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If you enjoyed this, may I also recommend Feynman's Lectures on Computation. [1] It consists of transactions of a lecture series that begins with computer architecture and theory of computation and considers interesting subjects like the physical limits to computational capability--all through the unique lens of Feynmans' mind.

Feynman worked on this subject working on the Connection Machine supecomputer. [2][3]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Lectures-Computation-Richard-P...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine

[3] http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...
Not yet -- I carry it because I'm required to have chains or an equivalent (the autosock counts) in the vehicle when driving into the mountains in Washington state and British Columbia during winter. Since the Tesla (P85D) is all wheel drive I'm not actually required to use the equivalent as long as I have M+S rated tires on the car.

For the past couple winters conditions have not demanded anything beyond the AWD and the tires. This is also an unfortunate commentary on the snow situation for the last couple winters.

I picked the autosock over chains as the Tesla owners manual advises against most change due to risk of damaging the wheel wells and body. There is apparently at least one model they've approved, which I'll likely invest in the first time the autosock proves itself not up the task and forces me to turn back from a ski weekend.
the car has so much software on board but isnt it personalized so that when my daughter is driving the car she cant get faster that e.g. 30mph?
Or would this be to obvious?
If you're opposed to a surveillance state, you should care deeply about preventing future terrorist attacks

You can't prevent them all, and I don't want you to try. More precisely, I don't want you to do what's necessary to prevent every likely form of attack.

Terrorist attacks in the USA happen when a few nutcases get lucky and succeed in wielding disproportionate force in an asymmetrical fashion. Only a ubiquitous Panopticon of a police state has a chance of stopping them all. In infosec terms, patching all of the vulnerabilities will require us all to live sandboxed lives far away from the metal, and that's not what this country was supposed to be about.

So, go find something else to do, please... or at least, someplace else to do it. Failing that, maybe name your company after something besides a powerful magical artifact that was captured and subverted by malicious forces. The real terror will begin when the next J. Edgar Hoover takes control of what you've built.

If you want to roll back the surveillance state, you have to actually empower people carrying out anti-terrorism to intelligently correlate data gathered through lawful and privacy-respecting means to succeed in their mission

Bullshit. The authorities had all the data they needed to stop terrorist acts from 9/11 to the Boston Marathon bombing. They needed more brainpower, not more CPU power.
> The program will cost 5 million for the first three years. After that the foundation will have to create an endowment of 30 million to make sure the program continues indefinitely.

I think this is great news. However, I have some questions. How much will the program cost per student (what are the fixed and variable costs)? What is the program doing to keep costs low?
Just to add as a Lethbridge (about 100 km north of Montana) resident, on Fri we had scattered clouds. No smoke/smell that I've noticed.
As I mentioned in another comment in this thread, it is already done for randomized administrator and wifi passwords in consumer routers.
In that scenario, your surgeon would see the program suddenly freeze.

The program likely looks like this: data acquisition -> transformation -> display transformation on monitor.

If the transformation step fails, the monitor will end up displaying (a) nothing, (b) random data, or (c) the most recent image. None of these help the surgeon continue surgery. It's the same as a crash.

If your environment fails, there's nothing you can do to recover. Planes aren't designed to survive the loss of a wing. Why is this case any different?
BASIC-256 is a good alternative to QBasic: http://www.basic256.org/index_en

The voice synthesis with the "say" command is impressive: http://doc.basic256.org/doku.php?id=en:say

Say "Hello, World" (instead of Print...)
It's totally true, we totally expect young drivers to wreck a car early in their driving careers, and they often do, and we're totally fine with it, it's part of the course.

That mindset strikes me as completely insane to be honest (btw, I damaged my parent's car as well in my first year of driving).

Why not something like that you have to start driving for a few years with a small car (like a kei-car of some sorts), and then you can graduate to a compact. And then after six years or so, you can drive something heavy and/or fast. I would be so much more at ease in traffic, knowing that those deathtrap crossovers, trucks, and SUVs around me aren't piloted by a texting teenager.
awk is a really productive constraint one can oblige to. If a problem looks like a text processing problem, use awk, and let the idioms set in. It is an awesome tool to have on one's belt.

It is, in a sense, liberating to not have any library support for common problems: No need to learn a library (hej!) and, by the way, what you need in any given problem is an easy subset of what that library would do anyway.

Awk has made me focus more on the data there is to analyze, rather than the framework to analyze it with.

