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>___< I only know Bayes Nets and Random Forest.

I love tree base algorithm they are so good in many context compare to neural network. You try doing that in the medical field where there are very little data since it's so costly to do r&d on human.

Also with Bayesian Network you can at least know how to explain things. Neural Network is a magic black box.

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edit: also regression but meh I think if you know random forest then you should know regression. Other wise you don't really know random forest.
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So how should they proceed without fundamentally altering the way their platforms work?
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"would it be feasible to build our own car manufacturer" to "no it's not feasible" isn't exactly attempting it.
FWIW, in the UK, you can get A*s (A 'star').

We've had these for GCSEs (typically sat at around 16 years old) for ages, and they were introduced into A-Level in 2010.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCE_Advanced_Level_(United_Kin...
One of my nephews graduated from one of the Top-5 US universities with a B.S Degree in Computer science, last week. It costed him ~250K USD for the entire course (living expenses, all included). He got an offer from one of the Top-3 tech companies in the Valley and the salary he will be making, makes it possible for him to pay back the entire university expenses in 2-3 years.

This is just a small sliver, and I understand this is no way representative of university education. But in this small sliver, it seems like University education is amazing in the value it offers, purely in a dollar sense.
This is nice for a personal website.
There's something oddly satisfying in generating static websites from plain text or markdown.

For those of you who haven't yet heard about pandoc[1]. I was chairman of a non-profit organization a few years back, during that year I generated all the slideshows for my meeting agendas from plain markdown files using pandoc. It was a breeze compared to working with powerpoint and the likes.

[1] http://pandoc.org/
You are describing asp.net forms in visual studio circa 10 years ago. It was not a bad experience to use the UI tools and "code-behind", but then MVC and Ajax came to the scene, and it fell behind I guess.
Nice! That's going to be very useful when learning a new topic/technology

How are the hits ranked? I imagine just time? Do you have a list of all sources you used?
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Negative feedback is much larger category then just telling someone "you are naughty". There was not mention of occasional in op post either. Most troublemakers are not making trouble occasionally - the kids who are real problem do unwanted things often.

"These are children, not puppies; children are perfectly capable of associating being called "naughty" with specific behavior."

Their implication about specific behavior being often "playing in sight" or "I wont please teacher so I will make myself funny so other kids like me at least". Or the implication does not matter, because behavior was down to impulsive or unable to control emotions (I am frustrated I act out so it gives me attention and it is already reflex at this point).

"You have very extreme views regarding children."

Nice try.
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Quoting comment I replied to: "Tell them they're naughy when they behave naughtily".
Unfortunately, I can totally relate to him. I have been called a climate denier just for disagreeing with a proposed solution. Climate change and its proposed solutions (for one the Paris Accord) have almost a religious following that are quick to attack anyone who disagree with them on even the smallest point. It is no way to solve problems.
Worms and plastic in sea salt:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/05/sullied-seasoning-se...

A Kale sandwich (with a few grubs) is looking kinda good.
> Is material science not advanced enough to find some combination of parts that can sustain a low speed impact with no damage but crumple safely in a higher-speed impact?

For collisions, it's safe for the cabin to be fairly rigid to protect the occupants while crumpling the zones further away to absorb as much of the energy as possible before the impact reaches the soft, mushy humans.

It's a combination of physics and costs. Material science might be advanced enough, but the solution might not make economic sense; but if anyone has it, it would likely be Volvo.
2: What I was trying to understand was whether a malicious site can relay the "securelogin://" challenge generated by a good site to the victim. Basically, an XSRF attack. Does the client validate the context of the challenge?

4: I don't think that's true. Gmail has a heuristic recovery based on knowledge tests. It's _easier_ if you have a backup email or SMS, but not required in all cases.

As an aside, another downside of this approach is that it requires server-side state. Not a huge deal in most cases, but it can present a scalability limit versus cookie-only (signature-based) auth schemes. If the client were able to relay cookies or redirects back to the browser--which seems like it should be possible by simply opening a redirect in the https:// scheme--you could avoid that, no?
We've had free access to college courses via the web for quite some time now (Coursera, edX etc.), but they have not yet usurped the status quo in the way many (myself included) had hoped.

I figure there's two factors behind this:

1) People want a "college lifestyle". It wouldn't really matter much to me, but I know this is something kids leaving home care about, so it's surely a massive factor.

2) People NEED to have a piece of paper with a fancy stamp. This to me is the biggest problem, and I don't know of an easy solution.

