Yeah, because you're intelligent and that's how you work. There are no buttons on a human machine to be punched, no stimulus and response mechanism. You just do whatever you want when you want to, right?
Let's be honest, your entire body is covered with buttons. Buttons for taste, touch, vision, audition and olfaction. At any given instant your brain is processing millions of buttons. Some of them you are aware of, others you are not.
The processing of these buttons is fundamental to our intelligence. If you couldn't see that pushing a pencil off the edge of a table causes it to fall, you would have much more difficulty understanding gravity than someone that could. Only by sensing the world around us can we begin to imagine abstractions like math and language.
Without your buttons, you wouldn't be able to do much of anything either.
I did this a few years ago in my dorm room at school. Funny thing is, my roommate said then, the same things people are saying now. "Uh, shouldn't you be studying or doing something better with your time...?"
Thank you virus writers. Now there is one more file extention that I will have to rename to.txt before sending to coworkers so that the corporate firewall doesn't automatically delete my attachment.
... what they're paid to do. How much does a license cost to run Windows 2003? How much does Apache cost? Really, it's not that surprising that full-time salaried employees can build a better server. I mean, that's what they're paid to do. I don't get excited when the guy at the donut store gets my order right, why should I care that Microsoft's server works?
I don't know about other people, but I don't run Apache because I think it's more secure. I run it because it's free, opensource, and secure enough for my needs.
The reason the United States is reluctant to spend money to save the world for our children is in capitalism. It goes against the fundamental definition of capitalism to spend money on something and get nothing in return.
The only way to get United States compainies on board with finding new technologies that replace fossil fuels, is by giving them financial incentives now. The government could do this wonderfully. They could offer tax breaks for driving more efficient vehicles, financial aid for research and development of alternative fuels...
So why isn't this happening now? Because too many people, including those in our current administration, have lots of money invested in oil. If alternative fuel sources are discovered and oil demand is phased out, lots of people are going to lose a lot of money. They don't want this to happen, so they aren't putting out for new technology.
I mean, c'mon, if you were Bill Gates, would you pump money into Linux?
I think you meant to be funny by saying this, but what you've said is actually true. I saw these things demonstrated at the AUSA trade show a few months ago in Washington DC. While I'm all for future combat systems, I highly doubt these will actually be useful in the battle field. For one, there is only one forward facing camera which makes sneaking up on one of these things too easy. Secondly, like you said, it only weighs 45 kilos and could quite easily be flipped over where it would be helplessly immobilized. These might be fun toys, but they aren't even remotely close to replacing soldiers.
Heh, did you read the article? In his high level description of what is going on, he says:
"7.) Mutate a set number of children to keep variance."
Random mutation is exactly what keeps this thing from converging on a local minima. If the trend was going toward a local minima, or suboptimal solution, the random mutations could generate just enough entropy to bump the trend out of that solution and on to a better one.
Researchers at Eastman Kodak (Rochester, NY), for example, have developed a grating electromechnical system (GEMS), a diffractive-MEMS spatial-light modulator for use in printing and display applications. The GEMS modulator contains a linear array of pixels capable of high-speed digital operation, high optical contrast, and good efficiency. According to its developers, when coupled with RGB laser radiation, the GEMS is capable of producing spectacular still and motion images that create a new visual experience. Images are life-like having a smooth continuous quality with no "screen door" effect, high contrast, extended dynamic range, high resolution, and vivid colors. In addition, computer-generated motion images can provide a unique experience by using the expanded available color gamut to produce highly saturated colors.
"The primary advantage of lasers for display applications is color gamut," said Greg Niven, director of marketing, graphic arts and display, at Coherent (Santa Clara, CA), which is supplying high-power solid-state lasers to the display industry for applications such as rear-projection TV and digital cinema. "With lightbulbs and microdisplays, you can achieve 40% of the color your eye can perceive. With lasers (RGB primaries), you can get up to 85% of the colors your eye can see. So there is much wider color gamut, extremely high resolution, greater contrast, longer lifetimes, and a much better viewing experience."
This was posted on the SuprNova site sometime before it went offline.
