Speaking of RAID, has anyone been able to get the Promise Fasttrak SX4000 to work under FreeBSD and/or Gentoo Linux?
"The first low-cost, high-performance RAID 5 host adapter with all the RAID features you want, at a price you won't believe [about $150]" was touted to work under RedHat Linux, however I have been unable to coax it to work under Gentoo or FreeBSD.
Actually, if you want to be technical about it, both GNOME and KDE are LAME; They are both uber-hyped window managers. This more-or-less follows directly from the Eliteness of the Console axiom.
The proof, which is left as an exercise to the reader, is more or less the same as one would use to proove the lameness of most window-managers. (Hint: Try to prove that it is LAME to have more than three applications taking up screen-share at once.)
Ratpoison, due to its special properties that make it more like screen than a window manager, is one of the few acceptably not LAME window managers under X11.
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
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In brief: What science fiction do you recommend to people who hate science fiction?
The origin of Sturgeon's Law, widely quoted as "Ninety percent of everything is crap.", is related in the following anecdote:
"When people talk about the mystery novel," Ted [Sturgeon] said, as I remember, "they mention
The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep. When they talk about the western, they say there's The Way West and Shane. But when they talk about science fiction, they call it 'that Buck Rogers stuff,' and they say 'ninety percent of science fiction is crud.' Well, they're right. Ninety percent of science fiction is crud. But then ninety percent of everything is crud, and it's the ten percent that isn't crud that is important. And the ten percent of science fiction that isn't crud is as good as or better than anything being written anywhere."
-- James Gunn, The New York Review of Science Fiction #85, September 1995
I have never read much science fiction, I as cannot bear bad science fiction. But, if I were given a reading list of very good science fiction, I think I would enjoy it greatly.
As such, can you give me a science fiction reading list that contains unassailable writing? What science fiction is both highly "literary" and just plain good? What science fiction will satisfy even the most "high-brow"/pretentious tastes?
Haven't you heard? Women are gradually stealing all male names. If we stop naming our sons Jacob, those crafty women will STEAL OUR FAVORITE NAME! That is why we guard our most common names so dearly.
DISENGAGE MISOGYNISTIC HUMOR SEQUENCE
You miss the most important point about naming: Our names are given to us by those before us and not by ourselves.
Men and women do not get to choose their names. Your argument about why women's names change more often than men's makes no sense. But, you seem to realize this, so I won't beat a dead horse.
Instead of contriving explanations for why women's names change more often than men's, I suggest you instead think about the more salient question: Why do women's clothes become more unfashionable more quickly than men's clothes?
One can copyright a photograph of public domain artwork. For example, it would be illegal to scan in every photograph from your favorite Michelangelo picture book and post them on your web site.
IANAL, but I would presume that, similarly, one cannot use Amazon's scans of cover art, except as provided by fair use.
"The Elephant Vanishes", available in English as a Vintage International paperback, is a collection of short stories into which you can immediately jump.
[Warning: Plot description but no spoiler included.] My favorite story from the collection is "The 100% Perfect Girl," in which he passes (you guessed it) the 100% perfect girl on the street and, only after losing her, figures out exactly what he would have stopped and told her. This substory comprises the bulk this short short story and describes the story of two young lovers and their 100% perfect love potentially being lost to foolishness.
Murakami is best known for
Norweigan Wood
. From the Amazon.com description:
"In 1987, when Norwegian Wood was first published in Japan, it promptly sold more than 4 million copies and transformed Haruki Murakami into a pop-culture icon. The horrified author fled his native land for Europe and the United States, returning only in 1995, by which time the celebrity spotlight had found some fresher targets." I have not read it so I will not comment (nor karma-whore, as it were) further.
There is much too much anthropomorphizing going on in the A.I. field and this has always been true.
Really? How do you know this? When is the last time you read a AI research paper in a journal? Would you care to enlighten us as to how serious AI is too anthropomorphic?
Or were you just talking about the hype surrounding AI which is independent of serious research in AI?
Please, we in the AI community would love to know... Otherwise, still spreading this hogwash that has been giving AI a bad name for the past fifty years.
For example, look at recent advances in NLP due to the shift towards statistical (empirical i.e. data-based, not linguistics-based) methods. For example, anaphora resolution is more-or-less a solved problem as of a few years ago. (Anaphora is the use of a linguistic unit, such as a pronoun, to refer back to another unit. Anaphora resolution is figuring out what is referred to. i.e. the meaning of "she" can be determined with over 95% accuracy in corpora where humans do not find ambiguity.)
Many people do not realize how many small incremental advance are being made using machine-based approaches and assume that all we do is run around making airplanes modelled after birds.
