We have a coffee factory here in my city (Utrecht, the Netherlands), and when the wind is right, wherever you go, you will smell burnt toast (that's what it reminds me of, at any rate). It's disgusting, but it's not overpowering.
I wonder where they get the burnt plastic smell from in the other place?
Man, this Paul Ford guy who wrote the Google World Domination article is pretty smart if he came up with all of these ideas (not RDF, but how to apply them). They seem very useful. Does Google know about this?:-)
There are so many other uses for CPU cycles than this. I've looked at the site, and none of the reasons they are doing this is really worth the massive amounts of electricity that go into this BS: an idle CPU uses a lot less than a busy one.
- To do something with all this computing power
There are other interesting more useful things to do with computing power.
- To prove that small-bitsize encryption is insufficient
I think they got the message the first 2 times.
- To explore the feasibility of cooperative networked multiprocessing
You mean they're still not convinced after all those years?
- Because it's fun
Yeah, okay... I guess everyone has their little projects.:-) I'll give them that.
- Because you can win money!
Um... yeah... you can win money with the lottery too. This might give you a slightly higher chance, but you'll have to wait many years to find out if you've won or not.
- To get to know more people
You don't need to waste CPU cycles and electricity in this manner to meet people. Running an RC5 client is not necessary to use IRC.:-)
If TiVo Thinks You Are Gay, Here's How to Set It Straight What You Buy Affects Recommendations On Amazon.com, Too; Why the Cartoons?
By JEFFREY ZASLOW Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Basil Iwanyk is not a neo-Nazi. Lukas Karlsson isn't a shadowy stalker. David S. Cohen is not Korean.
But all of them live with a machine that seems intent on giving them such labels. It's their TiVo, the digital videorecorder that records some programs it just assumes its owner will like, based on shows the viewer has chosen to record. A phone call the machine makes to TiVo, Inc., in San Jose, Calif., once a day provides key information. As these men learned, when TiVo thinks it has you pegged, there's just one way to change its "mind": outfox it.
Mr. Iwanyk, 32 years old, first suspected that his TiVo thought he was gay, since it inexplicably kept recording programs with gay themes. A film studio executive in Los Angeles and the self-described "straightest guy on earth," he tried to tame TiVo's gay fixation by recording war movies and other "guy stuff."
"The problem was, I overcompensated," he says. "It started giving me documentaries on Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Eichmann. It stopped thinking I was gay and decided I was a crazy guy reminiscing about the Third Reich."
He mentioned his TiVo tussle to a friend, who told an executive at CBS's "The King of Queens," who then wrote an episode with a My-TiVo-thinks-I'm-gay subplot.
A lot of gadgets and Web sites now feature "personalization technologies" that profile consumers by tracking what they watch, listen to or buy. The software, embedded in sites such as Amazon.com and CDNOW.com, then recommends other books, videos and music based on a customer's tastes.
The Willies
Many consumers appreciate having computers delve into their hearts and heads. But some say it gives them the willies, because the machines either know them too well or make cocksure assumptions about them that are way off base. That's why even TiVo lovers are tempted to hoodwink it -- a phenomenon that was also spoofed this year on another TV show, HBO's "The Mind of the Married Man." [TiVo Remote] Remote Control: Viewers help TiVo understand their tastes by giving TV shows thumbs up or down.
Mike Binder, creator and star of that show, had set his home TiVo to record his 1999 movie, "The Sex Monster," about a man whose wife becomes bisexual. After that, Mr. Binder's TiVo assumed he would enjoy a steady stream of gay programming. Unnerved, he counteracted the onslaught by recording the Playboy Channel and MTV's spring break bikini coverage. It worked, he says. "My TiVo doesn't look at me funny anymore."
His wife, however, was taken aback when she saw all the half-naked women he was ordering through TiVo. He told her those women meant nothing to him: "I'm just counterprogramming because TiVo thinks I'm gay." She was unamused. The incident inspired an episode of his show.
Though some users contend TiVo has sex on the brain, TiVo's general manager, Brodie Keast, explains that the box is merely "reacting to feedback you give it." Still, the machine employs algorithms -- searching several thousand key details (favorite actors, movie and TV genres) -- that leave some people wondering whether it is judging their predilections.
Mr. Karlsson, 26, says he "pre-emptively" found all the religious shows in his TV listings and used the "thumbs down" button on his remote control to tell TiVo he has no interest in them. (Giving three thumbs down is the best way to block a program.) After that, his TiVo recorded movies about creepy homicides. "They all have titles like 'Murder on Skeleton Isle,' " says the computer system administrator in Cambridge, Mass.
