Us Asperger types (speaking only for myself) arent very good at detecting and reacting to other people's emotion. This sounds quite like early dementia.
And by definition "unpredictable". The vast masses or false prophets, who may be very intelligent, cant foresee where these once-in-a-lifetime breakthroughs will come. It's shear arrogance to say there will no more geniuses. Its like saying economists are smart enought to predict and engineer economic depressions.
Either they predict some trend so obvious, everyone already knew it. Else they are mostly wrong. Looks these "December" prediction columns from 10 years ago and you'll see what I mean.
In Colorado people are constantly looking for oil, gold, uranium, diamonds, etc. Few get lucky. Much of the easy stuff was found in the 19th century.
Some new gold mines were discovered in California by petroleum geologists. They discovered buried riverbeds where placer gold concentrates using petroleum seismic sections.
Thats the biggest issue I see with beginning scientists and engineers. They are select problems to work that are too large and they wont make any significant progress. Or they select something trivial that may have been done already.
My college (MIT) offers very few real programming courses. Its presumed that almost everyone had learned how before attending. This was as true 30 years ago when I attended as now.
C++ is old and creaky. You have to work around its defects to properly abstract programming constructs. So someone invents a language you can be productive twice as quickly. That should be a huge advantage.
used oscilloscopes years before memory chip
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Computer screens as we know them, did not start becoming generally available until the mid 1970s. The breakthrough was an inexpensive memory chip large enough to hold 5 by 7 patterns of ascii characters 5 x 7 x 40 (1400 bits) and 80 x 48 screenfull of characters (19K at 6 bits per character). A bit of memory cost about $1 until Intel introduced the first kilobyte chips in 1970 (two years after Englebert's demo) dropping the bit price to pennies in mid 1970s. Then it became practical to sell character computer terminals. Before then computer users used punchcards, punchtapes, teletypes, and line printers.
These were character screens however. Graphics screens took another 10-15 to become personal. The first generation were programmable oscilloscopes, i.e. vector drawing machines. They had their special graphics languages, e.g. GKS, that emulated pen plotters. Limited bit map grapics came in the meantime. Steve Wozniak is famous for one baroque scheme of graphics in the Apple II. It wasnt pure bitmap as we know today. Xerox PARC sold the first B&W bitmaps at $30K a pop ($120K in 2008$). Then about 1980s the first general purpose color raster screen computers came out. At $30K a terminal these were shared in a lab. That was because a megabyte still cost $10K. Finally as memory prices dropped "workstation"-class computers came out around 1985 giving each scientist their personal graphics screen. This was SUN Microsystems original product.
In 2008 I bought a $7 cellphone with 64K pixel color graphics screen.
I much rather be like Scotty on Star Trek who always complains it will take a while to fix the problem and comes back sooner than expected with the fix. In many projects, especially shorter ones, the overhead of negotiating the contract, determining the design, installation, fixing bugs, training customers, etc. can be as long or longer than writing the software.
About one in a thousand births have physical sexual ambiguity. (Some inter-sex advocacy groups claim five in a thousand.)
Sometimes the Y chromosome isnt expressed, or expressed late.
Sometimes there are extras X's and Y's.
When you consider the whole US or world popoulation this means enough people for a whole medical sub-specialty, considering the importance of sexin human affairs.
The Apple I was introduced around 32 years ago at the Stanford SLAC auditorium.
It was a just motherboard. The Steves brought it in a *wood* box
to show how it connected CPU, TV and keyboard together.
A lot of people in club, including myself, worked with computer with more primitive interfaces like dipswitches and punch tape. Some of us thought it would "all the fun out of it" to have a turn-key computer you could take out of a box. We were wrong. There are some grainy movies of us in Revenge of the Nerds. Have these been you-tubed yet?
Because children get 20-30 now over much of childhood. So anecdotally most parents are correct to presume cause and effect. However, most statistically studies say these are bad coincidences when you look at large numbers of children.
When referring to baby boomers, this means Wall Street and housing bubbles.
When to GenY this refers to anything in ht digital domain.
Too many are stealing; just in different places.
So many college students think software writing or consulting is 90% writing code and 10% everything else - selling, delivery, debugging, etc. The they price their business plan or consulting contract accordingly. WRONG! Even a one person startup or consultancy you are lucky to spend 50% coding. ANd this falls to 20% for an established company with the support and sales overhead.
Glad I've only done it dozens of times myself before 2006.
earth is 2 billion years of bug sh*t and farts?
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Crude way of putting it. One organism's waste is another's food. All soil has seen the interior of an organism and so have many of the hard rocks in the top six miles of crust.
what happened to javafx?
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Client-side scripting java-syntax language seamlessly compiled into Java and supported by Sun. Supposed to solve the issue of those third party scripting languages out there.
I dont know how the Brits let the authorities get aways with it. But relative search is routine in Scotland Yard. Also global DNA collections in local neighborhoods is routine. And keeping data forever is routine. The Brits just bend over and take it.
I recall some activity years ago, but haven't followed it or used them. If there were some good ones out there, you might be able to sketch out your own game.
I recall reading about some college classes using such to teach the basic elements of video game authoring. They were powerful enough that students could do something instructive and interesting in ten weeks.
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Us Asperger types (speaking only for myself) arent very good at detecting and reacting to other people's emotion. This sounds quite like early dementia.
