You're thinking of Computer User Training Academy. Computer Science programs teach mostly theory, which doesn't become obsolute very quickly. Much of what's taught was known 40 or 50 years ago, and it's still quite relevant.
I bet that the people who get into this ArsDigita University could just as well get a full scolarship on one of the other great computer science universities(MIT, CMU, CIT, etc).
Most universities don't give scholarships for masters students. They also usually take more than a year to complete.
That's one reason they only accept people who have already gotten a degree. Not every school has to teach everything. Go to a nice liberal arts college, learn how to think and communicate, then go to ArsDigita and learn what to think and communicate about.
I think it's a great idea, and the syllabus and talent they've put together looks great. But who will take advantage of it? How many people are interested in learning theory and doing programming (usually means fairly young, I suspect), and can afford to go a year without pay, and are not already CS graduates? Of course, they only have space for 30, so it doesn't need to be a big market, but I feel like I must be missing something.
AMP has one too. Small, low power, PC-104, lots of controllers built in (VGA, LCD, IDE, serial, floppy, keyboard, mouse, etc) and even onboard 10/100 ethernet. Since it's PC-104, it's trivial to add on a decent sound card, or GPS, or anything else anyone sells.
Not even horizontal and vertical lines are hardwired in. There have been experiments done with animals (not very ethical ones, I'd say), where they were put in environments with only horizontal lines. Their brains never developed the software for vertical line detections.
Or they are wired in from the start, but the mechanisms or connections atrophy from disuse during the crucial developmental phase. There is evidence for low level straight line feature detectors.
I think face recognition works at birth, but some brain features aren't finished yet at that point. The brain continues to develop after birth, so even saying that an ability is or is not present at birth isn't as meaningful as most people would guess.
unless everyone gets compensated for the time they spend volunteering things to the gift economy no one will participate.
There will always be some compensation in the form of reputation and appreciation. Some people would be happy with that, if they also had basic life support paid for. I program because I enjoy it and because there are programs I want that no one else has written. I'm lucky because I can also program for (lots of) money, but I'd do it regardless.
I don't think we'll ever give up on working for money though. Some things will always be scarce, like an uncrowded summer day in Yosemite's lower valley. Some things have relative value, like a car nicer than your neighbor's.
Sixty years ago, many homes in the US didn't have freezers. Now people demand life, liberty and free ubiquitous ATMs as basic rights. It's all what you're used to.
I've been very happy with Machine Learning, by Tom Mitchell. It's a well-written introduction to a wide variety of machine learning techniques as well as the issues that bind them together.
I think it's worth reading a good intro text on any topic you're interested in. Once you're familiar with the basics, you'll be able to understand the research papers available online, and that's where the real gold is. Even just reading intro level stuff will put you way ahead of most people though.
Wow, I loved that game. I think I made it to level 300 or so. I enjoyed playing, but one of the things I was most impressed by was the copy protection. (This is all for the PC version, btw.) It was one of those systems where you were shown a picture and you had to find it in the manual and type it in. Extremely annoying, especially since I'd actually paid for the game.
The easiest way around these schemes is to find the strings in the binary and set them all to null. Then when it asks you for the key, a null answer is always right. But those same text chunks were used to let you start at a level other than 1, so if you wiped them out, you were screwed. You could probably still hack it by running it in a debugger, finding the comparison, and changing the logic. But that was beyond my clue level at the time, so I had to keep flipping through that stupid manual. Irritating, but clever.
the process of building really-intelligent software will require that we first come to deeply understand our own psyches
I think understanding ourselves will help, but it's only absolutely necessary if we define "really intelligent" to mean "like us". I think that's often how people define it though.
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I wonder how soon it'll be before someone invents an intelligent filter that removes these from mailboxes as well as SPAM.
It's on my to do list. I don't think it would be hard. Text document similarity is pretty well studied.
The fact of the matter is that we have yet to produce a machine that does anything other than what we have explicitly programmed it to do.
