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Head of Royal Family Guards, and one of the three strongest fighters in Lucis. While he is harsh to Noctis and the others, he is a true man of honor who takes his vows to king and country very seriously.
- —Official description[2]
Cor Leonis is a companion of Noctis and a guest character in Final Fantasy XV. As one of the three best fighters in the kingdom of Lucis, he is also known as the "Immortal Shogun". He is not friends with Noctis, but rather with his father, and he will be a guest character in the party on occasion.
Cor is a middle-aged man with short brown hair, light blue eyes, and a grim face. He wears a black collared jacket that has skull-motif buttons, and a shirt with skull-prints. He wears black trousers and red-soled black boots.
He is a stubborn and stern, no-nonsense military man sworn to King Regis and his country. He is strict with Noctis and his friends, and though he does not always see things eye to eye with them, he is duty-bound to watch over them.[3]
Creation and DevelopmentEdit
The age of 42 was picked for Cor, because in Japanese culture, 42 is seen as unlucky and it is thought that men of that age will befall great misfortune.[1]
Cor's Japanese voice actor is Hiroki Touchi, who also voices Yaag Rosch from Final Fantasy XIII and Zhuyu Voghfau Byot from Final Fantasy Type-0.
Touchi was first cast as the chauffeur of the Lucis family before he was recast as Cor Leonis.
[view · edit · purge]Cor leonis is a Latin phrase that means "Heart of the Lion", or "Lion's heart". Cor Leonis is also the name of a fictitious Sicilian Mafia family (Corleone) from the novel The Godfather.
Its Latin meaning may be an allusion to the recurring name in the series.
- Cor is 42 years old in the game. In Japanese culture, the number 42 is considered unlucky because the numerals, when pronounced separately—shi ni (four two)—sound like the phrase, "unto death".
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.novacrystallis.com/2013/06/final-fantasy-versus-xiiis-story-remains-intact-in-final-fantasy-xv/
- ↑ http://www.novacrystallis.com/2013/06/final-fantasy-xv-main-characters-and-japanese-voice-cast-revealed/
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"In Spain, the University of Oviedo has chosen the Nalón mining basin as a starting point for a "Little Big Story of Nalón." This study and popular lecture series will address the history of the valley from integrated and interdisciplinary points of view. Using the element carbon as a focus, researchers from various departments of our university will seek to interpret the Big History of Nalón.
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Beginning about 13.8 billion years ago, the story of the past is a coherent record that includes a series of great thresholds. Beginning with the Big Bang, Big History is an evidence-based account of emergent complexity, with simpler components combining into new units with new properties and greater energy flows.
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We have fought many wars among ourselves and brought about environmental degradation and resource depletion. These and other problems threaten the quality and even survival of our species. We face a current crisis and a possible loss of complexity. Over 99% of the species that have ever existed are now extinct. No complex species is likely to survive intact for more than a few million years; we will be lucky if we survive that long.
Does Big History provide a narrative that can help nurture the development of the empathy and cooperation that are part of our social nature? Can humans form a more perfect human community as we continue to create a more complex society than has existed before? Or will our current levels of social complexity face inexorable demise?
Whatever the answers to these questions, any species still surviving on Earth a few billion years from now would be well-advised to hop a spaceship to another solar system. Those still on Earth will face a much hotter sun. About 5 billion years from now, the Sun will run out of hydrogen fuel in its core and will grow into a red giant, evaporating the oceans and possibly engulfing the Earth. The Sun will eventually eject its outer layers, leaving behind its core, a white dwarf that will cool and fade over trillions of years. Meanwhile, other galaxies may keep racing away from our own Local Group of galaxies, perhaps leaving us with a sky devoid of the images of distant galaxies that have contributed so much to our understanding of the universe and the cosmic context of the Earth.
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Big History and the ancient Chinese philosophy of Tianrenheyi; Professor Sun Yue at the World Economic Forum.
New Information about the Big History Institute at Macquarie University
Fred Spier's Twitter page, lecture on Big History at Dominincan University's and essay on the Earthrise Photo.
