mjtokelly's comments

Not with current life expectancies, but I was intrigued enough by your comment to look up current best predictions:

http://www.wunderground.com/climate/greenland.asp#IceFree

Sounds like my understanding must be out of date as of this year! (Which makes me very excited about your upcoming library.) My conclusion was based on research ~1 year ago finding no OSS or commercial software supporting it, and forum posts for those projects by developers sadly explaining why they just couldn't do multipart yet.

My bad experience with files disappearing was entirely with web-based POST requests, ~2 years ago. Large file transfer from EC2 to S3 was reliable, but our POST requests on slower connections (even those that were very reliable) would return with a false report of success.

Direct uploading like this has been possible for at least two years. However, in our tests it turned out that Amazon was silently losing some files >100MB (and almost all files ~1GB).

On the AWS forums it was clear that AWS was aware of this consistent problem, but was not able to fix it, and not willing to document it.

They eventually released "multipart upload", which remains the only reliable way to get large files to S3. Unfortunately, multipart upload is nearly impossible to implement as a web app (short of resorting to e.g. Java).

Can you share the URL you're citing?

I was desperately bored in high school, and my solution was starting college early:

http://www.simons-rock.edu/

At Simon's Rock, the whole entering class consists of students who just finished 10th grade. In my experience there, self-selected 16-yr olds given the opportunity and expectation to live like adults mostly rise to the occasion.

That advice comes a bit late, given you have just 6 months of high school left. For you I would say two things:

1) It Gets Better

2) You can do anything for just 6 months.

Hang in there!

According to some recent research, HFT appears responsible for lowering spreads by more than an order of magnitude: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/10/mor... That's a definite social good that would go away under proposal #3.

I was excited when this was announced, but I'm not sure what it's actually doing in practice. On my Android 2.3 phone with up-to-date Maps app, it always picks the first of three alternate routes, even if the others have shorter estimated times and no lengths of red.

Have no fear, Circles are not mutually exclusive. More like Venn diagrams, really.

Almost as bad is accepting my name without complaint, but then rendering it as O%27Kelly for years. (I'm looking at you, Amazon.)

Good Math, Bad Math has a series of posts about attempts to disprove the uncountability of reals:

http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/bad_math/cantor_crankery/

Especially frustrating is the credibility Knol can provide to crackpots like this.

Also, it's apparently only available on iPhone and Android 2.0+ for now.

Right, but non-local determinism is difficult to square with general relativity.

What you say is well-put, but to nitpick the last paragraph: the limits of quantum mechanics are well-established. QM is a special case of quantum electrodynamics, which is a low-energy special case of the Grand Unified Theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_electrodynamics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Field_Theory

While the latter is not fully fleshed out, its uncertainty only begins in circumstances far weirder than what gives Roger Penrose pause.

Penrose says that "The [QM] equation should describe the world in a completely deterministic way, but it doesn’t." But work such as Bell's theorem shows that no deterministic equation could ever be consistent with quantum mechanics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bells_theorem

With the API, you can choose any desired length of the summarized video, up to 30%. We think of the YouTube summaries as "trailer length", but we might make them a bit longer by default in the future.

Fixed--thanks!

We actually just improved the algorithm to address exactly that scenario:

http://blog.highlightcam.com/post/176798199/highlighting-now...

Camera motion is no longer considered "interesting" unless there's other motion against the static background. Works especially well with jittery cameras and panning security cameras.

Numerical Recipes' two chapters on FT (one on implementation, one on applications) is a longer introduction. It does especially well at addressing Confusion's point by making FTs' meaning intuitive, across many domains.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521880688/

Note that this article is dated 2005. Much has changed since then--for instance, Python has migrated almost universally from Numeric to NumPy for scientific computation.

When I started out in a systems biology lab with a physics and CS background but no biology, they gave me this book:

Molecular Biology of the Cell http://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Biology-Cell-Alberts-Al/dp/0...

The description of the DNA --> RNA --> protein pipeline was really satisfying to someone with my background, full of codes, error-correction algorithms, and rate-limiting steps. I think of it as the Numerical Recipes of biology.

I left HS after 10th grade to go to Bard College at Simon's Rock:

http://simons-rock.edu/

Simon's Rock is unusualy in that the entire entering class has left high school early. You're treated like an adult there, allowed to make your own decisions and mistakes. If you're chomping at the bit to get on with your life, Simon's Rock is a great way to do it.

It's a mostly liberal arts school, but the technical classes were phenomenal. I was able to transfer to Carnegie Mellon for my junior year, no problem--all credits transferred, and I was just as well prepared as the other Physics juniors.