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As a matter of fact, in India, by default most recent grads live with their parents. In fact, in almost all cases parents pay for your college tuitions as well. So, by the time you graduate, you have no debt, free food and accommodation. But, of course, there is tremendous amount of pressure to get a real job. It is amusing how different two cultures can be.
You need a login to see the videos from the links shown. Only Harvard students will have that.
Unless you go to http://www.cs171.net and choose "2008 Videos on iTunes U"
Then (through iTunes) you can get to CSCI E-64 which seems like the same thing taught through the "extension school".
It's a nice policy in theory, but what happens if you buy something in-app and they don't give it to you? I'd say that would be the best time for a refund, of both your original price and the upgrade price, but now you're screwed.
YC isn't the only program that allows Bright Young People(TM) to get off the ground. For example, I'm on the EPIS programme in Scotland (http://www.epis.org.uk - shameless plug) which is effectively a year-long YC, giving you a £10k loan to get started, free office space and a ton of mentoring. (The reason I'm interested in YC is because Scottish mentors and investors, for the most part, don't 'get' emerging technologies.)

There's also the Royal Society Enterprise Fellowships, also in Scotland, which is an even cushier deal - you graduate straight from PhD to startup with a year's salary from the university and some small seed investment.

For the most part universities want to commercialise your work, so if you're a graduate with no money but a ton of great work you want to turn into a business, there is support there - you just have to know where to look.

This applies more to postgraduate students, mind; some of the things that supported me fresh out of my BA and looking to start some projects included a part time job that paid well enough to cover my basic expenses, leaving me free to tinker in the rest of the time, and doing a lot of freelance work which pretty much came to the same end. Having money saved up from internships and graduate stipends also helped, but I believe the system is a little different in the US ;)
This is the first article that I've read on 'cloud computing' that seemed to be based on fact and not on fancy. Great link! Thanks.
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I'd like to see the New York Times and some other major outlets blacklisted from submission. At this point the front page is about 10% NYT most of the time, which seems silly for something that's supposed to be a focused site.
"As a practical matter, 'massively restructuring the world economy' is also known as progress."

Except that the next three words were "by central decree."
Try this link for the spring 2009 lecture videos:

http://cm.dce.harvard.edu/2009/02/22872/videopage.shtml
I use that one quite a bit. Especially when I think of data that occurs in key/value pairs. The only problem is that I wish that the markup was <dt><dd></dd><dt> so that I the key/value pairs were in their own 'box' that could be styled more intuitively.
I guess most of the things you can do the positively affect the first also positively affect the third.
That's pretty impressive. The pressures of working 24/7 on a startup don't always mesh with the ideal of a happy balanced relationship, especially if the startup founder is relying entirely on the other to be the breadwinner. I've not really been in that position myself, but I've heard a lot of stories about how relationships nearly died because of someone getting obsessed with a startup and neglecting their spouse. Any thoughts?
Nearly all heat that starts in your basement ends up in your house. It has nowhere else to go. The copper pipes in our basement ran directly beneath the floor of the bedroom. A fine warm strip would develop whenever someone took a shower. By the time it got to the exit point in the house, the pipe was barely warm enough to notice. That is not negligible heat transfer considering its "free".
Thanks, that works really well
That's a big surprise for me. I've defended that freedom and determinism are not mutually exclusive in many discussions for a very long time... and been told that I'm alone in that. I had no idea that it's a position hold by classic philosophers like those. Could you cite some concrete works from them?
Uh, I moved to the 3rd World. Forex swaps help for bread and butter income!
That's why I was wondering. I've never seen it in orange before (I was researching acoustic foam before for use at home) and it just seemed like an odd thing to do if it had an actual use other than looking good.

That being said, I suppose one could always dye it - that might work.
please read the comments of this article before reading its content or upvoting this anymore. it's grossly inaccurate. in particular, this comment which mostly nails it. again, i'm not the author of this, just quoting Paul Armstrong:

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It's most unfortunate that you mis-used half of the items in this post.

cite should be used when you're actually _citing_ something from a source, like if you're using a blockquote or q element.

optgroup should contain a set of options, not be closed before the options. Your "live demo" doesn't show any visual difference because of your improper usage.

acronym is used for acronyms. Defining acronym, "a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name"… The usage in your example just hurts my brain.

