"no plane has ever even had to make a minor course change" I think your post is a candidate for one of the dumbest posts in slashdot history. Just because you happen to be ignorant of all of the various cases that have happened doesn't mean they didn't happen. For example, the Coast Guard helicopter hovering during a training mission and getting hit with a laser lighting up the cockpit - you don't think that's unsafe? Helicopters crash even without lasers during rescue attempts etc.
You said; "The floppies would boot up the computer right into the game so there was no OS involved."
What you meant to say was that the installed OS of your computer was not involved. The games you were booting from floppies provided their own OS, and it did not resemble the one you were accustomed to.
As a person that created those games that used no OS (or any instructions not written by me personally other than the bootloader) , on what basis are you correcting the other poster? Are you claiming that a game is an OS? If so, what definition of OS are you using? I can't find any that matches your interpretation.
"Without an OS, you cannot access your hardware," - wtf?
The definition of OS isn't "any program that manipulates a hardware register". The games I wrote only used instructions I personally wrote, and the game could not be used to provide services to other applications because it was a game, not an OS.
I wrote games like this on the trash 80 color computer in the early 80's. The boot loader merely loaded a small amount of code and transferred control, definitely not an OS. For the game, I wrote everything, fonts, sounds, graphics, floppy disk or tape IO, keyboard input and joystick input - no libraries no nothing, just my code running a game. There was no code not written by me that got executed other than the boot loader.
They don't even understand everything that is going on with the various cells and chemicals and electrical activity in the brain. They really are not even close to being able to model even a small group of neurons, glia, chemical and electrical signals.
Agreed. The number of new important discoveries continues to increase daily, and while they did mention the need to wade through all of that research, I don't know how they can keep up with it and model something useful at this point, there is just too much new stuff being learned. Some random tidbits that are complicating the picture more and more:
1 - Glial cells - part of computation and possibly the key item for higher thought (Einstein had normal number of neurons but many more glial cells than average, they appear to control and guide which sub-networks of the brain are active)
2 - Gap junctions - you can't adequately model the neuron's behavior without including these
3 - Influence of low level electrical waves - neuron firing is influenced by low level electrical waves, previously thought to be too weak for this type of influence
4 - Frequency and phase modulation occur to segregate different information being operated on simultaneously
Not so fast my friend. Are you aware that there has been a consistent and dedicated effort by scientists to breed/evolve rice for the last 50 years to increase production and the number of areas it can grow? And that without this effort rice production would not have kept up with worldwide demand?
GM crops can certainly play a part in continuing to keep up with demand.
"He describes the brain as a massively parallel pattern recognition machine. At the core of the neocortex are millions of hierarchically arranged pattern recognition modules working together to model and predict our environment."
Do you think there is a single person in this field that doesn't think that? Why does he need to "argue" that when it's pretty obvious to everyone?
"Leaders in AI like Kurzweil and Hawkins"? Are you sure you're following who is making real progress in "AI" or at least machine learning? Go check out people like Hinton.
Amazingly (I knew this poster "smelled" like rebel science), you aren't completely wrong here. We do create a model and we predict based on that model, but the basis of the prediction is pattern matching/detection from previous experience. A pattern match isn't guaranteed (hence the connection to probabilities), but it's the best guess based on experience.
Is this a joke? You can't interleave threads if you only have 1 thread. Do you not understand that? Do you not understand the Power architecture when it comes to threading?
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"no plane has ever even had to make a minor course change" I think your post is a candidate for one of the dumbest posts in slashdot history. Just because you happen to be ignorant of all of the various cases that have happened doesn't mean they didn't happen. For example, the Coast Guard helicopter hovering during a training mission and getting hit with a laser lighting up the cockpit - you don't think that's unsafe? Helicopters crash even without lasers during rescue attempts etc.
You said; "The floppies would boot up the computer right into the game so there was no OS involved." What you meant to say was that the installed OS of your computer was not involved. The games you were booting from floppies provided their own OS, and it did not resemble the one you were accustomed to.
As a person that created those games that used no OS (or any instructions not written by me personally other than the bootloader) , on what basis are you correcting the other poster? Are you claiming that a game is an OS? If so, what definition of OS are you using? I can't find any that matches your interpretation.
"Without an OS, you cannot access your hardware," - wtf?
The definition of OS isn't "any program that manipulates a hardware register". The games I wrote only used instructions I personally wrote, and the game could not be used to provide services to other applications because it was a game, not an OS.
I wrote games like this on the trash 80 color computer in the early 80's. The boot loader merely loaded a small amount of code and transferred control, definitely not an OS. For the game, I wrote everything, fonts, sounds, graphics, floppy disk or tape IO, keyboard input and joystick input - no libraries no nothing, just my code running a game. There was no code not written by me that got executed other than the boot loader.
In the early 2000's we had some, every week one of them would crash. All the other servers w/ECC, no crash. Hardly a marketing gimmick.
That just might work
The outlet is about 8 feet away but my power cord is only 7 feet, what should I do?
But if there are 300 million Americans, and only 1,500 Merquahisabilians, doesn't that mean the Americans are in the middle of the curve :)
They will create 1,500 more Kiva robots to handle picking and hire just 100 humans
drowned out in a flood of idiocy
BIEBER!!!!!!
They don't even understand everything that is going on with the various cells and chemicals and electrical activity in the brain. They really are not even close to being able to model even a small group of neurons, glia, chemical and electrical signals.
Agreed. The number of new important discoveries continues to increase daily, and while they did mention the need to wade through all of that research, I don't know how they can keep up with it and model something useful at this point, there is just too much new stuff being learned. Some random tidbits that are complicating the picture more and more:
1 - Glial cells - part of computation and possibly the key item for higher thought (Einstein had normal number of neurons but many more glial cells than average, they appear to control and guide which sub-networks of the brain are active)
2 - Gap junctions - you can't adequately model the neuron's behavior without including these
3 - Influence of low level electrical waves - neuron firing is influenced by low level electrical waves, previously thought to be too weak for this type of influence
4 - Frequency and phase modulation occur to segregate different information being operated on simultaneously
Hopefully Ray Kurzweil can figure a way to turn off that damn auto-complete
Not so fast my friend. Are you aware that there has been a consistent and dedicated effort by scientists to breed/evolve rice for the last 50 years to increase production and the number of areas it can grow? And that without this effort rice production would not have kept up with worldwide demand?
GM crops can certainly play a part in continuing to keep up with demand.
I take it a step further. I carry around a "1" and a "0" in my pocket.
If I need to compute something I pull them out and get to work.
starring Gary Buse as John McAfee
HP r dum?
"He describes the brain as a massively parallel pattern recognition machine. At the core of the neocortex are millions of hierarchically arranged pattern recognition modules working together to model and predict our environment."
Do you think there is a single person in this field that doesn't think that? Why does he need to "argue" that when it's pretty obvious to everyone?
"Leaders in AI like Kurzweil and Hawkins"? Are you sure you're following who is making real progress in "AI" or at least machine learning? Go check out people like Hinton.
our laser set it off
"I'd love to have a 7-8 inch Surface" - Most people would but you just need to be happy with what God gave you
Amazingly (I knew this poster "smelled" like rebel science), you aren't completely wrong here. We do create a model and we predict based on that model, but the basis of the prediction is pattern matching/detection from previous experience. A pattern match isn't guaranteed (hence the connection to probabilities), but it's the best guess based on experience.
Not sure what you mean by "engine", but neural networks are sometimes evolved instead of trained.
Is this a joke? You can't interleave threads if you only have 1 thread. Do you not understand that? Do you not understand the Power architecture when it comes to threading?