While I have seen some voices of dissent that the test isn't fair, I'm afriad I don't understand what you mean here. Could you please explain further?
Actually I was making a joke (that the benchmarking task itself was what the act of anticipating things, which this tool would obviously have a one up on... ). But someone modded me up insightful, so maybe I'm on to something.
It'd be like testing rice painted white in a glass of milk during a snowstorm in a whiteness contest.
Me: Computer, I would like to open Netscape
Computer: I have anticipated you would like to open IE and have already opened it for you.
Me: Ok, then I would like to go to the game review site to see what I want to buy.
Computer: I have already begun the download of the new Age of Empires game, your account has been charged.
Me: Can I at least go to the bathroom?
Computer: No.
In some cases, the new Anticipatory Scheduler performs several times better than the others, doing a task in a few seconds instead minutes like the others.
The task in question was anticipating things, so the test might not be all that fair.
AI solutions to problems tend to be based around brute force. "I checked every possible series of actions and this one seems to be the best." That is far different from the way that we seem to make decisions, so it doesn't seem intelligent to us.
I have checked every possible answer to this comment and decided that this is the best24?2A3$P.
Odd that Microsoft is simultaneously trying to stop spam sent to Hotmail users, and to make sure that it can send unsolicited commercial email without penalties.
Microsoft doesn't want fully effective anti-spam laws. If they successfully sue spammers attacking them, and make hotmail fairly spam free, with a law where only Microsoft big enough to do something about it, then they have a monopoly on anti-spam email.
There was a programming class at MIT that used the swarm concept on AI for a game. The game was an RTS where each unit had it's own AI and could communicate to other units but not easily (short range, takes time). Each unit generally had a simple program, but your team had a fairly complex overall strategy. My team (Master Control Program) did pretty well in last years contest.
Does there exist a section of the open source community dedicated to seeking out obvious and prior-art patents for the purpose of making those ideas public domain (thus protecting us from companies doing the same but not making them public domain)? If not, there should.
...(they must include) the telephone number of the sending machine or of such business...
Actually, this seems like a good possible solution to the spam issues. If you were required to place in the header of an email some working contact info (like a real return email address that went to you) then perhaps that would help to deture spammers... I mean all the legitamate emails I receive have their return addresses on them.
Getting them not to have a box that automatically deletes everything is more difficult. Of course, what's stopping the junk-fax places from getting a phone number and simply not answering it.
I don't know what to tell my 12 year old self... This guy came up to me when I was 12 and said he had something to tell me, but forgot what it was. I'll probably just tell him that.
If past me saw me, he would know that the only reason I would go back in time was to kill him. So his natural reaction would be to kill me first. So I'd probably tell him not to kill me... then I'd kill him. Damn bastard, he ate all my cheese.
GNU. All these words are preceeded by GNU, it's just the same one... it's like when a cop pulls you over for not stopping at a stop-sign and you remind him that the law says only that you have to stop before the stop-sign, not how far before it, and you were stopped a few minutes ago.
good, now instead of replacing every adjective with smelly and every noun with ass, we can replace every adjective with 1337 sekret ninja and every noun with, well, ass.
It seems that death and chaos are often one of the more amusing parts of games, as sick as it may be to say.
I wouldn't really consider it sick to enjoy violence. Humans have evolved as hunters, who need to hunt to survive. In a society today, where we see little or no action alike to what we evolved to enjoy, it's lucky we have something like video games to sate our desire for action.
Don't get me wrong, I welcome the existance of non-violent games. I think that we have to much importance in gore and violence, but that doesn't make it sick to enjoy.
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While I have seen some voices of dissent that the test isn't fair, I'm afriad I don't understand what you mean here. Could you please explain further?
Actually I was making a joke (that the benchmarking task itself was what the act of anticipating things, which this tool would obviously have a one up on... ). But someone modded me up insightful, so maybe I'm on to something.
It'd be like testing rice painted white in a glass of milk during a snowstorm in a whiteness contest.
Me: Computer, I would like to open Netscape
Computer: I have anticipated you would like to open IE and have already opened it for you.
Me: Ok, then I would like to go to the game review site to see what I want to buy.
Computer: I have already begun the download of the new Age of Empires game, your account has been charged.
Me: Can I at least go to the bathroom?
Computer: No.
