There is an easy fix for this that does not require anything too difficult. Use gpedit,msc and turn off all cloud content settings, then force a gpupdate.
Don't forget to have this policy applied at each bootup because Microsoft WILL revert your changes. This is not a set-once-and-forget type of thing.
The only thing you control is the hardware. They have claimed control over the software, which is technically a theft if you paid for Windows.
Some symbolic reasoning is also required, ultimately.
You have identified something very important here. I suspect most people will not even notice. The symbolic reasoning needs to take place outside of the Neural Net being used for Object Identification. Intelligence is a confluence of events. To think that you can make a neural net do all things associated with intelligence is like thinking that a single celled organism can have eyes.
So I decided to write another message because I thought "primitives" needed a bit more elucidation...
If you have studied any mysticism or certain Eastern philosophies, you will run across some "odd" ideas.
Aleister Crowley is a more recent person discussing these sorts of ideas in relation to a particular discipline of Yoga. I hope I get this example right:
Take a piece of cheese. Examine it. A person would say that it is yellow, but where is the yellowness? The cheese is not yellow and your eyes do not make it yellow, yet everyone perceives the cheese as yellow. The yellow is the yoga between the object and the observer.
It is rather like a "line". There is no such thing as a line, rather there is a series of points that when considered as a whole, represent what we call a line. To bring it back to the cheese, if you cut the cheese, there is now a straight edge to the cheese... but the closer you look, you find that the straight edge is in reality not straight at all. At a close enough inspection, you can't even realize that what you are looking at is part of a straight edge at all. Rather like the surface of the Earth. A primitive guess says that the Earth is flat but if you zoom out far enough, it is not flat, but more like a sphere. Another way to look at the Earth, it does not look smooth at all. We have astoundingly huge mountain ranges and absurdly deep trenches in the ocean... and yet, if you zoom out and look at the horizon, all you see is an object that looks as smooth as glass (which really isn't smooth if you zoom in enough).
Long story short, part of "intelligence" is perspective and part of it is "primitives" like points, distance, and time.I suspect I am being optimistic in thinking we will make great progress within about 50 years.
I apologize for the irrational spewing. You can safely ignore me forever with no ill consequences. Have a nice day.
Seriously, though, AI will have to be broken into more digestible and manageable chunks to be practical: a kind of hybrid between expert systems and neural nets. Letting neural nets do the entirety of processing is probably unrealistic for non-trivial tasks.
You almost, but not quite, hit the head on the nail there. Neural Nets will only be a part of a more generalized solution. Trying to make a Neural Net act like a brain is like trying to make a single celled organism fly like a bird. It doesn't even make sense, but, the technology and research is still in an exceedingly primitive state. I give it another 50 years before we hit a point where someone in an influential position "discovers" the "primitives" and processes that all animals, including humans, use to build up a concept of "The World".
A good quality soldering iron, some solder flux, and some skill is all you need to hand solder packages like these. I have hand soldered packages such as the PowerPC 601 perfectly. For reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The trick is to place the part appropriately, use generous amounts of flux, and move the soldering iron and solder at a consistent pace. The solder is essentially attracted to the legs of the package and the consistent motion ensures that not too much solder ends up on any single leg. It should look as perfect as a machine placed device.
A long long time ago in a land far far away, I used to work in the manufacture of some of Apple's PCs. Needless to say, not everything that went through a machine came out perfectly and there were ample opportunities to hand solder.
What is really weird about this is if the speech itself was illegal, why aren't they arresting the person who posted it? If the threat is so imminent that it requires a one hour response time, why don't they just monitor who accesses it to get leads into organizations that spread "extreme" ideas?
TL;DR,There is a reason for this proposal other than what is being presented. This is an attempt to gain power through censorship.
That would be like Linux putting an alert because you ran some non-gpl code in the OS. and you are getting a lecture on how Closed Source Software is so bad.
You mean like how the dmesg output on a system with nvidia drivers whines about the kernel being tainted?;)
the future of the internet isn't a Muslim and a Jewish person having a reasoned debate online (a la Locke and Demosthenes from Ender's Game), it was actually going to be one trolling the other with a picture of their prophet swathed in bacon
Why can't it be both? Why do you assume that it must be one or the other? Your outlook is very dark because you are seeing/acknowledging one side.
