If you thought boomer's children were being coddled, wait until you see what happens in China. With the one-child policy in place three decades now, each child has six adult relatives to pamper them. Therefore many rarley learn important life skills like cooking, laundry and dating.
The recurring PBS special "all things digital" had a segment on MIT and Stanford students who thought they were "so smart" because they could multi-task digital devices all the time. The PBS show reported an earlier version of the Stanford study showing these students were performing worse than their less-taxed associates. I am guessing that self-perception doesnt always match reality.
Unless you are very sophisticated with proxies you will leave tracks the FBI/NSA can easily discover.
Like those guys arrestd at Kennedy Airport yesterday for watching terror promotion videos on the web. Like the NSA is not keeping track those who download that stuff. So naive.
Steve Jobs had enticed Xerox Parc people to Apple, then NeXT. So this methodology seemed advanced at the time. Also Objective-C was commercially supported while C++ was still basically an open-source hack in the mid-1980s. I was an independent NextStep developer. It was unclear what would win. But as usual cheap and open beat a language you had to buy.
When NeXT took over Apple (oops I mean the other way around:-), the new MacOS was NexTStep layered with old Mac APIs.
They've added "find similar" links under some pictures. I presume this was an expansion of their "goggles" program on Droid-phones. That was supposed to help locate you by taking a photo of a distinctive object in your vicinity.
They used to do administration on Vaxes and development on UNIC workstations until PCs hardware and software got good enough to do that all on PCs. This switch happened in the mid-1990s.
I define news-sourcing as soliciting news sources from the audience. Already a lot of weather pictures/video and investigative reporting tips come from the audience in my area. A TV journalist polishes up this material and adds a pleasing face and voice. I suspect there will always be a market for journalistic polish. But it may be based from an internet carrier rather than a broadcast studio.
Moore's Law will continue in memory and bandwidth for the same cost, adding another thousand to both of these aspects. I supect CPU speed will not grow as fast the next 15 years. What more can we do with all that extra power?
Video will continue to move into any conceivable niche, large or small. There is still room for video quality to improve however. I've seen monitors with contrast & color nearly indistinguishable from looking through a window at SIGGRAPH. I dont know if we want to grow that way.
There will be a generation of adults in elective office who have always had the InterNet, smart phones and social networks in their lives. Will that change the way the world is run?
Something I have been hoping for decades- a practical voice interface- has eluded us so far. I suspect their could be a revolutionary jump in natural language understanding and generation coming from the search side of things. NL has been essentially "procedural" so far, explicitly elucidating the rules of sound, vocabulary and language. A "search" approach matches actual sound with its text interpetation and builds a corpous of correllations. Language translations using large archives of existing translations along with search works reasonably well.
Speaking of "search", full multimedia recognition and archiving may be around the corner. Google "goggles" tries to match a smart phone photo with an archive of photographs. Imagine if you track a person's visage or voice through all of public cameras and telephony. That could redefine privacy.
The ultimate narcissism: posting your genome in a social network.
Dont laugh. Blood types, a very simple version of one's gentic idnetity, is a major pseudo-science in Japan. You cant date someone of the "wrong type".
They werent going to release the most dangerous terrorists anyways. But they were catching a lot of flack for keeping them locked up without trials.
More difficult is the recent flurry of citizens or legal aliens engaging in terror plots. Are they treated the same as foreign agents?
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I am concerned about using this for large software engineering problems about having data and methods scattered loosely about the code because Clojure does not enforce encapsulation. That brings up the old joke about "Chinese programming in LISP": an hour later you will have forgotten what you coded. More recent versions of LISP such as Scheme implement OOP more soundly that the version in Clojure.
Soem of the nice thing in Clojure like the rich set of set-notation are not LISP-specific. There is talk of putting these in Java 1.8.
I am rather paranoid now about companies such as Anthem-WellPoint canceling your insurance for pre-existing conditions or errors on your insurance application when you get something serious. Next they'll obtain your search history to see if you were aware of pre-existing symptoms. Inurance contracts will probably bury such permission in the fine print at some point in the future. Furthermore, I google strange diseases when I hear of friends' and relatives' illnesses or read something quirky in the newspapers.
Theoretically this practice called recision goes away in four years under the new health care law. However, there have been several newspapers already about insurance companies looking for all loopholes around this law.
In general people only are interested in joining the most popular network sites where their friends are also joining. So this means there can only be one or two leaders and a tremendous amount of inertia to change. Giants like MicroSoft and Google tried and failed several times. So reading articles like these are much like reading the weekly "next dethroning of Moore's law" articles: usually the first and last and last time they'll make the news.
The 3rd person sequenced James Watson had 20-some deleterious genes, including one for macular degeneration blindness. None had manifested so far. Ditto for Prof Steven Pinker who was about the tenth person sequenced. He carried a gene for baldness. He had a full head of hair at age 55 the last time I saw him.
I think it would matter more if you had a known manifestation in an immediate ancestor and were shown to be carrying that too.
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If you thought boomer's children were being coddled, wait until you see what happens in China. With the one-child policy in place three decades now, each child has six adult relatives to pamper them. Therefore many rarley learn important life skills like cooking, laundry and dating.
The recurring PBS special "all things digital" had a segment on MIT and Stanford students who thought they were "so smart" because they could multi-task digital devices all the time. The PBS show reported an earlier version of the Stanford study showing these students were performing worse than their less-taxed associates. I am guessing that self-perception doesnt always match reality.