Five bucks says that this server is slashdot'ed within the hour, so you may have more success with the less descriptive SourceForge project page, indicates that the project is not dead, as the homepage says.
I discovered this program when I was optimizing some code I wrote to multiply sparse matrices. By the time I had gotten it 100x faster than the initial code, gprof had lost all semblance of granularity and was giving me obviously bogus results. The problem is that such things as cache performance (i.e. optimizing for cache hits) were now heavily affecting the profile and gprof could not figure such things out. FunctionCheck works much better than gprof and actually generates accurate profile information under high-stress situations.
From the homepage (all grammatical errors theirs):
"I created FunctionCheck because the well known profiler gprof have some limitations:
it is not possible to change the profile data file name
multi-threads / multi-processes is not supported
time spend in non-profiled functions is discarded
you can't control the way profile is made
memory profile is not managed
For all these limitations, and by the fact that I discovered a new gcc feature called -finstrument-functions, I decided to write my own profiler.
My approach is simple: I add (small) treatments at each enter and exit of all the functions of the profiled program. It allows me to compute many information:
the current call-stack
the time at each action, to compute elapsed times in functions
process PID / thread ID, to manage multi-threads / multi-processes
number of calls to functions
...
With these information, I can generate profile data files (for each thread / process), which describes all the statistics (at function level) for the program execution."
Try it out and please contribute some source code.
There is much better music that includes computer synth. When done right, it has a strange, compelling quality not unlike the opposite feeling of dehumanization. (Sorry, it's hard to describe.) "Deus ex machina" is the term I use for plastic that sounds vibrant.
Here we go, in order of how urgent it is that you hear it (fire your respective music stealing software up NOW!):
Kid 606 - Catstep/My Kitten/Catnap Vatstep DSP Remix By Hrvatski (Search for "hrvatski catstep". Awesome drill n' bass fireworks sequence with a bouncy ragga synthetic MC who says "fey!" in a really high-pitched voice every verse. "we talking Cubase V S T, with the hyperprism mods /
make the kids go crazy you can see it in their nods" Must be heard to be believed.)
El-P - Stepfather Factory (Off the new Definitive Jux compilation, this moving, conscientious, challenging rap about "stepfather factory", "so you purchase a paternal unit Class A Type 1 / the new addition to your living room space, watch it go... in an effort to find an energy source our company's learned, the cheapest way to keep his battery running is with booze, plug it, give it a name, 'man of the house',..." ends with the machine finally getting to speaking. I won't ruin it for you, it's chilling.)
Cylob - Sex Machine (Demented, dark sex machine monologue/rap. "I have no emotions, I am just a machine / But I'm the hot - test lover there's ever been")
Anything by MC Hawking (Stephen Hawking's hip-hop side project)
Slashdot Mirror
"The first low-cost, high-performance RAID 5 host adapter with all the RAID features you want, at a price you won't believe [about $150]" was touted to work under RedHat Linux, however I have been unable to coax it to work under Gentoo or FreeBSD.
(gnashes teeth)
The proof, which is left as an exercise to the reader, is more or less the same as one would use to proove the lameness of most window-managers. (Hint: Try to prove that it is LAME to have more than three applications taking up screen-share at once.)
Ratpoison, due to its special properties that make it more like screen than a window manager, is one of the few acceptably not LAME window managers under X11.In brief: What science fiction do you recommend to people who hate science fiction?
The origin of Sturgeon's Law, widely quoted as "Ninety percent of everything is crap.", is related in the following anecdote:
-- James Gunn, The New York Review of Science Fiction #85, September 1995
I have never read much science fiction, I as cannot bear bad science fiction. But, if I were given a reading list of very good science fiction, I think I would enjoy it greatly.
As such, can you give me a science fiction reading list that contains unassailable writing? What science fiction is both highly "literary" and just plain good? What science fiction will satisfy even the most "high-brow"/pretentious tastes?
Haven't you heard? Women are gradually stealing all male names. If we stop naming our sons Jacob, those crafty women will STEAL OUR FAVORITE NAME! That is why we guard our most common names so dearly.
DISENGAGE MISOGYNISTIC HUMOR SEQUENCEYou miss the most important point about naming: Our names are given to us by those before us and not by ourselves.
Men and women do not get to choose their names. Your argument about why women's names change more often than men's makes no sense. But, you seem to realize this, so I won't beat a dead horse.
Instead of contriving explanations for why women's names change more often than men's, I suggest you instead think about the more salient question: Why do women's clothes become more unfashionable more quickly than men's clothes?
One can copyright a photograph of public domain artwork. For example, it would be illegal to scan in every photograph from your favorite Michelangelo picture book and post them on your web site.
