Every time that Python is mentioned someone raise the point about whitespace. Yes it is annoying when first learning the language, but within a few hours you have totally forgotten about it. Python has other issues, but whitespace is the one people always initially focus on, unless you are in the habit of cut and pasting code from any or every where without using discrete code blocks, then it really is not that much of an issue.
Whilst I mostly agree with you, I believe it will also benefit the politicians as they will no doubt receive financial incentives to help change their votes when this is next debated.
snip... Obama was partial to making executive orders and that is not always a bad thing. Relying on executive orders for the country's immigration policy is not a good solution snip....
If Obama was indeed partial to making executive orders what would that make all the other presidents prior to him in the last hundred years? Wikipedia shows that they either did more executive orders or did more per year spent in office than Obama. Of the more recent presidents, only H.W Bush had less executive orders, but he only spent 1 term in office.
Well we only have a fraction of the firearms, according to Wikipedia the USA has an estimated 101 firearms per 100 residents, and the UK has 6.2, that being said, there have been incidents over here where the police have shot unarmed suspects.
“As the incident unfolded, a 28-year-old male opened the front screen door and stood in the doorway or just outside that doorway,” he said. “Officers gave him several verbal commands to put his hands up and walk towards them.”
A police officer opened fire, shooting once, after the man quickly raised his hands and appeared to point a weapon at the officers, Livingston said.
I heard the next Doctor was going to be a female - does she change the colour?
It is red phone box, red was the default colour for the telephone boxes provided by what it now BT (formerly British Telecom and prior to that the General Post Office), the Tardis is a Police Box.
...will Her Majesty's Government issue a LICENSE for proper people to view terrorist websites?
That seems likely. A license or equivalent. Enforcing child porn laws has similar protections.
I have a copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook that I downloaded as a teenager in the mid-90s. Should I be afraid?
If you are in the UK, yes you should be afraid or at least concerned. The UK government deems it to be associated with terrorism due to the instructions for making explosives. There was a court case in 2007/2008 where the government attempted (but failed) to prosecute someone for possession of it under the terrorism act of 2000.
Aye, no doubt we will be hearing in 15 - 24 months that despite the large amount of crowd-funding they initially received, they are unable to deliver a working product and so reluctantly they have no choice to but to close the company (or ask for another round of crowd funding;-).
Nothing in the present trends leads to the introduction of emergent behavior by an AI. Until an AI grasps epistemology, comes to the realisation it has self-volition, and decides, for example, that it wants to become a champion at playing chess, then comes up with it's own method of learning how to do this, all AI is just a mechanism directed by somebody. A clever rules-based system that adapts to doing what it is told to do.
I certainly agree with your point for the foreseeable future, I just do not believe that is all we will ever achieve, I expect, over considerable time, that the "clever rules-based systems" will be the things giving the instructions to other 'clever rules based systems', and that will eventually lead to true AI, I just doubt it will be in my lifetime (I am in my 50's)
At the moment, we have (expert / neural networks / machine learning- I tend to think of these as fake AI) systems that are designed for specific tasks, those tasks / areas include complex subject areas as Law and Medicine that require systems for each specialised field. Some of the new fAI systems are designed for code generation, I expect, over time, that we will enter a cycle that the fAI systems improve the efficiency of the code generation fAI's, the code generation fAI's then create more efficient fAI algorithms/system and the cycle starts again.
Nope, just the opposite: You could see from past experience that that was a bad idea, so you do something differently. Still, Kurzweil must ultimately, like the rest of us, simply wait to see what actually happens.
It always seems to be the case that in (almost) every new large scale conflict the military initially fights with the equipment and the tactics designed for the previous large scale conflict, it is only after that point that the tactics and equipment evolve.
As I've said before, we're in the process of removing ALL THE JOBS at the same time, including future jobs. But we've totally done that a dozen times before in our history.
We have, however during some of those previous occurrences it was several generations before the job gains created by the new technology outstripped the job losses that were the result of the introduction of the technology.
Except there is no such thing as AI, and there never will be. We have some learning networks right now that can, given enough trial and error, figure out how to produce a particular output given a particular input, but they are not creative, nor can they deduce anything from 'first principles', nor can they intelligently handle situations that they have not been trained on. They are, and will continue to be, nothing but helpers that need a human hand to guide them. And that is why we do not need to worry about the 'AI' revolution taking all our jobs.
