Step Four: Frustrated by their games underperforming on half the systems in the world game developers migrate in mass to competing product leaving PhysX an ugly footnote and huge negative entry in NVidia's accounting sheets.
Reminds me of some really great research I read about in relation to morality.
Before the age of I think ~3.5 children are unable to see the world from any other perspective but their own. If you run a test where you do something that the child would know about but someone not present wouldn't, they would be unable to understand the concept that they know something someone else doesn't.
This applies strongly to empathy where a child is incapable of empathising with something else unless they themselves are feeling it.
So when you ask a very small child "How do you think it makes so and so feel when you..." they have absolutely no clue. They incapable of creating a scenario in their head where they're on the receiving ends of their actions. Essentially they're little sociopaths. But it also means a lot of parents waste a lot of time and breath trying to get their children to understand something their brains just simply can't process. You can only give them very specific rules which they can understand. If you hit Tommy then you'll have to sit in time out. As opposed to trying to explain to your child "it makes tommy feel bad when you hit him."
I've always thought this is a problem with AI development.
It takes 6 years of constant learning on the part of an incredibly complex intelligence software (us) to become relatively functional.
And yet we drive a computer around a parking lot for 10 minutes and then give up in frustration.
Language skills take decades to develop. Walking and balance take decades to develop. If we really want to be serious about learning systems we need one that can learn for years on end. Clone it. Then start selectively breeding those AIs which perform best.
DO WORK IN COLLEGE if it's in your field. If you can get a job in college doing real work then definitely do it. But don't do it for the money. Do it for the experience.
So let me refine my old statement. DON'T WORK RETAIL/FAST FOOD IN COLLEGE.
Boys and Girls. DON'T WORK IN COLLEGE. It's not worth it. You'll just learn less and get a shittier job.
If you know you're going into a field that pays well. If you know you have the talent and dedication to get hired quickly. If you qualify for student loans. DON'T WORK. I knew so many people in college who worked through college and didn't own a car who now... don't have a job and still work at where they worked in college. In a large part because they would be late to class because of bus schedules. They weren't free for after class studying or group projects because they had to go to work and or catch the last bus of the night and they didn't get very much networking done.
You're already paying 20k+ so what does an extra $5k a year in part time retail do for you? Nothing. It does nothing. Student loans go for 10 years. If $500 helps ensure you'll be employed and skilled out of college then spend the freakin' $500 bucks.
If you make 50k out of college instead of the 13k you currently make working at quickie mart in the evening then paying off your student loans is trivial.
Have a plan. Stick to it. Don't waste 50k on tuition if you aren't going to have the time to do the work because you want to save a few grand.
This won't work with Adobe but as far as Maya, Max, XSI and most other high end Visual Effects Software is concerned you could use floating licenses and a VPN really easily.
This assumes however that the student has a beefy system though for compositing and editing. (Probably unlikely). And also has access to a school sanctioned renderfarm.
So I agree it probably won't work in a media lab but for basic modeling and animating a run of the mill laptop connected to the school's license server would work great.
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If my people were saved by God from a giant flood I would definitely write it into the history books. Change it so that I was responsible but ensure that the widely known history made me look good in Egypt.
There is no reason to supress a huge empirically recorded event when it could be used for personal gain.
On the other hand the egyptian civilization predates any flood dating I've ever found so that goes back to the fact that they should have all drowned, but didn't. Oh well. Maybe God put them to sleep in a giant bubble knowing they would be re-established anyway post-flood and this would cover his tracks if anyone tried to figure out if his claims are true.
Nobody is better at disproving God than God. It's all part of his nefarious plan to remain both simultaneous self evident and completely hidden from history/science.
Or they're just being realistic. "Look we know you'll find bugs so this won't be the final release."
For me RC means you have taken everything out of debug mode. You are using the real installer. You send out the ISO so that every aspect of installation and use is tested. It's testing the entire system not just features.
I would say with Windows 7 Beta 1 would be a passable RC. It seems to be feature complete. It has the full installer. It uses the licensing system and stresses the entire system as a whole. And it's feasibly releasable.
I would agree. And I would also say that it's not limited to the liberals in California. The Conservatives are just as if not more unpragmatic as the left. Hence the complete impass they've currently reached where neither side is doing anything because of the other.
That being said California has led the way on lots of legislation that both sides take for granted now.
