I started to think of how radically different my mental state was from that of
the high school students in the same room, taking the same test. An earlier
show of hands indicated that most of the students were taking the SAT for the
first time. So, I think it's very likely there were some people in the room
who were terrified. For better or for worse they were confronting destiny.
Meanwhile, I was confronting silliness. The difference in perspective seemed
so extreme that there were moments when I shook with desperately suppressed
laughter.
Damn this is funny. It makes me want to go and take the test just for the hell of it. I never actually took it because I changed high-schools and the timing was weird. I rocked that ACT test though and I was sweating it. Anyway, the point is now that I'm older, calmer and have more practical knowledge, I could probably rock that test hard and get into Yale. Oh yeah I forgot, Yale is a Bush party school.
Well, I've done this, but I thought it was a temporary HACK! I don't have a spare case, and I wanted to build up a server, so I just arranged everything on the bottom of a cardboard box. I cut holes in the sides for power, ethernet, and ventilation, and voila! FreeBSD in a box!
No, it's Cinco de Mayo Ware (tm). You only download it on the fifth of May, install it and have aliens and toasters and other assorted weirdnesses jumping around your desktop until midnight. Then you uninstall it and never speak of it again.
That's how my Enlightenment experience went, anyways;) and this thing is totally reminding me of the first time I saw E.
Seriously guys WAY over the top on the eye candy there. It's almost as bad as the new slashdot games section.
I've watched both shows from a very young age. Dr. Who since 1979, back while they were still making 'em:)
I have all of the Blackadders except the latest "back & forth", and a good chunk of the available Dr. Who episodes. Funny thing is, some of the tapes in that collection are from like 1980, taped off of WTTW channel 11 in Chicago. If anyone ever tells you that VHS is an archival format, send them to me;)
Man, anyone else remember the day that Dr. Who went off the air in Chicago? The worst breakup with a woman in my life and I didn't shed a tear, but that night I had a bottle of Jack Daniels in my lap and was crying like a babe...
The original Shada episode was never actually finished and aired due to a strike at the BBC.
While a "special edition" video was released where Tom Baker read the missing portions of the script out, it was very difficult to get a real feeling for the story because so much of the action was missing.
I haven't watched the flash animation yet, but hopefully it brings some life to this neat story that never really got told.
BTW, another great Douglas Adams Dr. Who that actually was completed and aired was "The Pirate Planet", the second of the key to time series.
That's one of the links from the older slashdot article that I linked to in this ask slashdot submission.
Their work is very cool, but their machines are very expensive. Also, I am looking at the PCI solution as a possible upgrade solution for an existing cluster, so it needs to be cost effective and fit in the boxes currently doing the job.
cybermace5 posted a great list earlier that led me to this neat card which may do the job nicely for $250 US! It doesn't have quite the gate count that I wanted, but at that price, I can hardly go wrong.
Lyndsey Nagle: Do I detect a note of sarcasm? Frink: (With sarcasm detector) Are you kidding? This baby is off the charts mm-hai. CBG: A sarcasm detector, that's a real useful invention. (Sarcasm detector explodes)
What are you trying to do, physically model a barrel of quarters?
As fun as that sounds, no. Actually I am interested in genetic programming and a huge bottleneck is the time that it takes to test a generated program or circuit. Substantial time savings could be made if some of the calculations during that step could be offloaded to a coprocessor that was dynamically tuned for each generated program. This means that genetic runs with much larger populations that can be processed over more generations become possible. One of the points Dr. John Koza makes in his research papers is that in conjunction with Moores' law, more and more complex problems may be addressed alongside an exponential increase in computing power. The more gates I have, the more calculations I can make simultaneously, and the system runs faster (in thoery).
I want to experiment with such a card to find out if any of this is feasable.
The experience of looking for this card got me to thinking:
Does anyone else remember back in the day, OrangeMicro used to sell a card, now discontinued:( for Macintoshes that put a fully working PC on a PCI card on your Mac. In fact, I think I still have that laying around here somewhere! You could switch between Windows95 and MacOS, both running in native hardware by hitting Command-Enter. It was very neat, like VirtualPC except in an actual Pentium instead of a virtual one.
Anyhow the inspiring part of the old OrangePC in this case is the multi-functional cable attached to the back. It was a truly monsterous wonder. One side was a huge hundreds-of-pins cable which plugged into the PCI card, and the other side split off into VGA video (which could pass-through the Mac signal, or interrupt it and output the PC signal), audio IO, 2 serial ports, a parallel port and a game port! It was truly an engineering masterpiece:)
So, why doesn't someone build a generic PCI device with such an awesome cable attached? It would give a whole new meaning to opencores.org. Software could be written that could drop in an arbitrary core and turn your card into any device that you desired that minute. Remember what Homer says: "Aww, I want it now!". With such a device, you could have it, or build it yourself right from your desktop if you were so inclined;) For example, if the bass is rattling on my friends new album and we want to try cutting off frequencies below 10hz:
install open extensible DSP core
install custom logic: if (f < 10) v = 0
Play/record through card
You could even do what OrangePC did and drop a whole processor/OS combination (or develop one) on the board and seamlessly switch between it and the host OS. If the card had multiple FPGAs, it could even drive multiple custom devices simultaneously.
