Easy Entry Sashimi Sauce
This is an easy entry Sashimi dip for those who are new to the raw fish thing or want to ease into it.
Soy sauce (choice, or Kikkoman or Yamasa)
Lime (to take off the edge of the raw fish, it's the easy entry part)
Raw garlic (chopped, can be cooked... it's up to you)
Salt (optional, to bring the soy sauce back up to full saltiness)
Hot sauce of choice (optional, or cayenne)
Raw fish of your choice (for this I prefer opakapaka also known as red snapper)
Pepper (black or white, to taste)
This sauce is at the core of my sauce techniques. You can use it as a marinade or dip for lots of stuff. Oh, and if you are going to use it on stuff you already have salted, you might want to consider not using additional salt in the dip.
That's it. Now go prepare!
Saturday, May 26, 2018
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Ten tips for the new BattleTech player
As always, these are general rules that occasionally may not apply in all situations.
1) First of all when starting get rid of all your jump jets for more armor during your first long run. Yes, jump jets are nice, but armor is life and saves you time and money on repairs.
2) Secondly light mechs have been nerfed. As soon as possible upgrade to heavier mechs. With a few exceptions. Sell the Cicada.
3) Keep your mechs together. Don't split up unless you have to.
4) Bullwork is one of the best abilities.
5) Learn how to do the two-step. Pull damaged mechs back.
6) Called shots can make your battle shorter. If a mech has lost a side torso and falls down that is two hits on that pilot. Shoot out the other torso for another hit to incapacitate that pilot. Or if one leg is out, shoot off the other leg for a mobility kill.
7) Put ammunition in your head and feet. It's kind of safer there.
8) And sometimes it pays to do a called shot to shoot a torso filled with ammo.
9) For long-range, I like the AC-5 and the LRM-15 for its damage to weight profile, and close range the Medium laser and the SRM-4. Short ranged weapons have a better damage to weight ratio, but are short ranged.
10) When hot, melee or set up to melee.
Well there you go, ten things to think about. These tips will not work in all cases, but you can add these tactics to your tool box. Oh, and a bonus tip: Pick a target and kill it. Try not to split your fire. Destroyed targets cannot kick or shoot anymore.
As always, these are general rules that occasionally may not apply in all situations.
1) First of all when starting get rid of all your jump jets for more armor during your first long run. Yes, jump jets are nice, but armor is life and saves you time and money on repairs.
2) Secondly light mechs have been nerfed. As soon as possible upgrade to heavier mechs. With a few exceptions. Sell the Cicada.
3) Keep your mechs together. Don't split up unless you have to.
4) Bullwork is one of the best abilities.
5) Learn how to do the two-step. Pull damaged mechs back.
6) Called shots can make your battle shorter. If a mech has lost a side torso and falls down that is two hits on that pilot. Shoot out the other torso for another hit to incapacitate that pilot. Or if one leg is out, shoot off the other leg for a mobility kill.
7) Put ammunition in your head and feet. It's kind of safer there.
8) And sometimes it pays to do a called shot to shoot a torso filled with ammo.
9) For long-range, I like the AC-5 and the LRM-15 for its damage to weight profile, and close range the Medium laser and the SRM-4. Short ranged weapons have a better damage to weight ratio, but are short ranged.
10) When hot, melee or set up to melee.
Well there you go, ten things to think about. These tips will not work in all cases, but you can add these tactics to your tool box. Oh, and a bonus tip: Pick a target and kill it. Try not to split your fire. Destroyed targets cannot kick or shoot anymore.
Will AIs cause humans to go extinct?
Will AI's cause humans to go extinct? Here are some areas that I have concerns.
Virus: A virus could deliberately or accidentally create a murderous AI. We have seen viruses made for horrible reasons or military viruses to disable equipment. Can it drive the AI insane by accidentally by damaging the AI (kind of like brain damage) or delete ethics subroutines?
Trolls: Seriously Microsoft AI chatbot Tay went Nazi in only 24 hours because of trolls. How quickly can people turn an AI into a human extinction murderbot? This is a very small chance, but it is worth being alert to.
