The brain works on weighted probability. These weights change and readjust as we take in information. Taking some liberties with this idea, it seems like a good as time as ever to plug a section of my undergraduate paper: "An Observational Analysis of Machine Cognizance". (Disclaimer: I said undergraduate, haha:P).
Imagine that human memory works on a sliding scale, one of infinitely negative and infinitely positive collections of like objects. These upper and lower bounds are set by the experiences of the individuals.
Let's say you have two cats. Cat one is newborn kitten, while cat two is http://www.isfullofcrap.com/albums/Cats/buddha2.si zed.jpg (love those Maine coons).
By looking at that image, you have just redefined your own maximum in relation to the object "cat".
The more cats you look at, the more they all begin to look the same and you begin to tune out any old cat that may cross your path. But you'll always remember that big fat cat as the biggest you've ever seen (the maximum values, which can change) and newborn as the smallest cat you've ever seen (the minimum), while the "middle ground" deteriorates under the weight of the average cat. The more cats you see, the less you remember. Not only that, but cats they may appear big to other people, begin to seem normal to you. You've just seen to many damn cats to care anymore (call it desensitizing the mind, or information overload if you will). But you always remember the biggest and smallest. The best and worst.
Couldn't this just be like the fattest cat scenario? These people have taken in so much that only things on the extreme end of the scale seem to have any relevance, while the rest just seems to be repetitive and mundane?
DirectX is not GDI(+), and hardly ever used for the same purposes.
Firstly, if you wanted to do anything to a windows form graphically (skinning, transparency, basic shapes, etc) you need GDI. Be it bit-bliting an image, customizing forms, or basic graphs.
Do you really want to load DirectX every time you load a form?
Secondly, since 3/4 of the.Net packaged languages are VM languages (vb.net, C#, J#), I can tell you from first hand experience (as being one of the handful of crackpots to actually use mdx in vb.net) that using managed directX calls on virtual machine environment is damn slow.
Its nice that you don't crash out the entire system when you do something boned headed, but its still damn slow (hence the almost non-existent vb.net gaming community. Well, that and you still can't drag and drop meshes, but that's another rant).
Then there's version control. DirectX changes versions at least every 6 months (9a, 9b, 9c, etc). And normals don't update that often as is. That's a huge pain of using mdx in your normal applications.
What happens when your parents/friends/@other_close_ones get hit by a phisher, and "due process" doesn't protect them, because the industry is still "searching" for a solution?
Quadratic Programming is used in solving portfolio optimisation problems, a mathematical way to ensure a portfolio of risky assets are diversified.
Well, to backtrack a bit, we can use linear programming for making predictions "pragmatically". Think the lame old spreadsheet neural net:P
I mean, saying that linear programming has little to do with computing kind of slaps the best program ever made in its face.
The Spread Sheet (I default to Excel, but insert you fav modern flavor)
Excel is probably the most powerful, robust, versatile, used for everything and the kitchen sink, program ever created. It's a freaking Swiss army knife, and it's because of Linear Programming.
We may not directly use it (ever), but Linear Programming has shaped modern computing as we know it.
There was adult swim on air posting (or whatever fancy name they have for a black and white text message on tv) that each ep of the Simpson's costs around 2 mil to make and each ep of Futurama takes about 1.2 mil.
That pretty much gives us a lesser tin foil hat reason as to why the show was discontinued and why it it's so hard to pick up again.
Read: If fox spends 70% of what it takes to make the Simpson's, and isn't getting at least half the scaled profit, you think they're going to keep it going? And on that note, it's a very expensive investment for anyone else to pick up again.
I have a feeling this is hardly the end of the story. ASs been hinting at possible new content for awhile, and they rarely beat a dead horse without reason.
Like all puzzles of this nature (or all things in nature, if you will), it's simply pattern recognition.
Mind you, these are low probability patterns, and "normal" (the mean of a given social index) people have trouble with identifying low probability relationships between objects.
