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Such experts can never be completely free of bias, but the idea that every expert should be coupled with someone with an opposing viewpoint (and if there's consensus in the field on the topic, who?) is ludicrous at best.

I actually think reaching some goal of being "bias free" is neither possible nor desirable. I would have had a less of an issue with that NPR segment if they had only presented one side - but it was the side that I thought had the most accurate view.

My problem with citing "studies" was not just that I had read that one lousy study. My problem is that virtually all these studies are inconclusive at best, since you cannot do controlled experiments, you cannot generalize a study of one immigrant group in one situation to other groups, etc. So citing "studies say" as some kind of world of God is ridiculous.
Actually Spark SQL doesn't load everything into memory. Its data source API supports pushing predicates down, and if the data sources implement it, it even supports running aggregations and joins in the data sources!
See also: http://www.codersnotes.com/ted/
No, the author just wants to speak at TED.
I've largely abandoned all hope of achieving some reasonable understanding here, but just what case are you making?

That the monthly miles driven should be 12k rather than 15k? A 20% delta doesn't change my fundamental argument at all. 15k vs. 1.5k vs. 150k would.

That I'm incorrect in my description of regional growth dynamics 1950-2015? You've not argued that at all, and it's the information I'm principally interested in.

Here's the fucking FHWA US DoT stats:
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar8.htm

Range: low of 4,785 (females 65+), high of 18.9 (males 35-54), total combined average: 13,476. That appears to be from a 2000 study, and alternate data shows growth since then:

http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/DOT-Miles-...

Oh, here's the most recent report year, for 2011.

3 trillion vehicle miles, 246 million registered vehicles, 210 million licenced drivers, 68.5% of the total population.

Maths gives us 12,195 miles/vehicle, 14.285 miles/driver.

I think we've litigated that point to fucking death, and shown my initial round-number estimate was reasonably accurate.

I was loose in saying "per American" rather than "per vehicle" or "per driver", but again, it doesn't materially change my main point concerning urban-area growth (the vehicle / passenger miles data are used to illustrate it).

If you are in fact making a minor / pedantic point, it helps to call that out. I'll preface my own such comments with an "NB:", "ObPedant", or similar comment.

Otherwise, I actually do appreciate corrections and clarifications. But prefer they're clearly given as such (though I'll accept them even when they're not).
Good point. Still, the story rings true for a reason... we've all encountered this kind of stupid before.
You're not the first person to make such a comment. You're also not the first to make such comments without suggesting an alternative CMS that addresses all of your concerns.
True. And certainly buying more than one ticket for a given draw makes very little sense. One ticket gives you basically all the enjoyment of knowing you might win, which has value even aside from the fact that you might actually win. Beyond that though, all you're doing is spending money with negative expectation.
I think the point of the article is precisely that it's not (only) about the content. For example, the author speaks about the uniformity of uninteresting pitch-like language in TED talks.
On the other hand, what other broadcast news outlets are dedicating any time (much less 7 or 8 minutes as many interviews on NPR can run) to a discussion about the implications of African migrants traveling to Europe?

In my experience, many of the discussions on NPR involve more than one voice in the conversation and the host allows those guests to say their piece, intervening when necessary (in the case of dodging a question, for example) but not getting in the way of what the individual has to say. Still picking apart the details of an argument but not harping on a single quote or factoid. It's part expediency but also part of what makes NPR enjoyable to listen, more time given to make a case, less time spent arguing or trying to suss out some marginal point of a larger conversation.
Someone in another comment also mentioned the possibility of "proof libraries" that could be used to assemble more complex proofs from simpler ones. My first thought was, "I wonder what'll happen when someone finds a suble bug on one of the most common proof libraries?" It's bound to happen, after all. Some theorems will be proven false that were true and vice versa. A few people 90% of the way through their PhD will have years of their lives swept away.
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He does specifically state he'll accept ISO images as well as original disks.

The image would be a copy.

