Not all pornography needs to be explitative (please be nice to their poor server!), you know? It is also a mistake to judge and portray ALL pornography the way you have. I personally have known several pornographers (and my wife even edited one of their videos) who are ashamed of that portion of the industry, and work their hardest (pun intended) to make guilt-free pornography and spread awareness.
I think you have been watching too much "Sex in the City". My wife and I regularly enjoy pornography *together* and I sincerly doubt that it has any potential to ruin our marriage.
One interesting thing to note about patents is that they can be used as a yardstick to measure human intelligence in such a way that it can be compared literally against machine intelligence. This is, in fact, one of Alan Turings' proposed measurements of artificial intelligence. In fact, machines have already designed systems that meet or exceed the capabilities of human patents.
From the linked page:
Fourteen of the results are competitive with human-produced results. Ten infringe on previously issued patents or duplicate the functionality of previous patents in novel and creative ways.
Just thought I'd bring a slightly positive note to what is already becoming Caldera Flamefest 2003
why don't they send a warning and then block them?
It's because these problems are being caused by DNS requests that cannot receive a reply, so blocking them wouldn't make a lot of difference. Any way you look at it, it behaves similar to a DDOS attack. From the article you forgot to read:
Approximately 75% of the root server's queries were duplicates. Furthermore, we noticed that most of the repeats occurred at sensible intervals. That is, the agents making queries seemed to be following the protocol specifications.
From this, it seems most likely that these agents are just not receiving any DNS replies. To the application, it looks like a network outage, so it keeps on retransmitting.
... the trick is to just not open attachments from people I don't know.
This may not even be enough. From yesterday: Lovgate.C worm spreading across Internet. In case you're too lazy to click thru... the worm propogates by sending itself to the people in your address book, making the attached virus look innocent.
Oh, and the ability to disable page reloads on back.
I think what you are talking about is actually a meta-refresh command, used to forward you to another page, and not an explicit "reload" done with Javascript. The problem with "disabling" it is that the back button is actually functioning correctly... it takes you back one page. Problem is that the meta-refresh takes over again and forwards you back to the page you just left! The trick always has been a sort of well-timed double-click on back, or pull down the back menu & pick the entry 2 items back.
Has anyone else ever thought that "Dark Energy" could just be polarized gravity?
Think of it this way: imagine that the electromagnetic force worked across the sort of distances that gravity does, and we didn't have such a complete understanding of it. We might then easily mistake the source of energy for the destination. Maybe gravity, viewed from a larger perspective, has a polarity that we are not detecting from our frame of reference. Then "dark energy" just becomes gravity, with an opposing charge.
Of course, IANAP, so I am probably just ass-talking here (again). Is Doctor K around to set me straight?
Microsoft worries that competitors such as Sun Microsystems Inc. would use that information to clone its servers.
Oh yeah, THAT'LL happen... I can just imagine Scott McNealy saying "Hey, I got a great idea! We've been spending far too much time and money on this 'Solaris' thing. Let's implement Windows NT!"
I think what they don't really want to come out and say here is that they don't want Solaris to play nice with Windows (wasn't there a fiasco with Samba a couple years ago?)
Is it just me, or is this thread boiling over with ignorance?
This is *exactly* what MS did to Netscape a few years back, and a court found them guilty. They bundled their own technology and made it inconvienient to use competing products. *cough*.NET *cough*
It seems to me that this judge is basically just upholding that ruling and *not* allowing MS to do the same thing to Sun.
I think these raw "knowledge base" solutions leave much to be desired. For a more convincing and useful AI, raw memory needs to be linked more closely with logic and function. Consider this rather arbitrary subject, my Bic cigarette lighter sitting in front of me on my desk:
Memory has turned to procedure when I pick it up and light a smoke, or when I lit off those bottle rockets on the 4th. That procedure is highly well-defined and repeated. It has been used a hundred thousand times before, and it's utility will never cease. This procedure must be inherently attached to the raw concept of "cigarette lighter", and applied as appropriate.