Unless you are expecting humanity to destroy itself in the next 50 - 100 years or for some form of Butlerian Jihad to occur, then stating AI will never occur seems very unlikely given how rapidly technology is progressing. I agree that we certainly do not have AI at the moment, what is mistakenly referred to as AI, is what was previously referred to as expert systems, or neural networks. We are making remarkable progress in those areas, if the rate of progress continues, then I believe we will eventually arrive at true AI, I just do not believe that will occur in the next 25 years.
Who is able to vote? All of Spain is affected by this, should they not all have a chance to vote?
Hmmm
That is the same argument that so many little Englanders expressed over here in blighty when Scotland wanted an independence referendum, of course those same people would have been outraged if it was suggested that the UK leaving the EU required a majority vote from all the EU countries. It should be the vote of the majority of people in the region/state/country that decides on independence.
In that case, why don't they make their own product
Apparently in the case of Equifax the answer is: they are too incompetent to do so. They don't seem to be competent at any aspect of building software.
Alternatively, they may have some competent people, who wanted to do exactly that, or who pointed out security flaws and wanted to fix them, but were over-ruled on cost grounds by managers above them.
Slashdot Mirror
Over 13 years, that's 632 edits a day, every day, plus 7.3 original articles each day.
"Pulling from books, academic journals and other sources, he spends more than three hours a day researching, editing and writing."
So that's 1 article every 24 minutes while making and one edit every 17 seconds
I call bullshit. Story does not add up.
I believe it adds up to him doing a lot of research and possibly editing whilst supposedly working at his government job.
Is this the level of comments nowadays?
These days? It has been like for quite some time, certainly over a decade. This actually looks better than normal, so far there is very little spam.
Every time that Python is mentioned someone raise the point about whitespace. Yes it is annoying when first learning the language, but within a few hours you have totally forgotten about it. Python has other issues, but whitespace is the one people always initially focus on, unless you are in the habit of cut and pasting code from any or every where without using discrete code blocks, then it really is not that much of an issue.
The more pertinent question, can it fake its own data for its research paper ;-?
Good point. You would need 5,500 boxes of gold and 200 tons of gold coins to pay for all of that coal.
Obviously the coal sellers were using surge pricing :-)
Whilst I mostly agree with you, I believe it will also benefit the politicians as they will no doubt receive financial incentives to help change their votes when this is next debated.
snip...
Obama was partial to making executive orders and that is not always a bad thing. Relying on executive orders for the country's immigration policy is not a good solution
snip....
If Obama was indeed partial to making executive orders what would that make all the other presidents prior to him in the last hundred years? Wikipedia shows that they either did more executive orders or did more per year spent in office than Obama. Of the more recent presidents, only H.W Bush had less executive orders, but he only spent 1 term in office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Well we only have a fraction of the firearms, according to Wikipedia the USA has an estimated 101 firearms per 100 residents, and the UK has 6.2, that being said, there have been incidents over here where the police have shot unarmed suspects.
Link :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Ah, I only read the reuters article, so missed that.
I noticed in the reuters report the following :
“As the incident unfolded, a 28-year-old male opened the front screen door and stood in the doorway or just outside that doorway,” he said. “Officers gave him several verbal commands to put his hands up and walk towards them.”
A police officer opened fire, shooting once, after the man quickly raised his hands and appeared to point a weapon at the officers, Livingston said.
I wonder if any body / dash cams were working...
Link :
https://www.reuters.com/articl...
snip...
and whats with the red TARDIS it the title?
I heard the next Doctor was going to be a female - does she change the colour?
It is red phone box, red was the default colour for the telephone boxes provided by what it now BT (formerly British Telecom and prior to that the General Post Office), the Tardis is a Police Box.
From what I remember things seemed to be run by Nancy Reagan...
As for Bush senior, he was supposedly out of the loop, at least where things like Iran-Contra were concerned...
Rule 1: Investors are dumb.
I believe the Ferengi (from Deep Space 9) rules of acquisition cover this :
Rule 1 : Once you have their money, you never give it back.
...will Her Majesty's Government issue a LICENSE for proper people to view terrorist websites?
That seems likely. A license or equivalent. Enforcing child porn laws has similar protections.
