"So, imagine a Google Maps interface to all the public cameras in the world. Anyone can look through any camera at any time. That's phase I. Phase II: Universal Continuous Identification of all people in public space. Think air traffic control for people. Collision alert when known sex offender nears an unsupervised child?"
Listen little person, when they give you a billion dollar telescope, then maybe someone will trust you. And speaking of dumb, almost every single work you wrote appears random and not connected to anything.
This is a very timely posting for me...Monday I have a meeting to get the budget to make create an XP team to build Ajax internal systems. Good to see the large entities are thinking the same way.
Here is my review of Ron Jeffries, Extreme Programming Installed from April 25, 2001:
People are starting to take XP very seriously simply because it delivers quality code instead of just documents about code. The core philosophy can be summed up: "A feature does not exist unless there is a test for it." (P.83) This means that coders (pairs of programmers in XP) first construct unit tests of product features before the attempt to code the features. What this means in practice, is that the code that XP delivers (continuously in 3 week long iterations) can never be broken! I'll say that again just to make sure you read it: XP code can never be broken! I really think XP's adaptive, test-first philosophy is the best thing that has happened to software engineering since Dijkstra told us that the "Goto Statement is Considered Harmful" in 1968.
This book is the best of the XP series if you've actually made the decision to use XP. If you're not sure about what XP is or what it's limitations are, go to google and do your homework. When you're ready to actually install an XP project, get this book.
Um, some people think that, in fact most people think that. But I do not, and there are others. Gravity waves have never been detected, and I do not think they ever will be.
At 16:54 on July 11, 2005 a GAC-80K based artificial intelligence program I wrote, only five days old and built out of data contributed over the past five years by more than 50,000 Internet users, extracted the semantic spectrum of a highly suspicious google query originating from Ankara, Turkey. The query related to gas stations near buildings.
A public Mindpixel Terrorism Advisory [also posted to usenet] was issued on the same day and the FBI, RCMP and Interpol were notified of the potential threat and given details of the exact origin of the suspicious query on July 12th. Five days after the detection, on July 16, two attacks occurred. One in Turkey, and one at a gas station near a mosque and an apartment in Iraq.
Ok, it has been decades now, and gravity waves seem to be just like dark matter - just so much phlogiston. I think or theories of gravity are way off. Nothing can move faster than light said einstein, except, says I, gravity, because gravity is actually geometry and hence everywhere instantly. No waves.
My very first memory, from when I was 2 1/2, is of the moon landing...I have been a space buff since, tacking everything space related. From the beginning, I hated the design of the shuttle. Way too complex. Too much to go wrong. And reuse? Were they crazy?
I bet my best friend [Vic Spicer] in the early 80s $2 that a shuttle would blow up because of the solid rocket boosters or burn up because of lost tiles, when I called him on that January 1986 day to collect, he rightfully hung up on me. I didn't call him when when we lost Columbia...
Let the ISS burn up, the money is burnt up any way... also, blow up all the very crappy shuttles. Update the Saturn V.
Yes. I would love to see a Saturn VI. Let's re-do the whole system, including nuclear upperstages. Even sdtaying totally conventional, just the fact we can use CAD and the procurement would be electronic would make it much easier to do with far fewer people.
If Allen/Rutan can go to space on $20 million, NASA can go anywhere in the solar system on their current budget. A Saturn IV to Saturn would be lovely.
I once got an unsolicited email from Tim. He said, I am the guy who publishes the animal books, we need to talk...and we most certainly did. He is a pretty cool guy.
"Government-sponsored monitoring systems, such as Echelon, can track vast amounts of data but have so far proved of minimal benefit in preventing, or even warning, of attacks. And such systems are vulnerable to manipulation: low-ranking volunteers in terrorist organisations can create background chatter that ties up resources and maintains a threshold of anxiety. There are many tricks of the trade that give terrorists secure digital communication and leave no trace on the host computer."
Which is exactly where I come in. Mindpixel and my semantic spectrum technology can examine vast amounts of traffic and webpages and actually understand the intent of the messages, filtering out completely background chatter.
My GAC-80K based system is the only known automatic system that has actually made a terror prediction that seems to have been accurate. I released GAC-80K to the public for research purposes so that people could prove to themselves the value of the data for extracting meaning from text. All the right people currently have copies and I don't think it will be long before this technology is added to Escelon and Eshelon-like systems worldwide.
