You might be interested in looking into AI development regarding the asian game Go (Chinese WeiQi). The game is basically a pattern recognition competition, and is currently one of the only board games where in even the best AI programs are beaten easily by average humans.
The reason humans are better at pattern recognition is that we can select out the most likely course of events, in different areas, and actually predict how two sequences (which haven't happened yet) will effect each other.
think of it this way, you have three sentences you need to compress. "I am hungry". "My friend has a car". "There is no food in my house". Now, a human would predict easily what would follow after that, something along the lines of "I will go somewhere with my friend and eat something." The computer has to understand each sentence and predict an action based on each one, ruling out possibilities based on seperate requirements implied by the following sentences. Easy for a human, hard for a computer. Currently, computers are good at predicting sequences with only one string, actions that only have one possible outcome, like occurs in checkers or chess. The difficulty comes when there are multiple answers to a single problem. Then, the computer has to decide which answer makes sense. Find me a computer that can do that, and i'd love to have a chat with it.
people that have been brainwashed by M$'s propaganda about how great Vista is Well, we can call both of them and explain the pro's and cons of Ubuntu. As for everyone else who sees Vista for the *explitive deleted* that it is, $50 is a nice little cookie for choosing something different. Really, who doesn't like cookies?
Obviously, the technology required for manned interstellar space flight is easily 50 - 100 years beyond what we have now I have yet to see any credible source claim that interstellar travel is possible at all, because of interstellar radiation. Besides that, even if you could survive the radiation, it would only get here in a generational craft, unless these aliens can survive for millions of years, and the ship for that matter.
In the time it would take us to develop technology to overcome this, we could probably get there in one of the apollo spacecraft. Post mortem of course, but i'm sure the aliens could revive us, hell, they would be even more advanced by the time we got there.
That would definately increase the drive to recycle components, but it would also encourage cheap recycling, in several senses. If they get free money for claiming to recycle components, what incentive would they have to do a good job of actually putting those materials back into circulation. Sure you can put the burden on law enforcement to punish lazy recyclers, but then the recyclers will only do enough to keep themselves out of court. In order to really effect a change, you need to make the act of recycling profitable in itself, not offer reimbursement for it. Otherwise the only motive will be greed, not opportunity.
we've had digital frames for a while, with video, that can even read movies from a usb thumb drive. This is completely different in that it's basically paper, its flexible and more comfortable to work with than a flat glass screen is. I am curious how much it weighs though, and how severe the costs will be. If they can retail it for under $2000, i think they could make it an overnight success. Imagine if they could add a touchscreen and solar power to one of these sheets, and a wireless adapter! now THAT they could charge just about whatever they wanted and i would still buy one.
If i recall, the Nintendo CEO had something to say about that. It was something along the lines of, art and paintings reached the point of photorealism hundreds of years ago, and yet people are still painting, and few of the best paintings of all time are photorealistic.
If graphics had any bearing on the enjoyment of a medium, then Claude Monet would have been run out of town, people shouting, "What is this fuzzy crap? Haven't you ever heard of anti-aliasing?!"
Actually, DRM would have some practical benefits, as odd as it sounds. The most common audio/video connection used in home entertainment systems and flatscreen TV's is HDMI. Little known fact that HDMI is the only connection type that can handle DRM encryption, VGA and DVI can't. I've seen situations where if you convert a DVI signal to HDMI and run it to a second screen, you get blank for the encoded material. Now, if you have a video card that supports DRM, you can have an HDMI output, making it possible to transmit encoded signals to a TV without having to revert to an analog signal and poor resolution.
actually that could be pretty useful, (though you might have meant laserjet, thats the one that melts bits of plastic onto the page), you could download schematics for a PCI card and print it out, cut around the edges, and pop it into your machine. See, everything you ever needed to know about building computers you learned in kindergarden.
I wonder if Lego could do something cool with this technology.
actually i've heard claims that you don't want to use deionized water because it is more corrosive than distilled water is, meaning that expensive cooling system you just bought could get pockmarked inside, which in turn contaminates the water. So, either way your going to have SOME conductivity, the best solution is simply to fill and bleed it thoroughly before it ever gets near your case, run it for a few days and keep checking for minute leaks. I had an almost indescernable leak on my cpu waterblock a month ago when i added a second radiator, it leaked about a drop every 3 days, and dripped right onto the video card. Only way i found it was from the oxidation on the AGP slot (its an old system, don ask why its watercooled). Nothing was damaged, but it did scare me a bit, took about 2 seconds to tighten up the loose joint and i haven't had a single drop lost since.
