Check out this diagram of a classifier system. It's taken from The Computational Beauty of Nature. The website isn't really up to date nowadays, but the full source code for everything in the book is available in both Linux and Windows downloads and there's a java applet of all the examples too.
The material covered in the book is also still very relevant and the books a joy to read.
You should buy it:^) Not astroturfing just really enjoyed the book myself.
Sure could, lots of systems are turing complete - I've seen a universal turing machine implemented within Conway's Game of Life. It could do And, Or, and Not and that's all you need.
Also, a lot of seemingly different mathematical systems are interrelated or can be transformed into each other. Look here to see how computation can be expressed within four other ontological frameworks.
Anyway, don't quote me on the above (:^) this is/. after all) but I know for a fact that what your saying is a valid implementation of a universal turing machine so yes it would compute.
I'd rather have everything displayed within an integrated HUD that is projected onto the windshield (I know this has been done just can't remember the make and model of the car) and then add eye tracking components. Want to go to the next track? Glance at the next track button on the HUD. That's a lot better than trying to get voice recognition software to operate in a very noisy environment (at least the noise would be the music itself and at worse include external road noises).
And what if the music had vocal commands that could feedback into the system? Some song somewhere contains words such as 'play', 'stop', etc...
Could this be used on the user-side of things to allow the user to customize the layout of the program to suit their tastes or maybe add functionality for advanced users?
Or is it just another virtual CPU like Java or.Net's CLR - for example the tag <invoke-expr> would simply be an opcode or a 'machine' language instruction?
Muscles would be great replacements for all sorts of electrically powered motors/servos out there. There's a lot of chemical energy stored in organic material, so switching over to artificial muscle based machines would virtually solve the battery problem faced in so many disciplines right now. Batteries are heavy, don't really store that much energy, and require toxic chemical considerations both in their manufacture and disposal. Artificial muscle on the other hand can extract very easily the energy contained within common foods/organic paste and only create waste by-products that have less impact on the environment because they're biodegradable.
Just another step towards Robotech:)
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Yeah, I guess I agree with you. My comment was more out of frustration - I'm a newbie with a SuSe 9.2 box with everything installed from the 5 CD's and I'm still always running into package dependency problems while I'm trying to install new software. Man, when your new like I am you really could use something that is taken for granted like the Windows installer.
I would love to see a package manager that could compile.tar.gz source archives, rpm's,.deb archives, and all the other formats that are out there. Yast is good until the package you want isn't in it's catalog.
I wish that a standard installer was built into the kernel so that Linus would through delegation would be in charge of it. Good package management that was consistant across distributions (because they would all use this uber-kernel) would be the nicest thing I could think of for improving *nix.
So basically a country can choose between having more wealth or having more innovation.
You know, choosing wealth realistically means that any increased wealth will probally go to people who are already obscenely wealthy. While having more innovation would redistribute the wealth into cheaper and more valuable devices for the average person instead.
Maybe all it would take would be for a market as big as the US' to reject the US push and expansion of intellectual property laws through the WIPO treaties into other markets. Imagine if China said screw you - smaller markets could just say ok, we've got a large enough market to replace the US and we don't have to live by as many rules while doing business there.
How will it affect Evolution? It won't at all, Evolution is a process built into the Universe as I see it. We're always evolving but the selection pressure's are always shifting. The moment a doctor cures a disease in a person is the instant that that selection pressure was removed from that individuals small contribution to natural evolution. Instead it confer's a trait that is defined by how much an individual has access to quality health care as a new societal selection pressure.
...a highspeed orbit would probably be dangerously close to the atmosphere...
Actually the way orbits work, the faster you go translates directly into how high you are. So if you were going faster you would be increasing your altitude relative to the planet.
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy.
the chance to draw back,
always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of
initiative (and creation).
There is one elemental truth,
the ignornance of which kills countless ideas
and splendid plans---
that the moment one definitely commits oneself,
then Providence moves all.
All sorts of things occur to help one
that would never otherwise have occurred.
