And of course languages like Javascript, Ruby, PHP, and so on don't make tangled messes? Lest we forget Objective C or even C++. The only languages that I would think where most people would agree to that are "clean" would be C#, Java, and Smalltalk. I don't want to get into the functional paradigm because it is not IMO a tangled mess if you understand the paradigm.
Anyhoo, if messes were the basis of whether or not to adopt programming languages we would not be writing any programs. Ever try to figure out WTF a Java Spring or Java EE app is? Its a bleeding mess!
The thing is that Cobol applications work! Yes they work, and they perform oodles of calculations without having to do anything major. Let's not forget that at the end of the day most things don't change that much. Thus why rewrite? And the answer, "oh but this is a new shiny toy" does not count.
I have lived in Europe and North America. So I will pick apart you arguments:
1) The German highly skilled program is better than the US because of its longer terms allowed, and quicker approval. Additionally once you are in the country you can stay in. Try flipping your H1B into a green card. Not even close to easy.
2) Anti-Immigrant stronger than the US? Really, where might I ask? I am not saying Europe is immigrant tolerant. What I am saying is that there are parts of Europe that suck and other parts that don't suck. Do you really want to be an Indian in the heart of white country Missippi? How about being a Muslim in the grand ol bible belt. What you hear are the whackos in Germany. Just like the whacko bible pusher that seems to be at all of the protests. You know the one guy who is a bonfide racist. Or how about those folks that believe being a gay or lesbian can be cured? Sorry, but there are tolerant parts of Europe, and phobic parts of Europe just like the US. It is just different in many contexts.
3) Want to know something. When I was a young kid in the 80's I lived in Bible Belt. When some kids found out I was a German they automatically started calling me a stinking Nazi and that I should not be there. Naaa not racist at all, right? Again not saying Europe is better, but your bias that somehow America is this completely racialily tolerant country is not entirely true. There are tensions on both sides of the pond.
4) Prisons... ROTFL... Really you want to talk about the poor conditions of prisions. Do you want me to start with say any of the prisions in California? Come on guy prisons in America are a hell hole! Again not saying that Europe is this holy land, but there are good and bad prisons on both sides of the pond.
5) Now regarding the laws of being taken to court. You are right, you can be taken to court for insulting somebody. That is called libel and slander! It applies in the United States as well. But heck you know its better by you guys. After all if I stick a fork in a toaster and get electricuted its the fault of the manufacturer. I mean that is loads better! [/sarcasm]
My point here is that some European countries are much better than particular American states, as some American states are much better than some European countries.
ehhh ok not you. Agreed... However, the remainder yeah! Seriously the 80's and early 90's were very different. Here is a telling stat, in Germany George W Bush is more popular than Obama! Lest I remind you, Bush was not popular! Sorta says it all. The last president that did a good job for America in terms of the world view was Clinton.
I am going to call Bullshit here! For starters I am not going to be hiding behind an anonymous coward. Secondly I don't hate Americans, I rather like Americans. I like the American ideals and how people want to do things. What I dislike are parts of the American government.
Now to get to the scoop. You don't have a threat of death for speaking out? Really, how about we ask this fellow:
""Everyone knows that Mr. al-Masri was a mistaken victim of the rendition program. He is now a victim of the misuse of the state-secrets privilege." "
So the CIA did an oopsie, hurt this fellow, detained him, and tortured him. They did this by "accident" and when this guy asks for his rights the American government says, "oopsie no can do, state secret you know." Do you know which country does this? Oh yeah RUSSIA! While you might say at least this guy is alive, well how about those that are not alive? Do we hear their story?
Again I am not critiquing Americans and America as I have many American friends, have lived there and like it there. What I am critiquing is that there are parts of the American government that since 9/11 have gotten a blank cheque to do whatever they feel is right regardless of the law. America as an ideal stands for freedom, justice and being able to pursue without being persecuted. This is a good thing, and something that all humanity should strive for. But these other programs are just overreaching IMO.
Let me put a "scientific" answer to your "oh piss off" answer.
All of this talk of how computers will take over humanity ignores one fact. Namely that computers once are smart they will be dumb as crap!
Yes yes sounds contradictory, but in fact it is not. The real problem with humanity is that not our lack of intelligence. Frankly we are pretty bloody intelligent. Put context, we humans are pretty quick at figuring things out even if it is entirely orthogonal to most things. The issue is that we humans come up with too many answers.