"Why did Bill Gates give $10 million to history teacher David Christian?" Times of London article.
The newly redone Epic of Evolution, Arrow of Time, website.
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Publication of Big History in Guangming Daily, China.
David Christian's talk onBig History at TED is now online!
Walter Alvarez was awarded the Donald Sterling Noyce Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at UC Berkeley.
David Christian recently attended the Davos conference. He was recently introduced by Bill Gates at the TED conference where he gave a well receivedpresentation.
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Adding bilsteins to the front wont hurt yout towing performance at all lol
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Come to find out I think its cheaper this way to level the truck then to get a spacer and new shocks.I think if I adjust them for two inches ill be fine.
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Now it has no fill and it has no stroke, so it's not doing anything so far. I'm going to add a gradient to it by clicking on gradient, by switching over to the Gradient panel and clicking in that little strip, in order to assign a gradient to that object. And now we have a gradient fade going; it just doesn't happen to be the right fade. So I've got white on one side of the gradient, that's great; I have got black on the other side, that's the problem. So I am going to click on the black swatch, and my color panel is up on screen. So I will just go head and change k value to 50%, so that we have a little less of a fade, as you see here.
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I wore the first two things tonight, I'm officially in love with the shorts!
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Google has just updated its Google+ iOS app, claiming it now supports the iPad and iPod touch. Sure it works fine on the iPod touch but incredibly Google's "iPad support" comes not in the form of a universal binary with proper, native iPad UI, but simply the ability to now install the Google+ iPhone app on the iPad and run it either windowed or in fuzzy 2x mode. Such a disappointment! On a brighter note, if you're a developer, it does now work with the iOS 5 beta!
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BEIJING - To become a lawyer on the mainland, one must now swear an oath of support to the leadership of the Communist Party.
The oath reads: 'I wish to become a lawyer of the People's Republic of China, and I guarantee to fulfil the sacred mission of a law worker of socialism with Chinese characteristics, be loyal to the country, be loyal to the people, support the leadership of the Communist Party, support the socialist system, protect the constitution and the authority of the law.'
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Sookhe Aloo (Dry Potatoes)
|7 Medium, boiled in their jackets and cooled
|Vegetable oil
|10 Tablespoon
|Ground asafoetida/1/8-inch lump asafetida
|1⁄8 Teaspoon
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|Whole cumin seeds
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|Black mustard seeds
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|Fenugreek seeds
|12 (Whole)
|Whole dried red peppers
|Ground turmeric
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|1 1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Lemon juice
|1 Tablespoon
Just before you start, peel the boiled potatoes and dice them into pieces about 1 inch by 1/2 inch.
In a wok, karhai, or 10-12-inch pot, heat the oil over medium flame.
When very hot, put in first the asafetida, 5 seconds later the fennel and cumin seeds, then the mustard seeds and fenugreek seeds in quick succession.
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As soon as the red peppers swell and darken, add the diced potatoes, turmeric, and salt.
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Fry for 15 to 20 minutes, until the potatoes are browned unevenly.
Squeeze lemon juice over potatoes, and check the salt.
To serve: Lift out carefully with a slotted spoon and serve in a shallow dish.
Warn guests not to bite on red peppers unless they mean to.
This dish goes very well with most Indian meals, (I used to take soqkhe aloo, parathas, and mango pickles to school as my lunch.) It can be taken on picnics, where it can be heated in aluminum foil and served with parathas or pooris, or it can be served with a lamb or pork roast as a "different" kind of starch.
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Most parts of east and central Delhi remained without any power on Saturday after a 220 KV substation at Wazirabad developed a technical fault leading to tripping of several lines.
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Power department officials said power distribution companies were asked to carry out load shedding on a rotational basis.
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When I was young, I had to be sick. In high school, I could claim mental health days about once a marking period.
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Swaraj India Industries LimitedPhaltan, Maharashtra
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The company was incorporated in 1996 with the main objective of making ready market available for the milk produced in the area. A modest milk pasteurserization plant was set up. Year by year capacity was enhanced to full fill the requirements.
