It seems like the MLB should stop me watching the World Series for free.
The first hit is always free. Sure we'll give you some local stations for free so you get a taste for TV, then you can buy into cable to expand your experience. The interesting thing is that cable is something that should be free too, so the television stations get more revenue from their ads, and the cable company should get a cut from the ads. I think the demand for the average public to watch TV is too high, and this allows them to grill em on ads AND cable tv subscription.
Now only if WOW would open a bot's are allowed server. Some of my favorite times on Asheron's Call was watching AI that I wrote going around the map exploring and PKing anything it ran across.
Dude RIAA has known this for milennia. This is why they often don't even wait for talent to come up with their own songs, but click on their computer,"Create Song.", then they teach a random cute or outrageous looking young person how to sing to it.
I went to target, 20$, it is great for playing video games with friends and chatting on Team Speak.
My previous headset was the overly hardware laden Microsoft Sidewinder from late 90s or early 2000s, and I had it to play Warcraft3 with friends. Voice chat is invaluable for RTS. Our team was the best in the world at the time 200wins 1loss(from my teammates screwing around).
It is very hard and a lot of code to implement, but not impossible to understand conceptually.
Lets just focus on A:
You start with a basic physics simulator-Difficult to code, but doable.
You start adding more and more objects into it, and give them names.
The English(natural language) comes in immediately when you start just referencing the names you did.
One of the first things might be: "Create ball" The AI would imagine a basic room by default and when you tell it to "Create ball", it makes one in the center.
You should be able to do colors immediately. You could then say,"Create green ball." Next you might want to do shades. "Create light green ball." Then you'd want to be able to do modifiers on the balls,"Make ball lighter green"
The trick is that you code things that happen in imagination space based on real English, a subset of English, or you could even invent new words if you needed added complexity. Natural language in imagination space even solves many of those nasty translation errors because it should understand scenes contextually. You start with a subset of English and build more and more words into it. Eventually when you're finished and really refined, you can do things like type in a famous novel, and the AI would simulate what happens in the book translating it into a movie. I'd imagine one of the hobbies of people in the future might be changing books so they can feed the syntax into their AI to get different movies.
You said you did 3d simulations and you're good at physics.
Bare with me: It isn't CYC, but something based on CYC, I forget the actual name. The premise is that you use a 3d simulation to be imagination space for the AI. You need to write an effective physics simulation and database objects into it. If you write an effective 3d imagination space, you could then talk to the 3d imagination space in natural language. The next step is writing vision/laser detection and other senses to read in the real world and simplify it to the imagination space. Once you got something that can turn its environment into something it can think about and do tasks, you have AI. AI isn't some complex and unable to be understood idea where a machine has thoughts like a human, it can be made like a program that just follows orders. Sure once you had AI, you could fake a personality such as by setting coefficients for desiring to do different tasks.
This project would be a lifetime en devour though. I'd be doing it myself if I had enough resources to survive on for the rest of my life. Alas, I need to try and make video games for the short term, so I can have a shot at having it made to do this science work.
I'd aim small to begin with:
3d imagination space, I'd work with as elementary as objects as I could:
Sphere
Block
Rectangle block
Then I would build complex objects out of them. Just this exercise in and of itself could lead to better and bigger things.
Even though it would be many years down the line, the same goes for when you do vision/laser range finding senses to detect the world:
You'd have a really elementary room, like factories. Modern day robots do vision detection, but on a limited number of things to view: Holes to put screws in mainly. So start with just a room with some spheres and blocks in it, and see if the AI can properly observe what is going on. You don't even need a body, just observe what happens in the room.
To me, AI seems very ambitious, but at least there is a plan to do it. Some people can't even grasp that AI is doable. But it is.
A: Write an imagination space that understands natural language.
B: Do vision detection algorithms that map real world objects to imagination space.
C: Have someone build for you a robot that performs any number of functions, slap the AI in, and you're set.