Otherwise, correct.
shrug I just didn't like the attempt at language policing, because it seemed pointless. This, however, is a good question that I don't know the answer to.
Game theoretically the only rational response to that is "no". Does Toronto have amazing dim sum?
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You're rationalizing. My wife misses exits constantly, but she does it safely--she's paying attention to the cars around her, but following a habitual route to some other place.
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Thank you, that's better than the Onion link. TEDx, for what it's worth.
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The idea of Mars is spectacular and wondrous and ecstatic and beautiful. Actual Mars sucks harder than you can possibly imagine.
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His failing thought was that he thought he could get to the top by himself by executing some tricky scheme, as if he were some sort of comic book character. It did work for him, for a bit. However, most people who don't win the lottery get to the top with the help and cooperation of a lot of other people. He didn't seem like the kind of guy who was trusting enough to develop relationships such that he could advance in life.
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> It is a nightmare to keep Drupal updated and ensure that nothing is broken.

Except in very rare cases, I've only found that to be the case for websites I've inherited that were built by someone that didn't know how to build a site in Drupal.
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TED talks are predigested intellectual pablum that make the people hearing them feel smart. Seeing one is mildly entertaining. Seeing two is cloying. Seeing three makes you aware of how intolerably formulaic they are. In fairness I've only seen half of a few, because they bored me stupid by the time they were half way through and it had become apparent that the whole schtick was to make the audience feel special and insightful. So I may be missing something wonderful.

TED suffers from the same malaise as all "cutting edge" forums: it has no apparent effect on the world, other than transfering money from attendees to speakers and organizers. Which is great: taking money from willing dupes is as old a humanity, but as the years role by it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain that anything more interesting than the release of the latest forumlaic blockbuster is going on.

Refuting this claim is easy: all you have to do is show a dozen or two cases of people who came away from TED changed in a some permenant and actionable way. People who didn't just go back to the same jobs doing the same thing in pretty much the same way. Does anyone have any data rather than anecdotes on this? It would be easy to prove my judgement wrong using it.
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So they lost because that was what happens when a hacker doesn't take the time to learn about algorithms and data structures, eh?

I think you could probably, after some practice, radix-sort bills into a 10×10 array by a digit pair at about 4Hz by hand, maybe 1Hz at the outset. 100k / 4Hz would be about 7 hours, so your initial sort pass (with piles averaging 1000 bills) would take 7 to 28 hours. A second sort pass over the next most significant digits would take another 7 hours, and then the bills would be sorted into groups of about 10. At that point you'd want to put the money into, say, a thousand or ten thousand envelopes, organized into drawers or folders or something, so that when the DJ calls the number, you open the right drawer, pick out the right envelope, and scan through the five, ten, or twenty bills in there to find the right one, if you have it.

You could do the passes lazily, too. Spend the 7 (or 28) hours to do the first sorting pass into piles of 1000. Then, when the DJ reads out the number, pick out the right pile of 1000 and spend 4 minutes sorting it into 100 piles of 10 or so, which you then stuff into 100 envelopes, possibly calling the DJ at the time. If the DJ calls another number with the same leading two digits, you're prepared; if not, hey, it's 4 minutes.

So you're right.

Sad. He legit hacked the Press Your Luck show by figuring out hidden patterns that he could use to do the apparently impossible. Too bad he didn't have the knowledge to hack the DJ's contest.

Sadder still that he let the money come ahead of his girlfriend.
See my comment above for a better complexity analysis of this task.
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I think that's obtuse. By that measure the police are part of the community and the community is part of government. Obviously you understand that the government uses the (blunt force of and in the shape of the) police to keep the peace because the community asks for help combating rampant crime.

The government takes an easy shortcut and instead of trying to solve the source of social, economic and cultural problems sends in the police as the only expression of government and thus the police are in the unenviable position take the full brunt of the backlash against an inattentive and perhaps negligent government.

That's a lazy cheap and untenable form of governance. It's like understaffing an IT department and the when the breaches happen blaming the IT security staff, a la Sony.