In Science there is one answer. A rock falls on the ground on planet earth and we know that is called gravity. You can't deny it, you can't fight it, it is what it is. Now throw in a question, "should the people look after other people" and you get a bloody maze of answers. Humanity has what I call the stochastic conditioning. Namely when presented with the same identical conditions, you will receive different answers. Science does not work that way. We work the way we do because of our wiring. Namely as we became more intelligent we also became more opinionated. I am not talking about Fox opinions. I am talking about deduction and how we think we know what the future holds and thusly we should not do things today.
Our intelligence actually does get in our way. In the way way way back days as we were animals it was about water holes and finding that watering hole. If you found the watering hole you survived, if you did not find the watering hole you died. These days, we have to bloody analyze the watering hole. We have to concern ourselves with the ethics, morality, and so on of that watering hole. I am not dissing our humanity for we are where we are because of our intelligence. However, often enough our intelligence gets in our way of getting things done due to the conflicts.
Now imagine two robots with superior intelligence getting together. Do you really think they will come to the same conclusion? Sure Hollywood likes to think that, but the reality is that intelligence breeds opinions, and how things will happen in the future. And it is at that point robots become as stupid as we are. One robot will say white, the other black! We will have a Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy type situation. Or if you want to use serious sci-fi, the closest that I have ever seen in pop scifi is "The Matrix". You have good algo's battling bad algos and they all want and desire things.
So like you, my thinking is that these institutions are "producing fucking nothing of value".
1) Battery technology sucks. You don't get enough charge from a single battery. It just takes too long. While driving around locally is ok, there is still range anxiety. 2) If you constantly charge your batteries you will bugger your batteries. I don't run my fuel to the last drop. At around half a tank I start looking for the cheapest station and then will fill it. Charging a half full battery consistently is going to kill the battery. 3) Cold weather or hot weather. Whether Musk likes to admit it or not, I like my car toasty, or cool in the summer. I don't live in the valley where weather is sunny and nice for the most part of the year. That drains the battery, as it drains fuel from my car. 4) Battery replacement is expensive and requires rare earths. As demand for that increases so will the prices for batteries. Thus negating the benefit of electrical cars. 5) We don't have enough power to charge all of the cars. If a highway has about 300 cars per hour (and that is not much), and every 150 miles a charging station is placed the parking lot will need to accommodate 75 charging cars. 75 charging cars which require about 96 kw will need 7,200 KW, or 7.2 MW. A single nuclear reaction outputs about 478 MW of power (remember this is nuclear not coal, or gas which are much lower), which means it can only provide power to 10,000 miles of highway. Add up in America how much highway there is and how many power plants will be needed. Now do the math with peak traffic of about 2,500 cars per hour and you have a REAL problem.
Simply put electrical cars work so long as it is a "Ferrari", where only a few have it as a status thing. Once the masses start, the current technology will be crushed by the demand and we currently have no solutions.
I have no idea why you are marked as "informative". As an engineer this is an absolutely silly idea. Granted in smaller simple scenarios it is a good idea. However, as the grandparent has pointed out, it is 11,000 volts at 35 amps. That is an insane amount of electricity. To put things in context. If this were running at 110 volts you would need about 3500 amps. Your normal house uses about 10 Amps. This means you need 350 houses. Where on God's green earth are you going to find a system that can storage that amount of electricity? Answer is not easily. Thus informative is the wrong rating. I would more say ignorant. Not insulting you, but pointing out with a little bit of math you probably would not have posted that answer.
eh? Really? I do everything you are saying quite easily. Then again I moved beyond the command line and use GUI tools such Cornerstone, which is AWESOME!
Want to know what sucks about git? Your explanation! I know you are trying to be clear, and trying to be helpful. But it is not helpful. Any sane person will need about 4 runs to actually figure out what you are saying. I understand that what you are describing is probably something that somebody needs, but it is an edge condition since it appears you are the only one who can explain it clearly.
No the problem is that git sucks from a usability point of view. It is completely non-intutitive, and heaven forbid anything goes wrong because something is not up to date. I get git, I get the reason why git exists, but it does not mean its better. IMO git needs a revamp in usability. I still continue to use subversion, not because its better, but because I am not spending brain cycles trying to figure out why something is not working properly.
