Yes, but I've been to the Stata center. People (hell, maybe RMS) are propping doors open anyway.
Anyway, a lot of buildings at MIT don't have very good security at all. The main campus (buildings 1-10) are pretty much open to all visitors, and they connect, via halls and basements, to much of the campus.
I don't see why the CS/AI Lab and the Linguistics Departments need this much security anyway. I mean, I can understand the nuclear reactor or something having this kind of security, but why are they locking off people from here?
Shut up. You need no randomness in order to produce art. A fractal, for example, is fairly beautiful looking, can be created with a computer, and is completely deterministic. You just write some algorithms to determine what is aesthetically pleasing, and boom, art.
The only disadvantage that robots have over humans is that human beings all have a sense of beauty built into them, and the sense of beauty is slightly consistant across the board. Thusly, humans are able to produce art that other humans like because they know what humans like. Robots would have to be programmed to be able to calculate a humanoid sense of beauty, and humans are not quite sure how to express that.
Anyway, what makes you think humans aren't deterministic? (Plus-or-minus the little quantum deviations which a sufficiently complex robot would probably also experience.)
"Spell-check your article..." would be better written as "Check the spelling of your article...".
No it wouldn't. "Spellcheck" implies using an automated spelling checker, whereas "check the spelling" does not. That additional implication was probably intended. Sort of a "for the love of God, just run it through a spellchecker" message.
But The Matrix is popular in Japan too. Which makes sense, because the movie is basically a live action version of Ghost in the Shell with a little Akira thrown in for seasoning, with the plot changed to protect the innocent gaijin.
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Yes, because Word Proccessors and Text Editors are the same thing.
More seriously, much of the behavior of humans is due to cultural factors (memes), not genes. With memes, killing people off is a highly crude way to get things done.
I think when I was particuarly young I had a child "leash," but it was just a little thing which went arouund my wrist. A full-blown child harness is just weird.
As we have said more times than should be neccesary, it's completely different because when you eat food you are taking physical food away from the restaurant. When you copy things, all you take from them is the hypothetical profit they would've gotten if you had acquired the thing from them.
If you want a physical-world equivalent, maybe it's more like eating out of their garbage or something. But even then, the analogy is flawed. Because copying is a rather distinct thing. For example, if you had a magical copying device and made an exact duplicate of my car, I would not be harmed unless I was considering selling my car, and even then I would only be harmed in that it would be slightly harder to find someone to sell the car to.
It's not nearly as clear cut as stealing, although it's certainly harmful to people and should be regulated to some degree. But you need to strike a balance.
I just think it's vaguely interesting. They both have somewhat strongish ideological opinions, and are well known for them. Also I've become interested in that building for other reasons. I've been going to MIT for HSSP and I like wandering the halls of MIT. But building 32 is new and has slightly stricter security, so it's got a certain allure. And then I find out that both these mildly well known MIT guys are moving into the new building.
I might change my sig to some sort of Futurama quote soonish, though.
Oh sorry. Yeah, I'm sure he has his own very good reasons, I was just sarcastically emphasizing how hectic his life must be. Obviously, he's not stupid. You need some degree of intellegence to be a surgery resident. He's just willing to make sacrifices in his life.
In retrospect, I should've realized that as his brother, you might be offended by my joke.
He created the light and the sun at different times, oddly enough.
"And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also." - Genesis 1:16 (On the fourth day.)
1. All matter came to be at approx the same time
Yes... but said matter didn't form into the earth and the sun until much much later. (Ten billion years later, by the best estimates.) By the same argument, I could say that you were around when Lincoln was shot.
2. Stars are born and the earth very likley came to be a ball of rock before the sun became a big fireball.
Not really, before the sun turned on the stuff that would form the planets were still too widely dispersed, but even if that was the case, plants didn't start growing on it until after the sun was round, for obvious reasons. (Photosynthesis.)
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Yes, but I've been to the Stata center. People (hell, maybe RMS) are propping doors open anyway.
Anyway, a lot of buildings at MIT don't have very good security at all. The main campus (buildings 1-10) are pretty much open to all visitors, and they connect, via halls and basements, to much of the campus.
I don't see why the CS/AI Lab and the Linguistics Departments need this much security anyway. I mean, I can understand the nuclear reactor or something having this kind of security, but why are they locking off people from here?
