The techniques could potentially be useful a lot closer to home than Alpha Centauri. Communication even with Mars is greatly complicated by the transmission delay. But can you really send signals that can affect actions taken at a distance at FTL speeds without violating causality?
Using the same logic, animal tests on new drugs are a waste of time. We should be directly using them on humans.
The techniques used to develop Alpha Go are going to be used in the future to develop AIs that improve human quality of life (as well, unfortunately, as military and other less positive uses). Trying out the techniques on games first seems like a prudent step.
To digress, one of the problems AIs are going to face in the future is that (like human intelligence) it can never make the optimal decisions 100% of the time. I predict that this will be used to delay their application well after they are superior to humans. I personally hope that I will be allowed to choose an AI-based doctor as soon as it becomes qualitatively better than most human doctors (as well as cheaper) but my guess is that I will not have the choice for a long time.
Contact bridge is one game where (in spite of some serious efforts like Ginsberg's Intelligent Bridge Player) AIs can still not play near the level of top human players. The game combines imperfect information with being a partnership game. Perhaps an even greater challenge, you are prohibited by the rules from using optimum bidding systems and card signalling methods as these are too difficult for the average player to defend against.
If Microsoft can perpetrate something like this, I think I had better set aside some time to verify that I do not have omissions in my own backup and disaster recovery procedures.I cannot imagine having to report something like this to top management.
Sure they did. IBM introduced the 3330 disk, a 100 MB harddisk in June 1970. It was even hot swappable. See 3330 disk to get an idea of what it looked like. Note the handle on the top to facilitate mounting and dismounting it. It did not sell very well among home users though.
What SCO agreed to is dismissing remaining motions for summary judgment. This is more IBM agreeing there is no point delaying SCO's option of appealing the motions that went against them. It is still possible that SCO might try one last gasp effort in the appeals court. I am not sure how long they have before they must file such an appeal.
It is true that a careful reading of TFA suggests there is probably not much to worry about. However, it is wise to be cautious. We know older nuclear plants often have design flaws. We certainly would not want major nuclear contamination this close to a major metropolitan area.
So, if my reading has been inadequate, educate me. I am currently under the (misguided?) impression that the evolutionary origin of senescence is still unknown. A favorite hypothesis has been that early death from all causes in nature drives the need for high fertility and (with few individuals living to old age) makes mutations leading to senescence irrelevant to species survival. Also popular is the notion that fertility is competitive, and it is more important to be good at procreation early in life than able to be long lived. The "disposable soma" theory that mechanisms for cellular repair would detract from those for fertility has never made much sense to me. If both can coexist when young, why must repair mechanisms deteriorate when we get older? I am aware that various evolvibility theories based upon group selection exist, but will be grateful if you would point me to the references where this is proven.
Your joking right? They spend 5 times a day praying on their knees to a god who doesn't really exist. How do they have time to do any actual research?
The God they are worshiping is the same as the Christian God. In the US, unless you profess that you believe in Him (or Her) you have no chance of being elected to high political office. How is insisting your leaders believe in this non existent God more likely to result in good science than worshiping Him (or Her)?
One puzzle is why evolution has resulted in humans (and the vast majority of other organisms) having a limited lifespan with frequent breeding. Superficially, it would seem more efficient to invest less in the ability to procreate, but permit unlimited healthy lifespans. I have an hypothesis which I think fits with the content of TFA. Frequent breeding allows natural selection to counteract emerging diseases. Where a disease evolves that threatens to wipe out a species, genetic diversity provides an excellent chance that some individuals will be resistant. These resistant individuals can breed to aid species regeneration after being decimated by such a disease.
Actually, I can see VR/AR being used to enhance safety, similar to a kind of anti collision system in cars. When the user is not paying attention and running into danger as a result, a submodule could kick in that forces the user to focus on the threat.
I did RTFA, but am still confused. It seems a major advantage is that the polymer returns to its original shape when heat is removed, but just normal body heat allows it to be molded into other shapes. In a medical setting, how does it return to the original shape given that it is presumably installed in an environment with a temperature at or near body heat? Also, body heat is not that hot. In non medical applications, what is a range of temperatures where it will retain its strength and resist going out of shape?
