It was probably the real AI convincing this Warwick guy do the press release, then adding media hype and after everybody finds out it is a hoax, it will convince the scientific community that the real AI is still not yet possible, however the real IS there.
Pfff.. finishing my third beer. But in case it turns out I am right, I can tell you later that "See, there was a real AI, I told you so!".
It may be that Russian influence is causing problems in Crimea, but you should also know that that portion of the country is hugely ethnic Russian, and strongly in favor of Russian rule.
This is kind-of-almost true, but the majority of the Crimean residents do not support it (yet). At least according to the following study.
In Ukraine, as well as in Russia majority of respondents wants both countries to be independent, but friendly - with open borders, without visas and customs houses (in Ukraine – 68%, in Russia – 59%). In Ukraine with numbers have decreased since November, 2013 by 5%, in Russia – increased by 4%.
Integration with Russia into a single state is supported by 12% of respondents in Ukraine, and during recent years this number has decreased from 20% to 9%, but after Maidan – increased by 3%. The main part of supporters of this idea of unification with Russia is in the East (26%) and South (19%), while the smallest part is in the Center (5%) and West (1%) of Ukraine. By regions majority of integration with Russia in one state is in Crimea (41%), Donetsk district (33%), Lugansk district (24%), Odessa district (24%), Zaporizhzhya (17%) and Kharkiv (15%) districts, but even there support to the current status of relations with Russia - as two independent and friendly states – prevails.
Among Russians the desire to have Ukraine and Russia as two independent and friendly states (with open borders, without visas and customs houses) prevails as well as among Ukrainians (68% and 63% respectively). Integration into one state is supported by 9% of Ukrainians and 32% of Russians. There is direct dependence between desire to unite with Russia into a single state and age of respondents: among youth up to 30 years old 5% want this unification to be realized, among people of 30-54 years old – 11% support that, and among people older than 55 years – 17%.
It is obvious, that among supporters of joining the Custom Union, there is more people supporting unification with Russia (26,5%), than among those, oriented on joining the EU (1%). However, even among supporters of entering the Custom Union majority wants to preserve the status-quo in relations with Russia (69%). Among people, having negative attitude towards Maidan, only 21% wants to unite with Russia into a single state.
Among supporters of political parties the highest percentage of people, who wants join Ukraine to join Russia, is among communists’ electorate (35,5%), but even in this case majority consider that Ukraine and Russia should be friendly independent states (63%). Among Party of Regions voters 28% support unification with Russia.
In Russia 16% of population support unification with Ukraine into one state.
People who'll call you a fucking idiot
People who'll call you a pusillanimous carbuncle with the intellectual capacity of a particularly forlorn used condom
People who won't really tell you whether you've fucked up or not, but will often go away thinking you've failed, and acting upon it, without giving you the chance to learn from your mistake or even show you you made one, all under the guise of "politeness" or "professionalism"
Well, these three options are too limited. Another group would be people, who can *strongly* but politely get the point through without looking like a socially handicapped imbecile. And another group of people do not point out any flaws, but smack you in the face, give you a wedgie and rip your head off with a chainsaw without even telling you the reason.
A contest that is limited to only C/C++ and Java is a disgrace to humanity. No skillful CS student would go to such a thing. This is completely ridiculous. Either pen and paper, or allow languages that are not among the very worst languages of the planet.
These contests are writing about highly efficient programs performance and memory-wise and C/C++ are very adequate for such algorithm competitions. Any inefficient step performance or memory wise will be punished by failing tests and losing points. C/C++ has been one of the classical programming languages always used in algorithm contests. And what the fuck do you mean by "worst languages on the planet". You do not implement performance critical algorithms and data structures in Python or Ruby, this the correct job for C/C++ programming languages.
Not really the best analogy, but give the best empolyees in the company the power to order distant fire and I am sure some additional breakthrough will happen.
Actually, this study does not say anything directly about code quality, because
Density = Total Defects Found / Code Size.
