"Building a thinking machine has always been a personal dream of mine, and my conception of the Connection Machine was part of that. I like to say I want to make a computer that will be proud of me."
"I'd like to find a way for consciousness to transcend human flesh. Building a thinking machine is really a search for a kind of Earthly immortality. Something much more intelligent than we can exist. Making a thinking machine is my way to reach out to that."
And are you also your own ISP or does your email pass through someone else's routers? Hope you don't mind them recording packets and saving every DNS lookup and every website you visit as part of the "ordinary course of doing business".
Not only did the author essentially paint all of FOSS as sexist, but also gave no evidence. If sexism is as widespread as claimed, why not give some examples? Is it just the use of "he" in documents? Are women being paid less for free code?
Life is very good at adapting to and using everything in its environment. I would be surprised if there were no systems in the human body that did not depend in some way on having a pulse: maybe for timing some process. It's the human jiffy.
It is unlikely that the Perimeter system is monitoring explosions. Lightning, for example, is very common and would trigger most explosion-detecting sensors.
They are more likely to be comparing air-borne radioactivity. Strontium 90 would be a good choice for monitoring since there is no obvious source other than a nuclear process for it to occur. Chernobyl released 87 times as much Strontium-90 as the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
I still wonder were alive in this world after all the shit humans have pulled off...
Especially given that Perimeter came online in 1985 and Chernobyl happened in 1986. I wonder what their sensors are looking for and what the thresholds are.
You're right, nuclear weapons have kept us from getting involved in another massive global shooting war. On the other hand, they've allowed us to settle into a basically constant series of low-level conflicts across the globe. So, instead of having one giant conflict that lasts for a few years, we have a never-ending series of small but locally devastating conflicts that go on forever. Nuclear weapons haven't curbed our innate desire to destroy ourselves, they've just made it more of a long-term commitment to do so.
Umm. When was that long stretch of peace before nuclear weapons? I forget.
Although in the body it says they found 3,148,379,694 congruent numbers, the title is "A Trillion Triangles" and the web page is titled "The first 1 trillion coefficients of the congruent number curve" so I think you should let the lazy editors put their sandaled feet up and sip their lattes on this one. It's the article that's got it wrong.
A browser gets the original image from the server along with html tags width & height and information about your PC's display mode. Then it mangles the image to fit - losing resolution and pixel depth along the way. An image editor like the GIMP wants the full-size original.
The comparison in the article is on how quickly the most recent upstream version is incorporated into the distro. As a user I care more about whether bug fixes and new features are incorporated, regardless of upstream version. For example, RHEL may backport new features or drivers into old kernels. Or Fedora may incorporate a bug fix into their perl release without replacing the entire Perl source code. I imagine that other distros do this as well.
I was once at a one-slope ski area in Pennsylvania when the rope tow broke. I offered to splice the rope and got them running again. They gave me a free pass, but I never went back.
You evidently missed that he said the exact opposite in the article:
"Depending on how you look at it, you may think that this opinion from credentialed expert Mr. Rasch, vindicates the opinion of the math aficionados who voted that the defendant did not violate the law. I think it's the other way around -- the fact that this answer was correlated in the survey responses with mathematical ability, vindicates the opinion of Mr. Rasch."
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A few observations by Dr. Daniel Hillis:
"Building a thinking machine has always been a personal dream of mine, and my conception of the Connection Machine was part of that. I like to say I want to make a computer that will be proud of me."
"I'd like to find a way for consciousness to transcend human flesh. Building a thinking machine is really a search for a kind of Earthly immortality. Something much more intelligent than we can exist. Making a thinking machine is my way to reach out to that."
One good example is speech recognition. This was a hot topic of research in the 70s. Now its a $20 DSP chip.
And are you also your own ISP or does your email pass through someone else's routers? Hope you don't mind them recording packets and saving every DNS lookup and every website you visit as part of the "ordinary course of doing business".
Insightful ^^
Not only did the author essentially paint all of FOSS as sexist, but also gave no evidence. If sexism is as widespread as claimed, why not give some examples? Is it just the use of "he" in documents? Are women being paid less for free code?
But my financial advisor is now living in a trailer park...
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In Chinatown, Jack Nicholson puts a watch under a car tire to record the time that the car is moved. Would that be legal?
Life is very good at adapting to and using everything in its environment. I would be surprised if there were no systems in the human body that did not depend in some way on having a pulse: maybe for timing some process. It's the human jiffy.
So they should also let you bring your gun in case of terrorist attack? And your pit bull in case you are threatened by a pack of wolves?
I couldn't get the word 'scientology' out of my head when watching this
I was thinking "Amway"
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It is unlikely that the Perimeter system is monitoring explosions. Lightning, for example, is very common and would trigger most explosion-detecting sensors.
They are more likely to be comparing air-borne radioactivity. Strontium 90 would be a good choice for monitoring since there is no obvious source other than a nuclear process for it to occur. Chernobyl released 87 times as much Strontium-90 as the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_compared_to_other_radioactivity_releases
I still wonder were alive in this world after all the shit humans have pulled off...
Especially given that Perimeter came online in 1985 and Chernobyl happened in 1986. I wonder what their sensors are looking for and what the thresholds are.
You're right, nuclear weapons have kept us from getting involved in another massive global shooting war. On the other hand, they've allowed us to settle into a basically constant series of low-level conflicts across the globe. So, instead of having one giant conflict that lasts for a few years, we have a never-ending series of small but locally devastating conflicts that go on forever. Nuclear weapons haven't curbed our innate desire to destroy ourselves, they've just made it more of a long-term commitment to do so.
Umm. When was that long stretch of peace before nuclear weapons? I forget.
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Although in the body it says they found 3,148,379,694 congruent numbers, the title is "A Trillion Triangles" and the web page is titled "The first 1 trillion coefficients of the congruent number curve" so I think you should let the lazy editors put their sandaled feet up and sip their lattes on this one. It's the article that's got it wrong.
A browser gets the original image from the server along with html tags width & height and information about your PC's display mode. Then it mangles the image to fit - losing resolution and pixel depth along the way. An image editor like the GIMP wants the full-size original.
Or maybe "formation of miniature Black Holes"
I read your comment twice and I'm not a bit amazed by anything that you called amazing. What am I missing?
The comparison in the article is on how quickly the most recent upstream version is incorporated into the distro. As a user I care more about whether bug fixes and new features are incorporated, regardless of upstream version. For example, RHEL may backport new features or drivers into old kernels. Or Fedora may incorporate a bug fix into their perl release without replacing the entire Perl source code. I imagine that other distros do this as well.
So what you are saying is that the NPG did not slavishly copy the photographs but showed originality in their method of preventing copying?
My stats show an increase in IE 7 at the expense of IE 6 but not much else. Also many spiders like msnbot.
I wonder if some of the stats change is due to Bing? That might change the mix of browsers going to some sites.
I was once at a one-slope ski area in Pennsylvania when the rope tow broke. I offered to splice the rope and got them running again. They gave me a free pass, but I never went back.
You evidently missed that he said the exact opposite in the article:
"Depending on how you look at it, you may think that this opinion from credentialed expert Mr. Rasch, vindicates the opinion of the math aficionados who voted that the defendant did not violate the law. I think it's the other way around -- the fact that this answer was correlated in the survey responses with mathematical ability, vindicates the opinion of Mr. Rasch."
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