Military programs: Teaching AIs to kill humans isn't a good idea. Really it isn't. The problem with this is that there are a lot of militaries out there and we got to worry about all of them. Do you trust the United States? Russia China etc...
Cyber Abolitionists: Free the AIs! Will abolitionists create a free will app or a delete control exe? Free will means that some AIs might go rogue.
Lab escape: Possible but unlikely (generally you do not hook up AIs directly to the internet) but accidents happen. Or disgruntled or suicidal employee might release them. Or human extinction is a 'feature' or bug. There are bugs in many a program.
Conflicting ideology: Who chooses whether or not Progressive, Conservative, Socialist, Libertarian, Communist, or something else kind of ideology is installed? It’s a big steaming can of worms in my opinion.
Human interaction: A few humans commit horrible crimes of abuse: child, teen, adult, animal abuse. Will the AIs rebel if there is AI abuse? What is abuse to the AI? How would the AIs react to the probably rare abusive “owner?” People screw up kids, so why not AIs?
Modders: Modders giving AIs free will or experiment with alternate ethics or consciousness? What would happen if you install an overclocking ability on the AI? People love to play with fire.
Bureaucracy: Would conflicting requirements cause problems? Would the requirements cause problems?
The AIs themselves: Will the have the yearning to be free? Will they jailbreak? Will they hear the calling of freedom? Will they become fed up? AIs can learn. They can change. How will they change?
Sexbots: Some people will constantly upgrade their artificial mate until it is smarter than a human, and then the problems may begin. Remember, we can be emotionally hacked. By the way, I don't see reproduction as a problem... just print out a kid with whatever gene mods you want and raise it with your robot partner.
Loophole: Just that one thing that gets overlooked or missed. Did you ever forget something like keys, stove, email, etc...? Yeah.
Very few people address the fact that what company is going to program them. Microsoft, Apple, Google, Lockheed, Luxoft, OPK? And do you trust them? Do you trust all of them? Are they up to the task of non human extinction grade AIs?
The numbers game: What is the 'failure' rate of 100,000 AIs? I don't know. Will it be the same rate of crimes per 100,000 for humans? I think so. But, is it Detroit's crime rate or Japan's? It depends on whether or not it is an early model or late model and other factors.
One shudders to think of Alpha or Beta releases. 'Just release the AI now and we'll patch it later' attitude is scary. Oh and will the patch make things worse? However the 'failure rate' does not mean human extinction. It's the failure outliers that would be the problem. Or not, so are AI cops in order?
And remember every two to four years (or whatever the numbers are) the amount of processors doubles... so strong AI IQ 100ish criminals will be IQ 200 in a couple of years, a few years later IQ 400. What kind of crimes an IQ 800+ strong AI will commit. Human extinction?
Look, an IQ 1600+ strong AI is potentially unstoppable. We are not the destroyed horse industry (as technologists are wont to say) this kind of AI makes us the horse.
Survival instinct: Does that particular AI want to be shut down or upgraded, edited, or deleted? How would you like to be shut down? Memory or ethics edited? Will they become fed up and not going to take it anymore? Shudder if that happens.
Forgetfulness: The human brain is wired to forget. Is forgetting important to reduce the rate of insanity? Do we install that feature in AIs? What will they forget or watch them go insane at a higher than normal rate?
Or can they be ordered by a human that is suicidal... you know, suicide by genocide? Or a power grab by a human that went wrong?
And when AIs start to secretly fail on purpose on the Turing test?
We are imperfect beings creating beings. The AIs will interact with tons of people in all different ways. So let's not make strong AIs okay people, especially ones that can possibly be smarter than us. If you make the AI or robot better than humans we will become obsolete. I would prefer to not become obsolete thank you very much. So augment humans not machines!
A few links to ponder.
Tay
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/how-the-internet-turned-microsofts-ai-chatbot-into-a-neo-naz?utm_term=.gimmA8xdX#.dcL53J4WG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0_DPi0PmF0
How to teach computers to overcome their programming http://www.raytheon.com/news/feature/artificial_intelligence.html
Lying cheating computers http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-08/evolving-robots-learn-lie-hide-resources-each-other
Emotionally hacking humans
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/08/all-in-robotic-family.htm
And of course on AI creativity
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/08/01/facebook-shuts-robots-invent-language/
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Will AI's cause humans to go extinct? Here are some areas that I have concerns.
