But let's face it, not even having a bachelor's degree in the subject one is teaching makes for a fairly poor teacher. If I ask my science teacher what the Second Law of Thermodynamics is and he/she answers, "I don't know," that's as bad as asking what Romeo and Juliet is about from an English teacher and having him/her profess ignorance. Yeah, a PhD doesn't guarantee good teaching, but it does at least guarantee competence.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010730. html
Bob Cringely has already discussed this, and said that the government decided not to do this, because it made them seem too much like the bad guys. However, an enterprising, altruistic computer programmer might be able to do what the feds were afraid to do. And even if a mistake is made and a second "red alert" worm is created, big deal! 2 won't do any more damage than just the 1.
I wonder if the mathematics dealing with the spread of the net and the web are things that can be applied to neural nets. I mean, I know that as it stands a neural net is just a test-and-analyze-results type system, where the strongest signal (weighted by past tests) dominates on any later action, but maybe it can be broken down into classes of actions (very connected hubs) break down into specific action types (somewhat connected hubs) to specific actions (singly connected network nodes) based on vague discriptions of input data on down to specific information on it (when there are only 5 real possible actions to check). Anyone out there a Neural Net expert who thinks this might work?
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But let's face it, not even having a bachelor's degree in the subject one is teaching makes for a fairly poor teacher. If I ask my science teacher what the Second Law of Thermodynamics is and he/she answers, "I don't know," that's as bad as asking what Romeo and Juliet is about from an English teacher and having him/her profess ignorance. Yeah, a PhD doesn't guarantee good teaching, but it does at least guarantee competence.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010730. html
Bob Cringely has already discussed this, and said that the government decided not to do this, because it made them seem too much like the bad guys. However, an enterprising, altruistic computer programmer might be able to do what the feds were afraid to do. And even if a mistake is made and a second "red alert" worm is created, big deal! 2 won't do any more damage than just the 1.
I wonder if the mathematics dealing with the spread of the net and the web are things that can be applied to neural nets. I mean, I know that as it stands a neural net is just a test-and-analyze-results type system, where the strongest signal (weighted by past tests) dominates on any later action, but maybe it can be broken down into classes of actions (very connected hubs) break down into specific action types (somewhat connected hubs) to specific actions (singly connected network nodes) based on vague discriptions of input data on down to specific information on it (when there are only 5 real possible actions to check). Anyone out there a Neural Net expert who thinks this might work?