Navy has it. USA, Russians. You just don't hear about it. Magnetohydrodynamic propulsion and very noiseless. You run current through seawater in a magnetic field and get a propulsive flow. However, with seawater the electrodes tend to get eaten away unless they have platinum surfaces. Platinum is $1200 an ounce but the technology is usable. Now that I've told you, I'll have to shoot you.
I wonder if this will turn out to be related to the honeybee mass extinction now being investigated. Something is killing off beneficial insects. Various types of BT kill different bugs and GM corn (maize) does have one type of BT in it. Mmmmm, GM corn in my breakfast cereal is soo delicious. I bet Tony the Tiger gets cancer and dies soon.
While I read this thread, I kept wanting to have hot sex. Then I looked at the page's source. Every word was followed by the words 'Hot sex!" and "Cmdr Taco!" coded to render in white text on a white background. Unfortunately, my browser didn't render it all properly, and I ended up having sex with Mexican food. Many times. In one hour.
Basically one takes an incoming symbol stream and spreads it out in a time sequence using a serial-in, parallel-out FIFO. The FIFO allows one to look over a vista of things that occurred at different times, instead of one big clumpy data set, and so it is easy to learn about events over time. I give the NN access to the FIFO's parallel outputs through an intermediate control and switching layer. There is some feedback to this layer also. Sorry, details there proprietary for now. This assembly learns to detect groups of symbols 'emitted' in time. This in turn provides a higher-level symbol stream (stream of groups, really) to another NN. By this escalating, pyramidal means, the system can learn to take characters and group them into words, words into phrases, phrases into sentences. I am oversimplifying a bit here about how it works, of course. Obviously the lowest layer must be trained first, before it can provide 'collated' information to higher layers. Then the next layer up gets trained, and so on, up to sentence level. The basic mechanism is adaptable for speech (phonemes to words to sentences), reading (characters to words to phrases to sentences), handwriting recognition (vectors in time), and learning about cause and effect and detecting actions. Also can take whole worldframe sequences through time, so the system can learn about events in the world and guess about cause and effect. It's more complicated than that sentence expresses, I had to simplify here. I'm not sure whether Hawkins' SW does this same kind of thing using some buried mechanism or uses a different means to learn about things spread out in time.
I've been working for some time on technology with hierarchical NN architecture like Hawkin's HTM, but mine in part involves SIPO FIFOs with attached neural networks, and the output of the NNs go to the next layer's SIPO+NNs, and so on up the chain. It's intended to extract meaning from symbol flow over time. Like speech primitives into language. Hawkins embeds temporal symbol handling in each HTM layer in a different way. Both of us are trying to emulate some of the processing the neocortex does, but I am less concerned with matching closely the brain and more concerned with outperforming the limitations of the brain. I believe there are classes of problems his architecture will solve, but can't handle others. There's lots of room for people to explore what his technology can do, and I expect it will work well for some things.
Coat the inside of cameras (and lens barrels), yes, great application!
Sine I posted, I realized there are some flaws in my model of the luminance dynamics and in the post-processing, so I have to go rethink that all. My film work was decades ago and mostly industrial anyway.
I wonder if the military already has some form of this material, by the way. Er, probably captured from a crashed saucer, of course. (cough)
I agree mostly, but note I did say pixels of zero. I meant by that absolute pure black, complete absence of reflectance. In a normally-lit scene I would expect no things would be completely down on the 'floor' i.e. r=0 b= g=0 and so pure black could be keyable. True pure black would not exist on people or objects but would with this background material, allowing a new approach in lighting. One of the problems I find with dynamic range in movie images is that the shadows/black usually block up, but in nature, we tend to see a little detail in black. With this new material, one could therefore could light everything so shadows would not block completely to black, and I would think it would allow better dynamic range compositionally. Other than that, I understand what you said and agree.
I expect a very practical use for this material, if it is not too expensive, will be as a wall coating to replace green screens in filmmaking. It would allow lighting the subjects without worry about any light spill onto the background, and maybe allow better keying for special effects. You would just replace all pixel values that equal zero with your own background data, instead of keying on that narrow-band green which is, after all, still green.
NASA just received an email that clears things up: "Hello. This is the Forensics Division of Zarkon Intergalactic Enterprises, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Xmergon Industries of Aldebaran. One of our patrols found your primitive space vehicle out beyond Jupiter and we pulled it in for investigation. We are examining the spacecraft's data storage unit, and wonder if you could tell us, what is 'pr0n'? And what are these 'giant flesh-monsters some technician appears to be fond of?'"