A whole stream of events issue from the decision,
raising in one's favor all manner of incidents
and meetings and material assistance
which no one could have dreamed would come his or
her way.
Whatever you can do or dream, you can begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Begin it now.
- Goethe (1749-1832), German poet and dramatist.
I think converting to open source is like this poem, as your switching you develop tools to help you convert all your data as you go with increasing returns as your tools improve iteratively. Once your fully open-source then you can reap the benefits of network effects, the reason, I think, that major companies such as IBM and Sun have developed and implemented open-source strategies.
...Older trees are not the home of the tree fairy...
You know, I was thinking about what you said and I think that old stands of tree's are good to have around because of the biodiversity that's in an old stand. There are lot's of other organisms that exist in the overall ecology of an established forest, which newly planted tree's haven't had time to develop. Saving complete ecosystems instead of replacing then with monocultures is worthy enough to warrent an added cost if you want to destroy them.
Or not.
...is some workable, "non-oppressive" alternative to the free market...
Capitalism is a great system, but what I really think the Lefties should concentrate on is not throwing the whole system out but rather tweak how it works.
Two of the characteristics that the capital system has assumed is the goal of a company which is traditionally to make money and the costs of business associated with achieving the goal.
Starting with costs, the system could be restructured towards a green economy by manipulating the costs - Gasoline costs a hell of a lot more, old-growth trees cost a lot to harvest, etc. With more ecologicaly orientated costs built into the system you would get eventually get your desired social system organized through capitalism.
The goals of a company too can be tweaked to achieve new societial effects. Individuals in a new society can easily create co-ops by organizing on the internet and having the co-ops focus on creating economic activity with goals such as creating jobs or providing free neighborhood watch functions in a local area thus having the profits returned to the community.
Or not.
...the statue is probably one of the most important symbols of America...
Which reminds me of a great point I used to pull out when the whole France/Freedom Fries thing was going on. If you're that mad at them then give their damn statue back!:)
Your quite probably right about the NRA being for bush. But Man, something's got to give down there in the States. So many rights have been chisled away over the last 20 years. Here's some more flamebait since I'm probably going to be mod'd into the dust: The Patriot Act doesn't seem to be about being patriotic, but more seems to just outright suspend the Bill of Rights.
Karma to burn, baby, burn.
...It's an arms race. All this technical thuggery will do is cause the content industry to increase their efforts to lobby for more and more legislation and push their efforts to lock down the computers so that they aren't openly programmable...
So just give up? What about letting your members of congress know what you think? Oh, they're not listening to non-corporate citizens anymore? Well, what about your document that says to the effect: The responsibility of the citizenry to overthrow through any means a government that has become tyranical or corrupt.
Personally I'd almost like to see Dubya win the next election down there (I'm up here, eh). Just because it would hasten the point of time when average americans would have to choose to let themselves become slaves or take up arms and overthrow the old regime.
All the bitching and whining in the world won't change a damn thing but maybe joining your local NRA chapter (despite Michael Moore) just might.
I'd like to see a block of maybe africa and the middle east just say screw it and form their own economic associations independent of the United States. They wouldn't have great GDP's but at least they'd be creating their own economies suited to their specific needs and not letting the vacuum machine that is the US suck up all their money.
Developing countries are not a market for our TV production and their home textile industries can't get off the ground because the West floods developing markets with cheap bolts of cloth or discarded clothing. Our economic interests do not match, the developing world needs to bootstrap itself to the next economic level while the West economies tend to take aggressive advantage of any market as our goal is the creation of our wealth not for the benefit of the markets that such behaviour tends to suck dry.
Or not.
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Check out this diagram of a classifier system. It's taken from The Computational Beauty of Nature. The website isn't really up to date nowadays, but the full source code for everything in the book is available in both Linux and Windows downloads and there's a java applet of all the examples too. :^) Not astroturfing just really enjoyed the book myself.
The material covered in the book is also still very relevant and the books a joy to read.
You should buy it
Sure could, lots of systems are turing complete - I've seen a universal turing machine implemented within Conway's Game of Life. It could do And, Or, and Not and that's all you need.
