I like to think of open surveillance as "big family", as opposed to "big brother".
Can't find any studies or implementations at this moment, but I like to imagine it would work. Still, it feels like this idea is ripe for hole-shooting-into.
Never, it seems, is there a lack of anti-capitalist rhetoric on slashdot - but perhaps it is more proper to say there is never a lack of pro-capitalist rhetoric: pro-capitalist ideals being assumed as pro-competitive.
There is something wrong when competition turns into opposition. When an entity actively obstructs the progress of another, not through a product of better fit, but through the slandering or image-tarnishing of a competitors product.
To be fair (someone has to be), evolution has shown that, as a concept, offensive advertisement works. I therefore leave it to you, the reader, to decide if there really is anything wrong with (philosophically speaking) being a skunk.
a) people exploiting this and thus gaming google gaming....or a game in which you do this titled, "gaming google gaming game." and therefore if you cheat in said game you are gaming gaming google gaming....buffallo buffalo buffalo buffalo....
b) in soviet russia, google games you...tube!.....
My misunderstanding indeed hinged on the fact that the FPGA itself was the only device on which this 'simple' adder could operate (due to specifics of its material structure).. I must have also thought the FPGA itself to be simpler than an analogous, hard-wired circuit.
I think FPGA/GA evolved, silicon specific processing would be useful.
GA and FPGA are two animals of science for which I have great interest.
In this case, although this creation was specific for that silicon the creation was still theoretically more simple than should be possible.
My point is that, even though *mass-production* of "magic chips" may not be possible, simple unit-by-unit production of may be.
For supercomputing tasks or other very specialized areas of computing, there are often one-of-a-kind units anyhow - if some high-performance, or highly-efficient device can in fact be made, I see no huge drawback to using it for at least research purposes.
This is potenitally useful: Evolving highly-simplified or highly-optimized, one-of-a-kind chips or devices for very specific tasks with disregard for reproduction of the device.
It doesn't matter if you can't reproduce the machine, as long as it produces the desired output.
Thoughts?
p.s. I read this account before on/. - is this in fact a true account? I don't mean to strike at you, I simply remain highly-skeptical and higly-hopeful. I would like to see some citation. After all, I seem to recall hearing a similar story about GA and FPGA, complete with the inability to reproduce the outcome - only in that case (in my memory) I recall the function of the chip or device to have been caused or enabled by some other electronic device in the room outputting some kind of interference at a regular interval.
p.p.s and to move slightly back on topic, if persistent current exists, the that seems a step-towards cold-computing, or persistent computing: correct me if I am mistaken.
Although it can be true that at least the initial state of an EA (or more specifically its genes) can in fact be random, it's very easy to just call a complex or different string of data 'random' when in fact it is not.
I suppose, then, that unpredictable also != random. Take for example that future states of cellular automata using deterministic rules cannot be predicted, but are by no way random.
I still hold that randomness is vital for, but certainly I now begin to think it is often overstated in, evolutionary regards.
And your reply's voice did not make me feel pounced-on in any way! I appreciate prompt pointing-out of any potential oversights in my reasoning.
After all, why wouldn't one want to know when they are missing something?
This type of decision making might simply be an evolutionarily-selected random seeding.
For example, when running an evolutionary algorithm, it is vital to have randomness seeded into the mix. This allows for the system or algorithm to escape from local maxima.
Douglas Adams had a great quote at the end of one of his last lectures regarding humans' re-invention of everything - nothing is ever 'good enough': http://www.guba.com/watch/3000053272
Perhaps this is all that just random, unpredictable outcomes from a horrendously complex system we call the brain, which has emerged out of a random, unpredictable and horrendously complex universe.
Done correctly, the delay could be on par with the delay inherent in the wiimote - which is noticeable to the observant- but completely doable.
now, of course, add the wireless controller delay AND the streaming delay and a problem does arise.
Some games would be more tolerant to this UI lag - but FPS and sim games would definitely be affected.
A plus side of this in respect to shooters and real-time action games, is that in a multiplayer environment all client data is server-side, making hacking much more difficult, and aim-bots and such practically impossible.
Was just discussing the feasibility of this not long ago actually: streaming a game experience to your system.
There are ways to mitigate the problem - like have your cockpit/gun view still client side, but stream the 3d world with a little extra visual data on the periphery.
Many couples have spent their life savings caring for a sick child - I view this as preventative medicine.
So the technology which allows selection for conditions also means parents can also choose hair color and such, what's the big deal?
If I get a cast for a broken arm, what's wrong with choosing a cool color too?
Still, in my moderate mode I must agree that the shallowness of individuals affecting the future of another person is sad, but as I phrased it there, it should be evident that this is nothing new.
These 500+ page bills; how is it arguable that documents of that length are not asinine? I recently tried to read the Microsoft privacy statement and EULA for Office (kind of paltry legal docs, relatively speaking) and gave up after 10 minutes.
Something akin to cognitive dissonance had arisen, and like I do with any document/book which causes that - I tossed it.