It's not bad policing so much as bad governance. the police are the main symbol of this "government" in the community, so they take the fall.
Direct link to YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=17&v=ToJD5r2SmwI
I wish I could disavow this guy as a hacker, but he was clearly a hacker. And I think this story demonstrates a kind of weakness that we're all a bit prone to. (See my deeper comment for algorithmic analysis.)
I have had very very good experiences there. I have not eaten dim sum in the Bay Area, but compared to the pacific northwest and southern California it ranks favorably.

If you fly into Toronto City airport you can walk to Chinatown...
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Yep, kudos to the backwards compatibility. Our original stack was Ember and ember-model and we have made the transition to ember-cli and have been tracking ember-cli and are slowly moving the legacy features to ember-data while implementing the new bits in ember-data. While it has not been entirely pain free, we haven't run into any show stoppers and I really like the way the ember ecosystem is shaping up. Big thanks to all the contributors for the attention to minimal breakage.
It depends on the size of the base. If your population ever broke 10,000 then having a few programs might be a good idea. But, redundant radios are cheap and your probably better off sending an extra doctor / pilot / geologist / engineer / biologist etc for your first few hundred people.

After-all having a working terminal that let's someone code is a hell of a lot more complex and uses a lot more power than a radio.

PS: This ends up getting back to the huge cost benefit of sending rover instead of people. Sure if you ever built up a self sustaining base including the ability to manufacture everything it needs from replacement parts, to CPU's, food, and fuel then sure send people. Until then you don't actually get any redundancy from sending people there.
You mean vectorizing memcmp/memcpy to work word-at-a-time instead of byte-at-a-time? Google does this when compiling their binaries, and I think Facebook does too. I thought the latter had open-sourced it with Folly but couldn't find a code pointer. I've heard rumors that LLVM can sometimes vectorize them to use SIMD instructions when available, too.

It's hard to do this safely for strcpy/strcmp because you might read past the end of the buffer when trying to test against a null terminator. memcmp/memcpy and length-prefixed blocks let you use a Duff's-Device-like construct to test only the last word byte-by-byte.
Hm, the ngram graph seems to show 'effusive' spiking well before Krakatoa, so I doubt that's the root explanation for the increase.
The law of wills can be peculiar. Under New York law a will MUST be signed by two witnesses to be valid (EPTL §3-2.1). A notarization won't cut it - a notary can be a witness just like anyone else but you still need a second witness.

On the other hand a trust can be either notarized or witnessed (EPTL §7-1.17) and a power of attorney must be notarized (General Obligations Law §5-1501B, which also requires a typeface "no less than twelve point in size").
Thanks for the insights, it always helps to hear first hand experiences.
> The Elements of Style is both dated and largely self-contradictory.

That's a bold statement. Care to back it up?
I thought this was going to be about this interview posted today. He claims that TED, the organization, has become a Scientology-like cult. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JhwQ17mLjo

Instead the article is just complaining that he doesn't like the speaking style of TED talks. This is extremely subjective of course, but I really don't mind the format. Yes it's a pitch, but I don't feel like its embarrassing or shameful like the author keeps saying.
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Exactly. Like when they find it almost painful to call out Isis/isil as bad. They do but it pains them to take a side when it's obvious there is a side. But then if someone they have an obvious stance against, they have no issue calling them out, say Russia vs Ukraine. I guess they feel safe calling out Putin. There are fewer "allegeds" qualifiers.
These articles give the worst impression of Ada possible. It's not the it's a specialized language for the military, but a language created to cleanup the DoD's software nightmare of the 70s, which is not unlike the software nightmares of today. It just happens that they had a pretty good grasp, even at that time, of what helps make good software easier to write, large software projects easier to manage and maintain, and strong ideas about how much a language should intervene if the programmer is doing things that look pretty dumb.

Ada has a neat OO system (not like the Javas or C++s), built-in state-of-the-art tasking (since 1983!), ranged types (one of the things I can hardly bare to live without), but also simple things like switches that aren't useless and just a general appreciation for what a discrete type can allow you to do. It has generics, too, though I know they've been proven irrelevant by newer languages. Have you seen that new Java 8 date time stuff? It's playing catch up to Ada. Ada's numerics are, hands down, the best facilities of any mainstream language.

