Re:I don't think it will ever be like in the movie
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Mind Over Machine
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You're thinking about it in the wrong way. The robot that you control will just be like another limb to you, like your hand. If you think about suicide, your hand doesn't just automatically get a knife and jab yourself (hopefully). There's a certain amount of filtering done between what you're actually thinking, and how your body moves. Basically, it's not a one-to-one mapping
The robot/machine that you are controlling will be no different than your usual body: there won't be anything out of your physical control.
First, when you think about an action, like suicide, it's a bit vague. What limb are you actually wanting to move? I'm willing to bet you would be thinking more on a high level: why is my life miserable? What did I get myself into? I want to die.. etc. This article isn't talking about machines actually interpreting these high level thoughts, it's talking about interpreting low level thoughts like "I want to grab that glass of water. Move my hand to the right, and squeeze, etc." These thoughts will generate a specific action.
If our bodies actually interpreted high level behaviours and thoughts on its own, there would be havoc. It's really the brain that does that, and tells the peripherals the specific movements.
Well, I would think corporations would want to minimize the number of these urgent transfers. So, it's like they're basically using a Chebyshev criterion: minimizing the maximum level of frustration. However, in doing this, they don't really care how many people get to this level, just that the level is a definite threshold.
It seems that all you care about is whether the major is lucrative or not. If that's the case, you may find yourself unhappy 10 years down the road, and that's not going to be very fun..
Go and browse university websites and check out the classes and course materials to see which major you're more interested in. Remember, EE and CS do have overlapping interests. I know many people that are comfortable in both arenas, and, IMHO, I believe that any good EE or CS major should know some of the other's respective major's material.
Personally, I'm an EE, but not in a traditional area (ie. circuits, semiconductors, etc.) I'm into Signals Processing, Information Theory, and Image Processing. These kinds of fields in EE are close in relation to CS topics such as Computer Vision and... Information theory. Heck, I haven't touched circuit boards in quite a while: I'm usually programming or learning mathematical theory.
I guess my point is that in terms of EE and CS, there may not be a clean cut line for all the topics. Peruse the different areas within each field before deciding.
Just a few words of advice, don't go for something just because it's lucrative, or you'll learn that the hard way in your senior year when you suddenly wake up and find yourself hating your major.
I was excited about the price rumor (~$100) on the mini ipod, and would have immediately gone out and bought one. But really, who would pay $250 for a mini ipod that has 1/4 the capacity of the low end ipod at $300?! At such a small price difference, I only see people buying it for purely physical size reasons, not capacity.
Damn, and I thought I would finally get an ipod, I guess I'm stuck back at square one mulling over the price of the 15Gb version..
Very true. This phenomenon is called the overjustification effect, and is well researched and known in psychological fields. Basically, people enjoy things much better with intrinsic reasons than with extrinsic reasons. In this case, the extrinsic motivator is the money involved with playing video games, which can kill instrinic motivation.
From another perspective, most students probably wouldn't study if not for tests and grades (an extrinsic motivator).
Sheesh, I remember playing Quake 1 on my now pitiful 133mhz pentium 1, and you're crying about a p4 1.7Ghz?? I myself am still running on a 1Ghz Athlon, and am satisfied with it (so far, it's beginning to be a bit slow now relatively).
My friend once had a mouse that broke, and one of the symptoms was that the clicking was gone. I have no idea how it happened, but it's damn annoying using his mouse.
It's true that you won't miss the clicking sound until it's gone.. it's just not right!
So basically, we'll be weightless about half the time on the flight? What about the food service then? Will we use the same techniques as astronauts do?
I'm also sure there will be public concerns about the weightlessness.. heck, they even said that this is still far in future. I'm not holding my breath.
Really, people, it's not PP, it's the people. I really think, in a technical talk, that there are really two main points or cruxes that underly the premise of the talk. If not anything else, convey these two points to your audience!! Whether it be just these two points on a PP, or (god forbid) memorizing them (while you're at it, why don't you memorize the whole presentation without the slides!)