No the issue here is that he determines what is good and what is bad. Yes he has the rights to censor and I will defend his right. However, what I think he is missing is the idea of karma. If you look at my slashdot id it is an old one! I was there nearly from the beginning. And let me say in the beginning the trolls and fanboys were problems. But then karma came into the picture and problem was solved. The crowd will censor itself quite nicely actually.
Its called work contract? Most businesses especially a job like this one don't allow you to have a job on the side. The idea with this job is that you are always available! This is why you are paid a 9 to 5 salary and dont work it. My brother has a job like this one. For the most part he is in maintenance, etc. But sometimes he has to on call service. It is not much fun because you can be called 24x7, which means,yes even Christmas might go down the tubes...
Want to know why? Because you cannot see the signs! As some posters have said before, "great you can spot a letter... but can you do X" I am outside in the forest with my dogs, have been for nearly 20 years. I can spot animals as quick or quicker than my dogs. It is something that you acquire, and I suck big time at video games. Not dissing video games, just saying that "great you can spot a letter", as for me , "great you can spot animals, where is my gun;) "
Wrong... Here is the issue. If you have a faster reaction time and play video games you tend to be more "jumpy". I don't mean this in a bad way. I mean you tend to be faster than other folks. THUS what ends up happening is that you drive faster, and the advantage you have in reaction gets nullified since you are driving faster. I am not saying you are a hazard. I am saying things balance out.
True, but the reality is otherwise. To become really good at a video game means sitting in front of the video game. To become really good at athletics means actually going out and doing it. An athlete will not play video games in their rest period, because it is REST! I used to windsurf about 4 to 5 hours a day while still being in school. The last thing I wanted to do was play video games during my rest time. Video games are not resting, unless you are talking casual games, but I doubt casual gamers (like myself) have much better reactions that FPS gamers.
Ironically, even to this day when I want to rest and relax I exercise. Nothing too strenuous, just enough to keep the blood moving.
If you look at msdn you will still see some ancient articles of mine. I have written books about.net and c#. When windows 8 was announced I decided that I will switch. Windows 8'to me was a piece of do do. I switched to osx and Linux. And now I use for the most part Linux.
As I trade the market my main concern was excel. But what was interesting is that I ended up not needing it because I changed the way that I write algos. I used to be my algos would use excel as the front end. Now I use HTML. Let me tell you HTML rocks, and excel sucks. What is more impressive with HTML is its ability to do whatever I want. If I want a grid with spreadsheet like functionality it is possible. Do I want to insert a graph, no problem. It really is an evolution.
What made the switch hard was the leap of faith. I have used Linux since 94, but was always a bit disappointed. However now with both osx and Linux I can honestly say windows is not needed anymore. And if you say you need it, then it is because you don't want to make the leap of faith. Especially with osx around.
No this is hypocritical. The idea is that you can wear Google glass everywhere. Even in a shower! So what Google is saying, "you can use glass everywhere, EXCEPT..." That is hypocritical. Let me put it in another context. Let's say that I am wearing prescription glasses is Google really expecting me to always carry two glasses? The idea of prescription glasses is to allow me to have one pair and that is it. Maybe at home have a second pair, but most people don't do that.
Oh go jump in a lake! For your thought, the Green party and the Linke of Germany hate this idea of surveillance! Like you said, when it comes to watching and snooping it does not matter whether they are left or right, most of the politicians are authoritarian and like this idea. Also age has very little to do with it. There are old geezers who wear tinfoil hats you know! So you should have kept the discussion at that level of power corrupts regardless of background.
Ok you got me, challenging "physically". Really how? Are they running on some excercise machine? For otherwise it is not challenging physically. BTW skeet shooting a sport? Many people would says, ehhh maybe not...
A baseball robot would be pretty straight forward because the depth of the look ahead is not that crazy. What makes chess so difficult are its combinations and permutations. There is rarely a game with some many permuations. This means to win chess you need to be able to prune the tree to win. But how does one prune and optimize? That is the question and a rather difficult question. Chess is a form of poker for intellectuals.
When you have FPS games the depth of logic needed to win is not that deep. There are not that many options. Think about how the games are all AI backed and if the game designers wanted they could make the game unwinable. However they don't because that would kind of suck.
