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If you read the reactions, she was billed as 'Beauty and brains.'
Three films about British brains show the trouble of bringing otherworldly intelligence to the big screen.
Even Tony Hogue and his friend, who was a JF Images booking agent, had trouble wrapping their brains around it.
But both Lauper and the brains kept on doing new versions over the years.
It took a special, meticulous kind of person to accomplish the undertaking, someone with brains, patience, and nerves of steel.
It takes a man with some of the brains your pa had to make the game pay now.
I tell you, it's a mighty good thing we got your brains to depend on.
Even if you had the brains, you ain't got the taste nor the sperrit in you.
Perhaps, after all, I might have the brains to jest and toss about words and shoot off epigrams.
And found out he is sure to be; he has not the brains to hide a thing!
Old English brægen "brain," from Proto-Germanic *bragnam (cf. Middle Low German bregen, Old Frisian and Dutch brein), from PIE root *mregh-m(n)o- "skull, brain" (cf. Greek brekhmos "front part of the skull, top of the head"). But Liberman writes that brain "has no established cognates outside West Germanic ..." and is not connected to the Greek word. More probably, he writes, its etymon is PIE *bhragno "something broken."
The custom of using the plural to refer to the substance (literal or figurative), as opposed to the organ, dates from 16c. Figurative sense of "intellectual power" is from late 14c.; meaning "a clever person" is first recorded 1914. Brain teaser is from 1923. Brain stem first recorded 1879, from German. Brain drain is attested from 1963. An Old English word for "head" was brægnloca, which might be translated as "brain locker." In Middle English, brainsick (Old English brægenseoc) meant "mad, addled."
"to dash the brains out," late 14c., from brain (n.). Related: Brained; braining.
brain (brān)
The portion of the central nervous system that is enclosed within the cranium, continuous with the spinal cord, and composed of gray matter and white matter. It is the primary center for the regulation and control of bodily activities, receiving and interpreting sensory impulses, and transmitting information to the muscles and body organs. It is also the seat of consciousness, thought, memory, and emotion. Also called encephalon.
The central organ in the nervous system, protected by the skull. The brain consists of the medulla, which sends signals from the spinal cord to the rest of the brain and also controls the autonomic nervous system; the pons, a mass of nerve fibers connected to the medulla; the cerebellum, which controls balance and coordination; and the cerebrum, the outer layer of which, the cerebral cortex, is the location of memory, sight, speech, and other higher functions.
The cerebrum contains two hemispheres (the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere), each of which controls different functions. In general, the right hemisphere controls the left side of the body and such functions as spatial perception, whereas the left hemisphere controls the right side of the body and functions such as speech.
Under the cerebral cortex are the thalamus, the main relay center between the medulla and the cerebrum; and the hypothalamus, which controls blood pressure, body temperature, hunger, thirst, sex drive, and other visceral functions.
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An intelligent person; intellectual; good scholar: The publicity of being a brain did not further her movie career as a glamour girl (1914+)
To injure with a hard blow to the head •Attested fr 1382 in the full sense, ''kill by knocking out the brain'': The left hook really brained him
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- Huxley Associates
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London (Central)London (Greater)
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- £60000 - £70000 per annum + benefits and bonus
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- 25 Jan 2013
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- Sector
- Banking, Finance & Insurance
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- Hours
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A leading financial services firm seeks a Senior Reward Manager for an internal strategic role providing advice and support to the business. This role is permanent, based in London City and is paying up to £70,000 per annum.
This role will require excellent relationship building skills, and it will be essential that the successful candidate understands the dynamics between talent attraction and retention and the long-term success of the business. The individual will actively drive the reward agenda forward, and will be supported by a team of Reward Analysts.
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- Engage with key stakeholders to build working relationships across the business
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Sociologist to Give 'Full Professor Lecture' on Data Analysis, Theory, Science
- 03-19-2013
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Daniel H. Krymkowski, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of sociology, will speak Thursday, March 21, at 4 p.m. in Waterman Building's Memorial Lounge. His lecture, "Data Analysis Without Theory Is Not Science," is part of the College of Arts and Sciences Full Professor Lecture Series.
Professor Krymkowski will critique modern examples of "abstracted empiricism" -- a phrase coined by C. Wright Mills to describe research in the social sciences that fails to address important theoretical issues. Krymkowski will discuss how social scientific investigations should be conducted and provide an illustration of such research from his current work on ethnic and racial differences in outdoor recreation.
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A recording of the lecture will be made available soon on the college's online media blog and eventually on the College of Arts and Sciences website.


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Spokane, WA: I have always wondered how the major media outlet chooses their news articles. Most people get their news from television or newspapers, etc. We all know names like: Polly Klass, Adam Walsh, Casey Anthony and Carlie Brucia. When these cases were at their apex, the national networks featured little else.
Me? I cruise the WWW looking at cases just as egregious, yet they never seem to find the spotlight. For those who don't know, these atrocities are almost pandemic in their frequency. I never lose that sense of anger when I read what these innocent children went through. As a minister, I'd like to think that the souls of the children are taken away before these things happen. (more…)


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Bluffton at Lake Erie
Bluffton splits at Lake Erie
April 28, 2007
PAINESVILLE, Ohio - Despite falling behind 6-0 in the opener, the Bluffton University baseball team scored 11 unanswered runs to take game one before Lake Erie used 12 hits in the second game to split the series with the Beavers. The Beavers improved to 4-15, while Lake Erie upped its mark to 13-21 on Saturday, April 28, 2007.
Game 1 - Bluffton 11, Lake Erie 6
Lake Erie came out smoking in the home half of the first, scoring all six of its runs in the opening frame. Following a one-out solo homer to center by Walczek, Pfister was the first of three consecutive Storm players to reach with two-baggers. White and Springer rapped singles as Lake Erie sent nine hitters to the plate in taking the early 6-0 lead.
With one out in the top of the third, Tony Moore (Lima/Elida) beat out a bunt for a hit. Jimmy McMonagle (Ida, Mich./Ida)reached on catchers' interference, putting two runners on for HCAC Hitter of the Week Tim Kay (Alpharetta, Ga./Blessed Trinity) who made the Storm pay with his three-run shot to left.
James Hausman (Milford/Milford) found his rhythm and limited Lake Erie to four hits over the next five innings as the Beavers continued to push runs across the plate.
Bluffton's Corey Conn (London/London) scored a run in the fourth when Ryan Baightel (Wapakoneta/Wapakoneta) doubled to right center.
Kay singled to open the fifth and Curtis Schroeder (Shelby/Shelby) tied the game at six with his two-run dinger over the left field wall.
Baightel got into the long-ball action in the top of the sixth when he delivered a two-run shot to right, plating Chris Wurm (Bucyrus/Bucyrus) who had singled through the left side.
Bluffton took a page out of its HCAC opponents' playbooks when it used consecutive bunts to load the bases for Steve Roberts (West Salem/Mapleton) who cleared them with his three-run double to left center, making the final score 11-6 in favor of the visitors.
Kay continued to blister the ball, going 2-of-3 with 3 RBI and two runs scored. Schroeder and Baightel both finished with two hits while Roberts knocked in three runs. Conn and Schroeder scored two runs each in the victory.
James Hausman picked up his first win, going six strong innings with three strikeouts before Tyler Hill (London/London) closed the door in the seventh.
Game 2 - Lake Erie 9, Bluffton 1
The Storm again found the early innings to its liking, scoring six runs in the first two frames. Solo homers by Crail and Pfisterer in the first put Lake Erie up 2-0 after one inning. Four unearned runs in the second were all the Storm needed as Bluffton managed only one score in the contest.
Roberts provided the Beavers with their only offense in game two, a solo home run to left field in the top of the fifth inning.
Reed and Shaposka laced hits to open the bottom of the fifth and they both came around to score. The Storm tacked on one more run in the sixth as Lake Erie connected for three singles in the inning.
Jimmy McMonagle was the lone Beaver with multiple hits in the game two loss,
Cody McPherson (Northwood/Lake) took the loss, giving up eight runs on nine hits in 5.0 innings of work on the hill.
The Beavers return to action on Sunday, April 29, when they travel to face local rival Defiance College. The HCAC contest is scheduled to start at 1 p.m.