The problem is with the "Total Defects Found" part. How they are found and how they are reported may differ vastly from one project/company to other. The report sais that the quality of code increases with larger codebases in propertiary projects. In fact, the best you can say is that the metric decreases with larger codebases in propertiary projects. Maybe many of the defects have not been found yet in propertiary projects. Maybe they have less manpower to seek the errors, maybe they just don't care as long anything does not crash. But smaller defects may be in the code. Open source code is more open to "finding the defects", thus possibly obtaining worse "quality" they are talking about in the article.
I think this has to be kept in mind when reading the report.
"... decided that it is not a security risk to show passwords on your screen in the latest Alpha release of Fedora 19..."
Security risks is not something that can be "decided" by somebody. There are always risks and showing the password on plain text is certainly more risky than masking it. Or are there some really awesome benefits for showing them in plain. No. Because noone expects that, so both usability and security suffer.
Just saying that maybe you should reconsider alternative things you could also do. I'm not saying that PhD is a wrong decision, but its a painful one. Research is hard and getting stuff published in respectable places is even harder. Make sure you are ready to spend the best years of your life doing that.
That's nothing. I was once asked to design & implement a space shuttle software in 30 minutes, which I did while undercover in communist Russia stealing their top secret documents. I also had time to prove that N=NP, create a simple script that passed the Turing test and create a machine learning method, that can predict exact date and time when you die with 100% accuracy.
Anyway, this free consulting thing is a joke from Dilbert, so I would suggest reading less comics:D
I like my touchscreen phone, but I hate the fingerprints on it. As for my computer, I clean my laptop screen and external monitor once a week to get rid of all that dust and cr*p that gets on it. The idea of going with my sweaty fingers all over it gives me goosebumps.
How would I dare to show anything to my boss or co-workers in my computer if the screen is full of s**t?
In this case it is better to be safe than sorry. Monitoring online news comments is totally acceptable to prevent next Breivik cases, I would not classify it as terror or excessive surveillance. If we would consider things like ACTA, PIPA, SOPA etc, then its a different story.
I have not used any Excel recently, because they all tend to die when coping with larger datasets. R (www.r-project.org) has always worked better for me. And, o yeah, plotting.. no excel can stand against R plotting capabilities, it is just superior.
While reading your post, it suddenly came to me: "Why the heck am I reading all this!? I won't get much smarter reading slashdot posts and I have a lot of urgent things to do!"
Thanks man, I'll continue finishing my schoolwork now!:) +1 Useful, If there was such an option.
It is very easy to inject malware in open source code, especially if you control the distribution of it and it may take weeks after somebody would notice it.
For example, take Firefox extensions. It takes about 10 lines of javascript to insert a fully functional keylogger into any existing extension like Adblock for example.
What I want to say is that malware can be very easily hidden in source code and even if you're an excellent programmer, you do not have time to analyze source code of all the software you use. Even if there were 10000 excellent programmers, the chance that a cleverly placed piece of code will be missed, is significant, especially code from an untrusted distributor.
Such gene studies actually may help some people in deeply religious communities, especially when it comes to homosexuality and such related stuff. If you are gei, then you may not certainly be *evil*, *tainted* or *dangerous to society*. Of course, nobody cares, if the society is keen for example even blaming Harry Potter fans for witchcraft etc. On the other hand, for example, if someone proved that pedofilia or murdering is caused by some genes, then nobody would be happy to accept this as force majeure.
Still, I doubt anybody can blame a set of genes to excuse cheating his wife.:)
Ahh, invest some time and learn for example following tools:
Tex/Lyx for documents, presentations, papers etc
R/ggplot2 for data manipulation, tables and plotting
Python for other things you want to compute
you get quality stuff and you never want to use any office suit again
Fortunately my 5 year old laptop has not had any fatal malfunctions yet, but it is full of cracks and the lid barely holds together. I've used it almost daily at work and school and if it holds together 5 more years (which it probably does not), i would not bother to upgrade.
