A big problem is that many "animal models" are wrong. For instance, we model Alzheimer's by using mice bred to reliably grow the beta amyloid plaques in brain tissue that are thought to cause the disease. We have developed dozens of drugs that prevent these plaques from forming in these mice. Yet, in human clinical trials NONE of these drugs has been effective. An obvious hypothesis is that the beta amyloids are just a symptom of Alzheimer's disease, and not the underlying cause. So the animal model may be completely wrong.
So what you're implying is that "normal people" cheat more than CS students?
People are more likely to cheat if they take a course they are not prepared for, and get in over their head. So, yes, in a CS course non-CS people are more likely to cheat. Likewise, in an English course, CS students are more likely to cheat than English majors.
No, it raises the question. Begging the question means something completely different. If you went to Harvard, you would know this.
... if people there need to cheat at an intro computer class, how many of them are cheating for actually difficult classes?
When I was a student, I made money coding assignments for other students. Cheating is way more common in intro courses. By the time students reach upper levels, they either know how to do the work, or they have already switched to an easier major.
I work in CS, and I grab code from Stackoverflow everyday and copy-paste it into my own work. I also regularly get other people's code from our internal git repository as well as Github. I very rarely write anything 100% in my own. I get paid for getting stuff done, not for originality.
When I was in college, I worked on projects with classmates, and we shared code and ideas all the time. There was no auto-cheat-detectors back then, but I wonder if today that is considered "cheating". We certainly didn't see it that way. We collaborated to learn from each other, not to avoid learning.
Number of native English speakers: 500 million Number of native French speakers: 80 million Number of 2nd language English speakers: 510B Number of 2nd language French speakers: 192M
English is taught in Chinese schools starting in 3rd grade. Most urban young people can understand basic written English, and many of them speak it fluently. Most Chinese businesses have English speakers on their staff, and have little difficulty dealing with English speaking clients and customers.
Other European languages are far less common. I have met Russian speakers in Dongbei, and Portuguese speakers in Guangdong. But those are spoken for regional and historic reasons that are fading away, similarly to the way many elderly people in Liaoning still understand Japanese.
French is pretty much nonexistent. Even if you go to a French restaurant, nobody there speaks French.
The we don't give a shit about unemployed miners attitude isn't really working out as a political strategy.
Speaking hard truths is "giving a shit". The people that really don't give a shit are the politicians exploiting these people for votes by promising to bring back coal mining.
"Job training" isn't the answer either. Appalachia is a terrible place to locate any business other than resource extraction. The infrastructure is terrible, the schools are substandard, the people are close minded and uneducated.
By far the best solution is to give these people some financial assistance to pack up and move somewhere else.
I grew up in a coal mining county in eastern Tennessee. My grandfather died of black lung disease. I have plenty of relatives back there collecting welfare and living in trailer parks. My ticket out was a bus ride to Parris Island after enlisting in the Marines on my 18th birthday. I have other friends and relatives that left, and they are ALL doing far better than those who stayed.
During WW1, German agents in American ports infected horses with anthrax to kill them before they arrived in France. It is not clear exactly how many horses died, but the number was roughly zero. It is not clear why their actions were so ineffective.
Because it was designed in America, where three houses on a cul-de-sac will each have a four digit house number. Americans love superfluous digits.
But I shouldn't ridicule Americans too much, since some other countries have numbering schemes that are even sillier. For instance, in Japan, houses on a block are not numbered in sequence, but in the order in which they were built.
I won't use a service that doesn't offer an ad-free experience. Happy to pay for it, but I won't be forced to watch ads.
Me too. My family went on a trip and my kids turned on the TV in the hotel room. When the first commercial came on, they thought the show was over, and were confused by the ending. I realized then that they had no idea what a "commercial" was.
I spent the next hour explaining my childhood, and how every kid knew all the jingles, like "Coo-coo for Cocoa Puffs" , "I wish I was an Oscar-Meyer Weiner", and "Rice-a-Roni". I told them about Tony the Tiger, Mr Clean, and Cap'n Crunch, but they just rolled their eyes and started watching Youtube on their Chromebooks.
What does direct comcox up your bum not know how many customers they have?
The estimate comes from the analyst, not from comcox.
But the number is meaningless anyway, because many people have cable but never watch it. I am a cable subscriber because it is actually cheaper to subscribe to Internet+TV than to subscribe to just Internet. But I haven't watched live TV in years. I think they give away the TV at less than zero cost so they can quote a higher subscriber number to advertisers.
Old FORTRAN's default statically allocated arrays are one less indirection to access.
Also, FORTRAN does not allow pointer aliasing, so memory accesses can be cached in registers. That is a barrier to optimization in C/C++. C has the "restrict" keyword which helps, but it is rarely used and is not supported by old compilers.
To be fair, NASA did not say that. They said a 10 times speed up. They also said they are hoping that maybe it could be sped up even more, perhaps even by a factor of a thousand. So the journalist took the "10" and the "thousand" and multiplied them together. Then that inflated made-up number was copy-pasted into the summary.
