I've have to disagree with the characterization that IT changes faster than healthcare. Consider just as a starting point that the two major journals in the field (the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association) publish weekly, and if an important finding comes out in one of these journals, practitioners much change quickly or risk lawsuits. I'm thinking in particular of when the finding was published that an HIV positive pregnant mother should take AZT to greatly lower the risk that her child would also become HIV positive. Immediately after that article was published, practitioners starting using AZT prenatally.
On the other hand, in IT, technology changes, but if it's a corporately driven technology, generally there is a roadmap and announcements about the technology before it's available for use, and if it's not a corporately driven technology, interest tends to build over time, instead of immediately.
True, and to relate the above back to the main topics of this site, the reason we need to use crystallography to determine the structure of a protein is that we currently possess nowhere near the amount of computing power necessary to derive a protein's structure simply from the sequence of amino acids that make up the protein.
Ray Kurzweil, the inventor, AI theorist, and author of The Age of Spiritual Machines, has a long review of the book available here.
One of the key points of the review is that while Kurzweil agrees that certain levels of complexity can be achieved, higher levels of complexity are simply not derivable from cellular automaton, the generator of Wolfram's complexities.
To quote Kurzweil: There is a missing link here in how one gets from the interesting, but ultimately routine patterns of a cellular automaton to the complexity of persisting structures that demonstrate higher levels of intelligence. For example, these class 4 patterns are not capable of solving interesting problems, and no amount of iteration moves them closer to doing so.
Where I work, we use extreme programming. Before I started here, my impressions of extreme programming were simply that it used pair programming. However, that is a relatively small part of the entire package.
The part of XP that are most appealing to me are the iteration cycles: Essentially, the programming team takes a list of all possible improvements or features from the business side. The team then estimates how long each feature will take to implement. For example, creating a new look may take 3 weeks of pair programming. We convert the weeks into points (3 weeks may be worth 5 points), so that each feature gets a point value. We tell the business side that based on our past performance, we can finish 30 points in the next three week. Now, while the points of all the stories may add up to 100 or more points, they can only spend 30 points in a given three week iteration. At the end of the iteration, we do it all again.
From the webpage for the textfinder: A single TextFinder application may involve trillions of bytes of textual archive and thousands of online users, or gigabytes of live data stream per day that are filtered against tens of thousands of complex interest profiles.
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O'Reilly publishes a book called _Learning Perl_ (the llama) by Randal Schwartz and Tom Christiansen, with a foreword by Larry Wall. This book already has questions at the end of each chapter, and the answers and an explanation of those answers at the back of the book.
I'm going to be using the book to teach a high school class about Perl.
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I've have to disagree with the characterization that IT changes faster than healthcare. Consider just as a starting point that the two major journals in the field (the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association) publish weekly, and if an important finding comes out in one of these journals, practitioners much change quickly or risk lawsuits. I'm thinking in particular of when the finding was published that an HIV positive pregnant mother should take AZT to greatly lower the risk that her child would also become HIV positive. Immediately after that article was published, practitioners starting using AZT prenatally.
On the other hand, in IT, technology changes, but if it's a corporately driven technology, generally there is a roadmap and announcements about the technology before it's available for use, and if it's not a corporately driven technology, interest tends to build over time, instead of immediately.
True, and to relate the above back to the main topics of this site, the reason we need to use crystallography to determine the structure of a protein is that we currently possess nowhere near the amount of computing power necessary to derive a protein's structure simply from the sequence of amino acids that make up the protein.
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Ray Kurzweil, the inventor, AI theorist, and author of The Age of Spiritual Machines, has a long review of the book available here.
One of the key points of the review is that while Kurzweil agrees that certain levels of complexity can be achieved, higher levels of complexity are simply not derivable from cellular automaton, the generator of Wolfram's complexities.
To quote Kurzweil: There is a missing link here in how one gets from the interesting, but ultimately routine patterns of a cellular automaton to the complexity of persisting structures that demonstrate higher levels of intelligence. For example, these class 4 patterns are not capable of solving interesting problems, and no amount of iteration moves them closer to doing so.
If you have a subscription to the WSJ, you can read the full story here.
The part of XP that are most appealing to me are the iteration cycles: Essentially, the programming team takes a list of all possible improvements or features from the business side. The team then estimates how long each feature will take to implement. For example, creating a new look may take 3 weeks of pair programming. We convert the weeks into points (3 weeks may be worth 5 points), so that each feature gets a point value. We tell the business side that based on our past performance, we can finish 30 points in the next three week. Now, while the points of all the stories may add up to 100 or more points, they can only spend 30 points in a given three week iteration. At the end of the iteration, we do it all again.
As shown here, one of the tools that the NSA uses is the Paracel Textfinder .
From the webpage for the textfinder: A single TextFinder application may involve trillions of bytes of textual archive and thousands of online users, or gigabytes of live data stream per day that are filtered against tens of thousands of complex interest profiles.
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Here is your navigator : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT)
Just a security hole of Slashdot. You can find this kind of hole in all sites which has a forum. I think that in site like e-trade you can make some people asks for stocks.
You can contact me there : Krakus.Irus à voila.com
If you want to retry.
If you want to know more.
1182021410
Here is your navigator : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT)
Just a security hole of Slashdot. You can find this kind of hole in all sites which has a forum. I think that in site like e-trade you can make some people asks for stocks.
You can contact me there : Krakus.Irus à voila.com
If you want to retry.
If you want to know more.
O'Reilly publishes a book called _Learning Perl_ (the llama) by Randal Schwartz and Tom Christiansen, with a foreword by Larry Wall. This book already has questions at the end of each chapter, and the answers and an explanation of those answers at the back of the book.
I'm going to be using the book to teach a high school class about Perl.