Whether or not Dell succeeds with this (assuming they try) depends mostly on the cost, rather than the functionality. Most of the general public that buys personal computers is only interested in web browsing and e-mail, i work for a PC retailer and i've heard many claim as much. When someone looks at a PC and decides if they want it, the first thing they ask isn't will it work, they take that as a given, the real question is "how much?". If Dell can retail a desktop running Linux for the same price or less than what the equivalent windows machine goes for, then Micro$oft will lose market share.
Naturally, MS isn't going to stand for that, they have their monopoly and they like it. If Dell starts to give away some of the market to linux (and it would literally be GIVING it away, if you compare OS cost difference) then i would predict with absolute certainty that MS would put alot of pressure on Dell to ruin it somehow. We've all heard the stories of Microsofts business practices, use your imagination.
one application i can think of for space travel is to use it in the hull of a ship to deflect particles traveling at high speeds. You could use an electrical current to heat this material to 58 degrees celsius in a short amount of time, all you would need is a method of detection that could locate the particles a few seconds before impact, and you've got a barrier 10x harder than diamond in between you and vacuum.
As far as costs go, i think NASA can afford it, isn't all the wiring on the shuttle solid gold?
AI today, and probably for a while still, is notoriously bad at pattern recognition. If a program can't predict how a human opponent will behave, it won't win in combat. There alot of 'what if' scenario's that the robot controller needs to account for, or end up being easy prey to an unorthodox opponent. Something urban warfare is notorious for. Til the AI get's intuitive, watching battle bots is as close as we're going to get to something like this.
relevant advertisements, in their truest form, are actually a good thing. Google does it with great success. Alot of businesses get most of their customers because they saw an add on google.
I can think of a few very useful applications to localized advertisements, like when me and my friends are stumped on finding a place to eat, or are just bored and looking for something to do (college at its best, loitering laws be damned). Of course there would be obvious abuse and spam, but we all know that spammers burn in hell eventually.
Honestly, i think it'll flop, but it does have potential.
Running direct pool water of course isn't a great idea, i think it's been mentioned that one closed loop for the machines (ideally with pure water an anti-algae treatment, radiator fluid is actually has a lower heat transfer coefficient than pure water) running alongside another loop with pool water. Most pools already have pumps and filters, so the materials are already there.
The main advantage to a pool setup would be the massive surface area of the pool compared to conventional radiators in watercooled PC's, which often require noisy fans. I'm curious about the math on just how many computeres it would take running (???) hot to heat up a 1600 cu.ft. pool just 1 degree.
The biggest problem i foresee someone running into trying to implement a system like this is the distance from the pool to the PC. The usual pumps for watercooling are aquarium sized, and rarely intended to move water more than about 4 feet. Pool pumps are a bit more robust, and i'm not sure on the specs, so i will refrain from claiming anything there.
All in all i think its a clever solution, you don't need a water-air heat exchanger for the PC (which are grossly inefficient, but are convenient) and you might save some money on heating the pool.
thats something of a logical fallacy there, to say,
The one and only reason any government keeps secrets from it's people is because if they were to get out, they would be lynched. There's no evidence for that, and nothing to go on to support such a claim. The only real claim you could make on classified information with absolutely nothing to go on, is that governments keep secrets because they can. The why is a complete mystery to everyone but the guy with the "Classified" stamp.
That's where due process comes in. Orders coming from a camera are not legally binding, they aren't court ordered, they aren't even contractual. You could be prosecuted for what you did (and probably would, since they got it on camera) but as far as i know there is nothing illegal about telling a camera to stick it.
The scenario that comes to mind is, what if you litter, and a cop tells you to pick it up or you get a ticket. Well, you give him the finger, and he writes you a ticket for littering. There is no law that says you have to be respectful towards anyone (except perhaps for the Judge, contempt of court is fairly broad).
but also how to organize your thoughts and shape a presentation for a given audience and time frame. People won't see the value in your ideas if they don't understand what you're talking about.
