...with the names of your critically placed Agents? How hard would it be for an intelligence organization to infilterate Wikiileaks or Amnesty? How are they erasing the names? Where and how are the original documents kept? I like the idea of WikiiLeaks but they need to clarify their policy for releasing potentially dangerous information.
David Cope's system can produce music on the level of a grad student of composition imitating great composers. It has to go through a learning process with lot's of music from the original composer in order to imitate his style. "Original" music hardly. It hasn't produced anything anyone (but a muzack fan) would want to listen to. The controversy surrounding it isn't Ludditism, it's a methodology dispute. How much does he hand-edit his examples after generation? He has not produced a stand-alone version for others to reproduce his results. This is not science, but the religious devotees of scientism propound another triumph of machine over man!
The difference between the claims of the author and the quotes by the scientists is quite remarkable. The scientists claimed they succeeded in creating a "self-replicating" molecule that could optimize it's response to different environments by passing 30 bits of information to the next generation. They specifically denied that they'd created "evolution" in the sense of evolving molecules of higher and higher complexity and more ingenious responses. This didn't stop the author of the story from making these claims however. And of course skeptics will be accused of being "creationists". Good experiment + bad press = scientism not science
are not the same. Volume measures pure energy levels (in Db) whereas loudness is based on psychoaccoustics. In particular the Fletcher-Munson curve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher-Munson, which details the perceived response of humans to different frequencies at different volume levels. The supreme court was either ignorant or corrupt when they said that it is not possible to measure "perceived loudness". Measuring devices for this have existed for quite a while. There is a similar problem with songs prepared for radio play. In order to attract attention producers boost the loudness of the cuts, leading to an overall lowering of quality (namely dynamic range) for pop songs.
I don't see why the gambling industry would be a problem. Working for malware/spyware/spam distributors or other gray areas is. I'd probably include porn industry as well because most of those sites serve malware as well. Working for the games industry looks great.
I've used ACE a lot, 10 years ago, even then the code looked like it'd been hacked on by 4 generations of under-grads (which it had). Basic stuff works good, but there are some lurking race conditions in shared memory pools that you don't want to meet. I recommend Poco, industrial, easy-to-use etc. http://pocoproject.org/
I wouldn't consider boost, yet, they're just starting to put in a full suite of cross-platform stuff and they're still missing some important pieces.
that Obama wants to increase hours, its in order to lower the influence of the parents on their children. Clinton has for a long time opposed "unregulated child-rearing". In general the government would prefer more time with your kids.
The poster should open a map. Gaza borders on Israel AND EGYPT. The man could have only been prevented from getting cooking oil of both countries blockaded him!
I've found this to be true in large companies as well. But I think it's healthy. One of the reasons why I like to work for a large company is so I can focus on tech issues and ignore the rest. I don't want to know what marketing is doing!
Engravings in stone have been shone to last thousands of years. All of the 0's and 1's on a cd could be engraved in stone tablets. The stack for a single cd has been calculated to reach to the moon so you'd also get a free moon elevator out of it.
Great idea, But wouldn't it be easier to stop global warming by nuking all the humans? It would also solve a lot of other problems like poverty, racism, traffic, smog and cancer. Think about it.
Definitely old news, I was on a delta flight a few years ago, when the system rebooted and people started to complain I heard a hacker a few seats say, "Hey it's the fault of that guy in front with the penguin computing hat on!".
Based on skewed world view, which is that the only reason not to buy the latest gadget it because you're stupid, lazy or hopelessly stuck in your ways. I'm an early adopter at work because I need to be and they pay me to deal with all the problems of new technology. At home I want to relax not fiddle with all my gadgets (Yes, I'm a slashdot heritic). I also don't want to pay top dollar for untested technology that will be available next year for half the price, thank you.
West Virginai, Florida, Virginia. I learned Sci method from my parents, school was simply memorizing "facts". Probably more important than where is when. 66-77. Glad to hear things have improved!
Which is why the should teach scientific method in school and not just scientific "facts" (which change all the time anyways, as they should). For most people science is "what most scientists believe", or worse, "what the press thinks scientists believe", as opposed to a very successful method for uncovering the laws of nature.
Precisely my point, theory must preceed practice, if they are predicting an AI, what will be it's basis? Fine, it's not a Turing Machine, but until someone can say what it is, even if we don't have any idea how to do the nuts and bolts, all predictions are sheer fantasy, or to be more accurate, faith.
Hey guys get real, Theory proceeds practice. We don't even have a mathematical or theoretical model of either intelligence or consciousness. Let's take a sub-set, learning, we have computer learning, but do we have computer meta-learning, or meta-meta-learning. Wouldn't a turing machine that was capable of meta-meta...learning violate Godels theorem? After all, such a machine could automatically create a meta-formal system that overcame the generated contradiction in the current formal system. Since the language the machine uses is itself a formal system, it should be able continuously generate meta-formal systems and thus disprove Godels theorem. We don't even have a non-recursive definition of consciousness. Definitions like "the feeling that you exist", pre-suppose something to "feel". Minsky's theory that consciousness is an illusion generated by sufficiently complicated systems, just begs the question, "if it is an illusion, just who is it fooling?". I know the true believers are going to flame me for this.
I know a company that sells an embedded handwriting recognition system. They couldn't get the algorithm to work perfectly so what happens when the machine cannot distinguish the handwriting? It sends a bitmap of the page to a factory in India where a group of low-cost workers quickly read the writing and send the answer back to the machine. Cool huh?
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...with the names of your critically placed Agents? How hard would it be for an intelligence organization to infilterate Wikiileaks or Amnesty? How are they erasing the names? Where and how are the original documents kept?