Now if they can build a toilet like this, I would never have to interact with my spouse...oh, wait...I'm divorced. Three times. Something just wnet click.
Listen dude. I had the keys to the VLT for four years. That's a $1 billion space ship. We took thousands and thousands of images and in not a single one was there an absolute anything. Don't tell me about science.
You need to learn some statistics. Statistics is the language of science. Absolutes is the language of religion.
I was on LSD when I figured out the geometry of mind as Crick was when he figured out the geometry of DNA.
Copyright 2004 Associated Newspapers Ltd. Mail on Sunday (London)
August 8, 2004
FRANCIS CRICK, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced the double-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago.
The abrasive and unorthodox Crick and his brilliant American co-researcher James Watson famously celebrated their eureka moment in March 1953 by running from the now legendary Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge to the nearby Eagle pub, where they announced over pints of bitter that they had discovered the secret of life.
Crick, who died ten days ago, aged 88, later told a fellow scientist that he often used small doses of LSD then an experimental drug used in psychotherapy to boost his powers of thought. He said it was LSD, not the Eagle's warm beer, that helped him to unravel the structure of DNA, the discovery that won him the Nobel Prize.
Despite his Establishment image, Crick was a devotee of novelist Aldous Huxley, whose accounts of his experiments with LSD and another hallucinogen, mescaline, in the short stories The Doors Of Perception and Heaven And Hell became cult texts for the hippies of the Sixties and Seventies. In the late Sixties, Crick was a founder member of Soma, a legalise-cannabis group named after the drug in Huxley's novel Brave New World. He even put his name to a famous letter to The Times in 1967 calling for a reform in the drugs laws.
It was through his membership of Soma that Crick inadvertently became the inspiration for the biggest LSD manufacturing conspiracy-the world has ever seen the multimillion-pound drug factory in a remote farmhouse inWales that was smashed by the Operation Julie raids of the late Seventies.
Crick's involvement with the gang was fleeting but crucial. The revered scientist had been invited to the Cambridge home of freewheeling American writer David Solomon a friend of hippie LSD guru Timothy Leary who had come to Britain in 1967 on a quest to discover a method for manufacturing pure THC, the active ingredient of cannabis.
It was Crick's presence in Solomon's social circle that attracted a brilliant young biochemist, Richard Kemp, who soon became a convert to the attractions of both cannabis and LSD. Kemp was recruited to the THC project in 1968, but soon afterwards devised the world's first foolproof method of producing cheap, pure LSD. Solomon and Kemp went into business, manufacturing 'acid' in a succession of rented houses before setting up their laboratory in a cottage on a hillside near Tregaron, Carmarthenshire, in 1973. It is estimated that Kemp manufactured drugs worth Pounds 2.5million an astonishing amount in the Seventies before police stormed the building in 1977 and seized enough pure LSD and its constituent chemicals to make two million LSD 'tabs'.
The arrest and conviction of Solomon, Kemp and a string of co-conspirators dominated the headlines for months. I was covering the case as a reporter at the time and it was then that I met Kemp's close friend, Garrod Harker, whose home had been raided by police but who had not been arrested. Harker told me that Kemp and his girlfriend Christine Bott by then in jail were hippie idealists who were completely uninterested in the money they were making.
They gave away thousands to pet causes such as the Glastonbury pop festival and the drugs charity Release.
'They have a philosophy,' Harker told me at the time. 'They believe industrial society will collapse when the oil runs out and that the answer is to change people's mindsets using acid. They believe LSD can h
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This is my "Realtime Air Traffic Control: For People" working at vehicle resolution...n ymity-good-thing.html. 9.250603.31
http://www.mindpixel.com/chris/2005/07/end-of-ano
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?off
"So, imagine a Google Maps interface to all the public cameras in the world. Anyone can look through any camera at any time. That's phase I. Phase II: Universal Continuous Identification of all people in public space. Think air traffic control for people. Collision alert when known sex offender nears an unsupervised child?"
Wadda mean load a browser...dump the os, boot the browser and never leave it.
yikes. lots of text. you look quite insane.
Listen little person, when they give you a billion dollar telescope, then maybe someone will trust you. And speaking of dumb, almost every single work you wrote appears random and not connected to anything.