For the sixth consecutive time, Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, has retained its position as the world’s No. 1 system, according to the 46th edition of the twice-yearly TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.
Naive Go algorithms will beat any human player on any size board given enough time and enough storage.
If by enough storage you mean more bits than there are atoms in the universe, and by time you mean longer than the life of our solar system, you are correct. However, constructing and powering your computer does not seem a trivial task.
East Germany, as a separate nation with its own prison system, ceased to exist in 1990. Your comparison is, thus, against a null set I am curious, though. Do you have personal experience of MIT as a student or faculty member? Were you ever incarcerated in East Germany prior to German reunification? In general, what is the basis for your outdated comparison?
Not clear any of this is relevant to the original topic, though. In your defense, I guess zombies are of more interest to most nerds than classic novels, or even Internet links in Africa.
Does anyone knoe if this knocked out phone links also (and, if not, why they use separate links)?
Previous such cutting of fibre links are thought to have been caused by spy agencies attaching taps to the cables. My guess is that, if not accidental, that is the cause here. Terrorist groups might gain some ideas from this though.
If you think that's bad, you should see the power bill
By my reckoning, at $0.15 per kWh, that would come to $15,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or roughly 800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times the US national debt. Perhaps, they would allow you to pay this off in installments.
It was easy to predict that many governments would do this once the enabling technologies were available. I am surprised when people do not expect it. Control of their populations is a high priority of most countries. That is much more easily accomplished if you know who the potential troublemakers are, and have suitable blackmail material to keep them in line.
As long as they have plausible deniability, they do not care much about credibility. In a true democracy, credibility would be important. It would affect their budget. In the real world, most of the power brokers are happy to go along with this BS, and mass surveillance means they usually have blackmail material against anyone with influence who tries to make trouble.
Shouldn't you be posting about how "all countries' security services do this", and "if you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to hide, so the surveillance does not affect you"? Do your surveys show that people no longer lap up that BS any more?
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The techniques could potentially be useful a lot closer to home than Alpha Centauri. Communication even with Mars is greatly complicated by the transmission delay. But can you really send signals that can affect actions taken at a distance at FTL speeds without violating causality?
Using the same logic, animal tests on new drugs are a waste of time. We should be directly using them on humans.
The techniques used to develop Alpha Go are going to be used in the future to develop AIs that improve human quality of life (as well, unfortunately, as military and other less positive uses). Trying out the techniques on games first seems like a prudent step.
To digress, one of the problems AIs are going to face in the future is that (like human intelligence) it can never make the optimal decisions 100% of the time. I predict that this will be used to delay their application well after they are superior to humans. I personally hope that I will be allowed to choose an AI-based doctor as soon as it becomes qualitatively better than most human doctors (as well as cheaper) but my guess is that I will not have the choice for a long time.
Contact bridge is one game where (in spite of some serious efforts like Ginsberg's Intelligent Bridge Player) AIs can still not play near the level of top human players. The game combines imperfect information with being a partnership game. Perhaps an even greater challenge, you are prohibited by the rules from using optimum bidding systems and card signalling methods as these are too difficult for the average player to defend against.
If Microsoft can perpetrate something like this, I think I had better set aside some time to verify that I do not have omissions in my own backup and disaster recovery procedures.I cannot imagine having to report something like this to top management.
I have not checked your math, but I assume you are correct. There is one flaw in your logic, however. Batteries do not grow on trees.
Sure they did. IBM introduced the 3330 disk, a 100 MB harddisk in June 1970. It was even hot swappable. See 3330 disk to get an idea of what it looked like. Note the handle on the top to facilitate mounting and dismounting it. It did not sell very well among home users though.
What SCO agreed to is dismissing remaining motions for summary judgment . This is more IBM agreeing there is no point delaying SCO's option of appealing the motions that went against them. It is still possible that SCO might try one last gasp effort in the appeals court. I am not sure how long they have before they must file such an appeal.
It is true that a careful reading of TFA suggests there is probably not much to worry about. However, it is wise to be cautious. We know older nuclear plants often have design flaws. We certainly would not want major nuclear contamination this close to a major metropolitan area.
