Well they've semi-released Research Cyc, on an invitation basis only for now. And having worked as an intern there, I can tell you it's comparable to Cyc itself in size and complexity.
This is good news to all those who aspire to emigrate to the "West" from the third world via university admissions (you know, the F1, H1, GC route).
Ah of course, because us third worlder's would rather travel half way across the world, forsaking family and friends, to obtain the education and professionaly opportunities from the west we would never have otherwise; rather than staying around to get it on our our own countries if that were possible.
BTW, happy "Apping".
Thanks but I've already got into one your "prestigous" universities, and with my other third world cohorts, we're eating away at it from the
inside.
let the code monkeys in India have it, anyone can write code, but they will still need a good software engineer to develop a piece of quality software.:-)
...Which of course only the geeky supersmart yanks can do, am i right? go ahead, say it.
I'm a PhD student at the University of Illinois. I do research in AI and automated reasoning.
Currently my research involves text adventures. My advisor and I believe that text adventure games could serve as an excellent testbed for research in intelligent agent behaviour cause they model a number of real-world challenges, like partially observable world states, incompletely specified goals, and the need for common-sense reasoning and belief revision. Here
is his paper on the subject.
I'm currently working on doing
Logical Filtering in an adventure game, which is a way to maintain a sort of belief about the current state of your world depending on your prior knowledge and observations. Somewhat like filtering in a Hidden Markov model.
Some people at Saarland University, Germany, are also doing great work on description logics in adventure games. A description logic is like a language where you express concepts and the relations between them so that inferring properties is very easy.
It would be great to get some feedback and suggestions from the IF community about what they think about this. Is there any really cool idea you've had about what more could be done with adventure games? I mean many games have some standard stuff like inventories, containers etc. Is there something fundamentally different you've ever thought of doing. Something which involves creative and complex relationships between entities in an adventure games is what we're looking for.
Thanks.
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huh. the guy who initiated and led the Blue Gene project in the beginning was Marc Snir. But then I believe some major fallout happened and it underwent major technical and managerial changes. oh well.
also did not refer even to tech, specifically, limiting my text basically to the sort of sweatshop labor US companies use in Central America, parts of Africa (more Western Europe for that one), and a few former-Soviet countries. Yes, I mentioned Union Carbide with Bhopal in mind, but would you honestly say that all of India does as well as the engineers in the cities?
good point. I was refering only to tech in reference to this article. and bhopal brings up another point - stories i heard about how multinationals would dispose of their toxic chemicals in the african countryside taking advantage of lax government regulations. That sort of thing is evil whichever 'side' you're on.
Unfortunately, your government (unlike my own, which grants H1b's at the drop of a hat) won't let me follow my job to your country, where I too might live well on a thousand or so per month. In the US, a thousand barely pays rent on a crappy apartment (and in the major cities, it doesn't even come close to rent).
granted that is unfair. unfortunately, following your job here wouldnt help you much either. yes you might live well here, but at some point you'd want to go back to the US, and your savings wont be much then. You do plan to save dont you?:-)
So yes, I sincerely feel "good" that a quarter of my previous salary makes you able to live comfortably. I'd gladly take the remainder, though, making both of us able to live comfortably. That I consider a fair compromise, rather than you working for what a US employer laughs at you for accepting, while an American worker (myself included) remains unemployed.
A fair deal, but how are we to get it working that way? Ultimately it's the greed of the companies and the managers involved that decide these things. Maybe the govt. could step in and make some sort of legislation, that if a company moves more than a certain percentage of its jobs offshore, it looses the privelege of being a registered US company. That might help and be a fair deal for offshore workers as well.
I fully support raising the world-wide standard of living. Paying someone less than their food costs them (regardless of physical location) does not accomplish that.
As an Indian in the IT industry I resent your charecterisation of us as starving slave labour. You just compare our salaries on an exchange rate basis without factoring purchasing power parity and then say that we're being made to work for a pittance. Well guess what? A thousand dollars a month is a very comfortable salary in India.
You're just desperately trying to find some excuse so you can oppose outsourcing "in principle" when all you're really worried about is your job.
I feel sorry for people in the US hit by outsourcing and the job crunch. But it's hard to feel bad about it seeing the good things it has done in my country, giving it a chance to come out of its poverty and maybe into some kind of economic parity with the first world.
"That's a new way of making money. But only short term. We bought the cartridge because we needed the printer to work". But, he added, after he reported this to his boss, the firm has decided to buy Lexmark printers in the future.
