Well, Fermilab must have seen it coming, since they did the replication experiments before they knew about the result.
In the words of Miles O'Brien, "I hate temporal mechanics".
If 10,000 people go at $10K each, you've almost recovered the costs of development. Personally, I don't think the market is that big, since the tourism guys aren't really talking about going to "space", just to 100 kilometers sub-orbital. Coincidentally, the first American sub-orbital flight was 50 years ago yesterday. Not exactly a cutting edge accomplishment.
the outstanding programmers I know can all do calculus in their sleep
I'm an outstanding programmer (if I do say so myself), and I've forgotten almost all the calculus I learned as an undergraduate Math/CS double major in the late 70's.
However, my math training did teach me a "prove it" mindset, which has served me very well. There's a tendency to get lazy when coding, and assume that if something passes a few unit tests it's correct. On critical code (that is, not throwaway programs) I want to cover all the possibilities, even if only with error-handling code. I've seen (and fixed) lots of sloppy code that doesn't do this, but (to most users) appears to work just the same. However, when the SHTF their code falls apart, crashes, corrupts, etc., whereas mine (mostly) fails correctly.:)
It is true, however, that my discrete math classes (sets, algebra, graph theory and such) were more directly applicable to my work. On the other hand, I've worked more in algorithmic/system areas than most programmers do these days. It's quite possible that a programmer today could go a whole career without writing a single line of code, just dragging-and-dropping GUI elements around. For someone doing that, a lot of math education probably is a waste of time.
Most people aren't really suited to a career in science. However, you don't have to be a physicist to "believe" in science (if that's the right word). It's the denial of reality that's the problem, not a lack of scientists.
Oh, well, even if we cause an ecological holocaust, wiping out all animals on earth larger than a mouse, the biosphere will adapt in the long run. I, for one, welcome our new cockroach overlords!
If you can get a computer to understand what you mean, then it'd change UIs forever.
Per the article, a single processor would take 3 hours to process each Jeopardy answer. That would certainly qualify as "forever" in the context of a user interface.
Amazon is probably trying to avoid ****-storms like the one that occured last month, when a pedophilia how-to book was removed following a petition drive and boycott threats.
You know, I thought you were serious until you put this part in. Now I'm just laughing... We barely have "unmanned bombers" now, much less in the 50's.
If history is any guide, he'll spend the rest of his life depleting his large pile of money on failed startups and hobbies. Currently the popular way to waste a large fortune is building spaceships.
Local rumor has it that the car did run off the course at least once, requiring extraction by a tow truck. Audi was extra-tight with any information about the tests while they were going on - they didn't make the news in Colorado Springs until their film crew helicopter crashed.
Second, you only gain from additional cores if there's workload to spread to them usefully.
Yes, but "cores" are the new "gigahertz". The MBAs now need 8-core processors in their laptops, whereas a few years ago they all needed 3 ghz processors. It doesn't matter if they're useful, it's just an ego thing.
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I don't think tools are all that fundamentally important.
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say "the unimportance of tools".
Well, Fermilab must have seen it coming, since they did the replication experiments before they knew about the result.
In the words of Miles O'Brien, "I hate temporal mechanics".
http://xkcd.com/646/ fwiw, xkcd author Randall Munroe uses a tablet.
...now that Duke Nukem Forever has been released.
It's not secure if you have to be a techie to use it securely.
One more misleading bit, especially in the title: the tunnel goes under the city of Niagara Falls, not the falls themselves.
If 10,000 people go at $10K each, you've almost recovered the costs of development. Personally, I don't think the market is that big, since the tourism guys aren't really talking about going to "space", just to 100 kilometers sub-orbital. Coincidentally, the first American sub-orbital flight was 50 years ago yesterday. Not exactly a cutting edge accomplishment.
April 15th is Emancipation Day in Washington. Ironic.
Banks need SSNs so that they can report interest paid to the IRS. In fact, this is one of the few legitimate uses of the SSN.
I'm not one to nitpick, but increasingly I find that nearly every single post on a story is off topic.
Bummer about the NFL going on lockdown, isn't it?
the outstanding programmers I know can all do calculus in their sleep
I'm an outstanding programmer (if I do say so myself), and I've forgotten almost all the calculus I learned as an undergraduate Math/CS double major in the late 70's.
However, my math training did teach me a "prove it" mindset, which has served me very well. There's a tendency to get lazy when coding, and assume that if something passes a few unit tests it's correct. On critical code (that is, not throwaway programs) I want to cover all the possibilities, even if only with error-handling code. I've seen (and fixed) lots of sloppy code that doesn't do this, but (to most users) appears to work just the same. However, when the SHTF their code falls apart, crashes, corrupts, etc., whereas mine (mostly) fails correctly. :)
It is true, however, that my discrete math classes (sets, algebra, graph theory and such) were more directly applicable to my work. On the other hand, I've worked more in algorithmic/system areas than most programmers do these days. It's quite possible that a programmer today could go a whole career without writing a single line of code, just dragging-and-dropping GUI elements around. For someone doing that, a lot of math education probably is a waste of time.
Oh, well, even if we cause an ecological holocaust, wiping out all animals on earth larger than a mouse, the biosphere will adapt in the long run. I, for one, welcome our new cockroach overlords!
What about local opposition? The Martha's Vineyard wind farm faced a regular nor'easter of NIMBYism.
If you can get a computer to understand what you mean, then it'd change UIs forever.
Per the article, a single processor would take 3 hours to process each Jeopardy answer. That would certainly qualify as "forever" in the context of a user interface.
Amazon is probably trying to avoid ****-storms like the one that occured last month, when a pedophilia how-to book was removed following a petition drive and boycott threats.
Yes, it's a myth. According to this article, the break-even point is somewhere around 10 seconds.
nuclear powered, plutonium fueled, unmanned bombers
You know, I thought you were serious until you put this part in. Now I'm just laughing... We barely have "unmanned bombers" now, much less in the 50's.
So what does Zuckerberg do for an encore?
If history is any guide, he'll spend the rest of his life depleting his large pile of money on failed startups and hobbies. Currently the popular way to waste a large fortune is building spaceships.
To me, the really surprising thing is that this guy had a gardener.
In pretty much any city, there are plenty of streetlights that you could see the road perfectly without any sort of lights on your vehicle.
I live in Colorado Springs, you insensitive clod!
Local rumor has it that the car did run off the course at least once, requiring extraction by a tow truck. Audi was extra-tight with any information about the tests while they were going on - they didn't make the news in Colorado Springs until their film crew helicopter crashed.
Eight hours per day, every minute, while he's asleep. That's like 175,000 pictures of a pillow. Wow.
I thought of the glowing numbers on John Nash's arm in "A Beautiful Mind". He was just hallucinating a few decades ahead of his time.
Second, you only gain from additional cores if there's workload to spread to them usefully.
Yes, but "cores" are the new "gigahertz". The MBAs now need 8-core processors in their laptops, whereas a few years ago they all needed 3 ghz processors. It doesn't matter if they're useful, it's just an ego thing.
CD sales are still roughly 100 times vinyl album sales; 110 million units for the first half of 2010.