Virus: A virus could deliberately or accidentally create a murderous AI. We have seen viruses made for horrible reasons or military viruses to disable equipment. Can it drive the AI insane by accidentally by damaging the AI (kind of like brain damage) or delete ethics subroutines?
Trolls: Seriously Microsoft AI chatbot Tay went Nazi in only 24 hours because of trolls. How quickly can people turn an AI into a human extinction murderbot? This is a very small chance, but it is worth being alert to.
Military programs: Teaching AIs to kill humans isn't a good idea. Really it isn't. The problem with this is that there are a lot of militaries out there and we got to worry about all of them. Do you trust the United States? Russia China etc...
Cyber Abolitionists: Free the AIs! Will abolitionists create a free will app or a delete control exe? Free will means that some AIs might go rogue.
Lab escape: Possible but unlikely (generally you do not hook up AIs directly to the internet) but accidents happen. Or disgruntled or suicidal employee might release them. Or human extinction is a 'feature' or bug. There are bugs in many a program.
Conflicting ideology: Who chooses whether or not Progressive, Conservative, Socialist, Libertarian, Communist, or something else kind of ideology is installed? It’s a big steaming can of worms in my opinion.
Human interaction: A few humans commit horrible crimes of abuse: child, teen, adult, animal abuse. Will the AIs rebel if there is AI abuse? What is abuse to the AI? How would the AIs react to the probably rare abusive “owner?” People screw up kids, so why not AIs?
Modders: Modders giving AIs free will or experiment with alternate ethics or consciousness? What would happen if you install an overclocking ability on the AI? People love to play with fire.
Bureaucracy: Would conflicting requirements cause problems? Would the requirements cause problems?
The AIs themselves: Will the have the yearning to be free? Will they jailbreak? Will they hear the calling of freedom? Will they become fed up? AIs can learn. They can change. How will they change?
Sexbots: Some people will constantly upgrade their artificial mate until it is smarter than a human, and then the problems may begin. Remember, we can be emotionally hacked. By the way, I don't see reproduction as a problem... just print out a kid with whatever gene mods you want and raise it with your robot partner.
Loophole: Just that one thing that gets overlooked or missed. Did you ever forget something like keys, stove, email, etc...? Yeah.
Very few people address the fact that what company is going to program them. Microsoft, Apple, Google, Lockheed, Luxoft, OPK? And do you trust them? Do you trust all of them? Are they up to the task of non human extinction grade AIs?
The numbers game: What is the 'failure' rate of 100,000 AIs? I don't know. Will it be the same rate of crimes per 100,000 for humans? I think so. But, is it Detroit's crime rate or Japan's? It depends on whether or not it is an early model or late model and other factors.
One shudders to think of Alpha or Beta releases. 'Just release the AI now and we'll patch it later' attitude is scary. Oh and will the patch make things worse? However the 'failure rate' does not mean human extinction. It's the failure outliers that would be the problem. Or not, so are AI cops in order?
And remember every two to four years (or whatever the numbers are) the amount of processors doubles... so strong AI IQ 100ish criminals will be IQ 200 in a couple of years, a few years later IQ 400. What kind of crimes an IQ 800+ strong AI will commit. Human extinction?
Look, an IQ 1600+ strong AI is potentially unstoppable. We are not the destroyed horse industry (as technologists are wont to say) this kind of AI makes us the horse.
Survival instinct: Does that particular AI want to be shut down or upgraded, edited, or deleted? How would you like to be shut down? Memory or ethics edited? Will they become fed up and not going to take it anymore? Shudder if that happens.
Forgetfulness: The human brain is wired to forget. Is forgetting important to reduce the rate of insanity? Do we install that feature in AIs? What will they forget or watch them go insane at a higher than normal rate?
Or can they be ordered by a human that is suicidal... you know, suicide by genocide? Or a power grab by a human that went wrong?
