Don't forget the high UV levels due to no ozone layer and the soil stuffed full of highly oxidising perchlorates that would quickly destroy any known cell. But apart from all that , yes, mars is identical to the atacama desert.
"You don't get to decree yourself outside of the authority of a government, it simply doesn't work that way."
I was just stating a fact. Feel free to enlighten us on how anonymous transactions across secured p2p links can be traced by a government tax office - remember, this isn't GCHQ or the CIA we're talking about here who might be able to do that, but Joe Smith working in a local tax office.
... *quite* understand how a distributed cryptocurrency system works. The whole point of it is that it CAN'T be centrally regulated. Beaurocrats and politicians should really attempt to educate themselves about a subject before pontificating about it.
We have a pretty good idea of how neurons work and behave individually and also some brain components are understood up to a point - eg visual system which has allowed some pretty good advances in artificial neural networks. However how individual systems in the brain link up and produce a conciousness - the ghost in the machine - is still frankly anyones guess. There are lots of idea but nobody really has a clue yet.
I've never yet worked at any company that developed on github. Most tend not to want to give away their source code. Perhaps its time for you to get a job in the real world.
Its a shame there isn't an IT equivalent of rottentomatoes.com because then poetterring would have his own special section, starting with the dogs dinner known as pulse audio and ending with the worse re-implementation of init the unix world has ever seen.
I used to develop open source up until a few years back and when I wanted to release something I just stuck a tgz file on my web site. Why do I need something like github? I'll do version control and source management on my own machine with appropriate backups, why on earth would I want to do it on a cloud system? Its extra hassle for zero gain as far as the development process goes as far as I can see.
"AI right now is nothing more than a new type of index search."
Not sure what gave you that idea.
"Where instead of building a tree first the system customizes the tree before searching"
Depends on the algorithm being used. There are many difference types, some are neural nets, others are mathematics based doing massive statistical analysis and prediction.
"Show me true AI that is self learning"
There are already self training AIs. Google it (spot the irony).
"Even ai in video games"
Hardly a cutting edge example of AI. Most games "AI" is just hard coded if-thens.
"A basic feedback loop would at least help point it correctly."
No shit, why didn't they think of that?? Oh wait, they did, its called back propagation and was invented in the 1960s.
"I have no idea how we'll all adjust but we're clever and motivated. I'm hopeful that 7 billion minds can figure something out."
I'm sure they thought something similar back in the day when agricultural machinery started replacing workers on the farms and whole families starved because they had no income or had to go and live in slum conditions in newly industrialised cities. But hey, for the farm and factory owners - win! What did they care.
" Why the hell would they even bother to CGI that, you ask? "
I think a better question to ask is why anyone over the age of 15 goes to watch this sort of cookie cutter content free derivative crap with people in silly costumes doing not even suspension of disbelief believable stuff in the first place.
Don't get me wrong, this isn't a get off my lawn rant, I love action films as much as the next guy, but the utter dross that are the "stories" from comics (no, they're NOT "graphic" novels, they're comics - for kids) don't deserve to be on daytime kids TV, never mind $100M+ spent on them per film.
... the white knights here, saving us from big nasty MS and its bugs. As if android and chrome are bug free, yeah right. Oh, and chrome also requires (on linux, don't know about other OS's) a sandbox process running with root privs. Hows that for a potential exploit - a browser component that requires root. Nice design google! But hey, I'm sure your sandbox code is 100% bug free, right?
For good or bad, most people know where MS & Google are coming from and (windows 8 jokes aside) know they wouldn't deliberately put malicious code in their software. Some anonymous chinese company no one has ever heard off which could easily be yet another chinese government front is a whole other kettle of stinking fish.
... with its zero diversity massive moncultures covered in pesticides and incectides that eventually wash into rivers and poison the ecology there too.
You can make a case for veganism and animal welfare, but don't even attempt to make out its any more enviromentally sound overall. In fact when you consider sheep can graze on hill land that cannot be farmed for crops its probably a lot worse. Oh , and man made microfibres from man made clothing are currently pollution the oceans. But I guess you'd have a problem with wool too.
In 2018? Apples quality control really is on the slide.
Either it can't process the utf8 code or its crashing when it doesn't have the font installed. Either way, these were solved problems 30 years ago, never mind now.
It would be nice to think that, but we have enough trouble decoding stuff written in unknown languages by ancient humans and they thought it the same way and had the same concepts about the world as us. I suspect trying to decode something sent by aliens would be orders of magnitude harder.
I agree about cryptocurrency, but I fail to understand why you think that discovering signs of aliens would be no use to humanity. Sure, its not going to affect you on a day to day basic, but it means life has arisen elsewhere and this in turn will influence scientific thoughts about biology and its origins. A lot of science is blue sky research that may lead nowhere, that doesn't make it pointless.
Roads receive "investment", public transport (including rail) receives "subsidy". As if a layer of tarmac is somehow going to earn money on its own if only enough were spent on it.
Politicians love to play these verbal sleights of hand to fool the stupid and unfortunately it works a lot of the time.
... reads "atomic" and starts River Dance style knee jerking and protests against it. Until one of his compatriots who was assigned the working braincell for the day points out his mistake to him.
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Its built entirely on emotion.
The levels are trace compared to those on mars.
Don't forget the high UV levels due to no ozone layer and the soil stuffed full of highly oxidising perchlorates that would quickly destroy any known cell. But apart from all that , yes, mars is identical to the atacama desert.
