Comment Re:If there is no God then life is a bigger miracl (Score 4, Insightful) 755
"If there is a God then lie is a miracle. If there is no God then life is an even bigger miracle".
I disagree: God+life is a bigger miracle than life alone.
"If there is a God then lie is a miracle. If there is no God then life is an even bigger miracle".
I disagree: God+life is a bigger miracle than life alone.
Which of those categories does UNIX editors fit under?
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.
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.
"And this is why just 5 mod points aren't going to cut it."
Weird - this story?!
And there are over 130 of those spam posts... that's far more than I've seen in a *long* time!
They need to downmod those at the admin level with a script so you can save your legit mod points for good things!
The flow chart is a most thoroughly oversold piece of program documentation. -- Frederick Brooks, "The Mythical Man Month"
