Papers dealing with algorithms are often merely minor tweaks to existing algorithms these days. There hasn't been anything truly groundbreaking in this field for decades.
The AKS algorithm for deterministic primality testing in polynomial time was published in 2002. Is that not groundbreaking?
The fact that it's in response to a post about a European court ruling on broadcasting football immediately makes most people who don't watch American football think that it's about European broadcasting of football.
That what I was thinking. The indignados who occupied Sol on the 15th of May didn't choose to protest on the 15th of October because of something which started in New York in September.
I don't believe that "estadounidense" is a cognate of "American". Most of the time when I hear "americano" used to refer to something specifically U.S. American it's from the lips of someone U.S. American.
But when you've got a readership the size of/. even low per-person probability events can have significant probability of occurring. I've briefly played other CRPGs, but if people frequently talk about WoW quest rewards on places like/. it must go straight over my head because I don't recall noticing it.
GPP already gave one example: Google. Another big company springs to mind: Facebook. Of course, FB did discover the downside of not paying professional translators. But it's not too surprising that other companies should try to follow in the footsteps of such behemoths.
Wasn't the reason for doing it in Guantánamo rather than the contiguous 48 a dubious legal theory that the US Constitution doesn't bind the US Army, CIA, etc. outside the 50 states and that in Gitmo neither US nor Cuban nor any other country's law applies?
Because this wouldn't be/. without the severe pedantry, someone should point out that the relevant Clancy novel is actually Clear and Present Danger, not Rainbow 6.
I don't think anyone's trying to say that Turing isn't a major figure in early computer science. I certainly wasn't. My intention with that aside was to assert with justification that computer science doesn't need TMs. There are hundreds of different formulations of universal computation models; TMs are one of the more well-known, but they're not the earliest and they're not more fundamental than the others.
Nearly all of the CS papers I've read haven't had falsifiable hypotheses but lemmas and proofs. That's reflective of my interests, naturally, which are more in algorithms and crypto. There are some branches which are certainly science, but I have a far easier time thinking of branches which are maths or engineering.
What do you mean he did nothing? He invented the Turing machine. It is the very foundation of computer science.
Not really: the equivalence of the Turing machine, lambda calculus, and primitive recursive functions suggests that picking one of the three as foundational is irrational. But that aside, computer science isn't science. It's an interdisciplinary subject which encapsulates certain areas of pure mathematics, applied mathematics, engineering, a smidgen of psychology, etc. Turing's work was in pure mathematics and engineering.
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So that he can stand up and say "It's not just my view I'm representing: I've received lots of letters from constituents about this specific issue".
The preview goes via Netflix.
"Indios" translates as "Indians". Indigenous is "indígenos" or "autóctonos".
I'm not sure what Wolfram Alpha has to do with this, but it usually has good alt text on those images.
Papers dealing with algorithms are often merely minor tweaks to existing algorithms these days. There hasn't been anything truly groundbreaking in this field for decades.
The AKS algorithm for deterministic primality testing in polynomial time was published in 2002. Is that not groundbreaking?
I hate the way so many people seem to think the entire industry is like that. There's more to the games industry than EA.
The fact that it's in response to a post about a European court ruling on broadcasting football immediately makes most people who don't watch American football think that it's about European broadcasting of football.
That what I was thinking. The indignados who occupied Sol on the 15th of May didn't choose to protest on the 15th of October because of something which started in New York in September.
I thought I had seen most of Red Dwarf but I don't remember that scene...
That was what I thought when I first saw it. Turns out that it's from a three-episode special called Back to Earth made for a TV channel called Dave.
If you'd prefer all US citizens to be called yanquí...
So what you're saying is that lawyers make so much money that they all have heated swimming pools at the end of their garden paths?
I don't believe that "estadounidense" is a cognate of "American". Most of the time when I hear "americano" used to refer to something specifically U.S. American it's from the lips of someone U.S. American.
But when you've got a readership the size of /. even low per-person probability events can have significant probability of occurring. I've briefly played other CRPGs, but if people frequently talk about WoW quest rewards on places like /. it must go straight over my head because I don't recall noticing it.
That clause isn't actually relevant, but even if it were it would mean that he could be sent to trial without a Grand Jury.
GPP already gave one example: Google. Another big company springs to mind: Facebook. Of course, FB did discover the downside of not paying professional translators. But it's not too surprising that other companies should try to follow in the footsteps of such behemoths.
Or unless the statistical interpretation is flawed, which is easily done (especially when none of the lawyers or the judge understand Bayes' theorem).
Ever heard of the EU? They're a bit keener on anti-trust actions against US companies than the US is.
Wasn't the reason for doing it in Guantánamo rather than the contiguous 48 a dubious legal theory that the US Constitution doesn't bind the US Army, CIA, etc. outside the 50 states and that in Gitmo neither US nor Cuban nor any other country's law applies?
Because this wouldn't be /. without the severe pedantry, someone should point out that the relevant Clancy novel is actually Clear and Present Danger, not Rainbow 6.
Thanks for converting the Imperial "a week" into "168 hours" for us metric users. Weeks are, after all, even more obscure units than hogsheads.
it's the first i've heard that they were cooking up a SHA-3. so maybe there are multiple layers of nerdiness involved.
It's hardly the first time it's been mentioned on Slashdot.
I don't think anyone's trying to say that Turing isn't a major figure in early computer science. I certainly wasn't. My intention with that aside was to assert with justification that computer science doesn't need TMs. There are hundreds of different formulations of universal computation models; TMs are one of the more well-known, but they're not the earliest and they're not more fundamental than the others.
Nearly all of the CS papers I've read haven't had falsifiable hypotheses but lemmas and proofs. That's reflective of my interests, naturally, which are more in algorithms and crypto. There are some branches which are certainly science, but I have a far easier time thinking of branches which are maths or engineering.
What do you mean he did nothing? He invented the Turing machine. It is the very foundation of computer science.
Not really: the equivalence of the Turing machine, lambda calculus, and primitive recursive functions suggests that picking one of the three as foundational is irrational. But that aside, computer science isn't science. It's an interdisciplinary subject which encapsulates certain areas of pure mathematics, applied mathematics, engineering, a smidgen of psychology, etc. Turing's work was in pure mathematics and engineering.
To me a 4-bar increase on a 4-bar display is looking pretty close to magical.