Re: [nlug] How long until the Singularity?

2014-06-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
I don't think we're intelligent enough to invent something more intelligent than ourselves. I do believe we're intelligent to invent something that *mimics* some of the things that the human mind can do, but it is just mimicking and it will never be able to do everything our mind can do because

Re: [nlug] How long until the Singularity?

2014-06-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
The human mind is infinitely more complex than anything you just mentioned. Chemical reactions and physics are dramatically simpler than the imaginative, creative complexity that is the human mind. Chris On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Nathanael Ries nathanael.r...@gmail.com wrote: We don't

Re: [nlug] How long until the Singularity?

2014-06-12 Thread Howard White
On 06/12/2014 01:56 PM, Nathanael Ries wrote: We don't have to be smarter than ourselves to create something smarter than ourselves. Quarks don't need to be smart to make hydrogen atoms, and hydrogen atoms don't need to be smart to make stars which create the elements. Those elements don't need

Re: [nlug] How long until the Singularity?

2014-06-12 Thread Nathanael Ries
It is natural for the human mind to rationalize to itself why it is more complex than anything else in the universe, but that is simply hubris. Anyone see how HP is close to bring able to mass produce memristors? This will not only be beneficial for databases, but also more closely resembles how

Re: [nlug] How long until the Singularity?

2014-06-12 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
we ever develop software that can further refine its own programming sounds like a compiler. On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 2:22 PM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: However, if we ever develop software that can further refine its own programming, and particularly if there is an

Re: [nlug] How long until the Singularity?

2014-06-12 Thread Howard White
On 06/12/2014 02:24 PM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote: we ever develop software that can further refine its own programming sounds like a compiler. Not like the IBM 370 COBOL compiler I once worked on: Probable user error, correct and re-submit -- thanks a lot. Howard -- -- You received

[nlug] db question

2014-06-12 Thread Jack Coats
I have a .db file from a commercially provided database. How can I import the db to either Libre Base of mysql ? I do not have the db layout of the db file. Suggestions? -- ... Jack Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart... Colossians 3:23 If you are not part of the solution, you

Re: [nlug] db question

2014-06-12 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hello Jack, Do you know which commercial database provided the file? Is the file binary? - wesley On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Jack Coats j...@coats.org wrote: I have a .db file from a commercially provided database. How can I import the db to either Libre Base of mysql ? I do not

Re: [nlug] db question

2014-06-12 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Alternatively, what does the file command provide for the .db file? On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wduf...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Jack, Do you know which commercial database provided the file? Is the file binary? - wesley On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Jack

Re: [nlug] db question

2014-06-12 Thread Kent Perrier
What does passing the file through strings do? On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wduf...@gmail.com wrote: So, akin to http://www.fileformat.info/format/corion-dbase-iii.htm ? If so, you may have luck opening it in Libreoffice directly, or try to import it there?