Concur. I am the proud possessor of a paper copy of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary. "Performant" isn't in the OED. "Performancer", as in "he / she who performs", however, is....
n0w4k, first of all: congrats to you and your co-authors on this brilliant achievement ! Second: have you guys thought of the minimal amount of information necessary to represent each of the "elements" (or, as I'd rather say, "individuals") of your system ? I am very bad at chemistry, but not that bad as a programmer;-) I'd actually love to try and replicate your experiment with pure information. Of course, this is only an idea. One would prolly also need to (en)code the system's environment...
Good point. I use a BlackBerry phone, with the BB gps app on it. There's already plenty of traffic info available in it: jams, congestion, accidents. No need for a drone to do that.
Thanks. I stand corrected. I was not thinking of Windows and of UTF-16, however. Just before posting the comment, I had been programming in Java; a Java character is the equivalent of two 8-bit bytes.
We are. For an American or European, there is no problem at all in coming to the Netherlands and living there. What with you being a techie, you'll have a job in twice no time. Nearly the entire population, nowadays, speaks Dutch. Disclaimer: I am of Dutch nationality, although I live in Austria, another EU state (one that does not even make strong encryption a subject of public discussion, but simply and tacitly assumes that strong encryption should be had by all who wish to use it, period).
You would think after surviving Iranian prison one would have more significant matters on the mind than petty navel gazing about "shamelessly luxurious condos" and "invasive SUVs". Maybe he had to throw that in to make it Guardianista-worthy.
Disagree. The man is obviously concerned with what is becoming, or has already become, of his society. I am actually planning a trip to Iran this year, and am very curious as to what I get to see.
Bollox. Getting a job is still very well possible, and - with an employer worth their name - is a question of skill(s) and how you convince the employer of actually possessing such skill(s). I am an independent software architect and developer, and certainly don't need any presence on any so-called social media to land contracts and assignments.
Nearly every social network now treats a link as just the same as it treats any other object – the same as a photo, or a piece of text. You’re encouraged to post one single hyperlink and expose it to a quasi-democratic process of liking and plussing and hearting. But links are not objects, they are relations between objects. This objectivisation has stripped hyperlinks of their immense powers.
Apps like Instagram are blind, or almost blind. Their gaze goes inwards, reluctant to transfer any of their vast powers to others, leading them into quiet deaths. The consequence is that web pages outside social media are dying.
These are very thoughtful observations, and the regard the man has, what with coming freshly out of jail, is acute and accurate. I have been thinking along similar lines, more and more, these last years. And here is definitely one of the main reasons, for me, not to be on Facebook, Twitter et al.
This is probably the most sensible comment in this thread. Top-down, such a thing is not going to work. One would need to do it bottom-up. Showing e.g. a village in Mali or Niger that it, i.e. each and every resident, can make solid money from solar panels - it would be a great way to get things going. Only later on the need for at-scale integration and, especially, standardization, would come in.
And why not wind too? They aren't mutually exclusive. It would provide some power at night time. I believe the Sahara is a pretty breezy place. Am I wrong?
No, you are not - in a general sense, though. There are many places in the Sahara with wind during the night (not to speak about daytime). The problem is knowing exactly where the strongest winds blow during the night. Remember, the Sahara is a more than vast place. Note: I have traveled the Sahara extensively: Morocco, Mauritania, Chad, Egypt. Egypt - the "eastern desert", between the Nile and the Red Sea - had the weakest winds during the night, Mauritania the strongest, and, more important: the most reliably blowing night winds.
Yeah, the HMMWV is famous for being able to run on booze - it's a story every soldier around the world knows. The VLRA can't do that, although it can run on kitchen oil; we never did that, as the smoke production is enormous. A Legion driver, having run out of fuel close to home after crossing a desert, was once ordered to pour the engine's oil into the tank. The VLRA reached home, sure enough. The thing has only very minor weaknesses. One of them are the standard issue, much too weak bulbs in the head lights: we always carried stronger ones from Europe when we went on a mission. Oh yes: the VLRA has no power steering. So after a turn, and especially after having hit a bump or a rock, the steering wheel comes spinning back at high speed. Has broken more thumbs than can be counted. Remedy: steer with 2 x 4 fingers only, keeping your thumbs in the air. I still drive my car (a Saab) that way. People don't understand why - except the very few ones who ever drove a VLRA, these people immediately "get" it.
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Concur. I am the proud possessor of a paper copy of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary. "Performant" isn't in the OED. "Performancer", as in "he / she who performs", however, is....
Switch on your irony sensor, please. If you can't, please make the next legal u-turn.
Is there any actual, normal person out there even faintly interested in this crap?
Yes, there is. Marketing at Amazon. They're coming for you, too, bro.
Mod parent up "insightful".
