I don't know... We placed 4th in the ACM this year, which is no small feat.
Unless you mean engineering specifically, as opposed to the school in general, in which case I have no clue. I avoid that side of campus (except during EngScunt).:P
Still, I'd agree with you; if he hasn't attended the school before, he really has no good basis for comparison. He should decide for himself.
Take a look at most of the algorithms churned out by any Algs researcher... Most of them are rather unimplementable. They don't care if the constant is 2 ^ 1000 on its big O running time as long as it is in P.
Actually, you can find the first x greatest or smallest elements of an unsorted list in O(n) time. This can be done using a modified quick-sort, in which you use the algorithm itself to choose the pivot.
Well, at least you have another good stress test.:P
Just fix the problem and post a dupe in a couple of days(don't worry; it'll get posted), to make sure everything's working fine under high load.
In my program here at Waterloo I actually notice a lot of people dropping out of C.S. for the reason you're in it.:P They like to program, but don't like the math that goes along with the degree. And then there's the people who like neither. Maybe they missed the bubble too.
Sheesh. What did we learn in CS now, kids?
The total number of possible situations is static. So, a brute-force calculation of all possiblities has a constant running time. This is fabulous! Computer Scientists kill for running times like this! Who cares if the constant is huge! Heck, it's faster than a binary search in a perfectly balanced binary tree... Assuming the tree is really, really big.:P
I think the problem lays more with the server than with your connection. The speed at which you download is limited to the slowest component of the network; if the server has been/.ed, regardless of your connection speed, you will download slowly.
Mind you, you are probably right about the file being too big. If it weren't that big, the server might not have been overwhelmed.
Azala: Soon, stones of fire will rain down. Flames shall scorch the land.
The burned plains will slowly freeze, ushering in a long, cruel ice age. Mwa,
ha ha... what a treat! You will wish you went along with us! Mwa ha!
Ayla: Lavos...
Yes, but does the Geologist actually go deep into a coal mine and hack at rock with a pickaxe as their 9-5 job? That is the difference between CS and Programming: programming is the act of writing the code. Computer Science is the science behind how and why you write code the way you do (Amongst other things).
I thought that the low 8 bits of unicode mapped to ascii? If that's so, then shouldn't it be fine?
I would think that the main problem would be with filesystems and such. I.e. nothing 25 years from now might be able to read an NTFS/FAT32 partition.
Well, I don't have kids, so my opinion might not be worth as much as someone who does. However, here it goes:
Wouldn't it be better to, instead of limiting what a child sees, teach him or her about what is right or wrong? In having this knowledge, the child can make an informed decision about "sensitive" topics, such as violence. when he or she does not have a parent present to give advice. Parents cannot be everywhere at once; at some point in a child's life, he or she will have to make such a decision alone. Would you have the government prevent your child from having to make the decsion? Or would you rather have the child make it for him/herself using the wisdom and morals gleaned from his or her parents' teachings?
I don't know, I kind of like SSHing into my linux box at home and playing NetHack. I got a couple of other people at work playing it, so we now have a high-score competition going.
If this is off-topic then so are all of the rest of the posts under the grandparent. Look at the grandparent's title. What do you think it was talking about? Yeah, it was talking about the "fact" that the US won WW2 for Europe.
You know, if Britain and the various Commonwealth countries hadn't been fighting back we would probably be speaking German. Sometimes it takes contributions from more than one party to win something. The United State's involvement in WW2 is not the only reason the Germans didn't win.
Now, you might argue that, since the UK supported the US in Iraq, they were implicity included in your reasoning as to why we aren't speaking German. However, you continuously focus on the US throughout your post, leading me to believe that you had not intended to include the UK in this discussion.
I thought about pointing that out, but I didn't want to make any assumptions about what browser was being used. Mind you, I guess I kind of did when I said to disable javascript; for all I know he was using a browser which doesn't allow this (though I doubt it).
I think that the tsunami article wasn't saying that global warming caused tsunamies; it was saying that the flooding of lowlands in SE Asia caused by the tsunami is a good indication of what rising sea levels could do... At least, that's what I hope it was saying. Otherwise, well, you're right.;)
I remember walking accross Columbia around Phillip during exams (I decided to take a long walk to Conestoga Mall from campus). It had snowed earlier that day, and I'm pretty sure that there was snow on the road.
Mind you, I'm also pretty sure that this guy's joking.
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I don't know... We placed 4th in the ACM this year, which is no small feat. Unless you mean engineering specifically, as opposed to the school in general, in which case I have no clue. I avoid that side of campus (except during EngScunt). :P
Still, I'd agree with you; if he hasn't attended the school before, he really has no good basis for comparison. He should decide for himself.