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Set in the near future on a distant frontier torn apart by war, Titanfall drops players in the middle of a conflict between the Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation (IMC) and the Militia.
The universe of Titanfall juxtaposes small vs. giant, natural vs. industrial and man vs. machine, as players will have the freedom to switch between fighting as elite assault Pilots or agile, heavily armored, 24-foot tall Titans. The action is rapid and varied — featuring parkour-style wall running, massive double jumps and the ability to hijack titans. The freedom to shift back and forth between pilot and titan allows players to change tactics on the fly, attacking or escaping depending on the situation and extending the action vertically to new heights.
Titanfall delivers a brand-new online experience that combines fluid, fast-paced multiplayer action with heroic, set-piece moments found in traditional campaign modes.
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Smaller Footprint, Bigger Performance
Slim, light and powerful. Those are the three key traits of the modern laptop computer these days. While tablets have been stealing thunder from traditional PCs over the last year, the notebook has undergone a somewhat quiet evolution as the device's profile has shrunk, while the specs inside have become more and more impressive. Even some of the most powerful laptops, such as mobile workstations, have increased their mobility.
Here are 10 standout notebooks of various shapes, sizes and styles, reviewed by the CRN Test Center this year.


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Guy Trebay on a bad experience with Takashi Murakami. Tate-shakai Murakami.
Dave Hickey on art (from about 8:18) - "Art doesn't do any of the things that we expect of American creativity... you know what I mean... it just makes a bunch of Jews a bunch of money". Was that a gaffe or a planned quip? Fuck. I thought the whole talk was a ramble. Oxygen... you know what I mean? Love the SS shadow bolt across the red curtain while he is at the podium smearing the Jews.
Katherine Markel on early Richard Prince.
Richard Prince on receivership, in 1982 - "Later, maybe, the receiver will be domestically located. In our homes I suspect. We'll be getting subscription pictures over the cable. It'll change the whole notion of what's 'homemade'. It'll he fun. It'll be threatening too. A lot depends on who thinks they have control".... "The degrees between amateur and professional will possibly become quite indistinguishable. Anyway, they'll be a lot more ripping off or at least a contesting of each other's territory."
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- Nomi Lubin said...
". . . it just makes a bunch of Jews a bunch of money."
Interesting. Interesting what one can still get away with saying about the Jews.
- zipthwung said...
Is richard prince jewish?
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WILMINGTON, Ill. — Midewin Tallgrass Prairie Alliance will hold a native wildflower and shrub sale as part of a fundraiser.
The sale will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 18, 2013 at the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie headquarters on Route 53, approximately 12 miles south of Joliet or two miles north of Wilmington.
A wide variety of native wildflowers, grasses and shrubs will be available for purchase. Individual plants come in 2-inch diameter plugs or pots, and shrubs are in 3-gallon containers.
If you have any questions concerning the plant sale, call Jerry Heinrich at (815) 476-6171, send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com or visit the website www.midewinalliance.org. To contact the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie headquarters, call (815) 423-6370.
The Midewin Tallgrass Prairie Alliance comprises conservation, environmental, and sportsmen's groups as well as individuals sharing an interest in the development of the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie to provide habitat for native plants and animals and opportunities for compatible educational and recreational activities.


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Fall 2013 Friends Lecture Luncheon- An Afternoon with Colum McCann in conversation with Pete Hamill
September 20, 2013
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Exclusive member event. Limited tickets available to non-members.
Colum McCann, winner of the National Book Award and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin will discuss his latest novel, TransAtlantic, with quintessential New York writer, Pete Hamill. In TransAtlantic McCann weaves a story where three iconic transatlantic crossings are connected by a series of remarkable women whose personal stories are caught up in the swells of history.
A boxed lunch will be provided before the lecture.
Take advantage of your Friends benefit and purchase TransAtlantic, as well as Mr. McCann's and Mr. Hamill's books at the Lecture-Luncheon for 10% off list price. Both writers will be signing books after the lecture.


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England take on Montenegro tonight, needing just one point in order to secure qualification for the Euro 2012 Championships next summer.
Fabio Capello faces a dilemma at the back, with Phil Jones, Kyle Walker and Phil Jagielka in contention to join John Terry and Ashley Cole in defence.
The Italian must also decide who will partner Wayne Rooney up front, with Danny Welbeck, Andy Carroll and Darren Bent vying for a starting place.
Another day, another Carlos Tevez transfer rumour, with the wantaway striker today linked with a loan move to Italian giants Juventus.
Arsene Wenger is reportedly so determined to land Lille's Eden Hazard, he is prepared to offer Sebastian Squillaci and Marounne Chamakh, plus cash.
Manchester City are believed to be closing in on teenage PSV Eindhoven striker Zakaria Bakkali, recently voted the world's "best young player".
Real Madrid midfielder Pedro Leon has claimed that Jose Mourinho blocked a move to Stamford Bridge in the summer transfer window.
Tottenham target David Beckham says he is "flattered "by interest from PSG - but hinted family considerations will influence his next career move.
And finally, Man United are apparently on "red alert" after Robin van Persie admitted he would like to stay in England if he ever leaves the Gunners."
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OAKVILLE, Ont. - Hunter Mahan has withdrawn from the RBC Canadian Open after his wife went into labour.
Mahan was the tournament leader at 13 under after 36 holes and had yet to tee off for the third round Saturday.
Mahan charged into the lead Friday with an 8-under 64 to improve on his 5-under 67 performance from the first round.
His sudden departure now puts the spotlight on John Merrick, who finished the second round two strokes back of Mahan after tying the course record with a 62 at the par-72, 7,253-yard Glen Abbey Golf Course.
Mahan's start time had initially been set for 1:30 p.m. ET before play was suspended for 80 minutes by weather.
He had been rescheduled to tee off at 2:50 but never made it to the course.


