Back in the 1980s Steve Jobs started his workstation company NeXT. His staff was pretty forward-looking and deduced the cutting edge software would be written in an Object Oriented paradigm. However there was almost nothing commercially supported out there, with exception of Objective-C. Many people thought a "C"-like language would be the future. C++ was mainly a slow, buggy research lab project at the time. But because it mostly free and you could see the source, the open-source community gravitated toward it and improved it. And the rest is history. Save Apple still stuck in the 1980s.
You are basically remembering old experiences, but arranging them into new combinations, either intentionally or subconsciously. So imagination and introspection are both aspects of extended memory. Our larger neocortexes with extra layers of neurons compared to lower mammals facilitated extended memory. Lower mammals dont have the extra gray matter to "ponder".
I might emulate this process in a day-dream machine by creating "extended memory" systems.
Outside of a few hit books and DvDs they cant afford to buy much anymore in this recession. Ironically poor citizen replace their broadband and Netflix with the library, heating up demand for limited resources even more.
Because they are not financially viable yet. These computing experiments may test ideas such as billion cores, optical interconnect, etc. Because sometimes these technologies pan out and sometimes they dont, I support a limited number of high-end projects at a time.
I remember a similar cry in the 1980s that Japan was going whip the USA in fifth-generation A.I. computing, unless the US government ponied up much more R&D funds. Turned Japan was pursuing a blind ally with fine-grained parallelism and Prolog. Such projects in both the US and Japan went nowhere.
One earth, in very dry places, they sit out in the open too- nothing to cover them up or rust them. There is a spot in Antarctica with minimal snow accumulation and lots of meteroites just sitting there. Some sandless deserts too.
That was by Douglas Englebart about four miles away and 8 years before Xerox PARC, but in a similar liberated research department. He also invented the concept of virtual screens (windows) and icons. This was in the era of when computer graphics devices were just souped-up oscilloscopes: vector-drawing only. The software research groups shared ideas more openly then, probably no one imagined you could make money off these expensive toys then. The SRI was established to sequester military R&D funds from the main Stanford campus during the era of anti-war protests.
The number was the low threshhold the science magazine report used to detect the plume. The higher number is if all 1.25M barrels was still lurking inside the 35 km^3 plume. You could probably see neither by eye in a bottle of the plume, but taste the higher-end concentration. The most toxic component- benzene- is considered dangerous more than 5 ppb. That lightweight component is also one of the quickest to degrade. And these were July data, a little before the well was capped. We wonder what two more months of microbial attack and current dilution has done.
More likely, much of the plume has settled out as slow-to-degrade asphaltines on the seabed soils. In some places it may be a scum layer or visible staining.
They both have large armadas of computer science projects that are not being successfully commercialized. I suspect these are not as profound developments as Xerox's was. But only time can tell.
I climb peaks as high as Pikes Peak frequently. You can walk around a corner and it can be 60 mph. The winds change by the hour as sun and shadow changes the temps. Lower flying in the mountatins is not for the inexperienced. And it kills many experienced as well.
Its a much broader degree than in the USA, including many business, science, and vocational majors. Parents pretty much expect their sons in college study engineering. Colleges comply by calling more subjects engineering.
A similar misconception arises when with the saying "China [or India] graduates many more engineers than the USA". When you normalize for the fact that engineering Asia covers things not considered engineering in the USA, then the difference is not that great.
Between that and military registration are some lame excuses I've heard for avoiding progressing to citizenship. I doubt whether this applied to Linus.
Its not software, but the modern user interface which troubles Mr. Carr.
In the pre-computer eras you spent relatively long periods of time on a single intellectual task like reading. Modern computers allow to "graze" many intellectual activities and reading sources quickly. Mr. Carr suggest this grazing activity is decreasing our intellect.
Cheap and convenient ebooks may return some of use to more sustained reading.
Several philosophies suggest moderating your wants to maximize your happiness (Budbhism, Epicurianism). Beyond the absolute necessity for shelter and food, one should adjust there wants to be less their means.
I heard Hazen's audio book on the life's origins a few months back. He discusses how life may have began in an extreme environment( hi P, hi T, hi PH) before migrating to the more mild ecological niches it occupies today. Certain basic reactions that need catalysts/enzymes now may have had less of a need for those in an extreme environment. Then these catalysts which themselves are carbo-proteins could bootstap from other proteins, allowing life to move into the less extreme environments.
With their multi-billion investment in youtube. They need to find the good stuff in there. All five seconds of it!:-)
Security camera firms have similar issue. My grocery store has over 50 cameras because they are so cheap. But I doubt they have the eyeballs to view a small fraction of it.
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Back in the 1980s Steve Jobs started his workstation company NeXT. His staff was pretty forward-looking and deduced the cutting edge software would be written in an Object Oriented paradigm. However there was almost nothing commercially supported out there, with exception of Objective-C. Many people thought a "C"-like language would be the future. C++ was mainly a slow, buggy research lab project at the time. But because it mostly free and you could see the source, the open-source community gravitated toward it and improved it. And the rest is history. Save Apple still stuck in the 1980s.
