I don't know about Quake3 scripting. But Unreal
Script in (what else) Unreal and Unreal tournament, looks like a very nice language, very
java-ish, but compiled (once per level entry i think), and with the addition of "states" to the Object Oriented language. Because depend on what state the object is in, method with the same name, but in different state blocks are called. Really nifty.
He's more than a Geek, he's a published physicist
and as you can see from the web site with stories
like the plank dive, is not a afraid to put really
heavy physics in to his hard sci-fi stories.
I don't know how google to it. But typical the
main over head is the inverse file, for every word on every page, you just need the number of the page it was in and the word position on that byte. So the Google needs around 8-12 bytes per (non stoplisted) word.
But only if you travel slowly, if you can
uniformly accelerate at one-G, then i a little
less than a year, nothing not even light will
be able to catch up with you.
"There is NO technological imperative in biology/evolution."
Are you sure, given war or more gentle competition
between to cilivisions, technological advance is
a huge factor in who wins.
Now, I grant you that there is no biological
imperative to the creation of an animal with
the general inteligance need for technology.
However once a speices as general inteligance
and comminication, then there pretty much going
to try every way of living they can think of
and once that happens you get evolution (of the
Lamacken kind), appling to cilivisions. Wile
any of the intelligent speices is free to try
new things, the evolution of the cilivision to
a technology advanced form is pretty much forced, by war or competition.
1. something unexpected kills all of them,e.g. Trying to measure the mass of the Higg Boson, squashes the planet down to the size of a pea, (lexx)
2. They find an easier way to expand and grow
than travelling through the galaxy. e.g.
Knowledge of Quantum Gravity allows them to build
basement universes, creating space-time, energy
and matter to order. In which case filling the
galaxy becomes pointless. They still might be
a reason to talk to other cilivisions through, and
that is to trade stories and culture.
Actually, you don't even need organ freezing
to be perfect or even good for Cryonics to work.
The frozen brains need not be viable as a transplant organ, they merely needs to be enough
structure left in the brain for it still to be
possible to calculate exactly what the brain was
like when it was alive. If that is happens and
humans continue to make technological progress, then eventially frozen brain can be reconstructed in a new body or uploaded into a computer and emulated there.
Not in 3 dimensions. In 2 and 4 dimension, you
can have particles called anyons, with non
half integral spin, which are something between
bosons and fermions. Also the fractionally
quantum hall effect has fractional quantum
numbers. However the parent article is right
when it comes to atoms, you cannot have fractionally quantum states on a hydrogen atom,
without quantum mechanics being wrong.
No, Woody Allen played Jimmy Bond, Jame's weedy
and evil cousin aka Dr Noah, in Casino Royale.
All the other UK agents were named James Bond
to confuse the enemy but David Niven was the
real one, with Peter Sellers, Evelin Trimble-James Bond,
being the Card Playing James Bond. As you can guess i kinda liked that movie,
which is sort of a forerunner to Austin Powers in its Spoof
up James Bond style. Which reminds me i'm
looking forward to GoldMember.
Its the slut effect. Girls with no social links
sleep around because that the only way they can
get avoid being lonely. There is a lot less sex
in suburbia where the 18-30 years old still live with there parents.
Corollary, if you want to get laid or find a partner find a town full of young people who have recently moved there to work. e.g. If you leave in London's Suburbs try Brighton.
Yes they would be detected by the shower of particles produced by the (very rapid) Hawking radiation decay of the black holes. Its in the article except they didn't mention Hawking radiation by name.
Artifical Intellegence vs Uploads
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True Names
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Why would super human intellegent AIs, be
devoloped before the technology for Uploading
human minds into a computer?
Evolution has been working nearly a billion years
with a population count of billion upon billion, on producing integellence, only once at the
end of this time as produced integllence. Hopefully its just plain hard to produce an general purpose self aware intellegence and human uploads will be ones running a post singilarty world.
On the other hand, what would be the difference
between a human uploads and a constructed AI.
Humans have been knowned to think and do practicly
anything no matter how wacked out. Would an AI
be any different. In general bad ideas means bad
actions, and human programming comes from your
environment not genetics.
ISPs imposing rules on there customers, is only
effective when there is no competition. The
barriers to running an ISP aren't very big. Ones
that block popular services will some lose
customers to ones that don't.
And way are you talking about ftp servers, the
articles was mentioning much easier to use and
more modern peer to peer systems.
Its a lot more difficult to detect copyright
violating file transfers, when the data is all
encrypted as in freenet,
or when different chunks of the file come from
different users as in E-donkey.
"explosion doesn't change the object's center of gravity"
Quite true, as long a all the matter is inside
the sphere of the earth orbit the gravity will
be the same. However once it is a long
distance outside that sphere it ceases to have
any effect.
