Presumably they will either have to take into account the clues that come from the category itself (as in your example) or rig the system by avoiding "trick" categories. It's not an easy problem and it'll be very interesting to see what IBM come up with.
An example from last night, they had a category "Knockouts" in both the first and second round. In the first round, all the answers were hot women (i.e. knockouts!), in the second round all the answers were about boxing. How will Watson deal with this? I don't know.
Yes it is. The idea of a clockwork universe has been dead for decades. I know it's kind of hard to wrap your head around living, as we do, in the macroscopic world (even Einstein had a problem with it, hence the "God doesn't play dice" quote), but you simply cannot know the values of all the variables in play when, for example, an atomic nucleus decays even in theory. Look up Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. It's not a statement about how hard it is to measure something accurately, or the limitations of the instruments used, it's a fundamental, inescapable property of the universe.
That's true RNGs are not truly random. But, then again, neither is anything else. Just sufficiently random to be indistinguishable from an actual random event.
No, you can't. You can't use the Castle Doctrine as a defense unless the person you shot is acting illegally. Therefore, if (and it's a big if), the FCC have the legal right to enter your home, you do not have the right to shot them.
The website for the company looks old. All their press room links are from 2002. Did this product ever make it into production or was the idea abandoned?
And yes, the headline is horribly misleading. This is a medical device for children undergoing surgery, not a home device for controlling your kids.
Try knowing what you are talking about before you comment. First result for "taste in the gut" gives you this:
Taste receptors, the taste G-protein gustducin, and downstream signaling elements known to underlie the detection and transduction of bitter, sweet, and umami (monosodium glutamateâ"containing) compounds in taste buds of the tongue are present also in specific endocrine cells of the gut: the enteroendocrine K and L cells. Glucose in the gut activates sweet taste receptors and gustducin present in the intestineâ(TM)s enteroendocrine L cells, leading to secretion of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) from these cells. GLP-1 and glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide (GIP) are incretin hormones, which augment insulin release from the beta cells of the pancreas. GLP-1, GIP, and other gut hormones released from the K and L cells affect insulin secretion, glucose homeostasis, nutrient absorption and other gut functions. Glucose transport into enterocytes via Na+,glucose cotransporter 1 (SGLT1) and GLUT2 appears to be regulated by the gustducin- and sweet receptor-expressing enteroendocrine cells. In response to sugar ingestion, knockout mice lacking gustducin show deficits in the release of GLP-1 and insulin, in glucose homeostasis, and in upregulation of SGLT1. Apparently, the gut "tastes" sugars and sweeteners in much the same way as does the tongue and by using many of the same signaling elements. Taste receptors and other taste signaling elements in gut may be contributors to obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and other diet-related disorders. Gut-expressed taste elements are attractive targets for therapeutic intervention.
The same sweetners that fool your sweet receptors on your tongue fool the sweet receptors in you gut messing with you insulin release amongst other things. We had a professor from OSU give a talk about it a few months ago.
A sugar-sensing receptor in the intestine could explain why drinking diet cola may hinder obese people who hope to lose weight1,2 and lead to new ways of treating obesity and diabetes.
This explains why humans and animals fail to lose weight with low-calorie artificial sweeteners: they stimulate increased glucose absorption from carbohydrate breakdown in the gut,' said Soraya Shirazi-Beechey, who led the Liverpool team.
While I mostly agree with you on artificial sweeters being "mostly harmless", there are some recent studies that have suggested that they are not as effective for dieting as first thought. The problem is that your gut has the same taste receptors as your tongue and is also "fooled" by artificial sweeters throwing your whole digestion out of whack. What ends up happening is that if you drink a diet soda with a meal, you end up absorbing more sugar from your meal that you would otherwise. Maybe still less than if you'd downed a regular soda, but more than if you drank a glass of water.
They tell of the curious case of an Australian ostrich farmer who needed emergency care for lung paralysis after drinking 4-10 litres of cola a day.
Another example included a pregnant woman who regularly consumed up to three litres a day for the last six years and complained of tiredness, appetite loss and persistent vomiting.
A heart trace revealed she had an irregular heartbeat, probably caused by her low blood potassium levels.
Once she stopped drinking so much cola, she made a full and uneventful recovery.