As the idiomatic use of awk is also very succinct, I hardly can imagine working efficiently on the command line without it.
...and could software deployed to the device by some random who just exploited some well-known security flaw that never got patched, kill people?
Most are atheists, which denies them access to one of the few institutions shown to promote happiness and sociability and provide meaning and consolation once life's major goals/distractions are past, and you have to stop and look existence in the face. Downboat away, HN, but it's a major cause of unhappiness: "He doesn't exist, the bastard."

Eventually, your choices are nihilism or God. Everything else is hysterics.
> I thought "so ... you have no curiosity about the world? about how stuff works?."

For most people, a library solves that more efficient and cost effectively than a university, at least to the level that they care about.

It would be nice if university were cheap enough to be an answer to curiosity, but as it stands,
> Would you similarly dismiss phantom pain and prescribe anti-depressants and CBT?

Well, there is good evidence that both antidepressants and CBT work for phantom limb pain, so yes...

Phantom Limb Pain: Mechanisms and Treatment Approaches, Subedi et. al., 2011
And why would that be "more elegant"?

If, after merely a few centuries of industrial revolution, we are nearing to be able to make a good enough physics simulation, and thus it's conceivable that in th future (100-1000 years) we could create a very fine simulation of a world (with simulated humans in it too, a la Sims).

Then the same (that they themselves will be eventually able to create a simulation) can be said for the inhabitants of the simulated world we've created.

This means that in the end, there might be thousands or millions of such simulations inside a prior simulation.

This begs the question: why would then our world not be a simulation itself? Certainly if there are 1000's of simulations, it's more probable that we're somewhere in the middle than on the top of the stack.

Now consider the simulation above us: they create our universe as a simulation.

It would then make sense that:

1) the simulation would be in final analysis discreet.
2) it would only spare computation cycles when it was worth it.

So, (1) would involve something like Planks length (and related constants).

And (2) would make it so that "reality" (active simulation) exists only when one of us (humans/consciousness) look at it.
A clear structure does not relieve us from social power or political power or information power. It may be that A is the manager of B, but right now, concerning you B has more power over you than A, so you better follow B's wishes instead of A's. It may even be that you are both people's manager and still better follow their desires at this point in time.
(Possibly dumb question) As a topologist, not a computer scientist - is "discrete differential forms" just the practice of computing things in De Rham cohomology by passing to simplicial homology via Poincare duality?
The challenge for society going forward is to recognize this and to not reflexively try to remove all authority and hierarchy.

OSS does well with the BDFL model ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_life ). The people who practice it best use their authority to set tone and agenda and then step back to let people own their participation. They step back in only when they have to.

In universities today the idea of a "safe space" is in vogue. We might recognize that safe spaces require some sort of protection. It can come from campus police, in online communities it can come from people who are charged with that role, and in companies it can come from managers and executives.

Not all overt power is abused.
she didnt caught the curve then the car rolled over.

Position
https://www.google.de/maps/place/47%C2%B058'12.1%22N+11%C2%B...

cars direction north east to the yellow street 11

this dead outlet
https://electrek.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/tesla-crash-ram...

is this here
https://www.google.de/maps/place/47%C2%B058'12.5%22N+11%C2%B...
A similar example is the Kalamazoo Promise:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamazoo_Promise
Dividr – Use iOS 3D Touch to Avoid Obstacles and Get a High Score
Yes it does! Showing "no telemetry available" is exactly what it should do. Crashing = unreliable. Reporting an error condition = reliable.

Immediately? Took them 5 minutes to reboot the computer. The scan of the folder would take seconds let alone minutes. Pinpointing the problem is secondary. Not killing the patient is primary.

> If the program's sole purpose is to transform a massive amount of data in real time, it must have disk access by definition. It can't not have disk access.

And that is the mind set the programmers of the software had. You have to take care of error conditions. The processing can't have no disk access but no disk access can occur temporarily or permanently. What can you do? Pause the processing part of your program. Or make the processing part treat "no data" as valid input and display something else.

Imagine taking that viewpoint with an ECG machine: This machine displays a heart rate waveform. So it must have a heart rate input. If there is no heart rate we'll just crash requiring a 5 minute reboot.

Hell no! Draw a straight line and set off a buzzer!
I think the entire existentialist movement would strongly disagree with your last point. (To say nothing of Absurdists and their ilk.)
Not every web application is well-suited to be a SPA. Frankly, only a minority are.

Even if you ARE putting most logic on the client-side, you will always need endpoints to provide server-side functionality.

By the time you've finished writing interceptor middleware, proper CSRF protections, and other things you'll need in a real-world application... you will have written your own MVC framework. And probably done a far more lousy job than the people who focus on that full-time.