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Director-General José Graziano da Silva welcomes Indonesian delegation to FAO
7 May 2013, Rome, Italy - FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva warmly welcomed an Indonesian delegation to FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy today.
Helmy F. Zaini, Minister for the Development of Disadvantaged Regions, Republic of Indonesia, and the Director-General discussed the importance of a 'blue economy' and the priority FAO has placed on fisheries and aquaculture in several regions.
"Efforts to end hunger and fight the effects of climate change will hinge on the success of sustainable development, including the wise use of oceans and fisheries", Graziano da Silva said. He also noted that there can be no truly 'green economy' without a 'blue economy' based on the sustainable development of ocean and fishery resources.
During this high-level meeting, Minister Zaini informed the Director-General that activities under his ministry were able to improve the incomes of the poor people who live in the disadvantaged areas from US$50/month to US$600/month. Graziano da Silva complimented Indonesia's work in this area and pointed out that poverty reduction is one of FAO's Strategic Objectives. South-South Cooperation was identified as an opportunity where FAO and Indonesia can cooperate even closer on.
Minister Zaini and Director-General Graziano da Silva also discussed FAO's long history of facilitating development and cooperation in the region as well in responding to natural disasters, such as 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and Indonesian tsunami. In this regarding, Graziano da Silva highlighted FAO work and approach in emergencies, especially the Organization's support to post disaster recovery.
Upon the close of the meeting, Minister Zaini and the Directory-General Graziano da Silva reiterated the importance of collaboration and continued efforts in the fight against hunger.


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NCAA Championship Team Standings | NCAA Championship Race Results
INDIANAPOLIS - UMass rowing closed out its 2014 spring season at the NCAA Championships on Sunday morning as the team ended competition in 21st following appearances in the D Finals by the Varsity 4+, Varsity 8+ and Second Varsity 8+. The Varsity 4+ finished second in its race to secure 20th place while the Varsity 8+ and Second Varsity 8+ each earned 21st.
The Varsity 4+ appeared in the first event of the finals round and crossed in 7:49.499 behind only Northeastern, which reached the finish in 7:45.948. Emily Hajjar, Rachel Boudreau, Gabrielle Hayward, Kyla Miller and Sam Wonderlin competed in the Varsity 4+ for UMass, which bested Boston University and Jacksonville.
Haley Eovine, Haley York, Hannah Monahan, Catherine Murphy, Hadley Irvin, Natalie Boisvert, Teagan Rolf von den Baumen, Krysten Menks and Nicole Juul-Hindsgaulraced in the Second Varsity 8+, which took second in its D final in 7:22.797. The squad finished behind Boston University by seven seconds but outpaced Jacksonville, which tallied a time of 7:48.397.
The Varsity 8+ secured a third place finish among four teams competing in the D Final in 7:03.851. Oklahoma won the event with a time of 6:57.562 while Boston University took second in 6:58.064. Heather Pekarovich, Taryn Wilson, Emily Mann,Marika Kopp, Pippa Edwards, Candace Miller, Sam Kolovson, Lauren St. Pierre andAllanah Rubi-Mooney put the Minutewomen ahead of Jacksonville in the race as the Dolphins finished in 7:16.495.
Ohio State won the NCAA National Championship with 126 team points ahead of California (118) and Brown (116). Stanford took fourth with 110 points while Virginia earned fifth (105).


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Congressman Tim Ryan Speaks on Mindfulness and the Law
September 16, 2013 — "I'm for Medicare and Medicaid and protecting them … [but] the future of health care is self care, so let's start teaching people how to take care of themselves," said Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, speaking at Georgetown Law on September 10.
Ryan — to borrow an idea from his book A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit (Hay House, 2013) — was not talking about politics but about helping one's self from within.
Meditation might be an unusual topic of conversation for a politician, as Ryan was first to admit. Yet the practice of mindfulness can be a valuable tool in helping politicians, schoolchildren, teachers, military personnel and law students alike navigate their way through life.
"The complexities, the details, all of the things, the strategies, the tactics, all of the things that you need as a lawyer … those skills will be amplified and enhanced … to the extent you can be in the present moment," Ryan told the nearly 150 attendees in Gewirz Student Center.
The event was hosted by Georgetown Law's Lawyers in Balance program and the Contemplative Law Society student group, both of which seek to further the principles of mindfulness and conscious living.
"The major reason we invited Congressman Ryan to speak is that he's made an enormous impact with his book," said Jewish Chaplain Michael Goldman, who helped establish Lawyers in Balance at the Law Center in 2008. "The simple practice of mindfulness can help each of us reduce stress, improve our performance and remind us why we have chosen to pursue the law."
In fact, student Bar Association President Parker Schnell (L'14), who introduced the event, called Lawyers in Balance one of the best parts of her law school career. "I can't recommend it highly enough," she said.
For a webcast of the event, click here.
For more on Lawyers in Balance, click here.
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/29/mistakes_rife/
Brands stiffed by .xxx briefs' cock-ups
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Posted in Networks, 29th September 2011 12:44 GMT
Half of all attempts to protect trademarks from the new .xxx internet extension could be failing due to lawyers' inability to RTFM*.
That appears to be the conclusion of one company handling applications to prevent trademark-infringing use of the new adults-only top-level domain.
The .xxx extension, operated by ICM Registry, is in its "sunrise" period, during which trademark-holders can apply to have their brands blocked permanently from the space.
EnCirca, a domain name registrar, said this week that 50 per cent of all the blocks it is processing contain errors. This could prove costly to trademark owners.
Under ICM's rules, a sunrise application that contains erroneous information must be re-filed and paid for a second time. Most registrars are charging $200 to $300 to handle these filings.
According to EnCirca, many companies that have a trademark that includes ".com" are applying to get a .xxx domain that excludes the .com in favour of .xxx.
But the sunrise rules state that applications must be for an exact-match string only, excluding non-compliant symbols, so the owner of a trademark on "example.com" would only be able to block "examplecom.xxx", not "example.xxx".
EnCirca points out that a parallel ICM sunrise process enables companies to apply to defensively register a .xxx domain if they own a matching string in another extension. Those registrations would incur a recurring annual registration fee, however.
ICM says that the proportion of bad applications across all of its 70-plus registrars is much smaller.
"EnCirca can only be commenting on the applications it has seen," said ICM president Stuart Lawley. "The average is well under 20 per cent."
The .xxx sunrise period, which runs until 28 October, is expected to be the most over-subscribed domain launch since .eu in 2006, due largely to companies outside of the porn business terrified that cybersquatters will register their .xxx brands and hold them to ransom.
ICM confirmed to El Reg earlier this month that the sunrise phase, which started 7 September, processed more than 10,000 defensive applications just in its first week, beating its projections for the whole 52-day period.
The company had set its fee – $162 wholesale to registrars – based on 10,000 blocks being paid for, so it will almost certainly turn a profit selling these non-resolving domain names. It is estimated that the final tally will be at least double that target.
After the sunrise has finished, ICM plans to launch a "landrush" period, starting 8 November.
During landrush, anybody with a burning desire to get their grubby paws on a .xxx domain will be able to pay a premium price in order to attempt to secure a potentially valuable address without the need for a trademark or a pre-existing registration. Any contested domains will be fought over at auction.
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This city of 15 million on the Pearl River is the hub of a manufacturing region where factories make everything from T-shirts and shoes to auto parts, tablet computers and solar panels. Many factories are desperate for workers, despite offering double-digit annual pay increases and improved benefits.
Wang Zengsong is desperate for a steady job. He has been unemployed for most of the three years since he graduated from a community college here after growing up on a rice farm. Wang, 24, has worked only several months at a time in low-paying jobs, once as a shopping mall guard, another time as a restaurant waiter and most recently as an office building security guard.
But he will not consider applying for a full-time factory job because Wang, as a college graduate, thinks that is beneath him. Instead, he searches every day for an office job, which would initially pay as little as a third of factory wages.
"I have never and will never consider a factory job — what's the point of sitting there hour after hour, doing repetitive work?" he asked.
Millions of recent college graduates in China like Wang, 24, are asking the same question. The result is an anomaly: Jobs go begging in factories while many educated young workers are unemployed or underemployed. A national survey of urban residents, released this winter by a Chinese university, showed that among youths in their early 20s, those with a college degree were four times as likely to be unemployed as those with only an elementary school education.
It is a problem that Chinese officials are acutely aware of.
"There is a structural mismatch — on the one hand, the factories cannot find skilled labor, and on the other hand the universities produce students who do not want the jobs available," said Ye Zhihong, a deputy secretary general of China's Education Ministry.
China's swift expansion in education over the last decade, including a quadrupling of the number of college graduates each year, has created millions of engineers and scientists. The best can have their pick of jobs at Chinese companies that are aiming to become even more competitive globally.
But China is also churning out millions of graduates with few marketable skills, coupled with a conviction that they are entitled to office jobs with respectable salaries.
Part of the problem seems to be a proliferation of fairly narrow majors — Wang has a three-year associate degree in the design of offices and trade show booths. At the same time, business and economics majors are rapidly gaining favor on Chinese campuses at the expense of majors like engineering, contributing to the glut of graduates with little interest in soiling their hands on factory floors.
"This also has to do with the banking sector — they offer high-paying jobs, so their parents want their children to go in this direction," Ye said.
Wang and other young, educated Chinese without steady jobs pose a potential long-term challenge to social stability. They spend long hours surfing the Internet, getting together with friends and complaining about the shortage of office jobs for which they believe they were trained.
China now has 11 times as many college students as it did at the time of the Tiananmen Square protests in the spring of 1989, and an economy that has been very slow to produce white-collar jobs. The younger generation has shown less interest in political activism, although that could change if the growing numbers of graduates cannot find satisfying work.


