Getting the basic translation without context is easy, getting the basic translation with some syntactical context is hard, getting the full translation with complete context means you understand both languages
Currently machine translation does not understand either language, it just has a set of rules to translate with context, the more context the better it works but it will still only get you 80-90% of the way there...the last 10% is the difference between good enough translation (which we have now) and near perfect translation which professional human translators do...and can mean the difference between misunderstanding and comprehension...
Siri was designed to be a command interface - it copes quite well in a fairly small domain, Google translate does a fairly good job across the board
I don't believe them, the oldest human age achieved has been around the same for as long as we have been reliably measuring it ~110-120
The number of people getting to be over 100 is increasing, but the maximum age is not increasing...So I just don't believe them - the experimental studies have consistently shown that we cannot artificially increase lifespan beyond a built in point, unless these drugs can repair Telomeres which would be a breakthrough...
XBox 360 - Yes, was a loss leader now making money nicely Zune - Dead Windows Mobile - Dying and losing against competition Office/Windows - The default, still popular, but not for any reason other than it is the default IIS - Still well behind etc.. etc...
They have a partial monopoly that is rapidly losing ground, in one market, but in all other markets except for consoles they are an also ran...
It was not far enough ahead of the competition to warrant the high price tag...
Tim Berners-Lee had one because CERN recognised a good system, that allowed him to build his system quickly, we should thank Jean-Marie Hullot who designed the NeXT's Interface builder...
All of the above were Computer Scientists who because of the time they worked in were also practical professionals as well, they were all working as Computer Scientists at the time the wrote their language(s) but still had the experience of the real world (even the mathematician) to ground them in reality, this meant that the language the produced was usable and useful
Most of the languages written by pure academics are only ever seen in academia, and not used on real projects at all...
The odd one is ALGOL - designed by a committee of academics (the theoretical worst combination) , all of them were also practical professionals, the language they produced was very idealistic, and not used for very long, but was the basis of many of the modern languages used now
Siri - Spun off from SRI, Major system integrator for CALO, DARPA funded project into integrating numerous AI technologies into a cognitive assistant...had already written this for Andoid and Blackberry...Until Apple bought them and closed down the integration with other smartphones
Apple just bought and made exclusive a load of government funded research.... Just watch them attack anyone else who tries to use this research you have already paid for...
Christopher Columbus - A wonderful national hero - Hawked his widely discredited and since proven wrong theory (short route to China) around all the people with money to fund his project for years until he found someone gullible enough to fund it, found a small island in mid ocean, and claimed he was right, even in face of the evidence, failed to find the whole rest of the continent, and still gets all the credit...
I said "make money from Apple" by selling them some of the components for the iPhone and iPad... I did not say Designed all the components they sell,...?
The point I was trying to make was that Samsung were already making money from every sale of a iPad.
In 1973 how many computer scientists were there... ? Like most people at that time they started in a profession and migrated to Computer science
BCPL - Written by a Mathematician/Computer Scientist B - Written by a Physicist/Computer Scientist C - Written by a Electrical Engineer/Computer Scientist and a Physicist/Computer Scientist C++ - Written by a Mathematician/Computer Scientist
..against the law in the UK and USA... and so not already operating
Seriously, this is cheaper than asking people...? No this is a way of selling expensive technology to struggling retailers to do something that can give then no more than less obtrusive methods
We "want" AMD to be making money of the *hardware*, and realising writing a decent OpenSource driver is a good way of selling to people who use Linux...
The Driver is not there to make money it is there so that people will buy the hardware....the best graphics cars is subjective, one that works well is not...
Not losing... Apple are winning an injunction which as long as they supply a valid looking case is automatic, this does not mean the actual case will stand up in court later...Apple will have to prove that Samsung were trying to steal market share by copying
By the way Samsung do make money from Apple.... the iPad screen, processor, memory etc.etc is made by.... Samsung which is why Samsung hold patents on most of the technology, they designed it...
