wow...you really are fed on a steady diet of CNN pictures and their associated blurbs aren't you? perhaps you should get out in the real world a little bit. also, it's a sniper detecting robot. it's quite unlikely that it would be deployed in the midst of "arabs who shoot guns in the air to celebrate". and i'm assuming that the soldiers who use the bot have enough sense to differentiate a crowd of happy people with guns from a sniper on a roof somewhere.
what's that you say? it was a joke? hmm.....
uh-oh...all the personal information in the letter is "redacted", except for one line with (presumably) the defendant's name and address...looks like major privacy breach for Ms. Schwartz.
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Because some students actually *want* to do research in an academic environment, i.e. without a boss or product and with complete flexibility in what they do. Believe it or not, money isn't everything to some people.
So needless to say, I am highly suspect of the actual education in India's Universities/Colleges.
While the visiting professor at your institution does sound like a dullard (at least for not understanding the concept of cultural differences), your sample size for judging the whole educational system of India is ONE. Also, your point about the laborious mathematical question is... debatable. One could also claim that if your friend had a solid grasp on the concepts, had practiced similar problems knowing that the professor was a hard-ass, then he should have been able to perform the numerical calculations quickly on the exam. While the professor does sound like a complete a*hole, you also seem to be sniffling a little at having a really hard course with a convenient boogeyman - the visiting foreign professor who just doesn't GET you.
Social network analysis has been done to death, not only by computer scientists but also by physicists and anyone else who thinks they have jurisdiction over network analysis. Large-scale models of processes spreading in social networks have already been done. The one that comes to mind is EPISIMS done at the LANL. They combined various sources of demographic, traffic and other data for the city of Portland to build a real-world simulation of an epidemiological outbreak (check the site for some nice animations of small pox spreading) They're currently working on other cities including Chicago I think. There's also a TON of work on the web as a social network, including influence maximization models (google scholar search for Jon Kleinberg -- he was also featured in NYT a while ago) and pretty much any application you can think of.
*sigh*---RTFA. There's nothing about computers getting cancer, and really no relation to worms/malware etc. The researchers built models of cancer growth in order to empirically study how cancer spreads. If you wanted to build worms, there are much better models for spreading influence in computer networks than cancer growth.
Genetic algorithms and neural networks really don't have anything to do with bioinformatics. Both are "inspired" by biological processes but the comparison really ends there. Genetic algorithms, for example, are very similar to several other informed search algorithms which have nothing to do with biology, e.g. simulated annealing ("inspired" by physics and statistical considerations) and beam search. Neural networks are also contentious in the context you mentioned in the sense that they really don't stick to biological models. Backpropagation, for example, violates biological findings.
The bioinformatics you speak of, and the article as well, is really an ongoing overhauling of the way biology is done. Being in machine learning/computational biology myself, I can tell you that neural networks and genetic algorithms are rarely used in computational biology because there are no performance guarantees. Approximation algorithms, on the other hand, are pretty big.
And I've come to realize that Judeo-based/Christian morals are the last thing I'd ever impart on my kids (if I ever have any).
This could be one thing that's seriously wrong with atheism. All the god-fearing folk wait until marriage to "consummate their love" and, combined with the evils of birth control, eventually squeeze out smaller god-fearing folk, thus increasing the number of god-fearing folk in the world. Atheists like yourself, on the other hand, are unconstrained by this god-given morality and don't feel the burning desire to have kids and propagate. And what do we have then? The number of atheists decrease, and the god-fearing folk increase. Is that the kind of world you want?? Shame on you. Go forth and propagate, and teach your children your ways and how to think and reason and survive without dogma in a cruel world. As for me? I have another impediment to atheistic propagation -- I'm in computer science.
What's most interesting to me is that it's not the supply curve that's the issue -- it's the demand curve.
Why is this surprising? For most purposes, oil 'supply' is finite (given that the sum of discovered and undiscovered oil isn't going to increase significantly in the next 40 years). Companies can increase their production, new sources could be found, but there's definitely a hard limit on that. Demand, on the other hand, can increase essentially without limit (people just have to consume more, which hardly has a limit). Perhaps I'm just not understanding the exact usage of supply and demand in this context, but then I'm not an economist and have never taken an economics class.
(esp. considering it will take at least 3 to get a PhD).
HAHA....you wish! I don't know about australia, but 3 years is awfully quick for a ph.d., even if you go in with a masters. sure, if you know exactly what you're going to be doing and have some sort of head start, but how many people have that going into their programs?
