Not only would you need new tasks, but multiple tasks at once. AFAIK, research in evolution towards multiple goals is fairly primitive. The greatest box pusher may be obsessed with boxes and forget to breed, you know?
Can you speed up evolution? Can you simulate complex evolution with digital computers?
I don't know. This is very simplified "evolution".
Evolutionary systems tend to crap out and stop evolving quite quickly. I'd expect this one to do the same. To expect brains and intelligence to evolve is overly optimistic IMO, since nobody has accomplished that yet.
The Santa Fe Institute (I believe) had a much more interesting ALife system where the little guys would live in a distributed ecosystem on various internetworked computers.
It seems reasonable to me that you'd have to evolve an entire world/ecosystem, not just organisms.
Yes, and Stephen Smale, John Nash Jr., and of course Henri Poincaré (father of topology), Moebius, Hausdorff (may be familiar if you've read about fractals), and Riemann are some other mathematicians whose work in or related to topology is interesting.
One thing that's interesting (to me) is how difficult it is to solve something like the Poincaré conjecture which seems so simple at first. It's only been solved for generalized versions where n > 3, and getting down to 4 took a long long time!
Even though I only understand a bit (my math background is applied mathematics), topology is pretty fascinating in an abstract sense. Incredibly brilliant people.
It's like a pocket protector, except different and four dimensional and there aren't any women either. Now the engineers should get it.
Seriously, topology is basically the study of n-dimensional shapes/surfaces (generically called manifolds). Have you ever seen the cool Mathematica pictures of those three dimensional knots? Topology
has applications in parallel processing, cosmology, semiconductor physics, and other areas. I'm no math guy, but that's my simplistic understanding.
I can see people imagining mathematicians sitting in the offices with a big pile of knead and trying to form proper coffee cup handles out of doughnuts.
You must be one of the rare "normal" math types:).
I have to wonder what the point of even discussing the Fields medal is if you're going to talk about topology in such silly terms. "Wait, I'll flip to NASCAR in a second. Jeezus ma! This brainy feller solved the doughnut problem!"
-Kevin
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New CRC? Do we need it?
Way to misrepresent his work, dumbass.
CRCs are not error correcting codes. They are error detecting codes.
Reed-Solomon codes are a common correcting code.
-Kevin
here's a link with ACTUAL INFORMATION
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I think you are correct in this context. AGP could still be considered a bus though.
My understanding is that "bus" has multiple usages. In electrical engineering, a bus is just a physical data path, a conductor that carries a signal. A single wire is a bus. Therefore AGP is a bus in that sense. EEs feel free to correct me.
Another usage is the one you are using, a computer bus/bus bar where you connect two or more devices to one data path which may have one or more lines. (As opposed to a port that connects two devices.)
-Kevin
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Yeah, I must admit that NVidia's model creates a confusing market. I do think that it is the genius of NVidia to split it that way though and focus on the GPU technology. From what I've seen in the graphics card business all it would take is some slightly better technology to wipe them out.
P.S. Anyone want to buy my STB Nitro 3D?
-Kevin
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Are you talking about the Voodoo 5? It required a separate connection to the power supply. Two fans. The basic one was a SLI setup on one board (2 GPUs on one card instead of two separate boards working together like older 3dfx products), and 3dfx was using a low density chip process which didn't help. The high end one had 4 GPUs!
Speed wise the low end Voodoo 5 was roughly GeForce level, with better anti aliasing. I seem to recall constant arguing about quality (3dfx rulez!) vs. speed (nvidia rulez!). 3dfx drew a lot of die hard fans, though I never was one:)
The company was founded by SGI people which is why I cared at all. Apparently they had the mad business skillz of SGI too (evil cackle).
3dfx's heyday was when they made separate 3D cards that plugged into the VGA passthrough on your 2D card. I never bought into that setup and
only having one AGP slot makes it undesirable now.
I never actually owned a 3dfx, so this is just my frail memory and what I could find on google.
You can patent a typeface design (e.g. Stone) in the U.S.
European countries vary, but you can copyright designs in Germany and England.
The problem is that so many typefaces are derivatives of one or more other typefaces.
Since the lack of protection of typefaces has still allowed many good typefaces to be designed, I would argue that they don't need copyright or patent protection. Unfortunately the same doesn't appear to be true of human typesetters - it seems like many print publications choose horrible fonts! OTOH some textbooks really use modern layout techniques well.
Anyone remember the good old days of Wired when they used radical page design? It was cool, if unreadable at times.
Yo mama! Addison Wesley publishes far higher quality and content books than O'Reilly. I just got Performance Solutions by Smith & Williams and it is excellent. Performance Solutions at amazon
I don't know what "C standard" you are talking about. I think it's in your head. I can write ISO C that's not 64 bit clean.
There may be best practices, but there's no standard I am aware of that says you can't use unions or casts.
I swear people in this thread haven't done much C programming or worked with large codebases. The thing is, it only takes a couple bad/ignorant C programmers to mess up your app. In order to truly say it's 64 bit clean you have to test it.
A large app may have had several dozen different programmers or more over its lifetime. Think about what MS would have to go through to actually ship a 64 bit Microsoft Word. One person can not browse a million or more lines of code and give it the 64 bit thumbs up.