Mind you imagination space and vision detection algorithms might take a man 50 years to do on his own if he is even capable of doing them at all. You'd really think someone like DARPA or something would be working on this and crank it out in 20 years with a crack team of programmers. And hey maybe they are for all we know:P
I know my stuff, and have a good education. But I can never get an interview anywhere. I sent out thousands of resumes on Monster.com over two years, and only got 1 Interview from it. After years of searching, I gave up and started programming my own games. This is what I'm doing now. Anyone have tips for someone who's career never started, but is still super talented in what they do?
It isn't difficult to conceive of a world where if you want monetary compensation for loss of car or hospitalization, your insurance should pay for it. If someone is an actual risk to the health and welfare of others, they get imprisoned or lose their license. There's no guy out there going,"If I don't have to pay if I wreck someone's car, I'm gonna be Wreck it Ralph and play demo derby on the street."
It is a joke that if you open a skate park, and someone gets hurt, brings drugs, a weapon, or threatens someone that you get sued so hard you can lose your property. I love the USA, but you don't have a lot of private individuals opening their property for people to ride motorcycles or just chill outside with free concerts. Also car insurance is a big scam because of liability. You can buy a used car every 4 years at even the low rates of car insurance. Car insurance certainly isn't there to keep you on the road. Ski resorts get sued when someone falls down in even ordinary skiing conditions. The only reason ski resorts stay open is that they need to make more money than they lose in lawsuits. You don't have to agree with me on this one, but I think liability needs drastically reformed, and it has been this way for over 100 years..
Oftentimes the guy who gets the bribes(campaign contributions) is the guy more willing to do what is asked of him. The road to increasing political power is less of who is best for the people, but who continually returns good for their campaign contributors. The more you help those who bribe you, the more money they're willing to give you.
Finally scientific evidence comes out saying it is all because of their genetics. We should be ashamed of all the years we've been calling dinosaurs old and fat.
Imagine if SWTOR's space combat was similar to Xwing vs TieFighter? You'd run missions and suit up your fleet by spending credits. They could make the curve long for you to get a full squadron of capital ships, interceptors, and supply ships, like 6 months. PVP could involve your fleet + your friends flying the interceptors. This idea is very simple, but it'd make the game very desirable. And if you threw on a map of the galaxy to tactically control and take over places, making it harder and harder to conquer the whole thing, you'd have people addicted. The reason it should get more difficult as you control more of the galaxy is that the best players need a handicap to even things out. Also it is Starwars Lore,"The tigher you grip the systems, the more will fall through your fingers."
The funniest part of all this is that aside from the art/sfx, design and coding a space shooter is one of the easiest things to do in game development. I could solo the a whole project like this myself, and I'm weak in matrix algebra.
Calculate both the price of piracy enforcement and the price of piracy honestly, and see which costs more.
You don't even need to calculate the benefits of a society with free access to all the works of man, where poor people have just as much access to culture as wealthy individuals. For if you start calculating the benefits for a society to have free educational books, and as much culture as it wants, a more educated populace far outweighs a kings ransom. You start getting into the realm of,"While we'd need to rework compensation, we can't discount that a better educated populace would have the ability to create superior works."
So yeah, there's untold wealth to be gained for limited copyrights, but lets just focus on the cost of piracy vs cost of enforcing piracy. The cost of enforcing piracy according to PIPA and SOPA is freedom of speech. Wait, you're saying we'll give away everything that matters to us just so a couple people could hold onto an antiquated profit model of limited distribution channels? Well I guess it isn't really calculating societal costs at all, but just making sure the select few continue to be catered to.
When you're looking at a point where science and Christianity disagree, most likely it is bad theology on the part of the Christian. God loves you. Jesus is LORD. I know.
I worked on Carnegie Mellon's Red Team racing for a bit, but I didn't do anything major. I wanted to put in a redundant vision detection to their laser range finding and GPS guidance, but I got shot down. At least they let me poke around with GPS tweaking for a bit.
