Musicians might have to go back to making money via performance, teaching, and patronage by the wealthy! Oh no! That system would never produce any good music, would it?
I'm curious about this program, and have some questions as a possible student. If someone associated with ArsDigita could answer these questions, I'd appreciate it.
1)When is the application deadline?
2)Are you admiting people as you get applications (do you have a better chance of getting in if you apply early) or are you going to collect all the applications you can get, and then pick and choose from the whole lot?
3) If you're granting admitance as you go, how many people have been admited so far, and how many have applied?
4) How much do you look at the college transcript? I meet the minimum SAT score, and have a degree, but I'm afraid my college grades weren't the best. I could get recommendations from my professors, who always told me that my work in classes was exceptional, but my grades don't reflect that fact. (I had a problem with handing in course-work in on time, which was a combination of too many interests not enough time, and a perfectionist personality.)
Does anyone remember when Judge Jackson issued an injunction against Microsoft that the government didn't even ask for? Reguardless of the facts in this case, the Judge has leaned against Microsoft and given them clear grounds for appeal through the whole process. To my knowledge, every single ruling that Microsoft appealed to a higher court was over-turned. This ruling doesn't really change anything, it's just another beginning.
This looks to be one dark film. Not only is it being directed by Tim Burton, but it looks like it was writen by Sam Hamm (the first 2 Batman Movies) and Andrew Kevin Walker (Seven).
In general, gaming AI isn't anything like traditional AI. Lots of games don't get much more technical than simple finite state machines. The goal in gaming AI is to make the game fun, not necessarily to win all the time(creating an AI that always wins is usually the easiest thing to do). Compare Quake III bots to Unreal Tournament bots. The bots in Quake III can have deadly accuracy that's, frankly, downright computer-like. (Funny that...) The bots in Unreal Tournament are less known for their accuracy than for the way that they seem to act like real people. While the Unreal bots are not strictly better in terms of winning(their lack of inhuman accuracy means they would lose against the Quake bots) I think most people would agree that they are superior. (More fun to play against.)
Though they are related, game AI and traditional AI are in many ways different fields. The fact that you can smash the computer in Red Alert doesn't mean we aren't making progress in the more traditional and broad academic field that is artificial intelligence.
I for one have started reading a book from the Gutenberg collection, and then gone out and bought a copy to finish reading it. (I did it for all the usual printed over digital reasons [i.e. I can take a book anywhere, I can curl up on the couch with it, etc.]) I can't help but wonder how many people have use the project in this "try it before you buy it" way, and how much money has been made because of it.
I tried to view the webcast, but there were already too many connections. Fortunatly, there was a little note at the bottom of the page: "We'll also webcast the announcement live into chat. " So, I clicked on Chat, where I was told I had to register. In a rush I filled in the required fields, skipped all those unrequired sections, and hit submit. Just as the page was being sent, I realized... all those unrequired sections... most of them were opt-out mailing lists... too late, my message sent, I await the deluge.
This is why it's important to have a "throw away" e-mail address to hand out when sites require registration. In case you're wondering: no, the chat didn't work either.
The Robust Nature Of Sloppy Code- A Y2K Guess
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Consider this: for there to be the fatal errors that everyone was afraid of, someone would have had to code in those errors. Now, in a well engineered piece of code you'd want these errors included because you don't want 00s in your date fields without your knowledge. At the same time, if you're reducing your date fields to two digits to save memory or whatever, and you assume the system will be replaced before 2000, are you going to write code to make the system halt when the date hits 00?
I'm not saying that no systems needed their code updated to prevent a fatal error, but I think that in a lot of systems, there isn't a whole lot of processing that's done to the date- and in systems where there is processing done, I doubt that many of them have code included to check for an incorrect date and halt the system. (This means that while we might find systems generating the occasional incorrect output- bills dated 1900 and whatnot- and doing things that are errant, very few, if any, of those errors are fatal.)
While error checking is a good idea, functional systems often seem to do just fine without it. (Consider HTML which requires no error handling. While there are quirks in interpretation of code that is technically not valid, HTML documents themselves don't crash. [This isn't saying that Javascript, Java applets or browsers don't crash, just that the HTML itself doesn't generate an error condition.]) This lack of error handling isn't good practice, but here on the other side of the date flip we find it to be functional.
Just as the Y2K problem was created by a lack of foresight, the same lack of foresight blunted it. (The irony is that the best engineered code is/was the code that really needed to be fixed.)
Brin quotes David McCullough's description of Marshall in saying that he was "without a trace of petty vanity or self-serving ambition."
Compare this with Time's Person Of The Year for 1999, Jeff Bezos. Without saying anything about the personality or character of Mr. Bezos (which I am in no position to judge), consider the reasons for his selection. Is he admired for his principles? Lauded for his courage? You might say that Time is celebrating his vision and foresight, but in truth they're celebrating his bank account.