I love these kinds of tests, but I've always assumed that they represented subconscious abnormality to "tap in" to the human brains raw pattern recognition ability.
Does that mean you can teach yourself to solve problems of this nature? Or is it simply a handful of odd neural pathways that formed during the developmental period that make the connection between these relationships easier for you to identify (Chaos theory rears its ugly head again)?
Actually, just wanted to test something. I only seemed to getted modded when being inflamtory, and your post seemed like a good way to get some attention.
Just needed to serve my ego a bit.
Again, I apologize.
Theres a start to the couple thousand community developed games for the gb/gba. Here's a $1, buy a clue or a bullet.
I recommend the bullet, it's quicker.
I don't know. I've participated in these ACM contests before, and all the problems seem to be programmatically proving mathematical proofs, or some obscure use of recursion that has no real world value.
Is that really the problem with US programmers? I was under the impression that it was more of a lack of creativity then ability. Since most of what they test you on is "free" in most modern languages, it always seemed that these contests just proved who reinvented the wheel the fastest.
"I'm sorry, but the "but it's slow" argument does not hold for most software designed today. Let's please get over it. "
Agreed. Please cavemen, go bang rocks toghther or something. The rest of us are sick of reinventing the wheel over and over again.
It was fun 15 years ago writing 20k lines for a windows form, but ya know what? Maybe it's time for you learn someting new.
Wrap poloymorphic objects around machine hardware calls. For doing stuff. Then abstarct those object calls to a natural language syntax.
vaccum(minutes, startX, startY, stopX, stopY)
abstarct further to:
Vaccum the basement. (where basement containes the parameters for the vaccum object).
Since vaccum will always do the same thing (just in different directions for different times), why not abstarct further? Theres only so many points of data entry of most simple tasks, so I say abstract the hell of out em.
Mix natrual laguage and code. No reason not too. VB.net is an example. It's a natural language interpreter for.net. It sure as hell shouldn't used in system critical applications, but how cool is it that an engineer, or scientist, or whoever can pick up a laguage and make it do things he needs done without having to learn another level of abstration himself (because he alreadys knows one, english). Different tools for different jobs.
And I think your the one that dosen't understand aspx.net (or the idea of the managed framework)..NET: The idea is to combine a programming language (any managed.net code supported language), on a single platform (for web: aspx), through codebehinds(style? Lets see, anything you can do in vb or C# you can put on a web page?). That should cover it for the web side.
And yes, I can replace all CSS with C# or VB in aspx code behinds. Everything can be done with aspx code behinds(maybe not well). Thats the point. CSS won't fit into managed.net code, because managed.net code already does the functionality. It's redundant, and it's not MS's proprietary standard. And I'm not saying its good or bad, Im just saying if you look at from their perspective, where does it fit into how they envision the web(.net)? It dosen't.
Just a side note, while it may not be "security", by running managed code in C# you completly avoid pointers and the memory leaks that follow.
Of course it will be argued that a good programmer would know better then to leave dangling pointers, but this is all about learning and research(and i think its safe to say, researches aren't always paid the best, either). Managed code on a virtual machine speeds up your dev time, and if you crash out a virtual machine, big deal. It's designed not to blow up everything around it. Most of the time it dosent blow up everything around it.
I think the real question is wheter you value trading faster development times for slower computing times. But this looks like it will allow for nice mix of cheap and fast.
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Bad scientist, no heaven.
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I look at it a kinda like this:
:P).
i zed.jpg (love those Maine coons).
The brain works on weighted probability. These weights change and readjust as we take in information. Taking some liberties with this idea, it seems like a good as time as ever to plug a section of my undergraduate paper: "An Observational Analysis of Machine Cognizance". (Disclaimer: I said undergraduate, haha
Imagine that human memory works on a sliding scale, one of infinitely negative and infinitely positive collections of like objects. These upper and lower bounds are set by the experiences of the individuals.
Let's say you have two cats. Cat one is newborn kitten, while cat two is http://www.isfullofcrap.com/albums/Cats/buddha2.s
By looking at that image, you have just redefined your own maximum in relation to the object "cat".