Once, I tapped a Bic lighter on a counter top in order to get a few more uses from a nearly dead lighter, the plastic case cracked and lighter fluid sprayed all over me, accompanied by a loud bang! From that single experience, I learned never to let a lighter jam up against a hard surface with any amount of force again. Behavior is modified.
Thus, experience and repeated procedure have helped me "understand" the utility and storage details necessary to effectively use the item.
I believe that next-generation AI will be in the form of some relational, queriable memory in which each subject is attached to one or more genetically built procedural programs. The programs evolve over time to suit the procedural needs of the subject.
The most critical component in this system is the trainer, which could be human or some kind of automated retrospective asserting the usefulness of the genetic program. An automated system is more desirable because it would reduce the learning time and more closely approximate human lines of thought (e.g. I smacked that lighter and it exploded, maybe I shouldn't do that again?) but it seems to me that this would require the ability to represent the logic of the interaction of arbitrary subjects in some pure mathematic format, similar to the way competitive behavior is described by Nash's Equalibrium and Game Thoery. This is a daunting prospect, to describe a general translation of text content into logic, and it is the reason I haven't started writing code;)
The genetic programs could breed until there is an "acceptable" margin of error in its processing, and only reevaluate and spawn new generations of programs when the process continuously leads to wrong conclusions.
A system like this is a continuous learning machine, and never reaches a state where "training mode is disabled". It constantly learns from experience and refines behavior based on results. As humans we incorporate new ideas into our daily procedures with relative ease (OK, well some of us do;). This is one of our greatest strengths, and I think it has been sadly misrepresented in the current generation of AI research.
Don't get me wrong here, I think the works of Dr. Richard Wallace and John Koza, et. al. are very important milestones. What I am saying is that there must be creative uninvestigated ways in which raw memory can be combined with procedural action.
At a fork in the road between two cities, you see 2 people. One always tells the truth, and comes from the city of safety. The other person always lies and comes from the city of cannibals, where they will eat you. They both look exactly the same. You must ask them one and only one question (no compound questions either). What question could you ask to find out which path leads to the city of safety?
Did they steal this from the Dr. Who "Pyramids of Mars" episode, or was it the other way 'round? Anyone know?
Also, pretty sure I figured this one out, but have no college math, & would appreciate a more technical answer.
You are standing at the start of an infinite sequence of quarters. Someone tells you that 20 of them are tails and the rest are heads. He says that if you can split the quarters into 2 piles where the number of tails quarters is the same in both piles then you win all of the quarters. You are allowed to move the quarters and to flip them over, but you can never tell what state a quarter currently is (i.e. you are blind and you cannot feel which side is heads and which side is tails). How do you partition the quarters?
So, if you flip the first 20 coins, and partition between 20 and 21, you have the best chance for success, right? Doesn't that mean that there is a 20/inf. and therefore a 1/inf chance that one of the tails coins is in the first 20?
I used to make this stuff all the time when I was a kid. It looks as bland as a bowl of oatmeal, but properly seasoned, it is an awesome quick dish that takes just a few minutes. Mmmm comfort food, I think I'm gonna go run to the store after writing this:)
1 can of Campbells or similar Cream of Mushroom or Cream of Chicken soup
1 can Minute (or other fast-cooking) rice.
1 can milk or mater (or 1/2 milk, 1/2 water)
Bring soup and milk/water to a good rolling boil, mixing thoroughly.
Add 1 can rice. Reduce heat to simmer and cover. Cook on low for 10 minutes, stir occasionally.
I've never heard the acronym p2p applied to "point to point" but rather to me it means "peer to peer", implying that there is no fixed server, as in HTTP. I suppose I could be wrong, and it could mean "point to point", anyone else want to clarify? I was being sarcastic, but it is certainly possible that I am wrong about that.
The number of "peer-to-peer" Web sites has increased fivefold in the past year, according to Websense, a company that makes software to monitor and block employee Web usage.