Wrong, humans do not act in true randomness. Humans act in what you conceive as true randomness. Humans always do what they are biased to do, even when random. To get a human to do a true random event you need to use another tool, like coin flip or some machine.
I also think your argument is kind of ludicrous... BECAUSE... the game is one big AI. The fact you can beat the AI does not mean you are actually better than the AI. It means that the game developers let you win so that you would not get down when your ass is constantly whooped!
Sorry disagree with you. I use a Macbook Pro 14", but have a REALLY old Dell Inspiron 6000 (10 years old now), with native 1920x1200 res. Yes Dell had such a beast back then. It was only for a year or so and I bought it right away. Even though the CPU is woefully underpowered I use it as thin client for my Server VM's and have to say it is awesome working on such a screen. You really have quite a bit of real estate to code, debug, etc... So yes Apple should bring out another 17" notebook.
How is this funny? He is not trolling. If you read the article what he is getting at is that we are not solving the problem that move society forward. Case in point tumblr. Wow, what a piece of effen work! Yippeee! Or look at all of those one day camps of ideas. All related to simplistic systems, where the business model falls into, "lets make this so that we can get bought out." These days the idea is not about actually building a business that makes money.
Case in point Ubuntu. This is a company that does try to push the boundary and does try to help, all while trying to make a business about it. Same thing with Redhat. Yet are they rewarded like say a Tumblr? I just crack up laughing that a TUmblr is worth a tenth of Redhat. you know a business that is actually making money and solving problems.
Where is the real innovation? The uniqueness? Where are the plans that drive real businesses? I think that is a valid question.
No actually you don't know if memories will become less sharp or detailed. A neural map self-organizes the weights and thus if you take out one set of weights you get a new neural net. This means you will get some old memories, but also many new memories. The problem is that you will not be able to distinguish between the two as it all appears to be one set of memories. BTW what the new memories are you will not be able to control. I would chalk this up to, "oh I saw God and this is what he said to me." And no I am not kidding or being sarcastic. These new memories could very well be so out in left field that you would think it was God speaking to you.
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And of course languages like Javascript, Ruby, PHP, and so on don't make tangled messes? Lest we forget Objective C or even C++. The only languages that I would think where most people would agree to that are "clean" would be C#, Java, and Smalltalk. I don't want to get into the functional paradigm because it is not IMO a tangled mess if you understand the paradigm.
Anyhoo, if messes were the basis of whether or not to adopt programming languages we would not be writing any programs. Ever try to figure out WTF a Java Spring or Java EE app is? Its a bleeding mess!
The thing is that Cobol applications work! Yes they work, and they perform oodles of calculations without having to do anything major. Let's not forget that at the end of the day most things don't change that much. Thus why rewrite? And the answer, "oh but this is a new shiny toy" does not count.
I have lived in Europe and North America. So I will pick apart you arguments:
1) The German highly skilled program is better than the US because of its longer terms allowed, and quicker approval. Additionally once you are in the country you can stay in. Try flipping your H1B into a green card. Not even close to easy.
2) Anti-Immigrant stronger than the US? Really, where might I ask? I am not saying Europe is immigrant tolerant. What I am saying is that there are parts of Europe that suck and other parts that don't suck. Do you really want to be an Indian in the heart of white country Missippi? How about being a Muslim in the grand ol bible belt. What you hear are the whackos in Germany. Just like the whacko bible pusher that seems to be at all of the protests. You know the one guy who is a bonfide racist. Or how about those folks that believe being a gay or lesbian can be cured? Sorry, but there are tolerant parts of Europe, and phobic parts of Europe just like the US. It is just different in many contexts.
3) Want to know something. When I was a young kid in the 80's I lived in Bible Belt. When some kids found out I was a German they automatically started calling me a stinking Nazi and that I should not be there. Naaa not racist at all, right? Again not saying Europe is better, but your bias that somehow America is this completely racialily tolerant country is not entirely true. There are tensions on both sides of the pond.
4) Prisons... ROTFL... Really you want to talk about the poor conditions of prisions. Do you want me to start with say any of the prisions in California? Come on guy prisons in America are a hell hole! Again not saying that Europe is this holy land, but there are good and bad prisons on both sides of the pond.
