This is a typical slashdot comment. Uninformed, belittles others work.
Symmetry might work in some pictures. It might not work in others. Besides, the feature extraction needed to establish symmetry is non trivial (its the same as what the author of the paper does).
If this was so trivial, why didn't you build a system like this.
The world belongs to the doers, not the "Ah, I told you so" crowd.
ok - so here is something you don't want to hear.
Real geeks are not solder monkeys. Nor are they like "Saul Griffith", the guy on the main page of Ignite and who won a genius award. Thats just media driven hype. Tell me one lasting contribution Griffith has made.
Now, the real geeks are the people who walk around grocery stores thinking of the problem they want to solve. They build things, and often, it might just be something like a Microscope. Going to solder fests is not being geeky - its being a geek wannabe.
Text-Free UI represents a kind of low hanging fruit in the "developing countries computing" (or whatever fancy name they call it by).
If you had no expertise in the UI area, and then, if I were to ask you now, how would you design an UI for the illiterate, what would be your answer ?
Text-Free-UI would be your first guess. And of course, until the Microsoft Research India people, you'll probably acknowledge that it wont be sufficiently good.
Bill Gates should stop acting as if he is a visionary. He is not. He is a create new business models / optimize existing business models person. He should not try to masquerade as Steve Jobs, or for that matter, Nicholas Negroponte.
Go toot Microsoft research's horn elsewhere.
Thats a very good explanation. In general, filters that are 'lossy', i.e. - the picture loses information when the filter is applied, may still be reversed but will lose fidelity. In contrast, some filters apply a hard one way function which is hard to reverse
The reality of the situation is that SAT and GRE scores are so easy to doctor. I am an international student, and at MIT. I crammed 3000 words from word lists for the GRE. I scored 1480 (800 math + 680 verb). In terms of percentile scores, the math was 93% (even after a perfect:-) and the verb was 99%. Yet, my English really isn't as good as that of my fellow classmates, primarily because I am not really a native english speaker. So I think that a selectivity metric based on SAT / GRE scores is a weak one.
On the other hand, USNews rankings is a weak metric itself. But really, MIT is a great school - much bigger,better,faster than some California schools like to think.
I couldn't resist putting the last line in, after all, this mesg was posted from a 18.xxx.xx.xxx address.
Source-code examples of APIs enable developers to quickly gain a gestalt understanding of a librarys functionality, and they support organically creating applications by incrementally modifying a functional starting point. As an increasing number of web sites provide APIs, significant latent value lies in connecting the complementary representations between site and service in essence, enabling sites themselves to be the example corpus. We introduce d.mix, a tool for creating web mashups that leverages this site-to-service correspondence. With d.mix, users browse annotated web sites and select elements to sample. d.mixs sampling mechanism generates the underlying service calls that yield those elements. This code can be edited, executed, and shared in d.mixs wiki-based hosting environment. This sampling approach leverages pre-existing web sites as example sets and supports fluid composition and modification of examples. An initial study with eight participants found d.mix to enable rapid experimentation, and suggested avenues for improving its annotation mechanism.
CS / CompE is nice because it gives you true flavor of computer science. It makes you understand the entire chain - How you write software, how it is compiled & Assembeled, What is the role of the OS, How it gets converted to machine code, How the processor runs this machine code etc etc.
Its more fun ! than to train to write 100 line scripts. Think about it. How much fun will it be to have a processor run off the OS you wrote this term. (Here at MIT, the have a course where they make you write one - it is 6.828. Check it out).
Contrary to popular belief - the only people in CS departments in top indian schools are mathematicians. They are mathematicians who are doing CS because 1. There is a dearth of good math schools in India and 2. They want to milk the job prospect of a CS education.
Unfortunately, the real hackers, the people who can really invent things are told that they are dumb, and stupid, because they cant do math. wtf. and that is why people will still want to leave india.
'maintenance, training, Internet connectivity, and other factors are taken into account'
maintenance - Most breakdown are software. The neighborhood geek fixes it (nice for budding slashdotters - be nice or your olpc doesn't get fixed).
training - most kids teach themselves, their friends.
Internet Connectivity - The basic idea is to have a mesh network for olpc's. I can imagine a lot of peer to peer content and web sites. Hmm . interesting research.
other factors ? -- probably even less compelling that these.
It turns out that in ipv4 atleast, MIT has a top level domain (18) and China doesn't -- thereby theoretically putting the number of IP's at MIT > Whole of China.
Now, thats one good reason for China to try and move a part of MIT to the mainland
I am surprised that nobody pointed this out. While Bill Gates' argument has several holes, as does Negroponte's pet project, Bill's statement reflect a fear. The fear of simple computers that store most of their data online, use a simple (ergo, Non-MS) OS and mostly platform independent online applications. Phew, Microsoft would just become a 'had been' if that happens.
