Hooorayy!! App. Time---What is Ur Passion??!!!

Colleges & Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>im an 09er, let them know your passion... if you honestly think you can take the academics at mit, then apply. Show them youre prepared. That is what will keep you out of the round file, essentially. Then make yourself known by the things that shaped who you are. Your Passion is what gets you that thick letter.</p>

<p>By the way, I absolutely love singing and music. Im unique because i can sing really, really low. Sure ive known i wanted to be a physicist all my life, but my passion and drive in other areas made me stand out.</p>

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<p>Biology/Medicine and Music (Vocal)</p>

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<p>girls :) !!!!!!</p>

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<p>So anyone here interested in cryptography for a career..</p>

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<p>hey atu23 you can't make a genaralisations ..hahaha</p>

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<p>what sort of crypto, designing new algorithms? or more applications-based?</p>

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<p>I've considered dealing with applied crypto, but not very seriously. Mainly it crossed my mind after I read Cryptonomicon.</p>

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<p>Hmmm, there seems to be not to many people interested in AI. I don't know, but personally I feel that a major breakthrough is going to happen in AI, all because of one person. I also think that this breakthrough is going to be one of the most important things in the history of mankind, and the 21st century for sure.</p>

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<p>My passion is helping people pay for college... (smiles)</p>

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<p>:D Yay barkowitz!!</p>

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<p>So the rest of you who didn't respond don't have a passion??</p>

<p>:P</p>

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<p>Well... seeing as it is summer, I guess people are on vacation or something. Just got back from India, so I have been going Internet crazy all week.</p>

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<p>:) oh yes summer....how fast it goes by...it is already mid-July!</p>

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<p>oh, absolutely. i am a thoroughly passionless robot, interested in nothing with which to answer this thread. seeing as how i never answer any "what're your stats???" or "chances?!" threads, i must not have any of those, either. how the **** did i get to MIT, anyway?</p>

<p>(no cookie for answering "by car")</p>

<p>point: perhaps some of us just don't feel like talking about it.</p>

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<p>Oh the irony</p>

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<p>
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I don't know, but personally I feel that a major breakthrough is going to happen in AI, all because of one person. I also think that this breakthrough is going to be one of the most important things in the history of mankind, and the 21st century for sure.

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Sorry to go offtopic, but I disagree. AI, in the way it's perceived, is really not anything to bother with. There isn't a need to model human intelligence to accomplish something that humans can do anyway. What we DO need is software/gadgets that integrate into the way we live. For example, a car might be able to park itself using visual or other cues, but doesn't really need to "talk" to the driver like Knight Riders (or whatever it was called). Or, let's say you're searching for pictures of your friend on your computer, a computer can look at the pics and try to recognize which ones contain her pic. But it doesn't have to to offer comments on "hmm she seems worried about something in this one.." And neither of the two examples I gave require any sort of AI, algorithms will do.</p>

<p>The only place where AI-like (note, I said AI-like, not AI) abilities are useful are for things that we dont yet understand. For example, neural nets can help predict stock market fluctuations cuz it learns from past data. This is not really AI, but AI-like. And btw some of it is **** :p [ask someone who had all emails marked as spam cuz he got so much of it that the bayesian filter thought every word of the english language makes up spam].</p>

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<p>Mathematics (geometry, for one) and applying it to computer science :D</p>

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<p>MercurySquad, it would be very easy to create robots(once AI is developed), to do dangerous work for us. You could send em to mars. Turning down scientific idea's that haven't been fully explored is akin to judging a book by its cover. Why fly when you can travel by car or boat?</p>

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<p>dont you think all this AI will end up like in the terminator? ;)</p>

<p>besides, i agree with mercury that "There isn't a need to model human intelligence to accomplish something that humans can do anyway"
dangerous? create something new that would be safe and use it</p>

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<p>When AI gets to the point where it can do our jobs and think like us, humanity is over =P. And robots can already do dangerous work for us.</p>