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Colonel
PanAsian said:
Has anyone used these services in China?

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It would be good if they can have something like this in Houston, especially in the Texas Medical Center. The TMC is huge (with > 160,000 employees, 21 hospitals, 8 eight specialty institutions, 8 academic and research institutions, 4 medical schools, 7 nursing schools, 3 public health organizations, 2 pharmacy schools and a dental school, etc).

Many times, I have to walk to another institution for meetings, etc. Driving is out of question because it's almost impossible to find parking spots in the middle of the day (and I would lose my own precious spot, which usually take me a long time to find in the morning). We do have many shuttles circling the TMC, but their routes are always confusing to me. Once I spent almost an hour on a shuttle trying to find my way back to my office. It would've taken me ~45 minutes if I simply walked... Houston downtown does have bike rental services, but to this day I have not seen even a single bike near TMC...

It would be awesome if they can have something similar to Smart bikes in Houston...
 
solarz

solarz

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vesicles said:
It would be good if they can have something like this in Houston, especially in the Texas Medical Center. The TMC is huge (with > 160,000 employees, 21 hospitals, 8 eight specialty institutions, 8 academic and research institutions, 4 medical schools, 7 nursing schools, 3 public health organizations, 2 pharmacy schools and a dental school, etc).

Many times, I have to walk to another institution for meetings, etc. Driving is out of question because it's almost impossible to find parking spots in the middle of the day (and I would lose my own precious spot, which usually take me a long time to find in the morning). We do have many shuttles circling the TMC, but their routes are always confusing to me. Once I spent almost an hour on a shuttle trying to find my way back to my office. It would've taken me ~45 minutes if I simply walked... Houston downtown does have bike rental services, but to this day I have not seen even a single bike near TMC...

It would be awesome if they can have something similar to Smart bikes in Houston...
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You can always use this a hoverboard! :D
 
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solarz said:
I think this has been reported earlier in this or another thread.

100km isn't that far. For this to be practical, I think it'll need a range of 1000 km.
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Sorry a bit late to the discussion.

They might not be that far off from something practical as you think.

First of all ground based radars from vhf band upwards, eg the vast majority, are limited to about 500km range against aerial targets (airplanes) by radio horizon. Higher range is only possible against targets flying higher such as ballistic missiles, or at lower radar frequencies where you have the ground wave and ionospheric reflection phenomena. So the vast majority of air defense radars have ranges of less than 500km

Secondly even 100km can be useful depending on other attributes of the radar such as size and cost. The US uses short range aerial surveillance radars too, mpq-64 sentinel to name one, which has 75km range. Of course such radars are not strategic in a way a long range quantum radar would be.
 
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Captain
vesicles said:
Many times, I have to walk to another institution for meetings, etc. Driving is out of question because it's almost impossible to find parking spots in the middle of the day (and I would lose my own precious spot, which usually take me a long time to find in the morning).

It would be awesome if they can have something similar to Smart bikes in Houston...
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You should have asked for a Segway as part of your work contract.
 
SamuraiBlue

SamuraiBlue

Captain
solarz said:
It really doesn't sound like you understand what AI is.

Let me say this again: AI is machine learning. The algorithm for an AI program is modeled after the human brain: neurons and synapses and strengthened connections based on learning.

AI programmers DO NOT tell the AI what it should or should not do. They simply provide ways for the AI to receive feedback and run the AI through thousands and thousands of scenarios.

The purpose of an AI is to be able to make decisions. Those decisions are based on its learning process. AI programmers have no control over how those decisions are reached.
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The von Neumann architecture which is the basis of all present computer hardware cannot replicate how humans create memory. Pathways in computers do not grow.
AI programmers develops algorithm which dictates the decision making process and AI cannot override those algorithms meaning they have no room for expansion beyond their preset parameters.

In simple terms will not gain self-awareness with the present method of programming and hardware.
 
solarz

solarz

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SamuraiBlue said:
The von Neumann architecture which is the basis of all present computer hardware cannot replicate how humans create memory. Pathways in computers do not grow.
AI programmers develops algorithm which dictates the decision making process and AI cannot override those algorithms meaning they have no room for expansion beyond their preset parameters.

In simple terms will not gain self-awareness with the present method of programming and hardware.
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Sorry, but it really sounds like whenever you don't understand something, you just do some googling and copy-paste some factoid without any understanding of where they fit into the topic.

AI replicates the human brain based on software. It has nothing to do with hardware, except in the area of performance.

If you really want to understand what AI is, do some reading on Machine Learning.
 
SamuraiBlue

SamuraiBlue

Captain
solarz said:
Sorry, but it really sounds like whenever you don't understand something, you just do some googling and copy-paste some factoid without any understanding of where they fit into the topic.

AI replicates the human brain based on software. It has nothing to do with hardware, except in the area of performance.

If you really want to understand what AI is, do some reading on Machine Learning.
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It looks as if you don't understand how computers works at all.
Basically von Neumann architecture is the basis of how all computer can work meaning it is also the limitation of software since it is limited by the hardware.
Have you heard of "and", "or", "nand", "nor"?
These are the only logic command within any software since they are confined by the architecture.
Do you think humans create our logic based on only these four commands?
 
solarz

solarz

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SamuraiBlue said:
It looks as if you don't understand how computers works at all.
Basically von Neumann architecture is the basis of how all computer can work meaning it is also the limitation of software since it is limited by the hardware.
Have you heard of "and", "or", "nand", "nor"?
These are the only logic command within any software since they are confined by the architecture.
Do you think humans create our logic based on only these four commands?
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No, I only do programming for a living. :rolleyes:

First, they're not "commands". They're logical operators.

Second, you missed XOR.

Third, yes I do believe humans create our logic based on these logical operators. How else do you think LOGIC works???
 
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