I am of the opinion that the computer/AI would be more logical than humans, and would have concluded that "war" is the least beneficial methodology to employ, and as such would seek to employ it as a last resort.
Then you should know that "war" is not the only way to overpower the other because there are so many methods to do so (especially by psychological ways).
If AI does not achieve "ethic" but only understand "benefit" or "production" (ethic is a lot more difficult to achive), then it could be trouble to humans. Because it is so logical (as you said), it may decide to get rid of humans when it determines that it would be more beneficial without humans. Logic and ethic do not always go to the same direction...
Anyone ordered to appear in court on suspicion of having committed a drink or drug-driving offence will have their names and details published online and made available to the media.
Not sure if that means "convicted" as you said because I don't know UK law?
That’s according to a study published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, which suggests that high-tech equipment and sophisticated treatment techniques may distract from what’s most important during cardiac arrest — transporting a critically ill patient to the hospital quickly.
The TFA mentions about a study on JAMA but there is NO LINK to the real article/study? Or the author does not know how to properly cite the source he is talking about? I have to dig it out by myself and it is at http://archinte.jamanetwork.co...... I hope people stop writing an article like this when they don't properly give a proper citation...
In a class action lawsuit (PDF) filed on Friday, Pietz says the copyright enforcement company made illegal, harassing robo-calls to his clients, who were accused of illegal downloading. The lawsuit says that Rightscorp broke the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), a 1991 law which limits how automated calling devices can be used.
I think the key phrase is "were accused of illegal downloading." If the robo-call can prove that they are right on whatever they accuse, the case will be thrown away due to the Clean hand doctrine... The lawyer (Pietz) is relying on and hoping that the point can't be proven...
Find a partner and make a baby fast! Your child will be automatically a US citizen. That will child will be your ticket to legal residency in a few years, if you want it later.
That was the key to one part of the plan that was announced: If you have a child who is a US citizen, you won't be deported.
Hmm... People just want to read only what they want to read, and then ignore the rest but rather misinform others with only what they read.
From TFA
If you’ve been in America for more than five years; if you have children who are American citizens or legal residents; if you register, pass a criminal background check, and you’re willing to pay your fair share of taxes -- you’ll be able to apply to stay in this country temporarily without fear of deportation. You can come out of the shadows and get right with the law. That’s what this deal is.
You mean, market manipulation? Something several big banks just got fined millions of dollars for in the forex markets? That should be an interesting one to watch...
Sadly, there is no real regulation in bitcoin yet, so who is going to be fine in the bitcoin case??? And who would do anything about it as of now???
I got an AS from a community college, and the only downside I see is that about half of my required credits were in liberal arts.
It would be the same for the first 2 year in a university. Those freshman and sophomore courses are just refreshing courses. Junior and senior years are focusing on core courses.
I got an AS from a coomunity college as well, and then transfered to a 4-year university. The 2 years in the university, 90% of courses I took were computer/maths related (my major is CS) and I did only 2 courses that were not really related in my major -- Technical writing (ENG301) and Astronomy (a science class with lab, required). The huge advantage to go through this path, to me, is the large cost reduction I must spend in order to get a 4-year degree.
So you are not a CS major then? Because CS major usually uses any language that could help you understand the class concept. The major does not focus on any language. When I was in school, they were teaching C++. Now they changed it to Python. However, that's the faculty decision and it is NOT from the current market but because they said the language seems to be more verbose to beginners. Not sure it is in my opinion...
That seems like a solvable problem, in a variety of ways. The easiest would be to add a window border on the inside of the glass that covers up the area that doesn't get cleaned, but actually solving the problem also seems doable.
Hmm... I would say it is a work around, not a solution to the problem. Why? Because the dirt is still there. your suggestion would simply hide the dirtiness from seeing rather is a way to clean it (solution)...
I'd like to know what type of assignment this was. If it's small and specific, there might be only a few basic working solutions. That is, the similarity stems from being correct.
Here is the link to the course assignment page -- http://www.cs.duke.edu/courses... -- which should give you an idea how big/small each assignment is...
