Ok, it did not occur to me first that the difference was attributed to biologic factors. So it makes the biological theory moot but the gap does exist, is cultural in nature and there is still quite a lot of efforts to do in order to close it.
I agree that the "do not cheat" is a good rule. However, having ten times mire resources for the AI is only cheating if it is hidden. If you have a starwars-esque setting where you are taking on the huge Empire with only a tenth of their resources, it can make for an interesting challenge.
This gentleman says that his AI is often the goliath in a david vs goliath scenario. I suspect that this makes AI far easier : it doesn't care to waste some resources, its strategy is to be overwhelming...
The last time I checked a weather balloon did not travel at 6 miles per second but neither did the big object on the second video. Actually you can see the elevation reading on the screen slowly raising meter after meter. It is not moving faster than a few meter per seconds. The link you just provided quotes an unsourced and unexplained statement that the object crossed 13 miles in six seconds, yet none of the material provided supports this claim.
I don't see anything ruling out the weather balloon except this unsourced claim but I think that the Bombardier CL-327 Guardian (pictured on the link you gave) is a far better candidate ! I can imagine it firing a missile or getting a rocket engine for a test (are we or not on a military base that tests prototypes ?) and having all the UFO sighters around getting very excited.
Just give her a cell phone ? So that she can call for help ?
I must confess, when I read "Child Locating System" I thought that this would surely help pedophiles more than parents. I mean, a lost chil emitting a beacon, what more could they ask for ?
Well, they are investigated. The thing is, when data are insufficient, only speculation is possible, real science is not. What do you suggest investigation should be on a 1976 sighting ? There are records, there are testimonies, no explanation is a clear cut as of today. the phenomenon disappeared, is non-reproducible, it is sad, but it seems probable that this will never be explained. You are free to believe what you want about it but as far as I'm concerned, it can be a spaceship, the archangel Michael, a fart from Ganesha or something else entirely. You can't criticize scientists for not giving explanations as there are no certitudes. We can, however, criticize UFO-enthusiasts who say this is artificial, alien or intelligent because they tell it so without a single argument to hold their theories except "it can not be anything else" (well except unknown atmospheric phenomenon, exotic military test, illusion, coincidence, or Mighty Michael)
Believe it or not, I thought you were linking to an infrered shot of an actual ice berg tip. Silly me...
Ok, so the things flying "obvisoulsy above the clouds" obviously fly below them. Insects or particles. Notice how big objects go faster : they are closer objects going at the same speed. Want to prove me wrong ? Go closer to them. Making an infrared shot from a kite cost close to nothing and is assured to show more interesting features of those "vehicles"...
They could have done that more cooperatively : they already use the Jabber protocol for gTalk but incompletely implement it. They could have use it instead of designing a new one to make exactly the same thing. But Ok, I guess it is better than having a closed-source implementation. Note however that they "plan" to make the entire thing open source. I'll wait for the possibility to set up a wave server that is not hosted in mountainview before getting interested in this "revolutionnary" technology.
First UFO on the movie : can't tell, just a stationary dot (a flare ?)
Second one : My bets are on weather balloon. It moves at a constant speed, and has the shape.
The UFO pattern you describe is known as foo fighter. Known, recognized, unexplained, unlikely to be of alien origin, it looks more like an atmospheric phenomenon.
We lack data about this one. No pictures, no recordings... It is not something to dismiss, it is an interesting anomaly, but attributing it to an alien spaceship seems unreasonable before you eliminate all the other possibilities : ball-lightning, magnetic storms, are both explanations that can only be ruled out by the original bias "I want to believe". We just have insufficient data. Scientists can live with unexplained phenomenons. There are tons of UFOs with assorted hypothesis, and still no alien spaceship.
In fact, every strange sighting is recorded and studied and, in most of the cases, totally explained. I have watched a lot of movies and pictures of UFOs. The number of insects, weather balloons, clouds, or even moon shots is staggering.
