Anyway, back on the point: I don't think they'd transplant any tissue from an HIV carrier to a healthy person even without the current finding.
Wha?
The OP was talking about killing off the bone marrow in the *infected* patient and then performing a marrow transplant (a common treatment for lymphomas). No idea how you interpreted it as the reverse, what good would that do??
I can't stand PETA in general, but (hypocritical as they are) this is one of their few campaigns I *do* support. The fact is, most unwanted pets are not going to find homes, so it's better to take them in, make an effort to place them, and then humanely euthanize them (which no, is NOT animal abuse) than to abandon them at a trash dump, throw them off a pier, or beat them with a club.
But that's the point of independent container formats and codecs - they are orthogonal. Just because a container supports a large set of codecs doesn't mean your decoder/player software has to support them all! A well designed media playback engine can support an arbitrary set of containers and codecs, so MKV should be no different from any other container in this case.
Sort of ironic that the submission is about an exhaustive check of sources when he completely copies the original story in his summary without even mentioning the source (beyond a very vague link that IMO is NOT sufficient when pulling whole sentences from the original article...)
Does Kevin Smith really want sympathy from the "leave the fat people alone" crowd? Well, he loves to talk about himself... so here's yet another quote:
Seriously - it's deplorable how lazy I am. I'm a big, sweaty, fat fucking lard ass mess, not because I've got "big bones" or some kinda "glandular problem"... I'm just too lazy to exercise and eat right.
Yeah, he's the poster boy for "obese rights". I would LOVE to sit on a plane next to a "sweaty, fat fucking lard ass mess". This is a black eye only if you are morbidly obese and delusional. For the rest of us, I have to admit Southwest may have become MORE comfortable. Obese rights in general are absurd, IMO. If you have a diagnosed thyroid or other medical issue - sure, that sucks and should be accommodated as a disability. If you are just lazy, deal with it. We don't coddle smokers or alcoholics on airplanes, why should it be different for those addicted to food?
I don't have any problem with obese people per se... I just can't respect someone who tries to claim those health issues are not in any way their fault. In fact, Kevin Smith was almost respectable (he admitted in another interview he could get in shape, he just didn't want to, and preferred pizza to exercise, so if he dies young, that's his problem). But now he's seeing consequences to his decision that he doesn't like, and is just plain whining.
I think he's closer to 350. He even says about himself in an interview:
"I'm really, really fat right now. Fattest I've ever been. I broke a toilet. That's how heavy I am. I can't take all the credit — that was an old toilet and a very waterlogged wall — but my size took that toilet down."
Apparently (does anyone RTFA!?) he usually buys two seats when flying SWA, anyway - so he admits it's a problem. In this case he tried to take an earlier flight standby, and they didn't have two seats available. So SWA put him on the next flight that did. I don't see the problem...
That car was a gas turbine engine powering a an electric motor with the flywheel assisting the same motor. This one is a traditional Porsche flat 6 driving the rear wheels with a braking-powered flywheel occasionally driving the front. All cars have flywheels, that doesn't mean all cars are alike.
In that case, it is an inductor. A really really big inductor, that happens to store it's energy mechanicly.
It's an interesting idea, but an inductor is defined as a device that stores energy magnetically... storing energy mechanically is what makes it a flywheel;)
The flywheel is in fact one half of a generator - which takes mechanical energy and converts it to electrical energy via electromagnetic induction (and is a motor in reverse, with the work going towards spinning the flywheel).
It looks like the flywheel itself has an integrated magnet, so it's basically a generator. Clever, and means it doesn't need a mechanical connection, so gimbals would work.
Though it also looks like it does not in fact use gimbals... may just use some sort of spring suspension?
I was wondering this, too. I think they could negate it with gimbals, though.
