They also predicted that the US would lease Florida to China (much as Hong Kong was leased to Britain) for 50 years, to repay debt.... I don't think all of these predictions were made with the same level of sobriety.
And "We READ the book" when, exactly?... Barb, honey, armchair linguistics on the Internet are never a winnable game. I would strongly advise against partaking in them. Digging your faux (pronounced "foh," not "fox") Quebecois French, though.
...Same boat. What a vexatiously self-aggrandizing man. Excellent writing, and probably some very insightful substance that has never been summarized with the right perspective anywhere, but it really needs less Stephen Wolfram. Perhaps someone could re-edit the whole thing to exclude him—and polish the Wikipedia article while they're at it.
Unrelatedly, Turing's paper on his eponymous test is mentioned in the biography and has some hilariously sketchy logic in it. If only publishing were like that today!
...Did a dictionary shoot your parents or something? That's not how language works. Conversion is one of the most common forms of vocabulary formation in many languages, and English is no exception. Your idiolect is non-standard if it doesn't permit "gift" as a verb, and you certainly don't speak for all of Canada! If you absolutely must complain about a verbified noun, try "impact." It's a much more popular point of contention for pedants.
...Yes, I was going to take that angle, but felt like being modest. Damn you, public! Damn you! I won't rest until Kurzweil is up on a crucifix and being burned alive!
Well, no, we still collectively refer to the fields of machine learning and knowledge representation as "artificial intelligence," it's just that it's not artificial general intelligence. If anything the fault lies with communication between academia and the public about what AI means now.
Yes, there were national fads that came and went—and the practice wasn't always universal, albeit beneficial for legibility to an inexperienced reader and safer for the type. By making the spaces not a fixed part of the block, it was still possible to remove them for tighter typesetting in limited spaces and to make sure there weren't unnecessary gaps at the ends of lines. Here's an example from 1808 that puts spaces around colons and semicolons, but not apostrophes, periods, or commas—and quotation marks are handled irregularly (they're hard to find, but there's an example on page 132, at the bottom.) For a comparable debate, German can be typeset with four different quote patterns (normal English-style quotation marks, using double low-nine inverted quotation marks, guillemets, and inverted guillemets, which is the style used in Switzerland.)
Spacing around punctuation has been steadily declining as time goes on. Books from 200 years ago might go so far as to put spaces around commas and semicolons on both sides, with the following space also being larger—a convention also used for periods at the time. This is related to the practice of putting quotation marks and parentheses on the outside; slender punctuation blocks of metal type like periods, commas, and semicolons were fragile, so surrounding them in sturdier blocks made them less likely to get broken when the word was added to the page's master negative (the frame) or if the text needed to be reflowed. Double spacing originated as a typewriter-user's emulation of this practice, and as literacy and equipment improved, convention came to cater to both minimalism (thereby also saving paper) and skilled readers.
The headline, I think, is the worst part; the choice of "doesn't" (vs. "can't") sets up the expectation that MS is refusing to hire qualified women. Perhaps that's true on some level, but it's certainly not the story...
I mentioned the +/- zero thing in another comment elsewhere in this tree, actually! So we're all on board there.
It's not really that signless infinity is a contender for 'consensus' inasmuch as number systems which use signless infinity have utilities different from systems that have signed infinities, just like integer math continues to exist despite the 'improvements' of fractions and decimals.
Same reply: Python is not fully functional, and so list constructors like that cannot be counted upon to work elegantly in all situations. This is a completely normal thing common to basically every imperative language, and it's just something you have to accept—and write a special-purpose function for.
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Let's phone up Gateway and see how that's going...
For... whom? In what conceivable context? I can't even think of a plausible video title that might be ambiguous.
Well they're not wrong!
Well, they do exist; they just don't get elected. Largely because they believe the political process is rigged and not worth engaging themselves.
They also predicted that the US would lease Florida to China (much as Hong Kong was leased to Britain) for 50 years, to repay debt. ... I don't think all of these predictions were made with the same level of sobriety.
