Comment About glossy screens on MacBooks (Score 3, Funny) 666
Glossy screens are not a problem as long as you are wearing a black turtleneck.
Comment Bring a Demo! (Score 1) 948
I brought my laptop to my job interview at Google and to three out of four interviewers I demoed a major application that I'd written myself, demonstrating my MySQL, Java, GUI Design skills; I also pointed out how the graph drawn included grounds-up innovation of a new graph untangling algorithm.
I got the job without having to submit to a second round of interviews.
This was Sept. 2004. Dunno if this strategy would work today. You may want to ask if you are even allowed to bring a laptop.
While I worked AT Google I conducted about 20 interviews myself. I was one of the GA experts and whenever someone wrote "GA" on their resume, I got to interview them. Everyone I interviewed clearly had done GA work, but very few actually understood what they were doing.
My final interview question was always "True creativity cannot be turned off. Tell me about two instances where you invented something, no matter how insignificant, to simplify your everyday life". Answers ranged from trivial to Rube Goldberg-like but several people drew a blank. Do people in general just accept the world the way it's given to them?
Submission + - Ironic Sans: Idea: Crowdfund a mission to put a mo (ironicsans.com)
CmdrTaco writes: "Jamie found this"
Online Impersonations Now Illegal In California 217
theodp writes "TechCrunch's Michael Arrington reports that a California bill criminalizing online impersonations went into effect on January 1st. 'There has to be intent to harm, intimidate, threaten, or defraud another person — not necessarily the person you are impersonating,' explains Arrington. 'Free speech issues, including satire and parody, aren't addressed in the text of the bill. The courts will likely sort it out.' So, Fake Steve Jobs, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?'"
Some Hotmail Accounts Wiped 298
tomhudson writes "PC Magazine reports that many Hotmail accounts have lost all their emails. Users' entire email histories have apparently been lost. 'Users can still log in sans issue. However, they arrive at empty inboxes: No custom folders, no messages in "Sent" or "Deleted," nothing. As one might expect, the abruptness (and unexpectedness) of the purge has left some of Hotmail's long-time users a bit in the dark.'"
Microsoft Research Takes On Go 175
mikejuk writes "Microsoft Research has used F# and AI to implement a consumer-quality game of Go — arguably the most difficult two-person game to implement. They have used an interesting approach to the problem of playing the game, which is a pragmatic cross between tree search with pruning and machine learning to spot moves with a 'good shape.' The whole lot has been packaged into an XNA-based game with a story."
Submission + - Hotmail or Notmail? (pcmag.com)
tomhudson writes: "PC Magazine reports that many Hotmail accounts have lost all their emails. Users entire email histories have apparently been lost.
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Users can still log in sans issue. However, they arrive at empty inboxes: No custom folders, no messages in "Sent" or "Deleted," nothing. As one might expect, the abruptness (and unexpectedness) of the purge has left some of Hotmail's long-time users a bit in the dark
Submission + - Android Text Messages Intermittently Going Astray
theodp writes: Reports from Engadget and others suggest that Tiger Woods and Brett Favre might want to avoid Android for the time being. Engadget reports that Android's default text messaging app still has horrible text messaging bugs that can that intermittently send texts to the wrong person. 'This is ticking me off like no other technology glitch that I experienced in recent years,' reads one unhappy camper's post on a lengthy Help Forum thread opened on March 16th. 'If a bank deposited my paycheck into another person's account I wouldn't stress so much cause I can always get the money back. How the hell do you take words back? 'Oh sorry boss you had to find out that I think you're an idiot, can I still keep my job, please please please?'' Over at Google Code, Issue 9392 — SMS are intermittently sent to wrong and seemingly random contact — carries a priority of 'Medium,' even though it has 600+ comments and has been starred by 3,600+ people.
Submission + - Cloud, meet Rainbow (mozillalabs.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla Labs is working on an experimental add-on which enables video and audio recording in the browser. Anant Narayanan writes on the Mozilla Labs blog, 'The Rainbow add-on for Firefox is an early developer prototype that enables web developers to access local video and audio recording capabilities using just a few lines of JavaScript. The add-on generates files encoded in open formats: Theora (for video) and Vorbis (for audio) in an Ogg container. The resulting files are accessible in DOM using HTML5 File APIs, which may be used to upload them to a server.' Suppor for live streaming and WebM is planned for a future version of the add-on.
Submission + - Wireless HDMI at 1080p, Lag-Free WHDI Tested (hothardware.com) 1
MojoKid writes: "Wireless HDMI technologies have finally come of age. Though there are two camps currently in the market (Intel's WiDi and WHDI), the bottom line is lag-free full HD 1080p wireless HDMI video/audio transmission is now a reality. No longer does an HTPC need to be shoehorned into the confines of the entertainment center. Also, that notebook you have perched on the coffee table just got a major display upgrade. This demo of the Asus WiCast and the briteView HDelight wirless HDMI transmitter kits, shows the technology in action and it's impressive actually. Both of these WHDI-based kits utilize the same family of Amimon WHDI transmitter and receiver chipsets. The technology is capable of full 1080p HD video and Dolby Digital surround sound audio transmissions, over distances of up to 30 feet with less than a millisecond of latency."
Submission + - Oracle: Google 'Directly Copied' Our Java Code (itworld.com) 1
itwbennett writes: On Wednesday, Oracle amended the lawsuit it filed against Google in August, saying that 'approximately one third of Android's Application Programmer Interface (API) packages' are 'derivative of Oracle's copyrighted Java API packages' and related documents. In particular, 'the infringed elements of Oracle America's copyrighted work include Java method and class names, definitions, organization, and parameters; the structure, organization and content of Java class libraries; and the content and organization of Java's documentation,' Oracle says. 'In at least several instances, Android computer program code also was directly copied from copyrighted Oracle America code,' Oracle alleges.
Comment Re:A biologist doesn't understand programming (Score 1) 830
It's much easier to teach a biologist how to program than it is to teach a programmer about emergence.
The problem with AI is that it's been done by programmers. Cognitive Science should have stayed a Life Science, the way it was before 1955.
Comment No problem at all (Score 1) 646
The glossy screens on MacBooks are no problem at all as long as you are wearing a black turtleneck.
Comment Me too... (Score 1) 453
Yes, I also instantly saw the correct answer before reading the article. In fact, I even missed the sentence about not using diodes.
I knew about voltage drops.It was the single fact that the problem had been solved (patented) that made me think about it again in a different light.
It's interesting that when the first solution that comes to mind (diodes) doesn't work (voltage drop) then it blocks our problem solving process from finding other solutions.
I deal with this daily in my work; I try to come up with Holistic solutions to problems that have been traditionally (and in vain) attacked using the much more common Reductionist (model based) methods.
Comment Re:That is very interesting (Score 1) 301
We're working at one level below that. How do humans learn *anything* at all. Language is a special case of that.
The lower you go, the easier the problem gets. But you need to make sure that when you are measuring your progress
you really are measuring the right thing.
> But we know that after a certain critical period it becomes functionally impossible for a human being to learn language
This is simply incorrect. I know five languages. I don't see a problem learning another one as long as I can learn *anything*.
If you want to form an opinion about my competence, perhaps you should watch a video or two of the ones I've posted on the web
or check out http://artificial-intuition.com/
- Monica
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