According to general relavity, the attractive effect
of gravity comes from not matter but energy,
(actually the source is called the Energy Momentum
tensor, and includes pressure as well). So photons
from the sun have exactly the same effect as the
matter of the sun. However once the light has
passed into deep space the gravity reduces.
Exactly, ASM programmers. Actual compilers
are no where near dealing with all the toys
in IA64, so your left with programs that run
slower on IA64 than existing Sparc, Alpha and
X86 machines.
AMDs going for a slightly different track, AMD
is the only one trying to put 64-bit on the
desktop. Now for us linux freaks SUSE Linux
and NetBSB will be fine for a 64-bit desktop,
but if AMD want to lock up some of the market
into x86-64, they really need a mainstream OS.
Unfortainately that means Windows, and "if
we build it they will come" doesn't necessary
work if they is no competition. Still in the
mean time, Crawhammer will be a damn fine 32-bit
chip as well, and Sledgehammer will bring
high-end servers right down to mid range prices.
Quite true. At present String theory doesn't
even seem to be sciences best bet for a
quantum theory of gravity. A theory called
Loop Quantum Gravity, that describes space-time
as network of lines each labelled with a spin,
is rapidly become a much more promising theory.
String theory still requires a space-time for
strings to move in, where as LQG, describes how space time is built. There are already some great results in LQG, including the formula for the Entropy of a black hole, a description of a big bang at zero time, no not a singularity, at that time the universe has a finite but huge curvature equal to 256/(81 G h-bar)
Have a look at the review paper i mentioned above, its excitted
work.
No dual channel Rambus, is what what give the
P4 its bandwidth advantage. But as Nvidia's
Nforce shows dual channel DDR is quite possible,
and gives even more bandwidth. Ram module
for Ram module, DDR has a high bandwidth and
is cheap.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, but now we have an Artifical womb, and
can clone. Men can eliminate women and still
perpetuate the Species as well. Thats
equality for you.
I don't know about Quake3 scripting. But Unreal
Script in (what else) Unreal and Unreal tournament, looks like a very nice language, very
java-ish, but compiled (once per level entry i think), and with the addition of "states" to the Object Oriented language. Because depend on what state the object is in, method with the same name, but in different state blocks are called. Really nifty.
He's more than a Geek, he's a published physicist
and as you can see from the web site with stories
like the plank dive, is not a afraid to put really
heavy physics in to his hard sci-fi stories.
I don't know how google to it. But typical the
main over head is the inverse file, for every word on every page, you just need the number of the page it was in and the word position on that byte. So the Google needs around 8-12 bytes per (non stoplisted) word.
My dad was half indian, half English. My mum
was English. Me and my brother are both white,
(although we tan really while).
Sad but true, the future belongs to the Eloi.
But only if you travel slowly, if you can
uniformly accelerate at one-G, then i a little
less than a year, nothing not even light will
be able to catch up with you.
"There is NO technological imperative in biology/evolution."
Are you sure, given war or more gentle competition
between to cilivisions, technological advance is
a huge factor in who wins.
Now, I grant you that there is no biological
imperative to the creation of an animal with
the general inteligance need for technology.
However once a speices as general inteligance
and comminication, then there pretty much going
to try every way of living they can think of
and once that happens you get evolution (of the
Lamacken kind), appling to cilivisions. Wile
any of the intelligent speices is free to try
new things, the evolution of the cilivision to
a technology advanced form is pretty much forced, by war or competition.
These basicly two chooses:
1. something unexpected kills all of them,e.g. Trying to measure the mass of the Higg Boson, squashes the planet down to the size of a pea, (lexx)
2. They find an easier way to expand and grow
than travelling through the galaxy. e.g.
Knowledge of Quantum Gravity allows them to build
basement universes, creating space-time, energy
and matter to order. In which case filling the
galaxy becomes pointless. They still might be
a reason to talk to other cilivisions through, and
that is to trade stories and culture.
very good point. However this is one way to
get around this. So that we can terroform venus:
1. Build a huge (but thin) sun shield to block out any direct sunlight.
2. Build a large number of huge but thin,
rotateble mirrors in orbit around venus to direct
sunlight at choosen parts of the planet at choosen times.
Thus the sunlight received by any part of venus
at any time is now controllible, and we can
set the climate and weather of venus to our
desire.
Although this would requires a lot of engineering and work, it doesn't require anything out of the
ordinary in technology or physics.
Damn right we're playing god. We have to play God,
because God is too dead or lazy to be bothered
about human suffering.
Actually, you don't even need organ freezing
to be perfect or even good for Cryonics to work.