And, believe it or not, diversity in CS is on the rise; it isn't a white boys' club any more.
Um...diversity seems to be falling according to the latest numbers released by the nsf (don't have the link on me). First of all, above the undergraduate level, 'white boys' are vastly in the minority. Female undergraduate enrollment has actually been dropping in the last few years, although that could be because of the general trend away from CS. Sure, CS is more diverse than it was several years ago, but diversity definitely isn't on the rise.
I think what you want to say is that CS is a branch of "applied mathematics". Mathematicians will agree, pure math has very little to do with the real world, while even theoretical CS has implications for the real world. If someone proves the intractability of a problem, then other theoreticians will work on approximation algorithms, which will trickle down to implementations and eventually in the newest iPod somehow (just an example).
TFA says it was fixed, but the first test was the user sending files to himself on his own computer using two instances of GAIM. Can you say redundant? "Yes, GAIM connects perfectly well to this 127.0.0.1 IP address...".
to everyone who just dropped a ton of cash building a brand new athlon x2 socket 939 systems...my condolences. at least this will bring the price of the higher-end athlon x2s down for the rest of us...yay!
1) There is no way in hell Microsoft would document their API to the level necessary to allow Apple to duplicate it.
Most of Microsoft's API is already documented. The whole point of an API is that it doesn't matter HOW you implement the functions, as long as you offer the same frontend. So MS not completely documenting their API seems like it would only affect Microsoft apps that use undocumented functionality. I'm assuming that developers at other companies have to use the published Win32 API. So you'll have Mac OS X running all apps that don't use undocumented functionality.
Besides, it might be fun to isolate the undocumented behavior -- map API calls to return values on Wine/OSX (the "published" API) and then on Windows to catch the undocumented shite.
Watches - not really needed, although $350 buys you about the most expensive running watch you can find (heartrate, GPS, computer sync, et cetera).
why would people want WATCHES with computer sync?? if you're life's THAT important that your watch needs to stay in sync with your computer, you need a vacation.
confirmed reports of large colonies of wild boars and wolves...have undergone considerable mutation but such mutations have not impacted crucial functions like reproduction.
We're fine until we have confirmed reports of colonies of large wild boars and wolves
I am highly skeptical about this. Opinion extraction in general is a difficult area of data mining with enough problems in areas as (relatively) well defined as Amazon reviews, etc. To try to measure the general mood of the "blogosphere" with any measure of accuracy is useless at best. And just how are you supposed to even roughly verify the "mood" for arbitrary ideas?? Random human sampling and verification just won't cut it...
Companies might be better off using a magic 8 ball...
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wow...you really are fed on a steady diet of CNN pictures and their associated blurbs aren't you? perhaps you should get out in the real world a little bit. also, it's a sniper detecting robot. it's quite unlikely that it would be deployed in the midst of "arabs who shoot guns in the air to celebrate". and i'm assuming that the soldiers who use the bot have enough sense to differentiate a crowd of happy people with guns from a sniper on a roof somewhere. what's that you say? it was a joke? hmm.....
that is TERRIBLE. It should have been: "In soviet russia, social network find you!"
At this early juncture in commercial space travel, let's all pray that TSA doesn't get their paws on spaceport security.
Yes you're right...it would be AWESOME. but some think it's a fair trade...at least for a couple of years.
wait...wasn't he a plumber?
well, closer to the average software engineer than the others i suppose.
uh-oh...all the personal information in the letter is "redacted", except for one line with (presumably) the defendant's name and address...looks like major privacy breach for Ms. Schwartz.
Because some students actually *want* to do research in an academic environment, i.e. without a boss or product and with complete flexibility in what they do. Believe it or not, money isn't everything to some people.
While the visiting professor at your institution does sound like a dullard (at least for not understanding the concept of cultural differences), your sample size for judging the whole educational system of India is ONE. Also, your point about the laborious mathematical question is ... debatable. One could also claim that if your friend had a solid grasp on the concepts, had practiced similar problems knowing that the professor was a hard-ass, then he should have been able to perform the numerical calculations quickly on the exam. While the professor does sound like a complete a*hole, you also seem to be sniffling a little at having a really hard course with a convenient boogeyman - the visiting foreign professor who just doesn't GET you.
