OK, I'll throw it through the tholenizer... (http://www.mdpub.com/tholen/tholenizer.html)
> "All models are wrong, but some are useful." > > So proclaimed statistician George Box 30 years ago, and he was right.
Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim, laced with invective, as expected from someone who lacks a logical argument.
> But what choice did we have?
Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.
> Only models, from cosmological equations to theories of human behavior, seemed to be able to consistently, if imperfectly, explain the world around us.
Classic invective, as expected from someone who lacks a logical argument.
> Until now.
Classic erroneous presupposition.
> Today companies like Google, which have grown up in an era of massively abundant data, don't have to settle for wrong models.
Illogical.
> Indeed, they don't have to settle for models at all.
Ambiguous.
> > > Sixty years ago, digital computers made information readable.
Non sequitur.
> Twenty years ago, the Internet made it reachable.
Note: no Response.
> Ten years ago, the first search engine crawlers made it a single database.
Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.
> Now Google and like-minded companies are sifting through the most measured age in history, treating this massive corpus as a laboratory of the human condition.
Classic failure to comprehend the point.
> They are the children of the Petabyte Age.
How ironic.
> > > The Petabyte Age is different because more is different.
Classic invective, as expected from someone who lacks a logical argument.
> Kilobytes were stored on floppy disks.
Classic failure to comprehend the point.
> Megabytes were stored on hard disks.
Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.
> Terabytes were stored in disk arrays.
Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.
> Petabytes are stored in the cloud.
Classic invective, as expected from someone who lacks a logical argument.
> As we moved along that progression, we went from the folder analogy to the file cabinet analogy to the library analogy to well, at petabytes we ran out of organizational analogies.
Classic lack of specificity.
> > > At the petabyte scale, information is not a matter of simple three- and four-dimensional taxonomy and order but of dimensionally agnostic statistics.
Liar.
> It calls for an entirely different approach, one that requires us to lose the tether of data as something that can be visualized in its totality.
Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.
> It forces us to view data mathematically first and establish a context for it later.
Classic erroneous presupposition.
> For instance, Google conquered the advertising world with nothing more than applied mathematics.
Classic invective, as expected from someone who lacks a logical argument.
> It didn't pretend to know anything about the culture and conventions of advertising it just assumed that better data, with better analytical tools, would win the day.
How ironic.
> And Google was right.
You're erroneously presupposing that it's a fact.
> > > Google's founding philosophy is that we don't know why this page is better than that one: If the statistics of incoming links say it is, that's good enough.
Classic evasion of the point.
> No semantic or causal analysis is required.
Ambiguous.
> That's why Google can translate languages without actually "knowing" them (given equal corpus data, Google can translate Klingon into Farsi as easily as it can translate French into German).
How ironic.
> And why it can match ads to content without any knowledge or assumptions about the ads or the content.
>AUGMENTED Intelligence is actually within our grasp: for example, look at the number of people who >know how to Google / Wiki any information they don't know to get caught up with whatever subject is >at hand? "Well, Damn, don't know much about RAID, better Wiki it... oh, I get it!" You're saying that reading something somebody else wrote counts as augmenting intelligence.
So... the entirety of history counts as a period with augmented intelligence?
It all depends on how you decide to spell Nero Claudius Caesar Germanicus in Hebrew. There are a couple of obvious ways, one of which numerologically adds to 616 and one of which adds to 666.
Submarine boats submerged for days will be capable of wiping a whole navy off the face of the deep. Balloons and flying machines will carry telescopes of one-hundred-mile vision with camera attachments, photographing an enemy within that radius. These photographs as distinct and large as if taken from across the street, will be lowered to the commanding officer in charge of troops below
Telephones Around the World. Wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will span the world. A husband in the middle of the Atlantic will be able to converse with his wife sitting in her boudoir in Chicago. We will be able to telephone to China quite as readily as we now talk from New York to Brooklyn. By an automatic signal they will connect with any circuit in their locality without the intervention of a "hello girl".
