Goverments and administrations around the world do-it every day. And even better, they (politics) love to control, with OSS they gain the power to control who's gonna be his provider, that's something monopolies can only fight bribing or lobbying,
-if you like change, you like linux.
-you need just a few linux admins for a whole bunch of computers.
-if you have mainframes, you better look at linux.
-is difficult to name an OS better than linux at stability and scalability.
-linux is undeniably 10% cheaper at TCO.
-even at ROI numbers linux is better.
-Linux is practically zero-viruses, maximal uptime.
-People and Processes works better using standards, so keep using linux.
-carefully read the microsoft EULA, you better not 'accept', ask to your lawyer.
-KDE does noy exist, GNOME is a fad, repeat, KDE does not exist, GNOME is a fad..
-if a SYSTEM patch breaks something is an administrative problem!?.
-You better stay with the real thing 'java', is really multiplatform and well tested.
Having written a dozen genetic algorithms and solved many many problem types using GAs they never cease to suprise me how powerful these methods are.
I work in this field too:
I remember some years ago, talking with a coleage, about neural networks, I told him that i was using genetic algorithms for a) select suitable initial conexion values, and b) help to scape local minima.
He as surprised that both methods could succesfully cooperate.:)
It's possible that this is caused by the fact that the field simply tries to solve things, instead of first proving that it works (AI/ML), or proving that it doesn't work (Operations Research).
As someone said: "if it works is not AI anymore.":)
Seriously, I think the 'Frankenstein syndrome' has already damaged enought AI research.
Yep!, you'r right, DE (differential evolution) is not that old (just 10 years or so) , DE is a 'classical' (used very often) genetic programming algorithm when gene values are floating point values.
My.02..
I like Rebol one of those 'personal' ideas from Carl Sassenrath (the maker of Amiga OS).
In Rebol, code is data, data is code, and usually its only text. Beautifull, refreshing language, try-it for a change.
Win4lin does its job quite well.
Having a non trivial amount of old 16 windows code, win4lin allows you to keep all those old aps that will not be ported in the near future, while living in the Linux world.
It's not 'perfect' (It needs a patched kernel), but works fine and without problems.
So my advice is, don't learn assembly language. Learn Lisp or another abstract language. Think in terms of functions and algorithms, not registers and page faults. Learn to program minimally.
You need BOTH ways, the minimalist one goes for beauty and clarity (pleases the human reader), but the other is the realistic one and if you forget about it, you loose the game, after all is the register and page faults world that gets the work done, so I think its better to know both and choose whatever you want in any situation.
But you are right, as the distance between the machine and the language increases, so it does the dificulty of learnning how to optimize the code.
I've been waitting for a change in computer structure for years, where are those prolog machines, or java cpu's? lost in the bottom of logical computation ocean?:)
That's where I don't know how to follow... 'e' is computable, but Hermitage proved it is also transcendental, and Cantor proved that transcendentals are NOT denumerable!
Any idea?
It's true, algebraic numbers (pi) are denumerable (the number of programs that generate pi are infinite but 'countable'), but still the original sentence included also de number 'e' as denumerable, but 'e' is transcendental and so cannot be denumerable.
Numbers, greed and ignorance are all they infinite. If a program is nothing more than a mathematical formulae, why not directly allow the patentability of numbers?
That way corporations will find an infinite source of revenue!
Let them follow the Midas path.:)
Turing's time was fantastic, just imagine two 'monsters' like Turing and Godel working toghether!
ie) Turing liked to view 'intelligent' systems as complex formal systems, when asked about how 'free' or 'creative' behaviour could emerge from a formal system, he simply stated than error conditions on physical objects are also inavoidable, so although formal systems are of course deterministic, no real implementation can be said to be free of defects, and so it cannot be said to be fully deterministic..
single processing unit, memory-disk dicothomy, no succesfull paralel languajes, same old von-newman computing paradigm, got-it now?
30 years ago I wondered about plugabble small boxes with massive non volatile memory. After all those years still a dream, maybe current computing methods are fantastic for you, in prespective they suck.
My tv is fast, my player or car are also fast, just press the ON button and voila it WORKS!.
I just don't understand why after 30 years of technology I still have to wait MINUTES for a computer to simply go on. Computer and software design was frozen 30 years back, it's a shame.
Slashdot Mirror
A linux group in Iraq is news?
Wow!, that says a lot about world press independece.
Goverments and administrations around the world do-it every day. And even better, they (politics) love to control, with OSS they gain the power to control who's gonna be his provider, that's something monopolies can only fight bribing or lobbying,
So, we could conclude...
-if you like change, you like linux.
-you need just a few linux admins for a whole bunch of computers.
-if you have mainframes, you better look at linux.
-is difficult to name an OS better than linux at stability and scalability.
-linux is undeniably 10% cheaper at TCO.
-even at ROI numbers linux is better.
-Linux is practically zero-viruses, maximal uptime.
-People and Processes works better using standards, so keep using linux.
-carefully read the microsoft EULA, you better not 'accept', ask to your lawyer.
