All the brain does is pattern matching: the input is matched against stored experiences, and when the best match is found, responses are triggered and sent out to the body.
The brain does not run a sequence of commands in order to make a computation; it simply matches the input to stored data and creates an output.
There is plenty of evidence to support the above conclusion:
1) we need to learn things.
2) we don't actually know anything; we select the case that better matches our survival. This explains religion and superstition, by the way.
3) when we see danger (a fire, for example), we have trained our brains to increase our adrenaline, which helps us escape the dangerous situation. Babies don't have this training so as that the put their hands onto stoves and things that burn.
4) we can't do arithmetic like a computer does; we can only add basic numbers, and then we can follow a procedure to do more complicated stuff. That's why we have to keep the computations in paper, because our brain is useless in computing things the way a computer does.
Now to the problem of AI...we won't achieve AI like ours ever, if all we believe that a computer can act like a brain; a brain works differently than a computer. A computer executes a series of predefined instructions, the brain does pattern matching. Until we, as humanity, realize this, we are never going to make truly AI.
Machine translation is really an amazing challenge.
Only if language is thought of in terms of rules and grammar parsing. If statistics are used (Bayesian filters, for example), then it's not that hard.
As a demonstration of this, look at spam emails: today's clients have nearly a 99% success in capturing spam. I sincerely do not remember the last time I had a legitimate email treated as spam either in google mail, thunderbird or outlook 2007.
Furthermore, the ribbon increased the number of clicks required to use some features, mainly because a different ribbon tab is automatically selected each time you click on the document.
Many young people idolize themselves and have no respect whatsoever for people older than them. In fact, many young people have no interest in anything outside themselves and their personal hobbies.
Personally, I blame the modern materialistic culture for this, that puts all the emphasis at the 'me' instead of the 'us'.
"Why is the computer so stupid," she wants to know, "that it can't figure out that I only care about what I'm working on RIGHT NOW?"
She is right. She is even right when her comment is applied onto the desktop machines. The classic UIs stink. The Desktop metaphore is so 20th century...the user shouldn't be able to care about files, saving, folders, processes, and all that jazz..
Since it has a multitouch 9.7 screen, there are various cool applications that can be done on it:
-2 player or 4 player pong, where each player controls his/her pad with his/her finger. -subbuteo (tabletop soccer) -soccer/football -pool (using a stylus in the role of the cue) -the old qbasic Bananas game with the two players throwing simultaneously
Finally, there could be other uses for the iPad. For example, a digital turntable.
I will not buy the iPad, because I don't like to be locked up in the AppStore. However, other people don't mind that.
I think the FSF gives much more credit to Apple than it deserves to. Apple is not a monopoly in the market; in fact, they have a small market share in the desktop, laptop, netbook and smartphone sectors.
An alternative they never consider is the creation of a 'mothership', i.e. a big enough spaceship that can act as a space station and as as a small planetoid, complete with its own gravity (out of rotation) and nuclear propulsion (project Orion). Assembled in space and never landing itself on planets, it can be a stepping stone for mankind to the solar system, and make the trip Mars-Earth a commodity.
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The energy spent for this is many million times more than the energy that would be spent by a programmer to put another check box there and synchronize the two options.
No, it's not a very bad analogy. It's a very good analogy, because the management literally rape those people that are interested in making computer games. It's the management's fault that they fail to guide a project so as that it does not go over budget and that nobody works 12 hours per day.
It's a well known fact that if your mind get tired, the code you write is not that good. It's one of the reasons there is no overtime for programmers in the aerospace & defense industry, where each bug may cost millions of dollars and possibly human lives.
The links are not very informative about what allowed the breach to happen. Was a security model vulnerability? man-in-the-middle attack? buffer overflow?
The script may not work if the UI style is different from the one recorded or if the UI language is different from the one recorded. Generally, any option that can change the UI from computer to computer will create a problem for Sikuli.
The conclusions of special relativity are wrong: we can't see things simultaneously, but that doesn't mean things don't happen simultaneously. For example, as we speak, a comet has fallen on a planet circling the star Alpha Centauri. In this case, if information was transferred instantaneously from Alpha Centauri to Earth, no causality would be violated; we just wouldn't see the collision of the comet with the planet at the time information was transmitted from Alpha Centauri to Earth.
because they don't want to break backward compatibility.
The fun part is that Microsoft could have achieved multiuser without the user ever noticing - all that was required was a virtualization of system files. But no, we at Microsoft don't want (or like) simple.
Answer me why I can't install Windows and have all my hardware just work? Linux is capable of doing this.
The Windows world is vastly larger than that of Linux world. Microsoft can't control all the drivers made for the system. There are thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of hardware vendors writing Windows drivers for their hardware.
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Uranus :-)
(hey, no Uranus joke so far? what happened?)
...and that's why it escapes us.
