If I may interject for a moment, many people believe that the spirit of free software is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that you should charge as little as possible. This is a misunderstanding. Distributing free software is an opportunity to raise funds for development. Don't waste it! For example, you could charge a nominal fee to package and sell mods on magnetic tape, as the FSF does with Emacs and plans to do one day for Hurd.
yeah, this is the most embarrassing question i've seen posted on slashdot in a while.
just a back-of-the-envelope calculation with rough approximate BTUs from five seconds of googling would show anyone that this is a fucking stupid idea.
wikipedia doesn't have any ads except occasionally for itself, and i don't know what you mean by "a little easier"; it would take hours or days to collect and collate even half the information in a good wikipedia article, which is usually well-cited, so at worst you can just use it as a "meta-search engine" if you want.
i think you're just complaining for the sake of it. the amazon/uber part literally makes no sense at all.
i sympathize with the angst, but every non-profit spends at least some money on governance, and executives always make more money than plebs (unless it's a PR campaign where they take a symbolic $1/year or other dumb shit).
a few years ago, i thought that the general Bayesian Statistics article was silly because it was being lorded over by a demi-intellectual in love with his own non-standard generalization of the binomial distribution that made it overly technical for a general reader while being merely a mechanical, albeit complicated, exercise for a skilled practitioner. but that's how shit works in wikiworld; it's not like this guy is being paid and, apart from this silly indulgence, he was maintaining an article fairly diligently, a challenge to which i was not willing to aspire, so i just let it go. over-active egos in human orgs are like air bubbles caught in your shoe: you can't easily get rid of them without cutting up your shoes, and at best you just mush it around to somewhere you don't notice it as much.
hasn't this "king-of-the-hill mentality" been an endemic so-called problem with wikipedia for the past ten-plus years, during which, of course, wikipedia has been functioning well enough for almost everyone (and certainly no worse than it has ever actually functioned; wikipedia is only bad when compared to what might possibly have been in a thought-experiment world)? as long as people like, presumably, you keep fighting, there's enough churn to keep the outskirts from totally locking up and the system will continue.
i don't know; is WMF even meant to deal with this supposed problem in the first place? maybe they actually do a lot of good work on issues of copyright and censorship, which could at least potentially be existential threats to wikipedia's existence, as opposed to an inevitable side-effect of using an anarchic egoist model to solicit content from people for free.
WMF declares their purpose (in a large textbox at the head of their front page) to be "... encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual, educational content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge," and further that they "operate... Wikipedia" toward this purpose. In short, their objective is much broader than just micro-managing the edit turf wars which, as much as you dislike them, are business-as-usual for wikipedia, if not its foundational principle. WMF may still be failing at their stated purpose; i don't know anywhere near enough to know whether this is the case, let alone to start assigning blame.
no. no, they won't. there is absolutely no way whatsoever that inform7 could benefit from a 50 year-old relic remarkable only for the amount of effort it took to get it running on the hardware of the time. the only fortran code anyone uses anymore is for numerical analysis, and i'm not sure whether the real reason for this is that programmers are superstitious, lazy and, mathematically illiterate, or something more serious.
from what little i know of twine, it's designed to be easy to use at the cost of expressive ability, so again, exactly the opposite of 50 year-old spaghetti fortran. i haven't heard of the others, but if they are designed to run on systems from the past 30 years or so, they also have nothing to benefit from advent.
depends. i doubt this partnership will improve or even last that long, but in principle they could use the removed bits of wall to shore up their position against the rest of the industry. and by wall, i mean patents and general duopolistic shenanigans.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in MIT, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret modeling operations on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed predictions. I am trained in gorilla networks and I’m the top statistician in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in data science, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.
supervised learning is a special case of cluster analysis where you have two (or more) pre-labelled clusters for training purposes. supervised learning is an easier version of cluster analysis; so much easier, in fact, that some people mistakenly think it's fundamentally different.
