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Suppose you need to get from A to B and back. You need to do it often, you need to do it fast.
Your cargo - written notes which two kings (from A and B respectively) exchange between each other.

So you try to solve the problem by getting faster cars, building better roads, hiring the best drivers - all with the goal of getting the notes from king A to king B as fast as possible.

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The 'abstraction' which I think Alan is talking about is not about how to make the car go faster between A and B - it is about stepping back and actually thinking about the context - what do we actually need ? We need a way to transfer messages between A and B.

And pretty soon you come up with the idea of using a membrane to convert voice into electrical signals and send those over a wire.
So you install a cable between A and B and now the kings can chat all day long.

That's a much simpler and powerful solution, but not to the problems you were trying to solve (making the car go faster), but to the problem in the upper scope - sending messages from A to B.

This was the gist of Alan's talk imho.
>, but at what point does it sound ridiculous to even use the term minority when there are 1B+ Chinese

The 1 billion global number is not relevant because both the titles of the article and the post submission are about "U.S. minority" and not "global minority". The asian population at 4.8% of the USA is mathematically a minority.

>Trying to micro-categorize who is a minority in what context has to qualify as some sort of vanity.

The minority classification isn't about vanity in this case. The article isn't about Asians not represented as masculine leading actors in Western films or paraded as a prized husband-to-be for girls in The Bachelor. It's about admissions to Ivy League schools which has economic consequences. Minorities are complaining about unfairness (real and/or perceived).
It's the bundled command-line tool for talking to Transmission's API. Transmission is a BitTorrent client.
Mr. Ferguson is brilliant when discussing history, but his economic prognostications are wanting.
We prefer to use Celery to schedule periodic tasks [1] and are moving most of our cron jobs to Celery because it is easier to monitor, test, retry, and send reports on failed jobs.

We extended [2] django-celery db backend to store enough information about the periodic tasks to retry them directly in Django admin or to filter the results (we support storing the task results in JSON instead of pickle).

Celery is probably more difficult to configure but is far more flexible and robust than this lib...

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[2] https://github.com/resulto-admin/django-celery-fulldbresult
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One of the worst such cases was the movie 21, where the real life MIT Blackjack Team (mostly asian) was portrayed by white actors.
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When you look at the overall percentages of each race in American Universities. Asians are not under represented. What if anything, American born Asians suffer from is universities more than willing to accept mainlanders because mainlanders command higher tuitions.

http://news.yahoo.com/us-colleges-seek-better-integration-ch...
That's a very good point. You can also substitute various other demographics for young people, like lower socioeconomic classes, people heavily discounting their future, impulsive people, etc.

Health disguised as vanity works quite well though. Case in point, current fitness boom.
While certain commands are clearly good to learn, it does require consistency across applications. One or two offenders, especially high-profile ones (Outlook!), can screw it all up.

If a user does start exploring short-cuts and keeps being "burned" by unexpected behaviors, they will un-learn those short-cuts because they just aren't useful.
Yes, "boo" to using words that play with peoples emotions, and "yay" to not ever doing that sort of thing.

...except your summarized version also triggers an emotional response, does it not? Perhaps less deceptive. (or is it?)
Isn't it wrong-headed to attempt to derive fairness out of non-fairness? If the level of access to primary and secondary education is highly unequal then why not fix that first?
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People are minorities in different settings. Women are a minority in tech, men are a minority in day care. I'm not sure I follow you last two sentances. You think victimhood culture makes you the victim of other peoples advantages?
Because if you killing queries, you can forget about data consistency. And when data is in such condition, we should never call it "good enough way".
I'm not sure what to think about this topic, but articles like this don't help me decide, when they do things like:

* Dumping data from an advocacy group into a sidebar chart without doing any critical analysis of the data. The ratios of professionals to managers and executives are meaningless without factoring age cohort ratios into the data.

* Comparing Asian student admission rates between Ivy League universities to two California public universities, making an implicit assumption that they have comparable candidate pools and an explicit assumption that the only real difference in their admissions policies is that California forbids using race in making admissions decisions. Neither of those assumptions is close to being true.

* Implicitly accepting the idea that SAT or ACT scores are the only metric on which students ought to be judged for making admissions decisions. (Okay they mentioned "extracurriculars" and I was amused by the Northwestern person who said recruiters were looking for people who played lacrosse and rowed crew. But all the data mentioned were based on test scores alone.)

