Everyone is going on about how Justin Lin's Star Trek is so much better than the two J.J. Abrams made. I don't get it. I thought that Abram's two films were both much better.
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Everyone is going on about how Justin Lin's Star Trek is so much better than the two J.J. Abrams made. I don't get it. I thought that Abram's two films were both much better.
Even with really good insurance and having met my deductible (but not my yearly out of pocket) I still cannot afford the tests and procedures I need to make sure I don't die before 50 like my dad and his dad, and his dad, and his dad...
I got an A in my statistics class! :grin:
This is totally sweet...
Friend of me taking a shower here, was in prison for a week because of a fine she didn't pay. Molest someone and you are out the next day. Somethin kinda odd here.
Just three weeks after I finished my summer classes, my fall semester classes begin tomorrow. Ugh. :wall:
ffs now I see them here as well, hoverboards. Mostly American tourists use them. They don't get in the way or anything but these things are so dumb, what's wrong with walking, you will even get to your destination faster if you just walk because this town wasn't build with hoverboards in mind because it's 1400 years old and they didn't have hoverboards then, you will have to carry it every 50 meter or so. Why do you think it makes sense
lol, I've never seen one.
Please kick them if you do, not a very nice thing to do to guests so I can't. The pokemon go-hoverboard combo especially just deserves a neckshot imhoQuote:
Originally Posted by Vuk
I have seen two or three here, I also prefer walking, it's what we have our legs for and tends to be healthy, too.
Not sure why they call them hoverboards as they don't even hover, they're more like mini-segways.
I mean once we invent actual hoverboards, people will get confused... :dizzy2:
I don't think I have ever seen one in New York City or its parks (though as always some people use scooters or skateboards).
Maybe they all ended up in the river...
real hoverboards actually existQuote:
Originally Posted by Husar
But ffs just walk or get a good bycicle it's much better for you. People using hoverboards are probably the same people who read up on every ingredient when they buy food, hipster thingie that should die
Qué?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fragony
We're not talking about hovercraft or something much larger than a skateboard now, are we?
No.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Real hovering skateboards, Back to the Future style. Don't ask me how but they can, but they aren't in production yet. Could be a prank but a very well done one. gg on bothQuote:
Originally Posted by Husar
Only with magnetic levitation like this one and the one from Hendo that they shortly mention:Quote:
Originally Posted by Fragony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvYUq6Ox0Hc
They need a special surface or even rails though to be able to hover due to the entire hovering process depending on magnetism.
It's not quite hovering over everything like in the movies. If you saw something else, it was a prank.
In general I'd think the major advantage of hovering is to remove ground resistance, but as it stands we need far more energy to make something hover than we could save by avoiding ground resistance, which makes the technology seem a bit pointless to me outside of some special needs or entertainment purposes.
Tonight we will both sup with the Devil...
howling to the moon sounds better. Just to make your life seem less complicated, I am trying to court a girl who's ex was liquidated two years ago in Utrecht, more than 30 unnecesary ventilations found. Dinner next friday
Speaking of girls, I might be going on a date soon with a girl whose mother died last year from cancer. Not really sure how to deal with the subject should it come up. Obviously I wont bring it up myself, Im smarter than that I would hope.
In my experience women will typically skip past the family medical history on the first date and go straight to sex.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hooahguy
Lucky you but do you know her
It's hard to choose who is my favorite character ever, the Marquis de Sade or Oscar Wilde. Both brilliant.
It's July.
Which means the world is getting more familiar even though I recognize less. :shame:
I need to post something here, too.
The average temperature measured at a local meteorological station for the last 30 days this year (red) and for the time period 1961 - 1990 (black) have recently divorced and are now heading in opposite directions: one of them is heading for the land of winter, the other for the land of summer.
https://i.imgur.com/k8MkIWH.jpg
I came close to running over an old man that was very slowly crossing the street. I turned a corner and there he was. I note that l came close to being distracted as I made the turn. Thank goodness I watched the road. Also I would like to thank the fact that I drive like an old timer anyway.
Still I contemplate what could have happened if I gave into distraction. Scary.
When your life comes to a point where you are quoting memes in real life you need to stop and reevaluate things. Looking at you Jeffrey.
The problem with multilingualism is that it messes with perceptions. I just instinctively read BCE in an English language context as всё ('everything' in Russian). The more languages I were to get familiar with, the worse it would get.
