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Actually, no. Just because catching a ball could use calculus doesn't mean it has to use calculus.
Quick quiz: If a ball is thrown, and you are shown a picture of its path from the moment it is released until it hits its zenith, what mental image manipulation steps would you need to take in order to figure out where it lands? (assuming no drag from air, and a level surface)
Answer: just copy, flip (horizontally), and align (the corresponding edges) of the original image. Whether you do this mentally or with Photoshop/Gimp, you are not doing calculus. Much closer to pattern recognition.
One of the main Xen developers has stated on the Xen devel mailing list that Pacfica support will probably be in 3.1, which should still come out before the general availability of Pacifica enabled CPUs from AMD around the middle of next year.
Some have speculated that beauty (in nature and in art) is to a large extent a delicate balancing act between simplicity and complexity(and between order and chaos).
I would expand on that, and tie it in to your poetry example by postulating that much of the perceived value of any artistic expression is not the end state that a viewer/listener find himself in, but more substantially the process by which they get there.
Art that too blatantly manipulates emotion (most hollywood, all smooth jazz, anything involving kittens) is reasonably criticized as trite as it doesn't hold interest for the viewer upon (mental) replaying.
But if a work of art delivers an altered state to its viewers by subtle and circuitous routes, then the re-experiencing is almost as potent as the original experience.
So, I agree. Poetry that contains delayed ambiguity resolution and meaning altering contexts provides an entertaining and varied experience upon first reading/hearing has much more cognitive value than one that does not.
Ultimately, it is not fear that is the mind killer, it is repetition, boredom, and lack of mental stimulation.
Back to algorithms. It is almost certain that many and varied feedback loops (in your words, those that "process the play of its own states") are essential to any computational approach to mimicking human consciousness.
You make a reasonably good point, in that I didn't address the reprocessing aspect of the article.
However, many neural net systems, particularly those in image or general signal processing arenas (which are possibly the most successful analogues of human brain processing) can gradually refine their answers until a given threshold (e.g. time or confidence) has been achieved.
I suspect that this is only partly what occurs in the human brain, however.
A slightly educated guess is that when presented with an audio signal we engage in anticipatory processing. We start to evaluate the possibilities before the word is even finished, and we start to "bin" the possible candidates. When only one of the images presented obviously matches a the binned audio candidate, then some governing mental process that engages in decision making based on confidence thresholds can short circuit any additional evaluation.
However, if both images match a binned candidate, then the governor allows the decision making process to continue, which includes a more thorough evaluation of the phonemes, and hence a more precise binning, which would result in only one of the two images matching a binned candidate.
Getting back to the neural net signal processing world, it is obviously faster to process less data, so a signal processing net intent on object recognition could benefit greatly by a "preprocessor" that could initially filter a signal and input a lower resolution signal and only re-input higher resolution versions if the lower resolution one didn't result in a sufficient confidence threshold.
Obviously a gross simplification of what actually transpires, but hopefully a reasonable generalization of some of the processes involved.
In one of those oddities of California legislation, they have mandated that Fridays are free (recycling companies get reimbursed by the state on those days, I believe) for monitors.
"In compliance with SB-20/SB-50 you may bring in up to 5 monitors, TVs or Console TVs on Fridays for no charge. There is some paperwork to fill out and you must be a California Resident. Please bring California ID."
I absolutely agree with the syntax being an issue with arch, but as a long time (1+ years) user of darcs for an active OSS project, I completely disagree abouts darcs. Darcs has the simplest syntax of any comparable tool that I've encountered.
I'm curious what aspect of the darcs syntax you disagree with?
Actually he said in the email that the whining license was a joke and he's actually licensing it as BSD (and later said it could even be considered public domain), though until the source code is re-released with proper license headers, I doubt his statement to lkml is legally binding in any way.
That was one of the more disgustingly false pieces of drivel I've had the misfortune of reading in a long time. It doesn't deserve a rebuttal, but neither can it be left unanswered.
A soldier doesn't just kill or be killed. Soldiers have objectives that span the gamut from destroying to rebuilding, and from killing to healing the sick and wounded.
A soldier doesn't give up his family or friends. For many a soldier, his family is the single most important part of his life. The desire to return home to resume a life with those same family and friends can be the single most motivating force.
A soldier doesn't give up a career. For some, the military is a career, for others the military is the first real job they've ever had. At most, a reservist will have his career put on pause during his active service.
The soldier that only understands killing is a very bad soldier indeed. Such a soldier doesn't pay attention to the many shades of gray between friend and foe, nor to the extremely important distinction between minimal and maximal force.
Yes, war changes people, in ways that are powerful and profound. And no...you will never be quite the same person afterwards. But love and friendship also change people irrevocably. Many will find mental and emotional trauma on the battlefield, and many will become stronger from the experience.
As far as the specific issue of the phone, you have no understanding of history and war if you don't recognize that communication with one's family and friends at home has been a staple of the soldier's life as long as there have been ways of sending those commmunications.