The teacher then gave us an anonymous ballot. He wanted to know how many of us cheated on a test or homework assignment in the last year (this was pre-WWW so cheating at home was basically collaborating on homework with others in the same class).
It seems to me that the question from your teacher is too vague. It is similar to asking an adult "Have you ever lie in your life?" The question combines everything situation together (even though some situations are mutual exclusive). As a result, the answer is "yes" for all...
my firsthand experience has been that software developers "lacking" a CS degree have displayed a marked tendency to produce more functional, reasonably secure, and efficient/scalable code than their CS counterparts.
And that is what I don't understand. Why do people keep relating CS with programming directly? Programming skill is NOT a required skill in the field for CS as long as CS students can get/develop the alogithm to work with any assigned language they work with. In other words, CS students learn to use a language to demonstrate how they understand the concept and are able to implement. They do NOT learn different languages to be an expert in those languages. I know many of my CS friends who understand algorithms but can't really code! That doesn't mean they can't finish the degree, but it means they may not be a good programmer/developer if they are going to work in software development.
PS: It also depends on school they have been to because some schools are more lenient than others in order to get the degree...
But they still pay a smaller amount than people with a larger income.
Hmm... You are missing something... You are using "quantity" against "subjective feeling" in this case. Let's say you are making $10,000 a year and you are taxed at 10%, so it would be $1,000. Then another person is making $1,000,000 a year and he is taxed at 10% also which would be $100,000. Now, let's talk about what you said. Yes, the $100,000 is much more than $1,000; however, what do you feel if you are losing $1,000 from your overall $10,000? Do you think you should spend money on a new iPhone with the left over amount when you may not have enough money left to pay rent/car? How about the other guy who still has $900,000? Would he still be able to spend money on "the same" item you may not be able to afford? If you are going to argue about different life styles, that is a totally different topic.
The "quantity" and "subjective feeling" should be considered together in the taxes talk. They are collerated but could be looked at from different points of view. The poor look at the "smaller" amount as a big chunk of money to live on. On the other hand, the rich look at the "bigger" amount as a loss in their investment. They both are NOT the same because the former is for neccessity/living and the latter is for making more money (getting richer). Therefore, arguing on how much taxes should be paid by using only quantity alone would be ignorance. It is extremely difficult to find a happy medium between these two. That's why the progressive rate tend to be favorlable and used (in democratic countries).
Prove that it isn't only 6,000 years old. You can't, the best that can be said is that it is consistent with what we would expect from something 40k old.
I thought the GP (AC) is making a joke, but the parent post (another AC) takes it a serious way...
It would be like a child murdering another child. There would be sanctions, probably confinement, treatment, possible partial culpability for the owners/parents etc.
What are you going to do with a wild chimp (no "human" owner/guardiance)? And what are you going to do with the chimp's parents because they are partially response to the murder of another chimp???
demand that computer science courses are replaced with programming ones.
Sorry, but your stereotype is OFF.
Computer Science is not teaching you to do "programming"! If you want to replace the core course with "programming," you are picking the wrong major. You should rather change your major and go on Information Technology/System instead because they do learn more in programming (look at their course catalogue).
Rote memorization through 10 (or 12 in the US with 12 inches in a foot).
If "rote memorization" is what I think (multiplication tables), then kids in Asia are required to memorize up to 12 as well, but may also memorize up to 25 as an optional which is very common.
How long does it take a user to find the correct button to dismiss a dialog? How many users use keyboard navigation rather than the mouse to navigate dialogs? How many times do the people who do use keyboard navigation hit tab without typing doing anything that would modify the field? All of these things require a keylogger (or a camera pointed at the screen) to find out and give valuable data when designing a UI. You'd hope that there's something client side that filters out anything that might be a password and aggregates some of the data, but it's all information about the end user that you need to collect to do a good job at UI design.
