I'm a kid (well... probably by your standards... I'm at university).
I get about 40 emails a day from my college announcing dining hall hours, from someone typing in all caps announcing to everyone OH MY GOSH THERE'S A NEW ART EXIBIT!!! DROP EVERTHING AND GO SEE IT NOW!!!, that some doofus's unlocked bike was stolen somewhere on campus, or that there's a basketball tournament at the student center.
I think I get about two useful (i.e., academics related, or containing vital information) per week.
You're telling me that I get to look forward to ten more per day when I enter the working world? It's enough to make me want to quit school and go work at McDonalds.
That's very untrue for Differential Equations.
Most of the differential equations that exist can't be solved by analytical methods (i.e., you can't use calculus to get a pretty analytical solution to it).
Many of those unsolvable problems, though, can be solved numerically - i.e. using computers to get numerical solutions at certain points.
I'd really like to see you try to do such a thing by hand with no calculator or computer.
(Before you say "but you don't learn that sort of math in school!" I'm taking a course in it)
Well, that's not entirely true. English, in its entirety, has been broken down in to formal grammar(s) before, and parsing given a formal grammar is a pretty trivial exercise in computer science.
However, parsing alone won't really tell you anything other than whether a certain person's essay obeys the conventions of modern English. There's really no way to parse an argumentative thesis.
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Well, no.
Lisp is a functional language. While there are languages with simpler syntax, I think it still proves a worthy metaphor.
I'm by far no expert, but in Lisp, your basic data structure is the linked list, from which you can construct other data structures (BSTs, arrays, etc.). This takes the responsibility of implementing these data structures out of your hands for the most part (as opposed to languages like C++, Java, assembly, etc. where you'd have to worry about every nuance of the implementation) and allows you to concentrate on the algorithm at hand.
Here's some more anecdotal evidence (that doesn't have a statistically significant sample size, I know, I know):
I'm at university, and I know a lot of computer scientists (particularly of the theoretical sort) and scientists of various other disciplines around here that love OS X. Just like using a functional language like Lisp versus using assembly, using OS X takes some of the responsibility for mundane, largely unnecessary tasks out of your hands and frees you to do the computing work that you need to do.
Sure someone well versed in systems or operating system design would be able to get more out of Linux if they took the time to optimize it, but most "hardcore hackers" I know around here sure don't have that sort of time.
Let me first wish you Americans a happy Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, I'm
hard at work on a holiday Nmap version which should be available by
Christmas.
I suppose this new version will give a new meaning to the Xmas scan, no?
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This is so going to get me modded down for being off topic...
It's a common Slashdot troll (post with the intent to annoy), normally reserved for stories about BSD, but it's spread to all stories in the form of "Netcraft has confirmed... (some random victim) is dying".
For much of the flight, a computer is controlling the aircraft with the pilot and copilot only monitoring it.
I'd think if computers were safe enough to work in three dimensions controlling vehicles with a multitude of control surfaces, in two dimensions with only gas, brake, and steering, they'd be at least safer than most drivers on the roads today.
Note how I quoted him as saying "accuracy is the most important thing."
On his weblog he says, "to the extent that a voting system fails to [be accurate], it is undesirable." He then says that "voting systems should produce results quickly. This is particularly important in the United States, where people expect to learn the results of the day's election before bedtime."
Seems like a discrepancy worth pointing out to me.
I just heard him speak about this last night at my college.
He brought up one important point then that I didn't see in his blog -- accuracy is the most important thing.
This might seem obvious, but most people seem more concerned with knowing the results of the election on election night than having every vote counted reliably.
I should point out that Alias Maya has a vector renderer, which is able to give almost exactly the same effect. And it comes integrated with it by default.
On the other hand, this is free and open source, and looks very promising.
Indeed, this is strange -- if the residents aren't smart enough to figure out how to secure their access point, how are they going to be smart enough to know when their WAP is being accessed via wardriving?
Don't get me wrong, POV-Ray is a wonderful renderer.
I'm getting a bit sick, though, of having to use a conversion script every time I want to render something from Blender in POV-Ray (if even just to test the camera angles or lighting).
Any word on either the Blender or POV-Ray project getting a bit of compatibility between the two biggest open source 3D projects?
This is great news for internet publishers and people who like to read books on the internet, but I'd be quite interested to know the effects of offering a book online for free while concurrently releasing it in print, like several of our favorite computer manuals.
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I get about 40 emails a day from my college announcing dining hall hours, from someone typing in all caps announcing to everyone OH MY GOSH THERE'S A NEW ART EXIBIT!!! DROP EVERTHING AND GO SEE IT NOW!!!, that some doofus's unlocked bike was stolen somewhere on campus, or that there's a basketball tournament at the student center.
