Linked[×] via that article is a similar story of obtaining access to the official scan of Rodin's Thinker. It's an interesting tale told in the form of email and official letters...
Python isn't that strict about whitespace? It's just using indents to delineate blocks and newlines implicitly terminate statements (unless you have an unclosed brace).
Anywhere else, you can add as much whitespace as you want.
As a shareholder, what's the difference between 50 years and forever, anyway? Are you locked into the shares to the point where you're not even allowed to sell them? If not, what's the likelihood anyway that you would have kept them for the full 50 year duration?
N=9? For that second chart, remove the best performer as an outlier and it falls apart. This reads more as "Softbank is poor at making good choices" than anything concrete.
One of the posts down the page references "The Great Weibo Unblocking of late-January 2012", and many of the posts show separate block statuses from November and February.
So what are these courses? Video isn't working for me at the moment but judging by the descriptions they seem to be more involved than the CS courses:
Quoting from the Launchpad description:
Instead you will be getting your hands dirty talking to
customers, partners, competitors, as you encounter the
chaos and uncertainty of how a startup actually works.
EDIT: 10 minutes later, the Technology Entrepreneurship class redirects to a blank page and is no longer linked to from the other courses...
Hey, think this means there might be even more courses coming out later?
We'll have to see what happens to the evaluation systems once the term ends, but at the very least you can sign up for all the classes and download the videos.
More importantly, for evaluation purposes, the quizzes and exercises can be submitted late, though penalized in points. Since what you get out of the course for having a high score (a certificate/letter of completion?) is worth about as much as toilet paper, you can still do the exercises and be evaluated on them even weeks later. We'll have to see if they keep the system running past the end of the semester - probably won't happen with ML, but maybe DB will stick around a bit.
AI, well, that doesn't have any homework.
So, next semester, sign up for all the courses, stick with all of them past the introduction week, pick one or you you'll focus on, and dabble in the rest.
> Massive Preferences List - Looking at that screenshot, the list doesn't seem massive. I seem to recall Firefox (or maybe Opera, this was a while back) having a large grid of options that was several pages long.
> Other Bookmarks - I don't have that on my current Chrome. I think this is because this is a folder that comes with the default install - if you go to the bookmarks manager you should be able to remove it.
> Status Bar - I kinda like it - you don't want the status bar popping up and hiding your cursor. Except in your video it's a lot more erratic than on mine at the moment.
> Favicons/Too many tabs - Favicons help when there are too many tabs. A common problem for me.
> Can you tell at a glance whether this site is loading or not? It's loading - the icon next to the URL is an X and not the reload icon.
There are some things that bug me, like broken pdf support - the built-in pdf viewer doesn't support rotation, for instance.
The behaviour of the status bubble that he shows in the video is a known bug in the Mac version (http://crbug.com/76590) which should hopefully be fixed soon.
But that is how we experience them - though perhaps not with electrical signals, but chemical ones instead. e.g. dopamine. We're programmed to enjoy dopamine.
Humans experienced pleasure long before they knew anything about dopamine.
You seem to be rejecting the reality of subjective experience by equating it to its objectively observable physical correlates.
Moral judgements are not (at least historically have not been) based on such observables but rather on the assumption that that which causes oneself pleasure or pain typically does so for others as well.
You can put someone in an FMRI and find that certain brain signals correlate with that person claiming to feel pain (ie. correlate brain state with behavior) but you can never establish a causal relationship between those signals and the subjective experience of pain because subjective experience is by definition not objectively observable.
These sorts of philosophical arguments have been going on for a long time with little practical effect. However there is a danger that if machines do become sapient and surpass us in intelligence that based on such arguments they will conclude that human beings are merely an inferior form of intelligence which is not worth preserving. If humans themselves deny the existence of subjective experience then why should machines believe in such a thing.
Computers also calculated pi long before we used them to design circuits.
"However there is a danger that if machines do become sapient and surpass us in intelligence that based on such arguments they will conclude that human beings are merely an inferior form of intelligence which is not worth preserving"
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