If the CEO needs to make real time minute by minute decisions he's not doing his job.
So what if he's old ? What's the risk, that he'll die ? Life is ultimately a one way trip and at that point in his life he doesn't have that many trips left, might as well make it a big one.
They may have crap memory but they have good pheromone receptors. All she was doing was forcing the ant to strengthen the path signal.
On a random side note, we have fairly large ants (1/2 inch) around here that make these 6 foot diameter circles cleared of all material. 30 or so years ago I sat with a six pack and watched them for hours on end. It was kind of fascinating.
Some percentage (presumably >50%) of the ants seemed to be driven to take material from inside the mound and deposit it outside the mound. Some percentage (presumably 50%) seemed to be driven to pick up some material from outside and deposit it inside (probably MBAs).
Some were lazy and would either drop or pick up material just a few inches from the hole, some a few feet and some adventurous souls would wander 10 to 20 feet away.
The result was a net movement of material from inside the hole and a distribution of material that was maximized around the whole and tapering to nearly zero about 3 feet from the hole. Given monsoonal rains that tapering pretty much ensures the hole is high enough above the local ground level that flooding is rare.
A fitness function would be meaningless in this case. The methodology is for each robot to independently mimic as precisely as possible what it observed given the imperfections in it's imaging system.
The goal isn't to train the student robot to perfectly mimic the teacher the goal is to let (and I can't believe I'm about to use this term) nature take its course and see what new memes arise and how they cluster.
You say no shit as if it's self evident and I agree it does indeed appear to be self evident but what they showed was that the hypothesis (you'd get clustering) was born out by the study (they got clustering). If you watch the video they even state that it's a testable and verifiable hypothesis.
If you're omniscient it's probably ok to just skate by on assertions but us mere mortals need to start with a hypothesis and devise a test which either appears to support the hypothesis or clearly refutes it.
What a singularly uninformative article. I guess if you've been living in a cave the past 10 years you might not know that Google has a lot of computers and needs a lot of networking and had a project called Firehose (that didn't work) and one called Jupiter which apparently has.
I'm not intrigued by your ideas and I don't want to sign up for your fucking newsletter.
Humans are very adaptable, the main upshot of this type of shit may be a reduction in skin cancer 30 years from now once everybody learns to wear a ski mask all the time.
If this really does become ubiquitous people will find new fashionable ways to wear apparel, make up and skin art that confuses the cameras.
Not sure how many people remember James "Kibo" Parry but at this point I suspect APK doesn't really exist. It's just an interesting bit of amped up Eliza code that looks for references to APK, posts, and then responds to follow ups with canned text and inline name replacements.
By total population comma wins. By total countries dot wins. By total military comma wins. By square mileage dot wins. By website hosting locale comma wins.
By mindless inability to grok the obvious from the summary where they helpfully give $84,400 return on $5,900 investment which makes it clear that it's not 1% and that commas are being used nobody wins.
I doubt encryption would help here. If the set of possible authors is 7 Billion then encryption might help. But given the context, writing style, locale etc the set of possible authors is probably one or two.
So strong encryption doesn't really help deter the police in figuring out who the author was.
Thank you. It amazes me that after reams of random posts about all things init-ish here and in other discussions very few people point this out when discussing dependencies.
A proper dependency check for service A within service B's start up can can also be shoe horned straight into something like Nagios for handling A if it goes sideways.
I really don't know what else to say. I guess I could boycott Disney but since I never ever give them money anyway I doubt they'd notice. It's not like they really give a damn or anything will meaningfully change. A couple of congress critters will wring their hands, promise committee reviews and then ultimately bump the number of visas up a bit more and call it a day.
Agreed that you can't really tack in the nautical sense but it's at least conceptually similar.
With mirrors you can adjust where on the surface light hits and therefore change the preferred direction of motion. You may not be able to sail directly toward the sun (though you might) but you could in theory tack back and forth so you had a net vector towards the sun.
They actually had two ok releases in a row (3.11 and 95), then started the steady drizzle of ok(95), bad(98), ok(2000), oh god why(ME), ok(XP), yeah no(vista), ok(7), pfft(8), we'll see if it's ok(10).
