Hmm, why didn't I assume I'd have to defend myself from Mr/Ms Literal...
Let me explain: They are forcing me to not watch it earlier, by disallowing UK access to the videos on Comedy Central's site. So I have to watch it according to their schedules if I want to watch it at all. It also means UK viewers don't have access to the archive that goes back 10 years, or any of the extended interviews.
Clear enough?
I strongly disagree. I think too many people are put off electronics by the utilitarianism, maths and feeling like they need to know something before they start. I would suggest circuit-bending, the skills can be picked up along the way and there isn't really knowledge threshold for starting. I think it's far better to teach people the principles of reverse engineering and give them an idea that they can just do things. Take away the scariness of opening the lids on stuff and it could lead to all sorts of creativity, ingenuity and so on - broader skills than repairing toasters.
That study compared the result of watching a rom-com with watching a David Lynch movie and their conclusion was that the rom-coms fucked you up more than David Lynch? I totally call Bullshit! on that.
Why? Lynch's films often leave a lot open to the viewer to conclude, allowing people to think for themselves and make their own judgements. Your typical rom-com practically forces an emotional response out of the viewer - usually based on a (noxious?) set of ideals that are hard to live up to. Eraserhead may be scary, but not as much as the idea that your real life isn't as good as the ones in heightened emotional world that is a hollywood rom-com.
Glad to see you're thinking big...
Get all of the world's knowledge in a database and keep it to yourselves. Buckminster Fuller would be rolling in his grave if he heard this.
No evidence of any sound yet, I really hope he uses similar principles for generating audio as the game seems to for other content. I'm really looking forward to games taking up a more dynamic approach to audio, synthesis could be so much more fluid and immersive than samples. And this looks like the perfect opportunity for showing people it could work especially as visually its quite stylised, so people might not expect such a 'realistic' sound world.
I think he is quite a tragic character in a way. As you say, he has achieved so much success and I think that has led him to believe he is the knight in the Seventh Seal, playing chess with death. Except where the film character learned that the game could be a trick to help others Kurzweill's brought a ramshackle version of Deep Blue to the game and so determined that the statistics are on his side he's blinded to what the knight realises - the value of mortality and his own life.
I think I'm making even wilder extrapolations than even he does... but there's a point there somewhere.
I agree with this quote. A lot of computer scientists try to build artificial intelligence without really understanding how their own brain works. It is really too bad because they have an unusually observable specimen right in their own head. Genetic learning? Is that how you feel you learn personally?
There are a few that are doing really interesting research into just that, I recommend this book:
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought
It goes into quite a lot of detail about trying to simulate analogy making and it is written in quite a human, personal style and studies quite beautifully simple cognitive processes.
Its such a shame that people like Kurzweill get all the attention, when there are some really insightful, philosophical AI researchers out there, (such as Douglas Hofstadter).
Even our allies like britain have gone to a surveliance society and now ponder 2 days detenciton with charges.
Nope, far worse:
Even our allies like Britain have gone to a surveillance society and now ponder 90 days detention without charges.
But the law was defeated in a vote and is now only 28 days (the highest in Europe).
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Wouldn't it be better to win the lego gold for building a replica of you being disqualified for building a replica of you winning the lego gold, more of an inverse feedback loop?
You keep using the phrase 'balance of power' and maybe its just because I'm reading/. but my geek side kicked in when I heard that phrase and made me think: "Thats what they thought about that young Skywalker boy."
My point being that you can get too arrogant about your role as international cop and the scale tips in the other direction, when you start making preventative strikes (as opposed to reactions) you are the aggressor and not the placater.
Having done that, Walker and co say the information can be used to correct other observations of the [sic] such as timing measurements on the pulsar beams. The authors left the word out as if they were going to put it in later once they understood it, no wonder I don't understand the story. Maybe they've discovered whitespace.
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Strange, her cello sounds a lot like a fairlight. No wonder they get on so well seen as she plays so mechanically.
