New Testingstan

ps. it's not choreographed, there are 12 basic strikes and 7 groupings and each grouping has multiple variation, and there's a defensive response to each strike and each group, but the guy "giving" can choose whichever strike or group he gives at his leisure and it's up to the guy on the receiving end to do the defense

so for something like this


http://youtube.com/watch?v=LXveoxKs0v4

none of it is pre-planned or anything

Oxymoron wrote:So, RE: The Singularity thread in SLAM...

I'm starting to worry that the danger in the field of AI research isn't the AIs themselves but the people programming them - specifically the fact that they are bonkers, if Starglider himself and his anecdotes about others working on the field are true.
They seems to have a bit too much faith in what they do. I mean, I'm not one to usually talk about Hubris in Science and "playing God", but in this case...

This may sound like a no-true scotsman fallacy, but Starglider was never really doing real AI research.

Starglider was in the business of selling a con about pure-website business automation (ie not touching real-world constraints, and thus a useless system) before moving to the financial world where morally bankrupt programers can make actual money. Real AI research isn't an implementation you are trying to sell to gullable venture capitalists to fund it's development.

There is a very good reason CompSci/AI research is the dominion of large universities with secure funding via other channels. It's a massive money sink an rarely gives useful information for decades if it ever does.

That sparring video you posted was free-form, Shroom? Impressive, quick reflexes.

yeah. with beginners you start off with doing things in order, all basic, and when they know how to move, you can go all random and string stuff together or even whip up some new stuff that - with the understanding of the basics - the recipient will be able to answer

we call it "agak", which translates to "holding/supporting", and the guy doing the giving is practicing his offensive strikes and groupings while the recipient is practicing his defenses

there's an element of control there too

anyway, here's a good video for balintawak-style eskrima


http://youtube.com/watch?v=V5v6UeuR18M

xon wrote:Starglider was in the business of selling a con about pure-website business automation (ie not touching real-world constraints, and thus a useless system) before moving to the financial world where morally bankrupt programers can make actual money. Real AI research isn't an implementation you are trying to sell to gullable venture capitalists to fund it's development.

holy lol

man we could probably build a pretty hilarious starglider.txt

uraniun235 wrote:

xon wrote:Starglider was in the business of selling a con about pure-website business automation (ie not touching real-world constraints, and thus a useless system) before moving to the financial world where morally bankrupt programers can make actual money. Real AI research isn't an implementation you are trying to sell to gullable venture capitalists to fund it's development.

holy lol

man we could probably build a pretty hilarious starglider.txt

Totalulz! Make sure it has shucking fitloads of

uraniun235 wrote:

xon wrote:Starglider was in the business of selling a con about pure-website business automation (ie not touching real-world constraints, and thus a useless system) before moving to the financial world where morally bankrupt programers can make actual money. Real AI research isn't an implementation you are trying to sell to gullable venture capitalists to fund it's development.

holy lol

man we could probably build a pretty hilarious starglider.txt

http://www.joplinglobe.com/dailybusines ... s-SEC-says

just saying

oh nitram

you'll never change will you

edit: lol i might actually be getting to him

you know a board is dead when my post in OSF has been up most of the day

adr wrote:oh nitram

you'll never change will you

edit: lol i might actually be getting to him

you know, dalton, thanas, etc., it really makes you guys look like idiots when somebody like nitram, who blatantly is conducting a vendetta against adr with his posts- he pretty obviously just said all that shit about kucinich because adr brought it up

you get mad at all the mockery, but when shit like this happens- you deserve every little bit of it. every single bit.

uraniun235 wrote:holy lol

It was a couple of years ago when he actually described what his "AI" business was. He shutup about it soon after, and was quite defensive about it. It included claims that such a system would make the drudgery of creating an eshop-front and shoping cart would go away by the magic of AI.

Rather than say eBay who basicly provides a near complete package for selling goods on ebay(including basic stock tracking), or the zillions and one free quite cheap plugins which do the same for Wordpress.