I pity the soldier who has no interest in communicating with his loved ones, for there is a lonely soul indeed.
And I pity you because your astonishing failure to understand humanity and the human condition make you a very very small-minded person indeed.
A recent study shows that craigslist has directly saved consumers 50-65 million dollars in advertising costs, and many more 10s of millions of dollars indirectly by enabling direct human-to-human transactions with a minimal effort.
Hmm...this Internet thing seems to be a disruptive technology...whoda thunk it.
Actually, xen is a lot closer to this than you think. The "host operating system" is in fact just a guest (or domain in xen's terminology) that has access to hardware (privileged domain), and can therefore utilize its drivers to provide access to this hardware to unprivileged domains. Right now, this privileged domain is only linux, but a previous version had an xbsd functional as a privileged domains, and the unprivileged domains wouldn't be aware of the difference. Xen itself is the low level kernel that effectively delegates hardware interaction to a privileged domain. Xen is much closer to the kind of virtualization you are talking about than either UML or coLinux, or VMWare, for that matter.
It's a bit sad that with all the comments posted so far, nobody has mentioned xen, and the fact that it is accomplishing the same kind of thing today on x86 machines with operating systems (including linux 2.4 and 2.6, a couple xbsds, and plan 9) that have been ported to it, and will be able to support un-ported operating systems (e.g. windows xxx) once Intel's silvervale or AMD's pacifica technologies (both are CPU extensions that assist virtualization in hardware) become available (probably in 2006).
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http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa
ISOs of 6.0 should be available in a week. I doubt that 6.1 will be too far behind.
It's notable that Scala is expressive enough that you can implement Erlang style concurrency using Actors very easily:
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1615
http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2006/11/threadless-concurrency-on-jvm-aka-scala.html
and still be running inside a standard JVM.
-Tupshin
Speaking as (probably) the only person in the world to have my first name, I am compelled to consider it personally identifiable information.
-Tupshin
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Actually, no. Just because catching a ball could use calculus doesn't mean it has to use calculus.
Quick quiz:
If a ball is thrown, and you are shown a picture of its path from the moment it is released until it hits its zenith, what mental image manipulation steps would you need to take in order to figure out where it lands?
(assuming no drag from air, and a level surface)
Answer:
just copy, flip (horizontally), and align (the corresponding edges) of the original image. Whether you do this mentally or with Photoshop/Gimp, you are not doing calculus. Much closer to pattern recognition.
-Tupshin
wow...this is one twisted universe we live in. :)
-Tupshin
Damn you and your arbitrary 5000 threshold. I can at least confirm that somebody under 6000 understands it. :)
-Tupshin
One of the main Xen developers has stated on the Xen devel mailing list that Pacfica support will probably be in 3.1, which should still come out before the general availability of Pacifica enabled CPUs from AMD around the middle of next year.
-Tupshin
Who the @#$@#$@# put Rick Springfield on my Steely Dan station?
That's just not right. I think my ears just ran off looking for a new home.
-Tupshin
Some have speculated that beauty (in nature and in art) is to a large extent a delicate balancing act between simplicity and complexity(and between order and chaos).
I would expand on that, and tie it in to your poetry example by postulating that much of the perceived value of any artistic expression is not the end state that a viewer/listener find himself in, but more substantially the process by which they get there.
Art that too blatantly manipulates emotion (most hollywood, all smooth jazz, anything involving kittens) is reasonably criticized as trite as it doesn't hold interest for the viewer upon (mental) replaying.
But if a work of art delivers an altered state to its viewers by subtle and circuitous routes, then the re-experiencing is almost as potent as the original experience.
So, I agree. Poetry that contains delayed ambiguity resolution and meaning altering contexts provides an entertaining and varied experience upon first reading/hearing has much more cognitive value than one that does not.
Ultimately, it is not fear that is the mind killer, it is repetition, boredom, and lack of mental stimulation.
Back to algorithms. It is almost certain that many and varied feedback loops (in your words, those that "process the play of its own states") are essential to any computational approach to mimicking human consciousness.
-Tupshin
You make a reasonably good point, in that I didn't address the reprocessing aspect of the article.
However, many neural net systems, particularly those in image or general signal processing arenas (which are possibly the most successful analogues of human brain processing) can gradually refine their answers until a given threshold (e.g. time or confidence) has been achieved.
I suspect that this is only partly what occurs in the human brain, however.
A slightly educated guess is that when presented with an audio signal we engage in anticipatory processing. We start to evaluate the possibilities before the word is even finished, and we start to "bin" the possible candidates. When only one of the images presented obviously matches a the binned audio candidate, then some governing mental process that engages in decision making based on confidence thresholds can short circuit any additional evaluation.
However, if both images match a binned candidate, then the governor allows the decision making process to continue, which includes a more thorough evaluation of the phonemes, and hence a more precise binning, which would result in only one of the two images matching a binned candidate.