5) Now regarding the laws of being taken to court. You are right, you can be taken to court for insulting somebody. That is called libel and slander! It applies in the United States as well. But heck you know its better by you guys. After all if I stick a fork in a toaster and get electricuted its the fault of the manufacturer. I mean that is loads better! [/sarcasm]
My point here is that some European countries are much better than particular American states, as some American states are much better than some European countries.
ehhh ok not you. Agreed... However, the remainder yeah! Seriously the 80's and early 90's were very different. Here is a telling stat, in Germany George W Bush is more popular than Obama! Lest I remind you, Bush was not popular! Sorta says it all. The last president that did a good job for America in terms of the world view was Clinton.
I am going to call Bullshit here! For starters I am not going to be hiding behind an anonymous coward. Secondly I don't hate Americans, I rather like Americans. I like the American ideals and how people want to do things. What I dislike are parts of the American government.
Now to get to the scoop. You don't have a threat of death for speaking out? Really, how about we ask this fellow:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/18/AR2006051802107.html
""Everyone knows that Mr. al-Masri was a mistaken victim of the rendition program. He is now a victim of the misuse of the state-secrets privilege." "
So the CIA did an oopsie, hurt this fellow, detained him, and tortured him. They did this by "accident" and when this guy asks for his rights the American government says, "oopsie no can do, state secret you know." Do you know which country does this? Oh yeah RUSSIA! While you might say at least this guy is alive, well how about those that are not alive? Do we hear their story?
Again I am not critiquing Americans and America as I have many American friends, have lived there and like it there. What I am critiquing is that there are parts of the American government that since 9/11 have gotten a blank cheque to do whatever they feel is right regardless of the law. America as an ideal stands for freedom, justice and being able to pursue without being persecuted. This is a good thing, and something that all humanity should strive for. But these other programs are just overreaching IMO.
Let me put a "scientific" answer to your "oh piss off" answer.
All of this talk of how computers will take over humanity ignores one fact. Namely that computers once are smart they will be dumb as crap!
Yes yes sounds contradictory, but in fact it is not. The real problem with humanity is that not our lack of intelligence. Frankly we are pretty bloody intelligent. Put context, we humans are pretty quick at figuring things out even if it is entirely orthogonal to most things. The issue is that we humans come up with too many answers.
In Science there is one answer. A rock falls on the ground on planet earth and we know that is called gravity. You can't deny it, you can't fight it, it is what it is. Now throw in a question, "should the people look after other people" and you get a bloody maze of answers. Humanity has what I call the stochastic conditioning. Namely when presented with the same identical conditions, you will receive different answers. Science does not work that way. We work the way we do because of our wiring. Namely as we became more intelligent we also became more opinionated. I am not talking about Fox opinions. I am talking about deduction and how we think we know what the future holds and thusly we should not do things today.
Our intelligence actually does get in our way. In the way way way back days as we were animals it was about water holes and finding that watering hole. If you found the watering hole you survived, if you did not find the watering hole you died. These days, we have to bloody analyze the watering hole. We have to concern ourselves with the ethics, morality, and so on of that watering hole. I am not dissing our humanity for we are where we are because of our intelligence. However, often enough our intelligence gets in our way of getting things done due to the conflicts.
Now imagine two robots with superior intelligence getting together. Do you really think they will come to the same conclusion? Sure Hollywood likes to think that, but the reality is that intelligence breeds opinions, and how things will happen in the future. And it is at that point robots become as stupid as we are. One robot will say white, the other black! We will have a Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy type situation. Or if you want to use serious sci-fi, the closest that I have ever seen in pop scifi is "The Matrix". You have good algo's battling bad algos and they all want and desire things.
So like you, my thinking is that these institutions are "producing fucking nothing of value".
Here is why electrical cars will fail:
1) Battery technology sucks. You don't get enough charge from a single battery. It just takes too long. While driving around locally is ok, there is still range anxiety.
2) If you constantly charge your batteries you will bugger your batteries. I don't run my fuel to the last drop. At around half a tank I start looking for the cheapest station and then will fill it. Charging a half full battery consistently is going to kill the battery.
3) Cold weather or hot weather. Whether Musk likes to admit it or not, I like my car toasty, or cool in the summer. I don't live in the valley where weather is sunny and nice for the most part of the year. That drains the battery, as it drains fuel from my car.