A professional astronomer was making the following remark : "it is our job to observe the sky and find uncommon things. Occasionally we do, but it is impressive to see how a professional with good tools is less likely to observe UFOs than an amateur with bad tools is."
UFO = Unindentified Flying/Floating Object. It does not mean "Alien spaceship". When an astronaut says "hey, I saw something passig by there !" it is classified as a UFO because no one wants to take the time to find the identification of the debris he observed.
The French oil company Total racked up 13 billions of profit last year. That is an interesting comparison.
However, I think that ITER (that is not btw a French effort but a real international cooperation including EU, US, Japan and others) suffers from very poor management : it took them almost 5 years to decide where they would build the prototype. I wouldn't be surprised if most of their time was wasted in bikeshed discussions.
It is not people still writting such code, it is people still using such code. A website that has accumulated information and that has been working correctly for 10 years is not something most people are willing to rewrite.
Windows doesn't have a package manager. That's why. Otherwise I agree with you. I like extensions but extension managers and auto-updates should not happen in a sane world.
The day the DNS administration begins to sacrifice babies on a blodd altar, all that OpenDNS will have to do is to stop mirroring root DNS servers and begin accepting subscriptions for domain names. I'm sure the media will dub it something like "Internet secession war". Nothing that big, but you get the idea... It is completely feasible.
Still valid, but this is not the question. They are trying to determine wether big bodies of water existed on Mars. About Mars having huge quantities of water ice, we know it from several years, we even have pictures of it and even a map of Mars' aquifers.
Change the world. Let other people put labels. You'll be called a liberal, a communist, a nazi, a heathen, a bigot anyway...
Open Source (I think that is what it's about) is not communism, it is open source. Putting labels or trying to over-simplify things hinders correct thinking.
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Ok, it did not occur to me first that the difference was attributed to biologic factors. So it makes the biological theory moot but the gap does exist, is cultural in nature and there is still quite a lot of efforts to do in order to close it.
I agree that the "do not cheat" is a good rule. However, having ten times mire resources for the AI is only cheating if it is hidden. If you have a starwars-esque setting where you are taking on the huge Empire with only a tenth of their resources, it can make for an interesting challenge.
This gentleman says that his AI is often the goliath in a david vs goliath scenario. I suspect that this makes AI far easier : it doesn't care to waste some resources, its strategy is to be overwhelming...
How come a 70/30 ratio makes this gap a myth ?
And scare away 50% of potential consumers because of a "broken website" ?
Not a power glove, still... I won't take anything "full body" from Microsoft. Ever.
The last time I checked a weather balloon did not travel at 6 miles per second but neither did the big object on the second video. Actually you can see the elevation reading on the screen slowly raising meter after meter. It is not moving faster than a few meter per seconds. The link you just provided quotes an unsourced and unexplained statement that the object crossed 13 miles in six seconds, yet none of the material provided supports this claim.
I don't see anything ruling out the weather balloon except this unsourced claim but I think that the Bombardier CL-327 Guardian (pictured on the link you gave) is a far better candidate ! I can imagine it firing a missile or getting a rocket engine for a test (are we or not on a military base that tests prototypes ?) and having all the UFO sighters around getting very excited.
Just give her a cell phone ? So that she can call for help ?
I must confess, when I read "Child Locating System" I thought that this would surely help pedophiles more than parents. I mean, a lost chil emitting a beacon, what more could they ask for ?
Well, they are investigated. The thing is, when data are insufficient, only speculation is possible, real science is not. What do you suggest investigation should be on a 1976 sighting ? There are records, there are testimonies, no explanation is a clear cut as of today. the phenomenon disappeared, is non-reproducible, it is sad, but it seems probable that this will never be explained. You are free to believe what you want about it but as far as I'm concerned, it can be a spaceship, the archangel Michael, a fart from Ganesha or something else entirely. You can't criticize scientists for not giving explanations as there are no certitudes. We can, however, criticize UFO-enthusiasts who say this is artificial, alien or intelligent because they tell it so without a single argument to hold their theories except "it can not be anything else" (well except unknown atmospheric phenomenon, exotic military test, illusion, coincidence, or Mighty Michael)
Well you seem to hold as a premise that it is a manufactured object and not a natural phenomenon...