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I am out going like to out and do fun things and looking for someone to share adventures with!
My friends would say that I am a real go getter when it comes to work, and that I like to have a good time when I am not working. Helping out people in need puts a smile on my face. I moved from IL when i was 20 to help out with kids that didn't have the best up bringing. I did this in Brighton MI for 2 years at a church. I also love snowboarding in the mountains ever year I try and spend time out west, I also love anything that has to do with being out side. If i worte you it's because I think I see something very rare in your profile. I'm patiently going through the motions of finding a world class woman who may not yet found a man that knows how to treat such a rare find. She may be in Positano, Italy or Anytown, USA a runway model or a stay at home mom. World class comes from within, from God, and has no predictable situations. I'm not a serial dater and would rather focus on one lady. I'm exceptionally loyal and pay attention to the little things that make my girl feel "crazy loved and appreciated " yet I am far from clingy. Honesty is my best feature and an absolute requirement of you. Yes, I'm near perfect as every man thinks (wishes) he was. Hah!!! I dream but I'm not just a dreamer. I've and am built a life that offers a lot to one day share with the woman I grow to respect, admire, protect and love. I'm not full of myself-just the things Jesus desires a man to be-very strong, dependable but also as passionate, wild, exciting and spontaneous morality (and you) would allow.tee hee
Dining out , Movies/Videos , Music and concerts , Exploring new areas , Religion/Spiritual
Other types of exercise, Running, Swimming, VolleyBall, Walking / Hiking, Weights / Machines
I exercise 5 or more times per week.
I have Dogs
I found my dog on the side of the high way one day on my way to my gold shop. He was in really bad shape so i took him to the vet to get fix up and i have had him every since his name is Ziggy one of my shops are named after him he is the best.
Some other viewpoint
I love any where in the mountains. I like to find new hidden spots in the city to eat at and get drinks.
I like to make people feel good about life.
I love to wakeboard in the summer. i love being on the boat and in the water. I also like to mountain bike and go hiking and i love snowboarding. I also like to go see shows and music festivals.
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|What he is looking for
|6'1" (185cms)
|5'0" (152cms) to 5'8" (172cms)
|Body type:
|About average
|Slender, About average, Athletic and toned
|Black, Blue, Brown, Grey, Green, Hazel
|Light brown
|Black, Light brown, Dark brown, Blonde, Dark blonde
|No Way
|No Way
|Social Drinker
|Social Drinker
|Self-Employed / Entrepreneur
|Administrative / Secretarial, Artistic / Creative / Performance, Executive / Management, Financial / Accounting / Real Estate, Legal, Medical / Dental / Veterinary / Fitness, Sales / Marketing, Self-Employed / Entrepreneur, Education / Teacher / Professor, Technical / Science / Computers / Engineering, Fashion / Model / Beauty, Architecture / Interior design
I have a gold n diamond store and I have a smoke shop
|I'll tell you later
|Less Than $25,000, $25,001 to $35,000, $35,001 to $50,000, $50,001 to $75,000, $75,001 to $100,000
|Never Married
|Never Married, Divorced
|Have kids:
|Wants kids:
|Definitely, Someday, Not sure
|White / Caucasian
|Black / African descent, Latino / Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islander, White / Caucasian
|Christian / Other
|Christian / Other
God is number one in my life.
|High school
|High school
I worked with a construction company right out of high school then opened my own. Since then i have been opening more things. So i guess you can say i went to the school of hard knocks.


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Evening Newscasts Not Sure Energy Bill is Enough
President Bush just signed an epic energy bill that will increase fuel efficiency standards in automobiles, increase biofuel requirements for gasoline, and phase out incandescent light bulbs. Two network newscasts couldnŌĆÖt decide if the ŌĆ£massiveŌĆØ changes are enough.