Social network analysis has been done to death, not only by computer scientists but also by physicists and anyone else who thinks they have jurisdiction over network analysis. Large-scale models of processes spreading in social networks have already been done. The one that comes to mind is EPISIMS done at the LANL. They combined various sources of demographic, traffic and other data for the city of Portland to build a real-world simulation of an epidemiological outbreak (check the site for some nice animations of small pox spreading) They're currently working on other cities including Chicago I think. There's also a TON of work on the web as a social network, including influence maximization models (google scholar search for Jon Kleinberg -- he was also featured in NYT a while ago) and pretty much any application you can think of.
*sigh*---RTFA. There's nothing about computers getting cancer, and really no relation to worms/malware etc. The researchers built models of cancer growth in order to empirically study how cancer spreads. If you wanted to build worms, there are much better models for spreading influence in computer networks than cancer growth.
The bioinformatics you speak of, and the article as well, is really an ongoing overhauling of the way biology is done. Being in machine learning/computational biology myself, I can tell you that neural networks and genetic algorithms are rarely used in computational biology because there are no performance guarantees. Approximation algorithms, on the other hand, are pretty big.
what's a geek without misanthropic tendencies?
This could be one thing that's seriously wrong with atheism. All the god-fearing folk wait until marriage to "consummate their love" and, combined with the evils of birth control, eventually squeeze out smaller god-fearing folk, thus increasing the number of god-fearing folk in the world. Atheists like yourself, on the other hand, are unconstrained by this god-given morality and don't feel the burning desire to have kids and propagate. And what do we have then? The number of atheists decrease, and the god-fearing folk increase. Is that the kind of world you want?? Shame on you. Go forth and propagate, and teach your children your ways and how to think and reason and survive without dogma in a cruel world. As for me? I have another impediment to atheistic propagation -- I'm in computer science.
so our intrepid martian pioneers would have two suns to look at...that could be interesting. quite a throwback to old asimov stories.
Why is this surprising? For most purposes, oil 'supply' is finite (given that the sum of discovered and undiscovered oil isn't going to increase significantly in the next 40 years). Companies can increase their production, new sources could be found, but there's definitely a hard limit on that. Demand, on the other hand, can increase essentially without limit (people just have to consume more, which hardly has a limit). Perhaps I'm just not understanding the exact usage of supply and demand in this context, but then I'm not an economist and have never taken an economics class.
HAHA....you wish! I don't know about australia, but 3 years is awfully quick for a ph.d., even if you go in with a masters. sure, if you know exactly what you're going to be doing and have some sort of head start, but how many people have that going into their programs?
And, believe it or not, diversity in CS is on the rise; it isn't a white boys' club any more. Um...diversity seems to be falling according to the latest numbers released by the nsf (don't have the link on me). First of all, above the undergraduate level, 'white boys' are vastly in the minority. Female undergraduate enrollment has actually been dropping in the last few years, although that could be because of the general trend away from CS. Sure, CS is more diverse than it was several years ago, but diversity definitely isn't on the rise.
I think what you want to say is that CS is a branch of "applied mathematics". Mathematicians will agree, pure math has very little to do with the real world, while even theoretical CS has implications for the real world. If someone proves the intractability of a problem, then other theoreticians will work on approximation algorithms, which will trickle down to implementations and eventually in the newest iPod somehow (just an example).
use a full frame sensor? perfectly true...but also add a couple k's to the bottom line for the pro models.
TFA says it was fixed, but the first test was the user sending files to himself on his own computer using two instances of GAIM. Can you say redundant? "Yes, GAIM connects perfectly well to this 127.0.0.1 IP address...".
to everyone who just dropped a ton of cash building a brand new athlon x2 socket 939 systems...my condolences. at least this will bring the price of the higher-end athlon x2s down for the rest of us...yay!
Most of Microsoft's API is already documented. The whole point of an API is that it doesn't matter HOW you implement the functions, as long as you offer the same frontend. So MS not completely documenting their API seems like it would only affect Microsoft apps that use undocumented functionality. I'm assuming that developers at other companies have to use the published Win32 API. So you'll have Mac OS X running all apps that don't use undocumented functionality.
Besides, it might be fun to isolate the undocumented behavior -- map API calls to return values on Wine/OSX (the "published" API) and then on Windows to catch the undocumented shite.
why would people want WATCHES with computer sync?? if you're life's THAT important that your watch needs to stay in sync with your computer, you need a vacation.
We're fine until we have confirmed reports of colonies of large wild boars and wolves
Companies might be better off using a magic 8 ball...