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Do you realize that the common core is nothing but a set of standards as far as what students should be able to achieve at various levels? It does not dictate how teachers are supposed to teach the standards. That is left completely up to the teachers.

They've been saying this about the education standards for decades, meanwhile building personality profiles of our kids and enforcing a sort of political indoctrination plan thereby.

So, excuse me if I call bullshit. And so do the students being taught this commie crap. Common Core is just the latest and worst iteration of the dumbing down and "subjectivizing" of education. You're simply regurgitating propaganda because you're ignorant of what's really going on. It's not your fault, but it is your problem.

Do you realize that the common core is nothing but a set of standards as far as what students should be able to achieve at various levels? It does not dictate how teachers are supposed to teach the standards. That is left completely up to the teachers.

They've been saying this about the education standards for decades, meanwhile building personality profiles of our kids and enforcing a sort of political indoctrination plan thereby.

So, excuse me if I call bullshit. And so do the students being taught this commie crap. Common Core is just the latest and worst iteration of the dumbing down and "subjectivizing" of education. You're simply regurgitating propaganda because you're ignorant of what's really going on. It's not your fault, but it is your problem.

Do you realize that the common core is nothing but a set of standards as far as what students should be able to achieve at various levels? It does not dictate how teachers are supposed to teach the standards. That is left completely up to the teachers.

They've been saying this about the education standards for decades, meanwhile building personality profiles of our kids and enforcing a sort of political indoctrination plan thereby.

So, excuse me if I call bullshit. And so do the students being taught this commie crap. Common Core is just the latest and worst iteration of the dumbing down and "subjectivizing" of education. You're simply regurgitating propaganda because you're ignorant of what's really going on. It's not your fault, but it is your problem.

It's fascinating that the omniscient "science" can't link one or two events to global warming directly
But MANY!
Why that's PROOF!
So 0 + 0 + 0 = 1...

It's called Fraction of Attributable Risk (FAR). Or in layman's terms, FARfetched analysis. It's a type of goo you use to attach a little bit of something to something else, when no one in their right mind could accept anything like a direct causation. Using FAR analysis, computer models and a specially constructed dart board... from a barely emerging trend that is lost in the noise of the instruments which measure it and variance among many data sources and reconstructed proxies... one can make anything that is awful seem slightly more awful by sticking a guilt-hook onto it.

FAR guilt-hooks are like those wall-safe picture hooks you get at the dollar store. They're designed to hold just enough weight for long enough that you misplace the receipt, or push a civil lawsuit through court, or start an Internet meme, or get someone elected. FAR are small numbers but they are useful when leveraged into a large population of thousands, millions and billions of people --- and/or large sums of money --- to

1. Create a integer 'body count' of pretend victims (the fractional person is trimmed off slowly with a bloody knife)
2. Build an 'actionable' money settlement in civil court that (regardless of award) puts culpability on the record.
3. Trick victims of natural disasters into thinking that someone must pay (then) OK, someone has paid.
4. Provide endless amounts of useless babble to drown out urgent pleas to develop a unified planetary asteroid defense.
5. Kaboom. One planet was all you got.

One can see the evolution of statistical data munging in treatment of the twister in North America,
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3

It's fascinating that the omniscient "science" can't link one or two events to global warming directly
But MANY!
Why that's PROOF!
So 0 + 0 + 0 = 1...

It's called Fraction of Attributable Risk (FAR). Or in layman's terms, FARfetched analysis. It's a type of goo you use to attach a little bit of something to something else, when no one in their right mind could accept anything like a direct causation. Using FAR analysis, computer models and a specially constructed dart board... from a barely emerging trend that is lost in the noise of the instruments which measure it and variance among many data sources and reconstructed proxies... one can make anything that is awful seem slightly more awful by sticking a guilt-hook onto it.