I really don't give a damn how many useless pages a search engine can return in 1.344821 seconds. I care about relevance. Google has slowly eroded the relevance of their returned pages either by adding useless content (tweets) or removing useful search modes (e.g. simple regex).
I'd happily pay a small monthly or annual fee to support a search engine that will return highly relevant pages after a few minutes or even longer if it allows more complicated search and context expressions.
That was a bit odd. I'd guess a planet though that's a heck of a lucky image. It may also have been a monitoring plane. The camera is likely tracking left to right fairly quickly so a relatively stationary object will appear to track right to left equally quickly. It only appears to get close in 2 dimensions, it's hard to say how close the object was along the viewing axis.
That video cuts out long before the actual failure. There were no cameras on it by the time it failed. The end of the video is showing the stage 1 to stage 2 transfer.
Why, they have 7 already, one fewer than Norway and and the same number as Denmark. They have the 15th largest GDP in the world, roughly the same as Australia's. The US has 10X the GDP and 200X the number of satellites so we spend a much higher percentage of GDP on satellites. The US has a sense of Mexico being a god awful poor 3rd world country mostly due to it's proximity. We unfavorably compare it directly to our own economy where as other countries further away have more of a 'must be better' mysterious sense.
Sure it's 66th in per capita GDP but that doesn't mean they as a nation they can't afford more modern technologies, particularly now that the cost is so low.
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If the CEO needs to make real time minute by minute decisions he's not doing his job.
So what if he's old ? What's the risk, that he'll die ? Life is ultimately a one way trip and at that point in his life he doesn't have that many trips left, might as well make it a big one.
Agreed, I wish I'd phrased that better. It was a wonderful case study in complex systems emerging from very simple rule sets.
Surely the Bird is the Word.
They may have crap memory but they have good pheromone receptors. All she was doing was forcing the ant to strengthen the path signal.
On a random side note, we have fairly large ants (1/2 inch) around here that make these 6 foot diameter circles cleared of all material. 30 or so years ago I sat with a six pack and watched them for hours on end. It was kind of fascinating.
Some percentage (presumably >50%) of the ants seemed to be driven to take material from inside the mound and deposit it outside the mound.
Some percentage (presumably 50%) seemed to be driven to pick up some material from outside and deposit it inside (probably MBAs).
Some were lazy and would either drop or pick up material just a few inches from the hole, some a few feet and some adventurous souls would wander 10 to 20 feet away.
The result was a net movement of material from inside the hole and a distribution of material that was maximized around the whole and tapering to nearly zero about 3 feet from the hole. Given monsoonal rains that tapering pretty much ensures the hole is high enough above the local ground level that flooding is rare.
Bloody inefficient but they got there.
A fitness function would be meaningless in this case. The methodology is for each robot to independently mimic as precisely as possible what it observed given the imperfections in it's imaging system.
The goal isn't to train the student robot to perfectly mimic the teacher the goal is to let (and I can't believe I'm about to use this term) nature take its course and see what new memes arise and how they cluster.
You say no shit as if it's self evident and I agree it does indeed appear to be self evident but what they showed was that the hypothesis (you'd get clustering) was born out by the study (they got clustering). If you watch the video they even state that it's a testable and verifiable hypothesis.
If you're omniscient it's probably ok to just skate by on assertions but us mere mortals need to start with a hypothesis and devise a test which either appears to support the hypothesis or clearly refutes it.
To expose a burka.
What a singularly uninformative article. I guess if you've been living in a cave the past 10 years you might not know that Google has a lot of computers and needs a lot of networking and had a project called Firehose (that didn't work) and one called Jupiter which apparently has.
I'm not intrigued by your ideas and I don't want to sign up for your fucking newsletter.
Humans are very adaptable, the main upshot of this type of shit may be a reduction in skin cancer 30 years from now once everybody learns to wear a ski mask all the time.
If this really does become ubiquitous people will find new fashionable ways to wear apparel, make up and skin art that confuses the cameras.
