All speech is legitimate. If words threaten you so badly you can't refute them on their grounds; well.. the truth is a bitch.
As far as I can tell, the USA is as close a bastion of true free speech as exists, and that right hasn't been molested too badly. I do not want my internet in the charge of those who would seek to regulate in the name of "religious tolerance".
All words should be read and judged on their own merits.
I am intrigued by your ideas and will most certainly subscribe to your newsletter.
While I am by no means formally trained in neuroscience, I am an EE who's followed with much interest the field of neural modelling and I have waited for decades for someone to publish results like this. Best of luck with your research and I look forward to going through the code!
The fact this responds in similar ways is astonishing.. not because of what this model has accomplished, but because it's a great big flashing light pointing to this being the right way to machine intelligence. "HEY OVER HERE!"
I'll pre order his book, and wait patiently for an open source version of this research / model to appear for people to hack on.
It's slow now, but 1/3600 speed within the next generation of computers to do in real time - and that's without optimization.
If you're running Tor, or FreeNet, or anything else with the possibility of pissing off the man - be prepared for the concequences. The authorities repsonse here is pretty standard across the board.
Any Freenet nodes get raided? That's a good test for how secure the system is.
The problem for universities is the employers aren't hiring or scaling pay the way they used to, and relative to the return, for the average student, the value proposition is not as good.
Once someone of note starts offering real paper for online classes, or employers start accepting it - something, I think, that is already happening - the ivory tower of cards is going to fall very fast and very hard.
Computers have gotten very cheap. Pretty much any prof that wants to pursue something now can build enough hardware to do so with a relatively small amount of money. Neural networks ran into a big wall twenty years ago because the tools weren't there yet.
Once people start having some successes, more funds will be made available, more advances will be made, justifyiing even more funding.. and then we'll turn control of the military over to SkyNet.:)
Nobody complains about all the nuclear reactors mounted on thousands of kilograms of rocket fuel, pointed directly at the world's major population centers, locked and loaded, a few electrical impulses from going off.
People are stupid, and the anti-nuke people are even stupider. We'll burn every last drop of commercially extractable energy profitable hydrocarbon before we look at nuclear. My only ray of light is nuclear is so clean, and there is so much of it, that it may be able to power a next generation of carbon sequestration technologies.
I have become more vocal about pointing out the stupidity, and encourage others to do so. No renewables on earth can, or ever will, compare with the energy density and baseload capacity of a modern nuclear plant.
Not having fusion reactors should be a national shame. The only ones we have are on top of those rockets.
I wear glasses because I'm basically blind without them. Glasses are a pain in the ass to deal with. With most of these systems, I would have to wear contact lenses AND glasses. That sounds great!
Putting things on your face is a pain. Watches are dead now aside from demonstrations of disposable income.. killed by the smartphone. These glasses offer no major advantages over a smartphone.
Tablets are a different animal; they always have been. Tablets offer a substantive advantage over a notebook - weight, battery life - and larger screens than a smartphone. But tablets, like smart phones, get put away when they're not being used.
Augmented reality glasses offer no substantive advantages whatsoever.
For all the type of this, a really nice, lightweight, HUD display for simulations and other environments would be a lot more widely applicable.
Yes, I do think it can't be integrated. Barring a star-trek advance in battery technology, or a wire running down your back, or a microwave battery power transmitter you carry. Those all scream cool.
These things are so dorky it hurts, and don't offer any serious advantage over a smartphone, that everyone already has anyway.
The best thing you can do for the environment is get sterilized. That's not politically correct to talk about.
I tend not to be a defeatest, but we're going to burn every drop of oil. Then we'll switch to nuclear. Efforts wasted on legislation are better spent on developing new techniques to remove carbon from the atmosphere on a geo-engineering scale. Humans are smart, but we're reactionary.
Why is it those who complain about nuclear power plants never bat an eye at the ~4000 nuclear warheads aimed at people all over the world, ready to do harm with the press of a button, held in place with the same failsafes they deem insufficient?
Burning oil is stupid. We should be developing nuclear technologies as fast as we can. Instead we'll wait for the oil to be gone.. but I hope we don't wait until we need to use those warheads over oil reserves. Wouldn't that be the ultimate irony?
Once the fiber is in place, operational expenses on a link per bit are basically zero. You'd have to get it connected to a peering hub of course, but on the scale he's talking about, it's not a big deal.
