Just another reason to switch to numeric python. The more I use Matlab the less I find that I like it.
I don't have mod point, so allow me to second that.
The advantage of MATLab for me was ease of development that it allows me to quickly get some simple proof-of-concept code up.
If I want run time speed, I'd use CLAPACK and GNU SL. I can't imagine doing any very serious numeric code in anything else (not that my work was very numeric heavy). With NumPy and SciPy, it is just as easy to do what MATLab does in a language that's actually fun to work with.
If you tax them, they move to India. Shareholders don't care.
Maybe the goverment should try spending less for a change.
I think shareholder would care if huge unemployment in the US leads to more social instability. We are not at that point yet since taxation is but one of many numbers in the calculus of corporation relocation. Political stability, living standard, government trustworthiness, and local favoritism are few of many points the US still has a big advantage over some Asian country X. And a modernized X will probably also demand universal health, retirement safety net etc. and it won't be cheap any more.
Given that defense, social security, and medicare---three very popular programs with at least one large voting block---are 20% each of the US budget and growing and discrepanary is only 12% and shrinking, point to a piece of the pie that one would like to cut and I can probably find 10 voters every hour standing outside a polling station who would want to keep them. Should they cut SS or medicare, two of our government's large obligation? Well, I am only beginning to pay into SS and medicare and I also have other saving/investment, so I'll probably say why not. Ask someone who's been working to 10, 20 years, you'd get a very different answer. I generally think they are good programs (even the teapartiers yell for Medicare) if you consider how many American orderlies fared before their enactment. I surely think we can cut defense somewhat, but there'd be many workers hired by the industry-military complex who always insists we need to keep American safer.
Honestly though, I still struggle to figure out what the point of search suggestions are. I suppose they're helpful for people who don't know what they're looking for, but when I go to Google, I already know what I'm going to search for -- that's why I'm there! That said, I suppose it does provide some entertainment.
One of many uses I found for suggestion is spelling. One time I wasn't sure about the spelling for "pandemonium". I typed in "pandom" (I thought it was "pandomonium"), the correct spelling is in one of the top suggestions. If I were also looking for definition, I can also use the entry with "definition" or "dictionary" or "thesaurus", and wallah (btw, I just looked up the spelling of wallah this way, wasn't sure about the ending h).
that the senate is actually doing something without a single senator holding things up...and addressing a technological issue is a double plus for me. Just sayin'.
But there are provisions that will take place immediately -- things like making sure that young children can't be denied from a new plan due to a pre-existing condition, prohibit dropping people from a plan when they get sick, letting dependents stay on their parents' policies until the age of 26, adding tax credits to small businesses to allow for coverage purchase. It would be pretty easy for Democrats to spin taking those things away as a bad thing.
Which is potentially more disastrous for the bill. These new rules (and they are good and popular) will in the short term increases premium. Even when the mandate kicks in, it will probably take a few years before the economy of scale takes effect. So people (except those denied coverage NOW) will probably not notice any improvement for a decade.
What a myopic view. Fine, keep all the money you earn, every penny. But please be moving to your own private island and stop using my public services. Get off my internet, it was invented by the Government in case you've forgotten. I can only imagine what the corporation created internet would look like. AOL but worse? Where you can only say, read and discuss what they choose so as not to offend and push away customers?
Stop driving on my interstates, again taxes at work.
No more postal services for you. Shit almost every business in existence these days has been the benefit of tax dollars, or rebates/credits. So fuck you and stop buying our products.
You are no longer allowed to participate. Have fun with that.
Not to disagree with you at all. I just would like to point out that USPS has been off tax dollar since the early 80's. Nevertheless, it is a shining example (to many of us anyway) of how well public service can perform. For few cents a letter you get in house retrieval and delivery of mail no matter how remote you live. UPS and Fedex would have bulk at that because they have no service obligation to the people.
And that's exactly what it's going to do -- the youth of Britain will identify ALL classical music as repugnant based on its use and the majority will want nothing to do with it. Indeed, they will want to see it burned.
Maybe they should use some music whose artists aren't several hundred years dead, then perhaps the artists could have a very interesting discussion as to the use of their music...
They would, but they can't afford to pay the perpetual copyright.