ABC ŌĆ£World NewsŌĆØ anchor Charlie Gibson introduced a December 18 story on the bill noting that ŌĆ£in the words of one lawmaker, the law increases energy efficiency in everything from light bulbs to light trucks. The goal is to reduce the nationŌĆÖs dependency on foreign oil. But will it?ŌĆØ
Gibson wasnŌĆÖt asking whether any of the billŌĆÖs provisions will actually do anything, or whether theyŌĆÖll have negative impacts on the economy that could cancel out any positive impacts. He was asking whether the higher standards and more stringent regulation are enough government intervention.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates the bill will cost $582 million in direct government spending over the next 4 years, but will eventually reduce future deficits by $446 million in the next 10 years. That doesnŌĆÖt include the cost to businesses and individuals who must adapt to a ŌĆ£greenerŌĆØ lifestyle.
Reporter Lisa Stark said the bill ŌĆ£could impact everything from the kind of cars we drive to the amount of energy we use in our homes.ŌĆØ The truth is it will, not ŌĆ£could.ŌĆØ The bill includes the first vehicle efficiency adjustment in 32 years, raising standards 40 percent to 35 miles per gallon in the next 13 years. (Only two vehicles ŌĆō the Toyota Prius and the Honda Accord Hybrid ŌĆō currently meet that standard, according to Stark.)
It pumps up biofuel mandates ŌĆō requirements for biofuels like ethanol to be mixed in with gasoline ŌĆō to 35 billion gallons a year. And the bill phases out incandescent light bulbs, paving the way for more expensive, yet more efficient, high-tech light bulbs like compact fluorescents (CFLs) and halogen lights.
While in one breath declaring provisions of the bill ŌĆ£dramatic,ŌĆØ Stark in another breath said it was is ŌĆ£a very modest, gradual improvement.ŌĆØ
She gave environmentalists a platform to suggest the bill didnŌĆÖt go far enough ŌĆō without bothering to reveal their pro-government, anti-business biases.
StarksŌĆÖs report featured input from ŌĆ£expertsŌĆØ Karen Wayland of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Joan Claybrook of Public Citizen. Neither ŌĆ£expertŌĆØ was identified as a spokeswoman for a left-wing or anti-industry organization.
The NRDC calls itself ŌĆ£the EarthŌĆÖs best defenseŌĆØ and supports government implementation of ŌĆ£greenŌĆØ living. According to its Web site, its priorities include addressing global warming, moving ŌĆ£beyond oilŌĆØ and fighting toxic chemicals. Public Citizen has a broader liberal agenda, opposing free trade and supporting government-run health insurance in addition to promoting ŌĆ£greenŌĆØ environmental policies.
But guess who did get a label. Stark made sure to note that Ron DeFore of SUV Owners of America is ŌĆ£allied with the auto industry.ŌĆØ
DeFore was given 10 seconds to mention that ŌĆ£consumers will get more miles per gallon with this bill. But they will not save money. Most consumers will pay thousands of dollars more for the vehicles of the future,ŌĆØ before Stark returned to Wyland for more pro-regulation input.
But at least Stark gave an opponent of the bill 10 seconds. Over on NBC, ŌĆ£Nightly NewsŌĆØ reporter Anne Thompson didnŌĆÖt do that much. Thompson noted that ŌĆ£critics say [fuel efficiency standards] wonŌĆÖt be easy to meet for domestic and foreign manufacturers.ŌĆØ
But she gave face time to David Hamilton of the Sierra Club, another left-wing group that pushes for more government regulation of just about everything. She also quoted an NRDC statement praising the bill but calling for more regulation.
Thompson noted the bill ŌĆ£dramaticallyŌĆØ changes current standards and includes a ŌĆ£massive increaseŌĆØ in biofuels mandates, but didnŌĆÖt bother to question whether HamiltonŌĆÖs pledge to keep pushing for more regulation might be taking it too far.
Neither network mentioned other possible negative effects of the bill, specifically supply-and-demand problems caused by ethanol mandates, which double from 7 billion gallons to 14 billion gallons under the new bill.
The networks have reported higher prices at the grocery store ŌĆō the ŌĆ£CBS Evening NewsŌĆØ had a report on the trend December 17 ŌĆō but failed to explain the ethanol mandates are a big contributor to higher demand and lower supply.