The obvious way to speed up this code is to identify the hotspots and rewrite them in OpenCL or CUDA. There are FORTRAN interfaces to both. Then the program can run on a GPU, or array of GPUs. That is the way that most other CFD programs work.
Outside the Louvre in Paris, there's a sign in Mandarin which tells visitors not to defecate in the surrounding grounds.
Bullcrap. This is an internet-myth. There is no such sign. Feel free to prove my wrong providing a citation to something other than a rumor in a blog... none of which have a photo of the sign.
I lived in China for many years. I never, not once, saw anyone defecate in public.
Also, there is no such thing as a "sign in Mandarin". Mandarin is a spoken language, not a written language.
Last time I check pampers doesn't contain significant amounts of rare-earth metals.
An iPhone contains very small amounts of tantalum, neodymium, and europium, but not enough to make recovery cost effective. None of these are a health hazard in landfills, and certainly not in the milligram amounts in a cell-phone.
If you made a list of a million things we could do to help the environment, and ordered them by importance, this wouldn't be on the list.
You are demanding the worst form of environmental theater. Let's say it would cost Apple $5 to make their phone more recyclable. For $5 they could buy carbon credits to eliminate 800 kg of CO2. Yet you are whining about them not spending the same amount to recycle the 2 ounces of plastic in an iPhone.
If Apple spent money on environmentalism, spending that money money on "recycling iPhones" would be about the least effective possible way to do it.
So why don't they spend it on things that make more sense? They do.
Perhaps they mean indirectly, if you count up people working in their supply chain.
I don't think so. Tim said two million jobs "in America". Nearly their entire supply chain is in Asia. The screens are made in Korea, the CPUs in Taiwan, etc.
... and I am pointing out that you should be pointing at something that matters. Apple products consume a negligible amount of resources. Their employees' daily commute has more impact on the environment than their products.
... and that makes them hypocrites.
Can you blame them? Many environmentalist, like you, focus on "environmental theater", so they put on a act. If you really gave a crap about the environment, you would be complaining about Exxon's refineries, Ford's SUVs, or Cargill's feedlots, and not focusing on silly trivialities like iPhones. They don't matter.
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Not over the joke, over the words he used in it.
A cock is just another word for a rooster.
I have seen the word used in children's books.
A big problem is that many "animal models" are wrong. For instance, we model Alzheimer's by using mice bred to reliably grow the beta amyloid plaques in brain tissue that are thought to cause the disease. We have developed dozens of drugs that prevent these plaques from forming in these mice. Yet, in human clinical trials NONE of these drugs has been effective. An obvious hypothesis is that the beta amyloids are just a symptom of Alzheimer's disease, and not the underlying cause. So the animal model may be completely wrong.
Marcon is centre right (he's a banker), Le Pen is extreme right.
This is true by French standards. By American standards Macron would be center left, maybe a little left of Hillary. Le Pen would be a Republican.
I expect this to be a victory for Marcon
No shit. He's up by 30 points in the latest polls. He will win in a landslide.
So what you're implying is that "normal people" cheat more than CS students?
People are more likely to cheat if they take a course they are not prepared for, and get in over their head. So, yes, in a CS course non-CS people are more likely to cheat. Likewise, in an English course, CS students are more likely to cheat than English majors.
This begs the question ...
No, it raises the question. Begging the question means something completely different. If you went to Harvard, you would know this.
... if people there need to cheat at an intro computer class, how many of them are cheating for actually difficult classes?
When I was a student, I made money coding assignments for other students. Cheating is way more common in intro courses. By the time students reach upper levels, they either know how to do the work, or they have already switched to an easier major.
It's CS, not an MBA.
I work in CS, and I grab code from Stackoverflow everyday and copy-paste it into my own work. I also regularly get other people's code from our internal git repository as well as Github. I very rarely write anything 100% in my own. I get paid for getting stuff done, not for originality.
When I was in college, I worked on projects with classmates, and we shared code and ideas all the time. There was no auto-cheat-detectors back then, but I wonder if today that is considered "cheating". We certainly didn't see it that way. We collaborated to learn from each other, not to avoid learning.
Yeah - lemme know when I can invest in data futures.
That is what you are doing when you buy shares in Google or Facebook.
Haitian Creole (a local variant of French).
Hatian Creole is not mutually intelligible with French.
In West Africa, many people speak French, but few of them speak it as their mother tongue.
Let's look at The Numbers:
Number of native English speakers: 500 million
Number of native French speakers: 80 million
Number of 2nd language English speakers: 510B
Number of 2nd language French speakers: 192M
The ones that don't speak Mandarin.
English is taught in Chinese schools starting in 3rd grade. Most urban young people can understand basic written English, and many of them speak it fluently. Most Chinese businesses have English speakers on their staff, and have little difficulty dealing with English speaking clients and customers.
Other European languages are far less common. I have met Russian speakers in Dongbei, and Portuguese speakers in Guangdong. But those are spoken for regional and historic reasons that are fading away, similarly to the way many elderly people in Liaoning still understand Japanese.
French is pretty much nonexistent. Even if you go to a French restaurant, nobody there speaks French.
The we don't give a shit about unemployed miners attitude isn't really working out as a political strategy.
