I think this could be a very useful service. One of the main defenses I hear from music pirates is that they are trying the music, and usually buy later quite a bit of what they download. With a service like this, why bother pirating when you can legally download a song/album, listen to it 5 times and decide if you want to purchase it?
This new form of advertising is turning into a booming business that some say is cluttering the Internet and could be violating trademark rules.
How on earth do you "clutter the internet"? It's not like there is a fixed amount of space.
Interestingly enough, gogle.com, gooogle.com, and goolge.com all redirect to Google.
That's where I got my start into programming. I felt like writing games for my TI-89, and after realizing TI BASIC sucks, went hunting and found a C compiler (http://www.tigcc.ticalc.org/) and learned C. From there I moved on to programming computers, and have since learned Fortran, C++, Java, Ruby and become a decently well-rounded programmer. So while kids may start out programming calculators, it's an easy transition to computers in general (at least I found that).
I think you mean linealy independent, not mutually orthogonal. Infact, the word orthogonal isn't even in Rabin's paper. Thus, what Rabin has done is shown how to generate n vectors such that any m are linearly independent .
Now the state he used to lead is poised to become the first to ban governments and private businesses from forcing such implants on employees, privacy advocates say.
Employers wouldn't force you to have an implant any more than they would force you to be there from 9-5. You are always free to find another job with terms more to your liking, whether those be work hours, responsibilities, or name badge/RFID requirements. This sounds like something French students would have passed.
Basic research? A few of these problems are famous for the fact that they've gone unsolved for so long. That's like calling Wiles's proof "basic research".
If you have something significant towards a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis, surely you're going to publish that in a peer-reviewed journal, not throw it online in a wiki. I'm not sure what the incentive is for mathematicians to use this.
I think this is the most important reason. As a math major (and former CS major), I find that my coding has gotten a lot better with the more proof-based math I do in large part due to the attention to detail. Higher maths require you to pay attention to details, which in turn teaches you to pay attention to details in code. Little of the actual math I know can be used (unless you're working for Wolfram or something), but some of the mental tools apply to both fields.
This is clearly a situation where the market economy is going to favor lower prices, not (necessarily) environmentally desirable results.
Doesn't that imply that people aren't on board with reducing global warming, as if they were they'd be willing to pay higher prices to reduce emissions? People are only in favor of reducing global warming as much as they can pass the costs of reducing it on to others (via the State).
Anyone who's majored in Mathematics (I did) must spend one semester carefully defining, understanding, and proving continuity. What's described by today's "etiquette" clearly and egregiously violates the notion of continuous, rendering the euphemism "Continous Partial Attention" nothing more than an oxymoron.
Somehow I think an epsilon-delta proof in the middle of the article would trigger a discontinuity in the attention span of the reader.
Exactly. They probably designed it to have a 95% or so chance of lasting those 90 days, which would require a mean time to failure (of the entire robot) of a much longer time. Not that that makes it any less of an engineering feat.
But sometimes it's just the opposite, and government intervention is required to overturn a monopoly that has established itself by choking its competition in the free market.
I beg to differ. If the customers valued competition more than temporarily lower prices they would support any new startup competition in that area. If customers do not decide that, it is because they feel the monopoly is serving them better than competition could, as the grandparent put it.
So if I sign up for this, and somebody using my connections downloads all sorts of illegal files, who is the RIAA going to sue? The obvious choice seems the subscriber of the internet connection which would be me. FON's website says
"Am I responsible if a user uses my connection for any illicit activity?
No. As long as you have not actively participated in the commission of a crime or do not have knowledge that a particular individual is using your connection to commit a crime or illegal activity, it is our understanding that you are not responsible. Nevertheless, this may vary depending on the laws of each country. Furthermore, FON discourages any inappropriate use of your connection by making sure that each user of the FON Community has registered and is identifiable."
Not very reassuring to me.
We are not really solving graduate level math problems. It's really a reactive model honed through lots of experience, whereas graduate level math would be more of a predictive model. It's more akin to feedback loop than any symbolic manipulation, which is what higher math would be.
and we have to provide for public funding of campaigns, so politicians don't have to beg for money and become beholden.
Um... no. If you don't want them begging for money, you feel free to pay for their campaigns. Don't force me to with my tax dollars.
Why Firefox, and not Opera given the recent dealings between the two companies? Especially if this is being targeted at non-high end users, I would think Opera would work better for them since they wouldn't have to install oodles of extensions to get the same features.
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I think this could be a very useful service. One of the main defenses I hear from music pirates is that they are trying the music, and usually buy later quite a bit of what they download. With a service like this, why bother pirating when you can legally download a song/album, listen to it 5 times and decide if you want to purchase it?
