While I am excited about advancements in AI it makes one wonder what is the use of such scores beyond some marketing?
IQ is debunked. It's not a true measure of intelligence. If anything it can measure of much a person is willing to invest (time/effort) in scoring well on said test.
Compared to other children the scores vary wildly unlike any normal child.
While it's still an achievement to have a sophisticated program worthy of an "AI" label we are, unfortunately nowhere near true AI.
Calm down before you all jump on the "Enable" wagon. It's actually a decently details filing with less ambiguous wording than assumed.
Abstract: "Embodiments herein relate to a method for forming a bulk solidifying amorphous alloy sheets have different surface finish including a “fire” polish surface like that of a float glass. In one embodiment, a first molten metal alloy is poured on a second molten metal of higher density in a float chamber to form a sheet of the first molten that floats on the second molten metal and cooled to form a bulk solidifying amorphous alloy sheet. In another embodiment, a molten metal is poured on a conveyor conveying the sheet of the first molten metal on a conveyor and cooled to form a bulk solidifying amorphous alloy sheet. The cooling rate such that a time-temperature profile during the cooling does not traverse through a region bounding a crystalline region of the metal alloy in a time-temperature-transformation (TTT) diagram. "
This is it -> http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8485245.html PDF -> http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8485245.pdf
I'm pretty sure I read this stuff before many times...artists are not getting paid, studios overcharge, streaming services don't spread the cash etc etc.
Historically "artists" have never been richer. I'm not sure why so many people think they can give some sort of Earth shattering performance, record it and live like millionaires for the rest of their days. Why is it that when they get paid about or below average it's some grave injustice?
Look at the amount of poor poets out there, no one even pirates their stuff on a scale worth mentioning. Not too many poor IT experts though. No one told you what to do for a living.
what I'm saying here is that it's a free market with all sorts of self-interested parties that do not give a damn. This is not new, this is very old. Don't hate the players, hate the game...but if you choose to play it, shut the fuck up about it.
You cannot subscribe to HBO in many places because "that content is not available in your region" or the server does not yet officially exist in your country.
In the age of the internet this is just not good enough.
This guy basically came up with "damage mitigation" and a way to highlight a "critical path"? -essentially if something is broken to disable everything that relies on the something and carry on in limited capacity.
The model might be perfectly workable but the ambiguous "undesirable state A" etc is going to be nearly impossible to implement.
Considering how old WinXP is and considering how well researched its many holes are, you would be better off with almost any other modern alternative.
Securing/protecting WinXP will give you nothing but grief, pain, frustration and a bill.
You will do more for retired folk if you get them on a modern OS than if you try to run some free AV solution on a half baked OS.
If these are many elderly/retired people they can pool together you might want to contact you local software provider for a bulk license. Or better yet, just install Ubuntu.
If it has to be Windows - Win 7 works well on older hardware. Change is also healthy for the mind and will help them when they have to use other hardware that is becoming increasingly computerized.
To make a long story short, I believe that a good implementation of a restrictive system that will disable a gun in the hands of a person that is not an owner of one could have prevented SOME of the crimes committed.
If it saves the lives of a single person, it's worth it.
I've read plenty of comments here and it seems people are very concerned with a "single point of failure" and "what if...I needed to use someone else's gun" (you know, to defend against the "attackers")
So let's not blow this out of proportions. There are plenty of viable uses for owner identification systems. IMO the US needs more gun control so this idea appeals to me.
Here's my vision of it:
1. Let's say there is a mechanism, that is roughly as reliable as the mechanical trigger mechanism in place to lock the gun should the person handling it not be an owner. I know, this is not yet the case but it could very well be in X time. (Because this "single point of failure" argument that seems to concern so many...for that crucial moment that so many of us actually encounter.)
2. Police and military will have "master access" or a shared key that will allow their soldiers to share weapons with each other. (You know, for those would be real life combat situations so many of you warriors describe.)
3. This will help prevent gun theft, illegal gun sales and make sure children don't accidentally blow a hole in something because they found Daddy's gun and he did not keep it behind two locked doors. (Because he needs quick access to his gun, for when the enemies attack)
That's how I see these smart guns working. I'm certain we'll have some sort of implementation of the sort, eventually.
And on gun control in America...it's high time owners will have to pay for psychological evaluation, mandatory handling training and be limited to one firearm per person. A handgun should be the maximum any person should be able to buy.
Not sure how America is better with so many gun owners...I certainly think it needs less guns, less gun owners and less guns per owner. -I know call me a commie conspirator.
