I think that's just how things are setup. Kind of like how video memory used to addresses at $a000:0000 on DOS machines. That 64KB block of memory couldn't be used for anything but video access on systems with a VGA card.
That's nice, although it'd be nice if they did that with Mac OS 8.x, Mac OS 9.x, and A/UX as well. Oh well, guess I'll have to go back to running NetBSD on my Performa...
What may seem "obvious" does not necessarily make it so upon further testing. These studies are performed to confirm or deny such notions. If the study had found the opposite, you would not be having such a reaction.
People used to think it was "obvious" that heavier objects fell faster than lighter objects. Turns out that they were wrong.
Possibly overreaction. Imagine if you were someone living in the area and then a swarm of people suddenly descended upon a location in your vicinity. Wouldn't you want to find out what's going on?
hit closer to home perhaps? A quick glance at some of those code snippets and they can be easily missed. Now place them in large applications with thousands upon thousands of lines of code and who knows how long it'll take to find them.
The mission lasted 4 times longer than was planned. Not too shabby (unless you compare to those Mars rovers that just keep going and going...). Sure beats having the mission end prematurely due to stupid things like not having enough fuel or computer errors.
Especially given that the real drivers have to worry about crashing and losing a car whereas the gamer can just restart.
On the other hand, perhaps it can help the driver himself since he can't be on the track 24/7.
Uhm, 50 years ago we already discovered nuclear weapons, discovered relativity, cars, airplanes, etc. Children now are no more or less mentally capable than in the past. It's just that we have more information about the world around us.
Well there's the problem. How do I know that you have consciousness?
And how do you know an artificial intelligence wouldn't have consciousness as well?
What's the difference between simulating intelligence and "actual" intelligence? If you can't tell the difference via your interactions, then for all intents and purposes there is no difference.
Also, it's fairly "simple" to build an intelligence without understanding how intelligence works. You can either make a whole human brain simulation, or you can go have children.
Am I disappointed by the amount of progress in cognitive science and AI in the past 30 years or so? Not at all. To the contrary, I would have been extremely upset if we had come anywhere close to reaching human intelligence â" it would have made me fear that our minds and souls were not deep. Reaching the goal of AI in just a few decades would have made me dramatically lose respect for humanity, and I certainly don't want (and never wanted) that to happen.
Hehe, you mean all the nasty things humanity has done to each other hasn't made you lose respect?
I am a deep admirer of humanity at its finest and deepest and most powerful â" of great people such as Helen Keller, Albert Einstein, Ella Fitzgerald, Albert Schweitzer, Frederic Chopin, Raoul Wallenberg, Fats Waller, and on and on. I find endless depth in such people (many more are listed on [chapter 17] of I Am a Strange Loop), and I would hate to think that all that beauty and profundity and goodness could be captured â" even approximated in any way at all! â" in the horribly rigid computational devices of our era.
When you boil it down, humans are just collection carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen (and some other trace elements). What difference does it make if an intelligence is made of mostly "natural" carbon entities vs. mostly "unnatural" silicon entities?
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I think that's just how things are setup. Kind of like how video memory used to addresses at $a000:0000 on DOS machines. That 64KB block of memory couldn't be used for anything but video access on systems with a VGA card.
You could always use it as a ram drive!
It was not a fiasco, and it was only a 10 GB hard drive, not 20 GB. You might be thinking of some other 10GB hard drive issue.
Clearly they want to get rid of these machines and make room for the ones with more storage. How is that unexpected?
That's nice, although it'd be nice if they did that with Mac OS 8.x, Mac OS 9.x, and A/UX as well. Oh well, guess I'll have to go back to running NetBSD on my Performa...
Oh really? "Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all!" "Stupid sexy Flanders!"
All? I don't think so. Case in point: Kevin Federline...
What may seem "obvious" does not necessarily make it so upon further testing. These studies are performed to confirm or deny such notions. If the study had found the opposite, you would not be having such a reaction. People used to think it was "obvious" that heavier objects fell faster than lighter objects. Turns out that they were wrong.
Just copy from the cache...
If it has branch instructions, perhaps it could.
Because graphics operations are embarrassingly parallel whereas regular programs arn't.
Possibly overreaction. Imagine if you were someone living in the area and then a swarm of people suddenly descended upon a location in your vicinity. Wouldn't you want to find out what's going on?
hit closer to home perhaps? A quick glance at some of those code snippets and they can be easily missed. Now place them in large applications with thousands upon thousands of lines of code and who knows how long it'll take to find them.
There's an ad for the MSI Wind adjacent to the text for the Asus review.
Now they just need to block p2p protocols by raising the specter of child porn. More bandwidth freed!
Come to think of it, it's even lasted longer than those Mars rovers.
The mission lasted 4 times longer than was planned. Not too shabby (unless you compare to those Mars rovers that just keep going and going...). Sure beats having the mission end prematurely due to stupid things like not having enough fuel or computer errors.
Especially given that the real drivers have to worry about crashing and losing a car whereas the gamer can just restart. On the other hand, perhaps it can help the driver himself since he can't be on the track 24/7.
Uhm, 50 years ago we already discovered nuclear weapons, discovered relativity, cars, airplanes, etc. Children now are no more or less mentally capable than in the past. It's just that we have more information about the world around us.
Also, it's fairly "simple" to build an intelligence without understanding how intelligence works. You can either make a whole human brain simulation, or you can go have children.
I wouldn't exactly consider the overly rampant but legal use of opium in China in the late 1800s a positive development.
And they lost copyright to that name after WWI so anyone can use it now.