I agree that they need to collect data in order to improve thie OS. But what MS did is to take the easy way out! There are many traditional indirect ways to get to the same goal, but they need to collect lots of data and have experts analyze the data, let alone the cost to get this work done. Using keylogger is a direct, easy, cheap, and intrusive way to do the work! If those who don't care, it would be fine for them; however, many laymen do not understand what security and privacy are. If MS want to use keylogger, they should display a SUCCINT and HUGE text at the installation to let those who are installing know what they are doing (i.e. "This test verion of windows comes with KEYLOGGER to automatically provide us the feedback. If you do not want it, do NOT install the OS!") instead of play with words (and pretend) to make people feel that their texts entered are not being logged.
A big issue is the small study size with limited data.
So, it more points to promising lines of research than proving anything.
I agree that the sample size is too small and the result could be the one hit wonder. If they keep researching and allow publishing of any result (both support and against), I am quite certain that the outcome is much lower.
However, it is a common sense that humans would face more danger if their olfactory becomes malfunction (if you think about it). Why? What are the purposes of smell? One is to help you identify what is good and what is bad. Even though it is more subjective, it is a very common tool for screening any possible toxic to your health. Without smelling, you may accidentally walk into an area or room full with poison or danger (i.e. gas).
Also, smell could enhance your appertize. If you do not or cannot smell, you may not be hungry when you should. As a result, you may not consume enough nutrient each day and could weaken your body.
Last but not least, smell helps you identify what you should put in your mouth. Smell relates to your taste. If you do not smell, you may not know how bad the food you are eating. Try to do it by closing your nose and eat something smelly. You would see that whatever you eat is no longer that smelly; besides, its taste is a bit different (more toward bland). So if the food is already bad, it could cause trouble to your stomach because you do not properly smell and/or taste it.
So to me, it is NOT a promising lines of research but rather a confirmation of common sense. Death can be related to many many factors! Of course, losing smell could be one of them, but making it as a big player in the death is non sense.
Not really. The flavor of the leave is mild but helps your taste bud and eases the spiciness as well.
As the GP said, real Thai food has strong balance; however, it also depends on where you get the food. Each region has different preferable taste. Normally, Northern part tends to be mild to medium spicy hot, Eastern part is medium to hot, the Central part is mild, and the Southern part is medium to very hot.
I guess it is the reputation that Thai food has to associate with peanuts and/or coconut. This is NOT TRUE especially peanut. Most Thai dish does not contain peanuts. Many does not contain coconut and peanuts. I guess the reputation comes from curry dishes (most of them contain coconut but not all types). For peanuts, I guess it is from Pad Thai (but I never order it with peanuts). By the way, Sriracha is NOT a traditional seasoning in Thai but rather a brand name of hot source that makes its name to the west. They don't usually use it in Thailand.
"krueng therm" (literally "engine fillup")
a better literal translation of "khrueang toem" is "additional ingredient"
I had trouble for a while trying to figure out the word "Krueng therm." As the parent post said, "Krueng" can be "engine" or "ingredient," but using the word alone will not give you a clear meaning like that! In Thai, the word does not have a complete meaning until you put it in a context. However, it gives you a sense of something that usually has more than one thing involved, and the word is a noun. The word "therm" or "toem," if I guess correctly, means to fill or to add. However, no Thai people would ever use these 2 words together. Thai people either use "Krueng Proong Ros" ("Proong Ros" means to season food) in a formal way. As you see, the word "Krueng" is in there to indicate the word as a noun. Or another word that Thai people would use is "Puang Prick." The first word means a bunch of (normally you would see 4 different kinds of seasoning). The second word means chilli (which indicates some if not all of them contains chilli as an ingredient). I know that some Westerners would want to make fun of the word, so go ahead. If you don't know, the "F" word in English is actually a type of vegetable in Thai, so go figure.
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I am of the opinion that the computer/AI would be more logical than humans, and would have concluded that "war" is the least beneficial methodology to employ, and as such would seek to employ it as a last resort.
Then you should know that "war" is not the only way to overpower the other because there are so many methods to do so (especially by psychological ways).