The scary bit is that something of that sort might already have happened somewhere behind closed doors...in 50 - 75 years when documents are declassified you might hear about it. -Unless we have an Edward Snowden moment.
Very little is black and white. Morality is not simple.
Morality in the bible is black and white in a rather extreme way. The fact this differs from reality is something that escapes many people it seems.
Um. No. Priests are not 'better'. They have merely dedicated their lives to religious teaching and study instead of farming or designing CPUs. They are not 'free from sin'.
If a priest is to take part in confession, oversee ceremony, help us as moral guides then they should definitely be more humane than most humans. they should at least manage to be above average. They should aspire to be free of sin as they profess. Farmers and hardware designers make no such bold claims, vows or even inclinations.
All followers of Christianity are presumably equally bound by the commandments, not just priests.
Yet it is the members of the clergy that are their to explain, guide etc. Arguably more educated they should, in theory know better than to behave as those they would educate.
That is a Catholic tradition and is in place as an essentially symbolic sacrifice to show their dedication to the calling; it doesn't make them more 'holy'. If they violate their vow of celibacy... then yes there should be consequences. But the point is that, yes, we should expect that some of them will fail to live up to their vow. They are just people.
Nice to apply a little modern leeway and explanation to what was not argued in the past by religious people. In any case, your explanation sounds reasonable but do priests take vows optionally? "til failure do us part"? life as I understand it is not so rigid but the church historically has not been flexible in such matters.
They will make mistakes. And some of them will be criminals.
Some of them are criminals and the percentages of abuse amongst priests is disturbingly high compared to other professions. Not only that but the extent of the cover-ups of their wrong doings is especially damning.
Would you argue that they are less human? Or more? I'd think they are exactly as human as the rest of us.
Divinely inspired and guided humans...human+1 or at least so is the convenient association. How many look up to their local priest, how many associate more positively just because the person is a priest. they start of "human as the rest of us" and then they become men of god, more than 'regular human' in the eyes of the church. The fact they are the same decaying organic matter escapes the faithful.
Define "special treatment". If you mean should their criminals be exposed and punished, then yes, absolutely, but I can understand why they would simultaneously seek to mitigate the harm to the church. If prominent executives at a major corporation were to be criminals, the corporation would surely wish to deal with it as discreetly as possible as well.
Special Treatment as in their crimes are hushed, they are given legal leeway beyond what Joe Average gets. Special Treatment as in the association of trust and honesty, a privileged position in society etc. Corporations are not people, do not claim to follow god, follow commandments and so on.
It is twice the pride and double the fall for a man of god to expose the frail human and ordinary nature of every single "man of the cloth".
Forget the church a moment, and just consider public life in politics. Where your opponents take every thing you say, take it out of context, and twist it around, and then spend more money than you'll make in a lifetime telling everyone else that twisted out of context lie. Eventually, you too will start being gaurded about what you say in public, and will seek to keep large parts of your life private, not because there is anything wrong with what you say or do but simply because your opponents will have that much more to use against you.
That is a problem for society to solve. The Church, being an institution sanctioned by god, above
While I agree with many of the points you raise I'm not with you on the university analogy or transparency.
If one is to follow religion in it's rather black and white conception of how people should act then priests in general should practically be model citizens, free of sin and so on. Sure the media slanders and accuses but if you are that perfect image of integrity, honesty, caring and compassion would you not shine under scrutiny? -or is it that priests are just as humane as any average Joe and thus are not deserving of any special treatment, even by the church. Let alone the lavish protection and secrecy of the wrong doing of some priests, cardinals etc.
If I claim to live in a certain way, to serve the public, church etc I would welcome transparency. It's not me that vowed not to lie, be celibate and so on. Most people cannot live by those rules...but let those to claim so prove it. It is in the public's interest to have that insight. Even more so due to those few that have ruined the image of the Vatican or other institutions...
I don't believe the word of god needs to be "explained" - one might be lead to believe god wrote it wrong. Or the person that wrote it was not divinely inspired as to write it correctly.
There might be something terribly wrong with the perfection of god, which is supposedly beyond comprehension of man and thus contesting, if we need more people to explain or teach what is divinely written.
I believe the only reason people need to explain the word of god is because any literal interpretation would be impossible to live by in today's society...so my point was more than just the Vatican. The pope, Vatican, religion are relics of the past that try to stay relevant by applying a little spin to what is written in some holy book. It's sad that so many still empower such notions.
Like all rich and powerful institutions with a long history the Vatican has a list of dirty laundry it would rather not expose.
