I'm from the US and i know when i first entered i had to provide my foot prints. I'm not sure if those are on file anywhere other than my mom's house though.
it seems like there isn't as much work to do. The history of everything has been entered. All that's left to do is wait for the slow march of time to dispense new information. It doesn't help that most of the new information to contribute is along this vein.
yeah, and i can make a battery run longer than a battery of the same weight by not drawing as many amps from it. can this thing provide 1.2v at 20ma 3 times longer than than a AA battery? sounds awesome. does it only provide.2 micro milliamps ? um then i'm not impressed.
Your MAC address can be divined through online interactions with people. It's feasible that the boogeyman called the cyber stalker could use this information to find you physically. This news is far more worrying than themobile devices that kept a local cache of locations you had been. Most of the hand wringing surrounding that were that someone could get your phone and discover your movement patterns. In that case, someone would have to be physically by you anyway to get your phone. This allows someone [the creepy stalker, jealous spouse, online pedophile, mob boss, etc] who shouldn't know where you are to find out.
THEN they will come and get your iphone and find out all the other places you have visited.
Valve have instituted the best dlc system ever. You are not at any disadvantage if you decide to never purchase anything. In many cases, the new weapons are highly situational and the original loadouts create the most well rounded and useful character. But, what i feel makes it great isn't the great job they've done with balance, it's that even if i choose not to purchase the content, i still get to experience it.
It's deeper than just seeing silly hats. I haven't bought any of the new ray guns, but others have. In doing so, they give me a new experience. I have a new kind of enemy to fight. I have new tactics and counters to learn. Why would someone not want that? It's like other people are buying me a new game. As a bonus, if i just keep playing (and i will because i find it extremely fun) i'll just get the ray guns for free.
I'm surprised it isn't higher. I'd answer yes. Sure, i'll buy an iPhone 5. I'll also buy an android tablet. I'm also buying a boat and an RV. Of course, if I'm not as well off as i'd like to be in sept, I don't have to buy any of those things. well, maybe i can make the boat work.
that was my first instinct too. then i thought about the converse. "population" is a matter of perspective. in 10 people, 1 person is 10% of that population. I didn't RTFA, but i'd guess if 5% of a large population holds a belief, it's not going to gain traction, but if those 5% somehow come together there is a subpopulation where 10% or more hold the belief and can influence the rest. I imagine it works better the more that subpopulation can separate itself from the larger culture. This scenario does play out over and over.
of course, taken to extremes you could say 1 person in a population of 3 is 33% of the population so everyone should adopt that person's beliefs. that doesn't happen so the size of the population must be part of the function.
But if it takes an infinite amount of time for a belief to be adopted by a majority if it's held by under 10% of the population, how does it ever grow over 10%? it's like a zeno's paradox.
I don't know if pulling hardware out of the trash is the only reason to build reliable systems. You could also just make building something that's redundant and reliable your main goal. Of course, I do see how it would be hard to pull that off if you get overbearing project managers just looking to cram one more feature in. So I think his second point is spot on.
I agree. The best AI's that i have made have always stricken me as the least intelligent. My best effort was a tic-tac-toe game. the algorithm was a simple brute force reward based system. If the computer made a move that resulted in a win, that move for that board state was given a higher chance of outcome. The AI became better at tic-tac-toe after playing several games. eventually it would become unbeatable.
After the inevitable series of ties, a bug would allow my AI to simply change a used square to it's symbol thereby winning the game. Once discovered, the AI would constantly exploit this bug. I found this behavior highly amusing, and joked about needing to shut my cheating ai down before it decided killing the human was the shortest route to victory, but i never once felt that this was any kind of intelligent system. It was my programming and my bugs resulting in some funny and unexpected output. There was clearly no intelligence in this (if anything it was a demonstration of lack of intelligence on my part).
What really surprised me was how many people thought the opposite. They always seemed to see this system as something on the verge of self awareness. I guess there's some quirk of human psychology that causes people to see agency in every action. They are hardwired to be tricked into believing in an AI.
Still, regardless of the awareness of my system, users were playing tic-tac-toe. likewise, if lessons are assigned by some system, students are still doing lessons. It's feasible that a similar (but better than mine) system could optimize the lessons for students.
I am really nervous about a future where robots and AI play a larger part in our daily lives. I just know as soon as they get a little more sophisticated than a roomba that weird organizations lobbying for equal rights an ethical treatment of robots will show up. If the lesson planning AI makes a weird decision are people going to recognize it as a bug or divine providence?
