Every time that Python is mentioned someone raise the point about whitespace. Yes it is annoying when first learning the language, but within a few hours you have totally forgotten about it. Python has other issues, but whitespace is the one people always initially focus on, unless you are in the habit of cut and pasting code from any or every where without using discrete code blocks, then it really is not that much of an issue.
The more pertinent question, can it fake its own data for its research paper
Good point. You would need 5,500 boxes of gold and 200 tons of gold coins to pay for all of that coal.
Obviously the coal sellers were using surge pricing
Whilst I mostly agree with you, I believe it will also benefit the politicians as they will no doubt receive financial incentives to help change their votes when this is next debated.
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Obama was partial to making executive orders and that is not always a bad thing. Relying on executive orders for the country's immigration policy is not a good solution
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If Obama was indeed partial to making executive orders what would that make all the other presidents prior to him in the last hundred years? Wikipedia shows that they either did more executive orders or did more per year spent in office than Obama. Of the more recent presidents, only H.W Bush had less executive orders, but he only spent 1 term in office.
Well we only have a fraction of the firearms, according to Wikipedia the USA has an estimated 101 firearms per 100 residents, and the UK has 6.2, that being said, there have been incidents over here where the police have shot unarmed suspects.
Ah, I only read the reuters article, so missed that.
I noticed in the reuters report the following :
“As the incident unfolded, a 28-year-old male opened the front screen door and stood in the doorway or just outside that doorway,” he said. “Officers gave him several verbal commands to put his hands up and walk towards them.”
A police officer opened fire, shooting once, after the man quickly raised his hands and appeared to point a weapon at the officers, Livingston said.
I wonder if any body / dash cams were working...
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and whats with the red TARDIS it the title?
I heard the next Doctor was going to be a female - does she change the colour?
It is red phone box, red was the default colour for the telephone boxes provided by what it now BT (formerly British Telecom and prior to that the General Post Office), the Tardis is a Police Box.
From what I remember things seemed to be run by Nancy Reagan...
As for Bush senior, he was supposedly out of the loop, at least where things like Iran-Contra were concerned...
Rule 1: Investors are dumb.
I believe the Ferengi (from Deep Space 9) rules of acquisition cover this :
Rule 1 : Once you have their money, you never give it back.
...will Her Majesty's Government issue a LICENSE for proper people to view terrorist websites?
That seems likely. A license or equivalent. Enforcing child porn laws has similar protections.
I have a copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook that I downloaded as a teenager in the mid-90s. Should I be afraid?
If you are in the UK, yes you should be afraid or at least concerned. The UK government deems it to be associated with terrorism due to the instructions for making explosives. There was a court case in 2007/2008 where the government attempted (but failed) to prosecute someone for possession of it under the terrorism act of 2000.
Aye, no doubt we will be hearing in 15 - 24 months that despite the large amount of crowd-funding they initially received, they are unable to deliver a working product and so reluctantly they have no choice to but to close the company (or ask for another round of crowd funding
Nothing in the present trends leads to the introduction of emergent behavior by an AI. Until an AI grasps epistemology, comes to the realisation it has self-volition, and decides, for example, that it wants to become a champion at playing chess, then comes up with it's own method of learning how to do this, all AI is just a mechanism directed by somebody. A clever rules-based system that adapts to doing what it is told to do.
I certainly agree with your point for the foreseeable future, I just do not believe that is all we will ever achieve, I expect, over considerable time, that the "clever rules-based systems" will be the things giving the instructions to other 'clever rules based systems', and that will eventually lead to true AI, I just doubt it will be in my lifetime (I am in my 50's)
At the moment, we have (expert / neural networks / machine learning- I tend to think of these as fake AI) systems that are designed for specific tasks, those tasks / areas include complex subject areas as Law and Medicine that require systems for each specialised field. Some of the new fAI systems are designed for code generation, I expect, over time, that we will enter a cycle that the fAI systems improve the efficiency of the code generation fAI's, the code generation fAI's then create more efficient fAI algorithms/system and the cycle starts again.
Nope, just the opposite: You could see from past experience that that was a bad idea, so you do something differently. Still, Kurzweil must ultimately, like the rest of us, simply wait to see what actually happens.
It always seems to be the case that in (almost) every new large scale conflict the military initially fights with the equipment and the tactics designed for the previous large scale conflict, it is only after that point that the tactics and equipment evolve.
"Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together."
