Think I'm with Larry on this one. Someone should chair the meeting and there should be some expected outcome (decision) from it within the alotted time. If we're 45 mins in and no closer to an answer it's time to assign…
This is seriously impressive. I asked it to create 3 different databases: - a customer orders database with products with a timeseries of prices, and multiple fulfilments per order. - an issue tracking system with a…
I'm genuinely baffled by this, why are the tax filing options in the US so fragmented? Here in the UK there are probably some situations in which you can't use the online, government provided, free service. But I'm…
>> And then there's the competition - I early discovered that I could never outperform my competition. 100% this. I'm a bit competitive, but only a bit :). After 20 years of being a dev I realised I didn't want to…
I have a sort of off-topic question. The marketing for this claims not using STL containers as a selling point. Does anyone know what makes STL containers unsuitable for this use case? Clearly they're not a one size…
This is a good point. If the users know the difference the costs and benefits between using GPT and not using it then it certainly has value if those users are also willing to accept that not every answer needs to be…
This was my take too. The break-down in communication might not be WHAT is being said but HOW it's being said. This is certainly my experience of being a dev and a manager, sometimes people just seem a bit rude and it's…
Interesting. For two reasons. In the many years that I developed software this was known as the producer/consumer problem [1]. A name that is somewhat (to me) more expressive than back-pressure. But that's just my…
This is a great question! When I was a developer I used to develop software the way you were told not to. I did it that way because the requirements were always very vague and a lot of gaps needed to be filled. But when…
Absolutely. Picasso's journey was to transition from stunning realism to a child-like surrealism in later years. In some respects he was trying to unlearn form but keep the aesthetic. And to be honest some of these MOBA…
My first experience of Tcl/Tk was circa 2000. The finance house I worked at had used it to implement a real-time order management system. Even better was the ability to attach to the running ui or server (yes we had…
>> But if you tweak the hypothesis just a little, the data suddenly confirm it This is 'data mining' right? And I've occasionally wondered about this, since I don't work in a scientific field but did once make use of…
This would be a great win-win! But wouldn't the sequestered CO2 get released back into the environment and potentially the atmosphere?
But doesn't the comment above yours suggest that the 'yellow' dot thing may no longer be an issue and that now there's variation in the dithering parameters. Suggesting extra ink is not required. More annoying are the…
>> My question these days when I read such article, "What has the author done that is equivalent?" Well I happen to (vaguely) know the author and have worked with him in the past and he has done a lot of great work, not…
>> It's actually pretty difficult to eat back those 1750kcal if you don't go out of your way to stuff your face with sweets. Disagree. Over the course of a week it only means over eating 250kcal per day. What's that an…
Absolutely, but without stating the blindingly obvious the calorific content of some foods is so high that exercise can not be the dominant factor of that function. This article [1] from last week seems to support that…
This topic is explored in Michael Sandel's book Justice[1]. IIRC his conclusion is that we are products of our environment and as such we owe a debt to the environment that helped create us: university, school, parents…
Yep, I made the same realization as the OP in that changing things to any large extent required being part of the management. I got my break 10 years ago then 6 months after that I quit to go and work overseas to be…
Full disclosure: I'm not female but I have two daughters :) This is bang on the money to me. The important part is having the interest/curiosity & opportunity to take tech apart and see what makes it tick. We need more…
This seems pretty close to my experience. I remember thinking when I first encountered SQL Server Integration Services that this is 'visual programming'. It didn't take very long to realise that as a solution SSIS was…
> - it's not unknown for kids to have relatively poor reasoning and decision-making skills Agreed. And one way to get better at decision making (if you're a kid) is having the opportunity to try and fail at it. So this…
Uploading a URL of white noise from Wikipedia gave it a high-memorability (0.82) with lots of areas of interest. Secondly uploading a purely white image [2] produced high areas of interest in the top corners and a…
Without wishing to detract too much from the greatness of these books it feels like they should be out of copyright. But no, we can look forward to another 40 years of Random House rent-taking and calendar - 'tie-in's…
Original paper was linked from article and is here [1]. Although I'm vaguely familiar with MCMC and Metropolis, it's not nearly enough to pass comment on this advance. [1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.1694v4.pdf
