Even insects appear to get bored so any sufficiently complex neural net may well exhibit similar properties. If you want a mindless automaton that does the same task over and over you're better off with a programmed computer with maybe a tiny neural net for some pattern matching, not a brain simulation which is what these guys are aiming at.
There are 7 billion people and counting on this planet - why do we need a build a poor electronic fascimile of a human when we have so many real brains here? This is nothing more than ego on the part of the researchers.
And before someone quotes the industrial revolution at me - that replaced physical strength, something that humans even compared to other animals are poor at. However we are exceptionally good at thinking (as a species , not necessaily per individual) so other than the glory of the people involved I see absolutely no reason to remake the human brain in electronic form. There are a large number of reasons not to however.
"The problem is that QM is straight forward if you have high school calculus plus some math,"
You've obviously never heard Feynmans quote: "If you think you understand QM then you don't"
In fact no one understands the why, just the what. Giving the probabilities of what might happen in a QM system is one thing, asking WHY it happens in the first place or what a surposition really is, are still questions we're not even close to answering.
When shares take a dive EVERYONE who owns shares suffers plus people who have pension and other policies that invest in the market.
The financial system isn't a them and us - all of us in the western world rely on it and pretending its some boys club where only the rich suffer if the market tanks (they don't - they have a huge porfolio of other investments if they have any sense) is a lie. Its usually the little guy who relies on dividend payments once a quarter who suffers
Yes, its really that simple - its like sitting on a fountain of air, you just sit at the top of it! Not. If that updraft is only a few hundred metres wide and moves or you move out of it or it suddenly stops then your glider will stall and you'll be falling like a stone and if you're really unlucky - in a flat spin
You ever considered that perhaps "some random guy on the internet" actually knows a thing or two about aeronautics himself? This is a tech site, not snapchat.
The wind may well increase with altitude but the air density gets exponentially lower with altitude and at 90K its virtually a vacuum so you'd need a supersonic wind to even notice any significant affect on a plane the size of a glider.
"Powerful" is relative. At 100K feet its virtually a vacuum so even the fastest winds would seem like little more than a gentle breeze if you were standing in it.
I can't see from the article or the wonkypedia page where they expect to get enough speed from to retain that sort of altitude. They mention carried aloft by air currents (mountain waves). Err , even assuming those currents will get you to 90K feet (I doubt it) they're not going to get you to the 200-300 knots (heavier U-2 need to do 370 but it was "only" at 70K feet) you'll need to maintain that altitude without them guys. So unless by "gliding" they simply mean falling fast from height until they hit another updraft then to me this seems a bit of a non starter.
Wake me up when Facebook does something meaningful rather than yet more social media tat and BS using code that could have been written by an undergraduate.
Don't think so. I haven't been impressed by anything Nintendo has released for about a decade. These days they seem to be aiming at the kids just a bit too old for V-Tech kit and their consoles are always half a generation behind Sony and MS in terms of raw power.
"that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable Rights"
Unless they were native american or black of course.
"it is the Right of the people to alter or abolish it,"
Thats what voting is for. If you change your government by force then you're no better than some banana republic - which , lets be blunt , is all the USA was for a long time after independence.
In your opinion. Which has no more weight than anyone elses.
"civil disobedience can be a positive trait."
Occasionally. More often than not in a western democracy however its just an excuse for agitators and assorted losers to cause trouble and smash shit up.
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Not true - all organic brains require sleep.
Even insects appear to get bored so any sufficiently complex neural net may well exhibit similar properties. If you want a mindless automaton that does the same task over and over you're better off with a programmed computer with maybe a tiny neural net for some pattern matching, not a brain simulation which is what these guys are aiming at.
"Just like air planes need to be made from bone, muscle and feathers, because otherwise they won't fly "
You might want to compare the efficiencies and aeronautic abilities of aircraft vs birds.
There are 7 billion people and counting on this planet - why do we need a build a poor electronic fascimile of a human when we have so many real brains here? This is nothing more than ego on the part of the researchers.
