A/very/ short version is (listen, really), that they can only change genes crudely, you don't know what else has changed along with the intended one. The lack of controls, and the effects, will shock you. And this is recent, say, end of 2005.
His ability to whip out long chains of association shows up in his books as an ability to sling possibilities out into a coherent, believable, near-to-mid-term future world. You're missing out if you haven't read him. IMO he's the best writer for that kind of SF.
it's at least 50% ads, and full of movie-of-the-moment promotion as you say, now; they've 'monetized it' fully. This latest issue I found barely anything worth reading.
They're kind of on the edge of being not worth reading anymore, for me.
The thing is basically free, ad-supported. (and more than 1/2 ads more than likely. When I rip those that can be out of mine it suffers serious shrinkage). So saying you'll keep your subscription going doesn't mean much.
or rather something even less common - I find it hard to believe you got fired for being gay. But not being that close to the guy, I can't say I know the culture really.
for however many years. I've bought once or twice, but only after I couldn't find it on abebooks or cdconnection. I doubt that's what's done it but it's nice to see things go your way:)
All MP machines have: communication channels, and processors. If the designers envisioned it being used a certain way and optimized it for that, well, what of it? Maybe that's how the standard game API does things but, it's still processors and communication channels. It's more than likely you can get better performance out of it by adapting your problem for it specifically, minimizing communication and keeping processors busy as much as the problem allows, same as for all other MP systems.
Small businesses are less efficient, they/don't/ have the economies of scale - they have more employees, more overhead for the amount of business they do. That is, they spread what wealth they do have / create around more.
Purest capitalism would tend to give all that work to the one most efficient provider, minimize spreading the profits around, and maximize the flow to the owners.
It needs to go to an 'everyone can moderate everything' system like kuro5hin or digg. Most people would knock the above butt-extruded joke down but, because there are 4 retards who found it funny it gets rated high and stays that way because no-one wants to waste their points.
power to building something. Sure, knowing C++ & Qt I can figure out how to do something in KDE but, it's a lot of work; being a moron's level of difficulty means I might actually do it.
I used to hate it, but now grudgingly think it's ok, I've used it for work for the last 6 months.
But, I've definitely had problems because of the indentation. Add or remove an if or a loop, and, if your code is complex, it's easy to miss-indent, and of course, it matters. Plus, don't get me started on the very few places Python allows breaking a statement across lines (c'mon, the interpreter can't see a trailing '.' as a hint that it needs to keep going?).
Luckily as I've started programming more functionally (thus compactly, & with more parentheses & fewer ifs & loops) the indentation problem has pretty much gone away, but it/has/ bitten me a couple times.
One of the articles from their RSS feed. It was about how you can protect your brain from decline, but they meant it as getting on toward senility, I think. But as part of the whole thing they mentioned that from 30 on, your brain starts to decline. I believe it, myself; I find that without coffee I'm pretty foggy brained, where I don't remember feeling like this before. But that's just one person's very subjective report:)
And there is no backstory at all, at least none that matters. The series isn't about plot, one story arc (for instance, Aeon dies in maybe 1/3 of the episodes); it's about ideas of what humanity is, what's good for us, how rulers decide what's good for people, how ideologies clash and whether it all comes out the same in the end, our future, so on and so on; it's a setting for such ideas rather than a story. So, the fact that they took a kernel of Aeon-ness and wrapped a backstory & plot around it to get it to 90 minutes diluted it somewhat, and set the strength of the series to one side. The first 2/3 of the movie, condensed into 1/2 hour would be more typical of what an Aeon series episode would be like.
Quite diluted, and maybe not enough for people who hadn't seen the series to pick up on, but, for those who knew it, it was there. I guess I would say to people who didn't like the movie but haven't seen the series, watch the series a bit; the episodes in the series are very short and pretty independent, and aren't about plot so much as banging ideas up against each other uncomfortably (and looking cool doing it).
Minsky has said 'All computers can do is trillions of operations on vast, complex data structures in an eyeblink' - (paraphrased, I can't find his quote) - what more, in your opinion, is required for AI?
according to an ex-manager in some documentary. They'll/lead/ so to speak with some wildly low-priced items to set an impression, but they're not the cheapest on everything.
I was considering building my own cluster, or possibly using Sun myself, but that company charges $1 per CPU per 24hr day; nice. And no power consumption worries either.
And anyway, you could be wrong - if the x-axis was time and there was a lot to learn, a steep learning curve would require a lot of effort, which is in the spirit of the saying.
I didn't get anything out of it, too much of the noisy flying pirates I guess. Plus, the pig business wasn't really connected to anything, at least, not that I could glean. It wasn't due to any failure of his, just an action of some witch, so I couldn't get any deeper meaning out of it. And none of his good actions were anything he hadn't been doing all along, so there was no heroism or development really.
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Parent-guy, you should give your post better titles so people will not assume it's not just the millionth empty riff.