I remember that Sun did a lot of talk about Network Computer in the mid 1990's. Cheap, diskless terminals wherein all the apps and storage were done remotely on web servers. Seems like Google is going to do it now.
Engineering education, atleast in the better Indian engineering schools is heavily subsidized by the Govt. I am a student here and I pay less than $450 as annual fee for my engineering program. The Govt spends over $3000 p.a. on me.
After completing their education here, Indian students move to the US, first as grad students and then as dilligent employees of American companies. India itself doesn't benefit. If there are laws like these, fewers Indian will migrate to the states.
Did anybody consider that people in India are really doing jobs that are intended improve the quality of life of people in the states.
For example, when an Indian company writes a software for a US bank, it will help people in the US do business better. It will lead to lesser ATM not available or "out of cash" signs.
The vast majority of Indians continue to live without deriving real benefit from IT. True, they might have somewho who earns money because he writes s/w for citibank, but think of how much better it would have been had he instead written a software to help the poor farmer where to go to get the best market prices.
Maybe program a Lego Mindstorms RCX brick and have kids program it...and watch it do cool things.
Getting an Mindstorms set shouldn't be a problem. Why, even a local toy store that stocks it should we willing to loan you one. Your stall might just trigger a few purchases.
The report states that India would become world players because of one key reason.
Large Middle Class, with enough purchasing power.
Now, it is just me or does this sound rather fishy. Will large consumer population make people rich. I think one has to be very cautious about India. One disturbing aspect of it al is tht India is NOT really deriving much benefit from IT save making lots of $$ for off-shore work. The work is being done for American / Western Industry. Development or deployment of technology for the masses of the country is NOT happening. With that in mind, I would be rather sceptical of granting it 'economic superpower' status.
If one thinks about what Mr. Gates is really all about, certain things become clear.
1. Mr. Gates runs a Completely for profit organization with the motive to make the most money. His vision - 'To put every comp....blah' might as well be 'to teach everyone math and discover the joy of numbers' if there was money to be made by selling people that. We sometimes consider that he something more than a peddler and hence are shocked by his antics.
2. p : You voted for Bush. q : You spent your midlife worrying about your growing pouch and the Soviets. r : Bill Gatess' comment got you trying to recall your "In Case of a Nuclear Explosion Drill"
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This is a typical slashdot comment. Uninformed, belittles others work. Symmetry might work in some pictures. It might not work in others. Besides, the feature extraction needed to establish symmetry is non trivial (its the same as what the author of the paper does). If this was so trivial, why didn't you build a system like this. The world belongs to the doers, not the "Ah, I told you so" crowd.
ok - so here is something you don't want to hear. Real geeks are not solder monkeys. Nor are they like "Saul Griffith", the guy on the main page of Ignite and who won a genius award. Thats just media driven hype. Tell me one lasting contribution Griffith has made. Now, the real geeks are the people who walk around grocery stores thinking of the problem they want to solve. They build things, and often, it might just be something like a Microscope. Going to solder fests is not being geeky - its being a geek wannabe.
Text-Free UI represents a kind of low hanging fruit in the "developing countries computing" (or whatever fancy name they call it by). If you had no expertise in the UI area, and then, if I were to ask you now, how would you design an UI for the illiterate, what would be your answer ? Text-Free-UI would be your first guess. And of course, until the Microsoft Research India people, you'll probably acknowledge that it wont be sufficiently good. Bill Gates should stop acting as if he is a visionary. He is not. He is a create new business models / optimize existing business models person. He should not try to masquerade as Steve Jobs, or for that matter, Nicholas Negroponte. Go toot Microsoft research's horn elsewhere.
Thats a very good explanation. In general, filters that are 'lossy', i.e. - the picture loses information when the filter is applied, may still be reversed but will lose fidelity. In contrast, some filters apply a hard one way function which is hard to reverse
The reality of the situation is that SAT and GRE scores are so easy to doctor. I am an international student, and at MIT. I crammed 3000 words from word lists for the GRE. I scored 1480 (800 math + 680 verb). In terms of percentile scores, the math was 93% (even after a perfect :-) and the verb was 99%. Yet, my English really isn't as good as that of my fellow classmates, primarily because I am not really a native english speaker. So I think that a selectivity metric based on SAT / GRE scores is a weak one.
On the other hand, USNews rankings is a weak metric itself. But really, MIT is a great school - much bigger,better,faster than some California schools like to think.
