"Soy feliz de..."
That shows you are also proficient in spanish... Wow, What a gem you are!
You'd better learn the difference between:
"Estoy feliz" = I'm happy _now_, I am in a state of happiness (for one reason) (e.g.: I am happy to be considered your clown) and "Soy feliz" = I'm happy (period), I am happy for many reasons
Well, if I think it again, "Soy feliz" is more appropiate in your mouth... ignorance and stupidity are always good sources for a deep and lasting state of happiness:p
"Retarded"? Doesn't it mean something like "moronic" in english? (retarded = "retrasado mental" in spanish, "moron" = subnormal)
I think he meant "underdeveloped" or something like that. (underdeveloped = subdesarrollada)
Well, in my opinion, Extremadura (where Linex distro was born) is more underdeveloped (at least it is poorer) than Andalucia, and I think Extremadura is the poorest 'autonomous community' (hehe, doing a literal translation), I can't think of any other that is poorer on average.
It's object-oriented and performs garbage collection, as does java. What do you mean, "it does not have much of a memory management job to do"?
Both have a Garbage Collector but they are not the same types of GCs. In Python the only GC available (or anyone else knows many GC or VM for Python?) does the garbage collection by the method of "reference counting" and that is not a big memory management job. In Java it is a different situation. Most (or all?) of the existing VMs use more sophisticated methods of Garbage Collection. That is more memory management job for the VM in the Java case so that the programmer has far less memory issues to worry about. In the Python case, the programmer has to worry about not making circular references that cannot be resolved by a reference counting GC.
And, yes, as someone else stated, Java is faster (in most cases) than Python (although Java is usually slower than many other options like C/C++...)
I wonder why Nintendo isn't playing a better role in mobiles...
Gameboy seems to be the smallest, cheapest and most portable in the gaming sector. But I din't hear anything about a Gameboy-cmpatible mobile phone... Why?
First: evidence that biological brains are heavily chaotic, which ANNs traditionally are not.
I think that even traditional and simplest ANN have chaotics properties due to their non-linear nature. But there are also more recent and complex models that use more chaotic elements...
Second, brains are extremely recurrent in ways that could never be simulated by traditional computers -- there are simply too many links.
Never say never, again;) Tradicional computers are growing fast (Moore's law) and according to Kurzweil, in the year 2019 a $1000 computer will have a capacity similar to a human brain (only the capacity, that is, the hardware... maybe not the algorithms.)
Furthermore, you don't need to simulate one brain with one computer... you could try to simulate one brain with -say- 10000 computers that are connected and communicate asynchronously
My own estimations indicate that NOW all the computers, joined together by the Internet, have more capacity than a single human brain (in computing power and memory).
I started a project (InterSAINT.org) to develop the algorithms for that: ANN and distributed/grid computing.
Third, the human brain is not based merely on reward and punishment. When I sit in a chair at night, pondering whether I agree or not with what Bush has done today, there's no clear source of reward or punishment. Yet, at the end of the day, my brain has changed. ANNs have no ability to self-contemplate and change in this way.
Are you sure? Maybe when you sit on a chair you do it because you have learnt that that chair is not broken (it doesn't have a punishment). Maybe you sit because your body wants resting for a while (it has a reward). Meanwhile you can think about Bush or anything else... but surely everything you think is for a reward (including sometimes the reward of thinking).
Fourth, when an ANN is trained, every weight in the network is changed. In a biological brain, particular links form and are destroyed, but learning is not a global process. I'm not a neuroscientist, so if I'm wrong, someone please point that out.
AFAIK, more than form and destroy links, the links are just reorganized, that is, instead of connecting to one neuron, the link moves and connects to other neuron. That process happens mostly in the first 6 or 7 years of life and I don't think it is the main process in learning. Other processes like the one that changes the weights of the links are more important and they are always present (not just before we are 7 years old).
In addition, the learning process in ANN is based mainly in changing weights but there are also models that change the network structure (moving links like the biological model but also creating and destroying links)
Fifth, you can ask a human why he/she came to a particular conclusion.
As another poster said, you learnt that. You learnt how to change the weights in your brain to save some "thoughts" and how to recall those thoughts when somebody asks...
I don't see anything that a machine couldn't do.
although they are extremely valuable computational tools, they are not a magic wand. Many pattern recognition and data organization tasks can be much better performed by traditional symbolic algorithms.
I agree very very much. But, symbolic algorithms are quite useless when you want something that has self-organization, learning, fault tolerance properties... especially if it is also very complex.
