Although the list is growing with things like inductive logic programming coming into application in areas like bioinformatics, probably the closest thing to applied AI nowadays -- that won't leave you unemployed -- is data mining with emphasis on imputation of missing data.
Heavily statistical.
If she wants to get into stuff where the big money will be at the peak of her career (say age 40) she should definitely focus on Marcus Hutter's stuff.
What is needed is something akin to the sort of theraputic validation done for treatments like surgery. You can't very well do double blind controlled studies of surgery but you can nevertheless do validation. Moreover, there needs to be better operational definition of the treatment than "That which is done by someone trained by Janov's institute." The cultish aspect of Janov's therapy has got to go before it can be considered legitimate medical science. It's all part of the maturation of a discipline. First you have religion, which no one can reproduce. Then you have magic, which only the initiated can reproduce. Finally you have science, which anyone can reproduce.
Janov's idea that trauma creates buffered "jobs" for neural processing awaiting high capacity (neural maturation) and/or less stressful situation (removal from the immediate threat of whatever is creating the trauma) makes evolutionary sense. I'm not sure he's the originator of the idea but it is at least something that is a theory of psychotherapy that is falsifiable and therefore light-years ahead of what people ordinarily think of as psychoanalysis.
Anthony Burgess, author of the book "A Clockwork Orange"
was the artist in residence while I was in the undergraduate program at the Iowa City Writer's Workshop back
in 1974. I think he based his book on the work of Jose M.R. Delgado, M.D.
published under the book with the damn spooky title: "Physical Control of the
Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society".
I managed to get a copy of the book finally, and discovered wonderful
passages such as the following on page 115:
ESB [electrical stimulation of the brain -- JAB] may evoke more
elaborate responses. For example, in one of our patients, electrical
stimulation of the rostral part of the internal capsule produced head turning
and slow displacement of the body to either side with a well-oriented and
apparently normal sequence, as if the patient were looking for something. This
stimulation was repeated six times on two different days with comparable
results. The interesting fact was that the patient considered the evoked
activity spontaneous and always offered a reasonable explanation for it. When
asked, "What are you doing?" the answers were, "I am looking for my slippers,"
"I heard a noise," "I am restless," and "I was looking under the bed." In this
case it was difficult to ascertain whether the stimulation had evoked a
movement which the patient tried to justify, or if an hallucination had been
elicited which subsequently induced the patient to move and to explore the
surroundings.
This passage is eerily reminiscent of a passage from Richard Dawkins' "The Extended
Phenotype" chapter titled "Host Phenotypes of Parasite Genes":
"Many fascinating examples of parasites manipulating the behavior
of their hosts can be given. For nematomorph larvae, who need to break out of
their insect hosts and get into water where they live as adults, '...a major
difficulty in the parasite's life is the return to water. It is, therefore, of
particular interest that the parasite appears to affect the behavior of its
host, and "encourages" it to return to water. The mechanism by which this is
achieved is obscure, but there are sufficient isolated reports to certify that
the parasite does influence its host, and often suicidally for the host... One
of the more dramatic reports describes an infected bee flying over a pool and,
when about six feet over it, diving straight into the water. Immediately on
impact the gordian worm burst out and swam into the water, the maimed bee
being left to die' (Croll 1966)."
The only thing I wish is that they'd outsource rather than pulling in all those developers, Developers, DEVELOPERS since once Microsoft implodes under their weight they'll still run around doing to other companies what they've done to HP, Sun and now MS.
In any case McNealy's comedic impact is nothing compared to Balmer's schtick. There should be a late night TV PSA: This is your CEO on H-1b visas.
With that many drives and a bit extra investment you could afford to do some custom drives. Develop some 500G drives with wafer-scale parallel read heads in which you can read the entire contents of a disk once per revolution and have compare circuitry out on the heads looking for matches. With all the drives synchronized to do that in parallel, you get something like 120 searches/sec of the full text of the entire petabyte.
Illegal aliens aren't on a path to H-1b visas, which are being targeted mainly at lowering middle class wages. Illegal aliens are the ones who:
Remove the job market "safety net" for falling middle class families so they no longer can support themselves even at the level of minimum wage poverty.
Provide an outlet for frustration over the rising price of real estate relative to wages by virtue of being "illegal" -- which is a more politically defensible target than "they're taking my means of support!".
The answer can always be heard from the employers:
"So learn to live like the "hard working" Mexicans!"
