Sometimes I wonder if homomorphic encryption could change this landscape, allowing the processing of data in a third party site but allowing the data owner to keep it's privacy.
Why do you seem to believe that intelligence, being measured by Stanford Binet, is a innate quality of an individual?. I'm not trolling, this is a genuine question.
Most of the time, the best (in the "bright" sense) coworkers I had where educated in really expensive schools and went to good Universities.
Take the Flynn effect for example. Are more intelligent people being born today than a few years ago? Or we're better schooling people?
You can solve this mostly with a rising bollard when the light is red.
Of course, no system is 100% idiot proof. If someone "mows down pedestrians" then they should be sued and suffer the consequences of this, util people learn that they should be attentive to the road while driving.
I used to work in a neighborhood with a college (I don't remember if it was a college or a high school, right now) with a large number of blind people.
Street crossing had a different kind of texture in the walkway. The traffic lights would make noises like "cross", "stop". While it was possible to cross it made a distinctive tone, changing it's pitch as time goes.
It worked. Way better than blind people jaywalking and relying on car noises.
How long? NASA was created from NACA in July, 1958. The first manned suborbital flight (from NASA, since Vostok I did made a full orbital flight somewhat earlier) I remember is the Mercury-Redstone 3 in May, 1961. So, it took about three years. A full orbital flight - something Virgin will took many years to make if ever - was in February, 1962.
The first successful commercial GUI product was the Apple Macintosh, which was heavily inspired by PARC's work; Xerox was allowed to buy pre-IPO stock from Apple in exchange for engineer visits and an understanding that Apple would create a GUI product.
Private sector is already sending almost every thing we launch into orbit.
Take the United Launch Alliance (Boeing/Lockheed Martin joint venture) with, I believe 4 Atlas launches and 4 Delta launches just this year. Take Orbital Sciences Corporation with Taurus II (I believe). Orbital spinned off a company called ORBIMAGE, now GeoEye, that provides a significant part of the beautiful imagery you see in Google Earth. Arianespace has part of its capital in the hand of private investors too, I believe (if EADS is a private company - I'm not certain of that).
Private space companies are not going to happen. It already happened a couple of years ago.
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However, is there a reason why all such couldn't be explained with something more modern, like Python?
<humor>The sound you hear now is the sound of the old timers loading their shotguns.</humor>
I'm only a few years older than you (25, soon to be 26) but learning Lisp was a very, very rewarding experience - at least to me. Even if I'm probably never going to code in Lisp (or Scheme, my personal favorite) it teach me to better think in the way I code. If you have some time in a free Tuesday evening (well, more than one, actually) try take a look at Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson, Sussman and Sussman. It's not in Lisp but in Scheme, a very close language. You probably saw most of the concepts in college but, for me at least once more, it was reading it that I felt a "gotcha" moment and finally understood it.
As someone whose works depends on HPC I disagree with you. A lot of people in life sciences, materials science, nuclear physics, geophysics and other knowledge areas needs clusters and super computers.
The former company I used to work for had a project like this (not for IBM but for my local government). Very roughly it did not really prediction, like the article says, but it would map cells, and given information (like millimeters of rain, wind data, seismic data, and so on ) on these cells and it's neighborhood, it would draw a map with given risk, in an arbitrary scale, for each area.
It's open source software, so, if it interests you, it's available here.
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Sometimes I wonder if homomorphic encryption could change this landscape, allowing the processing of data in a third party site but allowing the data owner to keep it's privacy.
In the 80's and 90's, Xerox used to call that ubiquitous computing [wikipedia.org]. And, it's actually a cool idea if it ever happens.
Is this the same thing of the older Oracle Network Computer hype?
I don't why this idea is always been revived in a way or another as the time goes.
Try to create a new account. It will ask for a phone number.
Why do you seem to believe that intelligence, being measured by Stanford Binet, is a innate quality of an individual?. I'm not trolling, this is a genuine question.
Most of the time, the best (in the "bright" sense) coworkers I had where educated in really expensive schools and went to good Universities.
