. I foresee someone attempting a friendly gesture by offering to share her mother's recipe for "shut up."
Context is context. Obviously, an English speaker hearing a Spanish speaker offer to share a recipe for "shut up" on a (up until this point) benign and friendly conference call is going to assume translation error. Better than that, translation software knows about these little mix ups better than you do. On a Text To Speech, there's not much to do but suffer the mis-translation ( or maybe they play an audble 'ping' when they warn about a context or idiosyncrasy error), but in a system that displays you something on a device, these things tend to be shaded a different color, and offer options as to what other possible meaning they may have meant, based on context.
One, our text translation software isn't foolproof, but people expect it to be.
No, they don't. No one even expects paid human translators to be perfect.
Two, live conversations depend upon both parties building on a shared experience. If each one has a different account of the experience, conversations break down very quickly. Ever tried to carry on a conversation with a schizophrenic?
Honestly, with a schizophrenic, chances are I have, at some point in my life, on IRC. But more to your point, i've played games where opposing sides are communicating from different languages via google translate. Think Russia vs US, and the only way to talk to them is via delayed google translate results. It's slow, it's tedious, and yet we somehow managed to have amazing rapport with people of like mind. The assholes were still assholes via google translate, and the people we wanted to work with we managed to communicate with. Again, you are ignoring the fact than incrementally better translation is still better than it's predecessor. For now. Sure, one day we'll identify some uncanny valley with voice translation, and we'll all spend lots of time plotting how bad the translation software has to be for us to feel it's robotic.... but for now, any small step forward is better than the previous one.
Then again, this whole discussion is purely academic. Gene Roddenberry's estate will just claim prior art [memory-alpha.org] and prevent this from ever becoming a reality. Hopefully.
Yup, god forbid someone spends time and money on a problem that sci-fi writers got to magically make disappear in one sentence, and a prop. Maybe someday some brilliant young chap will figure out how to make warp drive not require 3x the mass of the universe for power, and Gene's children can make some more cash. Hopefully.
Jesus man... srsly? a five-digit who didn't RTFA....
The hours are verified by the screen shots, which workers can see before their employers do. Untoward images, like a Skype conversation with a spouse or something worse, can be blanked out, at a cost to the employee of one-sixth of the hourly wage. The software can also drill deeper, looking at things like individual key strokes and where someone moved the computer mouse. Employers who see something they do not like can likewise dispute that portion of the work.
You can choose to block any data from going to your employer, but then you forfeit that time. It's not a bad idea if you _have_ to pay people by the hour and want them to work remotely. Ideally, more and more people should be paid for milestones and smaller size projects with some sort of auditable 'test' that validates whether they succeeded or not ( and should be pair or not).
Lets be honest though, most people, in offices, are very unproductive. Even with the occasional 'chance' of some manger walking by and checking on them.
I did. But this is the new Slashdot. I doubt many people here have read The Book of Five Rings or are interested in Japanese culture. Your would have gotten a better response on 4chan.
This isn't about storage size. That war is lost for the desktop ( see Bloatware ). If it wasn't for smart phones and tablets cause people to still think about storage size for some applications, it would be even worse.
When we talk about SSD drives vs HDD drives, were are primarily talking about drive bandwidth and access times. SSD's have no seek time, no spin up time, and their bandwidth in read/writes are at least 2x as fast, and can be up to 4x or 5x as fast.
Think of the engineering and time that goes into making an application 'snappy' to load. Like say Chrome or Word or Photoshop. Now weight that engineering cost vs simply installing an SSD. Now you see how this is going to affect future software development.
But GP ( or uncle, or 2nd cousin) is right, this is a Rant. Each of these Moore's law watermarks tend to have similar effects on software development. I think bleeding edge apps ( including games ) generally herald what is to come....
I love SSDs, especially for development work. Nothing like having a dev VM per client each on their own little SSD isolated from your non-work related default operating system. But SSD's are dangerous...
SSD's are like crack to bad applications. The magically make them feel better, while masking the underlying problem. I'm worried what the future is going to hold when the average desktop comes with an SSD drive. Already I've already seem some development companies demo financial software on striped SSD's as if that's what everyone runs these days. I guess it's no difference then an abundance of RAM and an abundance of CPU power. < Insert in my day rant here >
DARPA may contact registered participants to discuss the means and methods used in solving the Challenge. .... DARPA claims no rights to intellectual property developed as a result of participation in the Challenge.
The 50k is prize money to reward you for trying and doing. It doesn't give them the rights to your technology. You can set whatever price you want on it. But they may now know that 20 other people came really close, and your 'super amazing proprietary' algorithm isn't all that super amazing. This gives them a better negotiating position. You may win the 50k and some other guy may end up with the contract for 10million over 3 years.