There is a different. Scientists can have all the opinion they want (and many hold quite wacky ones in their own expertise). They can even be very vocal about it. But their results cannot get accepted without reaching certain level of consensus by peer review. People argue that the whole system is bad because the community is conspiring to reject their idea. I call them sore losers. They claim they cannot get their idea published because it challenge the norm and that's a big no no for the community. Bullshit! Scientists thrive on and have their reputation greatly enhanced by making break through that challenges the norms, but ONLY when doing so with good experiment and data and/or well argued theory/hypothesis. I know all the paradigm-changing paper in the history of my fields are always first published in well established journal even though "the man" and "the process" is trying is keep people down. While I can see flaws in this system, I'd say it works out pretty well in average. Remember: an known patent clerk got published in Annalen der Physik when this guy can't even convince his professor to get him a university job. Good scientist don't make claim for the sake of making a claim. My favorite example is cold fusion where those guys held press conference way before they check their experiment and try to redo it at least once. Some people never accept the fact that they are just doing bad science (some probably deliberately) or their data are just not very valuable.
I'd imagine near-future ARMS device would be like somewhere from smart phone to netbook for which the manufacture/carrier/vendor would just change it to some sensible default setting.
TFA says they are doing this mostly because of ARMs video licensing problem. Still, kudo's to Ubuntu for recognizing that on a netbook a good 2D experience is more important than a full fetched 3D experiment . My Atom netbook, while runs compiz smoothly, currently uses awesome. On a small screen, you are probably going to have all your windows maximized anyway. Translucent windows only makes stuff very confusing.
This experiment has lots of problems. *nom nom nom* First, microwave ovens don't always precisely match the given frequency. *chomp chomp* Second, and more importantly -- *chew chew swallow* -- identifying the hotspots and measuring the distance between them is difficult and error prone. *nom nom* And that's even when the chocolate is fresh! It's worse after it's already been partially melted. *stuff face* So I had to perform many experiments, using fresh chocolate each time, to get an accurate measurement.
In conclusion, this experiment rules. *nom nom nom nom*
Yes, that's why there is such thing as uncertainty. If she propagated the uncertainty both in the frequency and the "eye-balling" part correctly it will probably include a large enough error bar pass the actual speed of light, making this an accurate, but imprecise experiment.
Oh wait, are we talking about a fun project to be doing with you kid, or a collage physics lab.
You argument is void. A bug is a bug. Either it affects the outcome of the program run or it doesn't - and I still don't need to know anything about what it's supposed to do to verify that. You just need to re-run the program with a specified set of inputs and check the output - also known as verified against its own test suite.
Unlike many pure-software case, scientific simulation can and MUST be checked against theory/simplified model/asymptotic behavior. The latter requires specialized understanding of the underlying science. The kind of coding bug you are talking about will usually (not always) result in damningly unphysical result, which would the immediate prompt any good student to check for the said bug. Heck, my boss usually refuse to look at my codes when I am working on it (besides advising on general structure) so that even if my code got the expected result, he can still perform an independent inspection.
Every single spoiled terrorist plot on flight since 9-11 has been stopped by pre-9-11 technique: lock on cockpit door, vigilant passenger, and "you-can't-fix-stupid" terrorist. Yet we are still investing millions of tax $$ in these supposed magic tech that not only haven't been prove to work (any plot stopped at the gate?) and increasing violates our civil right.
There is no logic here besides some lobbyist wants our government to spend $ on their product.
I don't think so. I have an Android phone, and it has a native google voice app which will dial to my destination using a random number. On the receiving end, they will see my GV # show up, but on my call history, it's as if I called some random number (including area code). How it works is somewhat convoluted, and is explained in this article. I quote:
Calls initiated from your cell phone using Google Voice are carried over your wireless carrier's network and are not VoIP calls, according to reports.
However, two advantage for the iphone is immediate apparent to me:
1. SMS.
2. Free call to Canada.
Even if they are by some twisted logic, isn't individual contribution capped anyway? Why isn't a corporation, as a person, also capped at the same limit? A corporation is _not_ a political representative of all those who are employed by it.
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I share you observation that Google voice recognition has a close to 90% first try hit rate and 99% on second try. And I have a serious accent.
But it also sometimes fails hilariously. Once I have to look up an address 395 Grand Ave., and I got "Free WiFi Grand Ave.".
Just another reason to switch to numeric python. The more I use Matlab the less I find that I like it.
I don't have mod point, so allow me to second that.