4) Battery replacement is expensive and requires rare earths. As demand for that increases so will the prices for batteries. Thus negating the benefit of electrical cars.
5) We don't have enough power to charge all of the cars. If a highway has about 300 cars per hour (and that is not much), and every 150 miles a charging station is placed the parking lot will need to accommodate 75 charging cars. 75 charging cars which require about 96 kw will need 7,200 KW, or 7.2 MW. A single nuclear reaction outputs about 478 MW of power (remember this is nuclear not coal, or gas which are much lower), which means it can only provide power to 10,000 miles of highway. Add up in America how much highway there is and how many power plants will be needed. Now do the math with peak traffic of about 2,500 cars per hour and you have a REAL problem.
Simply put electrical cars work so long as it is a "Ferrari", where only a few have it as a status thing. Once the masses start, the current technology will be crushed by the demand and we currently have no solutions.
I have no idea why you are marked as "informative". As an engineer this is an absolutely silly idea. Granted in smaller simple scenarios it is a good idea. However, as the grandparent has pointed out, it is 11,000 volts at 35 amps. That is an insane amount of electricity. To put things in context. If this were running at 110 volts you would need about 3500 amps. Your normal house uses about 10 Amps. This means you need 350 houses. Where on God's green earth are you going to find a system that can storage that amount of electricity? Answer is not easily. Thus informative is the wrong rating. I would more say ignorant. Not insulting you, but pointing out with a little bit of math you probably would not have posted that answer.
eh? Really? I do everything you are saying quite easily. Then again I moved beyond the command line and use GUI tools such Cornerstone, which is AWESOME!
Want to know what sucks about git? Your explanation! I know you are trying to be clear, and trying to be helpful. But it is not helpful. Any sane person will need about 4 runs to actually figure out what you are saying. I understand that what you are describing is probably something that somebody needs, but it is an edge condition since it appears you are the only one who can explain it clearly.
No the problem is that git sucks from a usability point of view. It is completely non-intutitive, and heaven forbid anything goes wrong because something is not up to date. I get git, I get the reason why git exists, but it does not mean its better. IMO git needs a revamp in usability. I still continue to use subversion, not because its better, but because I am not spending brain cycles trying to figure out why something is not working properly.
No the issue here is that he determines what is good and what is bad. Yes he has the rights to censor and I will defend his right. However, what I think he is missing is the idea of karma. If you look at my slashdot id it is an old one! I was there nearly from the beginning. And let me say in the beginning the trolls and fanboys were problems. But then karma came into the picture and problem was solved. The crowd will censor itself quite nicely actually.
Its called work contract? Most businesses especially a job like this one don't allow you to have a job on the side. The idea with this job is that you are always available! This is why you are paid a 9 to 5 salary and dont work it. My brother has a job like this one. For the most part he is in maintenance, etc. But sometimes he has to on call service. It is not much fun because you can be called 24x7, which means,yes even Christmas might go down the tubes...
Want to know why? Because you cannot see the signs! As some posters have said before, "great you can spot a letter... but can you do X" I am outside in the forest with my dogs, have been for nearly 20 years. I can spot animals as quick or quicker than my dogs. It is something that you acquire, and I suck big time at video games. Not dissing video games, just saying that "great you can spot a letter", as for me , "great you can spot animals, where is my gun ;) "
Wrong... Here is the issue. If you have a faster reaction time and play video games you tend to be more "jumpy". I don't mean this in a bad way. I mean you tend to be faster than other folks. THUS what ends up happening is that you drive faster, and the advantage you have in reaction gets nullified since you are driving faster. I am not saying you are a hazard. I am saying things balance out.
True, but the reality is otherwise. To become really good at a video game means sitting in front of the video game. To become really good at athletics means actually going out and doing it. An athlete will not play video games in their rest period, because it is REST! I used to windsurf about 4 to 5 hours a day while still being in school. The last thing I wanted to do was play video games during my rest time. Video games are not resting, unless you are talking casual games, but I doubt casual gamers (like myself) have much better reactions that FPS gamers.
Ironically, even to this day when I want to rest and relax I exercise. Nothing too strenuous, just enough to keep the blood moving.
If you look at msdn you will still see some ancient articles of mine. I have written books about .net and c#. When windows 8 was announced I decided that I will switch. Windows 8'to me was a piece of do do. I switched to osx and Linux. And now I use for the most part Linux.