IANAL, but I would presume that, similarly, one cannot use Amazon's scans of cover art, except as provided by fair use.
"The Elephant Vanishes", available in English as a Vintage International paperback, is a collection of short stories into which you can immediately jump.
[Warning: Plot description but no spoiler included.]
My favorite story from the collection is "The 100% Perfect Girl," in which he passes (you guessed it) the 100% perfect girl on the street and, only after losing her, figures out exactly what he would have stopped and told her. This substory comprises the bulk this short short story and describes the story of two young lovers and their 100% perfect love potentially being lost to foolishness.
Murakami is best known for
- Norweigan Wood
. From the Amazon.com description: "In 1987, when Norwegian Wood was first published in Japan, it promptly sold more than 4 million copies and transformed Haruki Murakami into a pop-culture icon. The horrified author fled his native land for Europe and the United States, returning only in 1995, by which time the celebrity spotlight had found some fresher targets." I have not read it so I will not comment (nor karma-whore, as it were) further.Really? How do you know this? When is the last time you read a AI research paper in a journal? Would you care to enlighten us as to how serious AI is too anthropomorphic?
Or were you just talking about the hype surrounding AI which is independent of serious research in AI?
Please, we in the AI community would love to know... Otherwise, still spreading this hogwash that has been giving AI a bad name for the past fifty years.
For example, look at recent advances in NLP due to the shift towards statistical (empirical i.e. data-based, not linguistics-based) methods. For example, anaphora resolution is more-or-less a solved problem as of a few years ago. (Anaphora is the use of a linguistic unit, such as a pronoun, to refer back to another unit. Anaphora resolution is figuring out what is referred to. i.e. the meaning of "she" can be determined with over 95% accuracy in corpora where humans do not find ambiguity.)
Many people do not realize how many small incremental advance are being made using machine-based approaches and assume that all we do is run around making airplanes modelled after birds.
Five bucks says that this server is slashdot'ed within the hour, so you may have more success with the less descriptive SourceForge project page, indicates that the project is not dead, as the homepage says.
I discovered this program when I was optimizing some code I wrote to multiply sparse matrices. By the time I had gotten it 100x faster than the initial code, gprof had lost all semblance of granularity and was giving me obviously bogus results. The problem is that such things as cache performance (i.e. optimizing for cache hits) were now heavily affecting the profile and gprof could not figure such things out. FunctionCheck works much better than gprof and actually generates accurate profile information under high-stress situations.
From the homepage (all grammatical errors theirs):
"I created FunctionCheck because the well known profiler gprof have some limitations:
- it is not possible to change the profile data file name
- multi-threads / multi-processes is not supported
- time spend in non-profiled functions is discarded
- you can't control the way profile is made
- memory profile is not managed
For all these limitations, and by the fact that I discovered a new gcc feature called -finstrument-functions, I decided to write my own profiler.My approach is simple: I add (small) treatments at each enter and exit of all the functions of the profiled program. It allows me to compute many information:
- the current call-stack
- the time at each action, to compute elapsed times in functions
- process PID / thread ID, to manage multi-threads / multi-processes
- number of calls to functions
...
With these information, I can generate profile data files (for each thread / process), which describes all the statistics (at function level) for the program execution."Try it out and please contribute some source code.
There is much better music that includes computer synth. When done right, it has a strange, compelling quality not unlike the opposite feeling of dehumanization. (Sorry, it's hard to describe.) "Deus ex machina" is the term I use for plastic that sounds vibrant.
Here we go, in order of how urgent it is that you hear it (fire your respective music stealing software up NOW!):
- Kid 606 - Catstep/My Kitten/Catnap Vatstep DSP Remix By Hrvatski (Search for "hrvatski catstep". Awesome drill n' bass fireworks sequence with a bouncy ragga synthetic MC who says "fey!" in a really high-pitched voice every verse. "we talking Cubase V S T, with the hyperprism mods /
make the kids go crazy you can see it in their nods" Must be heard to be believed.)
- El-P - Stepfather Factory (Off the new Definitive Jux compilation, this moving, conscientious, challenging rap about "stepfather factory", "so you purchase a paternal unit Class A Type 1 / the new addition to your living room space, watch it go
... in an effort to find an energy source our company's learned, the cheapest way to keep his battery running is with booze, plug it, give it a name, 'man of the house', ..." ends with the machine finally getting to speaking. I won't ruin it for you, it's chilling.)
- Cylob - Sex Machine (Demented, dark sex machine monologue/rap. "I have no emotions, I am just a machine / But I'm the hot - test lover there's ever been")
- Anything by MC Hawking (Stephen Hawking's hip-hop side project)
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