He uses the "thumbs" button to tell TiVo he hates such films. He also orders cooking shows, which softens TiVo's view of him. "I don't want it thinking I'm an ax murderer," he says.
Mr. Cohen, 30, has a TiVo that mysteriously assumed he wanted Korean news programs. The Philadelphia lawyer gave thumbs down to anything Korean, and his TiVo got the message. Sort of. "The next day, it recorded the Chinese news," he says.
TiVo's 500,000 subscribers use the box primarily to record programs they specifically request, and many laud its ability to pause live broadcasts and record a show's entire season. Still, in TiVo-focused online chat-rooms and in secretive admissions to one another, some say they resent being pigeonholed by TiVo's suggestions.
'A Pregnant Gay Man'
Like TiVo, other techno-profilers run hard with limited information. Ray Everett-Church of Fremont, Calif., who is gay, ordered "Queer as Folk" videos from Amazon.com. Understandably, the site began suggesting gay-related calendars and books. Then he bought a baby book for a pregnant friend. So for weeks, the site also recommended parenting books. He says it was as if Amazon.com decided he was "a pregnant gay man."
He fought back, he says, "by inundating it with additional data. I searched for other stuff -- on politics, computers -- so it would stop throwing baby books at me. Now it thinks I've abandoned the baby and I'm preparing for a career in politics."
Mr. Everett-Church, a privacy consultant for businesses, predicts that as techno-profiling increases, more people will purposely muck up their profiles. They'll fear ordering books on mental illnesses or sexual preferences because they'll wonder if they'll somehow be publicly identified.
All techno-profiling companies contacted for this article said that information gleaned is for the customer's personal use only. Still, even Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos knows the potential mortification factor.
For a live demonstration before an audience of 500 people, Mr. Bezos once logged onto Amazon.com (amazon.com) to show how it caters to his interests. The top recommendation it gave him? The DVD for "Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity." That popped up because he had previously ordered "Barbarella," starring Jane Fonda, a spokesman explains.
Dawn Freeman, 23, a tax analyst in Lexington, Ky., has bought lowbrow videos, such as "American Pie," from Amazon.com. But she was aghast when the site suggested Tom Green's gross-out performance in "Road Trip."
"I thought, 'I know I don't like high cinema, but have I really reached the point where I'd like to watch Tom Green lick a mouse?" To even out her Amazon profile, she went through the site finding "witty independent films."
Her TiVo also thinks she's a sophomoric-humor-loving 12-year-old, she says. It keeps giving her cartoons. "I know it's dumb to take it personally, but it's in your face. These are supposedly objective computers saying, 'This is what we think of you.' "
Dissing Ice Cube
A.J. Meyer, a 35-year-old Web site developer in Minneapolis, ordered the DVD for "Scarface," the Al Pacino gangster movie, from Netflix.com (netflix.com). After that, the site kept recommending movies about gangster rappers. He stopped the assault by giving negative ratings to all movies starring Ice Cube. (Netflix allows members to rate any of its 12,000-plus titles with one to five stars -- whether they have rented a film or not. That helps the site calculate future recommendations.)
After Mr. Meyer ordered a documentary about New York from Amazon.com, it pitched him countless documentaries -- even one on the history of the thimble. He stopped the Ken Burnsification of his profile by searching the site for plasma TVs. "That way, I identified myself as a high-tech guy," he says. "The thimble is more low tech."
Virginia Heffernan, TV columnist for Slate.com, doesn't understand why some people are resistant to techno-profiling, or find it creepy. She didn't look for any deep meaning when her TiVo kept giving her TV shows in Polish. And after buying self-help books on Amazon.com, she accepted that every time she logged on, the site pitched products to make her a more self-fulfilled human being.
"I like the idea that someone cares," she says. "Even a machine."
TiVo users can program the machine to skip certain channels entirely. But many users don't bother to figure out how to do it, or are too intrigued by TiVo's recommendation process, says a spokesman. TiVo is paid to promote programs and products it calls "advertainment" on a special screen. But the company says none of these are given to users as suggestions.
Some people have given up trying to manipulate personalization technologies. Dino Leon, a hair-salon owner in Birmingham, Mich., says his TiVo quickly figured out that he and his partner were gay. They were OK with that, but just for fun, they tried to confuse the software by punching in "redneck" programs, like Jerry Springer's talk show.