And by definition "unpredictable". The vast masses or false prophets, who may be very intelligent, cant foresee where these once-in-a-lifetime breakthroughs will come. It's shear arrogance to say there will no more geniuses. Its like saying economists are smart enought to predict and engineer economic depressions.
Either they predict some trend so obvious, everyone already knew it. Else they are mostly wrong. Looks these "December" prediction columns from 10 years ago and you'll see what I mean.
In Colorado people are constantly looking for oil, gold, uranium, diamonds, etc. Few get lucky. Much of the easy stuff was found in the 19th century.
Some new gold mines were discovered in California by petroleum geologists. They discovered buried riverbeds where placer gold concentrates using petroleum seismic sections.
Thats the biggest issue I see with beginning scientists and engineers. They are select problems to work that are too large and they wont make any significant progress. Or they select something trivial that may have been done already.
If they teachers were half-way good, they'd have high-paying software jobs in industry. The saying is true: "Those who can't, teach".
My college (MIT) offers very few real programming courses. Its presumed that almost everyone had learned how before attending. This was as true 30 years ago when I attended as now.
Slashdot editors are so out of it sometimes.
C++ is old and creaky. You have to work around its defects to properly abstract programming constructs. So someone invents a language you can be productive twice as quickly. That should be a huge advantage.
Computer screens as we know them, did not start becoming generally available until the mid 1970s. The breakthrough was an inexpensive memory chip large enough to hold 5 by 7 patterns of ascii characters 5 x 7 x 40 (1400 bits) and 80 x 48 screenfull of characters (19K at 6 bits per character). A bit of memory cost about $1 until Intel introduced the first kilobyte chips in 1970 (two years after Englebert's demo) dropping the bit price to pennies in mid 1970s. Then it became practical to sell character computer terminals. Before then computer users used punchcards, punchtapes, teletypes, and line printers.
These were character screens however. Graphics screens took another 10-15 to become personal. The first generation were programmable oscilloscopes, i.e. vector drawing machines. They had their special graphics languages, e.g. GKS, that emulated pen plotters. Limited bit map grapics came in the meantime. Steve Wozniak is famous for one baroque scheme of graphics in the Apple II. It wasnt pure bitmap as we know today. Xerox PARC sold the first B&W bitmaps at $30K a pop ($120K in 2008$). Then about 1980s the first general purpose color raster screen computers came out. At $30K a terminal these were shared in a lab. That was because a megabyte still cost $10K. Finally as memory prices dropped "workstation"-class computers came out around 1985 giving each scientist their personal graphics screen. This was SUN Microsystems original product.
In 2008 I bought a $7 cellphone with 64K pixel color graphics screen.
I much rather be like Scotty on Star Trek who always complains it will take a while to fix the problem and comes back sooner than expected with the fix. In many projects, especially shorter ones, the overhead of negotiating the contract, determining the design, installation, fixing bugs, training customers, etc. can be as long or longer than writing the software.
About one in a thousand births have physical sexual ambiguity. (Some inter-sex advocacy groups claim five in a thousand.) Sometimes the Y chromosome isnt expressed, or expressed late. Sometimes there are extras X's and Y's.
When you consider the whole US or world popoulation this means enough people for a whole medical sub-specialty, considering the importance of sexin human affairs.
The Apple I was introduced around 32 years ago at the Stanford SLAC auditorium. It was a just motherboard. The Steves brought it in a *wood* box to show how it connected CPU, TV and keyboard together. A lot of people in club, including myself, worked with computer with more primitive interfaces like dipswitches and punch tape. Some of us thought it would "all the fun out of it" to have a turn-key computer you could take out of a box. We were wrong. There are some grainy movies of us in Revenge of the Nerds. Have these been you-tubed yet?
Because children get 20-30 now over much of childhood. So anecdotally most parents are correct to presume cause and effect. However, most statistically studies say these are bad coincidences when you look at large numbers of children.
When referring to baby boomers, this means Wall Street and housing bubbles. When to GenY this refers to anything in ht digital domain.
Too many are stealing; just in different places.
Because they arent set up to enforce OOP concepts. There are exceptions like Python, Javafx, etc. They end up with BASIC-like spaghetti then.
The condition is common in med students who seem to get sick with whatever conditions they've recently studied.
So many college students think software writing or consulting is 90% writing code and 10% everything else - selling, delivery, debugging, etc. The they price their business plan or consulting contract accordingly. WRONG! Even a one person startup or consultancy you are lucky to spend 50% coding. ANd this falls to 20% for an established company with the support and sales overhead.
That was in one of the blogs. Many wait-staff will refuse separate checks arguing inconvenience or low-class.
Glad I've only done it dozens of times myself before 2006.
Crude way of putting it. One organism's waste is another's food. All soil has seen the interior of an organism and so have many of the hard rocks in the top six miles of crust.
Client-side scripting java-syntax language seamlessly compiled into Java and supported by Sun. Supposed to solve the issue of those third party scripting languages out there.
I dont know how the Brits let the authorities get aways with it. But relative search is routine in Scotland Yard. Also global DNA collections in local neighborhoods is routine. And keeping data forever is routine. The Brits just bend over and take it.
I recall some activity years ago, but haven't followed it or used them. If there were some good ones out there, you might be able to sketch out your own game.
I recall reading about some college classes using such to teach the basic elements of video game authoring. They were powerful enough that students could do something instructive and interesting in ten weeks.
The did have larger brains. Although its the extra layers in our neocortex and extra wired that makes humans smarter than apes, not just brain size.
High intelligence may eventual extinguish our race like the Neandertals.