Bandwidth is (almost) free. Capital build is not. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
You know, if Google wants to "do some good", and maybe "buy some karma", they could extend some of those fat stacks - along with, maybe, you know, iTunesU Apple - and buy the best-of-breed textbooks in the classics and STEM - basic physics; calculus; english; trig; algebra; biology; chemistry, organic, and inorganic; and then make the source materials for the book available online for peer reviewed update and analysis.
The collective good done to humanity may be beyond measure.
Seriously. The amount of funds involved are relatively small and the books are right there.
I'm a Canadian, and I guess, a reasonably talented EE. One avenue not mentioned is the TN-class visa; same general idea, but yearly renewable. (Canada/Mexico)
The process to actually _immigrate_ to the US is a real pain and very lengthy. So much that the logical extension is that they don't want skilled immigration on a permanent basis - at least from Canada. However, exporting work from the US is made very easy.
What's the problem with opening it up? Why not just find a way to document, all the undocumented? Am I missing something?
..there's less difference these days than you might think.
Computers are largely SOC designs with RAM and flash added. The packaging makes the product, and the biggest variable on quality is the components used to regulate power. Microsoft has a good understanding of both those - on a positive, from a design perspective, and.. well, you've heard about xbox power supplies.:)
Food is very, very cheap in the developed world. Even if energy costs went up by an order or magnitude it would not be a major problem.
Transport costs are a bigger deal as is electricity production. We need to start building nuclear plants. Yesterday. The sooner politicians start grooming the public to accept this, the better.
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There's the problem.
All speech is legitimate. If words threaten you so badly you can't refute them on their grounds; well.. the truth is a bitch.
As far as I can tell, the USA is as close a bastion of true free speech as exists, and that right hasn't been molested too badly. I do not want my internet in the charge of those who would seek to regulate in the name of "religious tolerance".
All words should be read and judged on their own merits.
Screw the ITU.
I am intrigued by your ideas and will most certainly subscribe to your newsletter.
While I am by no means formally trained in neuroscience, I am an EE who's followed with much interest the field of neural modelling and I have waited for decades for someone to publish results like this. Best of luck with your research and I look forward to going through the code!
The fact this responds in similar ways is astonishing.. not because of what this model has accomplished, but because it's a great big flashing light pointing to this being the right way to machine intelligence. "HEY OVER HERE!"
I'll pre order his book, and wait patiently for an open source version of this research / model to appear for people to hack on.
It's slow now, but 1/3600 speed within the next generation of computers to do in real time - and that's without optimization.
Interesting times indeed.
If you're running Tor, or FreeNet, or anything else with the possibility of pissing off the man - be prepared for the concequences. The authorities repsonse here is pretty standard across the board.
Any Freenet nodes get raided? That's a good test for how secure the system is.
My Hp48 celebrates it's 20th anniversary next year.
I look forward to using it on it's 30th and 40th. It's the keyboard. I'd be all over a new one if it was built the same.. but.. it's not.
Don't need fancy graphics to run the stack. :)
I'm pretty sure it got more views already than the latest three Star Wars movies put together. :)
The fact I can describe the Gangham video scene by scene from memory and not Lucas's latest blasphemy doens't bode well for the author's hypothesis.
Of course there's more crap out there. There's billions more people! There should be (and is) more great stuff too. You just need to look harder.
The problem for universities is the employers aren't hiring or scaling pay the way they used to, and relative to the return, for the average student, the value proposition is not as good.
Once someone of note starts offering real paper for online classes, or employers start accepting it - something, I think, that is already happening - the ivory tower of cards is going to fall very fast and very hard.
There is no shortage of ideas. There has been a shortage of ways to test them in the real world.
Computers have gotten very cheap. Pretty much any prof that wants to pursue something now can build enough hardware to do so with a relatively small amount of money. Neural networks ran into a big wall twenty years ago because the tools weren't there yet.
Once people start having some successes, more funds will be made available, more advances will be made, justifyiing even more funding.. and then we'll turn control of the military over to SkyNet. :)
Coal spews more radiation than a nuclear meltdown, and kills many more people in it's extraction and mining. How's that for some things not to love?
Nobody complains about all the nuclear reactors mounted on thousands of kilograms of rocket fuel, pointed directly at the world's major population centers, locked and loaded, a few electrical impulses from going off.
People are stupid, and the anti-nuke people are even stupider. We'll burn every last drop of commercially extractable energy profitable hydrocarbon before we look at nuclear. My only ray of light is nuclear is so clean, and there is so much of it, that it may be able to power a next generation of carbon sequestration technologies.
