Are you serious about that accelerated evolution? Why aren't we taking advantage of this? We should be breeding mold and bacteria up there to... do stuff. Down here. You know, like... eat stuff.
We'd have to be sure they never got out into the wild. Which they almost certainly would.
Actually, five seconds of thought tells me this is a terrible idea. In fact, don't ever do this or tell anyone about this.
Yeah, I didn't mean to sound so dismissive. I find the concepts interesting, and it sounds like good progress. I hope they keep it up. The structure of these types of posts/articles is sometimes misconstrued by my tired brain. They give an update on some tech/science advance, making sure to justify the original research with applications of the larger field of study. Then I read: "Minor Advance in Field Paves Way for X and Y," and start talking smack. Don't mind me.
I don't know much about AI, but is the idea of making predictions based on previous data some kind of breakthrough? I'm assuming this is just an application of some firmly established concepts in AI. When confronted with a redundant or repetative data set, make predictions based on your experiences as to the nature of new elements in that set. I mean, aren't we paying these guys to tell machines how to recognize patterns? Is it news when they teach a machine to recognize patterns?
I'd venture that the purpose of this post is to discuss Terminators, and Japanese robot secretaries, and to hail our coming robot overlords. This is just a guess based on a highly redundant data set I've been analyzing (rather than doing my work).
On the contarary, I think the Mario crew will sweep every event...
then have their medals stripped after they test positive for Magic Mushrooms, Fireflowers, Stars and whatever else the Mushroom Kingdom is doping up its athletes with these days.
What a disgrace. These games used to mean something. Oh wait, no they didn't
Today, consumers may be amused at marketers' clumsy attempts to personalize service, like being offered a new Lexus while shopping for a used Pinto. But consumers won't laugh at such amateur antics in two years or so. And neither will chief financial officers, who will refuse to pay for collecting and analyzing data that gets used unintelligently.
I'll show all those idiots who laughed at me! I'm make them all pay! They called me mad. They said fully automated application of our entire personal user information database into directed marketing initiatives with a negligable margin of error was a pipe dream! They cancelled my funding. Now who's laughing? Enjoy your Lexuses.... FOOLS!
I'm not sure I fully appreciate the significance of this story. Someone types an order into the computer, and the robot counts and bottles your pills. Isn't this essentially just a vending machine? Don't get me wrong. I like stories about Robots Taking Over the World as the next guy, but a drug-dispensing machine doesn't really do it for me.
I had an idea for a system like this. Imagine how much faster you could improve your skills at a game with it. If I got shocked every time I took damage in Tekken, or got burned when I lost, I would get real good, real fast. Sometimes when I play video games, I feel like I'm just dinkin' around. I mean, if you spend enough time walking around in CRPG you WILL win. This device (while not really applicable to CRPGs) forces you to push yourself constantly (or develop a higher pain tolerence). So you either become a bad-a$$ at your game of choice (mopping up at the arcade), or you become that guy who can hold his hand over a fire for as long as he wants. I've heard that women go nuts for both (though I haven't been able to verify this hypothesis BECAUSE I AM A FREAK).
I think that a bigger cause is that the impetus for a character to appear in another's comic is not the fact that they have a mutual friend or connection (as in real life), but so that character can appear on the cover, attracting new readers (that character's fans) Add the fact that friendships between creators/artists/writers/editors of characters are more influential than "In Character" relationships.
I mean, how often do comic books even worry about who-knows-who when writing cameos/cross-over issues? They always just happen to be in the same place or after the same enemy or something COMPLETELY random (Secret Wars, Infinity this-or that, etc.). I think it's cool they found the level of clustering that they did. I think they should conduct additional studies in which the real-life creators of the comic are included in the data.
If I understand natural selection, they don't actually have to KNOW what their doing. Those females with a genetic predisposition to select against "annoying" traits (for whatever reason), would reproduce more, increasing the frequency of this disposition.
It could increase their resistance to the "Mutant Flies" tactic, in general. Females who favor non-altered males will be the ones to pass on their genes. It could result in the next generation(s) having more discriminating tastes in choosing a mate. I don't know if this would have a huge effect in this case. I suppose it would depend on if it were possible to distinguish the "mutated" flies from normal ones.
I wonder if you could apply the concept to dilute undesireable traits in vermin populations. You could breed generation after generation of animal with the most annoying traits, sterilize them, and release them into the wild. After a while the species would tend to select against these attributes. Could this work? I'm not a biologist/ecologist.
"These whippersnappers don't know how easy they have it. In my day we didn't have your fancy 'SQUIDS' or 'Oscilloscopes' or even ballpoint pens. We had gears and springs and lumps of metal. We had to invent clocks and build them ourselves, by hand. We would sit all day and watch our clocks. And we liked it! We were darn fools and didn't know any better."
-Grumpy Old Physicist
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Are you serious about that accelerated evolution? Why aren't we taking advantage of this? We should be breeding mold and bacteria up there to... do stuff. Down here. You know, like... eat stuff.
We'd have to be sure they never got out into the wild. Which they almost certainly would.
Actually, five seconds of thought tells me this is a terrible idea. In fact, don't ever do this or tell anyone about this.
