The three "C"s: communication, creativity, and curiosity. Humans have a compulsion to communicate with each other (sometimes too much cell phone squawking and texting IMHO). If we run into an interesting non-human intelligence, then we will want to talk with it. I dont really care if its a machine, hominid, animal, rock or spirit. Some intelligence may be on such a different plane of existence that we might not have much to say to each other.
Ray's documentary about the Singularity has been touring the national film festivals along with Ray. I saw it June. Its begins as a dull-talking heads piece about the current state of A.I. Many of the Big Name A.I. Scientists are interviewed. Then it transitions into a crime-drama story about the legal rights of A.I.s. That part was more interesting, since it had a story. The film is full of special effects to advance the story. Although I know most of the film to be factual, I suspect it will look like a scifi movie to the average audience member. I think Ray is seeking looking at broader distribution on cable television or arts theaters after the festival run.
Ray was interesting in person during a film-makers Q&A. He reminded me of Woody Allen, but more confident and intelligent. He was graduated from M.I.T. about decade before myself. I personally believe in the Singularity, but more likely in centuries rather than decades.
I saw clips from the 3D Star Wars IV at the 2008 SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles. They looked pretty good. They were being "dimensionalized" from the original 1977 by some contractor. All I heard was that George is perfectionist and the state of dimensionalization had not yet met his standards.
many computer companies are started by relatively young people who dont think about death often. Its probably rarely considered in an software architecture.
This statistic is from Nuland's book "How we Die". About a quarter of use die in 24 hours or less from trauma or sudden illness. You really dont have time to do anything about it.
The early hominoids walked and perhaps ran like moderns. But their head remained small for a couple million years until homo erectus. What stimulated increased brain size? Some people the brain acts like radiator to dissipate the heat of running in the hot savanna.
Thats where Steve J got it right and Steve B got it wrong.
To make the iPhone in the first place, Steve J had to improve the small screen user interface.
Probably a majority of US students dislike math and science classes because they are viewed as "hard". Since they are usually college entrance requirements and computer science usually is not, they are less avoidable in practice.
The novel One Second After is one of those post-apocalyptic stories of a severe EMP attack. The cause, whether military or cosmic, is not dwelled on. Its just that all electric power, computers, and memories halt in an instant. In real life something in basement might survive. But the author killed off almost all technology for dramatic purposes. This includes all vehicles built after 1980 which have computing inside them. It is set in a rural town several days walk from a major city. The first result is the utter silence - no way to send or receive news until some museum vacuum tube ham radios are revived. Then comes the expected mayhem - people whose lives depending on machinery or medicine all die. There are fierce fights for dwindling resources. Eventually life would return to early 1800s self-independent farming. But that could only support about a tenth of the current population.
The Solar Storm of 1859 was one of the largest known in history and just glanced the modern Electronic Age. The significant electronic device in use at the time was the 15-year old telegraph. Lesser storms since then have brought down power grids.
I tried to visit a few of my favorite Los Angeles bookstores at SIGGRAPH last week. Alas, they were all but gone. First was the UCLA technical bookstore. It used to occupy most of the first floor of the student union. Its now a tenth of its former size with mainly hosting best-sellers. Several other college bookstores have disappeared in recent years too- UT, CU... Another bookstore was the Bodhi Tree new age store on Melrose in West Hollywood. It went under late last year.
I miss browsing books before I buy them. Hopefully pre-purchase browsing will be implemented in the e-book world. Now they mainly put the first chapter free online. I'd prefer viewing the WHOLE book for free for a limited time period, say ten minutes. I'd also like to se other pricing schemes: the library "read once" model say for $5 a book, all-you-can read a month for $50 etc, in addition to the $15 per ebook pricing they have now.
We have a couple in our state devoted to the Java family of codes. And there are others for all-things-MicroSoft such as C# and NET. I hear ideas I am not exposed to at work.
Many larger cities have a computer monthly newspaper. These user groups are often listed there or in the online versions.
For the past 8 years or so, MicroSoft has been co-author on more papers than any other organization at SIGGRAPH. This is impressive because SIGGRAPH has a the highest paper rejection rate of any conference I know of - they reject (or downgrade to non-published session) 85% of the paper submissions. And you have to submit publication-ready papers nearly a year in advance, with a video summary.
This reminds me of Xerox PARC - great R & D output, poor commercialization of these results. People wonder if their lab was a toy-of-Bill or a tax write-off.
The way a lot of techies learn it is to take a programing course in junior high school or high school. Then they may go off on their own and develop these skills further.
I've seen the same kind of courses offered at community colleges. Some techies like myself can read an instruction manual and just do it. Other people prefer the structure of a taught course.
These are sometimes called application specific systems (or in the old days 4th generation languages). The toolkit provides a lot of useful pieces like data types, input and output, pre-programmed routines. You then connect the dots. For example a spreadsheet is a table-oriented formula translator. Simple table operations are pretty easy to program. But you can get arbitrary hairy with all the extras they supply. At some point Excel programming would become too obtuse. Then you would drop out of such a system into a more general programming system.
Mathematica or Mathlab is another example. They are oriented into translating mathlike formulas into other formulas. Then inserting ranges of numbers and obtain graphical outputs.
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The three "C"s: communication, creativity, and curiosity. Humans have a compulsion to communicate with each other (sometimes too much cell phone squawking and texting IMHO). If we run into an interesting non-human intelligence, then we will want to talk with it. I dont really care if its a machine, hominid, animal, rock or spirit. Some intelligence may be on such a different plane of existence that we might not have much to say to each other.
