Even if that were true, so what? Not the passenger's problem. Customers can be fickle; so it goes. To use business lingo, such expenses are a "cost of doing business."
Yesterday I bought a package of two doorknobs with the connecting rod, but I only attached one of them to my door where a knob had broken. Is the doorknob manufacturer going to sue me now?
Last Thursday I bought a happy meal at MacDonalds, but I didn't eat all the fries. Am I going to be sued?
Some of the students in a course I taught last semester didn't attend all the lectures. Can I sue them?
If Lufthansa really wants to penalize people for not using the second half of a connecting ticket they should charge an extra couple €100 up front, to be refunded upon successful completion of the full itinerary.
They've also promised to stop beating their wives, to stop sending classified government secrets to alien bases on the moons of Jupiter, to stop playing rugby while wearing white gloves and frilly dresses, to stop pulling out workers' fingernails as punishment for not clearing their desks before leaving for the day, and many other practices that they have never done and have no intention of ever doing.
Does anyone have an actual list of all the people poached from CMU by Uber in this incident? The newspaper stories are high on breathlessness and background, but low on the actual names.
This is also a serious problem in Computer Science. Anything involving data or empirical results is susceptible to these sorts of issues. So, machine learning, computer vision, performance benchmarks, all these areas are rife with the sorts of issues discussed above.
People (and even Google) are taking the wrong lesson from this.
The sample used in this study was managers *at Google*. This is a biased sample, in that almost all of them will have high technical competence. So the statistical power of the study in determining how technical competence affects management performance will be low. In some other setting, where managers have much wider variability in technical competence, that factor would very likely show up much higher on the list.
(Analogy: if you conducted a study of how wealth affects cancer survival rates and only admitted millionaires to the study, you might get a very different result than if you also included people with very little money. The classic example of this effect in the statistics literature is a study of wages as a function of height, whose result changes if the sample includes only circus midgets.)
Next they'll send plainclothes policemen to people's doors to ask for a glass of water, or to see if there's an unsecured spigot on the outside of the house. And if they find this sort of freely available water, they'll give them a stern talking-to. Because it(*) all starts with kindness to strangers!
(*) "It" being civilization: the biblical command to be kind to strangers, and the custom in the middle east to give water to travelers, date to prehistory are are literally the basis of our civilization.
... the force required increases as a square of the speed
The force required scales as the cube of the speed. When you go twice as fast the air has to move twice as fast to get out of the way, and square that for kinetic energy, but you also have to move twice as much air, giving a factor of eight. (On the other hand you only have to do the pushing for half as long, so the *total* work, which is the integral of the force, goes as the square of the speed.)
If we lifted the sanctions on Palestine [...] it would take 15 years tops for them to start caring more about cars and TVs than God and Jews.
That's what Israel tried first. Until the 1st intifada, people in the West Bank and Gaza had largely unimpeded access to jobs across the Green Line, in Israel, and their salaries from such jobs constituted an enormous fraction of the economy of those territories.
It's not like Israel wants to impede the flow of goods across the border, even today. Gaza today, unoccupied, is powered by electricity from electric power plants in Israel. But when aluminum is used to make missiles that get shot across the border, preventing aluminum from getting across the border seems pretty tempting. Regardless of the measure's effectiveness.
Has anyone heard from the IRA since the Irish GDP shot up?
(a) I live in Ireland; (b) yes; (c) you're confusing Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland; and (d) correlation, even if it were true in this case which it is not, does not imply causality.
Q: I'm a working scientist, and would like to release code implementing my work. However I want to make sure that people using the software mention its use, and cite my papers, in papers they write. Should I include this in the license?
A: You have a valid concern. Computer scientists often receive inadequate credit for their scientific contributions. But putting such a clause in the license would render your software non-free. Instead we suggest a note, not part of the license itself, reminding users of the rules of scientific propriety. Eg:
SCIENTISTS: please be aware that the fact that this program is released as Free Software does not excuse you from scientific propriety, which obligates you to give appropriate credit! If you write a scientific paper describing research that made substantive use of this program, it is your obligation as a scientist to (a) mention the fashion in which this software was used, including the version number, with a citation to the literature, in the Methods section, to allow replication; (b) mention this software in the Acknowledgements section. The appropriate citation is: Robert B. Laub (2003) "BLOBBER: A program that blobs", Blobbing Bulletins 12(34):567-89. Moreover, as a personal note, I would appreciate it if you would email bobblaub@ubl.edu with citations of papers referencing this work so I can mention them to my funding agent and tenure committee.
D-wave does not claim their device is universal. In particular they don't say they can do factoring. They claim to be able to efficiently do quantum simulation...
Being able to "efficiently do quantum simulation" makes a device a universal quantum computer. That is what "universal" means.
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No, octave is (mostly) compatible with Matlab, it is pretty much unrelated to symbolic algebra packages like Mathematica or Maxima or Macsyma or Maple.
