Mandrake in the late 1990s, to Debian by the turn of the century, and probably for the rest of my life. I've played with Ubuntu and Gentoo and Arch on some secondary PCs, but Debian has always worked better and more reliably for me.
I'm guessing that the search space is too large to brute force the optimization. For similar reasons we can't write a program that can beat a Go master. It's just too hard a problem without heuristics, and the heuristics in the human brain are better. Figure out why, and you've solved AI.
Where does the FSF endorse the Pi? Do binary blob drivers really fall under the exemption for "auxiliary processors or low-level processors, none of whose software is meant to be installed or changed by the user or by the seller"?
You could say the same about the Mafia. Shouldn't an honest businessman be upset that he has to pay protection money or get his shop torched? By the same token, shouldn't a free individual be upset that he has to watch what goes into or out of his mouth or end up in jail?
You're right, as a practical matter imprisonment is a forseeable consequence of breaking the law. But that's no reason not to get upset that the laws are unjust.
Science doesn't promote itself. If there were any justice in the world, the Hubble team would be as celebrated as any sports team. This is certainly a much greater accomplishment than anything that happened at the Olympics. But that's not the world we live in. We need people like Phil Plait to publicly celebrate science. If there's a bit of self promotion in there too, so be it.
Nonsense. China is a fascist oligarchy. Fascist in the Mussolini sense of merged state and corporate power, as well as the lack of any individual rights. And an oligarchy, in that it's ruled by a party and not an individual.
Even a borderline aspy can appreciate the evidence that moderate drinking is correlated with increased longevity. This may or may not be causative, but one or two drinks per day is unlikely to hurt.
And good beer is tasty too. Far better than the synthetically flavored highly acidic sugar water that so many people drink. To your health!
The press release argues that it's not a big loss of time, since you probably want to take a half-hour break every few hours to get some food, go to the bathroom, etc.
Really? A bathroom break takes more than 5 minutes? Do your business and get back on the road.
So you have a fair way to enforce abortion rights that every state agrees on?
The state has absolutely no right to "agree" on what a woman does with her uterus. Neither does the federal government for that matter. That decision belongs to the woman, and the woman alone. Anything else is tyranny.
The problem is when the percentage who pay no taxes exceeds 50%, they become a tyranny to the minority who do
Oh, those poor oppressed rich people. Don't they benefit enough from the political and economic structure that enables them to earn vastly more than the average honest hard working laborer?
If you want people to pay taxes, pay them enough so that they can pay taxes without taking food from their mouths. If you object to class warfare, stop the rich from waging class warfare on the rest of us.
Let's compromise. Everyone should pay taxes. We'll have the poor pay a "token" gesture, while the rich can go back to the 92% tax rate they had under Eisenhower and FDR.
Actually, it sounds more like Occupy. The only movement that has accurately identified the problems that face us, but can't field any practical alternatives.
One would give states jurisdiction over a woman's uterus, and the other favors a profit motive for imprisoning people. That's no choice I want to have to make. The Libertarian party is as much of a sham as the two leading parties.
I'm not sure that's the case. Neurons adapt, and after prolonged stimulation it's likely that the pleasure center is so disfunctional that it doesn't work anymore. Rats with electrodes in their pleasure centers will self stimulate until they die, but that doesn't mean they're actually experiencing pleasure. They're probably just "chasing the dragon" to use a drug metaphor.
Using restraint to avoid tolerance is a good example of executive function being used to maximize pleasure.
It's true, many on the left are overly skeptical about nuclear power. But at least liberals change their opinions when educated.
Nuclear power is a classic test case for liberal biasesâ"kind of the flip side of the global warming issueâ"for the following reason. Itâ(TM)s well known that liberals tend to start out distrustful of nuclear energy: Thereâ(TM)s a long history of this on the left. But this impulse puts them at odds with the views of the scientific community on the matter (scientists tend to think nuclear power risks are overblown, especially in light of the dangers of other energy sources, like coal).
So are liberals âoesmart idiotsâ on nukes? Not in Kahanâ(TM)s study. As members of the âoeegalitarian communitarianâ group in the studyâ"people with more liberal valuesâ"knew more science and math, they did not become more worried, overall, about the risks of nuclear power. Rather, they moved in the opposite direction from where these initial impulses would have taken them. They become less worriedâ"and, I might add, closer to the opinion of the scientific community on the matter.
You may or may not support nuclear power personally, but letâ(TM)s face it: This is not the âoesmart idiotâ effect. It looks a lot more like open-mindedness.