Jeez, someone must've re-invented the web while I wasn't looking! I thought P2P networks were a different type of network than plain old HTTP. Well, *thank goodness* these Websense folks were around to let me know the error of my ways. Thanks, Websense!
Everyone is hung up on Quadrophenia, but if you haven't already you should check out "Live At Leeds"... it is a fantastic album and really highlights The Who's ability to invoke raw emotion in an audience. Reminds me of Jim Morrison in that way, music that can shake you down to your bones...
Um, wtf are you talking about? Nobody talks about money in hexidecimal, and according to the late great Douglas Adams, nobody jokes in base 13. That applies to base 16 as well, 'cause I assume you are trying to be funny.
If it's the actual challenge number you are talking about, 256 (0x100 there does that make you happy?) is the number of bytes in the binary representation of the number and has nothing at all to do with decimal digits!
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Not all pornography needs to be explitative (please be nice to their poor server!), you know? It is also a mistake to judge and portray ALL pornography the way you have. I personally have known several pornographers (and my wife even edited one of their videos) who are ashamed of that portion of the industry, and work their hardest (pun intended) to make guilt-free pornography and spread awareness.
I think you have been watching too much "Sex in the City". My wife and I regularly enjoy pornography *together* and I sincerly doubt that it has any potential to ruin our marriage.
[knee-jerk] Burn Em! Bury em alive! [/knee-jerk]
One interesting thing to note about patents is that they can be used as a yardstick to measure human intelligence in such a way that it can be compared literally against machine intelligence. This is, in fact, one of Alan Turings' proposed measurements of artificial intelligence. In fact, machines have already designed systems that meet or exceed the capabilities of human patents. From the linked page:
Just thought I'd bring a slightly positive note to what is already becoming Caldera Flamefest 2003
You insensitive clod!
List, please? Hey Bush, forget about Iraq, let's take these bastards out. [grabs ak-47]
This may not even be enough. From yesterday: Lovgate.C worm spreading across Internet. In case you're too lazy to click thru... the worm propogates by sending itself to the people in your address book, making the attached virus look innocent.
Darwin_Frog isn't the only one with screwed up math. This is from the article!
oh yeah, like the one time my sig would be useful and you stole it, and misquoted it to boot. :P
Nicholas Carroll must be from bizarro world ;)
I think what you are talking about is actually a meta-refresh command, used to forward you to another page, and not an explicit "reload" done with Javascript. The problem with "disabling" it is that the back button is actually functioning correctly... it takes you back one page. Problem is that the meta-refresh takes over again and forwards you back to the page you just left! The trick always has been a sort of well-timed double-click on back, or pull down the back menu & pick the entry 2 items back.
Has anyone else ever thought that "Dark Energy" could just be polarized gravity?
Think of it this way: imagine that the electromagnetic force worked across the sort of distances that gravity does, and we didn't have such a complete understanding of it. We might then easily mistake the source of energy for the destination. Maybe gravity, viewed from a larger perspective, has a polarity that we are not detecting from our frame of reference. Then "dark energy" just becomes gravity, with an opposing charge.
Of course, IANAP, so I am probably just ass-talking here (again). Is Doctor K around to set me straight?
Oh yeah, THAT'LL happen... I can just imagine Scott McNealy saying "Hey, I got a great idea! We've been spending far too much time and money on this 'Solaris' thing. Let's implement Windows NT!"
I think what they don't really want to come out and say here is that they don't want Solaris to play nice with Windows (wasn't there a fiasco with Samba a couple years ago?)
No one else ever believed me when I said that taking that cigarette break every hour was healthy. Now I've got proof ;)
- Ozzy Ozbourne is a responsible family man.
- Pete Townshend is labeled a pedophile.
- George Bush might do something intelligent.
Fuck this I'm never reading the news againIs it just me, or is this thread boiling over with ignorance?
.NET *cough*
This is *exactly* what MS did to Netscape a few years back, and a court found them guilty. They bundled their own technology and made it inconvienient to use competing products. *cough*
It seems to me that this judge is basically just upholding that ruling and *not* allowing MS to do the same thing to Sun.
