I came in here to say pretty much what you said. I went to graduate school (masters) in the field of AI in the late 80s and have recent returned to graduate school in the same field, so 30 years later. (Georgia Tech both times) I was shocked. I'm learning the same approaches to the problems. The biggest difference I'm seeing are that there are handy libraries to use so I don't have to code stuff from scratch unless the class requires it. I worked mostly in image understanding the first time. In one of my classes I was asked to implemented a system that was very similar to what I had done previously in Fortran. I dug out my old code and pulled from it when working on it. Both worked well but the old one took about 12 hours to analyze a scene, the new one was under a minute and it was in python. I'm on my sixth class and I have yet to see an algorithm or theory that is significantly different than 30 years ago. (I have all my old class notes and use them periodically) Its been kind of disappointing, since I was expecting to see new things that would advance my understanding of the problems. It is a lot more fun to do this stuff when you can analyze large volumes of data and see the results of your system without waiting for hours. You can actually see that the stuff works. I'm sure as I go on I'll see some more significant incremental changes but I've given up on expecting to see anything that will set my hair on fire.
Isn't identifying corner cases and extrapolating also pattern matching? Pretty much everything the brain does is ether data filtering or pattern matching it seems to me.
I have an issue with some of my old Thunderbird mail archives. They are infected with various viri (w32 swen.A, N32 Netsky.T, Trojan Zbot) The anti-virus software I've tried just wants to delete the entire file not clean it. Would like to clean the files without risking infection but haven't been able to find a way to clean an offline mail file. Any ideas? Thanks.
I bought toyota recently. The position of the cruise control resume makes it very easy to hit accidentally and it takes a very light touch that you might not even notice. I've hit it twice and had my car surge ahead in a way that was scary. Add in a miss of the hitting the brake pedal and you have what many of the folks are describing. Course the black boxes should show this.
Diesel is about 30% more efficient than gasoline plus it takes less to refine it. Instead of encouraging diesel use the US taxes it at a higher rate, which is the main reason it costs more even though it costs less to make. If the US would tax it on the same bases as gasoline or less and gave incentives to buy diesel cars we would quickly reduce some of our import needs. Also you can just add bio-diesel into the regular diesel distribution network as needed. They mix fine. Seems to me that this would be the quickest way to make and impact.
I wish someone would do a study of folks who think it makes sense to kill their kids if they decide to kill themselves. It's seems like it would lead to a good way to identify people for whom some preventive counseling would be a great benefit to society. I did a little googling about it without any luck.
I get so tired of seeing these stories about parents killing themselves and their kids and just can't imagine the mindset where this makes sense to them. The evil in our world that is done to kids seems boundless, but this stuff seems different and in some ways more incomprehensible since it's usually folks who are not normally violent criminals.
It's unclear to me why the telco's should be facing civil or criminal suits for this. The executive branch has the job of enforcing the law. If they go to a company and request that they take an action assuring the company that it is legal the company is legally required to comply are they not? Aren't they subject to criminal penalities if they do not comply with what the executive branch says is the law? If the executive branch has asked for something that may be illegal (unconstitutional) then actions should be instituted in the courts against the executive branch. This may be done by a citizen (including the corporation in question) or the legislative branch.
How can it be a companies responsibility to interprete the constitution and laws? I would have liked to see the telco's having filed something in the courts related to the request from the executive branch but the only requirement for this is good citizenship nothing legal. At some point you do get to the point where civil disobedience may appropriate. I think you could include Qwests refusal in this category and I give them cudos and my strong support for doing this. However, it doesn't make sense to me that you could be subject to civil or criminal prosecution for not taking that stand.
I would like to see the Bush administration facing impeachments and criminal prosecution for this and other actions they have taken. But the telcos? I wish they had been better citizens and taken Qwest route or at least gone to the courts, but it doesn't seem like there is any basis for them to be facing civil or criminal legal actions.
The whole point is the article is that the first born does not get the brains, but that the child raised as first born ends up with a higher IQ. It's not a genetic thing. The title of the topic is totally misleading.
I've lived in the Southern US most my life. You get asked if you are a "born again christian" pretty regularly in Georgia, South Carolina etc. My anwser is always "Nope, God got it right with me the first time". So far it's stopped every one of them without any idea how to continue.
