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Barack Obama gets asked a computer science question by Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
@weedipikia
Well said, Michio Kaku is a great man and i would love him as a president although i dont live in USA ^^.
ask bush this question …….”Whaaaaat 32 who?” LOL
@weedipikia
well Herbert Hoover was an engineer and quite the disaster. Personally I think the only type of scientist I would want as president would be a evolutionary biologist since they deal with dynamic adaptive systems.
@bofors7715 It’s America, land of the media-brainwashed.
hahahaha im a big enough fag to enough to get it
I have a question for Barry… umm… I mean Barrack:
Why are you hiding your real birth certificate?
You know, the one that a doctor had to sign?
You know, the one that election officials in Hawaii say does not exist?
What kind of banana republic, mickey mouse country is this?
@GunsNRosesbitches
maybe a professional that is a lawyer AND has another degree too? i see what youre saying though, your point makes sense too.
@GunsNRosesbitches
who would you trust dude, some lawyers arguing about ‘x’ drug, or doctors arguing about ‘x’ drug? who would you trust, lawyers arguing about what economic stimulus/plan to use, or economists? the legislature has become one-sided; we need a lot of professionals in there. besides, who said ONLY lawyers are apt to be politicians? if anything, with all that has transpired in recent times, its become clear lawyers cannot handle how diverse the world has become anymore.
You said, “it stinks most politicians especially Presidents are lawyers or businessmen.” I sure hope most Presidents are lawyers or businessmen, I wouldn’t have it any other way. Scientists can influence society as much as they want to, but I don’t feel comfortable about them stepping into the arena of law, politics and international relations/diplomacy. That’s stepping outside their comfort zone in areas where a different kind of skill and quality is essential.
@856893tfr Lawyers and politicians may not have the knowledge or technical capabilities of scientists or engineers, but they most certainly can handle human affairs better. Scientists in general do not want run a complex human society full of problems and perspectives. Lawyers are much more well-trained for those problems.
Besides, law school is an entirely different way of thinking. It’s no surprise that, according to people I met, engineers have the most difficulty in law school.
@GunsNRosesbitches
AND youre making a bad analogy too. you cant say ‘science is not a democracy’, because science is not a political system. however, you could say fascism is bad for the us, its govt controlled, or something like that…….oh well my two cents dont take me too seriously
@GunsNRosesbitches
no dude. youre the one committing the fallacy. youre missing the point. the point is that we need other experts other than lawyers in office. thats one problem, they are not specialized. you have a bunch of lawyers arguing about medicine, why not doctors? you have a bunch of lawyers arguing about the economy? what about economists? see we need experts in there to help the country get run better.
@rs31337 or a logicist
@dozza92 But notice how I said properly chosen pivots. In the average case, even though both quicksort and mergesort have the same O(nlogn) runtime, quicksort is generally faster. In the java library, when sorting primitive types they implemented quicksort that chooses pivots that prevent it from degrading to worst case. Also, quicksort can be implemented in-place, unlike mergesort.
@jukeboxlord quick sort has worst case scenario of O(n^2) which is exactly the same as a normal bubble sort where as merge sort is ALWAYS O(nlogn) , which is faster…
ok…seriously no one would be able to say that from the top of their heads…how did he know that? Someone told him for sure….
@weedipikia Science is not a democratic process. Scientists argue with each other, but it does not matter what the majority or minority thinks, what matters is the truth. Society today is a democratic one, preferably where the majority has greater saying power over the minority. If science was democratic, then the most popular theory/model would be the truth regardless. But we know in history, great theories/ideas came from minorities.
Trust me, it’s a nice idea, but it wouldn’t work.
@weedipikia Nah, thats a fallacy. Science is not a democracy
@dozza92 I’d say quicksort because there’s no reason for there to be a stable sort with integers, and with properly chosen pivots, it is generally much faster than mergesort (and it can be done in place)
@rs31337 Totally agree. It stinks that most politicians, especially Presidents are lawyers or businessmen. The most recent exception I believe was Jimmy Carter. He was a physicist. We need more scientists in office, especially computer scientists. We need people who understand technology and are eager to use it to improve society, instead of treating technology as some abstract thing that’s positive yet mysterious.
@MOUNTAINOUS Bubble sort would be the precise wrong way to go. Just FYI.
he was a liar then and a liar now. fucking peice of shit
@MissMidnitetoker half black lol
IF we had a programmer as a president, he’d be a pretty damn good one
Oh, and use the merge sort!