Bots have no memory. The easiest test for every chatbot I've ever found is to require it to keep track of more than the last post.
"Hi" "Hi" "How are you today?" "Great. How are you?" "Have you been reading the news today? "No." "Oh well when was the last time you did? "Three days ago." "What was it about?" [Dead bot.]
It might be able to give a mildly plausible response about "it" but since it doesn't carry subjects from one chat post to the next it can't connect the subject of "talking about the news" and "it" in this case implying news.
It's an arms race. If the virus writers have a computer which can intelligently crack then I have a computer chip which is actively finding and patching security holes in my software.
Considering most people use a sync suite to manage their MP3 player couldn't this be part of the sync system?
If the container allows for easy dropping of the uncompressed bit you could have both in one file but at sync time tell itunes/zune etc to just strip the lossless version on the way out the door.
That way you dont' have to keep track of two files on your computer BUT you can also use the low quality version on iZune.
A Good Rule of Thumb with any legal topic is. "The only sure case is a case which has gone before the supreme court already. And even then your victory is only temporary."
Laws have to be vague otherwise they would be useless. A case quoting how many psychology questions you can post on your blog only being relevant to other cases where people quote psychology test questions on a blog would build an impossibly thick rule book and be impossible to manage. Within reason every legal case is a negotiation between two differing interpretations of justice. Neither side in any case is going to have the "right answer". The quality of your lawyer is how well your position can be argued. It's not an empirical system. Which is why it's even more important to have a good lawyer than a good doctor. A machine can empirically determine what's wrong with you based on symptoms and tests. It would take a far more sophisticated piece of software to determine whether or not an action is legal. Such a system would be comparable or superior to the human mind. The role of a lawyer is to deconstruction a scenario into a set of existential properties and then compare them to previous scenarios that were similar. That's an extremely high level of heuristics and understanding. It's also not something anybody human, machine or God can say with certainty is or is not going to win in a court of law.
Probably because in every other aspect except for Law and Medicine what we scrounge up is good enough.
I Am Not A Mechanic but I might be able to fix your engine. "I Am Not A __Insert Profession ____ but I do have experience with XYZ." Is a pretty reasonable statement. We ask the group how well various systems work all the time and consult friends who aren't experts at length on a variety of topics. In fact many times the group advice and wisdom is pretty sound.
The problem is the law is something we all are subject to and it's incredibly specific and incredibly tightly nuanced. As much so as advanced engineering. Most of us never need an accurate weight load stress analysis from an engineer but legal advice is necessary to remain free and properous.
Even lawyers often can't tell you what the law says. If they could we wouldn't need them to defend us in spite of whatever it is the law is supposed to say
Because all hot fusion 'experiments' are largely funded in order to research hydrogen bombs.
If you could figure out a way to weaponize this I'm certain it would get tons of money thrown at it as well.
This is how Obama should be phrasing every pressing need. "How can we sell this as potentially weaponizeable?" If you could somehow figure out a way to weaponize an end to poverty I'm certain we would see an enormous annual budget.
"This is an opportunity where what used to be long term problems whether they be in health care area, education area, fiscal area... tax area, regulatory reform area. Things that we had postponed for too long that were long term are now immediate and must be dealt with. [...] This crisis provides the opportunity to do things you could not do before. The good news, I suppose if you want to see the silver lining, is the problems are big enough they that lend themselves to ideas from both parties to provide the solutions."
[Quick transcription by myself. May have errors.]
Yep. Sounds like a really devious plan. I would disagree about the police chief. He is blaming video games. Just like Obama's chief of staff is blaming the current crisis on long term neglected and long ignored needs by the nation. You were correct to compare the two. But reached the wrong conclusion in both cases.
We're creatures of crisis and apathy. Until we're forced to confront a problem we like to ignore it. If you want to make progress you need to maximize the time that the necessary parties are paying attention to the problem. Otherwise everyone forgets and goes back to doing exactly what they were doing before the crisis.
We all have an example of something which we swear. "I've learned my lesson! I won't do that again!" and then 2 weeks later you've forgotten and do it again.
The question is: Is there a problem that needs to be fixed? This should be the point of contention. Do we need to fix the way minors have access to Mature video games? Do we need to fix our energy, health and regulatory policies? Do we need to change the how we deal with terrorists? Do we need domestic wire tapping.
