Come to think of it, I'm only familiar with the hardware side of 3D printing.
What is the state of the art in terms of 3D printing software and/or definition languages? Is there anything approaching a standard yet, that can take account of issues like number and type of available materials (conductive metal, plastic, etc.), material properties (tensile strength etc.), degrees of freedom (angles that can be accessed), resolution/step size, and other issues like that in a reasonable way?
I doubt it really, but I guess my question is more "how far are we from achieving it? What work's been done so far?"
Even the person(s) that ran wikileaks is not above doing this if it were to meet their personal agenda.
You really shouldn't just decide that people have no ethics, and will do anything that suits them like that. To meet that definition, they would have to be psychopaths. Perhaps what you meant is that anyone will do anything, if their beliefs tell them it's a good thing to do, and they can muster the resources.
Yes, a very good point. Distros based on Ubuntu really shouldn't have their "origin" credited as "Ubuntu". Some credit for Ubuntu is warranted, but certainly not as the "Origin".
Not to be contrary, but what does empathy have to do with intelligence?
Can you seriously not answer this by using a little introspection to examine your own thought processes? Most adults are fully capable of it, if they stop and give it some thought. Empathy is not some magical blackbox in your head that makes you feel what others feel; it's a mental model; a recognition that others are like you; a mapping of their emotions to your reaction to those emotions; an ability to recognise or even assess another's situation and apply that mapping. This all requires some intelligence, although perhaps not as much as we'd like to believe.
I think the point is that it IS commonly seen throughout the animal kingdom.
Really, I don't get this willingness to pretend that animals have no emotions. Anyone with a horse, dog, cat, or even a relatively unintelligent pet like a ferret has seen playfulness, companionship, affection, and many other "human" traits.
Way to miss the point, which is that avoiding porn sites doesn't mean you won't get infected.
Of course it doesn't. People who've been around the net from the early days are well used to seeing porn and goatse and all, so they've no big reason to avoid it. The vulnerable people are the n00b grandmas and managers who think porn is the scary part of the net and that being good by just playing those quizzes that everyone sends them.
Honestly, this is common sense. Hardly article worthy.
That was your mistake right there. Law enforcement people don't know about or even care about actual laws -- they just want you to comply, and if you don't, you're considered a trouble-maker. See today's story on a freelance reporter's mistreatment by metropolitan police for a perfect example.
I think he's referring to time for deep contemplation -- the kind that takes 4 hours of lying in a sun-drenched meadow just to clear your head enough to begin.
Reverse engineer the human brain first, which would require knowing and understanding how all the parts work. Then re-creating that in digital form.
Why? That's like creating a car by analysing the locomotion of a giraffe, or like cloning a game on Linux and OpenGL by studying the machine code from a ZX Spectrum.
The point is to create a machine that can silicon-based machine perform the same function as a carbon-based lifeform --- not to study how the carbon-based lifeform does it. I suspect that some high-level introspection would be much more useful here than low-level neurology.
Nothing gets the government scared like a big steam of bad press
which the internet is more than willing to provide
Maybe in 25 years, the government will really care what happens online. For now, they're all nicely isolated from that in their ivory towers of rich upbringings, knowing the right people, their party "firewalls" of support and funds, etc. To the current generation of MPs, the Internet (including all of us) might as well be some weird, barely relevant subculture, like Goths or Emos.
That's what I thought. So MS essentially used its fortune to bribe a small company into letting them continue to avoid trademark law at everyone else's expense. Doesn't seem like a victory for Lindows to me.
There are many things that could be done in compsci that would be great, but when someone mentions an upcoming "earthshaking" announcement in the field, the first thing that springs to mind for me is true, hard AI. We all know it's coming; someone just needs to figure out the last few pieces. I fancy Knuth's chances more than most.
"My job is to compare the AI literature with what came out of the electrical engineering community, and other disciplines; each community has had a slightly different way of approaching the problems." -- Knuth
Then again, he might be announcing his new luddite cult;)
What would I do with a billion cores? Run tens of millions of instances of VMWare (x8 or 16 each) and write distributed code that runs on millions of machines.
Not without very serious disk, memory, and network subsystems. CPU cores are not the only bottleneck in a VM setup.
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For fuck's sake. Some one let him on the Internet?
Come to think of it, I'm only familiar with the hardware side of 3D printing.
