Not sure I get this, why would me saying "Obscene" things about Sonia Gandhi get me in jail ? I thought that India had some of the better free speech laws out there, it's only the people like Shiv Sena etc. who mess around with this stuff. Also For the information of most of the people here - Shivaji wasn't a saint as such, just a highly respected king, so sumamry isn't quite correct about that bit.
I mean what was the situation (TFA has not got too many details)
Police : I CAN HAZ HIZ IP ? Google : Of course, you want email access with that ? should we supersize the order ?
ermm, I know this may be kind of new to you, but here in India we get these chalk like markers made of insecticide - you can use them to draw around stuff and cockroaches and other critters will stay away. It's not about voodoo but simple science.
... however saying you are "good at math" means that your might be less prone to giving up on an equasion, .... seems like the parent post, feels his online avatar can spell pretty well. Maybe the avatar won a Spelling Bee in SEcond Life ?
Didn't mean to flame, and I guess I should be the last guy to get to point a finger at some one, however just one of those things that most probably seem funny until after you click submit
I had mentioned this some time back as well, but polymorphic processors like MOLEN(tu delft is doing this one), might be usefull for this sort of stuff. The theory behind it is simple, and extends to modern multicore systems as well basically break up the instruction set into microinstructions (all processors that I know do this part), then have any one of the many computational units available do whatever work is required in order to implement those microinstructions. the translation is done by the core processor it self, it can be made redundant etc. as required, they already have an FPGA implementation of it and are using it for research into super computers.
They are actually not all simpley self contained, in SAC, the episodes are labelled Stand Alone, or Complex (IIRC). This essentially refers to whether they add to the overall story line and are deeply embedded in it, or whether they can be viewed as 'stand alone' pieces.
I agree, even I found SAC (and innocence) to be better than the movies, I read man machine interface and the original GITS, as released by Dark Horse and I was amazed, not just at the art work, but at the depth of the storyline, and the plots and the intricacies and well... I am sure you get the general idea.
There was this one quote from SAC (by rights its taken from Catcher in the Rye) "I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes...... conversations for the rest of my life.", This was what actually caused me to read catcher in the rye.
Deep series on a possible future. A must read/watch.
Well, why limit yourself to Dyson Spheres when it is possible that intelligence might take another route... I recently read this book called accelerando (http://www.amazon.com/Accelerando-Charles-Stross/dp/0441012841 , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando_(novel)) which was in my opinion slightly realistic at trying to protray a future of humanity (though optimistic to be sure).
Instead of Dyson spheres the Author says that Martoshika brains may be the step that intelligence takes in order to use as much energy as possible for itself. I get the feeling that that might indeed be a probable future though a bleak one.
well, I remember a TV show called Dark Angel(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Angel_(TV_series)) starring Jessica Alba (drool), which had somthing similar so to speak. There were overhead hover drones that were used to keep track of the general populace by the police (which was effectively in the hands of the govt, I think all sattelites had been hit with an emp, and the US was a 3rd world economy). Now- though dystopian in a way, I get the feeling that sooner or later somthing like this is going to come to pass(not the emp part but the surveilance part), not many people care so much about privacy as they do about _Protection from the Terrorists_ .
Also the way that things seem to be progressing along the lines of ubiquitus wireless sensors and cloud computing(yuck!!), I get the feeling that privacy is not going to matter all that much soon (10-15 years, Verner Vinge's novel "Rainbows end" seems to be an interesting take on this), after all how many people are there that you see talking on their cellphone not bothering about the fact that the rest of the world can hear them. All the people who send their emails unencrypted, those who use myspace/facebook/orkut/friendster/everything else putting details about themselves online (yes yes me too), without bothering about who sees what and what information is freely available.
Well, I am currently working on a project with CRL, our aim is to increase the speed of certain operations as much as possible, and belive me they are going to be pushing this in a big way in a couple of months, I think they are going to be making some announcement in july, cause we have been given a june deadline for our implementations, and belive me the amount of money they are spending on this.... scary man. I can't go into details (mostly cause I signed an NDA), but they can very easilsy increase the speed that they have currently and they are also doing a lot of investment along the lines of computations required for analysis of sisemic data, I think oil exploration, not sure of course. But very very exciting man, very very exciting.
