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You may think you are. Far out. Why you think you can violate basic social norms, while others apparently support it, is beyond me.

If only you practiced what you preached. Imagine the amount of self-righteous bile that your servers wouldn't serve.

Keep in mind that 1974 was 36 years ago. I am working with a very different model of the world than you are I think. Capital controls exist in the world and some are quite harsh. However, no serious person is even close to advocating them (for wealth nations like the US). What problem do you imagine they would solve?

Cool, thanks for the tip. I definitely want to do a German beer tour at some point.

Just out of curiosity, how cheap would you say it is? Any crime issues?

Meta: I say something else. You retort something unrelated to your absurd initial declaration about the soon to disappear money order (I assume that wire transfers will have to go to).

This level: I'm done.

Lol. I'd upload my passport but that's silly. Europe is not exactly cheap.

I concur. Not known for being super cheap I'd imagine though.

How does crazy paranoid stuff get up-voted here? Very Sad.

Cheaper countries can be fun, but there's lots of downsides as well. If you are asocial, it could be your dream to live there. I'll always want a vacation there, but not to live there.

Cool, although I'd suggest not getting to excited about AI itself. It's cool your already focusing on machine learning.

A great way to get going in that direction is to check out the state of the art as expressed by AT&T labs Netflix Prize solution. To get very far you'll want to have some background in linear algebra. However, theory isn't the way to go (although you'll probably need it eventually). Do a little digging and you'll find code for svds, the simplex method and all sorts of super important algorithms that are used all over the place.

You'll find if you ask questions like: How does x work in y algorithm? people will have a better idea of where to start. When you actually are coding and able to see numbers for a particular problem, you'll be able to wrap your mind around what's going on.

I'm going to try to give you something totally off the wall. Don't forget that mathematicians were people. Here's three biographies of some of my favorite mathematicians:

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Poincare.htm...

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Peirce_Charl...

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Smale.html

Also, please check out some of the giants on that site and wikipedia: Gauss, Laplace, Euler. Why were they interested in what they were? What techniques did they develop? A very crucial question that very few ever ask: Would they have done much differently had they had access to a computer? (Of course).

Focusing on proofs to learn math is very perverse. A proof in a textbook is a proof that has been refined an almost ludicrous number of times. Definitions and axioms have even been optimized for the sake of elegance of said proofs. Don't get me wrong, a connoisseur appreciates what has been done. However, removed from the problem that motivated this way of thinking, mathematical techniques can often confuse more than enlighten.

What would you like to learn exactly?

A bunch of uninformed whining is hardly in-depth. You'd think you couldn't file these electronically or that people have to create, gasp, invoices for the vast majority of such transactions.

How have you not thought through this? Black people must have been incredibly powerful in the Jim Crow-era south.

It's not cool when people find it socially acceptable to say something venomous about a group of people.

Yeah, I've considered picking it up. Glancing at Fortran code is a bit off-putting though.

You aren't going to beat my code by much, much less by double. I did want to see what was possible by doing everything on the cpu. Your point about portability stands, but of course assembler is perfectly portable (you'd just have to adjust the initial moves according to abi differences). However, if Fortran does come close to my code's performance, there would be a huge time savings in coding time.

So you are correct about the original contribution thing. There is also an option to start early withdraws on investment appreciations as well. It gets complicated, but basically you can start making regular withdraws (once a month I think, always of the same amount) penalty free.

One of the best pieces of advice I can give you is to not obsess over the college catalog. Freshmen year is about making friends and enjoying your new found freedom.

If you want to learn more the best thing you can do is be a good student. If a topic interests you, stay after class and discuss it with a professor, or visit them at office hours. Opportunities abound for this sort of thing, usually in smaller classes though. I'd recommend getting used to college in your first year and then hitting up professors more when you have found your place at school.

When was the last time you used it? Wave is not slow currently.

Sadly, this is pretty much done by the citation count bit. People that write quality papers were either scooped up by a quality institution, or could move to one. Good work is done at a lot of places, but its more visible when done at a famous place.

The best advice I could give to someone trying to learn a computer language is to first pick something you'd like to do. You'd like to be able to put together a website so that's a good start.

With an English background you might try something like:

Putting together a collection of books by an author (or as many as you want) from Project Gutenberg. Come up with a rails site that lets you explore or search these in an interesting way.

There's lots of things to try, but trying to do something versus trying to learn something for its own sake, will give you a chance to focus and learn as opposed to just learning all there is about a language. With Ruby, there is way too much to learn, but you can get started quickly.

Totally depends on the context. I see no reason to have a priori preference for either. This way of doing it somehow felt counter to what feels like the trend for a lot of sites.

When I'm messing with my own site, I prefer to do key value pairs, so I can easily see what I'm messing with.

I do like having some things with a rails/route type url mapping. Tends to allow for much more simplified code.

I think github makes a good crack at it

http://github.com/rortian/Retinex/blob/53a2f818ce301f4912b02...

But, you're right I was wrong to say anything about REST. I just thought it was an interest way to do a git tree explorer.

I'm sure it's not desirable to come up with a minimal character URL for this sort of thing, but I hard to see either approach as suboptimal.

Yeah I guess that is true. I wish I knew a better term for what I'm getting at.

I guess I associate having cleaner URLs with REST. It's just funny to me this URL just passes params.

Age is a huge factor in cancer. By a certain age, virtually every male has prostate cancer.

>If they see your 2000 word rant about how a class got nerfed, you think they are going to say "well he's just passionate about his hobby"?

They will know that this will have their real name attached to it. If they don't have discretion before attaching their name to a long rant, I have no sympathy for them.

Please read before you get started with the FUD. It will be optional to display your main characters name.

EDIT:

To be clear

>so presumably their RealId will be as well when the new system is implemented.

Is false on its face from Blizzard's announced policy. This, of course, eliminates the last concern of the parent.

Yeah, but you're still not acknowledging that they are making forum posting non-anonymous not game playing.

Second part of the question totally varies. I'm in agreement with you that the first is probably more attractive. But, there are millions of game players out there. Hard to think that all of them self-hate.

Sure, but facebook is a very different model. Even if you'd like to be friends with people from your past you can ignore their future activity in a click or two.

When the quality of discussion tends to be so low, you don't risk much by trying to mix things up.

I think this is crazy over the top. They are not releasing game time played for every person. They are getting rid of anonymous commenting on their forums. I think it is a change for the better. If someone is a troll and/or exhibits anti-social behavior online should it effect their profession careers? I'm cool with it. If people have to think twice about being obnoxious, life just might be better.

Don't forget that your prism account is not anonymous.

That's really a pretty outrageous claim. Microsoft has been pretty stuck since it was found to have violated anti-trust law. Just because he rode one company up to become the world's richest man, doesn't mean that he could have done something to make Microsoft a better company today.

Indeed. Money laundering, for example, usually has to go through people that fit this description.