Since 1993, performance of the #1 ranked position has grown steadily in accord with Moore's law, doubling roughly every 14 months. As of November 2014, Tianhe-2 was fastest with an Rpeak[6] of 54.9024 PFLOPS, is over 419,102 times faster than the fastest system in November 1993, the Connection Machine CM-5/1024 (1024 cores) with Rpeak of 131.0 GFLOPS.[7]
As the trend continues for increases of processing power while cost decreases, the only real question to me is at what point is there critical mass enough where simulation can evolve strong AI. Unless there is a firmly held belief that our consciousness is the result of a spirit entity which is destined for a higher plane of existence after temporarily inhabiting a meat sack, why does it seem so difficult to assume that natural process that created human intelligence could not be reproduced and condensed into a fractional timespan, using software tools similar to Avida.
Whatever I think about Trump's policies, or the man himself, his detractors are going to find a way to blame him for anything and everything because they have an agenda, regardless of the merit of the accusation.
Meanwhile, there are these antics by extreme leftists, and now I'm seeing topics where 'punching nazis' is the rational being coined as an excuse for assaulting Trump supporters. The hypocrisy is obvious to anyone who hasn't succumbed to their gaslighting.
Coverage of the Zimmerman case is an example of why I learned to distrust the NYT. A reporter's job is to provide all the relevant facts so that a reader can have a better sense of what actually happened, and be fair and impartial, but this article doesn't do that. It makes heavy use of sources antagonistic to the subject and leaves out pertinent information, making the bias quite plain to me. It reminds me of the oft used Mark Twain quote about lies, damn lies and statistics; while factual, the presentation can be biased such that the impression a reader has is not an accurate or complete one.
Raising the spectre of Shirley Sherrod's firing just validates Shane Optima's points. These are not one-time mistakes or error of judgement in just a few publishers, but an industry practice that will eventually find someone else in their crosshairs so that they can profit at someone else's expense. What happened to George Zimmerman can also happen again to anyone, to the point where people are trying to murder you as a result of the media's self serving deceptions.
What did that guy do that made the WSJ so afraid that they go out of their way, even throwing their journalistic integrity into the gutter, just to destroy him?
At times like this I'm reminded of the downfall of General David Petraeus, which by my estimate was triggered by his statements during a 2010 senate congressional hearing where he suggested that the interests of the US and that of Israel were not completely compatible. It is plausible to me that a wealthy friend to R. Murdock or a major investor in news corp, which owns the WSJ, was offended and used their connections to 'take care of that guy'. If a profit can be made while providing a favor to a powerful special interest, so be it.
I couldn't find any credible source for the destruction of indian artificts. Digging a shallow latrine pit does not count, nor does ruffling through some old forgotten box of junk in a basement.
What I find interesting though, is the shear zeal in which leftist media and bloggers bent over backwards to demonize the Bundys and their supporters, using tactics from race-baiting to ridiculing them over their religion. I don't have to share the occupiers ideology or approve of their tactics in order to observe the left's powerful smear machine operate at full force.
So when smug pedants like Khyber use a microscope to point out examples like that, while at the same time ignoring political rallies being shut down by violent (and organized) opposition 'protesters' and voters being filmed being dragged from their car and beaten over a bumper sticker, I always have to wonder at the source behind it.
The advantage of a CD-R is that it can't be modified easily which removed 99% of the possible ways to mess with the system.
That's both an advantage AND a disadvantage. The last thing I want to have to do is have to touch hundreds of machines when there is a systems change. These days, information databases like Follett are accessible through an online portal, and I've had to update the access urls a couple of times now. Making the CD-R tamper proof, which you would need to do, would make it even more of a PITA to deal with.
PXE boot works fine too, but then you're back to maintaining the state of the image. On top of that, they get the silly notion that they should be able to print as well, and everything that entails.
So we use chromebooks and the google management suite. Policies can be set, even cloud printing for those who absolutely have to have it, then it becomes simply a matter of enrollment.
Turns out making a circle with your index finger and thumb is not OK in certain countries. In France, for example, it means “zero” or “worthless.” In Venezuela, Turkey, and Brazil, it’s a vulgar slang that will offend pretty much anyone you flash it at.