The DLC is $10 each and the two retail packages will contain two DLCs each (pack 1: Operation Anchorage and The Pitt, pack 2: Broken Steel and Point Lookout). AFAIK, there is no announced price for them, but presumably they'll be somewhere in the $20 region. Not $40 each.
But, either way, the point is that with GfWL, the list price isn't the real price because you can't buy the exact number of points you need. Instead you have to buy more and give Microsoft and interest free loan until such time as you find something else to spend your points on, and with the PC, you'll probably won't ever find anything else you want.
Ars is reporting that the DLC will be available in two retail packs for PC and XBox, as well as a GOTY edition in October with all the DLC. Finally I'll be able to get the DLC without the ass rape of Microsoft Points.
I did read the link and I stand by my comments. Trying to build consensus is a recipe for getting nothing done. It also relies on people being engaged and involved, which they aren't.
I'm not saying the current system is good, but it's the least worst system.
I think the reason for forbidding IE8 is more because it's quite difficult to get working installations of both IE6 and IE8 on the same computer. They have shit web apps that only work on IE6 and it's not so much that they don't want IE8, it's that they don't want to lose the crutch of IE6.
That about how things are at my work. I use Firefox, but IE 7 and 8 are blocked. I still need to use IE 6 for our web apps that don't work in Firefox.
Sure it doesn't work in Wyoming, but there are parts of the US with much higher population densities (like the area that the MTA serves) that are still mostly shit.
Incidentally I don't see the point in suspending the panels in the air. They should just be on the ground, and the tracks should poke up between them. You're not going to get much loss from the train going over the panel because the train is tiny compared to the size of your aggregate panels. Much less installation cost, too.
But with panels on the ground, you don't get to run your train in the shade!
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Presumably they will either have to take into account the clues that come from the category itself (as in your example) or rig the system by avoiding "trick" categories. It's not an easy problem and it'll be very interesting to see what IBM come up with.
An example from last night, they had a category "Knockouts" in both the first and second round. In the first round, all the answers were hot women (i.e. knockouts!), in the second round all the answers were about boxing. How will Watson deal with this? I don't know.
Still not random.
Yes it is. The idea of a clockwork universe has been dead for decades. I know it's kind of hard to wrap your head around living, as we do, in the macroscopic world (even Einstein had a problem with it, hence the "God doesn't play dice" quote), but you simply cannot know the values of all the variables in play when, for example, an atomic nucleus decays even in theory. Look up Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. It's not a statement about how hard it is to measure something accurately, or the limitations of the instruments used, it's a fundamental, inescapable property of the universe.
That's true RNGs are not truly random. But, then again, neither is anything else. Just sufficiently random to be indistinguishable from an actual random event.
You fail at Quantum Mechanics.
Hardware random number generators
I'm pretty sure the courts will agree & I'm willing to take my chances on that.
I'm pretty sure they won't.
If you think you'll win with that defense, then good luck to you. On the other hand, IANAL.
No, you can't. You can't use the Castle Doctrine as a defense unless the person you shot is acting illegally. Therefore, if (and it's a big if), the FCC have the legal right to enter your home, you do not have the right to shot them.
Try RTFA. It doesn't go in the mouth.
The website for the company looks old. All their press room links are from 2002. Did this product ever make it into production or was the idea abandoned?
And yes, the headline is horribly misleading. This is a medical device for children undergoing surgery, not a home device for controlling your kids.
Try knowing what you are talking about before you comment. First result for "taste in the gut" gives you this:
Taste receptors, the taste G-protein gustducin, and downstream signaling elements known to underlie the detection and transduction of bitter, sweet, and umami (monosodium glutamateâ"containing) compounds in taste buds of the tongue are present also in specific endocrine cells of the gut: the enteroendocrine K and L cells. Glucose in the gut activates sweet taste receptors and gustducin present in the intestineâ(TM)s enteroendocrine L cells, leading to secretion of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) from these cells. GLP-1 and glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide (GIP) are incretin hormones, which augment insulin release from the beta cells of the pancreas. GLP-1, GIP, and other gut hormones released from the K and L cells affect insulin secretion, glucose homeostasis, nutrient absorption and other gut functions. Glucose transport into enterocytes via Na+,glucose cotransporter 1 (SGLT1) and GLUT2 appears to be regulated by the gustducin- and sweet receptor-expressing enteroendocrine cells. In response to sugar ingestion, knockout mice lacking gustducin show deficits in the release of GLP-1 and insulin, in glucose homeostasis, and in upregulation of SGLT1. Apparently, the gut "tastes" sugars and sweeteners in much the same way as does the tongue and by using many of the same signaling elements. Taste receptors and other taste signaling elements in gut may be contributors to obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and other diet-related disorders. Gut-expressed taste elements are attractive targets for therapeutic intervention.