To share my own anecdotal story:

I was working on freelance projects prior to going to university (this is some time ago now). I won't say I didn't learn anything there, but certainly I went to many lessons covering material I was already familiar with, in much greater depth, from my own learning. As there was no way for me to get a job interview without the degree, I stayed put and ran up years of student debt.

The first issue lies with the student. The second lies with the industry at large.

Maybe this is how that happens - the dawning realization that higher education doesn't begin and end with college - and folks start to really look at the other options seriously.
Thanks for the rare fair comment. People are quick to forget the difference between concept and implementation. The Transmeta concept was clearly viable, but the implementation needed more iterations to before we can fully judge the concept.

Your comment about VLIW is true, but in this case that was a 2nd order effect. Far far worse was The effect of the JIT (CMS): a small kernel running over a long time (e.g., DVD playback) would work absolutely excellently, even on the Crusoe, whereas a large codebase with relatively little reuse (say, Word) would give very uneven performance. This problem was never solved [at Transmeta].

The irony is that today, x86 compability is irrelevant in most places.
A metacircular interpreter for Scheme. You can even watch a lecture where this is presented (https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu... see also part 2).
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A picture might be worth a thousand words, but if I give you a thousand word essay there's no way you'll find any number of pictures that fully express it.

Text is hugely expressive and can be precise and unambiguous in ways visual information struggles with.
Right. My point was only that most people may want a lost-password fallback; this scheme doesn't prevent implementers from providing that, so it's not really a big deal.
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Mediocre People inventing fairy tales to not look as cowardly as they are besides ambitious people.

The problem is, that the writer of such a piece, after completing it- turns around to a humanity hungry for a next, risky, feet. So hungry in fact, it would vote for a mad man to axe the risk avoider caste.

So our writer turns around and exclaims "Sorry, no big feets available today, maybe you all should relax and come back for a nth-chance tomorrow."

Now, where else to turn too? Those claiming to be pro-risky steps?
Mostly company cronys, who marketing crowned with "bold moves High-Performers" but who got where they are, by constant small incremental steps, and putting up arbitrary expensive obsticles behind them, to keep a little privacy.

Imagine sheparding a asteroid with a tug-drone from the belt into moon-orbit, how much this price winning inbred hunting-dog-show would wail to avoid the chase, while those with nothing too lose and everything to gain, would be busy drilling in a high-rad, zero-g environment.

This is why we got Trump, and will get Trump again, Incarnation after Incarnation, because this species always voted pro-risk once the mamoth was eaten.
Can confirm: have friend of a friend who just invested about 2000 euros (or maybe more) in a machine that he installed at home in order to mine for ethereum. His decision was based on the price of ethereum doubling or so in the last month. He's not an IT guy, he paid "consultancy" services to a friend of his who set up the machine for him. We'll see how this will go. From the outside it sounds like a bubble.
I always learned that you should praise kids for what they do, not for what they are. So don't tell them they're smart, tell them they solved a problem well. You don't have to be the best at everything, but you should try to improve. It's not about where you rank on the list of best students ever, it's about what you do, what you accomplish. Don't compare to others, compare to yourself: is this better than before? If so, awesome! You got better at something!
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Train stations are in city centers. Most people living in the city can cab to them in far less than 45 minutes.

I can get to mine in <20 minutes on a bicycle.
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Google often just shows up a 'This number cannot be used for verification' message.
> If you want a preview of what a back door looks like, just look at the US Transportation Security Administration’s “master keys” for the locks on our luggage

Good point. I have the same issue in my building. The postman has a master key to open the mailboxes. Apparently, these master keys are now well-spread and I can't order packages anymore as they get stolen.
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Define "recently. Neither women nor blacks nor catholics nor jews have been systematically oppressed in the US in my lifetime, or yours, or most of the potential presenters. If you are conservative about it you can claim discrimination up until the 1960s - which is 50 years ago, hardly "recently".
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One of my favourite books. Read it many years ago and re-read it a few years later. One of the key take aways for me was that we always have a choice of how we deal with adversity and it helped me get through some tough situations.
>It'd be cool to have digital cash, but I think we're decades away.

Maybe for the US, but China is already prepping for it and have released statements earlier this year of completing a trial run for it. Putin just spoke with Ethereum founder this weekend as well.

Money is technology, both are power. China and Russia can make decisions on this quicker because they are ran by few people at the top. Macron has a Ledger Blue from his time as minister of economy. Italy, Australia, and Japan treats cryptocurrency now or very soon as a currency. Think Russia is taking the US route and treating it as a property for now.