Take a look at most of the algorithms churned out by any Algs researcher... Most of them are rather unimplementable. They don't care if the constant is 2 ^ 1000 on its big O running time as long as it is in P.
Actually, you can find the first x greatest or smallest elements of an unsorted list in O(n) time. This can be done using a modified quick-sort, in which you use the algorithm itself to choose the pivot.
Well, at least you have another good stress test. :P
Just fix the problem and post a dupe in a couple of days(don't worry; it'll get posted), to make sure everything's working fine under high load.
Wow. How can they expect to host an MMORPG when the site is slashdotted in a few minutes?
In my program here at Waterloo I actually notice a lot of people dropping out of C.S. for the reason you're in it. :P They like to program, but don't like the math that goes along with the degree. And then there's the people who like neither. Maybe they missed the bubble too.
Sheesh. What did we learn in CS now, kids? The total number of possible situations is static. So, a brute-force calculation of all possiblities has a constant running time. This is fabulous! Computer Scientists kill for running times like this! Who cares if the constant is huge! Heck, it's faster than a binary search in a perfectly balanced binary tree... Assuming the tree is really, really big. :P
I think the problem lays more with the server than with your connection. The speed at which you download is limited to the slowest component of the network; if the server has been /.ed, regardless of your connection speed, you will download slowly.
Mind you, you are probably right about the file being too big. If it weren't that big, the server might not have been overwhelmed.
If I remember correctly, you don't need cable to get CBC in any of the more populated areas of Canada; you can get it through antenna.
Azala: Soon, stones of fire will rain down. Flames shall scorch the land. The burned plains will slowly freeze, ushering in a long, cruel ice age. Mwa, ha ha... what a treat! You will wish you went along with us! Mwa ha! Ayla: Lavos...
Yes, but does the Geologist actually go deep into a coal mine and hack at rock with a pickaxe as their 9-5 job? That is the difference between CS and Programming: programming is the act of writing the code. Computer Science is the science behind how and why you write code the way you do (Amongst other things).
Well, it's nice to know that I'll probably be appreciated once I graduate. ;)
I don't think it's babelfish; it prints out accents, which were missing from the grandparent.
Well, this is the IT world, so he obviously won't be getting Any Respect
I thought that the low 8 bits of unicode mapped to ascii? If that's so, then shouldn't it be fine? I would think that the main problem would be with filesystems and such. I.e. nothing 25 years from now might be able to read an NTFS/FAT32 partition.
Well, I don't have kids, so my opinion might not be worth as much as someone who does. However, here it goes:
Wouldn't it be better to, instead of limiting what a child sees, teach him or her about what is right or wrong? In having this knowledge, the child can make an informed decision about "sensitive" topics, such as violence. when he or she does not have a parent present to give advice. Parents cannot be everywhere at once; at some point in a child's life, he or she will have to make such a decision alone. Would you have the government prevent your child from having to make the decsion? Or would you rather have the child make it for him/herself using the wisdom and morals gleaned from his or her parents' teachings?
I don't know, I kind of like SSHing into my linux box at home and playing NetHack. I got a couple of other people at work playing it, so we now have a high-score competition going.
Sounds familiar... *shudders*
If this is off-topic then so are all of the rest of the posts under the grandparent. Look at the grandparent's title. What do you think it was talking about? Yeah, it was talking about the "fact" that the US won WW2 for Europe.
You know, if Britain and the various Commonwealth countries hadn't been fighting back we would probably be speaking German. Sometimes it takes contributions from more than one party to win something. The United State's involvement in WW2 is not the only reason the Germans didn't win.
Now, you might argue that, since the UK supported the US in Iraq, they were implicity included in your reasoning as to why we aren't speaking German. However, you continuously focus on the US throughout your post, leading me to believe that you had not intended to include the UK in this discussion.
I thought about pointing that out, but I didn't want to make any assumptions about what browser was being used. Mind you, I guess I kind of did when I said to disable javascript; for all I know he was using a browser which doesn't allow this (though I doubt it).
You could always temporarily disable javascript, if they're using that and not a server-side script.
I think that the tsunami article wasn't saying that global warming caused tsunamies; it was saying that the flooding of lowlands in SE Asia caused by the tsunami is a good indication of what rising sea levels could do... At least, that's what I hope it was saying. Otherwise, well, you're right. ;)
Is it possible for them to modify the certificate stored on your hard-drive? If so, then they shouldn't have to change the browser.
I remember walking accross Columbia around Phillip during exams (I decided to take a long walk to Conestoga Mall from campus). It had snowed earlier that day, and I'm pretty sure that there was snow on the road.
Mind you, I'm also pretty sure that this guy's joking.