FAR guilt-hooks are like those wall-safe picture hooks you get at the dollar store. They're designed to hold just enough weight for long enough that you misplace the receipt, or push a civil lawsuit through court, or start an Internet meme, or get someone elected. FAR are small numbers but they are useful when leveraged into a large population of thousands, millions and billions of people --- and/or large sums of money --- to

1. Create a integer 'body count' of pretend victims (the fractional person is trimmed off slowly with a bloody knife)
2. Build an 'actionable' money settlement in civil court that (regardless of award) puts culpability on the record.
3. Trick victims of natural disasters into thinking that someone must pay (then) OK, someone has paid.
4. Provide endless amounts of useless babble to drown out urgent pleas to develop a unified planetary asteroid defense.
5. Kaboom. One planet was all you got.

One can see the evolution of statistical data munging in treatment of the twister in North America,
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3

It's fascinating that the omniscient "science" can't link one or two events to global warming directly
But MANY!
Why that's PROOF!
So 0 + 0 + 0 = 1...

It's called Fraction of Attributable Risk (FAR). Or in layman's terms, FARfetched analysis. It's a type of goo you use to attach a little bit of something to something else, when no one in their right mind could accept anything like a direct causation. Using FAR analysis, computer models and a specially constructed dart board... from a barely emerging trend that is lost in the noise of the instruments which measure it and variance among many data sources and reconstructed proxies... one can make anything that is awful seem slightly more awful by sticking a guilt-hook onto it.

FAR guilt-hooks are like those wall-safe picture hooks you get at the dollar store. They're designed to hold just enough weight for long enough that you misplace the receipt, or push a civil lawsuit through court, or start an Internet meme, or get someone elected. FAR are small numbers but they are useful when leveraged into a large population of thousands, millions and billions of people --- and/or large sums of money --- to

1. Create a integer 'body count' of pretend victims (the fractional person is trimmed off slowly with a bloody knife)
2. Build an 'actionable' money settlement in civil court that (regardless of award) puts culpability on the record.
3. Trick victims of natural disasters into thinking that someone must pay (then) OK, someone has paid.
4. Provide endless amounts of useless babble to drown out urgent pleas to develop a unified planetary asteroid defense.
5. Kaboom. One planet was all you got.

One can see the evolution of statistical data munging in treatment of the twister in North America,
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3

Then we need a return to innocence

all we have is a program that can play a game well

We have a system that can self-teach itself to play many games, with no specific programming on how to beat those games.

That is a massive difference from say, Deep Blue vs Kasparov. Deep Blue was specifically programmed to play Chess. AlphaGo was essentially fed a bunch of Go games and figured out how to play by itself. Surely you see the qualitative difference in that.

We just have a black box mathematical function that can play a game.

Is there a reason we cannot describe the human brain as a black box mathematical function that can play "the game of life"? Isn't the brain a self-teaching neural network that learns to respond to various inputs with the correct outputs?

Of course this isn't a true general purpose AI yet. But I think you're downplaying the significance of what it can do.

Basically there's a significant number of people who believe that gun ownership is a vital part of their culture. They equate restrictions on gun ownership akin to government regulations about what sorts of apples can go into Mom's apple pie. It doesn't help that the NRA has moved from being a safety and enthusiast organization into a political one that encourages paranoia that the government is trying to ban guns outright. Because a guns are a part of culture this is all a part of what they think is the larger culture war.

You know, I wish you were right. I wish there weren't non-trivial segments of the government who weren't wanting to ban and confiscate such things. Unfortunately, we don't live in that world as you can see here. For those too lazy to click the link, it's Diane Feinstein in an interview in 1995 after the passage of the last Assault Weapons Ban saying that if she could have gotten the votes to force turning all such things in, she would have. If one thinks they would have stopped at so called Assault Weapons one would be seriously deluding themselves. If one thinks that she is alone in that view, especially in the Democrat party, one is deluding themselves.

"If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them -- Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in -- I would have done it." -- Diane Feinstein

I'm guessing PBS Space Time. He does mention that that's how Einstein and Lorentz thought about it (around 5:20 in the link).