This isn't really a matter of public speaking, but rather basic logic. Logic and how to formulate ideas are not taught in schools anymore (at least not in public school). Even in college, most students won't learn logic until they take Discrete Mathematics, and certainly not how to use logic to understand an argument or presentation clearly. This is supposed to be taught in Freshman Composition, but most professors these days only cover MLA format and how to make a pretty works cited page.
Actually, its possible that this could be good for publicity, in a roundabout sort of way. I regret to say i'm not much of a linux user, so i had never heard of ReiserFS before. But since he was accused of murdering his wife, it showed up in the headlines, and it piqued my interest as to why it was of so much consequence.
No publicity is bad publicity as they say.
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Actually, 4.6 billion was their MINIMUM bid. and with pockets like theirs i wouldn't be surprised to see that number rise significantly.
I'm rooting for google here, i like how they're playing this one.
You might be interested in looking into AI development regarding the asian game Go (Chinese WeiQi). The game is basically a pattern recognition competition, and is currently one of the only board games where in even the best AI programs are beaten easily by average humans.
The reason humans are better at pattern recognition is that we can select out the most likely course of events, in different areas, and actually predict how two sequences (which haven't happened yet) will effect each other.
think of it this way, you have three sentences you need to compress. "I am hungry". "My friend has a car". "There is no food in my house". Now, a human would predict easily what would follow after that, something along the lines of "I will go somewhere with my friend and eat something." The computer has to understand each sentence and predict an action based on each one, ruling out possibilities based on seperate requirements implied by the following sentences. Easy for a human, hard for a computer. Currently, computers are good at predicting sequences with only one string, actions that only have one possible outcome, like occurs in checkers or chess. The difficulty comes when there are multiple answers to a single problem. Then, the computer has to decide which answer makes sense. Find me a computer that can do that, and i'd love to have a chat with it.
That would definately increase the drive to recycle components, but it would also encourage cheap recycling, in several senses. If they get free money for claiming to recycle components, what incentive would they have to do a good job of actually putting those materials back into circulation. Sure you can put the burden on law enforcement to punish lazy recyclers, but then the recyclers will only do enough to keep themselves out of court. In order to really effect a change, you need to make the act of recycling profitable in itself, not offer reimbursement for it. Otherwise the only motive will be greed, not opportunity.
we've had digital frames for a while, with video, that can even read movies from a usb thumb drive. This is completely different in that it's basically paper, its flexible and more comfortable to work with than a flat glass screen is. I am curious how much it weighs though, and how severe the costs will be. If they can retail it for under $2000, i think they could make it an overnight success. Imagine if they could add a touchscreen and solar power to one of these sheets, and a wireless adapter! now THAT they could charge just about whatever they wanted and i would still buy one.
If i recall, the Nintendo CEO had something to say about that. It was something along the lines of, art and paintings reached the point of photorealism hundreds of years ago, and yet people are still painting, and few of the best paintings of all time are photorealistic. If graphics had any bearing on the enjoyment of a medium, then Claude Monet would have been run out of town, people shouting, "What is this fuzzy crap? Haven't you ever heard of anti-aliasing?!"
Actually, DRM would have some practical benefits, as odd as it sounds. The most common audio/video connection used in home entertainment systems and flatscreen TV's is HDMI. Little known fact that HDMI is the only connection type that can handle DRM encryption, VGA and DVI can't. I've seen situations where if you convert a DVI signal to HDMI and run it to a second screen, you get blank for the encoded material. Now, if you have a video card that supports DRM, you can have an HDMI output, making it possible to transmit encoded signals to a TV without having to revert to an analog signal and poor resolution.
actually that could be pretty useful, (though you might have meant laserjet, thats the one that melts bits of plastic onto the page), you could download schematics for a PCI card and print it out, cut around the edges, and pop it into your machine. See, everything you ever needed to know about building computers you learned in kindergarden.
