Well, there's a pretty extensive web column with a few new cases each week, called Dumb Crooks. Those cases you mention are there, plus hundreds of others. Pretty amusing read.
I think this is necessarily a vague description unlike the X prize. You'd have to have a panel decide if this particular robot is good enough. I can just imagine, "No, it didn't bump into a chair, it was just trying to move it out of the way - a really intelligent thing to do".
And if you come up with some sort of specific test (like move from one place to another without touching anything other than the target object) it would be too narrow and you'd have very limited robots winning the contest.
Of course Turing test is both general and specific enough (can't be rigged toward one or the other robot), but it is way too hard.
The only date they list for Ocaml is 97 which is presumably when it was created. The latest major version of Ocaml is from 2000, and the latest minor update is from 2003.
I bet that's not the only example. They list Java 1.4.1_2002, but don't list minor releases of more obscure languages.
If they can't seem to patch their OS fast enough, what makes them think they can keep their AV software up to date?
Because they have no immediate financial incentive to do the patches fast (what, are you going to switch to Linux if we don't?) and they have an obvious incentive to make their AV competitive against other AV software. Also, consider that some people will buy their software when they actually get a virus in order to clean up their machine. So they have an extra incentive to have all the latest fixes in.
I don't think that the continuum hypothesis is "believed to be true". I seem to remember reading about someone proving that it is unprovable within the normal system of axioms. Which means that not only nobody knows if it's true, but it is impossible to know if it is true. You can arbitrarily decide one way or the other, though.
Although the chances of any 13 yr old girl turning down the chance to be the next Britney are slim to...well, zero.
A 13-year-old can't sign a contract, only her parents can. And one can hope they would be a little smarter/more experienced than a 13-year-old, and read the fine print.
So you get more energy out than you put in. Right.
That's because they don't count the solar energy as being put in. It is sort of reasonable, since it requires no effort or expense on the part of the producer.
I'd like to point out that gnostic is not the opposite of an agnostic (or vice versa, if you prefer). Gnostics (according to OED) are
The designation given to certain heretical sects among the early Christians who claimed to have superior knowledge of things spiritual, and interpreted the sacred writings by a mystic philosophy
I have never seen it used in the sense of opposite to "agnostic" and OED only saw it once a long time ago.
IANAE, but AFAIK traditional free rider problem would involve a public good that everyone can exploit provided by some subset of the population that has some sort of cost involved in providing that good.
IANAE either, but it seems to me that the important advantage of open source is that it makes no difference how many free riders there are, since the only additional cost to the developers is bandwidth, which is cheap or even free (if you use sourceforge, or something similar). So even if one out of a thousand users contributes something, and there are millions of users, things are going quite well, despite 99.9% free riders.
Let's suppose they wouldn't lower the taxes, although it is not so clear in the long term. At the very least they would be less likely to increase the taxes. They usually increase taxes when the government (federal or state) is really out of money.
But let's even forget about this. They are going to spend the money on something, and it will be of use to someone, whether it is simply used to pay some guy's salary or for some government program, it is still put to way better use than if it stayed in the cheater's pocket.
You know, we have all these spammers spending thousands of hours trying to evade all kinds of filters and safeguards. The US government just needs to hire them and bombard the Chinese with appropriate propaganda. Just imagine:
Subject: Supp0rt d.mcr4cy n0w!
Jury duty
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Free Culture
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· Score: 2, Insightful
When jury duty called, I was lucky enough to have a copy of Larry Lessig's new book...
Hey, how about actually doing your civic duty? I wouldn't want to be the defendant in this case.
emigration is just not good enough for any country.
As someone said, all generalizations are false including this one. There are countries where you can go just because you want to emigrate. Canada comes to mind. To be sure, you'd need to show that you qualify, which means speaking the language and having education and/or profession that is in demand, or an actual job arranged in advance.
India has the opposite problem from the one Canada has: they have too many people, not too few. So you can imagine they won't welcome immigrants with great zeal.
Let's get back to what's important in colleges... TEACHING and GRADING. Stop worrying so much about how much free time you have to work on your next book.
You may not be aware of this, but what's important to colleges in not just teaching. Colleges (and especially universities) are also interested in research. Even a lowliest of the four-year colleges require their faculty members to produce original work at least until they get tenured. Universities get much of their money from research grants, etc.
From the faculty's point of view, historically colleges and universities exist to provide them with their livelihood while they pursue their research interests. Many faculty members like to teach, but there is a large number who do it reluctantly and see it as a waste of their valuable time. And to some extent they are justified. Imagine if Einstein had to teach 4 classes a semester, grade, hold office hours, etc. (Professors also write grants, sit on boring comittees, and do other unproductive stuff). Of course, most professors are not Einsteins, and they might do more good for society by teaching.
Regardless of all that, professors have a responsibility to teach, whether they like it or not, and one can argue whether this case shows negligence in the performance of their duties. But your suggestion is made from the point of view of a student, and is just as biased as a suggestion that cars should stop driving because they might hit a pedestrian - which is a perfectly logical view, for a pedestrian.
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It makes sense except for this:
Why is it necessary to wait for one year?
Well, there's a pretty extensive web column with a few new cases each week, called Dumb Crooks. Those cases you mention are there, plus hundreds of others. Pretty amusing read.
I think this is necessarily a vague description unlike the X prize.
You'd have to have a panel decide if this particular robot is good enough. I can just imagine, "No, it didn't bump into a chair, it was just trying to move it out of the way - a really intelligent thing to do".