The living body will to all medical purposes be transparent. Not only will it be possible for a physician to actually see a living, throbbing heart inside the chest, but he will be able to magnify and photograph any part of it. This work will be done with rays of invisible light.
It doesn't. The reflection acts consistently; the closest thing is reflected as being closest. The only reason you perceive this as being a flip left/right is because the idea of rotating around the Z axis is more natural (given that people are bilaterally symmetrical.
If you can't understand that plants have feelings too, I don't see your point. Just because a life-form is non-motile doesn't mean you have the right to discriminate against it.
Worse than this, concentrations of the deadly liquid menace DHMO have been detected in concentrations of over 400 parts per million - concentrations far in excess of the amounts they're worried about here. Yet the media refuses to comment upon the horrible and devastating consequences of this fluid toxin, which directly resulted in the deaths of over 300,000 people in 2004 alone!
Excellent. We'll just steal some of the empire's ships (thanks a lot for conditioning your gunners not to attack them), and equip them with missiles loaded with a combination of Febreeze and WD-40.
>In fact they come from some technological stone-age where the idea of giant-gigawatt-city-plants was considered the best solution imaginable. Wow. How ironic. Your solution was the one that got superceded by these city plants.
Slashdot Mirror
Where I live, in the first three years after the Amtrak was installed, it was never on time.
Not.
Even.
Once.
There was a newspaper article about it, in fact.
OK, I'll throw it through the tholenizer... (http://www.mdpub.com/tholen/tholenizer.html)
> "All models are wrong, but some are useful."
>
> So proclaimed statistician George Box 30 years ago, and he was right.
Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim, laced with invective, as expected from someone who lacks a logical argument.
> But what choice did we have?
Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.
> Only models, from cosmological equations to theories of human behavior, seemed to be able to consistently, if imperfectly, explain the world around us.
Classic invective, as expected from someone who lacks a logical argument.
> Until now.
Classic erroneous presupposition.
> Today companies like Google, which have grown up in an era of massively abundant data, don't have to settle for wrong models.
Illogical.
> Indeed, they don't have to settle for models at all.
Ambiguous.
>
>
> Sixty years ago, digital computers made information readable.
Non sequitur.
> Twenty years ago, the Internet made it reachable.
Note: no Response.
> Ten years ago, the first search engine crawlers made it a single database.
Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.
> Now Google and like-minded companies are sifting through the most measured age in history, treating this massive corpus as a laboratory of the human condition.
Classic failure to comprehend the point.
> They are the children of the Petabyte Age.
How ironic.
>
>
> The Petabyte Age is different because more is different.
Classic invective, as expected from someone who lacks a logical argument.
> Kilobytes were stored on floppy disks.
Classic failure to comprehend the point.
> Megabytes were stored on hard disks.
Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.
> Terabytes were stored in disk arrays.
Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.
> Petabytes are stored in the cloud.
Classic invective, as expected from someone who lacks a logical argument.
> As we moved along that progression, we went from the folder analogy to the file cabinet analogy to the library analogy to well, at petabytes we ran out of organizational analogies.
Classic lack of specificity.
>
>
> At the petabyte scale, information is not a matter of simple three- and four-dimensional taxonomy and order but of dimensionally agnostic statistics.
Liar.
> It calls for an entirely different approach, one that requires us to lose the tether of data as something that can be visualized in its totality.
Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.
> It forces us to view data mathematically first and establish a context for it later.
Classic erroneous presupposition.
> For instance, Google conquered the advertising world with nothing more than applied mathematics.
Classic invective, as expected from someone who lacks a logical argument.
> It didn't pretend to know anything about the culture and conventions of advertising it just assumed that better data, with better analytical tools, would win the day.
How ironic.
> And Google was right.
You're erroneously presupposing that it's a fact.
>
>
> Google's founding philosophy is that we don't know why this page is better than that one: If the statistics of incoming links say it is, that's good enough.
Classic evasion of the point.
> No semantic or causal analysis is required.
