Gravel roads are cheap to build, cheap to maintain, and represent an extremely sensible kind of cut that does not have a major quality of life impact. Arguably they also have a rustic beauty, and look much nicer than a pot-holed, badly deteriorated paved road.
True that. Hopefully the rest of the western world will take its decline this gracefully.
A Finite State Machine is not at all Turing-complete (if I understand your response correctly). Here's some Wikipedia-age. I'm still trying to sort it all out, but be careful with this article, you may end up switching majors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor
Every time any story mentions them, their potential applications are reduced to the staggeringly, criminally mundane "could lead to faster computer memory". Standard von Neumann computer memory. A shame.
The brain is not a sequential Turing machine. Has any form of finite connectionism even been proven Turing-complete?
That (if I understand this story correctly) they here have been able to do what they have using components suited for our "traditional" computing architecture rather than the raw connectionist architecture of the brain is wonderful. It sounds like they're emulating synapses and plasticity/learning.
But the right memristors wouldn't be an emulation -- I'm not sure if they've actually made memristors with memristance profiles specifically for mimicking biological synapses, but THIS is their utility and the future.
If you're pulled over and suspected of DUI, then don't take the damn test
In many states, refusal to take a breathalyzer test is legally presumed an admission of guilt.
Good luck with that.
Either I misunderstand the 5th Amendment or you're full of shit. Either way, that's terrifying.
Great point. Following from that and off-topic, it just made me think: in English, I guess the definite article is implicit.
So how would languages without an indefinite article make this same suggestion/distinction? It seems kind of important to distinguish "Comrade Stalin made top general disappear" -- "Stalin made a top general disappear" vs "Stalin made the top general disappear"
Linguists/Rooskies?
All of this was done very extensively within concentrated groups of use-map-settings Starcraft map makers. There was one calc map capable of simple math and even algebra. There were also chess, custom user built skill sets and spells that were tagged to your controllable character. this was in no way part of the original game. There was one which my friend made that you could paint pictures, make animated minimap clips, stage firework displays, and even play short movies drawn with sprites and explosions set together pixle by pixle.
All these things were controlled by simple move, kill, spawn, and count triggers which were all linked to areas the player would position a controlable unit to start whatever programed trigger set was needed. we had hidden computation areas of the maps where creatures would spawn and die and move to work the trigger math out. we used a simple center view trigger to prevent these from being viewable(lagged like nuts with thousands of creatures spawning and being moved etc.
this is cool and all but its not really NEW news.
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