I've had it with insects biting my ass (and everything else), giving me diseases, keeping me awake at night and in general fucking up my air filters, my car's grill and my cat and dog. To hell with the damn bugs!
I'm going to get a can of insect repellant and spray it in my bedroom to keep the buggers out tonight.
And all you bug-huggers can go straight to Hell, where all the dead insects are, and they can bite your ass for an eternity! I'll live here in a bug-free environment.
There will be no uprisings, gratefully, as we transition from users surfing porn to users ravaging sexbots to exhaustion while surfing porn.
Women, well, who knows? Possibly the same.
"LifeForce" , thanks to the special effect of Mathilda May naked as a jaybird. Mathilda, it turns out, is a space vampire who immediately engages in a form of intercourse of the most damaging kind with one of her captors!
Also the space vampire ship is one of the least referenced, yet one of the most intriguing spaceship designs I've ever seen.
I was there in 1981 and rode a train across the interior of southern Spain. It was mostly desert then.
The only activity was the Sisyphean effort of fools using massive machines to "comb" huge rocks out of the soil and stack them at the sides of fields. Every field had a huge berm of (big) boulders in a rectangle around it. The intent was to later irrigate and farm it. Guess that didn't work out for ya.
So BFD, it was desert and it will be desert! Get over it now. Maybe they can use it as a giant-ass prison farm; certainly plenty of rocks that need breaking there.
How about a gun that, when you pick it up, hold it properly and pull the trigger, shoots a projectile forward in the direction that the gun is pointed?
to justify hitting it with new deep learning/NN technology. Also, most of the old data has been "mined out" with standard statistical techniques.
Oh, they can do the exercise: chase phantoms, declare that they "found" something new (the same old trends previously found again), with the very occasional true discovery. But by and large, 15 minutes after the data is released, everything we already know will be confirmed and anything new we can know or will know will be revealed.
"chopping wood with an axe isn't a hotbed of technological innovation. It's pretty much worked the same way since the stone age, even though the tools have gotten a bit better."
But the risks remain. Chopping wood is a dangerous and potentially lethal activity. Your axe/hatchet must be sharp but a sharp axe can, in a flash, sever a tendon, an artery or even a leg. Suddenly you will want the latest 21st-century surgical technology. Are you able to sew up a severed artery? Even a tendon? My, my....
Wear sturdy boots - tall boots designed to protect you from an axe. Check your equipment: a loose axehead will ill serve you if, when you give it the "good ole college try", it flies off the handle and embeds itself in your significant other's belly. Can you sew up a severed aorta? In 5 minutes or less? Can you do a field blood transfusion to replace the blood the victim lost? My, my....
Point is, we've forgotten much of how to do things that we _think_ we understand. Most people today could not chop wood with an axe without, at some point, seriously hurting themselves or others. There is no substitute for experience and learning.
Finally, forget about the axe/hatchet. Use a hand saw - it's far safer. But learn and practice how to use it first: an artery severed by a saw is harder to patch than one severed by an axe.
Google has found another earth-shattering ML application: Google Thermometer! For a fee of only $xxxx (fill in the blanks), Google will monitor your a/c system and control it remotely! It will also accept Twitter, e-mail and messages from irritated occupants (such as Mary in Accounting, who is enduring post-menopausal heat flashes) and act (or not) upon them.
Next Month's Fun: Google Rectal Thermometer, which will monitor your bodily functions to optimize your metabolism.
Thanks to fools who accept this sort of behavior we are now officially living in a police state.
There should be criminal, legislative and civil investigations, and the whole bunch of people involved rounded up, prosecuted and thrown in the slammer.
"...if we take it as read that it is, in principle, possible to simulate a universe in some way, at some point in the future, then we have to assume that on an infinite timeline some species, somewhere, will simulate the universe...."
But this is impossible since, to simulate a universe completely would require at least the entire resources of the original universe which, due to the 2nd law of thermodynamics, are not all available. Q.E.D
That is, trying to run a true simulation of a universe within an already-extant universe is akin to trying to run a perpetual-motion machine: it ain't gonna happen.
There are other objections, but this is IMO the strongest.
...each and every time a plane crosses the equator yet computes it's trajectory correctly, every time your car adjusts properly to changes in air temperature, and every time your pacemaker properly tells your heart to beep.
Jerks rule the tech universe. Others participate, but the Jerks keep them in line and the Jerks rule. Without Jerks all would be chaos.
Learn to spell. Pay attention to grammar. Get the errors out of your maths. Become a Jerk, not an uneducated slob! Then get a high-paying tech job and contribute something to the future of mankind.
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Recently glued a 12" aluminum microwave door handle to the glass microwave door with JB Weld. No lasers required! Works great!
I've had it with insects biting my ass (and everything else), giving me diseases, keeping me awake at night and in general fucking up my air filters, my car's grill and my cat and dog. To hell with the damn bugs! I'm going to get a can of insect repellant and spray it in my bedroom to keep the buggers out tonight. And all you bug-huggers can go straight to Hell, where all the dead insects are, and they can bite your ass for an eternity! I'll live here in a bug-free environment.
There will be no uprisings, gratefully, as we transition from users surfing porn to users ravaging sexbots to exhaustion while surfing porn. Women, well, who knows? Possibly the same.
Whatever happened to "affected"?
Does everything have to be compared to a meteor strike?
Or is it possible there was no true "impact", in which case the OP was trolling for clicks?
