The more I read the more I find this article to be full of shit.
There is an inferance in the beginning that the results show a difference between tonal and atonal music because the experiment was done on those two.
There is no reason why an atonal piece coudn't follow Zipfs distribution. The reason he got those results is probably that the composer of the atonal peice chose the notes more randomly following less of a pattern. I mean if you were rigorous and took a large sample of songs maybe you would find that atonal music has less patterns in it. That might also be explained by the personality of the composer. It might be just that the type of people that write atonal music are the type that do not like to follow patterns.
The inverse proportional frequency relation that is described in this article is just what is called pink noise in signal analysis (as opposed to white noise, which is totaly random). It is no new discovery. It has been aplied to music before. I have also seen it called a fractal distribution because you get big patterns, superimposed with more frequent smaller patterns. A little bit like fractals. (Yeah it was a guy who claimed he was doing fractal music just by making interval of the notes follow an inverse proportional distribution.)
Anyways, all that to say that, it has probably nothing to do with the semantic context mentioned in the article.
Also Simon Herberts explanation seems stupid because Zipf's law applies not only for a small sample of text that has context, but for any concatenation of random texts having no common context....Unless his explanation has been mangled trough slashdot.
Also it has been shown that if you take a string of random letters and put random spaces in it, the resulting words follow Zipf`s distribution. I believe its due to the fact that shorter words are more often identical than long words. Anyways, its just to say that Zipf law doesn't necessarily mean that theres anything semantic going on. (Its a rather dumb law, that doesn't mean anything)
I also recommend that book you mentioned. Jackendoff is one of the leading researchers in linguistics and has written very interesting stuff about the brain and how we think.
Well ok but we'll have to wait a while for that. Neuroscientists still have lots of work to do. It is much more efficient to try to emulate the functions of the brain programmatically than to try to emulate every neuron and synapse (billons of em in a single brain). Read the stuff on jackendoff`s web site its pretty interesting. Ant they are a lot of books on the subject. Just type "mind" or "brain" on amazon.com
I have studied neural networks extensively and believe me these do not have the potential to revolutionize anything. NN are as simplistic & bogus as the next thing. Other methods like Support Vector Machine has shown to be more powerfull. Not to say that there isn't room for improvment or that AI will nerver be fruitfull. Its comming, slowly but surely. here are a few reference to interesting AI research:
And if you read the article it says the cost to the government is about 1$ per person. You probably save the government that money just by paying one parking ticket online instead of in person.
I think it has the potential to reduce the costs to the government. The government will save money because of wage that they wont have to pay to offer services. Things like renewing driver's licence and parking tickets wont need employee time with each individuals. Any economist will tell you that making people more productive is the way to a healthy economy. So if the online services make the population more productive the government might save in the long run. People often forget to backup stuff and wont pay for a cheap email backup service, but they lose in the long run because of all the time that is lost dealing with crashed computers and lost data.
"... and is having a deleterious effect on the U.S. IT industry because it is steadily depreciating the value of the software industry sector. Software is also embedded in hardware, chips, printers and even consumer electronics. Should embedded software become 'free' too, it would be natural to conclude the value of hardware will spiral downward as well."
I'm afraid to said that Ken Brown is completely right here. I have been lobying for years to ban the use of light bulbs. Light bulb technology and any other electrical light producing devices have been reducing the value of candles for years now. Not just candles have been affected. Because of the low price of "electric" lighting other products are losing value because light bulbs are being used in their manufacturing plants.
There are deleterious effects on the whole US economy. Products have a lot less value and are available at a very lower price. Costly power lines have been built wasting precious money from the tax payers.
Please help me stop the light bulbs and all other kinds of electric lighting.
It is a well known fact that you do a PhD not for the money, but for the gain of knowledge, for research experience, and maybe the advancement of science (Because you like research) Even if you usually get a higher pay as a PhD it's usually not enough to counterbalance the 4 or 5 year lost of pay while doing your PhD. I'm not saying that there are no PhDs who make a lot of money. But if you study to make money, you should stop before the PhD.
Yeah this is not suprising as such a big framework as.net should be difficult to implement efficiently. I don't understand how big complicated projects like mono,wine, etc. get developpers when the simple things in linux don't work well yet. The desktop interfaces are buggy, hardware support is flaky, program installation is a bitch unless you have an RMP for your exact version of your exact distribution. It took me forever to install Mandrake or Fedora on my computer with brand name hardware (ASUS motherboard+video, maxtor HD, AMD CPU) And it still does weird things at boot. And my ethernet card doesn't work. I mean... to me mono is mostly redundant with Java. Why don't the developpers fix the usability of Linux before implementing redundant microsoft frameworks that will probably always be a step behind being cokmpatible with the official MS product?