It is if you want to know things like, say, someone plans to blow up another nations ambassador in your capital.
While it would be nice if all terrorist were dumb enough to leave their info on thumb drives like Osama, we have to presume many still write things down, and then tell some lackey to 'get rid of all that' with a big old shredder...
This has nothing to do with scanning the fragments. They give you a tiff, with an alpha channel, and each scrapped already pressed out and scanned into the image.
The thought being, in the field, you can get the grunts to take back the bag of shreds, lay them out in blocks, scan them, and submit the blocks to some back-end program that will do some jigsaw algo to put together pieces within the block. You'll just have to make sure each shred is surrounded by a space.
Honestly, I'm surprised some archaeological PHD hasn't already invented some system similar to this, for putting back together s broken Egyptian hieroglyph style wall writing or something.
I know you are a 7 digit, so I shouldn't expect much, but read the fucking article. You have to submit a solution to the 'fake' challenge. This nets them no value. You don't turn in your code, or handover the process you used to solve it. At most you specify "I did this manually, automatically, or a mix". So you can win $50k for solving something, and then walk away. You can tell them to fuck off, you won't sell them your super-secret procedure no matter how much they offer you. But thanks for the 50k, kk, byebye.
Thrun and Urmson acknowledged that there are many challenges ahead, including improving the reliability of the cars and addressing daunting legal and liability issues. But they are optimistic (Nevada recently became the first U.S. state to make self-driving cars legal.) All the problems of transportation that people see as a huge waste, "we see that as an opportunity," Thrun said.
.... what's the solution? You had 4 GPS receivers and none of them tracked your rocket at altitude. Obviously rocket grade GPS exists but with military export controls on them. Is this a spot where DIY's could hack together a GPS module that handles the vibration and acceleration?
Not to answer his question for him, but if you are interested in this, on the AR list there are a handful actively pursuing this ( including JP Aerospace which you referenced ). For the Carmack Prize, this would not have helped. It would have had to achieve 100k ft from the point in which is launched from the balloon, which is at such thin atmosphere actually hurts rather than helps in this case.
There's nothing I can say without provoking someone on the "other side" into an ad hominem attack. Dialog, or what remained of civil dialog, on any of these matters is pretty much suspended until after the 2012 elections.
If i'm understanding this, this isn't as cool as it seems. It seems like his 'monkeys' are just randomly creating words, and he matches those words against any word used in Shakespeare. If he gets a match, he marks that one as done. So, as some point one monkey made the word "be" and all of a sudden green lights all over the place.
I think the original saying was how random and unique it would be for a solid set of strings to randomly create a whole piece of work _in one go_ . Not a word here, a word there, OMG 100% of Shakespeare words have been randomly created.
4chan has already evolved this ( randomly, ergo/b/ ) and the evolutionary outcome was people who can only fap to shocking images of puppies having their heads cutoff juxtaposed with teen webcams or pornographic images of my little ponies.....
I don't think Rule 34 should ever be a marketing campaign.
Why PETA thinks this is a good outcome, I don't know.
My 15s appraisal: They want to be the single-source OO database for 'everything'. Take all the data in wiki or any webpage ( assuming it's about an entity), extract any quantitative properties, ( Size, color, temperature, weight, Atomic Number... etc) and add them to Fluidinfo. Incorporate a way for domain names to 'brand' their data, and you how have a way of defeating spammers and griefers who are just going to setup bots to load crap into this OO database.
Way too many ways for this to fail imo. In the 'future' I expect the same info to simply be published by data owners. Or, simply extracted by an app for us running in a Google data center.. Actually... Wolfram Alpha already does this. but I think they threw people at the problem, not natural langue parser.
That said, wouldn't it be cool if ounce of knowledge was query-able in a semantic way? Yeah sure, it'd be cool. Don't hold your breathe we get their through Fluidinfo.
I got this for free from Con Edison (not this model). They came out, installed it on the mains, and hooked up a little wireless gateway device. I get instant usage reports...etc.
It's value diminishes a bit with time. Early on, I was looking at the charts daily. I really got into optimizing my place for low energy during the day. I could see when my refrigerator cycled on, and later when my A/C systems cycled on. It did lead me to throw away two older A/C units that were drawing way to much power.
The ability to be alerted when you seem to be using unusually more power than normal is good. I had a BeerTender go bad and some cheap Wine Cooler/Refrig unit. Both started using way more energy than they should have w/o tripping the breaker. Also, they give you a little LED status bar that's wireless, and will show you what % of your target daily KW your on track to using. It basically shows you your energy velocity. I.E, it says "if you keep using this much energy, then by midnight tonight you'll be x% through your self-set daily budget." If you go over 100% it turns red. A few times this summer I had full red bars by 10am. Window AC systems are really not efficient.