The same sweetners that fool your sweet receptors on your tongue fool the sweet receptors in you gut messing with you insulin release amongst other things. We had a professor from OSU give a talk about it a few months ago.
Heres another link from the Royal Society of Chemistry:
A sugar-sensing receptor in the intestine could explain why drinking diet cola may hinder obese people who hope to lose weight1,2 and lead to new ways of treating obesity and diabetes.
This explains why humans and animals fail to lose weight with low-calorie artificial sweeteners: they stimulate increased glucose absorption from carbohydrate breakdown in the gut,' said Soraya Shirazi-Beechey, who led the Liverpool team.
While I mostly agree with you on artificial sweeters being "mostly harmless", there are some recent studies that have suggested that they are not as effective for dieting as first thought. The problem is that your gut has the same taste receptors as your tongue and is also "fooled" by artificial sweeters throwing your whole digestion out of whack. What ends up happening is that if you drink a diet soda with a meal, you end up absorbing more sugar from your meal that you would otherwise. Maybe still less than if you'd downed a regular soda, but more than if you drank a glass of water.
From the BBC article on the same study:
They tell of the curious case of an Australian ostrich farmer who needed emergency care for lung paralysis after drinking 4-10 litres of cola a day.
Another example included a pregnant woman who regularly consumed up to three litres a day for the last six years and complained of tiredness, appetite loss and persistent vomiting.
A heart trace revealed she had an irregular heartbeat, probably caused by her low blood potassium levels.
Once she stopped drinking so much cola, she made a full and uneventful recovery.
So, yeah, excessive, even by my standards.
And Diet Caffeine free is just fine.
I wouldn't be as bold as to suggest that anything about Diet Caffeine free coke is "fine".
The DLC is $10 each and the two retail packages will contain two DLCs each (pack 1: Operation Anchorage and The Pitt, pack 2: Broken Steel and Point Lookout). AFAIK, there is no announced price for them, but presumably they'll be somewhere in the $20 region. Not $40 each.
But, either way, the point is that with GfWL, the list price isn't the real price because you can't buy the exact number of points you need. Instead you have to buy more and give Microsoft and interest free loan until such time as you find something else to spend your points on, and with the PC, you'll probably won't ever find anything else you want.
Ars is reporting that the DLC will be available in two retail packs for PC and XBox, as well as a GOTY edition in October with all the DLC. Finally I'll be able to get the DLC without the ass rape of Microsoft Points.
Level 8?!? Have you actually played the game since Christmas? It's almost impossible not to level up.
I did read the link and I stand by my comments. Trying to build consensus is a recipe for getting nothing done. It also relies on people being engaged and involved, which they aren't. I'm not saying the current system is good, but it's the least worst system.
With the ridiculous idea that everybody is going to reach a consensus out of good will and love for their fellow man.
Good luck with that.
That "stereotype" effectively describes 4 out my 5 last girlfriends.
Your thinking like that might explain why they are no longer your girlfriends.
Groovy baby.
I noticed that too. Oh the irony of Google ads.
I think the reason for forbidding IE8 is more because it's quite difficult to get working installations of both IE6 and IE8 on the same computer. They have shit web apps that only work on IE6 and it's not so much that they don't want IE8, it's that they don't want to lose the crutch of IE6.
That about how things are at my work. I use Firefox, but IE 7 and 8 are blocked. I still need to use IE 6 for our web apps that don't work in Firefox.
Whoops! You are correct, of course. My bad.
We're talking about density here. Besides a single atom of helium weighs more (than a single atom of D). It has two protons and two neutrons.
Population density of New York City - 2,181.6/sq mi
Sure it doesn't work in Wyoming, but there are parts of the US with much higher population densities (like the area that the MTA serves) that are still mostly shit.
Incidentally I don't see the point in suspending the panels in the air. They should just be on the ground, and the tracks should poke up between them. You're not going to get much loss from the train going over the panel because the train is tiny compared to the size of your aggregate panels. Much less installation cost, too.
But with panels on the ground, you don't get to run your train in the shade!