"So, are you going to turn that doorknob with your right hand, or your left had?"
My personal favourite is "are you sure you wanna do that?"... usually its in a very innocuous situation, but it sets up the premise that they can never be too sure (and makes it easier to slow down the pace to make sure i keep up with everyone's actions, but that's far too pragmatic to talk about)
I figured the article was pointing more to the brain models like the connectionist and logicist. Although people probably don't expect those models to be good anymore. As someone else pointed out, this seems to imply that even the most basic functions aren't. Which would say that everyone's favourite model of an expert system which uses if->then->else isn't all that useful without being sorta-if->maybe-then->or-possibly-else.
On the other hand, both logic and connection based learning have been stochastic since the 90's (Muggleton's positive learning) and bayes nets, so I think I'm probably contradicting myself in some sort of gray shade:) I'll just make the content a bunch of interesting google topics that don't include neural networks (which are cool and all but so impenetrable): bayes nets, stochastic logic programming, relational markov nets, adaptive bayesian logic programming, relational dependency networks, etc. They are even sometimes less impenetrable than neural networks when it comes to mapping "shades of gray"
Not if the TV doesn't tell them where the polling station is! HA! We got 'em.
You know... all joking aside, I wonder what demographic would really be affected. Or to what extent it might be democratic or republican. I've got a number of creative ways in my head to veer the numbers either direction... tv is so important to the people selling our attention, i'm sure that demographic would be important to them.
makes me wonder, if they aren't metabolizing, do they age? And if they don't age, wouldn't this be a really great way to shut someone 'off" while they await travel to another solar system? I suppose reviving them at the other end wouldn't be obvious:) I wonder how long someone can be in this state and still be revived. I suppose I should just hope to understand the journal article (if I can find it)...
Exactly, we continually increase the size of government taking tax money away to keep other people alive. If they can't be bothered to figure out how to resurrect themselves then I can't be bothered to pay my hard earned cash to have the government do it for them!
The filosophy of all the semeingly nutty google projects is pretty simple : start 10 projects in the hope that one of them becomes wildly successfull. The other 9 are just duds
except they seem to be failing miserably at coming up with duds. No wonder they have everything in beta, can you imagine trying to manage the run of 10 different wildly succesful projects?
the UI event loop. On the process in focus (or wherever the mouse goes so that when you click there is zero perceived time between when you clicked and when the action takes effect.)
For everything else, standard latencies are more than enough (like if you're watching a video in a window in the upper right corner, that's probably not going to skip just because the UI event loop is kicking in, and if it did the user still prefers to get the fast action response because that's where his/her attention is.)
How about no. You should improve your critical thinking skills. It might help you find a better job.
The part where you needed to read between the lines was where I assumed that when I was walking in someone else's shoes it would be in a game experience. I'm more than happy with my life choices, so far, and don't desire to swap.
I don't think my personal shoes would make a very interesting game experience. Your job however sounds like it would be an amusing game (sorta like watching an interactive Chapelle Show episode,) but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be paid enough to do it all day long.
I played this game at the arcade where you fly a passenger plane in Japan. You go through take-off and you go through landing (and if you pass you continue on.) It was pretty fun, and when I smacked into the ground I didn't *actually* kill 140 people.
I've never quite understood the whole "I have real life around me" arguments, because I wouldn't mind walking in someone else's shoes for a bit. Restaurant manager, Oil Tycoon, Airplane pilot. The only thing really wrong with games like that is I'd have a hard time spending $50 on it, so yeah its not practicaly and it probably won't be popular, but I still don't think its an obvious thing to say "oh that's like real-life and therefore boring." Real-life simulators can be really interesting. Especially with save/reload.
Your handle juxtaposed with your message is either Ironic or Serendipitous. Hopefully this message will start a huge flamewar where the answer doesn't come.
That actually made me feel sick for a minute reading it too. Made me think of those makeover shows where they take "totally horrible woman" and make them over (because those women obviously had no redeeming qualities whatsoever... I mean *look* at them!... (sarcasm was here.)... shivers... and to think I usually skoff a bit when people get upset about game characters being over-buxom. I mean sure its a poor image of women or whatever, but it sells the games and hey... jiggling bits... sweet!... but come on lets exploit women in a way that not only doesn't empower them but actually demeans them to a larger extent. That's a special trick... I'd almost hope the people behind this never get laid, but then they probably don't (which is probably the source of the problem.) Sad.
Dude! We came out in record numbers last time... there's just *less* of us. You think *you've* lost faith in our country... try being here *sure*, absolutely *sure*, there was no way Bush would win twice and then having to face up to that the next morning.
