the programmer repeatedly searching through Stack Overflow, finding code to copy-and-paste, and then hoping that it works well enough to trick the customer or employer into thinking the job is done."
If it really works, if the specifications are met, and if it passes testing, then the job is done.
Wisely leveraging the shared knowledge of others is a good thing to do.
This neural-net-combined-with-trial-and-error style of algorithm is typically referred to as a "JavaScript Programmer"-type algorithm in recent AI literature. (I'm being completely serious, too, in case you think this is a joke; it isn't.)
The name derives from the similarity between how these kinds of algorithms work, and how JavaScript programmers tend to work.
Funny, of course:)
But, you got me thinking. The JavaScript programmer is generally trying to affect the appearance of stuff on the screen, therefore, he looks at the stuff on the screen, and tries to affect... the stuff on the screen. So, it makes more sense than it might.
Our new pong-playing overlords, on the other hand, if they are actually doing something important like remotely fighting wars or trying to save people or something, well, then we don't really know if they are looking at the right input, and it becomes much more important that they, and we, understand exactly how they are coming to their decisions.
I'll take that as a real question... man, the others who replied are a piece of work.
Yes, she is the same person. She's different in that a brain disorder is no longer telling her that she is horrifically miserable and should kill herself. That's a difference that is OK.
We let kids play ultra violent war simulation for hours and hours, but god forbid they get a glimpse of love and biology. Something is seriously wrong with this picture Mr Cameron, aside from applying technology to shape what is a social matter (mainly fear of educating properly our children).
Say what you will about censorship, but the vast majority of porn is not about love.
It's sort of about biology, although it gives a totally unrealistic snapshot of it... that kind of editing in nature documentaries would be denounced as some kind of biology malpractice.
(Not to mention, who is this "we" you speak of, kemo sabe? I don't let my kids play ultra-violent simulations for hours and hours.)
IT/Software Development is one of the rare, if not unique, fields where people can be very paid well, the job market is currently hot, and one can learn everything from inexpensive books(or even free online courses) combined with motivation. It's positively egalitarian.
Yep.
The verboten truth is that the more truly egalitarian a field is, the more there will be sorting of various groups.
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that a certain school perfectly taught students, to the best of their potential. At that point, the only differences would be due to nothing but aptitude. What then? Go all Harrison Bergeron?
The only thing with power over the US Government is other parts of the US government. Thus if the executive branch commits an illegal act, the Congress can impeach, the courts can make orders, etc. If the Congress passes an unconstitutional law, the courts can annul by ruling on the constitutionality. If the courts go overboard, the President and the Congress can appoint new justices. Checks and balances.
This act is on the executive branch side, so it is up to the legislature and/or courts to enforce. Private citizens can speed up the process by trying to sue, but of course, good luck finding someone with standing in this case, based on recent court rulings about domestic surveillance (only the phone companies have standing, not the people whose records were obtained).
The executive branch is running amok with illegality?
Huh... I wonder if someone is in charge of the executive branch. Some, er, elected official or something. Someone we might hold accountable.
number of people that would like to see the South go. They take in more federal dollars than they give while electing Representatives that campaign against receiving those dollars. They're largely the reason the rest of the Country can't have socialized medicine.
Personally I can't see abandoning them, but then again I think the point of civilization isn't to protect property but to improve the lives of everyone. That's a fundamental philosophy that a lot disagree with.
Noble of ya.
I'd go for that experiment. I know who'd I'd bet on, but whatever... why not give it a try?
So... blame your cheapass company for dropping your insurance coverage.
They didn't have to buy you a "cadillac" policy... they could have bought you a regular policy but they are using the "blame it on Obamacare" excuse for screwing you.
Keep believing that.
Meanwhile, even the NYT is profiling lefty professionals who are quite surprised to learn that Obamacare means they pay more and get less.
> Those who complained about their canceled plans actually got better plans - less cost and more coverage.
Um, really? We didn't. Our plans (wife and I) were canceled because the company didn't want to pay the cadillac tax. For a replacement, we get higher cost, and much higher deductible. The strategy, as I understand it, is that you are supposed to live off your FSA for the first five months or so before your coverage actually starts paying for stuff. This is a definition of "better plans" of which I am unaware.
