When the headline/summary/article says "secret" does that mean "knowledge (previously) restricted to authorised people" or the journalistic meaning of "most people just didn't know about it until now"?
How on earth can it be an insult? Or, to put it another way, how could it be more insulting than $0, which is the amount people have to pay to get access to the work?
rather than the state where most of the potentially catastrophic pathogens, precancerous cells, and who knows what else are being held in enough of a stalemate that something else will probably kill you first.
Doctor __ : Mr. Burns, I'm afraid you are the sickest man in the United States. You have everything. Mr. Burns : You mean I have pneumonia? Doctor __ : Yes. Mr. Burns : Juvenile diabetes? Doctor __ : Yes. Mr. Burns : Hysterical pregnancy? Doctor __ : Uh, a little bit, yes. You also have thousands of diseases that have just been discovered, in you. Mr. Burns : You're sure you haven't just made thousands of mistakes? Doctor __ : Uh, no, no, I'm afraid not. Mr. Burns : This sounds like bad news. Doctor __ : Well, you'd think so, but all of your diseases are in perfect balance. ... Mr. Burns : So what you're saying is, I'm indestructible. Doctor __ : Oh, no, no, in fact, even slight breeze could... Mr Burns : Indestructible...
Seems like golf would be a much more appropriate application of this. Golfers are always analyzing and trying to improve their swing.
Just like tennis players do. Why would golf be "more appropriate"? Golf swings can be easily studied already because they are isolated events. It's much more difficult in tennis which is a fast-paced, reactive sport.
one of the two men known to have been targeted is presently serving an 8-month prison term.
I'm having some trouble ascertaining exactly what this guy went to prison for. Several news stories repeat the above while failing to specify that the charges were , as best as I can tell, "obstruction and wire fraud." Was the obstruction charge specifically to do with the polygraph training? Other news sites say things like "Lie Detector Fraud" which suggests it's the fraud that got him jailed, rather than the lie detector part.
So, was the obstruction charge actually because he obstructed justice by teaching others to beat the system (not that polygraphs are admissable in court) or was it something else entirely?
No, it's not. There are electrical impulses, but as all atoms have electrons, all chemical reactions have some electrical properties.
My point - deliberately simplistically made - is that a brain is just a physical object acting subject to the laws of physics, and there's nothing magical or mysterious or fundamentally different about it from any other kind of organised system.
Your computer is nothing more than an extremely huge abacus, using electrons as beads. Now tell me, how many beads do you need to add to your abacus before it becomes self-aware?
And your brain is nothing more than a big lump of gooey jelly - and yet look at what it can achieve. Why assume a sufficiently complex intelligently constructed machine couldn't do all of those things too?
Computers work nothing like brains, and brains work nothing like computers.
Even if true - so? What does that have to do with whether or not computers can attain true intelligence or consciousness?
Congressmen Say Clapper Lied To Congress, Ask Obama To Remove Him
What is it about headlines that makes people unwilling to use the word "and"? I can understand it in ye olde days of printe when you might need to claw baxk whatever space you could (did it then just become a convention?), but it's not like you'll break teh internets with a few extra characters.
These traits are a result of hormones acting on the brain
Only in our case. A "hormone acting on the brain" is just a chemical process. An active brain is just a bundle of electrical impulses. It all adds up, somehow, to something we call consciousness, along with the attendant emotions. Why can't a solely electronic system do the same?
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This is exactly what Ray Kurzweil wants to do with his father.
Does Ray Kurzweil's father have anything to say about this?
Also plenty of people have "secret meetings" all the time, in the sense that they don't announce them to the public.
When the headline/summary/article says "secret" does that mean "knowledge (previously) restricted to authorised people" or the journalistic meaning of "most people just didn't know about it until now"?
$136 is an insult.
How on earth can it be an insult? Or, to put it another way, how could it be more insulting than $0, which is the amount people have to pay to get access to the work?
Hold the phone
I can't. I has no thumbs.
rather than the state where most of the potentially catastrophic pathogens, precancerous cells, and who knows what else are being held in enough of a stalemate that something else will probably kill you first.
