antoinehersen
Re:The Haskell Platform 2011.4.0.0 is now available
on Saturday December 17, 2011 @06:47PM (#3365404)
Re:What really happened aboard Air France 447
on Thursday December 08, 2011 @09:23AM (#3329137)
You can display so much information before you add to confusion in a high stress situation.
Haptic feed back could be useful.
Re:What really happened aboard Air France 447
on Thursday December 08, 2011 @09:18AM (#3329115)
They should have pay extra attention to the weather since this region of the globe is prone to the worst storm. They even aknowledge it in the recording.
Re:What really happened aboard Air France 447
on Thursday December 08, 2011 @01:03AM (#3327930)
The fact that the heating element was not effective enough was a known fact. Since similar incident of lost of air speed had already happened. Pitot were being replaced with beefier heating elements. It was just not considered a high priority.
Re:What really happened aboard Air France 447
on Thursday December 08, 2011 @12:59AM (#3327916)
Not changing course like almost all other flight that night was their first mistake.
Re:How Doctors Die
on Monday December 05, 2011 @05:58AM (#3314105)
The message is that there is another choice.
I read it as giving people a different perspective on end of life care. The system is heavily biased toward all out medical care. This article show the other side, using as examples people who have a better understanding of the tradeoff.
This decision will always be a personal one, there is not right or wrong answer, just different possibilities.
Re:How Doctors Die
on Monday December 05, 2011 @05:44AM (#3314071)
It is obviously a personal choice but situation #2 may be worse than you imagine.
You can write, read, and interact but only for a few hours each day. Pain and fatigue take over the rest of the time. There is also so many little things you take for granted you will not be able to do anymore, or will require assistance to perform. Eating can become a chore, you may have to be regularly plug to some gruesome apparatus, also loss of mobility. Think about the last time you were sick, or injured, think of the worse moment being your new normal. I personally can`t imagine being happy in those circumstances. I choose #1.
Each person choices should be respected, and people should be better informed on the tradeoff of each choices, which I feel is not the case in our health care system.
Re:Over 80% of students unlikely to scan a QR code
on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @05:26AM (#3289810)
Most QR codes are tied to advertisement. I assume most students ignore them so they will probably not bother with all the energy required to read a code.
Engagement will probably be higher for more valuable information.
Re:New Stanford class on Cryptography
on Saturday November 19, 2011 @12:50PM (#3255762)
The AI class is ok, but the lack of programming assignment really impede learning. On the other hand the ML class is great, even the web site is better.
Re:How can I teach a bright person with no programming experience how...
on Monday November 07, 2011 @03:38PM (#3208040)
I am helping a friend learn to program. He was doing "Learn Python The Hard Way" but was loosing steam. I created a project for him to do, a simple ASCII game: https://github.com/antoinehersen/ASCII-Dungeon-of-DOOM.
Having a project with visual and interactive elements is far more motivating. Also it push you to learn the real skills needed for programing, not only knowing what a loop is or how to open a file, but figuring what to use when, and how to organize and connect it all.
This experience will create a reference frame for everything he might subsequently read in a book.
I strongly believe that accomplishing a small scale project that as some value is the best way to learn.
Re:WikiLeaks: Out of time and money
on Friday November 04, 2011 @05:41PM (#3197812)
I think Assange took to much of a central role, creating a huge weakness that is being successfully exploited.
I personally want to support wikileaks, but I have mixed feelings about Assange.
Re:Six Ways to Overcome the Urge to Procrastinate
on Friday November 04, 2011 @05:30PM (#3197767)
My favorite way to procrastinate is to read online article about procrastination. I also bought a book about it, one of the few I never finished.
If you procrastinate too much there is usually a reason for it, try to find out why, and what you can do about it. For me it is ambitious project that are ill defined. Breaking them in smaller task that can become daily achievements helps a lot.
Re:Apple's Supply Chain Secret
on Friday November 04, 2011 @01:28AM (#3195046)
If they make more money this way why are they getting screwed?