It is communication. There are good and bad things. The concept of 'no communication' is a worse option and should only be considered in an extreme and temporary circumstance.
Developing world? How, exactly, is this different from America?
Americans can use more literate words and concepts to express themselves when they mob up and do ignorant things. Same results, slightly different flavor.:)
This is intellectually dishonest. I dislike Facebook too; however, once you allow one instance of "the end justifies the means", all sorts of other evils become allowed. Not wise.
Tiny fragments of plastics are not going to be caught by such floating device.
The summary said:
The boom has an impenetrable skirt that hangs nearly 10 feet below to catch smaller pieces of plastic.
Assuming the word 'impenetrable' means what its says it means, it will catch pieces of plastic as small as a single molecule. Technically, it will catch atoms too, but atoms can not be considered 'plastic'.
I actually became quite good, relative to my normal typing speed, on a touch screen. I REALLY tried to get tablets to be useful as a creation device rather than just a viewing device. You 'touched' (groan) on the reason why typing was not reasonable:
Likewise, output is atrocious. When you're used to 22" screens as your display real estate, trying to get used to screens not even 1/4 the size is really taxing.
The 'keyboard' takes up screen real estate! And, the screen is already too small even without the on-screen keyboard. *sigh*
when you're on/. it's easy to live in the tech bubble, but fact is most people just want tech to work.
This is NOT an either/or choice. It is entirely possible for tech to "just work" without revoking control from the user. You are engaging in a logical phallusy called a "False Dichotomy". And modded up for it. Not very many critical thinkers are modding today it would seem.:)
Suffering. Pain will not kill you. If you ask some people, they say that pain is life. Suffering is not a problem for those who are merely watching the suffering.
No, you have me confused with someone else. The state should never have this kind of invasive power.
Nope. He has the right guy. You have been arguing to give the government more power to ensure that females have at least equality, if not supremacy, with males. You are just blind to how your desire to empower females has overstepped the bounds from equality to supremacy. In other words, you argue for equal outcomes, not equal opportunities. Meh.
Yes, the problem is that you work at Amazon's convenience, not your own, but I don't see them as taking advantage of anyone -- nobody has a gun to their head making them work there.
The gun to their head is their stomach. Gotta eat. There are no "good" jobs for these people, so it is Amazon, something like Amazon, or fucking starving.
Beware of being arrogant as you might find yourself in their shoes one day.
You are correct. The quote should go down in history as the turning point towards more "individual friendly" governing systems. But then, the architecture of the kernel itself says that we will never see these systems materialize. *sigh*
Amateurs fix their code until all errors are gone. Professionals fix it until all warnings are done.
Merely getting 'rid' of the warnings is not sufficient. You have to understand the warnings and WHY they are being triggered. If you merely get rid of the warning without understanding why it was triggered, it will lead to very-hard-to-troubleshoot bugs that are incredibly subtle in nature.
I fundamentally agree with the position of "get rid of all warnings". I am only adding that you need to fully understand WHY those warnings were triggered. Used an ANSI 99 construct and didn't use the appropriate compiler flags? You will get warnings.
There are a number of APIs and constructs (like strncpy, memcpy and VLAs) mentioned in the article that never be used as a matter of course.
I think you (they?) meant strcpy, not strncpy.
That being said, using strcpy is perfectly fine. Yeah, using it as a generic copy function is not merely dangerous, but stupid as well; however, I would argue that if you control all of the conditions that strcpy operates under, it is perfectly safe to use. The issue is that programmers rarely try to control all of the conditions that it operates under and use it as a generic copying mechanism. That is going to bite you in the ass sooner or later. Especially when dealing with multi-threaded programming.
I'd have chosen K&R C because Pascal's strict type checking made common use-cases awkward.
Back then, I was using "prototyping" to ensure I used my variables like I intended. Sure, prototyping was optional, but I chose to protect myself from a class of mistakes that can be made by simply making a typo. I had a typo in a PHP program and instead of using the intended variable, I had created a new one. If PHP had allowed prototyping at the time, that mistake would have been caught immediately instead of when weird values started showing up during testing.