Anyway what do you expect of people who's motto is "Be Rational"... a coup d'etat? Ha... I know its stupid and yet I *still* try to focus on logical arguments with the people who complained to me about Kerry killing Vets and trying to force us to buy his *five* million dollar homes. The "Be Rational!" group is going to run in fear and hide in your backyard before we *fix* anything. I mean come on... we've got Hilary Clinton coming... I don't see her converting masses...
Back to the topic, (and just because its popular to try to "curb your expectations") I'm a Christian who does insert faith into his logic, but thinks that notion of Evolution *as* intelligent design (i.e. evolution is an intelligent process by kolmogorov complexity) is the coolest thing I've heard this week!:)
How long did it take humans to verify the proof that cold fusion is viable... I mean not viable... I mean viable? Or better example maybe how long did it take to verify that proof of fermat's last theorem? My number theory professor told us a story about a guy going in for his defence in Mathematics and in the process one of the committee started ignoring him and scribbling... by the end of the defence the committee member had established a much shorter and almost trivial proof of the guy's entire dissertation... I can only imagine... eesh... anyway, my point is that just because humans are in the loop won't ensure flawlessness...
I think it comes down to the basic question, right? Just because someone shows you a long list of steps doesn't mean its true. The computer's steps are too small (which it does seem like it wouldn't be that hard to use a little pattern matching to come up with a few lemmas...) but theorem checking is an easier step, so feasibly maybe its worth starting to build trust in some applications... even as a first pass. I don't think humans should leave the loop... but its not like calculators ended human-kind's ability to calculate... it just crippled it dramatically:)
It sounds like NASA's decision not to use the TransHab inflatable design was politically motivated and the program was axed before it could actually be tested.
God love the privatized space program giving the finger to politics. It seems like normalized space travel might actually exist in my life time. Only downside is the test of whether I actually have the cojones to try it... I could have gone without that emasculation.
The term "defensive patent" is really a euphemism for becoming a member of a patent cartel: the "giants" that Gates talks about, companies like IBM, Apple, Xerox, etc., have amassed huge patent portfolios that they are cross licensing. As a result, they can operate almost completely free of worries over patent infringement, while small companies that don't have cross licensing agreements are at constant risk of being put out of business by any member of that club. Well, Gates's solution to the problem has been to become a member of the cartel.
Maybe its just me, but reading this, I can't get the phrase "Robber Baron" out of my head. Or maybe I'm just thinking antitrust... why do I feel like I'm in the 19th century?
turning the scientific method on its head and looking for causes that fit selected outcomes...
Isn't the whole point of what we do looking for causes? It seems to me it goes backwards when you start looking for specific outcomes to back up your pet theory or whatever.
Personally, I just wish I had a '/' search on school books (especially before a test.)
Come to think of it, vi style controls of a book would be nice. Ability to flip through chapters and such without leaving the home row (hands on the sides.)
Difference of opinion, I think. When someone is seriously wrong with spelling/grammar (and I notice; I'm not really that good at noticing) then I usually just feel sorry for him and his lack of education:)
OTOH, when someone comes at me with a long winded rambling chock full of noticable errors, it comes off as careless (If I assume she knows better. I tend not to notice missing letters or entire words (esp. articles.)) There's a lot more to deciding whether it annoys me: e.g, if its just a friend doing a braindump I could probably not care less myself, but if its someone pulling grammar nazi on me, well, all's fair IMO.
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My personal favourite is "are you sure you wanna do that?" ... usually its in a very innocuous situation, but it sets up the premise that they can never be too sure (and makes it easier to slow down the pace to make sure i keep up with everyone's actions, but that's far too pragmatic to talk about)
On the other hand, both logic and connection based learning have been stochastic since the 90's (Muggleton's positive learning) and bayes nets, so I think I'm probably contradicting myself in some sort of gray shade :) I'll just make the content a bunch of interesting google topics that don't include neural networks (which are cool and all but so impenetrable): bayes nets, stochastic logic programming, relational markov nets, adaptive bayesian logic programming, relational dependency networks, etc. They are even sometimes less impenetrable than neural networks when it comes to mapping "shades of gray"
You know... all joking aside, I wonder what demographic would really be affected. Or to what extent it might be democratic or republican. I've got a number of creative ways in my head to veer the numbers either direction... tv is so important to the people selling our attention, i'm sure that demographic would be important to them.
with Johneee Depp (or however you spell that)... man that would be awesome.
makes me wonder, if they aren't metabolizing, do they age? And if they don't age, wouldn't this be a really great way to shut someone 'off" while they await travel to another solar system? I suppose reviving them at the other end wouldn't be obvious :) I wonder how long someone can be in this state and still be revived. I suppose I should just hope to understand the journal article (if I can find it)...
