Feynman "attained a perfect score on the graduate school entrance exams to Princeton University in mathematics and physics—an unprecedented feat" - WP
However Feynman always insisted had no special talents. He credited curiosity and hard work for his success.
Yes the initial choice of the word combination is arbitrary. Having worked on a (massively expensive) project that merged several national address databases, I think this idea is brilliant. Address databases are created for different purposes, eg: council is only interested in property numbers (lot number), post office is only interested in the letterbox (street address), utilities are interested in access points (easements). For a normal house on a normal house lot the data in the different databases refers to the same location, for something like an office inside a football stadium, things get very confusing. When you get down to details, the number of variations as to how people enter an address into a free form text field is mind boggling. The system they propose fits inside a 10mb file, it's easy for humans to remember, easy for computers to manipulate, and would be a vast improvement on what is already our there.
The obvious problem is getting everyone to use it, as they say in their video it would need to be added to services such google maps and integrated into GPS apps. Places like Africa, India, SE Asia, even outback communities here in Oz would benefit greatly.
Intelligence in living things can be defined as: A 'formal system' (google it) that maps reality and reacts in a way that sustains the "hardware" that embodies the formal system. - Poor paraphrase of Douglas Hofstadter's ideas.
AI is an extension of human intelligence in the same way a telescope is an extension of human vision. The IBM Jeopardy stunt still blows me away, "self taught" open ended trivia is a far more impressive feat than Deep Blue.
Yes but this study looks at brain structure, not brain function. There are two types of brain scan, one gives you information on brain structure the other gives you information on brain activity. Gender determines the hormonal soup your neurons swim in.
Aside from Australians I have never met a group more prone to racism than Israelis. But unlike Aussies the Israeli men didn't seem to be entirely misogynistic.
Bigot: someone who claims that nationality determines personality.
There's also the assumption that taxi companies don't have "technology", when in fact they have had computerised dispatch since before the internet was a thing.
For who? Certainly not the owner-drivers, for them it is an uninsured race to the bottom.
As for customers - Uber do not have any "taxis", they are a plain old (illegal) limo company "on a computer". Taxi's can be hailed on the street, taxi's have ranks and other infrastructure to manage street queues at popular locations, you can talk to a human to book a taxi or use an uber style booking app, taxi's have appropriate insurance, taxis have regular mechanical inspections, and yes, you can legally negotiate an up front price with a taxi driver.
You claim to embrace technology and better ways of doing things.
I was desperate enough to drive cabs in the 80's for three years, I can't imagine being desperate enough to be an Uber driver. Uber brings absolutely nothing to the taxi/limo industry that wasn't already illegal 30yrs ago.
The sensible goal is not to eliminate inequity but to narrow the gap to something that 'reasonable' people can live with, for example in most scandinavian countries the tax system makes it difficult/impossible for the highest paid to earn more than ~10X the lowest paid. You can still have your corporate empire but you can't suck it dry and spend it all on solid gold plumbing.
I don't want to pay some clown a bunch of extra money because he got stuck in traffic or took a longer route because he had no idea where he was going.
The one good thing about driving a cab is it teaches you how to handle arseholes - I would have thrown you out of the cab at the next bus stop
Most business' neither need nor use a real time O/S. All applications that allocate random blocks of memory must find a way to deal with garbage collection, built-in GC makes it easy for the coder. Manual GC just means the coder must manage memory himself, which is mandatory on a proper real time O/S.
The summary says: "Twenty-three years ago, development started on the first version of the Turbo Pascal and later also Delphi-compatible Free Pascal Compiler"
Perhaps you should re-read the summary, your paraphrase edits out the bit that makes all the difference???
We Aussies got rid of those fucking stupid licenses in the 60's. It's 2015 for fuck sake, a telly is no longer a luxury item, it's a cheap appliance. Just fund the BBC from consolidated revenue and save a shitload on paperwork and policing. It would also save the rest of the planet from having to listen to petty complaints from ideologues who don't want one of their license pennies ending up in the foreign service budget.
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Feynman "attained a perfect score on the graduate school entrance exams to Princeton University in mathematics and physics—an unprecedented feat" - WP
However Feynman always insisted had no special talents. He credited curiosity and hard work for his success.
Pi does not account for general relativity, a black hole can bend space space such that Pi = 3.
Car: "Hit and run is the act of a coward, I'm advertising myself on cars.com as we speak".