According the HTML specs, address is used to denote the address of the page creator: "The ADDRESS element may be used by authors to supply contact information for a document or a major part of a document such as a form. This element often appears at the beginning or end of a document." See: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#h-7.5.6

Pretty sad that you didn't use labels in your fieldset example.

The abbr example is a better example of an acronym. abbr, or Abbreviation is a "shortened form of a word" like ‘management' -> ‘mgmt'.

rel should be used to describe the relationship of the text to the current tag. W3C says, "This attribute describes the relationship from the current document to the anchor specified by the href attribute. The value of this attribute is a space-separated list of link types."

wbr is not in any HTML spec. It is a non-standard tag that was added by Netscape, and later dropped around Netscape 4 or 5.

I'm incredibly disappointed by the inaccuracies that you're giving people who might not know better.
She's a special girl what can I say :)
We have both been working on a mutual startup products for a few years now. It has worked for us, probably because we are both different (optimist/dreamer vs pessimist/realist) yet the same (passionate, understand the same domain specific areas, work insane hours and love it).
I agree. Actually I find the idea (if not the proof) kind of obvious: our thoughts are as deterministic as the processes that effect them. Whether they are deterministic is another story.
wtf is your problem?
I wouldn't be so sure. It's just that they're proposing a very different method (statistical analysis) to uncover the inherent meaning in the text.
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In my opinion, the best editor for everything on Windows is 'e' a TextMate clone ( http://www.e-texteditor.com/ ). The cost is trivial and you get a chance to try it out to make sure it suits you.

This editor is extensible using Ruby or Python and supports the full range of TextMate bundles so you can get up and running editing your language of choice right from the start.

The support for HTML is good without being intrusive - plus the colour coding of the text keeps things readable and helps you find typos.
+1, personally I'm pretty comfortable talking to all kinds of people in person but our team found that talking to a camera unscripted was hard (compounded by the amount of information it sounded like we needed to pack in to 60 seconds). It was still really helpful for getting our message straight though, even if we don't get in to the YC summer cycle it will be helpful for raising money.
Its good to have a hard date in future as the ultimatum. Seems like you planned it out. Good luck!
You can also use <span class="aside" title="these">parenthetical remarks</span>. Title works on all elements and is actually quite a nice thing to have :)
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I certainly didn't mean to offend, I was simply speaking of my own experience.

And, you are the one who generalised yourself as been "European." If you didn't want to be placed in to the common pot of the 47 other countries in Europe then perhaps you should have specified your own country?

Germany has the 2nd highest population of 82 million and is a country of which I am a citizen. That makes me a European, and a member of the EU. Does this mean my own experience and own opinion are less valid than yours because you're from a different country?

My skin is not as thick. But this is probably because you've offended me directly.
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I love peltiers, I used one as a heat exchanger on my brother's 944 Turbo on the induction system and transferred the heat to the fuel rail, creating a fuel warmer.

Result was he set the engine management system (motec) to run the fuel system richer, as the fuel that was more ready to combust (as a result of the heat) and given the air going into the turbocharger was colder (more dense) there was more air to react.

That being said - we never got the opportunity to test if there was any actual horsepower gain, but he used to suggest that there was.

Now as for LED's in the shower, that might not be as silly as it sounds. Imagine if the tiles on the floor were semi transparent (I'd suggest some kind of translucent polycarbonate) and lit up like a disco floor for those people who love to sing in the shower.
This could really change how we design webpages. Shorter to-the-point content would be better. (Ideally that should always be true, but too much whitespace looks ugly too.)
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is it just me or did any of you feel that the reporting on this a bit mediocre ... seriously ... did you ?!
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Yes it is telling of the way the journalist hoped to frame the story. A good way to spice up an otherwise ordinary story. Better than 'Aged Physicist disagrees with dominant theory'. I'd call it a piece of disingenuous hack work but it worked so well I have to admire it.
I am going as well. Registered as user experience guy.

Went last year and had a blast!
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Part time: 2 days a week in the startup and 4 days in the week graduating.