I make really stupid mistakes in all languages I (barely) speak even my own. It's a bit of a switch it's hard to do all at the same time
This sucks, went to the dentist and I have this disease that could cause me to lose all my teeth. Disease can't be cured and I might need to replace everything and that is very painfull and costly and I can't afford/handle that because finances aren't doing very well atm. Mommy already said she will pay it if it's necesary but ffs I am 37 and I need my mommy to fix this shit, I should be able to fix shit for her instead. Thanks mommy where would I be without you. Shame on me.
Well on the plus side if you got all fake teeth you would probably save money on toothpaste? :shrug:
That sucks though, Im sorry.
Bad idea if you cherish your gums and mouth.Quote:
Well on the plus side if you got all fake teeth you would probably save money on toothpaste?
Gracias. The front rows can probably be saved fortunatlyQuote:
Originally Posted by Hooahguy
Oh right I forgot about those. Nothing that a bit of mouthwash couldnt fix right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Montmorency
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/op...elligence.htmlQuote:
In a series of studies, Professor Stanovich and colleagues had large samples of subjects (usually several hundred) complete judgment tests like the Linda problem, as well as an I.Q. test. The major finding was that irrationality — or what Professor Stanovich called “dysrationalia” — correlates relatively weakly with I.Q. A person with a high I.Q. is about as likely to suffer from dysrationalia as a person with a low I.Q. In a 2008 study, Professor Stanovich and colleagues gave subjects the Linda problem and found that those with a high I.Q. were, if anything, more prone to the conjunction fallacy.
Based on this evidence, Professor Stanovich and colleagues have introduced the concept of the rationality quotient, or R.Q. If an I.Q. test measures something like raw intellectual horsepower (abstract reasoning and verbal ability), a test of R.Q. would measure the propensity for reflective thought — stepping back from your own thinking and correcting its faulty tendencies.
I anticipate that RQ and IQ are far from equivalent, but an almost nonexistent correlation would not be expected.
I take issue with the equivocal use of set theory in the Linda problem.
It is given as a problem in which one answer should be treated as a subset of the other, but in fact it would make sense to treat them as intersections, meaning the probabilities are not per se limited.
For example:
A. Viking is a human.
B. Viking is a human and mortal.
Which is likelier?
If you leave aside the interpretation that human entails mortal, then we can go on to say that human need not be a subset of mortal, nor vice-versa.
So for all your notions of rationality you might as well deliver that there is no concrete answer to the Linda problem because probabilities of that sort are incalculable, if not outright invalid in their construction. Funny that Kahneman was behind this.
I don't get your objection. Why shouldn't P(A) ≥ P(A ∧ B) for any choice of A and B?
Because they are independent.
For example: If I have 6 marbles, which is more probable?
A. I have 3 black marbles.
B. I have 3 black marbles and 3 red marbles.
Or:
I have at least one child. Which is likelier?
A. I have a son.
B. I have a son and a daughter.
The P(A) is not a component of P(B) or vice versa, at least not in just logical terms.
For example, in a real distribution perhaps P(A) is .25 while P(B) is .30, because people who have children are likelier to have 2 children than just one. A and B are separate events; B is not a subset of A.
But now you have implicitly changed the definition of A to be "I have only a son". If you have a son and a daughter, you also have a son.Quote:
Originally Posted by Montmorency
If you mean that A can be interpreted both ways, then I get your objection.
Viking is much much more likely as they still live in valhalla, viking comes from old Norsk meanin 'vikinger' old Norsk, anyways you are cheating on probabilty Montmorency, and no I am not going to say why
Yes, if against common human experience you were to structure the question such that A implicitly includes B by your private interpretation, then that is not a matter of probabilities any longer but of word games, which trivializes the whole study. That's the sort of thing annoying people do for fun at dinner parties.Quote:
If you mean that A can be interpreted both ways, then I get your objection.
Good friend is of to rehab, he does sp voluntary. It's necesary but I am really going to miss him. Regime is really harsh only direct family is allowed to visit. Heard it is a really nice place though, good food, plenty of activities, big garden. You are still locked though. I don't think he's going stay clean after he's done it has been part of his life for 20 years he will get bored.
Cats have the most odd habits. When I take my morning dump she completily falls in love with me and curls up on my lap.I have no idea why.
https://dalstonmercury.wordpress.com/Quote:
Dalston vigilantes are pursuing a campaign of intimidation, violence and gratuitous dismemberment against members of the public they suspect of being behind the ‘creepy clown’ phenomenon.