The advantage of MATLab for me was ease of development that it allows me to quickly get some simple proof-of-concept code up. If I want run time speed, I'd use CLAPACK and GNU SL. I can't imagine doing any very serious numeric code in anything else (not that my work was very numeric heavy). With NumPy and SciPy, it is just as easy to do what MATLab does in a language that's actually fun to work with.
I mean, nobody.
All his tweets are "from phone". What carrier gets reception up there is what I want to know.
If you tax them, they move to India. Shareholders don't care.
Maybe the goverment should try spending less for a change.
I think shareholder would care if huge unemployment in the US leads to more social instability. We are not at that point yet since taxation is but one of many numbers in the calculus of corporation relocation. Political stability, living standard, government trustworthiness, and local favoritism are few of many points the US still has a big advantage over some Asian country X. And a modernized X will probably also demand universal health, retirement safety net etc. and it won't be cheap any more.
Given that defense, social security, and medicare---three very popular programs with at least one large voting block---are 20% each of the US budget and growing and discrepanary is only 12% and shrinking, point to a piece of the pie that one would like to cut and I can probably find 10 voters every hour standing outside a polling station who would want to keep them. Should they cut SS or medicare, two of our government's large obligation? Well, I am only beginning to pay into SS and medicare and I also have other saving/investment, so I'll probably say why not. Ask someone who's been working to 10, 20 years, you'd get a very different answer. I generally think they are good programs (even the teapartiers yell for Medicare) if you consider how many American orderlies fared before their enactment. I surely think we can cut defense somewhat, but there'd be many workers hired by the industry-military complex who always insists we need to keep American safer.
Honestly though, I still struggle to figure out what the point of search suggestions are. I suppose they're helpful for people who don't know what they're looking for, but when I go to Google, I already know what I'm going to search for -- that's why I'm there! That said, I suppose it does provide some entertainment.
One of many uses I found for suggestion is spelling. One time I wasn't sure about the spelling for "pandemonium". I typed in "pandom" (I thought it was "pandomonium"), the correct spelling is in one of the top suggestions. If I were also looking for definition, I can also use the entry with "definition" or "dictionary" or "thesaurus", and wallah (btw, I just looked up the spelling of wallah this way, wasn't sure about the ending h).
that the senate is actually doing something without a single senator holding things up...and addressing a technological issue is a double plus for me. Just sayin'.
But there are provisions that will take place immediately -- things like making sure that young children can't be denied from a new plan due to a pre-existing condition, prohibit dropping people from a plan when they get sick, letting dependents stay on their parents' policies until the age of 26, adding tax credits to small businesses to allow for coverage purchase. It would be pretty easy for Democrats to spin taking those things away as a bad thing.
Which is potentially more disastrous for the bill. These new rules (and they are good and popular) will in the short term increases premium. Even when the mandate kicks in, it will probably take a few years before the economy of scale takes effect. So people (except those denied coverage NOW) will probably not notice any improvement for a decade.
Fingers crossed.
What a myopic view. Fine, keep all the money you earn, every penny. But please be moving to your own private island and stop using my public services. Get off my internet, it was invented by the Government in case you've forgotten. I can only imagine what the corporation created internet would look like. AOL but worse? Where you can only say, read and discuss what they choose so as not to offend and push away customers?
Stop driving on my interstates, again taxes at work.
No more postal services for you. Shit almost every business in existence these days has been the benefit of tax dollars, or rebates/credits. So fuck you and stop buying our products.
You are no longer allowed to participate. Have fun with that.
Not to disagree with you at all. I just would like to point out that USPS has been off tax dollar since the early 80's. Nevertheless, it is a shining example (to many of us anyway) of how well public service can perform. For few cents a letter you get in house retrieval and delivery of mail no matter how remote you live. UPS and Fedex would have bulk at that because they have no service obligation to the people.
And that's exactly what it's going to do -- the youth of Britain will identify ALL classical music as repugnant based on its use and the majority will want nothing to do with it. Indeed, they will want to see it burned.
Maybe they should use some music whose artists aren't several hundred years dead, then perhaps the artists could have a very interesting discussion as to the use of their music...
They would, but they can't afford to pay the perpetual copyright.
