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Natural language remains beyond the reach of any conventional AI system. This does not mean it can't be solved. Neither does it mean that clever interfaces haven't been designed that can fool humans on very specific fronts. General purpose natural language processing is still at least one major revolution (read that T.S. Kuhnean revolution) away.
In 1908 the Tunguska event threw so much debris and ash into the atmosphere it caused the Northern hemisphere winters to be colder than average until 1914, but effect peaking in 1909-10. The dust from this event took years to reach the southern hemisphere, where the peak of the effect would roughly be March 1912. The cold weather was not solely cause by this, but certainly was effected by it.
Is this approach scaleable? Wellington itself is really not a large city and being the capital, an extraordinary portion of the business is governmental. Both of these have to cause problems when trying to extend this system beyond the "Windy City". BTW, Wellington is much windier than Chicago, the other "WC".
What you say is absolutely true of space exploration. It is slightly less true of commercial/ military uses of space. I have a problem with the two sharing one budget. Space exploration itself is very cheap, the most expensive probes cost pennies per inhabitant of the Earth. Space commercialization is considerably less cheap. The two do overlap somewhat (launch devices, technology development, etc) but it is high time that we had a seperate, ongoing committed budget for space exploration.
If we ever hope to build large space stations, then cutting the cost of earth launch to $1,000 per pound won't cut it. On the other hand, this technology on the Moon, perhaps with solar cells providing the electrical power, would allow for very cheap transfer of lunar material, refined or not, to points earthward. That could be Earth orbit or L4 or L5.
If a certain set of sugars and amino acids are found in space and delivered to our planet in its primordial state, then this implies that other planets capable of reaching the primordial state couls also have the same origin. This boosts the odds on SETI and would tie Earth-bound life closer to any other that could be found. (Apart from the force that is.)
I agree with this thread's main arguement, that Chinese will not be the language of the internet because of economics. I disagree with your guess that Hindi may have a better chance. True, India is actually creating a middle class and has a much better chance of having a real internet voice. However, since English is the other official language of India and so much of the web is currently in English, I doubt that many Indians will change it over to Hindi.
Not that I'm an expert in exobiology but ammonia does meet your conditions. It does have a very different liquid temperature range, but it is nearly as light, also slightly polar, top 10 and capable of creating similiar solutions and suspensions as water.
Organic chemistry as we know it, that is simple acid molecules grouping into proteins and with carbohydrates, requires not just water and quite a lot of it. Although ammonia will also provide a media for these chemical structures, there are other requirements which may limit the ability of all but a small number of oceans from supporting life. Note that the three extreme conditions on Earth normally considered (dry cold of Antarctica, near freezing and crushing pressures of ocean depths and undersea vents) all did not develop their own life, but provided suitable environments for existing life to adapt to. Could any other planetoid in the solar system support life? Possibly. Develop it independently? Very, very much less likely.
To recreate stereo vision, it actually is more appropriate to utilize non-Euclidean geometry. In this specific case, an infinite number of parallel lines go thru a single point. Does anybody know if this system uses such? It would require a fairly massive refit to standard graphics programs.
The fate of the universe is held by dark matter. Without dark matter, there is insufficient gravity to bind all matter together forever. If there is enough dark matter, with its attendant gravity, then eventually the universe will collapse back onto itself. Probably the end result of that would be another Big Bang.
What a pair of choices.
The articles mentions that when the computer broke down the employees might get very upset. The fastest way I know to push employees into panic mode is to screw up payroll. Thus, the employees would be slaves to the machine much more than any conventional bakery. Is this a wise direction for society to be heading?
Humans are so much more complicated than capacitors, circuits and processing units . . .
Ultimately, human beings are the sum of a very complex network of capacitors, circuits or processing units. Which depends on what level you choose to examine us on. It is the interaction of all of these and how they organize which makes simple neurons able to produce intelligence. Robot research is an attempt to find the minimal level which can emulate intelligent behaviour.
Complex? Yes. Incomprehensible? No. Irreplicatible? We're working on it!
