Bill Joy wrote a paper saying that nano/biotech should be regulated due to dangers. Musk is saying similar things about AI. People who have far less exposure to the absolute cutting edge, or who have less experience successfully imagineering than these guys, say things like "irresponsible", "hoax", "I'm optimistic", etc. While I would like to be optimistic, you just have to extrapolate advances in technological capabilities - whether in decades or centuries does not matter - to understand that this is another candidate for The Great Filter. Why don't we see aliens? While my guess paralleled some recent sci-fi (that species have to hide from other warlike species), here is another possibility: that a creative, exuberant, expansive species tends to be optimistic and the acceleration of technology outstrips the ability of a centralized government or open movement to regulate it, with technological progress somehow having the result of severely reducing the creativity, exuberance, and expansiveness of the species. Whether that is because the population is destroyed, tied into a consensual virtual world, becomes navel-gazers, or is fed gourmet food without having to do a speck of work and watches TV all day doesn't really matter, just the result that technology - even if it doesn't hit a singularity - drastically changes the species to the point that they are no longer visible on a galactic scale. Maybe people should listen to Musk before reacting. At the very least, just imagine some of the people around now, suddenly become 10 or 50 times smarter and faster decision makers. Not necessarily a safer world.
A first gen version of digital cash wallets straight out of scifi should be possible. You know, touch a wallet-like device to another one after dialing the amount, to transfer credits. And how does a starship pay for fuel at a space station? A similar cash transaction but over a network.
With standardized open source protocols, recognition by at least one government and any number of banks, and like cash not being tracked or taxed every transaction. A credit card or phone sized format could be doable for a standalone wallet.
Granted I only saw a very limited part of Bangalore, which I enjoyed because everyone was so nice, a technological solution seems impossible. You have multiple motorcycles in one lane, and everyone ignores the traffic lights, if there are any. Everyone just turns at the same time. My friend who was driving explained they have more accidents when they have traffic lights.
They really need to talk to the construction company that built the landfill islands around Tokyo, which also knows something about earthquakes. That is when the artificial land you make suddenly semi-liquefies, dropping buildings down into the ground or pushing pipes up through manholes. That, and the awful smell and sickness that sounds likely to come from the U.S. plan makes it sounds like a pretty bad idea...
Last week I met a startup that had developed a cool personal "AI-powered" robot that did offline voice recognition and motion tracking. When I asked about dev kits they said they had used Joule... the remainder of our chat would be best described by pregnant pauses.
I have been in reserve-your-floor elevators and 2-cars-per-shaft elevators. I am not looking forward to the Wonkavator, unless they make it extremely human-friendly. It sounds cool but...
The reserve-your-floor elevator would require floor selection by a keypad exterior to the cabin. It would refuse to accept other floor number entry from within the cabin, which is disconcerting if you just jump into a waiting cabin without entering a selection first. These were universally hated. The idea is the elevator is smarter than you and maximizes traffic but really it just was aggravating to anyone not used to it. (Customers and new employees)
The 2-cars-per-shaft elevator would stop and everyone would look uncomfortably at each other in a progressively claustrophobic space. Also your ears would tend to pop from the height.
I would feel a little better about 3D elevators if they would be guaranteed never to stop except in front of a door, and could be exited at any time if someone feels sick. If you tried to exit in an emergency would you be stuck in the middle of high voltage / EMF / mega-robot gears? The image of the exchanger gear is near from an engineering perspective in the way a funicular or trolley gear is, but you don't want to be climbing over one of those things. (maybe subject of a future James Bond movie?) If hacked you could literally lose people somewhere in a building. It brings so many potential neuroses I am not sure people will want to ride them. On the other hand for a factory they would be very cool.
I don't know if that phrase is obviously true. CO2 and other pollutants have sources, which are localized somewhere (car exhaust, smokestacks, etc.). Some cities (Beijing, New York, Los Angeles) have localized weather conditions or inversions that cause pollutants to remain concentrate and remain localized, so if there is some way to remove the pollutants where they are concentrated and causing a huge number of people respiratory problems, I would be all for it.