-KDE does noy exist, GNOME is a fad, repeat, KDE does not exist, GNOME is a fad..
-if a SYSTEM patch breaks something is an administrative problem!?.
-You better stay with the real thing 'java', is really multiplatform and well tested.
So metro-sexual was not about size?
Maybe that's because programming is so hard that we are still unable to do and even often imagine 'adaptative' software...
Imagine the day your computer talks (jokes on), do you want-it to talk to you like a record?
Having written a dozen genetic algorithms and solved many many problem types using GAs they never cease to suprise me how powerful these methods are.
I work in this field too: :)
I remember some years ago, talking with a coleage, about neural networks, I told him that i was using genetic algorithms for a) select suitable initial conexion values, and b) help to scape local minima.
He as surprised that both methods could succesfully cooperate.
It's possible that this is caused by the fact that the field simply tries to solve things, instead of first proving that it works (AI/ML), or proving that it doesn't work (Operations Research).
As someone said: "if it works is not AI anymore." :)
Seriously, I think the 'Frankenstein syndrome' has already damaged enought AI research.
Yep!, you'r right, DE (differential evolution) is not that old (just 10 years or so) , DE is a 'classical' (used very often) genetic programming algorithm when gene values are floating point values.
One of the classical algorithms to do genetic evolution using floating point values (not bits) as parameters, is Differential evolution.
Good! Let's exchange biologic memory for a new electronic one, that way if you unplu
Any form of digital content is just a number, maybe a big number, but nothing more than a number.
Is stupid to try to 'hide' or 'protect' numbers.
My .02..
I like Rebol one of those 'personal' ideas from Carl Sassenrath (the maker of Amiga OS).
In Rebol, code is data, data is code, and usually its only text. Beautifull, refreshing language, try-it for a change.
Win4lin does its job quite well.
Having a non trivial amount of old 16 windows code, win4lin allows you to keep all those old aps that will not be ported in the near future, while living in the Linux world.
It's not 'perfect' (It needs a patched kernel), but works fine and without problems.
Yes, and also the Error Oriented Programming (EOP)...
The first error is just to think about programming.
What's in a sig?
So my advice is, don't learn assembly language. Learn Lisp or another abstract language. Think in terms of functions and algorithms, not registers and page faults. Learn to program minimally.
You need BOTH ways, the minimalist one goes for beauty and clarity (pleases the human reader), but the other is the realistic one and if you forget about it, you loose the game, after all is the register and page faults world that gets the work done, so I think its better to know both and choose whatever you want in any situation. :)
But you are right, as the distance between the machine and the language increases, so it does the dificulty of learnning how to optimize the code.
I've been waitting for a change in computer structure for years, where are those prolog machines, or java cpu's? lost in the bottom of logical computation ocean?
What's in a sig?
That's where I don't know how to follow... 'e' is computable, but Hermitage proved it is also transcendental, and Cantor proved that transcendentals are NOT denumerable!
Any idea?
What's in a sig?
It's true, algebraic numbers (pi) are denumerable (the number of programs that generate pi are infinite but 'countable'), but still the original sentence included also de number 'e' as denumerable, but 'e' is transcendental and so cannot be denumerable.
What's in a sig?
Any number that can be generated by a computer program (pi, e, etc) therefore is denumerable.
That's only correct in the sense that no infinite processing is considered. Pi is irrational and as such is not denumerable (rational).
What's in a sig?
Maybe the neo-anarchist software developers of Antwerp and Barcelona are a different story
Could you please elaborate a little more about those developers? I know programmers form both places but never heard about 'neo-anarchist' ones.
What's in a sig?
Numbers, greed and ignorance are all they infinite. If a program is nothing more than a mathematical formulae, why not directly allow the patentability of numbers? :)
That way corporations will find an infinite source of revenue!
Let them follow the Midas path.
What's in a sig?
'Microsoft quiere partentarlo TODO!' (castilian) :)
What's ina sig?
Turing's time was fantastic, just imagine two 'monsters' like Turing and Godel working toghether!
ie) Turing liked to view 'intelligent' systems as complex formal systems, when asked about how 'free' or 'creative' behaviour could emerge from a formal system, he simply stated than error conditions on physical objects are also inavoidable, so although formal systems are of course deterministic, no real implementation can be said to be free of defects, and so it cannot be said to be fully deterministic..
What's in a sig?
At what point does it cease to be Microsoft's problem and become the PC owner's?
At the point where PC owner's money return to his pocket.
What's in a sig?
single processing unit, memory-disk dicothomy, no succesfull paralel languajes, same old von-newman computing paradigm, got-it now?
30 years ago I wondered about plugabble small boxes with massive non volatile memory. After all those years still a dream, maybe current computing methods are fantastic for you, in prespective they suck.
What's in a sig?
FASTS? Operating systems are FASTS???
My tv is fast, my player or car are also fast, just press the ON button and voila it WORKS!.
I just don't understand why after 30 years of technology I still have to wait MINUTES for a computer to simply go on. Computer and software design was frozen 30 years back, it's a shame.
What's in a sig?