yup, I remember waiting for the tubes to warm up, both the CRT and vacuum tubes, and see the picture gradually fade in and come to full brightness. Of course we could also fix distortion by slapping the side of the TV to jiggle the tubes in their sockets; not so satisfying on solid state chips soldered to motherboards.
There once was a company called Sears, Roebuck and Co which had pickup points all over the nation. They let you order from a catalog and pick up the items when they were ready. Sadly, the company shut down their catalog just a couple years before ecommerce exploded and they never bothered to figure out they could restart the catalog on the internet. Now they are literally hours away from liquidating the corporation and finally going into the sunset.
nope, you have no clue what the OP meant. He said just pay for it and then file a T&E for the trip after the government opens up again in a couple of weeks. If these elite scientists are so stupid as to not have more than a single paycheck's worth of bucks in the bank, they don't deserve to be scientists making decisions for the nation.
Zuck never had a cintilla of credibility to me from the day I heard of Facebook about 2 decades ago. Thus I never joined the lemming herd that eagerly believed it was an innocent innocuous place to share good feelings. I got singed once about 15 years ago when agreeing to let FB link to my old Yahoo mail name to post to some bulletin board; the very next day my Yahoo contact list was used to spam everyone I had on that list. It took several days to regain control and apologize to all my contacts. I broke the link and retired that email account, swore never to let FB within sniffing distance of my accounts.
I was just on a conference call a week ago where the meeting host himself suffered the dread battery brownout, forcing him to tell the entire room to let him switch over from his headset to the speakerphone mode. It wasn't a killer for the meeting but I do remember it more vividly than most of the points of discussion.
I agree with you that a major shortcoming is the question of how to encode consciousness and understanding. You rightly point out that AI has continued as a big case statement construct that merely keeps getting larger as "machine learning" sucks up more data items. Yet the human brain has a capability to simply associate data items almost instantaneously at times, something a case construct cannot do. Consider a single case of associative memory: a few notes to a song that immediately evoke the memory of a good friend and an exact moment shared with that friend, even though it may be nearly a half century in the past. How long would it take an AI case construct to find that same memory, if it could at all? Certainly the brain is pattern matching too, but in ways that still cannot be fully replicated with logic.
Yeah, they can do that, as long as the cities are okay with that. Of course that means the pedestrians are going to have to go searching in the multi-level garages to find the scooters, and then find a garage at their destination to re-store them at end of use.
This is a solution only for the young and fearless (e.g. reckless) because I've yet to see a middle aged person hop on one of these kiddie toys to get to the office. Also, given the enormous numbers of workers in the city centers, it would require having tens of thousands of these toys to move people from buses/trains to office buildings. Where will all these be stored in an unobtrusive manner?
Yes, I remember the pre-Segway hype when the Silicon Valley luminaries loudly proclaimed that cities will be rebuilt around them , at least until it became known they were only good for a 1 hour ride. I hope your prediction is correct, because in Southern California they are being dumped into the most congested beach cities where they won't do anything to alleviate pedestrian or motor traffic, indeed they will make it even worse by adding random unskilled motorists into the mix.
I'm sure if I search long enough in my parts bins, I can find the notcher that I used to use for making my own DSDD 5.25" disks. It is blue and makes a nice square cut very cleanly. I could never get the cut so clean with a stationery hole punch.
The goal is not to build a train line, it's to *spend money building a train line". The way thing are lining up, it's going to be a 50-year long version of the WPA, unions, politicians, hangers-on, all get their beaks wet, and the rest of the taxpayers get screwed.
Spot. On. There was a report in LA Times a few weeks ago that told of how the high speed rail commission was trying their hardest to increase the spending rate from 1m to 10m dollars per day. Otherwise they might not be eligible for follow on federal subsidies. What kind of budgeting and project planning is that? To measure progress by how many millions of dollars are spent each day so as to burn up the entire hundred billion on time, yikes!
The reason LA trains don't go to LAX is the powerful taxicab commission that has spent decades lobbying the city to keep the trains at least 2 miles outside the airport so they can carry the passengers the final distance. Only the future Olympics (2028) has finally caused a slight break in that firewall; the city is extending light rail to a station 1 mile from LAX, and are building a brand new people-mover train from the station into LAX. So, the airline passenger can take the light rail all the way to the Crenshaw station, get out and transfer into a people mover to the airport, letting you off inside the center of the horseshoe so you can walk to one of the 8 terminals to get to your flight. If they are true to form, it will be like North Hollywood where you have to walk across a wide boulevard to make the transfer.