The only question I have is how well does this product work, does it remove all pollutants or just CO2, and is 275 trees' worth (well about 5000 trees' worth total at this point) going to make a difference you can feel? I'm also wondering whether there are mechanical solutions you could put at street level (or on every engine's output stream) to actually try and filter stuff out of the air with enough power to make a difference. If we threw enough brainpower, money, science and engineering at the problem comparable to say what it took to develop say atomic powered submarines, I have a feeling we could do it.
t's pretty funny, depressing, expected...what word to use? that many of the comments to date are "unimpressed". Hint: The article is lying when it says an algorithm replaced a designer.
This is obviously a piece of digital media art created by a media artist who has both artistic sense and a level of programming expertise, or possibly as a collaboration between an artist and a programmer. Every single variation I saw in the video looked fun and enjoyable, which is not what you would expect to achieve unless you have both sense and ability in both technical and artistic areas.
It is perhaps a different discussion if you want to ask is this art or commercial design, or can they be the same thing.
As another poster mentioned, procedural graphics can be cool. But also how to produce a certain feeling from it? What was the entire creative process? Did the creator(s) have to explore a huge space of outputted images, like in a fractal explorer? Did weeding out of unsuitable images happen? Was there a lot of experimentation with the design rules and types of patterns? Did it all start with someone drawing the kind of images he or she desired and then try to imagine how to achieve different kinds of variations (one image shows a portion of a swatch being composited on top of the same pattern in a different color, another image shows curving borders that clearly separate three different patterns, another image is very different showing a vertical uneven pattern of stripes that looks more hand drawn.. but also likely has many variations). Were off-the-shelf design programs used for the initial input or pattern generation, or was it all custom? How was the color palette decided? What language was it written in and how many lines of code? What percentage of the project was programming, or was it a constant programming and drawing and tweaking kind of intense operation? And did people at Nutella go over all 7 million images to make sure it didn't generate something scary like a skull or words?;)
Collaborations between artists and programmers can be awesome and challenging. I've been in some where technical issues had to be resolved very quickly due to a fixed exhibition schedule. I remember an event 10 years ago. A famous media artist (Jeffrey Shaw) was giving a thank you speech when his work had won the top prize in a prestigious art museum's competition, which also meant it would go on permanent display. It was actually the work of a small team. He chose to emphasize before anything else that the programmer (Bernd Lintermann) he worked with in fact also had provided a great deal of creativity and was an artist in his own right. The work was for a CAVE environment (3 walls and floor were projectors) but the same can be true in many genres.
Though I have not been following him, FYI that programmer's page is here: http://www.bernd-lintermann.de... ZKM is a famous digital art museum in Karlsruhe, Germany. He exhibited at the Nikola Tesla museum a couple of years ago. I mention these things just because if there are any people here with whom this resonates, you might enjoy exploring possibilities.
I'd also be interested to hear more about the story and was it something developed in-house by Ogilvy creatives or someone from outside, in a small digital media studio. Perhaps one day that story about the people who actually created the digital art system will come to light.
IANA aerospace engineer but I got a different feeling from the lillium website and the video they are linking from the top page about the flight of their full scale prototype. There are also graphics showing the engines pointed straight back. They are mounted on tilting flaps so they would be pointed down at low speeds such as in the test flights.
Perhaps it is not really a jet engine but if these compressors are mounted on tilting flaps I would expect them to be facing straight back at cruising speed.
In 2009 I delivered a supply chain system to a major construction equipment manufacturer. Even one hour of downtime for these machines is very expensive so people would be cannibalizing other machines to make a quick fix. They already had a satellite-based telemetry system in place to predict failures and servicing, and our system checked different warehouses and tried to pick the best choice based on various rules including lead time calculation. This article is talking about something that other companies have already done for years now.
