And can't you just take some english dictionnary file (don't ask me where you'd get it from, maybe some program, or maybe such files exist for such purposes..) and get the 10-letter words out of it?
The solution to this problem almost sounds too simple to find...
Personally, it's been since I have my PC (2003) that I stopped listening to the radio. Why? With P2P to get thousands of songs, I get many advantages:
-No ads
-Still free
-Ain't gonna hear the same song every hour
-I only listen to what I like
-I can have a much richer programation than a radio that plays always the same few songs
How could traditional radio survive with that? The only good thing about radio is talk show, like, funny shit and all that, maybe they should get more into it...
I wonder if it could be used to replace coronography, as for example letting you see only the solar emissions (winds and all that) without the disc of the sun, and this with no occultation, or even helping view the deviation of light nearby a star (in case this can be of any use) without having the annoying light of the star in between.
I wonder if it could be applied to observing galaxies too... I mean, I'd be curious to know what other uses could be found to this technique
The name Rhapsody bothers me, everytime I hear it I think it's gonna be something about Apple's Rhadsody, Mac OS X's daddy, seriously, they should pick another name..
Probably, but I barely even understood what the problem exactly is. Anyways, what prevents anyone from amkin such a program? Personally what prevents me from doing that is not understanding what it should do...
Look, I'm not flamming, but I think this is bullshit, and here's why
"extracts emotional characteristics of the input and produces instructions on how to respond to the customer with the appropriate substantive response and emotion based on relevant information found in the knowledge base"
That's why it's fake, it's just something that could pass a Turing-like test, but not "true" AI. The reason for that is that the AI doesn't really feel anything, but compares it's input to it's knowledge base.
Example of input : "you suck ass". look into the knowledge base "you suck ass" -> look offended. look offended -> says "screw you, fool". The reason why it's not true AI, is the well, that thing could be operated by a non-english speaking person, it means you don't have to understand what it means to know what type of thing you got to respond.
Here it's pretty much the same thing, except that it's more sophisticated, it's got audio and video and all that, but it's still as "fake"
I think that if you claim you invented a true AI you's a fool, and I think it's safe to bet that I'll never see any true AI in my whole life, and also that nobody will ever see it, that there will be no technological singularity, just like we'll never travel back in time, and I think too that a true AI is even less likely to ever happen than teleportation of objects.
yes, sounds like a pertinent objection. plus, which version of Unicode would be chosen? because not all systems have version 4 (or whatever the latest version is) if they have unicode at all....
personally i dont even see the interest, how r u gonna type the address of your fav. japanese p0rn site? your only chance is to bookmark it or copy/paste the Unicode URL somewhere...
Not to mention as you already thought about, of look-a-like characters. like, you thought some URL to be something, but it's really something else due to look-a-like characters, so you can't even type it right even if u got the right keyboard or whatever.
yeah, yeah, maybe. still, it would be weird to have Unicode URLs. However, if they were Unicode, then forget about the à é è incompatibility problems i talked about earlier.
That's cool that the ICANN tries to show how independant it is, cuz it kinda sucks if the US government decides things for the whole world.
However, about that international URL thing, does it mean, that there may be non-asci urls, even unicode urls?? may be a mess, mostly because those characters are not always cross-pltform compatible. I'm mostly thinking about such non-ASCII characters as à ù é è that are not compatible for example between Mac OS and Windows, if there's such a character in a URL, it may be a mess...
Thx for the explanation. it'd deserve to be modded to Interesting indeed.
So they say it provides a matrix of 256x256 mostly independant elements. Are those elements represented by a complex number? And if so, how reliable on the precision can this complex number be?
They say that a Qbyte is an array of 256x256. I thought that Qbits represented a complex real number, it seems to me now that it represents a complex boolean number, like : (0 OR 1) + j*(0 OR 1). Did I get it right?
As someone said a while ago on another article, it's not because you're addicted to something that it's necessarly bad.
Take sex, we're all more or less addicted to sex, is it ruining or lives? As long as internet doesn't ruin your life, you can be addicted, it's all good.
"The average surface temperature on Mars is MINUS 63 Celcius. Considering that water freezes at 0 degress celcius, I hardly think that it's dogma to insist that the "puddle" you saw was something else besides liquid water."
You seem to forget that temperature can reach PLUS 20C on the surface (in local summer around the equator). however, that low pressure thing hardly makes it possible to be liquid, but still, it could be underground, couldn't it?
You call that news? Plus I never thought that writing comments in code was such a big issue. i mean, we all know that it's important to have code commented so we easily understand what the code is for, but I don't think that it's necessary to make a page explaining how to write good comments, everybody instinctively knows how to write short and pertinent comments, i think..