Which pretty much shows you where greedy short-sighted "they're just stupid customers" corporate America is headed.
Here's a question..
Suppose i download this thingummy and run it and jackpot, a miracle cure for SARS unrolls in front of my eyes. Do I have any sort of intellectual property rights over my discovery? And do I have the right to prevent the distributed software Im running from connecting back to the server and giving them the good news?
Does this mean I might win the Nobel Prize???
Not that I'm going to do anything like that. Just wondering if the guys behind the thing have thought through the legal issues.
Many studies have shown that people subtly discriminate against members of an 'outgroup', even if the basis for group membership is something trivial
Thank you for your valuable insights, Professor Plaks. And now, Professor Schmidt will tell us why
25 year old males are attracted to women of their age group.
Bob Taylor headed the labs at PARC in those days. They say that at its height he had 76 of the top 100 computers people in the country working for him. His management technique was simple: Just bring a lot of brilliant people together and give them enough money and time to carry out whatever research they wanted. and they came up with the mouse, bitmapped screens and the ethernet cable. Douglas Englebart worked there and was(is) one of the great unsung heros of the multimedia revolution.
Irrelevant trivia : Palo Alto means "tall pole" in spanish.
With so much information passing through Government data banks, a major problem that's gonna crop up sooner or later is how to sift through the junk and get to the significant data. I mean hey, if they're just going to be anal retentives and spend all day keeping track of people's sexual preferences, they're going to miss out on the juicy stuff (like who's been buying nitroglycerine by the quart.)
So, maybe the sheer volume of information they get is going to insure us our privacy in the short term.
If this sort of thing continue's, look out for data mining becoming the next big thing 2 years from now.
Now I see why you're confused. You're thinking of the infinite prime number proof.
See there we assume that there are a finite number of primes and we multiply all of them to get X.
Now that there are no more primes, there cant be a factor for X+1. This leads to a contradiction and blah blah blah....
Now we know there's always another prime. So X+1 might possibly have a factor.
QED
X+1 wouldnt be divisble by any the primes you used, but it could be divisible by some other prime greater than the highest prime you used but still lesser than X. In fact i think one of the other replies had a counter-example.
Did I say factor? I meant multiple.
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before the internet says elton john is destroying music?
OMG !! It's Gordon Freeman !!
Well they've semi-released Research Cyc, on an invitation basis only for now. And having worked as an intern there, I can tell you it's comparable to Cyc itself in size and complexity.
In my rhetoric class, that would have been called argument by bad analogy.
Arafat is dying.
This is good news to all those who aspire to emigrate to the "West" from the third world via university admissions (you know, the F1, H1, GC route). Ah of course, because us third worlder's would rather travel half way across the world, forsaking family and friends, to obtain the education and professionaly opportunities from the west we would never have otherwise; rather than staying around to get it on our our own countries if that were possible. BTW, happy "Apping". Thanks but I've already got into one your "prestigous" universities, and with my other third world cohorts, we're eating away at it from the inside.
And why is this good news exactly?
You mean it raises the question. To beg the question means to assume that what you are trying to prove is already true.
Currently my research involves text adventures. My advisor and I believe that text adventure games could serve as an excellent testbed for research in intelligent agent behaviour cause they model a number of real-world challenges, like partially observable world states, incompletely specified goals, and the need for common-sense reasoning and belief revision. Here is his paper on the subject.
I'm currently working on doing Logical Filtering in an adventure game, which is a way to maintain a sort of belief about the current state of your world depending on your prior knowledge and observations. Somewhat like filtering in a Hidden Markov model.
Some people at Saarland University, Germany, are also doing great work on description logics in adventure games. A description logic is like a language where you express concepts and the relations between them so that inferring properties is very easy.
It would be great to get some feedback and suggestions from the IF community about what they think about this. Is there any really cool idea you've had about what more could be done with adventure games? I mean many games have some standard stuff like inventories, containers etc. Is there something fundamentally different you've ever thought of doing. Something which involves creative and complex relationships between entities in an adventure games is what we're looking for. Thanks.
yes, but does it run linux?
C'mon. In a review article, any post with this much spoiler in it shouldn't be modded up.