I'm not sure it's optimal. I find that for months at a time I simply stop working on my graduating thesis, mostly to do work in the startup, but also (when I put more pressure on myself) to do nothing at all. The latter is quite tiring...
"You also might have better luck running dynamics simulations with PhysX than with ODE." I worked on the simulator at Anybots, and I'm pretty much convinced a different physics engine isn't going to magically make things better (in terms of using simulations to predict real robot behavior). The problem is more about getting every little physical detail of the actual robot -- and its interactions with the environment -- into the model. The particulars of how collision, joint constraints, and dynamics are numerically computed isn't what makes the problem really hard.
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(define (deriv f)
(define (f-prime x)
(/ (- (f (+ x dx)) (f x))
dx))
f-prime)

jeez, I wish it was easy to do that in Python. Python's main limitation, IMSHO, is lack of homoiconicity. Yes, I said it!
Waiting for the day when someone will be banned from an examination after drug testing :)

I am surprised that the issue hasn't been widely commented on here !

I for one, am ok with using these drugs, at the end of the day it just depends on how much one person is driven to do a thing. IF someone wants to score an A so bad that he needs to take a drug, then so be it.
In the Netherlands, squatting is regulated:
It's actually allowed to live in a building you don't own, if that building has been vacant for a certain period.

It's a way to combat the other side of squatting:
Property owners who don't use their property. When space is scarce, as it usually is in cities, leaving buildings vacant should be discouraged.

The result of this is that most property owners now rent their buildings very cheaply with temporary contracts to "anti-squatters". Which are basically squatters who pay.
Maybe defeats the object of 'self-imposed' but tell someone else what your deadline is. Make yourself accountable. Have a cost of failing to meet it even if it's the guilt of telling someone else you failed.
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One problem I see is that most gadgets could just be replaced by a modern mobile phone. For example the fitness thingy from the article: what does it do that an iPhone app couldn't do with a nicer interface? Same for internet radios - an iPod touch is just 200$.
Well, kudos to both of you then! :)
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Seriously. I dont get the point of this article, the number grade will be converted to rankings by the students and parents in due time, its not a problem with the ranking, its always a problem with us.
We were discussing a <wbr> found in one of our webpages only yesterday - there were a few puzzled expressions as to what the heck it did! Apparently the answer is remove it.
Upmod for effort but I don't see this as equating to 100% certainty. The preceding sentences mention a variety of possible causal agents of climate change. In context the statement then is really

'Of the causes we have been able to identify - Only anthropogenic forcing of climate, however, can explain the recent anomalous warming in the late 20th century.'

I also see 'can explain' is 'the we can explain'. You are encouraged not to use the first person in these sort of papers.
"You have to do basic science on your libraries to see how they work, trying out different inputs and seeing how the code reacts." Is this not an atrocity, to be fought to the last bullet?"

I think it's an acceptance of reality. There is a phase change when systems become too complex for a single human to ever understand them in their entirety. Dealing with systems at that level is a different beast than dealing with simpler systems where "what you see is all there is".

"What creativity can there be when your medium is shit mixed with sawdust?"

The same sort of creativity artists possess, who work with media that are idiosyncratic. It's a different mindset. I see the reddit-gen programmers talk about things on a completely meta-level. To them, MySql is the hardware. Is it a bad thing? Not necessarily. Some of them hopefully will dig down the stack and be the low-level heroes. But that should (and probably can) only be a small percentage.

Now I guess one could argue that those sorts of heroes are what MIT is supposed to produce, but as has been mentioned, this course is not just for CS students. So the real question is, can the CS heroes of tomorrow survive an introductory course in Python? Well, consider that they have probably been modding games since 10, hacking PhP at 12, realizing at 14 they need to learn a 'real' language (C#, Ruby, Python), by 15 I bet they've abstracted out the fact that languages are not all that important; they're just the tip of the iceberg of complexity.

So yes, I think they will survive.
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The biggest change I see is that the numbers are based on year long benchmarks, while report cards are received multiple times a year. So basically, if a report card were handed out in the first week of school, nearly everyone would receive ones.

Benchmarks are being planned for every grading period, so that will soon change though.
actually, you can do it pretty easily with lambda... but it's just not the same somehow. You can't (in the general case) use Python to generate Python, except at the text level.
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you can argue that an MBA is very shallow on technical skills. There is a large difference between MBA, and getting something like Masters in Finance.

