I rarely start from scratch. I plan the project, figure out what I'm likely to need and start raiding old code libraries on the net, or on book CDs (Hint. Best "starter" code is usually available from book publishers). By the time, I've gotten all that together, what's left is usually some interface design and what I call "lego" work where I fit it all together.
For a lot of us, It's not about being the best programmer. It's about being the guy who gets a task accomplished in a reasonable timeframe and cost.
As for long term maintenance. I comment everything. I clean it up. I start with good ingredients. The company is still using code I created 7 years ago. You?
Thanks for the reminder about Australian aboriginals.
As for Jung and Campbell, phooey. I know the idea was popular in intellectual circles around the turn of the last century, but it's nonsense. The religious states are NOT all the same, either in precepts or end state. Even stripped of cultural references, dreamtime is not nirvana which is not Samadhi which is not Samyama which has nothing to do with the !Kung's concept of !Num. None of these correlate to the shamanic practices of the Amazonian native american tribes.
Again. No universal definition of "spiritual" exists. An australian abo, a Buddhist, or a Muslim Sufi all see it differently.
I, and probably most of the people on Digg or Reddit, don't hate religious people OR Christians. I suspect that they DO hate it when small groups of "spiritual people" of sect X decide to legislate political matters based on unprovable, mythologically based views of the world. This affects everyone directly and has provably cause great harm to gays, jews, puritans and anabaptists.
Whether the universe was created by an omniscient superbeing(s) or not, does it matter? None of them have shown up this morning offering to help me with anything, any more than I would show up at an anthill 100 miles north and offer to help ant number 3432. Besides, if they DO exist, all bets are off. They can effect your memory and make you believe anything they want.
Spirituality can well be a "feeling." There's no commonly accepted criterion. Many of my spiritual moments have include "feelings."
One that everyone could agree on, I might take this study seriously.
But the quote in the article "It's important to recognize that the whole study is based on changes in one self-report measure" is quite telling. We see a change in a trait, commonly associated in some religions traditions as "spiritual." Interesting, certainly. Meaningful? Probably not.
But I wouldn't predict *how* we'll do it, however off the top of my head, I can think of a number of approaches:
Hybrid approaches (i.e. organic neural material interfacing with an artificial neural network).
1) Direct I/O to thousands of minds on the internet and their neural net assistants.
2) Artificial neural net interacting with artificial neural net.
Purely artificial AI:
1) IBM is reverse engineering not just neural networks, but neurons themselves (http://domino.watson.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/bmc_modeling.index.html)
2) Some incremental useful, but not very humanlike AI like DARPAs (http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/programs/il/il.asp)
Look, AI, when it hits isn't going to be HAL or C-3PO. There's no inherent motivation for anything, including self preservation or any of that contextual stuff that we as living creatures have. It's no more going to resemble human intelligence than a helicopter resembles a European swallow, but it'll be useful and solve problems human cognition simply can't handle in a timeframe that matters.
And *then* what happened to them? They were thrown out of India by a skinny guy who wandered around in his underwear. Of course, I understand they were big hydrogen monoxide users too. Hard to separate the causality when two such deadly substances are involved.
But the folks who used the table in the lunchroom complained, so we now use the far more sophisticated system of tea leaf reading. This upsets nobody but the tea drinkers as we frequently need to user their cups before they're done, but then tea drinkers are wussies anyway.
No, I know the type too well. She's as clueless as any other woman in America who grew up both pretty and privileged. They think their success is all due to their own effort, never considering that most of it happened due to looks, education, family connections or Daddy's money. Cognitive dissonance prevents her from facing that, so when others fail it *must* be 100% their own fault. Standard issue delusional thinking. Frankly, I wouldn't trust her to board my cat.
Steve Jobs was technical enough to be hired by Atari to create a circuit board for the game "breakout." Bonus points for self-driven actual creativity that made him take after work calligraphy courses on his own, drop acid and go on a pilgrimage to India, coming back a Buddhist.
But you're right in that he's an exceptional blend of technical and creative. Carli, sadly, is neither. She's a merely a smart course taker and social game player with an unfortunate case of narcissistic personality disorder.
Carli Fiorina was such a hugely pathetic failure at HP not because she is a woman, but because she zero engineering expertise (degrees in philosophy, medieval history and business if I'm remembering correctly). Apple found out the same thing when they hired John Scully to be CEO. Total fail. When non-engineers try and run tech companies, there seems to be a *much* higher probability of failure.
Yes, universal netizinship bar coding would be most efficient. While we're at it, let's confine everyone to one room where we can watch them at all times and make sure they're working.
Yeah mine too. Have at it, guys. Perhaps my criminal record, which consists being caught out after curfew after 10 pm riding my bike when I was 13 plus *several* failures to come to a complete stop at a stop sign and one failure to signal my intention to turn right will be of huge interest. Clearly I have subversive tendencies, at least while driving.
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I rarely start from scratch. I plan the project, figure out what I'm likely to need and start raiding old code libraries on the net, or on book CDs (Hint. Best "starter" code is usually available from book publishers). By the time, I've gotten all that together, what's left is usually some interface design and what I call "lego" work where I fit it all together.
For a lot of us, It's not about being the best programmer. It's about being the guy who gets a task accomplished in a reasonable timeframe and cost.
As for long term maintenance. I comment everything. I clean it up. I start with good ingredients. The company is still using code I created 7 years ago. You?
