But this really is old news. I'm a 22 year old snot-nosed nobody and I did "evolvable hardware" during an internship two summers ago. My mentor had started on evolved FPGAs in 1992.
I am hoping that it is the writer's fault that this article feels so gloriously over-reaching and under-specified. From the paper, it looks like they have made a good advancement. They argue that their method is more effective than previous methods by several quantifiable metrics. From the article, it looks like they have invented an entirely new field that will result in the obsolescence of humans by 2010.
As for their method: It appears that the evolved genome actually dictates a structure that is imprinted a level above the fabric. That is, the underlying SRAM in the FPGA fabric is fixed, and only configuration bits are being changed. This severely hurts their claim of "generic evolvable hardware", but is almost an absolute necessity given the chips they are using. The reason our system was so slow is that each configuration stream had to be checked for possible errors: Some configurations would short power and ground, and fabric doesn't like crowbars!
In conclusion, I believe the writer of the article should be fired, and the authors of the paper should be commended for a good step in the right direction. I'd also like to appologize for my lack of coherance: I had my tonsils out and I am therefore high on Hydrocodone.
I have less than a 64th of the chance to develop liver disease than all those pansy "moderation" drinkers. If your caffeine intake ain't got you buzzing like a vibe set to "Yes, very", you ain't drinking properly.
n. [mythically from a traditional Czech assasination method, via SF fandom] 1. Proper karmic retribution for an incorrigible punster. "Oh, ghod, that was _awful_!" "Quick! Defenestrate him!" 2. The act of exiting a window system in order to get better response time from a full-screen program. This comes from the dictionary meaning of `defenestrate', which is to throw something out a window. 3. The act of discarding something under the assumption that it will improve matters. "I don't have any disk space left." "Well, why don't you defenestrate that 100 megs worth of old core dumps?" 4. Under a GUI, the act of dragging something out of a window (onto the screen). "Next, defenestrate the MugWump icon." 5. The act of completely removing Micro$oft Windows from a PC in favor of a better OS (typically Linux).
Carpenters using hammers found more productive than those without.
I guess this is another way of showing that humans can only handle so many raw bits of information per second, and computers are great at compressing information. I think computers are destined to be the best secretaries imaginable, and not a whole lot more (in our life time). When we each have our own personal assistants sorting and organizing for us, we can have efficiencies currently unheard of.
What concerns me though, is that perhaps not everyone is capable of taking a management position. If we digitize all the lower ranks, what happens to the people who are only capable of those ranks. If we digitize all janitors, what do the uneducated or retarder (pardon my pc-ness) do?
I had an internship with a company that writes a video codec. The contract prevented me from working in video codecs for 1 year.
The way they explained it to me was that they don't want me getting hired by another company and giving them what the first company had. After a year, my specific knowledge would be industry standard, and it wouldn't be necessary for me to be bound by this any more.
THe funny bit was that I was a highschool senior at the time, it was a 8 wek internship, and my job was to watch movies.
For my own notes - the PepperBall is a method by which teargas is administered? or am I completely wrong? I was under the impression that they fired a teargas "grenade" of some sort, which is intended to hit the ground and release, but instead hit her.
I haven't tried that - I'll start up a competition with my sisters when I get back home.
One game we did do for points was the last name game: Our last name is pronounced with a "ike" sound, but inevitably they pronounce it with an "ick" sound. A few times, we made them keep trying until they got it before we would hand it off.
It is a good screen though - if you obviously don't know us, we probably don't want to talk to you. If they ask first, they probably want to talk. If they just fail flat on their face and sound depressed, it is probably because they have been failing the entire day.
Be nice to the telemarketers. They get paid based on how long you remain on the phone. Sample conversation:
"Hi, Is mr va.. van... van....wijckikewsf??? there?" "Yup, talking." "Oh, would you be interested in..." "Hey, you see the Sox game last night?" "What?" "Pretty sweet. What is your favorite baseball team?" "Sir?" "Haven't heard of them - what league are they in?" "would you like a new credit card?" "Would I ever! I hear Rodriguez has one of those. You know his batting average was ### last year? I saw him 3 weeks ago at a home game." "I saw that game on TV - remember the bottom of the 4th?"