The frozen brains need not be viable as a transplant organ, they merely needs to be enough
structure left in the brain for it still to be
possible to calculate exactly what the brain was
like when it was alive. If that is happens and
humans continue to make technological progress, then eventially frozen brain can be reconstructed in a new body or uploaded into a computer and emulated there.
Not in 3 dimensions. In 2 and 4 dimension, you
can have particles called anyons, with non
half integral spin, which are something between
bosons and fermions. Also the fractionally
quantum hall effect has fractional quantum
numbers. However the parent article is right
when it comes to atoms, you cannot have fractionally quantum states on a hydrogen atom,
without quantum mechanics being wrong.
and evil cousin aka Dr Noah, in Casino Royale.
All the other UK agents were named James Bond
to confuse the enemy but David Niven was the
real one, with Peter Sellers, Evelin Trimble-James Bond,
being the Card Playing James Bond. As you can guess i kinda liked that movie,
which is sort of a forerunner to Austin Powers in its Spoof
up James Bond style. Which reminds me i'm
looking forward to GoldMember.
Oooh, frisky are we?
sleep around because that the only way they can
get avoid being lonely. There is a lot less sex
in suburbia where the 18-30 years old still live with there parents.
Corollary, if you want to get laid or find a partner find a town full of young people who have recently moved there to work. e.g. If you leave in London's Suburbs try Brighton.
Yes they would be detected by the shower of particles produced by the (very rapid) Hawking radiation decay of the black holes. Its in the article except they didn't mention Hawking radiation by name.
Why would super human intellegent AIs, be
devoloped before the technology for Uploading
human minds into a computer?
Evolution has been working nearly a billion years
with a population count of billion upon billion, on producing integellence, only once at the
end of this time as produced integllence. Hopefully its just plain hard to produce an general purpose self aware intellegence and human uploads will be ones running a post singilarty world.
On the other hand, what would be the difference
between a human uploads and a constructed AI.
Humans have been knowned to think and do practicly
anything no matter how wacked out. Would an AI
be any different. In general bad ideas means bad
actions, and human programming comes from your
environment not genetics.
ISPs imposing rules on there customers, is only
effective when there is no competition. The
barriers to running an ISP aren't very big. Ones
that block popular services will some lose
customers to ones that don't.
And way are you talking about ftp servers, the
articles was mentioning much easier to use and
more modern peer to peer systems.
Its a lot more difficult to detect copyright
violating file transfers, when the data is all
encrypted as in freenet,
or when different chunks of the file come from
different users as in E-donkey.
"explosion doesn't change the object's center of gravity"
Quite true, as long a all the matter is inside
the sphere of the earth orbit the gravity will
be the same. However once it is a long
distance outside that sphere it ceases to have
any effect.
According to general relavity, the attractive effect
of gravity comes from not matter but energy,
(actually the source is called the Energy Momentum
tensor, and includes pressure as well). So photons
from the sun have exactly the same effect as the
matter of the sun. However once the light has
passed into deep space the gravity reduces.
Exactly, ASM programmers. Actual compilers
are no where near dealing with all the toys
in IA64, so your left with programs that run
slower on IA64 than existing Sparc, Alpha and
X86 machines.
is the only one trying to put 64-bit on the
desktop. Now for us linux freaks SUSE Linux
and NetBSB will be fine for a 64-bit desktop,
but if AMD want to lock up some of the market
into x86-64, they really need a mainstream OS.
Unfortainately that means Windows, and "if
we build it they will come" doesn't necessary
work if they is no competition. Still in the
mean time, Crawhammer will be a damn fine 32-bit
chip as well, and Sledgehammer will bring
high-end servers right down to mid range prices.
Quite true. At present String theory doesn't
even seem to be sciences best bet for a
quantum theory of gravity. A theory called
Loop Quantum Gravity, that describes space-time
as network of lines each labelled with a spin,
is rapidly become a much more promising theory.
String theory still requires a space-time for
strings to move in, where as LQG, describes how space time is built. There are already some great results in LQG, including the formula for the Entropy of a black hole, a description of a big bang at zero time, no not a singularity, at that time the universe has a finite but huge curvature equal to 256/(81 G h-bar)
Have a look at the review paper i mentioned above, its excitted
work.
Nice joke, (i hope), if you can relate to
him, your not autistic.
I can totally relate to Autistics, is right
up there with,
Its so nice to meet another solaspist.
Actually, Mating of highly inteligent people,
or for that matter tall people typically
spawn children nearer to the norm than themselves.
No dual channel Rambus, is what what give the
P4 its bandwidth advantage. But as Nvidia's
Nforce shows dual channel DDR is quite possible,
and gives even more bandwidth. Ram module
for Ram module, DDR has a high bandwidth and
is cheap.