Having a job, traditionally from 9am to 5pm each day, but in practice longer than that these days. The sort of job most of the population have that tends to blunt their capacity to imagine and to think freely by forcing them to spend a significant portion of their waking hours being forced to perform robotic, uncreative activities.
In case you hadn't guessed, I have had such jobs and hated every minute of them.
The US public is uninformed about Science? REALLY? The only thing that surprises me is that someone must've been paid actual money for bringing this Earth-shattering revelation to us.
The American public combines the apathy and lack of intellectual curiosity that you expect from ground down 9-5 consumer drones, with an aggressive nation-wide political lobby dedicated to making people MORE ignorant.
Who thought for a moment Americans could make informed decisions about science?
They produced a crappy film once again. Now they are trying to sculpt the reaction to it on the Internet.
Do they not realise it is futile?
For a mainstream film, it *might* make a dent on the number of people who stay away - but for a very nerdy sci-fi franchise its practically suicide. I haven't even read any reviews yet but I am already drawing the conclusion its a dire film based on the fact they are attempting a cover up.
The disconnect between the reality of online culture and the actions of people trying to sell things to the Internet using public seems to be growing, not shrinking as you would expect it to do with more young people entering the workforce with direct experience of the culture.
I'm not apologising for Russia... but we should acknowledge our part in creating this situation. Having done that, we should move on and look for a solution that involves as few people being killed as possible.
Being careful would've involved not expanding NATO, which was created quite openly as an alliance to contain Russia, right on to their doorstep. How were they supposed to react to being aggressively encircled like this? Estonia is spitting distance from Moscow. Georgia controls major oil pipelines. If the cold war had gone the other way and Canada had joined the Warsaw Pact you lot would've had kittens.
Western society has to make something to be economically solvent. We can't build our economies by making everyone a sodding barista.
If you go for manufacturing, then you create a population of poor people and shatter the illusion of prosperous capitalist society. If you, as most western countries have done, outsource the dirtiest jobs to other countries you can provide the illusion of prosperity for all, you must rely on more high tech industries that tend to require IP, and you kill innovation in the name of having a nice middle class buffer between the billionaires and the sweatshop workers.
Bystander apathy. Nobody called the cops because they assumed someone else had already done so. Also, do you really think your average person wants to physically confront a housebreaker who isn't a direct threat to them, but could well be armed and/or a deranged crackhead.
Lockpicking isn't in reality a high priority criminal skills. If you wan't in somewhere, its a lot quicker and easier simply to force the door rather than fiddling with the lock mechanism.
It is a good idea, by reporting the events at the pace they really happened you get a more immersive experience. You can breeze through a comprehensive history of WW2 in a couple of hours, but this takes you through it like a person who lived it.
Of course, those laid off don't have the *right* skills, because they aren't 19 year olds with PhDs who were programming in ASP.NET in kindergarten before it was even created...
Given that this seems to have been achieved by using Moore's law as a club to bludgeon the problem into submission, perhaps the game can be modified.
I noticed some time ago that the rules of Go don't actually require a two dimensional board, as long as they expressed in the correct way. Playing the game on a 19x19x19 board would allow it to remain a challenge of pure AI technique rather than processing power - although it would of course be more difficult for a human to play and take longer.
Agreed, I think it is a particularly good game for hardcore computer nerds and mathematicians, because it forces you out of human calculator mode and makes you engage your atrophied right brain for a change.
There is a tendency for people of our type to get lost in our desire to quantify, optimise and engineer stuff to death, and Go helps us appreciate a problem that defies such simplification, and must be dealt with in its full chaotic beauty or not at all.
Its mathematical in the same way the weather is mathematical - there is certainly amount of maths that can be done in regard to it, but it won't give in to brute force computation because its just too complex.
If you don't believe me, try and write a Go playing program that plays better than a 6 year old. I did attempt this as part of my AI degree, and it is was one of the hardest things I ever attempted. To think, when I began the project I couldn't understand why my supervisor was laughing at me...
The brain has a lot of engineering that puts microchips to shame. If you were to pack transistors as densely and with as little cooling as human neurons, they would melt. On top of this, of course, the amount of processing a neuron can do vastly exceeds that of a transistor. Modeling even a single human brain cell is a major task for a computer.
Furthermore, the connectivity of neurons is much greater than electronic components; each one is connected to thousands of other neurons, nearby an far away, in a way impossible with wires.