Yes the initial choice of the word combination is arbitrary. Having worked on a (massively expensive) project that merged several national address databases, I think this idea is brilliant. Address databases are created for different purposes, eg: council is only interested in property numbers (lot number), post office is only interested in the letterbox (street address), utilities are interested in access points (easements). For a normal house on a normal house lot the data in the different databases refers to the same location, for something like an office inside a football stadium, things get very confusing. When you get down to details, the number of variations as to how people enter an address into a free form text field is mind boggling. The system they propose fits inside a 10mb file, it's easy for humans to remember, easy for computers to manipulate, and would be a vast improvement on what is already our there.
The obvious problem is getting everyone to use it, as they say in their video it would need to be added to services such google maps and integrated into GPS apps. Places like Africa, India, SE Asia, even outback communities here in Oz would benefit greatly.
I've developed negatives [a] task that is beyond most people.
I was doing it at age 12 in mum's laundry, with good results, bought the equipment and supplies with pocket money.
Yes, that's exactly what it is.
What do you think holding something for ransom is?
Extortion, blackmail implies the bank did something that they don't want others to know about.
Intelligence in living things can be defined as: A 'formal system' (google it) that maps reality and reacts in a way that sustains the "hardware" that embodies the formal system. - Poor paraphrase of Douglas Hofstadter's ideas.
AI is an extension of human intelligence in the same way a telescope is an extension of human vision. The IBM Jeopardy stunt still blows me away, "self taught" open ended trivia is a far more impressive feat than Deep Blue.
Yes but this study looks at brain structure, not brain function. There are two types of brain scan, one gives you information on brain structure the other gives you information on brain activity. Gender determines the hormonal soup your neurons swim in.
Aside from Australians I have never met a group more prone to racism than Israelis. But unlike Aussies the Israeli men didn't seem to be entirely misogynistic.
Bigot: someone who claims that nationality determines personality.
No, the insurance company will not pay for injury or damages when the car was being used as an illegal hire car.
There's also the assumption that taxi companies don't have "technology", when in fact they have had computerised dispatch since before the internet was a thing.
when Uber greatly improves the taxi industry
For who? Certainly not the owner-drivers, for them it is an uninsured race to the bottom. As for customers - Uber do not have any "taxis", they are a plain old (illegal) limo company "on a computer". Taxi's can be hailed on the street, taxi's have ranks and other infrastructure to manage street queues at popular locations, you can talk to a human to book a taxi or use an uber style booking app, taxi's have appropriate insurance, taxis have regular mechanical inspections, and yes, you can legally negotiate an up front price with a taxi driver.
You claim to embrace technology and better ways of doing things.
I was desperate enough to drive cabs in the 80's for three years, I can't imagine being desperate enough to be an Uber driver. Uber brings absolutely nothing to the taxi/limo industry that wasn't already illegal 30yrs ago.
Oh, wait...
"Nobody ever asks about everyday phenomena" - Feynman complaining about people like you.
The sensible goal is not to eliminate inequity but to narrow the gap to something that 'reasonable' people can live with, for example in most scandinavian countries the tax system makes it difficult/impossible for the highest paid to earn more than ~10X the lowest paid. You can still have your corporate empire but you can't suck it dry and spend it all on solid gold plumbing.
Proving once again that "no good deed goes unpunished".
I don't want to pay some clown a bunch of extra money because he got stuck in traffic or took a longer route because he had no idea where he was going.
The one good thing about driving a cab is it teaches you how to handle arseholes - I would have thrown you out of the cab at the next bus stop
And the taxis I see are 15 year[s] old
Unadulterated bullshit. I drove taxis for 3yrs, the oldest one I drove was 5yo, it had 1.2 MILLION kilometres on the clock.
The city of London tweaks the regulations for their legendary taxi industry - because Uber.
Smells like opportunistic marketing to me.
Most business' neither need nor use a real time O/S. All applications that allocate random blocks of memory must find a way to deal with garbage collection, built-in GC makes it easy for the coder. Manual GC just means the coder must manage memory himself, which is mandatory on a proper real time O/S.
The summary says: "Twenty-three years ago, development started on the first version of the Turbo Pascal and later also Delphi-compatible Free Pascal Compiler" Perhaps you should re-read the summary, your paraphrase edits out the bit that makes all the difference???
What part of "his co-operation in the production of the video" makes you think he will get to write the script?
We Aussies got rid of those fucking stupid licenses in the 60's. It's 2015 for fuck sake, a telly is no longer a luxury item, it's a cheap appliance. Just fund the BBC from consolidated revenue and save a shitload on paperwork and policing. It would also save the rest of the planet from having to listen to petty complaints from ideologues who don't want one of their license pennies ending up in the foreign service budget.
There are risks in everything, but it is a safe bet you would change your tune if it was your child facing malaria.