I have a copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook that I downloaded as a teenager in the mid-90s. Should I be afraid?
If you are in the UK, yes you should be afraid or at least concerned. The UK government deems it to be associated with terrorism due to the instructions for making explosives. There was a court case in 2007/2008 where the government attempted (but failed) to prosecute someone for possession of it under the terrorism act of 2000.
Aye, no doubt we will be hearing in 15 - 24 months that despite the large amount of crowd-funding they initially received, they are unable to deliver a working product and so reluctantly they have no choice to but to close the company (or ask for another round of crowd funding ;-).
Nothing in the present trends leads to the introduction of emergent behavior by an AI. Until an AI grasps epistemology, comes to the realisation it has self-volition, and decides, for example, that it wants to become a champion at playing chess, then comes up with it's own method of learning how to do this, all AI is just a mechanism directed by somebody. A clever rules-based system that adapts to doing what it is told to do.
I certainly agree with your point for the foreseeable future, I just do not believe that is all we will ever achieve, I expect, over considerable time, that the "clever rules-based systems" will be the things giving the instructions to other 'clever rules based systems', and that will eventually lead to true AI, I just doubt it will be in my lifetime (I am in my 50's)
At the moment, we have (expert / neural networks / machine learning- I tend to think of these as fake AI) systems that are designed for specific tasks, those tasks / areas include complex subject areas as Law and Medicine that require systems for each specialised field. Some of the new fAI systems are designed for code generation, I expect, over time, that we will enter a cycle that the fAI systems improve the efficiency of the code generation fAI's, the code generation fAI's then create more efficient fAI algorithms/system and the cycle starts again.
Nope, just the opposite: You could see from past experience that that was a bad idea, so you do something differently. Still, Kurzweil must ultimately, like the rest of us, simply wait to see what actually happens.
It always seems to be the case that in (almost) every new large scale conflict the military initially fights with the equipment and the tactics designed for the previous large scale conflict, it is only after that point that the tactics and equipment evolve.
As I've said before, we're in the process of removing ALL THE JOBS at the same time, including future jobs. But we've totally done that a dozen times before in our history.
We have, however during some of those previous occurrences it was several generations before the job gains created by the new technology outstripped the job losses that were the result of the introduction of the technology.
Except there is no such thing as AI, and there never will be. We have some learning networks right now that can, given enough trial and error, figure out how to produce a particular output given a particular input, but they are not creative, nor can they deduce anything from 'first principles', nor can they intelligently handle situations that they have not been trained on. They are, and will continue to be, nothing but helpers that need a human hand to guide them. And that is why we do not need to worry about the 'AI' revolution taking all our jobs.
Unless you are expecting humanity to destroy itself in the next 50 - 100 years or for some form of Butlerian Jihad to occur, then stating AI will never occur seems very unlikely given how rapidly technology is progressing. I agree that we certainly do not have AI at the moment, what is mistakenly referred to as AI, is what was previously referred to as expert systems, or neural networks. We are making remarkable progress in those areas, if the rate of progress continues, then I believe we will eventually arrive at true AI, I just do not believe that will occur in the next 25 years.
There have been number of such comments in various BBC have your say discussions, both about indyref 1 and the desire for a new indyref 2.
As I did not keep a note on which of the BBC articles had the comments, no I cannot provide a citation.
Who is able to vote? All of Spain is affected by this, should they not all have a chance to vote?
Hmmm
That is the same argument that so many little Englanders expressed over here in blighty when Scotland wanted an independence referendum, of course those same people would have been outraged if it was suggested that the UK leaving the EU required a majority vote from all the EU countries. It should be the vote of the majority of people in the region/state/country that decides on independence.
Urgh...would its output be obfuscated c or perl code ;-?
They are so specialised because we do not have Artificial General Intelligence, for that matter, I do not believe we have the more limited AI yet.
There was a recent case over in the UK where a judge found a sex doll designed to look like a child to be an obscene item.
BBC Link :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-4...
In that case, why don't they make their own product
Apparently in the case of Equifax the answer is: they are too incompetent to do so. They don't seem to be competent at any aspect of building software.
Alternatively, they may have some competent people, who wanted to do exactly that, or who pointed out security flaws and wanted to fix them, but were over-ruled on cost grounds by managers above them.