“I feel about beating the turing test in quite convenient way. Nothing original,” said Goostman, when asked how he felt after his success.
I get the feeling this is less about improvements in AI and more about Eastern European spammers lowering our expectations.
Think. Cars naturally lean THE WRONG WAY on curves. They tilt over toward the outside.
There's no "right way" or "wrong way" for a car to lean on a level surface with all four wheels on the ground. The motorcycle metaphor doesn't work well here because part of turning a two-wheeler involves moving the center of mass off the centerline and letting gravity pull you through the turn. To paraphrase Douglas Adams, turning a two-wheeler involves throwing yourself at the ground and missing.
This magnifies the centrifugal force you feel by adding a gravity component to it.
On the contrary: being thrown towards the outside of the turn means the turn radius increases, which results in a decrease in centrifugal force.
They tilt toward the inside, like a banking airplane.
Another poor comparison. Airplanes roll while turning because their wings are their largest working surface areas and need to be tilted off of horizontal to get the lift vector pointing "that way." The comparison here would be in banking the road surface itself (the working surface for a ground vehicle) rather than any shifting done by the suspension on a level road surface.
The amount paid was well above the market price for his team. It's 16 times the price he bought it for.
The money isn't to buy the team, it's to make him shut up and go away, i.e. a reward for bad behavior.
Perhaps Snowden is just pressing a point in presenting the argument that way to make it, feel, really personal because it is.
We're now 3+ nested layers deep into an early and highly up-modded conversation about the dick joke. This conversation about the dick joke was the first thing I saw upon scrolling down. The dick joke is dominating the conversation.
Which is exactly why he shouldn't have used the dick joke.
Rich said that the FTC, as the U.S. Government's leading privacy enforcement agency, should be given rule making and enforcement authority for the civil provisions of the LPPA.
Considering how existing US privacy enforcement is an absolute joke, I think I'd rather try something new instead of "more of the same." Maybe the FTC could better spend their time, I don't know, jailing the traders that broke the economy?
Take a look around here. IT folks tend to view themselves as self-sufficient, rugged individualists who pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps. Unions are for the weak and stifle innovation, and every tech bro knows they're just one angel investor away from Going Galt.
The terran computational calendar does not define midnight.
Then you will run into another long-term problem: Universal Time (Coordinated and otherwise) is wholly independent of solar time and the concept of "day." While Universal Time's definition was intended for it to resemble solar (i.e. civil) time at its adoption, that approximation will eventually fail, rendering any system that uses Universal Time to demark and count days ambiguous.
True, but I would hope that future programmers would realize (somehow) that a year isn't exactly 365.25 days.
The programmer sees a discrepancy happening over a century into the future as "Somebody Else's Problem," and there would be little reason for users a century in the future to be aware of this presumption. Even if the users know about the proper algorithm, they may not know that the code they're relying on doesn't. Consider how long it was before Excel stopped rendering AD 1900 as bissextile.
Y2K, UNIX time overflow, etc. Only this time the original coders will be long dead. Best hope they commented better than they coded.
Correct. This calendar does not track the moon, or all seasons, it only tracks the year (n. winter solstice) and the day.
Keeping track of and predicting seasons is the entire point of a calendar.
+4Q probably shouldn't be used for businesses though which should probably just include 'minimonth' in the last quarter, but that's not in the scope of the terran computational algorithm.
A calendar that can't unambiguously reckon the Christmas shopping season doesn't seem to lend much utility to business.
Not exactly, if there isn't a TC designator appended to it, then it isn't a terran computational date.
Then you're seeking to have this implemented alongside the Gregorian Calendar (et al). Then what are you actually hoping to replace? Julian dates?
Ordinal numbering is not recommended for the terran computational calendar.
The attendant cultural shifts you're asking users to adopt alongside this system are steep barriers to entry that will not exactly aid adoption.
Then stop bitching that zero-indexing is an "IT only problem" and start bitching that the calendar system we're all used to needs improvement or replacement.
Your "solution" is to define 7/3 as the fourth day of July. I fail to see the advantage.
The Jewish calendar changed in 1513 BCE.
"It was a Tuesday."
From what I've seen on the subject, you're well away from evidence-based archaeology and deep into the realm of Biblical literalism.
It also marked a break with common regional tradition and a start of calculations based on national and cultural identity
There were no "calculations," or even any need for calculations, before the Babylonian Captivity and Diaspora. The Israelites were among several cultures that relied instead on terrestrial, ecological indicators for the start of spring (e.g. "seeing if a groundhog sees its shadow"). The Hebrew name of the Paschal month literally refers to the barley crop that was to be inspected (as per Exodus). The beginnings of months were reckoned empirically, as per current Islamic practice.
It was only after a non-negligible number of Jews lived too far away from the Temple (when there was a Temple) that the need for a computational calendar to maintain social cohesion (i.e. celebrating the same holidays on the same day) among the Diaspora presented itself. The modern Hebrew calendar relies on some decidedly Chaldean math that they likely picked up during the Captivity.
I know of no reason for Christians to keep track of any intercalary months, as Veadar (literally "and Adar [again]") ends by the time of any point of calculation for Easter (or more accurately, the memorial of Christ's sacrificial death)
If for no other reason than because Christians must be able to reckon the date of Easter months in advance in order to set the beginning of Lent, etc. Predicting the first full moon of spring (which defines the Paschal moon) requires some means of keeping track of lunations to know which new moon thirteen days preceding marks the proper start and to be able to count backwards the requisite numbers of days and weeks for the related movable feasts.
Predicting and setting the date of Easter requires knowing how many lunations pass between one Paschal moon and the next and how long each of them are. The Alexandrian computus settled upon by the early Church has always, necessarily, acted as a perpetual lunar almanac for the entire year (e.g. the Paschal moon is always the fourth of the year, and always 29 days long). The Gregorian method simply maintained as much of the tradition as Clavius saw feasible.
So they just call the next Sunday after that date "Easter Sunday"
The Ecumenical Councils determined that the theology of Easter demanded that it fall on a Sunday moreso than insisting that it be on Nissan 16, maintaining the symbolism of Jesus remaining dead through Saturday ("resting on the Sabbath") and rendering Sunday an "eighth day." Sunday is "the Lord's Day" (literally, in most European languages) specifically because it is the day of the week of the Resurrection.
It's not so much about precise intervals as it is about validating triggers.
On the contrary: for both the Jewish and Christian calendars it is more about the intervals than the triggers.
The defining astronomical events for the respective calendars and holiday schedules are necessarily instants (e.g. lunar opposition in Libra), and any given instant will fall on a different calendar date depending on the observer's longitude. The result would be, for example, Christians in Asia and the Americas observing Easter one week apart from each other, fragmenting the community.
There are two ways around this: declare a favored meridian ("lunar conjunction in Aquarius, Beijing standard time"), or to measure the intervening time with a standardized integer count of whole days. After all, lunar opposition doesn't actually occur the same amount of time after lunar conjunction, let alone exactly 1 123 200 s later. (Jews and Christians count mean lunations)
Given the choice between dial-up and Comcast, I'll go for dial-up, every time.
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Scientists will study your brain to learn more about your distant cousin, Man.
