the AI "boom" (whatever that may be referring to) in the 70's and 80's did a very poor job of indicating what is intelligent. We gained a pittance of understanding of what isn't intelligent, but AI is not the place to look for suggestions to falsify common descent.
As for historical accuracy, Alan Turing proposed the turing test (a sufficent condition for intelligence) in his 1950 paper Computing machinery and intelligence. That remains, to date, the guiding light of the AI community, and yet to be acheived.
Final note: AI certainly has something to contribute to understanding intelligence, that's why it's part of cognitive science. However, we certainly do not have a good understanding of what intelligence even is let alone how to create one. This has little bearing on the validity of evolution, except to people who think that humans are some how s00pr special in the universe.
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Just because a technology or system is better known and more widely deployed than rival technologies does not mean that this technology is better. Please recall VHS vs. Betamax. There are more factors that go into choosing a tech.
Or, if you prefer, by your logic, windows should be the best operating system out there shouldn't it?:P
-anon cause this will be modded a troll for pointing out the facts.
You'd have to actually have facts to point out first:p
It was not, and was never clear that she was working for the CIA. Her in-laws went so far as to ask whether her husband knew. And it's absurd to think that all spies are some shadowy non-person who hide from any sort of identification. Spies are people who hide what they do, not necessarily all facets of who they are.
Finally, it doesn't matter whether Rove was intending to do her harm, he did the dumbass thing and running with what he thought was convenient, rather than checking whether he should be spreading around information about CIA agents or not.
If you'd like to try supporting your claims with say... actual information, perhaps you wouldn't have to post anonymously.
BLITZER: But the other argument that's been made against you is that you've sought to capitalize on this extravaganza, having that photo shoot with your wife, who was a clandestine officer of the CIA, and that you've tried to enrich yourself writing this book and all of that.
What do you make of those accusations, which are serious accusations, as you know, that have been leveled against you?
WILSON: My wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity.
BLITZER: But she hadn't been a clandestine officer for some time before that?
WILSON: That's not anything that I can talk about. And, indeed, I'll go back to what I said earlier, the CIA believed that a possible crime had been committed, and that's why they referred it to the Justice Department.
She was not a clandestine officer at the time that that article in "Vanity Fair" appeared. And I have every right to have the American public know who I am and not to have myself defined by those who would write the sorts of things that are coming out, being spewed out of the mouths of the RNC...
No, He really never said that. He said that aides to the vice president were aware of the trip. And senior CIA officials have stated for the record that Valerie Plame was not responsible for picking Ambassador Wilson for the trip.
WILSON: It's not so much that I've denied it. It was the CIA itself that denied it a week after the Novak article came out, well before I was ever in a position to acknowledge that my wife worked for the CIA.
And indeed, regrettably, the staff at the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence did not call the CIA to find out their official position. But a year before, "Newsday" reporters Knut Royce and Tim Phelps did, and this is what the CIA told them:
"A senior intelligence officer confirmed that Plame was a Directorate of Operations undercover officer who worked alongside the operations officers who asked her husband to travel to Niger. But he said she did not recommend her husband to undertake the Niger assignment.
"They" -- the officers who did ask Wilson to check the uranium story -- "were aware of who she was married to, which is not surprising. There are people elsewhere in the government who are trying to make her look like she was the one who was cooking this up for some reason. I can't figure out who it would be."
The idiocy of the argument that Rove hasn't done something illegal because he only referred to Plame as Wilson's wife is underscored by articles like this. Whether he referred to her by name, or by a unique association to someone else (who is easily searchable) still picks out a unique individual, and thus still identifies her.
Likewise, I'd go to jail just the same if i was threatening the life of George Bush or the President of the United states.
After the US and Britain's ruthless and unprovoked attack on Mussolini's Italy, anyway. There was no proof that Italy was in any way involved with either the invasion of Poland or the attack at Pearl Harbor.
This is not analogous. There was not, and has never been, any link between Al Qaeda, the perpitrators of 9/11, and Saddam Hussien's Baathist regime. There -was- an internationally recognized alliance between Italy and Germany, as well as a clear paper trail of cooperation.
What's with all the thrashing? This is really easy:
A company can be fully engaged in monopolistic practices with out being a complete monopoly. Just because you haven't accomplished your goal of world domination doesn't mean you're not a super villian.
Uh... no. He said "why are we talking about something that's half a decade old." Which i took to be referring to the genre. Thus i indicated that the gigantic robot w/ a young plucky hero (or not so plucky w/ shinji, which was done intentionally to deviate from the sterotype) which we could say really took hold w/ the first Gundam series. I didn't not say "don't like EVA? go check out Gundam"
I think you've got your dates off. Mobile Suit Gundam first showed in 1979.