Doctor __ : Mr. Burns, I'm afraid you are the sickest man in the United States. You have everything.
...
Mr. Burns : You mean I have pneumonia?
Doctor __ : Yes.
Mr. Burns : Juvenile diabetes?
Doctor __ : Yes.
Mr. Burns : Hysterical pregnancy?
Doctor __ : Uh, a little bit, yes. You also have thousands of diseases that have just been discovered, in you.
Mr. Burns : You're sure you haven't just made thousands of mistakes?
Doctor __ : Uh, no, no, I'm afraid not.
Mr. Burns : This sounds like bad news.
Doctor __ : Well, you'd think so, but all of your diseases are in perfect balance.
Mr. Burns : So what you're saying is, I'm indestructible.
Doctor __ : Oh, no, no, in fact, even slight breeze could...
Mr Burns : Indestructible...
http://xkcd.com/605/
Number two.
That is all.
I am so like totally with you on that one.
I come at this from the other end.
The butt?
Critically, the rates have jumped in recent years.
The rates aren't the only thing that've ah screw it.
The internet has information on it. We'll bring you the latest as this story unfolds.
No-one wants to clean up the rat puke.
It's my computer versus your computer.
But you don't have a computer and therefore I WIN. Yes!
Seems like golf would be a much more appropriate application of this. Golfers are always analyzing and trying to improve their swing.
Just like tennis players do. Why would golf be "more appropriate"? Golf swings can be easily studied already because they are isolated events. It's much more difficult in tennis which is a fast-paced, reactive sport.
Why should a person who's minding their own business
Because they don't want someone else minding it.
actually care if they happen to incidentally be in a video that somebody recorded near them?
Why shouldn't they?
Go back to Russia, com-! Oh, you did that one already.
That's why I'm not going to the game. Call it self-preservation.
Or paranoia.
Too many nutcases in the world and just too risky.
...said the TSA as they asked for a doubling of their funding.
one of the two men known to have been targeted is presently serving an 8-month prison term.
I'm having some trouble ascertaining exactly what this guy went to prison for. Several news stories repeat the above while failing to specify that the charges were , as best as I can tell, "obstruction and wire fraud." Was the obstruction charge specifically to do with the polygraph training? Other news sites say things like "Lie Detector Fraud" which suggests it's the fraud that got him jailed, rather than the lie detector part.
So, was the obstruction charge actually because he obstructed justice by teaching others to beat the system (not that polygraphs are admissable in court) or was it something else entirely?
Five super-hot platonic friends who are doing better in math went to bed with their boyfriends.
No, it's not. There are electrical impulses, but as all atoms have electrons, all chemical reactions have some electrical properties.
My point - deliberately simplistically made - is that a brain is just a physical object acting subject to the laws of physics, and there's nothing magical or mysterious or fundamentally different about it from any other kind of organised system.
Your computer is nothing more than an extremely huge abacus, using electrons as beads. Now tell me, how many beads do you need to add to your abacus before it becomes self-aware?
And your brain is nothing more than a big lump of gooey jelly - and yet look at what it can achieve. Why assume a sufficiently complex intelligently constructed machine couldn't do all of those things too?
Computers work nothing like brains, and brains work nothing like computers.
Even if true - so? What does that have to do with whether or not computers can attain true intelligence or consciousness?
Congressmen Say Clapper Lied To Congress, Ask Obama To Remove Him
What is it about headlines that makes people unwilling to use the word "and"? I can understand it in ye olde days of printe when you might need to claw baxk whatever space you could (did it then just become a convention?), but it's not like you'll break teh internets with a few extra characters.
These traits are a result of hormones acting on the brain
Only in our case. A "hormone acting on the brain" is just a chemical process. An active brain is just a bundle of electrical impulses. It all adds up, somehow, to something we call consciousness, along with the attendant emotions. Why can't a solely electronic system do the same?
Why not? Tennis has always been about sending stuff over the net.
Thankyouverymuch!
No, it was Q.