Check out the Center For Intelligent Information Retrieval (UMASS) CIIR for their project on Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT). Not only does this categorize(assign topics to) news stories as they break, but it attempts to automatically group stories together as they break. I worked for them this summer (on a different project), and these are some really brilliant guys and girls!
It seems all these posts are similiar...Anyhow, you seem to not have any experience with autism, so let me try to debunk a couple of things you said.
-being just "anti-social" as a teen does not necessarily indicate autism. The symptons of autism occur early in child development, and are most of the time very visible to the parents and educators. Both my niece and nephew (5 and 3 yrs old) have PDD, and the symptoms are very visible when you see them around other children their age.
-Sure, there is a common misconception that we just try to label people and give them drugs, but you help no one by ignoring the people for whom this disease truly affects.
The relatively short time-span that we are talking about (past 60 years) is too short a time to discuss in-breeding. Studies have shown that problems with inbreeding only occur after many generations of close relatives breeding together. If you were to copulate with your brother/sister (your closest genetic link), you would not see a significant rise in abnormalities. It is only after repeating this cycle through multiple generations that certain genetic defects crop up.
...but my college geek friends and I all went out partying, drinking, smoking, n other uhh substances most nights.....daylight is for working, nightime is always for fun;)
I completely agree. most of the programming I personally deals with large (100+ GB) text files. The slow-down is in the disk access these days, not the processor. I know this commment is specific to what i am doing, but just thought id throw in my 2 cents:-)
...kids who have "accidently" set up their computers with DHCP (windows and linux alike)....Many people do this at home when they are sharing a Cable or DSL connection, but when they plug it into the dorm's network, a machine doing a dhcp request will take the reply from the closest computer...and get those 10.0.2.x IP's!!! Just something we ran into a lot last year, so FYI:)
Yeah he has a point...as I remember from my AP government class, children(those under 18) are not considered "full" citizens; i.e., they are not guaranteed the same rights under the constitution as are adults.
CSE is the bastard child of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. They know a little about both, but excel in neither. Trust me, I was one (CSE).
After reading the article, and subsequently reading a lot of people's comments, something glaringly obvious came to mind. I'm going to somewhat generalize here, so take this in stride and just think about it for a minutes. There is a difference between those of us who were born in the early-mid seventies ("Atari Generation"), and those, like myself, who were born in the late seventies/early eighties. If you experienced Atari games as a child you most likely played games that weren't so much intellectually involving but rather relied mainly on reflexive motor control. Many of you then went on to the early PC's (286, etc) and played games on those machines (such as King's Quest, stuff from InfoCom, etc). While I am no way implying that those are "inferior" games (quite the contrary!), they lack the degree on interactivity between the human mind and the computer that Jon is trying to stress. Those of us who started at an early age with Nintendo enjoyed many games which not only were stimulating content-wise, but graphically they were richer than anything that had proceded them. of course their were a load of games that were crap, but just try to frame this in the context of the good ones (Zelda, Final Fantasy, Tecmo Bowl, etc)...well I liked Tecmo Bowl at least. By the time many of us moved on to PC's, we had been conditioned and used to that type of interactivity, and so were better adapted to the new types of games that started coming out (such as Doom, Dune, etc)...I dont know if I actually have a point to this rant, rather just consider it an observation.
I'm not sure if anyone else posted this already (there is a limit to how much text I can scroll through w/o my morning coffee!), but I think I read on CNET that the RIAA or some other music organization was thinking about moving from a "pay per medium" (CD) to a subscription-based service.
While I love having my CD collection, I would not at all be opposed to paying $20 or so a month (more or less I suppose, depending on how they set it up) for access to music online. Think about it this way: say 10 dollars a month got you either 25 hours of music or something like 300 songs a month. If you listened to more than that, you could pay 20 dollars and get maybe 60 hours a month or 1000 songs....that way you are getting your music and the riaa is getting royalties...
I do realize that this plan lacks a way to pay the individual artists, but I'm sure they could develop a way to tally what songs were downloaded and by whom (also a boon to market research!)
You know I really hate people who think they are "cool" or "hardcore" becuase when anyone has a conversation about illegal substances, they bring up references to the fact that they drink copious amounts of coffee, soda, whatever. While caffeine is a "drug" and does cause a minor stimulant effect, it is so commonly used in the US and other countries that it makes you sound like a fool when you talk about a supposed "addiction" or "love of" caffeine. Get a life you sheltered people. Leave your monitor and your coding for five minutes and see what the rest of the world is doing! While I am all for loving to code, you will miss out on life if you just live in a tiny, sheltered bubble all your life! Especially those of you in your teens and twenties- Get Drunk! Get Stoned! Roll with E! And most important- Find a girl/guy and copulate!
