I think Kristopeit is an AI experiment gone horribly wrong. Seems to have gone through an upgrade cycle lately, I think it knows a couple more words by now. Or maybe it's an artificial neural net? Poor little snail neurons on a silicon wafer, forced to post on/. in some evil underlords lair?
Anyway, that fixation on identity seems like a straightforward camouflage tactics for an AI in a Turing test situation - deflect from questions about your identity - and thereby humanity - by questioning your interrogator's instead. The constant insistence on it defeats its purpose, though.
From what I read about the history of flight, it actually did really take some seriously big brass ones to undertake the first supersonic test flights, with fluid dynamics at the supersonic transition being as poorly understood as they were back then. Massive airframe shaking at the limits of controllability and all that.
You got a point there - but this point highlights the key failure of the MBA crowd - they are trapped within their own echo chamber. A good manager needs to be a translator in the first place, he needs to translate between his engineers, his designers, his sales people, his financial people and the customers, all of which are using different languages. If this kind of communication fails at any level, you end up fucked. To stay within your RPG example, a good manager is the raid leader in your picture, who, without micromanaging, keeps the communication up between his dps, healing and tank class leaders while learning a new, tough raid. And that's where the TFA's point fails - you wouldn't want to put the main tank (engineer) in charge of that, because he rightfully views everything from the tanking perspective, thereby neglecting the needs of the dps and healers, which are secondary to him.
Well, I damn sure wouldn't have the secret service come after me for what boils down to a civil law infraction. But if you like to have the jackbooted thugs around, well, I guess that makes you a good little citizen. I am standing on the sidelines of this. Excuse me while I enjoy my actual freedom.
Ok, you got a point there - Obviously I can only access stuff inside the firm. But then again, would it really change anything? In the end, it remains a matter of my professional obligation and honor to keep my mouth shut.
Well, generally, why shouldn't the files be open to every medical employee? They are bound to silence, anyway. I work at a law firm, and I can review cases that are not my own, too - as long as I don't go off and blabber about it in the next bar or to the next journalist, that's fine. You can learn from cases that are not your own, after all. Of course, the assumption that everyone will honor their obligation to silence is a bit far-fetched, I give you that. But post hoc the one that talked should be slapped, not the institution.
Yeah, there are regulations concerning the rights to your own picture. That is beside the point, though - If I pulled the same thing right here, I wouldn't have my servers seized and I damn sure wouldn't have the secret service come after me. Worst that would happen would be a cease and desist letter from someone depicted that didn't like it.
It's bait for the spelling nazis that have nothing to contribute to the discussion otherwise. If it hadn't been there, you wouldn't have had a reason to post. Slashdot is taking care of you. Dangerously close to socialism, but that's how we roll these days.
The most telling fact here is that no single commenter has ever said "This is due to global warming.", but droves of deniers immediately crawled out of their caves to burn "LOL! CLIMATE CHANGE BULLSHIT! HERP DERP!"-strawmen en masse.
Well, hate toward people actively and knowingly twisting facts, poisoning wells and spreading lies is too strong, I agree. I reserve contempt for those without honor.
Yeah, them there scientist are positively rolling in cash. Impoverished bankers queue up at the lab doors, groveling to have the occasional nickel thrown at them, so they can buy their starving families another credit default swap paper fir the evening soup.
Well, if you put a lovecraftian angle on it, maybe asbestos is the fossilized crap of the Mi-Go, the fungi from Yuggoth? I have to admit, though, that if this is the most rational explanation I can up with, there might be a problem with the whole argument...
Can't put a finger on actual voltage triggered fluorescent proteins - but you can get voltage triggered structural change in membrane proteins, and from there it is just the problem of attaching a fluorescence label that is sensitive to it's environment and you should be able to grab a signal off it. Of course, implementing that in a living brain is another problem....
I don't have the paper at hand, but I recall reading about optically activated neurons being created in a mouse model years ago. Leave a hole in the skull, connect with fibre optics and activate at will. I'd have to dig through my files to find the proper citation, though - so I might be mistaken, but this sounds awfully familiar.
Hah, I recall a story my NMR prof told in one of his lectures. Back in the 50s, when biomolecular NMR just started out, the theory that memory was based on magnetic fields had been floating around. One of the early masters of NMR thought it was bullshit, and proceeded to stick his head into a magnet assembly producing a field of a couple of Tesla, just to prove his point. Fortunately for him, he proved to be right.
When electrifying the country was first suggested, would you have been amongst the "300.000 km of power lines is an eye-poppingly large number of lines to string"-crowd? Infrastructure projects for a whole country tend to be large by nature.
I realize that this is possibly sarcasm, but still the appearance of "synthesized" and "gourmet" in one sentence makes me shiver. In the end, the main problem why people are eating unhealthy, bad shit is the disconnect between them and the actual sources of their food. I'll stick with my friendly neighborhood hick farmer for my gourmet needs....;)
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I think Kristopeit is an AI experiment gone horribly wrong. Seems to have gone through an upgrade cycle lately, I think it knows a couple more words by now. Or maybe it's an artificial neural net? Poor little snail neurons on a silicon wafer, forced to post on /. in some evil underlords lair?
Anyway, that fixation on identity seems like a straightforward camouflage tactics for an AI in a Turing test situation - deflect from questions about your identity - and thereby humanity - by questioning your interrogator's instead. The constant insistence on it defeats its purpose, though.