We tend to anthropomorphize what an animal would want. Your story is what we wouldn't want to see. We really have no way of knowing what life a wolf wants for it's offspring. I have a coworker who brings her yorkie into work. He sits on a pillow all day with bows in his hair. He gets special treats and tons of affection. I often wonder, does the dog feel like the slave or the master? How do you know a wolf wouldn't see this little wolf as something who has managed to achieve dominance over the single most fearsome and destructive species on the planet?
Dinosaurs were majestic and noble and all, but their reign was cut short when their weaknesses were exposed. it's their descendants, the chickens, that have become one of the most successful species in the history of the planet. Their edge? They evolved to taste real good. Think we would let an asteroid impact make chickens go extinct? We'd do everything in our power to stop it.
Yeah. If this is a "car" then why are we always wringing our hands over when the electric car will become commonplace? We already have tons of clean inexpensive electric cars in the form of power wheels.
20 years ago, people happily published their names, addresses and phone numbers in public directories. In those days, anyone could be found by anyone. You'd only need to visit about 2 Sarah Connors before you found the one you wanted.
You seem to think I am advocating facebook. I get the impression that you are not a fan of it. There are a great many reasons to not like it. Unfortunately, the whims of society are rarely logical and well thought out. Like it or not, facebook seems to be the main form of communication for a lot of people.
The OP's daughter is shunning facebook because her parents are on it. She apparently feels her parents are using it enough to warrant her shunning it so I conclude it is a primary means of communication for them.
Kids looking to escape the watchful eyes of their parents is normal. It's also normal for people to realize that they value communicating with their parents. Yes, face to face is best. It's pretty much the only means of communication that has never fallen out of use, but people seem to need some method of asynchronous communication as well. Those methods seem to fall to the relentless march of technology (undoubtedly facebook will too). Generally the older generation has not kept up with the new means of communication, and the younger generation needs to fall back to what the older generation is comfortable with. As long as they are there, it keeps that channel alive. Mail correspondence seems to have fallen out of favor. I don't think it's coincidence that it's use is shrinking as fast as my grandparent's generation.
So i wonder, if facebook is the preferred means of asynchronous communication for a great many people, will it be bolstered as those user's offspring look for a way of reaching out to their parents?
For the record, I am somewhat ambivalent about facebook. It's not the ideal platform, but most of my friends and cousins are on it. We exchange information that I find valuable but wouldn't want to call everyone for once a week. I've found it helps to spark in person conversations as I can mention, "oh, i saw you were in a biathalon. how was that?" when i see my cousin at the next holiday get together. It seems more pertinent than the pre facebook conversations of, "hey remember 10 years ago when we were little and ate all those cookies?" every year. In short, i find some value in it, but wish there was something that could provide the same ease of use and attract as many people while being less, i don't know, icky.
What's going to happen when your young daughter and her friends realize they want a way to keep in touch with their parents? That scenario plays out more often than not. At that point the parents will be firmly set in their ways on facebook.
Saying, "We'll try" means that you, or your team, isn't already giving it their best, and that through some extraordinary effort you'll pull it off.
I say this a lot. Usually it coincides with a feeling that we have been given a task, usually using some new or otherwise unproven technology or techniques, with hazy specifications on a fixed and frankly uncomfortable timeline. Generally the first answer is no, but it becomes apparent that we don't really have a choice in the matter, our job is to do this thing. We say it just to placate ourselves and make it sound like there is no expectation of success.
"We'll try", to me, has always translated to, "We're doing this against our better judgement."
I'm sort of interested in reading this book and finding out if there's more to this situation that the review detailed.
midichlorian waste. when yoda says, "luminous beings are we" he's describing how someone is full of glowing damaging midichlorian poop. a lightsaber draws this toxic waste out of a jedi's body like tanuki foot pads, stores it, and focuses it as a weapon. midichlorian poop behaves EXACTLY like a light saber. Problem solved. It's how it works.
btw: do you feel tired? do you not have as much energy as you want? As someone with innate jedi abilities, you really need to take special care of yourself. You are probably full of toxic midichlorian waste. I suggest buying my magnetic rare earth bracelets. may the force be with you.
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I'm from the US and i know when i first entered i had to provide my foot prints. I'm not sure if those are on file anywhere other than my mom's house though.
it seems like there isn't as much work to do. The history of everything has been entered. All that's left to do is wait for the slow march of time to dispense new information. It doesn't help that most of the new information to contribute is along this vein.
yeah, and i can make a battery run longer than a battery of the same weight by not drawing as many amps from it. can this thing provide 1.2v at 20ma 3 times longer than than a AA battery? sounds awesome. does it only provide .2 micro milliamps ? um then i'm not impressed.
