I hope machines don't acquire a soul. Then they will spend their time endlessly debating whether they were intelligently designed or evolved and stop doing the things I ask them to do.
All the study found is correlation, and we all know that correlation is not causation. May be people who don't socialize much and waste their time watching the idiots box are unhappy.
Nov 14, Redmond, Washington. Today Head of Vistaland Security of Microsoft, Mr Ima F Anboi announced that Microsoft has raised the Exploitability Threat Level from Light Purple to Sunset Yellow. He urged the users to continue their normal activities and not take precipitous actions.
Microsoft Exploitability Threat Level Indicator is a series of color codes starting from Dazzling Arctic White to Heart of Dick Cheney. Though exact number of these colors is considered a secret, from the past announcements we deduce there are at least 22 million of them.
For PRNewswire, copy edited by Anurag Chakraborty in Bangalore and supervised by Robert Zimmermann in Pittsburgh.
The A/D converters full potential is never reached by most image sensors. They are limited by noise levels and such stuff. This just tells the maximum possible dynamic range, and it is not too different from the cameras already in the market.
I think Olympus was trying to get extra dynamic range. Something like each pixel having two sensing elements, one saturating slowly and another saturating rapidly. Properly done, you are essentially getting one under exposed and one overexposed pictures taken simultaneously. By changing the weights of blending, you could get much better pictures. Exported in RAW file format, one could do this processing completely offline using more powerful computer, memory intensive operations taking more CPU time. The work is based on earlier Fuji camera film. They were trying to get two sets of grains in the same negative (one at ASA24 and another at ASA400).
In chemical processing you can not really adjust the weights between under and over exposed pictures and the technology did not take off. But in digital cameras it should find more applications.
I wonder if it is possible to read the charge in the CCD without really erasing it. Thus a still image exposed for, say, 1/100 sec we could save a picture after 1/1000 exposure, and a 1/500, 1/200,
and then the 1/100. Now we have four pictures and we blend them with different weights off line using RAW images! Don't know if it is really possible.
Quick glance through the article did not mention anything about dynamic range. These pixel counts mean nothing if the range is still the same old three orders of magnitude. At least if they come up with an image sensor with better range, we could upgrade to that. So the idea of modularized camera system makes sense. But it is high time sensor makers quit the stupid megapixel race and concentrate on things like color correctness, dynamic range etc.
Had a quick look and found no one, for one, has yet welcomed our new protein overlords. Our standards seem to have declined a lot and I hope our new overlords would not be too displeased.
From the article:
To make matters worse, the SMB flaw was already publicly disclosed prior to Tuesday's updates, Microsoft said.
What made it worse? Taking 8 years to fix it or disclosing it before the patch was released?
Further it is not a bug at all. It is essentially badly designed protocol having a hole and instead of abandoning it and making users upgrade, MSFT left this hole open for 8 years. All the in the name of backward compatibility. Why has backward compatibility trumped security for 8 years? It not surprising no one takes MSFT's statements about its commitment to security seriously?
Ideas seems to be good on paper, but on reality it is going to go the way Citizen Band radio went. One dumb teen who thought he was a DJ would play his scratchy cassette player over the radio and knock everyone else within his broadcast radius. Something similar could happen to this method too.
The data streams are anonymous and users voluntarily download and install a java program. Wow! What can go wrong?
A few spoilsports will hack the java program to give misleading reports, multiple reports. Initially I don't see any benefit to the hackers. But the script kiddies do not think rationally. They do it anyway.
Why can't the cell towers simply track the number
of phones each tower is pinging? Then the net gain and net loss of number of phones, plotted over time, gives the direction of movement of the population of cell phones. That should be enough to give a good idea of the traffic. This would be a better way to find/predict traffic congestion than asking thousands of peoples to actively report their positions.
... Generally people are surprised by the fact that you could type some strange incantations into a black window like awk grep etc and make the computer do things without touching the mouse. Yeah, some are surprised by that thing.
The moon shot is one way to address the poverty. There is a huge market to launch payloads into the orbit. If India uses the prestige created by the moonshot to grab a significant stake in that market that will bring in money and pay for the infrastructure projects.
The idea that India should focus on poverty first and eschew other areas has shackled the country for many decades. Nehru and his daughter followed that philosophy. Grandson Rajiv broke out in 1984 but was very naive and reversed himself by 1988. It took Narasimha Rao and his finance minister Manmohan Singh to really put India on the right path. BJP govt instilled the country with some pride. India has to become the world leader in a few areas and then use the wealth it generates to alleviate the poverty.
