Wow. However, I don't really consciously remember Dr Who until Jon Pertwee came along. Remember being scared by the Sea Devils (my garndparents lived in Portsmoth, where those disused Sea Forts were a part of the scenery), the Green Death (filmed in a colliery just up the road from my town), and being chased around the local exhibition hall by some real Daleks(from BBC LLandaff). I lost interest after Tom Pertwee I think, but the latest incarnation definitely changed the tone and brought my interest back. Cool that so much was filmed in Cardiff again. Toss up between Jo and Leela as the sexiest assistants:-)
This is a hoary chestnut. I have a masters in AI, and a PhD in machine learning (and had a lot of interest in machine discovery).
The ultimate problem, is that for most datasets, there are an infinite (at least), set of relations that can be induced from the data. This doesn't even address the issue, that the choice of available data is a human task. However, going back to assuming we have all the data possible, you still need to have a specific performance task in mind.
Think of this in terms of permutations. Lets say you have variable A, B, and C. They are all binary (have values 1 or 0). Now, you are given a set of these assigments (eg A=1, B=1,C=1, A=1,B=1, C=1, and so on). Now, try to tell me what the correct partition is. Sort them in to two sets of any size. See the problem ? I didn't tell you what I wanted as characteristics of those sets - so in effect, they are all possible good partitions.
So, data-mining ultimately relies on human's deciding what they want to read from the tea-leaves of the data.
Now, give it up, and start addressing issues of efficient algorithms given that you have a specific performance task:)
Conspiracy theorists will note that the Heart Newspaper corporation and otehrs will be ecstatic at this news.. They claim large losses in advertsing from CLs free model.
I've never actually spoken to Terry Pratchett, other than to say "err, its for my friend actually" at a book signing (kidding, he was very gracious, and signed all 30 paperbacks I brought with me). Again, falsehood:) but you get the point. I love both of them, and wish Adams had the output of Pratchett! I remember he inspired me somewhat to finish writing my thesis at the time, when he said he just has a target to write 400 words a day (or was it 4000, I forget).
I dont get to name drop on this forum much, but when I was a teenager back in Wales, there was a stage production of HHGTG at the local student theatre (Sherman Theatre?). I remember them serving Pan galatic gargleblasters during the reception, and that myself and my friend James got to say Hi to him. I dont have any witty epitaphs to report, just remembering that he was very tall and sanguine. Thinking about it now, sort of a taller, thinner, less bearded Terry Pratchett.
Bah, without Jon Pertwee there's been no real Doctor Who for 25 years... but I'll grant you Tom Baker was the second best for those not old enough to remember Patrick Troughton (including me, and I'm 41...).
Actually, notice how Yahoo's top line ads actually are more noticeable as a sponsored result, simply because they dont filll the screen - I couldnt see teh Google disclaimer because they stretch so wide.
Its kind of hard to differentiate the top "in-line" ads which Google and Y! uses. The side-ads are pretty clear both on Y! and Google. See these searches for Bed and Breakfast San Francisco (something I was just doing in Real Life). Yahoo's premium results are slightly less blue than G's but only just.
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It was a brilliant book. I worked for DEC at a later date, so it was an amazing picture of my former employer war of competition, and as someone who worked on those machines as a programmer, a fascinating insight into the hardware development process.
Yes, targetted advertising is best done with text and search.( By the way, Overture/Yahoo that invented that, not Google. Just an FYI)
However, banner advertising is like TV advertising. Its "presence". Sure X10 was annoying as heck, but everyone knew about it (and presumably still does).
Not at all true. I live here. Comcast/ATT just rewired the city for fibre, and another company is doing likewise (RCN?).
There is so much bandwidth here under the streets. I still have dificulty believeing how much t-mobile and even the local outfits get to gouge on Access Prices to wireless. I mean, its a DSL line and a 100 dollar router...
On XM Radio and its founder. Very interesting discussion of how they are gonna kill the Clear Channel republican monopoly. I for one am almost about ready to go out and buy one even though I cant stand Stern...
