We outnumber them. Also, the rich validate themselves in terms of others being worse off than they are. They need us more than we need them. Once we realize that, we can vote to end the artificial scarcity of money and empower individuals to create the technology that will give the rich the attention they so crave but fear they can't command unless they have a divine, exclusive right to resource creation and allocation.
The data is stored in natural language. The ambiguity of natural language is its strength, allowing it to adapt to changing conditions, thus making it flexible and evolutionarily more fit.
While the second law of thermodynamics predicts that the entropy of an isolated system should tend to increase until it reaches equilibrium, it became apparent after the discovery of statistical mechanics that the second law is only a statistical one, suggesting that there should always be some nonzero probability that the entropy of an isolated system might spontaneously decrease; the fluctuation theorem precisely quantifies this probability.
(I suspect some emotional physicist-wannabe got an attack of cognitive dissonance when he saw this post and responded reflexively by down-rating it.)
Classroom lectures are, literally, old school. Using online presentation tools instead of adhering to the old physical classroom format means you don't have to deal with chalk dust, for example, or taking the time to erase a black-or-white board. You can do retakes. Distracting coughs, etc. from the audience can be eliminated. And the teachers can be more themselves, more in control of what they present. They can take themselves out of the picture and focus on what they're trying to communicate on the screen, instead of having to worry about obscuring someone's (or the camera's) view while writing on a physical blackboard.
In the 1980s and '90s, educational psychologists systematically studied the effects of grades. As I've reported elsewhere (Kohn, 1999a, 1999b, 1999c), when students from elementary school to college who are led to focus on grades are compared with those who aren't, the results support three robust conclusions:
* Grades tend to diminish students' interest in whatever they're learning. [...] * Grades create a preference for the easiest possible task. [...] * Grades tend to reduce the quality of students' thinking. [...] It follows that all assessment must be done carefully and sparingly lest students become so concerned about their achievement (how good they are at doing something -- or, worse, how their performance compares to others') that they're no longer thinking about the learning itself.
Since pigeons seem to have been around for at least 23 million years, during which perhaps 40-50 pole reversals have occurred (according to the wikipedia article), they probably have some evolutionary method of dealing with it...
Your lack of empathy for these fellow-mortals is contemptible, my dear sir. Please repair your relation to Nature's social union.
To a Mouse
Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beastie, O, what panic's in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi' bickering brattle! I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee, Wi' murd'ring pattle!
I'm truly sorry Man's dominion Has broken Nature's social union, An' justifies that ill opinion, Which makes thee startle, At me, thy poor, earth-born companion, An' fellow-mortal!
I doubt na, whyles, but thou may thieve; What then? poor beastie, thou maun live! A daimen-icker in a thrave 'S a sma' request: I'll get a blessin wi' the lave, An' never miss't!
Thy wee-bit housie, too, in ruin! It's silly wa's the win's are strewin! An' naething, now, to big a new ane, O' foggage green! An' bleak December's winds ensuin, Baith snell an' keen!
Thou saw the fields laid bare an' wast, An' weary Winter comin fast, An' cozie here, beneath the blast, Thou thought to dwell, Till crash! the cruel coulter past Out thro' thy cell.
That wee-bit heap o' leaves an' stibble, Has cost thee monie a weary nibble! Now thou's turn'd out, for a' thy trouble, But house or hald. To thole the Winter's sleety dribble, An' cranreuch cauld!
But Mousie, thou are no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy!
Still, thou art blest, compar'd wi' me! The present only toucheth thee: But Och! I backward cast my e'e, On prospects drear! An' forward, tho' I canna see, I guess an' fear!
That could be because they get an advantage out of denying their abilities, while making use of them (perhaps unconcsiously). Like a "Family Values" proponent soliciting gay sex in bathrooms...
Did Aristarchos of Samos know in the 3rd century BC that the earth revolved around the sun? If not, did the Greeks who argued against him by saying: "If the Earth revolves around the Sun, we should see parallax motion of the stars. We don't see parallax motion of the stars. Therefore, the Earth does not revolve around the Sun." know better than him? (The reason they couldn't see parallax motion was that their instruments weren't sensitive enough...)
Japan's inflation rate is -0.2% and its unemployment is 4.5%. They need to create more money to invest in technology and the advance of knowledge, because that is what improves survival fitness by better enabling prediction and adaptation to sudden catastrophic change.
The problem with statistical AI, for me, is that I want to correct it when it makes a mistake; but the Stanford Lexparser, for example, has no way to let me do that, while the program's running. I think being able to communicate with a running program, teach it at runtime (as you would a kid), ask it why it answered the way it did and tell it why it was wrong, is essential to AI. The statistical AI approach does not address the importance of feedback in the form of "expert system" type rules and other heuristics.
A hybrid. multi-agent approach that includes many different techniques is likely to prove best. That's my working hypothesis:)
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Everyone could have a virtual cruise liner...
