Peddling the same prosaic resources you can get from a simple Google search
Asterisk + Wireless network + Laptops + Webcams + Subscriptions + Nationwide (Worldwide?) network of on-call interpreters for lots of languages.
They were surprised to find that people using ordinary calculators got the wrong answer 51% of the time. [...] For example when working out the answer to 4 x -5 it is easy to end up with the answer -1 instead of the correct answer of -20. People using the new device, by comparison, got wrong answers only 19% of the time and this was due to inaccurate character recognition, an error that is easy to spot and so correct.
For the past decade the Faculty has had a serious attrition problem, which is now about to become disastrous. These changes will allow some students to fail more courses before being required to leave Honours or the Faculty, but will also encourage students to repeat courses with poor grades that are prerequisites for other required courses. It will allow students who begin disastrously to recover without having seriously impaired averages dragging them down. It will also allow students who discover in second or third year that they are in the wrong major to eliminate some of the bad grades from their effective record, to avoid carrying that burden into a new major.uwstudent.org reports:
According to David Taylor, the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the Math Faculty, the changes are necessitated by an extremely poor performance by students who started in Fall 2004. "Over 20% of the first-year class had a "Probation" or worse decision at the end of their first term; 15% had an average below 55%, meaning that there is very little chance, under current rules, that they will be able to continue in Honours (and not a very good chance of success in General)."
So how much will you get? And is it worth the work? As I said, I don't know how much you'll get. I can give you a few tools for making a Wild Assed Guess.
An idea for a new business can strike anywhere: In the shower, in the car, even in a dream. Mike Jetter got his in a cancer ward.
Lesson number one from Excite is about timing in a technology business.
"Being early is the same as being wrong," says Mr Kraus.
According to a survey published by the US Chamber of Commerce in January 2004, employer paid benefits averaged 42% of an employees salary in 2002. That means you need an additional 35 – 45% more than your current salary to make up for these lost benefits.
1. Get and stay out of your comfort zone. I believe that not much happens of any significance when we're in our comfort zone. I hear people say, "But I'm concerned about security." My response to that is simple: "Security is for cadavers."And 15 more.
The era of that Networking Jerk is over. I learned that the hard way. Once, a mentor of mine said to me, "Stop driving yourself -- and everyone else -- crazy thinking about how to make yourself successful. Start thinking about how you're going to make everyone around you successful."
For a long time I tended to skip the formal stuff too readily. It can even be clearer than the prose, if it's using a formalism you're familiar with, anyway. I think the contradiction of formal systems is that they have a higher barrier to entry, but once you know the language they're easier to understand because there are fewer opportunities for ambiguity.
Autonosys has also become the only non-American team to qualify for the semi-finals of the 180-kilometre race for driverless vehicles through the Mojave desert, sponsored by the U.S. military's Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency. The race, which takes place in October, is known as the Grand Challenge.Good luck, Autonosys!
Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that we feel. We feel strongly that the overwhelming scientific evidence pointing towards evolutionary processes is nothing but a coincidence, put in place by Him.
Again and again, the history of the Web shows us the value of relinquishing control. Amazon’s customer comments were originally thought foolish by those who believed negative reviews would hurt sales. Instead, they increased trust, which drove more transactions. eBay’s open marketplace eschews centralized control of buyers and sellers, instead favoring a distributed management system where individuals rate one another. Not coincidentally, Google, Amazon, and eBay have all made available their Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) so that others can leverage their information in unforeseen and innovative ways.
Co-founder Danny Hillis escorts me down a hallway that dead-ends into an old-fashioned red phone booth. The phone rings. He places receiver to ear.
"The blue moon jumps over the purple sky," he says, and hangs up.
Suddenly, the booth becomes a door, swinging out to reveal a vast, open room filled with engineers, gadgets and big ideas.
It's as if Willy Wonka's chocolate factory just yawned wide to welcome us. Only here, all the candy plugs in.
"This is where the secret laboratories are," Hillis says.
A recent survey conducted by Microsoft corp finds that workers average only three productive days per week and lays the blame on among other things, unproductive staff meetings.
The research firm Gartner Inc. predicts that up to 15 percent of tech workers will drop out of the profession by 2010, not including those who retire or die. Most will leave because they can't get jobs or can get more money or job satisfaction elsewhere. Within the same period, worldwide demand for technology developers — a job category ranging from programmers people who maintain everything from mainframes to employee laptops — is forecast to shrink by 30 percent.
"It will provide a fertile environment to commercialize the innovative work done at universities and colleges, hospitals and laboratories, and in private sector research facilities," said Carol Stewart, Business Development Manager.Has anybody heard anything more about this?
NeuroSky, a fabless semiconductor/module company, has developed a non-invasive neural sensor and signal processing technology that converts brainwaves and eye movements into useful electronic signals to communicate with a wide range of electronic devices, consoles, and computers.
What is at stake here is something fundamental to the way we see innovation, design and creativity and the way we organise our economy around them. We are moving from an era of mass production to one of mass innovation.
