"You can't fake gravity". So look at it as a sport of how to do outrageous looking stuff *without* getting killed. Mick Foley's biographies are incredible. He has a stunt where he wraps his head in the ropes. Except one time on a German tour the ring tech screwed up the tightness settings so the carefully calibrated normally safe stunt resulted in Mick Foley legitimately about to die. He yanked his head out of the ropes and that is how he damaged his ear.
"So there'd be a meta-somebody who can bring all the fragmented parts together, like a super-DNS that points to all the individual DNS roots. But that just recreates the "authoritarian DNS system" problem, one level higher."
The next generation is to get out of generic search. Build a roster of say 5 sites that do a great job on your error code problems and then use advanced search to stay in that domain.
Set up your browser to be specific search domains. (Non error related example) - I typically run IMDB and Wikipedia in a pair, so I do the search on those, one per tab.
I feel China is catching up faster than your post may think. For a while it's hidden because they have a huge country, but give them another 20 years and they'll turn into a big Chinese Dragon Engine.
I was thinking about that quite a lot. My biggest beef with Amazon currently is shipping. We completely agree that Print On Demand is the future of books.
The only POD machine I know of in a sales setting is at the Harvard Bookstore. Last year they were using Google Books, but of course the concept works with any properly formatted file. Last year when I checked it out the Harvard Book Store implementation didn't yet have rights/capacity for color covers.
I was just wondering why no one at Borders could get a POD machine in their stores.
Be careful of ad hominem attacks like "bullshit". It usually means you are making a mistake. A more nuanced version of your critique is that the memory palace systems (plural!) rely on a pre-existing visual memory that many people do not currently possess from cultural factors, because we are used to turning to tech which makes pre-existing strong training unnecessary.
Peter Ramus in the 1550's had the same concerns you did, and tried to work on simpler memory systems. He agreed that those systems work for "small domains" (like the deck of cards) and struggle with big knowledgebases. ("What's the mnemonic for which drivers work on what versions of Linux?")
Ramus worked on ideas like carefully laying out a structured presentation of the information and then using visual-structural cues for the metadata. ("The LTS release years of Ubuntu since Dapper Drake are all even numbers so far."). The "even numbers" isn't anywhere in the data set - it's a heuristic to block off a whole class of errors.
As far as the pictures go, I think it works for some 7 or fewer vital pieces of info that are prone to confusion. I roughly know all my friends phone numbers except two which by coincidence are almost identical, but one of them has a 7 in it, so adding a layer of "think of him as the warlock 7th son of the 7th son" solves it.
Glossing a little, there's a reason for the different words "photographic" and "eidetic" memory. Photographic is much like a natural version of the trained memory palace theme. Eidetic does't take snapshots, it is more like a well built web page that lets the user structurally find anything in some three links. My visual memory is terrible, but for a while I was pretty good at the US tax forms because oddly enough that body of law runs like a logic puzzle.
(All the whining you hear about it is from perceived non-importance, aka it is imposed. But geeks should have fun with it, because it's a giant If-Then maze. "You (use a 1040EZ unless you have a mortgage, but (only if the interest on the mortgage is greater than the standard deduction)) etc."
They moan "oh, it costs too much to reprint it" - but skies alive help you if you get a private backer and do it yourself, they'll drill you with a copyright lawsuit.
Amazing how Slashdot hasn't run a story (did I miss it?) on Borders being on the verge of bankruptcy. B&N isn't doing so well either. THAT would pulverize the publishing industry.
I've thought of this basic idea years ago, but never got anything working. I think a better algorithm can be made by using the "tension" of a game defined by whether something has an "only move" sacrifice or whether it is a simple positional game. Other factors include how threatening or placid a move is.
If some BigCo really wanted to, they'd use one of the older arcade formulas to reinvent - custom rigs. It was true, for a while, that the arcade had tech about 2 years ahead of the consoles, because a big expensive machine allocated by time could afford it. Then all the game companies got shy and didn't want to take the risk.
Who wants to play Jeopardy with IBM's new Watson? I'd pay my dollar for that. How about the VR that's been out of the limelight for a while. Portions of the tech are out there, but they're scattered in prototype labs. Some company with a shadow investor just needs to throw $250 Mil to jumpstart the tech.
But now we're stuck in this downturn, so no one wants to risk going for the brass ring for a while.
AC above had a good comment about hangouts. For me it WAS about the tech for certain years - specifically the large controls vs cramped controller buttons. I was a solid B- player; no threat to anyone but enough to hold the machine open between the champs. I retired pretty early - MK3 with a touch of Killer Instinct.