I can understand when computer code achieves a size like this, or scientific studies, but really - law becomes more and more esoteric, even while it becomes slower and slower to adapt to modern technological and subsequent social conventions.
I await that hoped-for day when that mythical AI which is trillions of times smarter (or at least has trillions of times the patience and time) than us looks through these, to it, crayon drawings, and distills the circular reasonings, contradictions and plain nonsense into a succinctly digestible form understandable to that mythical 'reasonable person' so that we can all have a good laugh....or until it launches legions of red glowing-eyed, humanoid military robots to wipe us out.
Taking a military standpoint is a way to make progress.
Every day thousands take much greater than 5% risks undertaking missions far less glamorized, and perhaps really far less important than space exploration.
5% risk in a life-saving operation sounds ideal given the alternative. After all, in reality, isn't space exploration a life saving operation?
I'm a big singularity hopeful - however I must admit, begrudgingly, that there seems to be quite a bit of confirmation bias amongst the singularity luminaries.
I had seen this function, but couldn't recall the name.
A beautiful (and strongly supported) counter-example to run-away, or perpetual, exponential growth.
After all, in my mind at least it makes sense to draw at least some analogy between speciation & population growth and technologic progress & adoption.
I just hope the curve doesn't peeter-out before we can develop a mind just baaaarely smarter than us. that's all I think we need.
Of course, in true Slashdottian hyperbole, were this serum to be completely viable, I could see some kind of auto-release nano-canisters being injected into the bloodstream of soldiers, so that in the event of explosive death, an instant release of the substance could assure that all the pieces quickly 'go to sleep' and await pickup/cleanup by the wandering red cross medical roombas for delivery to the reconstruction/reanimation tent.
That would be pretty close to dying and being brought back methinks.
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I want to read something with pictures. I don't want to watch a damn video.
Check khan's interactive transcripts.
Now you can read something with moving pictures.
At least for autonomous vehicles.
I think surveillance isn't bad, so long as it is public and open.
http://www.brainonfire.net/blog/surveillance-for-the-public/ - only result I could find quick google.
I like to think of open surveillance as "big family", as opposed to "big brother".
Can't find any studies or implementations at this moment, but I like to imagine it would work. Still, it feels like this idea is ripe for hole-shooting-into.
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"That poor sweet monkey. Oh well , lets gather him up , theres no sense in letting him go to waste" *licks lips*
Non-Obligatory Futurama reference ;)
It is somewhat useful, depending upon one's use of google earth.
I use google earth to look at things.
I like looking at trees.
I think it's useful :) ...a first person shooter layer would be pretty cool too though!
yet so easy to nay...about the future :)
Never, it seems, is there a lack of anti-capitalist rhetoric on slashdot - but perhaps it is more proper to say there is never a lack of pro-capitalist rhetoric: pro-capitalist ideals being assumed as pro-competitive.
There is something wrong when competition turns into opposition. When an entity actively obstructs the progress of another, not through a product of better fit, but through the slandering or image-tarnishing of a competitors product.
To be fair (someone has to be), evolution has shown that, as a concept, offensive advertisement works. I therefore leave it to you, the reader, to decide if there really is anything wrong with (philosophically speaking) being a skunk.
a) people exploiting this and thus gaming google gaming....or a game in which you do this titled, "gaming google gaming game." and therefore if you cheat in said game you are gaming gaming google gaming....buffallo buffalo buffalo buffalo....
b) in soviet russia, google games you...tube!.....
it's been a while.
Excellent clarification!
My misunderstanding indeed hinged on the fact that the FPGA itself was the only device on which this 'simple' adder could operate (due to specifics of its material structure).. I must have also thought the FPGA itself to be simpler than an analogous, hard-wired circuit.
Thank you :)
(wandering two steps offtopic here)
I think FPGA/GA evolved, silicon specific processing would be useful.
GA and FPGA are two animals of science for which I have great interest.
In this case, although this creation was specific for that silicon the creation was still theoretically more simple than should be possible.
My point is that, even though *mass-production* of "magic chips" may not be possible, simple unit-by-unit production of may be.
For supercomputing tasks or other very specialized areas of computing, there are often one-of-a-kind units anyhow - if some high-performance, or highly-efficient device can in fact be made, I see no huge drawback to using it for at least research purposes.
This is potenitally useful: Evolving highly-simplified or highly-optimized, one-of-a-kind chips or devices for very specific tasks with disregard for reproduction of the device.
It doesn't matter if you can't reproduce the machine, as long as it produces the desired output.
Thoughts?
p.s. I read this account before on /. - is this in fact a true account? I don't mean to strike at you, I simply remain highly-skeptical and higly-hopeful. I would like to see some citation. After all, I seem to recall hearing a similar story about GA and FPGA, complete with the inability to reproduce the outcome - only in that case (in my memory) I recall the function of the chip or device to have been caused or enabled by some other electronic device in the room outputting some kind of interference at a regular interval.
p.p.s and to move slightly back on topic, if persistent current exists, the that seems a step-towards cold-computing, or persistent computing: correct me if I am mistaken.
I think I see - different != random
Enlightening!
