Little Moishe comes into the store.
— I need three liters of honey, — he hands a jar to the shop assistant.
She fills up the jar.
— My dad will come and pay tomorrow.
— No way, — the shop assistant takes the jar back from him and pours the honey back.
Moishe steps outside and looks into the jar:
— Dad was right, this is enough for two sandwiches.
In Orlando at the Tu Tu Tango restaurant, I saw some cool paintings for sale, and now I’ve found the artist online.
A very interesting lecture on how the LHC works. Simply out of this world https://habrahabr.ru/company/yandex/blog/329132/
“That’s 40 terabytes of data per second. At the moment, we cannot process such a flow, although technically we are already approaching the capabilities.”
“You can imagine the size of a camera’s sensor. Here, it’s about 200 square meters of sensor. (..) The coolest thing about these experiments is their speed. They shoot at a rate of 40 million frames per second. (..) We can’t record that much; in reality, we record about 200–500 frames per second, but that’s still quite good.”
“The matter and energy that we observe is about 5% of what we measure through various gravitational observations. It’s like having a 20 square meter apartment, and you receive a heating bill for 1000 meters, and it’s correct, somewhere the extra square meters are being heated, only you don’t understand where.”
“We have about a million illuminated cells in the detector, which are recorded at a speed of 40 MHz. That’s 40 terabytes of data per second. (..) In 10 ms, you need to classify the data into interesting and not very. This is a typical classification task. We are now actively applying machine learning methods. We save one event out of a million. The remaining events are lost irretrievably. So it’s very important that this selection has good efficiency. If we lose something—it’s already irrecoverable.”
“For this, we need sufficiently powerful computer resources. High-energy physics uses distributed computer resources. On this slide, to give you an idea of the quantity, for the CMS collaboration, 120 thousand cores and around 200 petabytes of disk capacity are used.”
“CMS article, characterized as the discovery of the Higgs boson. (..) 36 pages. Half of them are the article, 136 references to scientific research and three thousand authors.”
“As an analogy: what we are trying to do is see a snowflake of a certain unseen shape in the light of a camera flash during a snowfall against a backdrop of a large snowy field. And honestly, I think the task with the snowflake I described is significantly simpler.”
Today was an eye-opener for me on how cheaply one can now buy an IoT kit. 37 sensors and a computer (NodeMCU) cost just 11 bucks on AliExpress, and just the NodeMCU with onboard WiFi costs 3.5 bucks. You can access it via terminal, and from there – the full power of Lua.
Here they are with a description: https://piandmore.wordpress.com/2016/02/09/37-arduino-sensors-nodemcu/
Oh, if only I had the time for this. I’m really itching to buy it and give it a try 🙂
It just so happened that I left my suitcase in the airport scanner in Orlando because I am used to traveling with just one bag on the plane, and this time I had an additional “carry-on” attached to my backpack. The airport arranged for mail delivery, which cost about fifty bucks through UPS. They tell me it will be delivered on Thursday or Friday afternoon. And I know I probably won’t be home – work, after all. I asked what happens if the courier can’t find me. Maybe I should stop by your local UPS office? They reply, no need to worry, they will leave it in front of the house if they can’t find me. Or in front of the door, if I’m in an apartment.
I unsuccessfully tried to find out what the courier does with the suitcase when I’m not home. He doesn’t do anything with it. He frees himself from it as soon as he reaches the address. If the address is correct – they will knock first, and if no one is home – the suitcase will appear in front of the house or apartment door, and the courier will leave. The suitcase will wait until the evening.
Back home, I tried to be cautious. After all, there are enemies around, it might get stolen! 🙂 But here, it’s always been like this. I’m gradually getting used to it. I don’t know.. probably, it doesn’t work this safely in all areas.
Interesting, would this scheme work: a consultant is attached to an employee (for instance, a junior) to help with their work for a fee paid by the company?
One might ask, why would a company do this? They are better off hiring someone smart and experienced right off the bat. However, it often happens that an employee excels in one area but is mediocre in another, less essential area. For a simple example, consider a skilled business analyst with poor English skills. Or an excellent manager who needs to learn about a new industry that the company has entered through some partnership.
The uniqueness of this model can be best illustrated with the example of an English teacher with knowledge of a specific field (like IT), “on standby.” This person assists with the work, rather than teaching grammar or idioms. That is, if a letter needs to be written, they help write it, and explain the hows and whys along the way. If it’s necessary to connect on Skype and help with a conversation with some partners from Scotland – easily done (though it might cost more).
Understandably, for such services not to be “golden” priced, this person’s resources must be used very efficiently. Of course, this depends on the position. English can be improved for ten business analysts by one specialist, and a top manager might receive much more personal time. Practically, this could be managed through a public calendar of the assistant or assistants, their constant presence on Skype, an easy system for booking slots, and some guarantee of availability (for example, within half an hour).
The monetization model could be made even more interesting. The company pays a part, but the employee could also pay extra if they exceed limits, or simply have funds for their own development.
The company signs an NDA with such a service, which allows bringing in outsiders into processes, correspondence, and negotiations. This isn’t much different from hiring an external specialist, only here the specialist is remote.
Consequently, the assistants also guarantee a certain level of “service,” with time limits per month, per day, continuous time, etc.
An additional plus is that people get used to good help, personal relationships are established, and companies will be reluctant to cease such services, even if they do not meet their minimum hours in consultations.
Dmitri Voloshin Alexander Gornyi
Listening to my favorite playlist. Here’s a song. Crimea river. I think, what’s this nonsense. There are no rivers in Crimea. There’s only a canal. Was. Went to look up the lyrics. Turns out it’s not like that at all. The song is pleasant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsalvDqZcFM P.S. Turns out there is a river after all!
Read a ton about blockchain (not just Bitcoin and Dash, but blockchain in general). Who else is into this? Share startups, ideas, thoughts
Came across a news item on Alex Exler’s website about an article on the KP site “Stavropol scientists from the Sheep and Goat Research Institute have developed a Microsoft product analog” (https://www.stav.kp.ru/daily/26678/3701936/, also on Regnum https://regnum.ru/news/innovatio/2274999.html). Decided to dig deeper, especially since this creation was supposed to be presented yesterday. Consider the length of the quote and the credentials of the interviewee. Besides being four, sources say he’s also the head of the institute’s IT laboratory. It turns out he’s the developer. Well okay, now let’s get to the point.
The name – Ivan OS. Based on – Linux.
“It took five years and 40 million rubles to develop the Stavropol analog of Windows. A team of seven scientists worked on the product.” – it turns out, the “scientists” received 95,000 rubles/month. “The name, Belov explained, was chosen deliberately. The programmers want to create a brand recognizable worldwide, hence its name emphasizes that it was made in Russia.”.
Belov: “Firstly, the seven people are just the software developers, let’s not forget about the methodologists, accountants, organizers. Secondly, we are presenting not just our own OS assembly, but a technological platform, one of the components of which is IVAN OS. Thirdly, besides the FGBNU VNIIOK, the main owners of the technological platform are two Russian scientific organizations, LLC NPO ‘Cloud Information Systems’ and LLC NPK ‘Etalon’. Fourthly, the per-person cost estimates are inflated. However, wait for the official presentation. It seems like a strange rehashing of rumors.”
I just came across such a question in an English book (“Grammar Rules!”). Can you imagine the same question in a Russian language book?
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