I've been reading about the tight platoons thing for a half century in continual articles published through Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Mechanics Illustrated, etc etc etc. Back in the day it was called car trains but was the same hackneyed notion which has never been proven to be feasible.
Thanks for the Lisp reference! I fondly remember learning Lisp in an AI class during college in the 80s. Actually enjoyed programming Lisp because it could be so terse and do so much very rapidly. However, we really had no good applications to use for it, other than having an application learn the best way to win a chess game. I chose not to pursue AI as a career and haven't suffered for that.
All you need to know is the popular language, and get coding.
This long in the tooth CS guy begs to differ. Coding is easy, anybody can print Hello World someplace. Building software solutions for a problem space requires a bit more than just knowing the language flavor-of-the-day. In the past 15 years, I've found it harder and harder to get true computer science & engineering talent, mostly I get code monkeys tied to their favorite language libraries who are unable to decompose a problem space into a designed set of algorithms to reach the solution. Get coding is the worst starting point for software development, almost as bad as ordering the T-shirts on the first day. At least the T-shirt won't fail suddenly for inability to scale upward.
Maybe Zuck should have thought about the threat to elections before teaching 0bama For America how to datamine his platform for both his campaigns. It was just fine when he could help elect the one but now it's a problem, eh?
Yeah, like they placed a priority on the California firefighters during the forest fires in Mendocino last month. I don't believe Verizon was throttling in violation of net neutrality, I think it was stupid customer service and ancient billing systems that led to that idiotic tragic situation. Full disclosure, I once worked for a former telecom that is now part of VZ, and I know about the disparate disconnected nature of telco billing systems. It doesn't surprise me that they goofed up supporting the firemen, telling the firefighter to just upgrade his service agreement. If they can't understand the priority of a 200,000 acre forest firestorm, that's not net neutrality, that's idiocy.
Do you remember this marketing ditty which was the television ad for Bomar Brain? I still think of this whenever reading about history of electronic calculators.
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Do you think a reboot will fix Zion Williamson's shoe?
yup, I remember waiting for the tubes to warm up, both the CRT and vacuum tubes, and see the picture gradually fade in and come to full brightness. Of course we could also fix distortion by slapping the side of the TV to jiggle the tubes in their sockets; not so satisfying on solid state chips soldered to motherboards.
bwahaha
There once was a company called Sears, Roebuck and Co which had pickup points all over the nation. They let you order from a catalog and pick up the items when they were ready. Sadly, the company shut down their catalog just a couple years before ecommerce exploded and they never bothered to figure out they could restart the catalog on the internet. Now they are literally hours away from liquidating the corporation and finally going into the sunset.
nope, you have no clue what the OP meant. He said just pay for it and then file a T&E for the trip after the government opens up again in a couple of weeks. If these elite scientists are so stupid as to not have more than a single paycheck's worth of bucks in the bank, they don't deserve to be scientists making decisions for the nation.
those are cheap and sound horrible
seems that you may just have no clue how to mechanically connect a pin into a jack, as opposed to 99.9% of the world
Zuck never had a cintilla of credibility to me from the day I heard of Facebook about 2 decades ago. Thus I never joined the lemming herd that eagerly believed it was an innocent innocuous place to share good feelings. I got singed once about 15 years ago when agreeing to let FB link to my old Yahoo mail name to post to some bulletin board; the very next day my Yahoo contact list was used to spam everyone I had on that list. It took several days to regain control and apologize to all my contacts. I broke the link and retired that email account, swore never to let FB within sniffing distance of my accounts.
I was just on a conference call a week ago where the meeting host himself suffered the dread battery brownout, forcing him to tell the entire room to let him switch over from his headset to the speakerphone mode. It wasn't a killer for the meeting but I do remember it more vividly than most of the points of discussion.
12" vinyl still a great music storage medium
I agree with you that a major shortcoming is the question of how to encode consciousness and understanding. You rightly point out that AI has continued as a big case statement construct that merely keeps getting larger as "machine learning" sucks up more data items. Yet the human brain has a capability to simply associate data items almost instantaneously at times, something a case construct cannot do. Consider a single case of associative memory: a few notes to a song that immediately evoke the memory of a good friend and an exact moment shared with that friend, even though it may be nearly a half century in the past. How long would it take an AI case construct to find that same memory, if it could at all? Certainly the brain is pattern matching too, but in ways that still cannot be fully replicated with logic.