If AI does not achieve "ethic" but only understand "benefit" or "production" (ethic is a lot more difficult to achive), then it could be trouble to humans. Because it is so logical (as you said), it may decide to get rid of humans when it determines that it would be more beneficial without humans. Logic and ethic do not always go to the same direction...
From the TFA
Anyone ordered to appear in court on suspicion of having committed a drink or drug-driving offence will have their names and details published online and made available to the media.
Not sure if that means "convicted" as you said because I don't know UK law?
And he is hiding some of what he stole by entrusting it to his wife and children...
"hacking" is not related to any game playing skill especially in MMO, and is never supposed to be, period...
From TFA:
That’s according to a study published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, which suggests that high-tech equipment and sophisticated treatment techniques may distract from what’s most important during cardiac arrest — transporting a critically ill patient to the hospital quickly.
The TFA mentions about a study on JAMA but there is NO LINK to the real article/study? Or the author does not know how to properly cite the source he is talking about? I have to dig it out by myself and it is at http://archinte.jamanetwork.co... ... I hope people stop writing an article like this when they don't properly give a proper citation...
Unless you are drunk and have a different memory after you sober? :P
In a class action lawsuit (PDF) filed on Friday, Pietz says the copyright enforcement company made illegal, harassing robo-calls to his clients, who were accused of illegal downloading. The lawsuit says that Rightscorp broke the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), a 1991 law which limits how automated calling devices can be used.
I think the key phrase is "were accused of illegal downloading." If the robo-call can prove that they are right on whatever they accuse, the case will be thrown away due to the Clean hand doctrine... The lawyer (Pietz) is relying on and hoping that the point can't be proven...
Find a partner and make a baby fast! Your child will be automatically a US citizen. That will child will be your ticket to legal residency in a few years, if you want it later.
That was the key to one part of the plan that was announced: If you have a child who is a US citizen, you won't be deported.
Hmm... People just want to read only what they want to read, and then ignore the rest but rather misinform others with only what they read.
From TFA
If you’ve been in America for more than five years; if you have children who are American citizens or legal residents; if you register, pass a criminal background check, and you’re willing to pay your fair share of taxes -- you’ll be able to apply to stay in this country temporarily without fear of deportation. You can come out of the shadows and get right with the law. That’s what this deal is.
You mean, market manipulation? Something several big banks just got fined millions of dollars for in the forex markets? That should be an interesting one to watch...
Sadly, there is no real regulation in bitcoin yet, so who is going to be fine in the bitcoin case??? And who would do anything about it as of now???
You can probably run a limited port of Tux Racer on your cracked Palm III
I never knew that they equate "cracked" as "not proprietary" nowadays???
I got an AS from a community college, and the only downside I see is that about half of my required credits were in liberal arts.
It would be the same for the first 2 year in a university. Those freshman and sophomore courses are just refreshing courses. Junior and senior years are focusing on core courses.
I got an AS from a coomunity college as well, and then transfered to a 4-year university. The 2 years in the university, 90% of courses I took were computer/maths related (my major is CS) and I did only 2 courses that were not really related in my major -- Technical writing (ENG301) and Astronomy (a science class with lab, required). The huge advantage to go through this path, to me, is the large cost reduction I must spend in order to get a 4-year degree.
So you are not a CS major then? Because CS major usually uses any language that could help you understand the class concept. The major does not focus on any language. When I was in school, they were teaching C++. Now they changed it to Python. However, that's the faculty decision and it is NOT from the current market but because they said the language seems to be more verbose to beginners. Not sure it is in my opinion...
That seems like a solvable problem, in a variety of ways. The easiest would be to add a window border on the inside of the glass that covers up the area that doesn't get cleaned, but actually solving the problem also seems doable.
Hmm... I would say it is a work around, not a solution to the problem. Why? Because the dirt is still there. your suggestion would simply hide the dirtiness from seeing rather is a way to clean it (solution)...
I'd like to know what type of assignment this was. If it's small and specific, there might be only a few basic working solutions. That is, the similarity stems from being correct.