There is another model of Mavica which uses MiniCDs (8 cm) to store the photos. One MiniCD can store up to 200 Mbytes (more than 100 floppies, indeed) and its size is similar to one floppy. The price is about one dollar each if they are CD-R and less than ten dollars (don't know exactly how much) the CR-RW version (and I think the camera comes with one CDRW). You can take many more pictures and use higher resolutions without changing the disc... And you can read them in almost every CDROM unit. You can also use those discs to store MP3 music and play it in one of the many MiniCD MP3 players available...
Well, I was trying to suggest that the concept of.NET was not made very clear (even Bill Gates wouldn't be able to explain it easily... unless he relates it with Java technology)
On the other hand, you can compile code from a lot of languages to Java bytecodes too: Scheme code (using Kawa), Python (using Jython), etc...
I made another post to this slashdot story recommending an article (".NET Signals an Industry Shift")... It has a lot to do with your definition of.NET, which I think is good. It talks about applications, development...
".NET Signals an Industry Shift" also referenced as the article about "Moore's Triple Crisis".
The author of the article (David Bau, who made the popular "Dave's Google Quicksearch Bar") writes about a three-way Moore's law crisis: crisis in systems, apps and development.
Systems: "the exponentially rising power of PC technology has started to overshoot the needs of the ordinary customer. This means people are starting to shop for cheaper computers instead of more powerful ones."
Development: "Moore's law crisis affects development costs just as dramatically as it affects hardware costs. As computing power gets cheaper and software becomes more ephemeral, it makes sense to save software development hours by wasting CPU cycles." The Garbage collectors and Intermediate Languages of.NET and Java are according with that. Scripting languages too.
Applications: "Microsoft is facing the problem of saturation. The widely recognied issue here is that almost everybody who wants to do something with their computer software can already do it. Why would you buy a new version of Microsoft Word or Excel?" "Microsoft is facing competitors like America Online that are using a new model for software applications." That's why Microsoft introduced his.NET services.
Bill Gates could say this: ".NET is... well, there's a new language called C#, there's a platform, an intermediate language, a runtime,...... well, it's easier to explain: you know about Java? "
Nice one, but we could change some bottle numbers and maybe avoid some deads:
Let's see how many 1's in the unused numbers: 1023: 1111111111 (no, don't use this one) 1022: 1111111110 (9) (no need to change the numbers with 9 ones) (no bottle in 1-1000 has more than 9 ones!!)
1020: 1111111100 (8) (can be changed with 0111111111 b = 511) 1017: 1111111010 (8) (can be changed with 1011111111 b = 512+255= 767) 1016: 1111111001 (8) (can be changed with 1101111111 b = 768+127= 895) 1015: 1111111000 (7) (can be changed with 0111111110 b = 510) 1013: 1111110110 (8) (can be changed with 1110111111 b = 896+63= 959) 1012: 1111110101 (8) (can be changed with 1111011111 b = 960+31= 991) 1011: 1111110100 (7) (can be changed with 0111111101 b = 509)
1010: 1111110011 (8) (can't be changed for any worse, no more 8's to change)
1009: 1111110010 (7) (can be changed with 0111111011 b = 507) 1008: 1111110001 (7) (can be changed with 0111110111 b = 503) 1007: 1111110000 (6) (can be changed with 0111101111 b = 495) 1003: 1111101100 (7) (can be changed with 0111011111 b = 479) 1001: 1111101010 (7) (can be changed with 0110111111 b = 447)
My comment wouldn't be necessary if there were 1024 bottles but in that case the suggestion for the binary solution was evident...
- You are asuming that everyone has paper and pencil (or similar instruments). - They have to be careful (not to loose the count of the days so that incorrect info is transmited) - If the prisoners were taken at a regular pattern, they would never go out, but the text says "Everyday, the warden picks a prisoner at random" so there in no regular pattern.
The first days: In average, in the first 100 days one should be picked in his own day, so himself and the next one who visits the room know that he has been there. Both can tell about it if they are chosen in that day.
The last dyas: Probably, the last days before freedom many of them have their "bingo cards" almost complete and they are waiting for the last to be chosen to visit the room in his own day.
Slashdot Mirror
hehe
You are not alone, I often do the same... even when running. I feel like a platform game character
"Soy feliz de..."
:p
That shows you are also proficient in spanish... Wow, What a gem you are!
You'd better learn the difference between:
"Estoy feliz" = I'm happy _now_, I am in a state of happiness (for one reason) (e.g.: I am happy to be considered your clown)
and "Soy feliz" = I'm happy (period), I am happy for many reasons
Well, if I think it again, "Soy feliz" is more appropiate in your mouth... ignorance and stupidity are always good sources for a deep and lasting state of happiness
"Retarded"? Doesn't it mean something like "moronic" in english? (retarded = "retrasado mental" in spanish, "moron" = subnormal)
I think he meant "underdeveloped" or something like that. (underdeveloped = subdesarrollada)
Well, in my opinion, Extremadura (where Linex distro was born) is more underdeveloped (at least it is poorer) than Andalucia, and I think Extremadura is the poorest 'autonomous community' (hehe, doing a literal translation), I can't think of any other that is poorer on average.