You're in the abyss now.
Not sure how many people remember James "Kibo" Parry but at this point I suspect APK doesn't really exist. It's just an interesting bit of amped up Eliza code that looks for references to APK, posts, and then responds to follow ups with canned text and inline name replacements.
You might want to ponder the meaning of 'net revenue'.
Here's a map of usage by country, blue is comma, green is dot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
By total population comma wins.
By total countries dot wins.
By total military comma wins.
By square mileage dot wins.
By website hosting locale comma wins.
By mindless inability to grok the obvious from the summary where they helpfully give $84,400 return on $5,900 investment which makes it clear that it's not 1% and that commas are being used nobody wins.
I doubt encryption would help here. If the set of possible authors is 7 Billion then encryption might help. But given the context, writing style, locale etc the set of possible authors is probably one or two.
So strong encryption doesn't really help deter the police in figuring out who the author was.
Don't bother. Slashdot has become a long slog of people posting the first damn thing that pops in their mind when a random neuron fires.
They rarely think about complex systems beyond that most superficial first thought.
Thank you. It amazes me that after reams of random posts about all things init-ish here and in other discussions very few people point this out when discussing dependencies.
A proper dependency check for service A within service B's start up can can also be shoe horned straight into something like Nagios for handling A if it goes sideways.
Can't tell if you're high or think this is a Civ1 play through.
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.
I really don't know what else to say. I guess I could boycott Disney but since I never ever give them money anyway I doubt they'd notice. It's not like they really give a damn or anything will meaningfully change. A couple of congress critters will wring their hands, promise committee reviews and then ultimately bump the number of visas up a bit more and call it a day.
I wish to subscribe to your newsletter so I can roll it up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Do you have any extras you could sell ? I misplaced mine sometime around June of '97 and haven't been able to find one since.
Agreed that you can't really tack in the nautical sense but it's at least conceptually similar.
With mirrors you can adjust where on the surface light hits and therefore change the preferred direction of motion. You may not be able to sail directly toward the sun (though you might) but you could in theory tack back and forth so you had a net vector towards the sun.
There's really no reason you couldn't tack up sun. Just need some mirrors. It wouldn't be as effective as sailing down sun but it would work.
BTW, I'm really looking forward to the day that 'sailing down sun' and 'tacking up sun' is a thing.
Yep, Win 3.11 (with trumpet winsock IP stack http://tech.slashdot.org/story...) was ok.
They actually had two ok releases in a row (3.11 and 95), then started the steady drizzle of ok(95), bad(98), ok(2000), oh god why(ME), ok(XP), yeah no(vista), ok(7), pfft(8), we'll see if it's ok(10).
I really don't give a damn how many useless pages a search engine can return in 1.344821 seconds. I care about relevance. Google has slowly eroded the relevance of their returned pages either by adding useless content (tweets) or removing useful search modes (e.g. simple regex).
I'd happily pay a small monthly or annual fee to support a search engine that will return highly relevant pages after a few minutes or even longer if it allows more complicated search and context expressions.
This is a whole new level of naval gazing.
That was a bit odd. I'd guess a planet though that's a heck of a lucky image. It may also have been a monitoring plane. The camera is likely tracking left to right fairly quickly so a relatively stationary object will appear to track right to left equally quickly. It only appears to get close in 2 dimensions, it's hard to say how close the object was along the viewing axis.
That video cuts out long before the actual failure. There were no cameras on it by the time it failed. The end of the video is showing the stage 1 to stage 2 transfer.
Why, they have 7 already, one fewer than Norway and and the same number as Denmark. They have the 15th largest GDP in the world, roughly the same as Australia's. The US has 10X the GDP and 200X the number of satellites so we spend a much higher percentage of GDP on satellites. The US has a sense of Mexico being a god awful poor 3rd world country mostly due to it's proximity. We unfavorably compare it directly to our own economy where as other countries further away have more of a 'must be better' mysterious sense.
Sure it's 66th in per capita GDP but that doesn't mean they as a nation they can't afford more modern technologies, particularly now that the cost is so low.