(flamebait intended oldie) What do you say to the people that feel it is unethical to try to create "intelligence"? >I take this as a shorter version of the longer religious question the editor thankfully didn't select. How about taking it in another way. If AI can do some good for the world, it can do some bad as well...:-( AI is potentially very powerfull tool (IMHO more powerfull than atomic weapons).
>Jobs in AI are just like software jobs everywhere Who says AI is to be made in software... I sure don't think so. I think AI is about communication, and that (amount&kind) just isn't available on any current computersystem.
>but nobody can write a coherent program bigger than 10M lines Which proves my/another point: who says it needs to be one single programme...
When Andrew Cady said that this is just the design for a chip he is right. Right now you need an FPGA or a FAB to use the design. This is like a CD 15 years ago: couldn't make 'm yourself. OTOH right now you can, and I never imagined that. As I cannot imagine having my own FAB (well... it'll come). When you look at current technology, the next thing is Systems On Chip (SOC), and you need to get designs (copyrighted or not) to combine and make SOC's.
I can imagine a lot more Boxes plugged in the poweroutlet. LCD's used as portable (text)terminals (nice for bedtime reading or cooking [in the kitchen]). Calculator which can put the answer directly in my text (no more typing there). The only problem is, that power is harder to beam:-(
I think that information becomes much more portable now!
2) FWIW, the range is "up to 10 meters". Up to 30 feet, at the best. So it can replace all those 10 foot cables, but not the 50 foot ones.
I always have to lay my cables along my walls. Then there are also walls with doors in 'm, so I can't put 3 ethernet cables there. One at most. Linea recta though, there is no distance larger than 7.75 meters (25.4 feet). My cables easily reach about 15 meters (about 50 feet).
Reality check: it is not my fault that homeless people are homeless!
Since you live in a community, you have community rules and community obligations and community advantages. Question: whose fault is it that a certain form of community does not work for certain individuals? Answer: not answerable. Question2: do you care about the people around you? Answer: answer yourself, but don't start complaining if your answer boomerangs back to you. Btw, the vs has the highest CRIMERATE in the world, despite of its large community enforcement agency. THIS IS the boomerang mentioned...
The future of OSs *is* voice recognition though... I want to see the end of keyboards. And mice.
I agree with the keyboards and (especially) mice becoming a drag. There are other inputdevices possible as well. There are alternatives.
Thinking here about the computer seeing when the navigator window has to scroll just by looking at your eyes. Knowing to stop when your pupils changes size, etc etc.
And off course: combinations of all the new inputdevices. Interaction through question-and-answer with your computer (computer: "give me a smile for Gnome, cry if you want to start KDE").
I, and many people on campusses have permanent 100 KB/s connections. I think there's no firewall between my compu and the TechUni. Costs $5 a month:-)
Shutting it of would be difficult. Especially because I'm hardware interested, and don't care about my (windhoos) OS:-) Maybe it's time to get interested finally.
This is going to be so good for Linux. Who is going to pay for all their Word, Dexcel, Powerpoint etc? Not me! Lotsa people pay for the OS Windows, but not their other progs. This probably means a change for me to Linux.
History:
First M$ helps getting software around the world (/salesman/'yes, off course this software enhances your life...'//salesman/).
Second Linux is develloping to a mature stadium.
And third: M$ is placing itself out of the consumer market.
How is your sex life: -I'm happily married -I date a lot -I'm married -I have a girlfriend -I was married -I had a girlfriend once -I hear them banging next door -I see some women occasionally -I have some female relatives -I know there is an X and Y option in my genes, but I don't know the datatype
Only crimes that are detectable can be dealt with by the government (and detectionpossibilities have just been added)
The government can only uphold laws which they can regulate (and new means of producing evidence have just been added).
Crime will not go away ("if the nerd can have a beamer, so can I"). + -------------------------------------------------- -------------------- Crime will be more violent and 'off this world'. This is bad news, because the effect is the same as with crashing cars vs. crashing boeings. The car crash could be prevented but does not significantly add to the feeling of insecurity in society. The boeingcrash will allways tear apart society. In the end heavy crime will (and more frequently) distress society.