Here is the link to the course assignment page -- http://www.cs.duke.edu/courses... -- which should give you an idea how big/small each assignment is...
The teacher then gave us an anonymous ballot. He wanted to know how many of us cheated on a test or homework assignment in the last year (this was pre-WWW so cheating at home was basically collaborating on homework with others in the same class).
It seems to me that the question from your teacher is too vague. It is similar to asking an adult "Have you ever lie in your life?" The question combines everything situation together (even though some situations are mutual exclusive). As a result, the answer is "yes" for all...
I think even most casual users will wake up and cancel the request
This actually makes me laugh :P Sadly, a casual user is not as logical as you think.
my firsthand experience has been that software developers "lacking" a CS degree have displayed a marked tendency to produce more functional, reasonably secure, and efficient/scalable code than their CS counterparts.
And that is what I don't understand. Why do people keep relating CS with programming directly? Programming skill is NOT a required skill in the field for CS as long as CS students can get/develop the alogithm to work with any assigned language they work with. In other words, CS students learn to use a language to demonstrate how they understand the concept and are able to implement. They do NOT learn different languages to be an expert in those languages. I know many of my CS friends who understand algorithms but can't really code! That doesn't mean they can't finish the degree, but it means they may not be a good programmer/developer if they are going to work in software development.
PS: It also depends on school they have been to because some schools are more lenient than others in order to get the degree...
But they still pay a smaller amount than people with a larger income.
Hmm... You are missing something... You are using "quantity" against "subjective feeling" in this case. Let's say you are making $10,000 a year and you are taxed at 10%, so it would be $1,000. Then another person is making $1,000,000 a year and he is taxed at 10% also which would be $100,000. Now, let's talk about what you said. Yes, the $100,000 is much more than $1,000; however, what do you feel if you are losing $1,000 from your overall $10,000? Do you think you should spend money on a new iPhone with the left over amount when you may not have enough money left to pay rent/car? How about the other guy who still has $900,000? Would he still be able to spend money on "the same" item you may not be able to afford? If you are going to argue about different life styles, that is a totally different topic.
The "quantity" and "subjective feeling" should be considered together in the taxes talk. They are collerated but could be looked at from different points of view. The poor look at the "smaller" amount as a big chunk of money to live on. On the other hand, the rich look at the "bigger" amount as a loss in their investment. They both are NOT the same because the former is for neccessity/living and the latter is for making more money (getting richer). Therefore, arguing on how much taxes should be paid by using only quantity alone would be ignorance. It is extremely difficult to find a happy medium between these two. That's why the progressive rate tend to be favorlable and used (in democratic countries).
6000 years ago, right?
Prove that it isn't only 6,000 years old. You can't, the best that can be said is that it is consistent with what we would expect from something 40k old.
I thought the GP (AC) is making a joke, but the parent post (another AC) takes it a serious way...
It would be like a child murdering another child. There would be sanctions, probably confinement, treatment, possible partial culpability for the owners/parents etc.
What are you going to do with a wild chimp (no "human" owner/guardiance)? And what are you going to do with the chimp's parents because they are partially response to the murder of another chimp???
demand that computer science courses are replaced with programming ones.
Sorry, but your stereotype is OFF.
Computer Science is not teaching you to do "programming"! If you want to replace the core course with "programming," you are picking the wrong major. You should rather change your major and go on Information Technology/System instead because they do learn more in programming (look at their course catalogue).
Rote memorization through 10 (or 12 in the US with 12 inches in a foot).
If "rote memorization" is what I think (multiplication tables), then kids in Asia are required to memorize up to 12 as well, but may also memorize up to 25 as an optional which is very common.
How long does it take a user to find the correct button to dismiss a dialog? How many users use keyboard navigation rather than the mouse to navigate dialogs? How many times do the people who do use keyboard navigation hit tab without typing doing anything that would modify the field? All of these things require a keylogger (or a camera pointed at the screen) to find out and give valuable data when designing a UI. You'd hope that there's something client side that filters out anything that might be a password and aggregates some of the data, but it's all information about the end user that you need to collect to do a good job at UI design.