I don't know... I was thinking woodlands that can be clearcut or perhaps some midwestern farmland that can be cultivated till the topsoil is gone.
Either that or leg-iron rentals -- you're going to need to do something cheaper than building expensive cells with bars, stuff, toilets and stuff when you reinstitute debtors prisons. Its cheaper to just use leg-irons. Besides I expect its easier to rent the prisoners out for "the service economy" if they're chained up while "servicing" customers of the privatized prison.
The way things are going the best way to make money is to borrow money and invest it in assets that are robust in a third world economy, which is where the US is heading.
Until the US figures out how to pull itself out of the death spiral of inflating real estate combined with deflating wages, it is best to find another way to live.
You're right. All this freedom of people to change the channel is just keeping people isolated from each other. Everyone should be on one big call in talk show moderated by YOU!
Of course, my opinion of you is that you're just a virus who likes "togetherness" for the obvious reasons.
Isn't it getting to be about time for the way project Xanadu approached this? You don't have one perspective on the text base -- you can in essence select your own pope with his cardinals, bishops and priests rather than having them handed to you by the rather thinly-related merit of who came up with the Wiki software in most use.
For those who don't get the joke: I've repeatedly put the suggestion for the C-Prize up here at/. with the additional suggestion that the Google founders who are participating with the X-Prize committee do it. This means guys like Sergey Brin and Larry Page, both Jews AFAIK, would be responsible for choosing the administrators. Now, we all know there is an increasing appearance that neocons are supremacist and that they're largely Jews but -- you'll just have to trust me on this -- they aren't likely to give me a red cent out of it.
If they want a real comparison of programming talent they shouldn't make up "toy" problems for programmers -- they should come up with a series of prizes similar to, but less challenging than, The Clay Mathematics Institute Millenium Prizes, or, better yet just pile as much money as possible on the C-Prize and let the programmers go crazy with creativity.
Other programming challenges -- with useful results are sitting around all over the place that just need some more money to get the competition kickstarted.
The threat from modern DNA synthesizers isn't the real threat. Those synthesizers do automate the process of DNA synthesis. However, the Russian bioweapons program did the same thing a long time before by just throwing more technicians at the problem. Using nothing but hard working but low-skilled lab techs with primitive equipment they were able to engineer bacteria that stimulated the immune system of victims to attack their own nervous system. This could create autoimmune diseases -- a very broad range of diseases including multiple sclerosis and possibly even autism.
It is really funny seeing Google playing the "big name with deep pockets" game so soon after their IPO. So much for "great technology with insightful capital".
I put together the technical end of the first municiple mesh in the US using LocustWorld meshboxes. It happened only because I moved out of silicon valley to a small town with no municiple bureaucracy to schmooze up. There were just some folks who wanted wireless for tourists coming through their town and we even got it set up so the local ISP didn't get put out of business by the tax subsidy. They took some bids from guys that had no "pockets" or "marquee" at all, and got a solution. I look around at the solemn rhetoric about the wireless mesh in New Orleans subsequent to Katrina, and the rhetoric about rich and poor in San Francisco's wireless access and just thank my lucky stars I'm out here with a bunch of "inbred hicks who don't know what leading edge technology is."
If they're serious about this they should offer up telephone polls and spectrum for 3 year leases to the highest bidder -- and stay the hell out of the way.
They'd get revenue rather than spending revenue and the town would be blanketed with wireless coverage before they could begin to issue their RFQ's to their bribers.
This reminds me of the scene in "They Live" where the protaganist finds some sunglasses that lets him see through the hypnotic haze created by the "capitalist" aliens and and finds there's this little UFO shaped thing following him around with a camera trained on him -- which he then blows away with a shotgun.
The government should either have forced MS to publish its DOS API in full back in 1983 so others could write competing operating systems to that API, or converted to a net present asset valuation tax base but failing all that the move by MS to open standards is the first real indication that they actually believe their material about having all this power due to having the best software -- as opposed to having a natural monopoly. Good for them.
If I were in Ray Ozzie's shoes I would apply something like the C-Prize to the entirety of MS's source code base. From the resulting compressed code, I'd reduce the OS CD to those components required to create a web-delivered application platform using whatever language won the C-Prize competition, and port the rest of the code to a Client/SOA architecture like TIBET(tm) that can run with a solid JavaScript engine. The idea is to go "Live", ie: web-delivered, with a fundamentally new base but with some support for the JS legacy environments.
Microsoft has at least 2 really big problems deriving from the same fundamental reality: Everyone needs their OS to interoperate with the bulk of the information industry.
