AI is hardly impossible given our currently available technology. However, it is currently impractical by currently available means for one even to go about simulating a brain, much less at the same speed a human thinks. 20 billion neurons of more than a dozen different types take up a lot of ram, not to mention disk space.
Outside of the technological hurdles that will eventually go away, Knowledge of human brain is reaching a critical mass which will eventually result in a basic artificial intelligence. Don't expect the first one to have godlike intelligence or whatnot. Don't even expect it to be totally sane from our point of view. And for God's sake, don't expect the Asimov Rules, as they are nearly impossible to implement when dealing with something as complex as a neural network.
Hrm.. Article seems to have a very misleading title. The neuron depicted in the image certainly has nothing to do with thinking; It clearly has very little if any dendrites, although it does have a clearly definable axon, and thus this is a unipolar neuron, already known to exist in embryonic tissue!
It doesn't article seem to be very groundbreaking work, however it does seem to jive well with the function of the Cajal-Retzius cells found in Layer 1 of the cerebral cortex. It is probable that these cells mature into Cajal-Retzius cells, or perform a similar function earlier in development.
How about a site specially made just for anonymously reporting vulnerabilities in software. How difficult would it be? How difficult is it to guarantee anonymity this way? Such a site would make it easy to expose vulnerabilities, but it would also have to be capable of weathering DOS attacks from those that are less than scrupulous.
I would say the Bush administration is more analogous to WW 2 Nationalist Party of Japan or the Fascist Party of Italy than to Germany's Nationalist Socialists, as Neoconservatives could hardly be called socialist in any stretch of the imagination.
Just create a couple gigs of nothing but encryption keys on your hard disk, then choose an arbitrary number of them randomly whenever you want to encrypt something. When they want the keys... give them the entire contents of that partition.
Steve Job's buy, when he can get the Mouse for free? Look, Apple purchased NeXT, Apple became Steve's Company... Disney purchased Pixar, well, look at that, Steve is now majority stockholder.... hrm.......... The question is, how long until he starts replacing the rest of the old board members with his people?
a lot of HR types haven't the foggiest idea of what most buzzwords are from any particular field. In particular, for the programming field, there are a number of cases where a job's requirements are ambiguous, and in others they are overly specific. They pretty much just try to match up requirements without understanding really what they are.
Or is there something of ubuntu that I'm missing. It default configuration seems incredibly sluggish when compared to Suse 10 or even MS's crap, especially when launching new applications. Is there some way to fix this?
Umm. Have you actually read the constitution? I mean, recently?
Articles IX and X basically give rights not in the constitution and not reserved to the government and state to the people.
Article IX: The Enumeration in the Constitution, of certain Rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the People.
Article X: The Powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively or to the People.
This basically means that the government shouldn't just take rights away like that just because they aren't specifically granted by the constitution!
In fact, it CAN even be implied by also considering article 4.
Article IV: The Right of the People to be secure In their Persons, Houses, Papers, and Effects, against unreasonable Searches and Seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable Cause, supported by Oath or Affirmation, and particularly describing the Place to be searched, and the Persons or Things to be seized.
This article omits some very important facts related to how events occurred. Specifically within the contractor that produced them. Anyone who has taken an engineering ethics course should have seen this material already:
Look at what happened the last time someone bought one of Job's companies... he took it over! And Steve already had significant stock and a board seat in Disney to begin with this time...
Surrounding yourself with talent is not just for challenge.
Consider the everday difficulty (and resultant frustration) brilliant people have dumbing down conversations with people of average intellect.
Now consider that a conversation between two brilliant people is usually devoid of such a problem, and at worst, such a conversation would be enlightening for one of the participants.
Heck, just find the unluck variable... and set it by default absurdly high. then do the same with the initial prayer timeout variable. nethack will do the rest....
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AI is hardly impossible given our currently available technology.
However, it is currently impractical by currently available means
for one even to go about simulating a brain, much less at the
same speed a human thinks. 20 billion neurons of more than a
dozen different types take up a lot of ram, not to mention disk
space.
Outside of the technological hurdles that will eventually go away,
Knowledge of human brain is reaching a critical mass which will
eventually result in a basic artificial intelligence. Don't expect the
first one to have godlike intelligence or whatnot. Don't even expect
it to be totally sane from our point of view. And for God's sake,
don't expect the Asimov Rules, as they are nearly impossible to
implement when dealing with something as complex as a neural
network.
Hrm.. Article seems to have a very misleading title. The neuron depicted in the
image certainly has nothing to do with thinking; It clearly has very little if any
dendrites, although it does have a clearly definable axon, and thus this is a unipolar
neuron, already known to exist in embryonic tissue!
Neuron types
It doesn't article seem to be very groundbreaking work, however it does seem to jive well
with the function of the Cajal-Retzius cells found in Layer 1 of the cerebral cortex. It is
probable that these cells mature into Cajal-Retzius cells, or perform a similar function
earlier in development.
fire the moron who decided that it was okay to put sensitive information in
a machine that was online.
the hell out of the american school system if you can.
Home schooling is your friend.
Of particular interest to you may be John Gatto's book,
The Underground History of American Education.
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm
Except then you have to worry about undetonated bombs that didn't detonate the mines....
Stop believing what you hear on TV....
