Stefan Reich's Intelligent Computers

Did "spam" kill it? People are so afraid nowadays to give out their addresses.

Man. Are you so scared??? Just pass it out again. We can filter!

I'm trying to find Kingscrusher's mail address, but the search engine doesn't turn up anything.

People must be really afraid of mailing.

It's just text, dudes.

I like his channel. Such a depth of understanding, and he expresses it well. Just like me I guess.

This video I found a little weird.* Try not to calculate anything? How about calculating a lot

Maybe he means that heuristics have their place - and I totally agree. Anyway, calculation and heuristics go great together. It's probably the two things we need - rough, simple heuristics and in-depth analysis of actual possibilities.

Heuristics says: "Well this looks like it might be... and you could apply this or that." etc.

Then analysis comes in and says "I checked it and there is this and that problem". Or: "I checked it and it seems to work. Here's a result: ...".

That's the way we want to program. Actually, my learners do it already, for example in this program. It solves a few cases, and I want them to be more. Watch this space!

*I really don't want to criticize Kingscrusher too much. It's the first nitpick I found after watching tens of videos. He really is a great explainer, and entertainer. Cheers

There is a state (some input and a goal), a history (what happened before?), and the next move. Or, the question: What is the next move?

Like chess games, computations can be recorded, published and talked about.

Why not find the next move together?

Here:

Suppose you have a new girlfriend because Corinna is too stupid. Her name is Ursel. You want to worship and/or impress her.

For example, by putting her name on your screen.

So you create a program:

Put Ursel on the widget

Yes, that is the whole program.

(Put the text in the "Content" field. Title doesn't matter. For type - it doesn't matter really, TinyBrain will figure it out - you can always use "JavaX (incomplete)" for any program you are writing.)

Then you rely on TinyBrain to give you suggestions on how to turn this program into something runnable.

Right now, the suggestors must be run manually - but we will of course automate that too.

The suggestors can be run like this:

java -jar x18.jar 1000604 yoursnippetid
java -jar x18.jar 1000610 yoursnippetid

They will post comments on the page of your snippet. You can click on those comments to have the suggestions applied.

(Edit: The suggestors (these two anyway) are now run automatically. Just press reload on the snippet page a few times, there is like a 10 second delay or so from your update to the result.)

(The first suggestor turns the prose into a function call; the second one adds all the Java boilerplate.)

So, after two clicks (plus hitting "reload" a few times), we end up with this runnable program:

!636
!629

main {
  static Object androidContext;
  static String programID;

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    updateWidgetWithText("Ursel");
  }
}

And, voila, it can be run! Just start the app, enter your snippet ID (1000603 in the example), hit "Go"... and Ursel will be very impressed:

I might want to say something positive about Android. It is, in many ways, a continuation of the earlier efforts (10 years ago!) to make a Java operating system.

I was a - driving - part of the JOS project back in the day that had a similar goal. (Here's my goodbye letter to the project. It seems I was a visionary back then already.)

Now Android has realized the ideal.

However, the split introduced is bothersome as explained here earlier.

But still, a lot of Java is in there.

And it's kinda cute. I think cute is the word that fits Android. Maybe just because cell phones are smaller than regular computers... who knows.

Cheers

Here.

Groovy.

The title says it all. How do they make it so... uninteresting? We can't even see one in action. Let alone hearing details about the technology. Have you heard any? I haven't. Seems like it doesn't exist.

Hello Google: What is not public does not exist. You can stuff your secret sh*t up your collective behinds.

Cheers

Not this Fake Commercial Rocket.

Or this Fake Rocket.

But the technology that will take us to heaven (or to the skies, whatever you prefer).

I am sad today... this country sucks.

Wo die Schlagzeilen lauten: "Neuer Glanz", "Perfekte Haarbürste", "Magisch-kunstvoll" und "Sommerzeit ist eingeläutet".