Weelll.. I think that there is one reason that msft regularly screws up a lot of applications, this is an observation that a friend of mine made, he is working with them. They have some of the best programmers in the business not just people who do nothing but coding but people who do the designs etc. now the problem is that they introduce so many corner cases (an unrealistic set of them as well), and the programmers are good enough to be able to cover them all (as the marketing blokes force them to), the result is somthing that isnt very good at any one thing in particular but does everything in a very crappy manner- while covering every corner case. Now you guys might say that that isnt proof of good programmers, well... the kind of cases that they do end up covering (I cannot say much about this), is what points to their abilities.
Their own employees regularly use macs and *nix, a couple have iPhones and most have iPods they arent forgive the term - fanatics like those from apple and FSF are. They are just (a lot of them), extremely good programmers subjugated by marketing blokes with no idea about what the people want.
Okay, this is fsked, I know guys who are working on a variant of this, they have a learning algorithm, they have a database of already known captcha's somthing like 400 images or so ? Now what they do is break up the existing captcha into small 2x2 grids and try and match it to whatever is already in the database, they are using it for other stuff(image reconstruction) but I think they can modify it for this as well.
I have done some work on real time signal processing (the hardware side), I think that the kind of hardware on this thing would be worth studying. It is going to require awesome capabilities of course, but the thoughts of the slightest possibilities of a spin-off, for signal processing in wireless applicaitons/commercial applications makes my mouth water.
Not, if physical access is restricted, and physical access is the only way to issue commands to it. I haven't taken security protocols as course work, but friends who have have said that although it is not possible to remove all security breaches but it is possible to take that to a 'leve' higher ie. make breaching the security so difficult that what you gain from the breach would not be able to take care of the costs of the breach itself. Don't know if I managed to explain it too well. ermm... I am sure that supercomputer time is managed well and hacking that is not so easy is it ? after all you(not you, but some person in general) cannot give your self 100 minutes of it just because you are Mr. Uber HAX0r can you ?
Any ways, I can only say that it's just an idea off the top of my head, might not be profound or world changing as such.
Hmmm.., an interesting scenario, I propose that access to the replication technology will be restricted, perhaps like access to supercomputing time. The replicator will be programmed so that it cannot create another replicator without perhaps some form of a code/password. The people who work and earn their share of the replication time will be able to access stuff apart from the bare necessities, like maybe luxury items. This will allow it to be integrated into the current monetary system.
Yes, sooner or later, the system will become a little obsolete, however currently that is all we have, and the above scenario is I guess for the near future rather than for 3020 AD.
I remember that the team from India that won the TI-DSP design contest in 2006, had come up with a similar idea (cause I knew those guys), I think they called it wibonet or somthing equally inane, they wanted to use the idea for rural connectivity IIRC.
7. Connectonomics Reverse engineer the nervous system. Eventually, someone will do that. But not too soon.
Well, we are currently working on somthing like this, only thing is we are doing circuit (RLC) simulaitons of the pathway, we are basically checking to see if an impulse is given at a point how it will propagate, so yeah, it is happening. It will not of course be a commercialsed/used in hospitals tomorrow type of a product but I am sure it will happen.
Well, the university of washington seattle seems to be doing considerable work on Brain machine interfaces as is Georgia-Tech.
Stanford,MIT,Caltech have been devoting considerable resources to microfuidics, they have had this for the last four years or so I believe. Microphotonics is a really interesting topic (I know a guy who is doing his masters in this, and from what he tells me it seems to be extremely interesting).
NLP has come a long way, I beleive that I can without violating the NDA inform you that MSFT has somthing that it will be releasing soon and its core is an NLP engine. And I think the ebook readers etc. might want to have somthing to do with flexible transistors.
Ok, now despite being Indian I hate it when you this statement is made. Do you WANT to do low end coding or do you want to work on the actualy design of your software/hardware system. The part that has been outsourced to india is this low quality back end donkey work that can essentially be done by any one who can type a hello world program if the code is shown to them(Yes, I am exagerating). Explain to me please if you would really want to be doing that sort of work rather than designing the app, or modifying the algo etc. If not well too bad I am sure you can come here and work for low pay we have it seems a promise of WiMax.
Last night while I was dreaming of playing poker with Einstein and Hawking and an anthropomorphic Zebra, I stopped and thought "This is really a great simulation of reality!" It got really interesting when the dancing elephants started circling our table. I feel far better prepared for the afterlife now.
oops, sorry then I misunderstood, and I should be the last one to criticise some one for missing out on a comma. I do understand the point of view you have taken in that statement and respect it. In fact the other day I was watching the movie - The Man from Earth, (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/) I was shocked by how 'hurt' the lady had become when the protagonist revealed that he had been 'jesus'. So, yes I agree even you guys do have your share of religious fundamentalism.