Greetings everybody,
As you have probably noticed, we have often had downtimes. This was because it was so hard to keep this site up! But now we are sorry to inform you all, that SuprNova is closing down for good in the way that we all know it. We do not know if SuprNova is going to return, but it is certainly not going to be hosting any more torrent links. We are very sorry for this, but there was no other way, we have tried everything.
Thank you all that helped us, by donating mirrors or something else, by uploading and seeding files, by helping people out on IRC and on forum, by spreading the word about SuprNova.org.
It is a sad day for all of us!
Please visit SuprNova.org every once in a while to get the latest news on what is happening and if there is anything new to report on.
As we wish to maintain the nice comunity that we created, we are keppig forums and irc servers open.
Thank you all and Goodbye!
sloncek & the rest of the SuprNova Team
I wonder how long it's going to take before these idiots realize DRM solves nothing. The whole point of this DRM crap is to squash piracy, but what no one seems to realize is that it only takes one copy to escape the DRM and make it's way to P2P networks and everyone can get their hands on it. Record companies seem to think that if they cripple their distribution medium and make it a big enough pain in the ass for everyone, then no one will dare to circumvent the protection. This is a stupid and ignorant. History has proven over and over, someone, somewhere will get around the protection scheme and release the "warez" to the masses.
What is it going to take before they realize that alienating their customers, in any way, shape, or form, is doing nothing but hurting sales? Give people what they want or suffer the consequences.
Once I tied the Naturally Speaking software together with AT&T's Natural Voices and A.L.I.C.E. bot with some interesting results. Basically, I could just speak to my machine and have it answer me in a real voice. In conversation, I found myself being more forgiving of the shortcomings of the A.I. just because it was speaking to me. When it erred, it was easier to believe that the "person" I was speaking to had just misunderstood me, or I had just misunderstood what was said.
Actually, does anyone know of any research in this area? If adding speech recognition and synthesis to a computer makes the machine seem "smarter"?
Slashdot Mirror
My day isn't complete until the Google article is up... how is this newsworthy anyway? People have been banging out Google map hacks forever now.
Yeah, because you're intelligent and that's how you work. There are no buttons on a human machine to be punched, no stimulus and response mechanism. You just do whatever you want when you want to, right?
Let's be honest, your entire body is covered with buttons. Buttons for taste, touch, vision, audition and olfaction. At any given instant your brain is processing millions of buttons. Some of them you are aware of, others you are not.
The processing of these buttons is fundamental to our intelligence. If you couldn't see that pushing a pencil off the edge of a table causes it to fall, you would have much more difficulty understanding gravity than someone that could. Only by sensing the world around us can we begin to imagine abstractions like math and language.
Without your buttons, you wouldn't be able to do much of anything either.
If PearPC sues CherryOS and wins, which I don't doubt they will, who gets the money?
I did this a few years ago in my dorm room at school. Funny thing is, my roommate said then, the same things people are saying now. "Uh, shouldn't you be studying or doing something better with your time...?"
Thank you virus writers. Now there is one more file extention that I will have to rename to .txt before sending to coworkers so that the corporate firewall doesn't automatically delete my attachment.
Thanks a lot assholes...
The hoity-toity PC people who swill champagne with one hand while manipulating their mouse with the other,
So, one hand on the mouse, one hand on the champagne, one hand on the WADS... wait, is it just me, or does it sound like this guy has too many hands?
... what they're paid to do. How much does a license cost to run Windows 2003? How much does Apache cost? Really, it's not that surprising that full-time salaried employees can build a better server. I mean, that's what they're paid to do. I don't get excited when the guy at the donut store gets my order right, why should I care that Microsoft's server works?
I don't know about other people, but I don't run Apache because I think it's more secure. I run it because it's free, opensource, and secure enough for my needs.
The reason the United States is reluctant to spend money to save the world for our children is in capitalism. It goes against the fundamental definition of capitalism to spend money on something and get nothing in return.
The only way to get United States compainies on board with finding new technologies that replace fossil fuels, is by giving them financial incentives now. The government could do this wonderfully. They could offer tax breaks for driving more efficient vehicles, financial aid for research and development of alternative fuels...
So why isn't this happening now? Because too many people, including those in our current administration, have lots of money invested in oil. If alternative fuel sources are discovered and oil demand is phased out, lots of people are going to lose a lot of money. They don't want this to happen, so they aren't putting out for new technology.