So, if my reading has been inadequate, educate me. I am currently under the (misguided?) impression that the evolutionary origin of senescence is still unknown. A favorite hypothesis has been that early death from all causes in nature drives the need for high fertility and (with few individuals living to old age) makes mutations leading to senescence irrelevant to species survival. Also popular is the notion that fertility is competitive, and it is more important to be good at procreation early in life than able to be long lived. The "disposable soma" theory that mechanisms for cellular repair would detract from those for fertility has never made much sense to me. If both can coexist when young, why must repair mechanisms deteriorate when we get older? I am aware that various evolvibility theories based upon group selection exist, but will be grateful if you would point me to the references where this is proven.
The God they are worshiping is the same as the Christian God. In the US, unless you profess that you believe in Him (or Her) you have no chance of being elected to high political office. How is insisting your leaders believe in this non existent God more likely to result in good science than worshiping Him (or Her)?
One puzzle is why evolution has resulted in humans (and the vast majority of other organisms) having a limited lifespan with frequent breeding. Superficially, it would seem more efficient to invest less in the ability to procreate, but permit unlimited healthy lifespans. I have an hypothesis which I think fits with the content of TFA. Frequent breeding allows natural selection to counteract emerging diseases. Where a disease evolves that threatens to wipe out a species, genetic diversity provides an excellent chance that some individuals will be resistant. These resistant individuals can breed to aid species regeneration after being decimated by such a disease.
It is amazing to recall that the world's top supercomputer ASCI Red from 1997 to 2000 was only capable of just over 1 TFLOP.
Actually, I can see VR/AR being used to enhance safety, similar to a kind of anti collision system in cars. When the user is not paying attention and running into danger as a result, a submodule could kick in that forces the user to focus on the threat.
I did RTFA, but am still confused. It seems a major advantage is that the polymer returns to its original shape when heat is removed, but just normal body heat allows it to be molded into other shapes. In a medical setting, how does it return to the original shape given that it is presumably installed in an environment with a temperature at or near body heat? Also, body heat is not that hot. In non medical applications, what is a range of temperatures where it will retain its strength and resist going out of shape?
You watch the wrong movies. Any avid movie follower knows that gunshots, wherever they are directed, are completely useless against zombies.
Also worthy of note:
(Source: Top 500 lists November 2015)
Supercomputers are fundamental to leading edge scientific research.
If by enough storage you mean more bits than there are atoms in the universe, and by time you mean longer than the life of our solar system, you are correct. However, constructing and powering your computer does not seem a trivial task.
East Germany, as a separate nation with its own prison system, ceased to exist in 1990. Your comparison is, thus, against a null set I am curious, though. Do you have personal experience of MIT as a student or faculty member? Were you ever incarcerated in East Germany prior to German reunification? In general, what is the basis for your outdated comparison?
Not clear any of this is relevant to the original topic, though. In your defense, I guess zombies are of more interest to most nerds than classic novels, or even Internet links in Africa.
Does anyone knoe if this knocked out phone links also (and, if not, why they use separate links)?
Previous such cutting of fibre links are thought to have been caused by spy agencies attaching taps to the cables. My guess is that, if not accidental, that is the cause here. Terrorist groups might gain some ideas from this though.
By my reckoning, at $0.15 per kWh, that would come to $15,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or roughly 800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times the US national debt. Perhaps, they would allow you to pay this off in installments.
It was easy to predict that many governments would do this once the enabling technologies were available. I am surprised when people do not expect it. Control of their populations is a high priority of most countries. That is much more easily accomplished if you know who the potential troublemakers are, and have suitable blackmail material to keep them in line.
As long as they have plausible deniability, they do not care much about credibility. In a true democracy, credibility would be important. It would affect their budget. In the real world, most of the power brokers are happy to go along with this BS, and mass surveillance means they usually have blackmail material against anyone with influence who tries to make trouble.
Shouldn't you be posting about how "all countries' security services do this", and "if you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to hide, so the surveillance does not affect you"? Do your surveys show that people no longer lap up that BS any more?
The non-kangaroo will probably be an ostrich with his head in the sand.