I believe that vulgar slang is 'you're an asshole'. The new logo was already cringe worthy, but this just adds a new dimension to just how terrible it is. In all those meetings, how could noone realize how culturally insensitive this is?
On the other hand, perhaps a member on the team is French and is trying to send us a message...
The "all scientists believe global warming" bullshit came from a cherry picked poll with no scientific methodology and therefore no accuracy and they are following the Nazi path that a lie told long enough and loud enough will be believed.
Says the guy who cherry picks the exception to the norm as proof that the premise is faulty, and Godwins on top of it. Likewise, perhaps you believe that heaping up a steaming pile of logical fallacies and declaring it 'truth!' that you can convince anybody you're right if you keep at it long enough.
Here are a few facts: Every fossil fuel that is burned today was once living matter, either plant or animal (undisputed fact). Thus it was once part of the natural CO2 planetary cycle and at a time when life was flourishing. But somehow, re-adding that carbon to the planetary system after being trapped in coal or oil or natural gas deposits will throw the world out of balance and make the world too hot to be habitable? Completely irrational on the face of it.
Here is a fun experiment you should try: start at the top of a 10 story building, and walk down to the ground floor via the stairwell. Now, from the top of the same building, jump over the side. You start with the same potential energy and are traveling the same vertical distance, but there is a difference in the rate of change in energy levels that may be of interest to you.
Meanwhile, on the west coast, enjoy eating oysters while you still can as the oceans absorbing atmospheric CO2 has already altered the ph of the water to the point their shells dissolve. So it's not just about the potential for disrupting human civilization as we know it by the alteration of habitable areas and crop viability, or making it 'too hot to live' as you put it, but also the massive die off of species for which they are not able to adapt fast enough to the changing conditions that is a problem.
Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue. -Proverbs 17:28
But do go on trying to convince anyone that releasing billions of tons of CO2 every year for more than a century couldn't possibly have an accumulative effect, that the numbers are all wrong and that the majority of scientists are all lying merely for their own benefit.
FFS. If things go really, catastrophically wrong with a solar panel installation, how many people could it conceivably kill? One or two if it fell off a roof? Whereas, if things go really, catastrophically wrong with a nuclear power plant, how many people could it conceivably kill?
More people have committed suicide for various reasons than have actually died as a result of radiation exposure at Fukishima, which is so far, zero. With modern passive safety designs, more people will die from solar installation accidents than will from catastrophic meltdown, if history is any indication.
As for pebble bed reactors, the Chinese are building a Gen IV plant and installed the first reactor early last year.
The 'actual safety concerns people have' is just FUD from NIMBY types.
Did you try showing them your own hand drawn image of Mohammed? Did you criticize Islam in any way? Did you ask them if violent jihad or suicide bombings against civilians could ever be justified? Did you tell them you are gay or had gay friends?
If not, then it doesn't mean anything that you say all the muslims you've ever encountered have never attacked or condemned you.
Ah, but the religion isn't the problem, yeah sure. Try telling that to Molly Norris. Radicalizing your peaceful, everyday friendly muslims into murderous maniac is so easily, apparently, that we have to censor cartoonists in our own country and make sure armed police are present for any mohammed themed art shows.
To even say that it is just the fundamentalists or extremists that is the problem is to pretend that they appear out of a vacuum, and to completely ignore that it happens almost exclusively with this particular religion. If that isn't disingenuous, I don't know what is.
Maybe so, but is it worth the risk of being massively fined or possibly earn an extended vacation at Club Fed? Between signal triangulation and highway video surveillance, it would probably be trivial for law enforcement to catch someone doing this.
... I slam on my brakes. Then, the car behind me slams on his brakes automatically, because it rightly knows not to absolutely trust anything coming from V2V, and it's still watching my car with forward sensors. It also announces to the network that we're stopping, so all the cars for a mile behind me brake, too, and the ones that can shift lanes will escape.
Which would also prevent the formation of so-called jamitrons, the traveling waves of braking that persist until attentive drivers cause them to settle. When I think about the close calls I've had from driving in the past, it was because of having to break hard or change lanes abruptly for apparently no reason at all.