I have certainly sdone it and had nothing like this experience.
This is a very timely posting for me...Monday I have a meeting to get the budget to make create an XP team to build Ajax internal systems. Good to see the large entities are thinking the same way.
Here is my review of Ron Jeffries, Extreme Programming Installed from April 25, 2001:
People are starting to take XP very seriously simply because it delivers quality code instead of just documents about code. The core philosophy can be summed up: "A feature does not exist unless there is a test for it." (P.83) This means that coders (pairs of programmers in XP) first construct unit tests of product features before the attempt to code the features. What this means in practice, is that the code that XP delivers (continuously in 3 week long iterations) can never be broken! I'll say that again just to make sure you read it: XP code can never be broken! I really think XP's adaptive, test-first philosophy is the best thing that has happened to software engineering since Dijkstra told us that the "Goto Statement is Considered Harmful" in 1968.
This book is the best of the XP series if you've actually made the decision to use XP. If you're not sure about what XP is or what it's limitations are, go to google and do your homework. When you're ready to actually install an XP project, get this book.
Um, some people think that, in fact most people think that. But I do not, and there are others. Gravity waves have never been detected, and I do not think they ever will be.
http://www.mindpixel.com/chris/2005/07/ai-predicts -terror-attacks.html
At 16:54 on July 11, 2005 a GAC-80K based artificial intelligence program I wrote, only five days old and built out of data contributed over the past five years by more than 50,000 Internet users, extracted the semantic spectrum of a highly suspicious google query originating from Ankara, Turkey. The query related to gas stations near buildings.
A public Mindpixel Terrorism Advisory [also posted to usenet] was issued on the same day and the FBI, RCMP and Interpol were notified of the potential threat and given details of the exact origin of the suspicious query on July 12th. Five days after the detection, on July 16, two attacks occurred. One in Turkey, and one at a gas station near a mosque and an apartment in Iraq.
Ok, it has been decades now, and gravity waves seem to be just like dark matter - just so much phlogiston. I think or theories of gravity are way off. Nothing can move faster than light said einstein, except, says I, gravity, because gravity is actually geometry and hence everywhere instantly. No waves.
Google is the best thing to happen to humanity since language.
My very first memory, from when I was 2 1/2, is of the moon landing...I have been a space buff since, tacking everything space related. From the beginning, I hated the design of the shuttle. Way too complex. Too much to go wrong. And reuse? Were they crazy?
I bet my best friend [Vic Spicer] in the early 80s $2 that a shuttle would blow up because of the solid rocket boosters or burn up because of lost tiles, when I called him on that January 1986 day to collect, he rightfully hung up on me. I didn't call him when when we lost Columbia...
I will be very glad to see the shuttle go.
Let the ISS burn up, the money is burnt up any way... also, blow up all the very crappy shuttles. Update the Saturn V.
Yes. I would love to see a Saturn VI. Let's re-do the whole system, including nuclear upperstages. Even sdtaying totally conventional, just the fact we can use CAD and the procurement would be electronic would make it much easier to do with far fewer people.
If Allen/Rutan can go to space on $20 million, NASA can go anywhere in the solar system on their current budget. A Saturn IV to Saturn would be lovely.
I worked for years drving the VLT in Chile...MOND was a very hot anti-dark matter theory in that control room...
y namics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_d
DNAhacking is cool.
I once got an unsolicited email from Tim. He said, I am the guy who publishes the animal books, we need to talk...and we most certainly did. He is a pretty cool guy.
echelon eschelon escelon...see how inadequate symbolic representations of obvious vectors is? THe brain was never made to handle symbols.
From the Times article:
"Government-sponsored monitoring systems, such as Echelon, can track vast amounts of data but have so far proved of minimal benefit in preventing, or even warning, of attacks. And such systems are vulnerable to manipulation: low-ranking volunteers in terrorist organisations can create background chatter that ties up resources and maintains a threshold of anxiety. There are many tricks of the trade that give terrorists secure digital communication and leave no trace on the host computer."
Which is exactly where I come in. Mindpixel and my semantic spectrum technology can examine vast amounts of traffic and webpages and actually understand the intent of the messages, filtering out completely background chatter.