According to what I've read, the term "antisemitism" was coined by Jew-haters in Germany and Austria in the mid-1800s. It was intended to make hating Jews sound more respectable. The term caught on, and in fact it fulfilled its intended purpose: Jew-hating and Jew killing became all the rage, in fact downright fashionable, for quite a while. Heck, to this day it remains a popular passtime in some parts of the world!
So if you'd rather use some other term, like "Jew-hater", go ahead. In my opinion, it would be correct to say either "the parent post about AIPAC exhibits classic antisemitic themes and paranoia" or "that parent post about AIPAC was the worst sort of frothing-at-the-mouth Jew-hating claptrap."
Two people who crashed with *me* one night had a horrible experience: one of them got sick and I had to take them to A&E at the hospital and hang out with them and keep their spirits up until the situation was under control, they were up all night waiting and getting it taken care of.
Oh wait that's not horrible in the right sense, is it?
Maybe we're not hearing serious horror stories because they don't happen. If someone seemed creepy you could always just bail; it wouldn't be the end of the world. Probably you have some other contact in town (made on the same site) you could call for help. And it would be a really stupid situation for a predator to be violently criminal in: the victim could give the police detailed directions to where the criminal lives, along with a telephone number.
I guess no one cares because once you have a PhD it doesn't really matter if you correctly translate some piddly small German degree as roughly equivalent to the correct piddly small American degree? Maybe he had a typo in the name of his second-grade teacher too: no one cares about that either.
Libraries are not a good place for computers, and libraries are not "bit repositories" or "information dissemination facilities" or any such crap. Libraries should be where they keep the books.
OpenWRT, at http://www.OpenWRT.org/, is better. And free. With source. And has about a zillion little precompiled packages you can install right off the net.
Yeah, and that's why French is taking over the world and English is a fringe language spoken in only a few fringe countries. Also everyone in Germany and Scandinavia speaks perfect French and doesn't know any English. Also the Chinese are all busy learning French, and don't care about English.
Wait, maybe being polite to people learning a language has some value? If you want a grammar nazi get a sleeping dictionary; you don't really need a lecture each time you ask how to get to the bus station.
Internet2 using IPv6? Don't think so! Nor is anyone else. That is the problem isn't it? No viable bootstrap path.
$ host -t aaaa www.internet2.edu www.internet2.edu AAAA record currently not present $ host -t aaaa internet2.edu internet2.edu AAAA record currently not present $ host -t aaaa www.google.com www.google.com CNAME www.google.akadns.net www.google.akadns.net AAAA record currently not present $ host -t aaaa www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com CNAME www.yahoo.akadns.net www.yahoo.akadns.net has no AAAA record (Authoritative answer)
That's an article? People who want money for nothing demand a gift with no string attached? Their message to the authors of Linux: "All your software are belong to us!"
Your examples show that you do not actually understand the post you were responding to. Both pi and sqrt(2) are computable numbers. There are a countable number of computable numbers, since each can be specified by a finite computer program.
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Even if that were true, so what? Not the passenger's problem. Customers can be fickle; so it goes. To use business lingo, such expenses are a "cost of doing business."
Yesterday I bought a package of two doorknobs with the connecting rod, but I only attached one of them to my door where a knob had broken. Is the doorknob manufacturer going to sue me now?
Last Thursday I bought a happy meal at MacDonalds, but I didn't eat all the fries. Am I going to be sued?
Some of the students in a course I taught last semester didn't attend all the lectures. Can I sue them?
If Lufthansa really wants to penalize people for not using the second half of a connecting ticket they should charge an extra couple €100 up front, to be refunded upon successful completion of the full itinerary.
They've also promised to stop beating their wives, to stop sending classified government secrets to alien bases on the moons of Jupiter, to stop playing rugby while wearing white gloves and frilly dresses, to stop pulling out workers' fingernails as punishment for not clearing their desks before leaving for the day, and many other practices that they have never done and have no intention of ever doing.
Does anyone have an actual list of all the people poached from CMU by Uber in this incident?
The newspaper stories are high on breathlessness and background, but low on the actual names.
This is also a serious problem in Computer Science. Anything involving data or empirical results is susceptible to these sorts of issues. So, machine learning, computer vision, performance benchmarks, all these areas are rife with the sorts of issues discussed above.
People (and even Google) are taking the wrong lesson from this.
The sample used in this study was managers *at Google*. This is a biased sample, in that almost all of them will have high technical competence. So the statistical power of the study in determining how technical competence affects management performance will be low. In some other setting, where managers have much wider variability in technical competence, that factor would very likely show up much higher on the list.
(Analogy: if you conducted a study of how wealth affects cancer survival rates and only admitted millionaires to the study, you might get a very different result than if you also included people with very little money. The classic example of this effect in the statistics literature is a study of wages as a function of height, whose result changes if the sample includes only circus midgets.)
