and you are just a bunch of molecules. Yes, you are billions of molecules...each group reacting in their own way creating the human body, the brain, the neurons, the neural network in your brain, a system that eventually exhibits "self-awareness".
I agree that it's not the ONLY indicator of intelligence, but what im saying is that the scores are not bogus, an IQ test is adjusted so most people can score 100. From that you can reason about something.
For example if I want to draw a formula on a graph, how would I represent it? Is it going to be human readable? I could gather 100 people and see if they understand it, I would draw it in such a way such that most people can understand it. And that's an indicator of how people understand graphs so I can go on and use it (i.e. as a standard way of representing formulas)
Understanding spacial or temporal events and able to coordinate or reason about is indeed one form of intelligent behaviour.
I don't understand some people's reasoning for doing otherwise
When you die, or when you loose someone beloved, it's just easier to believe in God rather to say "you are dead, game over". In fact, your brain cannot accept that by default, for some reason... It just feels your heart and you don't die sad. Some people just don't understand this until the time comes.
I don't understand how you believe such crap. I always unsubscribe to those mailing lists..I mean they do give you the option to unsubscribe. Thank god I don't belong to that 12% of idiots!
Computer folks tend to be introverted enough anyway; encourage them to get out a bit, instead of hacking alone in their dorm rooms.
Oh yes, I felt so social when I was hanging around in the computer labs:P No, seriously now, when we had a deadline I loved how you could hear everyone typing so fast and thinking you are not the only one who's left this piece of work for the last minute! Good times:)
I think many people are aware that modern AI has roughly the intelligence of an animal.
I think that modern AI is not even close to the intelligence of an animal. I remember in our cognitive robotics course where we were shown a video of a bird figuring out how to get its food from a little toy trap that some researchers set.
It was amazing how the bird used a piece of wire to make a hook in order to pick out the basket from the trap. I don't think AI would figure out how to do that (yet).
I don't think dumbness will ever rule, there is always intelligence that prevails:)
However, If i did a search process like hill-climbing I would probably get stuck into a local maximum, thus, sometimes I have to go down a bit (dumbness) in order to avoid it.
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ZOMG! Let the paranoia spread on /.
Why is this modded offtopic?
I get the same effect, and no my computer is not slow at all. I have Ubuntu, Firefox was updated yesterday.
and you are just a bunch of molecules. Yes, you are billions of molecules...each group reacting in their own way creating the human body, the brain, the neurons, the neural network in your brain, a system that eventually exhibits "self-awareness".
however intelligence is a product of evolution for surviving in a complex environment. There might be something to it..
I agree that it's not the ONLY indicator of intelligence, but what im saying is that the scores are not bogus, an IQ test is adjusted so most people can score 100. From that you can reason about something.
For example if I want to draw a formula on a graph, how would I represent it? Is it going to be human readable? I could gather 100 people and see if they understand it, I would draw it in such a way such that most people can understand it. And that's an indicator of how people understand graphs so I can go on and use it (i.e. as a standard way of representing formulas)
Understanding spacial or temporal events and able to coordinate or reason about is indeed one form of intelligent behaviour.
In case you haven't noticed IQ is the acronym for Intelligence Quotient and the mean score 100 is the mean of the Normal Distribution for a large enough population.
Personally, that tells me something!
red lasers are so 90s
we are getting older aren't we?
exactly, this should be a reply to this idiot a few posts above: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1311329&op=Reply&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=28781965
I don't understand some people's reasoning for doing otherwise
When you die, or when you loose someone beloved, it's just easier to believe in God rather to say "you are dead, game over". In fact, your brain cannot accept that by default, for some reason... It just feels your heart and you don't die sad. Some people just don't understand this until the time comes.
I don't understand how you believe such crap. I always unsubscribe to those mailing lists..I mean they do give you the option to unsubscribe. Thank god I don't belong to that 12% of idiots!
We have a hardware load-balancer and a software reverse proxy (varnish) in front of our apache.
:(
I kinda doubt this would work on us.
Note, I am not inviting anyone to try. It might work great for all I know
Thanks for the info! What a better way to find out than to post this on /. ?
Has anyone else read the title as "New Exploit Uses JavaScript To Compromise the Internets" ?
for all the rant about wikipedia: how about you start by making some articles in http://simple.wikipedia.org/ ?
So, kudos to the dog for finding such a small target but deduct points for the overly-enthusiastic headline.
Well, I hope the dog reads /.
wait a minute! This is a car analogy! How is a bad analogy, guy??
Shuttle Atlantis yesterday, the crew on the Space Station did something that no other astronaut has ever done before
F1rst p1ss?
I remember having installed Suse 5.1 and was trying to connect with a 33.6k modem. Good old times with pppd :)
damn your posts are so true...
./ before I go finish my important work....
Now please excuse me while I check every single comment on every single thread here on
oh..you mean moderation...sh*t
Chicks can add and subtract small numbers
skipped to the /. comments before reading any further...
shortly after hatching.
DANG! oops, wrong kind of chicks
I get a feeling we are already generating & testing hypothesises for someone/something bigger than us like in Asimov's The Last Answer.
the plural is hypotheses
Computer folks tend to be introverted enough anyway; encourage them to get out a bit, instead of hacking alone in their dorm rooms.
Oh yes, I felt so social when I was hanging around in the computer labs:P No, seriously now, when we had a deadline I loved how you could hear everyone typing so fast and thinking you are not the only one who's left this piece of work for the last minute! Good times:)
The 23 crates range... from the size of a desk to that of a small delivery truck...
...Is that... one person desk or two persons desk? ... ...?
I think many people are aware that modern AI has roughly the intelligence of an animal.
I think that modern AI is not even close to the intelligence of an animal. I remember in our cognitive robotics course where we were shown a video of a bird figuring out how to get its food from a little toy trap that some researchers set.
It was amazing how the bird used a piece of wire to make a hook in order to pick out the basket from the trap. I don't think AI would figure out how to do that (yet).
I've got one thing to say:
for the love of god use <br>
I don't think dumbness will ever rule, there is always intelligence that prevails:)
However, If i did a search process like hill-climbing I would probably get stuck into a local maximum, thus, sometimes I have to go down a bit (dumbness) in order to avoid it.