Nobody would argue that you need to act while there is political willingness on the part of the people to fix whatever needs to be fixed. The debate should be centered on what the best course of action is to prevent further such crisis and whether those solutions would cause unintended consequences.
It's called philosophy. If the logic doesn't fit then your belief is in indefensible. The problem is most religious people have no foundation in philosophy beyond the philosohpy that's barely required to spread their religion.
The real problem is religion is all known religions are rapidly falling out of sync with our understanding of the universe. Far Far quicker than we're learning new things. Where the religious authorities used to have centuries or millenia to compensate for new discoveries the modern idealogue is being forced to reasses and re evaluate their belief system on a monthly basis.
This is the phase of the argument where someone isn't willing to look at the math anymore and is simply rejecting the other's conclusions out of spite. It's immature and rediciulous now, but it's the last dieing breath of a failed belief system awaiting replacement.
I'm sure there were a few centuries where people were desperately trying to defend zeus while the more modern and nimble christianity absorbed all of the adherants.
In the long run empiricism almost always wins. You either have to adapt your beliefs to conform to observation or else develop completely new beliefs. If the major religions survive the onslaught of observation and discovery of the 20th and 21st centuries then it'll probably be far better positioned for future survival. If it doesn't adapt it'll die. Right now a vocal minority is choosing not to adapt. Ironic really.
Wow you mean to tell me if I buy factory defect products that carry no warranty on ebay I can save money!? I never knew! It seems as if the Dutch have found the secret to inexpensive solar power: Factories should ONLY produce bent and dent cells!
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Step Four: Frustrated by their games underperforming on half the systems in the world game developers migrate in mass to competing product leaving PhysX an ugly footnote and huge negative entry in NVidia's accounting sheets.
Reminds me of some really great research I read about in relation to morality.
Before the age of I think ~3.5 children are unable to see the world from any other perspective but their own. If you run a test where you do something that the child would know about but someone not present wouldn't, they would be unable to understand the concept that they know something someone else doesn't.
This applies strongly to empathy where a child is incapable of empathising with something else unless they themselves are feeling it.
So when you ask a very small child "How do you think it makes so and so feel when you..." they have absolutely no clue. They incapable of creating a scenario in their head where they're on the receiving ends of their actions. Essentially they're little sociopaths. But it also means a lot of parents waste a lot of time and breath trying to get their children to understand something their brains just simply can't process. You can only give them very specific rules which they can understand. If you hit Tommy then you'll have to sit in time out. As opposed to trying to explain to your child "it makes tommy feel bad when you hit him."
I've always thought this is a problem with AI development.
It takes 6 years of constant learning on the part of an incredibly complex intelligence software (us) to become relatively functional.
And yet we drive a computer around a parking lot for 10 minutes and then give up in frustration.
Language skills take decades to develop. Walking and balance take decades to develop. If we really want to be serious about learning systems we need one that can learn for years on end. Clone it. Then start selectively breeding those AIs which perform best.
One exception to my "Don't Work in College."
DO WORK IN COLLEGE if it's in your field. If you can get a job in college doing real work then definitely do it. But don't do it for the money. Do it for the experience.
So let me refine my old statement. DON'T WORK RETAIL/FAST FOOD IN COLLEGE.
3.5 days of work?
Boys and Girls. DON'T WORK IN COLLEGE. It's not worth it. You'll just learn less and get a shittier job.
If you know you're going into a field that pays well. If you know you have the talent and dedication to get hired quickly. If you qualify for student loans. DON'T WORK. I knew so many people in college who worked through college and didn't own a car who now... don't have a job and still work at where they worked in college. In a large part because they would be late to class because of bus schedules. They weren't free for after class studying or group projects because they had to go to work and or catch the last bus of the night and they didn't get very much networking done.
You're already paying 20k+ so what does an extra $5k a year in part time retail do for you? Nothing. It does nothing. Student loans go for 10 years. If $500 helps ensure you'll be employed and skilled out of college then spend the freakin' $500 bucks.
If you make 50k out of college instead of the 13k you currently make working at quickie mart in the evening then paying off your student loans is trivial.
Have a plan.
Stick to it.
Don't waste 50k on tuition if you aren't going to have the time to do the work because you want to save a few grand.
This won't work with Adobe but as far as Maya, Max, XSI and most other high end Visual Effects Software is concerned you could use floating licenses and a VPN really easily.