Thems fightin' words! Now, if you had mentioned Digg, I'd have agreed. Digg is populated by the very kids who aren't doing homework, don't want to, and wouldn't recognize a brain cell if it bit them. At least on Slashdot, even the morons can tell a packet from a rectum. Er, I hope. Otherwise, there're going to be some interesting network connections.
Well, the good side of this is that airports, Federal courthouses, and other Federal buildings, are no longer going to be cleaned by (mostly Mexican) illegals. The bad side is, all the Federal buildings in Los Angeles, and LAX, are going to stay dirty.
I, for one, salute our new DNA-encoded file-bearing bacterial overlords!
And note that I will happily download BacteriaTorrent as soon as I can be sure I only get movies and not some awful flesh-eating disease that makes me look like an RIAA executive, or maybe Jack Thompson.
C3PO: "Oh, R2D2, don't be jealous because *I* can walk. (robosnicker)"
...R2D2 pisses oil all over the floor, watches as C3PO slips and falls on his shiny metal ass; R2D2 emits a sound suspiciously like Nelson from Simpsons "ha ha".
Researchers at Stanford have discovered chimps in the wild using what looks like a Wii controller made out of bamboo and vines. The chimps failed to notice the researchers sneak up, as they were busy trying to perform virtual bowling. However, it all came to a sad end as the scientists watched three hungry lions also sneak up unnoticed. After dining, the lions declared that they too much preferred Nintendo to Sony, although it was hard to hold the Wii, and they didn't much care for Blu-Ray anyway. Hearing this, the editors of Gamespot sent a reporter to Africa to gather more information, and hoping to hear that lions had also eaten Roland Piquepaille.
Previous poster is right. We all know Satan exists: just read the shrinkwrap agreement for Windows Vista.
The fine print says "I the retail buyer hereby sell my soul to Satan in exchange for an operating system with DRM that I don't want but it's what Best Buy forced me to take." My priest suggested sprinkling holy water on my PC might make the validation checks run smoother though. Not sure that will help with global warming however.
I can say that having three 19" monitors helps immensely with productivity. I have task lists or specs docs in the left screen, application in the middle, email or browser on the right. It's far more efficient than uncovering windows or clicking on the taskbar and waiting for the app to show. And, and, I never use it for prOn, that would just not be right.
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Navy has it. USA, Russians. You just don't hear about it. Magnetohydrodynamic propulsion and very noiseless. You run current through seawater in a magnetic field and get a propulsive flow. However, with seawater the electrodes tend to get eaten away unless they have platinum surfaces. Platinum is $1200 an ounce but the technology is usable. Now that I've told you, I'll have to shoot you.
Water! Aha! Past canals! Aha! Okay, next step is, find the caves the Martians lived in. And see if you can find any preserved Martian porn!
I wonder if this will turn out to be related to the honeybee mass extinction now being investigated. Something is killing off beneficial insects. Various types of BT kill different bugs and GM corn (maize) does have one type of BT in it. Mmmmm, GM corn in my breakfast cereal is soo delicious. I bet Tony the Tiger gets cancer and dies soon.
Oi, mate! Fosters! For the best edible underwear made from Australian fermented beverages!
When you get asked "Honey, do you think my avatar's ass looks too big?" NEVER say 'yes'.
While I read this thread, I kept wanting to have hot sex. Then I looked at the page's source. Every word was followed by the words 'Hot sex!" and "Cmdr Taco!" coded to render in white text on a white background. Unfortunately, my browser didn't render it all properly, and I ended up having sex with Mexican food. Many times. In one hour.
I int illiberat, u roten trole. *cough*
Ohh. You said 'pubic lice'. I misread the post. I thought you'd said "RIAA". Never mind.
Basically one takes an incoming symbol stream and spreads it out in a time sequence using a serial-in, parallel-out FIFO. The FIFO allows one to look over a vista of things that occurred at different times, instead of one big clumpy data set, and so it is easy to learn about events over time. I give the NN access to the FIFO's parallel outputs through an intermediate control and switching layer. There is some feedback to this layer also. Sorry, details there proprietary for now. This assembly learns to detect groups of symbols 'emitted' in time. This in turn provides a higher-level symbol stream (stream of groups, really) to another NN. By this escalating, pyramidal means, the system can learn to take characters and group them into words, words into phrases, phrases into sentences. I am oversimplifying a bit here about how it works, of course. Obviously the lowest layer must be trained first, before it can provide 'collated' information to higher layers. Then the next layer up gets trained, and so on, up to sentence level. The basic mechanism is adaptable for speech (phonemes to words to sentences), reading (characters to words to phrases to sentences), handwriting recognition (vectors in time), and learning about cause and effect and detecting actions. Also can take whole worldframe sequences through time, so the system can learn about events in the world and guess about cause and effect. It's more complicated than that sentence expresses, I had to simplify here. I'm not sure whether Hawkins' SW does this same kind of thing using some buried mechanism or uses a different means to learn about things spread out in time.
