There needs to be an anual prize for the highest compression ratio using random pages from the web as the corpus. This would probably do more for real advancement of artificial intelligence than the Turing competitions.
Since settling down in a quiet place somewhere and having a family sounds like a great idea to myself and my bride-to-be
Don't you get it? If you're not from a developing country where your extended family takes care of your fundamental requirements for reproduction -- you are supposed to become a multi-millionaire before reproducing.
The Rails "scaffold" macro doesn't "generate any code", at least not statically, but it does generate a bunch of functionality. There's no reason to get hung up on the word "generate" here. A REST-based webservice presenting the database to a clinent-side front end gets to the heart of a lot of architectural problems by offloading the server and consequently offloads server development time.
That also means your edit/test/debug cycle is a lot tighter because you aren't going back to the server to reconfigure your front end all the time.
I know, a lot of people are used to the idea of having to have the server do all their markup expansion, templating, etc. If they think that gives them a web application faster then they can stick with it and die professionally.
I wonder whether there are any metrics you could apply to rate the signal-to-noise ratio of a given word. For example, "XML" is virtually all noise given the fact that its basically just a syntax for named parenthesis but it is used in so many contexts you could get the idea that it is everything from a programming language just a fancy form of HTML.
Of Rails, XForms and REST web services, REST web services is probably the noisiest of the terms but it is so limited in scope that there probably isn't too much to worry about.
Rails is a big deal from the stand point of a world where Java frameworks are considered state of the art. However, the big breakthrough with Rails will come when a Rails-based REST web services generator presents the database schema to a client-side ECMAScript XForms/templating solution.
During some rocket engine work with Roger Gregory I discussed the failure of the Xanadu project with him a few times. He mentioned something as a major contributing factor, if not _the_ major contributing factor, to the fall of the Xanadu project that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere else. Maybe I misunderstood him but if not, it wouldn't be the first time I ran across some crucial history of a major technological development project that hadn't made the press. (See my transistor and fusion links for examples.)
As many might have known, the Xanadu culture has a lot of neologisms -- more than most software projects. They tried to use these neologisms in a consistent manner but you can imagine how difficult it would have been to really get things right with all those new words. Roger said someone, Mark Miller I believe, ran a sourcecode conversion on the Xanadu sourcecode base which did a right-shift (or was it left shift?) of one for all the the Xanadu glossary terms.
This was supposed to be a "joke" since of course all of the major programmers of the Xanadu project were memory demigods (except of course Ted Nelson who admits he needs to videotape everything because of his faulty memory) but the effect was a bit more than a mere joke, resembling to some significant degree the effect the Elohim had on the builders of the Tower of Babel when they made them speak different languages.
"I think it's very important that we become a spacefaring civilization, and that we eventually become multiplanetary."
Although I didn't want to encumber the story's synopsis with it, I really think Musk needs to discuss his vision of space migration with Gregg Maryniak who was the head of Space Studies Institute for sometime after Gerard O'Neill's death.
It was Gerard O'Neill who put forth the vision of space settlement after challenging his Princeton physics class with the question:
"Is a planetary surface the right place for an
expanding technological civilization?"
His conclusion, backed up by much subsequent research, is that the answer is a resounding, "No!"
A better statement would by Musk would be:
"I think it's very important that we become a spacefaring civilization, and that we eventually become
heliocentric."
XML is really just a named-parenthesis syntax. e.g.:
f(x) and (f x) are two forms of functor and argument, the former more commonly used than the latter. These could also be written as:
(f x f)<br> f(x)f<br> <f x f><br> <f>x</f><br>
This isn't to belittle XML, but to recognize what it is and is not. A named parenthesis format is really important and that's why XML gets so much attention. But it isn't a complicated idea -- so recognized that the rest of the noise about XML is just that.
Professor Montemagno says muscles like these could be used in a host of microscopic devices - even to drive miniature electrical generators to power computer chips.
Wonderful. You admit that the sentence that you say implies there is no under-representation of blacks actually implies there is under-representation of blacks.