Shut up. You need no randomness in order to produce art. A fractal, for example, is fairly beautiful looking, can be created with a computer, and is completely deterministic. You just write some algorithms to determine what is aesthetically pleasing, and boom, art.
The only disadvantage that robots have over humans is that human beings all have a sense of beauty built into them, and the sense of beauty is slightly consistant across the board. Thusly, humans are able to produce art that other humans like because they know what humans like. Robots would have to be programmed to be able to calculate a humanoid sense of beauty, and humans are not quite sure how to express that.
Anyway, what makes you think humans aren't deterministic? (Plus-or-minus the little quantum deviations which a sufficiently complex robot would probably also experience.)
More vocab = more better. Anyway, each word has a slightly different connotation, and that's where much of the beauty of English lies.
That's the point. Spellcheck is highly imperfect, and thusly telling the author to use it implies that the article itself was even worse.
No it wouldn't. "Spellcheck" implies using an automated spelling checker, whereas "check the spelling" does not. That additional implication was probably intended. Sort of a "for the love of God, just run it through a spellchecker" message.
They were, but recently they've switched to computers. Assumably computers which are in the United States.
Maybe not, but it's insanely simple and that's good enough for most purposes.
I admit, it's barely anything like the original Japanese form of poetry, and there are so many better forms of poetry.
But that doesn't make it bad per se. A little weak, and completely non-Japanese, but not bad.
Nintendo is an exception. Nintendo has always been an exception. Nintendo will always be an exception.
But The Matrix is popular in Japan too. Which makes sense, because the movie is basically a live action version of Ghost in the Shell with a little Akira thrown in for seasoning, with the plot changed to protect the innocent gaijin.
Yes, because Word Proccessors and Text Editors are the same thing.
That's easy for you to say, YOU'RE A RACIST! ;-)
More seriously, much of the behavior of humans is due to cultural factors (memes), not genes. With memes, killing people off is a highly crude way to get things done.
Ideas kick the collective ass of genes.
I think when I was particuarly young I had a child "leash," but it was just a little thing which went arouund my wrist. A full-blown child harness is just weird.
You won't be laughing when Billy Crystal kicks your ass for stealing his joke.
Yeah, but don't most Linux browsers tend to follow standards pretty well?
OH NOES!
This is why you should never dress up like your D&D character if it is a halfling.
As we have said more times than should be neccesary, it's completely different because when you eat food you are taking physical food away from the restaurant. When you copy things, all you take from them is the hypothetical profit they would've gotten if you had acquired the thing from them.
If you want a physical-world equivalent, maybe it's more like eating out of their garbage or something. But even then, the analogy is flawed. Because copying is a rather distinct thing. For example, if you had a magical copying device and made an exact duplicate of my car, I would not be harmed unless I was considering selling my car, and even then I would only be harmed in that it would be slightly harder to find someone to sell the car to.
It's not nearly as clear cut as stealing, although it's certainly harmful to people and should be regulated to some degree. But you need to strike a balance.
I just think it's vaguely interesting. They both have somewhat strongish ideological opinions, and are well known for them. Also I've become interested in that building for other reasons. I've been going to MIT for HSSP and I like wandering the halls of MIT. But building 32 is new and has slightly stricter security, so it's got a certain allure. And then I find out that both these mildly well known MIT guys are moving into the new building.
I might change my sig to some sort of Futurama quote soonish, though.
Oh sorry. Yeah, I'm sure he has his own very good reasons, I was just sarcastically emphasizing how hectic his life must be. Obviously, he's not stupid. You need some degree of intellegence to be a surgery resident. He's just willing to make sacrifices in his life.
In retrospect, I should've realized that as his brother, you might be offended by my joke.
A resident with three kids!? Has he been stealing oxycontin or is he just naturally stupid?
Yes, but it's the Totalitarianism that makes Communism suck so bad, not the Socialism.
It's a well known fact that only idiots reproduce.
"And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also." - Genesis 1:16 (On the fourth day.)
Yes... but said matter didn't form into the earth and the sun until much much later. (Ten billion years later, by the best estimates.) By the same argument, I could say that you were around when Lincoln was shot.
Not really, before the sun turned on the stuff that would form the planets were still too widely dispersed, but even if that was the case, plants didn't start growing on it until after the sun was round, for obvious reasons. (Photosynthesis.)
You'd be suprised. D programming brings up what you want, as does D tutorial. Although more specific stuff like D quicksort doesn't work.