Apparently this is widely circulated. I just came across it. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/news/mco990930.html <QUOTE> Sept. 30, 1999 MARS CLIMATE ORBITER TEAM FINDS LIKELY CAUSE OF LOSS <SNIP> The peer review preliminary findings indicate that one team used English units (e.g., inches, feet and pounds) while the other used metric units for a key spacecraft operation. This information was critical to the maneuvers required to place the spacecraft in the proper Mars orbit </QUOTE> Ouch. In law school (IANAL, btw) the cautionary tale is of the misplaced comma subverting the intended meaning of a contract. Good tales to be told, IMO. Art
Check out the downloadable slide presentations at http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/23/presentations.html My 'Python in Education' is listed but they screwed up the URL (I asked for a fix, but so far no dice) -- either change urner_kirby.final.ppt to urner_kirby_final.ppt after clicking on the bogus link, or grab a copy from one of my own sites: http://www.inetarena.com/~pdx4d/ocn/python/oscon2003/ (along with the tiny source code module, if interested). It's a 3 meg powerpoint, but should be viewable in Open Office. I got a lot of good feedback on my talk. Many positive remarks and some follow-up contacts. Kirby PS: if anyone finds a link to George Dyson's excellent slides, please let me know. I talked to him after and he said he was working on getting his slides on "Tim's website" meaning Tim O'Reilly -- I assume that means somewhere in the OSCON pages, but so far I can't find it. His keynote re Von Neumann's Universe: Coding (and Engineering) at the IAS, 1945-1956 included a lot of hard-to-find raw historical documents. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2003/view/e_sess/4375
Check out the downloadable slide presentations at http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/23/presentations.html
Thanks -- Looks like good stuff. Hopefully before too much longer these conference presentations will all be viewable on DVDs and/or online as streaming video too. I love the baby giving the Python a bath :-) Where did you find that ? - Jason
At 08:19 PM 7/16/2003 -0400, Jason Cunliffe wrote:
Check out the downloadable slide presentations at http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/23/presentations.html
Thanks -- Looks like good stuff.
Hooray, O'Reilly fixed the link. Now I don't have to give these convoluted instructions.
Hopefully before too much longer these conference presentations will all be viewable on DVDs and/or online as streaming video too.
Yeah, although they're still going to want to reserve the highest bandwidth access to the paying customers -- as long as there's a "meat space" venue (in this case the Marriott in downtown Portland -- very convenient.
I love the baby giving the Python a bath :-)
Where did you find that ?
- Jason
I believe it's a picture from Thailand but I don't know the source (or I'd have given one). A guy who attended an earlier draft of my presentation (I had two test audiences -- made my final talk a lot smoother), and emailed it to me later. Kirby
Thanks for the Python in Ed slides. I teach in a magnet high school for science and tech, we're fortunate to have received a Cray SV1 supercomputer last year. We have a "Supercomputer Applications" course, and we're looking for project ideas in high performance computing - distributed computing and parallel processing (we've started looking at MPI - Message Passing Interface using C/C++) Let me know if anyone out there has high performance computer modeling applications that could be interesting to high schoolers. We have a networked lab of Debian Linux workstations and the Cray. Also we have a Mosix cluster of 16 computers, several years old. Thanks, Randy Latimer rlatimer@tjhsst.edu or Randy.Latimer@fcps.edu On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Kirby Urner wrote:
Check out the downloadable slide presentations at http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/23/presentations.html
My 'Python in Education' is listed but they screwed up the URL (I asked for a fix, but so far no dice) -- either change urner_kirby.final.ppt to urner_kirby_final.ppt after clicking on the bogus link, or grab a copy from one of my own sites: http://www.inetarena.com/~pdx4d/ocn/python/oscon2003/ (along with the tiny source code module, if interested). It's a 3 meg powerpoint, but should be viewable in Open Office.
I got a lot of good feedback on my talk. Many positive remarks and some follow-up contacts.
Kirby
PS: if anyone finds a link to George Dyson's excellent slides, please let me know. I talked to him after and he said he was working on getting his slides on "Tim's website" meaning Tim O'Reilly -- I assume that means somewhere in the OSCON pages, but so far I can't find it. His keynote re Von Neumann's Universe: Coding (and Engineering) at the IAS, 1945-1956 included a lot of hard-to-find raw historical documents. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2003/view/e_sess/4375
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