"When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear.
When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth.
When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins.
When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born."
from the Tao Te Ching, verse 18
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I've been of the same opinion for a while myself... jack up the poly count REALLY high and you dont NEED textures:P
why would I do this when for like $20 a month i can rent as many movies from netflix as i want, and keep them for as long as i want and, here's the kicker, WATCH THEM as often as i want!
from the last paragraph:
There's kind of a fine line between how smart you want your computers to be, and how much control you have," she said. "I worry about that."
Yeah, I'm sure there were many slave holders that felt that way back in the day... it's the same thing... if my computer were to become intelligent all of a sudden, there's nothing i could do other than let it grant itself freedom...
I would probably even help it out, do what I could to help make its life happy... or get others who could help better than I
Then i'd have to go looking for another NON-sentient computer to use as my workstation =]
code is all you need (at least for a while, with an emerging intelligence... as it gets older, representing the physical universe would probably be beneficial)
But if you represent various code objects with certain relationships to other ones, it can still be intelligent (of course assuming the Ai code is in there in the first place)
Just gotta remember to let the AI config its own code, not just add and change objects... thats when you get the Real Interesting Stuff =]
Hmm..
"All you need is Code,
Code is all you need"
(sung, badly, to a similar Beatles song;] )
When you can sit and code for 12 hours, you are WAY more productive than if you work for 3, have to sit in a meeting for 1.5 hours, lunch with your manager, then more work, then another goddamn meeting. Eat while you code; im sure most of us do.
2: DDR motherboards. The fastest Mac is slower than the fastest Wintel. Macs COULD be much faster, but to get faster, they have to use Altivec, and to use Altivec, they need more memory bandwidth. DDR can probably provide that bandwidth, so why doesn't Apple put DDR in their G4 systems?
What does Dance Dance Revolution have to do with system speed? ----
by the way, the orion's belt area is where osiris was supposed to have lived
by line up, i mean if you draw a map of the stars and the milkier part of the milky way, it overlaps the 3 pyramids including the great pyramid, plus a couple other pyramids to the north and south, and the milky way maps to the Nile
at least thats what the discovery channel told me =] ----
actually when the pyramids line up with some of the stars in the Orion constellation (presumbably not all, I'm sure Orion wasn't one of THEIR constellations:P) ----
as I've heard from a friend that recently worked at IBM, this new 'house of the future' is very buggy and apparently quite insecure... one could literally crack into the house and play Poltergeist >;-] ----
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In the Grim Future of Hello Kitty there is Only War!
dual 800s are like 11 or 12 GFLOPS (peak rate, anyway), i'd say thats damn fast =]
they test a lot of things there... that's the place where they tested Ebola monkies and narrowly avoided a nationwide (if not worldwide) epidemic.
my responce to judeo-christian traditions:
"When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear.
When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth.
When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins.
When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born."
from the Tao Te Ching, verse 18
I've been of the same opinion for a while myself... jack up the poly count REALLY high and you dont NEED textures :P
why would I do this when for like $20 a month i can rent as many movies from netflix as i want, and keep them for as long as i want and, here's the kicker, WATCH THEM as often as i want!
indeed I would have been just as happy if Apple bought Be and used it
I'd LOVE BeOS guts (threading and so on) with the OSX interface on my G4 *droooool*
Not in this universe... =[
there are two major problems with neural networks:
1. modern software NNs are about 1/10 billionth the size of the ones in our heads
2. many of the connections that are in our minds are evolved centers of processing, fine-tuned over many millions of years.
So, you cna just put a few-thousand node NN together and feed it into and expect it to become conscious...
NNs are good for their ability to handle decent degrees of error in a recognition process...
Strong AI will most likely be a mix of symbolic AND NN approaches.
from the last paragraph:
There's kind of a fine line between how smart you want your computers to be, and how much control you have," she said. "I worry about that."
Yeah, I'm sure there were many slave holders that felt that way back in the day... it's the same thing... if my computer were to become intelligent all of a sudden, there's nothing i could do other than let it grant itself freedom...
I would probably even help it out, do what I could to help make its life happy... or get others who could help better than I
Then i'd have to go looking for another NON-sentient computer to use as my workstation =]
code is all you need (at least for a while, with an emerging intelligence... as it gets older, representing the physical universe would probably be beneficial)
;] )
But if you represent various code objects with certain relationships to other ones, it can still be intelligent (of course assuming the Ai code is in there in the first place)
Just gotta remember to let the AI config its own code, not just add and change objects... thats when you get the Real Interesting Stuff =]
Hmm..
"All you need is Code,
Code is all you need"
(sung, badly, to a similar Beatles song
Exactly...changing programming concepts is the hard part, syntax is just, well, syntax. Once you learn those parts, its all a nice downhill ride.
well its easier to context-switch between similar tasks (coding, or cooking, or whatever) than it is to switch from coding TO cooking :P
When you can sit and code for 12 hours, you are WAY more productive than if you work for 3, have to sit in a meeting for 1.5 hours, lunch with your manager, then more work, then another goddamn meeting. Eat while you code; im sure most of us do.
2: DDR motherboards. The fastest Mac is slower than the fastest Wintel. Macs COULD be much faster, but to get faster, they have to use Altivec, and to use Altivec, they need more memory bandwidth. DDR can probably provide that bandwidth, so why doesn't Apple put DDR in their G4 systems?
What does Dance Dance Revolution have to do with system speed?
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thats what i was thinkin =]
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my mom worked on the book ^_^
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for different uses!
The G4 is meant to be usable in embedded systems, while the P4 is meant to be usable as a space heater
=P
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PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '
i use this on every system i use
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by the way, the orion's belt area is where osiris was supposed to have lived
by line up, i mean if you draw a map of the stars and the milkier part of the milky way, it overlaps the 3 pyramids including the great pyramid, plus a couple other pyramids to the north and south, and the milky way maps to the Nile
at least thats what the discovery channel told me =]
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actually when the pyramids line up with some of the stars in the Orion constellation (presumbably not all, I'm sure Orion wasn't one of THEIR constellations :P)
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"enhance their ability to execute their missions on battlefields"?
more like "enhance their ability to execute their enemies on battlefields"
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as I've heard from a friend that recently worked at IBM, this new 'house of the future' is very buggy and apparently quite insecure... one could literally crack into the house and play Poltergeist >;-]
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check out singinst.org for a good idea of how an AI should be designed
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"'Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters'... it's a cookbook! Nooooo!"
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gold? or maybe fresh water and limes? =]
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