If I am wrong, please show me where in the world this idea has actually worked?
Scandinavia?
If you can hum that high I'd guess you've already had the treatment.
Fox is the mind-killer.
Fox is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
Brasseye
Hmm, why didn't I assume I'd have to defend myself from Mr/Ms Literal... Let me explain: They are forcing me to not watch it earlier, by disallowing UK access to the videos on Comedy Central's site. So I have to watch it according to their schedules if I want to watch it at all. It also means UK viewers don't have access to the archive that goes back 10 years, or any of the extended interviews. Clear enough?
...I need to download Curb Your Enthusiasm. And why do Channel 4 force me to watch the Daily Show 3 days after the news happens? Grrr.
I strongly disagree. I think too many people are put off electronics by the utilitarianism, maths and feeling like they need to know something before they start. I would suggest circuit-bending, the skills can be picked up along the way and there isn't really knowledge threshold for starting. I think it's far better to teach people the principles of reverse engineering and give them an idea that they can just do things. Take away the scariness of opening the lids on stuff and it could lead to all sorts of creativity, ingenuity and so on - broader skills than repairing toasters.
That study compared the result of watching a rom-com with watching a David Lynch movie and their conclusion was that the rom-coms fucked you up more than David Lynch? I totally call Bullshit! on that.
Why? Lynch's films often leave a lot open to the viewer to conclude, allowing people to think for themselves and make their own judgements. Your typical rom-com practically forces an emotional response out of the viewer - usually based on a (noxious?) set of ideals that are hard to live up to. Eraserhead may be scary, but not as much as the idea that your real life isn't as good as the ones in heightened emotional world that is a hollywood rom-com.
Glad to see you're thinking big... Get all of the world's knowledge in a database and keep it to yourselves. Buckminster Fuller would be rolling in his grave if he heard this.
Seems like a very slow and clumsy way to implement a nomic. Is it any good?
No evidence of any sound yet, I really hope he uses similar principles for generating audio as the game seems to for other content. I'm really looking forward to games taking up a more dynamic approach to audio, synthesis could be so much more fluid and immersive than samples. And this looks like the perfect opportunity for showing people it could work especially as visually its quite stylised, so people might not expect such a 'realistic' sound world.
I think he is quite a tragic character in a way. As you say, he has achieved so much success and I think that has led him to believe he is the knight in the Seventh Seal, playing chess with death. Except where the film character learned that the game could be a trick to help others Kurzweill's brought a ramshackle version of Deep Blue to the game and so determined that the statistics are on his side he's blinded to what the knight realises - the value of mortality and his own life.
I think I'm making even wilder extrapolations than even he does... but there's a point there somewhere.
I agree with this quote. A lot of computer scientists try to build artificial intelligence without really understanding how their own brain works. It is really too bad because they have an unusually observable specimen right in their own head. Genetic learning? Is that how you feel you learn personally?
There are a few that are doing really interesting research into just that, I recommend this book: Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought It goes into quite a lot of detail about trying to simulate analogy making and it is written in quite a human, personal style and studies quite beautifully simple cognitive processes. Its such a shame that people like Kurzweill get all the attention, when there are some really insightful, philosophical AI researchers out there, (such as Douglas Hofstadter).
Even our allies like britain have gone to a surveliance society and now ponder 2 days detenciton with charges.
Nope, far worse:
Even our allies like Britain have gone to a surveillance society and now ponder 90 days detention without charges.
But the law was defeated in a vote and is now only 28 days (the highest in Europe).
Wouldn't it be better to win the lego gold for building a replica of you being disqualified for building a replica of you winning the lego gold, more of an inverse feedback loop?
Fair enough.
You keep using the phrase 'balance of power' and maybe its just because I'm reading /. but my geek side kicked in when I heard that phrase and made me think: "Thats what they thought about that young Skywalker boy."
My point being that you can get too arrogant about your role as international cop and the scale tips in the other direction, when you start making preventative strikes (as opposed to reactions) you are the aggressor and not the placater.