Ray's documentary about the Singularity has been touring the national film festivals along with Ray. I saw it June. Its begins as a dull-talking heads piece about the current state of A.I. Many of the Big Name A.I. Scientists are interviewed. Then it transitions into a crime-drama story about the legal rights of A.I.s. That part was more interesting, since it had a story. The film is full of special effects to advance the story. Although I know most of the film to be factual, I suspect it will look like a scifi movie to the average audience member. I think Ray is seeking looking at broader distribution on cable television or arts theaters after the festival run.
Ray was interesting in person during a film-makers Q&A. He reminded me of Woody Allen, but more confident and intelligent. He was graduated from M.I.T. about decade before myself. I personally believe in the Singularity, but more likely in centuries rather than decades.
I saw clips from the 3D Star Wars IV at the 2008 SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles. They looked pretty good. They were being "dimensionalized" from the original 1977 by some contractor. All I heard was that George is perfectionist and the state of dimensionalization had not yet met his standards.
Same way the iPod prices dropped after several models and ebook readers fell. Competitors might accelerate a price trend.
Police do make mistakes sometimes. The legal process tries to sort this out.
many computer companies are started by relatively young people who dont think about death often. Its probably rarely considered in an software architecture.
This statistic is from Nuland's book "How we Die". About a quarter of use die in 24 hours or less from trauma or sudden illness. You really dont have time to do anything about it.
It achieved 100% objectives. Its on extended mission now. But probably will not complete a 2nd full-sky mapping.
The early hominoids walked and perhaps ran like moderns. But their head remained small for a couple million years until homo erectus. What stimulated increased brain size? Some people the brain acts like radiator to dissipate the heat of running in the hot savanna.
Thats where Steve J got it right and Steve B got it wrong.
To make the iPhone in the first place, Steve J had to improve the small screen user interface.
I read the primary news sources already, so have read most of digg articles. Slashdots seems to find the gems from obscure sources. I like it better.
User of a government service have to pay for increases in the service. There is much more scrutiny these days at all levels of foreign travel.
Its pretty hard for the average joe to be trailess on the net these days. And dangerous to create your own.
Party of "Geeley Motors" now. I wonder how much new bosses are going to invest in top-end engineering. Chinese products arent exactly know for this.
Probably a majority of US students dislike math and science classes because they are viewed as "hard". Since they are usually college entrance requirements and computer science usually is not, they are less avoidable in practice.
They arent really interesting in trading if they are canceling most of their orders immediately after placing them. They are doing something else.
The novel One Second After is one of those post-apocalyptic stories of a severe EMP attack. The cause, whether military or cosmic, is not dwelled on. Its just that all electric power, computers, and memories halt in an instant. In real life something in basement might survive. But the author killed off almost all technology for dramatic purposes. This includes all vehicles built after 1980 which have computing inside them. It is set in a rural town several days walk from a major city. The first result is the utter silence - no way to send or receive news until some museum vacuum tube ham radios are revived. Then comes the expected mayhem - people whose lives depending on machinery or medicine all die. There are fierce fights for dwindling resources. Eventually life would return to early 1800s self-independent farming. But that could only support about a tenth of the current population.
The Solar Storm of 1859 was one of the largest known in history and just glanced the modern Electronic Age. The significant electronic device in use at the time was the 15-year old telegraph. Lesser storms since then have brought down power grids.
I tried to visit a few of my favorite Los Angeles bookstores at SIGGRAPH last week. Alas, they were all but gone. First was the UCLA technical bookstore. It used to occupy most of the first floor of the student union. Its now a tenth of its former size with mainly hosting best-sellers. Several other college bookstores have disappeared in recent years too- UT, CU ... Another bookstore was the Bodhi Tree new age store on Melrose in West Hollywood. It went under late last year.
I miss browsing books before I buy them. Hopefully pre-purchase browsing will be implemented in the e-book world. Now they mainly put the first chapter free online. I'd prefer viewing the WHOLE book for free for a limited time period, say ten minutes. I'd also like to se other pricing schemes: the library "read once" model say for $5 a book, all-you-can read a month for $50 etc, in addition to the $15 per ebook pricing they have now.
We have a couple in our state devoted to the Java family of codes. And there are others for all-things-MicroSoft such as C# and NET. I hear ideas I am not exposed to at work.
Many larger cities have a computer monthly newspaper. These user groups are often listed there or in the online versions.
"We believe in Spirit"
"We believe in Spirit"
For the past 8 years or so, MicroSoft has been co-author on more papers than any other organization at SIGGRAPH. This is impressive because SIGGRAPH has a the highest paper rejection rate of any conference I know of - they reject (or downgrade to non-published session) 85% of the paper submissions. And you have to submit publication-ready papers nearly a year in advance, with a video summary.
This reminds me of Xerox PARC - great R & D output, poor commercialization of these results. People wonder if their lab was a toy-of-Bill or a tax write-off.
The way a lot of techies learn it is to take a programing course in junior high school or high school. Then they may go off on their own and develop these skills further.
I've seen the same kind of courses offered at community colleges. Some techies like myself can read an instruction manual and just do it. Other people prefer the structure of a taught course.
These are sometimes called application specific systems (or in the old days 4th generation languages). The toolkit provides a lot of useful pieces like data types, input and output, pre-programmed routines. You then connect the dots. For example a spreadsheet is a table-oriented formula translator. Simple table operations are pretty easy to program. But you can get arbitrary hairy with all the extras they supply. At some point Excel programming would become too obtuse. Then you would drop out of such a system into a more general programming system.
Mathematica or Mathlab is another example. They are oriented into translating mathlike formulas into other formulas. Then inserting ranges of numbers and obtain graphical outputs.
Once you clarify that, then you can look at the range or software and hardware solutions, which could include some programming.