Everything else is details, implementation, and analysis. Yes, of course these items are important too, but probably won't be as important to everyone in the room. Print out a copy of that well written report that you typed up before the presentation so that people who are interested can pick up a copy.
And please, don't bore your audience.
Let me reiterate, get those two points to your audience!! Whether it be life threatening or not, the crux of your paper should be conveyed, or else why even do a presentation?
I sometimes see little sensor bumps in roads, especially when driving through Connecticut. I'm always paranoid when going over those bumps at high speeds....
But if EZpass were used in speed detection the problem is we woudln't even see it coming.. until the ticket arrives in the mail
Yeah, I got a little creeped out as well.. I think the reason it's kinda creepy is that its metal trying to move like a human. It's really in the middle ground between inorganic movements and organic movements, and to us, this is wholly unnatural.. I guess we're just not used to it. Who knows? This thing may be giving you a massage in the future..
I usually browse the catalogue they have at All Music Guide . The best thing is being able to browse artists by the extensive number of genres available, and just browsing genres by themselves. You can literally lose yourself in the number of new bands that have been hiding from you and just waiting to be discovered. Unlike Amazon, the system isn't obstrusively selling CDs in your face, and I think the number of artists they have catalogued and described about is more.
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Yes, I actually have noticed this recent trend as well, and am really excited about the prospect of more exciting matches.. it'll be really interesting to see where UFC is really headed, because it sure isn't the same animal as it used to be..
Re:I'd only point out that. . .
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First off you don't want to pit a boxer against a Kung Fu-like martial arts.. the boxer has the severe disadvantage that he can't kick or hit below the belt.. he'll lose almost by default at this point since the martial artist can pin him, grapple him, kick him in the legs, apply pressure points.. and you know, all that good stuff. Also, what you see at "4 mph" isn't how its really done, the quickness of Tai Chi masters will suprise you when applied (and can be almost deadly).
A more fitting match would be a to throw in a grappler (like a wrestler or brazillian jujitsu guy), then you just get the Ultimate Fighting Championships.. which turn out rather bland since both fighters just spend the entire time on the ground and in the bitch position..
If you think Tai Chi is simple to do, go out and find a class and try it yourself, you will be blown away by how hard it really is. It's not just "Life one foot. Raise an arm." It's more like
Get down into a low stance with one foot nearly off the ground and balancing all your weight on one leg, get up using only one leg while keeping the lifted leg straight, jump and do a kick over your lifted leg and land on your kicking leg without falling over... etc etc
Basically, the movements in Tai Chi are superiorly difficult to probably any robot test ever created; the movements require a lot of balance and strength (well, i guess strength isn't an issue with the robot, but balance surely is). It all comes down to this, if the robot can do Tai Chi at a master level, it can probably do anything else that requires balance, from other martial arts (yes, Kung Fu, Aikido, Ninjitsu even) to walking and saving people while an earthquake is going on.
A robot doing tai chi will prove its balance, not unlike if a human trained in tai chi, he will also have an acute sense of balance.. now to train a robot to actually feel its inner chi, that's a different story..
The purpose for the robot to learn Tai Chi is to test its balance capabilities. Tai Chi is just chalk full of complex body movements, and intense balance is needed (I mean really, Tai Chi is hard enough for humans to do at a master level!) There's no mention that this robot would ever try to defeat anyone or enter any tournaments....
However, I have no qualms with saying that a martial arts robot would pose quite a challenge.. I don't know why you don't think they could defeat you! One could program every martial arts move from Jujitsu, Aikido, Kung Fu, Karate, etc and it would perform those moves perfectly and know how to apply them to a fight in progress. Yes, Matrix references are necessary here, except the robot would be at a much higher level of precision than Keanu Reeves, or even Jet Li.
Don't forget also that the robot can be made of metal; this puts a new twist on the Iron Head technique.