This will always be the case. The question is whether we're any different. I don't think we are.
Whether machines will ever be conscious or spiritual is another question entirely. But both consciousness and spirituality are completely subjective and are impossible to judge externally.
No glimmers of free will or the existence of a mechanical soul have ever been observed in a human creation.
How would you observe them? Have these things ever been observed in humans?
There are more practical reasons to never buy from Sony. I have a PCG-838. When it works, it's a wonderful machine. When it doesn't, which is fairly often, my life is hell because Sony support is complete crap.
My laptop broke twice in the first six months. The second time, it took me three months and $200 to get it fixed, even though they agreed the problem was covered by the warranty. My warranty expires in three more months, and I expect that my machine will break again soon. Sony apparently expects that too, since they give one year warranties, even though three years seems to be common with other companies. Once the warranty is up, I'll be completely screwed. I know other PCG owners who have had similar problems.
If you want to buy a list of specs, it's a great deal. Sony laptops give you more for your money than other brands, unless you value having a working machine.
I worked for a company that (in 1988) did all their backups onto paper tape, because it would last longer than magnetic media.
They weren't so forward thinking in all respects though. This was the same company that had a Y1988 bug caused by using 1-digit years in their databases.
if you are an AI, computer interfaces, or psychology type person then this could make a cool project.
I'm working on an MSc in AI, and I'm currently hashing out details of a project proposal for exactly this sort of thing.
A major problem with Smartplay is that it doesn't generalize. When it learns something about one song, that doesn't contribute to its knowledge about other songs. That's what I want to fix. I don't expect to be able to make a program that understands all the nuances of what makes one song like another, but I think I can make something that correlates at least a little to some of people's similarity measures, and that's better than nothing.
The first task is extracting features from the audio. I have a bunch of ideas, but limited time here (where I can get help from clueful professors), and I'd like to have all the feature extractors done before the official start of my project (in April). I'm going to GPL everything I write. If anyone wants to help out, drop me a line.
The fact is that : if you leave your front door open, and someone walks in, is that considered breaking and entering??
No, just entering. But were their doors open? I'm not familiar with the details, but I'd guess he picked some weak locks in order to open the doors. I don't think that makes him responsible for the cost of better locks, but unless they were running a telnet daemon and had no root password, I couldn't consider it an open door.
Okay, so as long as your evesdropping on your roommate's phone conversation is kept a secret, it's not intrusive, disruptive, or wrong.
You: 1, Strawman: 0.
I didn't see a claim that it wasn't intrusive, disruptive, or wrong, only that it was more properly categorized as trespassing or invasion of privacy, rather than theft or vandalism. It's that claim that I agree with.
He believes what he did was "a gross invasion of privacy" but not stealing.
I think this is an excellent point of view. Lots of private information can be exploited for profit, but the acquisition of it is not necessarily theft.
Millions of dollars in damages?conduct that caused these companies to shut down their networks?retool?
By this logic, if I inform someone that their house is on fire, I should be charged with arson.
This is an odd forum for a bug report. If you're using version 0.9, please email me details. Otherwise, I know what the problem is and you should upgrade.
none of these plug-ins will work without xmms-devel or the xmms source installed
My plugin (waterfall) includes the necessary XMMS headers in my distribution. Always beta test before a contest.:)
I wish they'd list which ones don't include source. I only have Sun Ultra 5s locally right now, so there's no point in downloading a bunch of x86 binaries.
Exactly. This is a blow to workers rights. The courts have strengthened the position that workers do not have the right to negotiate arbitrary contracts with their employers. Workers are not permitted to work for what they consider to be fair compensation, they must work for what other people consider to be fair compensation. As a worker, I find this demeaning and oppressive. And yes, I'm aware of the vast precedent for this sort of regulation, but it doesn't make me agree with it.