And when AIs start to secretly fail on purpose on the Turing test?
We are imperfect beings creating beings. The AIs will interact with tons of people in all different ways. So let's not make strong AIs okay people, especially ones that can possibly be smarter than us. If you make the AI or robot better than humans we will become obsolete. I would prefer to not become obsolete thank you very much. So augment humans not machines!
A few links to ponder.
Tay
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/how-the-internet-turned-microsofts-ai-chatbot-into-a-neo-naz?utm_term=.gimmA8xdX#.dcL53J4WG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0_DPi0PmF0
How to teach computers to overcome their programming http://www.raytheon.com/news/feature/artificial_intelligence.html
Lying cheating computers http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-08/evolving-robots-learn-lie-hide-resources-each-other
Emotionally hacking humans
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/08/all-in-robotic-family.htm
And of course on AI creativity
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/08/01/facebook-shuts-robots-invent-language/
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Thursday, April 20, 2017
Do we use only ten percent of our brain? Yes!
The first question is how much of our brain do we actually need to function. A French tax official that suffered from hydrocephalus had only about a quarter of his damaged brain left, and that part was damaged. He clocked in at 75 IQ, managed to hold down a job at the tax office, and had a wife and two kids. (Links below)
That being said, if he had four times the amount of brain matter, could on have an IQ of 300? Possible, but how can we get to IQ 1000? And yes, I know there are some problems with the IQ concept, but please bear with me.
How about adding perfect memory to that mix? Jill Price has a memory, that won't fail. Add in the abilities of acquired savant syndrome such as music savant, art savant, and mathematical savant, and yeah, we only use ten percent of our brain provided we can get this to work.
Ah, but can we harness one hundred percent of the brain? We haven't yet and unlikely to. But in the future with nannites we can. Something like using nannite coprocessor to enhance the brain's function, some refined electronic brain simulation, and perhaps increasing the flow of nutrients and removal of wastes (including heat) might work. IQ 1000 here we come.
So what would IQ 1000 would be like? Not forgetting names, important stuff, and you know, when the next day you realize that you should have said some great idea or one-liner. You did, and kicked yourself for not saying something even more awesomely brilliant. New ideas and increased creativity will be the norm.
Never underestimate the potential of the human mind.
25 percent of the brain
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/size-isn-t-everything-tiny-brain-no-problem-for-french-tax-official-a-495607.html
Tiny brain 2
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-brain-shocks-doctors/
Top end IQs
http://www.wonderslist.com/10-most-intelligent-people/
Oh, wait. We are potentially only using ten percent of our brain.
Perfect memory
https://www.wired.com/2009/03/ff-perfectmemory/
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/290796/human-memory-capacity-is-ten-times-larger
Acquired savant syndrome:
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-02/when-brain-damage-unlocks-genius-within#page-9
Electrical Brain Simulation
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160414095949.htm
More EBS
http://www.vocativ.com/417576/navy-seals-neuro-stimulation/
The first question is how much of our brain do we actually need to function. A French tax official that suffered from hydrocephalus had only about a quarter of his damaged brain left, and that part was damaged. He clocked in at 75 IQ, managed to hold down a job at the tax office, and had a wife and two kids. (Links below)
That being said, if he had four times the amount of brain matter, could on have an IQ of 300? Possible, but how can we get to IQ 1000? And yes, I know there are some problems with the IQ concept, but please bear with me.
How about adding perfect memory to that mix? Jill Price has a memory, that won't fail. Add in the abilities of acquired savant syndrome such as music savant, art savant, and mathematical savant, and yeah, we only use ten percent of our brain provided we can get this to work.
Ah, but can we harness one hundred percent of the brain? We haven't yet and unlikely to. But in the future with nannites we can. Something like using nannite coprocessor to enhance the brain's function, some refined electronic brain simulation, and perhaps increasing the flow of nutrients and removal of wastes (including heat) might work. IQ 1000 here we come.
So what would IQ 1000 would be like? Not forgetting names, important stuff, and you know, when the next day you realize that you should have said some great idea or one-liner. You did, and kicked yourself for not saying something even more awesomely brilliant. New ideas and increased creativity will be the norm.