This assumes however that the student has a beefy system though for compositing and editing. (Probably unlikely). And also has access to a school sanctioned renderfarm.
So I agree it probably won't work in a media lab but for basic modeling and animating a run of the mill laptop connected to the school's license server would work great.
The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
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Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about... your mother and press ok.
If my people were saved by God from a giant flood I would definitely write it into the history books. Change it so that I was responsible but ensure that the widely known history made me look good in Egypt.
There is no reason to supress a huge empirically recorded event when it could be used for personal gain.
On the other hand the egyptian civilization predates any flood dating I've ever found so that goes back to the fact that they should have all drowned, but didn't. Oh well. Maybe God put them to sleep in a giant bubble knowing they would be re-established anyway post-flood and this would cover his tracks if anyone tried to figure out if his claims are true.
Nobody is better at disproving God than God. It's all part of his nefarious plan to remain both simultaneous self evident and completely hidden from history/science.
It's becoming more evident every day that the first cylon will be a Captcha solver.
It won't be too long before Captchas will be little reading comprehension tests like on a 3rd grade social studies test.
After that we'll just have to revert to empathic testing. Sadly those with Autistic Spectrum Disorders will no longer be able to use webmail.
And what about aliens? What if we transfer our consciousnesses to machines?
Humans are animals. At what point does something become "not human enough" to have its pain ignored?
I hate slippery slope arguments. But inflicting inhumane pain is an area I would heartily endorse defining where the slope is.
Or they're just being realistic. "Look we know you'll find bugs so this won't be the final release."
For me RC means you have taken everything out of debug mode. You are using the real installer. You send out the ISO so that every aspect of installation and use is tested. It's testing the entire system not just features.
I would say with Windows 7 Beta 1 would be a passable RC. It seems to be feature complete. It has the full installer. It uses the licensing system and stresses the entire system as a whole. And it's feasibly releasable.
Yes but integrated LAN, Sound and Video are all being run through Intel chips now.
If anyone gets phased out it's not going to be the CPU it's going to be the co-processors.
I would agree. And I would also say that it's not limited to the liberals in California. The Conservatives are just as if not more unpragmatic as the left. Hence the complete impass they've currently reached where neither side is doing anything because of the other.
That being said California has led the way on lots of legislation that both sides take for granted now.
Bots have no memory. The easiest test for every chatbot I've ever found is to require it to keep track of more than the last post.
"Hi"
"Hi"
"How are you today?"
"Great. How are you?"
"Have you been reading the news today?
"No."
"Oh well when was the last time you did?
"Three days ago."
"What was it about?"
[Dead bot.]
It might be able to give a mildly plausible response about "it" but since it doesn't carry subjects from one chat post to the next it can't connect the subject of "talking about the news" and "it" in this case implying news.
It's an arms race. If the virus writers have a computer which can intelligently crack then I have a computer chip which is actively finding and patching security holes in my software.
Yes being able to speak publicly without anyone knowing who is speaking is a right we have enjoyed for centuries!
How dare governments take away our god given right to be completely invisible and yell whatever we want in a crowded room.
Oh wait you don't have an invisibility cloak? I thought everyone had one.
Considering most people use a sync suite to manage their MP3 player couldn't this be part of the sync system?
If the container allows for easy dropping of the uncompressed bit you could have both in one file but at sync time tell itunes/zune etc to just strip the lossless version on the way out the door.
That way you dont' have to keep track of two files on your computer BUT you can also use the low quality version on iZune.
That sounds both convenient and useful.
In a stroke up luck Ghost Hunters falls squarely within the realm of syfy. I guess they did do their research.
This is an excellent point.
A Good Rule of Thumb with any legal topic is. "The only sure case is a case which has gone before the supreme court already. And even then your victory is only temporary."
Laws have to be vague otherwise they would be useless. A case quoting how many psychology questions you can post on your blog only being relevant to other cases where people quote psychology test questions on a blog would build an impossibly thick rule book and be impossible to manage. Within reason every legal case is a negotiation between two differing interpretations of justice. Neither side in any case is going to have the "right answer". The quality of your lawyer is how well your position can be argued. It's not an empirical system. Which is why it's even more important to have a good lawyer than a good doctor. A machine can empirically determine what's wrong with you based on symptoms and tests. It would take a far more sophisticated piece of software to determine whether or not an action is legal. Such a system would be comparable or superior to the human mind. The role of a lawyer is to deconstruction a scenario into a set of existential properties and then compare them to previous scenarios that were similar. That's an extremely high level of heuristics and understanding. It's also not something anybody human, machine or God can say with certainty is or is not going to win in a court of law.