This is good news for/.-ers, because now criminals will pay you a lott to counter this new technology:->
The above post mention cleaning up code first, then maybe do, maybe do not consider optimizing. The considerations I would make are:
How easy is it to replace your software (is it embedded vs. 'notepad').
Are other factors (power usage, lower hardware costs, possible extra features) of importance.
I've heard that commercial compilers (vs. university ones) are slow to incorporate new techniques. I've been told by my lecturer that for example global variables are not stored in registers. Well, that sounds pretty stupid to me (but who am I to judge). Maybe it is possible to compare these two sorts to figure out the hard parts of compiling. Have phun,
The internet has an even better property when it comes to the 'well water'-part. The water that is clean, stays clean. There can be polluted water, but it is added to, and not mixed with, the well.
There are off course some gatekeepers, just as in social life. I live near Amsterdam, but my social life does not incorporate using drugs. The same for the internet. My technews comes from a few 'normalized' sources (/. included). In Amsterdam I've been near coffeeshops (these are the places where _soft_drugs are tolerated), but it does not attract me personally. But you know I get spammed in my snailmailbox as well? I get lott's of stuff which go directly to my oldpaperbin.
As for the part of being able to identify yourself is an intirely different matter. I do think you should be able to say: this is me, person xyz, living in abc, being able to pay 123 and you can check that at the qrs-bank. It should be possible safely (encrypted).
Mi2e-2
she's nice! oh no, she's virtually interesting...
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Suppose you get perfect/indistinguishable human-computer I/O interfaces
combined with
The experience of a human put on a disc with more molecules than 'the (very interesting) life you just bought, now on sale for 34 Euro 95'
The idea of general purpose computing is falling down. When you want a game-computer, you get game-instructions. When you want multimedia, you get MultiMediaX10sions.
This means that real general purpose programming is _*relatively*_ becoming slower.
Since all computing is getting faster that is not a real problem. The second solution to that problem is connectivity. When you need the solution to a problem, why not beam it to a computer that can handle all this speciality for your specific problem (rent Cray-time, etc).
Why this is difficult (unless they do not deserve any engineering grade): -There are several means to establish temperature measurements (power usage of fridge, temp. sensor(+low-pass filter), halfway-temperature measurement [in the middle of the insulation], any of the above in multiple form, etc..... -There are several means to detect hacks (sudden temp drops, below average temp (-5oC in June), etc...)
MP3 is a good choice since it has good compression and is available. It (should) support variable bitrates. Consider the workload of true-speed compression in MPEG 1 Layer III since it is rather high (lotsa FFT & psychoaccoustic stuff). Off course: higher compression:: more work. Maybe there are DSP's available to do this for you. there is lotsa stuff & references in the 'IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE', september '97 issue. Maybe someone has something more recent? Mi2e-2
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IMHO communications between die's are too slow: _accept it_, use it, consider it a problem to be solved. It is so fundamental dease days that silicon is reaching it top spead, that you shouldn't want to go around this problem. It should be dealt with. Mi2e-2
IMHO the guys at TransMeta (read: Transport Metastuff) got smart and analysed the technology they've been using the last couple of years. This is not so difficult IF (you accept that all technology has an end) AND (you are smart, like Linus (probably, I haven't met him:))) AND (willing to let go of the concept of hardware vs. software). Mi2e-2
Why not give the first x readers (maybe selected upperclassslashdotterswithagoodhistory, randomized by subnet? or something) an option to somehow moderate messages . Power to quick readers! yeah:)Just my 2e-2
in essence you don't give a fuck. in essence you're not contributing. in essence you're e g o i s t i c. in essence this is oversimplified, off course:)
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What do you say to the people that feel it is unethical to try to create "intelligence"?