if computers were literally infinitely fast, you could pretty easily replace most of "coding" with brute-force graph search of the program space. the profession of programming as we know it would be obsolete within a few years; it would remain as a quaint curiosity practiced by philosophical lisp-weenies and hardcore enthusiasts. maybe there would be a niche market for "artisanal programs" or something.
the articles says they feed the algorithm with expert opinions (and presumably the experts' predictive accuracy on various races, and a whole lot of extra metadata). it basically combines the experts' prediction with weightings according to their consistency and correctness (and whatever other metrics) and produces a final ranking. iow, the "instinctual observation" is all in the backend.
no, it's not AI. it's just statistics, but that sounds boring so since AI is still impossible, they/we appropriated that word to mean "statistics that isn't boring or can at least be made to look impressive".
this is not as dishonest as it seems. "flashy demos made out of smoke and mirrors" is almost the definition of AI to date.
Silicon Valley is a long-form serial, which is a completely different medium than a movie. By the end of the current season, Silicon Valley will have run for a total of 19 hours over four years, while The Circle is 1h50 and has to focus on one narrative thread.
this isn't to say SV isn't remarkable, as there a lot of mediocre TV shows, but seriously it's goddam impossible to do the same thing in under two hours.
i would have once agreed with you, but nowadays i think it's more likely the opposite: that people are irrationally averse to spending money as a lump-sum in advance.
but you are right, this is an increasingly pointless discussion. cheers.
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If I may interject for a moment, many people believe that the spirit of free software is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that you should charge as little as possible. This is a misunderstanding. Distributing free software is an opportunity to raise funds for development. Don't waste it! For example, you could charge a nominal fee to package and sell mods on magnetic tape, as the FSF does with Emacs and plans to do one day for Hurd.
no problem! they're going to license the multiplayer from No Man's Sky which deals with this issue.
yeah i suppose they wanted people to use their software and get paid.
what bastards!
yeah, this is the most embarrassing question i've seen posted on slashdot in a while.
just a back-of-the-envelope calculation with rough approximate BTUs from five seconds of googling would show anyone that this is a fucking stupid idea.
wikipedia doesn't have any ads except occasionally for itself, and i don't know what you mean by "a little easier"; it would take hours or days to collect and collate even half the information in a good wikipedia article, which is usually well-cited, so at worst you can just use it as a "meta-search engine" if you want.
i think you're just complaining for the sake of it. the amazon/uber part literally makes no sense at all.
and how much money do your bosses make?
i sympathize with the angst, but every non-profit spends at least some money on governance, and executives always make more money than plebs (unless it's a PR campaign where they take a symbolic $1/year or other dumb shit).
sounds like i should finally go ahead with that Magical Jade Vagina Egg Companion App! the future's never been brighter.
and he's still not particularly likely to have read le Carre.
yeah, i have to agree.
a few years ago, i thought that the general Bayesian Statistics article was silly because it was being lorded over by a demi-intellectual in love with his own non-standard generalization of the binomial distribution that made it overly technical for a general reader while being merely a mechanical, albeit complicated, exercise for a skilled practitioner. but that's how shit works in wikiworld; it's not like this guy is being paid and, apart from this silly indulgence, he was maintaining an article fairly diligently, a challenge to which i was not willing to aspire, so i just let it go. over-active egos in human orgs are like air bubbles caught in your shoe: you can't easily get rid of them without cutting up your shoes, and at best you just mush it around to somewhere you don't notice it as much.
hasn't this "king-of-the-hill mentality" been an endemic so-called problem with wikipedia for the past ten-plus years, during which, of course, wikipedia has been functioning well enough for almost everyone (and certainly no worse than it has ever actually functioned; wikipedia is only bad when compared to what might possibly have been in a thought-experiment world)? as long as people like, presumably, you keep fighting, there's enough churn to keep the outskirts from totally locking up and the system will continue.
i don't know; is WMF even meant to deal with this supposed problem in the first place? maybe they actually do a lot of good work on issues of copyright and censorship, which could at least potentially be existential threats to wikipedia's existence, as opposed to an inevitable side-effect of using an anarchic egoist model to solicit content from people for free.
