Agree fully. At first I thought *-search (pick your flavor) was just an odd mathematical quirk when it was introduced, until I was told it is used in the GPS system you have in your car. You start to see how each incremental step leads to ever greater things.
It's probably not very useful for a simple problem such as this, but imagine the space station being in a situation where every second counts to protect the life of the crew, such as a rupture that vents oxygen. It may have a n-length list of commands it can run, each with certain percentage chance of working in a particular situation and may need to run a quick simulation to guess which one has the greatest chance of saving the life of the crew. It would probably use some combo of min-max as well as quicksorting to find the one command with the greatest probability of survival in a minimal amount of time.
I agree with you fully. Sure, you have to wade through some stories, but occasionally, you stumble upon a fascinating debate such as this. I'm interested in AI and the possibilities for the future it can bring.
Norvig is a brutal teacher, but you learn quite a bit! The basics of research into machine understanding have already begun. Once you are able to teach a machine "emotions" then you're able to add weights to certain words based on the context.
The definition of intelligence I learned was the ability to take various inputs and act on them accordingly. There are various debates over the proper / fastest / correct way to do this, but it's in no ways dead. You just have to look to the facial recognition of the latest Xbox or the fact that last month the Kirobo project held the first human - robot NLP conversation in space.
Not all of them are bad. I use plurk, for example, because it's easy to decide what to make public and to make a private message to a specific set of people.
I think showing the full name also drives some people away from commenting. Some people may not feel safe or comfortable having all of their personal information up for grabs on the internet, so I commend you for this! I'm to the point now where I've started using DuckDuckGo more and stay signed out of Google on the computer unless it's for a specific purpose. I fear for the day when./ decides everyone must have a verified facebook profile to comment, because that will be the day I quit coming here.
It doesn't matter what name you buy it under because facebook, google and the like don't get access to your bill. You could give them any name as long as you're able to receive the text message.
You can always dev for emacs..:p (Honestly, why anyone would want to use a terminal editor for general purpose documents?) And now that clang appears to run faster than gcc with better error reporting. hrmmm
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Thanks for the links. Saved both of them and going to give them a good read through when I have the time.
Sounds like someone's on their way to thereg..
Agree fully. At first I thought *-search (pick your flavor) was just an odd mathematical quirk when it was introduced, until I was told it is used in the GPS system you have in your car. You start to see how each incremental step leads to ever greater things.
It's probably not very useful for a simple problem such as this, but imagine the space station being in a situation where every second counts to protect the life of the crew, such as a rupture that vents oxygen. It may have a n-length list of commands it can run, each with certain percentage chance of working in a particular situation and may need to run a quick simulation to guess which one has the greatest chance of saving the life of the crew. It would probably use some combo of min-max as well as quicksorting to find the one command with the greatest probability of survival in a minimal amount of time.
I agree with you fully. Sure, you have to wade through some stories, but occasionally, you stumble upon a fascinating debate such as this. I'm interested in AI and the possibilities for the future it can bring.
Norvig is a brutal teacher, but you learn quite a bit! The basics of research into machine understanding have already begun. Once you are able to teach a machine "emotions" then you're able to add weights to certain words based on the context.
The definition of intelligence I learned was the ability to take various inputs and act on them accordingly. There are various debates over the proper / fastest / correct way to do this, but it's in no ways dead. You just have to look to the facial recognition of the latest Xbox or the fact that last month the Kirobo project held the first human - robot NLP conversation in space.
At least your family game night will give the kiddos useful skills for the future!
This is the internet -- very little surprises me anymore...
That killed me when they closed reader, because they also gutted their Android podcast app.
Damn you! I haven't had to think of the Hayes commands in awhile and there you go bringing them up again. LOL
+++ATH0
You have to wonder what's going on in the original dev's heads -- they create something, get bought by Google and then shut down.
Never heard of it either. Maybe if they spent a little more time telling people about it, it wouldn't have been a waste of money.
Not all of them are bad. I use plurk, for example, because it's easy to decide what to make public and to make a private message to a specific set of people.
I think showing the full name also drives some people away from commenting. Some people may not feel safe or comfortable having all of their personal information up for grabs on the internet, so I commend you for this! I'm to the point now where I've started using DuckDuckGo more and stay signed out of Google on the computer unless it's for a specific purpose. I fear for the day when ./ decides everyone must have a verified facebook profile to comment, because that will be the day I quit coming here.
$ man 5 english
No manual entry for english in section 5
When I was there, the order came down for everyone to switch over to G+ immediately. Pfft.. We even balked at it, if that tells you anything.
I'm a Linux user, so it's back to that status for me after they ended support.
I'd say some games would be ruined by the artificial data caps imposed by the ISPs.
I always assumed by "metadata" they really mean "all". BB joycamp doubleplus good.. (or something like that..)
Bitch, how you not a hobbit again?
Why ruin a perfectly good bus? :p Drawing and quartering in the streets isn't considered cruel and unusual is it?
It doesn't matter what name you buy it under because facebook, google and the like don't get access to your bill. You could give them any name as long as you're able to receive the text message.
You can always dev for emacs.. :p (Honestly, why anyone would want to use a terminal editor for general purpose documents?) And now that clang appears to run faster than gcc with better error reporting. hrmmm
Wouldn't the "phone home" be stopped by good firewall rules? :p