"You don't get to decree yourself outside of the authority of a government, it simply doesn't work that way."
I was just stating a fact. Feel free to enlighten us on how anonymous transactions across secured p2p links can be traced by a government tax office - remember, this isn't GCHQ or the CIA we're talking about here who might be able to do that, but Joe Smith working in a local tax office.
... *quite* understand how a distributed cryptocurrency system works. The whole point of it is that it CAN'T be centrally regulated. Beaurocrats and politicians should really attempt to educate themselves about a subject before pontificating about it.
Looks like the giant dispenser that aliens built that we call Io might have done its job at last.
We have a pretty good idea of how neurons work and behave individually and also some brain components are understood up to a point - eg visual system which has allowed some pretty good advances in artificial neural networks. However how individual systems in the brain link up and produce a conciousness - the ghost in the machine - is still frankly anyones guess. There are lots of idea but nobody really has a clue yet.
I've never yet worked at any company that developed on github. Most tend not to want to give away their source code. Perhaps its time for you to get a job in the real world.
I don't, the code wasn't a collaberative effort. If there are bugs then there's this novel thing called email people can use to report them.
Its a shame there isn't an IT equivalent of rottentomatoes.com because then poetterring would have his own special section, starting with the dogs dinner known as pulse audio and ending with the worse re-implementation of init the unix world has ever seen.
I used to develop open source up until a few years back and when I wanted to release something I just stuck a tgz file on my web site. Why do I need something like github? I'll do version control and source management on my own machine with appropriate backups, why on earth would I want to do it on a cloud system? Its extra hassle for zero gain as far as the development process goes as far as I can see.
"AI right now is nothing more than a new type of index search."
Not sure what gave you that idea.
"Where instead of building a tree first the system customizes the tree before searching"
Depends on the algorithm being used. There are many difference types, some are neural nets, others are mathematics based doing massive statistical analysis and prediction.
"Show me true AI that is self learning"
There are already self training AIs. Google it (spot the irony).
"Even ai in video games"
Hardly a cutting edge example of AI. Most games "AI" is just hard coded if-thens.
"A basic feedback loop would at least help point it correctly."
No shit, why didn't they think of that?? Oh wait, they did, its called back propagation and was invented in the 1960s.
You might want to get a clue before posting.
"I have no idea how we'll all adjust but we're clever and motivated. I'm hopeful that 7 billion minds can figure something out."
I'm sure they thought something similar back in the day when agricultural machinery started replacing workers on the farms and whole families starved because they had no income or had to go and live in slum conditions in newly industrialised cities. But hey, for the farm and factory owners - win! What did they care.
No, it has to do with me being an adult and no longer finding kids stuff interesting or amusing.
Scooby Doo is fun. For 5 minutes. Then it quickly becomes tedious, then boring then just plain annoying. Ditto most comic book films.
" Why the hell would they even bother to CGI that, you ask? "
I think a better question to ask is why anyone over the age of 15 goes to watch this sort of cookie cutter content free derivative crap with people in silly costumes doing not even suspension of disbelief believable stuff in the first place.
Don't get me wrong, this isn't a get off my lawn rant, I love action films as much as the next guy, but the utter dross that are the "stories" from comics (no, they're NOT "graphic" novels, they're comics - for kids) don't deserve to be on daytime kids TV, never mind $100M+ spent on them per film.
... the white knights here, saving us from big nasty MS and its bugs. As if android and chrome are bug free, yeah right. Oh, and chrome also requires (on linux, don't know about other OS's) a sandbox process running with root privs. Hows that for a potential exploit - a browser component that requires root. Nice design google! But hey, I'm sure your sandbox code is 100% bug free, right?
For good or bad, most people know where MS & Google are coming from and (windows 8 jokes aside) know they wouldn't deliberately put malicious code in their software. Some anonymous chinese company no one has ever heard off which could easily be yet another chinese government front is a whole other kettle of stinking fish.
... with its zero diversity massive moncultures covered in pesticides and incectides that eventually wash into rivers and poison the ecology there too.
You can make a case for veganism and animal welfare, but don't even attempt to make out its any more enviromentally sound overall. In fact when you consider sheep can graze on hill land that cannot be farmed for crops its probably a lot worse. Oh , and man made microfibres from man made clothing are currently pollution the oceans. But I guess you'd have a problem with wool too.
You do sanity checks on values you're presenting to the display layer.
In 2018? Apples quality control really is on the slide.
Either it can't process the utf8 code or its crashing when it doesn't have the font installed. Either way, these were solved problems 30 years ago, never mind now.
It would be nice to think that, but we have enough trouble decoding stuff written in unknown languages by ancient humans and they thought it the same way and had the same concepts about the world as us. I suspect trying to decode something sent by aliens would be orders of magnitude harder.
I agree about cryptocurrency, but I fail to understand why you think that discovering signs of aliens would be no use to humanity. Sure, its not going to affect you on a day to day basic, but it means life has arisen elsewhere and this in turn will influence scientific thoughts about biology and its origins. A lot of science is blue sky research that may lead nowhere, that doesn't make it pointless.
Roads receive "investment", public transport (including rail) receives "subsidy". As if a layer of tarmac is somehow going to earn money on its own if only enough were spent on it.
Politicians love to play these verbal sleights of hand to fool the stupid and unfortunately it works a lot of the time.
... reads "atomic" and starts River Dance style knee jerking and protests against it. Until one of his compatriots who was assigned the working braincell for the day points out his mistake to him.