At any rate, this is still an oldy but goody in terms of anime. After being a let down NGE fan, i was quite happy when i found RahXephon (though as per usual, the movie was pretty poor) because in essence this show had all the thematic components that Evangelion had, but the characters were all plausible rather than displays of Gainax's amplified manic-depressive mood swings.
I understand completely why CN shows only dubbed programs, but NGE is a prototypically abysmal dubbing job (and i apologize to the voice actors involved, but this show really made me cringe). While shinji is supposed to be unpopular, he shouldn't be utterly grating as he is in the dub.
Anyway, i wish someone would take a serious look at showing this subbed.
This isn't a group think issue, because individuals presumably not using a judgement of what they think other people want, they're doing it via faculty to determine what they think is best for them.
On top of that, why isn't this the way you want to do it? Essentially, what this is doing is highering a bunch of low rate librarians, or researchers, figuring out a computational way to amplify their results so that i can scale to a huge number of people (rather than just a few) and then running with it.
Sorry, is that some sort of inside joke/reference i'm missing? Last time i checked Stephen King is still alive. Although he keeps claiming he'll never get the Dark Tower series done before he kicks the bucket.
China is doing its damnedest to become a military force to be reckoned with. And given their economic growth, China is the only nation with the capability to participate. But given the explanation in the article, it seems that the hawks in the pentagon are more interested in rapid deployment of force across the globe, the consequences (an arms race) be damned.
The probability of observing unusual behavior in individuals who commit retalitatory hacking is.82 (so, P(A|B) =.82). The probability of observing retaliatory hacking in individuals who commit unusual behavior is not.82 ( P(B|A) =/=.82 ). It's.82 * the probability of retaliatory hacks generally / the probability of unusual behavior generally.
But it's not funny. Even had it been a japanese company, it's barely recongizable as a joke:p And it's irritating because it just serves to further untrue stereotypes.
I can take a joke. i won't take easily avoided misinformation.
Yeah, real clever, making fun of how somebody speaks.
Of course it might help if you got the right foriegn language speakers. Japanese is notorious for not having an l/r distinction, not Mandarin (or Cantonese as far as i'm aware).
This is a bad filter for competence. The reason why it's such a bad metric for filtering, is because D&D is simply one instance of a class of behaviors. D&D is a fictional abstracted game system, and it's not at all clear how this differs from... well any other game, particularly given the richness present in any modern video game you want to pick up. They're all deviations/abstractions on reality.
As that is the case, it seems to me that if you're going to claim that D&D players are unhinged from reality, that the American DOD's interest in training simulators and other games is extremely confused (this is of course assuming that the US DOD and the IDF have similar feelings on simulated training).
The other conclusion is that the IDF isn't making sense.
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Wow, parent post is really crazy!
the AI "boom" (whatever that may be referring to) in the 70's and 80's did a very poor job of indicating what is intelligent. We gained a pittance of understanding of what isn't intelligent, but AI is not the place to look for suggestions to falsify common descent.
As for historical accuracy, Alan Turing proposed the turing test (a sufficent condition for intelligence) in his 1950 paper Computing machinery and intelligence. That remains, to date, the guiding light of the AI community, and yet to be acheived.
Final note: AI certainly has something to contribute to understanding intelligence, that's why it's part of cognitive science. However, we certainly do not have a good understanding of what intelligence even is let alone how to create one. This has little bearing on the validity of evolution, except to people who think that humans are some how s00pr special in the universe.
Just because a technology or system is better known and more widely deployed than rival technologies does not mean that this technology is better. Please recall VHS vs. Betamax. There are more factors that go into choosing a tech.
:P
Or, if you prefer, by your logic, windows should be the best operating system out there shouldn't it?
Yes, it's all googles fault MSN Search is so bad isn't it. And suing Google will fix their search problems won't it!
It's 2005. Why has it taken them this long to realize that the should be supporting maximum penitration of highspeed access?
-anon cause this will be modded a troll for pointing out the facts.
:p
You'd have to actually have facts to point out first
It was not, and was never clear that she was working for the CIA. Her in-laws went so far as to ask whether her husband knew. And it's absurd to think that all spies are some shadowy non-person who hide from any sort of identification. Spies are people who hide what they do, not necessarily all facets of who they are.
Finally, it doesn't matter whether Rove was intending to do her harm, he did the dumbass thing and running with what he thought was convenient, rather than checking whether he should be spreading around information about CIA agents or not.
If you'd like to try supporting your claims with say... actual information, perhaps you wouldn't have to post anonymously.
Rove didn't do anything illegal he received the information from a media source.
Does passing classified information that he received (however he got it) on to Matt Cooper somehow not count as illegal?