There are some things that will work. A major provider carries email for a lot of people and can tell if mail is spam if - the people have no intersecting interests - they mostly receive it at the same time - a number of users mark it as spam (nearly all users who regularly mark anything as spam) Google is obviously doing this and some other for-pay providers too, is my guess. I'd pay for a way to be able to test my email headers against such a service without actually running my email through their servers.
Also, you can hire people to actually read email subject lines and decide whether email is spam. Probably a small number of people could make a huge difference and I'd propose that the cost of such a system could easily be borne by government, or be covered by a very low fee.
As first line of defense, you can make a someone lenient automatic system that blocks out common keywords/patterns in email. This would probably cover 98% of spam and could be tweaked by an end user (for example anything about Trump, CNN, gambling, Gwen Stefani or hot tubs is spam 100% for sure). A central repository for such keywords/patterns could be very useful to end users. Personally I have a number of accounts some of which are old and combined they send me a huge amount of spam, so I am considering what to do about it. The above would be a big help.
Makes me even happier about my recent purchase! A lot of mac haters and people saying SSD are unreliable, etc. Guess what, even the touch bar is way better than I would have expected based on the flames on Slashdot.
Well I have lost 1 or 2 files in the past on my 2009 MBP 17in which I loved, despite the weight, until the HDD errors started piling up. I use Windows and run some linux servers too. The price was quite high but I configured the best model I could since I expect to get 5-10 years of use out of it. I know 500gb was not enough to hold 5 years of cruft and VMs. This is my first SSD and surprised to hear how brittle people find them, so will do some research and set up some local storage. I remember a video studio that often had HDDs fail so thought SSD would be more reliable.
It would be more useful to me to hear what mac users recommend for backups - a tethered drive set up for time machine? Or one set up as a bootable backup with Carbon Copy Cloner? Or a local linux box and rsync? Ideally I'd like a fine granularity versioned backup that combines these worlds.
Even if not stable, would it theoretically be possible to maintain "pressure" in some other way such as encasing in a nanostructure that perhaps has an innate pressure? Maybe you only need nanowires not a macro-sized chunk of it.
Pretty amazing the number of highly scored posts promoting autodarwination of own species. In other words voting *against* safety measures for an acknowledged safety issue. Personally I think a flashing fullscreen big red icon that displays in response to broadcast danger signals would be better but seriously traffic accidents from people ultrafocused on data has got to be one of the bigger threats to readers. Personally I have been in some near misses with bikes
due to reading slashdot while walking.
Considering the code size it undoubtedly has many auxiliary features including the ability to read email. Considering the provenance it probably can read everyone else's email too.
Pretty insensitive posts modded up here. A child was crushed and iirc killed by a revolving door on roppongi hills in tokyo when it opened some years ago because sensors were not low enough to detect the child. It should be required reading.
I'd like to express my deep, unending thanks for building something that is really wonderful, Perl, and a wonderful community. I made a living with Perl, the first postmodern language of which I am aware, and derived a lot of enjoyment from TMTOWTDI, and contributed back to the community on Perl Monks at the time. It was a lot of fun to meet some of the famous, talented Perl visionaries then. I enjoy thinking in Perl and it has made me stronger.
I'd like to get into Perl 6 which having stolen all the cool stuff from the other languages appears likely to be the most advanced and artistic of all them. At the very least I look forward to being able one day to think in Perl 6.
Can you provide some examples to/. readers about why you like Perl 6, and what dimensions of awesomeness are waiting beyond Python and Javascript? I think you would be a good person to rouse a wakeup call.
That, and if you have a moment, how about a good reason or three (efficiency? creativity? extensibility? ability to suggest further growth? having lots of PhDs?) why Google should promote Perl 6 in-house and support the growth of the Perl 6 language and implementations. Perhaps sponsor completion of the Perl 6 kernel for Jupyter project? How about sponsor some people to document and make accessible free books? What are some Perl 6 initiatives that could use some eyes if not $$?
Unfortunately, I may have just solved the Fermi paradox. Either due to system enforcing a hard limit on observers especially if they can talk and corroborate observations, or due to other civilizations / virii trying to grab more processor resources by getting rid of the competition. It also might mean you can do more cool, magical things if you keep a lid on it.