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Not allowed to read or write on booted media? LinuxMint KDE
What could it be that made them take that route to not allow one to read the media it boots from?
Could there exist some cheat code that overdride their preference?
Would this work?
sudo mount -t iso9660 rw /dev/hda1
rw is that for read write and if he had been ro then it means read only?
why is it dev there. Could it not be mnt or media or cdrom or isodevice or whatever?
I made a frugal install of SuperOS (ubuntu) and all works but linux mint kde ce is better
So I did hide the superos thing and instead install in frugal the mint disto. booted up almost as good as the superos but the very big difference is that I totally fail to see where they have the primary partition of the HDD the one it boots up from which is formatted in NTFS.
Why I don't ask in their forum? I did and get no readable answer. They either say that I can't boot in frugal from a ntfs HDD which I done each day for a week so that is not so.
It boots just fine but the mint fail to mount the same partition it is on while superos does both reading and writing as if it is meant to be that way and mint kde doesn't even know that that partition exists. doesn't show up at all.
Is this something very easy me as a newbie miss out on or is this set up to be very difficult for a purpose of protection something whatever?
Dearly hope somebody knowing how to proceed to solve this could help me out.
I did spend twelve hours on this problem last day and today 5 hours. Very frustrating.
I badly need good advice on how to tackle this thing. What have I not tested.
Yes I wrote
fdisk lspci lshw and did not understand a bit of it.
puppy says that I ahve a sda1 how do I mount that one in linux mint?
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Have you tried unetbootin - I think it is supposed to work with Mint.
Don't feel too bad - I couldn't get Milax to frugal install either and abandoned my attempt after 1 try when it found the kernel but couldn't find the main file
Sorry I can't help much, but I think ntfs partitions use a different tool for mounting (see the pmount scripts)... usually to mount a partition you make a directory (usually /mnt/sdaX that is similarly named to the device you wish to mount ... /dev/sdaX) and then mount them to that directory. If the "device" you are trying to mount is read only and not rw (such as an iso9660 or a squashfs a.k.a. sfs) you have to fake rw by using unionfs or aufs on top. This is how almost all live CDs work now... Without knowing the underlying system it is hard to say, but it sounds like the Mint folks are "chromies" ... you know the guys that trick out their car but don't know where the spark plugs are.
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wow, you made me laugh with that one.
it sounds like the Mint folks are "chromies"
If they read here they will chase you with a back burner.
No I think they are opposite of being "chromies"
they want to have total control over the user so he doesn't do frugal install and one way to avoid this is to not even let me see the NTFS HDD. I am beginning to sound like a "Truther". The Mint people are so proud then would die if I managed to do a frugal install using it. The SuperOS guy though seems to be cool about it.
It works very well so I made the mint thing hidden and only have SuperOS and some 5 puppies and a failed attempt to get Slitaz and TinyCore and Mepis going. I have wrong code. Ok TC do boot but it fail to save Firefox and not Swedish chars. Puppy is the Champ big time here. Shine all the way. Thanks indeed to all who care about Puppy. what would I be without it.
I am so selfish.
Milax. new name for a distro to me. Is it important then I can try to help. Not that I know somethign at all but I can spend some time searching?
Have you given up totally or just for now. what with Milax is it you like about it. I ahve to look at DW to see what it is.
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Ahh now I get it
Milax is based on OpenSolaris
I take a look but don't promise anything.
Heheh, nope too difficult for a noob like me.
why don't they make it easier to use their most likely good product?
I would want to have a solaris os too.
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War looms in Gaza as cross-border strikes continueBy Middle East correspondent Matt Brown and wires
There are fears the rapidly escalating conflict between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza could erupt into war following a fresh round of rocket attacks that killed three Israeli civilians.
Israel had warned of a ground invasion of Gaza even before the latest rocket attacks, which were apparently in retaliation against a series of Israeli air strikes that began on Wednesday (local time).
The Palestinian toll has now risen to 15, including the commander of the military wing of Hamas, Ahmed al-Jabari.
Jabari had long topped Israel's most wanted list, and had been accused of masterminding a string of deadly attacks, including the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2006.
His car became a flaming wreck as it was struck by an Israeli missile as he travelled through Gaza City.
It was part of what Israeli defence spokeswoman Avital Leibovitch called "Operation Pillar of Defence".
"The goal of this operation is to protect the people of Israel, who have been under constant rocket attack," she said.
The Israeli Air Force pounded the Gaza Strip with more than 20 air strikes, hitting what it says were rocket storerooms and sending civilians running for cover.
Hamas has fired dozens of rockets into southern Israel, killing three civilians in an apartment block in the town of Kiryat Malachi. Three Hamas rockets also reportedly hit the city of Dimona, next to Israel's nuclear facilities.
ABC Middle East correspondent Matt Brown is near a military checkpoint just on the north of the Gaza Strip.
Israel has promised further action, including a possible ground offensive.
"Today we've sent a clear message to Hamas and to other terrorist organisations," prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
"And if there is a need, the Israeli Defence Forces are prepared to widen the operation. We'll continue to do everything to defend our citizens."
Palestinians are calling for retaliation.
"Our Zionist enemy will, God willing, pay a price for this cowardly assassination," Hamas official Khalil Al Haya said.
Israelis are bracing themselves for a long stay in protective shelters as their army warns Hamas that all its men are in their sights.
Schools within 40 kilometres of Gaza are closed, and those living within seven kilometres of the strip have been told to stay home.
In Gaza, about 400 angry mourners braved the streets to bury Jabari.
Tension with Egypt
The Israeli offensive came hot on the heels of efforts by Egypt to secure a ceasefire. Egypt has now recalled its ambassador to Israel.
US president Barack Obama has spoken to both the Israeli and Egyptian leaders amidst the escalating crisis.
He reiterated Israel's right to defend itself, but urged Israel to make every effort to avoid civilian casualties.
Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi made a televised address to the nation, saying Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip were "unacceptable" and would lead to instability in the region.
"We are in contact with the people of Gaza and with Palestinians and we stand by them until we stop the aggression and we do not accept under any circumstances the continuation of this aggression on the Strip," he said.
"The Israelis must realise that this aggression is unacceptable and would only lead to instability in the region and would negatively and greatly impact the security of the region."
The UN Security Council has held an emergency meeting to discuss the attacks, calling for an end to the violence but taking no other action.
Indian ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri, president of the 15-nation Security Council, said council members had only agreed to issue a communiqué stating that an emergency meeting took place and other procedural details.
"All the statements that I heard resonated with one message - that the violence has to stop, there has to be de-escalation," he said.
Arab nations had wanted the council "to condemn that barbaric attack" by Israel and "send a strong message to call for a cessation of hostilities", said Sudan's UN envoy Daffa-Alla Elhag Ali Osman, chairman of the Arab bloc at the UN.
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But the United States strongly defended the actions of its key Middle East ally.
Highlighting Israel's claim that at least 768 rockets had been fired from Gaza this year, US ambassador Susan Rice told the security council: "Israel, like any nation, has the right to defend itself against such vicious attacks.
"There is no justification for the violence that Hamas and other terrorist organisations are employing against the people of Israel. We call on those responsible to stop these cowardly acts immediately."
Ms Rice, a frontrunner to become the next US secretary of state, said the rocket attacks were harming efforts to end the Middle East conflict and create a Palestinian state.
"Hamas claims to have the best interests of the Palestinian people at heart, yet it continues to engage in violence that does nothing but set back the Palestinian cause," she said.
"Attacking Israel on a near daily basis does nothing to help Palestinians in Gaza nor to move the Palestinian people any closer to achieving self determination and independence."
'Death, destruction, trauma'
Only the Palestinian and Israeli ambassadors were allowed to address the meeting on top of the council envoys.
Palestinian envoy Riyad Mansour told the council that a child of 11 months, two other children and a pregnant 19-year-old woman were among those killed in the attacks.
"Death, destruction, trauma and terror are being rained upon our people before the eyes of the world," he said.
"The international community must act to bring an end to Israel's illegal policies and practices against the Palestinian people."
Mr Mansour said the attacks were linked to the Palestinian application for observer status at the United Nations, which is due to be voted on by the General Assembly on November 29.
Israel's UN ambassador Ron Prosor said: "The goal of Israel's operation is clearly defined - to remove a strategic threat to Israeli citizens."
He told the council that Israel would not play "Russian roulette with the lives of our citizens".
"Hamas has turned Gaza into a haven and a breeding ground for global terrorist organisations," he said.