When I was in school 30 years ago, I was taught that the Earth and Moon were binary planets. This must have been fairly accepted since it came up more than once in both Elementary and High School. So for me this new definition changes the "Moon" from planet to moon, at least for a while. I can't remember the details of the definition applied, but it was something like the center of rotation being outside the core of the of Earth.
I have a car that I run on 100% bio-diesel. No conversion necessary. No foreign oil needed. Bio-diesel and regular diesel can be mixed so you can use the existing infrastructure to distribute. Only issue is that very old diesels may have natural rubber components in the fuel line that will have to be replaced. Plus bio-diesel produces very little pollution. Last time I bought it I payed $2.40 a gallon.
I've tried these. They are not too great tasting, but handy. However I dragged some along on a camping trip in Colorado, thinking how great it would be to have hot coffee first thing in the morning. Well they don't seem to work at 9,000 feet above sea level. It was also about 60(f) degrees out. Didn't even get warm. Buzz kill - literally. They heat up OK in Denver - 5,000 feet - starting from room temperature. There is no warning about altitude issues on the containers that I could find, so maybe it was the starting temperature, but if it reaches 140 degrees from 70, I would think it would still become reasonably warm from 60.
I just finished this book a few days ago. It was very transparent. Everything was easily guessed. Knew the ring was probably nothing as soon as the scene where Tankado holds up his hand to give the ring away. Guessed what the code was going to be. Obvious who the bad guy was and was not. Then took forever for some of the smartest people in the world to figure out "the primary elemental difference" between uranium-235 and uranium-238. Give me a break. Author just has alot to learn about presenting things so that the reader will interprete things one way but that an alternate interpretation he will reveal later isn't possible. It was just too obvious what the alternate interpretations were and that the author was leaving them there on purpose.
(Yes I can't type or spell if it's not a programming language - complain if you want.)
I would really like to have some easy way to quickly eat a meal. There are all the meal bars but they taste pretty bad and are just too much work to choke down. Even if it was 15-20 pills it would work for me. I like having nice meals, but I don't need one every time I eat. I just spend too much time on food. Day to day, I'd like to just swallow something quickly and be done with it. Have a nice cooked food sit down meal just for dinner or special occasions. I really don't understand why this option doesn't exist. Seems to me there would be a pretty good market.
Does anyone else get an error that the source file can't be read when they try to download the Phoenix install file using Mozilla? I have to switch to IE to get phoenix. It's the same at home and work. This problem is pretty damn ironic. The only site I have had problems using Mozilla with is Mozilla's web site.
Kind of Bummed - Just Brute Force
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I'm kind of bummed that this solution is by enumerating every position, rather than some kind of huristic or mathmatical solution. I don't find brute force methods to be very elegant or interesting, although they do present their own chalenges from a resource management perspective. I'll be much more interested if they can analyse the information they have and come up with a computational approach that plays perfectly. It's likely that such a thing could then be generalized to solve many other types of problems.
In the header for the slashdot article "Slant of the article is that the Macs are easier to set-up, maintain and are more flexible."
I think it is funny that you call the article's conclusion a slant just because it's in favor of the Mac. I'm sure your header would state the conclusion as absolute fact (LINUX easier to set-up, maintain and is more flexible!) if the article's conclusion had been the opposite. You should used an unbiased header like "Article concludes..." Is slashdot a news site or a propaganda site?
Zet
The general principle presented here is essential to slashdot's success. The moderation system allows a fairly mild way to punish those who are abusing the use of the shared resource.
Problem is getting managers to value good coding
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It's not that hard to write good code. It is hard to get managers to value good code. I've never been a programmer on a project in which I was not directed by the project leader to develop the code in the quickest possible way and without takihng time to create documentation.
I read book on my Sony Clie S300. After a few chapters of getting used to it, I find it preferable to a paper book. I find I can read much faster and easier. But it did seem weird at first. I can see why people wouldn't buy one after trying it at the store.
I love ebooks, but they should be much cheaper then a paper book. You can't give them to people you can only read them yourself. You can't resale them. That's all fine but it makes the value of the ebook less then the paper book. Plus there is less cost in making the books -less resources, less distribution cost, less warehousing cost etc. If the book sellers priced ebooks in a reasonable way, then they would take off. I talked with peanut books and they tell me that some publishers do price the ebook to them at the same cost as the paper back version, but most price it at the cost of the hardback and some price it higher than the hardback price. That's dumb. They should obviously cost much less than a paper back.