... not complying with an officer of the law is a crime (get out of the car, get down on the ground, put your hands on your head, ...)
Take off your clothes, give me a blow job, sign this piece of paper, stick your finger up your ...
(Hint: the order has to be *lawful*, which in this case, it arguably was not.)
Next they'll send plainclothes policemen to people's doors to ask for a glass of water, or to see if there's an unsecured spigot on the outside of the house. And if they find this sort of freely available water, they'll give them a stern talking-to. Because it(*) all starts with kindness to strangers!
(*) "It" being civilization: the biblical command to be kind to strangers, and the custom in the middle east to give water to travelers, date to prehistory are are literally the basis of our civilization.
... the force required increases as a square of the speed
The force required scales as the cube of the speed. When you go twice as fast the air has to move twice as fast to get out of the way, and square that for kinetic energy, but you also have to move twice as much air, giving a factor of eight. (On the other hand you only have to do the pushing for half as long, so the *total* work, which is the integral of the force, goes as the square of the speed.)
Yes, it is a shame he died in a tragic car accident, instead of one of those non-tragic fatal accidents.
If we lifted the sanctions on Palestine [...] it would take 15 years tops for them to start caring more about cars and TVs than God and Jews.
That's what Israel tried first. Until the 1st intifada, people in the West Bank and Gaza had largely unimpeded access to jobs across the Green Line, in Israel, and their salaries from such jobs constituted an enormous fraction of the economy of those territories.
It's not like Israel wants to impede the flow of goods across the border, even today. Gaza today, unoccupied, is powered by electricity from electric power plants in Israel. But when aluminum is used to make missiles that get shot across the border, preventing aluminum from getting across the border seems pretty tempting. Regardless of the measure's effectiveness.
Has anyone heard from the IRA since the Irish GDP shot up?
(a) I live in Ireland; (b) yes; (c) you're confusing Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland; and (d) correlation, even if it were true in this case which it is not, does not imply causality.
This is a FAQ about free software licences, see http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html question 12.g.
D-wave does not claim their device is universal. In particular they don't say they can do factoring. They claim to be able to efficiently do quantum simulation...
Being able to "efficiently do quantum simulation" makes a device a universal quantum computer. That is what "universal" means.
No, octave is (mostly) compatible with Matlab, it is pretty much unrelated to symbolic algebra packages like Mathematica or Maxima or Macsyma or Maple.
According to what I've read, the term "antisemitism" was coined by Jew-haters in Germany and Austria in the mid-1800s. It was intended to make hating Jews sound more respectable. The term caught on, and in fact it fulfilled its intended purpose: Jew-hating and Jew killing became all the rage, in fact downright fashionable, for quite a while. Heck, to this day it remains a popular passtime in some parts of the world!
So if you'd rather use some other term, like "Jew-hater", go ahead. In my opinion, it would be correct to say either "the parent post about AIPAC exhibits classic antisemitic themes and paranoia" or "that parent post about AIPAC was the worst sort of frothing-at-the-mouth Jew-hating claptrap."
Two people who crashed with *me* one night had a horrible experience: one of them got sick and I had to take them to A&E at the hospital and hang out with them and keep their spirits up until the situation was under control, they were up all night waiting and getting it taken care of.
Oh wait that's not horrible in the right sense, is it?
Maybe we're not hearing serious horror stories because they don't happen. If someone seemed creepy you could always just bail; it wouldn't be the end of the world. Probably you have some other contact in town (made on the same site) you could call for help. And it would be a really stupid situation for a predator to be violently criminal in: the victim could give the police detailed directions to where the criminal lives, along with a telephone number.
> a google is 10^10^10
The number is actually spelled GOOGOL, which is 10^100, ie 10^(10^2) or (10^10)^10. In normal usage 10^10^10 = 10^(10^10), which is much bigger.
I guess no one cares because once you have a PhD it doesn't really matter if you correctly translate some piddly small German degree as roughly equivalent to the correct piddly small American degree? Maybe he had a typo in the name of his second-grade teacher too: no one cares about that either.
I wrote an essay on this topic, Academic Libraries in the Digital Age.
OpenWRT, at http://www.OpenWRT.org/, is better. And free. With source. And has about a zillion little precompiled packages you can install right off the net.
Um, the Media Lab Europe Mindgames group and the people who did the work discussed in this story are collaborators.
Wait, maybe being polite to people learning a language has some value? If you want a grammar nazi get a sleeping dictionary; you don't really need a lecture each time you ask how to get to the bus station.
That's an article? People who want money for nothing demand a gift with no string attached? Their message to the authors of Linux: "All your software are belong to us!"
Your examples show that you do not actually understand the post you were responding to. Both pi and sqrt(2) are computable numbers. There are a countable number of computable numbers, since each can be specified by a finite computer program.