Bye bye PCI hardware vendors (except ones to make the general purpose boards). Next, let's build an AGP8x version (with a stable on-board backup VGA core, just in case;) and set our sights on NVidia and ATI! Now, any volunteers to build an open-source OpenGL accelerated VGA core? All it is is a couple of multipliers, right?;)
The problem may be that no PCI/AGP vendor in their right minds would ever build such a thing, because it would replace all their products. Still, it's fun to dream about such a useful piece of hardware.
Good point, you have elaborated fairly well on my frost pist.
I have tried to point this out on multiple occasions, but slashdot readers are hung up on the fact that some people seriously abuse patents. Not everyone does.
In this case, the patentability of an invention provides a direct comparison between genetic programming (or in fact, any AI that purports to be able to design or invent software or hardware) and human intelligence.
With such a yardstick, we can directly measure the progress that genetic programming is making as a science.
Other than that, John Koza (the inventor of GP and [less known fact] scratch-off lottery tickets) doesn't seem to me to be the type to hold patents over peoples heads.
SF is a great place for single, straight guys. There is an overabundance of beautiful women who have no dates because such a large percent of the population is gay.
Besides, if you REALLY want to see a flamboyant SF affair, come visit Castro street here on Halloween. It's like a college Halloween party, except bigger:)
"Hey Apu, give me a keg of beer and a sixpack to hold me over until I crack the keg.":)
This is making me slightly sad and reminiscent of all the lovely dot-com partying of 1999/2000. I remember the first JavaOne here in SF. They threw an awesome party on the waterfront with large inflatable rides and lots of booze!
This is a paraphrased conversation between The Duke of Wellington and Blackadder dressed as the Prince Regent in the BBC comedy series, Blackadder. Specifically, it is from series III, episode Duel and Duality.
Man that episode was awful. The budget must've been like $2.00. The "alien" was a blob of cellophane with some green yuk inside it. It was supposed to be scary because it killed people and turned 'em into electric zombies which provided about 95% of the plot.
Tom Baker definatly was a good doctor, but you've caught him at his worst. Well, perhaps not the worst, there was that time his herpes was showing.
Slashdot Mirror
Damn this is funny. It makes me want to go and take the test just for the hell of it. I never actually took it because I changed high-schools and the timing was weird. I rocked that ACT test though and I was sweating it. Anyway, the point is now that I'm older, calmer and have more practical knowledge, I could probably rock that test hard and get into Yale. Oh yeah I forgot, Yale is a Bush party school.
Well, I've done this, but I thought it was a temporary HACK! I don't have a spare case, and I wanted to build up a server, so I just arranged everything on the bottom of a cardboard box. I cut holes in the sides for power, ethernet, and ventilation, and voila! FreeBSD in a box!
That's how my Enlightenment experience went, anyways
Seriously guys WAY over the top on the eye candy there. It's almost as bad as the new slashdot games section.
I prefer these little cartridges, personally ;)
:P
I tried those C02 ones but they just tasted like someones' bad breath
hehe :)
:)
;)
I've watched both shows from a very young age. Dr. Who since 1979, back while they were still making 'em
I have all of the Blackadders except the latest "back & forth", and a good chunk of the available Dr. Who episodes. Funny thing is, some of the tapes in that collection are from like 1980, taped off of WTTW channel 11 in Chicago. If anyone ever tells you that VHS is an archival format, send them to me
Man, anyone else remember the day that Dr. Who went off the air in Chicago? The worst breakup with a woman in my life and I didn't shed a tear, but that night I had a bottle of Jack Daniels in my lap and was crying like a babe...
The original Shada episode was never actually finished and aired due to a strike at the BBC.
While a "special edition" video was released where Tom Baker read the missing portions of the script out, it was very difficult to get a real feeling for the story because so much of the action was missing.
I haven't watched the flash animation yet, but hopefully it brings some life to this neat story that never really got told.
BTW, another great Douglas Adams Dr. Who that actually was completed and aired was "The Pirate Planet", the second of the key to time series.
That's one of the links from the older slashdot article that I linked to in this ask slashdot submission.
Their work is very cool, but their machines are very expensive. Also, I am looking at the PCI solution as a possible upgrade solution for an existing cluster, so it needs to be cost effective and fit in the boxes currently doing the job.
cybermace5 posted a great list earlier that led me to this neat card which may do the job nicely for $250 US! It doesn't have quite the gate count that I wanted, but at that price, I can hardly go wrong.
