I primary schooled in USA from 1991-2004, in Florida (usually ranked in the bottom quartile among states), and have since secondary schooled here (2004-current). I took a Reading/Grammar/English/Literature (depending on the year) course every year during that time period.
We had the standard battery of pronunciation, spelling tests, grammar rules, sentence diagramming, 3-paragraph essays, literature/poetry analysis, and so forth.
Being that I went to school in a state in the bottom quartile, I imagine that better educations were received elsewhere. Where did you go to school?
No. Your freedom of speech doesn't give you the right to harass other people.
Actually, it pretty specifically does. You are totally allowed to yell lots of harassing things on the street without fear of government action (in theory).
Scientists report that scientists are doing studies on monkeys to see if monkeys would make good scientists. It's not all good news though, some scientists may be out of a job. Unless, of course, they happen to be monkeys.
187 passengers died in 2001 in the 9/11 attacks (excluding terrorists), without counting the buildings, Pentagon, etc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks).
We have lost more people to terrorism than lightning strikes by a long ways.
Side note: being hit by lightning is unusually common from here in Florida, ranking in at a whopping FIFTY (www.dep.state.fl.us/cmp/events/files/paxton.ppt), which is better than your state lottery odds. However, most people live through the strike (5 deaths). Investing in lightning rods is foolish, because when it comes right down to it, not very many people die that way.
Pizza is being used an an example here because it is a food that many developers prefer, and steak is typically not a choice for a number of logistical reasons (they don't devlier, plates not stocked, steak knives not stocked, cold steak/potatoes from take out is terrible, etc.).
Typically your "late night development choices" are limitted to the following short list: 1 - pizza 2 - chinese
One of these items you have to ask for preference (interrupting developers!), while the other is a food that is generally liked (get a meat, veggie, and cheese and everyones dietary requirements should be settled).
By all means, I agree that pizza, soda, and coffee are bad for you. However, having in a developer lab late at night, I can assure you that they are the foods of choice. As a manager 'removing obstacles', don't you think you ought to provide for them what they wish and require?
I'm sorry if I've given you the impression that I didn't like the job that I had, or would have rather quit. You take what you can get, of course. The 'underpaid' comment was just to show I was below the median for undergraduates at the time. I had to start at the bottom as well (writing buttonology code for gui apps, doing/restoring backups, and version management), and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
I still feel as though $8/hour is low, however. Current fliers on campus advertise (to IT and Engineering) website design for $15/hour (up from $10/hr when I was a UG), and current interships with Orange County (FL) are offering $13/hr (they have had some difficulty filling the position at that pay). $8/hour is probably about 60% what you could make if you were to be diligent about obtaining an internship.
That being said, an $8/hr intership is right next to a face slap. I made $10 doing dishes, and $12-$13 (underpaid, friends made 18) at my first internship.
Current student of Ken Stanley in Neuroevolution and Generative Development this semester.
Parent is correct: The devil is in the details. A Neural Network is a _model_ of what actually happens in the brain. It is an approximation. There are a number of things that the model does not account for, such as the growth of new connections (somewhat accounted for in the GA-NN NEAT), and the exponential response nature (accounted for in CRTNN networks).
CPPNs are a model to account for generative development, rather than Neural Networks. The hope is to get a full system without going through the actual step-by-step constructive development of it. To this end, it is successful.
The article presents a good argument that the ANN model is at least partially incorrect on its approximation of brain development. ANNs do not add connections after the topology is created. This could provide interesting new developments to the AI crowd.
You laugh, but many people meet their significant other in the workplace. If they could just promise coed social activities, I know _many_ people that would be attracted to their workplace.
I recently graduated college with an engineering degree and just MEETING people was a huge bitch. The short version is that everything is working against the engineer early on: 1 - Most people you meet are engineers/computer scientists. This means 90% male. We had 12 girls in my graduating high school magnet program (114 total), we had 30 in college (BS, 300 graduating), and we have THREE, yes THREE in graduate school (graduating 30). 2 - Engineering is harder than most majors. On average, you have less time to sacrifice to the the deity of relationships. If women are craving a time commitment, you can be out-competed by almost everyone. 3 - Engineering is harder than most majors. Your lack of time is a fairly direct translation to 'lack of time to work', which moves directly to 'lack of money'. I made something like $10K at college in my 4 years working 12-15 hours/week. A date more expensive than Olive Garden is just not in the budget. Couple this with the fact that most engineers are not wasteful with money.
