The information in that experiment was still transmitted by regular light speed means. Anyone who trusts science journalists to be even close to accurate is a fool.
I also eventually ran across a clever explanation: The classroom lecture is the best method developed so far to teach students who can't read. That does describe a large fraction of the US college student population, of course, so the lecturers are still needed for them.
Your full explanation is of course nothing more than an attempt to ease your own ego. After all, in your own mind you must be better than those other people. So the explanation must involve them being inferior to you and the whole system not catering to you obviously superior mind.
Someone who doesn't need to prop up their own inferiority complex on the other hand may simply explain it as being the fact that different people learn differently. Many people can read a book but they'll simply learn better in a lecture setting.
Before the internet I believe they also provided tv lectures for students in other countries.
Professors, amusingly enough, often complained about how few students showed up for classes that were also available online. Some even went out of their way to force students come to classes.
Anthropic principle basically kills any such argument in it's tracks. Any further arguments can be killed by our brains continual lack of objective standards and proper rationality. We see what we want to see and what we see we consider good.
Unfortunately none of this solves the annoying problem that atheism leads to nihilism as a proper philosophical stance. People really don't like that and will cover up that irrational dislike with even more irrationality. Every other half decent solution I've heard just comes down to ignoring the whole annoying problem and simply living life. Which is great in some ways but lousy for making a complete philosophical framework for oneself.
Graph edit doesn't do much because proteins drop out of the graph over time. We only see the final building and not the scaffolding that existed when it was being built. That is also why the whole argument is bunk.
However, the moon lacks atmosphere, and other than UV induced breakdown in plastics, most of the moon era "space trash" is still up there and in theoretically repairable\repurposable condition.
Vacuum apparently does unpleasant things to many materials. Lubricants boil off. Metal forms tin whiskers. Metal cold welds together. Plastic may break down as well I think. The rover will most likely look decent but internally be a worthless lump of material.
Not to mention that they'd be castrated by their own supporters for ruining such priceless historical artifacts.
Seriously, reading comprehension, learn it. The Davidson Institute provides multiple free programs which is why I said they're probably the best starting point. Granted, they are for highly gifted students although I expect they'd happily provide general information for even less gifted students. Also, asking people questions is in fact utterly free to do. They may or may not answer but you'll never know unless you try. Certain information is also vital to know which is why I pointed out a place that probably knows most of it.
For example, having your kid take the SAT (and get over 700 on either section) before they're 13 qualifies them for SET. I got $50 college courses in middle school thanks to that. Or maybe not anymore, SET was dead for a while. This is the sort of information that people who deal with this in a full time basis could convey to you. You can, and should, research things on your own but you'll probably miss various opportunities that way. Also, just because your kid doesn't technically qualify for something doesn't mean they won't be allowed in if you ask.
As for being poor and white and male, my poor white parents found a decent number of programs for my white male self to participate in. Granted, programs for younger kids (read middle school and below) may provide only financial aid. However once your kid become advanced enough, college courses at your local college can become a very economical approach. They can also participate in college level summer programs which actually pay for them to attend (not an official option but many programs are flexible, talk to them). It's also vital that by the end of high school they have a project done that'd they'd collaborated with some professor on (contact these people, only one out of fifty is friendly and helpful but you only need one). Such a project qualifies them for ISEF, Intel Science Search and the Davidson Fellowship. There are application caveats so it's very important to have found someone who knows about this stuff before starting.
Except the camcorder isn't likely to store the data on anything that can actually saturate either usb3 or thunderbolt so the use case is meaningless. So basically thunderbolt would be a useless interface for connecting to his SAN.
I never said it's the only place, as you say there's tons of options out there. Various places will even create options for you if there are none there already.
The Davidson Institute however was founded, asfaik, to help parents and students find and evaluate those options. They do more than that now but that is still their core program. They know what's out there and they have actual experience so they can give you well-founded advice. And they have enough money behind them to give at least reasonably unbiased advice (ie: they're not in it for your money, future name or future donations).
Contact this place, they can probably give you better advice than most anyone on slashdot or anywhere really: Davidson Institute
They're funded by the Davidson family who after making a mint in education software (enough to buy Blizzard in the 90s) moved onto more directly charitable endeavors. The institute runs a school for the gifted in nevada, provide nationwide help for gifted children and also give out a yearly fellowship. Probably other programs as well.
Basically, they know more about all the options that exist than anyone here and are very friendly people. The last one is key, btw, since some programs are run by bureaucratic cretins who actually consider it a waste of their time to help people. These people aren't like that.