Unless you are very sophisticated with proxies you will leave tracks the FBI/NSA can easily discover. Like those guys arrestd at Kennedy Airport yesterday for watching terror promotion videos on the web. Like the NSA is not keeping track those who download that stuff. So naive.
Steve Jobs had enticed Xerox Parc people to Apple, then NeXT. So this methodology seemed advanced at the time. Also Objective-C was commercially supported while C++ was still basically an open-source hack in the mid-1980s. I was an independent NextStep developer. It was unclear what would win. But as usual cheap and open beat a language you had to buy.
:-), the new MacOS was NexTStep layered with old Mac APIs.
When NeXT took over Apple (oops I mean the other way around
They've added "find similar" links under some pictures. I presume this was an expansion of their "goggles" program on Droid-phones. That was supposed to help locate you by taking a photo of a distinctive object in your vicinity.
They used to do administration on Vaxes and development on UNIC workstations until PCs hardware and software got good enough to do that all on PCs. This switch happened in the mid-1990s.
There goes one of my excuses for running away from fights now :-(
I define news-sourcing as soliciting news sources from the audience. Already a lot of weather pictures/video and investigative reporting tips come from the audience in my area. A TV journalist polishes up this material and adds a pleasing face and voice. I suspect there will always be a market for journalistic polish. But it may be based from an internet carrier rather than a broadcast studio.
Moore's Law will continue in memory and bandwidth for the same cost, adding another thousand to both of these aspects. I supect CPU speed will not grow as fast the next 15 years. What more can we do with all that extra power?
Video will continue to move into any conceivable niche, large or small. There is still room for video quality to improve however. I've seen monitors with contrast & color nearly indistinguishable from looking through a window at SIGGRAPH. I dont know if we want to grow that way.
There will be a generation of adults in elective office who have always had the InterNet, smart phones and social networks in their lives. Will that change the way the world is run?
Something I have been hoping for decades- a practical voice interface- has eluded us so far. I suspect their could be a revolutionary jump in natural language understanding and generation coming from the search side of things. NL has been essentially "procedural" so far, explicitly elucidating the rules of sound, vocabulary and language. A "search" approach matches actual sound with its text interpetation and builds a corpous of correllations. Language translations using large archives of existing translations along with search works reasonably well.
Speaking of "search", full multimedia recognition and archiving may be around the corner. Google "goggles" tries to match a smart phone photo with an archive of photographs. Imagine if you track a person's visage or voice through all of public cameras and telephony. That could redefine privacy.
Got to keep the name of the program trendy even if its been around for decades and decades.
The ultimate narcissism: posting your genome in a social network.
Dont laugh. Blood types, a very simple version of one's gentic idnetity, is a major pseudo-science in Japan. You cant date someone of the "wrong type".
Muon decay parity violation is .002% asymmetry, or up to 500 times less often.
Thats probably CP violation was detected in the early experiments.
They werent going to release the most dangerous terrorists anyways. But they were catching a lot of flack for keeping them locked up without trials.
More difficult is the recent flurry of citizens or legal aliens engaging in terror plots. Are they treated the same as foreign agents?
I am concerned about using this for large software engineering problems about having data and methods scattered loosely about the code because Clojure does not enforce encapsulation. That brings up the old joke about "Chinese programming in LISP": an hour later you will have forgotten what you coded. More recent versions of LISP such as Scheme implement OOP more soundly that the version in Clojure.
Soem of the nice thing in Clojure like the rich set of set-notation are not LISP-specific. There is talk of putting these in Java 1.8.
I am rather paranoid now about companies such as Anthem-WellPoint canceling your insurance for pre-existing conditions or errors on your insurance application when you get something serious. Next they'll obtain your search history to see if you were aware of pre-existing symptoms. Inurance contracts will probably bury such permission in the fine print at some point in the future. Furthermore, I google strange diseases when I hear of friends' and relatives' illnesses or read something quirky in the newspapers.
Theoretically this practice called recision goes away in four years under the new health care law. However, there have been several newspapers already about insurance companies looking for all loopholes around this law.
A couple of orders of magnitude more for the average flight. That would be whole-body, not skin.
In general people only are interested in joining the most popular network sites where their friends are also joining. So this means there can only be one or two leaders and a tremendous amount of inertia to change. Giants like MicroSoft and Google tried and failed several times. So reading articles like these are much like reading the weekly "next dethroning of Moore's law" articles: usually the first and last and last time they'll make the news.
The news is full of them. Even old-wives-tales are supported by generations of anecdotal observation. But not this yet.
I wonder if any one anticipated you'd be able get one as tiny a pen for just a few dollars 30-some years later. And anyone could buy it.
My company has hired PhDs for positions that batchelors did 20 years ago. Amazingly enough several take it.
Many high school level desk jobs require a college degree now.
Like leaving a pile of gold out on your front lawn. Hard to resist.
Computer guy comes up with his own number. NPR just said a quarter million a day.
The average American believes NASA is a quarter of the US budget and a symbol of excessive government spending.
I did not.
The 3rd person sequenced James Watson had 20-some deleterious genes, including one for macular degeneration blindness. None had manifested so far. Ditto for Prof Steven Pinker who was about the tenth person sequenced. He carried a gene for baldness. He had a full head of hair at age 55 the last time I saw him.
I think it would matter more if you had a known manifestation in an immediate ancestor and were shown to be carrying that too.