I wouldn't be surprised if Google was working on the same thing. In fact, I would be surprised if they were not and are using a training set 8,000 as large.
I'm too unimpressed. Powerset was unable to locate answers to my first three questions posed to it. Yet Google returned correct results on the same query string, usually by spot three.
I used both significantly, and while you can kinda do more or less the same thing with both platforms, each has their place and I would hate to do some things on one that are trivial on the other. I've also been a Mathematica user since beta, but unfortunately this was at the very end of my college career.
Mathematica really isn't set up for in the loop type operations or engineering design (for mortal engineers), but it can be done with effort. That effort is a bit more than the $6k for the equivalent matlab/toolbox licenses. OTH, trying to find the closed form solution to many problems can be done with symbolic toolbox in Matlab, but it's just so much better with Mathematica and less expensive.
The new front end with 6.0 goes a long way to eliminating many of Mathematica's shortcomings in these respects, but I think it's mostly just the framework for much better things to come...I'm hoping.
Wearable computing has been around for a long time and remember airplane mechanics being mentioned 7-8 years ago as being one of the first applications for this technology, but within 5-10 years this will be as ubiquitous as the bluetooth ear bud is today. I used to use a PC104 for these types of things, but now carry my Linux N770 around in my pocket and use it for the majority of web surfing that I do.
Sure we'll have a bunch of dead people in airports for a few years, but it is a small price for the advancement of technology.
I seem to recall reading a number of articles a few years ago where Gates and Balmer said that they were "betting the company" on the upcoming release of Windows. I wonder how this is working out for them.
OMG! That program is what caused me to be an engineer!!! It was also the first program that I wrote, not having enough money left over after buying a computer to actually buy games. I found that writing games was more fun anyway. I had to learn physics and everything. I think going professional took things a little too far though.
Don't guess what people want and make a one size fits all PDA. People are the best judge of what they want, not marketing groups.
***MAKE IT OPEN ARCHITECTURE*** and then sell peripherals, memory upgrades, processor upgrades. That's what we're all about, isn't it? Openess? Can't I go to Costco now and buy a 256MB drive for $20, plug it into my Zire and, oh wait, I can't. I guess I'll have to buy a new PDA when they come out with a model with a higher quality camera.
Just for ideas, how about a rack the size of a palm pilot with a PCMCIA slot for the processor and peripheral cards. Go down to Fry's electronics and upgrade your PDA to have the newest 30G microdrive.
It's has beeen technically feasible to do this for years and there ARE some very small niche companies that do just this. You read about them on Slashdot occasionally.
The PC industry took off when IBM introduced the IBM PC. Why? Because it was better than the Amiga? Get real. It became popular because it was _open_. Any compaq could come along and make their own PC 'clone'.
Where are the PDA clones? Palm Pilot, PalmPilot II, PalmIV "Now with wireless". Sounds like planned obsolesence. Who wants to turn the PDA market into a commodity market when there is so much high margin upgrading to be done.
Anybody here see an analogy with software?
Computers are 5.4 orders of magnitude more powerfull than when I started using them, yet they are still the same size! Hourly we hear stories of how someone or another has shrunken the transistor keeping up with Moore's law, yet the vast majority outside of scientists, renderfarms and gamers could be satisfied with email on a 386, myself even being an engineer included. Noting obviously that the slashdot crowd falls squarely in the unsatisfied catagory:)
Why not the open pico rack for the PDA? Yeah, you get chaos and incompatibilities, but aren't those the fountainhead of new ideas?
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I was afraid that it would be more deadly. Asbestos is not very bad if you don't start playing with it.
I wouldn't be surprised if Google was working on the same thing. In fact, I would be surprised if they were not and are using a training set 8,000 as large.
I'm too unimpressed. Powerset was unable to locate answers to my first three questions posed to it. Yet Google returned correct results on the same query string, usually by spot three.
Wouldn't it be less expensive to pump CO2?
You haven't been around long if you are still assuming this.
The Apple Slice. A razor thin laptop with a bunch of bloody smiling fingerless people.
Mathematica really isn't set up for in the loop type operations or engineering design (for mortal engineers), but it can be done with effort. That effort is a bit more than the $6k for the equivalent matlab/toolbox licenses. OTH, trying to find the closed form solution to many problems can be done with symbolic toolbox in Matlab, but it's just so much better with Mathematica and less expensive.
The new front end with 6.0 goes a long way to eliminating many of Mathematica's shortcomings in these respects, but I think it's mostly just the framework for much better things to come...I'm hoping.
http://www.ghs.com/news/20050706_honeywell.html
Sure we'll have a bunch of dead people in airports for a few years, but it is a small price for the advancement of technology.
I'm lost. What assertions did I make? Half of my post was cut and paste from articles on the web.
I seem to recall reading a number of articles a few years ago where Gates and Balmer said that they were "betting the company" on the upcoming release of Windows. I wonder how this is working out for them.
1% is 1%. Maybe not a big deal, but on something this scale it could mean a lot of money.
Isn't this what the unibomber was complaining about? Advances in technology would enable a single terrorist to destroy civilization?
I think that anyone digging for and actually reading this news understand a meter. Probably better than they understand what a yard is.
but isn't game play just the software?
OMG! That program is what caused me to be an engineer!!! It was also the first program that I wrote, not having enough money left over after buying a computer to actually buy games. I found that writing games was more fun anyway. I had to learn physics and everything. I think going professional took things a little too far though.
Don't guess what people want and make a one size
:)
fits all PDA. People are the best judge of what they
want, not marketing groups.
***MAKE IT OPEN ARCHITECTURE*** and then sell
peripherals, memory upgrades, processor upgrades.
That's what we're all about, isn't it? Openess?
Can't I go to Costco now and buy a 256MB drive for
$20, plug it into my Zire and, oh wait, I can't. I
guess I'll have to buy a new PDA when they come out
with a model with a higher quality camera.
Just for ideas, how about a rack the size of a palm
pilot with a PCMCIA slot for the processor and
peripheral cards. Go down to Fry's electronics and upgrade your PDA to have the newest 30G microdrive.
It's has beeen technically feasible to do this for years and there ARE some very small niche companies that do just this. You read about them on Slashdot occasionally.
The PC industry took off when IBM introduced the IBM PC. Why? Because it was better than the Amiga? Get real. It became popular because it was _open_. Any compaq could come along and make their own PC 'clone'.
Where are the PDA clones? Palm Pilot, PalmPilot II, PalmIV "Now with wireless". Sounds like planned obsolesence. Who wants to turn the PDA market into a commodity market when there is so much high margin upgrading to be done.
Anybody here see an analogy with software?
Computers are 5.4 orders of magnitude more powerfull than when I started using them, yet they are still the same size! Hourly we hear stories of how someone or another has shrunken the transistor keeping up with Moore's law, yet the vast majority outside of scientists, renderfarms and gamers could be satisfied
with email on a 386, myself even being an engineer
included. Noting obviously that the slashdot crowd falls squarely in the unsatisfied catagory
Why not the open pico rack for the PDA? Yeah, you get chaos and incompatibilities, but aren't those the fountainhead of new ideas?
end ramble (for now)