Uh, who's gonna have them? I mean, there's only 26 of them! (for.com at least) How can someone get one of these? I mean, it's probably gonna be a real war to get on, imagine that, i'd be damn glad to have x.com, and i'm sure i'm not the only one. Are some people gonna pay some crazy price for these or something?
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And can't you just take some english dictionnary file (don't ask me where you'd get it from, maybe some program, or maybe such files exist for such purposes..) and get the 10-letter words out of it? The solution to this problem almost sounds too simple to find...
Btw, why does the date on the link says "December 7, 2004"?
-No ads -Still free -Ain't gonna hear the same song every hour -I only listen to what I like -I can have a much richer programation than a radio that plays always the same few songs
How could traditional radio survive with that? The only good thing about radio is talk show, like, funny shit and all that, maybe they should get more into it...
I wonder if it could be applied to observing galaxies too... I mean, I'd be curious to know what other uses could be found to this technique
Haha, good point. Forget what I said then. Still bothers me tho.
The name Rhapsody bothers me, everytime I hear it I think it's gonna be something about Apple's Rhadsody, Mac OS X's daddy, seriously, they should pick another name..
Probably, but I barely even understood what the problem exactly is. Anyways, what prevents anyone from amkin such a program? Personally what prevents me from doing that is not understanding what it should do...
If one could have such a completly-automated program (because Clark's wasn't) and tried many dictionnaries, how knows...
Maybe will we see emerging something like a Acrostic@Home grid computing program?
"extracts emotional characteristics of the input and produces instructions on how to respond to the customer with the appropriate substantive response and emotion based on relevant information found in the knowledge base" That's why it's fake, it's just something that could pass a Turing-like test, but not "true" AI. The reason for that is that the AI doesn't really feel anything, but compares it's input to it's knowledge base.
Example of input : "you suck ass". look into the knowledge base "you suck ass" -> look offended. look offended -> says "screw you, fool". The reason why it's not true AI, is the well, that thing could be operated by a non-english speaking person, it means you don't have to understand what it means to know what type of thing you got to respond.
Here it's pretty much the same thing, except that it's more sophisticated, it's got audio and video and all that, but it's still as "fake"
I think that if you claim you invented a true AI you's a fool, and I think it's safe to bet that I'll never see any true AI in my whole life, and also that nobody will ever see it, that there will be no technological singularity, just like we'll never travel back in time, and I think too that a true AI is even less likely to ever happen than teleportation of objects.
yup, as if germans had .ge instead of .de
personally i dont even see the interest, how r u gonna type the address of your fav. japanese p0rn site? your only chance is to bookmark it or copy/paste the Unicode URL somewhere...
Not to mention as you already thought about, of look-a-like characters. like, you thought some URL to be something, but it's really something else due to look-a-like characters, so you can't even type it right even if u got the right keyboard or whatever.
URLs gotta stay as simple as they already are...
yeah, yeah, maybe. still, it would be weird to have Unicode URLs. However, if they were Unicode, then forget about the à é è incompatibility problems i talked about earlier.
OK, but whats in the pair, what are x and y? booleans? reals?
However, about that international URL thing, does it mean, that there may be non-asci urls, even unicode urls?? may be a mess, mostly because those characters are not always cross-pltform compatible. I'm mostly thinking about such non-ASCII characters as à ù é è that are not compatible for example between Mac OS and Windows, if there's such a character in a URL, it may be a mess...
So they say it provides a matrix of 256x256 mostly independant elements. Are those elements represented by a complex number? And if so, how reliable on the precision can this complex number be?
no, that's a Cubit
They say that a Qbyte is an array of 256x256. I thought that Qbits represented a complex real number, it seems to me now that it represents a complex boolean number, like : (0 OR 1) + j*(0 OR 1). Did I get it right?
Take sex, we're all more or less addicted to sex, is it ruining or lives? As long as internet doesn't ruin your life, you can be addicted, it's all good.
Exactly. Nobody cares who the guy is anyways, as some other people said. He could have spent 20 years in Antartica it would be the same thing.
You seem to forget that temperature can reach PLUS 20C on the surface (in local summer around the equator). however, that low pressure thing hardly makes it possible to be liquid, but still, it could be underground, couldn't it?
lol, exactly
You call that news? Plus I never thought that writing comments in code was such a big issue. i mean, we all know that it's important to have code commented so we easily understand what the code is for, but I don't think that it's necessary to make a page explaining how to write good comments, everybody instinctively knows how to write short and pertinent comments, i think..
This machine's design reminds me of a toaster. They should put the floppy drive on top so it would really look like one that toasts floppies
nevermind, I should have checked before posting, PayPal pwns x.com.
Uh, who's gonna have them? I mean, there's only 26 of them! (for .com at least) How can someone get one of these? I mean, it's probably gonna be a real war to get on, imagine that, i'd be damn glad to have x.com, and i'm sure i'm not the only one. Are some people gonna pay some crazy price for these or something?