I think it would be interesting to have an official government message board with moderation implemented in a democratic way. For example everyone should have an equal number of moderation point for each story or debate along with all the delegation and features the parent post mentionned. It shouldn't have any real executive power(not for now anyways), but government officials could consult it and see what ideas are popular before making decisions. Of corse that is assuming that the government is interested in what people think...
I'm wondering if solid state heat conversion device could be used instead of turbines. We see more and more solid state refrigerators. These are made with chips. When you apply a voltage to these chips they create a temparature gradient. (Normally used for cooling) But when you apply a temperature gradient you get electricity. You could focus the sunlight on one side of the chip, cool the other side (heat sink, fan, water cooling, etc), and get electricity. I wonder what kind of efficiency you could get.
Went to the CN tower last week. There was a lot of security for enterring. In particular we had to stand in a machine that blew a series of puffs of air at us before we went in. Can someone tell me what was that suposed to detect?
Well the kernel is mostly just a bunch of drivers. So if you say you don't apply the GPL to the drivers you pretty much say you don't apply the GPL on most of the kernel.
"Also, where in the Kernel license does it require you to be truthful to the kernel about your modules license? "
It doesn't really mater because humans can also read the code. If you lie to the kernel, you lie to people that read your code.
Its not much harder to keep a turbine in synch with the grid weather the the turbine is being rotated by wind, water or steam (from nuclear and coal) If the wind varies too much, add a few gears and you're ok.
You are right about solar you will need and inverter there. I am convinced I have seen inverters that work with over 80% effeciency.
Yeah like people will ever agree on the solution to the more cmoplexe problems. You obviously havent compared the views on republican forums with the views on demorat forums.
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The more I read the more I find this article to be full of shit.
There is an inferance in the beginning that the results show a difference between tonal and atonal music because the experiment was done on those two.
There is no reason why an atonal piece coudn't follow Zipfs distribution. The reason he got those results is probably that the composer of the atonal peice chose the notes more randomly following less of a pattern. I mean if you were rigorous and took a large sample of songs maybe you would find that atonal music has less patterns in it. That might also be explained by the personality of the composer. It might be just that the type of people that write atonal music are the type that do not like to follow patterns.
The inverse proportional frequency relation that is described in this article is just what is called pink noise in signal analysis (as opposed to white noise, which is totaly random). It is no new discovery. It has been aplied to music before. I have also seen it called a fractal distribution because you get big patterns, superimposed with more frequent smaller patterns. A little bit like fractals. (Yeah it was a guy who claimed he was doing fractal music just by making interval of the notes follow an inverse proportional distribution.)
Anyways, all that to say that, it has probably nothing to do with the semantic context mentioned in the article.
Also Simon Herberts explanation seems stupid because Zipf's law applies not only for a small sample of text that has context, but for any concatenation of random texts having no common context. ...Unless his explanation has been mangled trough slashdot.
Also it has been shown that if you take a string of random letters and put random spaces in it, the resulting words follow Zipf`s distribution. I believe its due to the fact that shorter words are more often identical than long words. Anyways, its just to say that Zipf law doesn't necessarily mean that theres anything semantic going on. (Its a rather dumb law, that doesn't mean anything)
I also recommend that book you mentioned. Jackendoff is one of the leading researchers in linguistics and has written very interesting stuff about the brain and how we think.
Well ok but we'll have to wait a while for that. Neuroscientists still have lots of work to do. It is much more efficient to try to emulate the functions of the brain programmatically than to try to emulate every neuron and synapse (billons of em in a single brain). Read the stuff on jackendoff`s web site its pretty interesting. Ant they are a lot of books on the subject. Just type "mind" or "brain" on amazon.com
I have studied neural networks extensively and believe me these do not have the potential to revolutionize anything.
NN are as simplistic & bogus as the next thing. Other methods like Support Vector Machine has shown to be more powerfull. Not to say that there isn't room for improvment or that AI will nerver be fruitfull. Its comming, slowly but surely. here are a few reference to interesting AI research:
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And if you read the article it says the cost to the government is about 1$ per person. You probably save the government that money just by paying one parking ticket online instead of in person.