You're not supposed to notice that... because then the wascally wepubwicans would have been right. And we can't have that.
I mean, obviously the number ten and unit sizes that are useful to humans are simply logical outpourings of nature, not simply another set of arbitrary measures...
One might assume some 35 years after the advent of PC revolution, there are more than a few grey hairs running around like me with infinitely more knowledge on how to secure a computer than some smart mouth tweener. Having spent years securing their computers, I would not trust any child of mine to do a better job than I would and it's time to put the tired meme that kids know tech better than their parents to bed where it belongs.
Yep. Just like kids with cars are (long since) no longer all shade tree mechanics, kids who like playing with tech are not all techies. Not by a LONG shot.
Actually Europe has a much higher population than the US. The population of the EU countries is now over 500 million. If Europe is more unified politically, it will be the single biggest geopolitical force in the world.
This! It's always the racist Republicans in the USA that whine constantly about free speech. That horrible concept should have never been created.
Thanks for illustrating the problem.
Republicans as a group are not racist. But you think that they are, because you've been trained to.
Republicans are an unpopular group (in pop culture, anyway), which it is OK and encouraged for you to hate. Which is, you know, kind of like racism. Huh, how about that.
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Truer words were never spoken:
the programmer repeatedly searching through Stack Overflow, finding code to copy-and-paste, and then hoping that it works well enough to trick the customer or employer into thinking the job is done."
If it really works, if the specifications are met, and if it passes testing, then the job is done.
Wisely leveraging the shared knowledge of others is a good thing to do.
This neural-net-combined-with-trial-and-error style of algorithm is typically referred to as a "JavaScript Programmer"-type algorithm in recent AI literature. (I'm being completely serious, too, in case you think this is a joke; it isn't.)
The name derives from the similarity between how these kinds of algorithms work, and how JavaScript programmers tend to work.
Funny, of course :)
But, you got me thinking. The JavaScript programmer is generally trying to affect the appearance of stuff on the screen, therefore, he looks at the stuff on the screen, and tries to affect ... the stuff on the screen. So, it makes more sense than it might.
Our new pong-playing overlords, on the other hand, if they are actually doing something important like remotely fighting wars or trying to save people or something, well, then we don't really know if they are looking at the right input, and it becomes much more important that they, and we, understand exactly how they are coming to their decisions.
Did you seriously just type that?
Of course not.
She's a lot more human than most people who replied to my post, that's for sure ...
I'll take that as a real question ... man, the others who replied are a piece of work.
Yes, she is the same person. She's different in that a brain disorder is no longer telling her that she is horrifically miserable and should kill herself. That's a difference that is OK.
... nothing was working to turn her severe depression. Multiple suicide attempts. ECT literally saved her life.
Yes, it had sucky side effects. But she is alive. And a lot happier now.
We let kids play ultra violent war simulation for hours and hours, but god forbid they get a glimpse of love and biology. Something is seriously wrong with this picture Mr Cameron, aside from applying technology to shape what is a social matter (mainly fear of educating properly our children).
Say what you will about censorship, but the vast majority of porn is not about love.
It's sort of about biology, although it gives a totally unrealistic snapshot of it ... that kind of editing in nature documentaries would be denounced as some kind of biology malpractice.
(Not to mention, who is this "we" you speak of, kemo sabe? I don't let my kids play ultra-violent simulations for hours and hours.)
IT/Software Development is one of the rare, if not unique, fields where people can be very paid well, the job market is currently hot, and one can learn everything from inexpensive books(or even free online courses) combined with motivation. It's positively egalitarian.
Yep.
The verboten truth is that the more truly egalitarian a field is, the more there will be sorting of various groups.
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that a certain school perfectly taught students, to the best of their potential. At that point, the only differences would be due to nothing but aptitude. What then? Go all Harrison Bergeron?