The more cats you look at, the more they all begin to look the same and you begin to tune out any old cat that may cross your path. But you'll always remember that big fat cat as the biggest you've ever seen (the maximum values, which can change) and newborn as the smallest cat you've ever seen (the minimum), while the "middle ground" deteriorates under the weight of the average cat. The more cats you see, the less you remember. Not only that, but cats they may appear big to other people, begin to seem normal to you. You've just seen to many damn cats to care anymore (call it desensitizing the mind, or information overload if you will). But you always remember the biggest and smallest. The best and worst.
Couldn't this just be like the fattest cat scenario? These people have taken in so much that only things on the extreme end of the scale seem to have any relevance, while the rest just seems to be repetitive and mundane?
DirectX is not GDI(+), and hardly ever used for the same purposes.
.Net packaged languages are VM languages (vb.net, C#, J#), I can tell you from first hand experience (as being one of the handful of crackpots to actually use mdx in vb.net) that using managed directX calls on virtual machine environment is damn slow.
Firstly, if you wanted to do anything to a windows form graphically (skinning, transparency, basic shapes, etc) you need GDI. Be it bit-bliting an image, customizing forms, or basic graphs.
Do you really want to load DirectX every time you load a form?
Secondly, since 3/4 of the
Its nice that you don't crash out the entire system when you do something boned headed, but its still damn slow (hence the almost non-existent vb.net gaming community. Well, that and you still can't drag and drop meshes, but that's another rant).
Then there's version control. DirectX changes versions at least every 6 months (9a, 9b, 9c, etc). And normals don't update that often as is. That's a huge pain of using mdx in your normal applications.
What happens when your parents/friends/@other_close_ones get hit by a phisher, and "due process" doesn't protect them, because the industry is still "searching" for a solution?
Darwinism?
Quadratic Programming is used in solving portfolio optimisation problems, a mathematical way to ensure a portfolio of risky assets are diversified.
:P
Well, to backtrack a bit, we can use linear programming for making predictions "pragmatically". Think the lame old spreadsheet neural net
I mean, saying that linear programming has little to do with computing kind of slaps the best program ever made in its face.
The Spread Sheet (I default to Excel, but insert you fav modern flavor)
Excel is probably the most powerful, robust, versatile, used for everything and the kitchen sink, program ever created. It's a freaking Swiss army knife, and it's because of Linear Programming.
We may not directly use it (ever), but Linear Programming has shaped modern computing as we know it.
There was adult swim on air posting (or whatever fancy name they have for a black and white text message on tv) that each ep of the Simpson's costs around 2 mil to make and each ep of Futurama takes about 1.2 mil.
That pretty much gives us a lesser tin foil hat reason as to why the show was discontinued and why it it's so hard to pick up again.
Read: If fox spends 70% of what it takes to make the Simpson's, and isn't getting at least half the scaled profit, you think they're going to keep it going? And on that note, it's a very expensive investment for anyone else to pick up again.
I have a feeling this is hardly the end of the story. ASs been hinting at possible new content for awhile, and they rarely beat a dead horse without reason.
Like all puzzles of this nature (or all things in nature, if you will), it's simply pattern recognition.
Mind you, these are low probability patterns, and "normal" (the mean of a given social index) people have trouble with identifying low probability relationships between objects.
I love these kinds of tests, but I've always assumed that they represented subconscious abnormality to "tap in" to the human brains raw pattern recognition ability.
Does that mean you can teach yourself to solve problems of this nature? Or is it simply a handful of odd neural pathways that formed during the developmental period that make the connection between these relationships easier for you to identify (Chaos theory rears its ugly head again)?
Like everything in life, it has to do with the muscle composition of your average geek.
Holding a 1.5 lbs light gun up for 20 minute intervals makes girly arms tired.
So what your saying is that I shouldn't make a bong out of it?
Your absolutely right, and I apologize.
Actually, just wanted to test something. I only seemed to getted modded when being inflamtory, and your post seemed like a good way to get some attention.