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:

uraniun235 wrote:man we could probably build a pretty hilarious starglider.txt

Totalulz! Make sure it has shucking fitloads of

I'm not sure how much of it would be utterly worthless technobabble and how much of it would of it would be breathless claims with no substance to them (which are largely technobable free to boot!).

Zod wrote:http://www.joplinglobe.com/dailybusines ... s-SEC-says

just saying

man learning that harvey birdman is a flimflam artist makes my day so much brighter

i kinda want to quit the internet

i haven't played my guitar nor done a recreational bike ride for weeks

i say it is because i've been so busy

but i've spent so many hours dicking around on the 'net that really that's no excuse at all

its a good move

strap your guitar across your back, ride your bike to a sylvan meadow, and play until your fingers bleed. it'll be good times and i'm sure, um, someone will mind the store for a couple a days.

xon wrote: I'm not sure how much of it would be utterly worthless technobabble and how much of it would of it would be breathless claims with no substance to them (which are largely technobable free to boot!).

what came to my mind was him describing his... christmas? present from his wife as a my little pony costume she would wear as part of their sexual escapades:

Starglider wrote:

Hawkwings wrote:

Starglider wrote:My wife caught me watching MLP:FIM and presented me with a Fluttershy for Christmas.

A little plastic toy or a custom plushie?

The toy, but she also made herself a sexy fluttershy costume out of some spare fur and wings we had. Apparently she picked that character because that was the colour we had spare and 'she looked fun to roleplay'. Alas, she won't let me take pictures of her in any of the not-approved-for-public-places costumes.

I also received Ace Combat 7, which turned out to be junk, Skyrim, which I haven't played yet, and assorted DVDs, articles of clothing and sweets. Last year I gave my close family tablet PCs; this year I gave everyone three large tins of Mountain House 30-year freeze dried food. The supplier told me that he was getting a lot of orders from City of London financial people this year.

oh yeah also him buying freeze dried food for his family, forgot about that

I gave everyone three large tins of Mountain House 30-year freeze dried food.

This still makes me lol while I simultaneously

jeez Baks-kun, you really opened up on Mr. 40 ounce

nice ones bucks

it actually reminds me of how this p.cool former USMC guy who participated in the OWS and tea party is trying to run for office over at MA or something

(i know him because i post lols at his wall)

j.p hollambeck if you know him

Count Chocula wrote:play until your fingers bleed

i got my first real six string
bought it at the five and dime
played it till my fingers bled
was the summer of '69

me and some guys from school
had a band and we tried real hard
jimmy quit, jody got married
shoulda known we'd never get far

oh when i look back now
that summer seemed to last forever
and if i had the choice
yeah i'd always wanna be there
those were the best days of my life

Best song ever when voice is getting sore

That and Khe Sanh

what a bummer song

standing in the rain with his head hung low
couldn't get a ticket it was a sold-out show
heard the roar of the crowd he could picture the scene
put his ear to the wall then like a distant scream

he heard one guitar just blew him away
he saw stars in his eyes and the very next day
bought a beat up six string in a secondhand store
didn't know how to play it but he knew for sure

that one guitar felt good in his hands
didn't take long to understand
that one guitar slung way down low
was a one-way ticket only one way to go

so he started rockin'
ain't never gonna stop
gotta keep on rockin'
someday he's gonna make it to the top

and be a juke box hero got stars in his eyes
he's a juke box hero
he took one guitar
juke box hero stars in his eyes
juke box hero he'll come alive tonight

lol so ziggy stardust ran away from the iran electins thread with teh first evidence

a personal attack brought him back in 25 minutes

now it has been almost two weeks again

i kinda want to drive it home

Starglider wrote:The toy, but she also made herself a sexy fluttershy costume out of some spare fur and wings we had. Apparently she picked that character because that was the colour we had spare and 'she looked fun to roleplay'. Alas, she won't let me take pictures of her in any of the not-approved-for-public-places costumes.

Eyup.