alexholehouse

I seriously considered leaving my office and going to the coffee shop to apologize for this person's behavior, and I personally am finished with this individual in both a social and professional context. There is pretty much nothing I find more offensive than rudeness when people make a mistake.

If I remember correctly (from reading about this, not experiencing it!), if you counter-claim they will either

> drop it

> sue you (must occur within 2 weeks of the counter claim)

I have no idea about how this would proceed, but if they do sue you you'll need all the fun that entails, which may be a whole load of work.

Frankly it does sound like complete BS, but the question is do you want to be the one to fight it, and could a good lawyer on their side make it stick? I feel like the law is still very much struggling with this whole internet thing, so if I were you I'd be apprehensive about assuming rational through would prevail.

http://www.holehouse.org/mlclass/

I actually think you'd be doing them a business favor by explaining why (from this fairly brief overview at least) it's a horrible idea.

Google Notebook was "discontinued" only a few years ago - and the kinds of consumers who would be interested Keep almost certainly share a significant overlap with those who two years ago were interested/used Notebook, and therefore have literally been bitten by Google in this exact space in the last few years.

[1] http://vator.tv/news/2013-01-17-phil-libin-on-an-evernote-ip...

Genuine relationships make you happier, and you'll only form genuine relationships when you stop trying to impress and start trying to just be yourself.

Impressing should be a side effect of being exceptional at something. The above paragraph describes, "caring what people think about your appearance". I'm not sure it has all that much to do with impressing.

- The difference in video frame rate vs sound frequency based on the period of the wave

- Maybe the structure of the wave itself based on the waveform, although maybe not.

I should write him a note...

For any kind of machine learning or data processing, linear algebra is definitely a good thing to have. Basic calculus is good too, but I'd say may be less important if you're applying methods and approaches as opposed to developing them too. Differential equations, while providing an important set of mathematic tools which may open some doors you didn't even know existed, may not be the "highest yield" material from a programmers point of view.

In my opinion, probability and statistics is a big yes for anything data related, doubly so for algorithms. I'd also consider some graph theory, as it's amazing how many problems can be projected as networks and then approached from that perspective.

I don't mean this in a rude way, but if you honestly believe an average human being will/should know all these, prepare yourself for a life of abject disappointment.

The writing making the characters repeatedly try and display how smart they are (which I'm aware is integral to the show) but to me makes them totally and desperately unlikable. That, coupled with the general tension building component of most sit-coms where all too frequently characters do what is clearly a bad idea, followed by some form of "make it better" set of actions.

I know that if they [the characters] made a mistake and just repaired it in a very mundane way this would not be good television, but I find it incredibly jarring that these unlikable characters have one thing going for them, their intelligence, yet seemingly couldn't find their way out of a paper bag.

(EDIT: This reflects the relatively few episodes I've seen, but every time I see one I feel exactly the same)

(EDIT2: Perfect example from a comment below,

"When he [Sheldon] drops some furniture he is carrying to debate the point that pulling it up the stairs would reduce the required vertical force by exactly fifty percent and not about fifty percent, he is doing something weird and nerdy..."

Debating yes, absolutely, but scientific debate by itself isn't funny to the general population (Deestan would enjoy it, I might enjoy it, but Joe Bloggs on the street probably wouldn't care) so he drops it. That's not smart. If the show was consistent he'd then point out that the loss of energy from dropping it far outweighs the benefit of moving it around, or he'd break his toe.

It's this orthogonal slapstick which seems totally incongruous with Sheldon's typical behavior which annoys me.

Your perpetual (and totally correct) crusade against PhysOrg reminds me there are others doing the same, and for that I thank you.

Is this not the equivalent of judging Windows usage based on visits to microsoft.com?

e.g http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/stackoverflow.com

If I'd put 4 years into a pet on Petville, only to have the game basically deleted from under my nose, there is no way I'd ever become involved in anything Zynga does again.

[Disclaimer, I've never actually played any Zynga games, so this is based on second hand conversions/observations]

With all these things, I would argue, that you through a kind of 3rd order polynomial experience of time vs. your confidence in your own knowledge. At first you know nothing, and you're aware you know nothing. After some short amount of time you've learnt a huge amount, relative to what you did know, so you feel like you have a good grasp on the topic. But, over more time, you begin to realize how much you actually don't know (which may reflect everyone, or just reflect yourself, the latter meaning you can learn from others, the former meaning you better get your thinking cap on). Hopefully then over EVEN more time you begin to slowly increase your knowledge base, but this time from a more informed perspective.

The point is, I guess, that it's hard to assess your own knowledge of a topic at this very moment in time unless you've spent a decent amount of time getting your head around it's true complexities (where both, "a decent amount of time" and the true complexity of the topic will vary HUGELY from case to case).

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Source of maps: http://maps.webfoot.com/demos/demographics/

Irrespective of that, presumably an acquisition decision has more to it than , "HP is a better brand so we should buy HP" (this is not rhetorical)?

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, especially given your background, I'm just genuinely interested as to your reasons.

Sounds all too familiar :-).

I don't have a windowsbox available right now, but demo looks great.