Now, I'm not as good as I'd like to be at focus and task selection—but I'm a hell of a lot better than I used to be. And I think I get more done per day now—and more of the right things done—than I did when I was working on Blogger.
Solution to Exercise 1.27:(define (congruent? n a)
(= (expmod a n n) a))
(define (carmichael? n)
(define (iter i)
(cond ((= i 0) #t)
((congruent? n i) (iter (- i 1)))
(else #f)))
(iter (- n 1)))expmod for the even case instead of one, his process comes to resemble a binary tree of depth log n. The original creates a process that resembled a chain of length log n. When we count the number of nodes in Louis's binary tree we get n - 1, bringing it back to Θ(n).
Solution to Exercise 1.25:expmod give the same result, but Alyssa's version has much poorer performance. Here is a table comparing times spent (in milliseconds) calculating fast-prime? with the two different versions:| Prime number | Original | Alyssa's |
|---|---|---|
| 1009 | 608 | 2937 |
| 1013 | 578 | 3094 |
| 1019 | 687 | 2877 |
| 10007 | 874 | 93900 |
| 10009 | 875 | 92301 |
| 10037 | 749 | 94035 |
remainder and *, I have to guess where the inefficiency is.expmod calculates its result incrementally, calling remainder many times on relatively small values. Alyssa's expmod, on the other hand, builds up a huge intermediate value, which is then passed to remainder once. My guess: because the numbers have grown so large in Alyssa's version, the built-in operations, remainder, *, and / are consuming much more time than they do in the original.The best delivery advice I can offer is to make sure you spend some time preparing for a positive response. What happens if they say “That’s an interesting idea. What do you want from me?” Do you want money? Other resources? A change in the project plan? A feature added to the feature list? Know what the sequence of steps are after they agree you have a good idea and be ready to ask for them.
Stealthmode Partners is an advocate and accelerator for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs: a network of people and companies working together to help support and accelerate new initiatives - be they new or emerging growth companies or new directions, projects, or products within existing companies.
This fast-growing association brings together the 200 angel organizations in the United States and Canada to share best practices, network, and help develop data about the field of angel investing.Their website offers some resources aimed at prospective angel investors, including book recommendations, research papers, and a Primer for Angel Investment in Canada. Entrepreneurs might find it useful for understanding the world of angel investing.
Write a business plan. The most important thing you can do to prepare for starting and operating your own business. Developing a business plan requires a lot of time and energy, but it’s invaluable for one primary reason — it forces you to come to terms with your business idea.
Good-bye! We venture capitalists like to think of ourselves as giants striding across the technology landscape, showering money on terrific young entrepreneurs, adding value, creating jobs, nurturing real companies. We are financial samurai. But I am giving it up. Why?His reasons include technology oversupply, lack of hype, and market rationality.
Some people think that they need to stay in stealth mode as long as possible to protect their exciting new idea. I hate to break the news to you, but unless you're Einstein or Gallileo, your idea probably isn't new. I have this theory. The success of a web service is inversely proportional to the secrecy that surrounded its development. There are exceptions of course. But I also think this can be applied to other things. Segway, anyone?
A study by MYOB UK, a London-based business-software maker, found that nearly 70% of the 400 entrepreneurs surveyed feel their companies are adversely affecting their health or personal lives.
Stewart Alsop, a venture partner at New Enterprise Associates in Menlo Park, has worked with a number of ball-busters in his career, and he has become convinced that in frustratingly many cases the harder an entrepreneur is to like, the more ruthlessly successful he or she becomes. "I call it my asshole theory," he says. "The bigger the asshole, the better they do," he laughs.
If merely telling someone your idea means that it can be ripped off, then you hardly have a defensible product. If secrecy is your main weapon, then it will be hard to find investors. By the way, what happens when you ship? Are you going to ask every customer to sign a nondisclosure too?
You can buy lottery tickets or head for Vegas and hope for the best.
Or there is the well-worn path to a lawsuit. The problem is, a lawsuit can take a long time and you have to spend most of that time talking to lawyers. I'm not sure the rewards outweigh the pain.
It seems like there should be an easier way, and in fact there is...
Podscope is the first search engine that actually allows you to search for spoken words within any audio or video file. We’re starting with podcasts and will be adding all types of multimedia in coming months.Dang! There goes that million dollar idea.
Solution to Exercise 1.24:start-prime-test to use fast-prime?. Here are my modifications:(define (start-prime-test i n start-time)
(if (fast-prime? n 10)
(if (= i 0)
(report-prime
(time-difference
(current-time time-process)
start-time))
(start-prime-test (- i 1) n start-time))))fast-prime? is deciding what value to use for times. I've somewhat arbitrarily decided to use a constant value of 10 for now, which gives the following output:Welcome to DrScheme, version 209.
Language: Textual (MzScheme, includes R5RS).