Now you can't go anywhere to hang out - the two big bookstores are right ahead of the theaters on the way out. For the way a guy shops that leaves nowhere to go.
"Limited Info" - implying that no deductions can be made from that info? There's other related articles that current zip code crossed with all that stuff also produces matches, and this time they have the parents' info.
Wait, what? What parents will send their complete info to Google for a kid's art contest?
You can't get that national ID database under the RFID label, so let's do it... wait for it... for the kids! Google will hand that list over, to make sure no terrorists in training are practicing drawing guns.
At least it's Google. I expect them to be evil, but not usually stupid, so it might take a few years before the Blackhats get hold of the list.
"Choice" is not quite the end all. The problem is in the class of Tragedy of the Commons problems, layered with companies with a vested in damaging choice.
So it's "Sad" because Linux is clearly in the discussion with much to offer, and the German office tried it, but then went back to the company that caused 20 years of lock-in issues.
Well, for a while it was Un-American to know info about Russian stuff. They told us to ' back off and remain blissfully ignorant', so the average American said 'well, okay then'.
I even put up with a slight further loss of quality so I could have my stories read by a machine that sounds like a cross between Knightrider's KARR and Tron's MCP.
This is one of my hobbies, and it's all about ditching the default MS voice and downloading one of the speech profiles. They're not monotone at all - I'd call it 5 pitch, which is fine for anything that's not a mystery requiring screams.
I DO count it as a replacement for books on tape, because the whole point of TTS is it is *universal* - no need to get stuck in popularity problems of text selection for commercial enterprises.
I'll ignore your sarcasm and raise you total seriousness. The big problem with voting right now is we're pitted against each other in a kind of prisoner's dilemma. But if we really applied social networking (Assuming no fraud for now) we could thrash it among ourselves to organize the nation's voters, where suddenly Democrat, Republican, Tea, Libertarian, & Green ALL find themselves bewildered on the streets as a really honest smart tech president cruises into office.
Slashdot Mirror
In 2011 America, Borders stops wanting you!
" I got two words for ya!"
Mick Foley.
"You can't fake gravity". So look at it as a sport of how to do outrageous looking stuff *without* getting killed. Mick Foley's biographies are incredible. He has a stunt where he wraps his head in the ropes. Except one time on a German tour the ring tech screwed up the tightness settings so the carefully calibrated normally safe stunt resulted in Mick Foley legitimately about to die. He yanked his head out of the ropes and that is how he damaged his ear.
"So there'd be a meta-somebody who can bring all the fragmented parts together, like a super-DNS that points to all the individual DNS roots. But that just recreates the "authoritarian DNS system" problem, one level higher."
It's just Turtles all the way up.
Only terrorists use inoperable cash!
The next generation is to get out of generic search. Build a roster of say 5 sites that do a great job on your error code problems and then use advanced search to stay in that domain.
Set up your browser to be specific search domains. (Non error related example) - I typically run IMDB and Wikipedia in a pair, so I do the search on those, one per tab.
Easy.
Google "Google's Soul"
Ya'know,
I feel China is catching up faster than your post may think. For a while it's hidden because they have a huge country, but give them another 20 years and they'll turn into a big Chinese Dragon Engine.
Homer's Great Great grandfather: "Doth!"
Bowser! Come here boy!
Oh wait...
Great minds, sir.
I was thinking about that quite a lot. My biggest beef with Amazon currently is shipping. We completely agree that Print On Demand is the future of books.
The only POD machine I know of in a sales setting is at the Harvard Bookstore. Last year they were using Google Books, but of course the concept works with any properly formatted file. Last year when I checked it out the Harvard Book Store implementation didn't yet have rights/capacity for color covers.
I was just wondering why no one at Borders could get a POD machine in their stores.
That might take 10,000 lines of code. What are the chances of an error in that?
Be careful of ad hominem attacks like "bullshit". It usually means you are making a mistake. A more nuanced version of your critique is that the memory palace systems (plural!) rely on a pre-existing visual memory that many people do not currently possess from cultural factors, because we are used to turning to tech which makes pre-existing strong training unnecessary.
Peter Ramus in the 1550's had the same concerns you did, and tried to work on simpler memory systems. He agreed that those systems work for "small domains" (like the deck of cards) and struggle with big knowledgebases. ("What's the mnemonic for which drivers work on what versions of Linux?")
Ramus worked on ideas like carefully laying out a structured presentation of the information and then using visual-structural cues for the metadata. ("The LTS release years of Ubuntu since Dapper Drake are all even numbers so far."). The "even numbers" isn't anywhere in the data set - it's a heuristic to block off a whole class of errors.