And so forth. The business loses money, you get to talk to someone. We all know that us compy geeks are looking for a good conversation.
"Hey man, I'm going to make this website, and EVERYONE is going to click on it. Give me your money now, and when everyone clicks on http://thebubblealreadyburst.com/, you'll be a dot com millionaire!"
"I hear cow shares are going to triple in the next 6 months"
I think the major point of difference between a riot control shotgun and a riot control laz0r b33m of 95Ghz millimeter microwaveryness is the intent of the person on the trigger end.
A good cop ain't going to shoot me in the face with a shotgun (unless I'm doing something _really_ bad). A good cop will shoot me in the face with this gizmo if he has been told that it is "just a little pain" with "no permanent damage".
The real danger comes from divorcing the damage inflicted from the percieved damage inflicted.
And even if we train the riot cops, we don't know the worst case scenario. Riot cops get tear gassed during training - but that didn't save the life of the girl who was tear gassed during the red sox riots last year.
I have a Dell laptop with one expansion bay that can hold a floppy drive, a CDrom drive or an extra battery. I put the floppy drive in once for shits and giggles. I had the CDrom in until I got the extra battery, and since then have used the CDrom only to install a few games. For everything else, I use teh interwebs.
Now that I can download real games (HL2), I doubt I'll have a whole lot of need for my CDrom drive. And if I do, I can always hotswap borrow one from one of my class mates (we all have the same laptops).
I hope for AMD's sake this is true. I mean, I wish it wasn't, but AMD is risking SCO status if they are too noisy and whiny. I'm not saying they don't have a case - I'm just saying that no one wants to buy stuff from a whiner.
I'm right behind you, ready to jump onto the pedestal when you need a break. Letting those..."people"... out is our society's way of showing that we believe that people capable of committing atrocities are also capable of being rehabilitated, AND are worth the effort to do so. Granted, major worms affect more people that a single rapist does, but it certainly doesn't affect them in _quite_ the same way.
I don't necessarily agree that sex offenders are able to be rehabilitated, but I do think that we should at least be consistant in our punishments.
He did independently come up with the concept, but did not implement it. As you said, it was invented several times. And I believe that after ARPAnet, several new versions of packet switching protocols were invented.
So really, it is almost a technicallity that we were first to get it operational. Not to deny the awesomeness of the BBN IMP guys - I've met a few, they are incredibrite. I'm just saying that Bush isn't exactly justified here.
I like how "a meeting of worldwide top-level domain owners" settle things by a show of hands.
I know that it was us american boys who invented the internets, but it seems really hokey to take arbitrary control of it. I agree someone needs to be checking on these things - we can't just open this all the way up to hackers, but do we really need to establish our internet penis in this fashion?
It was ARPA funding that got the first working packet switching network off the ground, and it was ARPA funding that made it into the internet, but that doesn't mean that all of the innovation was American - the whole reason cross network switching was invented was to be able to tie america's ARPAnet to several european networks.
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I'm one of the Olin Alumni (Class of '07).
Everyone who is admitted receives the scholarship. In fact, for 06 and 07s, room was included as well.
However, we do not offer graduate degrees. Olin is undergrad only.
But this really is old news. I'm a 22 year old snot-nosed nobody and I did "evolvable hardware" during an internship two summers ago. My mentor had started on evolved FPGAs in 1992.
I am hoping that it is the writer's fault that this article feels so gloriously over-reaching and under-specified. From the paper, it looks like they have made a good advancement. They argue that their method is more effective than previous methods by several quantifiable metrics. From the article, it looks like they have invented an entirely new field that will result in the obsolescence of humans by 2010.