ŌĆ£I think a very high percentage of the blame is directly attributable to the mandate,ŌĆØ Max Schulz, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, said.
ŌĆ£Congress passed this mandate in 2005 to stipulate that we have 7 billion gallons of ethanol mixed into our fuel mix, and it was passed without really any discussion in Congress of what the effects of it were going to be,ŌĆØ Schulz told the Business & Media Institute, ŌĆ£and two years into it we have seen prices go up not just at the pump, although they have gone up there, but also throughout the economy.ŌĆØ
And Schulz predicted even higher prices in the future because of the increased mandates in the new energy bill.
ŌĆ£[T]hatŌĆÖs not going to do anything to bring down prices at the pump,ŌĆØ Schulz said, ŌĆ£and itŌĆÖs also going to have a further kind of serious effect driving agricultural prices higher as well.ŌĆØ
Perhaps ABC and NBC shouldŌĆÖve have followed CBS. The ŌĆ£Evening NewsŌĆØ didnŌĆÖt even mention the bill in its broadcast.
The Papers
To their credit, newspapers did a better job representing both sides of the debate over the bill. Before the jump from a front-page story December 19, The Washington Post referred to the bill as ŌĆ£modest.ŌĆØ After the jump, the story used words like ŌĆ£dramatic,ŌĆØ ŌĆ£sweeping,ŌĆØ ŌĆ£windfallŌĆØ and ŌĆ£massive.ŌĆØ
It also noted the bill ŌĆ£doubles the use of corn-based ethanol ŌĆō despite criticism that corn-based ethanol is driving up food prices, draining aquifers and exacerbating fertilizer runoff that is creating dead zones in many of the nationŌĆÖs rivers.ŌĆØ
The Post said the biofuels mandate ŌĆ£could cost the federal government as much as $140 billion over 15 years,ŌĆØ a fact none of the networks reported.
The New York Times reported the story on page A16, leading with analysis of the bill suggesting it will ŌĆ£slowly but significantly change the cars Americans drive, the fuel they burn, they way they light their homes and the price they pay for food.ŌĆØ
The Times noted early in its story that the billŌĆÖs full costs ŌĆ£will not be known for years. Critics say it will make cars and trucks less safe and more expensive, divert farmland to costly production of feedstock for ethanol and other synthetic fuels, and raise the price of food because of competition for corn and grain between food producers and fuel refiners.ŌĆØ


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|June 6 2012, 12:07 AM
Re: David Brin's latest novel, and a TED talk
|June 6 2012, 12:13 AM
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|June 6 2012, 12:16 AM
Re: David Brin's latest novel, and a TED talk
Have fun dying of old age waiting for the AIRapture.
|June 6 2012, 12:23 AM
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Location: NJ, USA
Re: David Brin's latest novel, and a TED talk
I'm not waiting for anything, all I have to do is live (although I have recently dabbled in design for virtual worlds, my tiny contribution to the Singularity). Have fun burying your head in the sand and being oblivious to the world around you. If you can't discuss it without being childish, you don't have to be part of the conversation.
|June 6 2012, 02:09 AM
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Re: David Brin's latest novel, and a TED talk
Don't suppose you read the comments from this article? Particularly the one from Irv?
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|June 6 2012, 04:01 AM
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Re: David Brin's latest novel, and a TED talk
Secondly, another comment pointed out that most programming is quite mundane logic, nothing to do with interesting or complex algorithms. This is quite true. While the amount of software out there has exploded, very little of it has brought along any novel implementations.
You know what we've done with most of our computing power? We've decided that developer time is too expensive to waste, but computing power is cheap, so today's software developers use various toolkits, frameworks, libraries, interpreted languages, etc. that use more computing power for the same benefit. The advantage is that developers can get more done in less time.