The space shuttle originally was supposed to operate this way, with one plane carrying the spacecraft part to high altitude and then rocketing from there. It was rejected because it required developing a big plane as well as the shuttle. This method may be an improvement over that proposal.
Removing coal-fired stations would throw a lot more people out of work. New nuclear plants can be made virtually fail-proof and remain at zero CO2 emission level. Renewable is great, when it can be had and when enough power can be generated. It is far-fetched to imagine replacing nuclear power though.
Why not both? Quick publication with clear marks as unconfirmed or waiting to be replicated would do both. It also would provide a quick source of worthwhile experiments, repeating previous successs and confirming them.
Well, the Soviets did have planes growling around Miami for many years. There were also regular Soviet intelligence flights along the Pacific coast. I'll give you that the Taliban never spied on Seattle. In fact, on more than one occasion Soviet recon craft made forced (as in by weather damage or engine trouble) landings at US military airbases. I witnessed one. We gassed them up, made basic repairs and allowed them to leave as soon as they asked. We never attempted to board their planes.
The blame for the spylane incident belongs on the Chinese military.
Why create one when China doesn't want to be an enemy?
I don't suppose you've read any of their national press, particularly after their fighter jet rammed a recon plane in international airspace. China has been regarding the US as THE ENEMY for quite sometime.
Never mind that their increasingly capitalist structure has given far more people over there opportunities than can be said about some of our population here.
Compare that to Taiwan, which started from worse circumstances and is ahead of the PRC about 10 to 1.
I agree that it should concern every US citizen when the government plans to impinge on the rights of any US citizen, but my concerns can be allayed at times. Is a little more border control warranted? I think yes. Should student visa holders receive greater scrutiny than at present (currently zero)? Again, I'm okay with that. What China does is attempt to completely silence all contrary viewpoints, especially the free press. I'm much more concrened about that, than anything Ashcroft has dreamt up lately.
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Not the entire superhero population is blacklisted. I happen to know that AquaMan has plenty of flood insurance.
Alas poor Yorick, now is the winter of our discontent.
Don't fly!!!!! You'll get too close to the sun and your wings will melt. (This from another early flight pioneer.)
Since payPal is being sued over its primary technology, this stock would be very risky.
This alone will cut back on my costs.
Everyone should believe in something . . .
I believe I'll have another drink.
Natural language remains beyond the reach of any conventional AI system. This does not mean it can't be solved. Neither does it mean that clever interfaces haven't been designed that can fool humans on very specific fronts. General purpose natural language processing is still at least one major revolution (read that T.S. Kuhnean revolution) away.
In 1908 the Tunguska event threw so much debris and ash into the atmosphere it caused the Northern hemisphere winters to be colder than average until 1914, but effect peaking in 1909-10. The dust from this event took years to reach the southern hemisphere, where the peak of the effect would roughly be March 1912. The cold weather was not solely cause by this, but certainly was effected by it.
Is this approach scaleable? Wellington itself is really not a large city and being the capital, an extraordinary portion of the business is governmental. Both of these have to cause problems when trying to extend this system beyond the "Windy City". BTW, Wellington is much windier than Chicago, the other "WC".
What you say is absolutely true of space exploration. It is slightly less true of commercial/ military uses of space. I have a problem with the two sharing one budget. Space exploration itself is very cheap, the most expensive probes cost pennies per inhabitant of the Earth. Space commercialization is considerably less cheap. The two do overlap somewhat (launch devices, technology development, etc) but it is high time that we had a seperate, ongoing committed budget for space exploration.
If we ever hope to build large space stations, then cutting the cost of earth launch to $1,000 per pound won't cut it. On the other hand, this technology on the Moon, perhaps with solar cells providing the electrical power, would allow for very cheap transfer of lunar material, refined or not, to points earthward. That could be Earth orbit or L4 or L5.
If a certain set of sugars and amino acids are found in space and delivered to our planet in its primordial state, then this implies that other planets capable of reaching the primordial state couls also have the same origin. This boosts the odds on SETI and would tie Earth-bound life closer to any other that could be found. (Apart from the force that is.)