>I take this as a shorter version of the longer religious question the editor thankfully didn't select.
How about taking it in another way. If AI can do some good for the world, it can do some bad as well...:-( AI is potentially very powerfull tool (IMHO more powerfull than atomic weapons).
>Jobs in AI are just like software jobs everywhere
Who says AI is to be made in software... I sure don't think so. I think AI is about communication, and that (amount&kind) just isn't available on any current computersystem.
>but nobody can write a coherent program bigger than 10M lines
Which proves my/another point: who says it needs to be one single programme...
>i say that AI == American Intelligence...
Oh... that's why it isn't working...:-)
When Andrew Cady said that this is just the design for a chip he is right. Right now you need an FPGA or a FAB to use the design. This is like a CD 15 years ago: couldn't make 'm yourself. OTOH right now you can, and I never imagined that. As I cannot imagine having my own FAB (well... it'll come). When you look at current technology, the next thing is Systems On Chip (SOC), and you need to get designs (copyrighted or not) to combine and make SOC's.
Boxes plugged in the poweroutlet. LCD's used as portable (text)terminals (nice for bedtime reading or cooking [in the kitchen]). Calculator which can put the answer directly in my text (no more typing there).
The only problem is, that power is harder to beam
I think that information becomes much more portable now!
I always have to lay my cables along my walls. Then there are also walls with doors in 'm, so I can't put 3 ethernet cables there. One at most. Linea recta though, there is no distance larger than 7.75 meters (25.4 feet). My cables easily reach about 15 meters (about 50 feet).
I ask you: is Windows for the masses an acceptable solution? Wouldn't that be rather cruel :-)
Since you live in a community, you have community rules and community obligations and community advantages. Question: whose fault is it that a certain form of community does not work for certain individuals? Answer: not answerable. Question2: do you care about the people around you? Answer: answer yourself, but don't start complaining if your answer boomerangs back to you. Btw, the vs has the highest CRIMERATE in the world, despite of its large community enforcement agency. THIS IS the boomerang mentioned...
The future of OSs *is* voice recognition though... I want to see the end of keyboards. And mice.
I agree with the keyboards and (especially) mice becoming a drag. There are other inputdevices possible as well. There are alternatives.
Thinking here about the computer seeing when the navigator window has to scroll just by looking at your eyes. Knowing to stop when your pupils changes size, etc etc.
And off course: combinations of all the new inputdevices. Interaction through question-and-answer with your computer (computer: "give me a smile for Gnome, cry if you want to start KDE").
I, and many people on campusses have permanent 100 KB/s connections. I think there's no firewall between my compu and the TechUni. Costs $5 a month :-)
:-) Maybe it's time to get interested finally.
Shutting it of would be difficult. Especially because I'm hardware interested, and don't care about my (windhoos) OS
This is going to be so good for Linux. Who is going to pay for all their Word, Dexcel, Powerpoint etc? Not me! Lotsa people pay for the OS Windows, but not their other progs. This probably means a change for me to Linux.
History:
First M$ helps getting software around the world (/salesman/'yes, off course this software enhances your life...'//salesman/).
Second Linux is develloping to a mature stadium.
And third: M$ is placing itself out of the consumer market.
And all in the right time.
Since I Internet for about 30 euro per month, it is almost worth moving (but there were other reasons too).
I think there should be a new poll:
How is your sex life:
-I'm happily married
-I date a lot
-I'm married
-I have a girlfriend
-I was married
-I had a girlfriend once
-I hear them banging next door
-I see some women occasionally
-I have some female relatives
-I know there is an X and Y option in my genes, but I don't know the datatype
:-)
I don't use Linux, but that is partly because of this driver issue.
moderator points, what is that? :-)
Only crimes that are detectable can be dealt with by the government (and detectionpossibilities have just been added)
- --------------------
/.-ers, because now criminals will pay you a lott to counter this new technology :->
The government can only uphold laws which they can regulate (and new means of producing evidence have just been added).