What would be really interesting is if they could figure out a way to use the flywheel + gimbals selectively in some sort of anti-roll/traction control/etc, when necessary. IANAMechE, though, maybe someone with a deeper background could hypothesize further:)
I generally agree with you, except for one important point - Google DOES run one of the most successful micro-payment schemes in the world. It's called "Adsense". If that were to go away, a significant number of the small to medium sized blogs, web sites, or other organizations (Mozilla, for example!) would no longer have any means of support and would have to scramble for an alternate source of revenue or shut down.
Then again, for 90% of those sites, that would probably be a good thing:) But still, it would likely have a significant impact on the overall health of the industry that would be felt for a lot more than a few days...
"Once it actually works it isn't AI anymore, it's just an algorithm."
Basically a fairly simple expert system. Big whoop. Been around for years, for much more interesting uses. My point was the company drops the term "AI" all over the place, not because it's a shining example, but because it's sexy talk that will get them attention. Not impressed.
The reason why Apple stops supporting OSs faster than MS is because their users seem to upgrade a lot faster. Maybe it's a trust thing, maybe it's a lack of complexity thing, I'm not sureI.
Or maybe it's a "rabid Apple fanboy" thing. Most of the PC users I know tend to keep their computers (or OS) until they die or are unusably slow. Most Mac users keep their computers until their friend gets a new one and rubs their noses in it (or more accurately, Steve Jobs announces a new one and rubs their noses in it). Let's face it, Apple customers are predominantly an upper middle class market that replaces computers like sunglasses. And before I get flamed, I am not immune... I have had my Dell laptop running XP for almost 4 years and still see no reason to replace it. My iPhone turnover, on the other hand...
If you RTFA, this has almost nothing to do with real artificial intelligence, it's just some basic text pattern recognition that directs your question to a person who claims some knowledge of the field. Basically all they have done is put a filter in front of Google Answers. That still may be a good thing for Google, but calling it AI is absurd.
Well, if you had read to the end of that article you would have seen:
The researchers say that although the simulation shared some similarities with a mouse's mental make-up in terms of nerves and connections it lacked the structures seen in real mice brains.
Imposing such structures and getting the simulation to do useful work might be a much more difficult task than simply setting up the plumbing.
If you read my comment, that's basically what I said, but with a bit more detail.
So they attempted a (by their admission) drastically simplified model of a few billion mouse synapses at 1/10 speed for 10 seconds on a $10M computer. It's admittedly really interesting work! But the human brain is estimated to have up to half a quadrillion synapses, with a structure that is almost beyond imagination. My point was that Moore's Law is not going to allow this for $1000 "pretty soon".
Your statement comparing synapses to RAM and referring to a brute force simulation implied that you think that's how we will have useful AI in 20 years. I disagree. If it happens, I think it will be because some fundamental discovery is made that changes the basic approach to AI, not trying to simulate the human brain. And I don't think that's anything that can be reasonably extrapolated to a specific timeline based on current work.
The problem is a byte of RAM has nothing to do with a synapse - a synapse is NOT like a transistor.
A single synapse can be an amazingly complicated biochemical construction, made up of of different receptors, neurotransmitter vesicles, ion pumps/channels, etc - all potentially modified or controlled by various other enzymes, hormones, or other molecules that influence the process through a whole range of different interactions. And that doesn't even include the fact that synapses can interact with each other in various ways as well - the structure is critical, and not representable in a *byte*.
It could require megabytes or more to model each synapse. That's exabytes (or more?) of data. That's a good 100 years of capacity doubling every 18 months. A bit further out than "pretty soon".
If/when Google stops paying them for searches performed as the default search engine, their revenue drops to almost zero. And with the quickly increasing market share of Chrome, Google may not bother propping up Firefox as an alternative browser for much longer...
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As a measure of throughput, I think your units are off by at least one order of magnitude. Must have been those damn A4 letters.
Anyway, back on the point: I don't think they'd transplant any tissue from an HIV carrier to a healthy person even without the current finding.
Wha?
The OP was talking about killing off the bone marrow in the *infected* patient and then performing a marrow transplant (a common treatment for lymphomas). No idea how you interpreted it as the reverse, what good would that do??
Elwood: Illinois Nazis.