They may be trying to correct things going forward with a strong stance on some pain points but it is obvious that the Vatican as an organization does not feel comfortable to risk transparency.
I'm with the NSA on this one, what do they have to hide? surely men of the cloth would be much more noble, moral and ethical than the norm.
I believe this move will only further damage the Vatican's reputation. I also believe that the decision makers know this better than I do and they are actually choosing the lesser of two evils. The greater evil being if the public ever finds out what really happens behind closed doors.
While millions still flock to the guidance of a pope and Vatican I for one do not see this institution as any better than a powerful political entity.
If you really do believe in god, as described in Christianity why do you need the Vatican? *shrugs*
So I don't know about this latest and greatest storage tech but I have a few ideas of my own...Rock. Rock can last a long time. Of course chiseling information into rock is not really a viable option for gigabyte scale information storage, let alone the petabytes required...
I propose storing the data in whatever medium is most likely to be preserved & the instructions on how to read the media be chiseled into rock. Those same instructions could be used to decompress a small subset of information to give further instructions on how to create a device that can read the rest of the data.
I suggest rock because it's cheap and durable...of course there are other, more durable materials out there...
Oh yeah, Steven Vogel wrote in the book that muscles do not actually contract, they expand. The muscle does not condense/contract. Space between filaments increased via expansion. It's one of the main reasons that running downhill will cause you far more muscle pain than running uphill...but don;t take my word for it, read his book he explains it all so much better.
I assume the quoted bit uses "contract" as a way to skip delving into muscle mechanics...
Slashdot Mirror
...how soldiers can kill people without remorse and then still be good dads
Is being a "psychopath" really just an old term that means "sociopath" and is apparently 1 in 200 men? -often ruthless and in leadership positions?
Trailing thought, are internet trolls like this?
After I translated his original post to SMS text it made perfect sense.
This can explain the event; a multiple oddity. You know, when singular oddities gang up on you.
Or maybe the drilling had something to do with it...with that rock formation and all that.
Or even inform you about what permissions they need or what they are actually going to access...
Mod parent up.
We need more brave politicians to finally speak their minds about this instead of fearing the surveillance machine.
While I am excited about advancements in AI it makes one wonder what is the use of such scores beyond some marketing?
IQ is debunked. It's not a true measure of intelligence. If anything it can measure of much a person is willing to invest (time/effort) in scoring well on said test.
Compared to other children the scores vary wildly unlike any normal child.
While it's still an achievement to have a sophisticated program worthy of an "AI" label we are, unfortunately nowhere near true AI.
Let's not forget that antisocial trait where we frown on other lesser knowledgeable mortals as we stroke our massive long white beards.
Remember, they just licensed it. they did not create it so it's not automatically deserved of iHate. (lol)
Calm down before you all jump on the "Enable" wagon. It's actually a decently details filing with less ambiguous wording than assumed.
Abstract: "Embodiments herein relate to a method for forming a bulk solidifying amorphous alloy sheets have different surface finish including a “fire” polish surface like that of a float glass. In one embodiment, a first molten metal alloy is poured on a second molten metal of higher density in a float chamber to form a sheet of the first molten that floats on the second molten metal and cooled to form a bulk solidifying amorphous alloy sheet. In another embodiment, a molten metal is poured on a conveyor conveying the sheet of the first molten metal on a conveyor and cooled to form a bulk solidifying amorphous alloy sheet. The cooling rate such that a time-temperature profile during the cooling does not traverse through a region bounding a crystalline region of the metal alloy in a time-temperature-transformation (TTT) diagram. "
This is it -> http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8485245.html
PDF -> http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8485245.pdf
I'm pretty sure I read this stuff before many times...artists are not getting paid, studios overcharge, streaming services don't spread the cash etc etc.
Historically "artists" have never been richer. I'm not sure why so many people think they can give some sort of Earth shattering performance, record it and live like millionaires for the rest of their days. Why is it that when they get paid about or below average it's some grave injustice?
Look at the amount of poor poets out there, no one even pirates their stuff on a scale worth mentioning. Not too many poor IT experts though. No one told you what to do for a living.
what I'm saying here is that it's a free market with all sorts of self-interested parties that do not give a damn. This is not new, this is very old. Don't hate the players, hate the game...but if you choose to play it, shut the fuck up about it.
He's small time, he cheated, he got caught and made an example of. If only we could have this sort of efficiency and insight into real politicians.
You cannot subscribe to HBO in many places because "that content is not available in your region" or the server does not yet officially exist in your country.