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Kewl. You could also email me directly at ipsejan (at) gmail dot com. Thanks !
n0w4k, is there any way to get access to your model ??? This is getting more interesting every minute....
n0w4k, first of all: congrats to you and your co-authors on this brilliant achievement ! Second: have you guys thought of the minimal amount of information necessary to represent each of the "elements" (or, as I'd rather say, "individuals") of your system ? I am very bad at chemistry, but not that bad as a programmer ;-) I'd actually love to try and replicate your experiment with pure information. Of course, this is only an idea. One would prolly also need to (en)code the system's environment...
Good point. I use a BlackBerry phone, with the BB gps app on it. There's already plenty of traffic info available in it: jams, congestion, accidents. No need for a drone to do that.
... the collision-avoidance logic you'd need if e.g. on a busy highway lots of cars had a drone companion.
Thanks. I stand corrected. I was not thinking of Windows and of UTF-16, however. Just before posting the comment, I had been programming in Java; a Java character is the equivalent of two 8-bit bytes.
140 characters equals 280 bytes. About the maximum amount of information the hairpiece can process in one tx.
We are. For an American or European, there is no problem at all in coming to the Netherlands and living there. What with you being a techie, you'll have a job in twice no time. Nearly the entire population, nowadays, speaks Dutch. Disclaimer: I am of Dutch nationality, although I live in Austria, another EU state (one that does not even make strong encryption a subject of public discussion, but simply and tacitly assumes that strong encryption should be had by all who wish to use it, period).
Funny. I have a hard time combining the words "Zuckerberg", "Facebook" and "fun" in one phrase that does not contain the words "not", "no" or "none".
What Zuckerberg wants is a glorified piece of deterministic software. Not an AI. Just plain media-whoring.
that I would just love to test this stuff upon.
in hell, while being impaled on a daily basis with a rusty butcher's knife.
You would think after surviving Iranian prison one would have more significant matters on the mind than petty navel gazing about "shamelessly luxurious condos" and "invasive SUVs". Maybe he had to throw that in to make it Guardianista-worthy.
Disagree. The man is obviously concerned with what is becoming, or has already become, of his society. I am actually planning a trip to Iran this year, and am very curious as to what I get to see.
and getting a job impossible
Bollox. Getting a job is still very well possible, and - with an employer worth their name - is a question of skill(s) and how you convince the employer of actually possessing such skill(s). I am an independent software architect and developer, and certainly don't need any presence on any so-called social media to land contracts and assignments.
Nearly every social network now treats a link as just the same as it treats any other object – the same as a photo, or a piece of text. You’re encouraged to post one single hyperlink and expose it to a quasi-democratic process of liking and plussing and hearting. But links are not objects, they are relations between objects. This objectivisation has stripped hyperlinks of their immense powers.
Apps like Instagram are blind, or almost blind. Their gaze goes inwards, reluctant to transfer any of their vast powers to others, leading them into quiet deaths. The consequence is that web pages outside social media are dying.
These are very thoughtful observations, and the regard the man has, what with coming freshly out of jail, is acute and accurate. I have been thinking along similar lines, more and more, these last years. And here is definitely one of the main reasons, for me, not to be on Facebook, Twitter et al.
This is probably the most sensible comment in this thread. Top-down, such a thing is not going to work. One would need to do it bottom-up. Showing e.g. a village in Mali or Niger that it, i.e. each and every resident, can make solid money from solar panels - it would be a great way to get things going. Only later on the need for at-scale integration and, especially, standardization, would come in.
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I gulped wine over the table upon reading this. Mod parent up !
And why not wind too? They aren't mutually exclusive. It would provide some power at night time. I believe the Sahara is a pretty breezy place. Am I wrong?
No, you are not - in a general sense, though. There are many places in the Sahara with wind during the night (not to speak about daytime). The problem is knowing exactly where the strongest winds blow during the night. Remember, the Sahara is a more than vast place. Note: I have traveled the Sahara extensively: Morocco, Mauritania, Chad, Egypt. Egypt - the "eastern desert", between the Nile and the Red Sea - had the weakest winds during the night, Mauritania the strongest, and, more important: the most reliably blowing night winds.
Yeah, the HMMWV is famous for being able to run on booze - it's a story every soldier around the world knows. The VLRA can't do that, although it can run on kitchen oil; we never did that, as the smoke production is enormous. A Legion driver, having run out of fuel close to home after crossing a desert, was once ordered to pour the engine's oil into the tank. The VLRA reached home, sure enough. The thing has only very minor weaknesses. One of them are the standard issue, much too weak bulbs in the head lights: we always carried stronger ones from Europe when we went on a mission. Oh yes: the VLRA has no power steering. So after a turn, and especially after having hit a bump or a rock, the steering wheel comes spinning back at high speed. Has broken more thumbs than can be counted. Remedy: steer with 2 x 4 fingers only, keeping your thumbs in the air. I still drive my car (a Saab) that way. People don't understand why - except the very few ones who ever drove a VLRA, these people immediately "get" it.
Old programmers never die. They redirect to /dev/null. RIP, Ian.