;)
Joder, pues si que hay peña hispanohablante en Slashdot leyendo noticias en inglés, jejeje
Hackers: "We Prove Microsoft Obsolete"
Tyrell: The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long. And you have burned so very very brightly, ___ Dolly. ...
Gaff : It's too bad she(ep) won't live. But then again, who does?
It's object-oriented and performs garbage collection, as does java. What do you mean, "it does not have much of a memory management job to do"?
Both have a Garbage Collector but they are not the same types of GCs. In Python the only GC available (or anyone else knows many GC or VM for Python?) does the garbage collection by the method of "reference counting" and that is not a big memory management job. In Java it is a different situation. Most (or all?) of the existing VMs use more sophisticated methods of Garbage Collection. That is more memory management job for the VM in the Java case so that the programmer has far less memory issues to worry about. In the Python case, the programmer has to worry about not making circular references that cannot be resolved by a reference counting GC.
And, yes, as someone else stated, Java is faster (in most cases) than Python (although Java is usually slower than many other options like C/C++...)
How many Euros does it cost the Neuros??
(it would be nice the answer was "NoEuros")
I wonder why Nintendo isn't playing a better role in mobiles...
Gameboy seems to be the smallest, cheapest and most portable in the gaming sector.
But I din't hear anything about a Gameboy-cmpatible mobile phone... Why?
communicator with builtin PlayStation-support ??
The only communicator I know is Nokia Communicator... so I think we should wait for an Ericsson phone with some PlayStation-support
No, I don't think I will ever change my machine for a steam machine
mmmm ;)
Is that what Microsoft means when they say that Linux is a Cancer?
First:
;)
evidence that biological brains are heavily chaotic, which ANNs traditionally are not.
I think that even traditional and simplest ANN have chaotics properties due to their non-linear nature. But there are also more recent and complex models that use more chaotic elements...
Second, brains are extremely recurrent in ways that could never be simulated by traditional computers -- there are simply too many links.
Never say never, again
Tradicional computers are growing fast (Moore's law) and according to Kurzweil, in the year 2019 a $1000 computer will have a capacity similar to a human brain (only the capacity, that is, the hardware... maybe not the algorithms.)
Furthermore, you don't need to simulate one brain with one computer... you could try to simulate one brain with -say- 10000 computers that are connected and communicate asynchronously
My own estimations indicate that NOW all the computers, joined together by the Internet, have more capacity than a single human brain (in computing power and memory).
I started a project (InterSAINT.org) to develop the algorithms for that: ANN and distributed/grid computing.
Third, the human brain is not based merely on reward and punishment. When I sit in a chair at night, pondering whether I agree or not with what Bush has done today, there's no clear source of reward or punishment. Yet, at the end of the day, my brain has changed. ANNs have no ability to self-contemplate and change in this way.
Are you sure? Maybe when you sit on a chair you do it because you have learnt that that chair is not broken (it doesn't have a punishment). Maybe you sit because your body wants resting for a while (it has a reward). Meanwhile you can think about Bush or anything else... but surely everything you think is for a reward (including sometimes the reward of thinking).
Fourth, when an ANN is trained, every weight in the network is changed. In a biological brain, particular links form and are destroyed, but learning is not a global process. I'm not a neuroscientist, so if I'm wrong, someone please point that out.
AFAIK, more than form and destroy links, the links are just reorganized, that is, instead of connecting to one neuron, the link moves and connects to other neuron. That process happens mostly in the first 6 or 7 years of life and I don't think it is the main process in learning. Other processes like the one that changes the weights of the links are more important and they are always present (not just before we are 7 years old).
In addition, the learning process in ANN is based mainly in changing weights but there are also models that change the network structure (moving links like the biological model but also creating and destroying links)
Fifth, you can ask a human why he/she came to a particular conclusion.
As another poster said, you learnt that.
You learnt how to change the weights in your brain to save some "thoughts" and how to recall those thoughts when somebody asks...
I don't see anything that a machine couldn't do.
although they are extremely valuable computational tools, they are not a magic wand. Many pattern recognition and data organization tasks can be much better performed by traditional symbolic algorithms.
I agree very very much.
But, symbolic algorithms are quite useless when you want something that has self-organization, learning, fault tolerance properties... especially if it is also very complex.