A fairly basic server-side framework is only "huge technical debt" if you're an unemployed college student tinkering with "TodoMVC" examples.
Yes. The problem with an in-process RNG and forking is that the RNG state is duplicated, so both processes get the same sequence of numbers. Multithreading just needs locking to prevent corruption because the state is shared.
What? That is an absurdly binary thought. You're saying that you either have to believe in God or be nihilistic to be happy? Give me a break.
Wtf?

"The antivirus was configured to scan for viruses every hour, and the scan started right in the middle of the procedure."

Who configures an antiviurs for an hourly scan on a doctor's computer?
> The team also finds some evidence of an extra layer among some people. “This could, for example, mean introverts and extroverts have a different number of layers of friends,” they suggest. But interestingly, extroverts, while having more friends, still have a similar number of layers.

> In total, the study shows good evidence for the existence of the innermost and outermost layers but with some variability for the size of the intermediate layers. “The clustering yields results that match well with previous studies for the innermost and outermost layers, but for layers in between we observe large variability,” they say.

I was curious about those comments in the BBC article, so I took a look at the paper and found this from the conclusions useful:

> While the data is noisy, all
methods support two different groupings well. This
could, for example, mean introverts and extroverts
have a different number of layers of friends. Further
work could investigate this possibility.

> Another suggestion
is that over a year, friendships are more transient.
Alters could move up or down from one layer
to the next on a regular basis. This would reflect the
temporal nature of emotional closeness, especially
among one’s non-closest friends
It looks like it flipped end over end with the front taking most of the impact, then the rear being crushed on the flip. The cabin must be extremely solid since the windows are still intact.
I'm guessing that your use cases for Windows and FOSS kernels are different, but I'll counter your anecdote with some of my own.

Almost every single BSOD today is a hardware/driver problem. After Server 2003, MSFT got serious about kernel stability. I haven't had a BSOD from a kernel problem since Vista.

Secondly, I also run multiple Server 2012 R2 servers with server hardware, and have never had a BSOD with any of those machines.

Finally, Microsoft runs Azure on Win Server, if it wasn't stable, it's cloud platform would be in serious trouble.

Disclaimer: I still work for Microsoft
I feel like we have an article where a person is convinced they have a medical condition and no doctor will agree with them literally every week here. I'm not sure why it's interesting at this point.

And regardless of the physical situation, this guy most definitely had serious psychological problems.
I had never had heard of Holacracy. But, this also commonly occurs in traditional organizational structures: the multiple bosses pattern. It results from a lot of different types of system dynamics, and although it inefficiently organizes resources, it seems innately baked into Human behavior.
> I actually addressed it at the end of the post I suspect you didn't read.

Are all medical professionals (which I presume you are) this condescending, or just the ones on this thread?

> Anxiety is well known for significantly reducing the threshold for attention to stimulus: someone having an anxiety attack can feel things without somatic prompt, or they can feel something horrible with an underlying somatic prompt that, if they weren't having an anxiety attack, they'd never have even noticed.

Right. So how do you know that this isn't the result of a real physical stimulus that manifests primarily in anxious people because they are more sensitive to that stimulus?

How do you know that anxiety/depression are the "underlying issue", and not merely something that surfaces/amplifies the true underlying issue?
Not really. I remember some years back waiting in line at a boat dock and mentioning to my friend the parade of new shiny boats towed by new shiny trucks. His reply was, "look who owns all those expensive boats: plumbers and electricians. They're the ones who make the real money."

The "irony" that a friend of mine who is an EE with an MBA and manages group at a large corporation was looking into getting a low-voltage electrician's license was not lost on me.
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Numerical recipes: the art of scientific computing is a go to reference for most people I know doing physics simulations. I think they've got a copy up on their website. Not sure if it covers all you want but the range is pretty good.
> I am just looking for options and possibilities in case I give up the PhD program.

Not so sure about CS PhDs specifically, but I know a few researchers (employed by the feds) that have "all but dissertation" on their CVs next to their PhD listing. Meaning they didn't finish but clearly they're employable.

So, from your question:

>Tell them that I can't do my PhD so please give me a job and sponsor my H1B?

You've likely accumulated a lot of accomplishments, are just as valuable as someone who has completed their PhD, and you're employable. Right?
+1 for sticking to the engineering arguments and ignoring the ad hominem.
OxyContin: respectable heroin.
Agreed. Very hard to see how making a business around getting people to "solve captchas" is anything but nefarious.
This article reminded me of a scene from "Flight of the Conchords" where they are discussion how many "the ones" you can have[1]---turns out it is 5.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZGc2sIajMM
I'm very heavily working with k8s and while what you say is definitely true, I'm not too bothered by what I have to configure (aka stuff I can control directly). What I really dislike is stuff on which I have no direct control and that's the main problem with k8s. Lot of stuff "just works", with little-to-no documentation on what are the pieces concurring to make it work nor how it is configured.