You're propigating lies. Please stop.
here is a (one of many) relevant quote:
The idiocy of the argument that Rove hasn't done something illegal because he only referred to Plame as Wilson's wife is underscored by articles like this. Whether he referred to her by name, or by a unique association to someone else (who is easily searchable) still picks out a unique individual, and thus still identifies her.
Likewise, I'd go to jail just the same if i was threatening the life of George Bush or the President of the United states.
After the US and Britain's ruthless and unprovoked attack on Mussolini's Italy, anyway. There was no proof that Italy was in any way involved with either the invasion of Poland or the attack at Pearl Harbor.
This is not analogous. There was not, and has never been, any link between Al Qaeda, the perpitrators of 9/11, and Saddam Hussien's Baathist regime. There -was- an internationally recognized alliance between Italy and Germany, as well as a clear paper trail of cooperation.
What's with all the thrashing? This is really easy:
A company can be fully engaged in monopolistic practices with out being a complete monopoly. Just because you haven't accomplished your goal of world domination doesn't mean you're not a super villian.
Uh... no. He said "why are we talking about something that's half a decade old." Which i took to be referring to the genre. Thus i indicated that the gigantic robot w/ a young plucky hero (or not so plucky w/ shinji, which was done intentionally to deviate from the sterotype) which we could say really took hold w/ the first Gundam series. I didn't not say "don't like EVA? go check out Gundam"
I've never paid particular attention to ignoring particular subjects, but could it be because the post is cross-listed in television?
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I think you've got your dates off. Mobile Suit Gundam first showed in 1979.
At any rate, this is still an oldy but goody in terms of anime. After being a let down NGE fan, i was quite happy when i found RahXephon (though as per usual, the movie was pretty poor) because in essence this show had all the thematic components that Evangelion had, but the characters were all plausible rather than displays of Gainax's amplified manic-depressive mood swings.
I understand completely why CN shows only dubbed programs, but NGE is a prototypically abysmal dubbing job (and i apologize to the voice actors involved, but this show really made me cringe). While shinji is supposed to be unpopular, he shouldn't be utterly grating as he is in the dub.
Anyway, i wish someone would take a serious look at showing this subbed.
Clearly, so they can be the only sitcom in television history to have contracted NASA :P
(disclaimer: this is speculative hyperbole, i would presume that it is so, but i don't know for a fact!)
This isn't a group think issue, because individuals presumably not using a judgement of what they think other people want, they're doing it via faculty to determine what they think is best for them.
On top of that, why isn't this the way you want to do it? Essentially, what this is doing is highering a bunch of low rate librarians, or researchers, figuring out a computational way to amplify their results so that i can scale to a huge number of people (rather than just a few) and then running with it.
Sorry, is that some sort of inside joke/reference i'm missing? Last time i checked Stephen King is still alive. Although he keeps claiming he'll never get the Dark Tower series done before he kicks the bucket.
China is doing its damnedest to become a military force to be reckoned with. And given their economic growth, China is the only nation with the capability to participate. But given the explanation in the article, it seems that the hawks in the pentagon are more interested in rapid deployment of force across the globe, the consequences (an arms race) be damned.
i realized that i made a typo. The fallacy assumes that P(A|B) = P(B|A), which is wrong. Sorry 'bout that.
Well... just look at Bayes Rule:
.82 (so, P(A|B) = .82). The probability of observing retaliatory hacking in individuals who commit unusual behavior is not .82 ( P(B|A) =/= .82 ). It's .82 * the probability of retaliatory hacks generally / the probability of unusual behavior generally.
P(A|B) = P(B|A) * P(A) / P(B)
The fallacy at hand assumes instead that:
P(A|B) =/= P(B|A)
The probability of observing unusual behavior in individuals who commit retalitatory hacking is
But it's not funny. Even had it been a japanese company, it's barely recongizable as a joke :p And it's irritating because it just serves to further untrue stereotypes.
I can take a joke. i won't take easily avoided misinformation.
Yeah, real clever, making fun of how somebody speaks.
Of course it might help if you got the right foriegn language speakers. Japanese is notorious for not having an l/r distinction, not Mandarin (or Cantonese as far as i'm aware).
Distinguish your asians, jerk.
This is a bad filter for competence. The reason why it's such a bad metric for filtering, is because D&D is simply one instance of a class of behaviors. D&D is a fictional abstracted game system, and it's not at all clear how this differs from... well any other game, particularly given the richness present in any modern video game you want to pick up. They're all deviations/abstractions on reality.
As that is the case, it seems to me that if you're going to claim that D&D players are unhinged from reality, that the American DOD's interest in training simulators and other games is extremely confused (this is of course assuming that the US DOD and the IDF have similar feelings on simulated training).
The other conclusion is that the IDF isn't making sense.