I could try to summarize the options I know of but, frankly, it'd be an incomplete and a waste of time compared to what people who deal with this full time can tell you.
Do people not even bother to think nowadays or something.
a) You seriously think hulu serves you content from a couple of central dataservers? Hahaha. They serve you data that's cached on servers inside your ISP (via akamai and others).
The alternative is prohibitive costs or worse. So international access requires such infrastructure to have been put into place (which == $$$).
b) On that point, hulu makes money from advertising. Advertisers are very specific about who they want to show ads for and hard to get even in the US. Why would hulu want to lose money by showing you content that they don't get paid for showing?
c) Legal problems. Some countries are anal about sex, others are berserk about violence and some are just nazi about nazis. Hulu would need to comply with all the various laws.
So? I have a life, there are frankly more older games than I could ever play. And $10-20 for an older or indie games beats $60 for one that came out last week.
Once there are ten thousand people in one location it's damn hard for the cops to do anything without being horribly brutal. Moreover if you stuff ten thousand people in one location with no control it's damn easy for the thing to go horribly wrong (see London recently) before the cops even get there. Humans in groups do not behave like rational individuals, they behave like herd animals. Just look at every store in the US on Black Friday.
And that's without anyone, on whichever side (which includes third parties looking for LOLs), deciding to spread some misinformation to spark things off.
So yeah, getting permission beforehand and requiring proper safety measures by organizers is the only sane way to keep things under control. Welcome to real life where things aren't black and white, zealots who think they are generally cause more deaths than anyone else.
And you definitely do not want mass violence happening because that's how you get people to happily and willingly vote for a police state.
Despite the title saying "Machine Learning| Artificial Intelligence" it seems to be only the Machine Learning class.
That said, the AI class may be more useful for you unless you plan to do hardcore machine learning. The AI class seems to go over a broader set of machine learning topics than the ML class. I'm guessing the AI class will cover it's topics in less detail.
Having actually taken both of the classes in question at Stanford I'd disagree. They're useful but it's not god shoving knowledge into your head. If you can learn from a book (seriously learn, not half ass it) then just go with that.
Well, if that's true, then when you ask them to do Y, they won't be able to it as well whether they lied about having X or not.
So they should just ask someone not to become horribly ill or not to die from a heart condition or not to get seizure or not to have that cancer come back in flight?
Various conditions, if they occur rarely enough, may not show up during training but can still cause serious problems if they happen during a flight.
You also can't test for everything so you screen out problems beforehand. You can't, for example, screen for a week of zero gravity since no has has yet invented an anti-gravity machine.
You will need approximately half an acre per human just for food,
No you won't, a spaceship won't have a bloody Oklahoma field. It'll have a highly advanced hydroponics greenhouse or similar with a nuclear rector providing essentially unlimited sunlight. Nor will they eat the same space inefficient diet that most Americans do. Nor will they be limited by such things as cost, future soil health and so on. Of course such a system would be used during the journey to Mars so the necessary supplies would be lessened. It would also not be landed all at once but rather piecemeal.
Which is a lot more plausible than robots capable of creating a full industrial system from scratch on an alien planet. Frankly nothing complicated is going really be built on Mars, it'll all essentially be shipped there pre-made for some time. Just a question of when various pieces get shipped there so those hydroponics systems would get sent there one way or the other.
I find it amusing when people make assumptions about the decisions other make without knowing anything about what went into that decision.
There is, for example, heavy speculation that media companies were trying to have netflix pay them royalties for all customers and not just those who streamed their media. In that sense, separating the two businesses alone would save netflix a lot of money since their royalty payments would go way down. Raising rates slowly over time would do jack shit and potentially leave them bankrupt within a couple years from royalty payments.
But of course you now better than the CEO running the company since you have magical omniscient powers.
But the GPL does provide blanket permission for arbitrary redistribution, with source, and Hamstersoft is providing source for the GPL code.
Except it doesn't, it only gives you permission for redistribution if you follow the terms of the license. One of those terms is that if you use GPL code as part of a larger work then the whole work must be released as GPL. If you do not follow the terms then you do not have permission to redistribute GPL code.
Copyright law does not allow you to arbitrary distribute code created by others unless you are given permission to do so.
In other words even if your part of the code is not legally a derivative work you cannot distribute the code that isn't your without permission. And if the GPL says you don't have that permission then you're down to copyright laws which pretty generally says you don't have permission.
I've driven cars with broken power steering, and while it was hard to maneuver at slow speeds the difference wasn't really noticeable over 10 mph.