I've had only good experience with Pair in my eight months of site hosting there. Some of the software on their servers is a bit old, but that's because their first priority is not breaking existing sites that depend on older versions of things. They seem to take reliability seriously, and I've had no problems there.
I've been using SFNB for four years or so, and a bunch of my friends have too. We have a mailing list we use to bitch to each other about SFNB's screwups. Back in the early days, this was a busy mailing list. They screwed up a lot. But none of us have had any real problems in over a year.
I use Schwab for handling investments. You might think it'd be annoying to have my money split up like that, but actually I hardly notice. Transferring money from one institution to another is just as easy as transferring between accounts within a single place. I have, on a couple occasions, found it useful to have local branch offices. Their online support is also excellent. I always get prompt replies to email, and more importantly, they even answer my questions (whereas most email support teams just send me the most appropriate irrelevant form letter).
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You're thinking of Computer User Training Academy. Computer Science programs teach mostly theory, which doesn't become obsolute very quickly. Much of what's taught was known 40 or 50 years ago, and it's still quite relevant.
Most universities don't give scholarships for masters students. They also usually take more than a year to complete.
That's one reason they only accept people who have already gotten a degree. Not every school has to teach everything. Go to a nice liberal arts college, learn how to think and communicate, then go to ArsDigita and learn what to think and communicate about.
I think it's a great idea, and the syllabus and talent they've put together looks great. But who will take advantage of it? How many people are interested in learning theory and doing programming (usually means fairly young, I suspect), and can afford to go a year without pay, and are not already CS graduates? Of course, they only have space for 30, so it doesn't need to be a big market, but I feel like I must be missing something.
Yes, the premise here was that such things were very cheap.
Then there's no point in collecting the money through taxes.
AMP has one too. Small, low power, PC-104, lots of controllers built in (VGA, LCD, IDE, serial, floppy, keyboard, mouse, etc) and even onboard 10/100 ethernet. Since it's PC-104, it's trivial to add on a decent sound card, or GPS, or anything else anyone sells.
Or they are wired in from the start, but the mechanisms or connections atrophy from disuse during the crucial developmental phase. There is evidence for low level straight line feature detectors.
I think face recognition works at birth, but some brain features aren't finished yet at that point. The brain continues to develop after birth, so even saying that an ability is or is not present at birth isn't as meaningful as most people would guess.
There will always be some compensation in the form of reputation and appreciation. Some people would be happy with that, if they also had basic life support paid for. I program because I enjoy it and because there are programs I want that no one else has written. I'm lucky because I can also program for (lots of) money, but I'd do it regardless.
I don't think we'll ever give up on working for money though. Some things will always be scarce, like an uncrowded summer day in Yosemite's lower valley. Some things have relative value, like a car nicer than your neighbor's.
Sixty years ago, many homes in the US didn't have freezers. Now people demand life, liberty and free ubiquitous ATMs as basic rights. It's all what you're used to.
I've been very happy with Machine Learning, by Tom Mitchell. It's a well-written introduction to a wide variety of machine learning techniques as well as the issues that bind them together.
I think it's worth reading a good intro text on any topic you're interested in. Once you're familiar with the basics, you'll be able to understand the research papers available online, and that's where the real gold is. Even just reading intro level stuff will put you way ahead of most people though.
Wow, I loved that game. I think I made it to level 300 or so. I enjoyed playing, but one of the things I was most impressed by was the copy protection. (This is all for the PC version, btw.) It was one of those systems where you were shown a picture and you had to find it in the manual and type it in. Extremely annoying, especially since I'd actually paid for the game.
The easiest way around these schemes is to find the strings in the binary and set them all to null. Then when it asks you for the key, a null answer is always right. But those same text chunks were used to let you start at a level other than 1, so if you wiped them out, you were screwed. You could probably still hack it by running it in a debugger, finding the comparison, and changing the logic. But that was beyond my clue level at the time, so I had to keep flipping through that stupid manual. Irritating, but clever.