First of all, the top-tier programs aren't all the same. The University of Chicago MBA program, for instance, is widely considered finance-centric since it has a relatively low number of required core courses, so a student can (and many do) choose a curriculum that is very finance heavy and will end up with a better finance education than most people with straight finance degrees. However, you could end up pigeon-holing yourself in the same way you would with a straight finance degree, and this is a common reason for someone deciding against University of Chicago, especially if they already have a strong finance background.

The fact is that someone with an MBA in finance will be better equipped for pretty much any senior position than someone with a straight finance degree. There are plenty of people who can do finance, there's even probably an oversupply right now, but senior finance positions typically require a lot more than sitting in your office generating reports, which is what you'll likely end up doing with a finance degree. The fact is that a whole lot of people with straight finance degrees never learn the range of skills needed to run a business.

In fact, the value of MBAs has been made more obvious during the recent crisis in every business I'm familiar with (mostly private financial firms or web-oriented companies). People who have gone through MBA programs studying other businesses experiences in similar conditions and learning to analyze businesses in various stages and situations have been able to come up with effective strategies to keep the businesses profitable despite the odds.

MBA is the more generic one, where you get to learn fewer skills, many of which you can learn while working.

Not true. It's actually the opposite, you learn a wider variety of skills and concepts that you wouldn't have time to learn or even get exposed to at all while working.
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I see nothing good about this. The only good purpose I can see this much information having is to split the class into many different sections by ability. And that will take a lot more resources than the new grading scheme is taking, so splitting up the classroom won't be a consequence of this.

If parents are really interested in having more information about how their kid is doing, I'm sure the teachers would be willing to talk with the parents. But this is just too much information, I mean a 14 page guide is needed to explain a one page grading sheet. It sounds very confusing.
I think your analogy is flawed, since it assumes that the trash was put there by another person (just like CO2 in the atmosphere was put there by other people). A better one would be if you came upon a barren, ugly landscape - would you be morally obligated to improve it?

That said, I see your point about us humans managing our environment and making it more to our liking. We've been doing it for thousands of years. I just don't understand what basis we have for making the sort of radical changes proposed by "climate change" alarmists. How do we know the outcome will be to our liking?
It only reduces the temperature of your shower if you would otherwise be standing under 100% hot water, which would literally be lethal with a typical hot water system (I'm guessing you don't have a typical hot water system?). It's more likely you are using a mix of, say, 70% hot, 30% cold. If you use this thingy to heat the cold water, you could get the same temperature with maybe 60%/40% mix, thus using less hot water and getting a cheaper and/or longer shower.
Yeah, I did. For a car review, I was expecting, obviously unrealistically, a review of a car.
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Yeah, it sounds like it is explicitly giving busywork it's own grade.

Teacher to Parent: "Well Johnny has a 4/4 math comprehension right now, so he knows everything we plan on teaching this year. But his math engagement has really gone down, to about a 1/4. So Johnny really needs to work paying more attention to what I'm saying in class"
What is the specialty of the Republic? I guess there are laws that the zombie masses have to adhere to, but these laws were once upon a time also created by people.

I don't want to defend democracy, but it seems that it is not trivial to come up with a better system, and "don't give non-experts the permission to speak" won't cut it in my opinion. As soon as you start going down that road, a lot of other issues crop up.
I hate to be the guy who's always saying the same thing but, that is easy in python.

dx = 0.00001

def deriv(f):
return lambda x: \
(f(x + dx) - f(x))/dx

In [11]: def cube(x):
....: return x*x*x
....:

In [12]: deriv(cube)(5)
Out[12]: 75.000149996640175

I'd also so that most (high school) educated people find infix easier to read than prefix, so isn't the homoiconicity a detriment to readability in this example (and any involving mid sized arithmetic expressions).

I love scheme (alot more than I do python), but the only example that seems "impossible" to do is to implement a large subset of <language> in <language>.

You could obviously implement, a scheme-ish lisp in python, but there are alot of advantages to the host and guest languages being similar (or so that berkley professor would have me believe) that you would miss out on.

(You would also need a scheme expression reader in python... which I'm just itching to write now ... )

the example is from sicp: http://tinyurl.com/cubk49
Practical natural language apps might require much less, though: see Norvig's spell checker for example. You can probably fit the google index from 1998 on a single modern machine.
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