You say this like it's a *bad* thing...
Thanks for the reminder about Australian aboriginals.
As for Jung and Campbell, phooey. I know the idea was popular in intellectual circles around the turn of the last century, but it's nonsense. The religious states are NOT all the same, either in precepts or end state. Even stripped of cultural references, dreamtime is not nirvana which is not Samadhi which is not Samyama which has nothing to do with the !Kung's concept of !Num. None of these correlate to the shamanic practices of the Amazonian native american tribes.
Again. No universal definition of "spiritual" exists. An australian abo, a Buddhist, or a Muslim Sufi all see it differently.
I, and probably most of the people on Digg or Reddit, don't hate religious people OR Christians. I suspect that they DO hate it when small groups of "spiritual people" of sect X decide to legislate political matters based on unprovable, mythologically based views of the world. This affects everyone directly and has provably cause great harm to gays, jews, puritans and anabaptists.
Whether the universe was created by an omniscient superbeing(s) or not, does it matter? None of them have shown up this morning offering to help me with anything, any more than I would show up at an anthill 100 miles north and offer to help ant number 3432. Besides, if they DO exist, all bets are off. They can effect your memory and make you believe anything they want.
Spirituality can well be a "feeling." There's no commonly accepted criterion. Many of my spiritual moments have include "feelings."
One that everyone could agree on, I might take this study seriously.
But the quote in the article "It's important to recognize that the whole study is based on changes in one self-report measure" is quite telling. We see a change in a trait, commonly associated in some religions traditions as "spiritual." Interesting, certainly. Meaningful? Probably not.
Thought I'd fix that article title for you.
But I wouldn't predict *how* we'll do it, however off the top of my head, I can think of a number of approaches:
Hybrid approaches (i.e. organic neural material interfacing with an artificial neural network).
1) Direct I/O to thousands of minds on the internet and their neural net assistants.
2) Artificial neural net interacting with artificial neural net.
Purely artificial AI:
1) IBM is reverse engineering not just neural networks, but neurons themselves (http://domino.watson.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/bmc_modeling.index.html)
2) Some incremental useful, but not very humanlike AI like DARPAs (http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/programs/il/il.asp)
Look, AI, when it hits isn't going to be HAL or C-3PO. There's no inherent motivation for anything, including self preservation or any of that contextual stuff that we as living creatures have. It's no more going to resemble human intelligence than a helicopter resembles a European swallow, but it'll be useful and solve problems human cognition simply can't handle in a timeframe that matters.
Ba duh BUH!
And *then* what happened to them? They were thrown out of India by a skinny guy who wandered around in his underwear. Of course, I understand they were big hydrogen monoxide users too. Hard to separate the causality when two such deadly substances are involved.
But the folks who used the table in the lunchroom complained, so we now use the far more sophisticated system of tea leaf reading. This upsets nobody but the tea drinkers as we frequently need to user their cups before they're done, but then tea drinkers are wussies anyway.
No, I know the type too well. She's as clueless as any other woman in America who grew up both pretty and privileged. They think their success is all due to their own effort, never considering that most of it happened due to looks, education, family connections or Daddy's money. Cognitive dissonance prevents her from facing that, so when others fail it *must* be 100% their own fault. Standard issue delusional thinking. Frankly, I wouldn't trust her to board my cat.
Steve Jobs was technical enough to be hired by Atari to create a circuit board for the game "breakout." Bonus points for self-driven actual creativity that made him take after work calligraphy courses on his own, drop acid and go on a pilgrimage to India, coming back a Buddhist.
But you're right in that he's an exceptional blend of technical and creative. Carli, sadly, is neither. She's a merely a smart course taker and social game player with an unfortunate case of narcissistic personality disorder.
Carli Fiorina was such a hugely pathetic failure at HP not because she is a woman, but because she zero engineering expertise (degrees in philosophy, medieval history and business if I'm remembering correctly). Apple found out the same thing when they hired John Scully to be CEO. Total fail. When non-engineers try and run tech companies, there seems to be a *much* higher probability of failure.
Yes, universal netizinship bar coding would be most efficient. While we're at it, let's confine everyone to one room where we can watch them at all times and make sure they're working.
Heil Palin.
Yeah mine too. Have at it, guys. Perhaps my criminal record, which consists being caught out after curfew after 10 pm riding my bike when I was 13 plus *several* failures to come to a complete stop at a stop sign and one failure to signal my intention to turn right will be of huge interest. Clearly I have subversive tendencies, at least while driving.
I'm a wild man. Grr.
The people running the country have put us in a vegetative state with their insidious "American Idol," "Biggest Loser" and the evil "Jay Leno"
On some of my more sluggish co-workers
Pshaw! Who'd ever go to see a movie like that? That's crazy talk!
Only for those travelers who are not originally goo, or slime. For those, there's business class.
First class gets extra inertial damping. It costs more but it's soooo worth it.
If by "us" you mean, "the internet" yes, I can assure you, "we" will be even more depressed than we are after reading the millions of blogs out there.
Signed, the internet.
Does that count?
Many (not all, of course) of the posters here are in favor of capitalism. Just a guess.
So, why is it that there are so many her in favor of socialized space exploration? What happened to "The free market can do it better?"
Personally I feel NASA's ongoing mission should be the distribution of people into outer space for permanent relocation.
There, fixed that for you. There was some humorous nonsense about *saving* humanity obviously tacked on by a hacker.