Hmm, the anniversary, not so much:) The actual day, also like yesterday. I was at the seashore in CT, and 13 years old,
at my grandpa's cottage. He had an old, old console tv... remember it was 1969. But even so, the event was still way cool...
Unfortunately, that strategy for limiting damage to the gene pool only works if you die before you've passed on your genes. What about someone who has had children, passed on their genes, then develops cancer and dies ? Now does nature benefit ?
An obvious flaw in the argument is that it assumes that there is a more advanced civilization than ours out there somewhere. But following
Fermi's Paradox, where are they ? There has been no evidence of any other extraterrestrial civilization advanced or otherwise. Drake's
equation states that there probably is, but again, where are they ?
I started off with MOOCs back in 2011 (I think) with the second installment of Andrew Ng's Machine Learning class before Coursera was born (didn't pass). I've taken a bunch of them since then, and gotten Statements of Accomplishment in some, but and in others. Done mostly Data Science and Finance. The Coursera offerings are great for me, as I am in my mid 50s, and just want to learn new things that maybe I can apply to my projects here.
Well, an invasion would not normally happen out of the blue. It would normally be preceded by scouting parties, etc, to determine the strength and/or weaknesses of the adversary. So I guess the first step in detecting a possible invasion would be to detect the scouting party.
Anyway, according to Fermi's Paradox, I think we should have been invaded long ago, that is, if there are any aliens out there to invade.
I don't believe that having lots of job openings necessarily translates to lots of hiring.
Everyone's hiring, but no-one is getting hired. The bar appears to be quite high for skills
now.
Yes, I agree with you. Another thing... we here in the US think that in Russia there is no freedom at all. That is simply not true. Russians at the moment have almost as much freedom in day to day affairs as we do (but you can and do get stopped for all sorts of document checks, etc, which don't happen here. In the US, these would be unreasonable searches). It's difficult to determine where the freedom stops, however, because you might not know who is really in authority.
Vladimir Putin has enjoyed almost rock star like popularity in Russia for his nearly 2 terms now. In fact, several years ago, there was a chart topping single called "Someone like Putin" that was the rage throughout the country (someone that won't leave me, etc, etc). It seems to me that if someone comes along to challenge him, it will take someone of equal or greater popularity to pull it off (someone like Kasparov). Also, I don't really know why, but Russians (at least in Russia), seem to crave a heavy handed goverment, and Putin is more than willing to give it to them. Unfortunately, we really don't understand this phenomenon in the west.
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Hmm, the anniversary, not so much :) The actual day, also like yesterday. I was at the seashore in CT, and 13 years old,
at my grandpa's cottage. He had an old, old console tv ... remember it was 1969. But even so, the event was still way cool ...
Well, there are dates that are important in our collective consciousness. 11/22/63, 07/20/69, 09/11/01. Get it ?
Depends on where it was posted from, west of California (Hawaii ?) , it still would have been July 20th.
Unfortunately, that strategy for limiting damage to the gene pool only works if you die before you've passed on your genes. What about someone who has had children, passed on their genes, then develops cancer and dies ? Now does nature benefit ?
Oh, of course. There's no evidence, because the simulation prevents it.
An obvious flaw in the argument is that it assumes that there is a more advanced civilization than ours out there somewhere. But following Fermi's Paradox, where are they ? There has been no evidence of any other extraterrestrial civilization advanced or otherwise. Drake's equation states that there probably is, but again, where are they ?
They hired Kurzweil a few years ago, and he's now 67 (of course there's only one Ray Kurzweil). Anyway, I don't think the lawsuit has legs.
I started off with MOOCs back in 2011 (I think) with the second installment of Andrew Ng's Machine Learning class before Coursera was born (didn't pass). I've taken a bunch of them since then, and gotten Statements of Accomplishment in some, but and in others. Done mostly Data Science and Finance. The Coursera offerings are great for me, as I am in my mid 50s, and just want to learn new things that maybe I can apply to my projects here.
Why go to college when 50% of the jobs in the economy have simply vanished ? What would you study ?
Well, an invasion would not normally happen out of the blue. It would normally be preceded by scouting parties, etc, to determine the strength and/or weaknesses of the adversary. So I guess the first step in detecting a possible invasion would be to detect the scouting party. Anyway, according to Fermi's Paradox, I think we should have been invaded long ago, that is, if there are any aliens out there to invade.
I don't believe that having lots of job openings necessarily translates to lots of hiring. Everyone's hiring, but no-one is getting hired. The bar appears to be quite high for skills now.
Yes, I agree with you. Another thing ... we here in the US think that in Russia there is no freedom at all. That is simply not true. Russians at the moment have almost as much freedom in day to day affairs as we do (but you can and do get stopped for all sorts of document checks, etc, which don't happen here. In the US, these would be unreasonable searches). It's difficult to determine where the freedom stops, however, because you might not know who is really in authority.
Vladimir Putin has enjoyed almost rock star like popularity in Russia for his nearly 2 terms now. In fact, several years ago, there was a chart topping single called "Someone like Putin" that was the rage throughout the country (someone that won't leave me, etc, etc). It seems to me that if someone comes along to challenge him, it will take someone of equal or greater popularity to pull it off (someone like Kasparov). Also, I don't really know why, but Russians (at least in Russia), seem to crave a heavy handed goverment, and Putin is more than willing to give it to them. Unfortunately, we really don't understand this phenomenon in the west.