You are assuming all failure modes are the same. The AI car is also designed to fail gracefully as much as possible, yet you cite failures in that. So I cite ungraceful failures in your examples.
If your cruise control locks in the on and maximum speed position, put the car in neutral and brake to a halt, just as you would if the throttle stuck in the fully open position.
Which takes time and in many cases may very well lead to an accident. Guy in front is braking due to traffic? Ooops, crash time.
Stop being a pouty little child and admit when you are wrong instead of trying to dismis problems that are as severe as the ones you tried to cite just because they show you to have been wrong.
Also, in modern cars the electronics can, theoretically, override pretty much everything else so it is, theoretically, possible for the car to not stop. Yet by your own admission you have no problem with them testing those electronics and devices, in non-production quality, on the road.
Antilock brakes prevent the pedal from staying down; they can't bring it down on their own.
Modern variants can automatically apply the brakes. Furthermore, anti-lock brakes don't do anything to the pedal but rather control the pressure to individual brakes. That means a full failure of anti-lock brakes could mean no brakes if it locks in the "no pressure to any wheels" position. Quiet a problem if it happens at the wrong moment.
And if the bus full of nuns hits you from behind, it's because they were following too closely.
And your fault for coming to an abrupt stop for no reason. Welcome to life, things aren't black and white, enjoy your stay.
Fail once again, do you even know what you're talking about or do you just google whatever comes first then post it?
That scheme has none of the advantages mentioned in the article over a NUL ending. The length is encoded across the data stream and so is not known beforehand. Furthermore it adds a constant 12.5% overhead which is even more than the overhead from other schemes. It's actually rather close to a NUL ending approach to integers which don't have a set of reserved unused bytes.
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The information in that experiment was still transmitted by regular light speed means. Anyone who trusts science journalists to be even close to accurate is a fool.
I also eventually ran across a clever explanation: The classroom lecture is the best method developed so far to teach students who can't read. That does describe a large fraction of the US college student population, of course, so the lecturers are still needed for them.
Your full explanation is of course nothing more than an attempt to ease your own ego. After all, in your own mind you must be better than those other people. So the explanation must involve them being inferior to you and the whole system not catering to you obviously superior mind.
Someone who doesn't need to prop up their own inferiority complex on the other hand may simply explain it as being the fact that different people learn differently. Many people can read a book but they'll simply learn better in a lecture setting.
Yup, scpd.stanford.edu.
Before the internet I believe they also provided tv lectures for students in other countries.
Professors, amusingly enough, often complained about how few students showed up for classes that were also available online. Some even went out of their way to force students come to classes.
Anthropic principle basically kills any such argument in it's tracks. Any further arguments can be killed by our brains continual lack of objective standards and proper rationality. We see what we want to see and what we see we consider good.
Unfortunately none of this solves the annoying problem that atheism leads to nihilism as a proper philosophical stance. People really don't like that and will cover up that irrational dislike with even more irrationality. Every other half decent solution I've heard just comes down to ignoring the whole annoying problem and simply living life. Which is great in some ways but lousy for making a complete philosophical framework for oneself.
Graph edit doesn't do much because proteins drop out of the graph over time. We only see the final building and not the scaffolding that existed when it was being built. That is also why the whole argument is bunk.
However, the moon lacks atmosphere, and other than UV induced breakdown in plastics, most of the moon era "space trash" is still up there and in theoretically repairable\repurposable condition.
Vacuum apparently does unpleasant things to many materials. Lubricants boil off. Metal forms tin whiskers. Metal cold welds together. Plastic may break down as well I think. The rover will most likely look decent but internally be a worthless lump of material.
Not to mention that they'd be castrated by their own supporters for ruining such priceless historical artifacts.
Seriously, reading comprehension, learn it. The Davidson Institute provides multiple free programs which is why I said they're probably the best starting point. Granted, they are for highly gifted students although I expect they'd happily provide general information for even less gifted students. Also, asking people questions is in fact utterly free to do. They may or may not answer but you'll never know unless you try. Certain information is also vital to know which is why I pointed out a place that probably knows most of it.
For example, having your kid take the SAT (and get over 700 on either section) before they're 13 qualifies them for SET. I got $50 college courses in middle school thanks to that. Or maybe not anymore, SET was dead for a while. This is the sort of information that people who deal with this in a full time basis could convey to you. You can, and should, research things on your own but you'll probably miss various opportunities that way. Also, just because your kid doesn't technically qualify for something doesn't mean they won't be allowed in if you ask.