TiVo wasn't fooled, and kept recording gay shows. Mr. Leon believes the box was giving them a message: "You're definitely gay. And you're watching too much TV."
When I was working a school project, my friend referred to this as 'post processing'. Fixing bugs that happen earlier with code later in the algorithm, because finding the original bug is too hard or time consuming.:-)
I have the same... I used to use Gnome, but the last few releases have become so sluggish (on my PII 450, 256), that I just resort to Fluxbox. Does everything I need.:-)
Check out the Preferences Toolbar. Allows you to switch on and off JavaScript, popups, etc with the click of a button. Might be what you're looking for:
Yeah... but would you want to try and exit a plane travelling at.855 mach? 120 knots is bad enough (been there, done that)....855 mach being 551 knots... that's gonna smack you hard!
Plus all the liabilities from people killing themselves under the parachutes afters steering them into trees and powerlines.:-(
I say a malfunction on a plane that big which could only be saved by a huge parachute is not destined to make it through... in other words, you're fucked.:-)
It is still too much work for me to have to set up a new email address every time I leave it on a website somewhere.
With an advanced spam filter, you set it up and forget about it...sometimes checking your spamfolder if there are any false positives.
How do you create new email addresses? Do you have a CGI script interfaced with your alias file or so to easily make new email addresses? That would be useful.
For me it still is too much work to set up email addresses that way. And you need to start doing this from the beginning, otherwise there will still be an amount of spam that gets sent to your username@example.com address (as is the case with me).
I used to use Vipuls Razor, but I noticed it was marking email from Red Hat and CERT as spam, putting them into my spam folder. The distributed spam network is a good idea, but it sucks when it gets poisoned. Who does this?
Now I've got only relay checking and spamassassin, which works great.
I call this 'environmental obliviousness'. When someone is mostly oblivious of their surroundings. My ex-girlfriend had a serious case of this, and got herself in some dangerous traffic situations... and she always had to have things pointed out to her.
Ah well, glad I don't have to deal with her any more. It scared me at times.:-)
That's why you have BlueTooth/IR on phones. That would make multiplayer possible, while not using the actual phone network. On the Nokia 6310 (amongst others) you can play snake against eachother using the IR link. It's pretty cool.
Dude, this would require a heck of a lot of physics knowledge.
Its a cool idea, definately. But you have to program out the physics of *every* interchangable component, including the dynamic physics (what happens to objects when they are struck, moving, rolling, etc - even what happens to batteries when subjected to a certain amount of force in a particular direction). It would be an incredibly complex model that would need a lot of computing power.
Besides, since in BattleBots humans are controlling the robots, you would have to make an AI to act as a human in controlling the robot during the various evolutionary rounds. And once you have an AI that good, you might as well include it in the real robot.:-)
I learned the other day that touch, unlike sight, needs a much higher "frames per second" to be realistic. While for sight, 50 times refresh per second is sufficient, for touch this apparently needs to be in the order of 1000 times per second. I'm wondering if this connection is able to deal with this?
Dude, for these people it's not a question of if they should do it (is it sensible, is there a better alternative), but if they can do it. See if it's possible. Scientific curiosity!
But that doesn't take out the fact that there's still a slowest person in the line. Granted, for some cycles this person might not be needed, but what if they were for some calculation... it would not speed up the process.
It's not that I disagree with the asynchronous design... I see the benifits, just pointing out a little (IMHO) flaw in your logic.:-)
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Isn't Google their own company providing a FREE service to the Internet? They can choose whatever they want to do with their code. You didn't pay for it, so it's not like you're suddenly not getting what you paid for. It's not like you HAVE to use Google (well, actually... there is no other good search engine out there - or maybe I should try out SearchKing:-)
Though, no doubt, there are still cases where the ads don't appear to make much sense in the context of either the programme or the other ads.
Do they ever? I mean, sure they're targetted towards certain audiences which are watching the current show, but they certainly don't seem to be made relating to other commercials or the current show.
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We have a coffee factory here in my city (Utrecht, the Netherlands), and when the wind is right, wherever you go, you will smell burnt toast (that's what it reminds me of, at any rate). It's disgusting, but it's not overpowering.
I wonder where they get the burnt plastic smell from in the other place?
Cheers,
CvD.
Man, this Paul Ford guy who wrote the Google World Domination article is pretty smart if he came up with all of these ideas (not RDF, but how to apply them). They seem very useful. Does Google know about this? :-)
Cheers,
CvD.
