Bye bye. Too bad I won't be able to say "I told you so", because the cells in your brain will be rotting away 6ft under. When you break a rock into two pieces does it go to heaven? Why would anyone think that changing the molecules in your body (upon death) makes your mind magically zap itself into a place that is impossible to observe or test? Since it is impossible to observe, then how on earth do humans know about it? Do you believe in heaven because of what some people wrote a few centuries ago? You also believe everything you read in the paper and on the internet?
Worse than that? Anyone who wants to deprive me (or anyone else who isn't an intelligent design advocate) of an extra 900 years of life deserves to be hung by the neck until dead... 9 times, and I'm against capital punishment. Also, imagine the contribution to world health that could be made by someone with "25 PhDs".
Not wanting an extra 900 years of life because of the difficulty of 22 year old to find a job is akin to not wanting life-saving heart surgery because you are afraid of getting the scalpel dirty.
If you want to get into research, then english suffices as it is the international language of science. The top conferences and journals are all in english. Sometimes, very very rarely you might see a paper in german or french.
If you want to learn a language anyway, find what areas of research you would like to be involved in, then have a look at which country the best labs are and maybe give that language a go.
Although, I believe in germany people don't mind english, but in france they are passionate about french.
There are a few places you can download publications for free. Pubmed and Citeseer usually have access to many papers for free download. Otherwise, sometimes authors put their own draft/pre prints on their websites.
many discoveries happen simply by exposure to as many minds as possible, and finding connections and errors in others works
Is this based on an actual study or your own conjecture?
Hehe, looking at all the posters replying to this, I guess they missed the joke. Java was slow at the beginning, but now it has spead up tremendously, sometimes even beating C++ at certain things. Parent has projected the "Java is slower than C++" that used to be so prevailent, and moved the bar up to "Java is slower than assembly"... making a joke that Java will never stop beating the languages that people say are faster than it.
Any comp sci grad can write a "perfect" poker program that plays "optimally" with your definition of optimality and perfectionism, ie, ignoring bluffing. The trick to Poker, the reason why it is so appealing as an Artificial Intelligence benchmark is because it requires the AI to learn a particular players loosness/agressivness when they are likely bluffing etc. This is not only to try to determine what the other players have, but also to try to bluff to the other players what the AI has.
The truly optimum poker player will learn what the opponents have by observing their betting patterns over the course of many hands and learning their particular tendencies.
However, a kill switch is no answer. If people abuse cell phones by using them in obnoxious ways, how long would it take them to abuse the kill switch?
The idea is to move possibility for abuse from the hands of the public to the government. Shift power from the people to the president. UK and US government's goal is total and complete control of its people... people should be afraid of their governments, not their governments afraid of their people. Que kill switch and rfid tagged humans. You believe 9/11 wasn't a remote-controlled airplane with the same technology that will be implemented in all aircraft to "prevet terrorism"?
Modern life has reached an annoying level of materialism. We're humans, we use tools. It isn't materialism, it is a by-product of our intelligence and evolution.
I leave Opera 9.5 running for days at a time without closing or reseting the computer (currently XP SP3). I use it for javadoc and usually have a few embedded pdfs open for uni, some wikis, and a few normal procrastination surfing pages including 2 youtube videos. I've had it running for couple of days and the mem usage is currently below 130MB.
If you have linux, yes. If you're using MS Windows, then no need. In addition, if you're using MS Outlook in MS Windows then it is a much better choice than MS DOS.
The Turing machine is not universal because it is inherently sequential by definition. That's its main problem. It cannot handle concurrency by definition. In a true universal machine the elements (operations) are inherently and implicity parallel; sequentiality simply emerges from the interactions. In addition, a true parallel system is temporally deterministic and reactive (signal based). You're free to click on my sig if you want to know more. Have a read of and try to understand any of the books mentioned here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_computation#Further_reading. At our University we used Sipser's "Introduction to the Theory of Computation". Hint: A parallel network of Turing machines is a Turing machine.
Can you elaborate on this? You've written a whole paragraph, and all that is says is "Turing is bad". You say that we need a comp. sci. revolution from the perspective of a revolutionist. Can you share some insights into what we should replace Turing-based theory once we trash the entire field and replace it? It sounds to me like you've tried to wrap your head around the halting problem and NP-Completness but became furstrated after you were unable to comprehend it.
better still, post your question to slashdot with enough information that anyone with half a brain could know you were talking about them, and get fired. Manager with half a brain? He's safe.
It's silly to say "Language A is better than Language B". Of course it is silly to say that. B is definatelly better than A, and then C is much better than B. Too bad they stuffed it up with C++, but meh, C is still in good use.
If anything written in C has bloat, the developer should be promoted away from coding immediatly. Perhaps he was going for a higher-paid management position all along.