As for being poor and white and male, my poor white parents found a decent number of programs for my white male self to participate in. Granted, programs for younger kids (read middle school and below) may provide only financial aid. However once your kid become advanced enough, college courses at your local college can become a very economical approach. They can also participate in college level summer programs which actually pay for them to attend (not an official option but many programs are flexible, talk to them). It's also vital that by the end of high school they have a project done that'd they'd collaborated with some professor on (contact these people, only one out of fifty is friendly and helpful but you only need one). Such a project qualifies them for ISEF, Intel Science Search and the Davidson Fellowship. There are application caveats so it's very important to have found someone who knows about this stuff before starting.
Except the camcorder isn't likely to store the data on anything that can actually saturate either usb3 or thunderbolt so the use case is meaningless. So basically thunderbolt would be a useless interface for connecting to his SAN.
I never said it's the only place, as you say there's tons of options out there. Various places will even create options for you if there are none there already.
The Davidson Institute however was founded, asfaik, to help parents and students find and evaluate those options. They do more than that now but that is still their core program. They know what's out there and they have actual experience so they can give you well-founded advice. And they have enough money behind them to give at least reasonably unbiased advice (ie: they're not in it for your money, future name or future donations).
Contact this place, they can probably give you better advice than most anyone on slashdot or anywhere really:
Davidson Institute
They're funded by the Davidson family who after making a mint in education software (enough to buy Blizzard in the 90s) moved onto more directly charitable endeavors. The institute runs a school for the gifted in nevada, provide nationwide help for gifted children and also give out a yearly fellowship. Probably other programs as well.
Basically, they know more about all the options that exist than anyone here and are very friendly people. The last one is key, btw, since some programs are run by bureaucratic cretins who actually consider it a waste of their time to help people. These people aren't like that.
I could try to summarize the options I know of but, frankly, it'd be an incomplete and a waste of time compared to what people who deal with this full time can tell you.
Do people not even bother to think nowadays or something.
a) You seriously think hulu serves you content from a couple of central dataservers? Hahaha. They serve you data that's cached on servers inside your ISP (via akamai and others).
The alternative is prohibitive costs or worse. So international access requires such infrastructure to have been put into place (which == $$$).
b) On that point, hulu makes money from advertising. Advertisers are very specific about who they want to show ads for and hard to get even in the US. Why would hulu want to lose money by showing you content that they don't get paid for showing?
c) Legal problems. Some countries are anal about sex, others are berserk about violence and some are just nazi about nazis. Hulu would need to comply with all the various laws.
Having played the newest Fallout games, all I can say is that you are full of shit.
So? I have a life, there are frankly more older games than I could ever play. And $10-20 for an older or indie games beats $60 for one that came out last week.
Once there are ten thousand people in one location it's damn hard for the cops to do anything without being horribly brutal. Moreover if you stuff ten thousand people in one location with no control it's damn easy for the thing to go horribly wrong (see London recently) before the cops even get there. Humans in groups do not behave like rational individuals, they behave like herd animals. Just look at every store in the US on Black Friday.
And that's without anyone, on whichever side (which includes third parties looking for LOLs), deciding to spread some misinformation to spark things off.
So yeah, getting permission beforehand and requiring proper safety measures by organizers is the only sane way to keep things under control. Welcome to real life where things aren't black and white, zealots who think they are generally cause more deaths than anyone else.
And you definitely do not want mass violence happening because that's how you get people to happily and willingly vote for a police state.
An older version of the machine learning class videos actually given at Stanford is available here:
http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx
Despite the title saying "Machine Learning| Artificial Intelligence" it seems to be only the Machine Learning class.
That said, the AI class may be more useful for you unless you plan to do hardcore machine learning. The AI class seems to go over a broader set of machine learning topics than the ML class. I'm guessing the AI class will cover it's topics in less detail.
Having actually taken both of the classes in question at Stanford I'd disagree. They're useful but it's not god shoving knowledge into your head. If you can learn from a book (seriously learn, not half ass it) then just go with that.
Plus, you can already get the machine learning class videos (and a few other ones):
http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx
R&D institutions that can afford PhDs.
A lot of companies have research or quasi-research departments or positions.
Well, if that's true, then when you ask them to do Y, they won't be able to it as well whether they lied about having X or not.
So they should just ask someone not to become horribly ill or not to die from a heart condition or not to get seizure or not to have that cancer come back in flight?
Various conditions, if they occur rarely enough, may not show up during training but can still cause serious problems if they happen during a flight.