The smouldering remains of Tommy Tootles, a much loved children’s entertainer, were found all over the place this morning, just yards from where, last Saturday, the actor who plays Mr Tumble was subjected to a savage critique of his performance in the 2015 CBBC pantomime.
Mr Bob Cartwright, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was set upon by a gang of men wielding cricket bats and a frozen leg of lamb as he was passing the Clement Attlee Estate last night.
He told the Mercury: ‘They just came out of nowhere shouting ‘nonce’ and ‘stay away from our kiddies you Grimaldi-esque pervert’. Then they beat the crap out of me and ran away yelling ‘down with the Commedia dell’arte and that’.
‘I wouldn’t care, but I’m not even a clown. I’ve just got big feet.’
We did check, and Mr Cartwright does have really big feet, plus slightly mad hair. But he still insists he is not a clown.
‘I’m not a bloody clown, you tit,’ he said.
Reports of people being beaten up for wearing bow ties are up 30% on the year, as are attacks on people driving really small cars.
Unicycle riders have also been targeted, leaving over 4000 Dalston hipsters with life-threatening injuries, although there are so many excellent reasons to beat up an adult riding a unicycle in a public place that no one is sure whether these assaults are clown-related.
Dalston police have advised anyone with a cold to stay at home because ‘having a red nose during the current coulrophobia-driven orgy of violence could get you a right battering, and no mistake.’
We asked the police if it was acceptable to assault any children’s entertainers at all, but they said ‘No. Only Noel Edmonds. Timmy Mallett at a pinch, but definitely Noel Edmonds.’
:laugh4:
Im gonna be an uncle! :2thumbsup:
Awesome, just got word that my mates daughter won the thai-box world-championship, again. She wins everyting he needs a bigger shelve. What makes so funny is that she's a really shy and soft-spoken girl
Thats really cool!
Yes it is, it aren't just two world championships she won but also two european ones and a few opens. She wins everything it's crazy. on tops it was her 13th brthday. She's known as hitgirl, real name LuciennaQuote:
Originally Posted by Hooahguy
edit, her mom is coolas well she's the dj https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbmGv9OZ1PQ
So she has accomplished more in 13 years than I have in over 20 years. Gotcha :dizzy2:
She's going to highschool next year, already laughing my ass of, she is likely to be picked upon because she's so shy. That's going to be really funny.
Names that makes you suspect someone never wanted kids
For a boy: Damien, who would still call his son Damian, reason is obvious
For a girl: Tiffany, everybody will assume she is a slut and they are probably right
It's cruel.
add your suspicion.
Misrepresentative of the source, but these lines need to be saved for future:
"Neural networks are to actual neurons what astrology is to astronomy."
"Any semblance of intelligence that emerges from AI applications will only be in the eye of the beholder."
That sounds a bit like "No one will ever need more than 640k of memory", which, as I heard, was also misrepresentative of what was actually meant. :sweatdrop:Quote:
Originally Posted by Montmorency
That's a hoax quote, but a better comparison would be to "You can't keep your furniture on your hard drive", which hopefully no one ever needed to be told.
Ah, yes, fully made up, must have mixed something up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Montmorency
Not sure about the furniture one, or how it relates to the others. Are you saying in the future it may be possible to keep furniture on your harddrive because matter is energy and energy is basically just information or something like that? :sweatdrop:
No, the idea being that thinking that a hard drive will allow you to store things other than what is exactly designed to be stored on a hard drive completely misunderstands the technology and the underlying physical principles.
I'm not sure though whether the idea that artificial neural networks could one day be as good as biological ones is that crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Montmorency
What sounds like a lack of understanding to me is calling them "neural networks" and "actual neurons", because to my understanding, "actual neurons" only work really well in a "neural network". If that's what you mean then I understand you, but your quote is also a bit off given that the quoted person is not the one making the mistake there. :sweatdrop:
If neurons act as a neural network, then a computer software designed for certain tasks and using select characteristics of some neurons will not behave as a "real" neural network.
Lightbulb technology will never be "as good as" a sun when it comes to generating light, both because that's an inherent technological constraint and because the design of a lightbulb, being made for specific purposes, is very far from the design of a star.
But now you entered the constraints of using select characteristics and being designed for specific tasks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Montmorency
My point was that these things are still in development, it seems strange to assume that they cannot one day do more.
