Actually compresssion-based techniques don't work particularly well, mainly because they are very sensitive to the amount of training data. If you have a lot of non-spam mail, your non-spam compressor will compress better than your spam compressor.
In the long view, all compression is machine learning anyway:-)
Here is some information from Statistics NZ about the NZ equivalent. Two obvious conclusions from this: with 1.5% of the population, the Jedi faith is much stronger in New Zealand; and statisticians have no sense of humour.
-- Thanks for your enquiry. There were 53,715 people who identified themselves as Jedi in response to the question on religious affiliation. This was 1.5 % of the people who responded to the question.
For your information, most people realise the importance of the Census and therefore provide meaningful and accurate answers. The religion question, which has been asked in the Census since 1851, asks people to identify what religion, if any, they affiliate with. They may elect not to answer this question. If people's belief system was genuinely Jedi, they could mark the "other" box and write Jedi in the space provided. These data were captured during the processing phase but have been coded as "Response outside Scope". Jedi is not part of the agreed list of religious affiliations noted in the New Zealand Standard classification. Hence it will not appear in the official results from the Census.
when I can sit down at a desk with maybe just a keyboard, and plug in the sound screen and everything directly into my head.
What I'm waiting for is when I can sit down at a desk without a keyboard or mouse. Who cares about the sound and screen -- my wrists are the moving parts that are getting knackered. The sooner it becomes possible to code with no moving parts, the happier I'l be. There are probably plenty of other people with RSI that are in the same boat.
I had a wee look around the darwin site, and in particular their bug tracking area. I must say it's pretty feeble -- immediately the thought sprung to mind that they should be using bugzilla. Anyone know whey they appear to be growing their own rather than using an already extremely capable system like bugzilla?
The only realistic way to achieve widespread email encryption is to build it into the primary mail clients
Which is one reason why I believe it's extremely important that mozilla mail have support for GPG/PGP for version 1.0. There are patches waiting, but the powers that be don't rate it as important enough to get in before 1.0. If 1.0 comes out without GPG/PGP, it'll be that much harder to get email encryption mainstream. Go vote for bug:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22687
Hypothetically, what if the Paperclip algorithm developed by the researchers actually were pretty smart at learning and predicting the user's behavior but would either eat up too much RAM take up too much time do perform their predictions?
Actually that is fairly close -- the story as I heard it, was that the original version of Bob using the Bayesian statistics was actually extremely accurate with it's suggestions, but the problem was that MS Marketing decided that it didn't pop up enough! Thus the original version got replaced (or tweaked) until it became the annoying feature we all know.
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Because maybe he objects to Microsoft's business practises (which doesn't require any particular knowledge of their products).
Actually compresssion-based techniques don't work particularly well, mainly because they are very sensitive to the amount of training data. If you have a lot of non-spam mail, your non-spam compressor will compress better than your spam compressor.
:-)
In the long view, all compression is machine learning anyway
Here is some information from Statistics NZ about the NZ equivalent. Two obvious conclusions from this: with 1.5% of the population, the Jedi faith is much stronger in New Zealand; and statisticians have no sense of humour.
--
Thanks for your enquiry. There were 53,715 people who identified
themselves as Jedi in response to the question on religious affiliation.
This was 1.5 % of the people who responded to the question.
For your information, most people realise the importance of the Census
and therefore provide meaningful and accurate answers. The religion
question, which has been asked in the Census since 1851, asks people
to identify what religion, if any, they affiliate with. They may elect
not to answer this question. If people's belief system was genuinely
Jedi, they could mark the "other" box and write Jedi in the space
provided. These data were captured during the processing phase but have
been coded as "Response outside Scope". Jedi is not part of the
agreed list of religious affiliations noted in the New Zealand Standard
classification. Hence it will not appear in the official results from
the Census.
What I'm waiting for is when I can sit down at a desk without a keyboard or mouse. Who cares about the sound and screen -- my wrists are the moving parts that are getting knackered. The sooner it becomes possible to code with no moving parts, the happier I'l be. There are probably plenty of other people with RSI that are in the same boat.
But wait first.
That's what I thought, except I reckon it should be after (or for extra geekiness, during) the space visit.
I had a wee look around the darwin site, and in particular their bug tracking area. I must say it's pretty feeble -- immediately the thought sprung to mind that they should be using bugzilla. Anyone know whey they appear to be growing their own rather than using an already extremely capable system like bugzilla?
Which is one reason why I believe it's extremely important that mozilla mail have support for GPG/PGP for version 1.0. There are patches waiting, but the powers that be don't rate it as important enough to get in before 1.0. If 1.0 comes out without GPG/PGP, it'll be that much harder to get email encryption mainstream. Go vote for bug: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22687
Actually that is fairly close -- the story as I heard it, was that the original version of Bob using the Bayesian statistics was actually extremely accurate with it's suggestions, but the problem was that MS Marketing decided that it didn't pop up enough! Thus the original version got replaced (or tweaked) until it became the annoying feature we all know.