The short version is that most engineering majors don't meet any girls, and cannot offer time or nice things to the girls that they do meet. To some matter, personality starts to play a factor, but you start off at a pretty serious disadvantage.
Of course, I was hunting. I attended just about every social gathering I was invited to, including everything free from campus, for the first 2 years of college. I sacrificing HUGE amounts of time to this effort, and my grades dipped noticeably (worth it!) from As to B-'s (Cs would put me on probation). When I found my partner, my grades shot up to close to straight As again, as being in a relationship required half of the time commitment of looking for one, and I found a woman that wasn't constantly needy, as those flock to business/art majors with nothing but time on their hands.
However, all of that changes after college. After college, many engineers have to move away from the support network, but have a glut of both time and money. The average EE starting salary is 55K, or "more than 60% households in the US." With clever money management techniques, an engineer can be living in his own house (20% down) a short 2 years after graduation, and not supporting a family with excess income. However, what they don't have is a way of meeting intelligent/interesting girls, aside from clubbing or internet dating. Many engineers fall back on the programs that their company puts on to meet people. Harris has a 'Young Professionals' group that is pretty much dedicated to the task of "you will have friends and meet people if you decide to work for us", and I expect other companies to follow suit in the future.
Anyways, just providing coed gatherings/functions at the same salary/job could probably hire away about 30% of the engineers in my company.
They are computer science detective stories, which is a bit of a fine distinction.
They are about a complex computer program that must be debugged by a programmer, and about what happens when computer programs have to make decisions about humans.
Just to clarify. Isaac Asimov has written AT LEAST 509 books inside of 75 years (counting joke books, but not counting research papers, of which he has several). http://www.asimovonline.com/oldsite/asimov_titles.html
One of these books is "I, Robot". None of them are sequels to this book. "I, Robot" was published in 1950. He wrote AT LEAST 507 books after it. You have to think that if he had wanted a sequel, he would have jotted down a note, or started writing it, or, you know, said in an interview that he planned one.
Also, they are short stories set in a universe that he wrote (rather prolifically) in. It isn't exactly like he he gave up on the concept of a "3 Laws of Robotics" book.
I've seen it done. In fact, my fiance volunteered to be a 'note taker'. Twice per week she would make the arduous trek to the copy machine followed by the 5 minute walk to give her notes the the note-taking people. She got paid to go to class.
A coworker once asked me about geothermal energy usage in the context of limited resources in the form of: "Won't the Earth eventually run out of hot?"
We had them in high school (Florida) to optimize heart rate. You were supposed to wear them during aerobic exercise (running track when it wasn't raining, jumping jacks and whatnot when it was).
Seriously though, it was bullshit then and it is bullshit now. Your heart is a muscle, when you work hard it gets sore and it hurts, and then it heals stronger.
Ditto, with the exception that the Online Course Video (FEEDS) system does not support linux (you get a nice "your operating system is not supported"). UCF has, however, offered the raw *.avi files for the roll-your-own speech-to-text and 150% speed playback.
Side note, in CS/CPE we have been required to submit things via terminal. Also, I haven't had a TA that has had difficulty with a program compiled in linux.
I have had no issues with internet connectivity or other infrastructure issues, aside from the occassional "MICROSOFT EXCEL ONLY" type of teacher.
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For those of us that don't like dredging around the website for the actual "top 30%" "peer reviewed" paper, here is the link:
http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~marek/Charlie_Zola_Paper/paper2.pdf
Do you honestly think that the bullies would stop if only people were to do things like "pick up on nonverbal cues"?
From where I stand, this would just make them pick up on someone _else_.
Objecting strenuously enough to talk to the head of the department and to be ejected from class is a little bit too strong.
However, as long as we are being pedantic, it is my shame to admit that I have failed more than one of such tests.
I primary schooled in USA from 1991-2004, in Florida (usually ranked in the bottom quartile among states), and have since secondary schooled here (2004-current). I took a Reading/Grammar/English/Literature (depending on the year) course every year during that time period.
We had the standard battery of pronunciation, spelling tests, grammar rules, sentence diagramming, 3-paragraph essays, literature/poetry analysis, and so forth.