The only thing with power over the US Government is other parts of the US government. Thus if the executive branch commits an illegal act, the Congress can impeach, the courts can make orders, etc. If the Congress passes an unconstitutional law, the courts can annul by ruling on the constitutionality. If the courts go overboard, the President and the Congress can appoint new justices. Checks and balances. This act is on the executive branch side, so it is up to the legislature and/or courts to enforce. Private citizens can speed up the process by trying to sue, but of course, good luck finding someone with standing in this case, based on recent court rulings about domestic surveillance (only the phone companies have standing, not the people whose records were obtained).
The executive branch is running amok with illegality?
Huh ... I wonder if someone is in charge of the executive branch. Some, er, elected official or something. Someone we might hold accountable.
number of people that would like to see the South go. They take in more federal dollars than they give while electing Representatives that campaign against receiving those dollars. They're largely the reason the rest of the Country can't have socialized medicine. Personally I can't see abandoning them, but then again I think the point of civilization isn't to protect property but to improve the lives of everyone. That's a fundamental philosophy that a lot disagree with.
Noble of ya.
I'd go for that experiment. I know who'd I'd bet on, but whatever ... why not give it a try?
Yep. It's meaningless. Computers are and always have been things; it's as stupid as saying "the phone network of phones" or "the bookstore of books".
Clearly, since California is doing so well, they should export more of their genius ideas to the rest of us ...
This is no big surprise unless you weren't paying attention or are just plain dumb.
You mean, dumb like the lefty professionals? 'cause they sounded kind of surprised.
Yeah and the link you provided was ever so convincing. Oh wait...
Link
"I only do eyes!"
So... blame your cheapass company for dropping your insurance coverage. They didn't have to buy you a "cadillac" policy... they could have bought you a regular policy but they are using the "blame it on Obamacare" excuse for screwing you.
Keep believing that.
Meanwhile, even the NYT is profiling lefty professionals who are quite surprised to learn that Obamacare means they pay more and get less.
How many robots were there in the 1930s?
Was there some special leap in robotics in 2008?
Robots are something to blame, but it's a misdirection ...
> Those who complained about their canceled plans actually got better plans - less cost and more coverage.
Um, really? We didn't. Our plans (wife and I) were canceled because the company didn't want to pay the cadillac tax. For a replacement, we get higher cost, and much higher deductible. The strategy, as I understand it, is that you are supposed to live off your FSA for the first five months or so before your coverage actually starts paying for stuff. This is a definition of "better plans" of which I am unaware.
You're not supposed to notice that ... because then the wascally wepubwicans would have been right. And we can't have that.
You're saying that as if the two are in any way equivalent.
I don't know about "equivalent". But they both prevent vitamin deficiency diseases, which is kind of nice.
Lucky for me, I have the Garden of Eden in my backyard!.
Oh wait, I don't. So I guess "case closed" means scurvy for me.
But at least some purist researchers will get to feel better about themselves.
Let 'er rip :)
I mean, obviously the number ten and unit sizes that are useful to humans are simply logical outpourings of nature, not simply another set of arbitrary measures ...
Bragging rights? Bought and paid for? "Bin Laden dead, GM alive"?
One might assume some 35 years after the advent of PC revolution, there are more than a few grey hairs running around like me with infinitely more knowledge on how to secure a computer than some smart mouth tweener. Having spent years securing their computers, I would not trust any child of mine to do a better job than I would and it's time to put the tired meme that kids know tech better than their parents to bed where it belongs.
Yep. Just like kids with cars are (long since) no longer all shade tree mechanics, kids who like playing with tech are not all techies. Not by a LONG shot.
Actually Europe has a much higher population than the US. The population of the EU countries is now over 500 million. If Europe is more unified politically, it will be the single biggest geopolitical force in the world.
And might start paying for its own defense?
The first rule should be to not give easy access to firearms to the general public in the first place.
So, question: why was every schoolhouse on the American frontier not shot up?
Plenty of easy access to firearms - easier than now, that's for sure.
This! It's always the racist Republicans in the USA that whine constantly about free speech. That horrible concept should have never been created.
Thanks for illustrating the problem.
Republicans as a group are not racist. But you think that they are, because you've been trained to.
Republicans are an unpopular group (in pop culture, anyway), which it is OK and encouraged for you to hate. Which is, you know, kind of like racism. Huh, how about that.