JVN quote. That was his exact point. You can model very restricted subsets successfully, but the whole thing is too much to encode. I've no problem with designing data structures. Its just when someone says data structure solve the grand AI problem that I have an issue.
Sure, you want to do an XML schema for books - go ahead. For CD's sure. In fact, for any domain. Although bear in mind the documentation of the API is going to get bigger and bigger until it is unmanageable (or you end up with natural language, and we are back where you started with, using IR techniques...).
and in a second you have proved the flaw in the whole idea.
You managed to use the token MOTEL in place of HOTEL. See, thats all it is a *TOKEN*. There is some association with you as a human between the two lexical tokens and a building one sleeps in for money, but thats not encoded. Sure, you can start building symbolic rules, but several winters of AI research should be eniugh to convince anyone, that the Top Down Approach is not going to fly anytime soon, IF EVER>
The *world* and humans in it are the arbiters of varying degrees of truth and linkage. Any generic attempt to encode the world is probably going to fail.
As John Von Neumann put it so elegantly, "Perhaps the simplest model of the world, is its self".
And I'm from the AI school of Comp Sci. Its useful in its place, but I haven't seen a single killer app of WordNet, let alone Cyc.
I only have a problem that the Aliens movie (the Cameron second one), didnt make the list. The list of quotable lines and dark belly laughs from that movie is second to none imho.
To paraphrase the Wall Street Journal last week, the settlement between Yahoo/Overture showed that for such a technologically advanced company, their revenue depended on an invention made by another company.
Just so you dont forget it. They have now LICENCESED bidded text advertising concept from Yahoo/Overture (formerly GoTo.com).
That admission cost em 300 million dollars. Remember it next time you praise Google for inventing it.
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Wow. However, I don't really consciously remember Dr Who until Jon Pertwee came along. Remember being scared by the Sea Devils (my garndparents lived in Portsmoth, where those disused Sea Forts were a part of the scenery), the Green Death (filmed in a colliery just up the road from my town), and being chased around the local exhibition hall by some real Daleks(from BBC LLandaff). I lost interest after Tom Pertwee I think, but the latest incarnation definitely changed the tone and brought my interest back. Cool that so much was filmed in Cardiff again. Toss up between Jo and Leela as the sexiest assistants :-)
This is a hoary chestnut. I have a masters in AI, and a PhD in machine learning (and had a lot of interest in machine discovery).
:)
The ultimate problem, is that for most datasets, there are an infinite (at least), set of relations that can be induced from the data. This doesn't even address the issue, that the choice of available data is a human task. However, going back to assuming we have all the data possible, you still need to have a specific performance task in mind.
Think of this in terms of permutations. Lets say you have variable A, B, and C. They are all binary (have values 1 or 0). Now, you are given a set of these assigments (eg A=1, B=1,C=1, A=1,B=1, C=1, and so on). Now, try to tell me what the correct partition is. Sort them in to two sets of any size. See the problem ? I didn't tell you what I wanted as characteristics of those sets - so in effect, they are all possible good partitions.
So, data-mining ultimately relies on human's deciding what they want to read from the tea-leaves of the data.
Now, give it up, and start addressing issues of efficient algorithms given that you have a specific performance task
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Conspiracy theorists will note that the Heart Newspaper corporation and otehrs will be ecstatic at this news.. They claim large losses in advertsing from CLs free model.
Fawlty Towers, The Office (UK version) and Blackadder >>> Father Ted and Black Books... :)
personally I think an IT version of The Office would be far better...
heh heh :^)
:) but you get the point. I love both of them, and wish Adams had the output of Pratchett! I remember he inspired me somewhat to finish writing my thesis at the time, when he said he just has a target to write 400 words a day (or was it 4000, I forget).
I've never actually spoken to Terry Pratchett, other than to say "err, its for my friend actually" at a book signing (kidding, he was very gracious, and signed all 30 paperbacks I brought with me). Again, falsehood
I dont get to name drop on this forum much, but when I was a teenager back in Wales, there was a stage production of HHGTG at the local student theatre (Sherman Theatre?). I remember them serving Pan galatic gargleblasters during the reception, and that myself and my friend James got to say Hi to him. I dont have any witty epitaphs to report, just remembering that he was very tall and sanguine. Thinking about it now, sort of a taller, thinner, less bearded Terry Pratchett.
