Sure, we should not be putting up barriers to girls, but we should not paint engineering pink to attract more girls. Here in New Zealand there has been a slow shift in medicine from males to females. New Zealand now graduates more female medical doctors than male.
Sure, all science is theory. However, some science is very robust and some is highly speculative so saying "all science is just theory" is very misleading.
Newtonian physics etc is very robust until you deal with very small particles or very high speeds. Einstein's stuff helps extend that. Same deal with electricity. Most of this has been fairly stable for many years.
Paleontology, climatology and geomorphology are all a lot more speculative and we can expect many of these theories to continue to change fairly rapidly as they have over the last few years.
German: An interesting thing about German is that most phroases are a lot longer than other languages. An old trick for keeping software translatable is to ensure that Gernam text will fit in the menus etc. If German fits then you will probably be OK for most others.
Some languages are not worth learning for their utility but have some very interesting constructs. The Nguni languages of Southern Africa: Zulu, Xhosa etc have a very logical structure. These would be the ideal languages for computer language recognition.... if they had a larger user base, especially geeks.
Jeez: perchlorate causes thyroid problems.... Well don't eat the firework and don't inhale the gases.
How about **watching** the fireworks instead? Yeah I know that's an outlandish idea, but try it some time... you see all these pretty patterns!
Compared to all the tailpipe emissions of people driving to the firework display, the chemicals used on the lawns they are sitting on, the peroxide the "blonds" all used to bleach their hair etc etc, the chemicals in the actual fireworks are insignificant.
When you look back at it, it is hard to believe that the people in the 1900s were so short sighted and selfish; leaving their children and grandchildren with a vacuum deficiency. Luckily out generation if far more thoughtful and won't mess up the planet for our kids!
This is why it works so well. This is a security model that anyone can understand and implement. Firewalls, NAT and other alphabet soup is just too much for many/most people to handle. And if they do get botted they get annoyed by the thing interfering with the phone so they have to do something about it.... like fix the problem or unplug.
For many, dialup does what they want. email, low bandwidth browsing etc. Low-tech folk. These are the people that would be most prone to getting botted if they had broadband.
Dialup just does not support botting, so it is better to leave them on dialup.
In winter I open curtains in the day to let the heat in and close them at night. That way I get 100% of the energy into the house. With PV curtains you'd get 10% if you're lucky.
Sure, you need to reqwrite code, but you need to do that anyway to get massive parallelism. As least occam provides the parallelism at a language level.
In any analog system without hysteresis, and thus many digital systems too, you go through an unknown state as you transition from low to high.
IIRC, which I probably don't, quantum computing's indeterminate state is a bit more than just "unknown". It allows the calculation to be done with essentially "wildcard bits" that, when resolved magically give us the answer. THis essentially allows multiple parallel calculations. Unknown does not give us that.
It all depends on what you are doing and what is most valuable: the device or the data.
For many field professionals, the data they have collected in a day is worth many times the cost of the device. Data is king. Then you want something tough. eg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiZGLUQc1JM
However if you just want a network connected device that does not have very precious data then it often makes more sense to just buy a consumer device and replace it if it fails.
This is not really AI. Basically it is iteratively trying a bunch of compiler options to see which gives the best result, then storing those for the future.
Greenhills software has provided tools that do this, and more, for many years now. Drop some code, or your project, into the optimizer, setting what critera you want to optimise for (speed, size,...) and the optimiser will successively build and test the project on a simulator and find the best configuration. This is great form embedded systems where there is often a trade off and typical criteria would be (give me the fastest code that fits in the flash).
Genetic algorithms could take this a step further and very interesting work has been done to get GA to design antennas.
By what criteria? If low cost is a very significant criterion for netbooks, then the expensive one will never be "best". Thats like saying a Hummer is the biggest compact vehicle.
How long before I get emails from my so-called star saying:"I've been captured by a bunch of NASA thugs wearing white coats and black spectacles. OMG they want to delete my itunes library I don't give then $10,000!!!!Please send $10,0000 to....
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Yup, lotsa hits!
Isn't it better to just use Mysql?