And if you come up with some sort of specific test (like move from one place to another without touching anything other than the target object) it would be too narrow and you'd have very limited robots winning the contest.
Of course Turing test is both general and specific enough (can't be rigged toward one or the other robot), but it is way too hard.
Any suggestions?
Someone is doing something illegal lets charge them for doing it..
You know, this is called a fine and most justice systems use it for minor infractions.
And in next weeks news you can kill someone and get away with it by paying enough money.
And despite the use of fines it is still illegal to murder people for money.
The only date they list for Ocaml is 97 which is presumably when it was created. The latest major version of Ocaml is from 2000, and the latest minor update is from 2003.
I bet that's not the only example. They list Java 1.4.1_2002, but don't list minor releases of more obscure languages.
If they can't seem to patch their OS fast enough, what makes them think they can keep their AV software up to date?
Because they have no immediate financial incentive to do the patches fast (what, are you going to switch to Linux if we don't?) and they have an obvious incentive to make their AV competitive against other AV software. Also, consider that some people will buy their software when they actually get a virus in order to clean up their machine. So they have an extra incentive to have all the latest fixes in.
I don't think that the continuum hypothesis is "believed to be true". I seem to remember reading about someone proving that it is unprovable within the normal system of axioms. Which means that not only nobody knows if it's true, but it is impossible to know if it is true. You can arbitrarily decide one way or the other, though.
Although the chances of any 13 yr old girl turning down the chance to be the next Britney are slim to ...well, zero.
A 13-year-old can't sign a contract, only her parents can. And one can hope they would be a little smarter/more experienced than a 13-year-old, and read the fine print.
So you get more energy out than you put in. Right.
That's because they don't count the solar energy as being put in. It is sort of reasonable, since it requires no effort or expense on the part of the producer.
I have never seen it used in the sense of opposite to "agnostic" and OED only saw it once a long time ago.
IANAE, but AFAIK traditional free rider problem would involve a public good that everyone can exploit provided by some subset of the population that has some sort of cost involved in providing that good.
IANAE either, but it seems to me that the important advantage of open source is that it makes no difference how many free riders there are, since the only additional cost to the developers is bandwidth, which is cheap or even free (if you use sourceforge, or something similar). So even if one out of a thousand users contributes something, and there are millions of users, things are going quite well, despite 99.9% free riders.
Let's suppose they wouldn't lower the taxes, although it is not so clear in the long term. At the very least they would be less likely to increase the taxes. They usually increase taxes when the government (federal or state) is really out of money.
But let's even forget about this. They are going to spend the money on something, and it will be of use to someone, whether it is simply used to pay some guy's salary or for some government program, it is still put to way better use than if it stayed in the cheater's pocket.
I doubt it. Normally its male or female. Masculine or feminine don't refer to people, only to words, which is the point of the grandparent post.
Its just a mater of time before Walmart introduces the even lower cost Great Value Linux . It will happen, believe you me.
Except Linux is already pretty much free. How are they going to undercut that any further?
every time you hit, you are ahead 25 dollars.
and with 1/32 probability you are out $775 bucks. That's still
expected value of 0.
You know, we have all these spammers spending thousands of hours trying to evade all kinds of filters and safeguards. The US government just needs to hire them and bombard the Chinese with appropriate propaganda. Just imagine:
Subject: Supp0rt d.mcr4cy n0w!
When jury duty called, I was lucky enough to have a copy of Larry Lessig's new book...
Hey, how about actually doing your civic duty? I wouldn't want to be the defendant in this case.
What's next, "i-Eye" for a camera?
Aye, aye, cap'n.
From the UK? Unless he's traveling there for pleasure anyway,
that's quite far out of the way.
1/9=0.111111(1)
1=1/9*9=0.99999999(9)
FYI:
11*10^9/5000=220,000
10*10^12/(147*10^6)=68,000
As someone said, all generalizations are false including this one. There are countries where you can go just because you want to emigrate. Canada comes to mind. To be sure, you'd need to show that you qualify, which means speaking the language and having education and/or profession that is in demand, or an actual job arranged in advance.
India has the opposite problem from the one Canada has: they have too many people, not too few. So you can imagine they won't welcome immigrants with great zeal.
He did, but because of lazy evaluation it ended up after the second part.
Let's get back to what's important in colleges... TEACHING and GRADING. Stop worrying so much about how much free time you have to work on your next book.
You may not be aware of this, but what's important to colleges in not just teaching. Colleges (and especially universities) are also interested in research. Even a lowliest of the four-year colleges require their faculty members to produce original work at least until they get tenured. Universities get much of their money from research grants, etc.
From the faculty's point of view, historically colleges and universities exist to provide them with their livelihood while they pursue their research interests. Many faculty members like to teach, but there is a large number who do it reluctantly and see it as a waste of their valuable time. And to some extent they are justified. Imagine if Einstein had to teach 4 classes a semester, grade, hold office hours, etc.
(Professors also write grants, sit on boring comittees, and do other unproductive stuff).
Of course, most professors are not Einsteins, and they might do more good for society by teaching.
Regardless of all that, professors have a responsibility to teach, whether they like it or not, and one can argue whether this case shows negligence in the performance of their duties. But your suggestion is made from the point of view of a student, and is just as biased as a suggestion that cars should stop driving because they might hit a pedestrian - which is a perfectly logical view, for a pedestrian.
Taxes go to the government. They are not completely wasted. So I disagree.