I couldn't resist putting the last line in, after all, this mesg was posted from a 18.xxx.xx.xxx address.
http://hci.stanford.edu/research/mashups/index.html
Source-code examples of APIs enable developers to quickly gain a gestalt understanding of a librarys functionality, and they support organically creating applications by incrementally modifying a functional starting point. As an increasing number of web sites provide APIs, significant latent value lies in connecting the complementary representations between site and service in essence, enabling sites themselves to be the example corpus. We introduce d.mix, a tool for creating web mashups that leverages this site-to-service correspondence. With d.mix, users browse annotated web sites and select elements to sample. d.mixs sampling mechanism generates the underlying service calls that yield those elements. This code can be edited, executed, and shared in d.mixs wiki-based hosting environment. This sampling approach leverages pre-existing web sites as example sets and supports fluid composition and modification of examples. An initial study with eight participants found d.mix to enable rapid experimentation, and suggested avenues for improving its annotation mechanism.
Just for the record, McLurkin is a graduate student, not a professor at the good ol mit
CS / CompE is nice because it gives you true flavor of computer science. It makes you understand the entire chain - How you write software, how it is compiled & Assembeled, What is the role of the OS, How it gets converted to machine code, How the processor runs this machine code etc etc.
Its more fun ! than to train to write 100 line scripts. Think about it. How much fun will it be to have a processor run off the OS you wrote this term. (Here at MIT, the have a course where they make you write one - it is 6.828. Check it out).
Manas
Contrary to popular belief - the only people in CS departments in top indian schools are mathematicians. They are mathematicians who are doing CS because 1. There is a dearth of good math schools in India and 2. They want to milk the job prospect of a CS education. Unfortunately, the real hackers, the people who can really invent things are told that they are dumb, and stupid, because they cant do math. wtf. and that is why people will still want to leave india.
from TFA
'maintenance, training, Internet connectivity, and other factors are taken into account'
maintenance - Most breakdown are software. The neighborhood geek fixes it (nice for budding slashdotters - be nice or your olpc doesn't get fixed).
training - most kids teach themselves, their friends.
Internet Connectivity - The basic idea is to have a mesh network for olpc's. I can imagine a lot of peer to peer content and web sites. Hmm . interesting research.
other factors ? -- probably even less compelling that these.
It turns out that in ipv4 atleast, MIT has a top level domain (18) and China doesn't -- thereby theoretically putting the number of IP's at MIT > Whole of China. Now, thats one good reason for China to try and move a part of MIT to the mainland
I am surprised that nobody pointed this out. While Bill Gates' argument has several holes, as does Negroponte's pet project, Bill's statement reflect a fear. The fear of simple computers that store most of their data online, use a simple (ergo, Non-MS) OS and mostly platform independent online applications. Phew, Microsoft would just become a 'had been' if that happens. I remember that Sun did a lot of talk about Network Computer in the mid 1990's. Cheap, diskless terminals wherein all the apps and storage were done remotely on web servers. Seems like Google is going to do it now.
Engineering education, atleast in the better Indian engineering schools is heavily subsidized by the Govt. I am a student here and I pay less than $450 as annual fee for my engineering program. The Govt spends over $3000 p.a. on me. After completing their education here, Indian students move to the US, first as grad students and then as dilligent employees of American companies. India itself doesn't benefit. If there are laws like these, fewers Indian will migrate to the states.
Did anybody consider that people in India are really doing jobs that are intended improve the quality of life of people in the states.
For example, when an Indian company writes a software for a US bank, it will help people in the US do business better. It will lead to lesser ATM not available or "out of cash" signs.
The vast majority of Indians continue to live without deriving real benefit from IT. True, they might have somewho who earns money because he writes s/w for citibank, but think of how much better it would have been had he instead written a software to help the poor farmer where to go to get the best market prices.
Maybe program a Lego Mindstorms RCX brick and have kids program it...and watch it do cool things.
Getting an Mindstorms set shouldn't be a problem. Why, even a local toy store that stocks it should we willing to loan you one. Your stall might just trigger a few purchases.
Plus, you are sure to have a lot of fun yourself.
The report states that India would become world players because of one key reason. Large Middle Class, with enough purchasing power. Now, it is just me or does this sound rather fishy. Will large consumer population make people rich. I think one has to be very cautious about India. One disturbing aspect of it al is tht India is NOT really deriving much benefit from IT save making lots of $$ for off-shore work. The work is being done for American / Western Industry. Development or deployment of technology for the masses of the country is NOT happening. With that in mind, I would be rather sceptical of granting it 'economic superpower' status.
If one thinks about what Mr. Gates is really all about, certain things become clear.
1. Mr. Gates runs a Completely for profit organization with the motive to make the most money. His vision - 'To put every comp....blah' might as well be 'to teach everyone math and discover the joy of numbers' if there was money to be made by selling people that. We sometimes consider that he something more than a peddler and hence are shocked by his antics.
2.
p : You voted for Bush.
q : You spent your midlife worrying about your growing pouch and the Soviets.
r : Bill Gatess' comment got you trying to recall your "In Case of a Nuclear Explosion Drill"
p AND q -> r