Having gone through the American education system from elementary school to graduate school (note to, not through). I can tell you that this won't be a problem... What we loose in the early years appears to be made up for in later years.
Need anyone be reminded that America can simplly control knowledge at the highest levels... Just bring the top foreign students here and then take their stipends away. Make them deliver fast food for a living so they can't work on the cool stuff.
Hi, if you read Chinese, you may realize that they don't sensor the mainland news.
For example. I found news from papers created by the infamous, (and illegal, and banned in PRC.) cult FLG group.
If anything is sensored to please the Chinese government, that would be. But of course, there is the frequent problem of Chinese people in China loosing access to google search engine--a much bigger problem for Google right now.
Take a look at this site. It's a good start for computer science majors
from there, there're cool things like "modern math", and then you should go deep--way deep: two semesters of linear algebra, graph theory, set theory, algebra, real analysis, numerical methods, mathematical logic, ohh, right, and some more calculus...
as a computer science graduate student, I'm hating my self for not taking these classes as undergraduate. (well, or for taking them and not remembering too much) It's all very very useful!!
Ohh, ohh ohh! this one time..., in college, it was close to Christmas break, so I sent a message from santa@north.pole.org telling a friend of mine, who, incidentally, has been pretty nasty to me for the semester, that he's been naughty, and isn't getting anything for Christmas!!
It was really funny wathching them try to come to senses with the reality that Santa exists and uses Email!! And that Santa is actually watching everybody!
I remember this movie best by it's NPR presentation. All special effects and persons are played by one storry teller. This was before internet was hip, and wow! This is a really gripping storry when told right.
I don't think this software can identify the same person 30 years later from their teen picture. Though at this rate, that technology isn't too far off either.
Does this mean I don't have to write my email anymore? I knew if Slashdot kept on talking about it, it'd be smart enough to do something useful for me...
WHY was this rated 5 and informative!?!?!? This seems awefully anecdotal evidence. Show us some proof--show us this story in a non-american history book!!!!
In a 211 class some number of years ago, Bruce was not his now lean-mean aikami self, but had quite a stomach... Somebody drew a cute little yoda like, round character, on the board one day, giving sage advice in a comic book baloon saying: "Don't forget to memoize.":-)
And yet again there is a Japanese crew man on the series. What about the quarter of human popuation that is Chinese? Will they still be technically behind and socially unacceptable in the 22nd century? While there continues to be strong Japanese presence in all of the series.
Alas, it is a 20/21 century tv show... Still have to target the American audience.
(for those who can't read it, it says some thing to the effect that "this is the first post, and you are all rotten eggs!!" I don't think babblefish can handle this yet...)
So, as an aside, mostly American government don't need to do any thing because the media over here is an auto-censor. To state the obvious: what drives the media is sensationalism, and what does the American people want to here? That American is the knite in white running all over the world saving the stupid and poor foreigners from certain doom. Ocassionally it manufactures controvertial stories about scandles or conflicts within America. But only go as far as showing how great the American system is. There is no doubt it is great. But it does not mean that every one out side of US is stupid and poor.
Any ways, all that to say, this "FIRST POST" from China is not an insult to slashdot, or Americans who seem to dominate slashdot. But it refelects a general Anti-American feeling that the American media help to put in just about every non-American's heart--Well at least most of the Chinese any ways...
(btw, how do you stop all porn sites? It seems relatively easy to stop traffic to and from NYT, but porn sites?)
Now, can someone in China confirm this story? Lets here what some uninsulting Chinese remarks about this
The nicest thing about Viao is that it runs LINUX! Try that on your HP or TI!;-) I understand that many of you pre-college dudes care not allowed to use Computers on class assignments and tests. But for those who have any serious work that needs done, 'bc -l', 'octave', and 'gnuplot', etc. And you can even use your favorate C/C++/Java what ever to program.:-)
Very funny movie. Though one has to have certain back ground(namely trek view experience.), and has to be in a certain mood--suspension of suspension of suspension of disbelieve to enjoy it.
