They miss the real point: That a computer could do a level of natural language processing that was impossible before.
On the contrary, I fully agree that this is the real point.
You can label this achievement as impressive in many different valid ways. Just don't call it Jeopardy. That is the one characterization that is objectively false.
I disagree. You miss the content for the format. He was playing Jeopardy because the rules were such, not because of a strategy or something that you may think is part of the game or what makes the game enjoyable is present. If I wanted to play Jeopardy, had hiper-fast hands and do speed reading, would you say I'm being unfair and that I don't play on a Jeopardy-approved performance level? A good indicator is that the other players didn't see a non-Jeopardy player, they see him as a real Jeopardy opponent. Why would it be that way, if he wasn't playing Jeopardy but something else or with different rules?
You complain that Watson can press the button faster, but the other participants can press the button without having the answer, just the intuition that in the few milliseconds (even seconds!) left they will remember it, or perhaps just as a gamble. That's a HUGE advantage over Watson, who won't press if he's too unsure, or before he even begins to feel unsure. Therefore, they are even.
Presumably Watson is receiving a direct digital feed of the tournament questions (oops, answers, I forgot this is Jeopardy)
You are whining because you don't know exactly how he received the questions, so he MUST have received and processed them before the other players? You surely see the problem in your own proposition.
I would have modded you -1, Overrated. But I don't have points, so a reply would be appropriate.
Ha! I know what you mean. I used to be quite frank in my job interviews, and although it usually caused a positive reaction, sometimes it backfired on me. I once told a developer in an interview that his proposed technical solution was just half-way to completely solve all of his problems and I offered an alternative solution. Obviously, I didn't get the job. Whatever, I got a much better one, in the interview, once again, I was frank (without being as aggressive:P ), and instead of rotting in a cubicle I get to solve complex problems. Good riddance!
On the other hand, if your boss is dumping toxic chemicals into the water supply, is torturing people, or lying about weapons of mass destruction in order to start a war, it's definitely worth it to be a whistleblower.
Becoming associated with whistleblowing about torture and WMD lying? As Lenny Kravitz would say, "I wonder if I'll ever see you again".;)
Just kidding. I'm not diminishing the value of revealing important information, just noting the need for anonymity to avoid turning the whistleblower into a martyr.
I've seen that contract thing being used on a project. It was gruesome, and needless most of the time. I had to remove all the contract enforcements just to understand the underlying code. I guess I'm allowed to be a skeptic on this technique.
And "womens history" is a rather narrow field, it ignores half of humanity at a stroke (apart from casting them as abusers, rapists and general ogres) so the level of ignorance is not surprising.
Interesting, even though is a narrow field, they still didn't know about this.
Yeah, I thought he could meant the mobile version, but since Last.fm on my desktop only allows 30 useless seconds of music (at least on my country), he may have been talking about Last.fm in general. I would rather give redundant information than stay silent.:)
If they are over 9000 (*sigh*) years old, and in a desert, chances are whatever they could steal won't have much value, even on the black market. A crude knife that seems made on your backyard won't land you any money unless you could show that's from an archaeological site, and we aren't dealing with honorable people here.
Make the prices more reasonable, drop the "no cell phones" thing, and have some way for people to call the prisoners (or at least tell them to call home beyond sending them a letter) and the demand for cell phones will drop.
Dropping the restriction on cellular phones is not the answer, because they can be (and are) used for illegal activities and that should simply not be permitted while in prison.
Mod parent up. I know a lot of cases in which kidnappings and other criminal acts were orchestrated by imprisoned gang leaders.
I used the comment feature on the RSS a lot. Now, the RSS being so dry, I don't do it so much. Also, the RSS comment's color is a clear grey... over a white background, and it's always incomplete. It annoys me so much I don't even RTFA.
I wonder if the "unavailability of data" and "returning empty-handed" are related to an exaggeration of the current level of threat, rather than varying ISP policies. The article suggests that a lead may be useless after the logs have expired, so why are they taking so much time to find and pursue such leads, if they are so many to mandate full logging from everyone? The article doesn't say...
Hey! North Korea has achieved cold fusion! Slashdot reported it here. A couple of italians also achieved cold fusion a few days ago. Why are you so skeptic?
Btw, in accordance to Poe's law, here's your smiley::P
I saw code like this when I worked on an implementation of Levenberg Marquardt that I had to migrate, on a neural network toolkit, and on an Ant Colony Optimization program I ended up optimizing. It's full of needless interfaces and classes, and it's too objectified to be understandable. Usually, I throw everything away and start from scratch.
