So...when can we abandon these silly letters and decimal numbers to express ourselves in binary? It's like the elephant in the room. We all want a semantic web, but we all want it in English. At least Lojban has a start on a parsable language, but it still wants to be speakable.
Artificial scarcity is, for example, exemplified by the movie "Hancock". Bandwidth not being used is like food that is not served. It is a misrepresented, but real, scarcity.
Pardons if someone has mentioned this (this is Slashdot, after all). Lojban is a parsable language that aims to encompass all the features of the natural langues we have. From a few years of occasional study, I've found it to be useful mainly for the way it makes you think about other languages. There is a nice book that summarizes the foundations, and I think they may have finished the YACC grammar by now. Have fun!
We actually have a rule to get someone within a year of graduation, or on the way to graduation. The requirements seem a bit dumbed down, but it's in systems programming. The pickings have been slim so far. Good luck.
Often here we have breathless stories about the latest input device to use EEG-type information from the user. The reality is that the information is very noisy. I looked at my EEG from a sleep study--it is nearly completely white noise, especially compared to eye and leg traces. What do we gain by implanting close to the brain? By having more sensors? Ironically, the analysis of very incomplete brain data might itself call for and aid in the study of intelligence.
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So...when can we abandon these silly letters and decimal numbers to express ourselves in binary? It's like the elephant in the room. We all want a semantic web, but we all want it in English. At least Lojban has a start on a parsable language, but it still wants to be speakable.
Artificial scarcity is, for example, exemplified by the movie "Hancock". Bandwidth not being used is like food that is not served. It is a misrepresented, but real, scarcity.
Pardons if someone has mentioned this (this is Slashdot, after all). Lojban is a parsable language that aims to encompass all the features of the natural langues we have. From a few years of occasional study, I've found it to be useful mainly for the way it makes you think about other languages. There is a nice book that summarizes the foundations, and I think they may have finished the YACC grammar by now. Have fun!
IPv6 just has to bring out the geek on you. Full speed ahead.
Sorry, I'd prefer not to give out anything more, even anonymously. Check your usual sources.
It's your _mom_'s house!
We actually have a rule to get someone within a year of graduation, or on the way to graduation. The requirements seem a bit dumbed down, but it's in systems programming. The pickings have been slim so far. Good luck.
Often here we have breathless stories about the latest input device to use EEG-type information from the user. The reality is that the information is very noisy. I looked at my EEG from a sleep study--it is nearly completely white noise, especially compared to eye and leg traces. What do we gain by implanting close to the brain? By having more sensors? Ironically, the analysis of very incomplete brain data might itself call for and aid in the study of intelligence.
Good stuff, minus the cheap shot at academia.