Now, about the religion thing, those were an overgeneralised view I had of some of the people in slashdot, and not you in particular, and in fact not even neccesarilly referring to you at all. And in fact I understand exactly where you are coming from, here too (India), religion is a basic part of life, and although our theory of creation varies from - 'it just exists' to 'In the beginning there was nothing' and 'It's just turtles all the way down'. We still have some deeply religious folk, who are extremely educated (our ex-president for example an Aerospace engineer an Muslim and still he read the Gita) and who do not see any contradictions, mostly because they do not quite care about the details and stress on the over all part of 'do no evil'/'be awesome' (yes, we follow googlism ). You didnt in any way offend me, so don't worry about it.
As far as creationsim is concerned, it doesn't matter what others think, as long as they do not impose their will upon me or others, and as long as it doesnt affect their work/performance/science, they are free to belive in the invisible pink unicorn for all I care.
I'm sorry did Pakistan stop existing for a couple of minutes, or did the terrorists in Pakistan stop counting Israel as one of their enemies. Did their nukes start malfunctioning all of a sudden
Also, please realise that just because they haven't nuked any one doesn't mean they aren't going to. The reason they might desist would be that they are kind of surrounded by their 'enemies' and thus if you nuke all your surrounding area, you arent going to have much of a lifestyle your self. I'm sure that Israel like the US has more than enough people it wants to nuke, they don't do it for their own benifit, not because of any high moral ground, not wantin to stir up the debate like I did the last time, however in my opinion the US lost its right to that moral high ground with respect to nukes a long time back around the end of WWII or so.
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Not sure I get this, why would me saying "Obscene" things about Sonia Gandhi get me in jail ? I thought that India had some of the better free speech laws out there, it's only the people like Shiv Sena etc. who mess around with this stuff. Also For the information of most of the people here - Shivaji wasn't a saint as such, just a highly respected king, so sumamry isn't quite correct about that bit.
I mean what was the situation (TFA has not got too many details)
Police : I CAN HAZ HIZ IP ?
Google : Of course, you want email access with that ? should we supersize the order ?
well if you really want to be pedantic, what they said was the information may eventually be released.
ermm, I know this may be kind of new to you, but here in India we get these chalk like markers made of insecticide - you can use them to draw around stuff and cockroaches and other critters will stay away. It's not about voodoo but simple science.
... however saying you are "good at math" means that your might be less prone to giving up on an equasion, .... seems like the parent post, feels his online avatar can spell pretty well. Maybe the avatar won a Spelling Bee in SEcond Life ?Didn't mean to flame, and I guess I should be the last guy to get to point a finger at some one, however just one of those things that most probably seem funny until after you click submit
I had mentioned this some time back as well, but polymorphic processors like MOLEN(tu delft is doing this one), might be usefull for this sort of stuff. The theory behind it is simple, and extends to modern multicore systems as well basically break up the instruction set into microinstructions (all processors that I know do this part), then have any one of the many computational units available do whatever work is required in order to implement those microinstructions. the translation is done by the core processor it self, it can be made redundant etc. as required, they already have an FPGA implementation of it and are using it for research into super computers.
They are actually not all simpley self contained, in SAC, the episodes are labelled Stand Alone, or Complex (IIRC). This essentially refers to whether they add to the overall story line and are deeply embedded in it, or whether they can be viewed as 'stand alone' pieces.
I agree, even I found SAC (and innocence) to be better than the movies, I read man machine interface and the original GITS, as released by Dark Horse and I was amazed, not just at the art work, but at the depth of the storyline, and the plots and the intricacies and well ... I am sure you get the general idea.
... ... conversations for the rest of my life.", This was what actually caused me to read catcher in the rye.
There was this one quote from SAC (by rights its taken from Catcher in the Rye) "I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes
Deep series on a possible future. A must read/watch.
Well, why limit yourself to Dyson Spheres when it is possible that intelligence might take another route ... I recently read this book called accelerando (http://www.amazon.com/Accelerando-Charles-Stross/dp/0441012841 , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando_(novel)) which was in my opinion slightly realistic at trying to protray a future of humanity (though optimistic to be sure).
