Woah iGEM seems to be getting a lot of attention! This is good I think, synthetic biology is an important new field of engineering and science. In many ways I feel like the "old" AI days, the whole philosophy of "if you want to understand it, you'll have to build it" is very similar. Personally I was part of the University of Groningen team (www.igemgroningen.com) which aimed to create a hydrophobic (water repelling) biofilm coating, it could've had lots of applications if it worked but like most iGEM teams it wasn't all that successful.
One of my primary objections to this project while watching the presentation is that you'll still have to sequence the genome... a costly and time consuming activity, also the compression was a good thought but large sequences of nucleotides will inevitably start coding for RNA which could lead to a whole range of interference, unwanted proteins being the obvious one. Moreover you'll have entire colonies (millions of cells) with the same data, and little to no control between the individual differences.
While I do believe in the future of organic systems as a means for data processing and storage I don't believe that treating them as digital circuits is the right way to go.
You have a sea full of methane. Why not take a methane fuel cell of some sorts with you and use the sea to fuel your communications apparatus. It's a long shot, sure, but it's the first time we don't actually need to worry about fuel in outer space.
In both the physical and conceptual sense it's a mesh(/web). Physically it interconnects computers via wires in a web. Conceptually it connects ideas and information by use of hyperlinks(links for short) in a mesh. Both the conceptual and physical network are open, everyone can post ideas and links to ideas furthermore everyone can add computers to the web.
It is interesting to note that the conceptual and physical internet are two separate things. There is no law binding the ideas in the internet (stored in, for example, html documents) to specific computers in the mesh. Nor is there a law stating that specific machines in the web should contain specific information. In a way the conceptual internet is distributed over the physical network the same way the pictures in a photo album are independent from the album itself.
Well it's the old AI versus Computer science discussion.
A lot of computational intractable (NP) problems can be solved quite efficiently with non-deterministic algorithms like Genetic Algorithms or Simulated Annealing.
But the Computer Science people just don't wanna touch them, "they're ugly".
Being an AI student I find that quite ridiculous, me and my fellow students have solved the n-queens problem for n>100 where standard deterministic search would just collapse.
I'm completely with you on the huge step forward NASA is making when embracing "random" methods of path-calculation. It took them long enough...
Let's not shoot ourself in the foot now. There are perfectly legitimate uses for torrents.
Like downloading your favorite Linux distro. Which you could then install on your machine when finished with a wake-on-lan call from that very same router. See the possibilities are endless and all you think of is music.
I thought this was fairly easy to do with a Support Vector Machine.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support_Vector_Machi ne )
Or even simple Decision trees by setting the threshold for certain words.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_tree)
Bloated in it features it certainly is.
For the average consumer Opera just has far to many features, it scares them. And to be honest, I have a n DSL connection; I don't give a fuck about filesize.
Besides the Firefox installer is only 4,6MB!. And could even be smaller if things were more compressed and compiled in a diffrent way, yet Mozilla developers don't choose for that because it would make the program 'less accessible'.
They got the bug fixed in the upcoming 1.1(planned for june) so no need for extentions after that.
You could also try one of the nightlies (latest ) The bug is also fixed on those.
Beware though the nightlies will most likely break your extentions and other profile related things.
Yeah tax by the mile... they tried that here in Holland. It didn't require a GPS device though. It worked with certain portals. Once you had passed one it would add an amount of miles to your pile.
It will be turned of in the 1.0.1
But for 1.1 and further releases they will look for a more cleaner way to fix the spoofing issue. And thus brining back IDN support.
Here is a link to the Mozillazine article:
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=6 073
I'll have that feature augmented the next time I got surgery.
"Who's that?"
*program initiated*
"That is your ex wife, reccomend 500meter distance from target" A nice female voice tells me.
"But there is a man in it..."
"Yeah, that was the previous owner"
And who wants a Grizzly proof suit annyway, I walk alot in the forest, but I never encountered a bear.
"Ow is mars the fourth planet in our solar system, what is a solar system anyway?"
Are replies quite common. But Hell they all know that the moon landing was fake, and they all know that the government covered up the whole Area51 bit.
I mean I just wiped someone's ass who was trying to convince me that *they* had made a 12TeraHerz processor out of 'Roswell technology' told it him it can't be done 'cause of HUP.
But this is not the point, I actually believe that people should be told those stories, but there has to be a feedback mechanism, people who really know what is going on, and we lack those people. Start a rumour, everyone will believe it because it won't be falsified by the 'normal' people, and the scientists keep their mouth shut most of the time. The world would be a better place if those scientist and geeks would have a more active role in interacting with the 'normal' people.
And indeed science classes have become boring, but I see that it is necessary. It is necessary for me to know newtons first law it is necessary for me to know how to draw a vector diagram. Because with out those I would never understand the laws of thermodynamics or quantum mechanics.