One thing I'd like to rant about are the people who say that a bit older, but working hardware obsolete and useless. Every now and then they buy better CPUs, better graphics cards, more RAM etc and then think the world starts to turn. Bloody hell, if they use poorly-written software made by stacking together slow algorithms, every day download movies, games and stuff illegally, clutter their system with all kinds of crap, then no wonder they cannot get enough of upgrades. Do not misunderstand me, I have nothing against people upgrading their hardware, but I just hate people who cannot use their computers properly.
I wonder who has time to type that many text on a conventional mobile phone. 31% of teens sending more than 100 message per day is in my opinion manic. I thought that people needing to communicate that much already used Skype or similar software. Maybe I'm just a wierdo as I don't anyone who sends more than 10 messages a day on average. Or are the statistics biased? A biased sample of teens in the study? I don't know.
Machines can't think, people, and they never will unless a chemistry-based computer is invented.
I'm not sure you need brains to cause minds. Although the processes in our minds are complex, they can be described algorithmically or be simulated by artificial neural networks, although in a limited way at the present time.
See this military demo about Active Denial System. Maybe this with conjunction of a GPS system could somehow provide alternative prisons without *actual* walls? But it sure would cost a lot more.
"Programming requires long nights staring blankly at mind-muddling objective languages."
Actually, no, it doesn't...
How come? But the real programmers do it? citing...
The Real Programmer is capable of working 30, 40, even 50 hours at a stretch, under intense pressure. In fact, he prefers it that way. Bad response time doesn't bother the Real Programmer-- it gives him a chance to catch a little sleep between compiles. If there is not enough schedule pressure on the Real Programmer, he tends to make things more challenging by working on some small but interesting part of the problem for the first nine weeks, then finishing the rest in the last week, in two or three 50-hour marathons. This not only impresses the hell out of his manager, who was despairing of ever getting the project done on time, but creates a convenient excuse for not doing the documentation.
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It was probably the real AI convincing this Warwick guy do the press release, then adding media hype and after everybody finds out it is a hoax, it will convince the scientific community that the real AI is still not yet possible, however the real IS there.
.. finishing my third beer. But in case it turns out I am right, I can tell you later that "See, there was a real AI, I told you so!".
Pfff
It may be that Russian influence is causing problems in Crimea, but you should also know that that portion of the country is hugely ethnic Russian, and strongly in favor of Russian rule.
This is kind-of-almost true, but the majority of the Crimean residents do not support it (yet). At least according to the following study.
In Ukraine, as well as in Russia majority of respondents wants both countries to be independent, but friendly - with open borders, without visas and customs houses (in Ukraine – 68%, in Russia – 59%). In Ukraine with numbers have decreased since November, 2013 by 5%, in Russia – increased by 4%. Integration with Russia into a single state is supported by 12% of respondents in Ukraine, and during recent years this number has decreased from 20% to 9%, but after Maidan – increased by 3%. The main part of supporters of this idea of unification with Russia is in the East (26%) and South (19%), while the smallest part is in the Center (5%) and West (1%) of Ukraine. By regions majority of integration with Russia in one state is in Crimea (41%), Donetsk district (33%), Lugansk district (24%), Odessa district (24%), Zaporizhzhya (17%) and Kharkiv (15%) districts, but even there support to the current status of relations with Russia - as two independent and friendly states – prevails.
Among Russians the desire to have Ukraine and Russia as two independent and friendly states (with open borders, without visas and customs houses) prevails as well as among Ukrainians (68% and 63% respectively). Integration into one state is supported by 9% of Ukrainians and 32% of Russians. There is direct dependence between desire to unite with Russia into a single state and age of respondents: among youth up to 30 years old 5% want this unification to be realized, among people of 30-54 years old – 11% support that, and among people older than 55 years – 17%.
