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With the cheap processing power available today and the current state of AI there is no excuse, bar incompetence, for this competition to not consist of truly autonomous robots. Until then, Battlebots will continue to be a show pandering to the lowest common denominator, relying on sex and loud music to attract an audience.
Mod this message down! First off, this person doesn't know what robots are (as already pointed out). Secondly, the amonut of AI to make a bot survivable in a hostile environment is quite high, and has not really been attained yet. Thirdly, battle bots is cool.:)
Confidential, Restricted Data. However, privacy act stuff isn't confidential, it is just restricted data. Which means alot when it comes to control issues.
Yeah, I know, no one cares about this anymore. Hell, its the driving force behind broadband. But still, you think that if this company were mailing out the CD-Keys anyways, they could mail the CDs. It just seems like an irresponsible use of bandwidth.
Granted, people download ISOs of RH, Debian, Slack, etc all of the time, and I don't complain... But in this instance, they were mailing something anyways, and it couldn't have cost them THAT much more to mail a lightweight compact disk, and to maybe have the online downloading available as a backup plan.
A German company is making plans to build huge dirigibles capable of picking up already-assembled fast-food restaurants, locomotives, even fully equipped hospitals and setting them down in villages with no roads or in big cities tangled in traffic or in Third World settlements recovering from disaster.
Hmm.. sounds like a wonderful target for a scud missile.
Or maybe just a good way to perform McDonalds Drop Testing. Hmm.. Science project, anyone?
Not only that, but the interdiffusion coefficents of a strained material are, in general, faster than for the an unstrained material, so this will decrease the lifetime of the devices.
Can we say copper?
Everyone has been using copper for a hell of a long time, and it does the same thing. The interdiffusivity of copper is horrible, and it doesn't stop them from using it. I imagine that this technology has a chance of making it. Just like C-Nanotubes, they make progress on mass-producing these kinds of effects every day.
These days even process shrinks don't give use the speedups they used to (edge effects, RC delays and all that) - however everylittle bit helps - 35% faster silicon probably means 10% faster chips overall - what we really need is a new way to do interconnect - lasers? room temp
In the strained silicon, electrons experience less resistance and flow up to 70 percent faster, which can lead to chips that are up to 35 percent faster - without having to shrink the size of transistors.
So, um read the article, please....
From the article...
There is no way that the radioactive materiasl that this student put together could ever have created a sustained nuclear reaction. I read this article very carefully when it came out, and came to the conclusion that a gullible reporter was taken in. Sure, one can obtain some moderately radioactive materials, but that is one hellofa long way from fission. Don't believe everything you read.
Actually, you are quite wrong, because the type of nuclear reactor he made was a subcritical reactor. A subcritical reactor does not need to be of critical mass in order to produce fission. Instead, it relies on the nuclear particles already being emmited from radioactive materials to sustain a low-level rate of fission.
Fission does not require alot of energy at all. In fact, if you understand nuclear physics, you know that the macroscopic cross section for absorbtion in a thermal (low-energy) neutron is much higher than that of a fast (high-energy) neutron.
Many colleges have subcritical reactors. You may want to read up on the concept.
I am listening to RMS speak right now, and at first I thought he was a horrible speaker.. That he wouldn't relate to people on a simple enough level. But what I am finding when I give him a chance is that he really puts his own experiences for everyone else to understand, in his own words..
I can only hope that people will be able to understand his perspective, because whether he is right or not, I think that Free Software/GNU needs to at least be a part of software philosophy in the future.
If you want to reduce your wrist pain, look into the dvorak keyboard. Your fingers will move alot less, and it will reduce the strain, as well as make you a faster typer in general. Here are some links.
Real can't solve any real problems. The theoretical stuff is all good, but it's not practical. You can't solve a planning problem in milliseconds while keeping the framerate up and having realistic looking characters. When people laud (sp?) the AI in games, it's not so much that an advance in AI theory has occured, but that someone was able to code AI in such a way that it's useful in a real-world application.
Duh.
The point is that the theoretical stuff is what is the bleeding edge, not the gaming industry. The fact is that they don't pick up on stuff until its well past the theoretical stage.
Immersion is one thing, games do it rather well, but the study of AI isn't all about "wowing" the audience. It is a serious mathematical, philosophical, and electrical study of the limits of computer programs. The gaming industry doesn't have time for this stuff. They are busy making money, like they should be.
Lets face it. Cutting edge graphics, and killer AI always show up in the gaming industry before anywhere else.
They continue to impress us. Unfortunately, people think this is more important than gameplay, but I digress. Graphics were the fad the past few years, but perhaps AI will be the new fad for the coming years...
Nor really... The AI in games is minimal at best when compared to the capabilities of AI in a theoretical sense. The problem is that AI is difficult to design and takes alot of time, and developers are out to make money, so they invest in technologies that will immerse the player in the game to get them addicted to it.