Crime will not go away ("if the nerd can have a beamer, so can I").
+ -------------------------------------------------
Crime will be more violent and 'off this world'. This is bad news, because the effect is the same as with crashing cars vs. crashing boeings. The car crash could be prevented but does not significantly add to the feeling of insecurity in society. The boeingcrash will allways tear apart society. In the end heavy crime will (and more frequently) distress society.
This is good news for
The above post mention cleaning up code first, then maybe do, maybe do not consider optimizing. The considerations I would make are:
How easy is it to replace your software (is it embedded vs. 'notepad').
Are other factors (power usage, lower hardware costs, possible extra features) of importance.
I've heard that commercial compilers (vs. university ones) are slow to incorporate new techniques. I've been told by my lecturer that for example global variables are not stored in registers. Well, that sounds pretty stupid to me (but who am I to judge). Maybe it is possible to compare these two sorts to figure out the hard parts of compiling. Have phun,
The internet has an even better property when it comes to the 'well water'-part. The water that is clean, stays clean. There can be polluted water, but it is added to, and not mixed with, the well.
There are off course some gatekeepers, just as in social life. I live near Amsterdam, but my social life does not incorporate using drugs. The same for the internet. My technews comes from a few 'normalized' sources (/. included). In Amsterdam I've been near coffeeshops (these are the places where _soft_drugs are tolerated), but it does not attract me personally. But you know I get spammed in my snailmailbox as well? I get lott's of stuff which go directly to my oldpaperbin.
As for the part of being able to identify yourself is an intirely different matter. I do think you should be able to say: this is me, person xyz, living in abc, being able to pay 123 and you can check that at the qrs-bank. It should be possible safely (encrypted).
Mi2e-2
Suppose you get perfect/indistinguishable human-computer I/O interfaces
combined with
The experience of a human put on a disc with more molecules than 'the (very interesting) life you just bought, now on sale for 34 Euro 95'
would that result in the possibility
to be virtually interesting
The idea of general purpose computing is falling down. When you want a game-computer, you get game-instructions. When you want multimedia, you get MultiMediaX10sions.
This means that real general purpose programming is _*relatively*_ becoming slower.
Since all computing is getting faster that is not a real problem. The second solution to that problem is connectivity. When you need the solution to a problem, why not beam it to a computer that can handle all this speciality for your specific problem (rent Cray-time, etc).
Why this is difficult (unless they do not deserve any engineering grade): .....
-There are several means to establish temperature measurements (power usage of fridge, temp. sensor(+low-pass filter), halfway-temperature measurement [in the middle of the insulation], any of the above in multiple form, etc
-There are several means to detect hacks (sudden temp drops, below average temp (-5oC in June), etc...)
have phun
MP3 is a good choice since it has good compression and is available. It (should) support variable bitrates. Consider the workload of true-speed compression in MPEG 1 Layer III since it is rather high (lotsa FFT & psychoaccoustic stuff). Off course: higher compression :: more work. Maybe there are DSP's available to do this for you.
there is lotsa stuff & references in the 'IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE', september '97 issue. Maybe someone has something more recent? Mi2e-2
IMHO communications between die's are too slow: _accept it_, use it, consider it a problem to be solved. It is so fundamental dease days that silicon is reaching it top spead, that you shouldn't want to go around this problem. It should be dealt with. Mi2e-2
IMHO the guys at TransMeta (read: Transport Metastuff) got smart and analysed the technology they've been using the last couple of years. This is not so difficult IF (you accept that all technology has an end) AND (you are smart, like Linus (probably, I haven't met him :))) AND (willing to let go of the concept of hardware vs. software). Mi2e-2
Why not give the first x readers (maybe selected upperclassslashdotterswithagoodhistory, randomized by subnet? or something) an option to somehow moderate messages . Power to quick readers! yeah :)Just my 2e-2
in essence you don't give a fuck. :)
in essence you're not contributing.
in essence you're e g o i s t i c.
in essence this is oversimplified, off course