If he wasn't radicalized before, when he gets out of prison, he surely will be. Mission accomplished, idiots.
Indeed. Here in the US our TLA would give him a fake bomb and the opportunity to demonstrate that he would indeed carry out the act of being a suicidal mass murderer as a result of being exposed to islamism. Then the would-be terrorist could taken out of circulation for much much longer. Preferably permanently.
The only way to beat Islam is to point out the truth, that Islam is FICTION.
Yes, I hear that pointing out the TRUTH that their religion is a FICTION is a terribly successful way of converting believers into non believers.
This is why there is a long standing tradition of killing apostates, as a form of damage control, and why there are blasphemy laws. Actual truth is counterproductive to maintaining a fictional reality. You're right to suggest that indoctrination is difficult to overcome, but it does happen.
Meanwhile, parody religions such as Pastafarianism highlight how absurd it is to be expected to automatically accept and respect whatever beliefs a person claim to have. Why should Islam be shielded from criticism while Pastafarianism is not?
The above is a glimpse into the mindset that is necessary before one becomes a suicide bomber and detonates in a crowded marketplace, or perhaps, someone who sets a person on fire for whatever reason and feels self righteous while watching them burn. It's always a little disturbing to be reminded that these self-flagellating and mentally scarred people exist.
Religion seems to evolve in a way that modifies human behavior much like this brain fungus alters the behavior of ants in order to best propagate itself. Here you see it compelling its host to spread itself, like some sort of ephemeral parasite.
Or in the case of the peppered moth which seemed to evolve in response to pollution, perhaps the massive coral die-off will reveal strains that tolerate the warmer temperatures. We could help the reefs recover by reseeding them with lab grown coral larvae grown from these strains.
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From wiki for TOP500:
Since 1993, performance of the #1 ranked position has grown steadily in accord with Moore's law, doubling roughly every 14 months. As of November 2014, Tianhe-2 was fastest with an Rpeak[6] of 54.9024 PFLOPS, is over 419,102 times faster than the fastest system in November 1993, the Connection Machine CM-5/1024 (1024 cores) with Rpeak of 131.0 GFLOPS.[7]
And then there's this article from a company that knows a little bit about parallel processing.
As the trend continues for increases of processing power while cost decreases, the only real question to me is at what point is there critical mass enough where simulation can evolve strong AI. Unless there is a firmly held belief that our consciousness is the result of a spirit entity which is destined for a higher plane of existence after temporarily inhabiting a meat sack, why does it seem so difficult to assume that natural process that created human intelligence could not be reproduced and condensed into a fractional timespan, using software tools similar to Avida.
Whatever I think about Trump's policies, or the man himself, his detractors are going to find a way to blame him for anything and everything because they have an agenda, regardless of the merit of the accusation.
Meanwhile, there are these antics by extreme leftists, and now I'm seeing topics where 'punching nazis' is the rational being coined as an excuse for assaulting Trump supporters. The hypocrisy is obvious to anyone who hasn't succumbed to their gaslighting.
Coverage of the Zimmerman case is an example of why I learned to distrust the NYT. A reporter's job is to provide all the relevant facts so that a reader can have a better sense of what actually happened, and be fair and impartial, but this article doesn't do that. It makes heavy use of sources antagonistic to the subject and leaves out pertinent information, making the bias quite plain to me. It reminds me of the oft used Mark Twain quote about lies, damn lies and statistics; while factual, the presentation can be biased such that the impression a reader has is not an accurate or complete one.
Remember that Zimmerman was a 'white hispanic'. They will throw anyone under the 'bigoted racist' bus if it suits them.
Raising the spectre of Shirley Sherrod's firing just validates Shane Optima's points. These are not one-time mistakes or error of judgement in just a few publishers, but an industry practice that will eventually find someone else in their crosshairs so that they can profit at someone else's expense. What happened to George Zimmerman can also happen again to anyone, to the point where people are trying to murder you as a result of the media's self serving deceptions.
What did that guy do that made the WSJ so afraid that they go out of their way, even throwing their journalistic integrity into the gutter, just to destroy him?