I think it has the potential to reduce the costs to the government. The government will save money because of wage that they wont have to pay to offer services. Things like renewing driver's licence and parking tickets wont need employee time with each individuals. Any economist will tell you that making people more productive is the way to a healthy economy. So if the online services make the population more productive the government might save in the long run. People often forget to backup stuff and wont pay for a cheap email backup service, but they lose in the long run because of all the time that is lost dealing with crashed computers and lost data.
"... and is having a deleterious effect on the U.S. IT industry because it is steadily depreciating the value of the software industry sector. Software is also embedded in hardware, chips, printers and even consumer electronics. Should embedded software become 'free' too, it would be natural to conclude the value of hardware will spiral downward as well."
I'm afraid to said that Ken Brown is completely right here. I have been lobying for years to ban the use of light bulbs. Light bulb technology and any other electrical light producing devices have been reducing the value of candles for years now. Not just candles have been affected. Because of the low price of "electric" lighting other products are losing value because light bulbs are being used in their manufacturing plants.
There are deleterious effects on the whole US economy. Products have a lot less value and are available at a very lower price. Costly power lines have been built wasting precious money from the tax payers.
Please help me stop the light bulbs and all other kinds of electric lighting.
It is a well known fact that you do a PhD not for the money, but for the gain of knowledge, for research experience, and maybe the advancement of science (Because you like research)
Even if you usually get a higher pay as a PhD it's usually not enough to counterbalance the 4 or 5 year lost of pay while doing your PhD.
I'm not saying that there are no PhDs who make a lot of money. But if you study to make money, you should stop before the PhD.
Yeah this is not suprising as such a big framework as .net should be difficult to implement efficiently. I don't understand how big complicated projects like mono,wine, etc. get developpers when the simple things in linux don't work well yet. The desktop interfaces are buggy, hardware support is flaky, program installation is a bitch unless you have an RMP for your exact version of your exact distribution. It took me forever to install Mandrake or Fedora on my computer with brand name hardware (ASUS motherboard+video, maxtor HD, AMD CPU) And it still does weird things at boot. And my ethernet card doesn't work. I mean... to me mono is mostly redundant with Java. Why don't the developpers fix the usability of Linux before implementing redundant microsoft frameworks that will probably always be a step behind being cokmpatible with the official MS product?
I think it would be interesting to have an official government message board with moderation implemented in a democratic way. For example everyone should have an equal number of moderation point for each story or debate along with all the delegation and features the parent post mentionned. It shouldn't have any real executive power(not for now anyways), but government officials could consult it and see what ideas are popular before making decisions. Of corse that is assuming that the government is interested in what people think...
I'm wondering if solid state heat conversion device could be used instead of turbines. We see more and more solid state refrigerators. These are made with chips. When you apply a voltage to these chips they create a temparature gradient. (Normally used for cooling) But when you apply a temperature gradient you get electricity. You could focus the sunlight on one side of the chip, cool the other side (heat sink, fan, water cooling, etc), and get electricity. I wonder what kind of efficiency you could get.
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease!"
a deadly, sexually transmitted disease.
LOL
Went to the CN tower last week. There was a lot of security for enterring. In particular we had to stand in a machine that blew a series of puffs of air at us before we went in. Can someone tell me what was that suposed to detect?
Because of all the TV shows making fun of americans:
An American In Canada
talking to americans talking to americans talking to americans
You're lucky there isn't a moderation
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Well the kernel is mostly just a bunch of drivers. So if you say you don't apply the GPL to the drivers you pretty much say you don't apply the GPL on most of the kernel.
"Also, where in the Kernel license does it require you to be truthful to the kernel about your modules license? "
It doesn't really mater because humans can also read the code. If you lie to the kernel, you lie to people that read your code.
Its not much harder to keep a turbine in synch with the grid weather the the turbine is being rotated by wind, water or steam (from nuclear and coal) If the wind varies too much, add a few gears and you're ok.
You are right about solar you will need and inverter there. I am convinced I have seen inverters that work with over 80% effeciency.
Yes you are right, the grand-parent must not have been thinking very much.
Maybe I shouldn't have linked to a movie with politics in it. But the cookie monster impersonation just makes me laugh.
Also I think anyone can submit their movies so theres gonna be some crap, if you don`t like them you can always login and rate them down.
Well yeah its not all high budget huge teams working here, but I thinks its pretty good anyways.
What do you think about the second one?
If you want good independent, film, animation, videoclip, go to: zed.cbc.ca
Some good ones are: this this very good this cookie monster
Yeah like people will ever agree on the solution to the more cmoplexe problems. You obviously havent compared the views on republican forums with the views on demorat forums.