I've both designed and coded a videe game cart and now decades later see my own kids play GTA III. There is no question that kids have more difficulty than adults distinguishing real from play stimulus, especially presented in immersive animation.
To this extent, video games are teaching them racism, sexism, violence and obscenity. Looks like they will fit right in with Bush's world-view when they reach majority.
More seriously, I spend a lot of time with the kids and correct them immediately if the game "spills out" into real life in any way.
My goal is to help them participate in fictional worlds while re-chalking the bright line between those worlds and our mundane one.
Hey, how about a cell phone vibration mode which simulates an Oscillon so that slowly the loose pens, clips and paper on the meeting table begin forming interesting patterns...
In October 1979 as I was being shown Bandley III for the first time, I had the striking memory of seeing the writer Steve Clark's office embrasured with a passel of fold-together cardboard widgets which I was told Jef had designed, just for fun.
After Apple went public he bought a Bentley(!), which for Cupertino-Palo Alto was still a novelty among the technouveau riche.
For me Jef was the spiritual prototype for John Percival Hackworth, the Victorian nanotech engineer.
Has the Académie Francaise really prevented the French language from evolving?
Maybe it's true that certain kinds of written expression makes it easier to present and reflect upon sustained, complex arguments.
Maybe nalogously, classical music might be viewed as ordinary popular music with denser, sustained, complex, interrelated information. This is no way diminishes Tuvan throat singing or Final Fantasy soundtracks or Bob Dylan's "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight"
I still like my single shots of Metallica -- and Slashdot (my favorite circle-blog).
On the original Macintosh rom, Don Dxxxxx put an easter egg of a little stick guy running across the screen on the bottom. The kicker was that it only did this randomly only every 1 out of 35635 seconds or something... hard to duplicate what someone saw from the corner of their eye.
Alas it was taken out of the release ROM.
This was right after Lisa and Apple/// so Apple management weren't quite as playful as they had been.
Hey, that's nothing. I know a merchant mariner who has gotten the language down to precisely *one* word, expressed in astonishing gradiations of emphasis, inflection and tonality! It was quite edifying to my young sons to hear him expound on the weather one afternoon.
When I was a kid I made a multiplier on perf board using two big rheostats. You would "dial" each number in and read the answer from the brightness of the lights. But note virtually all computers are digital now, so I guess analogy computation just doesn't stack up in cost efficiency and/or generality.
Ironically, it will probably be the annoyance of pervasive spyware that causes the death of internet privacy: every process stream will be digitally signed and serialized.
We can filter out the bad guys at the cost of definitively identifying you.
Yes indeed, just like the book in the Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges, this random generator predicts the future with perfect accuracy--also, the future with exactly one thing wrong, the future with exactly two things wrong, and so forth.
It's less useful than knowing the answer to the ultimate question of life is 42 because 42 is a lot easier to remember than a RNG algorithm,
Shocking nonsense is to choose a memorable passphrase by constructing a grossly shocking sequence of words.
A quite mild example might be: flying turds babble incontinently
The core idea is that the shockingness makes the phrase memorable and the impossibleness makes it harder to guess since it does not represent a state-of-affairs likely to be discovered by someone else.
And because it is a passphrase you don't make it public so there is not embarassment issue.
Because Google has claimed that its principles transcended ordinary capitalist ones -- "do no evil."
I guess now Sergey and Larry will assert that that "evil" is an operator now contingent upon share prices. Not the primal good vs. evil God vs. Satan Axis of Evil vs. Hub of Good apocalyptic that everyone *thought* they meant.
xxxxx is all for free speech. Except for its own employees, of course.
xxxxx is all for free enterprise. Except for its own employees, of course.
Google -- or any company -- can be subsituted in for the xxxxx. Money corrupts. It is as simple as that.
Ask Steve Jobs about this. He was one of the first people to feed this claptrap culture speak to Apple employees and its customers back in the 70's. As a fairly early employee (70's) I can say that most employess believed it, and many customers believe it even now.
Even "think different" Jobs doesn't believe it anymore after Scully fired him in the palace coup at Apple. The humiliation. The destruction of Asgard.
No matter how successful Steve will be in the life remaining to him, he will never, ever forget what Scully did to him.
Google is no different. Larry Page and Sergey Brin may have started Google in high-spirited Palo Alto/Stanford euphoria, but are listening right now to the cracks and groans of amoral capitalism grinding their principles down.
If they don't understand this and deal with it, then the the idiot part of idiot savant will describe them. There is now a dollar sign in front of 10^10 and don't you forget it.