Most importantly, it's probably already available for your Linux distribution because it's a part of the GNU Compiler Collection, which means that it's on the commercial OS you've settled for, as well.

An out of print book that I always recommend to those who are interested in playing with Ada is John English's "The Craft of Object-Oriented Programming". Enjoy.

http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/docs/craft/html/c...
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>That's not daring to present a viewpoint at which the show's white bread audience might bristle?

Did you bristle at it?

>What about the show that was generously interpreted as positing that perhaps certain individuals were on disability insurance because they had been left behind by the economy and this isn't a judgment of them but rather of our lack of any other option for those individuals? I guess that wasn't a challenging issue for the listeners, either.

Was it a challenging issue for you? I.e., prior to the episode, you believed that everyone on disability insurance was lazy?
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These both seem like incredibly niche objections. They're not somehow in bed with the anti-almond, anti-ice water lobby. I'm not saying they don't run a lousy report now and then -- that obviously happens.
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Also he has stripped electromagnetic waves to just get magnetic waves and he doesn't know about man-made climate change because of correlations.
I don't know what the OP meant, but I remember reading it and noting that the section on not using the passive voice used the passive voice. There were probably more things like that.

Unrelated, but in general I think the advice of Nassim Taleb is good: most people looking to improve their writing style are really lacking something to say.
Some think the game that we're all invited to play (i.e. the one you're advocating) is rigged. Indeed, they would say that the real "losers" are the ones who think they can beat it by working harder.
This is a longshot, but has anyone ever seen a way to drop into some sort of debugger for vim that is on a higher abstraction layer than gdb?
Those weren't 10x people, they were /10 people who were good at tricking other people into thinking they were 10x.
Fascinating. It reminds me of this eternal question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE
Correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't 'Cloud' have a lower case C if it's not a product?
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For some reason I'm constantly reminded of the story of the discovery of Karatsuba multiplication.

At a seminar Kolmogorov suggests that the classic multiplication algorithm was optimal, to multiply two numbers with n digits was O(n^2). Karatsuba, who is a student attending, come back a week later with an O(n^(log_2 3)) algorithm - which Kolmogorov was so excited about he cancelled the rest of the seminar and wrote up and published the algorithm without even telling Karatsuba (although he did list his as the author)

There's a lesson in there somewhere
I don't think this is right. The Kolmgorov complexity as you wrote is the shortest description of some program in a universal language. If you have program P and you shorten it to an isomorphic program P', k(P) = k(P') as we have the true shortest program P* where k(P) = |P| <= k(P). P' has the same Kolmgorov complexity as P.
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The interesting thing about this is that trivial errors like this cannot happen (unless there is a bug in coq itself). For instance, I imagined using a library might be something like using a certain Theorem 1, with proof given by Proof 1. Since T1 and P1 are formalized, they've been verified!

So I can only think of some nontrivial mistakes: the Theorem 1 is correct, but it doesn't prove what you assume in your head T1 is saying, so that you may build some valid but tautological claims. I don't know if that's a huge concern, but in any case it could happen without proof verifiers anyway.

Disclaimer: I'm not actually a mathematician and I haven't tried coq yet (although I most certainly will! seems very interesting).
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not use deprecated movs instruction

I've waited to see an instruction to do this in any machine ever (why do we have to hand-code this kind of thing, when the processor chip KNOWS the best way to get it done?) I've waited 20 years.

Look up "enhanced REP MOVSB"; this link may also be interesting reading: https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/275765

REP STOS (memset) has also gotten the same boost throughout the generations of x86, and if the trend continues I'd expect REP CMPS and LODS to get the same treatment. These string instructions are tiny (1-2 bytes) and yet very powerful; their greatest advantage is that they don't take up the astoundingly large amount of space in the icache that some extremely micro-optimised routines (i.e. ridiculous amounts of loop unrolling) do.
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> Oh, I bet someone writes httpd in vhdl or verilog

I would love to see that.