Hell, believe it or not sometimes people just make mistakes. C lets you write bad code. There may be a lot of work involved in testing all the code paths. Ideally it would be just a recompile, but to generalize and say "should just be a recompile" doesn't match the actual C/C++ code I have worked with.
Slashdot Mirror
*chuckle*
Networking rates are usually based on powers of 10 anyway (10 Mb/s = 10,000,000 bits per second).
-Kevin
You know that is apples and oranges. Linux distributions come with far more software than Windows.
-Kevin
-Kevin
Learn your gambling terms, kids, or they'll laugh you out of Vegas.
-Kevin
-Kevin
I don't know. This is very simplified "evolution".
Evolutionary systems tend to crap out and stop evolving quite quickly. I'd expect this one to do the same. To expect brains and intelligence to evolve is overly optimistic IMO, since nobody has accomplished that yet.
The Santa Fe Institute (I believe) had a much more interesting ALife system where the little guys would live in a distributed ecosystem on various internetworked computers.
It seems reasonable to me that you'd have to evolve an entire world/ecosystem, not just organisms.
-Kevin
planescape screen
-Kevin
+vi +editor 972,000
So, approximately 3:1 in favor of vi.
FWIW, I use XEmacs.
-Kevin
Poincaré is still open. The proof wasn't complete. Clay is offering $1 million for it.
One thing that's interesting (to me) is how difficult it is to solve something like the Poincaré conjecture which seems so simple at first. It's only been solved for generalized versions where n > 3, and getting down to 4 took a long long time!
Even though I only understand a bit (my math background is applied mathematics), topology is pretty fascinating in an abstract sense. Incredibly brilliant people.
-Kevin
It's like a pocket protector, except different and four dimensional and there aren't any women either. Now the engineers should get it.
Seriously, topology is basically the study of n-dimensional shapes/surfaces (generically called manifolds). Have you ever seen the cool Mathematica pictures of those three dimensional knots? Topology has applications in parallel processing, cosmology, semiconductor physics, and other areas. I'm no math guy, but that's my simplistic understanding.
-Kevin
You must be one of the rare "normal" math types :).
I have to wonder what the point of even discussing the Fields medal is if you're going to talk about topology in such silly terms. "Wait, I'll flip to NASCAR in a second. Jeezus ma! This brainy feller solved the doughnut problem!"
-Kevin
Way to misrepresent his work, dumbass.
CRCs are not error correcting codes. They are error detecting codes.
Reed-Solomon codes are a common correcting code.
-Kevin
fields 2002
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My understanding is that "bus" has multiple usages. In electrical engineering, a bus is just a physical data path, a conductor that carries a signal. A single wire is a bus. Therefore AGP is a bus in that sense. EEs feel free to correct me.
Another usage is the one you are using, a computer bus/bus bar where you connect two or more devices to one data path which may have one or more lines. (As opposed to a port that connects two devices.)
-Kevin
Yeah, I must admit that NVidia's model creates a confusing market. I do think that it is the genius of NVidia to split it that way though and focus on the GPU technology. From what I've seen in the graphics card business all it would take is some slightly better technology to wipe them out.
P.S. Anyone want to buy my STB Nitro 3D?
-Kevin
Speed wise the low end Voodoo 5 was roughly GeForce level, with better anti aliasing. I seem to recall constant arguing about quality (3dfx rulez!) vs. speed (nvidia rulez!). 3dfx drew a lot of die hard fans, though I never was one :)
The company was founded by SGI people which is why I cared at all. Apparently they had the mad business skillz of SGI too (evil cackle).
3dfx's heyday was when they made separate 3D cards that plugged into the VGA passthrough on your 2D card. I never bought into that setup and only having one AGP slot makes it undesirable now.
I never actually owned a 3dfx, so this is just my frail memory and what I could find on google.
I _do_ own a VisionTek GeForce 2 though. Ugh.
-Kevin
European countries vary, but you can copyright designs in Germany and England.
The problem is that so many typefaces are derivatives of one or more other typefaces.
Since the lack of protection of typefaces has still allowed many good typefaces to be designed, I would argue that they don't need copyright or patent protection. Unfortunately the same doesn't appear to be true of human typesetters - it seems like many print publications choose horrible fonts! OTOH some textbooks really use modern layout techniques well.
Anyone remember the good old days of Wired when they used radical page design? It was cool, if unreadable at times.
-Kevin
I know I'm wildly over-generalizing.
Indeed.
-Kevin
opentype overview
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me either. It's shit. -Kevin
-Kevin
There may be best practices, but there's no standard I am aware of that says you can't use unions or casts.
I swear people in this thread haven't done much C programming or worked with large codebases. The thing is, it only takes a couple bad/ignorant C programmers to mess up your app. In order to truly say it's 64 bit clean you have to test it. A large app may have had several dozen different programmers or more over its lifetime. Think about what MS would have to go through to actually ship a 64 bit Microsoft Word. One person can not browse a million or more lines of code and give it the 64 bit thumbs up.
Hell, believe it or not sometimes people just make mistakes. C lets you write bad code. There may be a lot of work involved in testing all the code paths. Ideally it would be just a recompile, but to generalize and say "should just be a recompile" doesn't match the actual C/C++ code I have worked with.
I am being realistic. You are being idealistic.
-Kevin