You realize Amazon lets you control whether products you've purchased or viewed in the past are used for recommendations, right? There's a "Don't recommend products based on this item" button and you can even remove items you've viewed from your history....
There was a practice round, and it was widely circulated that Watson had won that, though it wasn't true - it dominated the first two rounds but Ken pulled ahead with a huge wager in a double jeopardy and then another in final jeopardy (which Watson got wrong).
The results of the actual challenge did not leak.
Apparently the decision to not take the input of what the other players said was partly based an an assumption that the other players would almost never be wrong!
Reminds me of a great quote by Joey Hess who did a lot of work on the Debian Installer. Something along the lines of "It takes more keystrokes to enter a Windows Product Key than it does to complete an entire Debian Install".
I have - right after a move, I forgot whether or not I had updated that particular card and guessed wrong. The machine bounced the card and locked into a "See attendant to complete transaction" mode. I drove up to the next machine and swapped cards just to be sure.
According to one adult entertainment executive, the formerly profitable subscription-based websites "have been brought to their knees" by the tube-based sites.
See this article for some examples about the efforts Microsoft goes through in their regression testing (especially follow through the links to Raymond Chen's blog). When Microsoft has a patch, they run it through huge server farms of boxes with hundreds of thousands of different configurations and commercial software package installed, making sure none of it breaks. Their patches include all kinds of extra workarounds to ensure software that relies on undocumented interfaces continues working.
I'm as anti-microsoft as the next guy here, but the cases really aren't comparable, and you have to give them credit for their thoroughness.
I'm not talking about behavior; my assertion was purely based on the physics of the various objects. An automobile has much more inertia and much less agility than a bicycle or a pedestrian.
I agree with you that automobiles tend to act more unpredictably in general from a behavioral point of view. However, compare a car stopping short versus a person. Have you ever been walking and all of a sudden the person in front of you just stops walking without notice (or have you been that person)? A car can't do that - even by slamming on the brakes, it takes time to come to a stop and there's a visual notification from the tail lights.
His point is not that the agility allows them to avoid the accident but that the agility gives them a greater ability to act unpredictably. While the drivers of cars may incite a collision because of a lapse of situational awareness, in most cases someone observing a car has a decent idea of where it will be several seconds into the future. It is much harder for the driver of a car to suddenly be in a different lane or be heading in a significantly different direction than it is for a bicyclist or pedestrian to do so.
At my very first internship, I was at a small startup which was growing pretty fast. My mentor had been running my (very small, ~4 person) team because no one else was there to do so. However, he was one of the most senior engineers in the company and that took up a huge part of the day. A couple months into the internship, an experienced industry guy was brought on to run the team. My mentor's productivity soared because his meeting load plummeted, as did his load of "extra work". The manager was also spearheading a new project in it's early phases, and was doing all sorts of things like chasing vendors, managing business relationships, doing cost/benefit analysis papers, etc, etc. It was extremely helpful and nothing that I as an engineer would want to do.
RACIAL profiling doesn't work. BEHAVIORAL profiling (what the Israelis do) is extremely effective. If you fly to Israel, before you can even check into your flight, you get interrogated by one of their security officers. They'll ask you about where you're going, where you've been in Israel, etc, then they ask follow up questions to try to trip you up. While they're doing this, someone else is watching by camera for nervous ticks and all the involuntary reactions that are inevitable in someone planning malfeasance. It's extremely effective, but not scalable in terms of cost.
I love the Kinesis boards, but I wouldn't recommend one for the OP if he can't use his thumb. Yes, you can remap all the keys, but Kinesis boards already are on the short side of keys, and there's really nowhere to map them to. There are only 3 duplicated keys on the entire board: alt, ctrl and shift. Removing the right thumb pad would remove space, enter, one of each ctrl and alt, page up and page down. You could probably get away with mapping right shift to enter, but you'd have no where to put space, enter or page up/down.
Keep in mind, I'm bad with names. Other people may well remember his name off the top of their heads. It's no different from seeing a box of cereal and going "Oh! It's that golfer who had the sexting scandal!" then having to go look up his name. The point is that he's easily identifiable even if not recognizable.
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You realize Amazon lets you control whether products you've purchased or viewed in the past are used for recommendations, right? There's a "Don't recommend products based on this item" button and you can even remove items you've viewed from your history....
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I know exactly where Atlantis is! It's at 28 degrees, 35 minutes, 8.89 seconds north by 80 degrees, 39 minutes, 17.97 seconds west.