Ambiguous.
> That's why Google can translate languages without actually "knowing" them (given equal corpus data, Google can translate Klingon into Farsi as easily as it can translate French into German).
How ironic.
> And why it can match ads to content without any knowledge or assumptions about the ads or the content.
Illogical.
>
>AUGMENTED Intelligence is actually within our grasp: for example, look at the number of people who
>know how to Google / Wiki any information they don't know to get caught up with whatever subject is
>at hand? "Well, Damn, don't know much about RAID, better Wiki it... oh, I get it!"
You're saying that reading something somebody else wrote counts as augmenting intelligence.
So... the entirety of history counts as a period with augmented intelligence?
It's a special TV discount. "Call in the next five minutes, and you'll receive double the swiftfuel for half the price!"
But wait! They're sharing it themselves! If they are willing to give out free copies of their game, who are we to dispute this?
It all depends on how you decide to spell Nero Claudius Caesar Germanicus in Hebrew. There are a couple of obvious ways, one of which numerologically adds to 616 and one of which adds to 666.
Several hundred children play a MMO. There's a really annoying NPC who is in charge of a rigged game in it.
None of them try to attack the NPC.
Yeah... realistic.
It's never lupus.
Actually, they are pregenerating creatures on their own as well (and include a whole lot of them on the CD). This is just to add more variety.
You're wrong.
People with severe peanut allergies can go into shock from the smell of peanuts on your breath. Hard to avoid, isn't it.
We had to nuke the coral reef to save it.
County: Nice house there. Wait... our road is your driveway? Two words: Eminent Domain.
This one was written in 1900, and is surprisingly accurate:
http://www.paleofuture.com/2007/04/what-may-happen-in-next-hundred-years.html
Some highlights:
Submarine boats submerged for days will be capable of wiping a whole navy off the face of the deep. Balloons and flying machines will carry telescopes of one-hundred-mile vision with camera attachments, photographing an enemy within that radius. These photographs as distinct and large as if taken from across the street, will be lowered to the commanding officer in charge of troops below
Telephones Around the World. Wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will span the world. A husband in the middle of the Atlantic will be able to converse with his wife sitting in her boudoir in Chicago. We will be able to telephone to China quite as readily as we now talk from New York to Brooklyn. By an automatic signal they will connect with any circuit in their locality without the intervention of a "hello girl".
The living body will to all medical purposes be transparent. Not only will it be possible for a physician to actually see a living, throbbing heart inside the chest, but he will be able to magnify and photograph any part of it. This work will be done with rays of invisible light.
It doesn't. The reflection acts consistently; the closest thing is reflected as being closest. The only reason you perceive this as being a flip left/right is because the idea of rotating around the Z axis is more natural (given that people are bilaterally symmetrical.
Um... yeah. Mice have already been discovered that regenerate. (The MRL strain)
/.
Several years ago.
It was on
Actually, cats do have the ability to learn (and be trained). They just don't care enough in most cases.
If you can't understand that plants have feelings too, I don't see your point. Just because a life-form is non-motile doesn't mean you have the right to discriminate against it.
Actually, accordions are so out of tune they're 180 degrees out of phase with themselves.
Worse than this, concentrations of the deadly liquid menace DHMO have been detected in concentrations of over 400 parts per million - concentrations far in excess of the amounts they're worried about here. Yet the media refuses to comment upon the horrible and devastating consequences of this fluid toxin, which directly resulted in the deaths of over 300,000 people in 2004 alone!
Have you seen the game "Cave Story", by any chance?
Excellent. We'll just steal some of the empire's ships (thanks a lot for conditioning your gunners not to attack them), and equip them with missiles loaded with a combination of Febreeze and WD-40.
Oh, come on. How many /. readers actually go outside?
Nobody would notice.
>In fact they come from some technological stone-age where the idea of giant-gigawatt-city-plants was considered the best solution imaginable.
Wow. How ironic. Your solution was the one that got superceded by these city plants.
See: War of the Currents.