At times like this I'm reminded of the downfall of General David Petraeus, which by my estimate was triggered by his statements during a 2010 senate congressional hearing where he suggested that the interests of the US and that of Israel were not completely compatible. It is plausible to me that a wealthy friend to R. Murdock or a major investor in news corp, which owns the WSJ, was offended and used their connections to 'take care of that guy'. If a profit can be made while providing a favor to a powerful special interest, so be it.
But we won't America is all about being at "war" with symptoms of problems and not about actually solving them.
When the factions that control the state are in perpetual war with each other, solving difficult sociological problems invokes an unnecessary risk.
I couldn't find any credible source for the destruction of indian artificts. Digging a shallow latrine pit does not count, nor does ruffling through some old forgotten box of junk in a basement.
What I find interesting though, is the shear zeal in which leftist media and bloggers bent over backwards to demonize the Bundys and their supporters, using tactics from race-baiting to ridiculing them over their religion. I don't have to share the occupiers ideology or approve of their tactics in order to observe the left's powerful smear machine operate at full force.
So when smug pedants like Khyber use a microscope to point out examples like that, while at the same time ignoring political rallies being shut down by violent (and organized) opposition 'protesters' and voters being filmed being dragged from their car and beaten over a bumper sticker, I always have to wonder at the source behind it.
The advantage of a CD-R is that it can't be modified easily which removed 99% of the possible ways to mess with the system.
That's both an advantage AND a disadvantage. The last thing I want to have to do is have to touch hundreds of machines when there is a systems change. These days, information databases like Follett are accessible through an online portal, and I've had to update the access urls a couple of times now. Making the CD-R tamper proof, which you would need to do, would make it even more of a PITA to deal with.
PXE boot works fine too, but then you're back to maintaining the state of the image. On top of that, they get the silly notion that they should be able to print as well, and everything that entails.
So we use chromebooks and the google management suite. Policies can be set, even cloud printing for those who absolutely have to have it, then it becomes simply a matter of enrollment.
That is all.
From this article:
The OK
Turns out making a circle with your index finger and thumb is not OK in certain countries. In France, for example, it means “zero” or “worthless.” In Venezuela, Turkey, and Brazil, it’s a vulgar slang that will offend pretty much anyone you flash it at.
I believe that vulgar slang is 'you're an asshole'. The new logo was already cringe worthy, but this just adds a new dimension to just how terrible it is. In all those meetings, how could noone realize how culturally insensitive this is?
On the other hand, perhaps a member on the team is French and is trying to send us a message...
The "all scientists believe global warming" bullshit came from a cherry picked poll with no scientific methodology and therefore no accuracy and they are following the Nazi path that a lie told long enough and loud enough will be believed.
Says the guy who cherry picks the exception to the norm as proof that the premise is faulty, and Godwins on top of it. Likewise, perhaps you believe that heaping up a steaming pile of logical fallacies and declaring it 'truth!' that you can convince anybody you're right if you keep at it long enough.
Here are a few facts: Every fossil fuel that is burned today was once living matter, either plant or animal (undisputed fact). Thus it was once part of the natural CO2 planetary cycle and at a time when life was flourishing. But somehow, re-adding that carbon to the planetary system after being trapped in coal or oil or natural gas deposits will throw the world out of balance and make the world too hot to be habitable? Completely irrational on the face of it.
Here is a fun experiment you should try: start at the top of a 10 story building, and walk down to the ground floor via the stairwell. Now, from the top of the same building, jump over the side. You start with the same potential energy and are traveling the same vertical distance, but there is a difference in the rate of change in energy levels that may be of interest to you.
Meanwhile, on the west coast, enjoy eating oysters while you still can as the oceans absorbing atmospheric CO2 has already altered the ph of the water to the point their shells dissolve. So it's not just about the potential for disrupting human civilization as we know it by the alteration of habitable areas and crop viability, or making it 'too hot to live' as you put it, but also the massive die off of species for which they are not able to adapt fast enough to the changing conditions that is a problem.
Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue. -Proverbs 17:28
But do go on trying to convince anyone that releasing billions of tons of CO2 every year for more than a century couldn't possibly have an accumulative effect, that the numbers are all wrong and that the majority of scientists are all lying merely for their own benefit.
