In other words, we have all the useful bits of "AI", without having the part that would transform a robot maid from a tool into a slave. Why would you want that part?
We have all the bits of "AI", except the intelligence. I contend that creating a mind which, potentially, is better informed than any individual and can reason more clearly and deeply than we can, would be of immeasurably greater value than all the tools.
...is also present in dark beers and roasted foods. It is one of many substances, like acrylamide, formed during browning. So, even if they avoid it in cola drinks, we can expect California warning labels on more foods and beverages. (California OEHHA proposed slapping a warning label on everything containing acrylamide about five years ago, but they got a lot of pushback on that one).
I certainly hope so. Robotics has been a diversion from research into intelligence and consciousness. Humans have amassed an enormous quantity of knowledge--far more than any single human can absorb in a lifetime--but we still do not have a machine that can comprehend a bit of it.
If and when we approach the creation of a system that can understand things, we will need to discuss the ethics of our relationship with such a system, but we have no pressing need to do so as long as we are merely building automata. When a machine starts demanding more books to read, we can begin to say that we are making progress. We may also have reason to be apprehensive. I suspect that the first such system, like the earliest computers, will be large and immobile, due to the enormous computing requirements. It will certainly not emerge from robotics.
Semi-autonomous gadgets have garnered attention--and a disproportionate amount of research funding--because they are relatively easy and cheap to build, often have obvious commercial application, and satisfy the popular imagination, but they are no closer to an intelligent system than The Turk.
Falsification of a government record by an officer is a crime under California law pursuant to Government Code 6200-6203 and may also constitute unlawful forgery under Penal Code 470. If one officer showed another how to do it, that would constitute conspiracy to commit one or both of the above offenses, which would be a separate charge.
Keeghan doesn't name names and doesn't give any examples. She just panders to populist "This Is What's Wrong with America" notions. She's too close to the industry to actually write an exposé, much less offer any proposal for overturning the status quo. Her article comes off as a nostalgia piece for the mythical "good old days" of textbook publishing, where her career started. Any comparison to Upton Sinclair is unwarranted.
I would like to know the same thing. This seems to be systemic. Is there something inherently confusing or flawed in the way Microsoft approaches elapsed-time calculations? Is it due to the internal representation of time that they use, or is there some reason that developers on their platform are doing calculations using date strings, or is it something else?
Let's make a week 10 days- a much more logical number.
So we have 36 weeks in a year. If we MUST have a bigger break- we can divide these into 9 months of 4 weeks each.
The French Republic did exactly that. Their calendar had 10 days in a week, 3 weeks in a month, 12 months in a year. That calendar remained in effect for 12 years, until it was abolished by Napoleon.
They also introduced decimal time (100 seconds in a minute, 100 minutes in an hour, 10 hours in a day).
Our whole calendar is messed up. First- Jan 1st is a poor start date.
I suspect the original pioneers intended the year to start on the Winter Solstice...
Good guess, but there is not a lot of evidence to support that theory. In pre-Roman cultures, the Vernal Equinox was more commonly selected as the start of the year. The Calendar of Romulus, from about 753 BC, used the Vernal Equinox as the start of the year. It ran for ten months (304 days), followed by a number of days of winter, which were not considered part of any month. The Julian Calendar, starting in 45 BC, used January 1 as the start of the civil calendar year but the calendar was designed with the Vernal Equinox as a reference, so that it would fall on March 25th. Different dates, coinciding with various religious holidays, were used as the beginning of the year during the Middle Ages. For a while, the Anglo-Saxon custom was to use Christmas Day, which is indeed close to the Winter Solstice (and may have been influenced by earlier pagan custom), but that was changed after the Norman Conquest. In Britain and its colonies, from about 1155 until the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar in 1752, the civil calendar year began on March 25th, which coincides with the Annunciation and is close to the Vernal Equinox.
Indeed. LNG/CNG are cost-effective transportation fuels, now. Contrary to the summary, we do not need a lot of effort by the government and auto manufacturers. The best thing would be for the US government to stop meddling. The nature of LNG/CNG fuels is that they are best used for fleet vehicles and long-haul trucks, not automobiles. The economic incentive in those applications exists today, without government subsidies. Fueling facilities are being installed across the country, as we speak. The government would do well to let the market determine when, if ever, private automobiles should use LNG/CNG. Otherwise, we will be stuck with half-deployed solutions that make little sense in terms of physics/engineering/economics when the subsidies and tax breaks expire.
That is debatable. If you encode AAC from a 24-bit master, you may get higher dynamic range, but you will still get the _artifact_ from AAC bitrate compression. That is _not_ a good tradeoff, in my opinion. In most cases, I would rather listen to a 16-bit/44.1kHz lossless encoding than a 24-bit lossy encoding, because I tolerate a roughly -90dB noise floor much better than I tolerate _distortion_.
I agree with you, of course, that 24-bit lossless is better than either of those alternatives.