My GAC-80K based system is the only known automatic system that has actually made a terror prediction that seems to have been accurate. I released GAC-80K to the public for research purposes so that people could prove to themselves the value of the data for extracting meaning from text. All the right people currently have copies and I don't think it will be long before this technology is added to Escelon and Eshelon-like systems worldwide.
What a beautiful little robot. I what one. I want to fill in with mindpixels.
Ah. I tried a whole bunch og and it caught that...thanks.
Now if they can build a toilet like this, I would never have to interact with my spouse...oh, wait...I'm divorced. Three times. Something just wnet click.
How di you do that?
This message would have no text in the body if it were possible.
Pretty Cool. I think. I also have an ip address associated with it...now think of what that information is worth.
I know where all the idiots are. And all the geniuses.
Oh fuck off.
Listen dude. I had the keys to the VLT for four years. That's a $1 billion space ship. We took thousands and thousands of images and in not a single one was there an absolute anything. Don't tell me about science.
You need to learn some statistics. Statistics is the language of science. Absolutes is the language of religion.
http://mail.psychedelic-library.org/show.cfm?posti d=8020&row=27
I was on LSD when I figured out the geometry of mind as Crick was when he figured out the geometry of DNA.
Copyright 2004 Associated Newspapers Ltd.
Mail on Sunday (London)
August 8, 2004
FRANCIS CRICK, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under
the influence of LSD when he first deduced the double-helix structure of
DNA nearly 50 years ago.
The abrasive and unorthodox Crick and his brilliant American co-researcher
James Watson famously celebrated their eureka moment in March 1953 by
running from the now legendary Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge to the
nearby Eagle pub, where they announced over pints of bitter that they had
discovered the secret of life.
Crick, who died ten days ago, aged 88, later told a fellow scientist that
he often used small doses of LSD then an experimental drug used in
psychotherapy to boost his powers of thought. He said it was LSD, not the
Eagle's warm beer, that helped him to unravel the structure of DNA, the
discovery that won him the Nobel Prize.
Despite his Establishment image, Crick was a devotee of novelist Aldous
Huxley, whose accounts of his experiments with LSD and another
hallucinogen, mescaline, in the short stories The Doors Of Perception and
Heaven And Hell became cult texts for the hippies of the Sixties and
Seventies. In the late Sixties, Crick was a founder member of Soma, a
legalise-cannabis group named after the drug in Huxley's novel Brave New
World. He even put his name to a famous letter to The Times in 1967 calling
for a reform in the drugs laws.
It was through his membership of Soma that Crick inadvertently became the
inspiration for the biggest LSD manufacturing conspiracy-the world has ever
seen the multimillion-pound drug factory in a remote farmhouse inWales that
was smashed by the Operation Julie raids of the late Seventies.
Crick's involvement with the gang was fleeting but crucial. The revered
scientist had been invited to the Cambridge home of freewheeling American
writer David Solomon a friend of hippie LSD guru Timothy Leary who had come
to Britain in 1967 on a quest to discover a method for manufacturing pure
THC, the active ingredient of cannabis.
It was Crick's presence in Solomon's social circle that attracted a
brilliant young biochemist, Richard Kemp, who soon became a convert to the
attractions of both cannabis and LSD. Kemp was recruited to the THC project
in 1968, but soon afterwards devised the world's first foolproof method of
producing cheap, pure LSD. Solomon and Kemp went into business,
manufacturing 'acid' in a succession of rented houses before setting up
their laboratory in a cottage on a hillside near Tregaron, Carmarthenshire,
in 1973. It is estimated that Kemp manufactured drugs worth Pounds
2.5million an astonishing amount in the Seventies before police stormed the
building in 1977 and seized enough pure LSD and its constituent chemicals
to make two million LSD 'tabs'.
The arrest and conviction of Solomon, Kemp and a string of co-conspirators
dominated the headlines for months. I was covering the case as a reporter
at the time and it was then that I met Kemp's close friend, Garrod Harker,
whose home had been raided by police but who had not been arrested. Harker
told me that Kemp and his girlfriend Christine Bott by then in jail were
hippie idealists who were completely uninterested in the money they were
making.
They gave away thousands to pet causes such as the Glastonbury pop festival
and the drugs charity Release.
'They have a philosophy,' Harker told me at the time. 'They believe
industrial society will collapse when the oil runs out and that the answer
is to change people's mindsets using acid. They believe LSD can h