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> No, people aren't. That's because people's brains are story machines, selected by evolution to work on quick-and-plausible heuristic arguments based on narrative relationships, and not on deep research and formal abstraction.

That, and the fact that logic itself is not the right tool to work with messy reality - probability theory is. And heuristics are part of this when probabilistic models meet limited computational resources and time constraints (you can't think too long about what's that yellow striped thing in the bushes, because you'll get eaten by it).
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Heck they took more than a year to integrate their calendar into g+.

Facebook's events are one of it's great features, but it took Google ages to implement them, despite already having a calendar that's synced with every Android phone.
I agree, this is actually more general than programming. Philosophy opens new doors for people, there's no reason to limit that to something that's still quite niche among the general population.
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The Police Chief didn't know he was double crossed by Internal Affairs all along! I would fucking love to see one of those type of Dirty Harry films done in a megacorporate setting.

Here's another, Microsoft Internal Affairs more recently in action:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/21/technology/microsofts-soft...
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The thought of websites doing "fact stuffing" at the bottom of a page instead of keyword stuffing makes me smile.
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Strawman much? I didn't argue for complete prohibition. That's silly, even if it seems to be popular in some parts of the world (e.g. state-sponsored sexual abstinence programs in the US).
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It might make google's results less relevant. People don't believe in the truth. They follow the general consensus. They might switch to a different search engine because google 'gives bad results'. Mob mentality is real.
For me it's exactly the opposite - while I'm pretty desensitized to the TV violence (but not completely, I still feel bad about unnecessary killing, like poor guards getting executed because they were just in the way), I'm still extremely sensitive if I know what I'm seeing is real. The cry/try-not-to-vomit/get-angry-afterwards kind of sensitive.
don't you think with the data they already have, they would have already devised some algos to know what is truth? its just accuracies of the truths that may vary in those algos
Are they trolling? Those are just some glasses with ir light and ir reflective coating. These will make your face more visible to cameras in the dark. Also facial recognition algorithms can easily be adapted to work around the stupid glow. They only need like 10% of your face anyway.
From before iOS 5, webOS had pull down menus, wifi quick-select (STILL missing in iOS) card-based interface, card-based background-pause multitasking, backgrounded music player, card-based multitasking switcher with swipe-up to close, and the list continues. If these sound familiar it's because iOS ripped off so many of them.

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Well, it usually quickly comes around to bite you in the ass. That's the cool thing about computers - quick and honest feedback.
The plant in Somerset will be on the Severn Estuary, which has a tidal range of 15m:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn_Estuary
Hah we are thinking about unveiling this later on down the line :)
This is very true. Someone who builds websites/CRUD screens and someone who programs for NASA might both call themselves programmers but they are very different jobs. I'm fairly good at the first one, but I probably wouldn't know where to begin for the second.
Now, how to play the flute. (picking up a flute) Well you blow in one end and move your fingers up and down the outside.

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That may be true as long as you use the same compiler versions as the developer used when writing/testing their code.
But then someone decides to deploy that code on an (old and) stable version of Linux with old(er) GCC version and things break.

For example ClamAV used to break quite often when built with older compiler versions, in the end we had to add runtime tests to configure based on testcases from the GCC bugzilla to make sure people are not using a "stable" and broken compiler. GCC 4.1.0 and 4.1.1 were particularly bad versions

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27603
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26763
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28045
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37573
https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=670

You might think that you could still use -O2 and selectively turn off optimizations that are known to cause trouble (i.e. -fno-strict-aliasing), but there are cases where turning off that optimization exposes bugs in other optimization passes and a compiler that would be otherwise good at -O2 would break at "-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing":
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275928#c29
https://bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi?id=1581
FWIW, in my corner of the world (Scala, big data, web services) functional is very much the way things are going. It's a much better fit to the problem domain since all these systems very much look like pipelines. E.g. a web service is a function from request to respone. Big data applications are just applying some function over (possibly streaming) data.

It's happening on the front-end as well, with things like React.
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There are lot of guys who don't code. And there are lot of guys who code but dont exactly know what are they coding. If you remove all these combinations, Coding literacy is very less.
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I think it's more along the lines of "to truly appreciate how good your car is you must drive one that is a lot worse".
> Why teach these things with programming?

Because you can't bullshit a computer. It therefore enforces rigour.
Have you taken a philosophy department logic course? I learned way more useful logical thinking in philosophy classes. My CS classes didn't even come close. Sure I learned to make a mindless machine calculate the proper result, but that's far less important than reading the writing of another person an being able to understand their ideas.
I have been benchmarking different usage scenarios for sharing files between hosts and VMs for the past couple years, and for the majority of use cases, the only way to get near-native performance without much hassle is to use Vagrant's rsync support instead of native shared folders or even NFS, which exhibits some jitter making it annoying at times.