Congratulations from fellow geek from across the pond. :-)
Cheers!
Actually there is "open music". Music released under the Open Audio License:
Open Music Registry
Cheers,
CvD.
p.s. There are a couple of nice open music tracks on the Knoppix CD. Knoppix kicks ass!
There are so many other uses for CPU cycles than this. I've looked at the site, and none of the reasons they are doing this is really worth the massive amounts of electricity that go into this BS: an idle CPU uses a lot less than a busy one.
:-) I'll give them that.
:-)
- To do something with all this computing power
There are other interesting more useful things to do with computing power.
- To prove that small-bitsize encryption is insufficient
I think they got the message the first 2 times.
- To explore the feasibility of cooperative networked multiprocessing
You mean they're still not convinced after all those years?
- Because it's fun
Yeah, okay... I guess everyone has their little projects.
- Because you can win money!
Um... yeah... you can win money with the lottery too. This might give you a slightly higher chance, but you'll have to wait many years to find out if you've won or not.
- To get to know more people
You don't need to waste CPU cycles and electricity in this manner to meet people. Running an RC5 client is not necessary to use IRC.
Cheers,
Costyn.
Here's the article:
If TiVo Thinks You Are Gay,
Here's How to Set It Straight
What You Buy Affects Recommendations
On Amazon.com, Too; Why the Cartoons?
By JEFFREY ZASLOW
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Basil Iwanyk is not a neo-Nazi. Lukas Karlsson isn't a shadowy stalker. David S. Cohen is not Korean.
But all of them live with a machine that seems intent on giving them such labels. It's their TiVo, the digital videorecorder that records some programs it just assumes its owner will like, based on shows the viewer has chosen to record. A phone call the machine makes to TiVo, Inc., in San Jose, Calif., once a day provides key information. As these men learned, when TiVo thinks it has you pegged, there's just one way to change its "mind": outfox it.
Mr. Iwanyk, 32 years old, first suspected that his TiVo thought he was gay, since it inexplicably kept recording programs with gay themes. A film studio executive in Los Angeles and the self-described "straightest guy on earth," he tried to tame TiVo's gay fixation by recording war movies and other "guy stuff."
"The problem was, I overcompensated," he says. "It started giving me documentaries on Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Eichmann. It stopped thinking I was gay and decided I was a crazy guy reminiscing about the Third Reich."
He mentioned his TiVo tussle to a friend, who told an executive at CBS's "The King of Queens," who then wrote an episode with a My-TiVo-thinks-I'm-gay subplot.
A lot of gadgets and Web sites now feature "personalization technologies" that profile consumers by tracking what they watch, listen to or buy. The software, embedded in sites such as Amazon.com and CDNOW.com, then recommends other books, videos and music based on a customer's tastes.
The Willies
Many consumers appreciate having computers delve into their hearts and heads. But some say it gives them the willies, because the machines either know them too well or make cocksure assumptions about them that are way off base. That's why even TiVo lovers are tempted to hoodwink it -- a phenomenon that was also spoofed this year on another TV show, HBO's "The Mind of the Married Man."
[TiVo Remote]
Remote Control: Viewers help TiVo understand their tastes by giving TV shows thumbs up or down.
Mike Binder, creator and star of that show, had set his home TiVo to record his 1999 movie, "The Sex Monster," about a man whose wife becomes bisexual. After that, Mr. Binder's TiVo assumed he would enjoy a steady stream of gay programming. Unnerved, he counteracted the onslaught by recording the Playboy Channel and MTV's spring break bikini coverage. It worked, he says. "My TiVo doesn't look at me funny anymore."
His wife, however, was taken aback when she saw all the half-naked women he was ordering through TiVo. He told her those women meant nothing to him: "I'm just counterprogramming because TiVo thinks I'm gay." She was unamused. The incident inspired an episode of his show.
Though some users contend TiVo has sex on the brain, TiVo's general manager, Brodie Keast, explains that the box is merely "reacting to feedback you give it." Still, the machine employs algorithms -- searching several thousand key details (favorite actors, movie and TV genres) -- that leave some people wondering whether it is judging their predilections.
Mr. Karlsson, 26, says he "pre-emptively" found all the religious shows in his TV listings and used the "thumbs down" button on his remote control to tell TiVo he has no interest in them. (Giving three thumbs down is the best way to block a program.) After that, his TiVo recorded movies about creepy homicides. "They all have titles like 'Murder on Skeleton Isle,' " says the computer system administrator in Cambridge, Mass.