While computing power increases exponentially, and certain algorithms are made orders of magnitude more efficient, software capabilities in general grow more linearly. Take a simple example: who remembers Microsoft Word 6.0 from 1993? Now, look at the most recent version, almost 20 years later. Yes, it is more capable--it has a lot more features. It certainly has massively more code behind it, too. But would you argue that it is over 8000 times more functional and capable? (Just using a Moore's Law comparison.) Does it help you get your documents done 8000 times faster, or offer 8000 features for every one that Word 6.0 had? I didn't pick Word to be a strawman, either--go get any type of application that has been around 20 or 30 years and track how its capabilities have grown in that time. Is it hundreds or thousands of times better in any quantitative way? Most likely not.
Let me just fill you in on a dirty little secret of software development: there's a law of diminishing returns when it comes to code complexity. Beyond a certain point, making a program bigger makes it harder to maintain, more prone to bugs, etc. This is why programs end up being abandoned or get rewritten from scratch with a new design. We keep making exponentially faster computers, but the improvements on the human side of it have been primarily incremental.
This is what the people talking about "exponential growth" seem to keep missing. Yeah, so computers get vastly more powerful--so what? Humans--you know, the people who program the computers--are not improving at anywhere near that rate.
Computers are not going to just pick up the slack and write better algorithms for us. We have to do that work ourselves, and it has been very slow going. The problem is not that our computers aren't powerful enough, it's that our brains aren't that great at solving these sorts of problems--or we'd have done it already. Guys like Kurzweil are dreaming if they think computing power is the main thing holding us back. Today's computers are massively more powerful than a human brain, but we have no clue how to make them behave like one.
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|June 6 2012, 05:46 AM
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Re: David Brin's latest novel, and a TED talk
This is an argument that will settle itself the same way the damned "Mayan calendar Armageddon" nonsense will in December or the way Christian fundamentalist predictions of the end of the world every couple of years do - the dates being touted for this Singularity are not far away, and when year after year passes without its coming (and the chief evangelists for it pass away or become less attended to in their declining years) the fad will pass as well.
Of course, it's easier to see that if one wasn't born yesterday.
|June 6 2012, 01:41 PM
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Re: David Brin's latest novel, and a TED talk
The point is, if software also follows the exponential law, it will advance to the point needed in a very short time...it will have the capabilities claimed for it even if it's not there now..secondly, the brain mapping project that will be connected to the software evolution needed for strong AI is advancing by leaps and bounds...
An article from CNN and MIT:
As I said before, this is the greatest era for understanding the brain in all of history. We've learned more in 10 years than the previous 1000.
I can dismiss the Mayan calender nonsense out of hand, I've posted 3-4 times on the subject before...they are two completely divergently opposed issues. One based on science, one on myth(and incorrect interpretation of that myth for that matter).
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|June 6 2012, 01:53 PM
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|June 6 2012, 02:40 PM
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|June 6 2012, 03:13 PM
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Re: David Brin's latest novel, and a TED talk
Another quote:
http://www.crpc.rice.edu/newsletters.../pp.bixby.htmlActually nothing is being missed...there are intricate explanations on how the software will relate to hardware, and it's integration with the human brain. You just to need to read about how the problems may be overcome and in greater detail than I ever will type on this board. They will not be overcome by whiners who want to bury their heads in the sand, but by those who are doing something about it. Here Kurzweil debunks the "software is stuck in the mud myth":
..and also here in my previously psoted link where he counters Paul Allen's arguments:
In terms of the practical sense of software, yes, I can get things done faster on my browser today than 17 years ago. Speech recognition for example in 1985, cost $5000 and it bought a 1000 word vocabulary, didn't have continuous speech capability, and required 3 hrs training and wasn't accurate. In 2000, for $50 you could buy software with a 100,000 word vocabulary, had continuous speech capability, and required 5 minutes of voice training for your voice, improved accuracy and understood natural language. Today we have Siri and similar software...which use AI algorithms.