That was very cool, thank you. IANAP but... How to allow very high precision? Not so bad (except for us) if you have a feedback to limit the number of pesky observers. Also might not be a bad reason for c and the expansion of the universe, since our local processor need only worry about what is in our light cone. Less even than that if you have mortals without fast space travel and you occlude the nearby interesting bits with clouds and supernovae. Sorry. How to handle infinite superpositions? Perhaps we need another system function that gathers and limits such silliness. In fundamental CG ray tracing you can trace rays from the observer and the reverse at least. Also maybe the computer is like a language compiler being bootstrapped and written in the language itself outputs. Then it can use superposition and many worlds internally!:)
The new Bookerly is excellent and I use it or Caecilia if need more weight. However I must say that the font SIZES that are available are awful!! There are many sizes around 5 or 6 point which is too small. Then only 2 sizes in ordinary size and 2 giant. I would like to have smoothly variable ecmal point scaling like on epub apps. If that is incompatible with low power cpu then let me get fonts from the net, and be able to buy goof ones from the store. I would pay money for this. Also I wish it would read zip / cbz amd let me doenload them as well as image files from browser.
Also I bought an amazon gift card overseas (in a Tokyo convenience store) but amazon.com refused to accept it. I wish they would just listen "shut up and take my money."
Long time linode user, I have two and have been extremely happy with them. Awesome support and community, periodic big free upgrades, continuously improving and adding services. Now you can create a cluster temporarily or ramp up a server and then turn it off, paying just for what you use, it is amazing and the most fun and value I've had. If you want to have your own server just get a linode. As for the ddos, I felt nothing in the two cities I have linodes.
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Bill Joy wrote a paper saying that nano/biotech should be regulated due to dangers. Musk is saying similar things about AI. People who have far less exposure to the absolute cutting edge, or who have less experience successfully imagineering than these guys, say things like "irresponsible", "hoax", "I'm optimistic", etc. While I would like to be optimistic, you just have to extrapolate advances in technological capabilities - whether in decades or centuries does not matter - to understand that this is another candidate for The Great Filter. Why don't we see aliens? While my guess paralleled some recent sci-fi (that species have to hide from other warlike species), here is another possibility: that a creative, exuberant, expansive species tends to be optimistic and the acceleration of technology outstrips the ability of a centralized government or open movement to regulate it, with technological progress somehow having the result of severely reducing the creativity, exuberance, and expansiveness of the species. Whether that is because the population is destroyed, tied into a consensual virtual world, becomes navel-gazers, or is fed gourmet food without having to do a speck of work and watches TV all day doesn't really matter, just the result that technology - even if it doesn't hit a singularity - drastically changes the species to the point that they are no longer visible on a galactic scale. Maybe people should listen to Musk before reacting. At the very least, just imagine some of the people around now, suddenly become 10 or 50 times smarter and faster decision makers. Not necessarily a safer world.
Actually I met one startup that had built a very cool toy robot with CV capabilities, it is on sale now and they were using the Joule board.
A first gen version of digital cash wallets straight out of scifi should be possible. You know, touch a wallet-like device to another one after dialing the amount, to transfer credits. And how does a starship pay for fuel at a space station? A similar cash transaction but over a network.
With standardized open source protocols, recognition by at least one government and any number of banks, and like cash not being tracked or taxed every transaction. A credit card or phone sized format could be doable for a standalone wallet.
April article about article in Science
https://www.theguardian.com/te...
Granted I only saw a very limited part of Bangalore, which I enjoyed because everyone was so nice, a technological solution seems impossible. You have multiple motorcycles in one lane, and everyone ignores the traffic lights, if there are any. Everyone just turns at the same time. My friend who was driving explained they have more accidents when they have traffic lights.