And "We READ the book" when, exactly? ... Barb, honey, armchair linguistics on the Internet are never a winnable game. I would strongly advise against partaking in them. Digging your faux (pronounced "foh," not "fox") Quebecois French, though.
I think you'll find the Rules of Acquisition are helpful in painting a picture. The first one is: "Once you have their money, you never give it back."
...Same boat. What a vexatiously self-aggrandizing man. Excellent writing, and probably some very insightful substance that has never been summarized with the right perspective anywhere, but it really needs less Stephen Wolfram. Perhaps someone could re-edit the whole thing to exclude him—and polish the Wikipedia article while they're at it.
Unrelatedly, Turing's paper on his eponymous test is mentioned in the biography and has some hilariously sketchy logic in it. If only publishing were like that today!
...Did a dictionary shoot your parents or something? That's not how language works. Conversion is one of the most common forms of vocabulary formation in many languages, and English is no exception. Your idiolect is non-standard if it doesn't permit "gift" as a verb, and you certainly don't speak for all of Canada! If you absolutely must complain about a verbified noun, try "impact." It's a much more popular point of contention for pedants.
That, again, is a definition and not an example! Top shelf reading comprehension.
...Yes, I was going to take that angle, but felt like being modest. Damn you, public! Damn you! I won't rest until Kurzweil is up on a crucifix and being burned alive!
Well, no, we still collectively refer to the fields of machine learning and knowledge representation as "artificial intelligence," it's just that it's not artificial general intelligence. If anything the fault lies with communication between academia and the public about what AI means now.
Done. Twice.
There's a group that doesn't need to meet those criteria: women. Example.
My thinking was that you might like to be able to place your habits in an historical context, what with the spite and all.
No; I'm afraid I'm just that boring.
Yes, there were national fads that came and went—and the practice wasn't always universal, albeit beneficial for legibility to an inexperienced reader and safer for the type. By making the spaces not a fixed part of the block, it was still possible to remove them for tighter typesetting in limited spaces and to make sure there weren't unnecessary gaps at the ends of lines. Here's an example from 1808 that puts spaces around colons and semicolons, but not apostrophes, periods, or commas—and quotation marks are handled irregularly (they're hard to find, but there's an example on page 132, at the bottom.) For a comparable debate, German can be typeset with four different quote patterns (normal English-style quotation marks, using double low-nine inverted quotation marks, guillemets, and inverted guillemets, which is the style used in Switzerland.)
Spacing around punctuation has been steadily declining as time goes on. Books from 200 years ago might go so far as to put spaces around commas and semicolons on both sides, with the following space also being larger—a convention also used for periods at the time. This is related to the practice of putting quotation marks and parentheses on the outside; slender punctuation blocks of metal type like periods, commas, and semicolons were fragile, so surrounding them in sturdier blocks made them less likely to get broken when the word was added to the page's master negative (the frame) or if the text needed to be reflowed. Double spacing originated as a typewriter-user's emulation of this practice, and as literacy and equipment improved, convention came to cater to both minimalism (thereby also saving paper) and skilled readers.
Word criiiiiimes!
The headline, I think, is the worst part; the choice of "doesn't" (vs. "can't") sets up the expectation that MS is refusing to hire qualified women. Perhaps that's true on some level, but it's certainly not the story...
Piaget, also, would hate that. Because it's slightly impossible. Morons, all of you!
...oh, shit. It wasn't an Amiga game. My bad.
Ah-heh-hem. Excuse me. I have to do this.
A-MIIIIIIIEEE-GAAAAAA
I mentioned the +/- zero thing in another comment elsewhere in this tree, actually! So we're all on board there.
It's not really that signless infinity is a contender for 'consensus' inasmuch as number systems which use signless infinity have utilities different from systems that have signed infinities, just like integer math continues to exist despite the 'improvements' of fractions and decimals.
Same reply: Python is not fully functional, and so list constructors like that cannot be counted upon to work elegantly in all situations. This is a completely normal thing common to basically every imperative language, and it's just something you have to accept—and write a special-purpose function for.