This new form of advertising is turning into a booming business that some say is cluttering the Internet and could be violating trademark rules. How on earth do you "clutter the internet"? It's not like there is a fixed amount of space. Interestingly enough, gogle.com, gooogle.com, and goolge.com all redirect to Google.
That's where I got my start into programming. I felt like writing games for my TI-89, and after realizing TI BASIC sucks, went hunting and found a C compiler (http://www.tigcc.ticalc.org/) and learned C. From there I moved on to programming computers, and have since learned Fortran, C++, Java, Ruby and become a decently well-rounded programmer. So while kids may start out programming calculators, it's an easy transition to computers in general (at least I found that).
This quiz doesn't measure anything. Where's the option for "Both of these look suspicious and I wouldn't go near either of them"?
Shouldn't that be inside a while(1) loop?
What's a shame is his erroneous post is sitting at +4 insightful, and the posts with good math in them aren't modded up.
It's an l dimensional space though. The PDF of the paper is http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=62050&type =pdf&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=70220506&CFTOKEN=528 80553, and is accessible to anyone who's had an undergraduate course in linear algebra. The crux of the argument is on page 4.
I think you mean linealy independent, not mutually orthogonal. Infact, the word orthogonal isn't even in Rabin's paper. Thus, what Rabin has done is shown how to generate n vectors such that any m are linearly independent .
Now the state he used to lead is poised to become the first to ban governments and private businesses from forcing such implants on employees, privacy advocates say.
Employers wouldn't force you to have an implant any more than they would force you to be there from 9-5. You are always free to find another job with terms more to your liking, whether those be work hours, responsibilities, or name badge/RFID requirements. This sounds like something French students would have passed.
Basic research? A few of these problems are famous for the fact that they've gone unsolved for so long. That's like calling Wiles's proof "basic research".
If you have something significant towards a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis, surely you're going to publish that in a peer-reviewed journal, not throw it online in a wiki. I'm not sure what the incentive is for mathematicians to use this.
I think this is the most important reason. As a math major (and former CS major), I find that my coding has gotten a lot better with the more proof-based math I do in large part due to the attention to detail. Higher maths require you to pay attention to details, which in turn teaches you to pay attention to details in code. Little of the actual math I know can be used (unless you're working for Wolfram or something), but some of the mental tools apply to both fields.
And end up... right where they are right now.
Doesn't that imply that people aren't on board with reducing global warming, as if they were they'd be willing to pay higher prices to reduce emissions? People are only in favor of reducing global warming as much as they can pass the costs of reducing it on to others (via the State).
Somehow I think an epsilon-delta proof in the middle of the article would trigger a discontinuity in the attention span of the reader.
I'm suing the moderators for depriving me of my right to free speech by not modding this comment up, without reason or warning!
Exactly. They probably designed it to have a 95% or so chance of lasting those 90 days, which would require a mean time to failure (of the entire robot) of a much longer time. Not that that makes it any less of an engineering feat.
15 million kelvins. Degrees Kelvin is not a unit.
But sometimes it's just the opposite, and government intervention is required to overturn a monopoly that has established itself by choking its competition in the free market. I beg to differ. If the customers valued competition more than temporarily lower prices they would support any new startup competition in that area. If customers do not decide that, it is because they feel the monopoly is serving them better than competition could, as the grandparent put it.
"gullable" isn't in the dictionary
So if I sign up for this, and somebody using my connections downloads all sorts of illegal files, who is the RIAA going to sue? The obvious choice seems the subscriber of the internet connection which would be me. FON's website says "Am I responsible if a user uses my connection for any illicit activity? No. As long as you have not actively participated in the commission of a crime or do not have knowledge that a particular individual is using your connection to commit a crime or illegal activity, it is our understanding that you are not responsible. Nevertheless, this may vary depending on the laws of each country. Furthermore, FON discourages any inappropriate use of your connection by making sure that each user of the FON Community has registered and is identifiable." Not very reassuring to me.
Or at the very least, build one of these type hubs into a 802.11 WAP so it's only one box sitting on the desk instead of 2
We are not really solving graduate level math problems. It's really a reactive model honed through lots of experience, whereas graduate level math would be more of a predictive model. It's more akin to feedback loop than any symbolic manipulation, which is what higher math would be.
and we have to provide for public funding of campaigns, so politicians don't have to beg for money and become beholden. Um... no. If you don't want them begging for money, you feel free to pay for their campaigns. Don't force me to with my tax dollars.
Why Firefox, and not Opera given the recent dealings between the two companies? Especially if this is being targeted at non-high end users, I would think Opera would work better for them since they wouldn't have to install oodles of extensions to get the same features.