I'm sure the story told is in every trekie's dream at one point or another. The only thing I'm wondering is why aren't the trek fans all out there seeing it again and again to improve ticket sales? It is such a fantasy come true! I can feel my inner child hoppning on the Protector with the actors...
Yes, the tutorial is available on line. But the full imlementation contains innumerable number of nontrivial algorithmic hacks to improve the quality of results and response time. The problem with PageRank being patented lies in the fact that it has been used for ever! the earliest paper about a similar technique was published in 1968.
The techniques used by bibliometrics(The study of literatures by analyzing citations.) are much much more sophisticated, but lack only one thing--automation. So the technique has long been used to analyze corpus of papers that contains references(links) to determin relative goodness, the only original thought here is to apply it to the web. Fundamentally, it does the same thing as Latent Semantic Indexing(LSI), by performing SVD on a matrix. The only difference is how the matrix is formed, and how the results are used.
PageRank is hard to spam. Though getting it to work right is not so easy just looking at this tutorial. Go and try it, I can almost guarantee that you'll have problems getting the naive version to even come close to its results. Hrm, though I guess bigger search engines like yahoo, and altavista has the resources to "steal" it.
I do wonder about one thing though, will the google business model work out? What company uses their search engine on a local site?
It is definately true that one can map any consistent function's output to its input by trying them all out, and knowing such mapping is equivalent to knowing the function. Aside from noting that it is quite difficuult to do this even for continuous valued non-trivial functions, that it is much harder to do for such a complex function as the human being, we need to change the wording.
Behaviorism, as other posters have pointed out has special meaning in pshychology. What one mean to say is that we want to see empirical evidence that robots have "emotions" and "sensations." Thus far, the best standard for testing things like emotions, intelligence, etc. is the human being--Thus the Turing test.
Empirically, if we observe same behavior comming out of a 'bot as a human, we would say that yes the bot is same as human.
Self-aware machines crave to be humans because humans are not willing to give up any thing that is part of "being human." Creating a robot is to make it do things better than we can. But often, the sci-fi writers find that the most perfect being is still the human being, even given its many flaws.
Keep in mind, that Asmov was the one who coined the phrase "ROBOT," and "ROBOTICS." He is the first one to seriously think about these issues. Data Fron ST:TNG is in many part drived from Asmovian robots. most notably the positronic brain, and the quest for humanity.
I think its best to see what they are trying to say, much less what they are saying. The best "sci-fi"'s are not categorized as "fantasy" because they really deal with reality under a magnifying glass.
So, yes, interms of technology, it is easier to classify webpages into categories, then index them within each category. Check out http://www.cora.jprc.com/ It is a search engine for Computer Science researhc papers. It is in a format that is just like yahoo. But every thing is done automatically!
So, the technology is here. It is just a matter of time before this kind of thing is neccessary.
Well there may still be uses for it. For instance, going back to that FREEVMWARE that was slashdoted a few days ago. They mention that they had to code their own little OS to test their code. This seems to be the perfect little OS to test and develop FREEVMWARE on/with. There is always use for some thing new.
Again, for those who don't know, China has more people than any other country in the world.(And probably more geeks than any other country too) But it has much less resources for them to exploit in an unregulated way. The banks simplly can't stand up to the amount of assult what will take place if every one who can, do, hack.
For those of you don't know, China is making very big social and economic changes. There are imballances that needs to be taken care of by "non-standard" means. If the United States suddenly had today's automobiles and highway system in the 40's, It would probably actually need to "nuke" a few who run red lights. The people would not have been accustomed to following such arbitrary rules as a few lights hanging in the street.
Slashdot Mirror
Having gone through the American education system from elementary school to graduate school (note to, not through). I can tell you that this won't be a problem... What we loose in the early years appears to be made up for in later years.
Need anyone be reminded that America can simplly control knowledge at the highest levels... Just bring the top foreign students here and then take their stipends away. Make them deliver fast food for a living so they can't work on the cool stuff.
Don't laugh! Becuase this isn't funny.
Does it make it easier that there is secrecy? The programs don't know the other programs strategies.
Hi, if you read Chinese, you may realize that they don't sensor the mainland news.