I think I get about two useful (i.e., academics related, or containing vital information) per week.
You're telling me that I get to look forward to ten more per day when I enter the working world? It's enough to make me want to quit school and go work at McDonalds.
It looks like an Intel-supported project, with Intel developers working exclusively on it.
Brett Johnson works for HP (as far as I can tell), and Matt Tolentino works at Intel.
If Intel's going to go through the trouble to assign developers to set up and maintain the project if they're going to purposely lock out Linux.
And there's a link on the main page of the Intel EFI page.
That's very untrue for Differential Equations. Most of the differential equations that exist can't be solved by analytical methods (i.e., you can't use calculus to get a pretty analytical solution to it). Many of those unsolvable problems, though, can be solved numerically - i.e. using computers to get numerical solutions at certain points. I'd really like to see you try to do such a thing by hand with no calculator or computer. (Before you say "but you don't learn that sort of math in school!" I'm taking a course in it)
However, parsing alone won't really tell you anything other than whether a certain person's essay obeys the conventions of modern English. There's really no way to parse an argumentative thesis.
Lisp is a functional language. While there are languages with simpler syntax, I think it still proves a worthy metaphor.
I'm by far no expert, but in Lisp, your basic data structure is the linked list, from which you can construct other data structures (BSTs, arrays, etc.). This takes the responsibility of implementing these data structures out of your hands for the most part (as opposed to languages like C++, Java, assembly, etc. where you'd have to worry about every nuance of the implementation) and allows you to concentrate on the algorithm at hand.
I'm at university, and I know a lot of computer scientists (particularly of the theoretical sort) and scientists of various other disciplines around here that love OS X. Just like using a functional language like Lisp versus using assembly, using OS X takes some of the responsibility for mundane, largely unnecessary tasks out of your hands and frees you to do the computing work that you need to do.
Sure someone well versed in systems or operating system design would be able to get more out of Linux if they took the time to optimize it, but most "hardcore hackers" I know around here sure don't have that sort of time.
Free country and all, right?
(I think it's referenced on the UML website, but I'm not sure - I haven't visited it in a while).
Let me first wish you Americans a happy Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, I'm hard at work on a holiday Nmap version which should be available by Christmas.
I suppose this new version will give a new meaning to the Xmas scan, no?
It's a common Slashdot troll (post with the intent to annoy), normally reserved for stories about BSD, but it's spread to all stories in the form of "Netcraft has confirmed ... (some random victim) is dying".
See more information at Wikipedia's article.
I'd hope that the car would treat the cyclist like any other (slower-moving) vehicle, as that's what drivers are supposed to do anyway.
However, most drivers just behave badly around or completely ignore cyclists, so I don't see how a computer that ignored cyclists would be any worse.
For much of the flight, a computer is controlling the aircraft with the pilot and copilot only monitoring it.
I'd think if computers were safe enough to work in three dimensions controlling vehicles with a multitude of control surfaces, in two dimensions with only gas, brake, and steering, they'd be at least safer than most drivers on the roads today.
You mean like these guys?
On his weblog he says, "to the extent that a voting system fails to [be accurate], it is undesirable." He then says that "voting systems should produce results quickly. This is particularly important in the United States, where people expect to learn the results of the day's election before bedtime."
Seems like a discrepancy worth pointing out to me.
He brought up one important point then that I didn't see in his blog -- accuracy is the most important thing.
This might seem obvious, but most people seem more concerned with knowing the results of the election on election night than having every vote counted reliably.
On the other hand, this is free and open source, and looks very promising.
Oh, wait ...
Indeed, this is strange -- if the residents aren't smart enough to figure out how to secure their access point, how are they going to be smart enough to know when their WAP is being accessed via wardriving?
His Trademark law article and his explanation of fair use seem particularly useful.
Software Engineering is the study of creating or the creation of computer programs.
I've seen at least ten searches entitled "die slashdotters"
Actually, the NASA Aviation Safety and Security Program at NASA Langley (which is a part of this project, I believe) is doing just that.
I'm getting a bit sick, though, of having to use a conversion script every time I want to render something from Blender in POV-Ray (if even just to test the camera angles or lighting).
Any word on either the Blender or POV-Ray project getting a bit of compatibility between the two biggest open source 3D projects?
This is great news for internet publishers and people who like to read books on the internet, but I'd be quite interested to know the effects of offering a book online for free while concurrently releasing it in print, like several of our favorite computer manuals.