It is obvious, that among supporters of joining the Custom Union, there is more people supporting unification with Russia (26,5%), than among those, oriented on joining the EU (1%). However, even among supporters of entering the Custom Union majority wants to preserve the status-quo in relations with Russia (69%). Among people, having negative attitude towards Maidan, only 21% wants to unite with Russia into a single state. Among supporters of political parties the highest percentage of people, who wants join Ukraine to join Russia, is among communists’ electorate (35,5%), but even in this case majority consider that Ukraine and Russia should be friendly independent states (63%). Among Party of Regions voters 28% support unification with Russia.
In Russia 16% of population support unification with Ukraine into one state.
Why is this not working? grr ..
People who'll call you a fucking idiot People who'll call you a pusillanimous carbuncle with the intellectual capacity of a particularly forlorn used condom People who won't really tell you whether you've fucked up or not, but will often go away thinking you've failed, and acting upon it, without giving you the chance to learn from your mistake or even show you you made one, all under the guise of "politeness" or "professionalism"
Well, these three options are too limited. Another group would be people, who can *strongly* but politely get the point through without looking like a socially handicapped imbecile. And another group of people do not point out any flaws, but smack you in the face, give you a wedgie and rip your head off with a chainsaw without even telling you the reason.
A contest that is limited to only C/C++ and Java is a disgrace to humanity. No skillful CS student would go to such a thing. This is completely ridiculous. Either pen and paper, or allow languages that are not among the very worst languages of the planet.
These contests are writing about highly efficient programs performance and memory-wise and C/C++ are very adequate for such algorithm competitions. Any inefficient step performance or memory wise will be punished by failing tests and losing points. C/C++ has been one of the classical programming languages always used in algorithm contests. And what the fuck do you mean by "worst languages on the planet". You do not implement performance critical algorithms and data structures in Python or Ruby, this the correct job for C/C++ programming languages.
Not really the best analogy, but give the best empolyees in the company the power to order distant fire and I am sure some additional breakthrough will happen.
Actually, this study does not say anything directly about code quality, because Density = Total Defects Found / Code Size. The problem is with the "Total Defects Found" part. How they are found and how they are reported may differ vastly from one project/company to other. The report sais that the quality of code increases with larger codebases in propertiary projects. In fact, the best you can say is that the metric decreases with larger codebases in propertiary projects. Maybe many of the defects have not been found yet in propertiary projects. Maybe they have less manpower to seek the errors, maybe they just don't care as long anything does not crash. But smaller defects may be in the code. Open source code is more open to "finding the defects", thus possibly obtaining worse "quality" they are talking about in the article. I think this has to be kept in mind when reading the report.
"... decided that it is not a security risk to show passwords on your screen in the latest Alpha release of Fedora 19 ..."
Security risks is not something that can be "decided" by somebody. There are always risks and showing the password on plain text is certainly more risky than masking it. Or are there some really awesome benefits for showing them in plain. No. Because noone expects that, so both usability and security suffer.
Just saying that maybe you should reconsider alternative things you could also do. I'm not saying that PhD is a wrong decision, but its a painful one. Research is hard and getting stuff published in respectable places is even harder. Make sure you are ready to spend the best years of your life doing that.
That's nothing. I was once asked to design & implement a space shuttle software in 30 minutes, which I did while undercover in communist Russia stealing their top secret documents. I also had time to prove that N=NP, create a simple script that passed the Turing test and create a machine learning method, that can predict exact date and time when you die with 100% accuracy. Anyway, this free consulting thing is a joke from Dilbert, so I would suggest reading less comics :D
I bet the name of the employee was Wally.
I like my touchscreen phone, but I hate the fingerprints on it. As for my computer, I clean my laptop screen and external monitor once a week to get rid of all that dust and cr*p that gets on it. The idea of going with my sweaty fingers all over it gives me goosebumps. How would I dare to show anything to my boss or co-workers in my computer if the screen is full of s**t?
In this case it is better to be safe than sorry. Monitoring online news comments is totally acceptable to prevent next Breivik cases, I would not classify it as terror or excessive surveillance. If we would consider things like ACTA, PIPA, SOPA etc, then its a different story.