I have become more vocal about pointing out the stupidity, and encourage others to do so. No renewables on earth can, or ever will, compare with the energy density and baseload capacity of a modern nuclear plant.
Not having fusion reactors should be a national shame. The only ones we have are on top of those rockets.
I'll raise you a "never going to happen".
I wear glasses because I'm basically blind without them. Glasses are a pain in the ass to deal with. With most of these systems, I would have to wear contact lenses AND glasses. That sounds great!
Putting things on your face is a pain. Watches are dead now aside from demonstrations of disposable income.. killed by the smartphone. These glasses offer no major advantages over a smartphone.
Tablets are a different animal; they always have been. Tablets offer a substantive advantage over a notebook - weight, battery life - and larger screens than a smartphone. But tablets, like smart phones, get put away when they're not being used.
Augmented reality glasses offer no substantive advantages whatsoever.
For all the type of this, a really nice, lightweight, HUD display for simulations and other environments would be a lot more widely applicable.
Yes, I do think it can't be integrated. Barring a star-trek advance in battery technology, or a wire running down your back, or a microwave battery power transmitter you carry. Those all scream cool.
These things are so dorky it hurts, and don't offer any serious advantage over a smartphone, that everyone already has anyway.
Seriously.
Unless it's indistinguishable from normal glasses, which it won't be, there's no market here outside of some very specific and special industries.
Why can't we have kick ass VR glasses, like Carmack is working on, instead?
Cool, yes. Is my mom going to want a pair? Probably not.
I cite the entire contact lenses industry as evidence.
Shenanigans!
The best thing you can do for the environment is get sterilized. That's not politically correct to talk about.
I tend not to be a defeatest, but we're going to burn every drop of oil. Then we'll switch to nuclear. Efforts wasted on legislation are better spent on developing new techniques to remove carbon from the atmosphere on a geo-engineering scale. Humans are smart, but we're reactionary.
Why is it those who complain about nuclear power plants never bat an eye at the ~4000 nuclear warheads aimed at people all over the world, ready to do harm with the press of a button, held in place with the same failsafes they deem insufficient?
Burning oil is stupid. We should be developing nuclear technologies as fast as we can. Instead we'll wait for the oil to be gone.. but I hope we don't wait until we need to use those warheads over oil reserves. Wouldn't that be the ultimate irony?
Transit costs are marginal.
Once the fiber is in place, operational expenses on a link per bit are basically zero. You'd have to get it connected to a peering hub of course, but on the scale he's talking about, it's not a big deal.
Bandwidth is (almost) free. Capital build is not. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
You know, if Google wants to "do some good", and maybe "buy some karma", they could extend some of those fat stacks - along with, maybe, you know, iTunesU Apple - and buy the best-of-breed textbooks in the classics and STEM - basic physics; calculus; english; trig; algebra; biology; chemistry, organic, and inorganic; and then make the source materials for the book available online for peer reviewed update and analysis.
The collective good done to humanity may be beyond measure.
Seriously. The amount of funds involved are relatively small and the books are right there.
The cloud is fine.
You have to hold your encryption keys, or all is moot.
This and Win8 is going to be ugly.
I studied because I wanted to learn. My parents were actively disengaged. Learning was my job.
If kids are being forced to learn, then maybe we need to re-evaluate what we're teaching them and why we're doing it.
I'm a Canadian, and I guess, a reasonably talented EE. One avenue not mentioned is the TN-class visa; same general idea, but yearly renewable. (Canada/Mexico)
The process to actually _immigrate_ to the US is a real pain and very lengthy. So much that the logical extension is that they don't want skilled immigration on a permanent basis - at least from Canada. However, exporting work from the US is made very easy.
What's the problem with opening it up? Why not just find a way to document, all the undocumented? Am I missing something?
..there's less difference these days than you might think.
Computers are largely SOC designs with RAM and flash added. The packaging makes the product, and the biggest variable on quality is the components used to regulate power. Microsoft has a good understanding of both those - on a positive, from a design perspective, and .. well, you've heard about xbox power supplies. :)
Food is very, very cheap in the developed world. Even if energy costs went up by an order or magnitude it would not be a major problem.
Transport costs are a bigger deal as is electricity production. We need to start building nuclear plants. Yesterday. The sooner politicians start grooming the public to accept this, the better.
Lots of smaller centers don't have lawyers and need them.
There is a massive glut of them in the city.
This trend is not exclusive to law. Supply, demand..