Your MAC address can be divined through online interactions with people. It's feasible that the boogeyman called the cyber stalker could use this information to find you physically. This news is far more worrying than themobile devices that kept a local cache of locations you had been. Most of the hand wringing surrounding that were that someone could get your phone and discover your movement patterns. In that case, someone would have to be physically by you anyway to get your phone. This allows someone [the creepy stalker, jealous spouse, online pedophile, mob boss, etc] who shouldn't know where you are to find out.
THEN they will come and get your iphone and find out all the other places you have visited.
eye tracking, it's easy. sit right here. look right there. bam! my system knows exactly where you are looking!
That's what i heard. Every soldier on my server (TeamFuncom) seems to have them. I haven't even looked at the recipes. Solly is not my class.
Valve have instituted the best dlc system ever. You are not at any disadvantage if you decide to never purchase anything. In many cases, the new weapons are highly situational and the original loadouts create the most well rounded and useful character. But, what i feel makes it great isn't the great job they've done with balance, it's that even if i choose not to purchase the content, i still get to experience it.
It's deeper than just seeing silly hats. I haven't bought any of the new ray guns, but others have. In doing so, they give me a new experience. I have a new kind of enemy to fight. I have new tactics and counters to learn. Why would someone not want that? It's like other people are buying me a new game. As a bonus, if i just keep playing (and i will because i find it extremely fun) i'll just get the ray guns for free.
yes. it's better than everything except mercurial, of course.
I'm surprised it isn't higher. I'd answer yes. Sure, i'll buy an iPhone 5. I'll also buy an android tablet. I'm also buying a boat and an RV. Of course, if I'm not as well off as i'd like to be in sept, I don't have to buy any of those things. well, maybe i can make the boat work.
that was my first instinct too. then i thought about the converse. "population" is a matter of perspective. in 10 people, 1 person is 10% of that population. I didn't RTFA, but i'd guess if 5% of a large population holds a belief, it's not going to gain traction, but if those 5% somehow come together there is a subpopulation where 10% or more hold the belief and can influence the rest. I imagine it works better the more that subpopulation can separate itself from the larger culture. This scenario does play out over and over.
of course, taken to extremes you could say 1 person in a population of 3 is 33% of the population so everyone should adopt that person's beliefs. that doesn't happen so the size of the population must be part of the function.
or it's all bunk
But if it takes an infinite amount of time for a belief to be adopted by a majority if it's held by under 10% of the population, how does it ever grow over 10%? it's like a zeno's paradox.
I don't know if pulling hardware out of the trash is the only reason to build reliable systems. You could also just make building something that's redundant and reliable your main goal. Of course, I do see how it would be hard to pull that off if you get overbearing project managers just looking to cram one more feature in. So I think his second point is spot on.
I agree. The best AI's that i have made have always stricken me as the least intelligent. My best effort was a tic-tac-toe game. the algorithm was a simple brute force reward based system. If the computer made a move that resulted in a win, that move for that board state was given a higher chance of outcome. The AI became better at tic-tac-toe after playing several games. eventually it would become unbeatable.
After the inevitable series of ties, a bug would allow my AI to simply change a used square to it's symbol thereby winning the game. Once discovered, the AI would constantly exploit this bug. I found this behavior highly amusing, and joked about needing to shut my cheating ai down before it decided killing the human was the shortest route to victory, but i never once felt that this was any kind of intelligent system. It was my programming and my bugs resulting in some funny and unexpected output. There was clearly no intelligence in this (if anything it was a demonstration of lack of intelligence on my part).
What really surprised me was how many people thought the opposite. They always seemed to see this system as something on the verge of self awareness. I guess there's some quirk of human psychology that causes people to see agency in every action. They are hardwired to be tricked into believing in an AI.
Still, regardless of the awareness of my system, users were playing tic-tac-toe. likewise, if lessons are assigned by some system, students are still doing lessons. It's feasible that a similar (but better than mine) system could optimize the lessons for students.
I am really nervous about a future where robots and AI play a larger part in our daily lives. I just know as soon as they get a little more sophisticated than a roomba that weird organizations lobbying for equal rights an ethical treatment of robots will show up. If the lesson planning AI makes a weird decision are people going to recognize it as a bug or divine providence?