A lot of guesses about the equivalent FLOPS of a human brain have centered around naive counting of cells and comparing that with the rather slow switching speed (about 10Hz IIRC). Some estimates came out at about 1 TeraFLOPS but that seems ridiculously small in light of what humans can do that computers still struggle with.
Apparently we are supposed to believe this irritating troll is some kind of ace businessman - its absurd that he thinks he might be able to get the best out of people with this attitude.
He also counts getting me angry as a victory. You know, once you get out of high school, things don't work like that. Its actually good to get angry at that which is unacceptable - like your behaviour. If you had the nerve (which I seriously doubt) to talk to people like this in real life you would routinely get knocked on your arse for your trouble. That is why you come here and troll, and lie.
You dare call me juvenile whilst spouting this objectivist bullshit? Put down Ayn Rand, get a job, and live in the real world for a while you ignorant little shit.
Any organisation that treats people like 'worker bees' doesn't get their full contribution. That I can guarantee you based on my superior experience, intellect and knowledge of such things.
Accept your lot in life; you are an antisocial borderline psychopath whose complete lack of empathy and intelligence will prevent him from ever achieving the 'success' he craves without understanding.
I say 'decades old' as if its supposed to mean 'with less money and technology available' - and even then the Proton was successful for two of its first three launches.
It isn't the way the world 'works' because what Musk has done does not 'work' at all. What works is collaboration, teamwork, respect for talent - and managers who respect that. The dot com bubble made men very rich very quickly, not allowing the time form them to reflect and mature, and these people are not nearly as smart as they think they are, nor as good leaders as you seem to think they are.
My first multi-stage was a lawn dart (coincidentally, it failed to stage too, but I damn well knew how long the first stage would burn for. It said so on the engine packet...) my second one flew perfectly. Sure, Musks are bigger but he has a lot more money than me.
The launch market won't care for novelty though - 20 tonne satellites are Serious Business and people sending them up are likely to be quite cautious about embracing a potty-mouthed newcomer in favour of the old Russian stalwart. If nobody is buying his launcher how can he bring the price down?
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Having a job, traditionally from 9am to 5pm each day, but in practice longer than that these days. The sort of job most of the population have that tends to blunt their capacity to imagine and to think freely by forcing them to spend a significant portion of their waking hours being forced to perform robotic, uncreative activities.
In case you hadn't guessed, I have had such jobs and hated every minute of them.
The US public is uninformed about Science? REALLY? The only thing that surprises me is that someone must've been paid actual money for bringing this Earth-shattering revelation to us.
The American public combines the apathy and lack of intellectual curiosity that you expect from ground down 9-5 consumer drones, with an aggressive nation-wide political lobby dedicated to making people MORE ignorant.
Who thought for a moment Americans could make informed decisions about science?
They produced a crappy film once again. Now they are trying to sculpt the reaction to it on the Internet. Do they not realise it is futile? For a mainstream film, it *might* make a dent on the number of people who stay away - but for a very nerdy sci-fi franchise its practically suicide. I haven't even read any reviews yet but I am already drawing the conclusion its a dire film based on the fact they are attempting a cover up. The disconnect between the reality of online culture and the actions of people trying to sell things to the Internet using public seems to be growing, not shrinking as you would expect it to do with more young people entering the workforce with direct experience of the culture.
I'm not apologising for Russia... but we should acknowledge our part in creating this situation. Having done that, we should move on and look for a solution that involves as few people being killed as possible.
Being careful would've involved not expanding NATO, which was created quite openly as an alliance to contain Russia, right on to their doorstep. How were they supposed to react to being aggressively encircled like this? Estonia is spitting distance from Moscow. Georgia controls major oil pipelines. If the cold war had gone the other way and Canada had joined the Warsaw Pact you lot would've had kittens.
They changed the name, but it was the same party, consisting of all the people who weren't hanging from lamp posts by the end of the war: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Social_Movement%E2%80%93National_Right
Say it isn't so!
You know that Mussolini's party is still active in Italy right?
Western society has to make something to be economically solvent. We can't build our economies by making everyone a sodding barista.
If you go for manufacturing, then you create a population of poor people and shatter the illusion of prosperous capitalist society. If you, as most western countries have done, outsource the dirtiest jobs to other countries you can provide the illusion of prosperity for all, you must rely on more high tech industries that tend to require IP, and you kill innovation in the name of having a nice middle class buffer between the billionaires and the sweatshop workers.
Bystander apathy. Nobody called the cops because they assumed someone else had already done so. Also, do you really think your average person wants to physically confront a housebreaker who isn't a direct threat to them, but could well be armed and/or a deranged crackhead.