They really need to talk to the construction company that built the landfill islands around Tokyo, which also knows something about earthquakes. That is when the artificial land you make suddenly semi-liquefies, dropping buildings down into the ground or pushing pipes up through manholes. That, and the awful smell and sickness that sounds likely to come from the U.S. plan makes it sounds like a pretty bad idea...
Last week I met a startup that had developed a cool personal "AI-powered" robot that did offline voice recognition and motion tracking. When I asked about dev kits they said they had used Joule... the remainder of our chat would be best described by pregnant pauses.
I have been in reserve-your-floor elevators and 2-cars-per-shaft elevators. I am not looking forward to the Wonkavator, unless they make it extremely human-friendly. It sounds cool but...
The reserve-your-floor elevator would require floor selection by a keypad exterior to the cabin. It would refuse to accept other floor number entry from within the cabin, which is disconcerting if you just jump into a waiting cabin without entering a selection first. These were universally hated. The idea is the elevator is smarter than you and maximizes traffic but really it just was aggravating to anyone not used to it. (Customers and new employees)
The 2-cars-per-shaft elevator would stop and everyone would look uncomfortably at each other in a progressively claustrophobic space. Also your ears would tend to pop from the height.
I would feel a little better about 3D elevators if they would be guaranteed never to stop except in front of a door, and could be exited at any time if someone feels sick. If you tried to exit in an emergency would you be stuck in the middle of high voltage / EMF / mega-robot gears? The image of the exchanger gear is near from an engineering perspective in the way a funicular or trolley gear is, but you don't want to be climbing over one of those things. (maybe subject of a future James Bond movie?) If hacked you could literally lose people somewhere in a building. It brings so many potential neuroses I am not sure people will want to ride them. On the other hand for a factory they would be very cool.
I had trouble selecting the table in the pdf and copying into Excel. Do they release data files?
I don't know if that phrase is obviously true. CO2 and other pollutants have sources, which are localized somewhere (car exhaust, smokestacks, etc.). Some cities (Beijing, New York, Los Angeles) have localized weather conditions or inversions that cause pollutants to remain concentrate and remain localized, so if there is some way to remove the pollutants where they are concentrated and causing a huge number of people respiratory problems, I would be all for it.
The only question I have is how well does this product work, does it remove all pollutants or just CO2, and is 275 trees' worth (well about 5000 trees' worth total at this point) going to make a difference you can feel? I'm also wondering whether there are mechanical solutions you could put at street level (or on every engine's output stream) to actually try and filter stuff out of the air with enough power to make a difference. If we threw enough brainpower, money, science and engineering at the problem comparable to say what it took to develop say atomic powered submarines, I have a feeling we could do it.
t's pretty funny, depressing, expected ...what word to use? that many of the comments to date are "unimpressed". Hint: The article is lying when it says an algorithm replaced a designer.
This is obviously a piece of digital media art created by a media artist who has both artistic sense and a level of programming expertise, or possibly as a collaboration between an artist and a programmer. Every single variation I saw in the video looked fun and enjoyable, which is not what you would expect to achieve unless you have both sense and ability in both technical and artistic areas.
It is perhaps a different discussion if you want to ask is this art or commercial design, or can they be the same thing.
As another poster mentioned, procedural graphics can be cool. But also how to produce a certain feeling from it? What was the entire creative process? Did the creator(s) have to explore a huge space of outputted images, like in a fractal explorer? Did weeding out of unsuitable images happen? Was there a lot of experimentation with the design rules and types of patterns? Did it all start with someone drawing the kind of images he or she desired and then try to imagine how to achieve different kinds of variations (one image shows a portion of a swatch being composited on top of the same pattern in a different color, another image shows curving borders that clearly separate three different patterns, another image is very different showing a vertical uneven pattern of stripes that looks more hand drawn.. but also likely has many variations). Were off-the-shelf design programs used for the initial input or pattern generation, or was it all custom? How was the color palette decided? What language was it written in and how many lines of code? What percentage of the project was programming, or was it a constant programming and drawing and tweaking kind of intense operation? And did people at Nutella go over all 7 million images to make sure it didn't generate something scary like a skull or words? ;)
Collaborations between artists and programmers can be awesome and challenging. I've been in some where technical issues had to be resolved very quickly due to a fixed exhibition schedule. I remember an event 10 years ago. A famous media artist (Jeffrey Shaw) was giving a thank you speech when his work had won the top prize in a prestigious art museum's competition, which also meant it would go on permanent display. It was actually the work of a small team. He chose to emphasize before anything else that the programmer (Bernd Lintermann) he worked with in fact also had provided a great deal of creativity and was an artist in his own right. The work was for a CAVE environment (3 walls and floor were projectors) but the same can be true in many genres.