Jake: I hate Illinois Nazis.
I can't stand PETA in general, but (hypocritical as they are) this is one of their few campaigns I *do* support. The fact is, most unwanted pets are not going to find homes, so it's better to take them in, make an effort to place them, and then humanely euthanize them (which no, is NOT animal abuse) than to abandon them at a trash dump, throw them off a pier, or beat them with a club.
But that's the point of independent container formats and codecs - they are orthogonal. Just because a container supports a large set of codecs doesn't mean your decoder/player software has to support them all! A well designed media playback engine can support an arbitrary set of containers and codecs, so MKV should be no different from any other container in this case.
Yeah, and good luck to the FSF when they go over and try to enforce it...
Sort of ironic that the submission is about an exhaustive check of sources when he completely copies the original story in his summary without even mentioning the source (beyond a very vague link that IMO is NOT sufficient when pulling whole sentences from the original article...)
Whoosh!
Does Kevin Smith really want sympathy from the "leave the fat people alone" crowd? Well, he loves to talk about himself... so here's yet another quote:
Seriously - it's deplorable how lazy I am. I'm a big, sweaty, fat fucking lard ass mess, not because I've got "big bones" or some kinda "glandular problem"... I'm just too lazy to exercise and eat right.
Yeah, he's the poster boy for "obese rights". I would LOVE to sit on a plane next to a "sweaty, fat fucking lard ass mess". This is a black eye only if you are morbidly obese and delusional. For the rest of us, I have to admit Southwest may have become MORE comfortable. Obese rights in general are absurd, IMO. If you have a diagnosed thyroid or other medical issue - sure, that sucks and should be accommodated as a disability. If you are just lazy, deal with it. We don't coddle smokers or alcoholics on airplanes, why should it be different for those addicted to food?
I don't have any problem with obese people per se... I just can't respect someone who tries to claim those health issues are not in any way their fault. In fact, Kevin Smith was almost respectable (he admitted in another interview he could get in shape, he just didn't want to, and preferred pizza to exercise, so if he dies young, that's his problem). But now he's seeing consequences to his decision that he doesn't like, and is just plain whining.
I think he's closer to 350. He even says about himself in an interview:
"I'm really, really fat right now. Fattest I've ever been. I broke a toilet. That's how heavy I am. I can't take all the credit — that was an old toilet and a very waterlogged wall — but my size took that toilet down."
Apparently (does anyone RTFA!?) he usually buys two seats when flying SWA, anyway - so he admits it's a problem. In this case he tried to take an earlier flight standby, and they didn't have two seats available. So SWA put him on the next flight that did. I don't see the problem...
Hmm, doesn't sound like it at all to me...
That car was a gas turbine engine powering a an electric motor with the flywheel assisting the same motor. This one is a traditional Porsche flat 6 driving the rear wheels with a braking-powered flywheel occasionally driving the front. All cars have flywheels, that doesn't mean all cars are alike.
In that case, it is an inductor. A really really big inductor, that happens to store it's energy mechanicly.
It's an interesting idea, but an inductor is defined as a device that stores energy magnetically... storing energy mechanically is what makes it a flywheel ;)
The flywheel is in fact one half of a generator - which takes mechanical energy and converts it to electrical energy via electromagnetic induction (and is a motor in reverse, with the work going towards spinning the flywheel).
Actually, I found another link with more info (and some interesting comments):
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2010/02/gt3r-20100211.html
It looks like the flywheel itself has an integrated magnet, so it's basically a generator. Clever, and means it doesn't need a mechanical connection, so gimbals would work.
Though it also looks like it does not in fact use gimbals... may just use some sort of spring suspension?
I was wondering this, too. I think they could negate it with gimbals, though.
What would be really interesting is if they could figure out a way to use the flywheel + gimbals selectively in some sort of anti-roll/traction control/etc, when necessary. IANAMechE, though, maybe someone with a deeper background could hypothesize further :)
I generally agree with you, except for one important point - Google DOES run one of the most successful micro-payment schemes in the world. It's called "Adsense". If that were to go away, a significant number of the small to medium sized blogs, web sites, or other organizations (Mozilla, for example!) would no longer have any means of support and would have to scramble for an alternate source of revenue or shut down.