The 'it just works' approach might be great with simple scenarios, but it's horrible for complex use cases where you need to have detailed control over the pieces that will run in production and - once they are properly setup -, you would anyway automate accordingly your specific usecase.

Hence my: "Additional hidden complexity doesn't seem to be a good thing in this case".

Beside that, I really have no idea about what they specifically mean with "Kubernetes-based PaaS". What is it? Abstracting kubernetes cluster setup? If this is the case, i remark that I need more fine-grained access on the internals rather than additional abstractions that internally do "god-knows-what".
I assumed you were replying to my comment you quoted. Sounds like we misunderstood each other.
What about the ones who are not atheists?
That's a rather naive, if popular, view of religion.

Probably made even more popular by the fact that in the US any kind of fringe BS can pass as a religion, from Scientology to what have you.

And by fringe I don't mean less true in the "god exists" way (well, he doesn't exist, at least not in any religious guise), but less historically established and having served an important societal role.

Because religions were an early cultural framework for formulation of a code of ethics, building ideas about society, life, etc. That we today deem some of those ideas bad doesn't mean they were bad when they formed (or even now), or that they didn't play an important (positive I mean) role in society's development.

(The inverse idea is usually based on two naive beliefs: religious people were just dupes manipulated by priests, and religion is useless since its myths don't correspond to objective truth).

Heck, there are even evolutionary studies on the benefit of religion to human development...
I see you point, but I use a 970 and just finished Dark Souls 3 on max settings without a single hiccup.

No doubt that with future games the 970 will not perform as well as it should, but I will have a different card by then. What they did is a shame and shouldn't happen again, but I haven't noticed any real-world ramifications yet.
I agree, though there's a worsening to your situation once you're homeless. I can't find the study right now, but it basically said homeless people have a significant higher chance of being schizophrenic. It was concluded then, that being homeless was to blame for mental illness. I think this conclusion is not just wrong, because it's the other way around (mental illness causes homelessness) but I think this faulty conclusion actually hurts progress.

(Can't remember if this conclusion came from the authors themselves or from some media outlets trying to use this headline for some other agenda or biased readership.)
So then nihilism or hysterics? I guess, with few exceptions, everyone choose hysterics.
But how do you know the condition is psychogenic? You seem to have jumped to this conclusion based on your experience with other patients whose symptoms turned out to be psychogenic. Even granting that there's some similarity in the symptoms, I don't see how that provides strong evidence that this condition is also psychogenic.

I'm not saying it's an unreasonable hypothesis, but how can one have enough confidence in it to abandon the search for organic causes? -- Particularly when, if there were an organic cause that therefore got overlooked, the cost to the patient would be very high.
The same can be sad for the most extreme atheist people -- communists for example were not particularly religious, nor were the Nazis.
True or False: if people pay $79.95 for https://www.ediblearrangements.com they will also pay that much for 10 iphone cords.
But if they haven't studied graphs and are unable to give you rigorous answers, will you forgive them because they haven't taken the right classes?

It seems to me you should ask questions you expect the candidate to be able to give good answers for, period.
Thats the same what I thought when I read that comment. Here in germany most hoses go around for 300k-1M€. And still they are bought from families with a COMBINED income of far less then 100k€. It's quite normal for people to pay for a house for 20years, which would make it still cheaper then renting.
Everyone has slight physical discomforts. If it's being magnified tremendously, the magnifier is the problem.
Minivans test well in safety. They are far from "anti-Teslas". If you don't like them, there are a variety of relatively safe, inexpensive vehicles from which to choose.
>If someone is experiencing a physical symptom and you tell them it's not actually physical, that is dismissing it

Nobody is saying that at all. The physical causes should be investigated, obviously. Suggesting to the patient that it might be psychological is not "dismissing" anything. Of course, it is true that most patients are vehemently opposed to the idea of psychosomatic pain, as well as many/most doctors. John Sarno's books are a fascinating read.

In this case there doesn't appear to be any pain, or physical sensation at all. You can't sense a "hole", any more than you can sense inflammation or the like.
Seems like this is a core belief of yours...
Does anyone know what caused the sales the sales (The chart: "Oxycontin Sales 1996 - 2014)" took a major dip in the years 2005 and 2006 and then rebounded like crazy in 2008?