Actually when your sense of smell gets overexposed, you start to not smell the constant fumes. If you work at a coffeeshop or someplace with continuous smells you'll notice that after a while your olfactory nerves will sort of get over saturated and the coffee smell won't really register in your mind anymore. Where I see this most happening is the place that you live, everyone's home has a distinct smell (not necessarily a bad one), but you'll most likely the only one oblivious to it if you invite your friends over.
Yes, if you look at the captcha site, it lists "Sounds" under Captchas. Here's the text:
Sounds can be thought of as a sound version of Gimpy. The program picks a word or a sequence of numbers at random, renders the word or the numbers into a sound clip and distorts the clip. It then presents the distorted sound clip to its user and asks the user to type in the contents of the sound clip.
This would probably be similar to the visual techniques, most likely employing some audio filters so its hard for a computer to decipher (our ears are pretty sensitive in deciphering noise from actual voices/useful sounds, so it shouldn't be a problem for us)
I think it's a universial trait, that manifests itself diffently is every culture and sub-culture.
It really is human nature to have the best and greatest of anything.. that's why there's competition in technology/science/etc in the first place. Yes, comparing this to fourteen year olds attaining DivX's and mp3s may be pushing it, but I think it may be the same driving force that makes intel say "ohhh.. we had a 3GHz a month ago already *yawn*"
The fact that our eyes can barely detect color in our peripherary vision is not common sense to most people.. we assume that we can see color in our peripherary because it "seems" that we retain that color information.
But try this: tell your friend to bring an object from the left or right of you, deep in your periphary vision, and tell him to move it up and down, and come less and less deep in your peripherary vision.. tell him to stop when you can see the movement out of the corner of your eye. I'm willing to bet that you can't tell what color it is (at this point I've had my brain fool me by thinking it's definitely one color, when it turns out to be somehting totatlly different).
I have two words for you, Direct Connect. I've seen over 40TB online at once, the connections are reliable, everyone is required to share a certain amount (depending on the server you go on), and everyone is required to have a certain number of download slots.
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You're thinking about it in the wrong way. The robot that you control will just be like another limb to you, like your hand. If you think about suicide, your hand doesn't just automatically get a knife and jab yourself (hopefully). There's a certain amount of filtering done between what you're actually thinking, and how your body moves. Basically, it's not a one-to-one mapping
The robot/machine that you are controlling will be no different than your usual body: there won't be anything out of your physical control.
First, when you think about an action, like suicide, it's a bit vague. What limb are you actually wanting to move? I'm willing to bet you would be thinking more on a high level: why is my life miserable? What did I get myself into? I want to die.. etc. This article isn't talking about machines actually interpreting these high level thoughts, it's talking about interpreting low level thoughts like "I want to grab that glass of water. Move my hand to the right, and squeeze, etc." These thoughts will generate a specific action.
If our bodies actually interpreted high level behaviours and thoughts on its own, there would be havoc. It's really the brain that does that, and tells the peripherals the specific movements.
What's next.. Windows Revolutions?
Well, I would think corporations would want to minimize the number of these urgent transfers. So, it's like they're basically using a Chebyshev criterion: minimizing the maximum level of frustration. However, in doing this, they don't really care how many people get to this level, just that the level is a definite threshold.
It seems that all you care about is whether the major is lucrative or not. If that's the case, you may find yourself unhappy 10 years down the road, and that's not going to be very fun..
Go and browse university websites and check out the classes and course materials to see which major you're more interested in. Remember, EE and CS do have overlapping interests. I know many people that are comfortable in both arenas, and, IMHO, I believe that any good EE or CS major should know some of the other's respective major's material.
Personally, I'm an EE, but not in a traditional area (ie. circuits, semiconductors, etc.) I'm into Signals Processing, Information Theory, and Image Processing. These kinds of fields in EE are close in relation to CS topics such as Computer Vision and... Information theory. Heck, I haven't touched circuit boards in quite a while: I'm usually programming or learning mathematical theory.
I guess my point is that in terms of EE and CS, there may not be a clean cut line for all the topics. Peruse the different areas within each field before deciding.