Although it can be true that at least the initial state of an EA (or more specifically its genes) can in fact be random, it's very easy to just call a complex or different string of data 'random' when in fact it is not.
I suppose, then, that unpredictable also != random. Take for example that future states of cellular automata using deterministic rules cannot be predicted, but are by no way random.
I still hold that randomness is vital for, but certainly I now begin to think it is often overstated in, evolutionary regards.
And your reply's voice did not make me feel pounced-on in any way! I appreciate prompt pointing-out of any potential oversights in my reasoning.
After all, why wouldn't one want to know when they are missing something?
This type of decision making might simply be an evolutionarily-selected random seeding.
For example, when running an evolutionary algorithm, it is vital to have randomness seeded into the mix. This allows for the system or algorithm to escape from local maxima.
Douglas Adams had a great quote at the end of one of his last lectures regarding humans' re-invention of everything - nothing is ever 'good enough': http://www.guba.com/watch/3000053272
Perhaps this is all that just random, unpredictable outcomes from a horrendously complex system we call the brain, which has emerged out of a random, unpredictable and horrendously complex universe.
Done correctly, the delay could be on par with the delay inherent in the wiimote - which is noticeable to the observant- but completely doable.
now, of course, add the wireless controller delay AND the streaming delay and a problem does arise.
Some games would be more tolerant to this UI lag - but FPS and sim games would definitely be affected.
A plus side of this in respect to shooters and real-time action games, is that in a multiplayer environment all client data is server-side, making hacking much more difficult, and aim-bots and such practically impossible.
Was just discussing the feasibility of this not long ago actually: streaming a game experience to your system.
There are ways to mitigate the problem - like have your cockpit/gun view still client side, but stream the 3d world with a little extra visual data on the periphery.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTxW3GWZ5hI
They need to work on the restraint systems, but other than that it looks like it's working great!
Many couples have spent their life savings caring for a sick child - I view this as preventative medicine.
So the technology which allows selection for conditions also means parents can also choose hair color and such, what's the big deal?
If I get a cast for a broken arm, what's wrong with choosing a cool color too?
Still, in my moderate mode I must agree that the shallowness of individuals affecting the future of another person is sad, but as I phrased it there, it should be evident that this is nothing new.
http://thelazysci-fiauthor.blogspot.com/2007/07/observation-via-entangled-computers.html
but kind of different.
These 500+ page bills; how is it arguable that documents of that length are not asinine? I recently tried to read the Microsoft privacy statement and EULA for Office (kind of paltry legal docs, relatively speaking) and gave up after 10 minutes.
Something akin to cognitive dissonance had arisen, and like I do with any document/book which causes that - I tossed it.
I can understand when computer code achieves a size like this, or scientific studies, but really - law becomes more and more esoteric, even while it becomes slower and slower to adapt to modern technological and subsequent social conventions.
I await that hoped-for day when that mythical AI which is trillions of times smarter (or at least has trillions of times the patience and time) than us looks through these, to it, crayon drawings, and distills the circular reasonings, contradictions and plain nonsense into a succinctly digestible form understandable to that mythical 'reasonable person' so that we can all have a good laugh. ...or until it launches legions of red glowing-eyed, humanoid military robots to wipe us out.
Either outcome is fine with me.
Taking a military standpoint is a way to make progress.
Every day thousands take much greater than 5% risks undertaking missions far less glamorized, and perhaps really far less important than space exploration.
5% risk in a life-saving operation sounds ideal given the alternative. After all, in reality, isn't space exploration a life saving operation?
Thank goodness for you math geeks.
I'm a big singularity hopeful - however I must admit, begrudgingly, that there seems to be quite a bit of confirmation bias amongst the singularity luminaries.
I had seen this function, but couldn't recall the name.
A beautiful (and strongly supported) counter-example to run-away, or perpetual, exponential growth.
After all, in my mind at least it makes sense to draw at least some analogy between speciation & population growth and technologic progress & adoption.
I just hope the curve doesn't peeter-out before we can develop a mind just baaaarely smarter than us. that's all I think we need.
I am happy to hear this: Wind (and solar) does seem to be a very elegant energy solution.
I do note, however, that the report seems to assume wind-based power generation as taking place with traditional turbines.
The question arises in my mind if the use of the windbelt technology might offer additional gains in this respect?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windbelt
My searches for use or deployment of the windbelt seem to garner sparse results...any info out there?
is the windbelt indeed a more effecient method of wind-power generation? Or are turbines still the way to go?
They will have to invent square roombas.
You just blew my mind.
Semantics, agreed.
Of course, in true Slashdottian hyperbole, were this serum to be completely viable, I could see some kind of auto-release nano-canisters being injected into the bloodstream of soldiers, so that in the event of explosive death, an instant release of the substance could assure that all the pieces quickly 'go to sleep' and await pickup/cleanup by the wandering red cross medical roombas for delivery to the reconstruction/reanimation tent.
That would be pretty close to dying and being brought back methinks.
Might make a good extreme sport as well!
...The creators must have taken their notes from this http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/video-game-skills.php
And I can't even find a single Phillips screwdriver in my own closet!