Computer Science

Eventually, I want to be able to do some computationally-heavy modeling work, which obviously requires programming knowledge. Is there a specific language that would be good for this type of interest. Where can a newb start learning about building the tools to develop skills to develop stochastic-type models? Thanks!

I'd like to share a website that is a collection of links to audio/video courses and lectures in computer science and engineering. http://www.infocobuild.com/education/audio-video-courses/computer-science/computer-science.html This provides a comprehensive collection of computer science lectures from colleges/universities.

I noticed that a lot of the programming questions here, while phrased in terms of coding in specific languages, are actually rooted in a broader context of programming itself. People are having problem with the ideas behind programming in general. If we help people with algorithm building, the language-specific syntax falls into place. So, this thread is for tips on programming in general. This isn't about programming in python or programming in java. This is about the fundamental heart of what one needs to do. If anything, it's tips on how to code in PseudocodeTM. I'll start: One of the biggest thing about programming is being able to break a problem down …

Ran across this while doing some research. It's a Wiki at York University that summarizes research topics in Information Systems/Science. It's a pretty good germ of an idea because it's a bit of a step up from the Wikipedia for people actually pursuing research in these areas, serving as a more useful starting point because of all the citations. http://www.fsc.yorku.ca/york/istheory/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

I hate MS. I already scrapped IE and am considering changing my OS from MS to Linux. What are the pros and cons to changing to Linux?

Microsoft is releasing the next version of Internet Explorer soon. http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/08/12/microsoft.browser.ap/index.html It will be really secure and also have some nice features.

Im running IE, and, frankly, it irritates me. Spyware, adware, etc. Ive heard that Firefox is better, but can someone in the know give me some advice please? Continue with IE, or is the change to Firefox really worth it? What are the benefits I would gain or the disadvantages? Thankyou

http://www.dievo.org This site offers a bunch of really interesting challenges, from cryptography, to PHP manipulation. I right now am on Apprentice: Level 5. Try it out and tell me what you think. Has anyone else already tried it? Go to the site, click on challenges>wargames>hook. Hook is the first challenge.

Just musing about the boundaries of Artificial Intelligence, I wonder if AI programming can ever take a machine to the point that it would be able to appreciate the sounds of a waterfall, or a gently murmuring stream or be able to appreciate the works of Wagner. Or to be happy when the UK win gold medals in the Olympics. In short, can our emotions ever be felt and appreciated by a computer, and could it then make mistakes based upon emotion?

Many renowned scientists believe this event is all but inevitable and that the consequences of it are so far reaching that it will change our World profoundly. We will be living in the post human era if we manage to survive at all. Others argue it will go a very long ways in solving mankind`s most difficult problems and may even lead to human immortality. This event is predicted by many to occur within 5 to 30 years. Many of these scientists I am refering to are some of the most res…

Just recently I checked my computer for spyware and found... 116 spybots!!! (and a partridge in a pear tree) Seriously, though, where do they come from? I hardly ever download anything. And, my stupid firewall claims it kills them. How can they get access to my internet without alerting it?

I have one or two ideas for what AI can be used for. If you have any, and would like it to be chewed over by others, post it here. Might be interesting. To start it off, I would like to see it used to "re-create" old images, making a modern very hi-def photo, from an old blurry bit of rubbish. I'm not talking about playing with contrast, brightness and colour and focus in the usual sense. What I would do is amass a database of modern, very high definition pictures, of say people, animals, cars, landscapes. Whatever subject is commonly captured. At every angle that you could. You would need a huge database, the bigger it got, the better it would wo…

I don't know well how cryptocoins work. It is said they spend so much energy as an entire country. The question is who pays such energy?

The thread is inspired by a claim in a recent thread that information entropy, as defined by Shannon, is the same as the thermodynamic definition of entropy which obeys the Second Law and therefore cannot decrease. Is this correct ?

i am MS student... I wana do my final year thesis in optcal computers.. I just wana know is it a hot research area can I proceed with this topic.. I need some starti up help material to know what are major areas in optical computer to do work .. please help me... regardz

I think they just create tens thousands topics, and wrote a standard answer for each topic. How do you think?

I am currently using Windows Xp,,,, Although I feel Xp is quite stable and graphical interface is better than Me.. but I still feel that Windows has too many problems occuring...... As you can see in my previous threads about "Search Assistant" and "IE" things...... Would Macintosh be more reliable and stable? Or probably Windows 2003 would be much better than Xp, because it is, at least, the latest version of Windows I know....... Any suggestion? Albert

1.a) Life's purpose is reasonably to do optimization. 1.b) Reference I: "Dissipative Adaptation", Jeremy England. 1.c) Reference II: Wikipedia/Laws of thermodynamics. 2.a) Artificial General intelligence (AGI), will probably arise in one decade or more, and they shall probably be better optimizers than humans. 2.b) Reference III: Kurzweil's law of accelerating returns: https://youtu.be/JiXVMZTyZRw?t=646 2.c) Reference IV: Demis Hassabis' prediction: https://youtu.be/rbsqaJwpu6A?t=918 2.d) In fact AGI is often referred to as the last invention mankind need ever make: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9snY7lhJA4c) 3) Thus, our purpose as a …

It has been officially been announced. The next version of Windows will be called Windows Vista. It will be released in 2006. Microsoft hasn't officially said too much about it yet, but I know a few things about it. First, the GUI will be very high-tech. You are going to need a good graphics card to run the next Windows. A major feature will be the new type of icons. The icons will actually show a preview of the entire document, or picture. It will be much more than the Windows XP thumbnails. It will also feature IE7. Not too much is known about IE7, but I heard it will have tabbed browsing. Here is a little more technical information from Microsoft:

what is the most pointless computer software every made just curious / and the most advanced software if known

Does anyone here have SP2? Windows Automatic Update downloaded it, but I don't want to install it since I hear all of these stories about how it will stop programs from working and all of that. So if you have it, what did it do?

Firefox Myths You will surprised at what you thought was true.

The question is prompted by a post of @Sensei ’s which was sent to trash, precluding any discussion. LLMs are commonly assumed to be AI in the media and this seems to have become the perception of the general public, so I was intrigued to see @Sensei ‘s opinion is that they are not. Would anyone care to expand on this, viz. what qualifies as true AI and how LLMs should more properly be described?

This question occurred to me some time ago when I was thinking about whether or not `if` statements are fundamental in computation. Consider a program that manages a single bank account (for the sake of simplicity). The bank account could be defined as something like Account { int balance; // current amount of Money boolean withdraw(int n) { if (balance >= n) { balance = balance -n; return true; } else return false; } void deposit(int n) { amount = amount + n; } } S…

What AI can not do? Give us examples of tasks that AI can not do (in your opinion) whatever effort and advance technologies have invented. Dr. Yahya Al-Samawi Computer Science Department Al-Razi University Link removed (rule 2.7)