I remember some long-ago speculation that drying paint could capture sounds. Some guy was going find Michaelangelo coughing or something like that. I couldnt find a reference on google.
Both Watson and Google relied on statistically analyzed word occurrences with a veneer of procedural/rule intelligence. Waston seeks the correct answer, while Google the most popular document containing the answer. Neither incorporate "deep" understanding like CYC's rule ontology. But it may not be that necessary if the statistics are large enough.
(After a detour to intel who bought patents and quashed them.)
The alpha CPU was quite respected in its day. But since it commercially failed like nearly every other none x86 chip family.
Pretty much your stock apocalyptic book about world suddenly without electricity, computers, cellphones, post-1980 automobiles, internet, etc. The most shocking aspect is the total lack of news without electricity.
We had a total power failure in a large part of Denver two weeks ago. Took out a lot of cell phone towers and radio stations too. It was interesting to listen to rumors about what might have happened. A common reaction was for people to get into their cars and seek a location where there might be electricity, so there was more driving than normal. I just went to a local park and enjoyed an undistracted sunset. Lots of people milled around the park too because its was almost a hundred degrees with no fans or A/C. A few smart bar and liquor store owners were doing great business - all cash and in the dark before the booze got too warm. A lot of young people were walking around tinkering with their useless smartphones. It was possibly the first time in many years they were off-the-grid while conscious. And clueless what to do.
The key part is the null-grav Bose-condensate at the base. When the temperature falls below 91 micro-kelvins, the resulting phase-change decouples inertial mass from equivalent mass and the gravitational force disappears.
There a few bugs to be worked out however. First, the grav-shield must be aligned within ten arc-seconds perpendicular to main gravitational body (Earth) or gravity leaks through. Second, stray cosmic rays have the disturbing habit of energizing the condensate about the phase-change temp and destroying the null-grav effect. I hope to have fixes by next week.
The usual knee-jerk response to US science complaints is to request more money for science education. But that may worsen the problem with even more people in the "science pipeline" to fall into the abyss at the end of it.
Good small business policies help. A lot of "surplus scientists" have started companies and some have become wildly successful. The US small business environment is best in the world but not perfect. Especially with the fincnacing slowdown of the Great Recession.
I suspect every since the infamous "NSF scientist shortage" paper from the 1980s we have been comparing ourselves to an unsustainable utopia of the 1960s. That era was driven by a couple of factors. First was a pseudo-war the nuclear arms race and space race. Wars are usually great for S&E employment. Second was a ramp-up of science education in the universities. New PhDs just recycled back into the system to create more PhDs. Soem of my worst college profs came from this era, when there was little vetting of quality.
Before WII science support in the US was terrible. Grad students ran off to Europe for advanced education. And couldnt find much work when they return, except maybe for the War Dept.
The 60s-70s bubble burst in the 1980s. And its been a struggle since. A few bright spots have been the industrial labs. Bell and Xerox earlier, MSFT, Google, big Pharma now.
At the low end you want a battery to drive a mobile device ideally for weeks at a time.
At the high end you want to tie zillions of devices together without spending a fortune on power and A/C. Maybe the high end solution will use larger number of low-end devices, but with an overall lower TCO.
I have to time shift my viewing. However most commercial signal vendors have integrated this functionalit (for an extra fee of course). Else the VCR has all but disappeared from consumer electronic stores. My old tape thing is well past its average lifetime now. Of course, whenever I complain some hacker tells how I buy a board for a computer and a large number of hours later I can have a solution.
Paris Hilton said in her music video mocking the 2008 presidential election that we should support all kinds of energy development along with conservation. During the election the parties had polarized into Republican conventional position and Obama alternative/conservation position. Fortunately, Obama moved closer to Paris's more pragmatic stance since then.
Its a fantasy to think that we can run out Hummers off of windmills next year.
If you can cheaply offer alternatives to expensive electricty grids, that could be a boon to the 3rd world. Cellphone technology is popular for precisely that reason.
It hasnt changed much since the 1960s. NASA's manned goals were (1) moon, (2) space station, (3) Mars. Vague discussions of (4) moonbase have popped up now and then. (1) and (2) have been done and are un-inspiring. (3) and (4) are too expensive for a declining world power like the US.
To try to sell something this expensive without title to it. Obviously this is a hack. But there have been cases of "title identity theft" in the past by shady characters in my town. The county clerks dont rigorously check all the documents. If you after a change of mortgage lien along with owner name change, they assume the banks have worked it out. The shady cahracters would disguise this during a refi.
That is many characters have a meaning-signifier (radical) and a sound signifier. The sound part gives clue to the pronunciation. I can often guess the meaning and pronunciation of a new character. Mor importantly these parts serve as memory aids for recognizing and drawing the character.
Sometimes a kanji character has been imported to Japanese with a Chinese-like meaning, but solely Japanese pronunciation. Sometimes a Chinese transliteration accompanies the borrowing. And sometimes it the orignal Chinese meaning is now totally alien.
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The current Pope led that office until he became Pope.
I remember some long-ago speculation that drying paint could capture sounds. Some guy was going find Michaelangelo coughing or something like that. I couldnt find a reference on google.
Both Watson and Google relied on statistically analyzed word occurrences with a veneer of procedural/rule intelligence. Waston seeks the correct answer, while Google the most popular document containing the answer. Neither incorporate "deep" understanding like CYC's rule ontology. But it may not be that necessary if the statistics are large enough.