In some cases, the new Anticipatory Scheduler performs several times better than the others, doing a task in a few seconds instead minutes like the others.
The task in question was anticipating things, so the test might not be all that fair.
AI solutions to problems tend to be based around brute force. "I checked every possible series of actions and this one seems to be the best." That is far different from the way that we seem to make decisions, so it doesn't seem intelligent to us.
I have checked every possible answer to this comment and decided that this is the best24?2A3$P.
Odd that Microsoft is simultaneously trying to stop spam sent to Hotmail users, and to make sure that it can send unsolicited commercial email without penalties.
Microsoft doesn't want fully effective anti-spam laws. If they successfully sue spammers attacking them, and make hotmail fairly spam free, with a law where only Microsoft big enough to do something about it, then they have a monopoly on anti-spam email.
There was a programming class at MIT that used the swarm concept on AI for a game. The game was an RTS where each unit had it's own AI and could communicate to other units but not easily (short range, takes time). Each unit generally had a simple program, but your team had a fairly complex overall strategy. My team (Master Control Program) did pretty well in last years contest.
Does there exist a section of the open source community dedicated to seeking out obvious and prior-art patents for the purpose of making those ideas public domain (thus protecting us from companies doing the same but not making them public domain)? If not, there should.
...god, that was the worst joke ever. Someone shoot me.
I would shoot you, but I can't find you because your name isn't resolving for some reason.
...(they must include) the telephone number of the sending machine or of such business...
Actually, this seems like a good possible solution to the spam issues. If you were required to place in the header of an email some working contact info (like a real return email address that went to you) then perhaps that would help to deture spammers... I mean all the legitamate emails I receive have their return addresses on them.
Getting them not to have a box that automatically deletes everything is more difficult. Of course, what's stopping the junk-fax places from getting a phone number and simply not answering it.
I hope some of the students involved post pictures of the robots they're building in class.
With the power of linux, one of those kids is going to end up with this project.
...allowing restrictions to be set on Outlook mail messages...
Oh good, now I can get spam that I don't have permissons to read.
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I don't know what to tell my 12 year old self... This guy came up to me when I was 12 and said he had something to tell me, but forgot what it was. I'll probably just tell him that.
"You know what, just forget it, you won't listen to anything i say anyway..."
If you say that, will he have to start listening to the things you say in not listening to that one? Ahhh nothings better then a paradox in a paradox.
If past me saw me, he would know that the only reason I would go back in time was to kill him. So his natural reaction would be to kill me first. So I'd probably tell him not to kill me... then I'd kill him. Damn bastard, he ate all my cheese.
I don't want them making any public statements on my behalf...
Your behalf, eh? That's admission of guilt, get him boys.
GNU. All these words are preceeded by GNU, it's just the same one... it's like when a cop pulls you over for not stopping at a stop-sign and you remind him that the law says only that you have to stop before the stop-sign, not how far before it, and you were stopped a few minutes ago.
I demand that all words in this article be preceded by "GNU", by decree of the Dark Lord Stallman. This comment is exempt.
This comment as in the comment exempting the comment, or this comment as in the comment not begining with 'this comment'. WELL?
I would say that putting your meal preference in Expedia precludes any reasonable expectation of privacy.
yeah, but your credit card number?
Mad Libs for hackers...
good, now instead of replacing every adjective with smelly and every noun with ass, we can replace every adjective with 1337 sekret ninja and every noun with, well, ass.
even if it cost $50, I'd probably not buy one out of spite.
If you really want to spite them, buy one for full price and then sell it to me for $50--that'll show those fat cat engineers.
It seems that death and chaos are often one of the more amusing parts of games, as sick as it may be to say.
I wouldn't really consider it sick to enjoy violence. Humans have evolved as hunters, who need to hunt to survive. In a society today, where we see little or no action alike to what we evolved to enjoy, it's lucky we have something like video games to sate our desire for action.
Don't get me wrong, I welcome the existance of non-violent games. I think that we have to much importance in gore and violence, but that doesn't make it sick to enjoy.
I'd still like to vacation on mars before I die...
don't worry, you still can... only now it will be immediately before you die.
Terraforming Mars amounts to making "gods out of geeks," as one critic put it.
Shotgun not Atlas.
Wow, I forgot Blaster Master and Contra... I guess that complete's my top 10, but they are probably 10 of my top 20.