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I came in here to say pretty much what you said. I went to graduate school (masters) in the field of AI in the late 80s and have recent returned to graduate school in the same field, so 30 years later. (Georgia Tech both times) I was shocked. I'm learning the same approaches to the problems. The biggest difference I'm seeing are that there are handy libraries to use so I don't have to code stuff from scratch unless the class requires it. I worked mostly in image understanding the first time. In one of my classes I was asked to implemented a system that was very similar to what I had done previously in Fortran. I dug out my old code and pulled from it when working on it. Both worked well but the old one took about 12 hours to analyze a scene, the new one was under a minute and it was in python. I'm on my sixth class and I have yet to see an algorithm or theory that is significantly different than 30 years ago. (I have all my old class notes and use them periodically) Its been kind of disappointing, since I was expecting to see new things that would advance my understanding of the problems. It is a lot more fun to do this stuff when you can analyze large volumes of data and see the results of your system without waiting for hours. You can actually see that the stuff works. I'm sure as I go on I'll see some more significant incremental changes but I've given up on expecting to see anything that will set my hair on fire.
Isn't identifying corner cases and extrapolating also pattern matching? Pretty much everything the brain does is ether data filtering or pattern matching it seems to me.
I just get a call from her about 5 minutes ago.
I have an issue with some of my old Thunderbird mail archives. They are infected with various viri (w32 swen.A, N32 Netsky.T, Trojan Zbot) The anti-virus software I've tried just wants to delete the entire file not clean it. Would like to clean the files without risking infection but haven't been able to find a way to clean an offline mail file. Any ideas? Thanks.
I bought toyota recently. The position of the cruise control resume makes it very easy to hit accidentally and it takes a very light touch that you might not even notice. I've hit it twice and had my car surge ahead in a way that was scary. Add in a miss of the hitting the brake pedal and you have what many of the folks are describing. Course the black boxes should show this.
Diesel is about 30% more efficient than gasoline plus it takes less to refine it. Instead of encouraging diesel use the US taxes it at a higher rate, which is the main reason it costs more even though it costs less to make. If the US would tax it on the same bases as gasoline or less and gave incentives to buy diesel cars we would quickly reduce some of our import needs. Also you can just add bio-diesel into the regular diesel distribution network as needed. They mix fine. Seems to me that this would be the quickest way to make and impact.
I wish someone would do a study of folks who think it makes sense to kill their kids if they decide to kill themselves. It's seems like it would lead to a good way to identify people for whom some preventive counseling would be a great benefit to society. I did a little googling about it without any luck.
I get so tired of seeing these stories about parents killing themselves and their kids and just can't imagine the mindset where this makes sense to them. The evil in our world that is done to kids seems boundless, but this stuff seems different and in some ways more incomprehensible since it's usually folks who are not normally violent criminals.
It's unclear to me why the telco's should be facing civil or criminal suits for this. The executive branch has the job of enforcing the law. If they go to a company and request that they take an action assuring the company that it is legal the company is legally required to comply are they not? Aren't they subject to criminal penalities if they do not comply with what the executive branch says is the law? If the executive branch has asked for something that may be illegal (unconstitutional) then actions should be instituted in the courts against the executive branch. This may be done by a citizen (including the corporation in question) or the legislative branch.
How can it be a companies responsibility to interprete the constitution and laws? I would have liked to see the telco's having filed something in the courts related to the request from the executive branch but the only requirement for this is good citizenship nothing legal. At some point you do get to the point where civil disobedience may appropriate. I think you could include Qwests refusal in this category and I give them cudos and my strong support for doing this. However, it doesn't make sense to me that you could be subject to civil or criminal prosecution for not taking that stand.
I would like to see the Bush administration facing impeachments and criminal prosecution for this and other actions they have taken. But the telcos? I wish they had been better citizens and taken Qwest route or at least gone to the courts, but it doesn't seem like there is any basis for them to be facing civil or criminal legal actions.
The whole point is the article is that the first born does not get the brains, but that the child raised as first born ends up with a higher IQ. It's not a genetic thing. The title of the topic is totally misleading.
I got dimmable CFL at Home Depot that work great. They cost about 40% more.
There are white Babtists blowing up planned parenthood clinics with intent to kill people, including secondary bombs to get first responders.
I've lived in the Southern US most my life. You get asked if you are a "born again christian" pretty regularly in Georgia, South Carolina etc. My anwser is always "Nope, God got it right with me the first time". So far it's stopped every one of them without any idea how to continue.
