Current forward looking types are spending significant time on the idea that the technological singularity is going to happen in the next five years. I'm not interested in trying to defend this notion so much as I want to describe and contextualize the thought process fueling the disagreements and to that end I would like to supply five scenarios which mathematically instantiate faster and slower versions of the AI progress curve. I am taking for a numerical rating that an artificial general intelligence that can conduct unsupervised tech development is worth 0 competence points and an artificial super intelligence that can solve any solvable problem faster than the whole of the human race is worth one million competence points. The variable x is the time in days since machines began learning on their own and the function f(x) is how many competence points it's acquired at a given time.

Scenario # 1 : Literal Singularity : Hyperbolic

"Stop self harming!" - a friend in another board when I mentioned I was going to do this again

It's a fitness race. If you're tough enough to thunder down the A12 like a REFORGER convoy and get off at Brentwood you'll start to see see signs for the Secret Nuclear Bunker. This is on some farmland but during the summer, on some of the side fields on this farmland, three times a year, the proprietors host Nuclear Fit. Which I, despite still being on

Monitoring your *nix computer.

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One of the things about Unix, and nowadays, Linux, is that there's a lot going on all the time. Sysadmins and users alike need to be aware of the load on the system and as a result, many monitors have been written and deployed over time. We will star with the "default" and probably oldest system monitors, top. This uility shows CPU load, memory usage and a