Its a new type of addiction for me, because I'm not playing to see how far I get, or see how big my avatar will get, its to see what he does next when he's off my leash. Was he watching when I was throwing the rocks, and start throwing villagers? Was he watching me pickup and move villagers to do the same?
So, it may be a long time before some really sophisticated AI gets into games, if ever. Think about it, if a chess computer can beat the world champion, don't you think there are strategies in many of these games that would be similarly difficult to beat?
If you want cutting-edge AI, don't look at games, look at OSCAR at the U of Arizona, or at the MIT Media Lab
, or at the stuff going on at CMU
or RPI. That's where the real progress and research is being done. Not in some programming sweatshop at EA.
To tell the truth, I date a lot. I just have to weed out the human version of SPAM. Of course, since that means anyone at your IQ is beneath me, I don't expect much more than a one-liner from you.
Lighten up.
And stop making bad assumptions. You can be as smart as Albert Einstein, but if you make bad assumptions all of the time, you won't go far. You don't know how smart I am, especially from one line of response.
with a pattern of microscopic air holes that runs their entire length, these aptly-named holey fibers have a variety of surprising optical properties, not the least of which is single mode operation at all wavelengths and the ability to withstand the transmission of huge amounts of energy or
Heh, bullshit. You spend your four years in college spreading yourself thin, while the rest of us spend those four years teaching ourselves stuff that interests us.
--SARCASM MODE ON--
Yes, the people in college study things that they have no interest in.
--SARCASM MODE OFF--
See, thats the major diference between college nerds, and real geeks. College kids learn stuff because they have to, to get through college. Geeks learn stuff because they want to. A geek will usually go much deeper into a subject than a college nerd, who will tend to do the bare minimum to get through the course.
That is quite a broad generalization. You're right that some people that go to college waste their time, and barely scrape by. Many people don't take advantage of the experience. But you are deluding yourself if you think that no one does.
Even so, it is true that many times a bacheloreate education does not provide the depth that individual study might provide, but that is the whole point of it. You are spread thinner because it makes your knowledge more complete, which makes you not only a better communicator, but also gives you the tools to learn things in depth with little trouble.
So in the time it's taken you to get through college, with your broad but limited "knowledge base" and no real world experience, I've taught myself C, C++, OS theory, Linux, software design, software development lifecycles, software testing, and plenty more besides, all because I wanted too, and with indepth knowledge. All that time i've been working and making money, and have a four year head start in the job market over you.
Well, I don't want to get into a pissing contest, because that is really not the point of my message. But lets compare just for the heck of it. In my 2 years of college so far, I've learned: advanced mathematics up to differential equations and graph theory, algorithm analysis, C, C++, Perl, Lisp, MATLAB, Electronic Circuits, Logic Design, Programming Language and compiler design, O/S theory, Artificial Intelligence methods (neural networks, decision trees, A* search, etc), Embedded Systems, and Philosophy of mathematics and epistemology.
I may be a rare exception, but I'd like to think that there are many people that get the same if not more out of their own education. Plus, I still have another 2 years. This summer, I am doing research and getting a part time job developing a front end in Perl for IBM. The following years, I am looking into doing some research at an engineering facility in the area.
If we both went for the same job, I have no doubt i would score over you on knowledge and experience. So remind me again why college is so important?
I hope that some of my message has reminded you of the value of a college education, but if not, I will go on.
A person with a college education has a piece of paper the proves that he is a person with broad knowledge. He has also proven that he can get through the thing, which means alot to an employer.
A person with a college education is typically eligible for higher paying positions within most companies. Companies like to see the formal education when the decide to promote people, and likewise when they cut people, people without college are typically the first to go. Whether this is fair or not, it is the way of the world.
Typically, a person with a college education is more effective at communicating than someone without.
All of this is nice, but its really not my main point. My point was that many people are lured out to the field because the IT field is (was?) dying for people to fill positions, regardless of their experience. If this slowdown continues, these 'emergency' people are going to go away. The job market sees people without college as manual, expendible labor, correct or not. This is why many of you tend to get dicked around by companies when you really don't deserve it.
I hate to say this, and most people here may hate me for it, but this is why you get a college education. Sure, you can still get screwed, but it allows you the breadth to have something to fall back on.
I have a friend that is doing quite well now, without one, but he went through a pretty nasty legal battle with the company he worked for to get where he was today. They had him work for them for 2 years, building their network, and then fired him and hired the person he was training into the same position he was filling.
Apparently, he was too expensive. At any rate, this is how the business world works. They chew you up and spit you out, if you let them.. Today they will pay you 100k/year to code in Delphi, tomorrow, you are unemployed. The only defense to this is to have a broad knowledge base, which may be possible to get without going to college, but it sure helps.
