"... randomising letters in the middle of words [has] little or no effect on the ability of skilled readers to understand the text. This is easy to denmtrasote. In a pubiltacion of New Scnieitst you could ramdinose all the letetrs, keipeng the first two and last two the same, and reibadailty would hadrly be aftcfeed. My ansaylis did not come to much beucase the thoery at the time was for shape and senqeuce retigcionon. Saberi's work sugsegts we may have some pofrweul palrlael prsooscers at work. The resaon for this is suerly that idnetiyfing coentnt by paarllel prseocsing speeds up regnicoiton. We only need the first and last two letetrs to spot chganes in meniang"
Let's try and take a moment to peek into the future....
Bill works at a steel plant. Boss comes in with a Robot to replace his job.
Bill: "A stupid machine can't possibly do a better job than I can." Boss: "Shut-up! You're fired anyway. This robot will work longer, harder, faster, and better."
Bill: "But you can't just fire me." Boss: "Go home Bill"....
Bill comes back during the night to prove his worth over the competition so he tries to sabotage the robot by pulling the limbs off.
However the robot has a "touch-shock" mecahnism that shocks anyone who touches it while it works, incrementing the voltage by 5 each subsequent touch.
Bill get shocked and decides to come back with a baseball-bat. He bashes the robot pretty well.
The Boss now integrates defense tactics into the robot's cognitive "brain."
Bill returns to repeat the job until he proves his point and get hired back. However, the robot teaches Bill a lesson by catching the bat and blocking all of Bill's attacks.
Bill decides to bring a gun to shoot the robot. After damaging the robot somewhat, Bill runs away avoiding getting caught.
The boss integrates a small laser-precision paralyzation gun that pinpoints the nerve causing temporary or perhaps permenant paralysis of the victim.
Bill comes back with his gun, and the robot paralyzes Bill's shooting arm, and Bill run's back home.
This becomes a big issue, and Bill returns with his group of now unemployed buddies, but the boss planned ahead of time, and created armed robotic guards to protect the plant.
You get the picture...from this point on, you have a series of battles between humans and machines...
This is more of a joke...I don't think this will happen at all. I actually think people will have more time to think about more interesting things. For one, people will have more time to read. But even more jobs will open in the academic field. Myself, being a PhD candidate in the area of Intelligent Systems and Robotics, I actually encourage the advancement of intelligent systems, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence, both through hardware and software agents.
I agree that this article didn't provide many details about the project. But according I've read other articles about Joseph DiRisi's research, and apparently the software used for the project was writting in Python
Whoohoo!!! I'm happy:)
(Although I'd probably go for the Geforce3 TI 500)
(college students are broke, but we have the best dreams)
BTW, If NVIDIA had no competitors, what would happen if they released their source code for the drivers? That could spark a new Gamingfest for the Linux Community:)
Personally, it's not that hard to find documentation on how to use a particular function/feature of a language or OS, but I think we need more books on Philosophy/Theory as well as some application so that we can get a broader look on how the languages/OS's actually work.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BOOKS TO FOLLOW:
--Rebel Code: by Glen Moody [Story of GNU]
--Any book by W. Richard Stevens is a must have!!!
--The Art of Computer Programming: by Donald Knuth
The book Rebel Code teaches me about how Richard Stallman started the whole GNU Project. This greatly inspires me and gives me ideas for my own project. Not to mention that it also talks about how Andrew Tanenbaum wrote Minix OS and a book that came along with it called Operating Systems: Design and Implementation,and how Linus Torvalds ended up taking a class using Minix, which greatly influenced his creation of Linux.
Donald Knuth's book (enough said), goes very far in depth in algorithm efficiency and after reading that, you'll be writing your own STL classes, and creating new data structures yet to be invented.
Richard Stevens writes the best Unix books I've ever seen in my life, I'm sure you know him.
UNIX Network Programming, Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, etc.
I recommend you take a look at the way these guys developed books.
Well, I wrote a python script that will handle decrypting the code. It aslo takes decrypted text, and encrypts it (on the fly). There's also file encryption/decryption built in.
Check it out
https://sourceforge.net/snippet/detail.php?type= sn ippet&id=101008
This is the stupidest software I ever heard. If ya ask me, the best way to tell is to just read the code!" The teacher looks at the code with his/her own eyes anyway right? Humans can see algorithms, software can't.
Many times, my friends in college will ask me for help on their programming projects, which are all done in C++ or Java. They miss the concept behind many structures and techniques, because they spend much of their time on syntax problems. I think Python would be a great language to teach college freshman as an introductory course to programming. Python is lighter on the syntax, which gives students a greater focus on the concepts behind programming. Then later in their college career, they could move into C++ having already learned the concepts of programming.
Not only would it be much easier for students to move into C++ after having learned Python, but students would also be able to easily move into any language such as Java, etc. And just for the record, I find it much easier, funner, and faster to program using Jython than Java itself;)
Slashdot Mirror
There are two words to describe how I feel after seeing those pics:
"Micro" and "Soft"
~= Chris =~
Does this mean that Dave/Dina's distro will be called Diva perhaps?
I second that...
(Hey again Tom7...no i'm not stalking you, i just happened to find your page [as i told you in email] and now i see your comment on Slashdot)
Chris
"... randomising letters in the middle of words [has] little or no effect on the ability of skilled readers to understand the text. This is easy to denmtrasote. In a pubiltacion of New Scnieitst you could ramdinose all the letetrs, keipeng the first two and last two the same, and reibadailty would hadrly be aftcfeed. My ansaylis did not come to much beucase the thoery at the time was for shape and senqeuce retigcionon. Saberi's work sugsegts we may have some pofrweul palrlael prsooscers at work. The resaon for this is suerly that idnetiyfing coentnt by paarllel prseocsing speeds up regnicoiton. We only need the first and last two letetrs to spot chganes in meniang"
Let's try and take a moment to peek into the future....
