If you don't mind processed data, . There may also be a torrent somewhere - I know I've downloaded some NASA data with bittorrent, but I can't remember whether it was SRTM or Blue Marble.
Warning: if you're thinking of using this data commercially, take note that if you dig around enough (why there isn't a README in that directory I don't know) you will find that at least one university claims copyright on some of the bathymetric data included in SRTM30+.
Not if you're using floating point numbers. Using 32-bit IEEE-754 floats,
float accum = 0f; for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) accum += 0.1f;
leads to accum holding a value slightly larger than 1 (1 ulp larger).
float accum = 10f * 0.1f;
leads to accum holding exactly 1. That's a simple example of code which is algebraically equivalent but produces different results due to the limitations of floating point representation.
As numerical instabilities go that's so small that arguably it doesn't count at all. On the other hand, once you throw in e.g. arcsin(accum) or sqrt(1 - accum) at the end it's the different between getting a result or a complaint that you've passed in an invalid argument.
Unless you're doing it for absolutely required performance reasons
Or numerical reasons. Sometimes it happens that the 3-line version is algebraically equivalent to the 10-line version, but more stable numerically. In this case you may need to replace 3 lines of comments with 20 lines sketching the outline of the 10-line version and giving a proof of correctness of the 3-line version.
English has about 20 vowels, but it only uses 5 or 6 letters to write them. This is part of the reason that non-native speakers find it hard to pronounce.
For example, the code written for NASA hardware (i.e.: space shuttles), have more documentation than the size of the hardware itself (so, we're looking at a large pile of documents next to the shuttle). It's tested for years, it only works on tested CPUs (i.e.: 20 years old proven 8086s), and the actual "waterfall" method (which is generally a disaster for any other project) is properly applied.
That's the version NASA puts out, anyway. I know someone who's worked on the shuttle's backup software and tells rather a different story. Code written in 1970s, documentation written in 1980s; when the coders updated the code they would tell the documenters about it, but it was pretty informal; documentation converted from typewriter output to one electronic format without careful checking (introducing errors in guidance formulae which weren't noticed for 15 years, dropping footnotes, etc); then outsourced conversion from that to Word, introducing more errors and messing up lots of diagrams; documentation with long chains of Boolean expressions containing no bracketing;...
You comment on software all the way through, and then talk only about games when you mention returns. Similarly, the summary has Tenenbaum talking about software but Kuneva talking only about games. What makes games special? Why should they be held to a higher standard than drivers, IDEs, spreadsheets, etc?
Did you know that apostrophes are legal in the username portion of the email address? Yet how many web sites do you think would allow you to sign up as "First_O'Last@mailserver.net"?
I recently sent an e-mail to a firstname.o'connell@host.gov.uk (no need to let her get random spam) in order to submit my response to a consultation the British Civil Service is making on policy relating to voter registration. Crossed my fingers and sent it via gmail.
They may have the first video evidence, but I'm sure I've heard about octopodes using tools before, and Google turns up one reference almost three years ago about a very similar case, and a 2008 paper (PDF) which reports observation of octopus tool use and references a 1984 paper as describing certain octopus behaviour as probably tool use. I'm not sure from the Google Scholar description of this 1999 paper whether it refers to mention of octopus tool use in 1940 or in Roman times:
... Historia, Liber IX, 48; Plinius Secundus, 1940) reported a description of tool-using behaviour...
Perhaps someone with a subscription can check it out.
From a strictly numerical point of view, an innocent citizen being confronted by the police is more likely to be killed than a police officer is to be deliberately killed by an assailant.
That doesn't follow from the figures you've cited unless the average police officer confronts a mere handful of people per year. I know that the paperwork after each contact with the public is a nightmare, but I don't think it's quite that bad.
If it comes with some variant of Linux preinstalled then you know that all hardware components will work right out of the box, even if you install a different distro.
If you "know" that then you're wrong. I'm still kicking myself for not getting as much detail as possible on what drivers were running on my AspireOne before I installed Deb stable on it. The basics all work fine but there are driver issues with wireless and the webcam, and I think something's up with USB in general.
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Hmm. Try again with that link. Here.
If you don't mind processed data, . There may also be a torrent somewhere - I know I've downloaded some NASA data with bittorrent, but I can't remember whether it was SRTM or Blue Marble.
Warning: if you're thinking of using this data commercially, take note that if you dig around enough (why there isn't a README in that directory I don't know) you will find that at least one university claims copyright on some of the bathymetric data included in SRTM30+.
I think it's intended to be built in an IDE. I don't have any problems importing it into Eclipse and building there.