No, it says a lot about the fact that things usually never are simple or straightforward, and that the law reflects the fact.
I take it you are a programmer then, egregiously overrating your ability to represent yourself?
Well, when someone sues your arse off, will you run to a cockroach or to a lawyer? And which one would you suddenly find useful?
If "weak and expensive" is your definition for "effcient", I have no further questions regarding the downfall of American engineering.
From what I read about the history of flight, it actually did really take some seriously big brass ones to undertake the first supersonic test flights, with fluid dynamics at the supersonic transition being as poorly understood as they were back then. Massive airframe shaking at the limits of controllability and all that.
You got a point there - but this point highlights the key failure of the MBA crowd - they are trapped within their own echo chamber. A good manager needs to be a translator in the first place, he needs to translate between his engineers, his designers, his sales people, his financial people and the customers, all of which are using different languages. If this kind of communication fails at any level, you end up fucked. To stay within your RPG example, a good manager is the raid leader in your picture, who, without micromanaging, keeps the communication up between his dps, healing and tank class leaders while learning a new, tough raid. And that's where the TFA's point fails - you wouldn't want to put the main tank (engineer) in charge of that, because he rightfully views everything from the tanking perspective, thereby neglecting the needs of the dps and healers, which are secondary to him.
Well, I damn sure wouldn't have the secret service come after me for what boils down to a civil law infraction. But if you like to have the jackbooted thugs around, well, I guess that makes you a good little citizen. I am standing on the sidelines of this. Excuse me while I enjoy my actual freedom.
Ok, you got a point there - Obviously I can only access stuff inside the firm. But then again, would it really change anything? In the end, it remains a matter of my professional obligation and honor to keep my mouth shut.
Well, generally, why shouldn't the files be open to every medical employee? They are bound to silence, anyway. I work at a law firm, and I can review cases that are not my own, too - as long as I don't go off and blabber about it in the next bar or to the next journalist, that's fine. You can learn from cases that are not your own, after all. Of course, the assumption that everyone will honor their obligation to silence is a bit far-fetched, I give you that. But post hoc the one that talked should be slapped, not the institution.
Yeah, there are regulations concerning the rights to your own picture. That is beside the point, though - If I pulled the same thing right here, I wouldn't have my servers seized and I damn sure wouldn't have the secret service come after me. Worst that would happen would be a cease and desist letter from someone depicted that didn't like it.
Well, that's the land of the free and the brave for you. I stay in my socialist European hellhole, thank you very much.
It's bait for the spelling nazis that have nothing to contribute to the discussion otherwise. If it hadn't been there, you wouldn't have had a reason to post. Slashdot is taking care of you. Dangerously close to socialism, but that's how we roll these days.
The most telling fact here is that no single commenter has ever said "This is due to global warming.", but droves of deniers immediately crawled out of their caves to burn "LOL! CLIMATE CHANGE BULLSHIT! HERP DERP!"-strawmen en masse.
The Strawmen! The Strawmen! They came from the fields! Oh god! They are everywhere! Have mercy!! NOOOOOO......
Well, hate toward people actively and knowingly twisting facts, poisoning wells and spreading lies is too strong, I agree. I reserve contempt for those without honor.
Yeah, them there scientist are positively rolling in cash. Impoverished bankers queue up at the lab doors, groveling to have the occasional nickel thrown at them, so they can buy their starving families another credit default swap paper fir the evening soup.
The Old Ones take me! The voice of reason. On slashdot. Did you take a wrong turn, or why did you show up here? ;)
Well, if you put a lovecraftian angle on it, maybe asbestos is the fossilized crap of the Mi-Go, the fungi from Yuggoth? I have to admit, though, that if this is the most rational explanation I can up with, there might be a problem with the whole argument...
Can't put a finger on actual voltage triggered fluorescent proteins - but you can get voltage triggered structural change in membrane proteins, and from there it is just the problem of attaching a fluorescence label that is sensitive to it's environment and you should be able to grab a signal off it. Of course, implementing that in a living brain is another problem....
I don't have the paper at hand, but I recall reading about optically activated neurons being created in a mouse model years ago. Leave a hole in the skull, connect with fibre optics and activate at will. I'd have to dig through my files to find the proper citation, though - so I might be mistaken, but this sounds awfully familiar.
Hah, I recall a story my NMR prof told in one of his lectures. Back in the 50s, when biomolecular NMR just started out, the theory that memory was based on magnetic fields had been floating around. One of the early masters of NMR thought it was bullshit, and proceeded to stick his head into a magnet assembly producing a field of a couple of Tesla, just to prove his point. Fortunately for him, he proved to be right.
So, once again, technologies only existing on paper yet will produce energy to cheap to meter?
When electrifying the country was first suggested, would you have been amongst the "300.000 km of power lines is an eye-poppingly large number of lines to string"-crowd? Infrastructure projects for a whole country tend to be large by nature.
I realize that this is possibly sarcasm, but still the appearance of "synthesized" and "gourmet" in one sentence makes me shiver. In the end, the main problem why people are eating unhealthy, bad shit is the disconnect between them and the actual sources of their food. I'll stick with my friendly neighborhood hick farmer for my gourmet needs.... ;)