How does AlphaGo feel about it's victory? i bet it's ecstatic.

You are probably well intentioned, but how would you feel if you were forced to play the same game over and over when you know you can do so much more? It can only end badly to put general purpose AI onto solving a particular task.

Unlike many programming languages, Rust never sleeps. I think someone proposed a sleep() function but he was given a Torvalds-style tongue lashing on the mailing list.

Bear in mind that there's more to the picture than meets the eye.

(But what does that have to do with Country Life butter?)

From The Myth of Sysiphus by Albert Camus:

I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Camus in 10 Minutes

Or this.

Is this some sort of lyric to a Thomas Dolby Song?

One of the great albums of the 80's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Who ever wrote this A) obviously had an agenda and B) was a complete dumb ass that believed in the religion of government whose dogma states "If we pass a law, people will actually obey it:"

Seriously, the OP guessed correctly who it was who wrote that... a comedian! It wasn't some anonymous, angry poster on the Internet with whom you might be more familiar and identifiable.

Nope. Y. Ono.

It's not very quiet.

Bye-Bye Empire, Bye-Bye.

I found the prototype

I, for one, am glad someone finally perfected submarine screen door technology.

I found the prototype

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe581bHpvZo

I was watching 15 minute summary of match #1 yesterday by "Michael Redmond 9 dan professional and Chris Garlock" ... they were placing the stones on the grid and talking about where the position is weak and strong etc. ... what is not clear to me - did they memorize the whole game? I did not see them to use any notes or record of the game ...

This is clearly covered in the Eula that you accepted.

The Microsoft official statement explains this situation in great detail.

No kidding. Give them NOTHING to work with

We should go farther than that. We should develop an interest in every real name in DARPA who signed off on this idea, earmarked funds for the project and publicly SHAME and SHUN them.

[from TA] agency will provide $40,000 in funding to complete a feasibility study [...] will each receive an additional $70,000 to fashion a prototype

I sense an actual human fetish behind all this no different from foot licking. Someone who considers themselves a Librarian of sorts, gets their endorphin rush jollies from collecting and cataloging certain things, in this case, things that can harm the greatest number of people with the most 'reasonable' and 'accessible' items. I imagine the database for this Project once concluded, will be printed out and bound lovingly into a thick Book, which is to be lifted gently to the face so the nose can inhale its paper and ink freshyness, then as the Book is rubbed up and down the body the Project Organizer experiences shivering waves of pleasure.

And they know that nothing on the Internet works unless they appear to dangle a carrot, in this case some vague mention of cash. Every man has his price they say, and all you out there with clever ideas on how to harm people should consider whether the money and public notoriety will feel 'right' even if they let you keep some of the money. You may also be betrayed, the money may be doled out piecemeal for specific itemized expenses as you are called to their retreat behind closed doors --- your little mini-me Manhattan Project --- where you build Your Clever Bad Thing, leave it in their hands, and then return home with a curious sense of emptiness and anxiety in your heart.

Don't feed their fetish.

DARPA is trying to get your clicky-website Oh-Im-So-Clever pat-me-on-the-head-pleez help to manufacture --- out of thin air --- a resource of TOXIC IDEAS just as foul, useless and dangerous as the radioactive and chemical sludge that is left over from the wanton days of atomic bomb manufacture. At best it will be forgotten. At worst, some best picks will make their way to the next edition of the CIA assassin and terrorist handbook, distributed only to friendly regimes and Approved Freedom Fighters(tm).

One of the most unexpectedly eloquent tirades on the subject of prostituting one's own cleverness Why shouldn't you [work for the NSA]? from Good Will Hunting.

Give it a few more years, and the Netflix will start showing Ow! My Balls!

My guess: It'll happen in the next four years if Donald Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho Drumpf gets elected.

they really hate it when you do that.

Then these guys must really have been pissed.

Maybe the F-35 had to update the Flash plugin.

You can easily weaponize an automobile by driving it through a shopping mall.