Getting back to the neural net signal processing world, it is obviously faster to process less data, so a signal processing net intent on object recognition could benefit greatly by a "preprocessor" that could initially filter a signal and input a lower resolution signal and only re-input higher resolution versions if the lower resolution one didn't result in a sufficient confidence threshold.
Obviously a gross simplification of what actually transpires, but hopefully a reasonable generalization of some of the processes involved.
-Tupshin
Headline: Brains More Like Neural Nets Than Traditional Programs
Who woulda thunk it.
ftp://ftp.sas.com/pub/neural/FAQ.html%23A2
'Most NNs have some sort of "training" rule whereby the weights of connections are adjusted on the basis of data.'
Insert joke about the 1980's (or 60's/50's/40's) calling). Somehow I don't think Norbert Weiner would be the slightest bit surprised.
-Tupshin
In one of those oddities of California legislation, they have mandated that Fridays are free (recycling companies get reimbursed by the state on those days, I believe) for monitors.
"In compliance with SB-20/SB-50 you may bring in up to 5 monitors, TVs or Console TVs on Fridays for no charge. There is some paperwork to fill out and you must be a California Resident. Please bring California ID."
http://www.accrc.org/what.html
That's for alameda county, but the program is statewide, so there's certainly a place close to you.
well...leaving aside the diminutive phrasing, no, he's not kidding: :)
http://women.alioth.debian.org/
-Tupshin
I absolutely agree with the syntax being an issue with arch, but as a long time (1+ years) user of darcs for an active OSS project, I completely disagree abouts darcs. Darcs has the simplest syntax of any comparable tool that I've encountered.
I'm curious what aspect of the darcs syntax you disagree with?
Actually he said in the email that the whining license was a joke and he's actually licensing it as BSD (and later said it could even be considered public domain), though until the source code is re-released with proper license headers, I doubt his statement to lkml is legally binding in any way.
-Tupshin
That was one of the more disgustingly false pieces of drivel I've had the misfortune of reading in a long time. It doesn't deserve a rebuttal, but neither can it be left unanswered.
A soldier doesn't just kill or be killed. Soldiers have objectives that span the gamut from destroying to rebuilding, and from killing to healing the sick and wounded.
A soldier doesn't give up his family or friends. For many a soldier, his family is the single most important part of his life. The desire to return home to resume a life with those same family and friends can be the single most motivating force.
A soldier doesn't give up a career. For some, the military is a career, for others the military is the first real job they've ever had. At most, a reservist will have his career put on pause during his active service.
The soldier that only understands killing is a very bad soldier indeed. Such a soldier doesn't pay attention to the many shades of gray between friend and foe, nor to the extremely important distinction between minimal and maximal force.
Yes, war changes people, in ways that are powerful and profound. And no...you will never be quite the same person afterwards. But love and friendship also change people irrevocably. Many will find mental and emotional trauma on the battlefield, and many will become stronger from the experience.
As far as the specific issue of the phone, you have no understanding of history and war if you don't recognize that communication with one's family and friends at home has been a staple of the soldier's life as long as there have been ways of sending those commmunications.
I pity the soldier who has no interest in communicating with his loved ones, for there is a lonely soul indeed.
And I pity you because your astonishing failure to understand humanity and the human condition make you a very very small-minded person indeed.
-With sorry
-Tupshin
http://www.frys-electronics-ads.com/
http://varchars.com/blog/node/view/91
A recent study shows that craigslist has directly saved consumers 50-65 million dollars in advertising costs, and many more 10s of millions of dollars indirectly by enabling direct human-to-human transactions with a minimal effort.
Hmm...this Internet thing seems to be a disruptive technology...whoda thunk it.
Actually, xen is a lot closer to this than you think. The "host operating system" is in fact just a guest (or domain in xen's terminology) that has access to hardware (privileged domain), and can therefore utilize its drivers to provide access to this hardware to unprivileged domains. Right now, this privileged domain is only linux, but a previous version had an xbsd functional as a privileged domains, and the unprivileged domains wouldn't be aware of the difference. Xen itself is the low level kernel that effectively delegates hardware interaction to a privileged domain.
Xen is much closer to the kind of virtualization you are talking about than either UML or coLinux, or VMWare, for that matter.
It's a bit sad that with all the comments posted so far, nobody has mentioned xen, and the fact that it is accomplishing the same kind of thing today on x86 machines with operating systems (including linux 2.4 and 2.6, a couple xbsds, and plan 9) that have been ported to it, and will be able to support un-ported operating systems (e.g. windows xxx) once Intel's silvervale or AMD's pacifica technologies (both are CPU extensions that assist virtualization in hardware) become available (probably in 2006).
No...that's 50/50 split between the groupthinksthis and the groupthinksthat.
rfc 1149
The only man in the middle attack is going to be some guy in Alabama with a shotgun. I think I'd know if it were intercepted.