About the only sentence in the article I feel I can put any trust in is: "Asian-Americans are a large, diverse group exposed to a range of influences." But that very true statement feels almost out of place in an article that sure frames things as if all Asian-American high schoolers are academic powerhouses who want into the Ivy League at all costs.
Yes. Of course.

But, to quote Wayne Gretzky:

I skate to where the puck is going to be,
not where it has been.

You can build today's complicated things cheaply. But if you really want to achieve a quantum leap you need to think 10 years out. It is not cheap to build today the prototypes of things that will be desirable in 10 years. That is what Xerox PARC was doing.

It is tempting to look at an FPGA and say that it only costs $10. Or maybe even $1000 for the top end. But that's the tip of the iceberg. Designs that go into a high end FPGA could easily require 10 man-years of engineering time. That's for a single FPGA hardware design itself, not the system it goes into, not the associated software.

Once you need to do those sorts of things you won't find the right people by recruiting basic income hipsters that are lounging around at your local Starbucks. And you will need money to pay the considerable non-salary expenses, even if you could convince all the people to work for nothing but equity.

Right now, it's relatively cheap to do software-only things. Which explains why there are so many of those sorts of startups. But it's not cheap to design and build physical things.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Can you explain?
The submitted article talks about therapy not being as effective as we used to think.

My links explain why newer studies find less evidence of benefit, and whether that's a problem.

These threads are always full of people saying "I didn't read the paper; I didn't read all of the article; but I disagree because my aunt once ..." It'd be nice if people downvoted contrarian anecdote, but they tend not to.
> but the central server isn't going to reveal much data or anything at least.

As moxie acknowledged himself [1], the space of "all phone numbers" is so small that bruteforcing suddenly becomes feasible. AFAIK they're still working on it but I'm not up-to-date on what's been done since.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1shi77/textsecure_n...
There might be a bit of a gap coming, maybe a few years, when the people who aren't used to keyboard shortcuts start developing UIs, but, I'm interested in seeing what the people whose experience has been primarily tactile and visual (tablet users, gui users, smartphone users) come up with.

I've got a feeling it'll be like watching grandma say "Rotary phones were FINE!" until she gets that first smartphone with the contacts list, then she goes "Oh, wait, what's your phone number? I just always use the contacts."
>why did John Kerry feel the need to talk up the financial importance of the recent deal with Iran

Because politics?

Again, what is the alternative to the dollar? It's completely reasonable that the global community diversifies away from the USD. But any specific basket they come up with is going to be heavily titled towards the strongest currency of the biggest economy on the planet. Otherwise, it's useless.
Aside: I'm not a fan of the "for humans" label that seems to be common among some Python projects now.

It implies the other tools are possibly designed by monkeys, to a degree, which is often totally not the case.

As a particular example, while some libs are "friendly", they are also limited.

In this case, celery is implied to be not "for humans", but it actually offers distributed job queuing and jobs that can survive a reboot, which is pretty darn important.

I'm not going to name names of other libs doing this, but there are a few that have picked API simplicity over complete feature set. This is obviously a balance - BUT I think it unfairly casts the alternatively libs in a questionable light, and often they can do a lot more.

FWIW, the Ruby-design into the method space can also be reduced if desired to make this a bit more Pythonic (though some things are personal preferences):

scheduler = schedule.scheduler()

scheduler(callback=job).every(minutes=10)

scheduler(callback=job).every(day=1).at(hour=10, minutes=30)

Having functions like "Wednesday" or "minutes" complicate programatic usage, where in the above, it would be possible to pass in a constant.

One thing I also notice (not sure if Ruby inspired or not), is that it's keeping global state in the module (see run_pending) rather than having different scheduler objects. This somewhat limits reusability by having this embedded magic and not being able to isolate schedulers.
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"A piece of paper whose credibility depends on the credibilty of the issuing powers, just like fiat currency."

Same as US treasuries also.
How do I verify the app I downloaded was made by the developer? I suppose on phones there's no way to do that now anyway or at least I don't know how on iOS.