(After a detour to intel who bought patents and quashed them.) The alpha CPU was quite respected in its day. But since it commercially failed like nearly every other none x86 chip family.
To build a human variation database. They have about 30 now. Costs are rapidly falling close to about $10K per human genome.
Its nearly universally believed among earth scientists that quakes are yet unpredictable.
Way too expensive to dig up and extract. This is mostly a result of academic interest.
Most of these data were just a single transit. Some could have been a non-orbital passing objct, a sunspot, etc.
It would take 2-3 years to verify an Earth-like planet, so 700 already is amazing.
I followed Byte since it was a mimeographed Silicon Valley newsletter in the 1970s. Not that many coding magazines have survived.
Pretty much your stock apocalyptic book about world suddenly without electricity, computers, cellphones, post-1980 automobiles, internet, etc. The most shocking aspect is the total lack of news without electricity.
We had a total power failure in a large part of Denver two weeks ago. Took out a lot of cell phone towers and radio stations too. It was interesting to listen to rumors about what might have happened. A common reaction was for people to get into their cars and seek a location where there might be electricity, so there was more driving than normal. I just went to a local park and enjoyed an undistracted sunset. Lots of people milled around the park too because its was almost a hundred degrees with no fans or A/C. A few smart bar and liquor store owners were doing great business - all cash and in the dark before the booze got too warm. A lot of young people were walking around tinkering with their useless smartphones. It was possibly the first time in many years they were off-the-grid while conscious. And clueless what to do.
What would the medical industry do without all these reckless gamers?
I forget the exact amount, but it was like PI or E dollars for every typo. I am not sure what the payment is for an algorithmic error.
The key part is the null-grav Bose-condensate at the base. When the temperature falls below 91 micro-kelvins, the resulting phase-change decouples inertial mass from equivalent mass and the gravitational force disappears.
There a few bugs to be worked out however. First, the grav-shield must be aligned within ten arc-seconds perpendicular to main gravitational body (Earth) or gravity leaks through. Second, stray cosmic rays have the disturbing habit of energizing the condensate about the phase-change temp and destroying the null-grav effect. I hope to have fixes by next week.
The usual knee-jerk response to US science complaints is to request more money for science education. But that may worsen the problem with even more people in the "science pipeline" to fall into the abyss at the end of it.
Good small business policies help. A lot of "surplus scientists" have started companies and some have become wildly successful. The US small business environment is best in the world but not perfect. Especially with the fincnacing slowdown of the Great Recession.
I suspect every since the infamous "NSF scientist shortage" paper from the 1980s we have been comparing ourselves to an unsustainable utopia of the 1960s. That era was driven by a couple of factors. First was a pseudo-war the nuclear arms race and space race. Wars are usually great for S&E employment. Second was a ramp-up of science education in the universities. New PhDs just recycled back into the system to create more PhDs. Soem of my worst college profs came from this era, when there was little vetting of quality.
Before WII science support in the US was terrible. Grad students ran off to Europe for advanced education. And couldnt find much work when they return, except maybe for the War Dept.
The 60s-70s bubble burst in the 1980s. And its been a struggle since. A few bright spots have been the industrial labs. Bell and Xerox earlier, MSFT, Google, big Pharma now.
At the low end you want a battery to drive a mobile device ideally for weeks at a time. At the high end you want to tie zillions of devices together without spending a fortune on power and A/C. Maybe the high end solution will use larger number of low-end devices, but with an overall lower TCO.
I have to time shift my viewing. However most commercial signal vendors have integrated this functionalit (for an extra fee of course). Else the VCR has all but disappeared from consumer electronic stores. My old tape thing is well past its average lifetime now. Of course, whenever I complain some hacker tells how I buy a board for a computer and a large number of hours later I can have a solution.
Paris Hilton said in her music video mocking the 2008 presidential election that we should support all kinds of energy development along with conservation. During the election the parties had polarized into Republican conventional position and Obama alternative/conservation position. Fortunately, Obama moved closer to Paris's more pragmatic stance since then.
Its a fantasy to think that we can run out Hummers off of windmills next year.
If you can cheaply offer alternatives to expensive electricty grids, that could be a boon to the 3rd world. Cellphone technology is popular for precisely that reason.
It hasnt changed much since the 1960s. NASA's manned goals were (1) moon, (2) space station, (3) Mars. Vague discussions of (4) moonbase have popped up now and then. (1) and (2) have been done and are un-inspiring. (3) and (4) are too expensive for a declining world power like the US.
To try to sell something this expensive without title to it. Obviously this is a hack. But there have been cases of "title identity theft" in the past by shady characters in my town. The county clerks dont rigorously check all the documents. If you after a change of mortgage lien along with owner name change, they assume the banks have worked it out. The shady cahracters would disguise this during a refi.
Reporters were required to use the word "homosexual" in articles about them, even in the early years of AIDS.
I presume there are other areas where the NYT is years behind slang usage.
You dont have to wash them that often. You dont have to make many sizes, etc. And it could be a chestband or armband too.
That is many characters have a meaning-signifier (radical) and a sound signifier. The sound part gives clue to the pronunciation. I can often guess the meaning and pronunciation of a new character. Mor importantly these parts serve as memory aids for recognizing and drawing the character.
Sometimes a kanji character has been imported to Japanese with a Chinese-like meaning, but solely Japanese pronunciation. Sometimes a Chinese transliteration accompanies the borrowing. And sometimes it the orignal Chinese meaning is now totally alien.
Of all the hot girls in FB. Who could complain?