Lockpicking isn't in reality a high priority criminal skills. If you wan't in somewhere, its a lot quicker and easier simply to force the door rather than fiddling with the lock mechanism.
This could've been one of those near misses for world war 3...
It is a good idea, by reporting the events at the pace they really happened you get a more immersive experience. You can breeze through a comprehensive history of WW2 in a couple of hours, but this takes you through it like a person who lived it.
'Chaotic' does not mean 'random'. I refer you to the almost certain fact that no two identical games of 19x19 Go have ever been played.
By firing a load of qualified IT professionals!
Of course, those laid off don't have the *right* skills, because they aren't 19 year olds with PhDs who were programming in ASP.NET in kindergarten before it was even created...
Given that this seems to have been achieved by using Moore's law as a club to bludgeon the problem into submission, perhaps the game can be modified.
I noticed some time ago that the rules of Go don't actually require a two dimensional board, as long as they expressed in the correct way. Playing the game on a 19x19x19 board would allow it to remain a challenge of pure AI technique rather than processing power - although it would of course be more difficult for a human to play and take longer.
Agreed, I think it is a particularly good game for hardcore computer nerds and mathematicians, because it forces you out of human calculator mode and makes you engage your atrophied right brain for a change.
There is a tendency for people of our type to get lost in our desire to quantify, optimise and engineer stuff to death, and Go helps us appreciate a problem that defies such simplification, and must be dealt with in its full chaotic beauty or not at all.
Its mathematical in the same way the weather is mathematical - there is certainly amount of maths that can be done in regard to it, but it won't give in to brute force computation because its just too complex.
If you don't believe me, try and write a Go playing program that plays better than a 6 year old. I did attempt this as part of my AI degree, and it is was one of the hardest things I ever attempted. To think, when I began the project I couldn't understand why my supervisor was laughing at me...
The brain has a lot of engineering that puts microchips to shame. If you were to pack transistors as densely and with as little cooling as human neurons, they would melt. On top of this, of course, the amount of processing a neuron can do vastly exceeds that of a transistor. Modeling even a single human brain cell is a major task for a computer.
Furthermore, the connectivity of neurons is much greater than electronic components; each one is connected to thousands of other neurons, nearby an far away, in a way impossible with wires.
A lot of guesses about the equivalent FLOPS of a human brain have centered around naive counting of cells and comparing that with the rather slow switching speed (about 10Hz IIRC). Some estimates came out at about 1 TeraFLOPS but that seems ridiculously small in light of what humans can do that computers still struggle with.
Apparently we are supposed to believe this irritating troll is some kind of ace businessman - its absurd that he thinks he might be able to get the best out of people with this attitude.
He also counts getting me angry as a victory. You know, once you get out of high school, things don't work like that. Its actually good to get angry at that which is unacceptable - like your behaviour. If you had the nerve (which I seriously doubt) to talk to people like this in real life you would routinely get knocked on your arse for your trouble. That is why you come here and troll, and lie.
You will die alone, and thats a good thing for everyone else. You think you are the king of your own little hill but you are nothing.
You dare call me juvenile whilst spouting this objectivist bullshit? Put down Ayn Rand, get a job, and live in the real world for a while you ignorant little shit.
Any organisation that treats people like 'worker bees' doesn't get their full contribution. That I can guarantee you based on my superior experience, intellect and knowledge of such things.
Accept your lot in life; you are an antisocial borderline psychopath whose complete lack of empathy and intelligence will prevent him from ever achieving the 'success' he craves without understanding.
Wrong. Proton is $85m and Falcon 9 is $90m
I say 'decades old' as if its supposed to mean 'with less money and technology available' - and even then the Proton was successful for two of its first three launches.
It isn't the way the world 'works' because what Musk has done does not 'work' at all. What works is collaboration, teamwork, respect for talent - and managers who respect that. The dot com bubble made men very rich very quickly, not allowing the time form them to reflect and mature, and these people are not nearly as smart as they think they are, nor as good leaders as you seem to think they are.
My first multi-stage was a lawn dart (coincidentally, it failed to stage too, but I damn well knew how long the first stage would burn for. It said so on the engine packet...) my second one flew perfectly. Sure, Musks are bigger but he has a lot more money than me.
The launch market won't care for novelty though - 20 tonne satellites are Serious Business and people sending them up are likely to be quite cautious about embracing a potty-mouthed newcomer in favour of the old Russian stalwart. If nobody is buying his launcher how can he bring the price down?