Internet Archive: Details: Evolved Virtual They Say Everyone Has A Soulmate, But I Am Still Waiting Where are you, the man who I will love? The person who will be beside me forever? I’ve been looking for you all my life. I looked for you when I sat with my best friend late at night, reading our teen magazines, flipping through the pages of love stories. Funny. The things we do together, the types of things you say, what you’d look like, slipping from our lips as our eyes fluttered shut. I’m getting older, and I still haven’t found you. I looked for you in the metro. Did we bump into each other that day in the park? This is getting exhausting. Where are you?
Exokernel Operating System MIT Exokernel Operating System Putting the Application in Control. An operating system is interposed between applications and the physical hardware. Structure of an exokernel system. in turn use the exokernel to allocate and deallcate hardware resources. We have built several exokernel based systems. Check out a slide-show about exokernels on our documentation page. An alpha-release of our exopc distribution is currently available. For more information on exokernels and related projects see the home pages of the Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems group at the MITLab for Computer Science. I Will Be A Leftover Woman I am 23 years old and I am sure that I do not ever want to get married. Do I have mental issues? No. Am I an abhorrent creature? No. Did I watch parents fight over money, child custody, or pets and did that traumatise me? Why don’t I just embrace the bonds of marriage? It’s normal to be married so it makes you slightly weird when you’re not. In some countries there is more pressure on women to find a partner than in other countries. At least in Europe we still have the choice to say yes or no. If you saw this movie then I’m sure you remember this dialogue and if you saw the movie ‘500 Days of Summer’ then you know Summer ends up being married anyway. So if I end up being married anyway, like Summer, then let it at least be under the conditions of Margaret.
GAlib: Matthews Genetic Algorithms Library Build Self-Esteem Before Building Your Dreams Low self esteem is probably the biggest cause behind failures in life. The foremost requirement for accomplishing something big will be to build a high self-esteem. Every individual living on this planet has a vision to live and dreams to chase. You simply cannot deny the fact mentioned in the previous line. If for some very weird reason you don’t have one then you really require exploring within. Well! How Can I build High Self Esteem? The following points might help you. Identify yourself. What if the person is suffering from low self esteem? Most of the times the low esteem has nothing to with reality. The act thinking mentioned above shall not be done as a chore. The most harmonious way for achieving a high self-esteem will be to isolate individual problems and fix them.
Innovation Diffusion This is my last column for Technology Review. Really. It’s all over. Why? New editorial directions, new opportunities. Perhaps it’s time for a different take on the evolving politics, culture, and economics of innovation. But I’d be foolish to pass up this final chance to discuss what I’ve learned – and unlearned – about innovation since this column first appeared in Technology Review’s January/February 2002 issue. Simply put: innovation isn’t what innovators do; it’s what customers, clients, and people adopt. That’s also why I now believe that the dominant global issue of our time is the accelerating diffusion of innovation. Every significant issue of our time – energy crises, environmental degradation, economic development, public health, HIV/AIDS, educational opportunity, child care – is increasingly shaped by the ebb and flow of technical innovation. The Big Lie of the Information Age is that “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”
11 Books You Should Read If You’re A Woman In Your 20s According to Love Twenty, women in their twenties are supposed to read diet books and novels about shopping. I disagree. Here are my suggestions for novels you should read if you’re a woman in your twenties. 1. by Kate Chopin (1899) This classic novel about female sexuality and personal exploration during the turn of the century is one of the first novels to explore casual sex on the part of a woman — a married woman. 2. by Sarah Hall (2007) You should read at least one dystopian novel in your twenties, if only for the reminder that everything could go to shit in a matter of years. 3. by Gillian Flynn (2012) This book is a journey into the musings of a female psychopath. 4. by Jill Grimes (2008) As the only practical book on my list, Seductive Delusions exposes common misconceptions and fallacies about STDs. 5. by Margaret Mitchell (1936) Written about the Civil War from a Southerner’s point of view, Gone with the Wind is a beautiful love story. 6. by Toni Morrison (1970) 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
Technology Review: What's the Best Q&A Site? Everyone knows a lot about something, whether it’s quasars, quilting, or crayons. But the converse is also true: there are a lot of things that most people know nothing about. And unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to stop them from sharing their opinions. That’s one lesson I took away from my recent survey of the growing collection of social question-and-answer websites, where members can post questions, answer other members’ questions, and rate other members’ answers to their questions–all for free. The Wikipedia-like, quintessentially Web 2.0 premise of these ventures–which include Yahoo Answers, Microsoft’s Live QnA, AnswerBag, Yedda, Wondir, and Amazon’s new Askville–is that the average citizen is an untapped well of wisdom. But it takes a lot of sifting to get truly useful information from these sites. In an attempt to flush out the best of the bunch, I’ve spent the past few days trying to identify what unique advantages each one offers. The Results:1.
I Miss You Already I miss you when we say goodbye for a month because I am going home and because I admit I need help. I already miss you in the cab to the airport and at the airport waiting in line to get on the plane. I miss you when the plane lands and when my dad hugs me tight and says, “You’re gonna be okay, sunshine.” I miss you when you call and I go outside and sit on the grass in front of my house so we can talk in private and when you text me late at night as I go to bed in my mental health quarantine. I miss you when you go home for the holidays and when you see your childhood friends, your long-time ex who taught you everything about trust and who is the reason you hesitate to get close to people, because you loved her so much and she spent 10 years stomping on your heart and making you work for it in a way you swore you’d never do again. “If anyone else was acting this way about you, you’d think they were crazy,” I say. “Yeah, but the difference is I like you,” you reply. “The beginning?
The Downside » Blog Archive » MIT Tech Review: Worst review of t When someone writes for a publication like MIT’s Technology Review, they have an obligation to write articles that are objective and scientifcally sound. To represent a brand like MIT, they have to observe the standards of review journalism such as creating measurable comparison criteria, applying those standards consistently, and giving consistent, even-handed treatment to their subjects. However, Wade Roush of Tech Review last month ignored all of these rules in his article What’s the Best Q&A Site? Perhaps it was Roush’s objective to take a light-hearted look at the Social Q&A space and therefore was lax in his editorial rigor, but if that’s the case, his review should have been published on a blog somewhere, not on Tech Review, and it should have had the appropriate disclaimers. When MIT Tech Review publishes an articles with hard numbers comparing websites, that review becomes gospel for the hordes of other sites that reference it, so it had better be accurate. Somewhat true. Wondir
Philip Greenspun’s Weblog » Improving Undergraduate Computer Sci These are the notes for a talk that I’m giving tomorrow at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. I’m posting them here because it is a convenient way to write and others might find these interesting. I’ll talk about MIT because that is where I have the most experience teaching. MIT operates the same way that it did upon opening in 1865: two semesters with long vacations in between; students do most of their learning in take-home problem sets (6-9 hours/week/course) for which they get some inspiration in lectures (2-3 hours/week); evaluation/grading is done by the same people who are teaching/coaching. The calendar was designed for rich families. You want your kid available in the winter so that you can take him down to your estate in Florida. How about lectures? Why did people come to lectures in 1865? What about homework? Evaluation and grading in 1865 was done by the teachers. How well does the MIT system work? 6.171: Software Engineering for Internet Applications. How does it work?