You are basically remembering old experiences, but arranging them into new combinations, either intentionally or subconsciously. So imagination and introspection are both aspects of extended memory. Our larger neocortexes with extra layers of neurons compared to lower mammals facilitated extended memory. Lower mammals dont have the extra gray matter to "ponder".
I might emulate this process in a day-dream machine by creating "extended memory" systems.
Outside of a few hit books and DvDs they cant afford to buy much anymore in this recession. Ironically poor citizen replace their broadband and Netflix with the library, heating up demand for limited resources even more.
Because they are not financially viable yet. These computing experiments may test ideas such as billion cores, optical interconnect, etc. Because sometimes these technologies pan out and sometimes they dont, I support a limited number of high-end projects at a time.
I remember a similar cry in the 1980s that Japan was going whip the USA in fifth-generation A.I. computing, unless the US government ponied up much more R&D funds. Turned Japan was pursuing a blind ally with fine-grained parallelism and Prolog. Such projects in both the US and Japan went nowhere.
My suspicious is these are co-symptoms of Alzheimers and not the real cause. The results may be limited.
One earth, in very dry places, they sit out in the open too- nothing to cover them up or rust them. There is a spot in Antarctica with minimal snow accumulation and lots of meteroites just sitting there. Some sandless deserts too.
And the infinitely dense primordial energy soup came into being. CERN has nearly recreated it.
That was by Douglas Englebart about four miles away and 8 years before Xerox PARC, but in a similar liberated research department. He also invented the concept of virtual screens (windows) and icons. This was in the era of when computer graphics devices were just souped-up oscilloscopes: vector-drawing only. The software research groups shared ideas more openly then, probably no one imagined you could make money off these expensive toys then. The SRI was established to sequester military R&D funds from the main Stanford campus during the era of anti-war protests.
The number was the low threshhold the science magazine report used to detect the plume. The higher number is if all 1.25M barrels was still lurking inside the 35 km^3 plume. You could probably see neither by eye in a bottle of the plume, but taste the higher-end concentration. The most toxic component- benzene- is considered dangerous more than 5 ppb. That lightweight component is also one of the quickest to degrade. And these were July data, a little before the well was capped. We wonder what two more months of microbial attack and current dilution has done.
More likely, much of the plume has settled out as slow-to-degrade asphaltines on the seabed soils. In some places it may be a scum layer or visible staining.
They both have large armadas of computer science projects that are not being successfully commercialized. I suspect these are not as profound developments as Xerox's was. But only time can tell.
I climb peaks as high as Pikes Peak frequently. You can walk around a corner and it can be 60 mph. The winds change by the hour as sun and shadow changes the temps. Lower flying in the mountatins is not for the inexperienced. And it kills many experienced as well.
Its a much broader degree than in the USA, including many business, science, and vocational majors. Parents pretty much expect their sons in college study engineering. Colleges comply by calling more subjects engineering.
A similar misconception arises when with the saying "China [or India] graduates many more engineers than the USA". When you normalize for the fact that engineering Asia covers things not considered engineering in the USA, then the difference is not that great.
That is John Baez crackpot test .
They recently wrotes "physics of everything" books.
Between that and military registration are some lame excuses I've heard for avoiding progressing to citizenship. I doubt whether this applied to Linus.
Every year they can do more detail models. And they become clever in modeling. For example, aggregate gravity fields.
Its not software, but the modern user interface which troubles Mr. Carr.
In the pre-computer eras you spent relatively long periods of time on a single intellectual task like reading. Modern computers allow to "graze" many intellectual activities and reading sources quickly. Mr. Carr suggest this grazing activity is decreasing our intellect.
Cheap and convenient ebooks may return some of use to more sustained reading.
That was Apple's innovation. Everyone else was going for miniaturizing the desktop experience, which has not worked yet.
The students are pretty much zombies.
Several philosophies suggest moderating your wants to maximize your happiness (Budbhism, Epicurianism). Beyond the absolute necessity for shelter and food, one should adjust there wants to be less their means.
I heard Hazen's audio book on the life's origins a few months back. He discusses how life may have began in an extreme environment( hi P, hi T, hi PH) before migrating to the more mild ecological niches it occupies today. Certain basic reactions that need catalysts/enzymes now may have had less of a need for those in an extreme environment. Then these catalysts which themselves are carbo-proteins could bootstap from other proteins, allowing life to move into the less extreme environments.
The tests were not precise to discern living chemical reactions or over-oxidized soils.
When your time comes.
Sounds like true trial by peers then.
With their multi-billion investment in youtube. They need to find the good stuff in there. All five seconds of it! :-)
Security camera firms have similar issue. My grocery store has over 50 cameras because they are so cheap. But I doubt they have the eyeballs to view a small fraction of it.