How about the first mate's ?
huh. the guy who initiated and led the Blue Gene project in the beginning was Marc Snir. But then I believe some major fallout happened and it underwent major technical and managerial changes. oh well.
good point. I was refering only to tech in reference to this article. and bhopal brings up another point - stories i heard about how multinationals would dispose of their toxic chemicals in the african countryside taking advantage of lax government regulations. That sort of thing is evil whichever 'side' you're on.
Unfortunately, your government (unlike my own, which grants H1b's at the drop of a hat) won't let me follow my job to your country, where I too might live well on a thousand or so per month. In the US, a thousand barely pays rent on a crappy apartment (and in the major cities, it doesn't even come close to rent).
granted that is unfair. unfortunately, following your job here wouldnt help you much either. yes you might live well here, but at some point you'd want to go back to the US, and your savings wont be much then. You do plan to save dont you? :-)
So yes, I sincerely feel "good" that a quarter of my previous salary makes you able to live comfortably. I'd gladly take the remainder, though, making both of us able to live comfortably. That I consider a fair compromise, rather than you working for what a US employer laughs at you for accepting, while an American worker (myself included) remains unemployed.
A fair deal, but how are we to get it working that way? Ultimately it's the greed of the companies and the managers involved that decide these things. Maybe the govt. could step in and make some sort of legislation, that if a company moves more than a certain percentage of its jobs offshore, it looses the privelege of being a registered US company. That might help and be a fair deal for offshore workers as well.
As an Indian in the IT industry I resent your charecterisation of us as starving slave labour. You just compare our salaries on an exchange rate basis without factoring purchasing power parity and then say that we're being made to work for a pittance. Well guess what? A thousand dollars a month is a very comfortable salary in India.
You're just desperately trying to find some excuse so you can oppose outsourcing "in principle" when all you're really worried about is your job.
I feel sorry for people in the US hit by outsourcing and the job crunch. But it's hard to feel bad about it seeing the good things it has done in my country, giving it a chance to come out of its poverty and maybe into some kind of economic parity with the first world.
yes, and this is what they call an observer selection effect. read all about it here.
"That's a new way of making money. But only short term. We bought the cartridge because we needed the printer to work". But, he added, after he reported this to his boss, the firm has decided to buy Lexmark printers in the future.
Which pretty much shows you where greedy short-sighted "they're just stupid customers" corporate America is headed.
Here's a question.. Suppose i download this thingummy and run it and jackpot, a miracle cure for SARS unrolls in front of my eyes. Do I have any sort of intellectual property rights over my discovery? And do I have the right to prevent the distributed software Im running from connecting back to the server and giving them the good news?
Does this mean I might win the Nobel Prize???
Not that I'm going to do anything like that. Just wondering if the guys behind the thing have thought through the legal issues.
And if the slimey toad who modded you down couldnt tell the difference between passion and flamebait, he can go suck ostrich eggs
Many studies have shown that people subtly discriminate against members of an 'outgroup', even if the basis for group membership is something trivial
Thank you for your valuable insights, Professor Plaks. And now, Professor Schmidt will tell us why 25 year old males are attracted to women of their age group.
Bob Taylor headed the labs at PARC in those days. They say that at its height he had 76 of the top 100 computers people in the country working for him. His management technique was simple: Just bring a lot of brilliant people together and give them enough money and time to carry out whatever research they wanted. and they came up with the mouse, bitmapped screens and the ethernet cable. Douglas Englebart worked there and was(is) one of the great unsung heros of the multimedia revolution.
Irrelevant trivia : Palo Alto means "tall pole" in spanish.
With so much information passing through Government data banks, a major problem that's gonna crop up sooner or later is how to sift through the junk and get to the significant data. I mean hey, if they're just going to be anal retentives and spend all day keeping track of people's sexual preferences, they're going to miss out on the juicy stuff (like who's been buying nitroglycerine by the quart.) So, maybe the sheer volume of information they get is going to insure us our privacy in the short term. If this sort of thing continue's, look out for data mining becoming the next big thing 2 years from now.
Now I see why you're confused. You're thinking of the infinite prime number proof. See there we assume that there are a finite number of primes and we multiply all of them to get X. Now that there are no more primes, there cant be a factor for X+1. This leads to a contradiction and blah blah blah.... Now we know there's always another prime. So X+1 might possibly have a factor. QED
X+1 wouldnt be divisble by any the primes you used, but it could be divisible by some other prime greater than the highest prime you used but still lesser than X. In fact i think one of the other replies had a counter-example.
Did I say factor? I meant multiple.