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Comment Why only one comparison (Score 2) 24

The paper shows a somewhat convoluted comparison of the various algorithms running against one dataset relative to FIFO. Why didn't they publish comparisons with the other data sets? And what does "10% of the traces" mean?

Why don't they compare SIEVE to the fastest of the other algorithms directly?

And what does their throughput number actually mean? Is it "objects checked?"

Comment It's not about the parents (Score 2, Insightful) 94

People always credit parental involvement for kids' school performance.

While it's important, it's also true that at the high end of the income scale parents are just as absent as parents at the low end.

The fact is that their school performance is better because they actually measure performance...unlike most union-driven public schools, where measuring performance leads to the slippery slope of judging teachers by student performance.

Comment Sounds like another bullshit agency (Score 0) 61

Using terrorists and fear in your funding appeals isn't really a winning formula. I'm sure the lack of "events" is used as a measure of how successful the act is. But - before 2007 were there any cases of terrorists accessing these facilities? From what I understand the vast majority of terrorists have bought their ANFO and box cutters retail.

Comment Poor summary: the software was not confused (Score 1) 37

The crater didn't confuse its software.

The altitude measured by the instruments didn't match the altitude used by the lander's onboard maps. It then determined that the instruments were faulty, and used the onboard map data.

Unfortunately, the onboard map was for the previous landing site.

There was no confusion, just bad data due to a poor process.

Who comes up with these shit summaries?

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