My point being if ms is compiling then how do I sign the executable as proof it's from me?
Don't forget the bigger killers

* crossing the road

* driving a car

* choking on <insert any food here>

etc etc
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DARE rolled out at just the right time so that I wasn't subjected to it but my sister two years younger was. By the time I was a senior in high school, it was clear to everyone that the DARE-exposed classes were using at much higher rates than previous classes. (Not my sister though!) This was 1994. There is no such thing as a "temporary" government program. Programs that do harm will do so for decades.
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He does make the rather blithe assumption that mathematics is somehow real, and not an idiopathic artefact of our cognition, as much as the apparently respectively static and dynamic nature of space and time that he notes most posess. Perhaps mathematics is also a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Me, I see the universe as information, and everything else flows from that. We are needles scratching out the tune from a hyperdimensional record. Our mathematical laws may well be encoded within that information, or are representative of symmetry within it, which is also reflected on the structures and strictures of our minds, but I see mathematics as effect rather than cause - not that there's really such a thing as causality, either, if you stop thinking of "the arrow of time" as being a thing other than how we experience spacetime. Causality is as human an invention as sunrise.

Then again, I'm assuming that information can exist.

Perhaps it's turtles^W simulations all the way down.
>Not likely, the US is on the rise again after suffering a decade plus of weakness.

The fact that your comment was instantly donwvoted indicates just how out of touch most people are with the reality of global economics.

Capital is flooding to the US because of its relative strength.
I don't care as long as the AI is pink!
Devaluing the Yuan will not help it become a reserve currency, unless people suddenly like to lose money.
This is hurting the country. I want my (white) kid to get in and everything, but it's not right. Education is an investment, and we're not putting it where it will do the most good.

We know there are de facto quotas at a lot of otherwise great schools. (Probably not MIT -- yay!) Hopefully the word 'quota' reminds people of the time when Feynman couldn't get into Columbia because he was Jewish.
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The title may refer asians as a minority. However, while asians definitely aren't a minority in the context of the world, they still are a minority in the context of the united states and Europe. All of that, however, is completely irrelevant of the issue. What is the issue? Vanity? No. The issue is racism.

When a race delivers quantitative metrics that beats other races out of the water, what does it mean? When black people dominate in basketball and athletics does it mean their race is genetically and physically superior to others? When asians dominate academically does it mean asians are genetically more intelligent?

I don't know the answer to these questions. It may be that asians just work harder... but I do know one thing: All races are NOT equal. Political correctness states that although races look different, all races are otherwise equal. Although this idea permeates the cultural reality of the United States, there is no logical universe where this makes sense. If races look different, then the possibility of other metrics being different is a logical induction.

What does this mean? The implications are scary. Historical mistreatment of black people have made this concept a very touchy issue in the united states.

While it is of my personal opinion that asians are academically successful mainly due to hard work, I do believe that the heart of the issue that articles like this discuss is this: We live in a culture where we are taught that all races are equal, this is not the logical reality and subconsciously we all know it. It's what causes the discrimination in the first place and it's what causes defensive comments like this to be posted.
Can you comment on the space of functions which you know to be complex differentiable but for which you can't analytically evaluate/approximate the real derivative?

If so, I look forward to learning about it. If not, you were throwing stones in a glass house.
“There’s something in the upbringing that makes Asians shy,"

At my first internship, people were commenting on how timid I seemed. I was used to obeying my parents and teachers without question; all I did was try to keep my head down and work harder. This sort of upbringing makes for great workers but bad leaders. I hope to come out of my shell more during the rest of college and my formative years.
One consequence of these 'app store compiled' models is that the compilation units you upload will have to be licensed to the app store in such a way that the derived native apps are legitimately licensed. That probably rules out, for example, even including LGPL libraries in your app, since the resulting application will statically compile that library code in with .NET components.
People like Catmull of Pixar have tried to write books about this.

Managing creative people - which may include some software people - is not the same as managing a pool of lawyers or accountants.

Software has a problem because too many managers think all software people are interchangeable development units.

In reality there's a universe of psychological difference between corporate biz-logic devs and the kind of creative lunatics who used to work at PARC - and all shadings between the extremes. Put good people in the wrong environment and they'll be worse than useless.

Same for all the other many possible dimensions.
> "Because politics?"

There's a bit more to it than just that, protecting the dollar is also part of it.

If you want to understand where I'm coming from better, would recommend watching the History of Oil (it's entertaining as well as informative):

http://youtu.be/GIpm_8v80hw
See my reply to forgetsusername.
In the US it is definitely illegal to siphon power from a utility, even without a physical connection.

Detecting it with casual use is probably impossible though.

But living that close to high power transmission lines can't be good for you in the long term.
"wow the fun bits look fun, as long as I don't get addicted....."