True, all the PKD books i've read have primarily focused on drug use and that culture, canvased against a backdrop of either a pseudo-present day world or a possible future earth. (though i do not remember much drug use in DADOES?.
Dick has a lot of other amazing works out there which not only explore the realms of sci-fi but also twist and turn your mind into a gelationous mush. UBIK, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, and A Scanner Darkley (more of a look into dick's life) are 3 of my favorites of his.
I've been saying this to myself for awhile, that there seems to be two groups of "power users" (as vague a term as that may be: The programmer/sysadmin/linux guru and the hardcore gamer (different from the everyday gamer). Now being a little of both (though more on the gaming side) I have wrestled with the idea of removing linux or removing windows (I dual boot now)...Windows 98 is Ass-Slow (TM), but it has the latest drivers and support for my hardware. Linux is Nice, Quick, and Slick (TM), but it does not support my video card or sound card! Basically i use it now only for emacs for class, but I am waiting impatiently for the next release of XFree86 which will hopefully allow me to run X. To get to the point, IMHO these two groups need to combine in order to fight Microsoft. Either two left on their own, im afraid, just will not be able to do it.
Sorry to be a "Me too", but I have to agree with the above comment. I am a gamer above all else, and right now Linux just doesn't have the games I want to play. Quake3Test is fine, and so Is Civ:CTP, but we need more than that.
True, they would be outpriceing their lower-priced models, but a lot of people are willing to pay more for "features", not just a bare-bones model..who the heck wants to watch a DVD using those horrible RF-outputs?!
yeah, thats why i thought it was so funny...i work at a university, and the first time i saw that on the good 'ol 4M, I said "what the fuck does that mean?!"....not too professional:)
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Even if the bands are good, they are not even seeing $3-$6 per CD...more like less than a dollar/disk. Hmmm...where does all that money go?
Check out the Center For Intelligent Information Retrieval (UMASS) CIIR for their project on Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT). Not only does this categorize(assign topics to) news stories as they break, but it attempts to automatically group stories together as they break. I worked for them this summer (on a different project), and these are some really brilliant guys and girls!
It seems all these posts are similiar...Anyhow, you seem to not have any experience with autism, so let me try to debunk a couple of things you said.
-being just "anti-social" as a teen does not necessarily indicate autism. The symptons of autism occur early in child development, and are most of the time very visible to the parents and educators. Both my niece and nephew (5 and 3 yrs old) have PDD, and the symptoms are very visible when you see them around other children their age.
-Sure, there is a common misconception that we just try to label people and give them drugs, but you help no one by ignoring the people for whom this disease truly affects.
The relatively short time-span that we are talking about (past 60 years) is too short a time to discuss in-breeding. Studies have shown that problems with inbreeding only occur after many generations of close relatives breeding together. If you were to copulate with your brother/sister (your closest genetic link), you would not see a significant rise in abnormalities. It is only after repeating this cycle through multiple generations that certain genetic defects crop up.
...but my college geek friends and I all went out partying, drinking, smoking, n other uhh substances most nights.....daylight is for working, nightime is always for fun ;)
I completely agree. most of the programming I personally deals with large (100+ GB) text files. The slow-down is in the disk access these days, not the processor. I know this commment is specific to what i am doing, but just thought id throw in my 2 cents :-)
...kids who have "accidently" set up their computers with DHCP (windows and linux alike)....Many people do this at home when they are sharing a Cable or DSL connection, but when they plug it into the dorm's network, a machine doing a dhcp request will take the reply from the closest computer...and get those 10.0.2.x IP's!!! Just something we ran into a lot last year, so FYI :)
Yeah he has a point...as I remember from my AP government class, children(those under 18) are not considered "full" citizens; i.e., they are not guaranteed the same rights under the constitution as are adults.
not related to the article per se, but i do like your sig quote ;)
CSE is the bastard child of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. They know a little about both, but excel in neither. Trust me, I was one (CSE).