:^) this is /. after all) but I know for a fact that what your saying is a valid implementation of a universal turing machine so yes it would compute.
Also, a lot of seemingly different mathematical systems are interrelated or can be transformed into each other. Look here to see how computation can be expressed within four other ontological frameworks.
Anyway, don't quote me on the above (
I'd rather have everything displayed within an integrated HUD that is projected onto the windshield (I know this has been done just can't remember the make and model of the car) and then add eye tracking components. Want to go to the next track? Glance at the next track button on the HUD. That's a lot better than trying to get voice recognition software to operate in a very noisy environment (at least the noise would be the music itself and at worse include external road noises).
And what if the music had vocal commands that could feedback into the system? Some song somewhere contains words such as 'play', 'stop', etc...
Could this be used on the user-side of things to allow the user to customize the layout of the program to suit their tastes or maybe add functionality for advanced users? .Net's CLR - for example the tag <invoke-expr> would simply be an opcode or a 'machine' language instruction?
Or is it just another virtual CPU like Java or
Muscles would be great replacements for all sorts of electrically powered motors/servos out there. There's a lot of chemical energy stored in organic material, so switching over to artificial muscle based machines would virtually solve the battery problem faced in so many disciplines right now. Batteries are heavy, don't really store that much energy, and require toxic chemical considerations both in their manufacture and disposal. Artificial muscle on the other hand can extract very easily the energy contained within common foods/organic paste and only create waste by-products that have less impact on the environment because they're biodegradable. :)
Just another step towards Robotech
Just make sure their credit card details are sent before their hard drive is formatted...
:)
Yup. Bad Religion rocks IMHO. Sucky 120 char limit though limits me giving them a tagline.
I have six gmail invites to give out still, so... :)
Respond to this message with your e-mail while logged into your account (durtbag) and I'll send you a gmail invite. If I have enough invites, just post your email for anyone else and the first lucky five get invites.
That is all.
Yeah, I guess I agree with you. My comment was more out of frustration - I'm a newbie with a SuSe 9.2 box with everything installed from the 5 CD's and I'm still always running into package dependency problems while I'm trying to install new software. Man, when your new like I am you really could use something that is taken for granted like the Windows installer. .tar.gz source archives, rpm's, .deb archives, and all the other formats that are out there. Yast is good until the package you want isn't in it's catalog.
I would love to see a package manager that could compile
I wish that a standard installer was built into the kernel so that Linus would through delegation would be in charge of it. Good package management that was consistant across distributions (because they would all use this uber-kernel) would be the nicest thing I could think of for improving *nix.
So basically a country can choose between having more wealth or having more innovation.
You know, choosing wealth realistically means that any increased wealth will probally go to people who are already obscenely wealthy. While having more innovation would redistribute the wealth into cheaper and more valuable devices for the average person instead.
Maybe all it would take would be for a market as big as the US' to reject the US push and expansion of intellectual property laws through the WIPO treaties into other markets. Imagine if China said screw you - smaller markets could just say ok, we've got a large enough market to replace the US and we don't have to live by as many rules while doing business there.
I think you just broke my sarcasm detector.
;)
How will it affect Evolution? It won't at all, Evolution is a process built into the Universe as I see it. We're always evolving but the selection pressure's are always shifting. The moment a doctor cures a disease in a person is the instant that that selection pressure was removed from that individuals small contribution to natural evolution. Instead it confer's a trait that is defined by how much an individual has access to quality health care as a new societal selection pressure.
:) ;)
Or I could just be talking out of my butt.
...a highspeed orbit would probably be dangerously close to the atmosphere...
Actually the way orbits work, the faster you go translates directly into how high you are. So if you were going faster you would be increasing your altitude relative to the planet.
Reminds me of a poem reproduced here:
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy.
the chance to draw back,
always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of
initiative (and creation).
There is one elemental truth,
the ignornance of which kills countless ideas
and splendid plans---
that the moment one definitely commits oneself,
then Providence moves all.
