Being able to analyse deeper meaning beyond statistics for a start. A machine would happily take a phrase where every word was "wibble" and attempt to translate it. A human wouldn't bother because they'd know it was rubbish. Learning the statistical relationships between bits of data isn't thinking when it has no idea what those bits of data actually mean.
They're hard coded and use massively parallel depth searching. The brute force approach has been the best for chess computers for decades.
And google search and translate isn't really learning, they're just statistical systems that given the best result based on the data they've gathered. They don't "think" about it in any meaningful way.
They've been trying it since the 50s without it has to be said, too much success given the amount of effort thats been put in. I suspect until we REALLY understand how boligical brains do it (not , "meh, some sort of neural back propagation", yeah , we know that , but what propagation and how exactly?) then machine learning will still remain at the bottom rung of the intelligence ladder.
Personally I think at the moment pre programmed intelligence is still a more successful route to go down. Though hopefully that will change.
.... that bitcoin always was and always will be a toy currency - maybe of academic interest for the technical and economic theories behind it - but not something someone with any brains should ever invest in in a big way or rely on to purchase goods.
I think its fair to say that while forking code may be a good idea most of the time - when its code running a virtual currency its a very BAD idea. The fact that its been done demonstrates a complete lack of common sense amongst the people running this thing which should make any "investors" very VERY worried.
... dad had a convenient excuse to spend some quality time hacking.
Wife: Hey, why the fsck are you still sitting in front of that computer, its 1am! You love that thing more than me. I'm sick of it! Come to bed and treat me like a woman!
Dad: I'm giving matriachal empowerment to the characterisation of this game for the sake of our daughters self esteem.
Wife: Oh , well, ok then! Night!
Dad: Heh , sucker. Now, lets see what this ISR does...
The could still do radar mapping and on europa there seems to be some sort of ice tectonics happening which means any life may well be frozen into ice on or not far from the surface.
Am I the only person bored with the obsessive focusing on Mars by people desperate to find life? Maybe mars had life in the past but now its a dead dustball. There is more change of life in the ice moons of the outer solar system as they have oceans NOW. A few more missions to them and a few less to mars might be a better use of scientific resources.
Because all 787s are grounded. Perhaps Boeing should have concentrated on the basics for a bit longer instead of the frivolous nonsense that is nothing more than a tickbox on a marketing sheet.
The always on connection is nothing more than DRM in disguise. If the pirates hadn't been so keen to rip every game they could get their grubby little hands on this sort of nonsense probably wouldn't have happened.
Yes I know, the truth hurts. But if you're a company thats spent 10s if not 100s of millions on developing a game you're no longer going to watch that investment go down the toilet via a DVD bit copier. They figure that since most gamers now have always on broadband the inconvenience is minimal. Except when they fuck up like this of course.
Because that's all it is really. And to a certain extent I sympathise with Tesla somewhat - Top gear did represent the car as a bit of a dud whereas in fact they weren't 100% truthful with what happened. But then I suppose if you let your car be tested on what is effectively a car based comedy show you shouldn't expect unbiased reviews.
"failed to take English 101 or you forgot how to properly use an apostrophe or you failed to understand its function."
There needs to be a godwins law style name for people who revert to commenting on typos or irrelevant points of grammar when they have nothing else to argue against.
"You can call me a troll -- that's the easiest way to dismiss controversial opinions."
There's controversial and then there's moronic. Yours fall into the latter category. However I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and I'll assume you're just a naive student spouting the standard issue anti establishment rubbish that that age group is fond of doing until they get some life experience.
"Maybe we shouldn't have such agents. Maybe the corruption of such agents have only contributed to organized crime"
I can't tell if you're a troll or young and naive about human nature and how the world really works or just desperately stupid. But its certainly one of those.
Mate, I'll agree with the lot of the stuff you threw out , but really , binning equipment like that is just not on. Your geek card should be torn up in front of you and you should be restricted to using Windows 3 on a 486 for the rest of your life.
Seriously , those things are collectors items - you've been pretty foolish. Even if you didn't want them someone else would have but now they're just landfill. A real shame.
No, but unless you're a 14 year old bedroom coder , programming is almost always a team activity. If you can't interact with other people then you're going to have a problem holding down a decent programming job. The days of the coder sitting silently in the corner of the office and tossing some finished code over the wall once every month are gone. If they ever existed.
"The main benefit of "cloudiness" is because of this you can easy scale up services when demand is high, and scale them back when demand is low."
Do you genuinely think this wasn't done until some marketdroid thought up the term "cloud"?
This is supposed to be a tech website FFS, at least pretend to have some sort of tech nous. Scaling available services up and down has been done since the days of fscking mainframes!
Oh yeah sure, its all the fault of rich people. Its nothing to do with pig ignorant thugs with guns trying to get rich quick is it? If you're going to call other people clueless you might want to find yourself a fscking clue first and stop parroting Student Politics 101.
I don't thinkn you quite understand what cloud computing is - its simply the latest marketing buzzword for online storage and execution. Which has been around for decades.
"The virtualization is a critical part of what distinguishes cloud computing from what went immediately before"
No it isn't. There are plenty of hosting companies that give you the option of paying for have a real machine to yourself - ie run on real hardware rather than a VM.
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Being able to analyse deeper meaning beyond statistics for a start. A machine would happily take a phrase where every word was "wibble" and attempt to translate it. A human wouldn't bother because they'd know it was rubbish. Learning the statistical relationships between bits of data isn't thinking when it has no idea what those bits of data actually mean.
They're hard coded and use massively parallel depth searching. The brute force approach has been the best for chess computers for decades.
And google search and translate isn't really learning, they're just statistical systems that given the best result based on the data they've gathered. They don't "think" about it in any meaningful way.