It's a recent piece - this lasts an hour I think, but it's worth it.
r /DD062206.mp3
/very/ short version is (listen, really), that they can only change genes crudely, you don't know what else has changed along with the intended one. The lack of controls, and the effects, will shock you. And this is recent, say, end of 2005.
http://media.libsyn.com/media/deconstructingdinne
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His ability to whip out long chains of association shows up in his books as an ability to sling possibilities out into a coherent, believable, near-to-mid-term future world. You're missing out if you haven't read him. IMO he's the best writer for that kind of SF.
it's at least 50% ads, and full of movie-of-the-moment promotion as you say, now; they've 'monetized it' fully. This latest issue I found barely anything worth reading.
They're kind of on the edge of being not worth reading anymore, for me.
The thing is basically free, ad-supported. (and more than 1/2 ads more than likely. When I rip those that can be out of mine it suffers serious shrinkage). So saying you'll keep your subscription going doesn't mean much.
or rather something even less common - I find it hard to believe you got fired for being gay. But not being that close to the guy, I can't say I know the culture really.
for however many years. I've bought once or twice, but only after I couldn't find it on abebooks or cdconnection. I doubt that's what's done it but it's nice to see things go your way :)
All MP machines have: communication channels, and processors. If the designers envisioned it being used a certain way and optimized it for that, well, what of it? Maybe that's how the standard game API does things but, it's still processors and communication channels. It's more than likely you can get better performance out of it by adapting your problem for it specifically, minimizing communication and keeping processors busy as much as the problem allows, same as for all other MP systems.
Small businesses are less efficient, they /don't/ have the economies of scale - they have more employees, more overhead for the amount of business they do. That is, they spread what wealth they do have / create around more.
Purest capitalism would tend to give all that work to the one most efficient provider, minimize spreading the profits around, and maximize the flow to the owners.
The inefficiency acts like involuntary socialism.
Well, I find that hard to believe, but thanks for responding.
I guess I'm used to that level of humor getting filtered out at other sites (kuro5hin.org).
It needs to go to an 'everyone can moderate everything' system like kuro5hin or digg. Most people would knock the above butt-extruded joke down but, because there are 4 retards who found it funny it gets rated high and stays that way because no-one wants to waste their points.
power to building something. Sure, knowing C++ & Qt I can figure out how to do something in KDE but, it's a lot of work; being a moron's level of difficulty means I might actually do it.
I used to hate it, but now grudgingly think it's ok, I've used it for work for the last 6 months.
/has/ bitten me a couple times.
But, I've definitely had problems because of the indentation. Add or remove an if or a loop, and, if your code is complex, it's easy to miss-indent, and of course, it matters. Plus, don't get me started on the very few places Python allows breaking a statement across lines (c'mon, the interpreter can't see a trailing '.' as a hint that it needs to keep going?).
Luckily as I've started programming more functionally (thus compactly, & with more parentheses & fewer ifs & loops) the indentation problem has pretty much gone away, but it
One of the articles from their RSS feed. It was about how you can protect your brain from decline, but they meant it as getting on toward senility, I think. But as part of the whole thing they mentioned that from 30 on, your brain starts to decline. I believe it, myself; I find that without coffee I'm pretty foggy brained, where I don't remember feeling like this before. But that's just one person's very subjective report :)
Not saying you're senile at 35 by any means but, the decline is measurable.
And there is no backstory at all, at least none that matters. The series isn't about plot, one story arc (for instance, Aeon dies in maybe 1/3 of the episodes); it's about ideas of what humanity is, what's good for us, how rulers decide what's good for people, how ideologies clash and whether it all comes out the same in the end, our future, so on and so on; it's a setting for such ideas rather than a story. So, the fact that they took a kernel of Aeon-ness and wrapped a backstory & plot around it to get it to 90 minutes diluted it somewhat, and set the strength of the series to one side. The first 2/3 of the movie, condensed into 1/2 hour would be more typical of what an Aeon series episode would be like.
Quite diluted, and maybe not enough for people who hadn't seen the series to pick up on, but, for those who knew it, it was there. I guess I would say to people who didn't like the movie but haven't seen the series, watch the series a bit; the episodes in the series are very short and pretty independent, and aren't about plot so much as banging ideas up against each other uncomfortably (and looking cool doing it).
Minsky has said 'All computers can do is trillions of operations on vast, complex data structures in an eyeblink' - (paraphrased, I can't find his quote) - what more, in your opinion, is required for AI?
And breaking in to something that is 2nd gen built against it, and beating Microsoft.
according to an ex-manager in some documentary. They'll /lead/ so to speak with some wildly low-priced items to set an impression, but they're not the cheapest on everything.
Ebert on MaxiVision 48
I was considering building my own cluster, or possibly using Sun myself, but that company charges $1 per CPU per 24hr day; nice. And no power consumption worries either.
And anyway, you could be wrong - if the x-axis was time and there was a lot to learn, a steep learning curve would require a lot of effort, which is in the spirit of the saying.
and you saw more in it than I did. Hat's off.
I didn't get anything out of it, too much of the noisy flying pirates I guess. Plus, the pig business wasn't really connected to anything, at least, not that I could glean. It wasn't due to any failure of his, just an action of some witch, so I couldn't get any deeper meaning out of it. And none of his good actions were anything he hadn't been doing all along, so there was no heroism or development really.
To each his own I guess.