Exactly, we continually increase the size of government taking tax money away to keep other people alive. If they can't be bothered to figure out how to resurrect themselves then I can't be bothered to pay my hard earned cash to have the government do it for them!
except they seem to be failing miserably at coming up with duds. No wonder they have everything in beta, can you imagine trying to manage the run of 10 different wildly succesful projects?
For everything else, standard latencies are more than enough (like if you're watching a video in a window in the upper right corner, that's probably not going to skip just because the UI event loop is kicking in, and if it did the user still prefers to get the fast action response because that's where his/her attention is.)
Ha! I thought that was a clever way to verbally flip the guy off. :)
The part where you needed to read between the lines was where I assumed that when I was walking in someone else's shoes it would be in a game experience. I'm more than happy with my life choices, so far, and don't desire to swap.
I don't think my personal shoes would make a very interesting game experience. Your job however sounds like it would be an amusing game (sorta like watching an interactive Chapelle Show episode,) but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be paid enough to do it all day long.
I've never quite understood the whole "I have real life around me" arguments, because I wouldn't mind walking in someone else's shoes for a bit. Restaurant manager, Oil Tycoon, Airplane pilot. The only thing really wrong with games like that is I'd have a hard time spending $50 on it, so yeah its not practicaly and it probably won't be popular, but I still don't think its an obvious thing to say "oh that's like real-life and therefore boring." Real-life simulators can be really interesting. Especially with save/reload.
Step 1: Be on TV.
Step 2: Good luck.
ps. if anyone mentions profit in a reply to this... you are dumb.
Just because its well-known doesn't mean its a fact.
obtopic: find $Msg*Handle = Classifier$, minimizing $Classifier = Ironic^t*Serendipitous > 0$.
That actually made me feel sick for a minute reading it too. Made me think of those makeover shows where they take "totally horrible woman" and make them over (because those women obviously had no redeeming qualities whatsoever... I mean *look* at them! ... (sarcasm was here.)... shivers... and to think I usually skoff a bit when people get upset about game characters being over-buxom. I mean sure its a poor image of women or whatever, but it sells the games and hey ... jiggling bits ... sweet! ... but come on lets exploit women in a way that not only doesn't empower them but actually demeans them to a larger extent. That's a special trick... I'd almost hope the people behind this never get laid, but then they probably don't (which is probably the source of the problem.) Sad.
Anyway what do you expect of people who's motto is "Be Rational" ... a coup d'etat? Ha ... I know its stupid and yet I *still* try to focus on logical arguments with the people who complained to me about Kerry killing Vets and trying to force us to buy his *five* million dollar homes. The "Be Rational!" group is going to run in fear and hide in your backyard before we *fix* anything. I mean come on... we've got Hilary Clinton coming... I don't see her converting masses...
Back to the topic, (and just because its popular to try to "curb your expectations") I'm a Christian who does insert faith into his logic, but thinks that notion of Evolution *as* intelligent design (i.e. evolution is an intelligent process by kolmogorov complexity) is the coolest thing I've heard this week! :)
I think it comes down to the basic question, right? Just because someone shows you a long list of steps doesn't mean its true. The computer's steps are too small (which it does seem like it wouldn't be that hard to use a little pattern matching to come up with a few lemmas...) but theorem checking is an easier step, so feasibly maybe its worth starting to build trust in some applications... even as a first pass. I don't think humans should leave the loop... but its not like calculators ended human-kind's ability to calculate... it just crippled it dramatically :)
God love the privatized space program giving the finger to politics. It seems like normalized space travel might actually exist in my life time. Only downside is the test of whether I actually have the cojones to try it... I could have gone without that emasculation.
Maybe its just me, but reading this, I can't get the phrase "Robber Baron" out of my head. Or maybe I'm just thinking antitrust... why do I feel like I'm in the 19th century?
You don't play games online, do you? :)
Isn't the whole point of what we do looking for causes? It seems to me it goes backwards when you start looking for specific outcomes to back up your pet theory or whatever.
I think that's more like "Hey there, bigboy, you want a peice of this?" Not sure, my prostitute to english dictionary might be off.
And save us from the "adults" who think they need to make up for not acting childish enough when they were.
Come to think of it, vi style controls of a book would be nice. Ability to flip through chapters and such without leaving the home row (hands on the sides.)
OTOH, when someone comes at me with a long winded rambling chock full of noticable errors, it comes off as careless (If I assume she knows better. I tend not to notice missing letters or entire words (esp. articles.)) There's a lot more to deciding whether it annoys me: e.g, if its just a friend doing a braindump I could probably not care less myself, but if its someone pulling grammar nazi on me, well, all's fair IMO.