1009 *** 0s 2190000ns
1013 *** 0s 2340000ns
1019 *** 0s 7650000ns
(#>void< #>void< #>void<)
10007 *** 0s 2810000ns
10009 *** 0s 2820000ns
10037 *** 0s 2810000ns
(#>void< #>void< #>void<)
100003 *** 0s 5940000ns
100019 *** 0s 5470000ns
100043 *** 0s 5780000ns
(#>void< #>void< #>void<)
1000003 *** 0s 6410000ns
1000033 *** 0s 3600000ns
1000037 *** 0s 3750000ns
(#>void< #>void< #>void<)| Function\Number | 1009 | 1013 | 1019 | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| start-prime-test | 672 | 766 | 797 | 745 |
| fast-prime? | 641 | 751 | 749 | 713.67 |
| try-it | 563 | 719 | 608 | 630 |
| expmod | 516 | 687 | 593 | 598.67 |
| square | 78 | 187 | 109 | 124.67 |
| fermat-test | 0 | 0 | 32 | 10.67 |
| report-prime | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| timed-prime-test | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Function\Number | 1000003 | 1000033 | 1000037 | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| start-prime-test | 1546 | 1578 | 1719 | 1614.33 |
| fast-prime? | 1530 | 1562 | 1704 | 1598.67 |
| try-it | 1499 | 1436 | 1580 | 1505 |
| expmod | 1483 | 1420 | 1533 | 1478.67 |
| square | 284 | 392 | 235 | 303.67 |
| fermat-test | 15 | 32 | 15 | 20.67 |
| report-prime | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| timed-prime-test | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Function | Ratio | Deviation from expectations |
|---|---|---|
| start-prime-test | 2.17 | 8% |
| fast-prime? | 2.24 | 12% |
| try-it | 2.39 | 19% |
| expmod | 2.47 | 23% |
| square | 2.44 | 22% |
| fermat-test | 1.94 | -3% |
Their new beta RSS reader, which Dare Obasanjo points to, asks inane questions before letting you try it. For example, "what month did Florida become a state?" They of course provide a link to MSN Search for you. Funny thing though, my first instinct was to go to Google.Something tells me that this isn't exactly what Seth Godin means by "remarkable".
Guys, if you want to increase MSN Search usage, don't try to trick me into it.
The main problem is to compare these languages. A common method is counting the "lines of code" a programmer needs for a given program. But who is going to implement the same specification in hundrets [sic] of languages? So to make the test applicable we need a common concept for the comparison.The common concept that he talks about is function points.
The goals used in the design of C++/CLI were as follows:Plum Hall is keeping a repository of all the public drafts of the spec.
- Provide an elegant and uniform syntax and semantics that give a natural feel for C++ programmers.
- Provide first-class support for CLI features (e.g., properties, events, garbage collection, and generics) for all types including existing Standard C++ classes.
- Provide first-class support for Standard C++ features (e.g., deterministic destruction, templates) for all types including CLI classes.
- Preserve the meaning of existing Standard C++ programs by specifying pure extensions wherever possible.
The board comes with DSP-software libraries that enable system engineers to directly program their DSP systems in Visual Basic or National Instruments (www.ni.com) LabView.Did I read that right? It is possible to directly program a TI DSP in Visual Basic?
No public school in the United States is set up to allow a George Washington to happen. Washingtons in the bud stage are screened, browbeaten, or bribed to conform to a narrow outlook on social truth. Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed. [Link]
Forced schooling was the medicine to bring the whole continental population into conformity with these plans so that it might be regarded as a "human resource" and managed as a "workforce." No more Ben Franklins or Tom Edisons could be allowed; they set a bad example. One way to manage this was to see to it that individuals were prevented from taking up their working lives until an advanced age when the ardor of youth and its insufferable self-confidence had cooled. [Link]
The processor-core enhancements include adding floating-point addition to the S unit on each side of the C67x core, so that the processor can execute four floating-point additions per cycle. This doubling of the number of parallel floating-point additions per cycle can boost FFT processing by 20%. In addition to supporting single- and double-precision floating-point operations, the processor core now supports mixed-mode floating-point functions that allow developers to operate on both a single- and double-precision value in the same operation. The C672x DSPs also have twice as many internal registers as C67x DSPs to improve compiler optimizations and reduce the overall number of memory accesses.
The death knell came in late 2002, when then-provincial-auditor Erik Peters said the original cost estimate of the project had ballooned to more than $350-million from $180-million. He said that even if the IJP were completed, the prospective savings would be no higher than $250-million.When the project was cancelled it had burned through $200 million. So why didn't the government continue the project in the hope of recouping the $250 million it expected to save for the project? Derek Freeman, a Toronto lawyer with "inside knowledge of the IJP" provides a clue:
Mr. Freeman recalled that when the project began, the original private-sector partners got carried away and failed to convey how difficult it would be to translate their plans into a system-wide network.It sounds to me like the private-sector partners failed to convey the difficulty because they were unaware of it themselves.
I design software development tools for AMI Semiconductor's line of low-power, miniature digital signal processors. I live with my wife, Mandy, in the Beechwood neighbourhood of Waterloo, Ontario.
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