Note that I am not being cynical here, the "amoral" forces are the same as the "invisible hand"s or, in other words, reality imposing truth upon the irrelevant and dodgy theories of entrepreneurs everywhere. It just that to be honest and effective, Sergey and Larry need to admit to this and deal with it rather than pretend everything is like Old School days.
If you don't get it, then I suppose you wouldn't get why Google recruiters ask you to answers questions such as what is the first ten digit prime in the expansion of e?
Back to the topic at hand, emergent behavior is just another way of saying that an agent's complexity has gotten out of being able to have our heads wrapped around its expected behavior.
Once back in my Bandley 3 days, I hid an LED with half a 555 timer and a battery up in the acoustic tile so that the dome of the LED was ensconced within one of the camouflaging grots.
It was timed to flash just outside what I estimate the tipping point of boredom for people whose eye caught one of its flashes.
Coupled with the obsessive engineers who noticed it, it was both hilarious and -- instructive.
Now, I suppose, I would design it with a cadmium sulfide resistor so that the flashing interval would increase if it noticed less ambient light, which might happen if a head were close to discovering it.
For a full network, it is closer to n(n-1)/2 where n is the number of networked agents. But hey that's a simple quadratic.
There is no reason why we can't in principle create a world of agents with at least exponential complexity of, for example, 2^n.
We are going to need different ways of thinking about these kinds of intricate structures if we would claim any kind of significant knowledge about them. Not to mention debug them. It is far more likely that they will debug us.
This also implies that the "glass hand" only needs a key of about 10^27 bits to recreate from scratch our universe from a suitable space-time compiler.
Slashdot Mirror
Apple turned the corner in 1989 with the theft of Apple source code and the consequent heavy-handed stimulus initiating the EFF.
The corporate monolithic spirit of John Scully lives on in a CEO suddenly exposed to the mortality of cancer, Steve Jobs.
I've both designed and coded a videe game cart and now decades later see my own kids play GTA III.
There is no question that kids have more difficulty than adults distinguishing real from play stimulus, especially presented in immersive animation.
To this extent, video games are teaching them racism, sexism, violence and obscenity.
Looks like they will fit right in with Bush's world-view when they reach majority.
More seriously, I spend a lot of time with the kids and correct them immediately if the game "spills out" into real life in any way.
My goal is to help them participate in fictional worlds while re-chalking the bright line between those worlds and our mundane one.
... the most productive OS is the Alphasmart Neo OS. Not much to distract from getting a lot of writing done.
Hey, how about a cell phone vibration mode which simulates an Oscillon so that slowly the loose pens, clips and paper on the meeting table begin forming interesting patterns...
"In a quiet room, in a meeting, this phone's gonna go off--what are they going to hear?"
Among polite people, or, failing that, with a mobile phone jammer enabled--nothing.
In October 1979 as I was being shown Bandley III for the first time, I had the striking memory of seeing the writer Steve Clark's office embrasured with a passel of fold-together cardboard widgets which I was told Jef had designed, just for fun.
After Apple went public he bought a Bentley(!), which for Cupertino-Palo Alto was still a novelty among the technouveau riche.
For me Jef was the spiritual prototype for John Percival Hackworth, the Victorian nanotech engineer.
Rest in peace and see you in version 2.0, Jef.
Wow! This must be a great product with all the X's and four digit numbers in all the coded names!
I've got to tell Boddicker before he uses the Cobra gun on the SUX3000!
With it, the tapes would be just tapes. And B of A wouldn't need to be excoriated. At least for this.
Does it matter what this guy thinks?
Has the Académie Francaise really prevented the French language from evolving?
Maybe it's true that certain kinds of written expression makes it easier to present and reflect upon sustained, complex arguments.
Maybe nalogously, classical music might be viewed as ordinary popular music with denser, sustained, complex, interrelated information. This is no way diminishes Tuvan throat singing or Final Fantasy soundtracks or Bob Dylan's "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight"
I still like my single shots of Metallica -- and Slashdot (my favorite circle-blog).
On the original Macintosh rom, Don Dxxxxx put an easter egg of a little stick guy running across the screen on the bottom. The kicker was that it only did this randomly only every 1 out of 35635 seconds or something... hard to duplicate what someone saw from the corner of their eye.
/// so Apple management weren't quite as playful as they had been.
Alas it was taken out of the release ROM.
This was right after Lisa and Apple
Hey, that's nothing. I know a merchant mariner who has gotten the language down to precisely *one* word, expressed in astonishing gradiations of emphasis, inflection and tonality! It was quite edifying to my young sons to hear him expound on the weather one afternoon.
You mean he's made an analog computer?