All the brain does is pattern matching: the input is matched against stored experiences, and when the best match is found, responses are triggered and sent out to the body.
The brain does not run a sequence of commands in order to make a computation; it simply matches the input to stored data and creates an output.
There is plenty of evidence to support the above conclusion:
1) we need to learn things.
2) we don't actually know anything; we select the case that better matches our survival. This explains religion and superstition, by the way.
3) when we see danger (a fire, for example), we have trained our brains to increase our adrenaline, which helps us escape the dangerous situation. Babies don't have this training so as that the put their hands onto stoves and things that burn.
4) we can't do arithmetic like a computer does; we can only add basic numbers, and then we can follow a procedure to do more complicated stuff. That's why we have to keep the computations in paper, because our brain is useless in computing things the way a computer does.
Now to the problem of AI...we won't achieve AI like ours ever, if all we believe that a computer can act like a brain; a brain works differently than a computer. A computer executes a series of predefined instructions, the brain does pattern matching. Until we, as humanity, realize this, we are never going to make truly AI.
Anyone please care to explain why the /. crowd is so against Flash? (serious question, not trolling). Besides being closed source, that is.
Isn't the xchg instruction atomic for all sizes (8/16/32/64 bits)?
Furthermore, the ribbon increased the number of clicks required to use some features, mainly because a different ribbon tab is automatically selected each time you click on the document.
Many young people idolize themselves and have no respect whatsoever for people older than them. In fact, many young people have no interest in anything outside themselves and their personal hobbies.
Personally, I blame the modern materialistic culture for this, that puts all the emphasis at the 'me' instead of the 'us'.
And the thing keeps going on and on...today Steorn was supposed to showcase their overunity device.
She is right. She is even right when her comment is applied onto the desktop machines. The classic UIs stink. The Desktop metaphore is so 20th century...the user shouldn't be able to care about files, saving, folders, processes, and all that jazz..
Since it has a multitouch 9.7 screen, there are various cool applications that can be done on it:
-2 player or 4 player pong, where each player controls his/her pad with his/her finger.
-subbuteo (tabletop soccer)
-soccer/football
-pool (using a stylus in the role of the cue)
-the old qbasic Bananas game with the two players throwing simultaneously
Finally, there could be other uses for the iPad. For example, a digital turntable.
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Newer software needs more resources if it offers more functionality or it is badly written, and I don't see more functionality in Vista/Win7...
I will not buy the iPad, because I don't like to be locked up in the AppStore. However, other people don't mind that.
I think the FSF gives much more credit to Apple than it deserves to. Apple is not a monopoly in the market; in fact, they have a small market share in the desktop, laptop, netbook and smartphone sectors.
Thank you, I did not know Archos. I am going to buy two, one for me and one for my wife. And it runs Linux!
It's about the commission. Politicians get a 10% from the deal, and this deal is BIG.
An alternative they never consider is the creation of a 'mothership', i.e. a big enough spaceship that can act as a space station and as as a small planetoid, complete with its own gravity (out of rotation) and nuclear propulsion (project Orion). Assembled in space and never landing itself on planets, it can be a stepping stone for mankind to the solar system, and make the trip Mars-Earth a commodity.
Gee, how difficult is it to provide a 3rd option?
The energy spent for this is many million times more than the energy that would be spent by a programmer to put another check box there and synchronize the two options.
Why they would need a backdoor? all the emails go in their servers.
No, it's not a very bad analogy. It's a very good analogy, because the management literally rape those people that are interested in making computer games. It's the management's fault that they fail to guide a project so as that it does not go over budget and that nobody works 12 hours per day.
What you said just reinforces my view.
It's a well known fact that if your mind get tired, the code you write is not that good. It's one of the reasons there is no overtime for programmers in the aerospace & defense industry, where each bug may cost millions of dollars and possibly human lives.
Right...and raped women are responsible for their rape.
The links are not very informative about what allowed the breach to happen. Was a security model vulnerability? man-in-the-middle attack? buffer overflow?
The script may not work if the UI style is different from the one recorded or if the UI language is different from the one recorded. Generally, any option that can change the UI from computer to computer will create a problem for Sikuli.
The conclusions of special relativity are wrong: we can't see things simultaneously, but that doesn't mean things don't happen simultaneously. For example, as we speak, a comet has fallen on a planet circling the star Alpha Centauri. In this case, if information was transferred instantaneously from Alpha Centauri to Earth, no causality would be violated; we just wouldn't see the collision of the comet with the planet at the time information was transmitted from Alpha Centauri to Earth.
The fun part is that Microsoft could have achieved multiuser without the user ever noticing - all that was required was a virtualization of system files. But no, we at Microsoft don't want (or like) simple.
The Windows world is vastly larger than that of Linux world. Microsoft can't control all the drivers made for the system. There are thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of hardware vendors writing Windows drivers for their hardware.