In the age of the internet this is just not good enough.
This guy basically came up with "damage mitigation" and a way to highlight a "critical path"? -essentially if something is broken to disable everything that relies on the something and carry on in limited capacity.
The model might be perfectly workable but the ambiguous "undesirable state A" etc is going to be nearly impossible to implement.
Vehicles are not designed to kill...
Erm, no. Under my proposal you would have neither shotgun nor rifle. :-)
Considering how old WinXP is and considering how well researched its many holes are, you would be better off with almost any other modern alternative.
Securing/protecting WinXP will give you nothing but grief, pain, frustration and a bill.
You will do more for retired folk if you get them on a modern OS than if you try to run some free AV solution on a half baked OS.
If these are many elderly/retired people they can pool together you might want to contact you local software provider for a bulk license. Or better yet, just install Ubuntu.
If it has to be Windows - Win 7 works well on older hardware. Change is also healthy for the mind and will help them when they have to use other hardware that is becoming increasingly computerized.
To make a long story short, I believe that a good implementation of a restrictive system that will disable a gun in the hands of a person that is not an owner of one could have prevented SOME of the crimes committed.
If it saves the lives of a single person, it's worth it.
I've read plenty of comments here and it seems people are very concerned with a "single point of failure" and "what if...I needed to use someone else's gun" (you know, to defend against the "attackers")
So let's not blow this out of proportions. There are plenty of viable uses for owner identification systems. IMO the US needs more gun control so this idea appeals to me.
Here's my vision of it:
1. Let's say there is a mechanism, that is roughly as reliable as the mechanical trigger mechanism in place to lock the gun should the person handling it not be an owner. I know, this is not yet the case but it could very well be in X time. (Because this "single point of failure" argument that seems to concern so many...for that crucial moment that so many of us actually encounter.)
2. Police and military will have "master access" or a shared key that will allow their soldiers to share weapons with each other. (You know, for those would be real life combat situations so many of you warriors describe.)
3. This will help prevent gun theft, illegal gun sales and make sure children don't accidentally blow a hole in something because they found Daddy's gun and he did not keep it behind two locked doors. (Because he needs quick access to his gun, for when the enemies attack)
That's how I see these smart guns working. I'm certain we'll have some sort of implementation of the sort, eventually.
And on gun control in America...it's high time owners will have to pay for psychological evaluation, mandatory handling training and be limited to one firearm per person. A handgun should be the maximum any person should be able to buy.
Not sure how America is better with so many gun owners...I certainly think it needs less guns, less gun owners and less guns per owner. -I know call me a commie conspirator.
The scary bit is that something of that sort might already have happened somewhere behind closed doors...in 50 - 75 years when documents are declassified you might hear about it. -Unless we have an Edward Snowden moment.
Very little is black and white. Morality is not simple.
Morality in the bible is black and white in a rather extreme way. The fact this differs from reality is something that escapes many people it seems.
Um. No. Priests are not 'better'. They have merely dedicated their lives to religious teaching and study instead of farming or designing CPUs. They are not 'free from sin'.
If a priest is to take part in confession, oversee ceremony, help us as moral guides then they should definitely be more humane than most humans. they should at least manage to be above average. They should aspire to be free of sin as they profess. Farmers and hardware designers make no such bold claims, vows or even inclinations.
All followers of Christianity are presumably equally bound by the commandments, not just priests.
Yet it is the members of the clergy that are their to explain, guide etc. Arguably more educated they should, in theory know better than to behave as those they would educate.
That is a Catholic tradition and is in place as an essentially symbolic sacrifice to show their dedication to the calling; it doesn't make them more 'holy'. If they violate their vow of celibacy... then yes there should be consequences. But the point is that, yes, we should expect that some of them will fail to live up to their vow. They are just people.
Nice to apply a little modern leeway and explanation to what was not argued in the past by religious people. In any case, your explanation sounds reasonable but do priests take vows optionally? "til failure do us part"? life as I understand it is not so rigid but the church historically has not been flexible in such matters.
They will make mistakes. And some of them will be criminals.
Some of them are criminals and the percentages of abuse amongst priests is disturbingly high compared to other professions. Not only that but the extent of the cover-ups of their wrong doings is especially damning.
Would you argue that they are less human? Or more? I'd think they are exactly as human as the rest of us.
Divinely inspired and guided humans...human+1 or at least so is the convenient association. How many look up to their local priest, how many associate more positively just because the person is a priest. they start of "human as the rest of us" and then they become men of god, more than 'regular human' in the eyes of the church. The fact they are the same decaying organic matter escapes the faithful.