Being that I went to school in a state in the bottom quartile, I imagine that better educations were received elsewhere. Where did you go to school?
No. Your freedom of speech doesn't give you the right to harass other people.
Actually, it pretty specifically does. You are totally allowed to yell lots of harassing things on the street without fear of government action (in theory).
Scientists report that scientists are doing studies on monkeys to see if monkeys would make good scientists. It's not all good news though, some scientists may be out of a job. Unless, of course, they happen to be monkeys.
Courtesy of the Brak show.
"In a battle where there can be no victor, who will win?!"
Seeing naked people is a privacy violation.
Seeing naked children is a law violation.
Also, lightning killed 33 people last year, which is lower than normal (40 http://www.weather.gov/os/lightning/fatalities.htm, http://weather.about.com/od/thunderstormsandlightning/f/lightningdeaths.htm). Since 1994, 489 people have died due to lightning strike.
187 passengers died in 2001 in the 9/11 attacks (excluding terrorists), without counting the buildings, Pentagon, etc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks).
We have lost more people to terrorism than lightning strikes by a long ways.
Side note: being hit by lightning is unusually common from here in Florida, ranking in at a whopping FIFTY (www.dep.state.fl.us/cmp/events/files/paxton.ppt), which is better than your state lottery odds. However, most people live through the strike (5 deaths). Investing in lightning rods is foolish, because when it comes right down to it, not very many people die that way.
Pizza is being used an an example here because it is a food that many developers prefer, and steak is typically not a choice for a number of logistical reasons (they don't devlier, plates not stocked, steak knives not stocked, cold steak/potatoes from take out is terrible, etc.).
Typically your "late night development choices" are limitted to the following short list:
1 - pizza
2 - chinese
One of these items you have to ask for preference (interrupting developers!), while the other is a food that is generally liked (get a meat, veggie, and cheese and everyones dietary requirements should be settled).
By all means, I agree that pizza, soda, and coffee are bad for you. However, having in a developer lab late at night, I can assure you that they are the foods of choice. As a manager 'removing obstacles', don't you think you ought to provide for them what they wish and require?
Three bullets put in Mac. Nothing of value was lost.
I'm sorry if I've given you the impression that I didn't like the job that I had, or would have rather quit. You take what you can get, of course. The 'underpaid' comment was just to show I was below the median for undergraduates at the time. I had to start at the bottom as well (writing buttonology code for gui apps, doing/restoring backups, and version management), and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
I still feel as though $8/hour is low, however. Current fliers on campus advertise (to IT and Engineering) website design for $15/hour (up from $10/hr when I was a UG), and current interships with Orange County (FL) are offering $13/hr (they have had some difficulty filling the position at that pay). $8/hour is probably about 60% what you could make if you were to be diligent about obtaining an internship.
Florida (Orlando) here, $7.25/hr.
That being said, an $8/hr intership is right next to a face slap. I made $10 doing dishes, and $12-$13 (underpaid, friends made 18) at my first internship.
What part of this smells profit? None. It's nothing but a bunch of rich people throwing money around to impress each other.
Ooohh! Ooohh! Pick me! I can figure out the part that says profit!
Hint: It's the part where you said there are "rich people throwing money [at you] to impress each other."
Current student of Ken Stanley in Neuroevolution and Generative Development this semester.
Parent is correct: The devil is in the details. A Neural Network is a _model_ of what actually happens in the brain. It is an approximation. There are a number of things that the model does not account for, such as the growth of new connections (somewhat accounted for in the GA-NN NEAT), and the exponential response nature (accounted for in CRTNN networks).
CPPNs are a model to account for generative development, rather than Neural Networks. The hope is to get a full system without going through the actual step-by-step constructive development of it. To this end, it is successful.
You can find more information about the subject, or implement your own CPPN network here: http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~kstanley/neat.html
The article presents a good argument that the ANN model is at least partially incorrect on its approximation of brain development. ANNs do not add connections after the topology is created. This could provide interesting new developments to the AI crowd.
You laugh, but many people meet their significant other in the workplace. If they could just promise coed social activities, I know _many_ people that would be attracted to their workplace.
I recently graduated college with an engineering degree and just MEETING people was a huge bitch. The short version is that everything is working against the engineer early on:
1 - Most people you meet are engineers/computer scientists. This means 90% male. We had 12 girls in my graduating high school magnet program (114 total), we had 30 in college (BS, 300 graduating), and we have THREE, yes THREE in graduate school (graduating 30).