I mean, c'mon, if you were Bill Gates, would you pump money into Linux?
I think you meant to be funny by saying this, but what you've said is actually true. I saw these things demonstrated at the AUSA trade show a few months ago in Washington DC. While I'm all for future combat systems, I highly doubt these will actually be useful in the battle field. For one, there is only one forward facing camera which makes sneaking up on one of these things too easy. Secondly, like you said, it only weighs 45 kilos and could quite easily be flipped over where it would be helplessly immobilized. These might be fun toys, but they aren't even remotely close to replacing soldiers.
Heh, did you read the article? In his high level description of what is going on, he says:
"7.) Mutate a set number of children to keep variance."
Random mutation is exactly what keeps this thing from converging on a local minima. If the trend was going toward a local minima, or suboptimal solution, the random mutations could generate just enough entropy to bump the trend out of that solution and on to a better one.
Yes. It's been done by the Eastman Kodak group.
f m?Section=ARTCL&ARTICLE_ID=216621&VERSION_NUM=2
http://www.insightmedia.info/news/Kodak'sGEMS.htm
Researchers at Eastman Kodak (Rochester, NY), for example, have developed a grating electromechnical system (GEMS), a diffractive-MEMS spatial-light modulator for use in printing and display applications. The GEMS modulator contains a linear array of pixels capable of high-speed digital operation, high optical contrast, and good efficiency. According to its developers, when coupled with RGB laser radiation, the GEMS is capable of producing spectacular still and motion images that create a new visual experience. Images are life-like having a smooth continuous quality with no "screen door" effect, high contrast, extended dynamic range, high resolution, and vivid colors. In addition, computer-generated motion images can provide a unique experience by using the expanded available color gamut to produce highly saturated colors.
"The primary advantage of lasers for display applications is color gamut," said Greg Niven, director of marketing, graphic arts and display, at Coherent (Santa Clara, CA), which is supplying high-power solid-state lasers to the display industry for applications such as rear-projection TV and digital cinema. "With lightbulbs and microdisplays, you can achieve 40% of the color your eye can perceive. With lasers (RGB primaries), you can get up to 85% of the colors your eye can see. So there is much wider color gamut, extremely high resolution, greater contrast, longer lifetimes, and a much better viewing experience."
http://lfw.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.c
This was posted on the SuprNova site sometime before it went offline.
Greetings everybody,
As you have probably noticed, we have often had downtimes. This was because it was so hard to keep this site up! But now we are sorry to inform you all, that SuprNova is closing down for good in the way that we all know it. We do not know if SuprNova is going to return, but it is certainly not going to be hosting any more torrent links. We are very sorry for this, but there was no other way, we have tried everything.
Thank you all that helped us, by donating mirrors or something else, by uploading and seeding files, by helping people out on IRC and on forum, by spreading the word about SuprNova.org. It is a sad day for all of us!
Please visit SuprNova.org every once in a while to get the latest news on what is happening and if there is anything new to report on.
As we wish to maintain the nice comunity that we created, we are keppig forums and irc servers open.
Thank you all and Goodbye!
sloncek & the rest of the SuprNova Team
I wonder how long it's going to take before these idiots realize DRM solves nothing. The whole point of this DRM crap is to squash piracy, but what no one seems to realize is that it only takes one copy to escape the DRM and make it's way to P2P networks and everyone can get their hands on it. Record companies seem to think that if they cripple their distribution medium and make it a big enough pain in the ass for everyone, then no one will dare to circumvent the protection. This is a stupid and ignorant. History has proven over and over, someone, somewhere will get around the protection scheme and release the "warez" to the masses. What is it going to take before they realize that alienating their customers, in any way, shape, or form, is doing nothing but hurting sales? Give people what they want or suffer the consequences.
Once I tied the Naturally Speaking software together with AT&T's Natural Voices and A.L.I.C.E. bot with some interesting results. Basically, I could just speak to my machine and have it answer me in a real voice. In conversation, I found myself being more forgiving of the shortcomings of the A.I. just because it was speaking to me. When it erred, it was easier to believe that the "person" I was speaking to had just misunderstood me, or I had just misunderstood what was said.
Actually, does anyone know of any research in this area? If adding speech recognition and synthesis to a computer makes the machine seem "smarter"?