Nannobots? Like in the movies? They’re really here.
Mitt Romney is a new man, a look at the man who makes the candidate look new.
Republican Speaker Boehner is a socialist? His primary challenger seems to think so.
]]>During the semester, government and private sector employers schedule Corporate Visibility Days to share information with students about their organization and their interest in UMBC’s students as future employees. Each Visibility Day allows students to interact on a significant level with an individual employer. Each day may include activities such as providing detailed organization information, job search tips from the employer perspective, networking lunches, meetings with UMBC alumni – free food and giveaways are usually included, too! Students can attend all or part of each Visibility Day. Details on the current Corporate Visibility Day schedule can be found in UMBCworks and the Career Services Center website.
In this week’s ebiquity meeting (10:30am Tue 9/20 in ITE 325b) we will dive right into writing MapReduce programs, and we skip all the gory details about Hadoop setup and MapReduce theory. In one hour, we will write a MapReduce Java program using Eclipse to create an inverted-index, test it on a local box, and run it on an already set up Hadoop cluster. If we have time, we will also see how to do the same using Python instead of Java.
You are encouraged to do the following before the meeting if you want to code along.
Addenda (9/19):
Nannobots? Like in the movies? They’re really here.
Mitt Romney is a new man, a look at the man who makes the candidate look new.
Republican Speaker Boehner is a socialist? His primary challenger seems to think so.
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Everyone has that friend who seems to say the worst things at the wrong moment.
The Republican party has a friend like that, her name is Michele Bachmann. The presidential candidate who has become infamous for her gaffs.
Most recently, at the Republican debate last week Bachmann boldly asserted that the government shouldn’t push a vaccine for the human papillomavirus on young girls. HPV is a sexually transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer.
She called the vaccine dangerous. Her rebuttal was directed at Gov. Rick Perry who has a policy mandating the vaccination to young women in his home state of Texas.
Candidates are certainly free to stand up and give their opinions. In this case, Bachmann’s comments may have done serious damage. Implying a vaccine is dangerous is a bold statement that would scare any concerned parent.
The New York Times reports that parent’s fears can set back vaccination rates by as much as three years. With Bachmann making wildly inaccurate and unverified statements about the vaccine’s “danger” she may have succeeded in doing just that.
Vaccination rates for diseases like measles tend to climb quickly when parents think their children are in danger. However, with HPV it is hard to assess any danger. The cancer caused by HPV does not usually manifest for years 20 years after infection.
Who would have thought talking points in a presidential debate could actually affect people?
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