Also, if you're looking for a longer-term commitment but want to get out of it, their Reserved Instances can now be bought and sold. Great for if your plans change and you want to recoup some of your costs.
A team at McGill made a "game" to find patterns in I think protein-folding or genome data, to leverage humans to identify patterns that their algorithms could not.
Are these photos artificially curved / lens-angled (perhaps intentionally deceptive?), making the Earth appear more curved and the altitude appear higher than it would to a human observer at the camera's position?
In discussions with a theorist, they would never tell me that something is O(n^n) if it is not also Θ(n^n). My point is not on what people may say, but on what they do say. btilly made a point about programmers, not theorists.
I added the observation that even theorists - the people who are experts in this area - talk like that, and gave a possible reason why. My reason, which perhaps I did not communicate well, is that the lower bound is generally not of practical interest.
About: "In discussions with a theorist, they would never tell me that something is O(n^n) if it is not also Θ(n^n)". So you've never heard someone say, for example, that Strassen's algorithm shows that matrix multiplication for n x n matrices can be done with O(n^2.808) multiplications?
For some problems, the best known upper bounds don't match the best known lower bounds. Also, in cases where there are further improvements in the upper bounds, it doesn't automatically mean people stop talking about previous upper bounds.
(Ignore this whole comment if you specifically meant the function n^n, I have no examples relevant to that function.)
I literally meant n^n, which is also what I assumed sadga meant. That is, an upper bound which allows for absurdly fast growth.
I have discussed matrix multiplication's unknown lower bound with theorists, but more as a trivia item because there is a relatively recent result showing that it is O(n^2.3727) (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~virgi/matrixmult.pdf). That is, the unknown lower bound was the point of the conversation, and it was interesting because the lower and upper bound are not the same; it's still open research. The other point the theorist made during that conversation is similar to what I've said: getting a tighter bound on matrix multiplication is theoretically interesting, but there's not much practical application.
I was rather talking about when we discuss algorithm when trying to solve problems.
> the idea of creating a new church that would take everything all the other religions said you could not do and made it OK.
detailed in Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land
Also, Unitarian Universalism (a religion formed because Unitarianism and Universalism weren't broad enough!) is basically the most dilute religion. They have churches and services and community activities but no liturgy beyond a vague spirituality.
Paying list price for any load that isn't mission-critical and needed immediately is insane.