I don't know what the law is on the books, but after living in NYC for 15 years I can say I never saw an NYPD, NYFD or an ambulance wait at a red light with their lights on and a siren going. Of course they don't plow right through it, slowing down considerably at each intersection. I think I would be somewhat concerned actually if they obayed the traffice lights!
Pretty much the only time I deal with an email address is when I create an alias for it in my mail client. Why are people so hung up about getting the name you want... silly people.
I wholeheartedly agree. SICP is a great choice because it emphesizes the "computational" aspect of CS. I think starting people off with assembly is not a great idea because it imposes a specific architecture on students that just happens to be popular at the time. There is plenty of time for that in later parts of a 4-year curriculum.
> This country is all about the freedom to choose and if > you assign healthcare to all, this takes away from that > freedom.
I could not have said it better myself. The government must not be in the business of healing people. Why is it so hard for people to get it through their heads that the time to get sick is when they're working.
Now I just wish I was given back the right to kill people. This country is all about freedom after all!
I completely agree. It's much more intuitive, effective and elegant than pasting bar codes onto pieces and putting them on a scanner. It seems like a very doable image recognition problem and you could probably make the software flexible enough so that it would be board and piece independant, even for chess.
Than again, it's easy to speak in could and would haves.
The Brin/Page paper The PageRank citation ranking: bringing order to the web., which describes the PageRank algorithm, does't have any "serious" linear algebra that I could see. The PageRank implementation does become non-trivial because you have to use out-of-core sorting (disk based merge sort) and you have to optimize it for speed because of the huge size of the dataset (the web graph). Other than that there is nothing magical about Pagerank.
This excerpt taken from a paper written by Dijkstra in 1986 seems very appropriate:
"...society tolerates the computing profession because of its incompetance. It is our incopetence that makes us, though expensive, relatively harmless: were we as competent as we would like to be, we would offer the perfect implementation of the complete police state. We would be the darling of any dictatorship"
I would imagine google uses a highly compressed inverted index stored probably in a flat file format. If you would like to read some academic literature on the subject you can find a great list of resources compiled by Prof. Torsten Suel.
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I don't know what the law is on the books, but after living in NYC for 15 years I can say I never saw an NYPD, NYFD or an ambulance wait at a red light with their lights on and a siren going. Of course they don't plow right through it, slowing down considerably at each intersection. I think I would be somewhat concerned actually if they obayed the traffice lights!
Just fax the documents to a computer.
Pretty much the only time I deal with an email address is when I create an alias for it in my mail client. Why are people so hung up about getting the name you want ... silly people.
I wholeheartedly agree. SICP is a great choice because it emphesizes the "computational" aspect of CS. I think starting people off with assembly is not a great idea because it imposes a specific architecture on students that just happens to be popular at the time. There is plenty of time for that in later parts of a 4-year curriculum.
The language you're referring to is spelled LISP.
Problem: Incompetance
Solution: Use terrorist as a scare tactic to use Congress for his own personal agenda.
Problem: "War on terrorism" not working
Solution: Distract people by invading a country under false pretenses.
Problem: Occupation a complete failure
Solution: Distruct people with promises of space travel and extra terrestial habitats.
It's reassuring to know we have some real bright people governing this country.
> This country is all about the freedom to choose and if > you assign healthcare to all, this takes away from that > freedom.
I could not have said it better myself. The government must not be in the business of healing people. Why is it so hard for people to get it through their heads that the time to get sick is when they're working.
Now I just wish I was given back the right to kill people. This country is all about freedom after all!
You, sir, have made me sad today, very sad.
I completely agree. It's much more intuitive, effective and elegant than pasting bar codes onto pieces and putting them on a scanner.
It seems like a very doable image recognition problem and you could probably make the software flexible enough so that it would be board and piece independant, even for chess.
Than again, it's easy to speak in could and would haves.
Where have all the talented white men gone?
Thankfully they're now working alongside talented women and "non-white" men.
A solid state relay (S101S05v) is not a mechanical switch.
The Brin/Page paper The PageRank citation ranking: bringing order to the web., which describes the PageRank algorithm, does't have any "serious" linear algebra that I could see. The PageRank implementation does become non-trivial because you have to use out-of-core sorting (disk based merge sort) and you have to optimize it for speed because of the huge size of the dataset (the web graph). Other than that there is nothing magical about Pagerank.
This excerpt taken from a paper written by Dijkstra in 1986 seems very appropriate:
"...society tolerates the computing profession because of its incompetance. It is our incopetence that makes us, though expensive, relatively harmless: were we as competent as we would like to be, we would offer the perfect implementation of the complete police state. We would be the darling of any dictatorship"
Food for thought.
I would imagine google uses a highly compressed inverted index stored probably in a flat file format. If you would like to read some academic literature on the subject you can find a great list of resources compiled by Prof. Torsten Suel.