By the way, I'll give credit where credit is due: if the algorithm is what it's stated, then let congratulations be given to them. Until then, all I see is a yucky mess.
when was the last time an animal committed genocide?
Genocide, as in killing in a systematic way because of gender, religion, or ancestry/race, for whatever reason? Animals don't have ideologies to guide them, but they sure have their procedures implemented species-wide.
For example, it's common for female spiders and insects to kill their mates after (even during) copulation. Male lions kill other males' offspring when they ascend to power. Ants also exterminate foreign ant colonies merely because they are near (they even enslave other species! Human beings didn't invent anything:( ).
President Traian Basescu, who is highly superstitious, and his aides already invoke the "violent flame" by wearing purple on Thursdays in an attempt to ward off evil spirits.
Still not as evil.as corporations and many, many, many humans
I hate it when people say that animals are not as *evil* as humans. But let's say that we forego the whole "evil is something defined in human terms" thing. They never heard of chimpanzees, who can run for miles just to murder an invading pack (plenty of time to think about it). Or dolphins, which, as TheL0ser said, kill for pleasure. Cats are also known to kill birds and rats, and they don't do it to eat them.
A handful of professional complainers complain, and that translates to "most people would find [the plate] to be repulsive".
Hint to you guys: if you read this plate, and your brain says "have oral sex with kids, have oral sex with kids, have oral sex with kids!", then it's not the plate that's the problem.
I know this one! It's my mother's fault, right! Freud told me so.
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They miss the real point: That a computer could do a level of natural language processing that was impossible before.
On the contrary, I fully agree that this is the real point.
You can label this achievement as impressive in many different valid ways. Just don't call it Jeopardy. That is the one characterization that is objectively false.
I disagree. You miss the content for the format. He was playing Jeopardy because the rules were such, not because of a strategy or something that you may think is part of the game or what makes the game enjoyable is present. If I wanted to play Jeopardy, had hiper-fast hands and do speed reading, would you say I'm being unfair and that I don't play on a Jeopardy-approved performance level? A good indicator is that the other players didn't see a non-Jeopardy player, they see him as a real Jeopardy opponent. Why would it be that way, if he wasn't playing Jeopardy but something else or with different rules?
You complain that Watson can press the button faster, but the other participants can press the button without having the answer, just the intuition that in the few milliseconds (even seconds!) left they will remember it, or perhaps just as a gamble. That's a HUGE advantage over Watson, who won't press if he's too unsure, or before he even begins to feel unsure. Therefore, they are even.
Presumably Watson is receiving a direct digital feed of the tournament questions (oops, answers, I forgot this is Jeopardy)
You are whining because you don't know exactly how he received the questions, so he MUST have received and processed them before the other players? You surely see the problem in your own proposition.
I would have modded you -1, Overrated. But I don't have points, so a reply would be appropriate.
Ha! I know what you mean. I used to be quite frank in my job interviews, and although it usually caused a positive reaction, sometimes it backfired on me. I once told a developer in an interview that his proposed technical solution was just half-way to completely solve all of his problems and I offered an alternative solution. Obviously, I didn't get the job. Whatever, I got a much better one, in the interview, once again, I was frank (without being as aggressive :P ), and instead of rotting in a cubicle I get to solve complex problems. Good riddance!
On the other hand, if your boss is dumping toxic chemicals into the water supply, is torturing people, or lying about weapons of mass destruction in order to start a war, it's definitely worth it to be a whistleblower.
Becoming associated with whistleblowing about torture and WMD lying? As Lenny Kravitz would say, "I wonder if I'll ever see you again". ;)
Just kidding. I'm not diminishing the value of revealing important information, just noting the need for anonymity to avoid turning the whistleblower into a martyr.
I've seen that contract thing being used on a project. It was gruesome, and needless most of the time. I had to remove all the contract enforcements just to understand the underlying code. I guess I'm allowed to be a skeptic on this technique.
tl;dr Contracts suck.
The fact that the person who texted was seated on the back was inscrutable to them.
And "womens history" is a rather narrow field, it ignores half of humanity at a stroke (apart from casting them as abusers, rapists and general ogres) so the level of ignorance is not surprising.
Interesting, even though is a narrow field, they still didn't know about this.
By the way, I agree with the rest of your points.