Think I'm with Larry on this one. Someone should chair the meeting and there should be some expected outcome (decision) from it within the alotted time. If we're 45 mins in and no closer to an answer it's time to assign…
This is seriously impressive. I asked it to create 3 different databases: - a customer orders database with products with a timeseries of prices, and multiple fulfilments per order. - an issue tracking system with a…
I'm genuinely baffled by this, why are the tax filing options in the US so fragmented? Here in the UK there are probably some situations in which you can't use the online, government provided, free service. But I'm…
>> And then there's the competition - I early discovered that I could never outperform my competition. 100% this. I'm a bit competitive, but only a bit :). After 20 years of being a dev I realised I didn't want to…
I have a sort of off-topic question. The marketing for this claims not using STL containers as a selling point. Does anyone know what makes STL containers unsuitable for this use case? Clearly they're not a one size…
This is a good point. If the users know the difference the costs and benefits between using GPT and not using it then it certainly has value if those users are also willing to accept that not every answer needs to be…
This was my take too. The break-down in communication might not be WHAT is being said but HOW it's being said. This is certainly my experience of being a dev and a manager, sometimes people just seem a bit rude and it's…
Interesting. For two reasons. In the many years that I developed software this was known as the producer/consumer problem [1]. A name that is somewhat (to me) more expressive than back-pressure. But that's just my…
This is a great question! When I was a developer I used to develop software the way you were told not to. I did it that way because the requirements were always very vague and a lot of gaps needed to be filled. But when…
Absolutely. Picasso's journey was to transition from stunning realism to a child-like surrealism in later years. In some respects he was trying to unlearn form but keep the aesthetic. And to be honest some of these MOBA…
My first experience of Tcl/Tk was circa 2000. The finance house I worked at had used it to implement a real-time order management system. Even better was the ability to attach to the running ui or server (yes we had…
>> But if you tweak the hypothesis just a little, the data suddenly confirm it This is 'data mining' right? And I've occasionally wondered about this, since I don't work in a scientific field but did once make use of…
This would be a great win-win! But wouldn't the sequestered CO2 get released back into the environment and potentially the atmosphere?
But doesn't the comment above yours suggest that the 'yellow' dot thing may no longer be an issue and that now there's variation in the dithering parameters. Suggesting extra ink is not required. More annoying are the…
>> My question these days when I read such article, "What has the author done that is equivalent?" Well I happen to (vaguely) know the author and have worked with him in the past and he has done a lot of great work, not…
>> It's actually pretty difficult to eat back those 1750kcal if you don't go out of your way to stuff your face with sweets. Disagree. Over the course of a week it only means over eating 250kcal per day. What's that an…
Absolutely, but without stating the blindingly obvious the calorific content of some foods is so high that exercise can not be the dominant factor of that function. This article [1] from last week seems to support that…
This topic is explored in Michael Sandel's book Justice[1]. IIRC his conclusion is that we are products of our environment and as such we owe a debt to the environment that helped create us: university, school, parents…
Yep, I made the same realization as the OP in that changing things to any large extent required being part of the management. I got my break 10 years ago then 6 months after that I quit to go and work overseas to be…
Full disclosure: I'm not female but I have two daughters :) This is bang on the money to me. The important part is having the interest/curiosity & opportunity to take tech apart and see what makes it tick. We need more…
This seems pretty close to my experience. I remember thinking when I first encountered SQL Server Integration Services that this is 'visual programming'. It didn't take very long to realise that as a solution SSIS was…
> - it's not unknown for kids to have relatively poor reasoning and decision-making skills Agreed. And one way to get better at decision making (if you're a kid) is having the opportunity to try and fail at it. So this…
Uploading a URL of white noise from Wikipedia gave it a high-memorability (0.82) with lots of areas of interest. Secondly uploading a purely white image [2] produced high areas of interest in the top corners and a…
Without wishing to detract too much from the greatness of these books it feels like they should be out of copyright. But no, we can look forward to another 40 years of Random House rent-taking and calendar - 'tie-in's…
Original paper was linked from article and is here [1]. Although I'm vaguely familiar with MCMC and Metropolis, it's not nearly enough to pass comment on this advance. [1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.1694v4.pdf