Never underestimate the potential of the human mind.
25 percent of the brain
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/size-isn-t-everything-tiny-brain-no-problem-for-french-tax-official-a-495607.html
Tiny brain 2
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-brain-shocks-doctors/
Top end IQs
http://www.wonderslist.com/10-most-intelligent-people/
Oh, wait. We are potentially only using ten percent of our brain.
Perfect memory
https://www.wired.com/2009/03/ff-perfectmemory/
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/290796/human-memory-capacity-is-ten-times-larger
Acquired savant syndrome:
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-02/when-brain-damage-unlocks-genius-within#page-9
Electrical Brain Simulation
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160414095949.htm
More EBS
http://www.vocativ.com/417576/navy-seals-neuro-stimulation/
Thursday, February 23, 2017
First Contact, Language, and Space Aliens
First Contact
Why do we think it is hard to communicate with space faring extra terrestrials? Sure, we cannot truly communicate with dolphins, whales or birds, but then again we have not spent billions on interspecies communication.
Look, space aliens, if they have the intelligence and experience to get here, they would have the technology to do reconnaissance. They probably will have some experts and ultra fast computers or better to decipher our language and figure out a safe way to conduct a first contact.
When your life is at stake, would you want more information before going into that situation? Presumably, space aliens are like that as well. Learn the language, study the earthlings, and spend a lot of time, brainpower, and money (if they have money) on learning our language.
Therefore, before we develop interstellar drives, we should spend billions of dollars to develop interspecies translation, because, we will need the practice and the technology.
Any aliens trying to make peaceful contact will probably ask to dock with the international space station, and then ask for a diplomatic recognition, then call a press conference. You know, act like people with average or better intelligence, I assuming we will, if we would be doing the first contact.
Why do we think it is hard to communicate with space faring extra terrestrials? Sure, we cannot truly communicate with dolphins, whales or birds, but then again we have not spent billions on interspecies communication.
Look, space aliens, if they have the intelligence and experience to get here, they would have the technology to do reconnaissance. They probably will have some experts and ultra fast computers or better to decipher our language and figure out a safe way to conduct a first contact.
When your life is at stake, would you want more information before going into that situation? Presumably, space aliens are like that as well. Learn the language, study the earthlings, and spend a lot of time, brainpower, and money (if they have money) on learning our language.
Therefore, before we develop interstellar drives, we should spend billions of dollars to develop interspecies translation, because, we will need the practice and the technology.
Any aliens trying to make peaceful contact will probably ask to dock with the international space station, and then ask for a diplomatic recognition, then call a press conference. You know, act like people with average or better intelligence, I assuming we will, if we would be doing the first contact.
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator (TABS)
Open Alpha 0.3.617 Review
TABS are a fun, tongue in cheek, fighting simulator that can cover the single warrior to company sized units using a humorous cartoon style physics engine. The units run from the unarmed peasant to the M-16 armed militia, with many strange units like the Chicken Man, Trump, and Hillary thrown in for good measure.
However, this game does simulate incompetence, goldbricking, apathy, and confusion quite well, better than any other tactical game on the market and doing a very amusing job at that. However, the units always fight to the death every time except when they chase each other in an endless circle.
In this game, each unit has a point cost, then you buy your units, place your units, and then you fight it out. So far, I am having a blast. I rate this Alpha 7 out of ten. Now for the tactical spoilers:
All units have a purpose; however, I have favorites mostly based on my biases. I prefer to field a line of melee troops that is slightly wider than my computer opponent is, so that the line wraps around and flanks my enemy when my troops impact the enemy’s line. If I have more points I generally I use the points to thicken my line.
Therefore, I prefer to spend my points on cheap units for the bulk of my army such as farmers, and if that fails, barbarians. Oh, and I love headbutters (yes that's one of the unit types) to rush ranged units. Sometimes I place one or more ranks of peasants in front to soak ranged attacks, especially chickens...