All that being said, I prefer the programmer choose practices which minimize errors rather than the language itself. A fully functional language will "allow" the most hideous and heinous mistakes without a complaint.
At that point you may as well just be writing things in BASIC or some other interpreted language that doesn't allow you access to anything terribly powerful or important.
Someone does not remember PEEK and POKE being used to punch machine language into memory locations to get high performance computing from ancient processors using BASIC as an operating system of sorts.
We were discussing the issues of uninitialized variables before C ever was an ANSI standard. The consensus was that you initialized your variables on declaration and if for some reason you could not initialize the variable upon declaration, you did not use the contents of the variable until you did assign it a value.
So how is this a problem today? Powerful tools are absolutely dangerous. If you can't work with powerful tools safely, then don't.
When I repaired electronics for the military, I had to work around devices that would operate at millions of volts (Electronic Warfare devices). If I screwed up, I would become ash instantly. You just can't do powerful things without dangerous tools. Untrained personnel should not be working on such devices and yet with software, we have the equivalent of 5 year olds working with millions of volts.
Not everything can be made safe, childproof, or foolproof and if you try, you will find that you have restricted yourself so much that you can't get anything done.
Not yet but soon there will be no need for coders. 10 years, maybe less.
I think you vastly overestimate the abilities of AI and I think you vastly underestimate human thought.
AI can "navigate" endless probabilities, such as playing Go, but it can not navigate the subtleties of responding to the question of "Why?". Answering "Why?" is very important as it is used to feed the next stage of what happens next. An example of a "Why?" that is important: Why do humans do anything besides eat, procreate, and sleep?
Without an answer to that, AI will not be able to figure anything out that does not have specific drivers already spelled out for the question at hand.
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There is an easy fix for this that does not require anything too difficult. Use gpedit,msc and turn off all cloud content settings, then force a gpupdate.
Don't forget to have this policy applied at each bootup because Microsoft WILL revert your changes. This is not a set-once-and-forget type of thing.
The only thing you control is the hardware. They have claimed control over the software, which is technically a theft if you paid for Windows.
Some symbolic reasoning is also required, ultimately.
You have identified something very important here. I suspect most people will not even notice. The symbolic reasoning needs to take place outside of the Neural Net being used for Object Identification. Intelligence is a confluence of events. To think that you can make a neural net do all things associated with intelligence is like thinking that a single celled organism can have eyes.
So I decided to write another message because I thought "primitives" needed a bit more elucidation...
If you have studied any mysticism or certain Eastern philosophies, you will run across some "odd" ideas.
Aleister Crowley is a more recent person discussing these sorts of ideas in relation to a particular discipline of Yoga. I hope I get this example right:
Take a piece of cheese. Examine it. A person would say that it is yellow, but where is the yellowness? The cheese is not yellow and your eyes do not make it yellow, yet everyone perceives the cheese as yellow. The yellow is the yoga between the object and the observer.
It is rather like a "line". There is no such thing as a line, rather there is a series of points that when considered as a whole, represent what we call a line. To bring it back to the cheese, if you cut the cheese, there is now a straight edge to the cheese... but the closer you look, you find that the straight edge is in reality not straight at all. At a close enough inspection, you can't even realize that what you are looking at is part of a straight edge at all. Rather like the surface of the Earth. A primitive guess says that the Earth is flat but if you zoom out far enough, it is not flat, but more like a sphere. Another way to look at the Earth, it does not look smooth at all. We have astoundingly huge mountain ranges and absurdly deep trenches in the ocean... and yet, if you zoom out and look at the horizon, all you see is an object that looks as smooth as glass (which really isn't smooth if you zoom in enough).
Long story short, part of "intelligence" is perspective and part of it is "primitives" like points, distance, and time.I suspect I am being optimistic in thinking we will make great progress within about 50 years.
I apologize for the irrational spewing. You can safely ignore me forever with no ill consequences. Have a nice day.
Seriously, though, AI will have to be broken into more digestible and manageable chunks to be practical: a kind of hybrid between expert systems and neural nets. Letting neural nets do the entirety of processing is probably unrealistic for non-trivial tasks.