And before someone quotes the industrial revolution at me - that replaced physical strength, something that humans even compared to other animals are poor at. However we are exceptionally good at thinking (as a species , not necessaily per individual) so other than the glory of the people involved I see absolutely no reason to remake the human brain in electronic form. There are a large number of reasons not to however.
"As technology advances we'll always find new ways to get at oil. Even if it's grinding up seagulls for whatever surface oil has stuck to feathers"
Eventually it'll take the same or more energy to extract and refine oil than can be recovered from it. At that point the oil era is over.
"There's nothing honest about your attempt to discuss this issue."
SJWs arn't interested in discussion, they only work with polemnic.
So it can detect my casio watch can it?
Misleading article.
"The problem is that QM is straight forward if you have high school calculus plus some math,"
You've obviously never heard Feynmans quote: "If you think you understand QM then you don't"
In fact no one understands the why, just the what. Giving the probabilities of what might happen in a QM system is one thing, asking WHY it happens in the first place or what a surposition really is, are still questions we're not even close to answering.
Because if this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Happened at a nuclear power station or a nuclear missles launch system a lot of people would be in deep radioactive shit.
When shares take a dive EVERYONE who owns shares suffers plus people who have pension and other policies that invest in the market.
The financial system isn't a them and us - all of us in the western world rely on it and pretending its some boys club where only the rich suffer if the market tanks (they don't - they have a huge porfolio of other investments if they have any sense) is a lie. Its usually the little guy who relies on dividend payments once a quarter who suffers
"It's about time that there was a broader support base for Wayland"
Why? What exactly does Wayland bring to the table that X doesn't? I can think of a few things vice versa.
Yes, its really that simple - its like sitting on a fountain of air, you just sit at the top of it! Not. If that updraft is only a few hundred metres wide and moves or you move out of it or it suddenly stops then your glider will stall and you'll be falling like a stone and if you're really unlucky - in a flat spin
You ever considered that perhaps "some random guy on the internet" actually knows a thing or two about aeronautics himself? This is a tech site, not snapchat.
The wind may well increase with altitude but the air density gets exponentially lower with altitude and at 90K its virtually a vacuum so you'd need a supersonic wind to even notice any significant affect on a plane the size of a glider.
"Powerful" is relative. At 100K feet its virtually a vacuum so even the fastest winds would seem like little more than a gentle breeze if you were standing in it.
I can't see from the article or the wonkypedia page where they expect to get enough speed from to retain that sort of altitude. They mention carried aloft by air currents (mountain waves). Err , even assuming those currents will get you to 90K feet (I doubt it) they're not going to get you to the 200-300 knots (heavier U-2 need to do 370 but it was "only" at 70K feet) you'll need to maintain that altitude without them guys. So unless by "gliding" they simply mean falling fast from height until they hit another updraft then to me this seems a bit of a non starter.
Wake me up when Facebook does something meaningful rather than yet more social media tat and BS using code that could have been written by an undergraduate.
Good to see the pre teens come on /. too. Welcome.
Don't think so. I haven't been impressed by anything Nintendo has released for about a decade. These days they seem to be aiming at the kids just a bit too old for V-Tech kit and their consoles are always half a generation behind Sony and MS in terms of raw power.
Oh look , a straw man. How tediously predictable.
An yes, "facists", the favourite boogeyman of every left wing useful idiot. "Increase tractor production and build the gulags comrades!"
"Morals are what you think is right."
Wrong. Society has a moral stance too.
Just pointing out the hypocrisy in your cliched cut and paste quote from your constutition or whatever the hell it is.
" our Founding Fathers,"
Speak for yourself. I'm not a yank.
"that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable Rights"
Unless they were native american or black of course.
"it is the Right of the people to alter or abolish it,"
Thats what voting is for. If you change your government by force then you're no better than some banana republic - which , lets be blunt , is all the USA was for a long time after independence.
"the bad guys "
In your opinion. Which has no more weight than anyone elses.
"civil disobedience can be a positive trait."
Occasionally. More often than not in a western democracy however its just an excuse for agitators and assorted losers to cause trouble and smash shit up.