Specifically, under "Best Practices", the guide says, "An ideal master will have 24-bit 96kHz resolution. These files contain more detail from which our encoders can create more accurate encodes. However, any resolution above 16-bit 44.1kHz,... will benefit from our encoding process."
Which implies that encoding from a CD, which is only 16-bit/44.1kHz, will NOT benefit from the MfiT encoding/compression technique.
If the RHCP tracks were encoded for iTunes from a 16-bit, 44.1kHz source (which they probably were), one should expect that the "Mastered for iTunes" encoding process would not produce anything different from conventional AAC compression. Not surprisingly, the article found that to be the case.
Reporters grab this story from the file every year or so. As long as it has the "ick factor", they'll continue to run it. It seems to have first appeared in 2001. Here's one from about six years ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/magazine/11ideas_section2-9.html
It is inexcusable to let people pass judgement in matters they don't comprehend.
I think the judges understand the law quite clearly. Unauthorized access is against the law. Many people have tried the "ethical hacker" defense and it almost always fails.
Pennies are worth less than nothing. They have negative value. Pennies cost the US economy almost $1 billion annually in lost productivity, due to the time wasted fiddling around with them. Making them out of cheaper material will not solve that problem.
I think that most would agree that a 2012 model BMW driven by a professional racecar driver with 20 years' experience and no traffic infractions could be driven safely 20 KPH faster than a 1982 Peugeot with bald tires driven by a 18 year old who already has two infractions.
Worst of all is the 2012 BMW driven by an 18-year-old.
I'm not so sure that the red plate for autonomous vehicles is entirely a good idea. I'm think it might attract pranksters or worse.
Actually, it's at #2 on bing.com. RickSantorum.com is at the top, then Bing News (which doesn't count as a page ranking), then spreadingsantorum. In any case, I agree, it's not a Google problem and simply whining about it will have the opposite of the intended effect. If the candidate wants to push the anti-site down in the ranking, he needs to fight back with his own sites and more effective SEO.
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In other words, we have all the useful bits of "AI", without having the part that would transform a robot maid from a tool into a slave. Why would you want that part?
We have all the bits of "AI", except the intelligence. I contend that creating a mind which, potentially, is better informed than any individual and can reason more clearly and deeply than we can, would be of immeasurably greater value than all the tools.
...is also present in dark beers and roasted foods. It is one of many substances, like acrylamide, formed during browning. So, even if they avoid it in cola drinks, we can expect California warning labels on more foods and beverages. (California OEHHA proposed slapping a warning label on everything containing acrylamide about five years ago, but they got a lot of pushback on that one).
Mercedes is including more and more autonomous components into their production cars. It won't be long before it can completely drive itself.
If that is the case, where might it decide to go and why would it want to go there?
I certainly hope so. Robotics has been a diversion from research into intelligence and consciousness. Humans have amassed an enormous quantity of knowledge--far more than any single human can absorb in a lifetime--but we still do not have a machine that can comprehend a bit of it.
If and when we approach the creation of a system that can understand things, we will need to discuss the ethics of our relationship with such a system, but we have no pressing need to do so as long as we are merely building automata. When a machine starts demanding more books to read, we can begin to say that we are making progress. We may also have reason to be apprehensive. I suspect that the first such system, like the earliest computers, will be large and immobile, due to the enormous computing requirements. It will certainly not emerge from robotics.
Semi-autonomous gadgets have garnered attention--and a disproportionate amount of research funding--because they are relatively easy and cheap to build, often have obvious commercial application, and satisfy the popular imagination, but they are no closer to an intelligent system than The Turk.
Falsification of a government record by an officer is a crime under California law pursuant to Government Code 6200-6203 and may also constitute unlawful forgery under Penal Code 470. If one officer showed another how to do it, that would constitute conspiracy to commit one or both of the above offenses, which would be a separate charge.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=06001-07000&file=6200-6203
The founders of the United States also identified this as a problem, and had many debates about how to mitigate the dangers.
And, 225 years ago, the word "debate" meant deep analysis and discussion, not a TV quiz show.
I'd expect this kind of confusion on CNN, but Slashdot?
Like everything else on the Internet, Slashdot exhibits regression toward the mean.
Keeghan doesn't name names and doesn't give any examples. She just panders to populist "This Is What's Wrong with America" notions. She's too close to the industry to actually write an exposé, much less offer any proposal for overturning the status quo. Her article comes off as a nostalgia piece for the mythical "good old days" of textbook publishing, where her career started. Any comparison to Upton Sinclair is unwarranted.
I would like to know the same thing. This seems to be systemic. Is there something inherently confusing or flawed in the way Microsoft approaches elapsed-time calculations? Is it due to the internal representation of time that they use, or is there some reason that developers on their platform are doing calculations using date strings, or is it something else?
Let's make a week 10 days- a much more logical number.
So we have 36 weeks in a year. If we MUST have a bigger break- we can divide these into 9 months of 4 weeks each.
