The parent is largely right. DARPA is still pursuing this research; see for example the recent call for proposals under a program called "Brain Inspired Cognitive Architectures". This research likely make use of the belief propagation methods mentioned above.
Good. When I was a CS undergrad at UC Berkeley a few years ago during the boom, the department was inundated with people who were just out to make a buck. When it came time for computer science, most of them couldn't have cared less. Finding project partners was a real pain, since most people didn't have much genuine interest in the subject--they just wanted to get their degree and immediately move on to a $70K job.
Maybe departments like Berkeley's will get back to being populated mostly by people who have a real interest in the subject...
Anyone who's administered Windows machines knows that Windows programs, in their never-ending quest for convenience, routinely install taskbar "daemons". I find that you can gauge the naivete of a user as directly proportional to the number of small icons next to the clock.
The point is that Windows application writers are so used to running a resident process in support of their dinky programs that it seems to me to be too late to change the practice. Of course, some programs are more intrusive than othes (Real Player, anyone?), but it seems like the developers of just about every dinky little app seem to think they won't be taken seriously unless their program loads SOMETHING at bootup.
Of course, I shouldn't complain. I make good money doing PC consulting work; a good percentage of my calls are people whose machine is so clogged with TSRs that it has become unusable.
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The parent is largely right. DARPA is still pursuing this research; see for example the recent call for proposals under a program called "Brain Inspired Cognitive Architectures". This research likely make use of the belief propagation methods mentioned above.
0 5-18/finalPIP-11JAN05DP.doc
See the PIP at
http://www2.eps.gov/EPSData/ODA/Synopses/4965/BAA
The link is a Word document; I don't have an HTML version.
Good. When I was a CS undergrad at UC Berkeley a few years ago during the boom, the department was inundated with people who were just out to make a buck. When it came time for computer science, most of them couldn't have cared less. Finding project partners was a real pain, since most people didn't have much genuine interest in the subject--they just wanted to get their degree and immediately move on to a $70K job.
Maybe departments like Berkeley's will get back to being populated mostly by people who have a real interest in the subject...
Does anyone know if there's a deposit? What happens if you don't turn it back in? Is there any way to convert one of these into a "real" camera?
And may millions more third-world children die for lack of clean drinking water!
Because every technophile here knows exactly how Bayesian filtering works, right?
Anyone who's administered Windows machines knows that Windows programs, in their never-ending quest for convenience, routinely install taskbar "daemons". I find that you can gauge the naivete of a user as directly proportional to the number of small icons next to the clock.
The point is that Windows application writers are so used to running a resident process in support of their dinky programs that it seems to me to be too late to change the practice. Of course, some programs are more intrusive than othes (Real Player, anyone?), but it seems like the developers of just about every dinky little app seem to think they won't be taken seriously unless their program loads SOMETHING at bootup.
Of course, I shouldn't complain. I make good money doing PC consulting work; a good percentage of my calls are people whose machine is so clogged with TSRs that it has become unusable.