As for their method: It appears that the evolved genome actually dictates a structure that is imprinted a level above the fabric. That is, the underlying SRAM in the FPGA fabric is fixed, and only configuration bits are being changed. This severely hurts their claim of "generic evolvable hardware", but is almost an absolute necessity given the chips they are using. The reason our system was so slow is that each configuration stream had to be checked for possible errors: Some configurations would short power and ground, and fabric doesn't like crowbars!
In conclusion, I believe the writer of the article should be fired, and the authors of the paper should be commended for a good step in the right direction. I'd also like to appologize for my lack of coherance: I had my tonsils out and I am therefore high on Hydrocodone.
Unfortunately, I think I speak for all of us when I say I misread that as "Supermodel Computes Sun's Corona Dynamics".
Worse, it stirred my heart.
I need a girl...
My buddy swears by orange juice on frosted flakes. Perhaps you should try a frosted screwdriver?
I have less than a 64th of the chance to develop liver disease than all those pansy "moderation" drinkers. If your caffeine intake ain't got you buzzing like a vibe set to "Yes, very", you ain't drinking properly.
Now I have the PERFECT use for my list of people who have wronged me. Now I can't wait to find bondage adverts!
We can still do Moore's Law - it will just be that the number of _cores_ will double every 18 months.
defenestration
n. [mythically from a traditional Czech assasination method, via SF fandom]
1. Proper karmic retribution for an incorrigible punster. "Oh, ghod, that was _awful_!" "Quick! Defenestrate him!"
2. The act of exiting a window system in order to get better response time from a full-screen program. This comes from the dictionary meaning of `defenestrate', which is to throw something out a window.
3. The act of discarding something under the assumption that it will improve matters. "I don't have any disk space left." "Well, why don't you defenestrate that 100 megs worth of old core dumps?"
4. Under a GUI, the act of dragging something out of a window (onto the screen). "Next, defenestrate the MugWump icon."
5. The act of completely removing Micro$oft Windows from a PC in favor of a better OS (typically Linux).
Courtesy dictionary.com!
As a lover of python, I do believe I just threw up a little in my mouth.
Can these monstrosities be generated algorithmically? If I give it a bunch of number suffixes, can it make that into a hilariously fugly regex?
Linux rules and Microsucks drules!!
Your Operating System wears army boots!
I know yours is but what is mine?
Ah, the sweet sweet sounds of 4th grade, how I miss it. Can we get back to the New for Nerds, Stuff that matters now?
One of the other programmers put in a really awesome comment the other day. I wish to share it with you all.
//pd.getInt("numInputs");
My code: (from a core library that services many different code bases)
numInputs = pd.getInt("numInputs");
His comment/fix:
numInputs = 3;
Why parse the parameter database when you already know the answer? Who cares about the other code bases? I WANT THREE NOW!
But it compiled and ran REALLY REALLY fast!
Carpenters using hammers found more productive than those without.
I guess this is another way of showing that humans can only handle so many raw bits of information per second, and computers are great at compressing information. I think computers are destined to be the best secretaries imaginable, and not a whole lot more (in our life time). When we each have our own personal assistants sorting and organizing for us, we can have efficiencies currently unheard of.
What concerns me though, is that perhaps not everyone is capable of taking a management position. If we digitize all the lower ranks, what happens to the people who are only capable of those ranks. If we digitize all janitors, what do the uneducated or retarder (pardon my pc-ness) do?
I had an internship with a company that writes a video codec. The contract prevented me from working in video codecs for 1 year.
The way they explained it to me was that they don't want me getting hired by another company and giving them what the first company had. After a year, my specific knowledge would be industry standard, and it wouldn't be necessary for me to be bound by this any more.
THe funny bit was that I was a highschool senior at the time, it was a 8 wek internship, and my job was to watch movies.
Thanks for the correction to my post.
For my own notes - the PepperBall is a method by which teargas is administered? or am I completely wrong? I was under the impression that they fired a teargas "grenade" of some sort, which is intended to hit the ground and release, but instead hit her.
I haven't tried that - I'll start up a competition with my sisters when I get back home.