And it doesn't just have to be software, apparently some chips are designed as neural networks: http://www.research.ibm.com/cognitiv...ic-chips.shtml
That is a very strange way to combine these arguments. The physical limitations are relatively obvious, but to say a light bulb is created for specific purposes that differ from those of a star is a bit odd given that the purpose of a light bulb is to replace the light of a star in places or at time where the light of a star is not readily available. Of course the design is different, having a star with the smallest working mass on our planet would be a bit much and also a bit hote, in fact one would rather say having our planet on such a star rather than the other way around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Montmorency
The light bulb still allows you to see things the same way the star does, so with that purpose in mind, they both provide the same result.
If you are refering to the idea that pouring alcohol over a brain vs pouring it over a computer chip on which a neural network is running yields different results, well, whom are you quoting, Captain Obvious? ~;)
What they will be able to do in the future depends on how are present assumptions and what we think we are trying to accomplish are revised. The important thing is that 'more of' what we're doing now will not push boundaries.Quote:
it seems strange to assume that they cannot one day do more.
And that's exactly what current approaches can manage - and that's fine. But let's not pretend we're building stars when we're just making plain-old lightbulbs.Quote:
they both provide the same result.
I'm not so sure, but I'm also not deep in the topic (yet).Quote:
Originally Posted by Montmorency
That's fine, but the comparison with astrology sounds a lot meaner than that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Montmorency
Is a promotion without a pay raise (or any pay at all) really still a promotion?
EDIT: not talking about my recent donning of the red robes. :book2:
No, it's spot-on. Echoed here.Quote:
That's fine, but the comparison with astrology sounds a lot meaner than that.
Depends. Can you order more people around?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hooahguy
But Astrology is more like a placebo while neural networks actually work. I wasn't aware that people expect them to do our research for us anytime soon. All the mentions I've seen say that such jobs have a very low chance (aka "maybe way in the future") of getting replaced by machines. What I haven't seen until you came along were people who seem to think it's inherently impossibe. Especially after that other theory you had that basically saw the brain as a (rather complicated) input-output-machine. And who says that our future computers can't be partially biological and contain vat-grown neural networks? Some reports of people connecting animal brains to computers already exist. :sweatdrop:Quote:
Originally Posted by Montmorency
@Hooahguy: Depends on whether you get something like prestige instead of money, or what drone said, but it can be, I guess.
Yes, I will be working on a pilot program being the liaison between the parent organization and local groups. And somehow Im still an unpaid intern. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by drone
I did no such thing. I claimed (in another thread probably a year or two ago) that changing our expectations of our current approach is necessary, since it amounts to trying to reverse-engineer a spaceship by sending monkeys with typewriters to crawl over it. We have to re-orient our investigation of principles to abandon these sorts of assumptions on intelligence and consciousness, which is where the theory I referenced, being a theory on the structure and nature of human consciousness, come in.Quote:
What I haven't seen until you came along were people who seem to think it's inherently impossibe.
A quotable way to put my position here is just that you can't devise an artificial intelligence worth writing science fiction of before you you have devised the human intelligence. And the underlying notion there is that doing so would bring significant changes to our societies, even beyond the musings of AI science fiction. That would be the point of singularity.
Gawd I hate microwaves. It's the only way to have warm food right now as I closed of all gas, heating and cooking is goig to be all electric from now on. That is awesome but ffs they keep cancelling the day to be installing it and I already payed. A microwave has nothing to offer to me I like cooking, not warming up. I want nice ingredients. I want to do it all myself.
You don't need gas to do it all yourself........then again you can produce gas yourse......ok, ok.... :sweatdrop:
Nothing as satisfying as a serenade on the belly-fluteQuote:
Originally Posted by Husar
My computer turned the clock back by two hours instead of just one. :freak:
When you have a major paper due in half a week and you are struggling to find the will to write it. :no:
Is there somewhere you can buy bottles of luck?
Yorkshire Gold is powerful tea. Stains the teeth horribly. Drink a cup of plain water shortly after drinking a cup of Yorkshire Gold.
Start :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Hooahguy
No really, just start writing. If you've organized the structure in your head, just start getting stuff on a page.
If you haven't really thought about structure, write an outline.
I used to get in a bind - "I should start but..."; best thing to do is just start (even if its gibberish)
Lol well the paper is long done, I actually got a 93 on it.
But thanks! :2thumbsup:
Heartbreak might just be the worst thing ever. This freaking sucks. How do you guys get over the person who you thought was "the one"? Its still raw, just happened yesterday but I feel like I lost my best friend now. And she was my best friend.
A cry and a nap might do it in many cases.