There's nothing extraordinary about rats vis-a-vis humans. And its _human_ intelliigence we want to model, not rat intelligence, last time I checked!
We don't need any Artificial Rats, though my cat might enjoy one.
This will do more to enable true AI than all the neural networks of the last 5 years'.
the steering wheel of my 1998 Ford Ranger long after that.
"LifeForce" , thanks to the special effect of Mathilda May naked as a jaybird. Mathilda, it turns out, is a space vampire who immediately engages in a form of intercourse of the most damaging kind with one of her captors!
Also the space vampire ship is one of the least referenced, yet one of the most intriguing spaceship designs I've ever seen.
I agree with Dilbert's creator, Scott Adams:
The Non-Expert Problem and Climate Change Science
On Amazon you have to pay shipping. Always! Its expensive, since you're shipping _one_ item in the mail.
It may not be what you want. You can't hold it, touch it, feel its heft. You might have to send it back, at your expense.
One of these but 100 times bigger.
Or sling a barrel of gasoline and a torch over the top! The barrier even protects you from the flames (but not the driver).
Sell yourself as a pure HTML/CSS page developer and convince your buyers that the increased security and throughput is worthwhile.
All I need is an updated Clippy telling me what to code next!
Don't publish this too much further - the FBI is already embarrassed by/about the Clinton investigation.
Revealing this would make them laughingstocks of law enforcement for a decade to come.
I was there in 1981 and rode a train across the interior of southern Spain. It was mostly desert then.
The only activity was the Sisyphean effort of fools using massive machines to "comb" huge rocks out of the soil and stack them at the sides of fields. Every field had a huge berm of (big) boulders in a rectangle around it. The intent was to later irrigate and farm it. Guess that didn't work out for ya.
So BFD, it was desert and it will be desert! Get over it now. Maybe they can use it as a giant-ass prison farm; certainly plenty of rocks that need breaking there.
How about a gun that, when you pick it up, hold it properly and pull the trigger, shoots a projectile forward in the direction that the gun is pointed?
Now that's a smart gun!
Oh! We have those already!?!
take everything with a grain of salt. Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science Study Finds: Studies Are Wrong:
to justify hitting it with new deep learning/NN technology. Also, most of the old data has been "mined out" with standard statistical techniques.
Oh, they can do the exercise: chase phantoms, declare that they "found" something new (the same old trends previously found again), with the very occasional true discovery. But by and large, 15 minutes after the data is released, everything we already know will be confirmed and anything new we can know or will know will be revealed.
Nothing here, Folks. Move along please.
"chopping wood with an axe isn't a hotbed of technological innovation. It's pretty much worked the same way since the stone age, even though the tools have gotten a bit better."
But the risks remain. Chopping wood is a dangerous and potentially lethal activity. Your axe/hatchet must be sharp but a sharp axe can, in a flash, sever a tendon, an artery or even a leg. Suddenly you will want the latest 21st-century surgical technology. Are you able to sew up a severed artery? Even a tendon? My, my....
Wear sturdy boots - tall boots designed to protect you from an axe. Check your equipment: a loose axehead will ill serve you if, when you give it the "good ole college try", it flies off the handle and embeds itself in your significant other's belly. Can you sew up a severed aorta? In 5 minutes or less? Can you do a field blood transfusion to replace the blood the victim lost? My, my....
Point is, we've forgotten much of how to do things that we _think_ we understand. Most people today could not chop wood with an axe without, at some point, seriously hurting themselves or others. There is no substitute for experience and learning.
Finally, forget about the axe/hatchet. Use a hand saw - it's far safer. But learn and practice how to use it first: an artery severed by a saw is harder to patch than one severed by an axe.
what rubbish : an "invitation"?
Google has found another earth-shattering ML application: Google Thermometer! For a fee of only $xxxx (fill in the blanks), Google will monitor your a/c system and control it remotely! It will also accept Twitter, e-mail and messages from irritated occupants (such as Mary in Accounting, who is enduring post-menopausal heat flashes) and act (or not) upon them.
Next Month's Fun: Google Rectal Thermometer, which will monitor your bodily functions to optimize your metabolism.
WTF are people thinking, doing such things?
Thanks to fools who accept this sort of behavior we are now officially living in a police state.
There should be criminal, legislative and civil investigations, and the whole bunch of people involved rounded up, prosecuted and thrown in the slammer.
The article says
"...if we take it as read that it is, in principle, possible to simulate a universe in some way, at some point in the future, then we have to assume that on an infinite timeline some species, somewhere, will simulate the universe...."
But this is impossible since, to simulate a universe completely would require at least the entire resources of the original universe which, due to the 2nd law of thermodynamics, are not all available. Q.E.D
That is, trying to run a true simulation of a universe within an already-extant universe is akin to trying to run a perpetual-motion machine: it ain't gonna happen.
There are other objections, but this is IMO the strongest.
FTFY
A mammalian brain is not necessarily a human brain. It is the human brain we want to model.
...each and every time a plane crosses the equator yet computes it's trajectory correctly, every time your car adjusts properly to changes in air temperature, and every time your pacemaker properly tells your heart to beep.
Jerks rule the tech universe. Others participate, but the Jerks keep them in line and the Jerks rule. Without Jerks all would be chaos.
Learn to spell. Pay attention to grammar. Get the errors out of your maths. Become a Jerk, not an uneducated slob! Then get a high-paying tech job and contribute something to the future of mankind.