He uses the "thumbs" button to tell TiVo he hates such films. He also orders cooking shows, which softens TiVo's view of him. "I don't want it thinking I'm an ax murderer," he says.
Mr. Cohen, 30, has a TiVo that mysteriously assumed he wanted Korean news programs. The Philadelphia lawyer gave thumbs down to anything Korean, and his TiVo got the message. Sort of. "The next day, it recorded the Chinese news," he says.
TiVo's 500,000 subscribers use the box primarily to record programs they specifically request, and many laud its ability to pause live broadcasts and record a show's entire season. Still, in TiVo-focused online chat-rooms and in secretive admissions to one another, some say they resent being pigeonholed by TiVo's suggestions.
'A Pregnant Gay Man'
Like TiVo, other techno-profilers run hard with limited information. Ray Everett-Church of Fremont, Calif., who is gay, ordered "Queer as Folk" videos from Amazon.com. Understandably, the site began suggesting gay-related calendars and books. Then he bought a baby book for a pregnant friend. So for weeks, the site also recommended parenting books. He says it was as if Amazon.com decided he was "a pregnant gay man."
He fought back, he says, "by inundating it with additional data. I searched for other stuff -- on politics, computers -- so it would stop throwing baby books at me. Now it thinks I've abandoned the baby and I'm preparing for a career in politics."
Mr. Everett-Church, a privacy consultant for businesses, predicts that as techno-profiling increases, more people will purposely muck up their profiles. They'll fear ordering books on mental illnesses or sexual preferences because they'll wonder if they'll somehow be publicly identified.
All techno-profiling companies contacted for this article said that information gleaned is for the customer's personal use only. Still, even Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos knows the potential mortification factor.
For a live demonstration before an audience of 500 people, Mr. Bezos once logged onto Amazon.com (amazon.com) to show how it caters to his interests. The top recommendation it gave him? The DVD for "Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity." That popped up because he had previously ordered "Barbarella," starring Jane Fonda, a spokesman explains.
Dawn Freeman, 23, a tax analyst in Lexington, Ky., has bought lowbrow videos, such as "American Pie," from Amazon.com. But she was aghast when the site suggested Tom Green's gross-out performance in "Road Trip."
"I thought, 'I know I don't like high cinema, but have I really reached the point where I'd like to watch Tom Green lick a mouse?" To even out her Amazon profile, she went through the site finding "witty independent films."
Her TiVo also thinks she's a sophomoric-humor-loving 12-year-old, she says. It keeps giving her cartoons. "I know it's dumb to take it personally, but it's in your face. These are supposedly objective computers saying, 'This is what we think of you.' "
Dissing Ice Cube
A.J. Meyer, a 35-year-old Web site developer in Minneapolis, ordered the DVD for "Scarface," the Al Pacino gangster movie, from Netflix.com (netflix.com). After that, the site kept recommending movies about gangster rappers. He stopped the assault by giving negative ratings to all movies starring Ice Cube. (Netflix allows members to rate any of its 12,000-plus titles with one to five stars -- whether they have rented a film or not. That helps the site calculate future recommendations.)
After Mr. Meyer ordered a documentary about New York from Amazon.com, it pitched him countless documentaries -- even one on the history of the thimble. He stopped the Ken Burnsification of his profile by searching the site for plasma TVs. "That way, I identified myself as a high-tech guy," he says. "The thimble is more low tech."
Virginia Heffernan, TV columnist for Slate.com, doesn't understand why some people are resistant to techno-profiling, or find it creepy. She didn't look for any deep meaning when her TiVo kept giving her TV shows in Polish. And after buying self-help books on Amazon.com, she accepted that every time she logged on, the site pitched products to make her a more self-fulfilled human being.
"I like the idea that someone cares," she says. "Even a machine."
TiVo users can program the machine to skip certain channels entirely. But many users don't bother to figure out how to do it, or are too intrigued by TiVo's recommendation process, says a spokesman. TiVo is paid to promote programs and products it calls "advertainment" on a special screen. But the company says none of these are given to users as suggestions.
Some people have given up trying to manipulate personalization technologies. Dino Leon, a hair-salon owner in Birmingham, Mich., says his TiVo quickly figured out that he and his partner were gay. They were OK with that, but just for fun, they tried to confuse the software by punching in "redneck" programs, like Jerry Springer's talk show.
TiVo wasn't fooled, and kept recording gay shows. Mr. Leon believes the box was giving them a message: "You're definitely gay. And you're watching too much TV."
