Posts by schlechtj

So, what's going on with Venus which has no magnetic field and is way closer too the sun so it experiences a far more intense solar wind than Mars? The solar wind theory can not be the whole story when Venus is over blessed with atmosphere.

Years ago

WOC sold lots of content in the form of pdfs in the late 90s. But, decided it wasn't work their time digitizing skill the rulebooks for people to just put then on line for free.

I think it's very interesting. The only way to make machines learn like we do is to have their memories work like ours. Repeat over and over writing over some past knowledge in the process while still keeping some of the old. Problem is then, that it will also inherit our flaws like imperfect memory, recall latency, forgetfulness, mistakes, and the rest of human brain defences. Then at that point what's the advantage? We will still have a need for perfect dumb calculators.

No rash of unemployed transcriptionists

I used to be an application trainer at Dictaphone on their speach recognition software. A 1 in 10 or 1 in 20 error rate is still very high for a transcript. We had a product that got rid of the transcriptionist but most doctors don't want to deal with another piece of software and correcting their mistakes and usually what they want goes. So transcriptionists turn into editors for the speach recognition program and most are not laid off.

Still making 32bit x86 processors

Just last year I bought a tablet with a 32bit atom processor running Windows 8.1 ( now upgraded to 10) 32 bit. How hard can it be to find hardware still being sold at Best Buy?

Voice recognition

Microsoft operating systems have been doing the kind of voice recognition your talking about since vista and if you had Dragon or something similar, before that. I don't know why google still makes you send data to its servers because phones today are perfectly capable of handling that task. It's probably a program to get voiceprints of everyone on earth so they can sell it or leverage you into buying something. Or perhaps the government may want it to identify people in disguise. Humm... I think I'm going back to typing......

Yaay Tevatron!

venus anyone

Hard to believe that this is the whole story given the fact that Venus also does not generate a magnetic field. Venus is two whole planets closer to the Sun but has the thickest atmosphere of all the inner planets by far. The difference between Earth and Venus is almost as great as Mars and Earth. The Venutions are asking where did Earths atmosphere go?

No black holes anyway

I'll say it again.... Black holes take an infinite amount of time to form since an increase in gravity slows down time. Therefore, black holes proper (a singularity) do not exist in our universe and all these wacky conjectures about how to deal with a singularity are unnecessary. "The laws of physics break down inside a black hole" the same way they do in fairy land and for the same reasons. It's sad that Mr Hawking has wasted his whole life on this and is clawing at something that people will believe before he dies. I know I sound heartless but how much money have we wasted on this stuff? As Alders razor states - anything that cannot be proven by experiment is not even worthy of discussion, and therefore our funding ir attention.

Pluto spots?

Hummmm, why are there so many cats on a planet named after a dog? And spot is a dogs name too. Makes you wonder....