First the vibrator, now the camera... ;)
My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas and a Quarter...
Many Very Educated Men Just Saw Uppermost New Planet: Quaoar.
hehe, Yes...
Or maybe the song from The Boomtown Rats
(marvellous song, isn't it?)
At least you can use the CDROM tray to put your beer...
There is another model of Mavica which uses MiniCDs (8 cm) to store the photos. One MiniCD can store up to 200 Mbytes (more than 100 floppies, indeed) and its size is similar to one floppy. The price is about one dollar each if they are CD-R and less than ten dollars (don't know exactly how much) the CR-RW version (and I think the camera comes with one CDRW).
You can take many more pictures and use higher resolutions without changing the disc... And you can read them in almost every CDROM unit.
You can also use those discs to store MP3 music and play it in one of the many MiniCD MP3 players available...
I am also confused with the spelling...
I agree that the term Informatics is more appropriate. In my country (Spain), it is called "Informática".
Well, I was trying to suggest that the concept of .NET was not made very clear (even Bill Gates wouldn't be able to explain it easily... unless he relates it with Java technology)
.NET, which I think is good. It talks about applications, development...
On the other hand, you can compile code from a lot of languages to Java bytecodes too: Scheme code (using Kawa), Python (using Jython), etc...
I made another post to this slashdot story recommending an article (".NET Signals an Industry Shift")... It has a lot to do with your definition of
".NET Signals an Industry Shift"
also referenced as the article about "Moore's Triple Crisis".
The author of the article (David Bau, who made the popular "Dave's Google Quicksearch Bar") writes about a three-way Moore's law crisis: crisis in systems, apps and development.
Systems: "the exponentially rising power of PC technology has started to overshoot the needs of the ordinary customer. This means people are starting to shop for cheaper computers instead of more powerful ones."
Development: "Moore's law crisis affects development costs just as dramatically as it affects hardware costs. As computing power gets cheaper and software becomes more ephemeral, it makes sense to save software development hours by wasting CPU cycles." The Garbage collectors and Intermediate Languages of
Applications: "Microsoft is facing the problem of saturation. The widely recognied issue here is that almost everybody who wants to do something with their computer software can already do it. Why would you buy a new version of Microsoft Word or Excel?" "Microsoft is facing competitors like America Online that are using a new model for software applications."
That's why Microsoft introduced his
...he insn't able to come with a good answer...
... ...
Bill Gates could say this:
".NET is...
well, there's a new language called C#,
there's a platform, an intermediate language, a runtime,
well, it's easier to explain:
you know about Java?
"
Nice one,
but we could change some bottle numbers and maybe avoid some deads:
Let's see how many 1's in the unused numbers:
1023: 1111111111 (no, don't use this one)
1022: 1111111110 (9)
(no need to change the numbers with 9 ones)
(no bottle in 1-1000 has more than 9 ones!!)
1020: 1111111100 (8)
(can be changed with 0111111111 b = 511)
1017: 1111111010 (8)
(can be changed with 1011111111 b = 512+255= 767)
1016: 1111111001 (8)
(can be changed with 1101111111 b = 768+127= 895)
1015: 1111111000 (7)
(can be changed with 0111111110 b = 510)
1013: 1111110110 (8)
(can be changed with 1110111111 b = 896+63= 959)
1012: 1111110101 (8)
(can be changed with 1111011111 b = 960+31= 991)
1011: 1111110100 (7)
(can be changed with 0111111101 b = 509)
1010: 1111110011 (8)
(can't be changed for any worse, no more 8's to change)
1009: 1111110010 (7)
(can be changed with 0111111011 b = 507)
1008: 1111110001 (7)
(can be changed with 0111110111 b = 503)
1007: 1111110000 (6)
(can be changed with 0111101111 b = 495)
1003: 1111101100 (7)
(can be changed with 0111011111 b = 479)
1001: 1111101010 (7)
(can be changed with 0110111111 b = 447)
My comment wouldn't be necessary if there were 1024 bottles but in that case the suggestion for the binary solution was evident...
I would call it "the Bingo solution"...
- You are asuming that everyone has paper and pencil (or similar instruments).
- They have to be careful (not to loose the count of the days so that incorrect info is transmited)
- If the prisoners were taken at a regular pattern, they would never go out, but the text says "Everyday, the warden picks a prisoner at random" so there in no regular pattern.
The first days:
In average, in the first 100 days one should be picked in his own day, so himself and the next one who visits the room know that he has been there. Both can tell about it if they are chosen in that day.
The last dyas:
Probably, the last days before freedom many of them have their "bingo cards" almost complete and they are waiting for the last to be chosen to visit the room in his own day.