There is a different. Scientists can have all the opinion they want (and many hold quite wacky ones in their own expertise). They can even be very vocal about it. But their results cannot get accepted without reaching certain level of consensus by peer review. People argue that the whole system is bad because the community is conspiring to reject their idea. I call them sore losers. They claim they cannot get their idea published because it challenge the norm and that's a big no no for the community. Bullshit! Scientists thrive on and have their reputation greatly enhanced by making break through that challenges the norms, but ONLY when doing so with good experiment and data and/or well argued theory/hypothesis. I know all the paradigm-changing paper in the history of my fields are always first published in well established journal even though "the man" and "the process" is trying is keep people down. While I can see flaws in this system, I'd say it works out pretty well in average. Remember: an known patent clerk got published in Annalen der Physik when this guy can't even convince his professor to get him a university job. Good scientist don't make claim for the sake of making a claim. My favorite example is cold fusion where those guys held press conference way before they check their experiment and try to redo it at least once. Some people never accept the fact that they are just doing bad science (some probably deliberately) or their data are just not very valuable.
The Police unions get together and sue Batman for doing pro bono work...
This line made my day :)
I'd imagine near-future ARMS device would be like somewhere from smart phone to netbook for which the manufacture/carrier/vendor would just change it to some sensible default setting.
TFA says they are doing this mostly because of ARMs video licensing problem. Still, kudo's to Ubuntu for recognizing that on a netbook a good 2D experience is more important than a full fetched 3D experiment . My Atom netbook, while runs compiz smoothly, currently uses awesome. On a small screen, you are probably going to have all your windows maximized anyway. Translucent windows only makes stuff very confusing.
This experiment has lots of problems. *nom nom nom* First, microwave ovens don't always precisely match the given frequency. *chomp chomp* Second, and more importantly -- *chew chew swallow* -- identifying the hotspots and measuring the distance between them is difficult and error prone. *nom nom* And that's even when the chocolate is fresh! It's worse after it's already been partially melted. *stuff face* So I had to perform many experiments, using fresh chocolate each time, to get an accurate measurement.
In conclusion, this experiment rules. *nom nom nom nom*
Yes, that's why there is such thing as uncertainty. If she propagated the uncertainty both in the frequency and the "eye-balling" part correctly it will probably include a large enough error bar pass the actual speed of light, making this an accurate, but imprecise experiment.
Oh wait, are we talking about a fun project to be doing with you kid, or a collage physics lab.
Sure, teach religion in religion class and science in science class.
You argument is void. A bug is a bug. Either it affects the outcome of the program run or it doesn't - and I still don't need to know anything about what it's supposed to do to verify that. You just need to re-run the program with a specified set of inputs and check the output - also known as verified against its own test suite.
Unlike many pure-software case, scientific simulation can and MUST be checked against theory/simplified model/asymptotic behavior. The latter requires specialized understanding of the underlying science. The kind of coding bug you are talking about will usually (not always) result in damningly unphysical result, which would the immediate prompt any good student to check for the said bug. Heck, my boss usually refuse to look at my codes when I am working on it (besides advising on general structure) so that even if my code got the expected result, he can still perform an independent inspection.
Can someone illuminate me on why is 4chan so popular. I tried it a few time and it one of the most messy/unorganized message board.
Every single spoiled terrorist plot on flight since 9-11 has been stopped by pre-9-11 technique: lock on cockpit door, vigilant passenger, and "you-can't-fix-stupid" terrorist. Yet we are still investing millions of tax $$ in these supposed magic tech that not only haven't been prove to work (any plot stopped at the gate?) and increasing violates our civil right.
There is no logic here besides some lobbyist wants our government to spend $ on their product.
Calls initiated from your cell phone using Google Voice are carried over your wireless carrier's network and are not VoIP calls, according to reports.
However, two advantage for the iphone is immediate apparent to me:
1. SMS.
2. Free call to Canada.
Have you tried the FireFox add-on pdfdownload? Let you pause and decide what to do.
and although many have sought to repeat the feat, all have failed.
Isn't this one of those thing that you either succeed or you die?
Even if they are by some twisted logic, isn't individual contribution capped anyway? Why isn't a corporation, as a person, also capped at the same limit? A corporation is _not_ a political representative of all those who are employed by it.
The riddle would be funnier and clearer if it says ...colloquial name for 10 days old urine.
that I saw this news today. I lost my old dumb phone yesterday and am going to go shopping for a smart one tomorrow. Verizon is out.
Yes, we all know what goes down for physicist in a frictionless perfect vacuum. http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/experiment.png