No problem. We have almost forgotten that Poland and Germany invaded Czechoslovakia together in 1938. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... It was all fun and games then, wasn't it!
I switched to Linux about 6 weeks ago. I previously used Windows for about 20 years because most of the people who used my (ship hydrodynamics) software were Win users. Apart from many other benefits, I'm finding I now don't have to twist, distort and otherwise shoehorn many simple programs to work with Windows. I still have a Win7 machine but it never connects to the net. Hopefully Microsoft won't send one of their myrmidons around to force me to accept Win 10.
Good grief. Really? REALLY? From first principles, assuming only that someone has used a reasonably modern computer:
1) The purpose of a computer is to perform various series of small steps, called "instructions", assembled in an order such that each whole series of instructions can perform a more complex task than a single instruction can by itself.
2) These assemblies of instructions are called "programs."
3).
At this stage your best bet would be to line up some potatoes on the bench in front of the judge.
An analogy involved food/restaurants (which they DO understand) may be your only hope, since sex and excretory functions are off the table in terms of polite conversation.
How can you explain Microsoft's Win 10's strategy without referring to a shit sandwich?
500k BCE: 1st hominid catches on fire while dancing. 1931: Electric guitar invented. 1997: Zenith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... 2016: The End: Clinton, Trump, Radiohead.
Everybody's already uploaded everything to YouTube, and the service is really good--all you need is an adblocker and it's just about perfect. Why would anybody switch to Amazon?
Because your MySpace friends told you that's where all the cool AOL people hang out?
It's just one of many political tactics used by every political party or group of supporters.
If they are lies or dangerous, make sure you have a proper rebuttal ready but just don't block it.
That's your prerogative. Groups or media outlets who do block ideas/positions that are contrary to their own won't change to a neutral POV because you or others think they are "wrong". Organize your own outlet, boycott the ones you don't like, but squealing about its unfairness, or that is wrong, is piss-weak and ineffectual.
Crazy Liberal Views are just as bad and dangerous. And if you stop and listen to even the Crazy views you find that both sides are feeling that there is some force that is disempowering them. The Conservatives thinks it is the government who are making laws that hinders our freedoms. The Liberals thinks it is the company's who combine low pay with expensive products that prevents us to get ahead.
Both sides see that there are people with power to control us and get the feeling the games is stacked against them.
And if the "Conservatives" and "Liberals" just whine about it, media outlets will continue to push their preferred positions and agenda. They will distort, lie and dissemble whenever it is in their interest to do so. Out-competing them by taking their clicks, readers and viewers is the only way to effect change, and that requires considerable numbers, money, effort, organization and commitment.
300+ million Americans can squeal in proportion to their outrage, but if they buy and consume what Murdoch, Zuckerberg et al dish up, then they're just background noise. Those you despise will laugh and skip to the bank, and into the halls of power.
The US deserves either Clinton or Trump, Enjoy your shit sandwich!
Lem proposed many years ago that we might not recognize intelligent life even if we were looking at it. How would we know if the red spot on Jupiter was a life form? And what could we do if we knew it was?
Maybe the Chinese government has decided that it is in the best interests for China to appropriate the best technology that is available. (Plus a little extra as payback for the Treaty of Wanghia and the Opium Wars.) I'm sure that China will advise the US when the debt has been squared.
Maybe they don't care for that type of "system". It's not like US is destined to continue as it is forever. If they have over-whelming numbers, they might be able to change it to something else, for good or ill.
Good summary. (I bet you could keep adding to that list!) If the present electoral system doesn't represent them adequately, I hope they find other ways to achieve their aims.
I wonder whether part of the present dissatisfaction lies in the enormous differences between US states, e.g. the more technologically affluent states vs the Bible Belt. Why should techno-savvy educated people have anything to do with deluded religious troglodytes, or be subject to their laws?
Starcraft is too much of a toy world to be convincing of AI capabilities. A grander challenge, but still toy-world, would be some smaller games, like the Space Station 13 series. Unlike Go, Star Craft and other games, SS13 success relies on some degree of co-operation between players. Teenagers, especially, use natural language and anti-language, with words and expressions that only small groups within the "in-crowd" understand. Once adults (or AIs?) start using the same groovy words, kids will often then start using other words and phrases. I'd love to see how an AI performs in games where it doesn't even know all the meanings of words, or where the opposite meaning of a word is obvious to a closed group.
There is only one book that he needs. Abramowitz and Stegun - Handbook of Mathematical Functions. A printed copy is about $30. Or get him the pdf for free.
Irony on the noscript,net page... Forbes: "The real key to defeating malware isn't antivirus but approaches like Firefox's NoScript plug-in, which blocks Web pages from running potentially malicious programs" (Dec 11, 2008, Andy Greenberg, Filter The Virus Filters).
My favourite over the last 12 months (12 years, actually) has been Fortran 95, simply because it is the best language for my work. Java is more of a young person's language. For me it would be like taking ecstasy of dubious provenance instead of large doses of clean, pharmaceutical amphetamines. (And no, I'm not sharing mine!)
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No problem. We have almost forgotten that Poland and Germany invaded Czechoslovakia together in 1938.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It was all fun and games then, wasn't it!
IWPTA: Who the fuck do you think you are to claim exclusive ownership of a very large number?
I switched to Linux about 6 weeks ago. I previously used Windows for about 20 years because most of the people who used my (ship hydrodynamics) software were Win users.
Apart from many other benefits, I'm finding I now don't have to twist, distort and otherwise shoehorn many simple programs to work with Windows.
