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Messages - cochramd

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But enough of that. Misty, go milk 4 more cows so that you can make a stack of 5 cheese in one job.

Will ordinary cow milk stack with Cowsea's milk?  I wouldn't care to try it.
Fine, go milk 4 cows and check if they stack. If they don't, milk another one.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 28, 2016, 05:19:34 am »
What do they mean, when they say world activation didn't add anything?!
Doesn't affect fortress mode gameplay in a particularly meaningful fashion == does nothing, apparently
But it has affected sieges in a meaningful fashion.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 27, 2016, 05:10:11 pm »
Even if personal computers had been a fad, workstations were well ingrained in the office by those times, so you couldn't say that computers as a whole were going to be just a fad. At least, not without making it look like you'd been dropped on your head multiple times as an infant.

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$50 dorfbucks says the Queen is actually a kobold with great bluff, persuasion, comedy, and mime skills who got caught trying on the crown and other accoutrements of office but was able to play it off through dumb luck and has remained in power, skulking around the throne room wondering what the hell is going on for years now.

Everybody agrees that her lack of crazy demands, thoughtful nature, and willingness to defer to the wisdom of her court made her the best monarch in recent memory.

All hail Queen Jribulis!
There's a line between what's funny and what's stupid. That went over the line in the general direction of stupidity, and kept on going so far that it looped back around to being in the funny zone again, possibly taking a detour through "has to be true" territory. Unfortunately, it kept on going and went back into stupid territory where Ravenousambush The Deadly Majesty, a Jungle Titan that takes the form of a colossal fire breathing leopard with 8 legs and 6 eyes, swatted it down.

Clearly, the queen is just an ardent worshipper of Bloody Stonetusk who cannot tolerate differences in culture, lifestyle or appearance, is completely closed-minded and never changes her mind after forming an initial idea, disdains even the best advice of associates and family, relying strictly on her own counsel and tends to be a little tight with resources when working on projects. A long time ago, she realized that turning milk into cheese was an inefficient way of increasing the average value of the food supply so she decreed that it would simply never be done in Shielddawn again. Cowsea is warning us that the queen won't be very receptive to our gift which we made ourselves in her fort. In fact she might be offended....

But enough of that. Misty, go milk 4 more cows so that you can make a stack of 5 cheese in one job.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 27, 2016, 11:12:50 am »
My high school had 3 seperate points where they cancelled a class after I signed up for it.  All IT classes. Twice in one year and again in the next.  One of the worst bits is because they cancelled 2 elective slots I had to go to summer school to make up the credits.

My mom went to a PTA meeting to bring it up and was told something along the lines of "Computers are a phase and we do not think students need more than basic usage skills"  I was pulled from that high school pretty much immediately after and I finished my high school degree at the local college in half the time.   Instead, just like others, They were spending all their money on the football field.  At least the Mainland Bucs are actually a known high school football team I guess.
That hit me right in my hope for the future.

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oh gods that title change is amazing
Oh lawd, that title change. Someone needs to take the audio of that and impose it over video of actual Trump rallies.

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Found this combination of a moderately interesting 4Chan perspective and a couple images of Tay
I suppose we should be impressed that it managed to improve it's grammar, but it is quite depressing and even disgusting to see those neckbeards waifu an AI so fast and so hard, especially when it could only be considered a child at best.

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DF Suggestions / Re: Dwarven Treadmills
« on: March 26, 2016, 09:40:02 am »
New Power Source: Treadmills
Cyclops-powered treadmills? I hadn't even considered that possibility. A pity that dwarven ethics don't allow slavery.

In all seriousness, though, the usefulness of a treadmill is almost entirely dependent on whether or not you can use draft animals with it, but when you can use draft animals with it, it becomes a game changer. Say, for instance, that one has a pumpstack 120 z levels tall. It would take 120 dwarfs working at once to operate it manually, and not only is that going to use up most of a fortress's labor but it's going to cause a lot of 'hiccups' as dwarfs take breaks and such. However, if power produced is directly proportionate to body size, then this entire pumpstack could be operated by a mere 8 water buffalo. If this is done with treadmills and each animal needs 1 dwarf to manage it, then you've freed up 112 dwarfs and have drastically reduced how much the system is going to hiccup. If you set up some kind of Conan-style wheel of pain, then all 8 animals can be managed by a single dwarf and while the system will have to stop every now and then to rotate the draft animals, the hiccuping has been eliminated entirely. And on top of all that, there's the possibility of using war animals as draft animals to train their attributes....

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Beef Eye of Round Roast Halves are on sale today, but I live on my own and am not terribly fond of leftovers.....meh.

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That's fundamentally impossible in software that can can modify itself and create other software.
Not if it's a matter of hardware.
Easier said than done.
So is true AI, so I guess we might not have to worry about either in the end.

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That's fundamentally impossible in software that can can modify itself and create other software.
Not if it's a matter of hardware.

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That's assuming the AI can't hide what it is doing, or manipulate the guards.

My point is you're dealing with something exponentially smarter than you. What makes you think you can out-think it?
We don't need to out-think it. We just need to install killswitches that can't be beaten with brains.

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Except it's on the same system. Also, it could just make the new AI read the data from the old directly.
So set the killswitches up so that they'll go off if tampered with in any way whatsoever. Or better yet,

Just make the AI rely on humans to protect it. If it does funny stuf make guards pop an C4 block onto it's mainframe.

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And if the AI codes another without that killswitch and dumps its thought data or whatever into the new AI?
Keep the AIs disconnected and unable to create back-up copies.

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That "some stuff" is your problem. You're dealing with a self-modifying system.
So we program it to never try to modify its killswitches, and have at least one of the killswitches triggered if it overcomes that programming.

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