Hmm, good idea. I will patent the act of patenting daft patents. Then I will have exclusive rights to patent things like... - A wooden, plastic, metal or otherwise rigid thin elongated device for drawing attention to specific sections of a presentation, - Thumbnail image links, etc.
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Bye bye. Too bad I won't be able to say "I told you so", because the cells in your brain will be rotting away 6ft under. When you break a rock into two pieces does it go to heaven? Why would anyone think that changing the molecules in your body (upon death) makes your mind magically zap itself into a place that is impossible to observe or test? Since it is impossible to observe, then how on earth do humans know about it? Do you believe in heaven because of what some people wrote a few centuries ago? You also believe everything you read in the paper and on the internet?
Worse than that? Anyone who wants to deprive me (or anyone else who isn't an intelligent design advocate) of an extra 900 years of life deserves to be hung by the neck until dead... 9 times, and I'm against capital punishment. Also, imagine the contribution to world health that could be made by someone with "25 PhDs".
Not wanting an extra 900 years of life because of the difficulty of 22 year old to find a job is akin to not wanting life-saving heart surgery because you are afraid of getting the scalpel dirty.
...and still are
signed,
Dell Inspiron 9300 owner.
If you want to get into research, then english suffices as it is the international language of science. The top conferences and journals are all in english. Sometimes, very very rarely you might see a paper in german or french.
If you want to learn a language anyway, find what areas of research you would like to be involved in, then have a look at which country the best labs are and maybe give that language a go.
Although, I believe in germany people don't mind english, but in france they are passionate about french.
... get yellowcake (which they have tons of) from Niger
Shhh, use rigen so they won't know.
Oblig. quotes from Ink and Incapability
J: Not this one, sir. It is a book that tells you what English words mean.
G: I *know* what English words mean; I *speak* English! You must be a bit
of a thicko.
E: Would this be the long-awaited Dictionary, sir?
G: Oh, who cares about the title as long as there's plenty of juicy murders
in it. I hear it's a masterpiece.
E: No, sir, it is not. It's the most pointless book since "How To Learn
French" was translated into French.
There are a few places you can download publications for free. Pubmed and Citeseer usually have access to many papers for free download. Otherwise, sometimes authors put their own draft/pre prints on their websites.
many discoveries happen simply by exposure to as many minds as possible, and finding connections and errors in others works
Is this based on an actual study or your own conjecture?
Hehe, looking at all the posters replying to this, I guess they missed the joke. Java was slow at the beginning, but now it has spead up tremendously, sometimes even beating C++ at certain things. Parent has projected the "Java is slower than C++" that used to be so prevailent, and moved the bar up to "Java is slower than assembly"... making a joke that Java will never stop beating the languages that people say are faster than it.
Any comp sci grad can write a "perfect" poker program that plays "optimally" with your definition of optimality and perfectionism, ie, ignoring bluffing. The trick to Poker, the reason why it is so appealing as an Artificial Intelligence benchmark is because it requires the AI to learn a particular players loosness/agressivness when they are likely bluffing etc. This is not only to try to determine what the other players have, but also to try to bluff to the other players what the AI has.
The truly optimum poker player will learn what the opponents have by observing their betting patterns over the course of many hands and learning their particular tendencies.
However, a kill switch is no answer. If people abuse cell phones by using them in obnoxious ways, how long would it take them to abuse the kill switch?
The idea is to move possibility for abuse from the hands of the public to the government. Shift power from the people to the president. UK and US government's goal is total and complete control of its people... people should be afraid of their governments, not their governments afraid of their people. Que kill switch and rfid tagged humans. You believe 9/11 wasn't a remote-controlled airplane with the same technology that will be implemented in all aircraft to "prevet terrorism"?
maybe you do aswell... don't let the facial hair fool you.
I leave Opera 9.5 running for days at a time without closing or reseting the computer (currently XP SP3). I use it for javadoc and usually have a few embedded pdfs open for uni, some wikis, and a few normal procrastination surfing pages including 2 youtube videos. I've had it running for couple of days and the mem usage is currently below 130MB.
If you have linux, yes. If you're using MS Windows, then no need. In addition, if you're using MS Outlook in MS Windows then it is a much better choice than MS DOS.
Will of the Forsaken, i win.
Can you elaborate on this? You've written a whole paragraph, and all that is says is "Turing is bad". You say that we need a comp. sci. revolution from the perspective of a revolutionist. Can you share some insights into what we should replace Turing-based theory once we trash the entire field and replace it? It sounds to me like you've tried to wrap your head around the halting problem and NP-Completness but became furstrated after you were unable to comprehend it.
= proft!!!
America, fuck yeah?
first post!
Hmm, good idea. I will patent the act of patenting daft patents. Then I will have exclusive rights to patent things like...
- A wooden, plastic, metal or otherwise rigid thin elongated device for drawing attention to specific sections of a presentation,
- Thumbnail image links,
etc.