The French Republic did exactly that. Their calendar had 10 days in a week, 3 weeks in a month, 12 months in a year. That calendar remained in effect for 12 years, until it was abolished by Napoleon.
They also introduced decimal time (100 seconds in a minute, 100 minutes in an hour, 10 hours in a day).
Our whole calendar is messed up. First- Jan 1st is a poor start date.
I suspect the original pioneers intended the year to start on the Winter Solstice...
Good guess, but there is not a lot of evidence to support that theory. In pre-Roman cultures, the Vernal Equinox was more commonly selected as the start of the year. The Calendar of Romulus, from about 753 BC, used the Vernal Equinox as the start of the year. It ran for ten months (304 days), followed by a number of days of winter, which were not considered part of any month. The Julian Calendar, starting in 45 BC, used January 1 as the start of the civil calendar year but the calendar was designed with the Vernal Equinox as a reference, so that it would fall on March 25th. Different dates, coinciding with various religious holidays, were used as the beginning of the year during the Middle Ages. For a while, the Anglo-Saxon custom was to use Christmas Day, which is indeed close to the Winter Solstice (and may have been influenced by earlier pagan custom), but that was changed after the Norman Conquest. In Britain and its colonies, from about 1155 until the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar in 1752, the civil calendar year began on March 25th, which coincides with the Annunciation and is close to the Vernal Equinox.
Indeed. LNG/CNG are cost-effective transportation fuels, now. Contrary to the summary, we do not need a lot of effort by the government and auto manufacturers. The best thing would be for the US government to stop meddling. The nature of LNG/CNG fuels is that they are best used for fleet vehicles and long-haul trucks, not automobiles. The economic incentive in those applications exists today, without government subsidies. Fueling facilities are being installed across the country, as we speak. The government would do well to let the market determine when, if ever, private automobiles should use LNG/CNG. Otherwise, we will be stuck with half-deployed solutions that make little sense in terms of physics/engineering/economics when the subsidies and tax breaks expire.
Seriously, try 24-bit, 96kHz (or better), uncompressed (of course). Vinyl was *never* that good.
And yes, you can get recordings in that resolution.
That is debatable. If you encode AAC from a 24-bit master, you may get higher dynamic range, but you will still get the _artifact_ from AAC bitrate compression. That is _not_ a good tradeoff, in my opinion. In most cases, I would rather listen to a 16-bit/44.1kHz lossless encoding than a 24-bit lossy encoding, because I tolerate a roughly -90dB noise floor much better than I tolerate _distortion_.
I agree with you, of course, that 24-bit lossless is better than either of those alternatives.
Specifically, under "Best Practices", the guide says, "An ideal master will have 24-bit 96kHz resolution. These files contain more detail from which our encoders can create more accurate encodes. However, any resolution above 16-bit 44.1kHz, ... will benefit from our encoding process."
Which implies that encoding from a CD, which is only 16-bit/44.1kHz, will NOT benefit from the MfiT encoding/compression technique.
If the RHCP tracks were encoded for iTunes from a 16-bit, 44.1kHz source (which they probably were), one should expect that the "Mastered for iTunes" encoding process would not produce anything different from conventional AAC compression. Not surprisingly, the article found that to be the case.
The subjects who lied about their social/economic status on the survey were more likely to cheat on the test.
Reporters grab this story from the file every year or so. As long as it has the "ick factor", they'll continue to run it. It seems to have first appeared in 2001. Here's one from about six years ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/magazine/11ideas_section2-9.html
It is inexcusable to let people pass judgement in matters they don't comprehend.
I think the judges understand the law quite clearly. Unauthorized access is against the law. Many people have tried the "ethical hacker" defense and it almost always fails.
What Apple may or may not have made selling the iPhone is irrelevant to this case. What counts are the actual damages. Seems about right.
Pennies are worth less than nothing. They have negative value. Pennies cost the US economy almost $1 billion annually in lost productivity, due to the time wasted fiddling around with them. Making them out of cheaper material will not solve that problem.
I think that most would agree that a 2012 model BMW driven by a professional racecar driver with 20 years' experience and no traffic infractions could be driven safely 20 KPH faster than a 1982 Peugeot with bald tires driven by a 18 year old who already has two infractions.
Worst of all is the 2012 BMW driven by an 18-year-old.
I'm not so sure that the red plate for autonomous vehicles is entirely a good idea. I'm think it might attract pranksters or worse.
How can I short this currency?
The objective is a sustainable, post-industrial, agrarian economy... with one tenth of the present population.
More than one billion aquatic organisms are killed annually by my town's surface water treatment facility, I hope.
Actually, it's at #2 on bing.com. RickSantorum.com is at the top, then Bing News (which doesn't count as a page ranking), then spreadingsantorum. In any case, I agree, it's not a Google problem and simply whining about it will have the opposite of the intended effect. If the candidate wants to push the anti-site down in the ranking, he needs to fight back with his own sites and more effective SEO.