We tend to anthropomorphize what an animal would want. Your story is what we wouldn't want to see. We really have no way of knowing what life a wolf wants for it's offspring. I have a coworker who brings her yorkie into work. He sits on a pillow all day with bows in his hair. He gets special treats and tons of affection. I often wonder, does the dog feel like the slave or the master? How do you know a wolf wouldn't see this little wolf as something who has managed to achieve dominance over the single most fearsome and destructive species on the planet?
Dinosaurs were majestic and noble and all, but their reign was cut short when their weaknesses were exposed. it's their descendants, the chickens, that have become one of the most successful species in the history of the planet. Their edge? They evolved to taste real good. Think we would let an asteroid impact make chickens go extinct? We'd do everything in our power to stop it.
nah. If the gerbil gets far enough, it counts as eating it.
Yeah. If this is a "car" then why are we always wringing our hands over when the electric car will become commonplace? We already have tons of clean inexpensive electric cars in the form of power wheels.
Then you could just plug your laptop into it's own USB port and you're all set!
why aren't more people thinking along these lines?
20 years ago, people happily published their names, addresses and phone numbers in public directories. In those days, anyone could be found by anyone. You'd only need to visit about 2 Sarah Connors before you found the one you wanted.
You seem to think I am advocating facebook. I get the impression that you are not a fan of it. There are a great many reasons to not like it. Unfortunately, the whims of society are rarely logical and well thought out. Like it or not, facebook seems to be the main form of communication for a lot of people.
The OP's daughter is shunning facebook because her parents are on it. She apparently feels her parents are using it enough to warrant her shunning it so I conclude it is a primary means of communication for them.
Kids looking to escape the watchful eyes of their parents is normal. It's also normal for people to realize that they value communicating with their parents. Yes, face to face is best. It's pretty much the only means of communication that has never fallen out of use, but people seem to need some method of asynchronous communication as well. Those methods seem to fall to the relentless march of technology (undoubtedly facebook will too). Generally the older generation has not kept up with the new means of communication, and the younger generation needs to fall back to what the older generation is comfortable with. As long as they are there, it keeps that channel alive. Mail correspondence seems to have fallen out of favor. I don't think it's coincidence that it's use is shrinking as fast as my grandparent's generation.
So i wonder, if facebook is the preferred means of asynchronous communication for a great many people, will it be bolstered as those user's offspring look for a way of reaching out to their parents?
For the record, I am somewhat ambivalent about facebook. It's not the ideal platform, but most of my friends and cousins are on it. We exchange information that I find valuable but wouldn't want to call everyone for once a week. I've found it helps to spark in person conversations as I can mention, "oh, i saw you were in a biathalon. how was that?" when i see my cousin at the next holiday get together. It seems more pertinent than the pre facebook conversations of, "hey remember 10 years ago when we were little and ate all those cookies?" every year. In short, i find some value in it, but wish there was something that could provide the same ease of use and attract as many people while being less, i don't know, icky.
What's going to happen when your young daughter and her friends realize they want a way to keep in touch with their parents? That scenario plays out more often than not. At that point the parents will be firmly set in their ways on facebook.
Saying, "We'll try" means that you, or your team, isn't already giving it their best, and that through some extraordinary effort you'll pull it off.
I say this a lot. Usually it coincides with a feeling that we have been given a task, usually using some new or otherwise unproven technology or techniques, with hazy specifications on a fixed and frankly uncomfortable timeline. Generally the first answer is no, but it becomes apparent that we don't really have a choice in the matter, our job is to do this thing. We say it just to placate ourselves and make it sound like there is no expectation of success.
"We'll try", to me, has always translated to, "We're doing this against our better judgement."
I'm sort of interested in reading this book and finding out if there's more to this situation that the review detailed.
midichlorian waste. when yoda says, "luminous beings are we" he's describing how someone is full of glowing damaging midichlorian poop. a lightsaber draws this toxic waste out of a jedi's body like tanuki foot pads, stores it, and focuses it as a weapon. midichlorian poop behaves EXACTLY like a light saber. Problem solved. It's how it works.
btw: do you feel tired? do you not have as much energy as you want? As someone with innate jedi abilities, you really need to take special care of yourself. You are probably full of toxic midichlorian waste. I suggest buying my magnetic rare earth bracelets. may the force be with you.
Thanks for the info. I realize my post might have sounded overly pedantic. I forgot to add it still looked like a kick ass project :)