reach the point of starting his reactor.
When I first read this a few years ago in Harper's, it sounded so fantastic I couldn't figure out if it was a fiction piece or not.
The previous issue (Feb 12) has some
good summaries of global warming, particularly
addressing a number of "tipping point" dangers -
problems that will be much more difficult or
impossible to fix once a threshold had been
passed. See http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg185248 64.300
for a teaser. You'll have to get the magazine for the full article. However a brief summary runs as follows:
Ocean conveyor belt shuts down=much colder climate for Western Europe.
Greenland's ice cap melts=higher sea levels (7 meters) over a long period (1000-3000 years). However, the problem is that a tipping point could be reached with only a 2.7 degree C rise - this means the meltdown would begin but not necessarily reverse even if temperatures subsequently dropped.
Methane released from undersea sediments (methyl hydrates)->accelerated warming because this is a greenhouse gas. The estimate is that there is something like 5 trillion (10^12) tonnes of methane under the ocean in this form.
Oceans become more acid because of dissolved CO2. This could disrupt CO2 sequestration by interfering with sea organisms like corals and shellfish.
Rate of CO2 buildup may increase because, after a little warming, organic material will decay more rapidly. The short-term effect of more CO2 is faster plant growth, hence more absorption. However, this trend can reverse at some temperature as decay speeds up.
A liquor store in the East Village (NYC) accepts
euros at 1:1 for dollars. The owner claims he
started doing this a few years ago when the exchange rate was not in his favor.
This might be possible if languages were culturally neutral, context-free knowledge-encoding systems:
but they are not.
This reminds me of the thinking behind early failures of machine language translation. Mono-lingual people in particular seem susceptible to the notion that translation is simply a question of substituting one "encoding" for another.
However, it is amazing that something like Babelfish appears to work as well as it does. Of course, where it fails, the person using it does not know.
Kind of like web-browsers that ignore problems of non-compliant HTML - it works pretty well much of the time but is a nightmare if you're trying to be precise and stringent.
Re:More technical introduction to Quant analysis?
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My Life as a Quant
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A good, thorough introduction to the general principles underlying Quant analysis is Grinold and Kahn's Active Portfolio Management
(see
http://finmath.com/GrinoldKahnAPM.html).
So, maybe the complex interaction of biology and culture defies the simplicity of labels like "sexist" and "PC" and the knee-jerk reactions indicated by their use?
My first language was Basic on a PDP-8. At the time, it was especially cool that the teachers at my junior-high school knew no more than I did.
After this, I discovered APL at our local community college and was hooked for life. An interpreted environment encourages experimentation and the immediate feedback keeps you constantly informed if things are working as you think they ought to be.
These days, I'm showing my daughter J - a free
interpreter (jsoftware.com) - though the suggestions about POVRay, Flash, and Python make a lot of sense, too. In fact, even HTML might be a good place to start as it also is like programming and provides immediate feedback. My daughter has done her own web page in hand-coded HTML.
She has shown some interest in J, especially when I show her how I can get an interesting picture with a short expression like
'surface' plot +/~1 o. 0.1*i._60
Also, the language works at a high conceptual level with ideas like applying functions to arrays without the busywork of setting up loops. Of course, it helps that she likes math.
Aaahh, how sweet. Someone who thinks that justice is simply a question of facts and laws.
An important reason we have an adversarial system and why this is a good system: power corrupts. Part of the reason we have jury trials and lawyers is to give people the ability to refuse to apply unjust laws.
Of course, no one would behave theatrically if cameras were rolling:).
Re:There is little math in /playing/ poker
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The traditional assessment is that poker is
10% math
15% money management
75% psychology
From long experience, I'd say that this is about
right.
I wonder if they've heard the radio ad where the hapless employee comments on a "seagull manager"?
That's a manager who flies in, makes a lot of
noise, and craps all over before flying off again.
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So you guys can now do what I could do 30 years ago in APL.
Hey, I guess you're starting to catch up!
We already have a way to turn the corpses of the poor into fuel - it's called "the war in Iraq".
I, too, like my Canon LIDE 20 because it takes up little room in my little apartment.
However, I really disliked the software that came with it. To size the scanning box, I had to type in margin measurements!
Fortunately, my old Paprport scanner software worked with the new scanner - it shows you a picture of the document and lets you resize a box, by grabbing the corners with the mouse, over the piece in which you're interested. Unfortunately, this software is on the list of things that will be broken by SP2 for XP.
I, for one, would like to welcome our new, geriatric, Robo-overlords.
Actually, this isn't a bad guess.
The text of the article does not suppport the 1/3 bad claim exactly. Instead, it reports that 1/6 of initial reports are subsequently contradicted and another 1/6 are subsequently only weakly supported.
Estimating from this range, the true number is probably somewhere in between, say 22.2% (=2/9) which is between 16.7% and 33.3%, or 24.5% which is the aveage of these?
and this is a bad thing because...?
Remember how Bush made his money in baseball: building a larger stadium on land siezed under eminent domain? http://espn.go.com/mlb/bush/saturday.html
Of course, someone with a BA might know how to spell "Bachelor".
This sounds just like state-of-the-art for contemporary software.