And extreme care from the fed? It's the blind leading the blind. There's no exact science to economics. Should I replay Greenspan's admittance that his model of the world was wrong?

And we only have to worry about the current coin community if it takes over. But there are already coins that are getting backing from large financial institutions. Governments can also create their own centralized coins so it'll end up being pretty much the same as it is now.
From what I heard (based on recent research perhaps?) when it's about ability, you should praise what the kid does and not what they are, but when it's about morality, you should praise what they are, not what they do. If they're being good, that is. If they see themselves as a good person, they're more likely to be good. But if they see themselves as smart, they're less likely to work to accomplish anything, because it should be easy for them.
So we agree about something at least ;-)

Slight tangent: I started my programming career in 1989.

The product was Parasolid and the language was AGA - a C inspired language that preceded C++.

I vaguely remember the following extensions:

* built in logging with Undo

* overloaded operators leading to vector and interval types that worked better than C++

* a proper module system
I think it is if we give people an option to default on student loans. There has to be a way to send a negative signal. Even something like a "one year out, one year in" option. i.e. If after your first year out of college you don't have a "decent job" then you may go back for a year of retraining no questions/bills so long as you're on campus. Costly for society? Sure, but much better than increased DOD spending.
Here's an article summarizing the major problems (real and perceived) of visual languages https://hackernoon.com/visual-programming-is-unbelievable-he...
A way of working that a lot of companies can learn from..
My dream is the opposite. Constrain programmers to hardware that's 2 generations old. That will force us to make our programs run fast in this environment which is much closer to what actual users will use to running it.

I do understand the implication that lowering the need for always faster hardware for end users will slow down the pace of development of new hardware. But with the end of Moore's law upon us, that's inevitable anyway.

Our computers are plenty fast today, beyond what we could imagine when each of us started programming. Let's cut down on abstractions. Let's profile, optimize.
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Good leaders use both, sometimes the carrot sometimes the stick. A combination of praise and discipline to draw out the best results in someone. My best teacher at high school was liberal with his praise but if you slacked off you'd soon know about it.
Could you provide a link to where you read/heard that statement from Bitpay?
Just another command-and-control like structure, just named differently
The ING Bank has started working this way as well, big improvement for them.
Same!! On lesson 2 and already feel like I know so much! The top down approach to learning is great! Will actually read the book "Making Learning Whole" that inspired them to follow this approach.
Interesting. Why did you choose it and why didn't you like it?
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By the way, there's a trailing semi-colon on the link that needs to be removed for it to work.
Exactly.

Imagine that there exists only one insurance company (additionally non-profit) and that only 100 cars - all in the same, single segment - exist, that have (invariably) 10 collisions with another car per year.

If the average cost for repairs is US$ 10,000, for the system to work the total amount of rates must be 10x10,000=100,000 and thus each car owner will pay 100,000/100= 1,000 US$.

Now introduce a new car that replaces a large part, let's say 50% of the (only) segment.

When these new cars are involved in an accident, (and their driver is not at fault) the repair costs double to 20,000 US$, so if on average you will have 5 accidents costing 10,000 as before and 5 costing 20,000, the total costs will raise to 150,000.

The insurance company will either leave the 50 "normal" cars at 1,000 and thus raise the rates of the 50 "more expensive" cars to 2,000 OR spread the difference by raising everyone's rates to 1,500.
Any source for your very strong assertions that spoiled children have lower criminality rates, violence rates and take less drugs?
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It doesn't. Try Outsystems: https://www.outsystems.com/learn/
> Computers have been more or less universal since the time RAM was used to execute the programs, the fact that files are a convenient way to organize data does noes not detract from the fact that the internal structure of a file needs to be known if you want another program to make sense out of it.

> In that sense the text file is the most enabling element here, and binary files with unknown structure the least.

text files haven't always been universal. There used to be different text encodings (ASCII hasn't always been universal) and even different sizes of byte (eg some systems would have 6 or 7 bits to a byte). And even if two machines you're wanting to share data between were both an 8bit ASCII system; there's no guarantee that they would share the same dialect of BASIC, LISP, Pascal or C.
>It could be revived and improved if people wanted. It got nowhere with C programmers, though, in the past.

I guess the market will decide.

Ransomware will explode in the next few years.

If a big enough exploit gets pinned on Linux then sentiment could change and there could be a well-funded hard fork.

edit: saw this quoted on Twitter today (but can't recall where):

“Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.”