Speaking hard truths is "giving a shit". The people that really don't give a shit are the politicians exploiting these people for votes by promising to bring back coal mining.
"Job training" isn't the answer either. Appalachia is a terrible place to locate any business other than resource extraction. The infrastructure is terrible, the schools are substandard, the people are close minded and uneducated.
By far the best solution is to give these people some financial assistance to pack up and move somewhere else.
I grew up in a coal mining county in eastern Tennessee. My grandfather died of black lung disease. I have plenty of relatives back there collecting welfare and living in trailer parks. My ticket out was a bus ride to Parris Island after enlisting in the Marines on my 18th birthday. I have other friends and relatives that left, and they are ALL doing far better than those who stayed.
During WW1, German agents in American ports infected horses with anthrax to kill them before they arrived in France. It is not clear exactly how many horses died, but the number was roughly zero. It is not clear why their actions were so ineffective.
the house of cards can fall at any time.
I see what you did there.
When the last one is always zero.
Because it was designed in America, where three houses on a cul-de-sac will each have a four digit house number. Americans love superfluous digits.
But I shouldn't ridicule Americans too much, since some other countries have numbering schemes that are even sillier. For instance, in Japan, houses on a block are not numbered in sequence, but in the order in which they were built.
I won't use a service that doesn't offer an ad-free experience. Happy to pay for it, but I won't be forced to watch ads.
Me too. My family went on a trip and my kids turned on the TV in the hotel room. When the first commercial came on, they thought the show was over, and were confused by the ending. I realized then that they had no idea what a "commercial" was.
I spent the next hour explaining my childhood, and how every kid knew all the jingles, like "Coo-coo for Cocoa Puffs" , "I wish I was an Oscar-Meyer Weiner", and "Rice-a-Roni". I told them about Tony the Tiger, Mr Clean, and Cap'n Crunch, but they just rolled their eyes and started watching Youtube on their Chromebooks.
What does direct comcox up your bum not know how many customers they have?
The estimate comes from the analyst, not from comcox.
But the number is meaningless anyway, because many people have cable but never watch it. I am a cable subscriber because it is actually cheaper to subscribe to Internet+TV than to subscribe to just Internet. But I haven't watched live TV in years. I think they give away the TV at less than zero cost so they can quote a higher subscriber number to advertisers.
I still have a landline. I need it so that when I can't find my cellphone, I can call it and search for the ringing sound.
Old FORTRAN's default statically allocated arrays are one less indirection to access.
Also, FORTRAN does not allow pointer aliasing, so memory accesses can be cached in registers. That is a barrier to optimization in C/C++. C has the "restrict" keyword which helps, but it is rarely used and is not supported by old compilers.
They want a 10000 times speed up.
To be fair, NASA did not say that. They said a 10 times speed up. They also said they are hoping that maybe it could be sped up even more, perhaps even by a factor of a thousand. So the journalist took the "10" and the "thousand" and multiplied them together. Then that inflated made-up number was copy-pasted into the summary.
The obvious way to speed up this code is to identify the hotspots and rewrite them in OpenCL or CUDA. There are FORTRAN interfaces to both. Then the program can run on a GPU, or array of GPUs. That is the way that most other CFD programs work.
Outside the Louvre in Paris, there's a sign in Mandarin which tells visitors not to defecate in the surrounding grounds.
Bullcrap. This is an internet-myth. There is no such sign. Feel free to prove my wrong providing a citation to something other than a rumor in a blog ... none of which have a photo of the sign.
I lived in China for many years. I never, not once, saw anyone defecate in public.
Also, there is no such thing as a "sign in Mandarin". Mandarin is a spoken language, not a written language.
Last time I check pampers doesn't contain significant amounts of rare-earth metals.
An iPhone contains very small amounts of tantalum, neodymium, and europium, but not enough to make recovery cost effective. None of these are a health hazard in landfills, and certainly not in the milligram amounts in a cell-phone.
If you made a list of a million things we could do to help the environment, and ordered them by importance, this wouldn't be on the list.
You are demanding the worst form of environmental theater. Let's say it would cost Apple $5 to make their phone more recyclable. For $5 they could buy carbon credits to eliminate 800 kg of CO2. Yet you are whining about them not spending the same amount to recycle the 2 ounces of plastic in an iPhone.
If Apple spent money on environmentalism, spending that money money on "recycling iPhones" would be about the least effective possible way to do it.
So why don't they spend it on things that make more sense? They do.
Perhaps they mean indirectly, if you count up people working in their supply chain.
I don't think so. Tim said two million jobs "in America". Nearly their entire supply chain is in Asia. The screens are made in Korea, the CPUs in Taiwan, etc.
We're simply pointing out ...
... and I am pointing out that you should be pointing at something that matters. Apple products consume a negligible amount of resources. Their employees' daily commute has more impact on the environment than their products.
... and that makes them hypocrites.
Can you blame them? Many environmentalist, like you, focus on "environmental theater", so they put on a act. If you really gave a crap about the environment, you would be complaining about Exxon's refineries, Ford's SUVs, or Cargill's feedlots, and not focusing on silly trivialities like iPhones. They don't matter.