Just a few words of advice, don't go for something just because it's lucrative, or you'll learn that the hard way in your senior year when you suddenly wake up and find yourself hating your major.
I was excited about the price rumor (~$100) on the mini ipod, and would have immediately gone out and bought one. But really, who would pay $250 for a mini ipod that has 1/4 the capacity of the low end ipod at $300?! At such a small price difference, I only see people buying it for purely physical size reasons, not capacity.
Damn, and I thought I would finally get an ipod, I guess I'm stuck back at square one mulling over the price of the 15Gb version..
Very true. This phenomenon is called the overjustification effect, and is well researched and known in psychological fields. Basically, people enjoy things much better with intrinsic reasons than with extrinsic reasons. In this case, the extrinsic motivator is the money involved with playing video games, which can kill instrinic motivation.
From another perspective, most students probably wouldn't study if not for tests and grades (an extrinsic motivator).
Sheesh, I remember playing Quake 1 on my now pitiful 133mhz pentium 1, and you're crying about a p4 1.7Ghz?? I myself am still running on a 1Ghz Athlon, and am satisfied with it (so far, it's beginning to be a bit slow now relatively).
My friend once had a mouse that broke, and one of the symptoms was that the clicking was gone. I have no idea how it happened, but it's damn annoying using his mouse.
It's true that you won't miss the clicking sound until it's gone.. it's just not right!
So basically, we'll be weightless about half the time on the flight? What about the food service then? Will we use the same techniques as astronauts do?
I'm also sure there will be public concerns about the weightlessness.. heck, they even said that this is still far in future. I'm not holding my breath.
Really, people, it's not PP, it's the people. I really think, in a technical talk, that there are really two main points or cruxes that underly the premise of the talk. If not anything else, convey these two points to your audience!! Whether it be just these two points on a PP, or (god forbid) memorizing them (while you're at it, why don't you memorize the whole presentation without the slides!)
Everything else is details, implementation, and analysis. Yes, of course these items are important too, but probably won't be as important to everyone in the room. Print out a copy of that well written report that you typed up before the presentation so that people who are interested can pick up a copy.
And please, don't bore your audience.
Let me reiterate, get those two points to your audience!! Whether it be life threatening or not, the crux of your paper should be conveyed, or else why even do a presentation?
I sometimes see little sensor bumps in roads, especially when driving through Connecticut. I'm always paranoid when going over those bumps at high speeds....
But if EZpass were used in speed detection the problem is we woudln't even see it coming.. until the ticket arrives in the mail
I think what he really means is losing all the energy to heat etc. Basically "losing" ALL the energy.
But yes, the term destroying is a bit misleading..
Yeah, I got a little creeped out as well.. I think the reason it's kinda creepy is that its metal trying to move like a human. It's really in the middle ground between inorganic movements and organic movements, and to us, this is wholly unnatural.. I guess we're just not used to it. Who knows? This thing may be giving you a massage in the future..
I usually browse the catalogue they have at All Music Guide . The best thing is being able to browse artists by the extensive number of genres available, and just browsing genres by themselves. You can literally lose yourself in the number of new bands that have been hiding from you and just waiting to be discovered. Unlike Amazon, the system isn't obstrusively selling CDs in your face, and I think the number of artists they have catalogued and described about is more.
Yes, I actually have noticed this recent trend as well, and am really excited about the prospect of more exciting matches.. it'll be really interesting to see where UFC is really headed, because it sure isn't the same animal as it used to be..
First off you don't want to pit a boxer against a Kung Fu-like martial arts.. the boxer has the severe disadvantage that he can't kick or hit below the belt.. he'll lose almost by default at this point since the martial artist can pin him, grapple him, kick him in the legs, apply pressure points.. and you know, all that good stuff. Also, what you see at "4 mph" isn't how its really done, the quickness of Tai Chi masters will suprise you when applied (and can be almost deadly).
A more fitting match would be a to throw in a grappler (like a wrestler or brazillian jujitsu guy), then you just get the Ultimate Fighting Championships.. which turn out rather bland since both fighters just spend the entire time on the ground and in the bitch position..