FWIW that was 1997, though it was still exhibited years later. http://www.ntticc.or.jp/en/arc...
Though I have not been following him, FYI that programmer's page is here: http://www.bernd-lintermann.de...
ZKM is a famous digital art museum in Karlsruhe, Germany.
He exhibited at the Nikola Tesla museum a couple of years ago.
I mention these things just because if there are any people here with whom this resonates, you might enjoy exploring possibilities.
I'd also be interested to hear more about the story and was it something developed in-house by Ogilvy creatives or someone from outside, in a small digital media studio. Perhaps one day that story about the people who actually created the digital art system will come to light.
IANA aerospace engineer but I got a different feeling from the lillium website and the video they are linking from the top page about the flight of their full scale prototype. There are also graphics showing the engines pointed straight back. They are mounted on tilting flaps so they would be pointed down at low speeds such as in the test flights.
Perhaps it is not really a jet engine but if these compressors are mounted on tilting flaps I would expect them to be facing straight back at cruising speed.
In 2009 I delivered a supply chain system to a major construction equipment manufacturer. Even one hour of downtime for these machines is very expensive so people would be cannibalizing other machines to make a quick fix. They already had a satellite-based telemetry system in place to predict failures and servicing, and our system checked different warehouses and tried to pick the best choice based on various rules including lead time calculation. This article is talking about something that other companies have already done for years now.
There are some things that will work.
A major provider carries email for a lot of people and can tell if mail is spam if
- the people have no intersecting interests
- they mostly receive it at the same time
- a number of users mark it as spam (nearly all users who regularly mark anything as spam)
Google is obviously doing this and some other for-pay providers too, is my guess. I'd pay for a way to be able to test my email headers against such a service without actually running my email through their servers.
Also, you can hire people to actually read email subject lines and decide whether email is spam. Probably a small number of people could make a huge difference and I'd propose that the cost of such a system could easily be borne by government, or be covered by a very low fee.
As first line of defense, you can make a someone lenient automatic system that blocks out common keywords/patterns in email. This would probably cover 98% of spam and could be tweaked by an end user (for example anything about Trump, CNN, gambling, Gwen Stefani or hot tubs is spam 100% for sure). A central repository for such keywords/patterns could be very useful to end users. Personally I have a number of accounts some of which are old and combined they send me a huge amount of spam, so I am considering what to do about it. The above would be a big help.
Makes me even happier about my recent purchase!
A lot of mac haters and people saying SSD are unreliable, etc. Guess what, even the touch bar is way better than I would have expected based on the flames on Slashdot.
Well I have lost 1 or 2 files in the past on my 2009
MBP 17in which I loved, despite the weight, until the HDD errors started piling up. I use Windows and run some linux servers too. The price was quite high but I configured the best model I could since I expect to get 5-10 years of use out of it. I know 500gb was not enough to hold 5 years of cruft and VMs. This is my first SSD and surprised to hear how brittle people find them, so will do some research and set up some local storage. I remember a video studio that often had HDDs fail so thought SSD would be more reliable.
It would be more useful to me to hear what mac users recommend for backups - a tethered drive set up for time machine? Or one set up as a bootable backup with Carbon Copy Cloner? Or a local linux box and rsync? Ideally I'd like a fine granularity versioned backup that combines these worlds.