I agree with this thread's main arguement, that Chinese will not be the language of the internet because of economics. I disagree with your guess that Hindi may have a better chance. True, India is actually creating a middle class and has a much better chance of having a real internet voice. However, since English is the other official language of India and so much of the web is currently in English, I doubt that many Indians will change it over to Hindi.
Not that I'm an expert in exobiology but ammonia does meet your conditions. It does have a very different liquid temperature range, but it is nearly as light, also slightly polar, top 10 and capable of creating similiar solutions and suspensions as water.
Organic chemistry as we know it, that is simple acid molecules grouping into proteins and with carbohydrates, requires not just water and quite a lot of it. Although ammonia will also provide a media for these chemical structures, there are other requirements which may limit the ability of all but a small number of oceans from supporting life. Note that the three extreme conditions on Earth normally considered (dry cold of Antarctica, near freezing and crushing pressures of ocean depths and undersea vents) all did not develop their own life, but provided suitable environments for existing life to adapt to. Could any other planetoid in the solar system support life? Possibly. Develop it independently? Very, very much less likely.
To recreate stereo vision, it actually is more appropriate to utilize non-Euclidean geometry. In this specific case, an infinite number of parallel lines go thru a single point. Does anybody know if this system uses such? It would require a fairly massive refit to standard graphics programs.
In what areas/functions must Microsoft be resricted in order for it not to violate anti-trust rules in the future?
The fate of the universe is held by dark matter. Without dark matter, there is insufficient gravity to bind all matter together forever. If there is enough dark matter, with its attendant gravity, then eventually the universe will collapse back onto itself. Probably the end result of that would be another Big Bang.
What a pair of choices.
The articles mentions that when the computer broke down the employees might get very upset. The fastest way I know to push employees into panic mode is to screw up payroll. Thus, the employees would be slaves to the machine much more than any conventional bakery. Is this a wise direction for society to be heading?
Humans are so much more complicated than capacitors, circuits and processing units . . .
Ultimately, human beings are the sum of a very complex network of capacitors, circuits or processing units. Which depends on what level you choose to examine us on. It is the interaction of all of these and how they organize which makes simple neurons able to produce intelligence. Robot research is an attempt to find the minimal level which can emulate intelligent behaviour.
Complex? Yes. Incomprehensible? No. Irreplicatible? We're working on it!
The space shuttle originally was supposed to operate this way, with one plane carrying the spacecraft part to high altitude and then rocketing from there. It was rejected because it required developing a big plane as well as the shuttle. This method may be an improvement over that proposal.
Removing coal-fired stations would throw a lot more people out of work. New nuclear plants can be made virtually fail-proof and remain at zero CO2 emission level. Renewable is great, when it can be had and when enough power can be generated. It is far-fetched to imagine replacing nuclear power though.
Why not both? Quick publication with clear marks as unconfirmed or waiting to be replicated would do both. It also would provide a quick source of worthwhile experiments, repeating previous successs and confirming them.
Well, the Soviets did have planes growling around Miami for many years. There were also regular Soviet intelligence flights along the Pacific coast. I'll give you that the Taliban never spied on Seattle. In fact, on more than one occasion Soviet recon craft made forced (as in by weather damage or engine trouble) landings at US military airbases. I witnessed one. We gassed them up, made basic repairs and allowed them to leave as soon as they asked. We never attempted to board their planes.
The blame for the spylane incident belongs on the Chinese military.
Why create one when China doesn't want to be an enemy?
I don't suppose you've read any of their national press, particularly after their fighter jet rammed a recon plane in international airspace. China has been regarding the US as THE ENEMY for quite sometime.
Never mind that their increasingly capitalist structure has given far more people over there opportunities than can be said about some of our population here.
Compare that to Taiwan, which started from worse circumstances and is ahead of the PRC about 10 to 1.
I agree that it should concern every US citizen when the government plans to impinge on the rights of any US citizen, but my concerns can be allayed at times. Is a little more border control warranted? I think yes. Should student visa holders receive greater scrutiny than at present (currently zero)? Again, I'm okay with that. What China does is attempt to completely silence all contrary viewpoints, especially the free press. I'm much more concrened about that, than anything Ashcroft has dreamt up lately.