Apple designed the iPad, but other people make it from mostly, off the shelf parts, most of them are made by Samsung, so unsurprisingly the Samsung Tab is made from mostly the same parts... The only thing unique about the iPad is the physical shape and the desktop layout (which are protected with Design patents)
I'm on Facebook because everyone else is, no other reason, If my friends decamped to another service I would follow... I own no loyalty to Facebook at all...
I used to play games on Facebook, because I was on it anyway....don't anymore because I play games on my smartphone now...
Facebook does not "get it" they are popular because they are popular, i.e. everyone is *still* on it because everyone else is... and for no other reason, if enough people are using another service as well, and stop using Facebook then the crowd will follow...
You could cut down the fraud by only having one medical company, like a National Health Service as we have in the UK, or as we have in most of Europe...
But that would mean that the aim of your medical system would no longer be making money, but keeping people healthy enough to work....
They know what they want, but n a very vague way, and they don't know how to tell you.....that is why Software developers get paid lots of money (or should do if they are any good)
Having said that the worst users are the one who know how to write requirements, i.e. Software developers themselves, you end up with a beautifully written documents that will bare no resemblance to the finished product,,,
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Getting the basic translation without context is easy, getting the basic translation with some syntactical context is hard, getting the full translation with complete context means you understand both languages
Currently machine translation does not understand either language, it just has a set of rules to translate with context, the more context the better it works but it will still only get you 80-90% of the way there ...the last 10% is the difference between good enough translation (which we have now) and near perfect translation which professional human translators do...and can mean the difference between misunderstanding and comprehension ...
Siri was designed to be a command interface - it copes quite well in a fairly small domain, Google translate does a fairly good job across the board
I don't believe them, the oldest human age achieved has been around the same for as long as we have been reliably measuring it ~110-120
The number of people getting to be over 100 is increasing, but the maximum age is not increasing ...So I just don't believe them - the experimental studies have consistently shown that we cannot artificially increase lifespan beyond a built in point, unless these drugs can repair Telomeres which would be a breakthrough ...
XBox 360 - Yes, was a loss leader now making money nicely .. etc ...
Zune - Dead
Windows Mobile - Dying and losing against competition
Office/Windows - The default, still popular, but not for any reason other than it is the default
IIS - Still well behind
etc
They have a partial monopoly that is rapidly losing ground, in one market, but in all other markets except for consoles they are an also ran ...
1) Consultation paper - not published outside the government, so they do not need to tell anyone ... no-one to tell
2) Removed from the paper , not redacted (hidden) removed as in no longer in the paper
In other news government changes unpublished document internally and no-one notices ...
Edison, was very good at getting a team of people together to come up with ideas ... and very good at marketing them
Very like Steve Jobs
It was not far enough ahead of the competition to warrant the high price tag ...
Tim Berners-Lee had one because CERN recognised a good system, that allowed him to build his system quickly, we should thank Jean-Marie Hullot who designed the NeXT's Interface builder ...
NeXT designed and built by people Jobs knew from his time at Apple ... some of them poached from Apple directly
He again was the boss, and the face of a product, which was the brainchild of other people ...
The internet started in 1969 .... you meant the Wolrd Wide Web ....
Ritchie was more like a cross between Carl Benz and Henry Ford
Gates is like VW - Massively popular, but not the cutting edge
Jobs was like Luca di Montezemolo - Boss of Ferrari - Knows his stuff, good at PR and marketing and knows what will sell ...Not Enzo
pi is irrational (not the ratio of two numbers)
pi is transcendental (not the solution to an algebraic formula)
pi might not be normal - the distribution of digits might not be balanced and even ...it looks like it is but it has not been proven to to be...
All of the above were Computer Scientists who because of the time they worked in were also practical professionals as well, they were all working as Computer Scientists at the time the wrote their language(s) but still had the experience of the real world (even the mathematician) to ground them in reality, this meant that the language the produced was usable and useful
Most of the languages written by pure academics are only ever seen in academia, and not used on real projects at all ...
The odd one is ALGOL - designed by a committee of academics (the theoretical worst combination) , all of them were also practical professionals, the language they produced was very idealistic, and not used for very long, but was the basis of many of the modern languages used now
Siri - Spun off from SRI, Major system integrator for CALO, DARPA funded project into integrating numerous AI technologies into a cognitive assistant ...had already written this for Andoid and Blackberry ...Until Apple bought them and closed down the integration with other smartphones
Apple just bought and made exclusive a load of government funded research.... Just watch them attack anyone else who tries to use this research you have already paid for ...