You almost, but not quite, hit the head on the nail there. Neural Nets will only be a part of a more generalized solution. Trying to make a Neural Net act like a brain is like trying to make a single celled organism fly like a bird. It doesn't even make sense, but, the technology and research is still in an exceedingly primitive state. I give it another 50 years before we hit a point where someone in an influential position "discovers" the "primitives" and processes that all animals, including humans, use to build up a concept of "The World".
Well, maybe it is if you have $2k+ in SMT soldering equipment like: https://www.weller-tools.com/p... and a reasonable quality microscope: https://www.microscope.com/oma...
A good quality soldering iron, some solder flux, and some skill is all you need to hand solder packages like these. I have hand soldered packages such as the PowerPC 601 perfectly. For reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The trick is to place the part appropriately, use generous amounts of flux, and move the soldering iron and solder at a consistent pace. The solder is essentially attracted to the legs of the package and the consistent motion ensures that not too much solder ends up on any single leg. It should look as perfect as a machine placed device.
A long long time ago in a land far far away, I used to work in the manufacture of some of Apple's PCs. Needless to say, not everything that went through a machine came out perfectly and there were ample opportunities to hand solder.
What is really weird about this is if the speech itself was illegal, why aren't they arresting the person who posted it? If the threat is so imminent that it requires a one hour response time, why don't they just monitor who accesses it to get leads into organizations that spread "extreme" ideas?
TL;DR,There is a reason for this proposal other than what is being presented. This is an attempt to gain power through censorship.
That would be like Linux putting an alert because you ran some non-gpl code in the OS. and you are getting a lecture on how Closed Source Software is so bad.
You mean like how the dmesg output on a system with nvidia drivers whines about the kernel being tainted? ;)
That was on the eastern side of the upper peninsula
Eastern? Which way is East? It seems that all directions are North. :)
Wow! Another False Dichotomy today.
the future of the internet isn't a Muslim and a Jewish person having a reasoned debate online (a la Locke and Demosthenes from Ender's Game), it was actually going to be one trolling the other with a picture of their prophet swathed in bacon
Why can't it be both? Why do you assume that it must be one or the other? Your outlook is very dark because you are seeing/acknowledging one side.
It is communication. There are good and bad things. The concept of 'no communication' is a worse option and should only be considered in an extreme and temporary circumstance.
Developing world? How, exactly, is this different from America?
Americans can use more literate words and concepts to express themselves when they mob up and do ignorant things. Same results, slightly different flavor. :)
The end will justify the means.
This is intellectually dishonest. I dislike Facebook too; however, once you allow one instance of "the end justifies the means", all sorts of other evils become allowed. Not wise.
You said:
Tiny fragments of plastics are not going to be caught by such floating device.
The summary said:
The boom has an impenetrable skirt that hangs nearly 10 feet below to catch smaller pieces of plastic.
Assuming the word 'impenetrable' means what its says it means, it will catch pieces of plastic as small as a single molecule. Technically, it will catch atoms too, but atoms can not be considered 'plastic'.
I actually became quite good, relative to my normal typing speed, on a touch screen. I REALLY tried to get tablets to be useful as a creation device rather than just a viewing device. You 'touched' (groan) on the reason why typing was not reasonable:
Likewise, output is atrocious. When you're used to 22" screens as your display real estate, trying to get used to screens not even 1/4 the size is really taxing.
The 'keyboard' takes up screen real estate! And, the screen is already too small even without the on-screen keyboard. *sigh*
when you're on /. it's easy to live in the tech bubble, but fact is most people just want tech to work.
This is NOT an either/or choice. It is entirely possible for tech to "just work" without revoking control from the user. You are engaging in a logical phallusy called a "False Dichotomy". And modded up for it. Not very many critical thinkers are modding today it would seem. :)
What's supposed to be the alternative?
Suffering. Pain will not kill you. If you ask some people, they say that pain is life. Suffering is not a problem for those who are merely watching the suffering.
No, you have me confused with someone else. The state should never have this kind of invasive power.
Nope. He has the right guy. You have been arguing to give the government more power to ensure that females have at least equality, if not supremacy, with males. You are just blind to how your desire to empower females has overstepped the bounds from equality to supremacy. In other words, you argue for equal outcomes, not equal opportunities. Meh.
