I'm actually doing pretty OK visualizing these results in my head... :-)
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Formerly: VP Engineering at Upverter in Toronto. Formerly: Founder at algoanywhere / CTO @ 500px
Background: - Engineering Science via UToronto - Not-so-amateur computational economist, mathematical physicist, bioinformatician.
I agree assisting people to reach the airport on-time may morph into a larger corporate vision, but I disagree it's likely to contribute to solving cancer, making better fuel, or reaching strong AI. ...And it's arguably a distraction of rare talent from that calibre of problem.
Just saying.
I don't want to be part of your fucking (ecosystem) -vs- I don't want to be part of your (fucking ecosystem)
It's very easy for mainstream journalists to jump on new technologies once they've been developed, but it's up to engineers and scientists themselves to make exciting potential directions better known.
He's getting the causality wrong. It's not because they have bachelor's degrees that they're getting jobs. They're getting jobs because they're (minimally) bright and (minimally) ambitious.
Printing 100 million bachelor's diplomas "solves" the unemployment problem in much the same way that printing 100 trillion dollars solves our financial problems: not at all.
If anything, this has encouraged a more 'grassroots' approach to fundraising, as it's more the number of people you can engage, rather than a particular (wealthy) demographic.
And, IIRC, it's not that there's much impact to average performance, but rather that the variation (sigma) drops by a factor of n.
No matter what your queue provider, you're most likely just using TCP sockets anyway, so don't think you need to be using Erlang just to take advantage of RabbitMQ.
Yes, this means the MQ can basically be thought of as a black box. But that's also kind of the point.
Followers of the story (largely, Canada and UK) have seen quite a drama over the last few years. It's helpful to understand he is, in fact, a British Lord - after renouncing Canadian citizenship under a Prime Minister blocking the appointment due to a personal vendetta - and was convicted of defrauding shareholders under a law recently deemed by SCOTUS as open-ended and unconstitutional.
As evidence, the author mentions the late average age that the underprivileged "received" their first computer. As I recall, one Bill Gates began hacking at an early age, not because his privileged family showered him with cutting-edge technology, but because he bent a few rules to gain better access to a terminal through school.
Let's not confuse resourcefulness with privilege.