Yeah, I thought he could meant the mobile version, but since Last.fm on my desktop only allows 30 useless seconds of music (at least on my country), he may have been talking about Last.fm in general. I would rather give redundant information than stay silent. :)
Last.FM died for me when Canadians needed to start paying while Americans didn't.
That was also the case for europeans. Are there any alterantives to this for us non-us folks?
Grooveshark kicks *ss. The radio may not be so great, but I like it a lot.
If they are over 9000 (*sigh*) years old, and in a desert, chances are whatever they could steal won't have much value, even on the black market. A crude knife that seems made on your backyard won't land you any money unless you could show that's from an archaeological site, and we aren't dealing with honorable people here.
Make the prices more reasonable, drop the "no cell phones" thing, and have some way for people to call the prisoners (or at least tell them to call home beyond sending them a letter) and the demand for cell phones will drop.
Dropping the restriction on cellular phones is not the answer, because they can be (and are) used for illegal activities and that should simply not be permitted while in prison.
Mod parent up. I know a lot of cases in which kidnappings and other criminal acts were orchestrated by imprisoned gang leaders.
I was thinking more like the Bubble Boy... Why don't they give him a giant hamster ball?!
They gave it to Obama, before he even did anything, who has gone on to escalate wars, both military and economic.
They also gave it to Henry Kissinger. Seriously, we are in 2011 and they are still finding dirt about him.
I used the comment feature on the RSS a lot. Now, the RSS being so dry, I don't do it so much. Also, the RSS comment's color is a clear grey... over a white background, and it's always incomplete. It annoys me so much I don't even RTFA.
I liked the previous RSS feed. Perhaps I'm being change-averse, but I think it was more readable before.
I agree.
I'm think it's more likely that violent people are more inclined to play violent games, rather than violent games making peaceful people violent.
I wonder if the "unavailability of data" and "returning empty-handed" are related to an exaggeration of the current level of threat, rather than varying ISP policies. The article suggests that a lead may be useless after the logs have expired, so why are they taking so much time to find and pursue such leads, if they are so many to mandate full logging from everyone? The article doesn't say...
Hey! North Korea has achieved cold fusion! Slashdot reported it here. A couple of italians also achieved cold fusion a few days ago. Why are you so skeptic?
Btw, in accordance to Poe's law, here's your smiley: :P
Yeah, I agree.
It was never our intention to stop development on the mod or discourage the community from expressing their creativity through the StarCraft II editor
If they don't think sending a C&D before asking for something as simple as a name change is not discouraging, then they are sociopaths.
I saw code like this when I worked on an implementation of Levenberg Marquardt that I had to migrate, on a neural network toolkit, and on an Ant Colony Optimization program I ended up optimizing. It's full of needless interfaces and classes, and it's too objectified to be understandable. Usually, I throw everything away and start from scratch.
By the way, I'll give credit where credit is due: if the algorithm is what it's stated, then let congratulations be given to them. Until then, all I see is a yucky mess.
Never send a comp-sci to do an engineer's work.
when was the last time an animal committed genocide?
Genocide, as in killing in a systematic way because of gender, religion, or ancestry/race, for whatever reason? Animals don't have ideologies to guide them, but they sure have their procedures implemented species-wide.
For example, it's common for female spiders and insects to kill their mates after (even during) copulation. Male lions kill other males' offspring when they ascend to power. Ants also exterminate foreign ant colonies merely because they are near (they even enslave other species! Human beings didn't invent anything :( ).
FTA:
President Traian Basescu, who is highly superstitious, and his aides already invoke the "violent flame" by wearing purple on Thursdays in an attempt to ward off evil spirits.
Inevitable reference to xkcd here.
Still not as evil.as corporations and many, many, many humans
I hate it when people say that animals are not as *evil* as humans. But let's say that we forego the whole "evil is something defined in human terms" thing. They never heard of chimpanzees, who can run for miles just to murder an invading pack (plenty of time to think about it). Or dolphins, which, as TheL0ser said, kill for pleasure. Cats are also known to kill birds and rats, and they don't do it to eat them.
A handful of professional complainers complain, and that translates to "most people would find [the plate] to be repulsive".
Hint to you guys: if you read this plate, and your brain says "have oral sex with kids, have oral sex with kids, have oral sex with kids!", then it's not the plate that's the problem.
I know this one! It's my mother's fault, right! Freud told me so.
I'll have to post without RTFA (what a shame). Gattaca is cool, but come on... instant sequencing of genomes?
Why buy an industry that's clearly going the way of the dodo?