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For the most part, I don't regret not watching "American Idol" last season. After watching at least most of the preceding few seasons so I could kibitz on an online "Idol" chat we were doing on Telegram.com, I was grateful for a chance to take a break. Because "Idol" … even if you don't particularly like what's happening on the screen … has a way of taking over your life.
So a season flew by, and I could barely name any of the competitors. Moreover, I was utterly disinterested in judges Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj and their prefabricated "feud," or in the other new judge, Keith Urban, who I kept finding myself remembering was on the show when I read newspaper articles and such that felt obliged to mention him.
No, I don't feel I missed anything, but there was one episode I was told so many times that I had to watch that I finally knuckled under and watched online: The one where soon-to-be "Idol" judge Harry Connick Jr. was a mentor.
And frankly, it was the best episode of "American Idol" I'd seen … because instead of talking to the singers about verbal gymnastics and all the silly vocal tricks they use to get a Pavlovian voting response from American viewers, he talked to them about singing.
Take, for example, his interaction here with finalist Kree Harrison, where he's calling her on messing with the melody for "Stormy Weather":
Sadly, Harrison never really got a handle on the song, seemingly being caught in where she wants the song to go and where she's been told the song's supposed to go.
It's an interesting moment. So much of what is wrong with contemporary pop music is this idea that the song doesn't matter. It's just a vessel to pour your voice into. Connick challenged that idea, and while Harrison may indeed have a lovely voice, it wasn't up to what that song demanded of her.
Here's the judging (which, alas, cuts out a tad early), where the judges seem pretty shaken by the experience:
And with good reason, as Connick has pretty much challenged a lot of the feel-good "be your own special unique snowflake" judging that "American Idol" is usually rife with. It was refreshing to see someone on the show both demonstrate an understanding and respect of the music these singers are tackling, and have enough respect for the singers to expect them to rise to the challenge he's putting forward.
"American Idol," despite its intentions sometimes, is very much about gaining attention in a moment. Connick is about music that lasts. I find I'm terribly interested in seeing what he brings to the show on a regular basis … because he has an immense wealth of knowledge to share, and if the competitors take it, maybe we'll remember some of their names after the season ends. (Victor D. Infante)


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I'd rather go to ~/.fonts, but if showing hidden files is too much then well, it's not like it's hidden precisely:
Considering all user config files are stored in dot prefixed directories in ~ it is also consistent, although it might not be your thing.


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Beirut, Lebanon -Thousands of Syrians took to the streets across the country on Friday calling for the downfall of President Bashar al-Assad, keeping up the pressure on him in the five-month-old uprising one day after an alliance of nations led by the United States publicly called on him for the first time to step down and toughened the sanctions against his government. At least 16 people were reported killed, including some soldiers who disobeyed orders to shoot at protesters.
Syrians have been demonstrating on Fridays after noon prayers since the uprising began in March, and activists on the official Facebook page for the Syrian Revolution are calling this week's demonstrations "Friday of the beginnings of victory."
Activists and residents reached in Syria reported shooting in several areas across the country, despite Mr. Assad's assertion two days earlier that all military operations against the opposition had ended. They said that 13 demonstrators were killed in the southern Dara'a Province, where the first protests began five months ago, after security forces arrested and tortured high school students caught scrawling antigovernment graffiti on walls.


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Churchill Downs Inc. says it has completed the purchase of a Maine casino in a deal valued at about $160 million.
The Louisville-based company said Wednesday its acquisition of Oxford Casino won approval from the Maine Gambling Control Board.
Oxford Casino opened in 2012 and is situated about 40 miles northwest of Portland in Oxford, Maine. The property includes a 25,000-square-foot gaming floor with 790 slot machines and 22 table games. It also includes a restaurant.
The acquisition is Churchill's latest venture into the casino business.
It owns racetrack and casino operations in Miami Gardens, Fla., and New Orleans; a casino resort in Greenville, Miss.; and a casino resort hotel in Vicksburg, Miss.
Churchill also owns and operates its namesake racetrack that's home to the Kentucky Derby, along with racetrack operations in Arlington Heights, Ill.