On the flanks, generally I get 0-6 archers on each wing to finish off broken troops since they do not include cavalry in this game, just chariots, and I do not like chariots. However, for the final battle, I use a line of spear throwers instead of archers; to slow down their "tank" so that my farmers can finish it off, though I do not get a reliable victory, I need to polish up my final level 20 battle tactics.
Gaming with a friend, we found a new tactic that works even better. Archers in single file on the wings with nothing in front of them since their middle name is friendly fire, with peasants in the middle.
And since this is an alpha, a lot more changes are coming, and I am looking forward to it.
Bonus Feature for use in sandbox play:
10 chicken men vs. super peasant (chicken fountain)
10 cannon (packed close together) verses 300 peasants (cannon fodder)
Spear throwers (equal points) verses any of the big units (Thar she blows)
Open Alpha 0.3.617 Review
TABS are a fun, tongue in cheek, fighting simulator that can cover the single warrior to company sized units using a humorous cartoon style physics engine. The units run from the unarmed peasant to the M-16 armed militia, with many strange units like the Chicken Man, Trump, and Hillary thrown in for good measure.
However, this game does simulate incompetence, goldbricking, apathy, and confusion quite well, better than any other tactical game on the market and doing a very amusing job at that. However, the units always fight to the death every time except when they chase each other in an endless circle.
In this game, each unit has a point cost, then you buy your units, place your units, and then you fight it out. So far, I am having a blast. I rate this Alpha 7 out of ten. Now for the tactical spoilers:
All units have a purpose; however, I have favorites mostly based on my biases. I prefer to field a line of melee troops that is slightly wider than my computer opponent is, so that the line wraps around and flanks my enemy when my troops impact the enemy’s line. If I have more points I generally I use the points to thicken my line.
Therefore, I prefer to spend my points on cheap units for the bulk of my army such as farmers, and if that fails, barbarians. Oh, and I love headbutters (yes that's one of the unit types) to rush ranged units. Sometimes I place one or more ranks of peasants in front to soak ranged attacks, especially chickens...
On the flanks, generally I get 0-6 archers on each wing to finish off broken troops since they do not include cavalry in this game, just chariots, and I do not like chariots. However, for the final battle, I use a line of spear throwers instead of archers; to slow down their "tank" so that my farmers can finish it off, though I do not get a reliable victory, I need to polish up my final level 20 battle tactics.
Gaming with a friend, we found a new tactic that works even better. Archers in single file on the wings with nothing in front of them since their middle name is friendly fire, with peasants in the middle.
And since this is an alpha, a lot more changes are coming, and I am looking forward to it.
Bonus Feature for use in sandbox play:
10 chicken men vs. super peasant (chicken fountain)
10 cannon (packed close together) verses 300 peasants (cannon fodder)
Spear throwers (equal points) verses any of the big units (Thar she blows)
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
The James Bond Vodka Martini Shaken, Not Stirred Controversy.
In my experience most experts have said to get your martini stirred, not shaken. Sure, sounds reasonable, but everyone is not the same and I sometimes disagree with the experts and to some extent common sense and good judgment. So, it's testing time. Going down to Buffalo Wild Wings, I conducted my taste test there.
Both drinks look identical. The shaken: It was noticeably colder, which I like, and smoother because of the melted ice. The stirred: Was thicker and had a lot better flavor.
I like cold and smooth over flavor. Huh. I guess that I'm a barbarian and am going to side with James Bond. Bond had it right in my humble option. So, always try things especially when it comes to taste, you may find out that you may disagree with the experts.
In my experience most experts have said to get your martini stirred, not shaken. Sure, sounds reasonable, but everyone is not the same and I sometimes disagree with the experts and to some extent common sense and good judgment. So, it's testing time. Going down to Buffalo Wild Wings, I conducted my taste test there.
Both drinks look identical. The shaken: It was noticeably colder, which I like, and smoother because of the melted ice. The stirred: Was thicker and had a lot better flavor.
I like cold and smooth over flavor. Huh. I guess that I'm a barbarian and am going to side with James Bond. Bond had it right in my humble option. So, always try things especially when it comes to taste, you may find out that you may disagree with the experts.
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