Milton Freidman

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/110844-only-a-crisis---actua...
Aaron695 described himself as a "climate denier", though, which is unusual.

The Paris Accord, by itself, cannot do nearly enough to avert disaster, but it was the best that could be done diplomatically (especially in the light of US domestic politics). As such, it's better than nothing. No question that the whole subject has become very toxic and politically polarised, and that people have hair-trigger responses that sometimes misfire.
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yeah where are them? https://m.imgur.com/ZiJ0n6Q

sheeesh of course robototization adoption is slowing, most manufacturing is already there and until the next tech generation comes we reached the optimum split between local automated vs cheap manual outsourced
> That's career suicide.

That would be something new for Foxconn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides
If we need code (in form of text) anyway, then why even spend time on learning visual representation of the same concepts? Such learning is pricy and increases cognitive load on developer without meaningful increase in productivity.

Visual programming still may make sense in some narrow niche tasks though.
Careful with "you are naughty" vs "you are being naughty", and the like.
You are building strawmen. The suggestion was to "invest into the stock market", not to "gamble on the single riskiest stock you can find".

If an amateur invests their money into a passive index fund or even a diversified equity fund like, say, Fidelity Magellan, they would have done well over any 20-year span. Nuff said.
> Should grades reflect absolute knowledge (e.g. if you have this grade then you are that good) or should they reflect relative ordering?

This is a can of worms all by itself, too. Grades can reflect

1) Absolute knowledge, but this unfairly favours students from rich and well-educated parents;
2) Relative superiority compared to your age group, but this encourages children to not help each other because they are afraid they're competing for a limited number of higher grades;
3) Speed of development, which is largely determined by genetics at any given age;
4) Effort, which is unfair to the bright students who have nothing to put their effort in to; or
5) Potential future ability, which is nigh impossible to measure and not necessarily even an important marker of anything.

There are many more options, and neither is obviously right. I don't think any of these really help with the issue mentioned in the article.
I blame the media. They've conditioned two generations of voters that war is something that you see on TV or read about online, not something that involves you or your neighborhood, you 'go to war', it never comes to you.

This kind of verbal white-washing causes all kinds of problems when the inevitable adjustment happens which shows that we can play word games all we want but it won't make an actual difference.
I can easily imagine a dystopian future where basic sciences are no longer taught and Galileo seems irrelevant and quaint compared to the everyday chores one must do to avoid being repurposed as stock for the local Soylent Green factory.
You seem to have a very skewed perspective on the state of automation in SMEs
years ago, the dollar amounts werent that large even. my game company bought us all gift cards and told us all to each buy a couple hundred dollars in our app to bump a couple spots.

another interesting thing, basically everyone on the top grossing chart knows roughly what the others are making - as you adjust ad spend you adjust your revenue, and when you pass someone you know how much they are making. (or just through word of mouth or multiple games)

even more crazy was buying tens or hundreds of thousands of downloads to get to the top of the free charts from bots, before apple claimed to be cracking down, which then triggered a couple percent of that in legitimate downloads. those 'organic' downloads from the charts ended up costing a fraction of what paid ads would have cost if you average the bot download cost over them. then marketing/coo lying about not using bots......dont know why they thinks they can hide stuff from the engineers
I read a comment on reddit the other day the gist of which was (sorry, I don't remember the specifics and doubt I'll be able to find the comment again):

Generally, yes, as miners tend to tweak GPU settings to maximise their hashrate and it can cause issues when they are run like that long term.
Calm before the storm.

Regarding point 2, can this be explained by the trend of turning CAPEX into OPEX by leasing and similar? I only heard about it in passing so maybe thats just a misunderstanding on my part.
Everyone is influenced by rhetoric (to some degree). Everyone has irrational weaknesses. It is one of the reasons why a monopoly on communication is very dangerous.
Yes and I'd add the ones available on your phone: 99cents, or even free.
Yes, but that would require rolling back some of those cuts. Another thing that would really help is if police officers would make a half decent salary. That would also cut back significantly on corruption.
Where it really shines is for writing documentation, too bad there is no tool like Sphinx that could enable the search functionality.
Would you support 50% gender equality of speakers at a conference?

Would you support limiting professional teams from hiring black people to allow for a certain number of Asians?

Would you support universities reducing their intake of Jewish students to stop over-representation?

Would you support hospitals hiring a maximum 5% Asian doctors?