Not if you're using floating point numbers. Using 32-bit IEEE-754 floats,
float accum = 0f;
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) accum += 0.1f;
leads to accum holding a value slightly larger than 1 (1 ulp larger).
float accum = 10f * 0.1f;
leads to accum holding exactly 1. That's a simple example of code which is algebraically equivalent but produces different results due to the limitations of floating point representation.
As numerical instabilities go that's so small that arguably it doesn't count at all. On the other hand, once you throw in e.g. arcsin(accum) or sqrt(1 - accum) at the end it's the different between getting a result or a complaint that you've passed in an invalid argument.
Unless you're doing it for absolutely required performance reasons
Or numerical reasons. Sometimes it happens that the 3-line version is algebraically equivalent to the 10-line version, but more stable numerically. In this case you may need to replace 3 lines of comments with 20 lines sketching the outline of the 10-line version and giving a proof of correctness of the 3-line version.
English has about 20 vowels, but it only uses 5 or 6 letters to write them. This is part of the reason that non-native speakers find it hard to pronounce.
Probably a quiet cough and a mention of the name Cromwell.
No. Knights are always Sir + first name.
I thought she was there to veto insane government legislation
That's the nuclear option. She can do it once, and then there will be a drastic constitutional reform to ensure she doesn't do it again.
Would this be the same Spain that had to close several motorways due to snow this month? The same Spain whose capital city had snow in May this year?
O, stewardess! I speak Java.
I was born in Bangor. Which one comes to mind first?
The one in Wales. But out of curiosity, what do you expect people to say?
Oops. Missed the void return type.
I think what he's after is the equivalent of public <T extends Comparable<? super T>> sort(List<T> list)
Blond, not blonde? So you're accusing her of being transgender too?
For example, the code written for NASA hardware (i.e.: space shuttles), have more documentation than the size of the hardware itself (so, we're looking at a large pile of documents next to the shuttle). It's tested for years, it only works on tested CPUs (i.e.: 20 years old proven 8086s), and the actual "waterfall" method (which is generally a disaster for any other project) is properly applied.
That's the version NASA puts out, anyway. I know someone who's worked on the shuttle's backup software and tells rather a different story. Code written in 1970s, documentation written in 1980s; when the coders updated the code they would tell the documenters about it, but it was pretty informal; documentation converted from typewriter output to one electronic format without careful checking (introducing errors in guidance formulae which weren't noticed for 15 years, dropping footnotes, etc); then outsourced conversion from that to Word, introducing more errors and messing up lots of diagrams; documentation with long chains of Boolean expressions containing no bracketing; ...
You comment on software all the way through, and then talk only about games when you mention returns. Similarly, the summary has Tenenbaum talking about software but Kuneva talking only about games. What makes games special? Why should they be held to a higher standard than drivers, IDEs, spreadsheets, etc?
Did you know that apostrophes are legal in the username portion of the email address? Yet how many web sites do you think would allow you to sign up as "First_O'Last@mailserver.net"?
I recently sent an e-mail to a firstname.o'connell@host.gov.uk (no need to let her get random spam) in order to submit my response to a consultation the British Civil Service is making on policy relating to voter registration. Crossed my fingers and sent it via gmail.
They may have the first video evidence, but I'm sure I've heard about octopodes using tools before, and Google turns up one reference almost three years ago about a very similar case, and a 2008 paper (PDF) which reports observation of octopus tool use and references a 1984 paper as describing certain octopus behaviour as probably tool use. I'm not sure from the Google Scholar description of this 1999 paper whether it refers to mention of octopus tool use in 1940 or in Roman times:
... ...
Historia, Liber IX, 48; Plinius Secundus, 1940) reported a description of tool-using behaviour
Perhaps someone with a subscription can check it out.
Octopodes if you want to be formal.
If Valdrax thought you were a creationist he would hardly have accused you of trolling creationists, would he?
From a strictly numerical point of view, an innocent citizen being confronted by the police is more likely to be killed than a police officer is to be deliberately killed by an assailant.
That doesn't follow from the figures you've cited unless the average police officer confronts a mere handful of people per year. I know that the paperwork after each contact with the public is a nightmare, but I don't think it's quite that bad.
Wasn't that back in the early to mid 90s?
If it comes with some variant of Linux preinstalled then you know that all hardware components will work right out of the box, even if you install a different distro.
If you "know" that then you're wrong. I'm still kicking myself for not getting as much detail as possible on what drivers were running on my AspireOne before I installed Deb stable on it. The basics all work fine but there are driver issues with wireless and the webcam, and I think something's up with USB in general.
And both you and GPP hint at comments also telling you "what not and why not".