Write to Jeffrey Zaslow at jeffrey.zaslow@wsj.com
Updated November 26, 2002
When I was working a school project, my friend referred to this as 'post processing'. Fixing bugs that happen earlier with code later in the algorithm, because finding the original bug is too hard or time consuming. :-)
I have the same... I used to use Gnome, but the last few releases have become so sluggish (on my PII 450, 256), that I just resort to Fluxbox. Does everything I need. :-)
Cheers,
CvD.
Check out the Preferences Toolbar. Allows you to switch on and off JavaScript, popups, etc with the click of a button. Might be what you're looking for:
Preferences Toolbar
Cheers,
Costyn.
Yeah... but would you want to try and exit a plane travelling at .855 mach? 120 knots is bad enough (been there, done that)... .855 mach being 551 knots... that's gonna smack you hard!
:-(
:-)
Plus all the liabilities from people killing themselves under the parachutes afters steering them into trees and powerlines.
I say a malfunction on a plane that big which could only be saved by a huge parachute is not destined to make it through... in other words, you're fucked.
Cheers,
CvD.
That would be very useful. It would mean only having to adjust your procmail filters when spam came through. :-)
It is still too much work for me to have to set up a new email address every time I leave it on a website somewhere.
With an advanced spam filter, you set it up and forget about it...sometimes checking your spamfolder if there are any false positives.
How do you create new email addresses? Do you have a CGI script interfaced with your alias file or so to easily make new email addresses? That would be useful.
For me it still is too much work to set up email addresses that way. And you need to start doing this from the beginning, otherwise there will still be an amount of spam that gets sent to your username@example.com address (as is the case with me).
Cheers,
Costyn.
I used to use Vipuls Razor, but I noticed it was marking email from Red Hat and CERT as spam, putting them into my spam folder. The distributed spam network is a good idea, but it sucks when it gets poisoned. Who does this?
Now I've got only relay checking and spamassassin, which works great.
Cheers,
CvD.
I call this 'environmental obliviousness'. When someone is mostly oblivious of their surroundings. My ex-girlfriend had a serious case of this, and got herself in some dangerous traffic situations... and she always had to have things pointed out to her.
:-)
Ah well, glad I don't have to deal with her any more. It scared me at times.
Cheers,
Costyn.
Too bad the Europeans affected can't sign it... :-(
That's why you have BlueTooth/IR on phones. That would make multiplayer possible, while not using the actual phone network. On the Nokia 6310 (amongst others) you can play snake against eachother using the IR link. It's pretty cool.
Cheers,
Costyn.
Dude, this would require a heck of a lot of physics knowledge.
:-)
Its a cool idea, definately. But you have to program out the physics of *every* interchangable component, including the dynamic physics (what happens to objects when they are struck, moving, rolling, etc - even what happens to batteries when subjected to a certain amount of force in a particular direction). It would be an incredibly complex model that would need a lot of computing power.
Besides, since in BattleBots humans are controlling the robots, you would have to make an AI to act as a human in controlling the robot during the various evolutionary rounds. And once you have an AI that good, you might as well include it in the real robot.
Cheers,
Costyn.
Never mind... I should have RTFA first. :-)
I learned the other day that touch, unlike sight, needs a much higher "frames per second" to be realistic. While for sight, 50 times refresh per second is sufficient, for touch this apparently needs to be in the order of 1000 times per second. I'm wondering if this connection is able to deal with this?
Cheers,
Costyn.
Dude, for these people it's not a question of if they should do it (is it sensible, is there a better alternative), but if they can do it. See if it's possible. Scientific curiosity!
But that doesn't take out the fact that there's still a slowest person in the line. Granted, for some cycles this person might not be needed, but what if they were for some calculation... it would not speed up the process.
:-)
It's not that I disagree with the asynchronous design... I see the benifits, just pointing out a little (IMHO) flaw in your logic.
Just how insane would this be? Anyone know?
Isn't Google their own company providing a FREE service to the Internet? They can choose whatever they want to do with their code. You didn't pay for it, so it's not like you're suddenly not getting what you paid for. It's not like you HAVE to use Google (well, actually... there is no other good search engine out there - or maybe I should try out SearchKing :-)
Cheers,
Costyn.
You mean there are people who use other search engines than Google? Who are these people and why has nobody told them about Google? :-)
Do they ever? I mean, sure they're targetted towards certain audiences which are watching the current show, but they certainly don't seem to be made relating to other commercials or the current show.
Cheers,
Costyn.