Anyway I always thought it'd be much easier to just make a train system where the rerouting sections get switched depending on your trip you programmed in. By being off normal rider roads, you'd only have to contend with other computerized trains, which could be tracked. The key thing at this point is just having some way to avoid deer and downed trees. I would think by first getting an automated train system up, then we could move into car systems later. The real trick is finding a city that doesn't have car transportation that wants to risk itself into automated trains. There are other problems with automated trains such as vandalism and terrorism and such.
Or just use an old core D&D or AD&D rules, and modify rules as you see fit.
My friend said,"Why oh why do you roll for hit points on level?" He knows it is a bad rule( you can roll all 1s and be perma gimped), yet he cares it is in there. I would think in today's day and age, we can all come up with our own custom systems. D&D has been out for decades now, you'd think each game master would have their own list of custom house rules and wouldn't embrace every change that comes down the pipe.
PS: I might be working on RPG things professionally soon here. I don't want to share a lot of details. I just want to do it, release it, and then talk about it later.
You're right in that people with agenda will find a study somewhere some place that paints the picture in the way they want. It happens all the time anymore. I once got a laugh when they tried to sell Lucky Charms as a health food because the oat flakes are known to be good for your heart.
I started programming before I understood what the words and symbols I was typing did. I was about 5 yrs old.
I didn't even understand written English. I just typed in what I read in a book.
Then I graduated to Print rockets.
Once I learned what IF/THEN did when I was 12, I felt the world open up.
Slashdot Mirror
Walking isn't funny, unless someone is wearing a knee brace thinking they're harvesting free energy.
Silly walks are also funny. And it is well known that funny things can help us heal, relieve stress and have a longer lifespan.
If I was a leader of a country, I'd have a ministry of silly walks in order to improve health care.
It seems like the MLB should stop me watching the World Series for free.
The first hit is always free. Sure we'll give you some local stations for free so you get a taste for TV, then you can buy into cable to expand your experience. The interesting thing is that cable is something that should be free too, so the television stations get more revenue from their ads, and the cable company should get a cut from the ads. I think the demand for the average public to watch TV is too high, and this allows them to grill em on ads AND cable tv subscription.
Now only if WOW would open a bot's are allowed server. Some of my favorite times on Asheron's Call was watching AI that I wrote going around the map exploring and PKing anything it ran across.
I'm not going to become a chef anytime soon though.
Dude RIAA has known this for milennia. This is why they often don't even wait for talent to come up with their own songs, but click on their computer,"Create Song.", then they teach a random cute or outrageous looking young person how to sing to it.
I went to target, 20$, it is great for playing video games with friends and chatting on Team Speak.
My previous headset was the overly hardware laden Microsoft Sidewinder from late 90s or early 2000s, and I had it to play Warcraft3 with friends. Voice chat is invaluable for RTS. Our team was the best in the world at the time 200wins 1loss(from my teammates screwing around).
It is very hard and a lot of code to implement, but not impossible to understand conceptually.
Lets just focus on A:
You start with a basic physics simulator-Difficult to code, but doable.
You start adding more and more objects into it, and give them names.
The English(natural language) comes in immediately when you start just referencing the names you did.
One of the first things might be: "Create ball" The AI would imagine a basic room by default and when you tell it to "Create ball", it makes one in the center.
You should be able to do colors immediately. You could then say,"Create green ball." Next you might want to do shades. "Create light green ball." Then you'd want to be able to do modifiers on the balls,"Make ball lighter green"
The trick is that you code things that happen in imagination space based on real English, a subset of English, or you could even invent new words if you needed added complexity. Natural language in imagination space even solves many of those nasty translation errors because it should understand scenes contextually. You start with a subset of English and build more and more words into it. Eventually when you're finished and really refined, you can do things like type in a famous novel, and the AI would simulate what happens in the book translating it into a movie. I'd imagine one of the hobbies of people in the future might be changing books so they can feed the syntax into their AI to get different movies.