Believe it or not, I thought you were linking to an infrered shot of an actual ice berg tip. Silly me...
Ok, so the things flying "obvisoulsy above the clouds" obviously fly below them. Insects or particles. Notice how big objects go faster : they are closer objects going at the same speed. Want to prove me wrong ? Go closer to them. Making an infrared shot from a kite cost close to nothing and is assured to show more interesting features of those "vehicles"...
I may also add that when Windows XP was released, fear of such (and worse) things happening was one of the main things holding back people on Win2k.
They could have done that more cooperatively : they already use the Jabber protocol for gTalk but incompletely implement it. They could have use it instead of designing a new one to make exactly the same thing. But Ok, I guess it is better than having a closed-source implementation. Note however that they "plan" to make the entire thing open source. I'll wait for the possibility to set up a wave server that is not hosted in mountainview before getting interested in this "revolutionnary" technology.
First UFO on the movie : can't tell, just a stationary dot (a flare ?)
Second one : My bets are on weather balloon. It moves at a constant speed, and has the shape.
The UFO pattern you describe is known as foo fighter. Known, recognized, unexplained, unlikely to be of alien origin, it looks more like an atmospheric phenomenon.
We lack data about this one. No pictures, no recordings... It is not something to dismiss, it is an interesting anomaly, but attributing it to an alien spaceship seems unreasonable before you eliminate all the other possibilities : ball-lightning, magnetic storms, are both explanations that can only be ruled out by the original bias "I want to believe". We just have insufficient data. Scientists can live with unexplained phenomenons. There are tons of UFOs with assorted hypothesis, and still no alien spaceship.
In fact, every strange sighting is recorded and studied and, in most of the cases, totally explained. I have watched a lot of movies and pictures of UFOs. The number of insects, weather balloons, clouds, or even moon shots is staggering.
A professional astronomer was making the following remark : "it is our job to observe the sky and find uncommon things. Occasionally we do, but it is impressive to see how a professional with good tools is less likely to observe UFOs than an amateur with bad tools is."
UFO = Unindentified Flying/Floating Object. It does not mean "Alien spaceship". When an astronaut says "hey, I saw something passig by there !" it is classified as a UFO because no one wants to take the time to find the identification of the debris he observed.
The French oil company Total racked up 13 billions of profit last year. That is an interesting comparison.
However, I think that ITER (that is not btw a French effort but a real international cooperation including EU, US, Japan and others) suffers from very poor management : it took them almost 5 years to decide where they would build the prototype. I wouldn't be surprised if most of their time was wasted in bikeshed discussions.
My bets are safer put on the Chinese fusion reactor project
It still took two service packs for users to be happy with XP.
It is not people still writting such code, it is people still using such code. A website that has accumulated information and that has been working correctly for 10 years is not something most people are willing to rewrite.
Windows doesn't have a package manager. That's why. Otherwise I agree with you. I like extensions but extension managers and auto-updates should not happen in a sane world.
Easy joke : Windows users are used to unstable softwares
Serious version : think about it a second
The day the DNS administration begins to sacrifice babies on a blodd altar, all that OpenDNS will have to do is to stop mirroring root DNS servers and begin accepting subscriptions for domain names. I'm sure the media will dub it something like "Internet secession war". Nothing that big, but you get the idea... It is completely feasible.
Still valid, but this is not the question. They are trying to determine wether big bodies of water existed on Mars. About Mars having huge quantities of water ice, we know it from several years, we even have pictures of it and even a map of Mars' aquifers.
Infosocialism at its finest.
See my signature as to why this is a bad idea
Change the world. Let other people put labels. You'll be called a liberal, a communist, a nazi, a heathen, a bigot anyway...
Open Source (I think that is what it's about) is not communism, it is open source. Putting labels or trying to over-simplify things hinders correct thinking.