CowboyNeal: It can burn a cd in 2.5 minutes.
Homer: Aww 2.5 minutes. I want it now!
/. posted this a while back... sounds to me like your coworkers need one of these for christmas, huh? :)
the plot of Real Genius than a star trek episode...
I think these raw "knowledge base" solutions leave much to be desired. For a more convincing and useful AI, raw memory needs to be linked more closely with logic and function. Consider this rather arbitrary subject, my Bic cigarette lighter sitting in front of me on my desk:
Thus, experience and repeated procedure have helped me "understand" the utility and storage details necessary to effectively use the item.
I believe that next-generation AI will be in the form of some relational, queriable memory in which each subject is attached to one or more genetically built procedural programs. The programs evolve over time to suit the procedural needs of the subject.
The most critical component in this system is the trainer, which could be human or some kind of automated retrospective asserting the usefulness of the genetic program. An automated system is more desirable because it would reduce the learning time and more closely approximate human lines of thought (e.g. I smacked that lighter and it exploded, maybe I shouldn't do that again?) but it seems to me that this would require the ability to represent the logic of the interaction of arbitrary subjects in some pure mathematic format, similar to the way competitive behavior is described by Nash's Equalibrium and Game Thoery. This is a daunting prospect, to describe a general translation of text content into logic, and it is the reason I haven't started writing code ;)
The genetic programs could breed until there is an "acceptable" margin of error in its processing, and only reevaluate and spawn new generations of programs when the process continuously leads to wrong conclusions.
A system like this is a continuous learning machine, and never reaches a state where "training mode is disabled". It constantly learns from experience and refines behavior based on results. As humans we incorporate new ideas into our daily procedures with relative ease (OK, well some of us do ;). This is one of our greatest strengths, and I think it has been sadly misrepresented in the current generation of AI research.
Don't get me wrong here, I think the works of Dr. Richard Wallace and John Koza, et. al. are very important milestones. What I am saying is that there must be creative uninvestigated ways in which raw memory can be combined with procedural action.
Did they steal this from the Dr. Who "Pyramids of Mars" episode, or was it the other way 'round? Anyone know?
Also, pretty sure I figured this one out, but have no college math, & would appreciate a more technical answer.
So, if you flip the first 20 coins, and partition between 20 and 21, you have the best chance for success, right? Doesn't that mean that there is a 20/inf. and therefore a 1/inf chance that one of the tails coins is in the first 20?
I used to make this stuff all the time when I was a kid. It looks as bland as a bowl of oatmeal, but properly seasoned, it is an awesome quick dish that takes just a few minutes. Mmmm comfort food, I think I'm gonna go run to the store after writing this :)
1 can of Campbells or similar Cream of Mushroom or Cream of Chicken soup
1 can Minute (or other fast-cooking) rice.
1 can milk or mater (or 1/2 milk, 1/2 water)
Bring soup and milk/water to a good rolling boil, mixing thoroughly.
Add 1 can rice. Reduce heat to simmer and cover. Cook on low for 10 minutes, stir occasionally.
Add salt/pepper to taste.
I've never heard the acronym p2p applied to "point to point" but rather to me it means "peer to peer", implying that there is no fixed server, as in HTTP. I suppose I could be wrong, and it could mean "point to point", anyone else want to clarify? I was being sarcastic, but it is certainly possible that I am wrong about that.
Everyone is hung up on Quadrophenia, but if you haven't already you should check out "Live At Leeds"... it is a fantastic album and really highlights The Who's ability to invoke raw emotion in an audience. Reminds me of Jim Morrison in that way, music that can shake you down to your bones...
Um, wtf are you talking about? Nobody talks about money in hexidecimal, and according to the late great Douglas Adams, nobody jokes in base 13. That applies to base 16 as well, 'cause I assume you are trying to be funny.
If it's the actual challenge number you are talking about, 256 (0x100 there does that make you happy?) is the number of bytes in the binary representation of the number and has nothing at all to do with decimal digits!