I like the idea of WikiiLeaks but they need to clarify their policy for releasing potentially dangerous information.
that ate his children.
I think if I keep re-printing this 100 page word document every time I change a letter I'll eventually run out of paper...
David Cope's system can produce music on the level of a grad student of composition imitating great composers. It has to go through a learning process with lot's of music from the original composer in order to imitate his style. "Original" music hardly. It hasn't produced anything anyone (but a muzack fan) would want to listen to. The controversy surrounding it isn't Ludditism, it's a methodology dispute. How much does he hand-edit his examples after generation? He has not produced a stand-alone version for others to reproduce his results. This is not science, but the religious devotees of scientism propound another triumph of machine over man!
The difference between the claims of the author and the quotes by the scientists is quite remarkable. The scientists claimed they succeeded in creating a "self-replicating" molecule that could optimize it's response to different environments by passing 30 bits of information to the next generation. They specifically denied that they'd created "evolution" in the sense of evolving molecules of higher and higher complexity and more ingenious responses. This didn't stop the author of the story from making these claims however. And of course skeptics will be accused of being "creationists". Good experiment + bad press = scientism not science
...and information had never heard of it.
...only Mickey Mouse has better enforcement.
are not the same. Volume measures pure energy levels (in Db) whereas loudness is based on psychoaccoustics. In particular the Fletcher-Munson curve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher-Munson, which details the perceived response of humans to different frequencies at different volume levels. The supreme court was either ignorant or corrupt when they said that it is not possible to measure "perceived loudness". Measuring devices for this have existed for quite a while. There is a similar problem with songs prepared for radio play. In order to attract attention producers boost the loudness of the cuts, leading to an overall lowering of quality (namely dynamic range) for pop songs.
Let's announce that a spaceship has been built to save the really important people, and anyone who signs on now gets the trip for free...
I don't see why the gambling industry would be a problem. Working for malware/spyware/spam distributors or other gray areas is. I'd probably include porn industry as well because most of those sites serve malware as well. Working for the games industry looks great.
I've used ACE a lot, 10 years ago, even then the code looked like it'd been hacked on by 4 generations of under-grads (which it had). Basic stuff works good, but there are some lurking race conditions in shared memory pools that you don't want to meet. I recommend Poco, industrial, easy-to-use etc.
http://pocoproject.org/
I wouldn't consider boost, yet, they're just starting to put in a full suite of cross-platform stuff and they're still missing some important pieces.
that Obama wants to increase hours, its in order to lower the influence of the parents on their children. Clinton has for a long time opposed "unregulated child-rearing". In general the government would prefer more time with your kids.
...to give directions to a book store. After all this is indeed "linking to copyrighted material".
The poster should open a map. Gaza borders on Israel AND EGYPT. The man could have only been prevented from getting cooking oil of both countries blockaded him!
I personally wouldn't agree to work for anybody stupid enough to judge me by a pre-made test.
I've found this to be true in large companies as well. But I think it's healthy. One of the reasons why I like to work for a large company is so I can focus on tech issues and ignore the rest. I don't want to know what marketing is doing!
Engravings in stone have been shone to last thousands of years. All of the 0's and 1's on a cd could be engraved in stone tablets. The stack for a single cd has been calculated to reach to the moon so you'd also get a free moon elevator out of it.
Great idea,
But wouldn't it be easier to stop global warming by nuking all the humans? It would also solve a lot of other problems like poverty, racism, traffic, smog and cancer. Think about it.
Definitely old news,
I was on a delta flight a few years ago, when the system rebooted and people started to complain I heard a hacker a few seats say, "Hey it's the fault of that guy in front with the penguin computing hat on!".
Based on skewed world view, which is that the only reason not to buy the latest gadget it because you're stupid, lazy or hopelessly stuck in your ways. I'm an early adopter at work because I need to be and they pay me to deal with all the problems of new technology. At home I want to relax not fiddle with all my gadgets (Yes, I'm a slashdot heritic). I also don't want to pay top dollar for untested technology that will be available next year for half the price, thank you.
West Virginai, Florida, Virginia. I learned Sci method from my parents, school was simply memorizing "facts". Probably more important than where is when. 66-77. Glad to hear things have improved!
Which is why the should teach scientific method in school and not just scientific "facts" (which change all the time anyways, as they should). For most people science is "what most scientists believe", or worse, "what the press thinks scientists believe", as opposed to a very successful method for uncovering the laws of nature.
Precisely my point, theory must preceed practice, if they are predicting an AI, what will be it's basis? Fine, it's not a Turing Machine, but until someone can say what it is, even if we don't have any idea how to do the nuts and bolts, all predictions are sheer fantasy, or to be more accurate, faith.
Hey guys get real,
Theory proceeds practice. We don't even have a mathematical or theoretical model of either intelligence or consciousness. Let's take a sub-set, learning, we have computer learning, but do we have computer meta-learning, or meta-meta-learning. Wouldn't a turing machine that was capable of meta-meta...learning violate Godels theorem?
After all, such a machine could automatically create a meta-formal system that overcame the generated contradiction in the current formal system. Since the language the machine uses is itself a formal system, it should be able continuously generate meta-formal systems and thus disprove Godels theorem. We don't even have a non-recursive definition of consciousness. Definitions like "the feeling that you exist", pre-suppose something to "feel". Minsky's theory that consciousness is an illusion generated by sufficiently complicated systems, just begs the question, "if it is an illusion, just who is it fooling?".
I know the true believers are going to flame me for this.
I know a company that sells an embedded handwriting recognition system. They couldn't get the algorithm to work perfectly so what happens when the machine cannot distinguish the handwriting? It sends a bitmap of the page to a factory in India where a group of low-cost workers quickly read the writing and send the answer back to the machine. Cool huh?