2 - Engineering is harder than most majors. On average, you have less time to sacrifice to the the deity of relationships. If women are craving a time commitment, you can be out-competed by almost everyone.
3 - Engineering is harder than most majors. Your lack of time is a fairly direct translation to 'lack of time to work', which moves directly to 'lack of money'. I made something like $10K at college in my 4 years working 12-15 hours/week. A date more expensive than Olive Garden is just not in the budget. Couple this with the fact that most engineers are not wasteful with money.
The short version is that most engineering majors don't meet any girls, and cannot offer time or nice things to the girls that they do meet. To some matter, personality starts to play a factor, but you start off at a pretty serious disadvantage.
Of course, I was hunting. I attended just about every social gathering I was invited to, including everything free from campus, for the first 2 years of college. I sacrificing HUGE amounts of time to this effort, and my grades dipped noticeably (worth it!) from As to B-'s (Cs would put me on probation). When I found my partner, my grades shot up to close to straight As again, as being in a relationship required half of the time commitment of looking for one, and I found a woman that wasn't constantly needy, as those flock to business/art majors with nothing but time on their hands.
However, all of that changes after college. After college, many engineers have to move away from the support network, but have a glut of both time and money. The average EE starting salary is 55K, or "more than 60% households in the US." With clever money management techniques, an engineer can be living in his own house (20% down) a short 2 years after graduation, and not supporting a family with excess income. However, what they don't have is a way of meeting intelligent/interesting girls, aside from clubbing or internet dating. Many engineers fall back on the programs that their company puts on to meet people. Harris has a 'Young Professionals' group that is pretty much dedicated to the task of "you will have friends and meet people if you decide to work for us", and I expect other companies to follow suit in the future.
Anyways, just providing coed gatherings/functions at the same salary/job could probably hire away about 30% of the engineers in my company.
Yes. It is THAT important.
The best case would be to just have a national sales tax that is the same everywhere instead of the current stupid system.
You are aware that this would completely screw most states AND citizens to the tune of more federal government power, right?
They are computer science detective stories, which is a bit of a fine distinction.
They are about a complex computer program that must be debugged by a programmer, and about what happens when computer programs have to make decisions about humans.
Just to clarify. Isaac Asimov has written AT LEAST 509 books inside of 75 years (counting joke books, but not counting research papers, of which he has several).
http://www.asimovonline.com/oldsite/asimov_titles.html
Wikianswers lists it at 512-515
http://preem.tejat.net/~tseng/Asimov/Alphabetical.html#C
One of these books is "I, Robot". None of them are sequels to this book. "I, Robot" was published in 1950. He wrote AT LEAST 507 books after it. You have to think that if he had wanted a sequel, he would have jotted down a note, or started writing it, or, you know, said in an interview that he planned one.
Also, they are short stories set in a universe that he wrote (rather prolifically) in. It isn't exactly like he he gave up on the concept of a "3 Laws of Robotics" book.
I've seen it done. In fact, my fiance volunteered to be a 'note taker'. Twice per week she would make the arduous trek to the copy machine followed by the 5 minute walk to give her notes the the note-taking people. She got paid to go to class.
A coworker once asked me about geothermal energy usage in the context of limited resources in the form of: "Won't the Earth eventually run out of hot?"
This is an early answer to that problem!
And less internet (see above).
But, but, but, this study had Facebook! And MySpace!
It's new!
We had them in high school (Florida) to optimize heart rate. You were supposed to wear them during aerobic exercise (running track when it wasn't raining, jumping jacks and whatnot when it was).
Seriously though, it was bullshit then and it is bullshit now. Your heart is a muscle, when you work hard it gets sore and it hurts, and then it heals stronger.
Most people just took theirs off.
Ditto, with the exception that the Online Course Video (FEEDS) system does not support linux (you get a nice "your operating system is not supported"). UCF has, however, offered the raw *.avi files for the roll-your-own speech-to-text and 150% speed playback.
Side note, in CS/CPE we have been required to submit things via terminal. Also, I haven't had a TA that has had difficulty with a program compiled in linux.
I have had no issues with internet connectivity or other infrastructure issues, aside from the occassional "MICROSOFT EXCEL ONLY" type of teacher.