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If your project doesn't have hundreds or thousands of files, or if you don't need as fast filesystem performance on your host machine, there are other ways that might give more convenience. But I stick with rsync/rsync-auto for 99% of my VMs, whether using VirtualBox or VMware.
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If you're using logic that assumes the entity you're interacting with "can perform advanced logical inferences, deductions, etc." but don't understand how to dumb it down for a computer, does that not mean that somewhere you don't have a grasp of something? What is that something, is it logic? I'm playing devil's advocate more than anything but I think being able to tell a computer step by step what to do requires logic, albeit perhaps a specific type of logic.
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I think it's a common misconception that philosophy is an imprecise discipline. I think what makes people think that is the fact that often philosophy deals with topics that have not yet been (or may never be) formalized.
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This is just a 1% solution, which may be enough to defeat mass data collection as long as it remains niche. For a bigger effect, carry light strong enough to saturate even a HDR camera.
My dad would say that you can never be overdressed.

Wearing a suit to a hipster office certainly isn't going to loose you the job, they'll be more inclined to look at the person rather than the suit.

Wearing a suit to a corporate role will certainly help get you the job.

Wearing a suit makes you look good, looking good isn't a requirement for day to day work, but there are occasions you should smarten up. An interview is definitely one of those occasions.

Wear a full suit, feel comfortable in it and know you are looking your best and presenting the best side of you.
Here's a very readable quantitative discussion about tidal power generation in the UK:

http://www.withouthotair.com/c14/page_81.shtml
According to the article, Google's measure of truth is actually a measure on consensus. Which I find rather troubling.
This. The whole essay you linked is golden.

People have good grasp in logic, but they totally underestimate the amount of computation our brains do in the background when communicating. A lot of information is contained in our shared cultular upbringing, education, social norms and internal brain mechanisms. Computers don't have any of that. Even as I write this comment, 99% of information required to comprehend it is not in the text - is in the shared context everyone has in their heads already.
I wanted to write something about the country, that in many ways forgot the true meaning of word freedom... but then I realized you're probably just trolling, aren't you :)
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Zinnser's On Writing Well improved my writing. Alabama Power does not take internet points, however, and I remain talentless.

http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Edition/...
Hence the interrobang in the title. I hope that someone smarter than me can alleviate those two issues.
>>i fear that this could give google too much power of what is considered "truth" and what not

This was my initial reaction...then I realized Google already has this power just by choosing what comes to the top of their search results. Many truths are also highly contextual, which makes them hard to pin down.

It'll be interesting to see where this goes. My guess is it'll be short lived (like many of Google's projects), as regardless of how well their 'truth' algorithms work, people will go to where they can find the information they want (like the other commenter here mentioned), not the truth.
> People have a pretty good grasp of basic logic.

I disagree. Consider that most people fail the Wason test, unless it is being explained using a scenario involving cheating, when they pass.
And even if you're working for NASA your job may not be inherently more difficult than CRUD, it's just different. Where I care about server latency, as NASA engineer you'll care about real-time guarantees. Where I care about UX, you'll care about code correctness, etc.

Ability to comprehend abstractions is a bit orthogonal to all of this. It starts to shine when you need to architect a complex system or model some real-life phenomenon.
From the article it sounds like it considers general consensus to be the truth. Which sounds worse in my mind.
The best way IMHO how to do this right is actually the Economist, which in the iPad app has not very intrusive ads. Also the website is pretty good for this.
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That's right, and this is why a better tool is needed. In the end Excel can't support arbitrary levels of abstraction.

IMO this is not because the base model is a grid (after all, "proper databases" also follow that table model) but because you can't create new tables on the fly and treat them as new objects independent of their structure. Once you build a data type as fields laid out as columns, all the operations on that data (mainly filters and search) need to be operated by hand.

You can't properly express in Excel something like "there are three collections of employees, and I can create a '' function that works on any of the three". If you have separate tables with the same structure, you need to replicate the same operations on each independent table; the only way to build reusable code is with Visual Basic macros, which falls outside the spreadsheet declarative model.

But if you could create new functions with Excel formulas (like style handling or business processes) and apply them to any arbitrary table having the adequate structure, I think you could have robust abstractions within the spreadsheet context itself - from a theoretical level, the storage model of spreadsheets is no different from that of relational databases.
If there’s nothing in the contract or IP agreement with your current employer saying you can’t work for other companies on your own time, and that the work you do on your own time isn’t owned by them, then I don’t see any legal grounds they’d have to say no to you doing this.

However, that’s different from the company’s general attitude they might have with you doing this. Do you find the founders or managers of the company are laid back enough that you can just casually let them know you’ll be doing some contract work in your own time? If not, from personal experience, they may be the type of company to reprimand you if they find out.