I still have a Win7 machine but it never connects to the net. Hopefully Microsoft won't send one of their myrmidons around to force me to accept Win 10.
Win 10's default "camera on" setting means Microsoft need someone to distribute photos taken in kids' bedrooms. Why not Amazon.
Good grief. Really? REALLY? From first principles, assuming only that someone has used a reasonably modern computer:
1) The purpose of a computer is to perform various series of small steps, called "instructions", assembled in an order such that each whole series of instructions can perform a more complex task than a single instruction can by itself.
2) These assemblies of instructions are called "programs."
3) .
At this stage your best bet would be to line up some potatoes on the bench in front of the judge.
An analogy involved food/restaurants (which they DO understand) may be your only hope, since sex and excretory functions are off the table in terms of polite conversation.
How can you explain Microsoft's Win 10's strategy without referring to a shit sandwich?
White-space was among the greatest innovations.
500k BCE: 1st hominid catches on fire while dancing.
1931: Electric guitar invented.
1997: Zenith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
2016: The End: Clinton, Trump, Radiohead.
That's chicken feed compared to what will be spent on bots and holograms for the 2020 Olympic opening ceremony.
Everybody's already uploaded everything to YouTube, and the service is really good--all you need is an adblocker and it's just about perfect. Why would anybody switch to Amazon?
Because your MySpace friends told you that's where all the cool AOL people hang out?
Blocking opposing views is wrong.
It's just one of many political tactics used by every political party or group of supporters.
If they are lies or dangerous, make sure you have a proper rebuttal ready but just don't block it.
That's your prerogative. Groups or media outlets who do block ideas/positions that are contrary to their own won't change to a neutral POV because you or others think they are "wrong". Organize your own outlet, boycott the ones you don't like, but squealing about its unfairness, or that is wrong, is piss-weak and ineffectual.
Crazy Liberal Views are just as bad and dangerous. And if you stop and listen to even the Crazy views you find that both sides are feeling that there is some force that is disempowering them. The Conservatives thinks it is the government who are making laws that hinders our freedoms. The Liberals thinks it is the company's who combine low pay with expensive products that prevents us to get ahead.
Both sides see that there are people with power to control us and get the feeling the games is stacked against them.
And if the "Conservatives" and "Liberals" just whine about it, media outlets will continue to push their preferred positions and agenda. They will distort, lie and dissemble whenever it is in their interest to do so. Out-competing them by taking their clicks, readers and viewers is the only way to effect change, and that requires considerable numbers, money, effort, organization and commitment.
300+ million Americans can squeal in proportion to their outrage, but if they buy and consume what Murdoch, Zuckerberg et al dish up, then they're just background noise. Those you despise will laugh and skip to the bank, and into the halls of power.
The US deserves either Clinton or Trump, Enjoy your shit sandwich!
Lem proposed many years ago that we might not recognize intelligent life even if we were looking at it.
How would we know if the red spot on Jupiter was a life form? And what could we do if we knew it was?
I want an "AI button" on the front of the case, just like the old Turbo button
which gave incredible improvements in performance.
It's pocket shrapnel compared to maintaining the US Banking edifice over the last few years.
Maybe the Chinese government has decided that it is in the best interests for China to appropriate the best technology that is available. (Plus a little extra as payback for the Treaty of Wanghia and the Opium Wars.)
I'm sure that China will advise the US when the debt has been squared.
How will they ever know what Capitalism truly is if they continue to use Ad Blockers?
Maybe they don't care for that type of "system". It's not like US is destined to continue as it is forever.
If they have over-whelming numbers, they might be able to change it to something else, for good or ill.
Good summary. (I bet you could keep adding to that list!)
If the present electoral system doesn't represent them adequately, I hope they find other ways to achieve their aims.
I wonder whether part of the present dissatisfaction lies in the enormous differences between US states, e.g. the more technologically affluent states vs the Bible Belt. Why should techno-savvy educated people have anything to do with deluded religious troglodytes, or be subject to their laws?
Starcraft is too much of a toy world to be convincing of AI capabilities.
A grander challenge, but still toy-world, would be some smaller games, like the Space Station 13 series. Unlike Go, Star Craft and other games, SS13 success relies on some degree of co-operation between players.
Teenagers, especially, use natural language and anti-language, with words and expressions that only small groups within the "in-crowd" understand. Once adults (or AIs?) start using the same groovy words, kids will often then start using other words and phrases.
I'd love to see how an AI performs in games where it doesn't even know all the meanings of words, or where the opposite meaning of a word is obvious to a closed group.
There is only one book that he needs.
Abramowitz and Stegun - Handbook of Mathematical Functions.
A printed copy is about $30. Or get him the pdf for free.
Irony on the noscript,net page...
Forbes: "The real key to defeating malware isn't antivirus but approaches like Firefox's NoScript plug-in, which blocks Web pages from running potentially malicious programs" (Dec 11, 2008, Andy Greenberg, Filter The Virus Filters).
Exactly. I don't even need most of the "features" in Fortran.
Close: on a Tandy 4k machine. Uni used marked cards, but I refused to study compsci until they at least had screens and a keyboard.
My favourite over the last 12 months (12 years, actually) has been Fortran 95, simply because it is the best language for my work.
Java is more of a young person's language.
For me it would be like taking ecstasy of dubious provenance instead of large doses of clean, pharmaceutical amphetamines.
(And no, I'm not sharing mine!)
In Figure 1 of the paper, which one is the drummer?