Re:Can Yahoo Be Rescued?
on Thursday November 03, 2011 @03:43PM (#3193367)
The debaters suggestion is that Yahoo need a miracle, aka a Steve Job to bring innovation and focus.
Sounds like the leaked memo urging employe to "accelerate innovation, reignite inspiration, and give our users what they want now". If only someone sent that memo sooner !
Re:Harvard Grad Starts Math Museum Helped by Google, Hedge Funder
on Thursday November 03, 2011 @03:29PM (#3193308)
I fear that the beauty of mathematics is hard to easily communicate. It is not in pretty pictures of fancy functions, but in rediscovering theorems and their proof. The most awe inducing results during undergrad was Galois theory, but you need quite a bit of mechanics to be able to understand the proof.
I remember an exhibition on Gödel, it completely failed to communicate how ground breaking and fundamental his achievement were.
Re:Lessons from Space (for software engineering)
on Thursday November 03, 2011 @03:16PM (#3193260)
Great analogy to promote simplicity and modularity.
Re:$1.1M German museum piece falls victim to cleaning lady
on Thursday November 03, 2011 @03:04PM (#3193204)
An article with a pic: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20111103-38649.html
Re:Free Stanford AI Class is a “Beta” for a Commercial Launch?
on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @12:23AM (#3185408)
I do not want exactly to complain since the class is currently free and I am enjoying it quite a bit, but there is a lot of issues. The integration between the Youtube video and the quizz is poor, no official forum for the student, no lecture notes. Everything as a very beta feels to it.
On the contrary the platform for the ML class is of very high quality and the content more polished. I especially like the possibility to speed up the video lecture, having programming assignment, and how easy it is to submit them.
Re:HP's new ARM-based Servers
on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @08:45PM (#3184851)
From the Register article: "The hyperscale server effort is known as Project Moonshot, and the first server platform to be created under the project is known as Redstone, after the surface-to-surface missile created for the US Army, which was used to launch America's first satellite in 1958 and Alan Shepard, the country's first astronaut, in 1961."
Re:Apple reportedly questioning future of Mac Pro
on Monday October 31, 2011 @06:53PM (#3179517)
I think it is still important for them to cater to AV professionals since it is part of their identity to provide for creative people.
Re:The Humble Voxatron Debut
on Monday October 31, 2011 @06:45PM (#3179490)
Such an interesting social experiment. I am going to indulge my inner economist.
Re:NYC isn't catching the Valley anytime soon: Reflections on Startup ...
on Monday October 31, 2011 @05:02PM (#3179044)
It reflects the cultural value of the environment.
Re:John McCarthy Has Died
on Monday October 24, 2011 @11:08PM (#3152658)
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Re:Let me see your Lisp implementation. Here's mine.
on Monday October 24, 2011 @08:58PM (#3152296)
https://github.com/antoinehersen/petitML
Lambda calculus to PPC assembly.
Re:Why do pilots still die from not knowing which end is up?
on Monday October 24, 2011 @04:05PM (#3151348)
All modern planes are fly by wire. There is a very high level of redundancy for flight computer.
The kind of damages to take down all systems will probably structurally impair flyability.
Re:Why do pilots still die from not knowing which end is up?
on Saturday October 22, 2011 @05:25PM (#3144367)
Pilots are very reluctant to hand over control to any kind of computer. It goes completely agains their self image.
This is more true in certain company than other.
A very similar phenomenon is how the USAF crashes more drones than the Army since they use pilots that insist on flying them in manual, vs the Army operators that do not consider themselves pilot. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/29/young_usaf_predator_...
Commercial flight will become much safer when the persons in the cockpit will considere themselves plane operators vs pilots.
Re:Your number one priority
on Monday October 10, 2011 @01:26AM (#3092384)
Diet, exercise, weight loss, meditation, walking, music have long term cumulating effects. Neglecting them wont impact you the next day, but after a few weeks you ll feel it. And it will take more than a one day to get back into shape.
Re:We’re not going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a j...
on Saturday August 06, 2011 @12:56PM (#2854286)
"The Great Stagnation" from Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution, is a long essay that address this issues from an economist point of view. A wonderful read. http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/01/the...