Even more than this, YouTube is not documentation.
I can't count the number of times I want to look up a howto about some diverse topic on the Interenet, and the only thing I can find is some clod rambling on about it, or even worse, showing a video or screencap of themselves doing it with shitty music blaring loudly in the background.
There is a dearth of people who can produce good documentation, and no, the people who make shitty YouTube howtos don't OWE me anything at all. But it's a bane on the Internet just the same.
they have at least incorporated conferencing and "studios" into Bluebeam.
Yikes, is that the latest proprietary croft that Adobe has shoveled into the PDF format?
They'll never stop, but that makes sense, because PDF is a decent content container, but it's not 'owned' by Adobe anymore in enough people's minds (it never was, but Ghostscript has made huge inroads now.) They NEED to embed proprietary croft and convince enough people they can't do without it.
The Daily Show is one example that comes to mind for someone who uses visual aids well...
Possibly true. But remember, the Daily Show is comedy, so it's just for entertainment. No topic that is brought up on the Daily Show is there by necessity. Any time the presenter can pick and choose what goes into a presentation, it can and will be much more engaging and entertaining than a presentation that is necessary, i.e. a business presentation or an objective reporting of the news.
Extinction is not bad, nor is it good, it simply is. It is evolution.
No, it's not. Evolution is a process where species diverge. It can only occur when one species splits into two, and/or a species radically changes as an adaptation to the environment.
It isn't 'survival of the fittest' or any other moronic thing they taught you in third grade.
The fossil record shows that there were sabre-tooth marsupials in South America before the land bridge at Panama connected the two continents. There was no 'evolution' at play when the land bridge occurred and sabre-tooth cats moved into the range and out-competed the marsupials. There was only extinction. There were then fewer species living on the planet, for better or worse.
I gave two separate and specific contexts where extinction is a clear loss to humanity
That's a very anthropocentric way of looking at things. It's really sad when even the people 'defending' the natural order feel the need to shape their argument in a way so that 'people' benefit.
It always strikes me that at least some of the scientists say 'damn, now how will I get tenure!?!' when an extinction event happens before they can study something.
It's worst with Archaeologists, whose goal in life is to root up everything and use 'the most modern techniques possible' to tear apart the historical evidence, then deposit some of the 'good bits' in modern steel and glass buildings.
It wouldn't be difficult for the effect to be worse than DDT.
DDT was a problem mainly because it came out in the moronic era when any new 'miracle chemical' that came out was spread as widely as possible. It was dispersed so widely that it became a real problem. Selective and very controlled use of DDT is effective for controlling mosquito problems. It's simply a boogeyman thing, like 'nukes' for a lot of people.
To be fair, everything that Musk has done in the last decade just reeks of him begging our forgiveness for creating PayPal. Also, he's terrified of the possibility that he might wind up being the latest Paul Allen.
Musk knows what a nerd is, he even knows how to give nerds money. He is not a nerd. (if you're on Slashdot because you are an 'IT' person and the very idea of being called a 'nerd' scares you, please just go away and stop ruining this site for the rest of us)
To look at Bill Gates' code you just have to disassemble it. Most of his work is in Assembly Language. For instance, he wrote the Word Processor component of the software in the TRS-80 Model 100. In Intel 8085 Assembly Language. He's probably not as good at whatever abstracted monster language is trendy this week. Back a few decades ago I remember reading he enjoyed dabbling around with Visual Basic 3.0. But he wrote the Basic interpreter in everyone's computers more than a decade before that, so he was entitled to some fun time.
Go sling some Drupal or whatever. Maybe they'll promote you to making the salads later on.
Well, go ahead and get carried away describing the 'method' that you apparently think will be the most successful.
Don't discount the idea, though, that sooper dooper fast 'stuff-we-already-have' might not provide the breakthrough.
Super biga gigahertz is just stomping all over a huge data set with statistics. How boring. It's really disappointing how much of that shit goes on these days in the name of 'science.'
Most bleeding edge AI research is being done by Google, Facebook, and Baidu.
Usually what happens when a few big Capitalist firms hoover up all the experts in a discipline, is that the discipline is badly stunted for quite awhile afterwards. Free inquiry doesn't happen when a few rich assholes who 'got there first' (the definition of Google and Facebook at least) buy up all the smarts and stick them in a building somewhere.
"We" don't have to make one. All we have to do is set an AI towards self improvement/production of better AIs.
Right. I wrote a pattern recognition program, in FORTRAN, for a college assignment in 1978. It self-improved, learning the pattern embedded in the 'learning' deck and getting near perfect results on the 'test' deck. But it didn't take over the keypunch, nor the high speed card reader, or even the Line Printer, which would have been the logical thing to 'grab.'
Like any AI that is being fretted about here, if it had, we could have cut off it's supply of punched cards, or turned off the power.
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Even more than this, YouTube is not documentation.
I can't count the number of times I want to look up a howto about some diverse topic on the Interenet, and the only thing I can find is some clod rambling on about it, or even worse, showing a video or screencap of themselves doing it with shitty music blaring loudly in the background.
There is a dearth of people who can produce good documentation, and no, the people who make shitty YouTube howtos don't OWE me anything at all. But it's a bane on the Internet just the same.
they have at least incorporated conferencing and "studios" into Bluebeam.
Yikes, is that the latest proprietary croft that Adobe has shoveled into the PDF format?
They'll never stop, but that makes sense, because PDF is a decent content container, but it's not 'owned' by Adobe anymore in enough people's minds (it never was, but Ghostscript has made huge inroads now.) They NEED to embed proprietary croft and convince enough people they can't do without it.
The Daily Show is one example that comes to mind for someone who uses visual aids well...