Indeed, the only reasonable interpretation of the phrase "similarly underrepresented" is that both blacks and white gentiles are underrepresented at Harvard so you don't even need any heavy duty math!:)
No I'm not. I'm merely accurately representing the source despite your misrepresentation of the statements
You cry reverse discrimination when white gentiless are not given adequate seats with respect to population, ignoring that blacks too are discriminated against.
Let me present the original sentence carefully for you so you can see the arithmetic implications that show your interpretation inconsistent with the original words of the author:
[white gentiles] are under-represented by a _factor_ of 4 times. If blacks were similarly under-represented at Harvard, they would have only 3% of the seats.
Now as your pop quiz question: What percent of the general population is black as implied by the above quote (where "representative" at Harvard means the same percent as the general population)?
Now, don't strain your brain too much. Take your time. I'm trying to help you here -- not make your head do the Scanners thing and go GABLOOIE.
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I get it alright and that's what's got you so perturbed.
The statistical sample of "arguments" is not "proof" that my theory is correct, but that these arguments would be made from a quasi-religious/emotive standpoint is logically predicted by my theory, and obviously so.
This means they support my theory, not simply because they fail the test of logic but because they pass the test of religious zealotry.
Counting cases for statistical support is generally called "rationality" due to the fact that one is taking "ratios" between case counts so that one can take into account contextual information such as counter-cases. This combination of logic, statistics and rationality is accorded the name "reason" -- something that is required to make profits for corporations.
Harvard was founded in 1639. Why should the ethnic background of its founders be a guideline to what sort of people apply for it today?
As late as 1781 this was clearly the intent in one of the most important founding documents of the new world colonies as they constituted the United States with this as its first official sentence:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and
our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
As late as 1913, Webster's dictionary gave as the first definition of "posterity" from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :
Posterity \Pos*ter"i*ty\, n. [L. posteritas: cf. F.
post['e]rit['e]. See Posterior.]
1. The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the
furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who
are descended from an ancestor of a generation;
descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the
posterity of Abraham.
Along with the other assorted brain-dead zealots of political correctness, you demonstrate my point perfectly.
The point is made by virtue of the fact that corporations need reason to profit and the absence of reasonable brain activity among those reacting to my post is relevant to my stated theory that the state religion of political correctness is the source of the business devaluation of a Harvard education.
Again, thank you for illustrating my point.
Perhaps you will make a good spell checker for guys like me if our computers get take out by an EMP during a nuclear holocaust arising from religious conflicts between the West's state religion and Islam.
But on the second point, I'm correct. See, if you add all the categories, including the various races and 'international, you get 100%
I concede your point. But it is a nit. Moreover to be fair to the author, he took into account the higher average IQ of Jews with respect to white gentiles and he did not take into account the higher average IQ of white gentiles with respect to blacks.
You can't just dismiss observations because they are "racist". Nature doesn't care about your religious beliefs. The only question is whether the observations are valid.
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Quoting from my autographed copy of "The Extended Phenotype" by Richard "Conspiracy Theorist" Dawkins, chapter "Arms Races and Manipulation", p. 71 (1982 paperback edition):
With natural selection working on the problem, who would be so presumptuous as to guess what feats of mind control might not be achieved?
Oops... I guess he's saying that natural selection, rather than conspiracy, is the origin of said "mind control". By he doesn't need to posit a "conspiracy" to explain the existence of mind control mechanisms in nature.
Neither do I.
This doesn't mean conspiracies never occur as part of nature. Of course they do. Lots of bad behaviors occur in nature. However, they don't form the organizing principle of nature, nor have I anywhere posited that they do so. Perhaps you should try examining your tendency to hallucinate conspiracy theorists rather than trying to cast me as a conspiracy theorist.
Note the fact that there has not been a single logical criticism put forth of my message. Every single response has been pure, unmitigated ad hominem or blatently ridiculous reading comprehension forming the basis of critique.
This is a reflection of my original statement:
In short, the Ivy League has opted out of the enlightenment, to become de facto seminaries for the state religion of political correctness.