Winton
Bah, without Jon Pertwee there's been no real Doctor Who for 25 years... but I'll grant you Tom Baker was the second best for those not old enough to remember Patrick Troughton (including me, and I'm 41...).
Firefly probably made more money and had more fans direct from DVD - I wonder why more money isnt put into this kind of medium...?
Pre-order ?
People are getting scared of the end of lockup price drop, and lots of shares arent doing well anyways.
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Actually, notice how Yahoo's top line ads actually are more noticeable as a sponsored result, simply because they dont filll the screen - I couldnt see teh Google disclaimer because they stretch so wide.
Its kind of hard to differentiate the top "in-line" ads which Google and Y! uses. The side-ads are pretty clear both on Y! and Google. See these searches for Bed and Breakfast San Francisco (something I was just doing in Real Life). Yahoo's premium results are slightly less blue than G's but only just.
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JEEEEZ!
You've played Shadowbane, right....?
So this should be:
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It was a brilliant book. I worked for DEC at a later date, so it was an amazing picture of my former employer war of competition, and as someone who worked on those machines as a programmer, a fascinating insight into the hardware development process.
But its really about people, not technology.
Well it finally explains the Honey Bees in the X-Files...
Insightful my ...
Yes, targetted advertising is best done with text and search.( By the way, Overture/Yahoo that invented that, not Google. Just an FYI)
However, banner advertising is like TV advertising. Its "presence". Sure X10 was annoying as heck, but everyone knew about it (and presumably still does).
Winton
Not at all true. I live here. Comcast/ATT just rewired the city for fibre, and another company is doing likewise (RCN?).
There is so much bandwidth here under the streets. I still have dificulty believeing how much t-mobile and even the local outfits get to gouge on Access Prices to wireless. I mean, its a DSL line and a 100 dollar router...
On XM Radio and its founder. Very interesting discussion of how they are gonna kill the Clear Channel republican monopoly. I for one am almost about ready to go out and buy one even though I cant stand Stern...
Perhaps I meant generalized.
JVN quote. That was his exact point. You can model very restricted subsets successfully, but the whole thing is too much to encode. I've no problem with designing data structures. Its just when someone says data structure solve the grand AI problem that I have an issue.
Sure, you want to do an XML schema for books - go ahead. For CD's sure. In fact, for any domain. Although bear in mind the documentation of the API is going to get bigger and bigger until it is unmanageable (or you end up with natural language, and we are back where you started with, using IR techniques...).
and in a second you have proved the flaw in the whole idea.
You managed to use the token MOTEL in place of HOTEL. See, thats all it is a *TOKEN*. There is some association with you as a human between the two lexical tokens and a building one sleeps in for money, but thats not encoded. Sure, you can start building symbolic rules, but several winters of AI research should be eniugh to convince anyone, that the Top Down Approach is not going to fly anytime soon, IF EVER>
The *world* and humans in it are the arbiters of varying degrees of truth and linkage. Any generic attempt to encode the world is probably going to fail.
As John Von Neumann put it so elegantly, "Perhaps the simplest model of the world, is its self".
And I'm from the AI school of Comp Sci. Its useful in its place, but I haven't seen a single killer app of WordNet, let alone Cyc.
Anyone else find "The Buy It Here" Barnes & Noble link ironic, given that it was Amazon that provided the original copy ...
I'm desperately resisting the temptation to place my own AWS id in here...
No. Next Question please!
I only have a problem that the Aliens movie (the Cameron second one), didnt make the list. The list of quotable lines and dark belly laughs from that movie is second to none imho.
Some of the quote here
To paraphrase the Wall Street Journal last week, the settlement between Yahoo/Overture showed that for such a technologically advanced company, their revenue depended on an invention made by another company.
Just so you dont forget it. They have now LICENCESED bidded text advertising concept from Yahoo/Overture (formerly GoTo.com).
That admission cost em 300 million dollars. Remember it next time you praise Google for inventing it.