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Do you get much more appreciated than having an SI unit named after you?
Mandrake in the late 1990s, to Debian by the turn of the century, and probably for the rest of my life. I've played with Ubuntu and Gentoo and Arch on some secondary PCs, but Debian has always worked better and more reliably for me.
Unfortunately, the SCOTUS trumps the Constituion whenever they feel like it.
From a society point of view Open Source software within the government (or government services) makes a lot of sense.
Which is why this will never happen in the US.
I'm guessing that the search space is too large to brute force the optimization. For similar reasons we can't write a program that can beat a Go master. It's just too hard a problem without heuristics, and the heuristics in the human brain are better. Figure out why, and you've solved AI.
You went from a 64K Commodore machine from 1982 to an 8k Atari from 1979?
Start lynching CEOs.
Where does the FSF endorse the Pi? Do binary blob drivers really fall under the exemption for "auxiliary processors or low-level processors, none of whose software is meant to be installed or changed by the user or by the seller"?
You could say the same about the Mafia. Shouldn't an honest businessman be upset that he has to pay protection money or get his shop torched? By the same token, shouldn't a free individual be upset that he has to watch what goes into or out of his mouth or end up in jail?
You're right, as a practical matter imprisonment is a forseeable consequence of breaking the law. But that's no reason not to get upset that the laws are unjust.
Science doesn't promote itself. If there were any justice in the world, the Hubble team would be as celebrated as any sports team. This is certainly a much greater accomplishment than anything that happened at the Olympics. But that's not the world we live in. We need people like Phil Plait to publicly celebrate science. If there's a bit of self promotion in there too, so be it.
It's a Seinfeld reference. A post about nothing.
Yes, yes it is. The war on drugs is a war on personal freedom, just like any censorship regime.
Nonsense. China is a fascist oligarchy. Fascist in the Mussolini sense of merged state and corporate power, as well as the lack of any individual rights. And an oligarchy, in that it's ruled by a party and not an individual.
Even a borderline aspy can appreciate the evidence that moderate drinking is correlated with increased longevity. This may or may not be causative, but one or two drinks per day is unlikely to hurt.
And good beer is tasty too. Far better than the synthetically flavored highly acidic sugar water that so many people drink. To your health!
I have a religious belief that free speech is sacred, and any restriction on that speech is disrespectful to my religion.
The press release argues that it's not a big loss of time, since you probably want to take a half-hour break every few hours to get some food, go to the bathroom, etc.
Really? A bathroom break takes more than 5 minutes? Do your business and get back on the road.
What do you mean? Obama's the best Republican president since Reagan.
So you have a fair way to enforce abortion rights that every state agrees on?
The state has absolutely no right to "agree" on what a woman does with her uterus. Neither does the federal government for that matter. That decision belongs to the woman, and the woman alone. Anything else is tyranny.
The problem is when the percentage who pay no taxes exceeds 50%, they become a tyranny to the minority who do
Oh, those poor oppressed rich people. Don't they benefit enough from the political and economic structure that enables them to earn vastly more than the average honest hard working laborer?
If you want people to pay taxes, pay them enough so that they can pay taxes without taking food from their mouths. If you object to class warfare, stop the rich from waging class warfare on the rest of us.
Let's compromise. Everyone should pay taxes. We'll have the poor pay a "token" gesture, while the rich can go back to the 92% tax rate they had under Eisenhower and FDR.
That would be all well and good if the course was named "Intro to Office Productivity Software". But it's not, it's named "Intro to Computing".
If you got the skills (technical AND interpersonal) you will get ahead no matter what
And if you don't have the interpersonal skills, what do you do then?
Actually, it sounds more like Occupy. The only movement that has accurately identified the problems that face us, but can't field any practical alternatives.
One would give states jurisdiction over a woman's uterus, and the other favors a profit motive for imprisoning people. That's no choice I want to have to make. The Libertarian party is as much of a sham as the two leading parties.
I'm not sure that's the case. Neurons adapt, and after prolonged stimulation it's likely that the pleasure center is so disfunctional that it doesn't work anymore. Rats with electrodes in their pleasure centers will self stimulate until they die, but that doesn't mean they're actually experiencing pleasure. They're probably just "chasing the dragon" to use a drug metaphor.
Using restraint to avoid tolerance is a good example of executive function being used to maximize pleasure.
It's true, many on the left are overly skeptical about nuclear power. But at least liberals change their opinions when educated.