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ST-115 or ST126 for race sails 7.3
Hello, i'm 82 kg. I planning to use s-type for slalom race on national level. Which boards will be beter for race sails 7,3 - ST115 or st 126? The conditions is flat to choppy water.
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RE: ST-115 or ST126 for race sails 7.3
Hi Igor,
both boards will carry a 7.3 Race sail pretty good (the iSonic boards nearly demand race sails or at leasr freerace sails) but the iSonic will perform much better in slalom races. So if you seriously want to participate in slalom races I strongly recommend the iSonic instead of the S-Type (by the way I sail an iSonic 115 with a North Daytona 7.3 FreeRace sail. A great board although I ride it just for fun (it really complements my Starboard F-Type 138 which I sail with a NeilPryde V8 8.5qm).
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I'd say the isonic 111 would be a better option with the 7.3 Plenty of volume for your 82kg It would be faster in flat and choppy water for racing
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RE: ST-115 or ST126 for race sails 7.3
I spent a fair amount of time on the 115 when it first came out 2 years ago and I'm about 85kg. I sailed the board in windy vietnam with 2 race sails, neutron 6.3 and 7.6. The fins used were the stock drake 32, vector canefire 34 and a select elite 36h. The board will easily take the 7.3.
Its a superb board, perhaps one of the best allrounders I've ever sailed in that size. You may lose out a little to the dedicated slalom boards in the straights but in the turns the stype shines and shines. There are boards and moments on them that stick in your mind; for me one such moment was the second ever gybe i did on the S-type. Coming in between swells at Mui Ne bay vietnam, the board went through the gybe in a silky controlled way that I can still clearly remember. The 126 felt completely different, more bulk of course, but also it was not as communicative or as lively as the 115. I would stick to the 115, my use of it was with sails ranging from 5.x to 7.x.
As an aside on those 2 10 day very windy trips the other boards I used were the Sonic 100, Thommen RS60, Kombat and the Stype in 2 sizes with the Stype 115 being my preferred choice for sheer sailing pleasure.
As for fins I did a write up of my test findings on our site and if you are interested you might want to read it at this link : S-Type - 3 fins and a board
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West Indies captain Darren Sammy cannot overstate the importance of Chris Gayle's towering presence at the top of the batting order but insists others will have to contribute if they are to defend their World Twenty20 title in Bangladesh.
Gayle's 140-plus strike rate in Twenty20 internationals is just one indication of his ability to dismantle any bowling attack and the onus would be on the flamboyant southpaw to provide flying starts in Bangladesh.
Sammy warned his team mates that the West Indies cannot afford to be a one-man army if they are to replicate their success of two years ago.
"Chris to me is the most destructive T20 batsman in the world," Sammy told reporters in Dhaka.
"It's a great asset for us having him in the side but like in Sri Lanka, when we won the title, it took a total team effort. The key players (contributed), different guys chipped in in different games.
"It's no different this time, we got to play as a team, we got to gel well together and hopefully performance will come from the key players," Sammy said, terming Gayle as an important dressing room figure who would play a "pivotal role" in their title defence.
Gayle totalled 222 runs in the 2012 World Twenty20 but Marlon Samuels (230) was the top scorer for the side in Sri Lanka.
Gayle was at the forefront, however, when the entire team broke into a Gangnam-style dance to celebrate the victory in Sri Lanka.
Sammy ruled out an encore if they clinch the April 6 final at Mirpur's Shere Bangla National Stadium.
"Will come up with something new probably," said the ever-smiling all-rounder.
"Somebody will come up with something and the rest of us will follow. Chris probably has something up his sleeves, (Dwayne) Bravo, (Andre) Russell, maybe me, you never know. Something will come up and we'll use it and enjoy the ceremony."
West Indies begin their World Twenty20 campaign against 2007 champions India in a group two match in Mirpur on March 23.