Define "special treatment". If you mean should their criminals be exposed and punished, then yes, absolutely, but I can understand why they would simultaneously seek to mitigate the harm to the church. If prominent executives at a major corporation were to be criminals, the corporation would surely wish to deal with it as discreetly as possible as well.
Special Treatment as in their crimes are hushed, they are given legal leeway beyond what Joe Average gets. Special Treatment as in the association of trust and honesty, a privileged position in society etc. Corporations are not people, do not claim to follow god, follow commandments and so on.
It is twice the pride and double the fall for a man of god to expose the frail human and ordinary nature of every single "man of the cloth".
Forget the church a moment, and just consider public life in politics. Where your opponents take every thing you say, take it out of context, and twist it around, and then spend more money than you'll make in a lifetime telling everyone else that twisted out of context lie. Eventually, you too will start being gaurded about what you say in public, and will seek to keep large parts of your life private, not because there is anything wrong with what you say or do but simply because your opponents will have that much more to use against you.
That is a problem for society to solve. The Church, being an institution sanctioned by god, above
While I agree with many of the points you raise I'm not with you on the university analogy or transparency.
If one is to follow religion in it's rather black and white conception of how people should act then priests in general should practically be model citizens, free of sin and so on. Sure the media slanders and accuses but if you are that perfect image of integrity, honesty, caring and compassion would you not shine under scrutiny? -or is it that priests are just as humane as any average Joe and thus are not deserving of any special treatment, even by the church. Let alone the lavish protection and secrecy of the wrong doing of some priests, cardinals etc.
If I claim to live in a certain way, to serve the public, church etc I would welcome transparency. It's not me that vowed not to lie, be celibate and so on. Most people cannot live by those rules...but let those to claim so prove it. It is in the public's interest to have that insight. Even more so due to those few that have ruined the image of the Vatican or other institutions...
I don't believe the word of god needs to be "explained" - one might be lead to believe god wrote it wrong. Or the person that wrote it was not divinely inspired as to write it correctly.
There might be something terribly wrong with the perfection of god, which is supposedly beyond comprehension of man and thus contesting, if we need more people to explain or teach what is divinely written.
I believe the only reason people need to explain the word of god is because any literal interpretation would be impossible to live by in today's society...so my point was more than just the Vatican. The pope, Vatican, religion are relics of the past that try to stay relevant by applying a little spin to what is written in some holy book. It's sad that so many still empower such notions.
Sing to me your lovely song Embrace my tender humility oh crow To you, to you I call The voice of the unheard
Like all rich and powerful institutions with a long history the Vatican has a list of dirty laundry it would rather not expose.
They may be trying to correct things going forward with a strong stance on some pain points but it is obvious that the Vatican as an organization does not feel comfortable to risk transparency.
I'm with the NSA on this one, what do they have to hide? surely men of the cloth would be much more noble, moral and ethical than the norm.
I believe this move will only further damage the Vatican's reputation. I also believe that the decision makers know this better than I do and they are actually choosing the lesser of two evils. The greater evil being if the public ever finds out what really happens behind closed doors.
While millions still flock to the guidance of a pope and Vatican I for one do not see this institution as any better than a powerful political entity.
If you really do believe in god, as described in Christianity why do you need the Vatican? *shrugs*
So I don't know about this latest and greatest storage tech but I have a few ideas of my own...Rock. Rock can last a long time. Of course chiseling information into rock is not really a viable option for gigabyte scale information storage, let alone the petabytes required...
I propose storing the data in whatever medium is most likely to be preserved & the instructions on how to read the media be chiseled into rock. Those same instructions could be used to decompress a small subset of information to give further instructions on how to create a device that can read the rest of the data.
I suggest rock because it's cheap and durable...of course there are other, more durable materials out there...
So having been extremely bored one day I decided to read http://www.amazon.co.uk/Prime-Mover-Natural-History-Muscle/dp/0393021262/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1373528233&sr=8-1&keywords=prime+mover+history+of+muscle> this book it covers some interesting bits about how muscle structure was research, dissected and how the muscles work.
Oh yeah, Steven Vogel wrote in the book that muscles do not actually contract, they expand. The muscle does not condense/contract. Space between filaments increased via expansion. It's one of the main reasons that running downhill will cause you far more muscle pain than running uphill...but don;t take my word for it, read his book he explains it all so much better.
I assume the quoted bit uses "contract" as a way to skip delving into muscle mechanics...