I wonder if Lego could do something cool with this technology.
actually i've heard claims that you don't want to use deionized water because it is more corrosive than distilled water is, meaning that expensive cooling system you just bought could get pockmarked inside, which in turn contaminates the water. So, either way your going to have SOME conductivity, the best solution is simply to fill and bleed it thoroughly before it ever gets near your case, run it for a few days and keep checking for minute leaks. I had an almost indescernable leak on my cpu waterblock a month ago when i added a second radiator, it leaked about a drop every 3 days, and dripped right onto the video card. Only way i found it was from the oxidation on the AGP slot (its an old system, don ask why its watercooled). Nothing was damaged, but it did scare me a bit, took about 2 seconds to tighten up the loose joint and i haven't had a single drop lost since.
Whether or not Dell succeeds with this (assuming they try) depends mostly on the cost, rather than the functionality. Most of the general public that buys personal computers is only interested in web browsing and e-mail, i work for a PC retailer and i've heard many claim as much. When someone looks at a PC and decides if they want it, the first thing they ask isn't will it work, they take that as a given, the real question is "how much?". If Dell can retail a desktop running Linux for the same price or less than what the equivalent windows machine goes for, then Micro$oft will lose market share. Naturally, MS isn't going to stand for that, they have their monopoly and they like it. If Dell starts to give away some of the market to linux (and it would literally be GIVING it away, if you compare OS cost difference) then i would predict with absolute certainty that MS would put alot of pressure on Dell to ruin it somehow. We've all heard the stories of Microsofts business practices, use your imagination.
one application i can think of for space travel is to use it in the hull of a ship to deflect particles traveling at high speeds. You could use an electrical current to heat this material to 58 degrees celsius in a short amount of time, all you would need is a method of detection that could locate the particles a few seconds before impact, and you've got a barrier 10x harder than diamond in between you and vacuum. As far as costs go, i think NASA can afford it, isn't all the wiring on the shuttle solid gold?
AI today, and probably for a while still, is notoriously bad at pattern recognition. If a program can't predict how a human opponent will behave, it won't win in combat. There alot of 'what if' scenario's that the robot controller needs to account for, or end up being easy prey to an unorthodox opponent. Something urban warfare is notorious for. Til the AI get's intuitive, watching battle bots is as close as we're going to get to something like this.
relevant advertisements, in their truest form, are actually a good thing. Google does it with great success. Alot of businesses get most of their customers because they saw an add on google. I can think of a few very useful applications to localized advertisements, like when me and my friends are stumped on finding a place to eat, or are just bored and looking for something to do (college at its best, loitering laws be damned). Of course there would be obvious abuse and spam, but we all know that spammers burn in hell eventually. Honestly, i think it'll flop, but it does have potential.
Running direct pool water of course isn't a great idea, i think it's been mentioned that one closed loop for the machines (ideally with pure water an anti-algae treatment, radiator fluid is actually has a lower heat transfer coefficient than pure water) running alongside another loop with pool water. Most pools already have pumps and filters, so the materials are already there. The main advantage to a pool setup would be the massive surface area of the pool compared to conventional radiators in watercooled PC's, which often require noisy fans. I'm curious about the math on just how many computeres it would take running (???) hot to heat up a 1600 cu.ft. pool just 1 degree. The biggest problem i foresee someone running into trying to implement a system like this is the distance from the pool to the PC. The usual pumps for watercooling are aquarium sized, and rarely intended to move water more than about 4 feet. Pool pumps are a bit more robust, and i'm not sure on the specs, so i will refrain from claiming anything there. All in all i think its a clever solution, you don't need a water-air heat exchanger for the PC (which are grossly inefficient, but are convenient) and you might save some money on heating the pool.
That's where due process comes in. Orders coming from a camera are not legally binding, they aren't court ordered, they aren't even contractual. You could be prosecuted for what you did (and probably would, since they got it on camera) but as far as i know there is nothing illegal about telling a camera to stick it. The scenario that comes to mind is, what if you litter, and a cop tells you to pick it up or you get a ticket. Well, you give him the finger, and he writes you a ticket for littering. There is no law that says you have to be respectful towards anyone (except perhaps for the Judge, contempt of court is fairly broad).
Actually, its possible that this could be good for publicity, in a roundabout sort of way. I regret to say i'm not much of a linux user, so i had never heard of ReiserFS before. But since he was accused of murdering his wife, it showed up in the headlines, and it piqued my interest as to why it was of so much consequence. No publicity is bad publicity as they say.
question is, did he take up Go? Go requires more of the forethought shone by such restraint, whereas chess is likely to punish a passive player.