You also can't test for everything so you screen out problems beforehand. You can't, for example, screen for a week of zero gravity since no has has yet invented an anti-gravity machine.
You will need approximately half an acre per human just for food,
No you won't, a spaceship won't have a bloody Oklahoma field. It'll have a highly advanced hydroponics greenhouse or similar with a nuclear rector providing essentially unlimited sunlight. Nor will they eat the same space inefficient diet that most Americans do. Nor will they be limited by such things as cost, future soil health and so on. Of course such a system would be used during the journey to Mars so the necessary supplies would be lessened. It would also not be landed all at once but rather piecemeal.
Which is a lot more plausible than robots capable of creating a full industrial system from scratch on an alien planet. Frankly nothing complicated is going really be built on Mars, it'll all essentially be shipped there pre-made for some time. Just a question of when various pieces get shipped there so those hydroponics systems would get sent there one way or the other.
I find it amusing when people make assumptions about the decisions other make without knowing anything about what went into that decision.
There is, for example, heavy speculation that media companies were trying to have netflix pay them royalties for all customers and not just those who streamed their media. In that sense, separating the two businesses alone would save netflix a lot of money since their royalty payments would go way down. Raising rates slowly over time would do jack shit and potentially leave them bankrupt within a couple years from royalty payments.
But of course you now better than the CEO running the company since you have magical omniscient powers.
But the GPL does provide blanket permission for arbitrary redistribution, with source, and Hamstersoft is providing source for the GPL code.
Except it doesn't, it only gives you permission for redistribution if you follow the terms of the license. One of those terms is that if you use GPL code as part of a larger work then the whole work must be released as GPL. If you do not follow the terms then you do not have permission to redistribute GPL code.
Copyright law does not allow you to arbitrary distribute code created by others unless you are given permission to do so.
In other words even if your part of the code is not legally a derivative work you cannot distribute the code that isn't your without permission. And if the GPL says you don't have that permission then you're down to copyright laws which pretty generally says you don't have permission.
I've driven cars with broken power steering, and while it was hard to maneuver at slow speeds the difference wasn't really noticeable over 10 mph.
You are assuming all failure modes are the same. The AI car is also designed to fail gracefully as much as possible, yet you cite failures in that. So I cite ungraceful failures in your examples.
If your cruise control locks in the on and maximum speed position, put the car in neutral and brake to a halt, just as you would if the throttle stuck in the fully open position.
Which takes time and in many cases may very well lead to an accident. Guy in front is braking due to traffic? Ooops, crash time.
Stop being a pouty little child and admit when you are wrong instead of trying to dismis problems that are as severe as the ones you tried to cite just because they show you to have been wrong.
Also, in modern cars the electronics can, theoretically, override pretty much everything else so it is, theoretically, possible for the car to not stop. Yet by your own admission you have no problem with them testing those electronics and devices, in non-production quality, on the road.
Antilock brakes prevent the pedal from staying down; they can't bring it down on their own.
Modern variants can automatically apply the brakes. Furthermore, anti-lock brakes don't do anything to the pedal but rather control the pressure to individual brakes. That means a full failure of anti-lock brakes could mean no brakes if it locks in the "no pressure to any wheels" position. Quiet a problem if it happens at the wrong moment.
And if the bus full of nuns hits you from behind, it's because they were following too closely.
And your fault for coming to an abrupt stop for no reason. Welcome to life, things aren't black and white, enjoy your stay.
You're using the nice failure conditions on one side of the argument and the nasty ones on the other. That's not fair.
power steering: human is in control, power steering augments that control. if it fails, the human can still control the cars direction
Not if the failure locks the wheel in the wrong orientation. You hit a bus full on nuns in the other lane.
cruise control: human is mostly in control. if cruise control fails, the human can still control the cars speed
Not if the cruise controls locks up at full speed and does not turn off. You rear end a bus full of nuns.
if the anti-lock brakes fail, you just have normal brakes. the human can still stop.
Not if the brakes all lock shut and cause you to lose traction at highway speeds. You swerve into an oncoming bus full of nuns.
if the collision avoidance radar fails, nobody even notices.
Not if the failure is to trigger the brakes due to an "imminent collision." Bus full of nuns hits you form behind.
Fail once again, do you even know what you're talking about or do you just google whatever comes first then post it?
That scheme has none of the advantages mentioned in the article over a NUL ending. The length is encoded across the data stream and so is not known beforehand. Furthermore it adds a constant 12.5% overhead which is even more than the overhead from other schemes. It's actually rather close to a NUL ending approach to integers which don't have a set of reserved unused bytes.