As far as the pictures go, I think it works for some 7 or fewer vital pieces of info that are prone to confusion. I roughly know all my friends phone numbers except two which by coincidence are almost identical, but one of them has a 7 in it, so adding a layer of "think of him as the warlock 7th son of the 7th son" solves it.
Glossing a little, there's a reason for the different words "photographic" and "eidetic" memory. Photographic is much like a natural version of the trained memory palace theme. Eidetic does't take snapshots, it is more like a well built web page that lets the user structurally find anything in some three links. My visual memory is terrible, but for a while I was pretty good at the US tax forms because oddly enough that body of law runs like a logic puzzle.
(All the whining you hear about it is from perceived non-importance, aka it is imposed. But geeks should have fun with it, because it's a giant If-Then maze. "You (use a 1040EZ unless you have a mortgage, but (only if the interest on the mortgage is greater than the standard deduction)) etc."
I love the Out of Print scam.
They moan "oh, it costs too much to reprint it" - but skies alive help you if you get a private backer and do it yourself, they'll drill you with a copyright lawsuit.
Amazing how Slashdot hasn't run a story (did I miss it?) on Borders being on the verge of bankruptcy. B&N isn't doing so well either. THAT would pulverize the publishing industry.
I've thought of this basic idea years ago, but never got anything working. I think a better algorithm can be made by using the "tension" of a game defined by whether something has an "only move" sacrifice or whether it is a simple positional game. Other factors include how threatening or placid a move is.
How about this quote of the day from the bottom of the page?
"Dow's Law: In a hierarchical organization, the higher the level, the greater the confusion."
If some BigCo really wanted to, they'd use one of the older arcade formulas to reinvent - custom rigs. It was true, for a while, that the arcade had tech about 2 years ahead of the consoles, because a big expensive machine allocated by time could afford it. Then all the game companies got shy and didn't want to take the risk.
Who wants to play Jeopardy with IBM's new Watson? I'd pay my dollar for that. How about the VR that's been out of the limelight for a while. Portions of the tech are out there, but they're scattered in prototype labs. Some company with a shadow investor just needs to throw $250 Mil to jumpstart the tech.
But now we're stuck in this downturn, so no one wants to risk going for the brass ring for a while.
AC above had a good comment about hangouts. For me it WAS about the tech for certain years - specifically the large controls vs cramped controller buttons. I was a solid B- player; no threat to anyone but enough to hold the machine open between the champs. I retired pretty early - MK3 with a touch of Killer Instinct.
Now you can't go anywhere to hang out - the two big bookstores are right ahead of the theaters on the way out. For the way a guy shops that leaves nowhere to go.
"Limited Info" - implying that no deductions can be made from that info? There's other related articles that current zip code crossed with all that stuff also produces matches, and this time they have the parents' info.
Wait, what? What parents will send their complete info to Google for a kid's art contest?
You can't get that national ID database under the RFID label, so let's do it ... wait for it... for the kids! Google will hand that list over, to make sure no terrorists in training are practicing drawing guns.
At least it's Google. I expect them to be evil, but not usually stupid, so it might take a few years before the Blackhats get hold of the list.
"Choice" is not quite the end all. The problem is in the class of Tragedy of the Commons problems, layered with companies with a vested in damaging choice.
So it's "Sad" because Linux is clearly in the discussion with much to offer, and the German office tried it, but then went back to the company that caused 20 years of lock-in issues.
Well, for a while it was Un-American to know info about Russian stuff. They told us to ' back off and remain blissfully ignorant', so the average American said 'well, okay then'.
Good enough to use? Absolutely.
I even put up with a slight further loss of quality so I could have my stories read by a machine that sounds like a cross between Knightrider's KARR and Tron's MCP.
This is one of my hobbies, and it's all about ditching the default MS voice and downloading one of the speech profiles. They're not monotone at all - I'd call it 5 pitch, which is fine for anything that's not a mystery requiring screams.
I DO count it as a replacement for books on tape, because the whole point of TTS is it is *universal* - no need to get stuck in popularity problems of text selection for commercial enterprises.
I'll ignore your sarcasm and raise you total seriousness. The big problem with voting right now is we're pitted against each other in a kind of prisoner's dilemma. But if we really applied social networking (Assuming no fraud for now) we could thrash it among ourselves to organize the nation's voters, where suddenly Democrat, Republican, Tea, Libertarian, & Green ALL find themselves bewildered on the streets as a really honest smart tech president cruises into office.