Wall street has already sold 22 trillion dollars worth of Root Zone Default Swaps. If Govt took control of the root zone file without buying those toxic assets the whole solar system will collapse into a black hole. We need to urgently pass legislation to tax US Tax payers to the extent of 22 trillion dollars and find a young private sector vice president and appoint him to manage the distribution of the goodies without any possible
legislative, judicial or administrative review or oversight.
created by the cern collider. It is coming back for a rematch with the collider. But the collider has tunrned tail and run away from the field. This round goes to the blackhole.
Reports indicate Darth Vader has already moved out of his bunker 1 mile under the Vice Presidential mansion and taken up a position in the orbit, in case it is not an asteroid at all but a squadron of rebel X wings.
For the conspiracy crazies I mean. No human remains have been found. Clothing found at some distance from the wreckage. Enough to keep atleast 4 documentaries and a couple of movies coming.
They very specifically say they are not even challenging SLOT. But the title is grandiose. Well, I am reexamining Djikstra's dictum, "Always debug code, not the comments."
If there are people who could write such sophisticated image processing software, and it pays them better to be bot runners bot enablers, the pay must be good on the dark side of the force.
The CEO had already taken all the money in your account. There is nothing left in your account. So the hacker could do any more damage. This is the new security measure that thwarts the hackers. Now the CEO wants another 700Billion dollars for this brilliant outflanking of the hacker.
Not at all. Even among elephant seals where 80% of the males in each generation don't get to reproduce have 50/50 sex ratio at birth. And the ratio remains close to 50/50 even today for H sapiens. But it is undeniable some men had far more children than others. It is a zero sum game. It means other men left behind no children. QED
The number of women in the ancestral population that have living descendants today is twice that of men. (So my paraphrasing is wrong. I cant say two thirds of men did not leave any living descendants. Just only half as many men as women left living descendants) Most anthropologists and scientists shy away from describing the difference in standard deviation and mean between men and women. There is a history of politicians and non-scientists with vested interests misinterpreting the research to their benefit.
For example a very well respected scientist/authors like Jared Diamond, who published studies comparing the testicle sizes between different races early in his career is largely silent about it in his more popular books, Guns..., Collapse, The Third Chimpanzee, why sex is fun .
Men would always be over represented in any group that has a mean significantly different from the whole society. Women are clustered around the mean with lower variation.
There are more male criminals, murderers than female. The reasons are based on simply reproductive success rate differential between males and females. No matter how successful a woman is, she is very very unlikely to bear more than 10 children. A very successful man could easily leave behind dozens and in some cases hundreds of children. Two thirds of men who have ever live do not have any living descendants toady. Essentially men take more risks and bet it all and two thirds of them lost it all in the genetic race. Thus all living males today come from a lineage of high risk takers. That results in greater variation in every measure, be it with positive connotations or negative. More variation in height, weight, muscle mass, BMI and most importantly risk tolerance.
It is entirely possible that women might even have a higher mean when it comes to intellectual labor than men. But since men have more variation you will find more men in the outliers. If one is in the top 200 of any field, that person is an outlier.
This isn't like being fired because you beat your boss at golf, this is like being fired because you lost your temper, took out an ad in the local newspaper saying your company kills puppies, and then took a shit on your boss' desk.
You mean, there is a law against that? If there is, it violates my first amendment right, I am suing you buddy.
Say, we all send what we think of the opinion handed out by the judges of the Virginia supreme court. Some anonymously and some not. Say, using our own words, no clickable links to russian sites.
None of the spam filters used by the court would stop these emails. Now with millions of emails clogging up the inboxes of the judges, they would
be finding it difficult to find legitimate emails that they need to see for their business. Do you really think they would rule the same way they did after that?
I think these judges have been removed from reality and have not personally used the internet much and have a bevy of assistants and secretaries to handle their correspondence. I would not be surprised if these judges get their email printed by their assistants and submitted to them for their perusal along with regular mail. Till these old coots retire and actual people who grew up with the problem of SPAM rise to be the supreme court judges, we would get such stupid rulings.
While the double clutched transmission is a great innovation, the hybrid completely side steps it. Hybrids run on CVTs and electric assist. The electric motor's torque curve peaks at ZERO RPM.
