Yay, let's develop a free/libre/open-source fusion reactor to support us on antarctica:) Come on, it doesn't sound that hard to make those funny blue and red balls bang into each other. A little hack here, a smart idea there and it will be almost done. As an added bonus, in winter there won't even be any sun to distract you from the monitor:o... g'night (maybe staying at slashdot until the sleeping medication starts working isn't such a glorious idea;))
I see your point and part of me agrees with you (I sometimes think to myself the phrase "Cargo cult encyclopedia writing" when people are overusing the word "encyclopaedic" *g*). But on the other hand, administration and article review capacity is limited, which could be a problem if we want to improve the credibility of Wikipedia by having a reasonable minimum quality standard.
*sigh*. He didn't claim that it is impossible to solve the game by exhaustive search, given an arbitrary amount of time. He said that that's not how humans play it. He meant that humans use (learned) intuitions instead, which makes the game much more interesting than doing an exhaustive search.
"Are you unsure you really don't want to cancel the deletion of this file? One of the buttons in this dialog always lies, the other always tells the truth. Timeout in 5..4..3.."
You beat me to it. At first I thought this would be interesting, since I find the semantic web an interesting idea.
Then the first sentence of the WP article contained the word "experience". I looked at the talk page to see whether someone called BS already. I gave the article another try. Then it came: "exponentially more useful". Thanks, that's all I needed to know, I won't touch this topic with a ten-foot pole again.
That's why you only use *part* of you data to develop the model. Then you compare the predictions of the model against the rest of your data. That would prevent things like the football model.
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Same here. I wonder if there is some weird biochemical correlation to nerdity here (no offense, I use that as a compliment :))
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Yay, let's develop a free/libre/open-source fusion reactor to support us on antarctica :) Come on, it doesn't sound that hard to make those funny blue and red balls bang into each other. A little hack here, a smart idea there and it will be almost done. As an added bonus, in winter there won't even be any sun to distract you from the monitor :o ... g'night (maybe staying at slashdot until the sleeping medication starts working isn't such a glorious idea ;))
I see your point and part of me agrees with you (I sometimes think to myself the phrase "Cargo cult encyclopedia writing" when people are overusing the word "encyclopaedic" *g*). But on the other hand, administration and article review capacity is limited, which could be a problem if we want to improve the credibility of Wikipedia by having a reasonable minimum quality standard.
p.s.: I wrote the above before even reading your post, so it isn't an allusion to the particular content :)
Is it just me or does that posting scream for "6. PROFIT!!!"?
*sigh*. He didn't claim that it is impossible to solve the game by exhaustive search, given an arbitrary amount of time. He said that that's not how humans play it. He meant that humans use (learned) intuitions instead, which makes the game much more interesting than doing an exhaustive search.
GP didn't even mention number of states. The only word he used that comes close is "complexity", but that is far from unambiguous.
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I second evince. I had still been using acroread until a few days ago, but evince somehow feels really nice.
"Are you unsure you really don't want to cancel the deletion of this file? One of the buttons in this dialog always lies, the other always tells the truth. Timeout in 5..4..3.."
Sure, and alcohol always makes everyone beat up random people and has absolutely no positive effects, Mr. "I like pointless generalizations" AC.
Don't know if you just chose that at random or were actually trying to make a point - but IME SSRI's don't seem to impair ones mental abilities. YMMV.
About the cables I agree with you of course...
This game was so deeply sad (in the good way).
I played it in my teens though and I don't know whether I'd still find it deep today. What do you think?
You beat me to it. At first I thought this would be interesting, since I find the semantic web an interesting idea.
Then the first sentence of the WP article contained the word "experience". I looked at the talk page to see whether someone called BS already. I gave the article another try. Then it came: "exponentially more useful". Thanks, that's all I needed to know, I won't touch this topic with a ten-foot pole again.
That's why you only use *part* of you data to develop the model. Then you compare the predictions of the model against the rest of your data. That would prevent things like the football model.