Google Cloud, AWS, IBM all seem to offer a generic American English accent but with different voices. Given the huge variety of regional and ethnic accents/dialect in the US, why aren't there more options?Looking for both technical and business insights.
I would agree that Plato/Aristotle are good foundations for understanding European intellectual history but a lot of chronological study is required to see their influence / relevance today. Here's a cool dependency graph that shows the centrality of Ancient thought: http://www.designandanalytics.com/philosophers-gephi/
However, I worry that a student without some grasp of valid inference would be at the mercy of aesthetic attraction/repulsion factors for deciding what to accept as valid.
I specifically recommended "Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking" because I found it to be the most practical and skill-based class in a Philosophy curriculum. While they usually cover some proofs, most of the content has to do with identifying arguments. In addition, having knowledge of formal/informal fallacies helps in everyday inference. It is also relatively free of heavy "Greco-roman" western bias, which may appeal to a wider audience.
A neutral starter would be: Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking
Once you have some formal thinking tools, I would approach philosophy building organically by writing down your beliefs and identifying questions and gaps, and then researching those ad-hoc. You may also discover that your current existing informal / intuitive model is mostly sufficient for a 21st century life.
Plug: If you would like to test your GeoIP implementation, we have a tool designed specifically for that here:
Stereotype threat makes people less likely to engage in psychologically risky feedback loops (bad grades, seeking feedback,...), and many higher STEM courses are riskier in this regard.
Many students are forced to engage in work-study programs or work part-time to get through college. STEM curricula (especially engineering) require dedication and ample time.
Pragmatics, higher education is the most expedient path to escaping poverty for the underserved. So pursuing more vocational fields like nursing, professional stuff over a risky long career in academia seems more fruitful.
If my anecdote adds any value: I went to a somewhat rigorous college where most of my STEM classes were mostly Asian or White and I was the usually the only black student. I experienced the stressors mentioned above, the financial one was especially painful.
12 years later, I wish I had chosen a less time consuming field like liberal arts instead of CS/Eng and had a somewhat enjoyable experience.
One of my close Asian friends (with comparable ability) is now a Math professor. His upper middle class background enabled him to pay for his college, and living expenses in grad school. It’s inconceivable that I could have taken a similar track given the reality constraints of my particular situation.
I would expect economic development to gradually cause a decline in birth rates? Is there a GDP marker where delta GDP > delta population?
As far as overpopulation, the entire continent of Africa has roughly the same population (1.3b) as India with ~9x the land area so the absolute population density is not dire.
2. If you look at carbon emissions per capita, African countries are relatively carbon neutral. Ethiopia relies mostly on renewable energy and they are also building the largest hydroelectric power plant on the continent. I would expect younger economies to “leap frog” to cleaner and greener tech, having polluted less in total (than countries before them) by the time they attain middle income status.
I worked for 2 large companies that compiled (in back-end language for ex. ASP.net/JSP template) and sent transactional email messages synchronously in response to some action. Unsurprisingly, they lost messages when they exceeded their SMTP relay rate limit or when their email provider blocked their account for compliance reasons. In addition, any template changes were coupled to their...
For corporation, there is another form of targeting (account based targeting) that relies on IP ranges. I believe DemandBase covers this specific use case.
A bigger problem seems to be that many forget to continuously sync their IP DB with their provider. Your targeting is only as good as your IP -> Geo map.
My team built a tool for testing GeoIP implementations here: https://www.geoscreenshot.com to get around the issue of testing if it works.
For very large sites with thousands of dynamic pages, what are some ways to test the consistency of UI elements, layout, SEO conventions, etc... between builds and environments?I recently stumbled on a very large WP project for which I've had to build a custom "diffing" tool between different environments for every page / article. I am curious to learn about how other large site owners solve...
My target audience is software developers, QA engineers, and Ops people who want a predictable isolated browser environment for doing various forms of testing / hacking.
We've had some success in our small city (regular attendance, over 200 members so far) and we are trying to replicate it in other towns. If you're interested in setting up something similar, we can coordinate efforts. please reach out to me here: [email protected]
For example, if IP is in China, local fallback for Google CDN as it will fail.
Essentially, a blocking script in the dom <script src="...api.js" /> that prepopulates the window object. With clever error handling, this could improve perceived performance significantly.
A few questions:
1. What differentiates you from ip-api.com and other providers?
2. Do you use MaxMind?
3. Is there an option for no-throttling? 100s of simultaneous requests?
I aggregate multiple IP databases for my SaaS (https://www.geoscreenshot.com) and I need highly performant / reliable IP look ups.
You can also run the open source version of C9 locally.
I don't know how far you can practically go with keeping the environments consistent, especially for performance. It can be resource costly to allocate a clone of Prod for every dev. Depending on your stack, it might be better to auto-test on a dev server on a commit cycle.
I don't have examples. I am thinking loop videos, GIFs, or CSS3 animations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27XvZReW_cs http://likethemammal.github.io/css-visualizer/
- Gradient / Color full screen mode - Keep remote screen awake - Screenshot preview of remote screens (html5 canvas)
+ Visualizations
It is nice to have a TV/monitor on to use as a light, clock... without having to deal with Chromecast