I've been working for some time on technology with hierarchical NN architecture like Hawkin's HTM, but mine in part involves SIPO FIFOs with attached neural networks, and the output of the NNs go to the next layer's SIPO+NNs, and so on up the chain. It's intended to extract meaning from symbol flow over time. Like speech primitives into language. Hawkins embeds temporal symbol handling in each HTM layer in a different way. Both of us are trying to emulate some of the processing the neocortex does, but I am less concerned with matching closely the brain and more concerned with outperforming the limitations of the brain. I believe there are classes of problems his architecture will solve, but can't handle others. There's lots of room for people to explore what his technology can do, and I expect it will work well for some things.
Sine I posted, I realized there are some flaws in my model of the luminance dynamics and in the post-processing, so I have to go rethink that all. My film work was decades ago and mostly industrial anyway.
I wonder if the military already has some form of this material, by the way. Er, probably captured from a crashed saucer, of course. (cough)
I agree mostly, but note I did say pixels of zero. I meant by that absolute pure black, complete absence of reflectance. In a normally-lit scene I would expect no things would be completely down on the 'floor' i.e. r=0 b= g=0 and so pure black could be keyable. True pure black would not exist on people or objects but would with this background material, allowing a new approach in lighting. One of the problems I find with dynamic range in movie images is that the shadows/black usually block up, but in nature, we tend to see a little detail in black. With this new material, one could therefore could light everything so shadows would not block completely to black, and I would think it would allow better dynamic range compositionally. Other than that, I understand what you said and agree.
I expect a very practical use for this material, if it is not too expensive, will be as a wall coating to replace green screens in filmmaking. It would allow lighting the subjects without worry about any light spill onto the background, and maybe allow better keying for special effects. You would just replace all pixel values that equal zero with your own background data, instead of keying on that narrow-band green which is, after all, still green.
Oh - dinosaurs? At first I thought this was a post about Windows Vista.
NASA just received an email that clears things up: "Hello. This is the Forensics Division of Zarkon Intergalactic Enterprises, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Xmergon Industries of Aldebaran. One of our patrols found your primitive space vehicle out beyond Jupiter and we pulled it in for investigation. We are examining the spacecraft's data storage unit, and wonder if you could tell us, what is 'pr0n'? And what are these 'giant flesh-monsters some technician appears to be fond of?'"
Thems fightin' words! Now, if you had mentioned Digg, I'd have agreed. Digg is populated by the very kids who aren't doing homework, don't want to, and wouldn't recognize a brain cell if it bit them. At least on Slashdot, even the morons can tell a packet from a rectum. Er, I hope. Otherwise, there're going to be some interesting network connections.
Well, the good side of this is that airports, Federal courthouses, and other Federal buildings, are no longer going to be cleaned by (mostly Mexican) illegals. The bad side is, all the Federal buildings in Los Angeles, and LAX, are going to stay dirty.
... Domino Viagra ...
And note that I will happily download BacteriaTorrent as soon as I can be sure I only get movies and not some awful flesh-eating disease that makes me look like an RIAA executive, or maybe Jack Thompson.
Researchers at Stanford have discovered chimps in the wild using what looks like a Wii controller made out of bamboo and vines. The chimps failed to notice the researchers sneak up, as they were busy trying to perform virtual bowling. However, it all came to a sad end as the scientists watched three hungry lions also sneak up unnoticed. After dining, the lions declared that they too much preferred Nintendo to Sony, although it was hard to hold the Wii, and they didn't much care for Blu-Ray anyway. Hearing this, the editors of Gamespot sent a reporter to Africa to gather more information, and hoping to hear that lions had also eaten Roland Piquepaille.
Nothing is scarier than hearing your surgeon mutter "Head shot!" under his mask as you sink into anesthesia.
I..loved Milli Vanilli's...Ninth Symphony...must go lie down ... not ...feeling well. Spock! Help me, Spock!
The fine print says "I the retail buyer hereby sell my soul to Satan in exchange for an operating system with DRM that I don't want but it's what Best Buy forced me to take." My priest suggested sprinkling holy water on my PC might make the validation checks run smoother though. Not sure that will help with global warming however.
I can say that having three 19" monitors helps immensely with productivity. I have task lists or specs docs in the left screen, application in the middle, email or browser on the right. It's far more efficient than uncovering windows or clicking on the taskbar and waiting for the app to show. And, and, I never use it for prOn, that would just not be right.