Spaniards don't eat dinner till 11PM at the earliest, and don't generally wrap up the day till 2AM. I would imagine cocaine is pretty much a necessity to survive in that culture.
IANAPP, but It's not really a hole, as far as I understand it. It's also not technically a "particle". It's really just a configuration that certain quarks can combine in, which no one expected. Which, granted, is a particle in the way a proton or neutron is a particle. But it's not truly fundamental.
If you want an AI to make human like mistakes, you have to have at least a roughly human cognitive model. The simplest way to do this, it seems to me, is to give the AI competing goals. Rather than just have the AI "try to win", and then cripple its ability to do that effectively, you could give it multiple goals to strive toward, and then give it some degree of randomness in which goal it chooses to pursue. Victory vs. pain-avoidance, attack vs. finding time to recover, etc.
I'd recommend reading the book by the Air Force's first head of project blue book, Edward J. Ruppelt, before you make such general claims. It's available free online, here, and it's a refreshingly candid look at the sighting reports from the early 50's. He makes it very clear that he had access to all the pentagon experts and that a surprising percentage of cases were clearly not anything we had made. After reading this book, I have stopped mocking true UFO believers. Their case really isn't as shoddy as it seems.
I've read about this before, and I forget the details, but yeah, it's not actually space proper. It's really the smell of the space station. Something about the ionization of the metal walls when exposed to radiation, and there's no atmosphere to dissipate the charge into. Or something.
For what it's worth, I look forward to these disagree mails. Low brow? That's one way to see it. But on another level, I find it a useful reminder, especially in a fairly-like-minded community like this, that much of the world thinks far differently than I do.
And one thing that never gets discussed is what he claims he found. Which is modest enough (despite all the hours he put into the search) to sound almost plausible, and weird enough to be interesting: two folders of identically titled satellite photos, one folder of which was titled "unretouched". And a spreadsheet of names and ranks titled "non-terrestrial officers."
interview is long and the interviewer is an annoying UFO over-enthusiast, but Gary is actually pretty articulate and compelling. It's here if you're interested.
Here's an opinion to add to your dissenting column:
The Baroque Cycle is brilliant. Well worth the read. The philosophical argument that the differences between Leibnitz's worldview and Newton's still infect the discourse of modern american politics and religious thought - that alone is brilliant enough to make it worthwhile. On top of that, it's also damn fun.
You have to assume that Crispin Porter (their new agency) is well aware of that, and plans to use it to their advantage. They have a reputation in the ad business of being the hippest of the the hip ad shops.
There was another guy that was doing a similar study about a year ago. He made a big deal about how he was going to keep a journal and post them on McSweeneys.net. He started out really excited, and then day by day, the posts got more and more terse and depressing. Until finally they just stopped. Only two weeks in. Never heard how that turned out. But it was enough to convince me to never, ever volunteer for a study like that.
I contend there is. In terms of eyewitness accounts of otherworldly craft, there are 70,000 claims each year. This is circumstantial evidence, true, but it's the single greatest mound of circumstantial evidence ever compiled. According to the head of Project Blue Book in the early 50's, 20 percent of the cases they investigated were genuinely inexplicable, and they threw everything they could at those cases to discredit them. Even considering only a small percentage of 70,000 sightings a year, you're left with a tidal wave of eyewitness accounts.
On top of that, there are countless videos of craft people have taken over the years. Let's go ahead and discredit everything after 1970, when video manipulation technology became available. The remaining stuff, most of the best shot in the 50's (strong exception given for George whats-his-face's fake shots of a chicken incubator), is not impressive from a modern perspective, but when you consider the difficulty of faking film back them is strong evidence indeed. My 3 cents.
I think it's somewhere between 20 to 100 lightyears away. I forget the exact number, but 100 light years is about the max distance this particular planetary location technique works at the moment.
Regardless, even a lightyear isn't reachable within our lifetimes, even at the highest speed we've ever sent anything. The Voyager crafts have been traveling for decades and are only a few light HOURS away.
Yeah, same Gliese 581c as last year. I saw that it was the Gliese 581 system again, and was impressed that it was producing TWO earth-like planets in the habitable zone. But if that were the case, it would have been named 581d, not c. C is old news.
Shouldn't you also be launching a concurrent cultural/political movement to alter certain social conventions, so that when we finally achieve 1000 year life spans we aren't also doomed to, say, 1000 year marriages?
Actually, read the book by the head of Project Blue Book, Edward J. Ruppelt, "The Report on Flying Saucers", available free online, here. You'll come away with a very different picture.
This book is a shockingly candid and measured look at the UFO evidence through the 1950's, doesn't engage in speculation and is very much worth a read.
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This is more of a media event than a true major discovery. All orchestrated by the History Channel.
See this article.
Spaniards don't eat dinner till 11PM at the earliest, and don't generally wrap up the day till 2AM. I would imagine cocaine is pretty much a necessity to survive in that culture.