I really don't think I am willing to support George Lucas anymore by watching his films. I give him credit for making some serious breakthroughs with the original Star Wars movies, but even so, the movies themselves weren't really that spectacular. Not to mention that he seems bent on squeezing every drop of money out of Star Wars fans that he can possibly get. No, thanks.
This is freakin' awesome! 64 bit architecture getting major support on Linux. It will be nice to have this help from people in making the transition to 64 bits, if they stick with it.
You know, if Napster is going to be the harbinger of a new generation in music distribution, I think that being angry when they *ASK* to have things like Pig Latin encoders and other such things removed is pretty childish. It may be true that when Napster started, it was about illegal filesharing, but I think they have realized that they can do much more with it. I don't think it would be too much for them to ask to move the copywrited material to other servers (and off of theirs). Wouldn't it be wonderful if Napster could bring this new way of sharing music to the rest of the world? Dave Matthews and Dido have already used to to give away songs.
Yes, the RIAA won, and some people think that they have an argument for why sharing music in such a way is legitimate (fair use?), but for the sake of the community, I think its inappropriate to whine about them wanting to remove the copyrighted material off of their servers, now that they pretty much have to keep it off in order to stay in business.
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With the cheap processing power available today and the current state of AI there is no excuse, bar incompetence, for this competition to not consist of truly autonomous robots. Until then, Battlebots will continue to be a show pandering to the lowest common denominator, relying on sex and loud music to attract an audience. Mod this message down! First off, this person doesn't know what robots are (as already pointed out). Secondly, the amonut of AI to make a bot survivable in a hostile environment is quite high, and has not really been attained yet. Thirdly, battle bots is cool. :)
Confidential, Restricted Data. However, privacy act stuff isn't confidential, it is just restricted data. Which means alot when it comes to control issues.
Granted, people download ISOs of RH, Debian, Slack, etc all of the time, and I don't complain... But in this instance, they were mailing something anyways, and it couldn't have cost them THAT much more to mail a lightweight compact disk, and to maybe have the online downloading available as a backup plan.
Hmm.. sounds like a wonderful target for a scud missile.
Or maybe just a good way to perform McDonalds Drop Testing. Hmm.. Science project, anyone?
Everyone has been using copper for a hell of a long time, and it does the same thing. The interdiffusivity of copper is horrible, and it doesn't stop them from using it. I imagine that this technology has a chance of making it. Just like C-Nanotubes, they make progress on mass-producing these kinds of effects every day.
In the strained silicon, electrons experience less resistance and flow up to 70 percent faster, which can lead to chips that are up to 35 percent faster - without having to shrink the size of transistors.
So, um read the article, please. ...
From the article...
Actually, you are quite wrong, because the type of nuclear reactor he made was a subcritical reactor. A subcritical reactor does not need to be of critical mass in order to produce fission. Instead, it relies on the nuclear particles already being emmited from radioactive materials to sustain a low-level rate of fission.
Fission does not require alot of energy at all. In fact, if you understand nuclear physics, you know that the macroscopic cross section for absorbtion in a thermal (low-energy) neutron is much higher than that of a fast (high-energy) neutron.
Many colleges have subcritical reactors. You may want to read up on the concept.
Ahh, this speech is 3 years old, as the other poster mentioned. My bad. Still, it would be nice to have some transcripts and maybe a stream.
I can only hope that people will be able to understand his perspective, because whether he is right or not, I think that Free Software/GNU needs to at least be a part of software philosophy in the future.
I posted a real audio file on here already. You may want to check it out.
Here is a link to some Real Audio:
RMS Speech
www.dvorakint.org
www.catskill.net/evolution/typing
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~whuang/misc/dvorak.html
Duh.
The point is that the theoretical stuff is what is the bleeding edge, not the gaming industry. The fact is that they don't pick up on stuff until its well past the theoretical stage.
Immersion is one thing, games do it rather well, but the study of AI isn't all about "wowing" the audience. It is a serious mathematical, philosophical, and electrical study of the limits of computer programs. The gaming industry doesn't have time for this stuff. They are busy making money, like they should be.
Nor really... The AI in games is minimal at best when compared to the capabilities of AI in a theoretical sense. The problem is that AI is difficult to design and takes alot of time, and developers are out to make money, so they invest in technologies that will immerse the player in the game to get them addicted to it.
Its a new type of addiction for me, because I'm not playing to see how far I get, or see how big my avatar will get, its to see what he does next when he's off my leash. Was he watching when I was throwing the rocks, and start throwing villagers? Was he watching me pickup and move villagers to do the same?
So, it may be a long time before some really sophisticated AI gets into games, if ever. Think about it, if a chess computer can beat the world champion, don't you think there are strategies in many of these games that would be similarly difficult to beat?