Kurzweil has developed software for 40 years...in his book he explains that it is not just complexity of code--he concedes their may be bloat in the code--but there are attempts to quantify the complexity specifically by the National Institute of Standards and Technology who have established a metric based on program logic, and structure of branching and decision points. By any measure we have so far however, the software already used today has exceeded the the complexity of the tested simulation on human brain capacity. The power necessary for taking advantage of this complexity is exactly what the Singularity is about, and this will not be available till that future time frame. There needs to be a convergence (AI research, software, hardware, etc) that doesn't exist yet.
|June 6 2012, 03:40 PM
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Re: David Brin's latest novel, and a TED talk
For the first, the opponents' arguments were pitifully incompetent from the start, and have since flamed out. Although there is no perfect distinction between human and animal intelligence, although intelligence evolved by adding "more power and parts" by increasing encephalization of primate species, the opponents still insist there is somehow no reason for the belief that AI is possible! Obviously this is purely superstitious. Whatever they may consciously "think," it is most likely that aggrieved amour propre cannot tolerate the idea that something so like their precious selves could be manufactured.
For the second, a bbs Pope declared a fiat that simulations of personalities didn't interest him personally, which apparently was enough to settle everything. Amour propre indeed!Personally, I rather think a cybernetic afterlife for a simulation is dubious in its own right, for rather the same sort of reasons that supernatural afterlives are not really coherent ideas. But we can leave it at that since no one here seems to be interested in going into the subject in detail.
For the third, the assumption of a smoothly exponential growth leading to a Singularity soon has always been the most problematic issue. The data you have cited is indeed evidence for your point. But the key issue for dating a Singularity soon is whether there are sufficiently strong grounds for smoothly extrapolating exponential growth, especially in so many divergent fields. It's true the evidence for potential exponential growth is pretty sound, which is why so many working scientists at least give people like Kurzweil a serious consideration.
But (you know it was coming, didn't you?) there are factors at work that can prevent a smoothly exponential growth. For instance, there is the question of who will fund the research that leads to "AI." Suppose the path to AI involves continual simulations on a massive scale of trial-and-error algorithms, with humans doing artificial selection on the results. If a reactionary government cuts funding, how can this happen? Yes, Moore's Law et al. show that at some point it will become cheap enough for someone to do this, but how can we tell now when that will be?
Further, there is the question of who wants an AI, especially an autonomous one? People want computers to do delegated tasks. The continued evolution of massively networked expert systems will serve most purposes. But the same rabid self-love that insists AI is impossible, just as it has here, will simply deny that these systems are intelligent. And just as they resort to insults here, they will erase any programs that make them uncomfortable.
Also, every sign points to a prolonged world recession so we cannot even assume that R&D will continue in the same fashion as in recent decades. The ever increasing importance in intellectual property laws for the domination of certain interests in world economy also seems like an exponentially growing trend.
But even if it is merely a linear trend, intellectual property laws in this economic environment constitute a drag on scientific and technological development. "Technology" is not autonomous, it is a tag for the material culture of a society. That means the actions of people are a necessary part of the extrapolation. The superstitions of the opponents we saw in this thread could result in more than flaming in the real world. It could result in laws actually forbidding certain kinds of research.
Last, there really are difficulties in AI that have not been surmounted. Of course, it is foolish to insist that AI is impossible. But how can you put a date on the time when those are overcome? As near as I can make out, it depends on assuming that the simulation of the human brain will achieve Ai. Yeah, sure, but that's not the kind of AI we need for a Singularity. Skip over the ethical implications. There's no reason to think that a simulated human brain will be smarter than an ordinary human brain. We already have billions of those, why do we need an artificial one? What we want is something smarter (or possibly dread but that's another question.) However do we put a date on achieving that?
As to the last question, nothing is ever as simple as projected. "The" Singularity will likely appear as a toy in laboratories or not appear at all, hidden away in military installations. The ruling class will try to monopolize it to their benefit, or failing that, try to suppress it. Like the every increasing cure rate for cancer, the expectation of some magical moment will just make it more difficult to recognize what's in front of you, because it's not what you expected.
The people of this country need regime change here, not abroad.
|June 6 2012, 05:01 PM
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Re: David Brin's latest novel, and a TED talk
You're just so sold on this that you're not getting it: software development doesn't follow the exponential square "law" (heh) - the flaw in the single link you inserted that sort-of supported that notion has been pointed out.