I totally agree with your summary on human nature. It is just true.
I have not used any Excel recently, because they all tend to die when coping with larger datasets. R (www.r-project.org) has always worked better for me. And, o yeah, plotting .. no excel can stand against R plotting capabilities, it is just superior.
While reading your post, it suddenly came to me: "Why the heck am I reading all this!? I won't get much smarter reading slashdot posts and I have a lot of urgent things to do!" Thanks man, I'll continue finishing my schoolwork now! :) +1 Useful, If there was such an option.
It is very easy to inject malware in open source code, especially if you control the distribution of it and it may take weeks after somebody would notice it. For example, take Firefox extensions. It takes about 10 lines of javascript to insert a fully functional keylogger into any existing extension like Adblock for example. What I want to say is that malware can be very easily hidden in source code and even if you're an excellent programmer, you do not have time to analyze source code of all the software you use. Even if there were 10000 excellent programmers, the chance that a cleverly placed piece of code will be missed, is significant, especially code from an untrusted distributor.
Such gene studies actually may help some people in deeply religious communities, especially when it comes to homosexuality and such related stuff. If you are gei, then you may not certainly be *evil*, *tainted* or *dangerous to society*. Of course, nobody cares, if the society is keen for example even blaming Harry Potter fans for witchcraft etc. On the other hand, for example, if someone proved that pedofilia or murdering is caused by some genes, then nobody would be happy to accept this as force majeure. Still, I doubt anybody can blame a set of genes to excuse cheating his wife. :)
Ahh, invest some time and learn for example following tools: Tex/Lyx for documents, presentations, papers etc R/ggplot2 for data manipulation, tables and plotting Python for other things you want to compute you get quality stuff and you never want to use any office suit again
Fortunately my 5 year old laptop has not had any fatal malfunctions yet, but it is full of cracks and the lid barely holds together. I've used it almost daily at work and school and if it holds together 5 more years (which it probably does not), i would not bother to upgrade. One thing I'd like to rant about are the people who say that a bit older, but working hardware obsolete and useless. Every now and then they buy better CPUs, better graphics cards, more RAM etc and then think the world starts to turn. Bloody hell, if they use poorly-written software made by stacking together slow algorithms, every day download movies, games and stuff illegally, clutter their system with all kinds of crap, then no wonder they cannot get enough of upgrades. Do not misunderstand me, I have nothing against people upgrading their hardware, but I just hate people who cannot use their computers properly.
I wonder who has time to type that many text on a conventional mobile phone. 31% of teens sending more than 100 message per day is in my opinion manic. I thought that people needing to communicate that much already used Skype or similar software. Maybe I'm just a wierdo as I don't anyone who sends more than 10 messages a day on average. Or are the statistics biased? A biased sample of teens in the study? I don't know.
Machines can't think, people, and they never will unless a chemistry-based computer is invented.
I'm not sure you need brains to cause minds. Although the processes in our minds are complex, they can be described algorithmically or be simulated by artificial neural networks, although in a limited way at the present time.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but here is a more interesting demo
See this military demo about Active Denial System. Maybe this with conjunction of a GPS system could somehow provide alternative prisons without *actual* walls? But it sure would cost a lot more.
"Programming requires long nights staring blankly at mind-muddling objective languages."
Actually, no, it doesn't ...
How come? But the real programmers do it? citing ...
The Real Programmer is capable of working 30, 40, even 50 hours at a stretch, under intense pressure. In fact, he prefers it that way. Bad response time doesn't bother the Real Programmer-- it gives him a chance to catch a little sleep between compiles. If there is not enough schedule pressure on the Real Programmer, he tends to make things more challenging by working on some small but interesting part of the problem for the first nine weeks, then finishing the rest in the last week, in two or three 50-hour marathons. This not only impresses the hell out of his manager, who was despairing of ever getting the project done on time, but creates a convenient excuse for not doing the documentation.