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my friend told me that econometrics is his hardest phd qual. iirc he mentioned statistics, time series, and stochastics (very heavy maths) ... to me those seem to be best handled with statistical package like R

my bio friend told me about string matching, she used perl. i'm not sure if R can do pcre regex pattern matching.

so yeah, you may end up using R and python. if i have to decide, i'll use pyton, because it's more flexible
Google wave will make all sorts of interesting interaction possible.

I love how it mixes and matches a bunch of different technologies and use cases together.

A really interesting protocol. I wonder if it'll take off like how email did?
I don't think we need to take universities away, just the unnecessary competition-induced crap that makes them so expensive. The "college experience" we all hear about can be done on a way smaller budget. And like you mention, universities probably aren't the best at it anyways.
Are people who get godaddy domains able to transfer those to other people without drama? I know one case where a domain owner wanted to transfer a domain to a successor owner, but godaddy instead transferred the name to a name-squatter on expiration. Maybe this was an aberration, or maybe this was routine practice. What is your experience?
I've liked PairNIC pretty well.
He just likes hearing himself talk.

http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/msg/a82390...

When you start posting stuff like that to the perl5 internals mailing list, you know it's time to get yourself a blog ;)
Just checked it out and think it's a great idea but it's UI in how it lists shows is hard to see from far away on my 42" LCD.

I think the UI should mimic what is seen on Hulu which has larger thumbnails.

Pretty cool to see this though!
"'Right now we’re committed to Hulu being an online experience, and that’s where our vision is today, and I think that will continue.' Right! That is why Hulu released the desktop version."

So desktop apps can't be connected to the Internet?

He even says why they went after Boxee in his article, but doesn't realize it: ". . .can only be used on PCs. Of course, we wouldn’t expect the company to do it any other way — after all, if it ran on set-top boxes, it would dry up the lucrative money stream that flows from cable operators to Hulu’s partners and parents."

Boxee allowed Hulu to be viewed on TVs. Hulu doesn't care that you watched their ads on your computer through Boxee, they cared that people were using Boxee to put it on their TVs.
Agreed. Mozilla are also doing their part with FireFox, they have something called "35 Days" coming up to co-inside with the public release of 3.5, which is packed with juicy HTML5 goodness.

I think Microsoft are badly hurting from the their lack of web-focus (or at least web-productivity) over past years (around v6), but I don't think they are maimed. When you actually meet some of these guys at conferences etc: they seem to be very intelligent individuals, who have their finger on the pulse, yet remain very guarded.

Their guardedness is understandable from a corporate perspective, but it also carries personal weight when you hear a room full of people bad-mouthing IE with some of their developers standing at the back of the room. I have to say I am sympathetic to their position and believe in their ability, even though I am very much NOT an IE developer or enthusiast.
Does it buffer better than the Flash application? Their buffering is utter crap, and I have a 12MBit ADSL2 connection.
> For instance, how do I separate the content that is edited from the communcation _about_ that content?

In Wave there is a distinction between editing text and attaching a reply or comment to the text.
So,using one of those crawlers presented in that article would be enough? I read something about Nutch,Lucene,Sphinx but I'm not sure how the process of building an agregator works: go crawl some websites,get the data in the database or disk, analyze the data, display the data according to some specified criterias.
Are those crawlers spidering RSS feeds or a special crawler is needed for that?
A diagram would be helpul...
Yeah I tried that, but it wasn't working for me for some reason. I was using Notepad++ until a while back... not exactly a Lisp editor :P

Right now, I'm trying out ClojureBox (http://clojure.bighugh.com/). The only issue I had installing it was that I had to delete the .emacs file on the root folder to get it to work (probably leftover from my previous failed attempts to get clojure support working).
I'm inclined to think of Google as a platform rather than a product company. It seems like a strong trend with what they are coming up with/acquiring. When talking about monetizing a platform, it exactly what you be, get your initial attempt out (especially if you have the $) and then monetize later.
I think there is room for something like AMQP. Most people use libraries to process XMPP anyway, so a binary format wouldn't be a huge change (except, perhaps, in performance).
Lots of finance, manufacturing, logistics wealth, trivial amounts of technology wealth (compared to Boston or the Valley.) The expertise isn't there and it has no incentive to move there when there are clusters that are massively more attractive by virtue of the historical forces and path dependence that gave the big clusters a critical mass of expertise and smart money.
It just reeks of phoniness. Look, here's the query he wrote in the article:

http://www64.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+many+calories+in+...