We outnumber them. Also, the rich validate themselves in terms of others being worse off than they are. They need us more than we need them. Once we realize that, we can vote to end the artificial scarcity of money and empower individuals to create the technology that will give the rich the attention they so crave but fear they can't command unless they have a divine, exclusive right to resource creation and allocation.
The data is stored in natural language. The ambiguity of natural language is its strength, allowing it to adapt to changing conditions, thus making it flexible and evolutionarily more fit.
"The problem with using the second law of thermodynamics for this is that it is a statistical observation, not a natural law."
Why was this modded down?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluctuation_theorem:
(I suspect some emotional physicist-wannabe got an attack of cognitive dissonance when he saw this post and responded reflexively by down-rating it.)
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
Classroom lectures are, literally, old school. Using online presentation tools instead of adhering to the old physical classroom format means you don't have to deal with chalk dust, for example, or taking the time to erase a black-or-white board. You can do retakes. Distracting coughs, etc. from the audience can be eliminated. And the teachers can be more themselves, more in control of what they present. They can take themselves out of the picture and focus on what they're trying to communicate on the screen, instead of having to worry about obscuring someone's (or the camera's) view while writing on a physical blackboard.
What if you could present the chapter in such a way that I didn't fall asleep when reading it?
" If you don't like it, you march yourself down to the registers office, and un-enroll and get your money back."
Can we also complain about it and point out why we think teachers keeping a closed fist around knowledge is counterproductive?
http://www.alfiekohn.org/index.php
From "The Case Against Grades":
Drugs are illegal mostly because some people want to control others. I guess you threw in your lot with the political power junkies?
Since pigeons seem to have been around for at least 23 million years, during which perhaps 40-50 pole reversals have occurred (according to the wikipedia article), they probably have some evolutionary method of dealing with it...
Your lack of empathy for these fellow-mortals is contemptible, my dear sir. Please repair your relation to Nature's social union.
To a Mouse
Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beastie,
O, what panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi' bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee,
Wi' murd'ring pattle!
I'm truly sorry Man's dominion
Has broken Nature's social union,
An' justifies that ill opinion,
Which makes thee startle,
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,
An' fellow-mortal!
I doubt na, whyles, but thou may thieve;
What then? poor beastie, thou maun live!
A daimen-icker in a thrave 'S a sma' request:
I'll get a blessin wi' the lave,
An' never miss't!
Thy wee-bit housie, too, in ruin!
It's silly wa's the win's are strewin!
An' naething, now, to big a new ane,
O' foggage green!
An' bleak December's winds ensuin,
Baith snell an' keen!
Thou saw the fields laid bare an' wast,
An' weary Winter comin fast,
An' cozie here, beneath the blast,
Thou thought to dwell,
Till crash! the cruel coulter past
Out thro' thy cell.
That wee-bit heap o' leaves an' stibble,
Has cost thee monie a weary nibble!
Now thou's turn'd out, for a' thy trouble,
But house or hald.
To thole the Winter's sleety dribble,
An' cranreuch cauld!
But Mousie, thou are no thy-lane,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men,
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!
Still, thou art blest, compar'd wi' me!
The present only toucheth thee:
But Och! I backward cast my e'e,
On prospects drear!
An' forward, tho' I canna see,
I guess an' fear!
That could be because they get an advantage out of denying their abilities, while making use of them (perhaps unconcsiously). Like a "Family Values" proponent soliciting gay sex in bathrooms...
Also, what was Jobs's "reality distortion field"?
Did you use psi abilities to divine that?
Soon all cars will be driverless. Like, how many horse-and-carriages do you see at those South Carolina intersections these days?
What about Arthur Samuel's checker program that learned to play better than he could?
Do you really want self-driving cars to feel road rage?
Did Aristarchos of Samos know in the 3rd century BC that the earth revolved around the sun? If not, did the Greeks who argued against him by saying: "If the Earth revolves around the Sun, we should see parallax motion of the stars. We don't see parallax motion of the stars. Therefore, the Earth does not revolve around the Sun." know better than him? (The reason they couldn't see parallax motion was that their instruments weren't sensitive enough...)
Unalienable rights are unalienable by religions.
Knowledge growth is the important thing.
Japan has deflation, not inflation. Their currency is not being destroyed, they consider it too high.
Japan thinks its currency is too high, and is hurting their exports. They should create more money.
Japan's inflation rate is -0.2% and its unemployment is 4.5%. They need to create more money to invest in technology and the advance of knowledge, because that is what improves survival fitness by better enabling prediction and adaptation to sudden catastrophic change.
Japan will marginalise globalisation with 3D printers, making China's cheap labor advantage irrelevant.
And a currency they consider too high. They should create more money!
The problem with statistical AI, for me, is that I want to correct it when it makes a mistake; but the Stanford Lexparser, for example, has no way to let me do that, while the program's running. I think being able to communicate with a running program, teach it at runtime (as you would a kid), ask it why it answered the way it did and tell it why it was wrong, is essential to AI. The statistical AI approach does not address the importance of feedback in the form of "expert system" type rules and other heuristics.
A hybrid. multi-agent approach that includes many different techniques is likely to prove best. That's my working hypothesis :)