Just needed to serve my ego a bit.
Again, I apologize.
Software piracy is awesome!
Ignorance is awesome!
http://www.gbadev.org/index.php
http://www.gameboy-advance-roms.com/
Theres a start to the couple thousand community developed games for the gb/gba. Here's a $1, buy a clue or a bullet.
I recommend the bullet, it's quicker.
The traveling salesman. I'm not sure I need to say more.
Yes, because making things more illegal then they already are in a demand ecomony has always worked wonderfuly.
You said kooky, not me.
I don't know. I've participated in these ACM contests before, and all the problems seem to be programmatically proving mathematical proofs, or some obscure use of recursion that has no real world value.
Is that really the problem with US programmers? I was under the impression that it was more of a lack of creativity then ability. Since most of what they test you on is "free" in most modern languages, it always seemed that these contests just proved who reinvented the wheel the fastest.
Now we can pit the robot sharks against the robot suited humans in circle of sweet death.
Laser eyes, baby, laser eyes.
I love technology.
"I'm sorry, but the "but it's slow" argument does not hold for most software designed today. Let's please get over it. " Agreed. Please cavemen, go bang rocks toghther or something. The rest of us are sick of reinventing the wheel over and over again. It was fun 15 years ago writing 20k lines for a windows form, but ya know what? Maybe it's time for you learn someting new.
Now thats a good idea.
.net. It sure as hell shouldn't used in system critical applications, but how cool is it that an engineer, or scientist, or whoever can pick up a laguage and make it do things he needs done without having to learn another level of abstration himself (because he alreadys knows one, english). Different tools for different jobs.
Wrap poloymorphic objects around machine hardware calls. For doing stuff. Then abstarct those object calls to a natural language syntax.
vaccum(minutes, startX, startY, stopX, stopY)
abstarct further to:
Vaccum the basement.
(where basement containes the parameters for the vaccum object).
Since vaccum will always do the same thing (just in different directions for different times), why not abstarct further? Theres only so many points of data entry of most simple tasks, so I say abstract the hell of out em.
Mix natrual laguage and code. No reason not too.
VB.net is an example. It's a natural language interpreter for
God I hope so. -Dicky Smalls
Sure I can.
.NET: The idea is to combine a programming language (any managed .net code supported language), on a single platform (for web: aspx), through codebehinds(style? Lets see, anything you can do in vb or C# you can put on a web page?). That should cover it for the web side.
.net code, because managed .net code already does the functionality. It's redundant, and it's not MS's proprietary standard. And I'm not saying its good or bad, Im just saying if you look at from their perspective, where does it fit into how they envision the web(.net)? It dosen't.
And I think your the one that dosen't understand aspx.net (or the idea of the managed framework).
And yes, I can replace all CSS with C# or VB in aspx code behinds. Everything can be done with aspx code behinds(maybe not well). Thats the point. CSS won't fit into managed
MS wants to push ASP and .net. I can't belive nobody gets the hint. MS has their own standard, why embrace the competition?
Well yea...most illegal access comes from inside, not out. For all the external security we gripe about, the interal security is the real danger.
Sleep? Please. There would be NO sleeping.
Anderson Cooper's gonna pwn yahoo's ass for this one. Pwn it like only the fat kid in dodgeball gets pwned. And why? Because he's got the hair.
Finally, a D&D product I really would sacrafice my firstborn for! Bring out the goats and let the orgy begin!
Just a side note, while it may not be "security", by running managed code in C# you completly avoid pointers and the memory leaks that follow.
Of course it will be argued that a good programmer would know better then to leave dangling pointers, but this is all about learning and research(and i think its safe to say, researches aren't always paid the best, either). Managed code on a virtual machine speeds up your dev time, and if you crash out a virtual machine, big deal. It's designed not to blow up everything around it. Most of the time it dosent blow up everything around it.
I think the real question is wheter you value trading faster development times for slower computing times. But this looks like it will allow for nice mix of cheap and fast.