...
Bill works at a steel plant.
Boss comes in with a Robot to replace his job.
Bill: "A stupid machine can't possibly do a better job than I can."
Boss: "Shut-up! You're fired anyway. This robot will work longer, harder, faster, and better."
Bill: "But you can't just fire me."
Boss: "Go home Bill".
Bill comes back during the night to prove his worth over the competition so he tries to sabotage the robot by pulling the limbs off.
However the robot has a "touch-shock" mecahnism that shocks anyone who touches it while it works, incrementing the voltage by 5 each subsequent touch.
Bill get shocked and decides to come back with a baseball-bat. He bashes the robot pretty well.
The Boss now integrates defense tactics into the robot's cognitive "brain."
Bill returns to repeat the job until he proves his point and get hired back. However, the robot teaches Bill a lesson by catching the bat and blocking all of Bill's attacks.
Bill decides to bring a gun to shoot the robot. After damaging the robot somewhat, Bill runs away avoiding getting caught.
The boss integrates a small laser-precision paralyzation gun that pinpoints the nerve causing temporary or perhaps permenant paralysis of the victim.
Bill comes back with his gun, and the robot paralyzes Bill's shooting arm, and Bill run's back home.
This becomes a big issue, and Bill returns with his group of now unemployed buddies, but the boss planned ahead of time, and created armed robotic guards to protect the plant.
You get the picture...from this point on, you have a series of battles between humans and machines...
This is more of a joke...I don't think this will happen at all. I actually think people will have more time to think about more interesting things. For one, people will have more time to read. But even more jobs will open in the academic field. Myself, being a PhD candidate in the area of Intelligent Systems and Robotics, I actually encourage the advancement of intelligent systems, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence, both through hardware and software agents.
Chris
How difficult would it be to clean your TV-Mirror? A regular TV doesn't get as many fingerprint smudges as your mirror does.
I agree that this article didn't provide many details about the project. But according I've read other articles about Joseph DiRisi's research, and apparently the software used for the project was writting in Python
Big plus to Python's Numeric module.
hehe, nice sig:
:)
"my other head is a tail"
I wonder which mascot they will use...Personally, I'd prefer tux rather than some dancing orangutang. ;)
I miss my throwing rocks from the rooftop days...
Drop MFC and learn wxWindows immediately!
You won't regret it.
Chris
Check out MagicDraw UML(http://www.linux.org/apps/AppId_6831.html)
But 2 thumbs up for the previous python post that suggest writing python scripts.
That's why you attend Southern Polytechnic State University instead of Georgia Tech. ;)
LISP and Prolog anyone?
Yes! Once again Python shows its fangs! ;)
I tip my hat to Guido, and take a toast and a SWIG of red, Ruby Wine.
Once again, NVIDIA has killed the Radeon!!!
:)
:)
Whoohoo!!! I'm happy
(Although I'd probably go for the Geforce3 TI 500)
(college students are broke, but we have the best dreams)
BTW, If NVIDIA had no competitors, what would happen if they released their source code for the drivers? That could spark a new Gamingfest for the Linux Community
Personally, it's not that hard to find documentation on how to use a particular function/feature of a language or OS, but I think we need more books on Philosophy/Theory as well as some application so that we can get a broader look on how the languages/OS's actually work.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BOOKS TO FOLLOW:
--Rebel Code: by Glen Moody [Story of GNU]
--Any book by W. Richard Stevens is a must have!!!
--The Art of Computer Programming: by Donald Knuth
The book Rebel Code teaches me about how Richard Stallman started the whole GNU Project. This greatly inspires me and gives me ideas for my own project. Not to mention that it also talks about how Andrew Tanenbaum wrote Minix OS and a book that came along with it called Operating Systems: Design and Implementation,and how Linus Torvalds ended up taking a class using Minix, which greatly influenced his creation of Linux.
Donald Knuth's book (enough said), goes very far in depth in algorithm efficiency and after reading that, you'll be writing your own STL classes, and creating new data structures yet to be invented.
Richard Stevens writes the best Unix books I've ever seen in my life, I'm sure you know him.
UNIX Network Programming, Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, etc.
I recommend you take a look at the way these guys developed books.
Where can I get "Python Essentia Reference?" BTW, I think the slides are great ;)
Nice. I wish my school would have done that.
= sn ippet&id=101008
Well, I wrote a python script that will handle decrypting the code. It aslo takes decrypted text, and encrypts it (on the fly). There's also file encryption/decryption built in.
Check it out
https://sourceforge.net/snippet/detail.php?type
That's why you don't go to Georgia Tech, but rather Southern Polytech ...
This is the stupidest software I ever heard. If ya ask me, the best way to tell is to just read the code!" The teacher looks at the code with his/her own eyes anyway right? Humans can see algorithms, software can't.
Personally, I don't like the idea of turning on my television to watch TechTV and getting the Blue Screen of Death.
Yes, can officially purchase a Linux-enabled PS2!! (Not to mention you can run it on the Dreamcast as well). Xmms runs nicely I might add.
Many times, my friends in college will ask me for help on their programming projects, which are all done in C++ or Java. They miss the concept behind many structures and techniques, because they spend much of their time on syntax problems. I think Python would be a great language to teach college freshman as an introductory course to programming. Python is lighter on the syntax, which gives students a greater focus on the concepts behind programming. Then later in their college career, they could move into C++ having already learned the concepts of programming.
;)
Not only would it be much easier for students to move into C++ after having learned Python, but students would also be able to easily move into any language such as Java, etc. And just for the record, I find it much easier, funner, and faster to program using Jython than Java itself