I do have the obligatory story of dropping someone elses set of cards and
almost losing my job.
Another was I put someones job card on the top of a box of cards that
looked like their program and 'dropped it accidentally' ... Cards flew 20'
in every direction. I almost got throttled for that! (an
I'm still kinda surprised that silly power users or things don't insert
something like that into the code of their GCC when they bootstrap their
compilers, just to freak people out. ;)
I'd like to hear more stories about working with IBM 370s and S/390s, and
more than the standard story of droppin
Ah, the elusive DWIM…
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Jack Coats wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Paul Boniol
> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Howard White wrote:
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>>> On 06/12/2014 02:24 PM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote:
>>>
"we ever develop software that can fu
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Paul Boniol wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Howard White wrote:
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>> On 06/12/2014 02:24 PM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote:
>>
>>> "we ever develop software that can further refine its own programming"
>>>
>>> sounds like a compiler.
>>>
>>>
>> Not like the
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Howard White wrote:
> On 06/12/2014 02:24 PM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote:
>
>> "we ever develop software that can further refine its own programming"
>>
>> sounds like a compiler.
>>
>>
> Not like the IBM 370 COBOL compiler I once worked on:
>
> "Probable user erro
On 06/12/2014 02:24 PM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote:
"we ever develop software that can further refine its own programming"
sounds like a compiler.
Not like the IBM 370 COBOL compiler I once worked on:
"Probable user error, correct and re-submit" -- thanks a lot.
Howard
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"we ever develop software that can further refine its own programming"
sounds like a compiler.
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 2:22 PM, John F. Eldredge
wrote:
> However, if we ever develop software that can further refine its own
> programming, and particularly if there is an environment where numero
However, if we ever develop software that can further refine its own
programming, and particularly if there is an environment where numerous such
programs compete against each other (so that survival of the fittest comes into
play), we could potentially end up with hyperintelligent programs, if
It is natural for the human mind to rationalize to itself why it is more
complex than anything else in the universe, but that is simply hubris.
Anyone see how HP is close to bring able to mass produce memristors? This
will not only be beneficial for databases, but also more closely resembles
how b
On 06/12/2014 01:56 PM, Nathanael Ries wrote:
We don't have to be smarter than ourselves to create something smarter
than ourselves. Quarks don't need to be smart to make hydrogen atoms,
and hydrogen atoms don't need to be smart to make stars which create the
elements. Those elements don't need t
The human mind is infinitely more complex than anything you just mentioned.
Chemical reactions and physics are dramatically simpler than the
imaginative, creative complexity that is the human mind.
Chris
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Nathanael Ries
wrote:
> We don't have to be smarter than
We don't have to be smarter than ourselves to create something smarter than
ourselves. Quarks don't need to be smart to make hydrogen atoms, and
hydrogen atoms don't need to be smart to make stars which create the
elements. Those elements don't need to be smart to make organic molecules
and so on a
I don't think we're intelligent enough to invent something more intelligent
than ourselves.
I do believe we're intelligent to invent something that *mimics* some of
the things that the human mind can do, but it is just mimicking and it will
never be able to do everything our mind can do because ev
Keep an eye on this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain_Project
...still not sure how I feel about the prospect of real human-level (or more)
AI.
~~jonnyX
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a child, or at least with a child’s mentality. Cool stuff in any event.
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Computer becomes the
Computer becomes the first to pass the Turing Test:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/computer-becomes-first-to-pass-turing-test-in-artificial-intelligence-milestone-but-academics-warn-of-dangerous-future-9508370.html
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