For example. I found news from papers created by the infamous, (and illegal, and banned in PRC.) cult FLG group.
If anything is sensored to please the Chinese government, that would be. But of course, there is the frequent problem of Chinese people in China loosing access to google search engine--a much bigger problem for Google right now.
some body please tell him to report PR scores instead of Accuracy!!!!
and is that his girlfriend in the background?
Opps, missed combinatorics... another one of those things that I forgot after taking it...
;-)
Ohh, and take some English too while you are at it... don't mispell discrete like I did.
from there, there're cool things like "modern math", and then you should go deep--way deep: two semesters of linear algebra, graph theory, set theory, algebra, real analysis, numerical methods, mathematical logic, ohh, right, and some more calculus... as a computer science graduate student, I'm hating my self for not taking these classes as undergraduate. (well, or for taking them and not remembering too much) It's all very very useful!!
Hey, I just tried it and it doesn't work with foreigh language file names. (i.e. the scroller doesn't display anthing but english and gerbrish)
Ohh, ohh ohh! this one time..., in college, it was close to Christmas break, so I sent a message from santa@north.pole.org telling a friend of mine, who, incidentally, has been pretty nasty to me for the semester, that he's been naughty, and isn't getting anything for Christmas!!
It was really funny wathching them try to come to senses with the reality that Santa exists and uses Email!! And that Santa is actually watching everybody!
I downloaded 3.23.55, it would appear to have came with the InnoDB.
I could do foreign key constraints etc...
I remember this movie best by it's NPR presentation. All special effects and persons are played by one storry teller. This was before internet was hip, and wow! This is a really gripping storry when told right.
wasn't there some in the Final Frontier? With Uhura?
It's amazing how much goes down!
The always reliable ground line phone to Washington and Baltimore is was no lnoger up.
The conenction to cell phones are off course all not going through.
I can reach NONE of the news sites!!!! NONE except for slashdot, and I suspect the only reason that is is because nerds are still the minority.
Technology is far from been robust in the most non-comercial sense.
We have a long way to go...
I don't think this software can identify the same person 30 years later from their teen picture. Though at this rate, that technology isn't too far off either.
Does this mean I don't have to write my email anymore?
I knew if Slashdot kept on talking about it, it'd be smart enough to do something useful for me...
WHY was this rated 5 and informative!?!?!? This seems awefully anecdotal evidence. Show us some proof--show us this story in a non-american history book!!!!
Yea, I remember Maggs...
:-)
In a 211 class some number of years ago, Bruce was not his now lean-mean aikami self, but had quite a stomach... Somebody drew a cute little yoda like, round character, on the board one day, giving sage advice in a comic book baloon saying: "Don't forget to memoize."
He is quite a bit shorter than Guy Blelloch...
And yet again there is a Japanese crew man on the series. What about the quarter of human popuation that is Chinese? Will they still be technically behind and socially unacceptable in the 22nd century? While there continues to be strong Japanese presence in all of the series.
Alas, it is a 20/21 century tv show... Still have to target the American audience.
Yeah you go boy, tell them what they really are!
(for those who can't read it, it says some thing to the effect that "this is the first post, and you are all rotten eggs!!" I don't think babblefish can handle this yet...)
So, as an aside, mostly American government don't need to do any thing because the media over here is an auto-censor. To state the obvious: what drives the media is sensationalism, and what does the American people want to here? That American is the knite in white running all over the world saving the stupid and poor foreigners from certain doom. Ocassionally it manufactures controvertial stories about scandles or conflicts within America. But only go as far as showing how great the American system is. There is no doubt it is great. But it does not mean that every one out side of US is stupid and poor.
Any ways, all that to say, this "FIRST POST" from China is not an insult to slashdot, or Americans who seem to dominate slashdot. But it refelects a general Anti-American feeling that the American media help to put in just about every non-American's heart--Well at least most of the Chinese any ways...
(btw, how do you stop all porn sites? It seems relatively easy to stop traffic to and from NYT, but porn sites?)
