Comment ITSM? (Score 1) 50
Is that what I think it is?
Is that what I think it is?
Francises/sequels: 4
New movie projects: 0
There will be fallout.
Hopefully not nuclear...
How come "Ask Slashdot" posts always boil down to "give me some ammunition for an argument with my boss" ?
I, for one, welcome our new Probably Superintelligent Robots overlords.
FTFY
Yes, but now we can find out whether we read Slashdot because we are nerds, or we are nerds because we read Slashdot.
So if Z causes both X and Y, I assume that this amazing test gives garbage?
Perhaps in some cases it would be possible to detect that both X and Y were being affected by the same noise, implying the existence of some unknown Z?
The standard t-test for detecting an effect is already probabalistic. In science and medicine a 95% confidence value is commonly used, which means a 1/20 of detecting something that isn't there.
Especially since Harrison Ford praises the script. I wonder what his opinion was regarding the Indiana Jones IV script.
They supposedly waited all those years for the right script to come along.
Anybody who's really looked at security around X11 has known for decades that it isn't that great.
I even remember that as recently as a year ago, ATI's drivers specifically tell you to use "xhost +" to enable GPU compute jobs using ATI devices, which resulted in a lot of "LOL NOPE" in the HPC industry. (It's trivial to root a machine that has had "xhost +" executed inside an X11 session.)
X11 having critical security holes should surprise no one. There's a reason internet-facing servers don't have X11, and it's not just because you don't need a GUI sucking up resources.
On the other hand, I'm thoroughly grateful that somebody decided to do something about it.
Lois McMaster Bujold does it very well, in her Vorkosigan-saga books, where she touches upon cultural attitudes to sex.
But it seems like a kind of superficial gimmick. And most SF doesn't deliver any culture at all - art, music, religion, politics, etc - unless it directly relates to the plot.
What we need is someone who will do for SF what Tolkien did for fantasy.
+1, wooshie
An actual AI is beyond the possibility of humans to create
That's an open question, but we certainly aren't going to create it by running current applications on ever-faster computers. The singularity is an ignorant fantasy.
Grammar is hard!
It has won't be being so hard after you has will have been being studying it more.
Or as Yoda would say it, it so hard after you studying it more has will have been being has won't be being.
has won't be = periphrastic perfect future passive contrafactual modal participular infinitival indicative of "is"
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