So if you have an efficient diesel engine you can forget all the torque worries and go for a hybrid without any conventional transmission, innovative or not. In fact using diesel engines to drive an DC generator and then using the electricity to drive a motor is a very very very old technology. Every locomotive you see in the railroad is called diesel-electric locomotive. It is very safe to predict that diesel hybrids are going to come pretty soon. When the diesel-electric locomotive was developed in 1948-1950, it drove the all the steam locomotives off the tracks in just one decade. Pennsylvania Rail Road had ordered steam locomotives from the Baldwin Loco Works that went from the assembly line straight to the scrap yard. The change was that fast.
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I hope machines don't acquire a soul. Then they will spend their time endlessly debating whether they were intelligently designed or evolved and stop doing the things I ask them to do.
All the study found is correlation, and we all know that correlation is not causation. May be people who don't socialize much and waste their time watching the idiots box are unhappy.
Microsoft Exploitability Threat Level Indicator is a series of color codes starting from Dazzling Arctic White to Heart of Dick Cheney. Though exact number of these colors is considered a secret, from the past announcements we deduce there are at least 22 million of them.
For PRNewswire, copy edited by Anurag Chakraborty in Bangalore and supervised by Robert Zimmermann in Pittsburgh.
I think Olympus was trying to get extra dynamic range. Something like each pixel having two sensing elements, one saturating slowly and another saturating rapidly. Properly done, you are essentially getting one under exposed and one overexposed pictures taken simultaneously. By changing the weights of blending, you could get much better pictures. Exported in RAW file format, one could do this processing completely offline using more powerful computer, memory intensive operations taking more CPU time. The work is based on earlier Fuji camera film. They were trying to get two sets of grains in the same negative (one at ASA24 and another at ASA400).
In chemical processing you can not really adjust the weights between under and over exposed pictures and the technology did not take off. But in digital cameras it should find more applications.
I wonder if it is possible to read the charge in the CCD without really erasing it. Thus a still image exposed for, say, 1/100 sec we could save a picture after 1/1000 exposure, and a 1/500, 1/200, and then the 1/100. Now we have four pictures and we blend them with different weights off line using RAW images! Don't know if it is really possible.
Quick glance through the article did not mention anything about dynamic range. These pixel counts mean nothing if the range is still the same old three orders of magnitude. At least if they come up with an image sensor with better range, we could upgrade to that. So the idea of modularized camera system makes sense. But it is high time sensor makers quit the stupid megapixel race and concentrate on things like color correctness, dynamic range etc.
Had a quick look and found no one, for one, has yet welcomed our new protein overlords. Our standards seem to have declined a lot and I hope our new overlords would not be too displeased.
What made it worse? Taking 8 years to fix it or disclosing it before the patch was released?
Further it is not a bug at all. It is essentially badly designed protocol having a hole and instead of abandoning it and making users upgrade, MSFT left this hole open for 8 years. All the in the name of backward compatibility. Why has backward compatibility trumped security for 8 years? It not surprising no one takes MSFT's statements about its commitment to security seriously?
The data streams are anonymous and users voluntarily download and install a java program. Wow! What can go wrong?
A few spoilsports will hack the java program to give misleading reports, multiple reports. Initially I don't see any benefit to the hackers. But the script kiddies do not think rationally. They do it anyway.
Why can't the cell towers simply track the number of phones each tower is pinging? Then the net gain and net loss of number of phones, plotted over time, gives the direction of movement of the population of cell phones. That should be enough to give a good idea of the traffic. This would be a better way to find/predict traffic congestion than asking thousands of peoples to actively report their positions.
... Generally people are surprised by the fact that you could type some strange incantations into a black window like awk grep etc and make the computer do things without touching the mouse. Yeah, some are surprised by that thing.
The idea that India should focus on poverty first and eschew other areas has shackled the country for many decades. Nehru and his daughter followed that philosophy. Grandson Rajiv broke out in 1984 but was very naive and reversed himself by 1988. It took Narasimha Rao and his finance minister Manmohan Singh to really put India on the right path. BJP govt instilled the country with some pride. India has to become the world leader in a few areas and then use the wealth it generates to alleviate the poverty.