First, the article quoted discusses "white gentiles" -- the same ethnicity that founded Harvard -- and since Harvard classifies Jews as "white" you must find the percent of Jews (27% according to the Hillel guide) before you can subtract it from "white" to yield "white gentiles". I had already linked to the article which gave this statistic, and the arithmetic defintion should have been obvious to anyone with half a brain anyway.
Second, your assertion that Harvard's definition of "white" excludes European "whites" is implausible on the face of it and is unsupported by the document you cited.
In short, if this is an example of the quality of analysis we can expect from someone who identifies as a discriminated against minority with grievances against Harvard's historic private policies favoring students from the same culture that founded that university, then it is all too obvious why corporations are hiring fewer Harvard graduates.
are you claiming major American companies are antisemetic
What I'm claiming is that American companies, quite reasonably, are not placing much value on a degree from a seminary of the state religion of political correctness, of which Harvard is now the exemplar.
Remember what I said:
In short, the Ivy League has opted out of the enlightenment, to become de facto seminaries for the state religion of political correctness.
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Harvard just turned out to have too many Nazi sympathizers in the 30s and the quota for Jews was 0.
Apparently you believe it is inappropriate for people to restrict educational institutions which they founded to people of their culture.
Do you also believe it is appropriate to punish subsequent generations, based on their ethnicity, for the "crime" that their ancestors committed by trying to exercise freedom of association within their private colleges?
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Why don't they just do a Cray 4 on a chip?
There needs to be an anual prize for the highest compression ratio using random pages from the web as the corpus. This would probably do more for real advancement of artificial intelligence than the Turing competitions.
Don't you get it? If you're not from a developing country where your extended family takes care of your fundamental requirements for reproduction -- you are supposed to become a multi-millionaire before reproducing.
That also means your edit/test/debug cycle is a lot tighter because you aren't going back to the server to reconfigure your front end all the time.
I know, a lot of people are used to the idea of having to have the server do all their markup expansion, templating, etc. If they think that gives them a web application faster then they can stick with it and die professionally.
Of Rails, XForms and REST web services, REST web services is probably the noisiest of the terms but it is so limited in scope that there probably isn't too much to worry about.
Rails is a big deal from the stand point of a world where Java frameworks are considered state of the art. However, the big breakthrough with Rails will come when a Rails-based REST web services generator presents the database schema to a client-side ECMAScript XForms/templating solution.
John Walker doesn't have one (to the best of my knowledge). Maybe he got conned by Jack Sarfatti? It certainly is an interesting coincidence that the date of Walker's essay on UFO's mentioning Sarfatti is a few months after Walker had started considering support of a rocket engine developed by Roger Gregory and I.
As many might have known, the Xanadu culture has a lot of neologisms -- more than most software projects. They tried to use these neologisms in a consistent manner but you can imagine how difficult it would have been to really get things right with all those new words. Roger said someone, Mark Miller I believe, ran a sourcecode conversion on the Xanadu sourcecode base which did a right-shift (or was it left shift?) of one for all the the Xanadu glossary terms.
This was supposed to be a "joke" since of course all of the major programmers of the Xanadu project were memory demigods (except of course Ted Nelson who admits he needs to videotape everything because of his faulty memory) but the effect was a bit more than a mere joke, resembling to some significant degree the effect the Elohim had on the builders of the Tower of Babel when they made them speak different languages.
Although I didn't want to encumber the story's synopsis with it, I really think Musk needs to discuss his vision of space migration with Gregg Maryniak who was the head of Space Studies Institute for sometime after Gerard O'Neill's death.
It was Gerard O'Neill who put forth the vision of space settlement after challenging his Princeton physics class with the question:
His conclusion, backed up by much subsequent research, is that the answer is a resounding, "No!"
A better statement would by Musk would be:
f(x) and (f x) are two forms of functor and argument, the former more commonly used than the latter. These could also be written as:
This isn't to belittle XML, but to recognize what it is and is not. A named parenthesis format is really important and that's why XML gets so much attention. But it isn't a complicated idea -- so recognized that the rest of the noise about XML is just that.
