Were I the keeper of gates, you have just bought yourself a second sentence.
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Tempo. From the group that made the short video Plot Device, Tempo is about some scientists who make a gun that can temporally accelerate/decelerate objects with the flick of a switch. The plot is pretty B-movie and obvious, but it feels like this could be a Valve game on the level of Portal. The acting’s pretty good, too.
I’m thinking it’s the difference between prevention and treating symptoms. It’s more like “we will cure the common cold” and less like “we will make it so you don’t suffer the stuffy nose while the virus wreaks havoc on your body”.
You make this so easy for us, luke. Explanation of 1/f noise
I was at a lecture by Richard Dawkins a while back, and he specifically brought up the topic of gratitude as a human parallel for (I can’t remember the exact name he gave it, but wikipedia calls it Vacuum Activity). Just like a dog trying to bury a bone in the corner of the room. It also had to do with our inherent patter-matching nature, and the survival difference between making Type 1 and Type 2 mistakes (where if you falsely believe a tiger is about to pounce you, you pay a small energy cost from freaking out and running away; but if you falsely think it’s just the wind, you die).
Paper 9 has just been posted.
Dear Paul,
I am attaching my paper on Thinking Machines. The paper was published six years before AI was born. The paper was intended for a student audience and made no attempt to be a serious treatise on thinking machines. A serious paper which I published in 1950 (attached) was entitled “An Extension of Wiener’s Theory of Prediction.” Please let me know if I can be of further of assistance.
With kind regards
Sincerely,
Lotfi Zadeh
Can anybody think of a good use for being the only person in the world with Lactokinesis (Telekinesis, but only with dairy products)? I saw a TV show where a guy turned into a psychopathic murderer because nobody thought his power was cool, and since then I’ve spent a bit of my idle time trying to think of a way to maximize money or fame with the ability.
The problem is scalability. Even if you could do something like super-ultra pasteurize milk, or speed up milking processes, or cure lactose intolerance… you can only do it one unit at a time, and it’s really domain specific. Not like Magneto.
I was in the works of getting the Quieting of Louis Pascal chapter when this request got canceled. Here’s that one, if you still want it.
He did as of 2009. I just emailed him a request.
Andrew, A.M. Learning Machines, 1959. Found here.
Booth, Andrew. How Much Can Machines Learn?.
There’s a book at the local library, so I can get you some selected chapters.
In the works.
Same as #3.
Same, but may be in ebook form.
Also not found.
Same as #3.
Williams, J.D. Toward Intelligent Machines
Not found.
Edited: Added #2 to list. Edited again: Added #9 to list.
I found this from the Harvard Business Review, which had a block of text that looks a lot like this, which I have downloaded as a .pdf in case it magically goes away. Is that what you were looking for?
Truth is more about how you get to know reality than it is about reality. For instance, it is easy to conceive of a possibility where everything a person knows about something points to it being true, even if it later turns out to be false. Even if you do everything right, there’s no cosmic guarantee that you have found truth, and therefore cut straight through to reality.
But it is still a very important concept. Consider: someone you love is in the room with you, and all the evidence available to you points to a bear trying to get into the room. You would be ill-advised to second-guess your belief when there’s impending danger.
Wouldn’t “snow is white” be a true statement if people weren’t around?
Not exactly. White isn’t a fundamental concept like mass is. Brain perception of color is an extremely relative and sticky issue. When I go outside at night and look at snow, I’d swear up and down that the stuff is blue.
I’m not exactly sure how it applies here (it seems to fit between many of the items), but I put myself out there on CouchSurfing and have already hosted 2 sets of people. While there’s nothing systematic about the learning experience, there are a lot of cool benefits to choosing your guests wisely. Want practice with a foreign language, host guests who speak that language. Want to learn about faraway places that you want to visit, pick people from those places. Want to have company as a motivation to cook/clean, seek out people who are arriving very soon. Want company doing activities in town that you’ve never gotten around to? Want to look at your location with fresher eyes? Want to learn foreign cooking? Want an impromptu guitar lesson (or a jam session)? There’s all kinds of low-hanging fruit here!
Sure, there’s the concern that you may end up as an axe-murder victim on the front page of the local newspaper, but we all know that strangers are usually less dangerous than friend/family. And the site has some pretty good vetting procedures in place.
I wanted to post on 7⁄23, when I finally decided to go for it, but now I actually know a bit about what I’m talking about. It’s really great to host people. Maybe I’ll try to see the world from the other side of the divide some time.
Some interesting things I’ve learned that surprised me:
Living in a big city like Paris is about as expensive as living in the middle of nowhere like Fairbanks, Alaska
Americans don’t think about algae when we talk about seafood
There is a movement of people dedicated to food called “microbiotics” that you’ll have to read about for yourself for full effect
Not being embarrassed is a great first-step for learning a foreign language
I like that, and have been doing it myself this past year. My only regret is that the early stuff seems to be the easiest, and that it would be great to spread some of that stuff out on the last few weeks of class when everything starts to get a bit crazy and hectic. That said, the foundations are important; and you can always go over the last material AFTER class is over, in the same way you did the preparing before.
Now that’s something to think about! Proposed working title: Avatar: The First Voidbender
Indeed, Musashi would have to have been an Avatar, were he transported to The Last Airbender’s universe.
My first major question about this very interesting conceptualization of Avatar would then be: is being an Avatar just a one-in-a-million trait (assuming the population of that world is a million)? Because it seems like a rationalist Avatar would prefer not to be the only one on the planet.
This seems to me to be very similar to the dilemma of Alice having a gun to Bob’s head, and Bob having exactly enough time to say one thing before being executed… except that at least Bob can put on a human face and pull on Alice’s emotional strings in person.
Can’t I flash a screen of ASCII art in lieu of crafting a sentence? Some kind of Wall-E face, plaintively looking at you, with a text bubble saying “Please”, or “Don’t kill me yet”, maybe. I mean, look at this face...