One game we did do for points was the last name game: Our last name is pronounced with a "ike" sound, but inevitably they pronounce it with an "ick" sound. A few times, we made them keep trying until they got it before we would hand it off.
It is a good screen though - if you obviously don't know us, we probably don't want to talk to you. If they ask first, they probably want to talk. If they just fail flat on their face and sound depressed, it is probably because they have been failing the entire day.
Be nice to the telemarketers. They get paid based on how long you remain on the phone. Sample conversation:
"Hi, Is mr va.. van... van....wijckikewsf??? there?"
"Yup, talking."
"Oh, would you be interested in..."
"Hey, you see the Sox game last night?"
"What?"
"Pretty sweet. What is your favorite baseball team?"
"Sir?"
"Haven't heard of them - what league are they in?"
"would you like a new credit card?"
"Would I ever! I hear Rodriguez has one of those. You know his batting average was ### last year? I saw him 3 weeks ago at a home game."
"I saw that game on TV - remember the bottom of the 4th?"
And so forth. The business loses money, you get to talk to someone. We all know that us compy geeks are looking for a good conversation.
Welcome to the market.
"Hey man, I'm going to make this website, and EVERYONE is going to click on it. Give me your money now, and when everyone clicks on http://thebubblealreadyburst.com/, you'll be a dot com millionaire!"
"I hear cow shares are going to triple in the next 6 months"
I think the major point of difference between a riot control shotgun and a riot control laz0r b33m of 95Ghz millimeter microwaveryness is the intent of the person on the trigger end.
A good cop ain't going to shoot me in the face with a shotgun (unless I'm doing something _really_ bad). A good cop will shoot me in the face with this gizmo if he has been told that it is "just a little pain" with "no permanent damage".
The real danger comes from divorcing the damage inflicted from the percieved damage inflicted.
And even if we train the riot cops, we don't know the worst case scenario. Riot cops get tear gassed during training - but that didn't save the life of the girl who was tear gassed during the red sox riots last year.
I have a Dell laptop with one expansion bay that can hold a floppy drive, a CDrom drive or an extra battery. I put the floppy drive in once for shits and giggles. I had the CDrom in until I got the extra battery, and since then have used the CDrom only to install a few games. For everything else, I use teh interwebs.
Now that I can download real games (HL2), I doubt I'll have a whole lot of need for my CDrom drive. And if I do, I can always hotswap borrow one from one of my class mates (we all have the same laptops).
Boo to physical storage, hooray for internets.
Well gee, you don't have to be a Nazi about it...
I hope for AMD's sake this is true. I mean, I wish it wasn't, but AMD is risking SCO status if they are too noisy and whiny. I'm not saying they don't have a case - I'm just saying that no one wants to buy stuff from a whiner.
I'm right behind you, ready to jump onto the pedestal when you need a break. Letting those ..."people"... out is our society's way of showing that we believe that people capable of committing atrocities are also capable of being rehabilitated, AND are worth the effort to do so. Granted, major worms affect more people that a single rapist does, but it certainly doesn't affect them in _quite_ the same way.
I don't necessarily agree that sex offenders are able to be rehabilitated, but I do think that we should at least be consistant in our punishments.
He did independently come up with the concept, but did not implement it. As you said, it was invented several times. And I believe that after ARPAnet, several new versions of packet switching protocols were invented.
So really, it is almost a technicallity that we were first to get it operational. Not to deny the awesomeness of the BBN IMP guys - I've met a few, they are incredibrite. I'm just saying that Bush isn't exactly justified here.
I like how "a meeting of worldwide top-level domain owners" settle things by a show of hands.
I know that it was us american boys who invented the internets, but it seems really hokey to take arbitrary control of it. I agree someone needs to be checking on these things - we can't just open this all the way up to hackers, but do we really need to establish our internet penis in this fashion?
It was ARPA funding that got the first working packet switching network off the ground, and it was ARPA funding that made it into the internet, but that doesn't mean that all of the innovation was American - the whole reason cross network switching was invented was to be able to tie america's ARPAnet to several european networks.