Even if not stable, would it theoretically be possible to maintain "pressure" in some other way such as encasing in a nanostructure that perhaps has an innate pressure? Maybe you only need nanowires not a macro-sized chunk of it.
Pretty amazing the number of highly scored posts promoting autodarwination of own species. In other words voting *against* safety measures for an acknowledged safety issue. Personally I think a flashing fullscreen big red icon that displays in response to broadcast danger signals would be better but seriously traffic accidents from people ultrafocused on data has got to be one of the bigger threats to readers. Personally I have been in some near misses with bikes
due to reading slashdot while walking.
Considering the code size it undoubtedly has many auxiliary features including the ability to read email. Considering the provenance it probably can read everyone else's email too.
Pretty insensitive posts modded up here.
A child was crushed and iirc killed by a revolving door on roppongi hills in tokyo when it opened some years ago because sensors were not low enough to detect the child. It should be required reading.
I'd like to express my deep, unending thanks for building something that is really wonderful, Perl, and a wonderful community. I made a living with Perl, the first postmodern language of which I am aware, and derived a lot of enjoyment from TMTOWTDI, and contributed back to the community on Perl Monks at the time. It was a lot of fun to meet some of the famous, talented Perl visionaries then. I enjoy thinking in Perl and it has made me stronger.
I'd like to get into Perl 6 which having stolen all the cool stuff from the other languages appears likely to be the most advanced and artistic of all them. At the very least I look forward to being able one day to think in Perl 6.
Can you provide some examples to /. readers about why you like Perl 6, and what dimensions of awesomeness are waiting beyond Python and Javascript? I think you would be a good person to rouse a wakeup call.
That, and if you have a moment, how about a good reason or three (efficiency? creativity? extensibility? ability to suggest further growth? having lots of PhDs?) why Google should promote Perl 6 in-house and support the growth of the Perl 6 language and implementations. Perhaps sponsor completion of the Perl 6 kernel for Jupyter project? How about sponsor some people to document and make accessible free books? What are some Perl 6 initiatives that could use some eyes if not $$?
Unfortunately, I may have just solved the Fermi paradox. Either due to system enforcing a hard limit on observers especially if they can talk and corroborate observations, or due to other civilizations / virii trying to grab more processor resources by getting rid of the competition.
It also might mean you can do more cool, magical things if you keep a lid on it.
I hope I'm wrong. :/
That was very cool, thank you. :)
IANAP but... How to allow very high precision?
Not so bad (except for us) if you
have a feedback to limit the number
of pesky observers.
Also might not be a bad reason for
c and the expansion of the universe, since
our local processor need only worry
about what is in our light cone.
Less even than that if you have mortals
without fast space travel and you occlude
the nearby interesting bits with clouds
and supernovae. Sorry.
How to handle infinite superpositions?
Perhaps we need another system function
that gathers and limits such silliness.
In fundamental CG ray tracing you can trace rays from the observer and the reverse at least.
Also maybe the computer is like a language compiler being bootstrapped and written in the language itself outputs. Then it can use superposition and many worlds internally!
Decimal point, I meant to say.
The new Bookerly is excellent and I use it or Caecilia if need more weight. However I must say that the font SIZES that are available are awful!!
There are many sizes around 5 or 6 point which is too small. Then only 2 sizes in ordinary size and 2 giant. I would like to have smoothly variable ecmal point scaling like on epub apps. If that is incompatible with low power cpu then let me get fonts from the net, and be able to buy goof ones from the store.
I would pay money for this.
Also I wish it would read zip / cbz amd let me doenload them as well as image files from browser.
Also I bought an amazon gift card overseas (in a Tokyo convenience store) but amazon.com refused to accept it. I wish they would just listen "shut up and take my money."
Long time linode user, I have two and have been extremely happy with them. Awesome support and community, periodic big free upgrades, continuously improving and adding services. Now you can create a cluster temporarily or ramp up a server and then turn it off, paying just for what you use, it is amazing and the most fun and value I've had. If you want to have your own server just get a linode. As for the ddos, I felt nothing in the two cities I have linodes.