All in all, I've cut my year to year energy bill by half. In fact, this last month was $200 vs $450 last year. In a few years this will be standard and won't seem unusual, but the data is value added imo.
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Context is context. Obviously, an English speaker hearing a Spanish speaker offer to share a recipe for "shut up" on a (up until this point) benign and friendly conference call is going to assume translation error. Better than that, translation software knows about these little mix ups better than you do. On a Text To Speech, there's not much to do but suffer the mis-translation ( or maybe they play an audble 'ping' when they warn about a context or idiosyncrasy error), but in a system that displays you something on a device, these things tend to be shaded a different color, and offer options as to what other possible meaning they may have meant, based on context.
No, they don't. No one even expects paid human translators to be perfect.
Honestly, with a schizophrenic, chances are I have, at some point in my life, on IRC. But more to your point, i've played games where opposing sides are communicating from different languages via google translate. Think Russia vs US, and the only way to talk to them is via delayed google translate results. It's slow, it's tedious, and yet we somehow managed to have amazing rapport with people of like mind. The assholes were still assholes via google translate, and the people we wanted to work with we managed to communicate with. Again, you are ignoring the fact than incrementally better translation is still better than it's predecessor. For now. Sure, one day we'll identify some uncanny valley with voice translation, and we'll all spend lots of time plotting how bad the translation software has to be for us to feel it's robotic.... but for now, any small step forward is better than the previous one.
Yup, god forbid someone spends time and money on a problem that sci-fi writers got to magically make disappear in one sentence, and a prop. Maybe someday some brilliant young chap will figure out how to make warp drive not require 3x the mass of the universe for power, and Gene's children can make some more cash. Hopefully.
http://img.tgdaily.net/sites/default/files/stock/450teaser/science/smallest_engine.jpg
I mean, come on.
Jesus man... srsly? a five-digit who didn't RTFA....
You can choose to block any data from going to your employer, but then you forfeit that time. It's not a bad idea if you _have_ to pay people by the hour and want them to work remotely. Ideally, more and more people should be paid for milestones and smaller size projects with some sort of auditable 'test' that validates whether they succeeded or not ( and should be pair or not).
Lets be honest though, most people, in offices, are very unproductive. Even with the occasional 'chance' of some manger walking by and checking on them.
I did. But this is the new Slashdot. I doubt many people here have read The Book of Five Rings or are interested in Japanese culture. Your would have gotten a better response on 4chan.
This isn't about storage size. That war is lost for the desktop ( see Bloatware ). If it wasn't for smart phones and tablets cause people to still think about storage size for some applications, it would be even worse.
When we talk about SSD drives vs HDD drives, were are primarily talking about drive bandwidth and access times. SSD's have no seek time, no spin up time, and their bandwidth in read/writes are at least 2x as fast, and can be up to 4x or 5x as fast.
Think of the engineering and time that goes into making an application 'snappy' to load. Like say Chrome or Word or Photoshop. Now weight that engineering cost vs simply installing an SSD. Now you see how this is going to affect future software development.
But GP ( or uncle, or 2nd cousin) is right, this is a Rant. Each of these Moore's law watermarks tend to have similar effects on software development. I think bleeding edge apps ( including games ) generally herald what is to come....
Buy stock in SSD manuf I guess.
I love SSDs, especially for development work. Nothing like having a dev VM per client each on their own little SSD isolated from your non-work related default operating system. But SSD's are dangerous...
SSD's are like crack to bad applications. The magically make them feel better, while masking the underlying problem. I'm worried what the future is going to hold when the average desktop comes with an SSD drive. Already I've already seem some development companies demo financial software on striped SSD's as if that's what everyone runs these days. I guess it's no difference then an abundance of RAM and an abundance of CPU power. < Insert in my day rant here >
derp derp derp derp.... goverment is evil... derp derp derp... itrustno1... derp derp
50k is an afternoon away from you.
They even scanned all the shreds for you, so you don't even have to get up.
You lack imagination
The 50k is prize money to reward you for trying and doing. It doesn't give them the rights to your technology. You can set whatever price you want on it. But they may now know that 20 other people came really close, and your 'super amazing proprietary' algorithm isn't all that super amazing. This gives them a better negotiating position. You may win the 50k and some other guy may end up with the contract for 10million over 3 years.
It is if you want to know things like, say, someone plans to blow up another nations ambassador in your capital.
While it would be nice if all terrorist were dumb enough to leave their info on thumb drives like Osama, we have to presume many still write things down, and then tell some lackey to 'get rid of all that' with a big old shredder...
This has nothing to do with scanning the fragments. They give you a tiff, with an alpha channel, and each scrapped already pressed out and scanned into the image.
