my fellow-coworker had RSI. Got some nerve inflammation. Had to go through some surgery and change her profession. I don't think she just faked it. OTOH, even if I type a lot, I have more or less professional typing skills, and so my hands move very little when I type. Never had any problems, even mintor one.
you know, this is funny, but I believe the whole notion of intellect or mind as completely authonomous system (hence with a potential of being implemented as some super-complex program) has religious roots, in particular Christian roots. It is 'mind vs body'. Mind can exists outside the body. So having this as an axiom, why not try to implement the mind as AI? I wonder if there are religions which treat mind and body as unseparable (?)
Minsky's concept of mind and intellect is too simplistic and often plainly wrong. of course slashdot is not the proper place for in-depth discussion but from what I've read I have an impression that according to Minsky mind is something completely authonomous, with its own absolute (logical rules), something you can implement in a machine (hence the whole notion of AI). There is another point of view (which I believe is more adequate) which boils down to mind and intellect as fairly sophisticated adaptation function (or tool), so to implement AI we have to start with very simple machine capable of interacting with its environment, learning, adapting, and evolving. I believe someone (also with MIT roots) is doing just that, and quite successfully. Minsky separates the mind from the body, from the environment, from the whole human exprience, and this is plainly wrong. No wonder AI (according to him) is a dead end. Incidently I remember reading one of his books, he's tried to explain the notion of 'humor in music', in particular in some Bethoveen composition, using mathematical analysis. Oh vey.
this is something really basic, but navigating the keyboard may be a major obstacle. I assume most of the kids probably don't know how to type. find out how many and spend some time focusing on keyboard input. and good luck to you!
I remember talking with my fellow co-worker about a year ago as well, and how he was excited about Rambus stocks. I've told him their technology isn't clearly superior, and difficult to manufacture. that guy is not longer in a company so can't ask him what has happened with his Rambus stocks.
the special thing is having multiple virtual machines. Each machine is completely isolated from the other machine. As a user you 'virtually' own the whole box. Allocating resources to virtual machines is done on a very low level and highly optimized. Lots of code is a microcode. So - for instance you can host say a 1000 servers, yet it is really a single box. Incidently VM has been around for a long long time (probably since mid 70th). Once you have a virtual machine you can boot (IPL) any operating system of your choice, not necessarily Linux. When I was studying at school, one of the courses I took was 'Operating system design and implementation'. The end result was a complete operating system, with bootstrap, program loader, simple I/O drivers, job scheduler. We used VM to boot and test our code. That was my very first exposure to VM.
rather than making themselves incompatible with the rest of INTERNET I don't really see what are they trying to achieve. Oh yeah, shooting themselves in a foot. Of course.
this article is a total bullshit
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I hope this is the journalist who's clueless rather than the founder of Caspian (PhD from MIT, worked at Lincoln Labs), but just by reading the article one can safely say Caspian won't be anything more than a small blib in a radar screen, not due to the evil Cisco and Jupiter (sic!) plotting against it, but simply because these proposed routers don't offer anything which is fundamentally new. There are two reasons packets classification is done at the edges rather than at the core: the first one is that if you didn't do it right at the edges, it may be too late to do anything at the core, and the second one - packet rate at the core is such that doing anything fancy simply slows down the router. yes, you can put the prioritization logic into the silicon, this is what Juniper already has, and probably Cisco will have as well, and yet the fact of life is that on a core interface runing at OC-192 (and soon at OC-768), getting all the packets through at a wire speed, in conjunction with overallocation (so the average utilization is about 20 to 30%) gives you that 'guaranteed delivery' since most of the packets don't get lost due to queuing or interface pps rate. This is the key element in the design of the core: let's keep things simple. let's not introduce fancy algorithms. let's through some extra bandwidth and some raw power but other than that - no fancy algorithms, special policies, etc etc etc. Reliability achieved by a simple brute force. I don't wish anyone dealing with INTERNET core get involved in what appears to be 'content-sensitive prioritization and routing'. incidently the main reason Juniper bits the shit out of Cisco at the core is wire-speed and high density. as simple as that.
before we start laughing at Chinese check all the information purifiers in United States and especially in UK. Remember that 1984 wasn't just a satire on Communism. It was rather accurate prediction to where the whole world is going, including so-called 'western democracies'.
they still keep gcc 2.96 - development snapshot rather than 2.95.3, the official release. there were lots of complains, yet Red Hat just doesn't give a shit.
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tell them all high-level languages are for sissies. use assembly language or better yet write the machine code directly in hexes.
my fellow-coworker had RSI. Got some nerve inflammation. Had to go through some surgery and change her profession. I don't think she just faked it. OTOH, even if I type a lot, I have more or less professional typing skills, and so my hands move very little when I type. Never had any problems, even mintor one.
you know, this is funny, but I believe the whole notion of intellect or mind as completely authonomous system (hence with a potential of being implemented as some super-complex program) has religious roots, in particular Christian roots. It is 'mind vs body'. Mind can exists outside the body. So having this as an axiom, why not try to implement the mind as AI? I wonder if there are religions which treat mind and body as unseparable (?)