Possibly true. But remember, the Daily Show is comedy, so it's just for entertainment. No topic that is brought up on the Daily Show is there by necessity. Any time the presenter can pick and choose what goes into a presentation, it can and will be much more engaging and entertaining than a presentation that is necessary, i.e. a business presentation or an objective reporting of the news.
Meetings don't need to be banned. But the chairs could be removed from all meeting rooms and the tables raised about a foot.
Extinction is not bad, nor is it good, it simply is. It is evolution.
No, it's not. Evolution is a process where species diverge. It can only occur when one species splits into two, and/or a species radically changes as an adaptation to the environment.
It isn't 'survival of the fittest' or any other moronic thing they taught you in third grade.
The fossil record shows that there were sabre-tooth marsupials in South America before the land bridge at Panama connected the two continents. There was no 'evolution' at play when the land bridge occurred and sabre-tooth cats moved into the range and out-competed the marsupials. There was only extinction. There were then fewer species living on the planet, for better or worse.
I gave two separate and specific contexts where extinction is a clear loss to humanity
That's a very anthropocentric way of looking at things. It's really sad when even the people 'defending' the natural order feel the need to shape their argument in a way so that 'people' benefit.
It always strikes me that at least some of the scientists say 'damn, now how will I get tenure!?!' when an extinction event happens before they can study something.
It's worst with Archaeologists, whose goal in life is to root up everything and use 'the most modern techniques possible' to tear apart the historical evidence, then deposit some of the 'good bits' in modern steel and glass buildings.
The effects would probably be worse than DDT.
It wouldn't be difficult for the effect to be worse than DDT.
DDT was a problem mainly because it came out in the moronic era when any new 'miracle chemical' that came out was spread as widely as possible. It was dispersed so widely that it became a real problem. Selective and very controlled use of DDT is effective for controlling mosquito problems. It's simply a boogeyman thing, like 'nukes' for a lot of people.
They're not Gay. They're one of the other letters in that GBLTQ dealie.
There's even a game in all that data, somewhere.
Apparently, it means, 'no salary for jones_supa' by the look of it. I agree, that isn't plausible. For you.
The Internet historically has hated fucking spammers and advertisers. That hasn't changed. And the tools are in need of continual sharpening.
Supposedly there is one 'Kinder, friendlier' advertiser who we are supposed to fellate eagerly.
Hey. I still use FVWM on my X11 desktops. Once you have a good working .fvwm2rc there's no need for anything more.
Except for where I use the Tab Window Manager (TWM), which has the advantage of being as default a part of X11 as the Xterm program.
Sometimes you just want to get stuff done with your computer.
system mail?
I've been carrying Sylpheed along with me from Windows 2000, through my NetBSD desktop days, and into the future.
Good lord, do people actually use the 'built in' email provided with Windows?
At the very least, we want to stop giving them more money.
They don't want a whole bowl of gruel.
Diodes. It's diodes they really want. Huge, huge arrays of them stretching into the distance.
Also, lots of jumper wires.
Electric cars are only tangentially related to AI.
There are theories that PayPal constitutes an evil form of AI. Maybe we better at least listen to what Musk has to say...
naw...
To be fair, everything that Musk has done in the last decade just reeks of him begging our forgiveness for creating PayPal. Also, he's terrified of the possibility that he might wind up being the latest Paul Allen.
Musk knows what a nerd is, he even knows how to give nerds money. He is not a nerd. (if you're on Slashdot because you are an 'IT' person and the very idea of being called a 'nerd' scares you, please just go away and stop ruining this site for the rest of us)
To look at Bill Gates' code you just have to disassemble it. Most of his work is in Assembly Language. For instance, he wrote the Word Processor component of the software in the TRS-80 Model 100. In Intel 8085 Assembly Language. He's probably not as good at whatever abstracted monster language is trendy this week. Back a few decades ago I remember reading he enjoyed dabbling around with Visual Basic 3.0. But he wrote the Basic interpreter in everyone's computers more than a decade before that, so he was entitled to some fun time.
Go sling some Drupal or whatever. Maybe they'll promote you to making the salads later on.
Well, go ahead and get carried away describing the 'method' that you apparently think will be the most successful.
Don't discount the idea, though, that sooper dooper fast 'stuff-we-already-have' might not provide the breakthrough.
Super biga gigahertz is just stomping all over a huge data set with statistics. How boring. It's really disappointing how much of that shit goes on these days in the name of 'science.'
But it gets grant dollars, yessirre.
Most bleeding edge AI research is being done by Google, Facebook, and Baidu.
Usually what happens when a few big Capitalist firms hoover up all the experts in a discipline, is that the discipline is badly stunted for quite awhile afterwards. Free inquiry doesn't happen when a few rich assholes who 'got there first' (the definition of Google and Facebook at least) buy up all the smarts and stick them in a building somewhere.
"We" don't have to make one. All we have to do is set an AI towards self improvement/production of better AIs.
Right. I wrote a pattern recognition program, in FORTRAN, for a college assignment in 1978. It self-improved, learning the pattern embedded in the 'learning' deck and getting near perfect results on the 'test' deck. But it didn't take over the keypunch, nor the high speed card reader, or even the Line Printer, which would have been the logical thing to 'grab.'
Like any AI that is being fretted about here, if it had, we could have cut off it's supply of punched cards, or turned off the power.
My wife just got a Virgin Mobile Nokia phone. She really likes it. I might end up getting one too.
I hate it, too. It's almost impossible to get out of your hair and it ruins your clothes. I just plain stay out of the stallion barn to avoid it.
Right. Brillo software will presumably be used in appliances. Brillo pads are used in appliances.
Lots of us do. Why are you spamming the whole discussion repeatedly with this single point?