Posts by RM Myers 669 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Jul 2012
Excellent! The class was a course on algorithms and data structures, and much of the discussion concerned determining the order of magnitude for various approaches O(1), O(n), O(log(n)) and the drastic affect as the input data size increased. It seemed like a highly theoretical subject at the time, but it helped make me a much more highly paid developer later in my career.
I assume you don't have a law degree. In fact, "shouting fire in a crowded theater" is covered by the first amendment - this is probably the most common misconception held in the U.S. about the first amendment, and has been thoroughly debunked by many lawyers in articles available on the internet. There have also been cases where the courts have shielded identity on free speech grounds, including a well publicized case eight years ago where a college professor lost a new job due to an anonymous post on PubPeer (https://retractionwatch.com/2016/12/07/pubpeer-wins-appeal-court-ruling-unmask-commenters/).
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I was starting to believe the commentards had completely lost the talent for victim blaming and shaming. You have renewed my faith.
Having dealt with the super old, I can think of reasons why someone would fall for something so obvious. I'm not just considering the cognitive decline, there is also an innocence that is almost childlike. Also, there are many medications which make people highly subjectable - there is a reason you are told after certain surgical procedures to avoid any financial transactions, and they require you have someone you trust take you home.
I doubt anyone searching for Mersenne primes does it because they think it will be useful. This has more to do with proving you can meet the challenge, and bragging rights. Much pure maths has been created with little to no expectation of usefulness, although a surprising amount has subsequently turned out to have serious importance, once the physicists, cryptologists et.al. got involved.
Similar experience, although we did miss one day when the morning temperature was -23F/-30C. Mind you, school wasn't cancelled directly due to the cold, but rather because the school buses wouldn't start. I lived in a small town, and many students lived on farms far from the schools.
Okay, okay, all sufficiently complex applications exposed to the internet have security bugs, security is extremely hard, and perhaps most importantly MOVEit's security vulnerabilities have been found and patched. However, we could have said the same, and many probably did, after the last MOVEit fiasco, and here we are again.
Time to place your bets! Which is more likely: AI superintelligence in 3 years which is 10,000 times human intelligence, or Apple responds to El Reg's request for comment. If I read an article saying either one has happened, I will just assume it was written by a hallucinating AI.
When did the definition of majority get changed to include percentages less than 50? It may be the most common, but it still seems like less than half the total!
Ends pedantic rant, shakes fist at these youth trashing the English language.
Wait, you're not claiming that a company in the "AI" business would actually exaggerate the potential benefits of "AI", are you? I'm shocked, just shocked, that anyone could even imagine such a thing. The marketing mantra in "AI" is widely recognized to be "under promise and over deliver", after all. Shame, shame, a cynic is in our midst.
I have windows 10 running on a computer I built using an ABIT motherboard bought in 2008 for USD $30. With an SSD replacing the hard drive originally used, it is actually more responsive than when I built it. It wasn't my oldest computer running windows 10, but my HP 17" laptop from 2007 died last year (the GPU had an issue caused by HP's crappy cooling system. The CPU is socketed, but the GPU is soldered and needs reballed).
I've had 2 class action payments that were less than $1 USD, and 1 class action which gave me a discount off of "full fare" on airline tickets. I never used the later, since you could get tickets cheaper without the discount as long as you didn't wait until the last minute. Almost no one actually used the airline "discounts", but the attorneys pocketed well over $100 million USD
Mercer filed the breach letter with a number of different states (probably every state that has a legal requirement), since they would have alumni living in every state. Maine nicely posted the information on their website, and since they only require the data breach notice IF there is unencrypted data, the author was able to infer that some data was unencrypted.
They are a very common thing in academia in the US. I'm on the mailing list for the math department newsletter from the university where I went to graduate school, and they always profile the students getting their Phd's, including their post graduation employment, if known. Post doctoral researcher/fellowship is probably the single most common job description.
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