Take the Flynn effect for example. Are more intelligent people being born today than a few years ago? Or we're better schooling people?
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You can solve this mostly with a rising bollard when the light is red.
Of course, no system is 100% idiot proof. If someone "mows down pedestrians" then they should be sued and suffer the consequences of this, util people learn that they should be attentive to the road while driving.
One of the problems is the lack of people with enough knowledge and time to review, for free, something as cryptographic code.
I used to work in a neighborhood with a college (I don't remember if it was a college or a high school, right now) with a large number of blind people.
Street crossing had a different kind of texture in the walkway. The traffic lights would make noises like "cross", "stop". While it was possible to cross it made a distinctive tone, changing it's pitch as time goes.
It worked. Way better than blind people jaywalking and relying on car noises.
If I recall correctly, Storm used Overnet for communication between nodes.
You do get phone support if you use the paid Google Apps.
And, for search, Google does offer Google Search Appliance for enterprises.
At any given time, there are at least 12 economists predicting a crisis, with a model to back up their claim.
If accounting for the previous Von Braun work, we'd also need to account from Goddard work. And from the theoretical basis Goddard used.
We're all standing in the shoulders of giants, so to speak.
How long? NASA was created from NACA in July, 1958. The first manned suborbital flight (from NASA, since Vostok I did made a full orbital flight somewhat earlier) I remember is the Mercury-Redstone 3 in May, 1961. So, it took about three years. A full orbital flight - something Virgin will took many years to make if ever - was in February, 1962.
Xerox received compensation for it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)#Adoption_by_Apple
The first successful commercial GUI product was the Apple Macintosh, which was heavily inspired by PARC's work; Xerox was allowed to buy pre-IPO stock from Apple in exchange for engineer visits and an understanding that Apple would create a GUI product.
LuaJIT has pretty amazing results.
Lambda syntax is what I dislike most in Python. And significant whitespace.
I think I'm not really into Python :)
What environment do you suggest for learning Smalltalk? I tried Squeak but couldn't stand it...
Private sector is already sending almost every thing we launch into orbit.
Take the United Launch Alliance (Boeing/Lockheed Martin joint venture) with, I believe 4 Atlas launches and 4 Delta launches just this year. Take Orbital Sciences Corporation with Taurus II (I believe). Orbital spinned off a company called ORBIMAGE, now GeoEye, that provides a significant part of the beautiful imagery you see in Google Earth. Arianespace has part of its capital in the hand of private investors too, I believe (if EADS is a private company - I'm not certain of that).
Private space companies are not going to happen. It already happened a couple of years ago.
Yahoo! Stores, I believe, was built on Lisp.
However, is there a reason why all such couldn't be explained with something more modern, like Python?
<humor>The sound you hear now is the sound of the old timers loading their shotguns.</humor>
I'm only a few years older than you (25, soon to be 26) but learning Lisp was a very, very rewarding experience - at least to me. Even if I'm probably never going to code in Lisp (or Scheme, my personal favorite) it teach me to better think in the way I code. If you have some time in a free Tuesday evening (well, more than one, actually) try take a look at Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson, Sussman and Sussman. It's not in Lisp but in Scheme, a very close language. You probably saw most of the concepts in college but, for me at least once more, it was reading it that I felt a "gotcha" moment and finally understood it.
It would be nice to have SMOKE and Ruby/Python/... bindings officially supported by Nokia.
As someone whose works depends on HPC I disagree with you. A lot of people in life sciences, materials science, nuclear physics, geophysics and other knowledge areas needs clusters and super computers.
Do you have an idea of how much it costs? There's no price in the website. It would be interesting to try it out.
Thank you for pointing it out. The correct URL is : http://www.dpi.inpe.br/sismaden/english/index.php.
The former company I used to work for had a project like this (not for IBM but for my local government). Very roughly it did not really prediction, like the article says, but it would map cells, and given information (like millimeters of rain, wind data, seismic data, and so on ) on these cells and it's neighborhood, it would draw a map with given risk, in an arbitrary scale, for each area.
It's open source software, so, if it interests you, it's available here.