Minsky's concept of mind and intellect is too simplistic and often plainly wrong. of course slashdot is not the proper place for in-depth discussion but from what I've read I have an impression that according to Minsky mind is something completely authonomous, with its own absolute (logical rules), something you can implement in a machine (hence the whole notion of AI). There is another point of view (which I believe is more adequate) which boils down to mind and intellect as fairly sophisticated adaptation function (or tool), so to implement AI we have to start with very simple machine capable of interacting with its environment, learning, adapting, and evolving. I believe someone (also with MIT roots) is doing just that, and quite successfully. Minsky separates the mind from the body, from the environment, from the whole human exprience, and this is plainly wrong. No wonder AI (according to him) is a dead end. Incidently I remember reading one of his books, he's tried to explain the notion of 'humor in music', in particular in some Bethoveen composition, using mathematical analysis. Oh vey.
this is something really basic, but navigating the keyboard may be a major obstacle. I assume most of the kids probably don't know how to type. find out how many and spend some time focusing on keyboard input. and good luck to you!
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well, in case you *do* want to know, they cum just from reading Marx' Manifesto.
yeah bud, you blew it. me saw that crap long time ago so me didn't waste any precious time. me first!
Interview with Ron Hubbard and Jon Katz?
I remember talking with my fellow co-worker about a year ago as well, and how he was excited about Rambus stocks. I've told him their technology isn't clearly superior, and difficult to manufacture. that guy is not longer in a company so can't ask him what has happened with his Rambus stocks.
first they've complained that QT is *not* GPLed, now they complain that it is. duh ...
the special thing is having multiple virtual machines. Each machine is completely isolated from the other machine. As a user you 'virtually' own the whole box. Allocating resources to virtual machines is done on a very low level and highly optimized. Lots of code is a microcode. So - for instance you can host say a 1000 servers, yet it is really a single box. Incidently VM has been around for a long long time (probably since mid 70th). Once you have a virtual machine you can boot (IPL) any operating system of your choice, not necessarily Linux. When I was studying at school, one of the courses I took was 'Operating system design and implementation'. The end result was a complete operating system, with bootstrap, program loader, simple I/O drivers, job scheduler. We used VM to boot and test our code. That was my very first exposure to VM.
rather than making themselves incompatible with the rest of INTERNET I don't really see what are they trying to achieve. Oh yeah, shooting themselves in a foot. Of course.
I hope this is the journalist who's clueless rather than the founder of Caspian (PhD from MIT, worked at Lincoln Labs), but just by reading the article one can safely say Caspian won't be anything more than a small blib in a radar screen, not due to the evil Cisco and Jupiter (sic!) plotting against it, but simply because these proposed routers don't offer anything which is fundamentally new. There are two reasons packets classification is done at the edges rather than at the core: the first one is that if you didn't do it right at the edges, it may be too late to do anything at the core, and the second one - packet rate at the core is such that doing anything fancy simply slows down the router. yes, you can put the prioritization logic into the silicon, this is what Juniper already has, and probably Cisco will have as well, and yet the fact of life is that on a core interface runing at OC-192 (and soon at OC-768), getting all the packets through at a wire speed, in conjunction with overallocation (so the average utilization is about 20 to 30%) gives you that 'guaranteed delivery' since most of the packets don't get lost due to queuing or interface pps rate. This is the key element in the design of the core: let's keep things simple. let's not introduce fancy algorithms. let's through some extra bandwidth and some raw power but other than that - no fancy algorithms, special policies, etc etc etc. Reliability achieved by a simple brute force. I don't wish anyone dealing with INTERNET core get involved in what appears to be 'content-sensitive prioritization and routing'. incidently the main reason Juniper bits the shit out of Cisco at the core is wire-speed and high density. as simple as that.
I want this. It will make me fellow co-workers to puke. Super-cutesy to the max.
'nough said
and I still can't login to slashdot, the same bug (already reported). also seems like the new rendering engine is slow.
that though it's a joke, it's still a pretty realistic story ...
http://www.pinstruck.com/
hey we are runing out of fuel! - ok just hit those two pedestrians!
without it we wouldn't have all the great lightbulb jokes. that was the intention.
and of course Hemos failed to mentioned it just like in the other cases involved both SatireWire and BBSpot.
before we start laughing at Chinese check all the information purifiers in United States and especially in UK. Remember that 1984 wasn't just a satire on Communism. It was rather accurate prediction to where the whole world is going, including so-called 'western democracies'.
they still keep gcc 2.96 - development snapshot rather than 2.95.3, the official release. there were lots of complains, yet Red Hat just doesn't give a shit.
happy now?