Eric Schmidt is exactly wrong comparing communication technology with computation technology. Communication technologies tend to be inclusive, in that they connect people and things, while computation technology may be non-inclusive, just like, e.g., brain is non-inclusive of other parts of body to play its role. To an owner of a company with vast computational resources, it may sound wonderful to have a brain, that, will help all others, but the "social mobility" (or ability to play part in the role of brain) depends on the possession of computational resources and the power to make them. I haven't heard of that company giving away the technology and resources to make GPUs and TPUs.
The thin layer of atmosphere may prove defense-less against threats like Gamma Ray Burts, and colonizing Mars won't save us from them. Learning to live under sea, and building cities deep underwater for reducing the likelihood of our extinction from some types of very low probability catastrophic events is just as important colonizing Mars.
We had long known that given a feature set, computers can automatically fit a pretty good model. Now, can they automaticall extract this feature set and data without humans?
Anonymous has pointed out that such solar panels would only provide 7% of power required by our civilization. Then what advantage could we get by constructing lots of nuclear power plants on the Moon?
That's what happens when a company sells its soul for buck. Google didn't.
As I see, there are 2 evils, which companies tend to sell their souls just to be there: Facebook and China.
people will be publishing their IDs and passwords for everybody, and streaming encoded information through whoever's ID they like... and maybe we could even try that ontop of Facebook.
Titled "Chinese Characters: Learn & Remember 2,178 Characters", by Alan Hoenig, and yes, I use memorization software both SuperMemo and Anki, yet I still recommend this wonderful book. It gets you on the right track by offering the characters in the order of increasing graphical complexity, in a way that nearly each following character can be constructed from the preceding characters as its building blocks,... and it does so by providing sufficiently short yet effective mnemonics.
People will be less concerned to be bad things, under their name. It is more civilized anyway. I like it. Eventually, it may be a simple way to completely avoid unsolicited mail.
Is it possible to do so that in order to start browsing the Internet from China, you'd have to enter your ID and password in "the first Internet page"?
Freedom is good, and constrains are also good. If you don't have bones that are constrains, you will not be able to move freely.:-)
I think this kind of law could be considered an cultural attack from America, - to disorganize the country.
Just a thought.
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Eric Schmidt is exactly wrong comparing communication technology with computation technology. Communication technologies tend to be inclusive, in that they connect people and things, while computation technology may be non-inclusive, just like, e.g., brain is non-inclusive of other parts of body to play its role. To an owner of a company with vast computational resources, it may sound wonderful to have a brain, that, will help all others, but the "social mobility" (or ability to play part in the role of brain) depends on the possession of computational resources and the power to make them. I haven't heard of that company giving away the technology and resources to make GPUs and TPUs.
The thin layer of atmosphere may prove defense-less against threats like Gamma Ray Burts, and colonizing Mars won't save us from them. Learning to live under sea, and building cities deep underwater for reducing the likelihood of our extinction from some types of very low probability catastrophic events is just as important colonizing Mars.
Food? Sorry, it's not informatious.
There was GREEK SMALL LETTER PI (U+03C0) in the parentheses, please, Slashdot, display it correctly.
If so, why? I'm curious.
We had long known that given a feature set, computers can automatically fit a pretty good model. Now, can they automaticall extract this feature set and data without humans?
I don't like medium.com content, the images on it distracts from reading.
Just like the rovers on Mars do!..
Anonymous has pointed out that such solar panels would only provide 7% of power required by our civilization. Then what advantage could we get by constructing lots of nuclear power plants on the Moon?
That's what happens when a company sells its soul for buck. Google didn't. As I see, there are 2 evils, which companies tend to sell their souls just to be there: Facebook and China.
I didn't like the blunt nose of the original "Harrier", so I designed "Sharp-nosed paper airplane", here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_8EbzUyBqY -- try it out.
Exactly. Looking at the hacking capabilities of Chinese government, it is likely that the US government was infiltrated by cunning Chinese ideas.
people will be publishing their IDs and passwords for everybody, and streaming encoded information through whoever's ID they like... and maybe we could even try that ontop of Facebook.
You would have to violate human rights to forbid to using it.
Chinese govt is overly inclined to pursuit of the prosperity of Chinese nation, and ignores the importance of the prosperity of the world as a whole.
Titled "Chinese Characters: Learn & Remember 2,178 Characters", by Alan Hoenig, and yes, I use memorization software both SuperMemo and Anki, yet I still recommend this wonderful book. It gets you on the right track by offering the characters in the order of increasing graphical complexity, in a way that nearly each following character can be constructed from the preceding characters as its building blocks,... and it does so by providing sufficiently short yet effective mnemonics.
1. Make him or her like a challenging game.
2. Show that he or she can win by changing the game from the inside
At least, this is what happened to me when I was 11, playing games that were written in BASIC.
People will be less concerned to be bad things, under their name. It is more civilized anyway. I like it. Eventually, it may be a simple way to completely avoid unsolicited mail.
Is it possible to do so that in order to start browsing the Internet from China, you'd have to enter your ID and password in "the first Internet page"?
Make written instructions understandable for children.
Freedom is good, and constrains are also good. If you don't have bones that are constrains, you will not be able to move freely. :-)
I think this kind of law could be considered an cultural attack from America, - to disorganize the country.
Just a thought.
Too good to be truth. I was too optimistic, but I wish that in that we could see such news indeed. I wish.
Thanks for writing it. Agreed. Need to point it out.
Yes, exactly. Probably many of us came to realize the problems through studying the RDBMS concepts.