The man never claimed invention of the internet.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
90 days for hackers to find an exploit in Wga to subvert microsoft's own servers into spambots.
Dozens of sites on it too:
G oogle+Search/
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=lojban&btnG=
Someone mod parent +1 funny!. My points expired :(
How about a site specially made just for anonymously reporting vulnerabilities in software. How difficult would it be? How difficult is it to guarantee anonymity this way?
Such a site would make it easy to expose vulnerabilities, but it would also have to be capable of weathering DOS attacks from those that are less than scrupulous.
I would say the Bush administration is more analogous to WW 2 Nationalist Party of Japan or the Fascist Party of Italy
than to Germany's Nationalist Socialists, as Neoconservatives could hardly be called socialist in any stretch of the
imagination.
Just create a couple gigs of nothing but encryption keys on your hard disk, then choose an arbitrary number of them randomly whenever you want to encrypt something. When they want the keys... give them the entire contents of that partition.
Farnsworth: These are the dark matter engines I invented. They allow my starship to travel between galaxies in mere hours.
....
Cubert: That's impossible. You can't go faster than the speed of light.
Farnsworth: Of course not. That's why scientists increased the speed of light in 2208.
Cubert: Also impossible.
Farnsworth: And what makes my engines truly remarkable is the afterburner which delivers 200% fuel efficiency.
Cubert: That's especially impossible.
Farnsworth: Not at all. It's very simple.
Cubert: Then explain it.
Farnsworth: Now that's impossible. It came to me in a dream and I forgot it in another dream.
Cubert: Your explanations are pure weapons-grade bolog-nium. It's all impossible.
Farnsworth: Nothing is impossible. Not if you can imagine it. That's what being is a scientist is all about.
Cubert: No, that's what being a magical elf is all about.
Dual booting actually works out of the box with grub on Suse 10.
Although trying to set it up manually after an upgrade install is
still tricky.
I concur, I haven't seen any form of advertising coming out of Novell in years....
Come on Novell! Learn how to advertise, You can't afford not to.
Steve Job's buy, when he can get the Mouse for free?
Look, Apple purchased NeXT, Apple became Steve's Company...
Disney purchased Pixar, well, look at that, Steve is now
majority stockholder.... hrm.......... The question is,
how long until he starts replacing the rest of the old
board members with his people?
a lot of HR types haven't the foggiest idea of what most buzzwords are from any particular field. In particular, for the programming field, there are a number of cases where a job's requirements are ambiguous, and in others they are overly specific. They pretty much just try to match up requirements without understanding really what they are.
Why ubuntu and not something.... better?
Or is there something of ubuntu that I'm missing. It default configuration seems
incredibly sluggish when compared to Suse 10 or even MS's crap, especially when
launching new applications. Is there some way to fix this?
Umm. Have you actually read the constitution? I mean, recently?
Articles IX and X basically give rights not in the constitution and not reserved to the government and state to the people.
Article IX:
The Enumeration in the Constitution, of certain Rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the People.
Article X:
The Powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively or to the People.
This basically means that the government shouldn't just take rights away like that just because they aren't specifically granted by the constitution!
In fact, it CAN even be implied by also considering article 4.
Article IV:
The Right of the People to be secure In their Persons, Houses, Papers, and Effects, against unreasonable Searches and Seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable Cause, supported by Oath or Affirmation, and particularly describing the Place to be searched, and the Persons or Things to be seized.
This article omits some very important facts related to how events
o nlineethics.org/moral/boisjoly/RB-intro.html+&hl=e n&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1
o nlineethics.org/essays/shuttle/telecon.html+&hl=en &gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1
occurred. Specifically within the contractor that produced them.
Anyone who has taken an engineering ethics course should have seen this material already:
google's cache of onlineethics.org
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:QhdMxzQaNpoJ:
Slightly more damning is that the engineers from the contractor attempted to have the launch delayed and were overturned by the management.
another google cache.
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:1AGp_WgV7w8J:
Look at what happened the last time someone bought one of Job's companies...
he took it over! And Steve already had significant stock and a board seat
in Disney to begin with this time...
Surrounding yourself with talent is not just for challenge.
Consider the everday difficulty (and resultant frustration)
brilliant people have dumbing down conversations with people
of average intellect.
Now consider that a conversation between two brilliant
people is usually devoid of such a problem, and at worst,
such a conversation would be enlightening for one of the
participants.
Heck, just find the unluck variable... and set it by default absurdly high.
then do the same with the initial prayer timeout variable.
nethack will do the rest....
Bah. Everyone knows that God's programming language is C, even google.
/* for malloc */ /* for earth */ /* for heaven */ /* for perror */
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <planet.h>
#include <firmament.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
planet *earth = (void *)0;
firmament *heaven;
earth = (planet *)malloc(sizeof(planet));
if (earth == (void *)0) { perror("Unable to create planet!\n"); exit(1); }
/* some defaults */
earth.land = 0.0f;
earth.sea = 1.0f;
earth.form = 0;
earth.time = (void *)0;
light = (photon_source *)calloc(1, sizeof(photon_source));
if (light == (void *)0) { perror("Unable to create light!\n"); exit(2); }
light.state = DAY;
earth.time = light;
.....
Brilliant, not posting your actual address might have been a good idea....
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