Yeah, I didn't mean to sound so dismissive. I find the concepts interesting, and it sounds like good progress. I hope they keep it up. The structure of these types of posts/articles is sometimes misconstrued by my tired brain. They give an update on some tech/science advance, making sure to justify the original research with applications of the larger field of study. Then I read: "Minor Advance in Field Paves Way for X and Y," and start talking smack. Don't mind me.
I don't know much about AI, but is the idea of making predictions based on previous data some kind of breakthrough? I'm assuming this is just an application of some firmly established concepts in AI. When confronted with a redundant or repetative data set, make predictions based on your experiences as to the nature of new elements in that set. I mean, aren't we paying these guys to tell machines how to recognize patterns? Is it news when they teach a machine to recognize patterns?
I'd venture that the purpose of this post is to discuss Terminators, and Japanese robot secretaries, and to hail our coming robot overlords. This is just a guess based on a highly redundant data set I've been analyzing (rather than doing my work).
On the contarary, I think the Mario crew will sweep every event...
then have their medals stripped after they test positive for Magic Mushrooms, Fireflowers, Stars and whatever else the Mushroom Kingdom is doping up its athletes with these days.
What a disgrace. These games used to mean something. Oh wait, no they didn't
Today, consumers may be amused at marketers' clumsy attempts to personalize service, like being offered a new Lexus while shopping for a used Pinto. But consumers won't laugh at such amateur antics in two years or so. And neither will chief financial officers, who will refuse to pay for collecting and analyzing data that gets used unintelligently.
I'll show all those idiots who laughed at me! I'm make them all pay! They called me mad. They said fully automated application of our entire personal user information database into directed marketing initiatives with a negligable margin of error was a pipe dream! They cancelled my funding. Now who's laughing? Enjoy your Lexuses.... FOOLS!
I'm not sure I fully appreciate the significance of this story. Someone types an order into the computer, and the robot counts and bottles your pills. Isn't this essentially just a vending machine? Don't get me wrong. I like stories about Robots Taking Over the World as the next guy, but a drug-dispensing machine doesn't really do it for me.
Now a robot that TAKES drugs: That's a story.
>Is it just me... or did anyone else read this as "Nude Ghosts in the Shower"? It's just you, man. It's just you.
Bob the Angry flower one-upped this guy a long time ago.
Building the Perfect Psychic Dummy Head
I had an idea for a system like this. Imagine how much faster you could improve your skills at a game with it. If I got shocked every time I took damage in Tekken, or got burned when I lost, I would get real good, real fast. Sometimes when I play video games, I feel like I'm just dinkin' around. I mean, if you spend enough time walking around in CRPG you WILL win. This device (while not really applicable to CRPGs) forces you to push yourself constantly (or develop a higher pain tolerence). So you either become a bad-a$$ at your game of choice (mopping up at the arcade), or you become that guy who can hold his hand over a fire for as long as he wants. I've heard that women go nuts for both (though I haven't been able to verify this hypothesis BECAUSE I AM A FREAK).
It makes me feel like I'm living in the future.
Then again, so does bubble wrap.
"'Moon Pies'? What a time to be alive."
--Jasper
"And the Ground, Sown with Salt"...a very intense episode guest starring Jason Priestley
Your pain is only beginning.
I think that a bigger cause is that the impetus for a character to appear in another's comic is not the fact that they have a mutual friend or connection (as in real life), but so that character can appear on the cover, attracting new readers (that character's fans) Add the fact that friendships between creators/artists/writers/editors of characters are more influential than "In Character" relationships.
I mean, how often do comic books even worry about who-knows-who when writing cameos/cross-over issues? They always just happen to be in the same place or after the same enemy or something COMPLETELY random (Secret Wars, Infinity this-or that, etc.). I think it's cool they found the level of clustering that they did. I think they should conduct additional studies in which the real-life creators of the comic are included in the data.
I also want to go to grad school in Spain now.
If I understand natural selection, they don't actually have to KNOW what their doing. Those females with a genetic predisposition to select against "annoying" traits (for whatever reason), would reproduce more, increasing the frequency of this disposition.
Plasma Coils
It could increase their resistance to the "Mutant Flies" tactic, in general. Females who favor non-altered males will be the ones to pass on their genes. It could result in the next generation(s) having more discriminating tastes in choosing a mate. I don't know if this would have a huge effect in this case. I suppose it would depend on if it were possible to distinguish the "mutated" flies from normal ones.
I wonder if you could apply the concept to dilute undesireable traits in vermin populations. You could breed generation after generation of animal with the most annoying traits, sterilize them, and release them into the wild. After a while the species would tend to select against these attributes. Could this work? I'm not a biologist/ecologist.
"These whippersnappers don't know how easy they have it. In my day we didn't have your fancy 'SQUIDS' or 'Oscilloscopes' or even ballpoint pens. We had gears and springs and lumps of metal. We had to invent clocks and build them ourselves, by hand. We would sit all day and watch our clocks. And we liked it! We were darn fools and didn't know any better." -Grumpy Old Physicist
In this (Huygens') case they start out in phase and move to 180 degrees out of phase.
>"Classical physics still has things to teach us,"
Did anyone think otherwise?