If you want cutting-edge AI, don't look at games, look at OSCAR at the U of Arizona, or at the MIT Media Lab , or at the stuff going on at CMU or RPI. That's where the real progress and research is being done. Not in some programming sweatshop at EA.
Yeah, except the sidewalks of major cities are trashed up with corporate graffiti. What a way to raise my standard of living/quality of life.
Lighten up.
And stop making bad assumptions. You can be as smart as Albert Einstein, but if you make bad assumptions all of the time, you won't go far. You don't know how smart I am, especially from one line of response.
Test 2: Do they like the #$@& Paper Clip.
They're intelligence tests. Enjoying Dogma and detesting Clippy are prerequisites for intimate relations.
I take it you don't date much...
Damn, is that where you guys are? Sheesh and to think I was looking at www.duh.org instead.... :)
Arthur, fetch me the holey hand grenade!
1.. 2.. 5.. (three, sir).. 3!
--SARCASM MODE ON--
Yes, the people in college study things that they have no interest in.
--SARCASM MODE OFF--
See, thats the major diference between college nerds, and real geeks. College kids learn stuff because they have to, to get through college. Geeks learn stuff because they want to. A geek will usually go much deeper into a subject than a college nerd, who will tend to do the bare minimum to get through the course.
That is quite a broad generalization. You're right that some people that go to college waste their time, and barely scrape by. Many people don't take advantage of the experience. But you are deluding yourself if you think that no one does.
Even so, it is true that many times a bacheloreate education does not provide the depth that individual study might provide, but that is the whole point of it. You are spread thinner because it makes your knowledge more complete, which makes you not only a better communicator, but also gives you the tools to learn things in depth with little trouble.
So in the time it's taken you to get through college, with your broad but limited "knowledge base" and no real world experience, I've taught myself C, C++, OS theory, Linux, software design, software development lifecycles, software testing, and plenty more besides, all because I wanted too, and with indepth knowledge. All that time i've been working and making money, and have a four year head start in the job market over you.
Well, I don't want to get into a pissing contest, because that is really not the point of my message. But lets compare just for the heck of it. In my 2 years of college so far, I've learned: advanced mathematics up to differential equations and graph theory, algorithm analysis, C, C++, Perl, Lisp, MATLAB, Electronic Circuits, Logic Design, Programming Language and compiler design, O/S theory, Artificial Intelligence methods (neural networks, decision trees, A* search, etc), Embedded Systems, and Philosophy of mathematics and epistemology.
I may be a rare exception, but I'd like to think that there are many people that get the same if not more out of their own education. Plus, I still have another 2 years. This summer, I am doing research and getting a part time job developing a front end in Perl for IBM. The following years, I am looking into doing some research at an engineering facility in the area.
If we both went for the same job, I have no doubt i would score over you on knowledge and experience. So remind me again why college is so important?
I hope that some of my message has reminded you of the value of a college education, but if not, I will go on.
A person with a college education has a piece of paper the proves that he is a person with broad knowledge. He has also proven that he can get through the thing, which means alot to an employer.
A person with a college education is typically eligible for higher paying positions within most companies. Companies like to see the formal education when the decide to promote people, and likewise when they cut people, people without college are typically the first to go. Whether this is fair or not, it is the way of the world.
Typically, a person with a college education is more effective at communicating than someone without.
All of this is nice, but its really not my main point. My point was that many people are lured out to the field because the IT field is (was?) dying for people to fill positions, regardless of their experience. If this slowdown continues, these 'emergency' people are going to go away. The job market sees people without college as manual, expendible labor, correct or not. This is why many of you tend to get dicked around by companies when you really don't deserve it.
I have a friend that is doing quite well now, without one, but he went through a pretty nasty legal battle with the company he worked for to get where he was today. They had him work for them for 2 years, building their network, and then fired him and hired the person he was training into the same position he was filling.
Apparently, he was too expensive. At any rate, this is how the business world works. They chew you up and spit you out, if you let them.. Today they will pay you 100k/year to code in Delphi, tomorrow, you are unemployed. The only defense to this is to have a broad knowledge base, which may be possible to get without going to college, but it sure helps.
I really don't think I am willing to support George Lucas anymore by watching his films. I give him credit for making some serious breakthroughs with the original Star Wars movies, but even so, the movies themselves weren't really that spectacular. Not to mention that he seems bent on squeezing every drop of money out of Star Wars fans that he can possibly get. No, thanks.
This is freakin' awesome! 64 bit architecture getting major support on Linux. It will be nice to have this help from people in making the transition to 64 bits, if they stick with it.
They'd better get on this right away before they lose their rights to it.
Yes, the RIAA won, and some people think that they have an argument for why sharing music in such a way is legitimate (fair use?), but for the sake of the community, I think its inappropriate to whine about them wanting to remove the copyrighted material off of their servers, now that they pretty much have to keep it off in order to stay in business.