The first problem is ethical and really goes beyond the scope of my professional opinions to my public opinions about the support of property rights. Suffice to say, I have no trouble with someone who goes after a natural monopoly position and succeeds. I have a problem with someone who then refuses to use that position of success to fix the bug in the society that made them inordinantly rich and their technology inordinantly influential.
The second problem is technical, which is what my argument here is really all about.
Basically Microsoft's code bloat problem derives from its monopoly position. This may seem like a truism since all of the software "profession" suffers from code bloat, but only Microsoft can take this to monopolistic proportions -- proportions that make Ma Bell's monopolistic complexities of yor look Spartan.
So Microsoft has this problem and it has many programmers (contributing to the code-bloat problem). It also has mountains of cash.
So how can Microsoft bust its own monopoly poisition turning its many programmers and mountains of cash into succinct code?
Monetary Incentives for the Programmers, ala the C-Prize:
S = size of uncompressed code-base
P = size of program outputting the uncompressed code-base
R = S/P (the compression ratio).
Previous record ratio: R0
New record ratio: R1=R0+X
Fund contains: $Z at noon GMT on day of new record
Winner receives: $Z * (X/(R0+X))
What happens very rapidly is the programmers first apply their skills to maximally refactoring the code. What falls out is a series of legacy API layers written atop a tight core.
They'd have to spend more money on code testing to verify the compressed code-bases of the competing teams actually worked to spec but the results should be quite gratifying.
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For the stupid:
The fact that no two people are identical doesn't mean there are not broader categories of identity.
See "Removing Lewontin's Fallacy from Hamilton's Rule".
For the dim:
Of course this doesn't work for all national identities but it does for people who believe that nations are extended families.
Heavily statistical.
If she wants to get into stuff where the big money will be at the peak of her career (say age 40) she should definitely focus on Marcus Hutter's stuff.
Not there yet...
Janov's idea that trauma creates buffered "jobs" for neural processing awaiting high capacity (neural maturation) and/or less stressful situation (removal from the immediate threat of whatever is creating the trauma) makes evolutionary sense. I'm not sure he's the originator of the idea but it is at least something that is a theory of psychotherapy that is falsifiable and therefore light-years ahead of what people ordinarily think of as psychoanalysis.
I managed to get a copy of the book finally, and discovered wonderful passages such as the following on page 115:
This passage is eerily reminiscent of a passage from Richard Dawkins' "The Extended Phenotype" chapter titled "Host Phenotypes of Parasite Genes":
from Atom Heart Mother
If I were to sleep
I could dream
If I were afraid
I could hide
If I go insane
Please don't put your wires in my brain
The only thing I wish is that they'd outsource rather than pulling in all those developers, Developers, DEVELOPERS since once Microsoft implodes under their weight they'll still run around doing to other companies what they've done to HP, Sun and now MS.
In any case McNealy's comedic impact is nothing compared to Balmer's schtick. There should be a late night TV PSA: This is your CEO on H-1b visas.
Now a Beowulf cluster of those would be cool.
- Remove the job market "safety net" for falling middle class families so they no longer can support themselves even at the level of minimum wage poverty.
- Provide an outlet for frustration over the rising price of real estate relative to wages by virtue of being "illegal" -- which is a more politically defensible target than "they're taking my means of support!".
The answer can always be heard from the employers:"So learn to live like the "hard working" Mexicans!"
US contractors are paid by the State Department to streamline the H-1b visa workflow.
Then they go on unemployment until they realize why they can't even get a minimum wage job.
Then they volunteer for The Minuteman Project.
Then Congress passes "immigration reform" to put all illegal aliens on "a path to citizenship".
Then....
How many jobs are being created in IT?
Where does the pay equilibriate?
How does this compare with the cost of reproduction given the lack of familial cohesion in the West and the high familial cohesion in Asia?
Finally, are Asians known for engaging in less ethnic nepotism than US citizen?
I don't know... I was thinking woodlands that can be clearcut or perhaps some midwestern farmland that can be cultivated till the topsoil is gone.
Either that or leg-iron rentals -- you're going to need to do something cheaper than building expensive cells with bars, stuff, toilets and stuff when you reinstitute debtors prisons. Its cheaper to just use leg-irons. Besides I expect its easier to rent the prisoners out for "the service economy" if they're chained up while "servicing" customers of the privatized prison.
The way things are going the best way to make money is to borrow money and invest it in assets that are robust in a third world economy, which is where the US is heading.