Sure, we should not be putting up barriers to girls, but we should not paint engineering pink to attract more girls. Here in New Zealand there has been a slow shift in medicine from males to females. New Zealand now graduates more female medical doctors than male.
Hey Mr journalist with an English major. Leave the thinking to someone who understands basic stuff like gravity, energy etc.
The boy chimp is posing as an artist to get the girl chimp to take her kit off.
Newtonian physics etc is very robust until you deal with very small particles or very high speeds. Einstein's stuff helps extend that. Same deal with electricity. Most of this has been fairly stable for many years.
Paleontology, climatology and geomorphology are all a lot more speculative and we can expect many of these theories to continue to change fairly rapidly as they have over the last few years.
Some languages are not worth learning for their utility but have some very interesting constructs. The Nguni languages of Southern Africa: Zulu, Xhosa etc have a very logical structure. These would be the ideal languages for computer language recognition.... if they had a larger user base, especially geeks.
How about **watching** the fireworks instead? Yeah I know that's an outlandish idea, but try it some time... you see all these pretty patterns!
Compared to all the tailpipe emissions of people driving to the firework display, the chemicals used on the lawns they are sitting on, the peroxide the "blonds" all used to bleach their hair etc etc, the chemicals in the actual fireworks are insignificant.
When you look back at it, it is hard to believe that the people in the 1900s were so short sighted and selfish; leaving their children and grandchildren with a vacuum deficiency. Luckily out generation if far more thoughtful and won't mess up the planet for our kids!
By well titted cocktail waitresses handing out free drinks.
.... and the answer is yes.
This is why it works so well. This is a security model that anyone can understand and implement. Firewalls, NAT and other alphabet soup is just too much for many/most people to handle. And if they do get botted they get annoyed by the thing interfering with the phone so they have to do something about it.... like fix the problem or unplug.
Dialup just does not support botting, so it is better to leave them on dialup.
I don't want to piss on a good idea, but powerful technologies can be bent to cause problems too.
In winter I open curtains in the day to let the heat in and close them at night. That way I get 100% of the energy into the house. With PV curtains you'd get 10% if you're lucky.
Sure, you need to reqwrite code, but you need to do that anyway to get massive parallelism. As least occam provides the parallelism at a language level.
It does machine learning. It remembers which web sites I visit the most and suggests those.
In any analog system without hysteresis, and thus many digital systems too, you go through an unknown state as you transition from low to high.
IIRC, which I probably don't, quantum computing's indeterminate state is a bit more than just "unknown". It allows the calculation to be done with essentially "wildcard bits" that, when resolved magically give us the answer. THis essentially allows multiple parallel calculations. Unknown does not give us that.
For many field professionals, the data they have collected in a day is worth many times the cost of the device. Data is king. Then you want something tough. eg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiZGLUQc1JM
However if you just want a network connected device that does not have very precious data then it often makes more sense to just buy a consumer device and replace it if it fails.
This is not really AI. Basically it is iteratively trying a bunch of compiler options to see which gives the best result, then storing those for the future.
Greenhills software has provided tools that do this, and more, for many years now. Drop some code, or your project, into the optimizer, setting what critera you want to optimise for (speed, size,...) and the optimiser will successively build and test the project on a simulator and find the best configuration. This is great form embedded systems where there is often a trade off and typical criteria would be (give me the fastest code that fits in the flash).
Genetic algorithms could take this a step further and very interesting work has been done to get GA to design antennas.
By what criteria? If low cost is a very significant criterion for netbooks, then the expensive one will never be "best". Thats like saying a Hummer is the biggest compact vehicle.
Yeah, sorry I meant EPA but for all the good they do they might as well send in the DEA to to the investigations.
Anyone motivated enough to get the DEA to do anything will be keen to do some regulating. Getting the DEA to do an investigation is just a formality.
Somewhere near zero on the keypad.
How long before I get emails from my so-called star saying:"I've been captured by a bunch of NASA thugs wearing white coats and black spectacles. OMG they want to delete my itunes library I don't give then $10,000!!!!Please send $10,0000 to....