If you are a drug user, reading / watching something that others may thing would turn people away from drugs, a certain kind of drug user (perhaps more adventurous) will be thinking, "yeah I'd like to try that".

Used to be like that for me and others I knew. Case in point, all the PCP scare stories, "man gets super human strength, fights off 10 police, gets naked". I would just focus on the "gets super human strength" - yeah should get some of that.

But at the end of the day, drugs are pretty stupid. Fun. But stupid. Doesn't mean we should stop people taking them. Lots of things are stupid - really, if you think about it. Riding your bike down mountains, any of the more "extreme" sports, rock climbing. Anything with a risk that isn't necessary. But it is up to the individual to weigh the risk, the "fun" reward and decide what they want to do
If you drink a cup of tea (250ml) at 80°C, you have a temperature difference of 80°C-37°C=43°C. If you drink it in 5 minutes (300s) then the power you get from the temperature is

P = 250ml * 1g/ml * 43°C * 1cal/g°C * 4.18J/1cal / 300s = 150W

If you add one tablespoons of sugar (12g), you get approximately 3.8 kcal/g so in the same 5 minutes you get

P = 12g * 3.8kcal/g * 4.18J/1cal / 300s = 635W

but this is not absorbed instantly, but you have to average with all the other food you eat during the day (the average is approximately 100W).

So you get much more energy from a cup of tea than using a WiFi router inside your mouth (anyway, I'd not recommend it).
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Well, two major issues:

The first is technical: how does one guarantee that the algorithm is actually fair? And that of course hinges on how one defines 'fair'. Many of the measures that appear objective aren't. There is a growing amount of evidence that the method in which a test is administered can have a statistically significant impact on how different races and sexes perform [1][2]. On top of that, there is evidence that similar biases creep into how teachers grade essays and even math problems [3].

The second is more social science-y: switching to an algorithm doesn't fix the problem that affirmative action attempts to solve, which is that even after correcting for any test bias certain minorities or subgroups will still perform statistically worse than others, not due to inherent differences in intelligence, but due to the cumulative effects of the inequalities of opportunities in society, eg lesser performing schools, less time/energy for parents to help with homework, less money for extracurricular activities, &c. &c. [4]. Yes, socioeconomic status accounts for a large amount of this, but it does not 100% account for it. There are still statistically significant amounts that are due to things like race, sex, or religion.

[1]: http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/picture-yourself-as-a-s...
[2]: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/21/sat
[3]: http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/02/10/teacher_bias...
[4]: http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-pencilsword-on-a-plate
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US bonds are priced in percent growth, just like all bonds. If the markets expect that the US is going print money to pay off bonds then the interest rates on US bonds would go up, since the future exchange rate is expected to go down.
Everyone is a minority in some context was part of my point. In this particular case, by vanity I meant the admission officers, politicians and other people pushing an agenda to help "underrepresented" groups ABC at the expense of XYZ.
LGPL doesn't forbid static linking, you'll just have to provide linkable object files (or source code) separately to enable re-linking. (https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html#section4)
I think this is partly the case, coupled with a general assumption that computers are magic. What is really fascinating is to listen to someone work out a very complex logic problem verbally, then have no idea how to fix it because the computer is "too difficult."

I wonder what would happen if I answered every question with "Press F1."
Depends on how one defines Asians. Chinese are rare among the higher ranks in tech, but many corporations have Indians (India is in Asia, right?) as their CEO.
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I dunno. I've worked for a string of Indian managers (directors, VPs, CIOs), and if you look at the highest of the high profile companies now (Microsoft, Google, Oracle... but not Apple or Amazon) they all have Indian leadership.
> All races are NOT equal. Political correctness states that although races look different all races are equal.

If we want to be all philosophical about it we'd say that people of all races must be equal under the law or that they are all endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights or something like that.
> That would only be fairer if everyone has the same level of access to education up to that point.

So it is the socioeconomic difference that should be addressed, not racial difference.
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But the success of Asians/Indians kind of disproves the narrative that it is all about class. They come with nothing, live in the same poor neighborhoods and are so successful that they are discriminated against to promote diversity on campus.
The question was about automatic differentiation vs the method in the article (the complex step method) which is essentially a defective variant of automatic differentiation with a spurious numerical parameter.

Automatic differentiation works for any composition of those ‘simplest functions’ you mention, which is quite a lot of stuff, including whole programs.

Approximation methods have their place, sure. Sometimes they're good enough and sometimes it's all you can do. What does that have to do with anything?