Instead of Dyson spheres the Author says that Martoshika brains may be the step that intelligence takes in order to use as much energy as possible for itself. I get the feeling that that might indeed be a probable future though a bleak one.
well, I remember a TV show called Dark Angel(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Angel_(TV_series)) starring Jessica Alba (drool), which had somthing similar so to speak. There were overhead hover drones that were used to keep track of the general populace by the police (which was effectively in the hands of the govt, I think all sattelites had been hit with an emp, and the US was a 3rd world economy). Now- though dystopian in a way, I get the feeling that sooner or later somthing like this is going to come to pass(not the emp part but the surveilance part), not many people care so much about privacy as they do about _Protection from the Terrorists_ .
Also the way that things seem to be progressing along the lines of ubiquitus wireless sensors and cloud computing(yuck!!), I get the feeling that privacy is not going to matter all that much soon (10-15 years, Verner Vinge's novel "Rainbows end" seems to be an interesting take on this), after all how many people are there that you see talking on their cellphone not bothering about the fact that the rest of the world can hear them. All the people who send their emails unencrypted, those who use myspace/facebook/orkut/friendster/everything else putting details about themselves online (yes yes me too), without bothering about who sees what and what information is freely available.
Well, I am currently working on a project with CRL, our aim is to increase the speed of certain operations as much as possible, and belive me they are going to be pushing this in a big way in a couple of months, I think they are going to be making some announcement in july, cause we have been given a june deadline for our implementations, and belive me the amount of money they are spending on this. ... scary man. I can't go into details (mostly cause I signed an NDA), but they can very easilsy increase the speed that they have currently and they are also doing a lot of investment along the lines of computations required for analysis of sisemic data, I think oil exploration, not sure of course. But very very exciting man, very very exciting.
well I guess you are right about it being an intermedeate stage. I guess that things are going to go the cell way from now on, but with a different abstraction level visible to the guys programming it, I think the TRIPS architecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIPS_architecture that IBM has or the Mollen architecture http://ce.et.tudelft.nl/publicationfiles/908_9_prototype_molen.pdf might be the future.
I might get flamed for this but I think that Munroe captured these knods of studies perfectly in his comic XKCD. http://www.xkcd.com/111/
Weelll.. I think that there is one reason that msft regularly screws up a lot of applications, this is an observation that a friend of mine made, he is working with them. They have some of the best programmers in the business not just people who do nothing but coding but people who do the designs etc. now the problem is that they introduce so many corner cases (an unrealistic set of them as well), and the programmers are good enough to be able to cover them all (as the marketing blokes force them to), the result is somthing that isnt very good at any one thing in particular but does everything in a very crappy manner- while covering every corner case. Now you guys might say that that isnt proof of good programmers, well ... the kind of cases that they do end up covering (I cannot say much about this), is what points to their abilities.
Their own employees regularly use macs and *nix, a couple have iPhones and most have iPods they arent forgive the term - fanatics like those from apple and FSF are. They are just (a lot of them), extremely good programmers subjugated by marketing blokes with no idea about what the people want.
Okay, this is fsked, I know guys who are working on a variant of this, they have a learning algorithm, they have a database of already known captcha's somthing like 400 images or so ? Now what they do is break up the existing captcha into small 2x2 grids and try and match it to whatever is already in the database, they are using it for other stuff(image reconstruction) but I think they can modify it for this as well.
I have done some work on real time signal processing (the hardware side), I think that the kind of hardware on this thing would be worth studying. It is going to require awesome capabilities of course, but the thoughts of the slightest possibilities of a spin-off, for signal processing in wireless applicaitons/commercial applications makes my mouth water.
Not, if physical access is restricted, and physical access is the only way to issue commands to it. I haven't taken security protocols as course work, but friends who have have said that although it is not possible to remove all security breaches but it is possible to take that to a 'leve' higher ie. make breaching the security so difficult that what you gain from the breach would not be able to take care of the costs of the breach itself. Don't know if I managed to explain it too well. ermm... I am sure that supercomputer time is managed well and hacking that is not so easy is it ? after all you(not you, but some person in general) cannot give your self 100 minutes of it just because you are Mr. Uber HAX0r can you ?
Any ways, I can only say that it's just an idea off the top of my head, might not be profound or world changing as such.
Hmmm.., an interesting scenario, I propose that access to the replication technology will be restricted, perhaps like access to supercomputing time. The replicator will be programmed so that it cannot create another replicator without perhaps some form of a code/password. The people who work and earn their share of the replication time will be able to access stuff apart from the bare necessities, like maybe luxury items. This will allow it to be integrated into the current monetary system.
