I sure hope things improve.

I don't know the security features of this system, but it sounds like something that can be easily hacked. If you meet someone at a bar and have with a concealed RFID reader, you could get the information of the chip, encode your own chip, and have access to the facilities. With a card on a lanyard, you can at least keep the card in some place safe. And a remote RFID reader can't read it.

It's right to call out attention to sabotage. It's wrong to cast abstract aspersions against possible competitors. Keep to the facts, Elon, don't promote conspiracy theories.

Just comparing it with my undergrad curriculum, which made sure that at least half of my classes were NOT related to my major, I'd say this gives a solid foundation. I would give some more stats courses beyond regression and intro do probability, though.

Compared with the Indian engineers (male or female) who are expecting an arranged marriage and are not in the dating pool, the non-Indians (mostly Anglo-Americans) are not happy. Suggest the lonely Anglo-American men to try switching over to the Indian system. Some of your Indian friends might even help you.

Welcome to core Statistics.

This would have to be a randomized controlled experiment, and the confidence interval being tested would be 99%. What this means in frequentist statistical terms is that if you had 100 test subjects, and out of those you would expect for whatever reason one of those would somehow turn up positive, then you would still be within your 99% confidence interval. More formally stated, the true population mean is somewhere greater than the 2.5th percentile and less than the 99.5th percentile of the the distribution of the values in your samples.

So, because they are working with statistical sampling methods, they never say that they are 100% confident.

OK, so, it's generating a series of truly random 0s and 1s. I don't have access to the article, but my question is if this truly random number generator has been identified as being a part of some stochastic process, like a binomial or poisson process? Would appreciate some more insight on this.

Walmart is not just in America. It has more than 6000 stores in America, but in China it has more than 400. It and the US govt. needs to be more shrewd in bargaining to get more stores in China and other places. No one-sided protectionism. Kill China's preferred nation status with the US if they get all fussy about letting more American goods and businesses in.

Basically, the result from the paper show that from the data recorded from the primates' neurons, it is possible to recreate with high accuracy the image the monkeys saw.

The potential technology developed from this finding would astounding. For example, a scanner could be developed that could allow police to ask a victim to remember what the criminal looked like and produce a near photographic image of him.

Something like this: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

That's a bit like saying "I've gotten pretty good at riding a bicycle 5-6 times over the years." Once you learn how to ride a bike, if you go back to it after 20 years of not riding it, you still remember how to ride it.

What I'm saying here is that there is a certain depth of the language that is more in the realm of intuition and nature rather than syntax but yet is integral to the language itself. If you achieve that depth, you never have to get good at it again. But if you never reach that depth, like the two years of a foreign language everyone in highschool is required to take and just a few years later can't remember a word of it, you will have to relearn it almost from the beginning.

So in the same sense, I find Perl to be much like riding a bicycle or learning a foreign language. To really say that you have actually learned it, you need to get to a certain depth of mastery in it.

Aha! A Python-eer in Perl-monger clothing!!

O vile Apostate! May your Python 3 and all of its descendents forever live in the shadow of Python 2!

Since the Apostate hath claimed to have been a devotee of Perl, let us, the faithful Perl-Mongers, treat him as the apostate he is and casteth his anonymous screed into the depths of -2 anonymity.

May all the faithful cast aspersions and down-votes upon the vile post of the parent!

Yep. Python uber alles. And you would think that if people have the chops to program in Java or C that they have a pretty good handle on versioning, too. So I think there is a problem with the way the original poster is thinking of the problem.

I have been in the situation where we wanted to introduce versioning to newer or more junior programmers. What didn't work well was the open source solution. We used Subversion; it was quirky and unintuitive for them. (Of course, someone on this forum is going to hotly contest that Subversion is anything but intuitive and easy to use. Well, to that, you probably aren't representative of most programmers, and most likely, neither are your friends, if you have any.) And my experience is that most open source solutions are difficult to use--especially for novices--because they are in fact quirky or require a high level of expertise to use right, or both.

But when we switched to a commercial vendor (in our case, CA's Harvest), the team picked up the versioning system much faster than they did with Subversion. Harvest was more intuitive for them and a LOT less quirks and bugs to deal with. That is, things more often than not worked as they were expected to in Harvest than in Subversion.

So my advice would be to look at some commercial vendor packages, pay them the bucks they are asking for, and enjoy the professional support they give you, the training, and quicker turn-around time for your project deliverables.

From https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.marxists.org%2Farchi...

For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic. This fixation of social activity, this consolidation of what we ourselves produce into an objective power above us, growing out of our control, thwarting our expectations, bringing to naught our calculations, is one of the chief factors in historical development up till now.