Me too. "God made the world in 7 days" sounds far simpler than anything science has come up with. As simple as the explanation might be though, I still don't believe in God. Occam might have been a smart guy but his razor isn't the answer to every question.
Until you ask the question, "where did God come from". And, Occam's Razor isn't the answer to any question. It isn't about answering questions. It's about balancing the realtive likelihood of several potential answers to a question which can't be proven.
Apple can't ignore everything EU and continue to trade within the EU. If they want to sell their product here, they have to abide by our laws. It's then their choice if they want to follow those rulings and change the product in all markets to be consistent, or to sell a different product in different markets according to each one's laws. Same with this Slide To Unlock - anyone else who wants to sell a product with slide-to-unlock in the EU can do so, as long as they implement it differently in the US market. If this sticks, though, I suspect they will go with the consistency approach, and the USPTO will end up having screwed over EU consumers as much as US.
By definition, anyone suffering from psychopathy has a pathology, which is another word for a disease or malady. There may be psychological behaviours that would be described in the vernacular as pathological but are actually from a formal medical perspective not psychopathic, but I would expect that a medical research paper like this would be using the medical term rather than the vernacular.
It already does. If you go to wikipedia.it you get redirected to it.wikipedia.org.
This is ridiculous. A web site hosted in the US that just happens to be in the Italian language should no more be subject to Italian laws than the English wikipedia is. They should just redirect the Italian IP address range to the explanatory page.
A software platform that changes and breaks compatability every few months is a ridiculous idea. I have programs that I haven't changed in 15 years that I still use. Google aren't updating Google Toolbar for newer versions of Firefox, and it's just stopped working for me with this release of Firefox. Google Toolbar (specifically, Google Bookmarks) is the only thing that's been keeping me in Firefox.
Is there a browser or extension (other than IE with Google Bookmarks) that lets me use Google Bookmarks as a menu like in Google Toolbar? I've tried Opera with a third party add on but that just makes random icons hover in stupid places that don't do anything.
Two of my friends had to create new Facebook accounts because they lost control of their original ones to scammers - one of them is fairly well known, I'm guessing 10% of Slashdotters know his name and 99% know the computer game that he is most famous for. One of my friends is on his second account due to having set up the first with a fake email address and forgetting the password. Another friend is on at least his third, maybe his fourth account due to being such a towel.
If I lose my Facebook account, do I lose my Spotify as well, along with any other services that use Facebook as single sign on?
I think that once people realised that chess is subject to pure computational analysis, it ceased to become a benchmark for AI. But your basic point that the state of the art hasn't moved on much in 40 years isn't far from the mark. Reading some of the later chapters of GEB made me realise just how advanced knowledge processing already was back then, stuff that I would have marvelled at as new and amazing if I saw it today.
I think what has happened in AI is that the old approach of systematically breaking down the world and rebuilding it as a model inside the computer had to be abandoned, and the new approach of modelling the brain at an operation level (neural networks) had to be invented from scratch and is only now starting to approach the same level of capability that the old approach got to.
Victimless crimes are the only crimes that need undercover cops? Where does that logic come from? So the police don't need to infiltrate the Mafia or terrorist groups?
The OP is talking about how unlikely it is that evolution can produce a new species from more than one breeding pair. However, it is not necessary to assume that that must have happened, because it is not unlikely at all. It happens all the time, all new species are descended from more than one pair of individuals of a pre-existing species.
The alternative to that seems to be that there were multiple sets of humans who evolved into humans during a similar period of time on an evolutionary scale... multiple apes each independently evolving into human beings that have sufficiently equivalent DNA and reproductive systems compatible enough to themselves reproduce.
The mutations didn't happen simultaneously within one generation. One ape gains a human-like mutation which is somehow advantageous, such as improved vocal control, and this mutation spreads through the population over a few thousand years. Then another human-like mutation occurs, lets say something to do with spinal cord development allowing her to walk more upright, which over many generations also spreads through the population.
We are all descended from the majority of the population of hominids that were around at the time that these mutations occurred, just as I am descended from all 8 of my great great grandfathers even though I only have the Y chromosome from one of them. If that Y chromosome has a mutation with a significant advantage, it might spread throughout the population and become dominant and be a trait of a new breed of humans, but it can't take away from the fact that all 8 of those men contributed to the current generation's genetic diversity.
Trivia answer: "reverend", "eternity", and "grandmother". Apparently. So says the interweb, anyway. Not sure if this takes into account various translations.
I didn't say they will be carbon based bipeds with two eyes and Christian religion.
I said they will have been formed by natural selection, and therefore they either will be resource-strippers, or they will have discovered something that allows them to move beyond the resource-strip phase of their development.
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Surely, all of psychology is invalidated by one researcher faking his data. Psychology is clearly bunk. Next!
Me too. "God made the world in 7 days" sounds far simpler than anything science has come up with. As simple as the explanation might be though, I still don't believe in God. Occam might have been a smart guy but his razor isn't the answer to every question.
Until you ask the question, "where did God come from". And, Occam's Razor isn't the answer to any question. It isn't about answering questions. It's about balancing the realtive likelihood of several potential answers to a question which can't be proven.
