The Turing Test
First published Wed Apr 9, 2003; substantive revision Wed Jan 26, 2011 The phrase “The Turing Test” is most properly used to refer to a proposal made by Turing (1950) as a way of dealing with the question whether machines can think. According to Turing, the question whether machines can think is itself “too meaningless” to deserve discussion (442). However, if we consider the more precise—and somehow related—question whether a digital computer can do well in a certain kind of game that Turing describes (“The Imitation Game”), then—at least in Turing's eyes—we do have a question that admits of precise discussion. Moreover, as we shall see, Turing himself thought that it would not be too long before we did have digital computers that could “do well” in the Imitation Game. The phrase “The Turing Test” is sometimes used more generally to refer to some kinds of behavioural tests for the presence of mind, or thought, or intelligence in putatively minded entities. 1. 2.
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Future proof » Tim’s laptop service manuals
Have you come to this webpage looking for Toshiba laptop service manuals? Please read this. Introduction In the same vein as in my driver guide, I’ve started finding laptop service manuals and hosting them on my site. These are the professional, official documents published by the various laptop makers, either for their own technicians or for the use of the general public. They generally detail the exact list of parts in each model of laptop – often down to individual screws, if you happen to have lost some and need to know the exact size for a replacement – and describe the procedure for disassembling and reassembling the entire machine, including panels, RAM, wireless cards, keyboards and touchpads and LCD screens, all the way down to the motherboard itself. They’re difficult to find – you have to know where to look in their support site, or come up with the right Google search string, or beg and steal from someone you know in the industry. Practical stuff Organisation Feedback Acer Apple
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Asteroids@home
About Asteroids@home Asteroids@home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in Asteroids@home. You can participate by downloading and running a free program on your computer. Asteroids are the most numerous objects in the solar system. So far, hundreds of thousands of asteroids are known, with hundres of new discoveries every day. Because asteroids have in general irregular shapes and they rotate, the amount of sunlight they scatter towards the observer varies with time. The project Asteroids@home was started with the aim to significanly enlarge our knowledge of physical properties of asteroids. Because the photometric data from all-sky surveys are typically sparse in time, the rotation period is not directly 'visible' in the data and the huge parameter space has to be scanned to find the best solution. More info about projects on: Join Asteroids@home Returning participants Community
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theSkyNet POGS - the PS1 Optical Galaxy Survey
You helped name an exoplanet! Hi Everyone, Some great news announced yesterday by the International Astronomical Union - theSkyNet's name suggestion was selected for an exoplanet! The planet around the star Pollux is now named Thestias thanks to djrichmatthews' suggestion. You might notice that Thestias is suspiciously NOT the name we submitted (which was Leda). We're SO EXCITED with this result, congratulations to everyone who suggested, voted and was involved, it was a true team effort and we're so pleased that your name was chosen. -Kirsten and theSkyNet team 17 Dec 2015, 4:18:23 UTC · Comment Area 25,000,000 Yesterday we processed the 25 millionth area of POGS. The two lucky crunchers will be getting Lego and T-shirts 8 Dec 2015, 1:14:10 UTC · Comment Server Crash and New Galaxies Gday All, As lots of you noticed, we had a fairly major crash over the weekend. Fortunately with the magic of AWS and a fairly conservative backup scheme this only caused moderate cursing from theSkyNet team.
Universe@Home GR SOURCES Ulx’s research, physics, astronomy
New models and television program about U@H (in polish) We have finished a bunch of models, which will be published shortly. However, still a lot more are waiting for investigation. In the case of ULXs we are working on the influence of more primordial matter composition on formation of these mysterious objects. The BHSPIN application concentrate on black holes spin (i.e., rotation), which influences the mass accretion processes (necessary for the detection of this latent objects), and emission of gravitational waves (a.k.a. propagation of space-time wrinkles). The last process is recently raises a unprecedented interest due to the rumours of its first observations. Predicted 100 years (precisely) gravitational waves have not been detected yet. In polish public television appeared in the end of previous year a program about scientific computing considering also our project. Intel 64-bit Mac OS 10.5 or later support I had compiled Mac OS version of ULX application.