IANAPP, but It's not really a hole, as far as I understand it. It's also not technically a "particle". It's really just a configuration that certain quarks can combine in, which no one expected. Which, granted, is a particle in the way a proton or neutron is a particle. But it's not truly fundamental.
If you want an AI to make human like mistakes, you have to have at least a roughly human cognitive model. The simplest way to do this, it seems to me, is to give the AI competing goals. Rather than just have the AI "try to win", and then cripple its ability to do that effectively, you could give it multiple goals to strive toward, and then give it some degree of randomness in which goal it chooses to pursue. Victory vs. pain-avoidance, attack vs. finding time to recover, etc.
And before that people assumed Jeff Buckley wrote it.
The baffled king determined to carry on a joke well past the breaking point.
I'd recommend reading the book by the Air Force's first head of project blue book, Edward J. Ruppelt, before you make such general claims. It's available free online, here, and it's a refreshingly candid look at the sighting reports from the early 50's. He makes it very clear that he had access to all the pentagon experts and that a surprising percentage of cases were clearly not anything we had made. After reading this book, I have stopped mocking true UFO believers. Their case really isn't as shoddy as it seems.
I've read about this before, and I forget the details, but yeah, it's not actually space proper. It's really the smell of the space station. Something about the ionization of the metal walls when exposed to radiation, and there's no atmosphere to dissipate the charge into. Or something.
It has a lens now. Although not originally. NASA had to add a lens element to correct for the mirror aberration.
Don't shortchange your life, man. That was a 90 second ad.
For what it's worth, I look forward to these disagree mails. Low brow? That's one way to see it. But on another level, I find it a useful reminder, especially in a fairly-like-minded community like this, that much of the world thinks far differently than I do.
And one thing that never gets discussed is what he claims he found. Which is modest enough (despite all the hours he put into the search) to sound almost plausible, and weird enough to be interesting: two folders of identically titled satellite photos, one folder of which was titled "unretouched". And a spreadsheet of names and ranks titled "non-terrestrial officers."
interview is long and the interviewer is an annoying UFO over-enthusiast, but Gary is actually pretty articulate and compelling. It's
here if you're interested.
Here's an opinion to add to your dissenting column:
The Baroque Cycle is brilliant. Well worth the read. The philosophical argument that the differences between Leibnitz's worldview and Newton's still infect the discourse of modern american politics and religious thought - that alone is brilliant enough to make it worthwhile. On top of that, it's also damn fun.
You have to assume that Crispin Porter (their new agency) is well aware of that, and plans to use it to their advantage. They have a reputation in the ad business of being the hippest of the the hip ad shops.
There was another guy that was doing a similar study about a year ago. He made a big deal about how he was going to keep a journal and post them on McSweeneys.net. He started out really excited, and then day by day, the posts got more and more terse and depressing. Until finally they just stopped. Only two weeks in. Never heard how that turned out. But it was enough to convince me to never, ever volunteer for a study like that.
oops. Meant Gordon Cooper.
I contend there is. In terms of eyewitness accounts of otherworldly craft, there are 70,000 claims each year. This is circumstantial evidence, true, but it's the single greatest mound of circumstantial evidence ever compiled. According to the head of Project Blue Book in the early 50's, 20 percent of the cases they investigated were genuinely inexplicable, and they threw everything they could at those cases to discredit them. Even considering only a small percentage of 70,000 sightings a year, you're left with a tidal wave of eyewitness accounts.
On top of that, there are countless videos of craft people have taken over the years. Let's go ahead and discredit everything after 1970, when video manipulation technology became available. The remaining stuff, most of the best shot in the 50's (strong exception given for George whats-his-face's fake shots of a chicken incubator), is not impressive from a modern perspective, but when you consider the difficulty of faking film back them is strong evidence indeed. My 3 cents.
No, that was Gordon Howe, the first astronaut to make these claims. Dr. Mitchell's claims are new.
I think it's somewhere between 20 to 100 lightyears away. I forget the exact number, but 100 light years is about the max distance this particular planetary location technique works at the moment.
Regardless, even a lightyear isn't reachable within our lifetimes, even at the highest speed we've ever sent anything. The Voyager crafts have been traveling for decades and are only a few light HOURS away.
Yeah, same Gliese 581c as last year. I saw that it was the Gliese 581 system again, and was impressed that it was producing TWO earth-like planets in the habitable zone. But if that were the case, it would have been named 581d, not c. C is old news.
I think we're moving towards a good, solid, German Equatorial Mount for each one of these things.
Shouldn't you also be launching a concurrent cultural/political movement to alter certain social conventions, so that when we finally achieve 1000 year life spans we aren't also doomed to, say, 1000 year marriages?
Oops. It's called "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects." Link is good, though.
Actually, read the book by the head of Project Blue Book, Edward J. Ruppelt, "The Report on Flying Saucers", available free online, here. You'll come away with a very different picture.
This book is a shockingly candid and measured look at the UFO evidence through the 1950's, doesn't engage in speculation and is very much worth a read.
I submit to you:
The Godfather, Part 3.
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