If you think Tai Chi is simple to do, go out and find a class and try it yourself, you will be blown away by how hard it really is. It's not just "Life one foot. Raise an arm." It's more like
Get down into a low stance with one foot nearly off the ground and balancing all your weight on one leg, get up using only one leg while keeping the lifted leg straight, jump and do a kick over your lifted leg and land on your kicking leg without falling over... etc etc
Basically, the movements in Tai Chi are superiorly difficult to probably any robot test ever created; the movements require a lot of balance and strength (well, i guess strength isn't an issue with the robot, but balance surely is). It all comes down to this, if the robot can do Tai Chi at a master level, it can probably do anything else that requires balance, from other martial arts (yes, Kung Fu, Aikido, Ninjitsu even) to walking and saving people while an earthquake is going on.
A robot doing tai chi will prove its balance, not unlike if a human trained in tai chi, he will also have an acute sense of balance.. now to train a robot to actually feel its inner chi, that's a different story..
The purpose for the robot to learn Tai Chi is to test its balance capabilities. Tai Chi is just chalk full of complex body movements, and intense balance is needed (I mean really, Tai Chi is hard enough for humans to do at a master level!) There's no mention that this robot would ever try to defeat anyone or enter any tournaments....
However, I have no qualms with saying that a martial arts robot would pose quite a challenge.. I don't know why you don't think they could defeat you! One could program every martial arts move from Jujitsu, Aikido, Kung Fu, Karate, etc and it would perform those moves perfectly and know how to apply them to a fight in progress. Yes, Matrix references are necessary here, except the robot would be at a much higher level of precision than Keanu Reeves, or even Jet Li.
Don't forget also that the robot can be made of metal; this puts a new twist on the Iron Head technique.
Actually when your sense of smell gets overexposed, you start to not smell the constant fumes. If you work at a coffeeshop or someplace with continuous smells you'll notice that after a while your olfactory nerves will sort of get over saturated and the coffee smell won't really register in your mind anymore. Where I see this most happening is the place that you live, everyone's home has a distinct smell (not necessarily a bad one), but you'll most likely the only one oblivious to it if you invite your friends over.
Yes, if you look at the captcha site, it lists "Sounds" under Captchas. Here's the text:
Sounds can be thought of as a sound version of Gimpy. The program picks a word or a sequence of numbers at random, renders the word or the numbers into a sound clip and distorts the clip. It then presents the distorted sound clip to its user and asks the user to type in the contents of the sound clip.
This would probably be similar to the visual techniques, most likely employing some audio filters so its hard for a computer to decipher (our ears are pretty sensitive in deciphering noise from actual voices/useful sounds, so it shouldn't be a problem for us)
I think it's a universial trait, that manifests itself diffently is every culture and sub-culture.
It really is human nature to have the best and greatest of anything.. that's why there's competition in technology/science/etc in the first place. Yes, comparing this to fourteen year olds attaining DivX's and mp3s may be pushing it, but I think it may be the same driving force that makes intel say "ohhh.. we had a 3GHz a month ago already *yawn*"
The fact that our eyes can barely detect color in our peripherary vision is not common sense to most people.. we assume that we can see color in our peripherary because it "seems" that we retain that color information.
But try this: tell your friend to bring an object from the left or right of you, deep in your periphary vision, and tell him to move it up and down, and come less and less deep in your peripherary vision.. tell him to stop when you can see the movement out of the corner of your eye. I'm willing to bet that you can't tell what color it is (at this point I've had my brain fool me by thinking it's definitely one color, when it turns out to be somehting totatlly different).
Are they going to use the same plunger-like technology as in Face Off, where the face just comes neatly off with a slight *ploock* sound?
Always found it quite amusing that their faces come off so easily.. I would think a slight nudge would then dislodge anyone's face...
I have two words for you, Direct Connect. I've seen over 40TB online at once, the connections are reliable, everyone is required to share a certain amount (depending on the server you go on), and everyone is required to have a certain number of download slots.
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