He probably over-estimated the damage that the war in Afghanistan did to the USSR. Ultimately, the cause of the collapse was the unsustainable desire of Soviet leaders to have military parity with the US.
What do you mean by winning? He showed how to cause great damage to super-powers (first USSR, after that the US) with relatively tiny resources. Btw, note that most of the economic damage to the US (e.g., the war in Iraq) is self-inflicted.
On the other hand, his dream of building a caliphate has failed miserably.
that an application of a standard machine learning method can be patented. They have a publication in a good journal (PAMI), but there is nothing earth-shattering in the research. As far as the comparison with SVM is concerned, non-linear SVM does beat the linear methods when there is enough data (as they acknowledge in the paper).
Perhaps being passed around from Digital Equipment to Compaq to HP had something to do with it not being successful. But in mid/late 90's it was the best search engine by far.
Very good, so ethics guides application of morality.
So would you agree that something is moral/immoral is (respectively) ethical/unethical, however something which may be not be directly moral/immoral (e.g. imposing your beliefs, etc) can still be ethical/unethical? Thus moral actions is a subset of ethical actions?
The distinction you are making is correct and, in fact, is reflected in the dictionary definition. However, I do not understand how you draw a line between what is ethical and what is moral based on that. If ethic is a theory about morals, how can something immoral be ethical?
The distinction between ethic and moral is not clear-cut at all.
ethics/ks/ Show Spelled[eth-iks] Show IPA -plural noun 1. ( used with a singular or plural verb ) a system of moral principles: the ethics of a culture. 2. the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.: medical ethics; Christian ethics. 3. moral principles, as of an individual: His ethics forbade betrayal of a confidence. 4. ( usually used with a singular verb ) that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions.
Canadian system is quite different. Most students are not supported from grants, so getting funding is less crucial. In addition mathematicians typically have relatively few students and no need for labs, equipment, etc.
You have a dubiously coherent mass of questionably formed notions. It's ghastly. However, because of the way the essay format works, you will have a very hard time getting away with that.
Let's spend a few billion of taxpayers' money on an unproven technology of dubious benefit. Nothing stimulates the economy better during these hard times.
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He probably over-estimated the damage that the war in Afghanistan did to the USSR. Ultimately, the cause of the collapse was the unsustainable desire of Soviet leaders to have military parity with the US.
>This is true, but it's not OBL's victory. We did this to ourselves.
True, but irrelevant, IMHO. He managed to cause us to harm ourselves and to give up on our principles.
Well, his goal was to have the US economy collapse. That did not work.
What do you mean by winning? He showed how to cause great damage to super-powers (first USSR, after that the US) with relatively tiny resources. Btw, note that most of the economic damage to the US (e.g., the war in Iraq) is self-inflicted.
On the other hand, his dream of building a caliphate has failed miserably.
The economic damage he caused to the US economy is several trillion dollars. While he may not have won the war, but he did cause overwhelming damage.
That's right. Moreover, in the paper they say that for larger data set SVM with an RBF kernel performs best.
that an application of a standard machine learning method can be patented. They have a publication in a good journal (PAMI), but there is nothing earth-shattering in the research. As far as the comparison with SVM is concerned, non-linear SVM does beat the linear methods when there is enough data (as they acknowledge in the paper).
Perhaps being passed around from Digital Equipment to Compaq to HP had something to do with it not being successful.
But in mid/late 90's it was the best search engine by far.
Very good, so ethics guides application of morality.
So would you agree that something is moral/immoral is (respectively) ethical/unethical,
however something which may be not be directly moral/immoral (e.g. imposing your beliefs, etc) can still be ethical/unethical? Thus moral actions is a subset of ethical actions?
The distinction you are making is correct and, in fact, is reflected in the dictionary definition.
However, I do not understand how you draw a line between what is ethical and what is moral based on that.
If ethic is a theory about morals, how can something immoral be ethical?
The distinction between ethic and moral is not clear-cut at all.
ethics /ks/ Show Spelled[eth-iks] Show IPA
-plural noun
1.
( used with a singular or plural verb ) a system of moral principles: the ethics of a culture.
2.
the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.: medical ethics; Christian ethics.
3.
moral principles, as of an individual: His ethics forbade betrayal of a confidence.
4.
( usually used with a singular verb ) that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ethics
Canadian system is quite different. Most students are not supported from grants, so getting funding is less crucial.
In addition mathematicians typically have relatively few students and no need for labs, equipment, etc.
Google retaliates by banning turkeys.
Now you see how Powerpoint makes us stupid?
You have a dubiously coherent mass of questionably formed notions. It's ghastly. However, because of the way the essay format works, you will have a very hard time getting away with that.
Hard for you, perhaps, but I manage just fine.
Since the viruses use sunlight to convert water, all we would need to do is to stay in a dark room.
A large tin foil hat can also be used.
Plenty of people have taken Trans-Siberian railway from Europe to China. In fact, it has been operating for about 100 years!
Yes, I don't see why a computer cannot be made to recognize this. It just shows that the current models do not model the stock movements very well.
The test is to distinguish computer-generated graphs from the actual stock prices.
It seems to have very little to do with the actual Turing test.
Which one?
Newton's apple was better received than Apple's Newton.
No, that's antepenultimate.
the ultimate atrocity is the poster's use of "it's"?
Car windows, particularly the windshield.
Let's spend a few billion of taxpayers' money on an unproven technology of dubious benefit.
Nothing stimulates the economy better during these hard times.