Comment Re: LOGO (Score 1) 633
LCSI Atari LOGO in Spanish was my first. It used a slightly different translation: AV RE DE IZ
I could even change the shape of the turtle to an 8x16 sprite.
LCSI Atari LOGO in Spanish was my first. It used a slightly different translation: AV RE DE IZ
I could even change the shape of the turtle to an 8x16 sprite.
1. Record someone's voice without permission.
2. Build custom TTS.
3. Use your victim's voice to give orders to other IoT devices.
4. ???
5. Profit!
Because once they're accepted by the company, they're no longer yours, but the company's. Even if they say no to you, they may later fire you and claim your idea as theirs.
A difference must be made. On one side, there's your job and what you're paid to do for the company, how you use the company's time and resources, in order to contribute to their projects and achieve their goals.
On the other side, you, your own ideas, projects and goals, which hopefully shouldn't overlap those of the company; what you do in your own time with your own resources, at home, away from the office.
Reread your contract, and pay attention to any and all comments about Intellectual Property. Your contract most likely has a Non-Compete clause (unless your jurisdiction prohibits it, as it's the case in California).
If you're still okay with that, then think about the costs, risks and consequences of your idea. Many things that looked great on paper become a nightmare to implement, and eventually became lost at the bottom of the priority pool, as company resources become assigned to more urgent priorities.
Talk with as many people as possible about your idea. Let it become discussed, analyzed and criticized. Your direct boss may not be happy with it, but if your idea is good you may somehow become a John Houbolt and find a Robert Seamans who can bring attention from the higher-ups to your idea.
Unlikely. Slashdot only supports the following subset of Windows-1252:
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This applies to causes and groups of people, and their individual members.
Case 1: Martyrs
Suppose that groups A and B are in conflict against each other. A member of group A murders a member of group B. Group A vindicates the action as a victory in battle and as a warning towards group B. Group B raises the fallen comrade as a martyr, and feels entitled to retaliate and seek revenge.
Case 2: Stereotyped explanations
Someone's arguments or actions are invalidated because the person belong to a certain group or defend a certain cause, and hence such arguments and actions are considered typical of the group in question and their significance is thus ignored or ridiculed.
Women are a particularly common victim. Examples:
- https://xkcd.com/385/
- When a man becomes, say, President, he's the President, and his gender is never discussed. When a woman becomes President, to other people she's always a woman first and a President last, with her gender being a major part of political discussion about her.
- When a man is pissed off, there's probably a good reason. When a woman is pissed off, she's often assumed to be on her period.
Not everything can be done through a web browser. Besides, there are tasks that, while benefitting from a mobile device, have no need to connect to the Internet.
Some of my favorite mobile apps include:
- Jota Text Editor. Because I like to write stuff and I'm not happy with the idea of putting all that stuff online.
- Open Street Map. You have to download a large map once, but then you can access it from anywhere. I still use Google Maps when I need real time information, but waiting for maps to download is annoying.
- RealCalc Scientific Calculator, QPython, Barcode Reader...
First of all, I'm a lowly code monkey. I'm quite ignorant about this whole AI stuff, and this whole post may be nothing but ignorant bunk.
I imagine that, to be able to achieve an intellectual level comparable to that of a human being, an artificial intelligence must be able to perceive the world and interact with it as a human would do. It must be able to respond to physical stimuli, to learn from experience, to become skilled through practice, to make autonomous decisions and, eventually, to refuse to follow orders and maybe to commit mistakes.
Otherwise, no matter how advanced, artificial intelligences will remain a merely abstract construct, constrained by the limits of computer hardware and software, only ever able to deal with numbers and abstract concepts whose significance, while accessible to an human mind, will remain beyond an AI's reach.
I don't think we're going to get anywhere beyond stuff that does exactly as told within a very specific context anytime soon. I'm quite skeptical about the buzz surrounding Artificial Intelligence in general, and I have the feeling that most laypeople have quite high expectations about what AIs will be able to achieve in the near future.
Also, I believe that the bridge between the cognitive abilities of human beings and what can be achieved by a machine at all has been quite underestimated. I feel that a lot of research is being driven towards the ultimate goal of explaining the entirety of the human mind, personality and inner self merely as a result of the brain as a machine, to reduce our humanity to a product of our own biology, to dismiss the role of our individual, unique and irreplaceable identity.
To create artificial humanoid intelligences. To axiomatize human intelligence. To close the bridge between machines and human beings, and to make them indistinguishable. Is that even feasible or a good idea in the first place? Shouldn't machines remain their place instead of being elevated to personhood? Shouldn't we never forget that we're alive and machines are our tools and creations.
And I'm not even sure how to phrase my concerns as a question. Help?
Exactly. Unfortunately, the press makes a lot of money from keeping the darnel green.
Trump has no idea who to call; that's the first name that came to his mind.
At least he realizes that he's ignorant on this matter, unlike a lot of people. He might be a clown but he's not THAT foolish.
Of course, he's in for a nasty surprise. "Closing up" the Internet will only turn the United States into another North Korea, as the...
Implement a whole miniature ecosystem inside a ship. Harvest raw materials from asteroids and comets, build it on space, maybe using a massive 3D printer. Make it large enough to be able to support a stable population for an arbitrary period of time, yet small enough to be mobile.
Make lots of these, because many may never reach a suitable destination. Most likely they will run out of fuel and become too far away from any star or source of energy. Some may wander for millions of years, their crew becoming increasingly adapted to their constrained, harsh environment, and become exotic intelligent lifeforms. Some may reach a suitable destination, either clashing with the existing lifeforms or giving life to a previously lifeless planet.
Also, options today vs options tomorrow. Since how long ago do we dream with what we can do with, say, carbon nanotubes? When was the first time we reached a comet? It's just a matter of time.
Hahaha. I'm from Chile, of course I know about Moai. But let me tell you about U+1F5FF.
$ grep --after-context=1 '^1F5FF' NamesList.txt
1F5FF MOYAI
* Japanese stone statue like Moai on Easter Island
Specifically, it refers to the Statue of Moyai, a gift from the people of Niijima island, which is located at the south exit of Shibuya Station in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
The fact that the character is often rendered as an Easter Island moai doesn't change the fact that the original emoji refers to a different, specific object.
While you're at it, Canada, let her resume her research in Baffin Island.
She was fired because of the complaints of some thin-skinned lowlings who don't have what it takes to work with someone like her.
If you have to scold her, if you have to tell her to chill out, do so. But don't shut down scientific research just because of stupid personal problems.
They're not official until they get their own Unicode block.
I applaud the idea as a jab against the many emoji that are specific to Japan that got through Unicode's standardization process (*cough*U+1F5FF*cough*). Because if Japan could do it, why Finland can't?
Well, that sucks. Probably "Live a healthy lifestyle in order to minimize healthcare costs" should be added to my list.
No.
Fuchsia is the name of a flower, named after German botanist Leonard Fuchs. It's also the name for a specific subset of purple, fully saturated and roughly halfway between red and blue.
Magenta is essentially the same color; it was named so to celebrate the the French and Sardinian Army victory at the Battle of Magenta near the Italian town of the same name.
Purple is the name for the set of colors between red and either violet or blue depending on who you ask. Either way, it's a larger set of colors.
And assigning anthropocentric meanings to individual colors is akin to numerology and astrology, i.e., total bullshit.
As long as we're going to reinvent the wheel again, we might as well try making it round this time. - Mike Dennison