Until the US figures out how to pull itself out of the death spiral of inflating real estate combined with deflating wages, it is best to find another way to live.
Of course, my opinion of you is that you're just a virus who likes "togetherness" for the obvious reasons.
Isn't it getting to be about time for the way project Xanadu approached this? You don't have one perspective on the text base -- you can in essence select your own pope with his cardinals, bishops and priests rather than having them handed to you by the rather thinly-related merit of who came up with the Wiki software in most use.
For those who don't get the joke: I've repeatedly put the suggestion for the C-Prize up here at /. with the additional suggestion that the Google founders who are participating with the X-Prize committee do it. This means guys like Sergey Brin and Larry Page, both Jews AFAIK, would be responsible for choosing the administrators. Now, we all know there is an increasing appearance that neocons are supremacist and that they're largely Jews but -- you'll just have to trust me on this -- they aren't likely to give me a red cent out of it.
Other programming challenges -- with useful results are sitting around all over the place that just need some more money to get the competition kickstarted.
"Nice work if you can get it."
The threat from modern DNA synthesizers isn't the real threat. Those synthesizers do automate the process of DNA synthesis. However, the Russian bioweapons program did the same thing a long time before by just throwing more technicians at the problem. Using nothing but hard working but low-skilled lab techs with primitive equipment they were able to engineer bacteria that stimulated the immune system of victims to attack their own nervous system. This could create autoimmune diseases -- a very broad range of diseases including multiple sclerosis and possibly even autism.
I put together the technical end of the first municiple mesh in the US using LocustWorld meshboxes. It happened only because I moved out of silicon valley to a small town with no municiple bureaucracy to schmooze up. There were just some folks who wanted wireless for tourists coming through their town and we even got it set up so the local ISP didn't get put out of business by the tax subsidy. They took some bids from guys that had no "pockets" or "marquee" at all, and got a solution. I look around at the solemn rhetoric about the wireless mesh in New Orleans subsequent to Katrina, and the rhetoric about rich and poor in San Francisco's wireless access and just thank my lucky stars I'm out here with a bunch of "inbred hicks who don't know what leading edge technology is."
They'd get revenue rather than spending revenue and the town would be blanketed with wireless coverage before they could begin to issue their RFQ's to their bribers.
This reminds me of the scene in "They Live" where the protaganist finds some sunglasses that lets him see through the hypnotic haze created by the "capitalist" aliens and and finds there's this little UFO shaped thing following him around with a camera trained on him -- which he then blows away with a shotgun.
The government should either have forced MS to publish its DOS API in full back in 1983 so others could write competing operating systems to that API, or converted to a net present asset valuation tax base but failing all that the move by MS to open standards is the first real indication that they actually believe their material about having all this power due to having the best software -- as opposed to having a natural monopoly. Good for them.
Microsoft has at least 2 really big problems deriving from the same fundamental reality: Everyone needs their OS to interoperate with the bulk of the information industry.
The first problem is ethical and really goes beyond the scope of my professional opinions to my public opinions about the support of property rights. Suffice to say, I have no trouble with someone who goes after a natural monopoly position and succeeds. I have a problem with someone who then refuses to use that position of success to fix the bug in the society that made them inordinantly rich and their technology inordinantly influential.
The second problem is technical, which is what my argument here is really all about.
Basically Microsoft's code bloat problem derives from its monopoly position. This may seem like a truism since all of the software "profession" suffers from code bloat, but only Microsoft can take this to monopolistic proportions -- proportions that make Ma Bell's monopolistic complexities of yor look Spartan.
So Microsoft has this problem and it has many programmers (contributing to the code-bloat problem). It also has mountains of cash.
So how can Microsoft bust its own monopoly poisition turning its many programmers and mountains of cash into succinct code?
Monetary Incentives for the Programmers, ala the C-Prize:
S = size of uncompressed code-base
P = size of program outputting the uncompressed code-base
R = S/P (the compression ratio).
Award monies in a manner similar to the M-Prize:
Previous record ratio: R0
New record ratio: R1=R0+X
Fund contains: $Z at noon GMT on day of new record
Winner receives: $Z * (X/(R0+X))
What happens very rapidly is the programmers first apply their skills to maximally refactoring the code. What falls out is a series of legacy API layers written atop a tight core.
They'd have to spend more money on code testing to verify the compressed code-bases of the competing teams actually worked to spec but the results should be quite gratifying.