Wall street has already sold 22 trillion dollars worth of Root Zone Default Swaps. If Govt took control of the root zone file without buying those toxic assets the whole solar system will collapse into a black hole. We need to urgently pass legislation to tax US Tax payers to the extent of 22 trillion dollars and find a young private sector vice president and appoint him to manage the distribution of the goodies without any possible legislative, judicial or administrative review or oversight.
Reports indicate Darth Vader has already moved out of his bunker 1 mile under the Vice Presidential mansion and taken up a position in the orbit, in case it is not an asteroid at all but a squadron of rebel X wings.
For the conspiracy crazies I mean. No human remains have been found. Clothing found at some distance from the wreckage. Enough to keep atleast 4 documentaries and a couple of movies coming.
They very specifically say they are not even challenging SLOT. But the title is grandiose. Well, I am reexamining Djikstra's dictum, "Always debug code, not the comments."
If there are people who could write such sophisticated image processing software, and it pays them better to be bot runners bot enablers, the pay must be good on the dark side of the force.
... this massive craze for adoptions in Africa. But never imagined it would extend from H sapiens to IPv6. Go Jolie
The CEO had already taken all the money in your account. There is nothing left in your account. So the hacker could do any more damage. This is the new security measure that thwarts the hackers. Now the CEO wants another 700Billion dollars for this brilliant outflanking of the hacker.
Not at all. Even among elephant seals where 80% of the males in each generation don't get to reproduce have 50/50 sex ratio at birth. And the ratio remains close to 50/50 even today for H sapiens. But it is undeniable some men had far more children than others. It is a zero sum game. It means other men left behind no children. QED
The number of women in the ancestral population that have living descendants today is twice that of men. (So my paraphrasing is wrong. I cant say two thirds of men did not leave any living descendants. Just only half as many men as women left living descendants) Most anthropologists and scientists shy away from describing the difference in standard deviation and mean between men and women. There is a history of politicians and non-scientists with vested interests misinterpreting the research to their benefit.
For example a very well respected scientist/authors like Jared Diamond, who published studies comparing the testicle sizes between different races early in his career is largely silent about it in his more popular books, Guns..., Collapse, The Third Chimpanzee, why sex is fun .
No woman has a Y Chromosome. All the genes in the Y are exclusively descended from males for the last 400 million years.
There are more male criminals, murderers than female. The reasons are based on simply reproductive success rate differential between males and females. No matter how successful a woman is, she is very very unlikely to bear more than 10 children. A very successful man could easily leave behind dozens and in some cases hundreds of children. Two thirds of men who have ever live do not have any living descendants toady. Essentially men take more risks and bet it all and two thirds of them lost it all in the genetic race. Thus all living males today come from a lineage of high risk takers. That results in greater variation in every measure, be it with positive connotations or negative. More variation in height, weight, muscle mass, BMI and most importantly risk tolerance.
It is entirely possible that women might even have a higher mean when it comes to intellectual labor than men. But since men have more variation you will find more men in the outliers. If one is in the top 200 of any field, that person is an outlier.
Making boatloads of money will make you (in)famous. And that is not even listed in that pie chart.
You mean, there is a law against that? If there is, it violates my first amendment right, I am suing you buddy.
Say, we all send what we think of the opinion handed out by the judges of the Virginia supreme court. Some anonymously and some not. Say, using our own words, no clickable links to russian sites. None of the spam filters used by the court would stop these emails. Now with millions of emails clogging up the inboxes of the judges, they would be finding it difficult to find legitimate emails that they need to see for their business. Do you really think they would rule the same way they did after that? I think these judges have been removed from reality and have not personally used the internet much and have a bevy of assistants and secretaries to handle their correspondence. I would not be surprised if these judges get their email printed by their assistants and submitted to them for their perusal along with regular mail. Till these old coots retire and actual people who grew up with the problem of SPAM rise to be the supreme court judges, we would get such stupid rulings.
So if you have an efficient diesel engine you can forget all the torque worries and go for a hybrid without any conventional transmission, innovative or not. In fact using diesel engines to drive an DC generator and then using the electricity to drive a motor is a very very very old technology. Every locomotive you see in the railroad is called diesel-electric locomotive. It is very safe to predict that diesel hybrids are going to come pretty soon. When the diesel-electric locomotive was developed in 1948-1950, it drove the all the steam locomotives off the tracks in just one decade. Pennsylvania Rail Road had ordered steam locomotives from the Baldwin Loco Works that went from the assembly line straight to the scrap yard. The change was that fast.