Christopher Columbus - A wonderful national hero - Hawked his widely discredited and since proven wrong theory (short route to China) around all the people with money to fund his project for years until he found someone gullible enough to fund it, found a small island in mid ocean, and claimed he was right, even in face of the evidence, failed to find the whole rest of the continent, and still gets all the credit ...
I said "make money from Apple" by selling them some of the components for the iPhone and iPad ... I did not say Designed all the components they sell ,...?
The point I was trying to make was that Samsung were already making money from every sale of a iPad.
In 1973 how many computer scientists were there ... ? Like most people at that time they started in a profession and migrated to Computer science
BCPL - Written by a Mathematician/Computer Scientist
B - Written by a Physicist/Computer Scientist
C - Written by a Electrical Engineer/Computer Scientist and a Physicist/Computer Scientist
C++ - Written by a Mathematician/Computer Scientist
..against the law in the UK and USA ... and so not already operating
Seriously, this is cheaper than asking people ...? No this is a way of selling expensive technology to struggling retailers to do something that can give then no more than less obtrusive methods
We "want" AMD to be making money of the *hardware*, and realising writing a decent OpenSource driver is a good way of selling to people who use Linux ...
The Driver is not there to make money it is there so that people will buy the hardware....the best graphics cars is subjective, one that works well is not ...
BSD is most attractive for companies who want to use the software others created and make it closed source
GPL is attractive for everyone unless they want to sell the actual software and not make money from services
RedHat do not sell software, so they have no problem with GPL, Apple do so a large part of OSX is a closely guarded secret ...
ALGOL was written by a committee of computer scientists
C was written by a team of computer scientists - based on BCPL, which is based on ALGOL ....
C# was written by the designer of Delphi (Pascal), and takes many of it's ideas from ALGOL type languages, even it it uses a C/C++ like syntax
Academics use Scheme, and Haskell - Not Pascal...
Not losing ... Apple are winning an injunction which as long as they supply a valid looking case is automatic, this does not mean the actual case will stand up in court later ...Apple will have to prove that Samsung were trying to steal market share by copying
By the way Samsung do make money from Apple .... the iPad screen, processor, memory etc .etc is made by .... Samsung which is why Samsung hold patents on most of the technology, they designed it ...
Apple designed the iPad, but other people make it from mostly, off the shelf parts, most of them are made by Samsung, so unsurprisingly the Samsung Tab is made from mostly the same parts ... The only thing unique about the iPad is the physical shape and the desktop layout (which are protected with Design patents)
I'm on Facebook because everyone else is, no other reason, If my friends decamped to another service I would follow... I own no loyalty to Facebook at all ...
I used to play games on Facebook, because I was on it anyway....don't anymore because I play games on my smartphone now ...
Facebook does not "get it" they are popular because they are popular, i.e. everyone is *still* on it because everyone else is ... and for no other reason, if enough people are using another service as well, and stop using Facebook then the crowd will follow ...
Currently NASA has no way of getting anything to the ISS ... except via Russian or European rockets ... brilliant
They spent a fortune on a manned space program, that was fairly pointless, and then they scrapped completely
You could cut down the fraud by only having one medical company, like a National Health Service as we have in the UK, or as we have in most of Europe ...
But that would mean that the aim of your medical system would no longer be making money, but keeping people healthy enough to work....
The complete Apollo programme, which was horrifically expensive compared to today's NASA budget, was the Defence budget for a week ,,,,
The NASA budget is a pittance, it's something we should be spending money on, rather than sending troops to random countries ...
Users do not know how to write requirements
They know what they want, but n a very vague way, and they don't know how to tell you ... ..that is why Software developers get paid lots of money (or should do if they are any good)
Having said that the worst users are the one who know how to write requirements, i.e. Software developers themselves, you end up with a beautifully written documents that will bare no resemblance to the finished product ,,,
In the UK we pay for Television ....