I agree that they need to collect data in order to improve thie OS. But what MS did is to take the easy way out! There are many traditional indirect ways to get to the same goal, but they need to collect lots of data and have experts analyze the data, let alone the cost to get this work done. Using keylogger is a direct, easy, cheap, and intrusive way to do the work! If those who don't care, it would be fine for them; however, many laymen do not understand what security and privacy are. If MS want to use keylogger, they should display a SUCCINT and HUGE text at the installation to let those who are installing know what they are doing (i.e. "This test verion of windows comes with KEYLOGGER to automatically provide us the feedback. If you do not want it, do NOT install the OS!") instead of play with words (and pretend) to make people feel that their texts entered are not being logged.
A big issue is the small study size with limited data.
So, it more points to promising lines of research than proving anything.
I agree that the sample size is too small and the result could be the one hit wonder. If they keep researching and allow publishing of any result (both support and against), I am quite certain that the outcome is much lower.
However, it is a common sense that humans would face more danger if their olfactory becomes malfunction (if you think about it). Why? What are the purposes of smell? One is to help you identify what is good and what is bad. Even though it is more subjective, it is a very common tool for screening any possible toxic to your health. Without smelling, you may accidentally walk into an area or room full with poison or danger (i.e. gas).
Also, smell could enhance your appertize. If you do not or cannot smell, you may not be hungry when you should. As a result, you may not consume enough nutrient each day and could weaken your body.
Last but not least, smell helps you identify what you should put in your mouth. Smell relates to your taste. If you do not smell, you may not know how bad the food you are eating. Try to do it by closing your nose and eat something smelly. You would see that whatever you eat is no longer that smelly; besides, its taste is a bit different (more toward bland). So if the food is already bad, it could cause trouble to your stomach because you do not properly smell and/or taste it.
So to me, it is NOT a promising lines of research but rather a confirmation of common sense. Death can be related to many many factors! Of course, losing smell could be one of them, but making it as a big player in the death is non sense.
leaf to hold it all together
Not really. The flavor of the leave is mild but helps your taste bud and eases the spiciness as well.
As the GP said, real Thai food has strong balance; however, it also depends on where you get the food. Each region has different preferable taste. Normally, Northern part tends to be mild to medium spicy hot, Eastern part is medium to hot, the Central part is mild, and the Southern part is medium to very hot.
I guess it is the reputation that Thai food has to associate with peanuts and/or coconut. This is NOT TRUE especially peanut. Most Thai dish does not contain peanuts. Many does not contain coconut and peanuts. I guess the reputation comes from curry dishes (most of them contain coconut but not all types). For peanuts, I guess it is from Pad Thai (but I never order it with peanuts). By the way, Sriracha is NOT a traditional seasoning in Thai but rather a brand name of hot source that makes its name to the west. They don't usually use it in Thailand.
"krueng therm" (literally "engine fillup")
a better literal translation of "khrueang toem" is "additional ingredient"
I had trouble for a while trying to figure out the word "Krueng therm." As the parent post said, "Krueng" can be "engine" or "ingredient," but using the word alone will not give you a clear meaning like that! In Thai, the word does not have a complete meaning until you put it in a context. However, it gives you a sense of something that usually has more than one thing involved, and the word is a noun. The word "therm" or "toem," if I guess correctly, means to fill or to add. However, no Thai people would ever use these 2 words together. Thai people either use "Krueng Proong Ros" ("Proong Ros" means to season food) in a formal way. As you see, the word "Krueng" is in there to indicate the word as a noun. Or another word that Thai people would use is "Puang Prick." The first word means a bunch of (normally you would see 4 different kinds of seasoning). The second word means chilli (which indicates some if not all of them contains chilli as an ingredient). I know that some Westerners would want to make fun of the word, so go ahead. If you don't know, the "F" word in English is actually a type of vegetable in Thai, so go figure.