As I trade the market my main concern was excel. But what was interesting is that I ended up not needing it because I changed the way that I write algos. I used to be my algos would use excel as the front end. Now I use HTML. Let me tell you HTML rocks, and excel sucks. What is more impressive with HTML is its ability to do whatever I want. If I want a grid with spreadsheet like functionality it is possible. Do I want to insert a graph, no problem. It really is an evolution.
What made the switch hard was the leap of faith. I have used Linux since 94, but was always a bit disappointed. However now with both osx and Linux I can honestly say windows is not needed anymore. And if you say you need it, then it is because you don't want to make the leap of faith. Especially with osx around.
No this is hypocritical. The idea is that you can wear Google glass everywhere. Even in a shower! So what Google is saying, "you can use glass everywhere, EXCEPT..." That is hypocritical. Let me put it in another context. Let's say that I am wearing prescription glasses is Google really expecting me to always carry two glasses? The idea of prescription glasses is to allow me to have one pair and that is it. Maybe at home have a second pair, but most people don't do that.
If I had mod points I would give you a million! Said so well!
Oh go jump in a lake! For your thought, the Green party and the Linke of Germany hate this idea of surveillance! Like you said, when it comes to watching and snooping it does not matter whether they are left or right, most of the politicians are authoritarian and like this idea. Also age has very little to do with it. There are old geezers who wear tinfoil hats you know! So you should have kept the discussion at that level of power corrupts regardless of background.
Ok you got me, challenging "physically". Really how? Are they running on some excercise machine? For otherwise it is not challenging physically. BTW skeet shooting a sport? Many people would says, ehhh maybe not...
eehhhh.... Do you understand the theory of AI?
A baseball robot would be pretty straight forward because the depth of the look ahead is not that crazy. What makes chess so difficult are its combinations and permutations. There is rarely a game with some many permuations. This means to win chess you need to be able to prune the tree to win. But how does one prune and optimize? That is the question and a rather difficult question. Chess is a form of poker for intellectuals.
When you have FPS games the depth of logic needed to win is not that deep. There are not that many options. Think about how the games are all AI backed and if the game designers wanted they could make the game unwinable. However they don't because that would kind of suck.
Wrong, humans do not act in true randomness. Humans act in what you conceive as true randomness. Humans always do what they are biased to do, even when random. To get a human to do a true random event you need to use another tool, like coin flip or some machine.
I also think your argument is kind of ludicrous... BECAUSE... the game is one big AI. The fact you can beat the AI does not mean you are actually better than the AI. It means that the game developers let you win so that you would not get down when your ass is constantly whooped!
Sorry disagree with you. I use a Macbook Pro 14", but have a REALLY old Dell Inspiron 6000 (10 years old now), with native 1920x1200 res. Yes Dell had such a beast back then. It was only for a year or so and I bought it right away. Even though the CPU is woefully underpowered I use it as thin client for my Server VM's and have to say it is awesome working on such a screen. You really have quite a bit of real estate to code, debug, etc... So yes Apple should bring out another 17" notebook.
How is this funny? He is not trolling. If you read the article what he is getting at is that we are not solving the problem that move society forward. Case in point tumblr. Wow, what a piece of effen work! Yippeee! Or look at all of those one day camps of ideas. All related to simplistic systems, where the business model falls into, "lets make this so that we can get bought out." These days the idea is not about actually building a business that makes money.
Case in point Ubuntu. This is a company that does try to push the boundary and does try to help, all while trying to make a business about it. Same thing with Redhat. Yet are they rewarded like say a Tumblr? I just crack up laughing that a TUmblr is worth a tenth of Redhat. you know a business that is actually making money and solving problems.
Where is the real innovation? The uniqueness? Where are the plans that drive real businesses? I think that is a valid question.
No actually you don't know if memories will become less sharp or detailed. A neural map self-organizes the weights and thus if you take out one set of weights you get a new neural net. This means you will get some old memories, but also many new memories. The problem is that you will not be able to distinguish between the two as it all appears to be one set of memories. BTW what the new memories are you will not be able to control. I would chalk this up to, "oh I saw God and this is what he said to me." And no I am not kidding or being sarcastic. These new memories could very well be so out in left field that you would think it was God speaking to you.