Yes, sooner or later, the system will become a little obsolete, however currently that is all we have, and the above scenario is I guess for the near future rather than for 3020 AD.
I remember that the team from India that won the TI-DSP design contest in 2006, had come up with a similar idea (cause I knew those guys), I think they called it wibonet or somthing equally inane, they wanted to use the idea for rural connectivity IIRC.
yeah here's the link . http://tiidesigncontest.ext.ti.com/results.html, but it doesn't seem to have much in the way of information.
Well, we are currently working on somthing like this, only thing is we are doing circuit (RLC) simulaitons of the pathway, we are basically checking to see if an impulse is given at a point how it will propagate, so yeah, it is happening. It will not of course be a commercialsed/used in hospitals tomorrow type of a product but I am sure it will happen.7. Connectonomics Reverse engineer the nervous system. Eventually, someone will do that. But not too soon.
** If it doesnt I'm screwed with my pet project.
Well, the university of washington seattle seems to be doing considerable work on Brain machine interfaces as is Georgia-Tech.
Stanford,MIT,Caltech have been devoting considerable resources to microfuidics, they have had this for the last four years or so I believe. Microphotonics is a really interesting topic (I know a guy who is doing his masters in this, and from what he tells me it seems to be extremely interesting).
NLP has come a long way, I beleive that I can without violating the NDA inform you that MSFT has somthing that it will be releasing soon and its core is an NLP engine. And I think the ebook readers etc. might want to have somthing to do with flexible transistors.
It's not all that off the mark IMHO.
Ok, now despite being Indian I hate it when you this statement is made. Do you WANT to do low end coding or do you want to work on the actualy design of your software/hardware system. The part that has been outsourced to india is this low quality back end donkey work that can essentially be done by any one who can type a hello world program if the code is shown to them(Yes, I am exagerating). Explain to me please if you would really want to be doing that sort of work rather than designing the app, or modifying the algo etc. If not well too bad I am sure you can come here and work for low pay we have it seems a promise of WiMax.
or in this case, rally advanced LOGO turtles.
Last night while I was dreaming of playing poker with Einstein and Hawking and an anthropomorphic Zebra, I stopped and thought "This is really a great simulation of reality!" It got really interesting when the dancing elephants started circling our table. I feel far better prepared for the afterlife now.
There corrected it for you.
oops, sorry then I misunderstood, and I should be the last one to criticise some one for missing out on a comma. I do understand the point of view you have taken in that statement and respect it. In fact the other day I was watching the movie - The Man from Earth, (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/) I was shocked by how 'hurt' the lady had become when the protagonist revealed that he had been 'jesus'. So, yes I agree even you guys do have your share of religious fundamentalism.
Now, about the religion thing, those were an overgeneralised view I had of some of the people in slashdot, and not you in particular, and in fact not even neccesarilly referring to you at all. And in fact I understand exactly where you are coming from, here too (India), religion is a basic part of life, and although our theory of creation varies from - 'it just exists' to 'In the beginning there was nothing' and 'It's just turtles all the way down'. We still have some deeply religious folk, who are extremely educated (our ex-president for example an Aerospace engineer an Muslim and still he read the Gita) and who do not see any contradictions, mostly because they do not quite care about the details and stress on the over all part of 'do no evil'/'be awesome' (yes, we follow googlism ). You didnt in any way offend me, so don't worry about it.
As far as creationsim is concerned, it doesn't matter what others think, as long as they do not impose their will upon me or others, and as long as it doesnt affect their work/performance/science, they are free to belive in the invisible pink unicorn for all I care.
I'm sorry did Pakistan stop existing for a couple of minutes, or did the terrorists in Pakistan stop counting Israel as one of their enemies. Did their nukes start malfunctioning all of a sudden
Also, please realise that just because they haven't nuked any one doesn't mean they aren't going to. The reason they might desist would be that they are kind of surrounded by their 'enemies' and thus if you nuke all your surrounding area, you arent going to have much of a lifestyle your self. I'm sure that Israel like the US has more than enough people it wants to nuke, they don't do it for their own benifit, not because of any high moral ground, not wantin to stir up the debate like I did the last time, however in my opinion the US lost its right to that moral high ground with respect to nukes a long time back around the end of WWII or so.