FFS. If things go really, catastrophically wrong with a solar panel installation, how many people could it conceivably kill? One or two if it fell off a roof? Whereas, if things go really, catastrophically wrong with a nuclear power plant, how many people could it conceivably kill?
More people have committed suicide for various reasons than have actually died as a result of radiation exposure at Fukishima, which is so far, zero. With modern passive safety designs, more people will die from solar installation accidents than will from catastrophic meltdown, if history is any indication.
As for pebble bed reactors, the Chinese are building a Gen IV plant and installed the first reactor early last year.
The 'actual safety concerns people have' is just FUD from NIMBY types.
Kingston, the company caught doing a bait and switch with components is still in business? That's a shame.
Did you try showing them your own hand drawn image of Mohammed? Did you criticize Islam in any way? Did you ask them if violent jihad or suicide bombings against civilians could ever be justified? Did you tell them you are gay or had gay friends?
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If not, then it doesn't mean anything that you say all the muslims you've ever encountered have never attacked or condemned you
Ah, but the religion isn't the problem, yeah sure. Try telling that to Molly Norris. Radicalizing your peaceful, everyday friendly muslims into murderous maniac is so easily, apparently, that we have to censor cartoonists in our own country and make sure armed police are present for any mohammed themed art shows.
To even say that it is just the fundamentalists or extremists that is the problem is to pretend that they appear out of a vacuum, and to completely ignore that it happens almost exclusively with this particular religion. If that isn't disingenuous, I don't know what is.
No, it'll be used to tax you first, then the cops will get their remote shut off.
Maybe so, but is it worth the risk of being massively fined or possibly earn an extended vacation at Club Fed? Between signal triangulation and highway video surveillance, it would probably be trivial for law enforcement to catch someone doing this.
... I slam on my brakes. Then, the car behind me slams on his brakes automatically, because it rightly knows not to absolutely trust anything coming from V2V, and it's still watching my car with forward sensors. It also announces to the network that we're stopping, so all the cars for a mile behind me brake, too, and the ones that can shift lanes will escape.
Which would also prevent the formation of so-called jamitrons, the traveling waves of braking that persist until attentive drivers cause them to settle. When I think about the close calls I've had from driving in the past, it was because of having to break hard or change lanes abruptly for apparently no reason at all.
In all, 140 foundations funneled $558 million to almost 100 climate denial organizations from 2003 to 2010.
Is it any wonder there are so many AC trolls and shills that are AGW deniers?
Factories don't operate in a vacuum; an entire supply chain springs up around them.
If he wasn't radicalized before, when he gets out of prison, he surely will be. Mission accomplished, idiots.
Indeed. Here in the US our TLA would give him a fake bomb and the opportunity to demonstrate that he would indeed carry out the act of being a suicidal mass murderer as a result of being exposed to islamism. Then the would-be terrorist could taken out of circulation for much much longer. Preferably permanently.
The only way to beat Islam is to point out the truth, that Islam is FICTION.
Yes, I hear that pointing out the TRUTH that their religion is a FICTION is a terribly successful way of converting believers into non believers.
This is why there is a long standing tradition of killing apostates, as a form of damage control, and why there are blasphemy laws. Actual truth is counterproductive to maintaining a fictional reality. You're right to suggest that indoctrination is difficult to overcome, but it does happen.
Meanwhile, parody religions such as Pastafarianism highlight how absurd it is to be expected to automatically accept and respect whatever beliefs a person claim to have. Why should Islam be shielded from criticism while Pastafarianism is not?
The above is a glimpse into the mindset that is necessary before one becomes a suicide bomber and detonates in a crowded marketplace, or perhaps, someone who sets a person on fire for whatever reason and feels self righteous while watching them burn. It's always a little disturbing to be reminded that these self-flagellating and mentally scarred people exist.
Religion seems to evolve in a way that modifies human behavior much like this brain fungus alters the behavior of ants in order to best propagate itself. Here you see it compelling its host to spread itself, like some sort of ephemeral parasite.
Or in the case of the peppered moth which seemed to evolve in response to pollution, perhaps the massive coral die-off will reveal strains that tolerate the warmer temperatures. We could help the reefs recover by reseeding them with lab grown coral larvae grown from these strains.
Like Seth Rich?