Yeah, they can do that, as long as the cities are okay with that. Of course that means the pedestrians are going to have to go searching in the multi-level garages to find the scooters, and then find a garage at their destination to re-store them at end of use.
This is a solution only for the young and fearless (e.g. reckless) because I've yet to see a middle aged person hop on one of these kiddie toys to get to the office. Also, given the enormous numbers of workers in the city centers, it would require having tens of thousands of these toys to move people from buses/trains to office buildings. Where will all these be stored in an unobtrusive manner?
Yes, I remember the pre-Segway hype when the Silicon Valley luminaries loudly proclaimed that cities will be rebuilt around them , at least until it became known they were only good for a 1 hour ride. I hope your prediction is correct, because in Southern California they are being dumped into the most congested beach cities where they won't do anything to alleviate pedestrian or motor traffic, indeed they will make it even worse by adding random unskilled motorists into the mix.
I'm sure if I search long enough in my parts bins, I can find the notcher that I used to use for making my own DSDD 5.25" disks. It is blue and makes a nice square cut very cleanly. I could never get the cut so clean with a stationery hole punch.
Spot. On. There was a report in LA Times a few weeks ago that told of how the high speed rail commission was trying their hardest to increase the spending rate from 1m to 10m dollars per day. Otherwise they might not be eligible for follow on federal subsidies. What kind of budgeting and project planning is that? To measure progress by how many millions of dollars are spent each day so as to burn up the entire hundred billion on time, yikes!
The reason LA trains don't go to LAX is the powerful taxicab commission that has spent decades lobbying the city to keep the trains at least 2 miles outside the airport so they can carry the passengers the final distance. Only the future Olympics (2028) has finally caused a slight break in that firewall; the city is extending light rail to a station 1 mile from LAX, and are building a brand new people-mover train from the station into LAX. So, the airline passenger can take the light rail all the way to the Crenshaw station, get out and transfer into a people mover to the airport, letting you off inside the center of the horseshoe so you can walk to one of the 8 terminals to get to your flight. If they are true to form, it will be like North Hollywood where you have to walk across a wide boulevard to make the transfer.
I've been reading about the tight platoons thing for a half century in continual articles published through Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Mechanics Illustrated, etc etc etc. Back in the day it was called car trains but was the same hackneyed notion which has never been proven to be feasible.
Thanks for the Lisp reference! I fondly remember learning Lisp in an AI class during college in the 80s. Actually enjoyed programming Lisp because it could be so terse and do so much very rapidly. However, we really had no good applications to use for it, other than having an application learn the best way to win a chess game. I chose not to pursue AI as a career and haven't suffered for that.
you're so cute as an AC
All you need to know is the popular language, and get coding.
This long in the tooth CS guy begs to differ. Coding is easy, anybody can print Hello World someplace. Building software solutions for a problem space requires a bit more than just knowing the language flavor-of-the-day. In the past 15 years, I've found it harder and harder to get true computer science & engineering talent, mostly I get code monkeys tied to their favorite language libraries who are unable to decompose a problem space into a designed set of algorithms to reach the solution. Get coding is the worst starting point for software development, almost as bad as ordering the T-shirts on the first day. At least the T-shirt won't fail suddenly for inability to scale upward.
Maybe Zuck should have thought about the threat to elections before teaching 0bama For America how to datamine his platform for both his campaigns. It was just fine when he could help elect the one but now it's a problem, eh?
Yeah, like they placed a priority on the California firefighters during the forest fires in Mendocino last month. I don't believe Verizon was throttling in violation of net neutrality, I think it was stupid customer service and ancient billing systems that led to that idiotic tragic situation. Full disclosure, I once worked for a former telecom that is now part of VZ, and I know about the disparate disconnected nature of telco billing systems. It doesn't surprise me that they goofed up supporting the firemen, telling the firefighter to just upgrade his service agreement. If they can't understand the priority of a 200,000 acre forest firestorm, that's not net neutrality, that's idiocy.
Do you remember this marketing ditty which was the television ad for Bomar Brain? I still think of this whenever reading about history of electronic calculators.