It's on my to do list. I don't think it would be hard. Text document similarity is pretty well studied.
This will always be the case. The question is whether we're any different. I don't think we are.
Whether machines will ever be conscious or spiritual is another question entirely. But both consciousness and spirituality are completely subjective and are impossible to judge externally.
How would you observe them? Have these things ever been observed in humans?
Want to bet? Take it to The Foresight Exchange.
There are more practical reasons to never buy from Sony. I have a PCG-838. When it works, it's a wonderful machine. When it doesn't, which is fairly often, my life is hell because Sony support is complete crap.
My laptop broke twice in the first six months. The second time, it took me three months and $200 to get it fixed, even though they agreed the problem was covered by the warranty. My warranty expires in three more months, and I expect that my machine will break again soon. Sony apparently expects that too, since they give one year warranties, even though three years seems to be common with other companies. Once the warranty is up, I'll be completely screwed. I know other PCG owners who have had similar problems.
If you want to buy a list of specs, it's a great deal. Sony laptops give you more for your money than other brands, unless you value having a working machine.
I worked for a company that (in 1988) did all their backups onto paper tape, because it would last longer than magnetic media.
They weren't so forward thinking in all respects though. This was the same company that had a Y1988 bug caused by using 1-digit years in their databases.
I'm working on an MSc in AI, and I'm currently hashing out details of a project proposal for exactly this sort of thing.
A major problem with Smartplay is that it doesn't generalize. When it learns something about one song, that doesn't contribute to its knowledge about other songs. That's what I want to fix. I don't expect to be able to make a program that understands all the nuances of what makes one song like another, but I think I can make something that correlates at least a little to some of people's similarity measures, and that's better than nothing.
The first task is extracting features from the audio. I have a bunch of ideas, but limited time here (where I can get help from clueful professors), and I'd like to have all the feature extractors done before the official start of my project (in April). I'm going to GPL everything I write. If anyone wants to help out, drop me a line.
No, just entering. But were their doors open? I'm not familiar with the details, but I'd guess he picked some weak locks in order to open the doors. I don't think that makes him responsible for the cost of better locks, but unless they were running a telnet daemon and had no root password, I couldn't consider it an open door.
You: 1, Strawman: 0.
I didn't see a claim that it wasn't intrusive, disruptive, or wrong, only that it was more properly categorized as trespassing or invasion of privacy, rather than theft or vandalism. It's that claim that I agree with.
I think this is an excellent point of view. Lots of private information can be exploited for profit, but the acquisition of it is not necessarily theft.
By this logic, if I inform someone that their house is on fire, I should be charged with arson.
This is an odd forum for a bug report.
If you're using version 0.9, please email me details. Otherwise, I know what the problem is and you should upgrade.
My plugin (waterfall) includes the necessary XMMS headers in my distribution. Always beta test before a contest. :)
I wish they'd list which ones don't include source. I only have Sun Ultra 5s locally right now, so there's no point in downloading a bunch of x86 binaries.
Exactly. This is a blow to workers rights. The courts have strengthened the position that workers do not have the right to negotiate arbitrary contracts with their employers. Workers are not permitted to work for what they consider to be fair compensation, they must work for what other people consider to be fair compensation. As a worker, I find this demeaning and oppressive. And yes, I'm aware of the vast precedent for this sort of regulation, but it doesn't make me agree with it.
I've had only good experience with Pair in my eight months of site hosting there. Some of the software on their servers is a bit old, but that's because their first priority is not breaking existing sites that depend on older versions of things. They seem to take reliability seriously, and I've had no problems there.
I use Schwab for handling investments. You might think it'd be annoying to have my money split up like that, but actually I hardly notice. Transferring money from one institution to another is just as easy as transferring between accounts within a single place. I have, on a couple occasions, found it useful to have local branch offices. Their online support is also excellent. I always get prompt replies to email, and more importantly, they even answer my questions (whereas most email support teams just send me the most appropriate irrelevant form letter).