You said you did 3d simulations and you're good at physics.
Bare with me: It isn't CYC, but something based on CYC, I forget the actual name. The premise is that you use a 3d simulation to be imagination space for the AI. You need to write an effective physics simulation and database objects into it. If you write an effective 3d imagination space, you could then talk to the 3d imagination space in natural language. The next step is writing vision/laser detection and other senses to read in the real world and simplify it to the imagination space. Once you got something that can turn its environment into something it can think about and do tasks, you have AI. AI isn't some complex and unable to be understood idea where a machine has thoughts like a human, it can be made like a program that just follows orders. Sure once you had AI, you could fake a personality such as by setting coefficients for desiring to do different tasks.
This project would be a lifetime en devour though. I'd be doing it myself if I had enough resources to survive on for the rest of my life. Alas, I need to try and make video games for the short term, so I can have a shot at having it made to do this science work.
I'd aim small to begin with:
3d imagination space, I'd work with as elementary as objects as I could:
Sphere
Block
Rectangle block
Then I would build complex objects out of them. Just this exercise in and of itself could lead to better and bigger things.
Even though it would be many years down the line, the same goes for when you do vision/laser range finding senses to detect the world:
You'd have a really elementary room, like factories. Modern day robots do vision detection, but on a limited number of things to view: Holes to put screws in mainly. So start with just a room with some spheres and blocks in it, and see if the AI can properly observe what is going on. You don't even need a body, just observe what happens in the room.
To me, AI seems very ambitious, but at least there is a plan to do it. Some people can't even grasp that AI is doable. But it is.
A: Write an imagination space that understands natural language.
B: Do vision detection algorithms that map real world objects to imagination space.
C: Have someone build for you a robot that performs any number of functions, slap the AI in, and you're set.
Mind you imagination space and vision detection algorithms might take a man 50 years to do on his own if he is even capable of doing them at all. You'd really think someone like DARPA or something would be working on this and crank it out in 20 years with a crack team of programmers. And hey maybe they are for all we know:P
I know my stuff, and have a good education. But I can never get an interview anywhere. I sent out thousands of resumes on Monster.com over two years, and only got 1 Interview from it. After years of searching, I gave up and started programming my own games. This is what I'm doing now. Anyone have tips for someone who's career never started, but is still super talented in what they do?
It isn't difficult to conceive of a world where if you want monetary compensation for loss of car or hospitalization, your insurance should pay for it. If someone is an actual risk to the health and welfare of others, they get imprisoned or lose their license. There's no guy out there going,"If I don't have to pay if I wreck someone's car, I'm gonna be Wreck it Ralph and play demo derby on the street."
It is a joke that if you open a skate park, and someone gets hurt, brings drugs, a weapon, or threatens someone that you get sued so hard you can lose your property. I love the USA, but you don't have a lot of private individuals opening their property for people to ride motorcycles or just chill outside with free concerts. Also car insurance is a big scam because of liability. You can buy a used car every 4 years at even the low rates of car insurance. Car insurance certainly isn't there to keep you on the road. Ski resorts get sued when someone falls down in even ordinary skiing conditions. The only reason ski resorts stay open is that they need to make more money than they lose in lawsuits. You don't have to agree with me on this one, but I think liability needs drastically reformed, and it has been this way for over 100 years..
Oftentimes the guy who gets the bribes(campaign contributions) is the guy more willing to do what is asked of him. The road to increasing political power is less of who is best for the people, but who continually returns good for their campaign contributors. The more you help those who bribe you, the more money they're willing to give you.
Finally scientific evidence comes out saying it is all because of their genetics. We should be ashamed of all the years we've been calling dinosaurs old and fat.