In genau dieser Welt, die KOMPLETT AN DEN BEDÜRFNISSEN ALLER MENSCHEN VORBEI GEHT, ist in den Schlagzeilen alles rosig und in Wirklichkeit der Horror inside.

Herold-Center-Lügenzeitung. (Ich bin da gerade UND SCHAUE MIR DIE ZOMBIES AN.)

where people have to sleep outside.

And you think anything is OK? Look around you: You will see isolated, angry, stupid, confused, "working" people. (Work = slavery.)

It's all the same God damn problem. Let's be free.

Drum memory. Computer science is so interesting. I would have loved to test run one of those back in the day.

For many early computers, drum memory formed the main working memory of the computer. It was so common that these computers were often referred to as drum machines.

Drum machines, eh.

Tauschek's original drum memory had a capacity of about 500,000 bits (62.5 kilobytes).

If only people today recognized the pioneers of their own time?

Wow.

• The 48 layer, 256Gbit (32GB), vertical NAND flash chip.
• The world's largest - almost 16TB - drive.
• The world's fastest - 1,000,000 IOPS - drive.
• A 2U box with over 700TB of capacity - roughly 15PB in a single rack.
• And a continuation of their intelligent drive initiative.

Modern drives contain powerful CPUs that can do much more than manage blocks of bits.

Rather than shipping raw data to hosts, these CPUs could perform local processing, giving hosts only the data they need while reducing network loads and latency. Samsung engineers are working with standards bodies to develop APIs to enable device computation.

Well... how about Java for that? Should fit the bill.

Yes, Google has split Java, by using it - and not using it at the same time.

Android Java is in large parts identical to the classic Sun/Oracle Java. Yet it doesn't run .jar or .class files, the traditional way of shipping Java code. You have to go down a wholly different route to conquer Android (.apk, Play Store etc.).

So what does Oracle - who bought Java from Sun - handle this situation? They punish Google.

Does it help customers?

No.

It just transfers money from Google to Oracle, if successful.

What did I do when I saw that the Java world is split? I built a bridge.

This bridge (JavaX) is free for anyone to walk.

For example, the code for a web server is the same for Android, Linux, Mac OS and Windows.

No, not to "correct" anyone. To break the spirit of humanity.

California's prisons are worse than Iran's.

Some Americans spend 42 years in solitary confinement. Here is a good quote from one of them:

If we would have been self-transforming for the last 60, 50 years, there would not be millions of new slaves today and we would have the power to be making an impact and difference toward the building of the New World.

Yes, where is the New World? It surely is coming.

And, as a final remark: California is where Google, Facebook and Yahoo are based. The same place that locks people up for a lifetime. You really wanna trust those companies? Bad idea.

Another quote from the excellent article:

In the SHU (the special solitary unit), no work, drug treatment programs, or religious services are permitted. SHU prisoners are not allowed phone calls (except in approved emergencies) or contact visits. Clocks, photo albums, food condiments containing sugar (like ketchup), playing cards, and chessboards are all banned. Only after a nearly three-week-long hunger strike last year were SHU inmates allowed calendars, as well as handballs to use in the concrete dog run. Their monthly canteen draw is a quarter of the regular population's allowance, as is the one 30-pound package they can receive per year. Pelican Bay Warden Greg Lewis insists this, too, isn't to punish them, but to provide "a very safe environment."

When I ask Bocanegra if the SHU is punishment, he laughs. "It's meant to break a person," he says. "You have to accept whether you want to die back there or you want to change." Leaving the SHU for a unit where he can exit his cell without cuffs and go to an outdoor exercise yard with a small group of other people, he says, made him "feel like you're free." When he walked out of the SHU, he saw his first tree in 12 years.

Just reminding.

Hint: It all revolves around the machine getting a chance to improve its own output.

I want to message someone in my community on Geeklist: member, community.

But it is not possible.

"You can only chat with your connections."

What is a "connection" in Geeklist? I "followed" and "subscribed" him.

How can I contact the guy?

Future generations will understand!

Cheers

(The album version is even better!)