Sure enough, it works. So modify it oh-so-gently:

http://www64.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+many+calories+in+...

And it's utterly confused. It's the same frickin' thing, but simpler. Oh, but it helpfully suggests this:

http://www64.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=calories+in+one+ounce...

Which also confuses it. Why suggest something that you're going to fail on?
"Harvard will still be the world's greatest research university."
I wasn't aware that it was the world's greatest.
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Until then I'll take Wave about as seriously as I take OpenSocial.

I'll see your OpenSocial and raise you a Knol.
The cost for higher education that steadily climbs faster than the inflation rate will need to stop when it equals to its time-discounted marginal benefits. (Given its many alternatives--both for learning and socializing--the marginal benefits of higher education do not seem to increase nearly as fast.)

If the cost goes higher than that, the bubble will indeed burst--sooner or later.
#6: you just invested all your spare capital in Facebook.
Gah - too late to edit.

I was wondering specifically about how would it effect development mailing lists - with wave plugins to look at patches / browse repositories / review code things could get pretty interesting.

Although with non-development mailing lists it could be interesting as long as you could optionally select the group of people to discuss the contents of the list.

I'm assuming sometimes it would be better to discuss the contents of the mailing list (or RSS feed) with a select few of your contacts. Discussing the content with all subscribers can be done already (although perhaps not as fluidly) with blog post comments etc...
Tinkering with the API, without the platform available for integration?
Incidentally, in this same column, Carr linked to an earlier piece - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/28/not-safe-fo... - where he basically apologized for trashing Le Web, and bemoaned the culture of schadenfreude and cynicism that causes his negative columns to be more popular than his positive ones.
They're releasing the spec and large chunk of the code openly - if it's a good idea and google stop developing it I'm sure someone else will step in.
Sorry, I haven't read TFA, and I don't know what Bing is about. It might even be something worth taking a look at. Maybe.

But seriously... Bing? BING?
Come on, they can do better than that.

"It's Gaelic for 'thy turkey is done'"
"With live transmission as you talk, participants on a telephone can have faster conversations, and interact in real-time." That's what Bell says. Am I the only one who writes a telegram, then revises it for tone and clarity? Now other people can hear what I'm thinking as I try out sentences aloud?
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What I meant was, if you knew Arrington you'd realize it's all too believable that he'd forget there was such a thing as a weekend.
I agree that they are over priced, but they aren't commodities. Commodity products are indistinguishable, but there are definitely different qualities of healthcare and higher education.
I don't know that library participation is so much relevant in the days of instant-access to the ammount of information that is available to us on the internet.
education as in research? Those smart enough to get into Harvard don't need it.
I feel the same. I am very familiar with the PHP functions -- php.net is the greatest -- but for JS, I'm a little weak. This will definitely make my life easier on the client side (+jQuery).
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Are we still talking about this? Providing a similar service does not mean they are competitors.
Thanks. It is always good the read comments from someone who actually used it for over a year. This reinforces me to use this on my next project.
"BLASPHEMY! You may be thinking, education is PARAMOUNT to any civilization! We musn't cut spending on education!"

This logic is running rampant right now and is a major player not in the economic collapse, but our inability to convince our governments to deal with economic collapse. When the answer to "Are we spending enough on education?" is simply hard-coded to "No", you get very stupid budget behaviors.

In point of fact, there must be a point where we are spending enough on education, enough on police, enough on health care, enough on welfare, enough on anything. There must even come a point where we are spending enough on educating the disadvantaged, enough on health care for the elderly, enough on programs for poor children. Because the alternative is, frankly, absurd... yet that is where we've gotten to, politically.
Apple already acquired the sproutcore people, whose javascript api is similar to Cocoa. All of MobileMe was developed in sproutcore.
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Actually I live in Chandler, went to ASU as a graduate. I like what ASU is doing to urbanize Tempe and even Phoenix downtown. It is growing too big probably but it does drive lots of technology. The engineering 'brickyard' at ASU right there in a highly trafficked part of town is a good message to send to people. The ASU Research Park for instance has many high-tech companies there and it is also a park for people to come to and play. This is similar to what Intel does around their locations in Chandler, AZ.

Anyways, as long as it doesn't harm the educational experience then it may actually help the area as a whole. I feel I got what I needed out of my education but that is really up to the student in the end.

Also, on the sports teams, most of the time this funds a large part of the school so in the end it is a necessary evil. Much like how defense brings the most innovative technologies, even this here internet.

I agree that schools need to focus on quality education experiences and get better professors. I think that the internet and universities that open up to that can share the best professors with the world.