All sorts of things occur to help one
that would never otherwise have occurred.
A whole stream of events issue from the decision,
raising in one's favor all manner of incidents
and meetings and material assistance
which no one could have dreamed would come his or
her way.
Whatever you can do or dream, you can begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Begin it now.
- Goethe (1749-1832), German poet and dramatist.
I think converting to open source is like this poem, as your switching you develop tools to help you convert all your data as you go with increasing returns as your tools improve iteratively. Once your fully open-source then you can reap the benefits of network effects, the reason, I think, that major companies such as IBM and Sun have developed and implemented open-source strategies.
...Older trees are not the home of the tree fairy...
You know, I was thinking about what you said and I think that old stands of tree's are good to have around because of the biodiversity that's in an old stand. There are lot's of other organisms that exist in the overall ecology of an established forest, which newly planted tree's haven't had time to develop. Saving complete ecosystems instead of replacing then with monocultures is worthy enough to warrent an added cost if you want to destroy them.
Or not.
I'm so glad those GNAA idiots didn't get 10,000,000th post.
And congratulations Obvious Guy for getting it.
Your absolutely right I guess, but just replace the examples with something that is more sound.
...is some workable, "non-oppressive" alternative to the free market...
Capitalism is a great system, but what I really think the Lefties should concentrate on is not throwing the whole system out but rather tweak how it works.
Two of the characteristics that the capital system has assumed is the goal of a company which is traditionally to make money and the costs of business associated with achieving the goal.
Starting with costs, the system could be restructured towards a green economy by manipulating the costs - Gasoline costs a hell of a lot more, old-growth trees cost a lot to harvest, etc. With more ecologicaly orientated costs built into the system you would get eventually get your desired social system organized through capitalism.
The goals of a company too can be tweaked to achieve new societial effects. Individuals in a new society can easily create co-ops by organizing on the internet and having the co-ops focus on creating economic activity with goals such as creating jobs or providing free neighborhood watch functions in a local area thus having the profits returned to the community.
Or not.
Couldn't anyone create their own fork from the last GPL'd source?
It's not even out of beta yet for cryin' out loud. All Google has to do is rechristen it as something else and actually trademark the new title.
...the statue is probably one of the most important symbols of America... :)
Which reminds me of a great point I used to pull out when the whole France/Freedom Fries thing was going on. If you're that mad at them then give their damn statue back!
Your quite probably right about the NRA being for bush. But Man, something's got to give down there in the States. So many rights have been chisled away over the last 20 years. Here's some more flamebait since I'm probably going to be mod'd into the dust: The Patriot Act doesn't seem to be about being patriotic, but more seems to just outright suspend the Bill of Rights.
Karma to burn, baby, burn.
...It's an arms race. All this technical thuggery will do is cause the content industry to increase their efforts to lobby for more and more legislation and push their efforts to lock down the computers so that they aren't openly programmable...
So just give up? What about letting your members of congress know what you think? Oh, they're not listening to non-corporate citizens anymore? Well, what about your document that says to the effect:
The responsibility of the citizenry to overthrow through any means a government that has become tyranical or corrupt.
Personally I'd almost like to see Dubya win the next election down there (I'm up here, eh). Just because it would hasten the point of time when average americans would have to choose to let themselves become slaves or take up arms and overthrow the old regime.
All the bitching and whining in the world won't change a damn thing but maybe joining your local NRA chapter (despite Michael Moore) just might.
I'd like to see a block of maybe africa and the middle east just say screw it and form their own economic associations independent of the United States. They wouldn't have great GDP's but at least they'd be creating their own economies suited to their specific needs and not letting the vacuum machine that is the US suck up all their money.
Developing countries are not a market for our TV production and their home textile industries can't get off the ground because the West floods developing markets with cheap bolts of cloth or discarded clothing. Our economic interests do not match, the developing world needs to bootstrap itself to the next economic level while the West economies tend to take aggressive advantage of any market as our goal is the creation of our wealth not for the benefit of the markets that such behaviour tends to suck dry.
Or not.