Then again, for 90% of those sites, that would probably be a good thing :) But still, it would likely have a significant impact on the overall health of the industry that would be felt for a lot more than a few days...
Have to paraphrase a previous poster on this one.
"Once it actually works it isn't AI anymore, it's just an algorithm."
Basically a fairly simple expert system. Big whoop. Been around for years, for much more interesting uses. My point was the company drops the term "AI" all over the place, not because it's a shining example, but because it's sexy talk that will get them attention. Not impressed.
The reason why Apple stops supporting OSs faster than MS is because their users seem to upgrade a lot faster. Maybe it's a trust thing, maybe it's a lack of complexity thing, I'm not sureI.
Or maybe it's a "rabid Apple fanboy" thing. Most of the PC users I know tend to keep their computers (or OS) until they die or are unusably slow. Most Mac users keep their computers until their friend gets a new one and rubs their noses in it (or more accurately, Steve Jobs announces a new one and rubs their noses in it). Let's face it, Apple customers are predominantly an upper middle class market that replaces computers like sunglasses. And before I get flamed, I am not immune... I have had my Dell laptop running XP for almost 4 years and still see no reason to replace it. My iPhone turnover, on the other hand...
If you RTFA, this has almost nothing to do with real artificial intelligence, it's just some basic text pattern recognition that directs your question to a person who claims some knowledge of the field. Basically all they have done is put a filter in front of Google Answers. That still may be a good thing for Google, but calling it AI is absurd.
Well, if you had read to the end of that article you would have seen:
The researchers say that although the simulation shared some similarities with a mouse's mental make-up in terms of nerves and connections it lacked the structures seen in real mice brains.
Imposing such structures and getting the simulation to do useful work might be a much more difficult task than simply setting up the plumbing.
If you read my comment, that's basically what I said, but with a bit more detail.
So they attempted a (by their admission) drastically simplified model of a few billion mouse synapses at 1/10 speed for 10 seconds on a $10M computer. It's admittedly really interesting work! But the human brain is estimated to have up to half a quadrillion synapses, with a structure that is almost beyond imagination. My point was that Moore's Law is not going to allow this for $1000 "pretty soon".
Your statement comparing synapses to RAM and referring to a brute force simulation implied that you think that's how we will have useful AI in 20 years. I disagree. If it happens, I think it will be because some fundamental discovery is made that changes the basic approach to AI, not trying to simulate the human brain. And I don't think that's anything that can be reasonably extrapolated to a specific timeline based on current work.
Probably a Kuang Grade Mark Eleven. Big mother.
The problem is a byte of RAM has nothing to do with a synapse - a synapse is NOT like a transistor.
A single synapse can be an amazingly complicated biochemical construction, made up of of different receptors, neurotransmitter vesicles, ion pumps/channels, etc - all potentially modified or controlled by various other enzymes, hormones, or other molecules that influence the process through a whole range of different interactions. And that doesn't even include the fact that synapses can interact with each other in various ways as well - the structure is critical, and not representable in a *byte*.
It could require megabytes or more to model each synapse. That's exabytes (or more?) of data. That's a good 100 years of capacity doubling every 18 months. A bit further out than "pretty soon".
I'm gonna be honest with you, that smells like pure gasoline.
If/when Google stops paying them for searches performed as the default search engine, their revenue drops to almost zero. And with the quickly increasing market share of Chrome, Google may not bother propping up Firefox as an alternative browser for much longer...
Except that with enough pressure in advance, maybe Apple will be able to anticipate customers' reaction to their decision and make the right one.
One correction:
MS was convicted of the crime of antitrust abuse, where they undermined the operation of a regulated market.
The EU is FAR from a free market. If it was a free market, there would be no antitrust laws to break...