We will see an enormous change in this regard in our lifetime, the University as we know it will be much different. It has taken some time, but the internet and cost reducing measures to information and education are shaking harder at the pillars of these college institutions.
I like what I see so far - the usability of Kayak and its similar aggregators is pretty poor at times, and recently the quality of their results have been dropping precipitously. If MS can step in to fill this void... oh boy.

I think MS has something worthwhile here - they've realized that people are looking for information, not links, and if they can get good data together, they stand a good chance of beating Google at the search engine game, without ever building a traditional search engine.
Possibly, but this needn't affect those studying history.

I listen to this economist podcast here & there. Recently, they were talking about how strange it is that they need any kind of qualifications to do the thing that they get paid for. They tell undergrads that the demand curve slopes down & the supply curve slopes the other way. That knowledge is freely available and easily accessible. Yet their students bid up the price of the best academics to tell them this.

A better professor's demand curve slopes the same as a crappier one's. You may be right that this does not apply to dentistry.
Harvard is of a quality virtually unique due to the size of their endowment, their degree of reliance on it, and the way it is managed (for Aggressive Growth). At some point you have to ask if the tail is wagging the dog.

You could fit most universities' endowments in the interest payments Harvard gets from the fixed income allocation of their endowment alone. Don't take my word for that: look at the list of universities in the US with gigantic endowments:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._colleges_and_unive...

Harvard does not exist to provide a financial return to its investors.

It really does -- Harvard is the sole investor in Harvard, and Harvard went for aggressive growth and a 15% CAGR. (The article talks about a multi-billion interest rate swap which had a speculative payoff in the billions.) The typical behavior of endowments is "We're going to husband this carefully and spend about 4 or 5% a year to supplement our other sources of income."

Harvard is known for their educational merits, not their endowment.

I didn't say their PR arm was ineffective.
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Good point. People forget that Hulu are not a scrappy startup. They are wholly-owned by big media.
The platform is available to those who attended Google IO. Also, there's a hackathon event at Google tomorrow for Google Wave.
Maybe Google Wave won't be as revolutionary as some think, but calling Google arrogant for coming up with new stuff seems just ranting for the sake of ranting.
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That's the hottest scene in a geek movie ever.
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I have had a handful of domains through 1and1 - so far, so good. No problems. Admin interface is friendly. Notices via email for all renewals. Don't know how that compares, but I have been happy. Heck, I tossed their referral link on my VERY low traffic sites and each domain has consistently paid for it's self.
"Terrified" is a strong word, especially if you're not even going to mention privacy concerns about such an all-encompassing protocol with a centralized server.
Buildings are surprisingly expensive. ~50-75$ million (perhaps even more these days) gets you a pretty basic academic building (like a dorm). Fancy buildings with expensive contents like libraries and labs are substantially spendier.
I don't think we do really. Just against the name and against the professions that use vocational schools intensively.

The medicine path is very similar to the electrician path. Medical school is vocational school. We have nothing against those.
That's probably the most blatant example of FUD in internet history. Jumping to conclusions while remaining blissfully ignorant to the actual implementation.

Until we get access to the sandbox, you should draw your own conclusions by watching the keynote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ
We have FUD winners for today: Techcrunch, gigaom and fastcompany.

It is like somebody interested in seeing google fail has just spent thousands of dollars spreading bad publicity about Wave.

Who can it be now?
Harvard is not the sole investor in Harvard...the endowment is largely the result of donations by wealthy alumni, none of whom will be getting a return on that investment.
Interesting story. Surprised it shot to the top though.
And then the person at the other end thinks "wtf is this guy hiding? Is he even talking to me?". Technical limitations can be very useful to avoid awkwardness sometimes (like the fact that if I don't answer an email within 30 mins it's not taken as a snub - unlike a text message people don't presume you have constant access).
So? If you don't understand what a function does, you read it; if you don't understand what a macro does, you read it. This whole "macros make new syntax so they make code unintelligible" thing is an argument made by the ignorant, for the ignorant.

The vast majority of Lisp macros don't create new syntax anyway. They integrate seamlessly into the s-expression format. That way they blend in nicely with the rest of a program and it's easy to write other macros on top of them. An experienced Lisp programmer would only introduce new syntax when there is a big win in clarity - big enough to justify breaking with the surrounding structure and certainly big enough to make the above objection pointless.