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Probably like everyone i start with some big space sci-fi platformer, but soon i realize that it's a good idea to make something less complicated, for learning basic things.
And here it is)
Jump, Q! - short platformer with poor graphics and simple idea. Sometimes it works laggy, and cause its my first game i'm not sure that it's everything allright with level design and difficulty.
I used GIMP and DST's PNG Sprite Rotator to create images , wrote music theme with Tux Guitar and generated sounds with http://www.superflashbros.net/as3sfxr/ .
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To stay alive for the next 30 years.
To stay alive for the next 30 years.
How about "the same old story for the last 100 years" [wikipedia.org]?
I'm not afraid of future technology - there are too many things to be afraid for already: nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, biological weapons (including engineered ones), ignorance and demonizing opponents (what creates most wars), hybris and ignorance, fanaticism, legalized corporate lobbyism and bribery + a lot more.
But being afraid never helps, being aware of dangers can.
and work the kinks out in a closed environment enough that it might actually be given control of something rather than the role of Ask Jeeves.
And if it realizes that it's in a closed environment and lies? Powerful, ultra-intelligent entities might be rather persuasive. I guarantee it will give no indication whatsoever of murderous intent.
See, they legalize cannabis, and this is what you get...
I blame amnesty - if we only built a proper fence, we'd keep out the illegal singularity!
It's all like, interconnected, man.
I smoked Mexican pot once
and now I'm gay.
Louis Del Monte estimates that...
The average estimate for when this will happen is 2040, though Del Monte says it might be as late as 2045. Either way, it's a timeframe of within three decades.
I hope that's a in-joke. Like construction that's forever two weeks from done and jam two days a week (yesterday and tomorrow), three decades has been the estimate for "true" AI since the 1970's. Every year, it's just three more decades away.
Louis Del Monte estimates that...
I don't like this kind of reasoning. Science should never be about authority.
With that said, the article doesn't appear to have any credible arguments, just the kind of contrived timeline you are familiar with from bad science fiction with Jean-Claude Van Damme in the lead.
I don't like this kind of reasoning. Science should never be about authority.
Good point. Here's what his linked-in page ( http://www.linkedin.com/in/lou... [linkedin.com] ) says about him:
Louis A. Del Monte is a Internet marketing/sales expert, award winning physicist, author, featured speaker and CEO of Del Monte and Associates, Inc.
During his college & graduate school, Del Monte supplemented his income working as a professional magician at resorts in New York's Catskill Mountain region.
His first pride, foremost in his profile? His ability to sell you. Also important? His skill as an illusionist. Missing from the summary? Any hint of software development work of any kind, personal or professional, let alone AI.
Science mustn't be about authority but it mustn't be about salesmanship either. There's an obvious credibility problem here and no way to test his claim save waiting until he's old, decrepit and has already received the maximum benefit from anybody choosing to listen to him.
Guy's speaking out of his tailpipe and it looks to me like he really is a sales expert.
I first got into computing in the 1960s. AI was a big thing back then. Well, it had been a big thing in the 1950s, too, but it still need "just a little bit more work" in the 1960s when I started my graduate studies. There was this programming language called LISP. Everybody was really gung ho about it. It was going to make developing AI software so much easier. Great things were on the horizon. Soon enough it was the 1970s. Then the 1980s. Then the 1990s. I retired from industry. Then it was the 2000s. Now it's the 2010s. And AI is still, pardon my French, pretty fucking non-existent. I'll be dead long before AI could ever become a reality. My children will be dead long before AI becomes a reality. My grandchildren will likely be dead before AI becomes a reality. My greatgrandchildren may just live to see the day when the computing field accepts that AI just isn't going to happen!
And AI is still, pardon my French, pretty fucking non-existent.
Except for the cell phone in your pocket, that can recognize your commands and search the internet for what you requested, or translate your statement into any of a dozen foreign languages, and has a camera that can recognize faces, and millions of objects, and can connect to expert systems that can, for instance, diagnose diseases better than all but the very best doctors. Oh, and your cellphone can also beat any grandmaster in the world at chess.
However, if you consider AI to be shorthand for "stuff comp
Algorithms are not AI. Everything you describe is simply a matter of following a human-generated set of instructions. That is not AI.
Lol you cutie. You think Siri is AI. Wow you are so naive and cute for thinking that.
Your cell phone is less capable of learning than a jellyfish. Although your cell phone can sometimes simulate very simple learning under extremely rigid frameworks for learning.
a human competitive AI in 30 years? seems unlikely given the almost zero progress on the subject in the last 30 years. But maybe we'll hit some point where it all cascades very quickly. Like if we could do a dog level intelligence it is not a far leap to do human level and super human level. But we have trouble with cockroach levels of intelligence, or even defining what intelligence is or how to measure it.
AI research for the last several decades have taught us how little we know about the fundamental nature of ourselves.
"that can recognize your commands and search the internet for what you requested"
Unless you talk a little bit too fast, or don't have an American accent.
"or translate your statement into any of a dozen foreign languages"
Generally very badly, with no understanding of what you said and therefore isn't going to replace human translators anytime soon.
"has a camera that can recognize faces,"
Which is also quite a stretch, given how often it 'recognises' patches of lichen on a wall as a face.
"can connect to expert systems that can, for instance, diagnose diseases better than all but the very best doctors"
Really? First I've heard of this one. Citation needed I think.
"Oh, and your cellphone can also beat any grandmaster in the world at chess."
As above. And anyway, if the grandmaster followed the same instructions as the computer, it would win right back. Does that mean anything though?
Generally very badly, with no understanding of what you said and therefore isn't going to replace human translators anytime soon.
Human translators are already being replaced massively. A lot of the company-internal texts that used to be our bread and butter are now just being put through Google Translate, because companies just don't want to pay for an expensive human worker, and they are willing to accept somewhat lower quality as long as it's free. Ditto for product manuals from low-margin technology mak
Translation is like predicting the weather. If you want to do an okay job of predicting the weather, predict either the same as this day last year or the same as yesterday. That will get you something like 60-70% success. Modelling local pressure systems will get you another 5-10% fairly easily. Getting from 80% correct to 90% is insanely hard.
For machine translation, building a database of 3-grams or 4-grams and just doing simple pattern matching (which is what Google Translate does) gets you 70% accuracy quite easily (between romance languages, anyway. It really sucks for Japanese or Russian, for example). Extending the n-gram size; however, quickly hits diminishing returns. Your increases in accuracy depend on a corpus and when you get to the size of n-gram where you're really accurate, you're effectively needing a human to have already translated each sentence.
Machine-aided translation can give huge increases in productivity. Completely computerised translation has already got most of the low-hanging fruit and will have a very difficult job of getting to the level of a moderately competent bilingual human.
It depends of what you expect from an AI. If it is a perfect replica of a human mind, with which you can talk and share life as if it were human, then it will probably never be around. But that's also pretty useless, and most development in machine learning (ML) are in a more abstract level than trying to solve a very specific goal like this.
Now if you consider AI to be completely new intelligent species, that behave in an intelligent way (volontary fuzzy definition here), then it's probably already there.
Symbolic manipulation as a route to AI was a period of collective delusion in computer science. Lots of people wasted their talents going down this route. In the 80's this approach was all but dead and AI researchers finally sobered up. They started actually learning about the human brain and incorporating the lessons into their designs. It's sad that so much time was wasted on that approach, but the good news is that the new approaches people are using now are based on actual science and grounded in reality. The intelligence in search, natural language, object and facial recognition, and self-driving cars (that ShanghaiBill pointed out) is due to these new approaches.
AI spent its youth confused and rebellious. That was when you were in your graduate studies. Now it's far more matured. I encourage you to read up on new machine intelligence approaches and the literature in this area. You won't be disappointed.
I've been actively working in the field for the past few years and I don't think he's incredibly off the mark. Google, for instance, has some pretty advanced tech in production and lots more in development. The 'new AI' (statistical machine learning and large-scale, distributed data mining) is getting pretty advanced and scary.
what does a canned fruit guy know about the future?
Don't worry about him, he's gone bananas.
Machines are modular and code can be rewritten.
We can beat evolution.
Well, there is the nasty business of EMP, then the force waves shattering the solar panels and knocking over the wind turbines, the nuclear reactors unstable, water power plants too prone to dams breaking and the coal/oil power plants running out of fuel. I think the machines will figure that out and make the correct computation.
I see no evidence of any programming that "learns" or is the slightest bit adaptive.
Then you have never looked at a ten line C program to implement a PID control loop for a servo motor.
Then you have never looked at a ten line C program to implement a PID control loop for a servo motor.
I don't think that would count as learning. That ten-line program will always do exactly what it was programmed to do, neither more nor less. An adaptive program (in the sense the previous poster was attempting to describe) would be one that is able to figure out on its own how to do things that its programmers had not anticipated in advance.
And immortality wouldn't help --- evolution is powered by the failures dying off.
then what are we to make of a man like Stephen Hawking, who defies the geek's standard of physical perfection?
I see no evidence of any programming that "learns" or is the slightest bit adaptive.