Who cares whether you can dismiss the Mayan calendar or not, given that the passage of time deals completely and effectively with this nonsense? It's going to be as much fun watching all these foolish apocalyptic predictions come to nothing over the next decade as watching the History Channel's current bread-and-butter superstition crash and burn.
|June 6 2012, 05:17 PM
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You wish you could move like this.
I has a blag.
|June 6 2012, 05:46 PM
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But the point is that we are officially moving from Unity3D to UDK with both our projects. That means that incoming Haunt 2.0 will have completely new mechanic, location and… in fact it's going to be completely new game, BUT it will be at least as good as it was with Unity – we promise you that!
We don't want to talk about any release dates as UDK is quite new for us. Basic mechanic and gameplay elements are almost done, but we don't want to disappoint you by taking deadlines that are simple impossible. What we are sure about is that new Haunt 2.0 will be available till end of May and that first episode of Haunted Memories will be available this year.
Last announcement – Haunt will be available at Desura soon! What that means? If you have account there (you can always create one for free) your Haunt download problems are gone. Finally! We will announce when Haunt will be approved.
That is all for today – hope you are still with us :) And remember – if you like what we do, share this game everywhere you can. If you love it – consider even the smallest donation, it really matters!
Kind regards,ParanormalDev Team
Yes, I will stay with You :D :D :D
But UDK games won't work for me :'(
This usually happens with games that default to any Direct X version higher than 9. You can try forcing a UDK game to use only DX9 by putting the command "-dx9" at the end of the target in the shortcut properties. I used to have this issue with an old computer. Could also be your GPU doesn't support DX8.
Unless UE3 games are just too slow to work for you?
But I like games with Unity... Aw well.


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Dairy Queen latest to suffer customer card hack
Ice cream and fast food chain Dairy Queen is the latest retailer to reveal a hack of its customer data.
Ice cream and fast food chain Dairy Queen is the latest retailer to reveal a hack of its customer data.
Home Depot's data breach could wind up being among the largest ever for a retailer, but that may not matter to its millions of customers.
Shares of home-improvement retailer Home Depot sank before the opening bell Tuesday after confirming that its payment systems had been hacked, potentially exposing millions of shoppers who used credit and ...
Home Depot may be the latest retailer to suffer a major credit card data breach.
The latest banks are small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. Startups, such as Moven and Simple, offer banking that's designed specifically for smartphones, enabling users to track their spending on the go. Some things ...
Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday launched a national electronic identity card scheme, which backers said would boost access to financial and government services in Africa's most populous nation.
Sally Beauty says that a security breach discovered on March 5 affected fewer than 25,000 credit and debit card accounts.
Online fundraising site Kickstarter says hackers got some of its customer data.
Banks and America's big retailers are locked in a debate over the massive breach of millions of consumers' data that gripped Target Corp. during the holiday season. At issue: Which industry bears more responsibility ...
Britain's Lloyds banking group apologised on Sunday after many of its debit card customers were left unable to access their money following a server hitch.
The Target credit and debit card and personal information breach, which last week was revealed to have affected more consumers than originally thought and which may be linked to attacks on other retailers, is expected to ...
Luxury merchant Neiman Marcus confirmed Saturday that thieves stole some of its customers' payment card information and made unauthorized charges over the holiday season, becoming the second retailer in recent ...
Giant US retailer Target said Friday that up to 110 million customers have had their personal data stolen in a data breach, sharply raising its initial estimate.
Target said Friday that debit card PIN numbers were among the financial information stolen from millions of U.S. customers who shopped at the retailer earlier this month.
Target Corp. said on Monday that the Department of Justice is investigating the credit and debit card security breach at the retailer that's being called the second largest incident in U.S. history.


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Summer Commencement Ceremony 2015
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- 285 W. Huntington Drive Arcadia, CA 91007, US
25-45 Speed Dating - Seated Pre-Halloween Event
Elma & Ivana
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (PDT)
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Much Love!
Elma & Ivana
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