Imagine if SWTOR's space combat was similar to Xwing vs TieFighter? You'd run missions and suit up your fleet by spending credits. They could make the curve long for you to get a full squadron of capital ships, interceptors, and supply ships, like 6 months. PVP could involve your fleet + your friends flying the interceptors. This idea is very simple, but it'd make the game very desirable. And if you threw on a map of the galaxy to tactically control and take over places, making it harder and harder to conquer the whole thing, you'd have people addicted. The reason it should get more difficult as you control more of the galaxy is that the best players need a handicap to even things out. Also it is Starwars Lore,"The tigher you grip the systems, the more will fall through your fingers."
The funniest part of all this is that aside from the art/sfx, design and coding a space shooter is one of the easiest things to do in game development. I could solo the a whole project like this myself, and I'm weak in matrix algebra.
Calculate both the price of piracy enforcement and the price of piracy honestly, and see which costs more.
You don't even need to calculate the benefits of a society with free access to all the works of man, where poor people have just as much access to culture as wealthy individuals. For if you start calculating the benefits for a society to have free educational books, and as much culture as it wants, a more educated populace far outweighs a kings ransom. You start getting into the realm of,"While we'd need to rework compensation, we can't discount that a better educated populace would have the ability to create superior works."
So yeah, there's untold wealth to be gained for limited copyrights, but lets just focus on the cost of piracy vs cost of enforcing piracy. The cost of enforcing piracy according to PIPA and SOPA is freedom of speech. Wait, you're saying we'll give away everything that matters to us just so a couple people could hold onto an antiquated profit model of limited distribution channels? Well I guess it isn't really calculating societal costs at all, but just making sure the select few continue to be catered to.
Judging by the quality of video games named after them, I'd go with Red Baron over Chuck Yeager any day.
I can't differentiate one bad pun from another. There all equally as bad.
You stole my idea that stealing ideas is not stealing.
The prices for a pop at a restaurant or movie theater is all about gouging the customer.
I'd rather buy a $0.69 two liter pop at Aldis than a $6.50 12 oz at a movie theater.
Then again, since these places make their money off suckers, maybe they'll raise their rates on their other goods,
Most Christians I know don't accept a 6000 year old Earth.
Long Day Theory.
When you're looking at a point where science and Christianity disagree, most likely it is bad theology on the part of the Christian. God loves you. Jesus is LORD. I know.
I worked on Carnegie Mellon's Red Team racing for a bit, but I didn't do anything major. I wanted to put in a redundant vision detection to their laser range finding and GPS guidance, but I got shot down. At least they let me poke around with GPS tweaking for a bit.
Anyway I always thought it'd be much easier to just make a train system where the rerouting sections get switched depending on your trip you programmed in. By being off normal rider roads, you'd only have to contend with other computerized trains, which could be tracked. The key thing at this point is just having some way to avoid deer and downed trees. I would think by first getting an automated train system up, then we could move into car systems later. The real trick is finding a city that doesn't have car transportation that wants to risk itself into automated trains. There are other problems with automated trains such as vandalism and terrorism and such.
Or just use an old core D&D or AD&D rules, and modify rules as you see fit.
My friend said,"Why oh why do you roll for hit points on level?" He knows it is a bad rule( you can roll all 1s and be perma gimped), yet he cares it is in there. I would think in today's day and age, we can all come up with our own custom systems. D&D has been out for decades now, you'd think each game master would have their own list of custom house rules and wouldn't embrace every change that comes down the pipe.
PS: I might be working on RPG things professionally soon here. I don't want to share a lot of details. I just want to do it, release it, and then talk about it later.
I'm trying to invent a sense of humor so good that I will live forever.
I just need to be careful to not to stumble across The funniest joke in the world
You're right in that people with agenda will find a study somewhere some place that paints the picture in the way they want. It happens all the time anymore. I once got a laugh when they tried to sell Lucky Charms as a health food because the oat flakes are known to be good for your heart.
I started programming before I understood what the words and symbols I was typing did. I was about 5 yrs old.
I didn't even understand written English. I just typed in what I read in a book.
Then I graduated to Print rockets.
Once I learned what IF/THEN did when I was 12, I felt the world open up.