The thought being, in the field, you can get the grunts to take back the bag of shreds, lay them out in blocks, scan them, and submit the blocks to some back-end program that will do some jigsaw algo to put together pieces within the block. You'll just have to make sure each shred is surrounded by a space.
Honestly, I'm surprised some archaeological PHD hasn't already invented some system similar to this, for putting back together s broken Egyptian hieroglyph style wall writing or something.
I know you are a 7 digit, so I shouldn't expect much, but read the fucking article. You have to submit a solution to the 'fake' challenge. This nets them no value. You don't turn in your code, or handover the process you used to solve it. At most you specify "I did this manually, automatically, or a mix". So you can win $50k for solving something, and then walk away. You can tell them to fuck off, you won't sell them your super-secret procedure no matter how much they offer you. But thanks for the 50k, kk, byebye.
.... Photoshopped.
From the Article ( I know, hersay... )
Nevada bill:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/nevada-bill-would-provide-tentative-roadmap-for-autonomous-vehicles
.... what's the solution? You had 4 GPS receivers and none of them tracked your rocket at altitude. Obviously rocket grade GPS exists but with military export controls on them. Is this a spot where DIY's could hack together a GPS module that handles the vibration and acceleration?
Not to answer his question for him, but if you are interested in this, on the AR list there are a handful actively pursuing this ( including JP Aerospace which you referenced ). For the Carmack Prize, this would not have helped. It would have had to achieve 100k ft from the point in which is launched from the balloon, which is at such thin atmosphere actually hurts rather than helps in this case.
Obama wanted a class war and now he's got it.
There's nothing I can say without provoking someone on the "other side" into an ad hominem attack. Dialog, or what remained of civil dialog, on any of these matters is pretty much suspended until after the 2012 elections.
If i'm understanding this, this isn't as cool as it seems. It seems like his 'monkeys' are just randomly creating words, and he matches those words against any word used in Shakespeare. If he gets a match, he marks that one as done. So, as some point one monkey made the word "be" and all of a sudden green lights all over the place.
I think the original saying was how random and unique it would be for a solid set of strings to randomly create a whole piece of work _in one go_ . Not a word here, a word there, OMG 100% of Shakespeare words have been randomly created.
4chan has already evolved this ( randomly, ergo /b/ ) and the evolutionary outcome was people who can only fap to shocking images of puppies having their heads cutoff juxtaposed with teen webcams or pornographic images of my little ponies.....
I don't think Rule 34 should ever be a marketing campaign.
Why PETA thinks this is a good outcome, I don't know.
Here's a link to a company selling this shredder. Nothing to do with GE.
I've lost track since '00, does Tim O'Reilly have a hand in Geeknet/slash now?
The Gist: http://blogs.fluidinfo.com/fluidinfo/2011/02/23/putting-domain-names-onto-data-with-fluidinfo/
Example Object: http://blogs.fluidinfo.com/fluidinfo/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/book-object.png
My 15s appraisal:
They want to be the single-source OO database for 'everything'. Take all the data in wiki or any webpage ( assuming it's about an entity), extract any quantitative properties, ( Size, color, temperature, weight, Atomic Number... etc) and add them to Fluidinfo. Incorporate a way for domain names to 'brand' their data, and you how have a way of defeating spammers and griefers who are just going to setup bots to load crap into this OO database.
Way too many ways for this to fail imo. In the 'future' I expect the same info to simply be published by data owners. Or, simply extracted by an app for us running in a Google data center.. Actually... Wolfram Alpha already does this. but I think they threw people at the problem, not natural langue parser.
That said, wouldn't it be cool if ounce of knowledge was query-able in a semantic way? Yeah sure, it'd be cool. Don't hold your breathe we get their through Fluidinfo.
His brother Store Grain says it was all a hoax.
I got this for free from Con Edison (not this model). They came out, installed it on the mains, and hooked up a little wireless gateway device. I get instant usage reports...etc.
It's value diminishes a bit with time. Early on, I was looking at the charts daily. I really got into optimizing my place for low energy during the day. I could see when my refrigerator cycled on, and later when my A/C systems cycled on. It did lead me to throw away two older A/C units that were drawing way to much power.
The ability to be alerted when you seem to be using unusually more power than normal is good. I had a BeerTender go bad and some cheap Wine Cooler/Refrig unit. Both started using way more energy than they should have w/o tripping the breaker. Also, they give you a little LED status bar that's wireless, and will show you what % of your target daily KW your on track to using. It basically shows you your energy velocity. I.E, it says "if you keep using this much energy, then by midnight tonight you'll be x% through your self-set daily budget." If you go over 100% it turns red. A few times this summer I had full red bars by 10am. Window AC systems are really not efficient.
All in all, I've cut my year to year energy bill by half. In fact, this last month was $200 vs $450 last year. In a few years this will be standard and won't seem unusual, but the data is value added imo.