Apple can't ignore everything EU and continue to trade within the EU. If they want to sell their product here, they have to abide by our laws. It's then their choice if they want to follow those rulings and change the product in all markets to be consistent, or to sell a different product in different markets according to each one's laws. Same with this Slide To Unlock - anyone else who wants to sell a product with slide-to-unlock in the EU can do so, as long as they implement it differently in the US market. If this sticks, though, I suspect they will go with the consistency approach, and the USPTO will end up having screwed over EU consumers as much as US.
By definition, anyone suffering from psychopathy has a pathology, which is another word for a disease or malady. There may be psychological behaviours that would be described in the vernacular as pathological but are actually from a formal medical perspective not psychopathic, but I would expect that a medical research paper like this would be using the medical term rather than the vernacular.
I think you may have missed the humorous nature of his post. No, on second thoughts, you definitely missed it.
He said "company", not "corporation". There's a big difference, at least in the vernacular usage.
It already does. If you go to wikipedia.it you get redirected to it.wikipedia.org.
This is ridiculous. A web site hosted in the US that just happens to be in the Italian language should no more be subject to Italian laws than the English wikipedia is. They should just redirect the Italian IP address range to the explanatory page.
I invested in a NAS Drive ... but I just learned yesterday it's limited to 2GB drives (SCREW YOU SPARC!).
2GB drives? Those are hard to come by nowadays.
I am now using GMarks and am delighted with it, if anyone's in the same boat as me.
A software platform that changes and breaks compatability every few months is a ridiculous idea. I have programs that I haven't changed in 15 years that I still use. Google aren't updating Google Toolbar for newer versions of Firefox, and it's just stopped working for me with this release of Firefox. Google Toolbar (specifically, Google Bookmarks) is the only thing that's been keeping me in Firefox.
Is there a browser or extension (other than IE with Google Bookmarks) that lets me use Google Bookmarks as a menu like in Google Toolbar? I've tried Opera with a third party add on but that just makes random icons hover in stupid places that don't do anything.
Two of my friends had to create new Facebook accounts because they lost control of their original ones to scammers - one of them is fairly well known, I'm guessing 10% of Slashdotters know his name and 99% know the computer game that he is most famous for. One of my friends is on his second account due to having set up the first with a fake email address and forgetting the password. Another friend is on at least his third, maybe his fourth account due to being such a towel.
If I lose my Facebook account, do I lose my Spotify as well, along with any other services that use Facebook as single sign on?
Maybe there's one floating around here that could comment on whether this might be deemed unconscionable?
The Supreme Court don't think so
In the US, yes you can
Then they sue you for unautorised access to their network and have you thrown into Mitnick's old cell.
It is an ARM. PC means "Personal Computer", it does not mean "IBM compatible".
They have a news article about this machine and are speculating themselves as to what it might be
http://www.suasnews.com/2011/08/7869/that-mystery-bird-shaped-drone/
Sadly, the subtitles are blocked along with the rest of YouTube.
I think that once people realised that chess is subject to pure computational analysis, it ceased to become a benchmark for AI. But your basic point that the state of the art hasn't moved on much in 40 years isn't far from the mark. Reading some of the later chapters of GEB made me realise just how advanced knowledge processing already was back then, stuff that I would have marvelled at as new and amazing if I saw it today.
I think what has happened in AI is that the old approach of systematically breaking down the world and rebuilding it as a model inside the computer had to be abandoned, and the new approach of modelling the brain at an operation level (neural networks) had to be invented from scratch and is only now starting to approach the same level of capability that the old approach got to.
Victimless crimes are the only crimes that need undercover cops? Where does that logic come from? So the police don't need to infiltrate the Mafia or terrorist groups?
Yes, but who thinks of that when they're 14? Not sure if Facebook can match up a picture of a 25 year old to their 14-year-old self though.
The OP is talking about how unlikely it is that evolution can produce a new species from more than one breeding pair. However, it is not necessary to assume that that must have happened, because it is not unlikely at all. It happens all the time, all new species are descended from more than one pair of individuals of a pre-existing species.
The alternative to that seems to be that there were multiple sets of humans who evolved into humans during a similar period of time on an evolutionary scale... multiple apes each independently evolving into human beings that have sufficiently equivalent DNA and reproductive systems compatible enough to themselves reproduce.
The mutations didn't happen simultaneously within one generation. One ape gains a human-like mutation which is somehow advantageous, such as improved vocal control, and this mutation spreads through the population over a few thousand years. Then another human-like mutation occurs, lets say something to do with spinal cord development allowing her to walk more upright, which over many generations also spreads through the population.
We are all descended from the majority of the population of hominids that were around at the time that these mutations occurred, just as I am descended from all 8 of my great great grandfathers even though I only have the Y chromosome from one of them. If that Y chromosome has a mutation with a significant advantage, it might spread throughout the population and become dominant and be a trait of a new breed of humans, but it can't take away from the fact that all 8 of those men contributed to the current generation's genetic diversity.
"Lilith" appears only once in the Hebrew version, but is translated various ways in English versions and so loses its uniqueness.
Trivia answer: "reverend", "eternity", and "grandmother". Apparently. So says the interweb, anyway. Not sure if this takes into account various translations.
I didn't say they will be carbon based bipeds with two eyes and Christian religion.
I said they will have been formed by natural selection, and therefore they either will be resource-strippers, or they will have discovered something that allows them to move beyond the resource-strip phase of their development.