What is the state of the art in terms of 3D printing software and/or definition languages? Is there anything approaching a standard yet, that can take account of issues like number and type of available materials (conductive metal, plastic, etc.), material properties (tensile strength etc.), degrees of freedom (angles that can be accessed), resolution/step size, and other issues like that in a reasonable way?
I doubt it really, but I guess my question is more "how far are we from achieving it? What work's been done so far?"
I was in 100% agreement right up until this part:
You really shouldn't just decide that people have no ethics, and will do anything that suits them like that. To meet that definition, they would have to be psychopaths. Perhaps what you meant is that anyone will do anything, if their beliefs tell them it's a good thing to do, and they can muster the resources.
When it comes to social/charitable projects, that's more true than you might expect.
Yes, a very good point. Distros based on Ubuntu really shouldn't have their "origin" credited as "Ubuntu". Some credit for Ubuntu is warranted, but certainly not as the "Origin".
Can you seriously not answer this by using a little introspection to examine your own thought processes? Most adults are fully capable of it, if they stop and give it some thought. Empathy is not some magical blackbox in your head that makes you feel what others feel; it's a mental model; a recognition that others are like you; a mapping of their emotions to your reaction to those emotions; an ability to recognise or even assess another's situation and apply that mapping. This all requires some intelligence, although perhaps not as much as we'd like to believe.
I think the point is that it IS commonly seen throughout the animal kingdom.
Really, I don't get this willingness to pretend that animals have no emotions. Anyone with a horse, dog, cat, or even a relatively unintelligent pet like a ferret has seen playfulness, companionship, affection, and many other "human" traits.
So what are you saying -- we have to increase the voltage to the crowd? ;)
Of course it doesn't. People who've been around the net from the early days are well used to seeing porn and goatse and all, so they've no big reason to avoid it. The vulnerable people are the n00b grandmas and managers who think porn is the scary part of the net and that being good by just playing those quizzes that everyone sends them.
Honestly, this is common sense. Hardly article worthy.
That was your mistake right there. Law enforcement people don't know about or even care about actual laws -- they just want you to comply, and if you don't, you're considered a trouble-maker. See today's story on a freelance reporter's mistreatment by metropolitan police for a perfect example.
Much easier on us? You want to do a 440-year round-trip across the galaxy when you're 60+? Good luck with that.
I think he's referring to time for deep contemplation -- the kind that takes 4 hours of lying in a sun-drenched meadow just to clear your head enough to begin.
Maybe he's created a universal algoritm for finding algorithms.
Fixed that for you.
Why? That's like creating a car by analysing the locomotion of a giraffe, or like cloning a game on Linux and OpenGL by studying the machine code from a ZX Spectrum.
The point is to create a machine that can silicon-based machine perform the same function as a carbon-based lifeform --- not to study how the carbon-based lifeform does it. I suspect that some high-level introspection would be much more useful here than low-level neurology.
No, but many people do want proper adblock plus. I think they'll be a major shift to Chrome as soon as it gets decent adblocking.
Debian adds their own patches to make software more stable. Doesn't really count.
That's spelt with an "a", just so you know.
Maybe in 25 years, the government will really care what happens online. For now, they're all nicely isolated from that in their ivory towers of rich upbringings, knowing the right people, their party "firewalls" of support and funds, etc. To the current generation of MPs, the Internet (including all of us) might as well be some weird, barely relevant subculture, like Goths or Emos.
The Law? You mean, like being legally obliged to bum a lift to the mall and syphon a cocky teenager's gas when you run out?
No names please.
I think you mean, iPhone to be packaged on CTAN.
That's what I thought. So MS essentially used its fortune to bribe a small company into letting them continue to avoid trademark law at everyone else's expense. Doesn't seem like a victory for Lindows to me.
There are many things that could be done in compsci that would be great, but when someone mentions an upcoming "earthshaking" announcement in the field, the first thing that springs to mind for me is true, hard AI. We all know it's coming; someone just needs to figure out the last few pieces. I fancy Knuth's chances more than most.
"My job is to compare the AI literature with what came out of the electrical engineering community, and other disciplines; each community has had a slightly different way of approaching the problems." -- Knuth
Then again, he might be announcing his new luddite cult ;)
Not without very serious disk, memory, and network subsystems. CPU cores are not the only bottleneck in a VM setup.