By the way, one of the real problems with Lisp macros is that it can be hard to tell a macro call apart from a function call. (Various techniques have been developed to deal with this, such as indentation and naming conventions.) If macros were so syntactically convoluting this would hardly be an issue.
Lightweight enough to be an easy upvote, but hackery enough where you wouldn't feel guilty about upvoting it. It's basically a perfect story.
I don't doubt your numbers. However, a dorm is an apartment building with students living it and maybe a room with some communal computers. You can walk two blocks from almost any $75 million dorm in the country and find an apartment building with students living in it. That apartment building didn't cost $75 million, or indeed anywhere close.

Sometimes excess is just excess.

As she starts her freshman year at the University of Maryland, Alyssa Evans will not be roughing it: She'll have a furnished single room with a double bed, private bathroom, cable and high-speed Internet. Her four-person suite has a full kitchen, a washer and dryer, a dining room table and black leather couches in the living room.

Her high-rise building has a game room with video games, poker and pool tables and flat-screen TVs, a rooftop deck, a pool and -- losing track here -- okay, and a big fitness center.

And tanning beds.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14364465/
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I think you have a very good point. Personally, I got a traditional degree and am working on my Master's, but there are people in my family that learned things like welding instead and they are doing quite well for themselves. Similarly, a fully certified mechanic is in an excellent position. Some people need traditional degrees, but we as a society do need to value significant trades more highly.
Give me a break. First the video isn't real, so saying it's proof of anything is completely asinine. Second, the guy selling security software isn't a very trustworthy source of information on upcoming security problems.
I can't help but think the real bubble is in our own inflated sense of ourselves. Everyone thinks their child is capable of becoming the next great whatever, but the reality is that there are only so many people with original and useful ideas out there.

Higher education is dangled as the carrot that is the means to achieving greatness. Everyone speculates that the future will yield awesomeness, but when it takes too long to reach our unrealistic expectations we overreact in the opposite fashion. We have this never-ending cycle of overinflated possibility followed by reality and an overreaction of conservation.

Is it perhaps a flaw in our culture? Selling an idea is more important than the idea itself. Getting "traction" or "backing" is more important than delivering something real and of actual value.
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Does anyone know who wrote that blog? If so, can you tell him that the routing number and account number on the bottom of the check are sufficient information to print demand drafts out for Knuth's account, which will let you drain it at will?

[Edit: Nevermind, found the contact link.]
Did you watch the video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ

I found it pretty exciting, at least.
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I am skeptical. Yet this grabbed my attention:

Bing [...] wants to focus on providing an especially good user experience in four verticals: making a purchase decision, planning a trip, researching a health condition, and finding a local business.

Those are precisely the areas where I find Google to be so overrun with SEO'd junk that it's often close to useless. If MS can deliver something better in these areas I'd use it. I doubt they will, though. They'd have to go from being awful to being great.
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I think Knuth already had problems with that.

P.S. Knuth is old news.
As others have said, the knowledge in most universities is not what you are paying for. I am currently getting my Master's in Mathematics. I am truly learning a great deal, but that is not what I am paying for. All of the information in the classes I am taking is readily available for free or extremely cheap.

From my perspective I am paying for 3 things:
1. A ready made (albiet small) community of other math grad students that can answer my questions when I don't understand some of the freely available information.
2. A highly educated professor that can provide further explanation and advice if my peer group of math grad students can't explain it well enough to me.
3. (arguably most important) A respected institution prepared to certify to prospective employers that I really have gained gained those skills.

The knowledge is free, you can get #1 on your own with a little work and a little luck, but #2 is hard to get without being an actual student and #3 is is very hard to get without the institution.

And before people say you don't need #3, it helps you get interviews if not necessarily jobs. I have been that hiring manager that has to weed through dozens of resumes to determine who I am going to spend my time interviewing. A degree was certainly a good discriminator for who was worth my time. I certainly didn't require it and I interviewed people who had experience but no degree, but they had to have something else on their resume to show me it was worth my time.

I worked for a small company, when dealing with middle management (or worse, HR) at a big company, they really want to be able to cover themselves and show why they hired someone on paper. To many of them being able to justify the decision is more important then actually getting the best person. The degree makes it alot easier for them to do that.

If you plan to start your own company, a degree is meaningless of course, but even Paul Graham says that path should be approached with great caution if you are married with children.
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So something ambitious is going to be built ontop of complete junk and by forcing the HTTP protocol to handle shit it wasn't meant for. Wonderful. Fucking wonderful.

Can we get a time machine and go back to the 80s and start all over again and build up a proper platform before the WWW becomes popular??
LOL... you bet youre going to need to wait a long time for that concept!!