Probably because in every other aspect except for Law and Medicine what we scrounge up is good enough.
I Am Not A Mechanic but I might be able to fix your engine.
"I Am Not A __Insert Profession ____ but I do have experience with XYZ." Is a pretty reasonable statement. We ask the group how well various systems work all the time and consult friends who aren't experts at length on a variety of topics. In fact many times the group advice and wisdom is pretty sound.
The problem is the law is something we all are subject to and it's incredibly specific and incredibly tightly nuanced. As much so as advanced engineering. Most of us never need an accurate weight load stress analysis from an engineer but legal advice is necessary to remain free and properous.
Even lawyers often can't tell you what the law says. If they could we wouldn't need them to defend us in spite of whatever it is the law is supposed to say
Because all hot fusion 'experiments' are largely funded in order to research hydrogen bombs.
If you could figure out a way to weaponize this I'm certain it would get tons of money thrown at it as well.
This is how Obama should be phrasing every pressing need. "How can we sell this as potentially weaponizeable?" If you could somehow figure out a way to weaponize an end to poverty I'm certain we would see an enormous annual budget.
"This is an opportunity where what used to be long term problems whether they be in health care area, education area, fiscal area... tax area, regulatory reform area. Things that we had postponed for too long that were long term are now immediate and must be dealt with. [...] This crisis provides the opportunity to do things you could not do before. The good news, I suppose if you want to see the silver lining, is the problems are big enough they that lend themselves to ideas from both parties to provide the solutions."
[Quick transcription by myself. May have errors.]
Yep. Sounds like a really devious plan. I would disagree about the police chief. He is blaming video games. Just like Obama's chief of staff is blaming the current crisis on long term neglected and long ignored needs by the nation. You were correct to compare the two. But reached the wrong conclusion in both cases.
We're creatures of crisis and apathy. Until we're forced to confront a problem we like to ignore it. If you want to make progress you need to maximize the time that the necessary parties are paying attention to the problem. Otherwise everyone forgets and goes back to doing exactly what they were doing before the crisis.
We all have an example of something which we swear. "I've learned my lesson! I won't do that again!" and then 2 weeks later you've forgotten and do it again.
The question is: Is there a problem that needs to be fixed? This should be the point of contention. Do we need to fix the way minors have access to Mature video games? Do we need to fix our energy, health and regulatory policies? Do we need to change the how we deal with terrorists? Do we need domestic wire tapping.
Nobody would argue that you need to act while there is political willingness on the part of the people to fix whatever needs to be fixed. The debate should be centered on what the best course of action is to prevent further such crisis and whether those solutions would cause unintended consequences.
It's called philosophy. If the logic doesn't fit then your belief is in indefensible. The problem is most religious people have no foundation in philosophy beyond the philosohpy that's barely required to spread their religion.
The real problem is religion is all known religions are rapidly falling out of sync with our understanding of the universe. Far Far quicker than we're learning new things. Where the religious authorities used to have centuries or millenia to compensate for new discoveries the modern idealogue is being forced to reasses and re evaluate their belief system on a monthly basis.
This is the phase of the argument where someone isn't willing to look at the math anymore and is simply rejecting the other's conclusions out of spite. It's immature and rediciulous now, but it's the last dieing breath of a failed belief system awaiting replacement.
I'm sure there were a few centuries where people were desperately trying to defend zeus while the more modern and nimble christianity absorbed all of the adherants.
In the long run empiricism almost always wins. You either have to adapt your beliefs to conform to observation or else develop completely new beliefs. If the major religions survive the onslaught of observation and discovery of the 20th and 21st centuries then it'll probably be far better positioned for future survival. If it doesn't adapt it'll die. Right now a vocal minority is choosing not to adapt. Ironic really.
They're probably just spending 45 minutes talking about how you are always watching TV and never talking to either of them. ;D
Wow you mean to tell me if I buy factory defect products that carry no warranty on ebay I can save money!? I never knew! It seems as if the Dutch have found the secret to inexpensive solar power: Factories should ONLY produce bent and dent cells!