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6006.13 isn't so bad for an important bug.
I'm sure google would be interesting in licensing the tech to make their advertisements even more relevant....
There was a practice round, and it was widely circulated that Watson had won that, though it wasn't true - it dominated the first two rounds but Ken pulled ahead with a huge wager in a double jeopardy and then another in final jeopardy (which Watson got wrong). The results of the actual challenge did not leak.
Apparently the decision to not take the input of what the other players said was partly based an an assumption that the other players would almost never be wrong!
Reminds me of a great quote by Joey Hess who did a lot of work on the Debian Installer. Something along the lines of "It takes more keystrokes to enter a Windows Product Key than it does to complete an entire Debian Install".
I have - right after a move, I forgot whether or not I had updated that particular card and guessed wrong. The machine bounced the card and locked into a "See attendant to complete transaction" mode. I drove up to the next machine and swapped cards just to be sure.
According to one adult entertainment executive, the formerly profitable subscription-based websites "have been brought to their knees" by the tube-based sites.
In other words, a manufacturer is selling a product that does exactly what the vast majority of it's customers want.
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Automotive engineer (the guy who designs the engine) and mechanic?
Using their tongues.
He was quoting Raymond Chen who is one of the key windows devs.
See this article for some examples about the efforts Microsoft goes through in their regression testing (especially follow through the links to Raymond Chen's blog). When Microsoft has a patch, they run it through huge server farms of boxes with hundreds of thousands of different configurations and commercial software package installed, making sure none of it breaks. Their patches include all kinds of extra workarounds to ensure software that relies on undocumented interfaces continues working.
I'm as anti-microsoft as the next guy here, but the cases really aren't comparable, and you have to give them credit for their thoroughness.
I'm not talking about behavior; my assertion was purely based on the physics of the various objects. An automobile has much more inertia and much less agility than a bicycle or a pedestrian.
I agree with you that automobiles tend to act more unpredictably in general from a behavioral point of view. However, compare a car stopping short versus a person. Have you ever been walking and all of a sudden the person in front of you just stops walking without notice (or have you been that person)? A car can't do that - even by slamming on the brakes, it takes time to come to a stop and there's a visual notification from the tail lights.
His point is not that the agility allows them to avoid the accident but that the agility gives them a greater ability to act unpredictably. While the drivers of cars may incite a collision because of a lapse of situational awareness, in most cases someone observing a car has a decent idea of where it will be several seconds into the future. It is much harder for the driver of a car to suddenly be in a different lane or be heading in a significantly different direction than it is for a bicyclist or pedestrian to do so.
At my very first internship, I was at a small startup which was growing pretty fast. My mentor had been running my (very small, ~4 person) team because no one else was there to do so. However, he was one of the most senior engineers in the company and that took up a huge part of the day. A couple months into the internship, an experienced industry guy was brought on to run the team. My mentor's productivity soared because his meeting load plummeted, as did his load of "extra work". The manager was also spearheading a new project in it's early phases, and was doing all sorts of things like chasing vendors, managing business relationships, doing cost/benefit analysis papers, etc, etc. It was extremely helpful and nothing that I as an engineer would want to do.
Amazon doesn't use Akami - they sell a competeing service.
That article is just Akami making a press release about how great they are because their business model sort of relates to a news event.
RACIAL profiling doesn't work. BEHAVIORAL profiling (what the Israelis do) is extremely effective. If you fly to Israel, before you can even check into your flight, you get interrogated by one of their security officers. They'll ask you about where you're going, where you've been in Israel, etc, then they ask follow up questions to try to trip you up. While they're doing this, someone else is watching by camera for nervous ticks and all the involuntary reactions that are inevitable in someone planning malfeasance. It's extremely effective, but not scalable in terms of cost.
I love the Kinesis boards, but I wouldn't recommend one for the OP if he can't use his thumb. Yes, you can remap all the keys, but Kinesis boards already are on the short side of keys, and there's really nowhere to map them to. There are only 3 duplicated keys on the entire board: alt, ctrl and shift. Removing the right thumb pad would remove space, enter, one of each ctrl and alt, page up and page down. You could probably get away with mapping right shift to enter, but you'd have no where to put space, enter or page up/down.
I'd mod you up, but you're already at +5, so I'll just say thank you.
Keep in mind, I'm bad with names. Other people may well remember his name off the top of their heads. It's no different from seeing a box of cereal and going "Oh! It's that golfer who had the sexting scandal!" then having to go look up his name. The point is that he's easily identifiable even if not recognizable.