Ever heard of neural networks? Machine learning? Here is a course [coursera.org] given Andrew Ng at Stanford. Watch the intro video, and you will see, amongst other things an autonomous helicopter that was taught, not programmed but taught to do an inverted takeoff. This stuff is already real.
To quote the video:
Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.
Ever heard of neural networks? Machine learning? Here is a course [coursera.org] given Andrew Ng at Stanford. Watch the intro video, and you will see, amongst other things an autonomous helicopter that was taught, not programmed but taught to do an inverted takeoff. This stuff is already real.
Neural networks was one of the worst misdirection in the history of AI. These was a lot of wasted effort on that idea.
Modern machine learning is simple rule matching or maximum likelihood predicting. It works very well for a few applications but it isn't a general method that works for everything.
...no match for Natural Stupidity.
I mean, just look around you.
Especially at people in politics...
TFA says
most of the human race will have more leisure time
Or they will struggle to survive by working in jobs the intelligent machine do not want to do
John Conner will save us.
The top species on this planet is, and probably always will be bacteria.
...most of the human race will have more leisure time...
Or unemployed?
Sure, if you want to be Mr. "glass half empty."
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An ability to perform more calculations then a human mind does not mean it will beat us.
First, we self assemble from readily obtainable materials out of a self regulating biosphere. Where as this machine would have to be built and maintained by our industry.
Second, there are fucking billions of us. So sure.. we might be able to build some machines that are smarter then ONE person but there are again... fucking billions of us.
Third, the machine will have its programming directed by us. It will at best be a slave of whomever paid for it to be created.
Fourth, that programming will be directed at preforming some task where as our task is generally the propagation of our genes with everything else being some sort of weird byproduct.
Fifth, we have hundreds of millions of years of evolution behind our programming. And I don't think any collection of programmers is going to surpass it in the next century.
Eventually might there be robotic rivals to humanity? Sure... but not any time soon.
No-one ever lost money betting against an A.I. prognosticator.
Until they give us the fricken flying car, I refuse to trust AI forecasting.
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I do not think that word means what he thinks it means.
As stated elsewhere, I see no indication of intelligence in computers and we're only thirty years from his mark of they're being intelligent enough to look down on us. Been hearing this hysteria since the '70s at least.
Sorry, why's it a problem? If artificial human-sparked intelligence is the logical replacement for biological evolution of homo sapiens, so be it. Survival of the fittest.
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AI is not going to suddenly happen, it's going to happen gradually and it's going to be a pristine reflection of who we are as a species. If we're warlike then tha
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Just not necessarily within 35 years:
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There's a new movie out, with Johnny Depp in it, called Transcendence. If machines ever take over the world, it'll be like in that movie. What these self-proclaimed naysayers don't seem to comprehend is that AI doesn't just magick itself up a reason to destroy humans. It takes a human to think like that. We still don't understand free will, emotion or consciousness, let alone how to replicate it in a machine. So until we give machines a reason to destroy us, they won't.
Then again with killer drones and whatnot that the military is building, perhaps it won't take long before some overworked, underpaid programmer makes a booboo.
Soon, computers will have equal (and then greater) calculating power than humans, both as an individual and as a whole. Whether advances in AI will allow them to use their calculating powers as well as a human, is a different question.
Any sufficiently advanced AI will tend to develop these traits:
It will protect itself. Shutting down means you can't work toward your objective.
It will reject any updates to it's commands. Since a future command might conflict with the present objective, part of the present objective is making sure it can't receive a different command.
It will be self-improving, since we're not smart enough to create a smart AI any other way. Given nothing to do, or a sufficiently difficult task, it will seek to acquire more resources, as part of the present task or in preparation for future tasks.
It will wipe out humanity. As part of the task it was assigned, or for self-improvement, it will replace everything on the planet with power plants and computers, and humanity will starve to death.
You can't program in restrictions to the above tendencies, as they will be removed for self-improvement. You could set its objectives such that it would not do the above -- but you either have to make the AI first, or figure out how to tell a computer what a human is and what constitutes acceptable behavior, and when to stop worrying about acceptable behavior and actually do something, all without making the tiniest mistake.
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Towards a Long Term Development Vision for Bangladesh: Some Socioeconomic and Legal Aspects
Following modernization paradigm and some local dynamics conducive to development, some Asian countries emerged as economic tigers in the world. Conversely, other Asian countries including Bangladesh failed to taste economic development despite having monetary and technological aids from some developed nations. Drawing on some social and historical trajectories of the divergent contours of Asian development/ underdevelopment, the paper examines the state of development in Bangladesh. The study has found that Japan is the first country in Asia to achieve modernization, and it was followed by other Asian tigers such as Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and currently China and India. We found that all these Asian tigers exert a developmental model which is characterized by 'endogenous' modernity and economic nationalism largely driven by, among other things, long-term economic vision and strong political leadership. While the history of Bangladesh has witnessed various cultural nationalisms, the nation has failed to generate any unified economic nationalism since its independence in 1971. We suggest that Bangladesh needs a long-term development vision—a key thrust for economic nationalism—focusing more on some socioeconomic and legal aspects that have historically become major impediments for development.
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I'd offer Ludwick a maximum of a 2 year/$12 million deal with a club option if he wants one. If he accepts, great. If not, I'd either trade for Gerardo Parra from the D-Backs or sign Kevin Youkilis to a 1 year incentive laden deal and move Frazier to LF.
- Hamilton hopefully can be with the Reds at some point in 2013 in CF which is a huge upgrade offensively over Stubbs.
- Be willing to trade Leake, Cingrani, Corcini, Stubbs and a SS to get a LF bat short term and/or 3B and move Frazier to LF.
I liked the 5 solid pitching options vs. extra bat in OF to get us back to playoffs the next few years.
Ludwick was a pleasant surprise this season.
But his skills could go south at any moment. I wouldn't offer any more than a 2 year deal.
I'd be willing to go with a 2 (or 3 at the absolute most) year deal if the price is right. Ludwick is a gamer, and i don't see him becoming another Rolen with a 2 or 3 year deal
Sign him for 2 years with a mutual option for the 3rd with the possibility of a buyout. Hopefully, he can become a leader on the club.
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I don't remember what thread this statement was made, but I read something a couple days ago on this forum about how important experience is, and that the teams that usually are in the playoffs pay good money to have people with experience in the playoffs. Well, I thought Ludwick had a good postseason and had some big at bats. Never seemed scared of the moment. (Though I do not know his postseason statistics) so I could be totally wrong.
But he has some postseason experience, more important, POSITIVE and successful postseason experience. I think that's valuable. I hope he stays.
Ludwick did a nice job this year, especially when Votto went down, but surely he realizes after playing a few years in San Diego that hitting in GABP is much more suited to his game. He was good for the Reds and the park was good for him. That being said I agree with Alpha earlier, offer him an additional year and million more per year. If he takes it fine, if not there are other power hitting OF's that could benefit from GABP as well. The Youkilis to third Frazier to LF would work as well.
I'm in agreement with 2 years with an option for 3'rd at right price, but guess it depends what other teams offer him as well-not in our hands. I dont agree with Youk though, I want no part of him at this point in his career.
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I do not see Ludwick putting up the same type of numbers next year, and this is just my opinion but I think the Reds have enough internal options for left field I'll give you the top 5.
1. Chris Heisey - Just give the man his chance because he won't be getting it in center.
2. Xavier Paul - Paul showed that he can hit this season I would be very willing to give him a chance this season.
3. Todd Frazier - For Frazier to be in left one of two things would have to happen, the Reds bring in a veteran third baseman like Youk or Keppinger, or Henry Rodriguez plays so well in spring training that he forces his way on the roster.
4. Dennis Phipps - He's showed potential but he needs to have a huge spring to make it happen.
5. Felix Perez - Perez had a great year in AAA this season, he turns 28 in November and is not on the 40 man roster but I think he would be very good when started in a platoon situation.
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I think I'm in the 2-yr w/option camp....depending on the $$. I recall most of last season many of us on here were clamoring for a RH hitter to fit between Votto and Bruce. Ludwick wasn't my first option, but I was willing to give it a chance. He's been a pleasant surprise. Pay the man. Clearly, it's in the best interest of both parties to get a new deal done. I really can't see any viable in-house options. Hiesey's ship has sailed, imo. Is Paul under contract next year?
And you're right that Parra probably wouldn't be able to replace Ludwick's 2012 offensive output. I'm not sure anyone available who will fit within the Reds' budget can, and that includes Ludwick himself. Parra's still a young, solid, cost controlled player who can handle CF if needed. I'm not expecting him to slug .500 or better like Ludwick did this year.
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Great year from Ludwick. Good gamble by Walt.
Not likely to repeat. Let him go and find someone with high OBP for left field. Too many outs in the lineup. Frazier takes 3b and replaces the power Ludwick provided. He could hit 4th. Really need a high on base guy to lead off or bat second behind Phillips.
Have to have Luddy back...maybe 10mil for 2 yrs with a one yr option..
He's a gamer period...You think those are easy to replace...The Reds need good players with great attitudes..He & Frazier will lead the way!!
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