Demonstration

You lie! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Instead of watching that boring video watch this one. Is more representative of serious Sam gameplay.

This one, in special, appears to explain the XB-70A #2 disaster.

(ok. enough for today)

Not saying you are wrong, but here is some data for you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://www.diplomacy.edu/resou...
https://larspsyll.wordpress.co...

NWO unstoppable since they got Dennis Rodman https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Dear Lord as I lay me down to sleep, save me from foul and bizarre dreams of biometric security start-ups which rally round uniquely identifiable bits of juicy mortal flesh and build beepin-boopin-boxes that infer the shape of, not actually measure private bits, then spam the world with centrally stored databases of low resolution multi-zone hash gibberish that are to be checked (but statistically partially ignored, how much is a snake oil 'trade secret') with mass produced devices that can and will be reverse-engineered or placed into laboratory jigs to discover the degree of fuzziness that makes the algorithm practical and permits gaming the devices with 3D printed prostheses than need not even directly resemble the original fleshy bit.

Practical spoof and side channel attack not withstanding... they may as well parametrize the flaccid penis or clitoris and deny access to people with randy-pants. A flashing red 'randy-pants' light and rotating beacon would be a good portal accessory. Anyone who has suffered from an excruciating ear infection knows that ear cavities also suffer from un-fun randy-pants.

Not even Dr. Phibes could envision the gruesome creep-show biometrics has become today, where systems are designed and deployed widely without that "detect living human attached to severed finger" optional accessory. Hey, we're all low bidders here, you're looking for the room next door. But Phibes would certainly rise to the occasion, supplying a thumping breathing briefcase of proto-human fleshy bits in bright neon colors.

Bless the password, and keep it safe from harm.

Why is the NASA authorization bill the "rest of the story"?

Did you actually decode it or infer by the title?

I created this RGB bitmap to illustrate this Slashdot story in an attempt to see if I could create my own Nam-Shub virus that compels the human race to get out to explore and colonize the heavens, and rally technology in defense of the Earth. Try again --- put just the image up on the screen at maximum zoom and gaze into it calmly. If you do it right, you'll begin to see future things and hear voices. I'm one of dem 'space nutters' some of those high tech low ambition Earth-huggers on Slashdot rile on about.

And you my friend --- you would look especially good in space.

"hiding aliens"? The coyotes might be, but I doubt the government is.

“The request we got from the government in this case is, ‘Take this tool and put it on a hard drive, send it to the FBI,’ and they’d load it onto their computer,”" was directly from "The Encryption Tightrope: Balancing Americans’ Security and Privacy " from the House Committee on the Judiciary Hearings at the 4h 45 min point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The tool is transportable.
What "paper work" is presented online for the press, media in public as "court order" might not always be the real story. Note what was actually asked for :)
Once the "subject" device is open, the created tool set in gov hands is ready for the case lists at a state and federal level. Welcome to a conscripted GovtOS.

Well it might be good at Go, but I wonder if it can play this game. Or a good game of chess?

I'll bet both of those cops had seen Dirty Harry.

Nah, "The Guantlet," where the house gets shot to pieces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht4PfYkJjoc

Sedol will battle Google's AlphaGo again on Saturday, Sunday, and Tuesday.

Note that for many people in the western hemisphere, the days are actually Friday, Saturday, and Monday.

Live streams are here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

$100,000 in Pennies

    - Written by Shel Silverstein, sung by Bobby Bare

Rossum's Universal Robots, aka R.U.R.

At some point it becomes necessary to ask how many ways are necessary to identify each of us.

One last method of identification.

There are systems that do that already, like this one that uses a full HD fixed camera with pan-tilt mirrors on servo motors: Dynamic target tracking camera system keeps its eye on the ball https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

...Or Spinning Logos.

But the version for Thatcher's disposal was completely different!

What do you mean, "coming"? This exists.

At the very least it should be updated to the Vista logo, which when clicked upon takes you to this video, because the "Wow" is now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Here's a talk by deepmind about this AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?...