Now, can someone in China confirm this story? Lets here what some uninsulting Chinese remarks about this
The nicest thing about Viao is that it runs LINUX! ;-) I understand that many of you pre-college dudes care not allowed to use Computers on class assignments and tests. But for those who have any serious work that needs done, 'bc -l', 'octave', and 'gnuplot', etc. And you can even use your favorate C/C++/Java what ever to program. :-)
Try that on your HP or TI!
Very funny movie. Though one has to have certain back ground(namely trek view experience.), and has to be in a certain mood--suspension of suspension of suspension of disbelieve to enjoy it.
I'm sure the story told is in every trekie's dream at one point or another. The only thing I'm wondering is why aren't the trek fans all out there seeing it again and again to improve ticket sales? It is such a fantasy come true! I can feel my inner child hoppning on the Protector with the actors...
Go see it! Have fun!
Yes, the tutorial is available on line. But the full imlementation contains innumerable number of nontrivial algorithmic hacks to improve the quality of results and response time. The problem with PageRank being patented lies in the fact that it has been used for ever! the earliest paper about a similar technique was published in 1968.
The techniques used by bibliometrics(The study of literatures by analyzing citations.) are much much more sophisticated, but lack only one thing--automation. So the technique has long been used to analyze corpus of papers that contains references(links) to determin relative goodness, the only original thought here is to apply it to the web. Fundamentally, it does the same thing as Latent Semantic Indexing(LSI), by performing SVD on a matrix. The only difference is how the matrix is formed, and how the results are used.
PageRank is hard to spam. Though getting it to work right is not so easy just looking at this tutorial. Go and try it, I can almost guarantee that you'll have problems getting the naive version to even come close to its results. Hrm, though I guess bigger search engines like yahoo, and altavista has the resources to "steal" it.
I do wonder about one thing though, will the google business model work out? What company uses their search engine on a local site?
It is definately true that one can map any consistent function's output to its input by trying them all out, and knowing such mapping is equivalent to knowing the function. Aside from noting that it is quite difficuult to do this even for continuous valued non-trivial functions, that it is much harder to do for such a complex function as the human being, we need to change the wording.
Behaviorism, as other posters have pointed out has special meaning in pshychology. What one mean to say is that we want to see empirical evidence that robots have "emotions" and "sensations." Thus far, the best standard for testing things like emotions, intelligence, etc. is the human being--Thus the Turing test.
Empirically, if we observe same behavior comming out of a 'bot as a human, we would say that yes the bot is same as human.
Self-aware machines crave to be humans because humans are not willing to give up any thing that is part of "being human." Creating a robot is to make it do things better than we can. But often, the sci-fi writers find that the most perfect being is still the human being, even given its many flaws.
Keep in mind, that Asmov was the one who coined the phrase "ROBOT," and "ROBOTICS." He is the first one to seriously think about these issues. Data Fron ST:TNG is in many part drived from Asmovian robots. most notably the positronic brain, and the quest for humanity.
I think its best to see what they are trying to say, much less what they are saying. The best "sci-fi"'s are not categorized as "fantasy" because they really deal with reality under a magnifying glass.
my $.02
So, yes, interms of technology, it is easier to classify webpages into categories, then index them within each category. Check out http://www.cora.jprc.com/ It is a search engine for Computer Science researhc papers. It is in a format that is just like yahoo. But every thing is done automatically!
So, the technology is here. It is just a matter of time before this kind of thing is neccessary.
Well there may still be uses for it. For instance, going back to that FREEVMWARE that was slashdoted a few days ago. They mention that they had to code their own little OS to test their code. This seems to be the perfect little OS to test and develop FREEVMWARE on/with. There is always use for some thing new.
Again, for those who don't know, China has more people than any other country in the world.(And probably more geeks than any other country too) But it has much less resources for them to exploit in an unregulated way. The banks simplly can't stand up to the amount of assult what will take place if every one who can, do, hack.
For those of you don't know, China is making very big social and economic changes. There are imballances that needs to be taken care of by "non-standard" means. If the United States suddenly had today's automobiles and highway system in the 40's, It would probably actually need to "nuke" a few who run red lights. The people would not have been accustomed to following such arbitrary rules as a few lights hanging in the street.