I also recommend talking to a lawyer about this as they will cut right through the thorny issues and tell you what’s what with your contracts.
It's really not. Statisticians usually receive only minimal training in statistical programming, data cleaning, data gathering and warehousing and so on – yet those are all essential to data science. On top of that, when dealing with bigger data sets, many common statistical tests become irrelevant, as their main purpose is to make it possible to reason about small sample sizes.

Of course, I don't mean to imply that a data scientist shouldn't have at least a basic statistical grounding: they do. But there's roles in data science for people with varying skills in programming, ops, statistics, ML, visualization and so on.
I second On Writing Well. It's an absolute must read for anyone writing non-fiction.

There are two other books I'd throw up with it—Revising Prose by Richard Lanham and The Elements of Style by Strunk and White.

Those three books together are a fantastic course in writing.
> Pure logic can only work correctly with reasonable premises. But it can't provide us with those premises. We can only construct, refine, and share those through natural language.

Have you ever looked into formal verification or assisted theorem provers? There's a branch of math called "constructive mathematics" that utilizes them where formerly natural language would have been used, in an attempt to codify them and get productivity gains.
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Like many privacy tools, this would work best if everyone was wearing them.
I bought several bitcoins in early 2010, and when the price peaked to $1000, I sold what I had left. To me I was interested in the technology piece, but thought the economics of it was utterly crazy. Having a fixed supply of some arbitrary number with a fixed release seems so "old worldly". It ignores the fact that we have this huge computer network that has built into it access to near perfect information about the economy.

I thought something better would come along, which is why I sold it. However the one thing that really rang with me was this. When I transferred the bitcoins to my account (bitstamp) I didn't even remember the fee. I'm not certain there even was a fee. However when I transferred the dollars, there definitely was a fee, Which seemed like a lot of money.

The cost of using bitcoin is a really big game changer. If it was stable, I think adoption would be bigger.
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Then you have never taken a philosophy course in a western analytic department. The "Logic" that's used in computer science is a very small part of all possible logics. The discipline of logic is studied and expanded almost exclusively by philosophers. Computer Science Logic is to Philosophy what Physics is to Mathematics.
There is philosophy and there is philosophy. What a lot of laypeople have experience with is mostly the type of philosophy that is just meandering with thoughts and overanalyzing the meaning of words to the point of breakage. I think this is the part that makes many people treat the word "philosophy" as synonymous with "nonsense".

I agree that philosophy often deals with topics that have not yet been properly formalized - after all, this is the discipline that's on the frontlines of important problems, asking questions that later get answered with more formal approach.
Note that these are from January, 2014. YMMV.
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One point that might be hidden in the OP is that hypervisors are often configured to lie about whether data has been committed to disk. This is certainly true of most public clouds. As a distributed file system developer I run a lot of I/O tests in the cloud, and I've gotten many results that are impossible to explain any other way. People I know who work at some of these providers have practically admitted it. In a cut-throat industry, any provider who actually did the right thing here would get hammered on performance and price (because they'd be unable to pack as many instances onto each host as their competitors do). It's something to be aware of when you run any data-intensive application in a public cloud, or when you're configuring hosts in a private one.
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"they have no basic underlying value" is not true. Bitcoin themselves are value - intrinsic value. The time it took to mine the Bitcoin is what gives it the value. I think this is a much better measure than we have of actual currency where no one, even the reserve really understands where the value of a dollar is.
Not a bad start, but hopefully something better comes later. This would just be an arms race scenario- they'd only have to develop algorithms to work around this, and worst of all, they still have your actual picture on-disk so they have all the time they desire to make it work.

I seem to remember an anti-camera system deployed at movie theaters years ago which would look for camera sensors, and then blind them with IR lasers. While probably not as portable, something precise rather than the shotgun approach they're using here might work better. Bonus: you don't need to have it mounted to your face, either- it could be attached to your hat, shoulder, chest, etc.
>> Both companies soon began to struggle under new ownership, burdened by new and huge debt obligations and falling demand during the financial crisis.

The debt obligations are the typical result of private equity intervention. It's basically financial engineering which benefits mostly the private equity people.

For a good read about conglomerates and company architecting, I would suggest Warren Buffet's most recent shareholder letter from a few days ago, especially the part where he discusses the skepticism that should be shown towards bankers and financial people proposing company spinoffs to "unlock value".
UK unveils plans to build tidal power plants. We've been planning things in the Severn Estuary my entire life and so far not lit a single lightbulb from it. As all the comments on the BBC story say: get on with it, build the thing, and tell us when it's done.

(There are a few tidal-power-through-undersea-turbines schemes in operation off Scotland, I believe)
It's common in London in areas which have a shortage of good candidates.
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