If it's not too late.
:)
Good call, that was funny
Got any hardware experience?
:)
If so, let's build this
[ducks]
Lyndsey Nagle: Do I detect a note of sarcasm?
Frink: (With sarcasm detector) Are you kidding? This baby is off the charts mm-hai.
CBG: A sarcasm detector, that's a real useful invention.
(Sarcasm detector explodes)
Of course, the only way to SEE the USO show is to sign up for the Army! So join the Army and KILL SOME REBEL SCUM as we continue ... THE MARCH OF WAR!!
[eat snackey-smores]
I want to experiment with such a card to find out if any of this is feasable.
The experience of looking for this card got me to thinking:
Does anyone else remember back in the day, OrangeMicro used to sell a card, now discontinued :( for Macintoshes that put a fully working PC on a PCI card on your Mac. In fact, I think I still have that laying around here somewhere! You could switch between Windows95 and MacOS, both running in native hardware by hitting Command-Enter. It was very neat, like VirtualPC except in an actual Pentium instead of a virtual one.
Anyhow the inspiring part of the old OrangePC in this case is the multi-functional cable attached to the back. It was a truly monsterous wonder. One side was a huge hundreds-of-pins cable which plugged into the PCI card, and the other side split off into VGA video (which could pass-through the Mac signal, or interrupt it and output the PC signal), audio IO, 2 serial ports, a parallel port and a game port! It was truly an engineering masterpiece :)
So, why doesn't someone build a generic PCI device with such an awesome cable attached? It would give a whole new meaning to opencores.org. Software could be written that could drop in an arbitrary core and turn your card into any device that you desired that minute. Remember what Homer says: "Aww, I want it now!". With such a device, you could have it, or build it yourself right from your desktop if you were so inclined ;) For example, if the bass is rattling on my friends new album and we want to try cutting off frequencies below 10hz:
You could even do what OrangePC did and drop a whole processor/OS combination (or develop one) on the board and seamlessly switch between it and the host OS. If the card had multiple FPGAs, it could even drive multiple custom devices simultaneously.
Bye bye PCI hardware vendors (except ones to make the general purpose boards). Next, let's build an AGP8x version (with a stable on-board backup VGA core, just in case ;) and set our sights on NVidia and ATI! Now, any volunteers to build an open-source OpenGL accelerated VGA core? All it is is a couple of multipliers, right? ;)
The problem may be that no PCI/AGP vendor in their right minds would ever build such a thing, because it would replace all their products. Still, it's fun to dream about such a useful piece of hardware.
Exactly, thank you. This is what I'm after.
In the future I'd like to be able to build high level mathematical expressions and have the chip build my expression in circuit.
The bandwidth is important because certain operations would block and wait. In a time sensitive operation, the less time spent waiting, the better.
Good point, you have elaborated fairly well on my frost pist.
I have tried to point this out on multiple occasions, but slashdot readers are hung up on the fact that some people seriously abuse patents. Not everyone does.
In this case, the patentability of an invention provides a direct comparison between genetic programming (or in fact, any AI that purports to be able to design or invent software or hardware) and human intelligence.
With such a yardstick, we can directly measure the progress that genetic programming is making as a science.
Other than that, John Koza (the inventor of GP and [less known fact] scratch-off lottery tickets) doesn't seem to me to be the type to hold patents over peoples heads.
Software (and now hardware too...) that is inspired by DNA recombination.
Actually...
:)
SF is a great place for single, straight guys. There is an overabundance of beautiful women who have no dates because such a large percent of the population is gay.
Besides, if you REALLY want to see a flamboyant SF affair, come visit Castro street here on Halloween. It's like a college Halloween party, except bigger
"Hey Apu, give me a keg of beer and a sixpack to hold me over until I crack the keg." :)
This is making me slightly sad and reminiscent of all the lovely dot-com partying of 1999/2000. I remember the first JavaOne here in SF. They threw an awesome party on the waterfront with large inflatable rides and lots of booze!
Oh well, it sure was fun while it lasted!
Yeah.
:)
Personally, I write open source for the chicks. Sometimes it's gratifying and intellectually fulfilling, but mainly, for the chicks
This is a paraphrased conversation between The Duke of Wellington and Blackadder dressed as the Prince Regent in the BBC comedy series, Blackadder. Specifically, it is from series III, episode Duel and Duality.
We celebrate a different holiday today. Just call me a heathen ;)
Man that episode was awful. The budget must've been like $2.00. The "alien" was a blob of cellophane with some green yuk inside it. It was supposed to be scary because it killed people and turned 'em into electric zombies which provided about 95% of the plot.
Tom Baker definatly was a good doctor, but you've caught him at his worst. Well, perhaps not the worst, there was that time his herpes was showing.