When I was in school 30 years ago, I was taught that the Earth and Moon were binary planets. This must have been fairly accepted since it came up more than once in both Elementary and High School. So for me this new definition changes the "Moon" from planet to moon, at least for a while. I can't remember the details of the definition applied, but it was something like the center of rotation being outside the core of the of Earth.
I have a car that I run on 100% bio-diesel. No conversion necessary. No foreign oil needed. Bio-diesel and regular diesel can be mixed so you can use the existing infrastructure to distribute. Only issue is that very old diesels may have natural rubber components in the fuel line that will have to be replaced. Plus bio-diesel produces very little pollution. Last time I bought it I payed $2.40 a gallon.
I've tried these. They are not too great tasting, but handy. However I dragged some along on a camping trip in Colorado, thinking how great it would be to have hot coffee first thing in the morning. Well they don't seem to work at 9,000 feet above sea level. It was also about 60(f) degrees out. Didn't even get warm. Buzz kill - literally. They heat up OK in Denver - 5,000 feet - starting from room temperature. There is no warning about altitude issues on the containers that I could find, so maybe it was the starting temperature, but if it reaches 140 degrees from 70, I would think it would still become reasonably warm from 60.
Warning: bit of a spoiler.
I just finished this book a few days ago. It was very transparent. Everything was easily guessed. Knew the ring was probably nothing as soon as the scene where Tankado holds up his hand to give the ring away. Guessed what the code was going to be. Obvious who the bad guy was and was not. Then took forever for some of the smartest people in the world to figure out "the primary elemental difference" between uranium-235 and uranium-238. Give me a break. Author just has alot to learn about presenting things so that the reader will interprete things one way but that an alternate interpretation he will reveal later isn't possible. It was just too obvious what the alternate interpretations were and that the author was leaving them there on purpose.
(Yes I can't type or spell if it's not a programming language - complain if you want.)
I would really like to have some easy way to quickly eat a meal. There are all the meal bars but they taste pretty bad and are just too much work to choke down. Even if it was 15-20 pills it would work for me. I like having nice meals, but I don't need one every time I eat. I just spend too much time on food. Day to day, I'd like to just swallow something quickly and be done with it. Have a nice cooked food sit down meal just for dinner or special occasions. I really don't understand why this option doesn't exist. Seems to me there would be a pretty good market.
David
Does anyone else get an error that the source file can't be read when they try to download the Phoenix install file using Mozilla? I have to switch to IE to get phoenix. It's the same at home and work. This problem is pretty damn ironic. The only site I have had problems using Mozilla with is Mozilla's web site.
I'm kind of bummed that this solution is by enumerating every position, rather than some kind of huristic or mathmatical solution. I don't find brute force methods to be very elegant or interesting, although they do present their own chalenges from a resource management perspective. I'll be much more interested if they can analyse the information they have and come up with a computational approach that plays perfectly. It's likely that such a thing could then be generalized to solve many other types of problems.
Zetetikos
In the header for the slashdot article "Slant of the article is that the Macs are easier to set-up, maintain and are more flexible." I think it is funny that you call the article's conclusion a slant just because it's in favor of the Mac. I'm sure your header would state the conclusion as absolute fact (LINUX easier to set-up, maintain and is more flexible!) if the article's conclusion had been the opposite. You should used an unbiased header like "Article concludes ..." Is slashdot a news site or a propaganda site?
Zet
The general principle presented here is essential to slashdot's success. The moderation system allows a fairly mild way to punish those who are abusing the use of the shared resource.
It's not that hard to write good code. It is hard to get managers to value good code. I've never been a programmer on a project in which I was not directed by the project leader to develop the code in the quickest possible way and without takihng time to create documentation.
I read book on my Sony Clie S300. After a few chapters of getting used to it, I find it preferable to a paper book. I find I can read much faster and easier. But it did seem weird at first. I can see why people wouldn't buy one after trying it at the store.
I love ebooks, but they should be much cheaper then a paper book. You can't give them to people you can only read them yourself. You can't resale them. That's all fine but it makes the value of the ebook less then the paper book. Plus there is less cost in making the books -less resources, less distribution cost, less warehousing cost etc. If the book sellers priced ebooks in a reasonable way, then they would take off. I talked with peanut books and they tell me that some publishers do price the ebook to them at the same cost as the paper back version, but most price it at the cost of the hardback and some price it higher than the hardback price. That's dumb. They should obviously cost much less than a paper back.
You got that right