After reading the article, and subsequently reading a lot of people's comments, something glaringly obvious came to mind. I'm going to somewhat generalize here, so take this in stride and just think about it for a minutes. There is a difference between those of us who were born in the early-mid seventies ("Atari Generation"), and those, like myself, who were born in the late seventies/early eighties. If you experienced Atari games as a child you most likely played games that weren't so much intellectually involving but rather relied mainly on reflexive motor control. Many of you then went on to the early PC's (286, etc) and played games on those machines (such as King's Quest, stuff from InfoCom, etc). While I am no way implying that those are "inferior" games (quite the contrary!), they lack the degree on interactivity between the human mind and the computer that Jon is trying to stress. Those of us who started at an early age with Nintendo enjoyed many games which not only were stimulating content-wise, but graphically they were richer than anything that had proceded them. of course their were a load of games that were crap, but just try to frame this in the context of the good ones (Zelda, Final Fantasy, Tecmo Bowl, etc)...well I liked Tecmo Bowl at least. By the time many of us moved on to PC's, we had been conditioned and used to that type of interactivity, and so were better adapted to the new types of games that started coming out (such as Doom, Dune, etc)...I dont know if I actually have a point to this rant, rather just consider it an observation.
While I love having my CD collection, I would not at all be opposed to paying $20 or so a month (more or less I suppose, depending on how they set it up) for access to music online. Think about it this way: say 10 dollars a month got you either 25 hours of music or something like 300 songs a month. If you listened to more than that, you could pay 20 dollars and get maybe 60 hours a month or 1000 songs....that way you are getting your music and the riaa is getting royalties...
I do realize that this plan lacks a way to pay the individual artists, but I'm sure they could develop a way to tally what songs were downloaded and by whom (also a boon to market research!)
What do you guys think?
Dude, D is the f'n bomb. I love that movie!
What's wrong Lion-O? --Snarf
You know I really hate people who think they are "cool" or "hardcore" becuase when anyone has a conversation about illegal substances, they bring up references to the fact that they drink copious amounts of coffee, soda, whatever. While caffeine is a "drug" and does cause a minor stimulant effect, it is so commonly used in the US and other countries that it makes you sound like a fool when you talk about a supposed "addiction" or "love of" caffeine. Get a life you sheltered people. Leave your monitor and your coding for five minutes and see what the rest of the world is doing! While I am all for loving to code, you will miss out on life if you just live in a tiny, sheltered bubble all your life! Especially those of you in your teens and twenties- Get Drunk! Get Stoned! Roll with E! And most important- Find a girl/guy and copulate!
True, all the PKD books i've read have primarily focused on drug use and that culture, canvased against a backdrop of either a pseudo-present day world or a possible future earth. (though i do not remember much drug use in DADOES?.
ahh, the great "Away" messages of ICQ........ "Smoke weed everyday...." -Dr. Dre
Dick has a lot of other amazing works out there which not only explore the realms of sci-fi but also twist and turn your mind into a gelationous mush. UBIK, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, and A Scanner Darkley (more of a look into dick's life) are 3 of my favorites of his.
I've been saying this to myself for awhile, that there seems to be two groups of "power users" (as vague a term as that may be: The programmer/sysadmin/linux guru and the hardcore gamer (different from the everyday gamer). Now being a little of both (though more on the gaming side) I have wrestled with the idea of removing linux or removing windows (I dual boot now)...Windows 98 is Ass-Slow (TM), but it has the latest drivers and support for my hardware. Linux is Nice, Quick, and Slick (TM), but it does not support my video card or sound card! Basically i use it now only for emacs for class, but I am waiting impatiently for the next release of XFree86 which will hopefully allow me to run X. To get to the point, IMHO these two groups need to combine in order to fight Microsoft. Either two left on their own, im afraid, just will not be able to do it.
Sorry to be a "Me too", but I have to agree with the above comment. I am a gamer above all else, and right now Linux just doesn't have the games I want to play. Quake3Test is fine, and so Is Civ:CTP, but we need more than that.
Really cool. Loki is doing one heck of a great job on converting WIN9x games to linux....Civ:CTP plays great!
True, they would be outpriceing their lower-priced models, but a lot of people are willing to pay more for "features", not just a bare-bones model..who the heck wants to watch a DVD using those horrible RF-outputs?!
yeah, thats why i thought it was so funny...i work at a university, and the first time i saw that on the good 'ol 4M, I said "what the fuck does that mean?!" ....not too professional :)
*sorry, forgot my passwd when i posted this!*