However,
> People were out of jobs
have you heard of Tom De Lay's tactics to force lobbyists to hire only Republicans? Or of the U.S. geologist fired after noting the ecological damage that would be caused by oil-drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Area?
True, it does not yet approach the excess of the McCarthy era. However, if I fall off a 20-story building, I see no reason to be complacent for the first 19 stories of the plunge.
With Guantanomo, we've already started a "parallel 'justice' system". Many of you are probably familiar with the concept of running a new system in parallel with the old one before pulling the plug on the one to be replaced.
This, along with abuses codified by the PATRIOT Act (yes, even more stupidly, PATRIOT is an acronym) are the start of an "upgrade" that loses many of the advantages of version 17.76.
It may be coming:
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land,
it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
- James Madison
Oh wait, they mean the code, not the developers themselves.
Basically, a fairly average high-school student was well along the way to building his own working nuclear reactor using radioactive substances taken from common devices (like smoke detectors).
He had worked out a sequence to get different radioactive materials from the ones he started with to reach the point of starting his reactor.
When I first read this a few years ago in Harper's, it sounded so fantastic I couldn't figure out if it was a fiction piece or not.
Apparently it isn't.
The previous issue (Feb 12) has some good summaries of global warming, particularly addressing a number of "tipping point" dangers - problems that will be much more difficult or impossible to fix once a threshold had been passed. See http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg185248 64.300
for a teaser. You'll have to get the magazine for the full article. However a brief summary runs as follows:
Ocean conveyor belt shuts down=much colder climate for Western Europe.
Greenland's ice cap melts=higher sea levels (7 meters) over a long period (1000-3000 years). However, the problem is that a tipping point could be reached with only a 2.7 degree C rise - this means the meltdown would begin but not necessarily reverse even if temperatures subsequently dropped.
Methane released from undersea sediments (methyl hydrates)->accelerated warming because this is a greenhouse gas. The estimate is that there is something like 5 trillion (10^12) tonnes of methane under the ocean in this form.
Oceans become more acid because of dissolved CO2. This could disrupt CO2 sequestration by interfering with sea organisms like corals and shellfish.
Rate of CO2 buildup may increase because, after a little warming, organic material will decay more rapidly. The short-term effect of more CO2 is faster plant growth, hence more absorption. However, this trend can reverse at some temperature as decay speeds up.
like S+, R, SAS, SPSS.
Also, I didn't see Matlab, which is
kind of popular in certain crowds.
A liquor store in the East Village (NYC) accepts euros at 1:1 for dollars. The owner claims he started doing this a few years ago when the exchange rate was not in his favor.
This reminds me of the thinking behind early failures of machine language translation. Mono-lingual people in particular seem susceptible to the notion that translation is simply a question of substituting one "encoding" for another.
However, it is amazing that something like Babelfish appears to work as well as it does. Of course, where it fails, the person using it does not know.
Kind of like web-browsers that ignore problems of non-compliant HTML - it works pretty well much of the time but is a nightmare if you're trying to be precise and stringent.
A good, thorough introduction to the general principles underlying Quant analysis is Grinold and Kahn's Active Portfolio Management (see http://finmath.com/GrinoldKahnAPM.html).
Career choice begins in womb
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg184247 12.700
Also, MRIs Reveal Differences in Brains of Women and Men
http://nursing.advanceweb.com/common/editorialsear ch/searchresult.aspx?CC=4127&AD=10/27/2000
So, maybe the complex interaction of biology and culture defies the simplicity of labels like "sexist" and "PC" and the knee-jerk reactions indicated by their use?
After this, I discovered APL at our local community college and was hooked for life. An interpreted environment encourages experimentation and the immediate feedback keeps you constantly informed if things are working as you think they ought to be.
These days, I'm showing my daughter J - a free interpreter (jsoftware.com) - though the suggestions about POVRay, Flash, and Python make a lot of sense, too. In fact, even HTML might be a good place to start as it also is like programming and provides immediate feedback. My daughter has done her own web page in hand-coded HTML.
She has shown some interest in J, especially when I show her how I can get an interesting picture with a short expression like
'surface' plot +/~1 o. 0.1*i._60
Also, the language works at a high conceptual level with ideas like applying functions to arrays without the busywork of setting up loops. Of course, it helps that she likes math.
OTOH, this guy (Clifford Ross) http://marshallbrain.blogspot.com/2004_06_01_marsh allbrain_archive.html built himself a gigapixel camera because he saw a beautiful view he wanted to share. He was impressed with the beauty of Colorado mountains but unimpressed by his pictures of them.
OK, it's not digital but the results are far more impressive than building roofs. I've seen the picture - it's pretty amazing and pretty as well.
Some more details are here: http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.aspx?i=2225 2.
I agree, even if it's more properly known as "Bayes's Theorem" - see http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk.html#1.
An important reason we have an adversarial system and why this is a good system: power corrupts. Part of the reason we have jury trials and lawyers is to give people the ability to refuse to apply unjust laws.
Of course, no one would behave theatrically if cameras were rolling :).
The traditional assessment is that poker is
10% math
15% money management
75% psychology
From long experience, I'd say that this is about right.
I wonder if they've heard the radio ad where the hapless employee comments on a "seagull manager"? That's a manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, and craps all over before flying off again.