As everyone knows hamster power is just about ISO standard by now. Why would they reinvent the hamster wheel yet again?
The Russian Mafia is already encrypting their email anyway.
Geocities is a carrier of content.
Indeed, the only reasonable interpretation of the phrase "similarly underrepresented" is that both blacks and white gentiles are underrepresented at Harvard so you don't even need any heavy duty math! :)
It's not like I believe guys who say profiling is evil and then profile are not hypocrites. Or are you proud of being a hypocrite?
No I'm not. I'm merely accurately representing the source despite your misrepresentation of the statements
You cry reverse discrimination when white gentiless are not given adequate seats with respect to population, ignoring that blacks too are discriminated against.
Let me present the original sentence carefully for you so you can see the arithmetic implications that show your interpretation inconsistent with the original words of the author:
Now as your pop quiz question: What percent of the general population is black as implied by the above quote (where "representative" at Harvard means the same percent as the general population)?
Now, don't strain your brain too much. Take your time. I'm trying to help you here -- not make your head do the Scanners thing and go GABLOOIE.
The statistical sample of "arguments" is not "proof" that my theory is correct, but that these arguments would be made from a quasi-religious/emotive standpoint is logically predicted by my theory, and obviously so.
This means they support my theory, not simply because they fail the test of logic but because they pass the test of religious zealotry.
Counting cases for statistical support is generally called "rationality" due to the fact that one is taking "ratios" between case counts so that one can take into account contextual information such as counter-cases. This combination of logic, statistics and rationality is accorded the name "reason" -- something that is required to make profits for corporations.
As late as 1781 this was clearly the intent in one of the most important founding documents of the new world colonies as they constituted the United States with this as its first official sentence:
As late as 1913, Webster's dictionary gave as the first definition of "posterity" from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :
Posterity \Pos*ter"i*ty\, n. [L. posteritas: cf. F. post['e]rit['e]. See Posterior.]
1. The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham.
The point is made by virtue of the fact that corporations need reason to profit and the absence of reasonable brain activity among those reacting to my post is relevant to my stated theory that the state religion of political correctness is the source of the business devaluation of a Harvard education.
Again, thank you for illustrating my point.
Perhaps you will make a good spell checker for guys like me if our computers get take out by an EMP during a nuclear holocaust arising from religious conflicts between the West's state religion and Islam.
I concede your point. But it is a nit. Moreover to be fair to the author, he took into account the higher average IQ of Jews with respect to white gentiles and he did not take into account the higher average IQ of white gentiles with respect to blacks.
You can't just dismiss observations because they are "racist". Nature doesn't care about your religious beliefs. The only question is whether the observations are valid.
Oops... I guess he's saying that natural selection, rather than conspiracy, is the origin of said "mind control". By he doesn't need to posit a "conspiracy" to explain the existence of mind control mechanisms in nature.
Neither do I.
This doesn't mean conspiracies never occur as part of nature. Of course they do. Lots of bad behaviors occur in nature. However, they don't form the organizing principle of nature, nor have I anywhere posited that they do so. Perhaps you should try examining your tendency to hallucinate conspiracy theorists rather than trying to cast me as a conspiracy theorist.
This is a reflection of my original statement:
Second, your assertion that Harvard's definition of "white" excludes European "whites" is implausible on the face of it and is unsupported by the document you cited.
In short, if this is an example of the quality of analysis we can expect from someone who identifies as a discriminated against minority with grievances against Harvard's historic private policies favoring students from the same culture that founded that university, then it is all too obvious why corporations are hiring fewer Harvard graduates.
What I'm claiming is that American companies, quite reasonably, are not placing much value on a degree from a seminary of the state religion of political correctness, of which Harvard is now the exemplar.
Remember what I said:
Apparently you believe it is inappropriate for people to restrict educational institutions which they founded to people of their culture.
Do you also believe it is appropriate to punish subsequent generations, based on their ethnicity, for the "crime" that their ancestors committed by trying to exercise freedom of association within their private colleges?