He predicted that everyone would be walking around with personal assistant computers in their pockets at a time when bigger is better desktop computers were the commonly predicted trend for computers.
I played with eliza circa 1979 on a trs-80 and wrote a "copy" in BASIC a few years later on DEC/VAX BASIC. I don't know very much about AI, but my eliza experiences are as far away from what I imagine AI really is as you can get. A bunch of canned responses to parsed sentences looking for topics with minimal learning (Hi Dave, how are you feeling?).
I read one of Ray Krezul's books. A lot of people hate him, but at least he has some original ideas, or at least popularized a few and it has helped guide my career.
OS/2 was the reason I started reading./ and learned about it and operating systems.
It has a funky memory management system and I'm not sure why anyone wold want to use it now over *NIX. The synchronous input que on the GUI basically doomed it (not counting IBM), but otherwise was pretty nice for the time and fun.
My second job, my boss (owner of the company) told me that the way to make a lot of money is to look for boring processes in the everyday grunt work of low tech, not high flying and sexy tech. Eg., find a way to save $0.01 on every gallon of paint sold not figuring out how to connect your dog's watering bowl to the internet.
Computers are cheap now, close to free if you look enough. None of my computers that have anything remotely valuable have internet access. That should be secure enough.
Ten years ago, I was wandering around the building where I worked and came across an Eclipse still in use. I'd read about this computer when I was a little kid and it's always held a important place in my life. They're occasionally sold on ebay, maybe someday I'll by one.
In all my years as a professional engineer (and the occasional job in physics), I can't recall ever having to solve a problem in multivariable calculus.
The vast majority of engineering problems that I've solved, I've done with high school level physics. The problem is that people take classes to pass the class that they are forced to take, not to learn physics.
This guy wrote a book on energy policy using nothing more complicated than high school physics, yet it's incomprehensible to most people who've supposedly have taken at least a year of physics.
I think I would have gotten bored instantly. I learned programming not as a subject, but on my own as a tool to solve problems that I wanted to solve.
Maybe find out what each student is interested in, give them a problem from that area and help them figure it out themselves. And none of that crap like cars have four wheels and two doors and motorcycles have two wheels but no doors crap. I've been writing software since '79 or '80 and professionally since about '85 and I still don't get a lot of that. A dog is a type of animal.
I haven't seen any of it, at least at the individual level. Where I do see it is management level (cost plus). This is a problem by both buyer (lack of oversight) and the supplier. But what's the alternative, NASA hiring another 20,000 people only to fire them when the latest rocket program gets cancelled? Then try and staff up when it gets refunded?
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He predicted that everyone would be walking around with personal assistant computers in their pockets at a time when bigger is better desktop computers were the commonly predicted trend for computers.
I played with eliza circa 1979 on a trs-80 and wrote a "copy" in BASIC a few years later on DEC/VAX BASIC. I don't know very much about AI, but my eliza experiences are as far away from what I imagine AI really is as you can get. A bunch of canned responses to parsed sentences looking for topics with minimal learning (Hi Dave, how are you feeling?).
I read one of Ray Krezul's books. A lot of people hate him, but at least he has some original ideas, or at least popularized a few and it has helped guide my career.
Mine's detachable.
It has a funky memory management system and I'm not sure why anyone wold want to use it now over *NIX. The synchronous input que on the GUI basically doomed it (not counting IBM), but otherwise was pretty nice for the time and fun.
My second job, my boss (owner of the company) told me that the way to make a lot of money is to look for boring processes in the everyday grunt work of low tech, not high flying and sexy tech. Eg., find a way to save $0.01 on every gallon of paint sold not figuring out how to connect your dog's watering bowl to the internet.
I think that html is Mindblowingly boring.
NASA said they got a lot of the science right, but that part of he movie was bogus. The writer admitted as much too, but needed it for the setup.
Computers are cheap now, close to free if you look enough. None of my computers that have anything remotely valuable have internet access. That should be secure enough.
I don't get it.
"all the other dumbass kids" are not going to do anything with it the rest of their lives, so it's a waste of time and resources for all involved.
Ten years ago, I was wandering around the building where I worked and came across an Eclipse still in use. I'd read about this computer when I was a little kid and it's always held a important place in my life. They're occasionally sold on ebay, maybe someday I'll by one.
And I didn't even have a computer.
It's different this time.
In all my years as a professional engineer (and the occasional job in physics), I can't recall ever having to solve a problem in multivariable calculus.
This guy wrote a book on energy policy using nothing more complicated than high school physics, yet it's incomprehensible to most people who've supposedly have taken at least a year of physics.
How semi-literate children in a remote Indian village taught themselves molecular biology
Maybe find out what each student is interested in, give them a problem from that area and help them figure it out themselves. And none of that crap like cars have four wheels and two doors and motorcycles have two wheels but no doors crap. I've been writing software since '79 or '80 and professionally since about '85 and I still don't get a lot of that. A dog is a type of animal.
I'm teaching mine to be suicidal. I can't tell if it's working or just really buggy.
I feel like I'm trapped in Idiocracy.
You are
Never in history has a college education been a guarantee of a job.
If I want a $5 bag-o-food, I'll make it myself for $2.
With amount of creative thought that goes into so many of these posts, I wonder why more people aren't concerned with proposed solutions.
They have a vested interest in bloat and delay.
I haven't seen any of it, at least at the individual level. Where I do see it is management level (cost plus). This is a problem by both buyer (lack of oversight) and the supplier. But what's the alternative, NASA hiring another 20,000 people only to fire them when the latest rocket program gets cancelled? Then try and staff up when it gets refunded?
There's probably more rationale here than many realize.
I'd doubt it. More like,
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.