When I was a kid I made a multiplier on perf board using two big rheostats. You would "dial" each number in and read the answer from the brightness of the lights. But note virtually all computers are digital now, so I guess analogy computation just doesn't stack up in cost efficiency and/or generality.
...when you want to use the Internet. You don't even need to possess a hard drive.
Ironically, it will probably be the annoyance of pervasive spyware that causes the death of internet privacy: every process stream will be digitally signed and serialized.
We can filter out the bad guys at the cost of definitively identifying you.
Yes indeed, just like the book in the Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges, this random generator predicts the future with perfect accuracy--also, the future with exactly one thing wrong, the future with exactly two things wrong, and so forth.
It's less useful than knowing the answer to the ultimate question of life is 42 because 42 is a lot easier to remember than a RNG algorithm,
Shocking nonsense is to choose a memorable passphrase by constructing a grossly shocking sequence of words.
A quite mild example might be: flying turds babble incontinently
The core idea is that the shockingness makes the phrase memorable and the impossibleness makes it harder to guess since it does not represent a state-of-affairs likely to be discovered by someone else.
And because it is a passphrase you don't make it public so there is not embarassment issue.
Most of the time.
I guess since this object is leaving our galaxy forever our galaxy has a kinetic energy leak. That's sad.
I think the the categories with the most patent submissions in a year should have patents of the shortest term.
For example, 17 years is ridiculously long for the relatively new category of software patents. It probably should be on the order of three years.
Once an area settle down then the patent terms can expand again.
Sort of like a Lorentz contraction applied to patents.
Because Google has claimed that its principles transcended ordinary capitalist ones -- "do no evil."
I guess now Sergey and Larry will assert that that "evil" is an operator now contingent upon share prices. Not the primal good vs. evil God vs. Satan Axis of Evil vs. Hub of Good apocalyptic that everyone *thought* they meant.
xxxxx is all for free speech. Except for its own employees, of course.
xxxxx is all for free enterprise. Except for its own employees, of course.
Google -- or any company -- can be subsituted in for the xxxxx. Money corrupts. It is as simple as that.
Ask Steve Jobs about this. He was one of the first people to feed this claptrap culture speak to Apple employees and its customers back in the 70's. As a fairly early employee (70's) I can say that most employess believed it, and many customers believe it even now.
Even "think different" Jobs doesn't believe it anymore after Scully fired him in the palace coup at Apple. The humiliation. The destruction of Asgard.
No matter how successful Steve will be in the life remaining to him, he will never, ever forget what Scully did to him.
Google is no different. Larry Page and Sergey Brin may have started Google in high-spirited Palo Alto/Stanford euphoria, but are listening right now to the cracks and groans of amoral capitalism grinding their principles down.
If they don't understand this and deal with it, then the the idiot part of idiot savant will describe them. There is now a dollar sign in front of 10^10 and don't you forget it.
Note that I am not being cynical here, the "amoral" forces are the same as the "invisible hand"s or, in other words, reality imposing truth upon the irrelevant and dodgy theories of entrepreneurs everywhere. It just that to be honest and effective, Sergey and Larry need to admit to this and deal with it rather than pretend everything is like Old School days.
If you don't get it, then I suppose you wouldn't get why Google recruiters ask you to answers questions such as what is the first ten digit prime in the expansion of e?
Back to the topic at hand, emergent behavior is just another way of saying that an agent's complexity has gotten out of being able to have our heads wrapped around its expected behavior.
Surely you meant the Tureen test, where you can distinguish Mock Turtles from Gryphons.
Once back in my Bandley 3 days, I hid an LED with half a 555 timer and a battery up in the acoustic tile so that the dome of the LED was ensconced within one of the camouflaging grots.
It was timed to flash just outside what I estimate the tipping point of boredom for people whose eye caught one of its flashes.
Coupled with the obsessive engineers who noticed it, it was both hilarious and -- instructive.
Now, I suppose, I would design it with a cadmium sulfide resistor so that the flashing interval would increase if it noticed less ambient light, which might happen if a head were close to discovering it.
For a full network, it is closer to n(n-1)/2 where n is the number of networked agents. But hey that's a simple quadratic.
There is no reason why we can't in principle create a world of agents with at least exponential complexity of, for example, 2^n.
We are going to need different ways of thinking about these kinds of intricate structures if we would claim any kind of significant knowledge about them. Not to mention debug them. It is far more likely that they will debug us.
This also implies that the "glass hand" only needs a key of about 10^27 bits to recreate from scratch our universe from a suitable space-time compiler.
You mean you were a Microsoft employee...