WMF declares their purpose (in a large textbox at the head of their front page) to be "... encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual, educational content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge," and further that they "operate... Wikipedia" toward this purpose. In short, their objective is much broader than just micro-managing the edit turf wars which, as much as you dislike them, are business-as-usual for wikipedia, if not its foundational principle. WMF may still be failing at their stated purpose; i don't know anywhere near enough to know whether this is the case, let alone to start assigning blame.
on the bright side, he's already serving life, so whatever.
no. no, they won't. there is absolutely no way whatsoever that inform7 could benefit from a 50 year-old relic remarkable only for the amount of effort it took to get it running on the hardware of the time. the only fortran code anyone uses anymore is for numerical analysis, and i'm not sure whether the real reason for this is that programmers are superstitious, lazy and, mathematically illiterate, or something more serious.
from what little i know of twine, it's designed to be easy to use at the cost of expressive ability, so again, exactly the opposite of 50 year-old spaghetti fortran. i haven't heard of the others, but if they are designed to run on systems from the past 30 years or so, they also have nothing to benefit from advent.
tl;dr: advent sucks, who gives a shit?
this seems like a lot of work; just inject typos so that they hash differently. it's not like anyone is actually reading them.
as for the long run, it is easily proven by syllogism that democracy is already being automated through algorithmic traders. just sit tight and wait.
depends. i doubt this partnership will improve or even last that long, but in principle they could use the removed bits of wall to shore up their position against the rest of the industry. and by wall, i mean patents and general duopolistic shenanigans.
but, yeah, the languages which emerged afterward would probably be closest to what we'd call declarative.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in MIT, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret modeling operations on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed predictions. I am trained in gorilla networks and I’m the top statistician in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in data science, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.
supervised learning is a special case of cluster analysis where you have two (or more) pre-labelled clusters for training purposes. supervised learning is an easier version of cluster analysis; so much easier, in fact, that some people mistakenly think it's fundamentally different.
also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
if you only knew how much i know about what you're pretending to know, you'd be laughing as hard as i am right now.
that's just an advanced methodology for doing cluster analysis.
ah yes, Jeff Sessions, the notorious "leftist".
if computers were literally infinitely fast, you could pretty easily replace most of "coding" with brute-force graph search of the program space. the profession of programming as we know it would be obsolete within a few years; it would remain as a quaint curiosity practiced by philosophical lisp-weenies and hardcore enthusiasts. maybe there would be a niche market for "artisanal programs" or something.
doesn't work. overfitting.
the articles says they feed the algorithm with expert opinions (and presumably the experts' predictive accuracy on various races, and a whole lot of extra metadata). it basically combines the experts' prediction with weightings according to their consistency and correctness (and whatever other metrics) and produces a final ranking. iow, the "instinctual observation" is all in the backend.
no, it's not AI. it's just statistics, but that sounds boring so since AI is still impossible, they/we appropriated that word to mean "statistics that isn't boring or can at least be made to look impressive".
this is not as dishonest as it seems. "flashy demos made out of smoke and mirrors" is almost the definition of AI to date.
Silicon Valley is a long-form serial, which is a completely different medium than a movie. By the end of the current season, Silicon Valley will have run for a total of 19 hours over four years, while The Circle is 1h50 and has to focus on one narrative thread.
this isn't to say SV isn't remarkable, as there a lot of mediocre TV shows, but seriously it's goddam impossible to do the same thing in under two hours.
in unrelated news, Paul Allen buys Soylent and plans to expand production facilities into a number of Seattle Housing Authority buildings.
i would have once agreed with you, but nowadays i think it's more likely the opposite: that people are irrationally averse to spending money as a lump-sum in advance.
but you are right, this is an increasingly pointless discussion. cheers.