In fact, Bezos is serving as an iconic representation of the wildly successful e-commerce phenomenon. In considering that phenomena, it's sad to say, the ideas, ideals, and personalities that spring to mind are indeed an antithesis to the quite, calm courage and confidence that Marshall embodied. While I won't say the Internet is the cause, it certainly has highlighted the human propensity for narcissism.
So, as much as I would like to, in looking back on the Century from 1999, I find it difficult to say that Marshall is the person who is most representative of this age. By that criteria I would not consider him to be the Man Of The Century, a title that wouldn't suit him anyway. Instead, I would consider him one of the century's greatest heroes, an honor that perhaps appropriately and characteristically will go unproclaimed.
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Musicians might have to go back to making money via performance, teaching, and patronage by the wealthy! Oh no! That system would never produce any good music, would it?
1)When is the application deadline?
2)Are you admiting people as you get applications (do you have a better chance of getting in if you apply early) or are you going to collect all the applications you can get, and then pick and choose from the whole lot?
3) If you're granting admitance as you go, how many people have been admited so far, and how many have applied?
4) How much do you look at the college transcript? I meet the minimum SAT score, and have a degree, but I'm afraid my college grades weren't the best. I could get recommendations from my professors, who always told me that my work in classes was exceptional, but my grades don't reflect that fact. (I had a problem with handing in course-work in on time, which was a combination of too many interests not enough time, and a perfectionist personality.)
Thanks.
Does anyone remember when Judge Jackson issued an injunction against Microsoft that the government didn't even ask for? Reguardless of the facts in this case, the Judge has leaned against Microsoft and given them clear grounds for appeal through the whole process. To my knowledge, every single ruling that Microsoft appealed to a higher court was over-turned. This ruling doesn't really change anything, it's just another beginning.
This looks to be one dark film. Not only is it being directed by Tim Burton, but it looks like it was writen by Sam Hamm (the first 2 Batman Movies) and Andrew Kevin Walker (Seven).
Though they are related, game AI and traditional AI are in many ways different fields. The fact that you can smash the computer in Red Alert doesn't mean we aren't making progress in the more traditional and broad academic field that is artificial intelligence.
I for one have started reading a book from the Gutenberg collection, and then gone out and bought a copy to finish reading it. (I did it for all the usual printed over digital reasons [i.e. I can take a book anywhere, I can curl up on the couch with it, etc.]) I can't help but wonder how many people have use the project in this "try it before you buy it" way, and how much money has been made because of it.
The first clip is mirrored here, and the second one is mirrored here.
This is why it's important to have a "throw away" e-mail address to hand out when sites require registration. In case you're wondering: no, the chat didn't work either.
I'm not saying that no systems needed their code updated to prevent a fatal error, but I think that in a lot of systems, there isn't a whole lot of processing that's done to the date- and in systems where there is processing done, I doubt that many of them have code included to check for an incorrect date and halt the system. (This means that while we might find systems generating the occasional incorrect output- bills dated 1900 and whatnot- and doing things that are errant, very few, if any, of those errors are fatal.)
While error checking is a good idea, functional systems often seem to do just fine without it. (Consider HTML which requires no error handling. While there are quirks in interpretation of code that is technically not valid, HTML documents themselves don't crash. [This isn't saying that Javascript, Java applets or browsers don't crash, just that the HTML itself doesn't generate an error condition.]) This lack of error handling isn't good practice, but here on the other side of the date flip we find it to be functional.
Just as the Y2K problem was created by a lack of foresight, the same lack of foresight blunted it. (The irony is that the best engineered code is/was the code that really needed to be fixed.)
Here's the website of American Science & Engineering, the company that makes the device. They seem to specialize in x-ray inspection equpiment.
Compare this with Time's Person Of The Year for 1999, Jeff Bezos. Without saying anything about the personality or character of Mr. Bezos (which I am in no position to judge), consider the reasons for his selection. Is he admired for his principles? Lauded for his courage? You might say that Time is celebrating his vision and foresight, but in truth they're celebrating his bank account.
In fact, Bezos is serving as an iconic representation of the wildly successful e-commerce phenomenon. In considering that phenomena, it's sad to say, the ideas, ideals, and personalities that spring to mind are indeed an antithesis to the quite, calm courage and confidence that Marshall embodied. While I won't say the Internet is the cause, it certainly has highlighted the human propensity for narcissism.
So, as much as I would like to, in looking back on the Century from 1999, I find it difficult to say that Marshall is the person who is most representative of this age. By that criteria I would not consider him to be the Man Of The Century, a title that wouldn't suit him anyway. Instead, I would consider him one of the century's greatest heroes, an honor that perhaps appropriately and characteristically will go unproclaimed.