They've been trying it since the 50s without it has to be said, too much success given the amount of effort thats been put in. I suspect until we REALLY understand how boligical brains do it (not , "meh, some sort of neural back propagation", yeah , we know that , but what propagation and how exactly?) then machine learning will still remain at the bottom rung of the intelligence ladder.
Personally I think at the moment pre programmed intelligence is still a more successful route to go down. Though hopefully that will change.
"Even device drivers are paravirtualized"
How can you virtualise device drivers? Either they access hardware directly or they don't. If they don't then what runs the hardware?
"orking code"?
I think you got lost of the way to WoW sonny.
.... that bitcoin always was and always will be a toy currency - maybe of academic interest for the technical and economic theories behind it - but not something someone with any brains should ever invest in in a big way or rely on to purchase goods.
I think its fair to say that while forking code may be a good idea most of the time - when its code running a virtual currency its a very BAD idea. The fact that its been done demonstrates a complete lack of common sense amongst the people running this thing which should make any "investors" very VERY worried.
... dad had a convenient excuse to spend some quality time hacking.
Wife: Hey, why the fsck are you still sitting in front of that computer, its 1am! You love that thing more than me. I'm sick of it! Come to bed and treat me like a woman!
Dad: I'm giving matriachal empowerment to the characterisation of this game for the sake of our daughters self esteem.
Wife: Oh , well, ok then! Night!
Dad: Heh , sucker. Now, lets see what this ISR does...
.. a pink handbag and umbrella arn't the first things you'd pick. Not unless you wanted to ask him out on a date of course.
The could still do radar mapping and on europa there seems to be some sort of ice tectonics happening which means any life may well be frozen into ice on or not far from the surface.
Am I the only person bored with the obsessive focusing on Mars by people desperate to find life? Maybe mars had life in the past but now its a dead dustball. There is more change of life in the ice moons of the outer solar system as they have oceans NOW. A few more missions to them and a few less to mars might be a better use of scientific resources.
Because all 787s are grounded. Perhaps Boeing should have concentrated on the basics for a bit longer instead of the frivolous nonsense that is nothing more than a tickbox on a marketing sheet.
The always on connection is nothing more than DRM in disguise. If the pirates hadn't been so keen to rip every game they could get their grubby little hands on this sort of nonsense probably wouldn't have happened.
Yes I know, the truth hurts. But if you're a company thats spent 10s if not 100s of millions on developing a game you're no longer going to watch that investment go down the toilet via a DVD bit copier. They figure that since most gamers now have always on broadband the inconvenience is minimal. Except when they fuck up like this of course.
Because that's all it is really. And to a certain extent I sympathise with Tesla somewhat - Top gear did represent the car as a bit of a dud whereas in fact they weren't 100% truthful with what happened. But then I suppose if you let your car be tested on what is effectively a car based comedy show you shouldn't expect unbiased reviews.
"failed to take English 101 or you forgot how to properly use an apostrophe or you failed to understand its function."
There needs to be a godwins law style name for people who revert to commenting on typos or irrelevant points of grammar when they have nothing else to argue against.
"You can call me a troll -- that's the easiest way to dismiss controversial opinions."
There's controversial and then there's moronic. Yours fall into the latter category. However I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and I'll assume you're just a naive student spouting the standard issue anti establishment rubbish that that age group is fond of doing until they get some life experience.
"Maybe we shouldn't have such agents. Maybe the corruption of such agents have only contributed to organized crime"
I can't tell if you're a troll or young and naive about human nature and how the world really works or just desperately stupid. But its certainly one of those.
Mate, I'll agree with the lot of the stuff you threw out , but really , binning equipment like that is just not on. Your geek card should be torn up in front of you and you should be restricted to using Windows 3 on a 486 for the rest of your life.
Seriously , those things are collectors items - you've been pretty foolish. Even if you didn't want them someone else would have but now they're just landfill. A real shame.
"One of C's design flaws is that it will silently upcast char to int to float to double"
I consider that a feature, not a flaw.
"Likewise there is no portable or standard way to inform the user of downcasts either, or to disable them entirely."
Every C compiler I've ever used will tell you when that happens. Some may require specific command line error flagging requests but they'll all do it.
I europe we don't have cubicles. We have this new advanced layout called open plan. You know - where you can actually talk to the person next to you.
Or is it more for teaching? If its angling to be a serious OS I think they may be wasting their time to be honest - that horse bolted in 1991.
"Programming is not the same as planning a party"
No, but unless you're a 14 year old bedroom coder , programming is almost always a team activity. If you can't interact with other people then you're going to have a problem holding down a decent programming job. The days of the coder sitting silently in the corner of the office and tossing some finished code over the wall once every month are gone. If they ever existed.
"I have worked in groups where we would communicate via IM even if we are just over the wall from each other."
And some techies wonder why the rest of the company thinks they're oddballs. Jeeesus christ , it beggars belief.
"The main benefit of "cloudiness" is because of this you can easy scale up services when demand is high, and scale them back when demand is low."
Do you genuinely think this wasn't done until some marketdroid thought up the term "cloud"?
This is supposed to be a tech website FFS, at least pretend to have some sort of tech nous. Scaling available services up and down has been done since the days of fscking mainframes!
Oh yeah sure, its all the fault of rich people. Its nothing to do with pig ignorant thugs with guns trying to get rich quick is it? If you're going to call other people clueless you might want to find yourself a fscking clue first and stop parroting Student Politics 101.
I don't thinkn you quite understand what cloud computing is - its simply the latest marketing buzzword for online storage and execution. Which has been around for decades.
"The virtualization is a critical part of what distinguishes cloud computing from what went immediately before"
No it isn't. There are plenty of hosting companies that give you the option of paying for have a real machine to yourself - ie run on real hardware rather than a VM.