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Woah iGEM seems to be getting a lot of attention! This is good I think, synthetic biology is an important new field of engineering and science. In many ways I feel like the "old" AI days, the whole philosophy of "if you want to understand it, you'll have to build it" is very similar. Personally I was part of the University of Groningen team (www.igemgroningen.com) which aimed to create a hydrophobic (water repelling) biofilm coating, it could've had lots of applications if it worked but like most iGEM teams it wasn't all that successful. One of my primary objections to this project while watching the presentation is that you'll still have to sequence the genome ... a costly and time consuming activity, also the compression was a good thought but large sequences of nucleotides will inevitably start coding for RNA which could lead to a whole range of interference, unwanted proteins being the obvious one. Moreover you'll have entire colonies (millions of cells) with the same data, and little to no control between the individual differences.
While I do believe in the future of organic systems as a means for data processing and storage I don't believe that treating them as digital circuits is the right way to go.
You have a sea full of methane. Why not take a methane fuel cell of some sorts with you and use the sea to fuel your communications apparatus. It's a long shot, sure, but it's the first time we don't actually need to worry about fuel in outer space.
In both the physical and conceptual sense it's a mesh(/web). Physically it interconnects computers via wires in a web. Conceptually it connects ideas and information by use of hyperlinks(links for short) in a mesh. Both the conceptual and physical network are open, everyone can post ideas and links to ideas furthermore everyone can add computers to the web. It is interesting to note that the conceptual and physical internet are two separate things. There is no law binding the ideas in the internet (stored in, for example, html documents) to specific computers in the mesh. Nor is there a law stating that specific machines in the web should contain specific information. In a way the conceptual internet is distributed over the physical network the same way the pictures in a photo album are independent from the album itself.
Well it's the old AI versus Computer science discussion. A lot of computational intractable (NP) problems can be solved quite efficiently with non-deterministic algorithms like Genetic Algorithms or Simulated Annealing. But the Computer Science people just don't wanna touch them, "they're ugly". Being an AI student I find that quite ridiculous, me and my fellow students have solved the n-queens problem for n>100 where standard deterministic search would just collapse. I'm completely with you on the huge step forward NASA is making when embracing "random" methods of path-calculation. It took them long enough ...
The internet is just a series of tubes ... right?
Let's not shoot ourself in the foot now. There are perfectly legitimate uses for torrents. Like downloading your favorite Linux distro. Which you could then install on your machine when finished with a wake-on-lan call from that very same router. See the possibilities are endless and all you think of is music.
I thought this was fairly easy to do with a Support Vector Machine. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support_Vector_Machi ne )
Or even simple Decision trees by setting the threshold for certain words.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_tree)
Firefox developer ben goodger has a nice view upon this subject. Check it out
Bloated in it features it certainly is. For the average consumer Opera just has far to many features, it scares them. And to be honest, I have a n DSL connection; I don't give a fuck about filesize. Besides the Firefox installer is only 4,6MB!. And could even be smaller if things were more compressed and compiled in a diffrent way, yet Mozilla developers don't choose for that because it would make the program 'less accessible'.
They got the bug fixed in the upcoming 1.1(planned for june) so no need for extentions after that. You could also try one of the nightlies (latest ) The bug is also fixed on those. Beware though the nightlies will most likely break your extentions and other profile related things.
Yeah tax by the mile... they tried that here in Holland. It didn't require a GPS device though. It worked with certain portals. Once you had passed one it would add an amount of miles to your pile.
It will be turned of in the 1.0.1 But for 1.1 and further releases they will look for a more cleaner way to fix the spoofing issue. And thus brining back IDN support. Here is a link to the Mozillazine article: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=6 073
anyone remeber Tsjernobil and what about the waste?
Besides these things won't last very long
I'll have that feature augmented the next time I got surgery. "Who's that?" *program initiated* "That is your ex wife, reccomend 500meter distance from target" A nice female voice tells me.
"But there is a man in it..." "Yeah, that was the previous owner" And who wants a Grizzly proof suit annyway, I walk alot in the forest, but I never encountered a bear.
"Ow is mars the fourth planet in our solar system, what is a solar system anyway?" Are replies quite common. But Hell they all know that the moon landing was fake, and they all know that the government covered up the whole Area51 bit. I mean I just wiped someone's ass who was trying to convince me that *they* had made a 12TeraHerz processor out of 'Roswell technology' told it him it can't be done 'cause of HUP. But this is not the point, I actually believe that people should be told those stories, but there has to be a feedback mechanism, people who really know what is going on, and we lack those people. Start a rumour, everyone will believe it because it won't be falsified by the 'normal' people, and the scientists keep their mouth shut most of the time. The world would be a better place if those scientist and geeks would have a more active role in interacting with the 'normal' people. And indeed science classes have become boring, but I see that it is necessary. It is necessary for me to know newtons first law it is necessary for me to know how to draw a vector diagram. Because with out those I would never understand the laws of thermodynamics or quantum mechanics.
I'd sure like to see Adobe Photoshop running on Linux...