Yes, the problem is that you work at Amazon's convenience, not your own, but I don't see them as taking advantage of anyone -- nobody has a gun to their head making them work there.
The gun to their head is their stomach. Gotta eat. There are no "good" jobs for these people, so it is Amazon, something like Amazon, or fucking starving.
Beware of being arrogant as you might find yourself in their shoes one day.
You are correct. The quote should go down in history as the turning point towards more "individual friendly" governing systems. But then, the architecture of the kernel itself says that we will never see these systems materialize. *sigh*
All this misusing the term is ultimately going to be counterproductive in getting good rules in place.
I feel fairly certain that the misuse is intentional for the reason you set forth. :)
Amateurs fix their code until all errors are gone.
Professionals fix it until all warnings are done.
Merely getting 'rid' of the warnings is not sufficient. You have to understand the warnings and WHY they are being triggered. If you merely get rid of the warning without understanding why it was triggered, it will lead to very-hard-to-troubleshoot bugs that are incredibly subtle in nature.
I fundamentally agree with the position of "get rid of all warnings". I am only adding that you need to fully understand WHY those warnings were triggered. Used an ANSI 99 construct and didn't use the appropriate compiler flags? You will get warnings.
There are a number of APIs and constructs (like strncpy, memcpy and VLAs) mentioned in the article that never be used as a matter of course.
I think you (they?) meant strcpy, not strncpy.
That being said, using strcpy is perfectly fine. Yeah, using it as a generic copy function is not merely dangerous, but stupid as well; however, I would argue that if you control all of the conditions that strcpy operates under, it is perfectly safe to use. The issue is that programmers rarely try to control all of the conditions that it operates under and use it as a generic copying mechanism. That is going to bite you in the ass sooner or later. Especially when dealing with multi-threaded programming.
I'd have chosen K&R C because Pascal's strict type checking made common use-cases awkward.
Back then, I was using "prototyping" to ensure I used my variables like I intended. Sure, prototyping was optional, but I chose to protect myself from a class of mistakes that can be made by simply making a typo. I had a typo in a PHP program and instead of using the intended variable, I had created a new one. If PHP had allowed prototyping at the time, that mistake would have been caught immediately instead of when weird values started showing up during testing.
All that being said, I prefer the programmer choose practices which minimize errors rather than the language itself. A fully functional language will "allow" the most hideous and heinous mistakes without a complaint.
First, use paragraphs.
Second, your "rant" is mostly correct.
Third, I have to nitpick:
At that point you may as well just be writing things in BASIC or some other interpreted language that doesn't allow you access to anything terribly powerful or important.
Someone does not remember PEEK and POKE being used to punch machine language into memory locations to get high performance computing from ancient processors using BASIC as an operating system of sorts.
We were discussing the issues of uninitialized variables before C ever was an ANSI standard. The consensus was that you initialized your variables on declaration and if for some reason you could not initialize the variable upon declaration, you did not use the contents of the variable until you did assign it a value.
So how is this a problem today? Powerful tools are absolutely dangerous. If you can't work with powerful tools safely, then don't.
When I repaired electronics for the military, I had to work around devices that would operate at millions of volts (Electronic Warfare devices). If I screwed up, I would become ash instantly. You just can't do powerful things without dangerous tools. Untrained personnel should not be working on such devices and yet with software, we have the equivalent of 5 year olds working with millions of volts.
Not everything can be made safe, childproof, or foolproof and if you try, you will find that you have restricted yourself so much that you can't get anything done.
Coding is dead.
Not yet but soon there will be no need for coders.
10 years, maybe less.
I think you vastly overestimate the abilities of AI and I think you vastly underestimate human thought.
AI can "navigate" endless probabilities, such as playing Go, but it can not navigate the subtleties of responding to the question of "Why?". Answering "Why?" is very important as it is used to feed the next stage of what happens next. An example of a "Why?" that is important: Why do humans do anything besides eat, procreate, and sleep?
Without an answer to that, AI will not be able to figure anything out that does not have specific drivers already spelled out for the question at hand.