If the knowledge-based system is based on tagging, you can represent a group of tags as a point in a multidimensional tag space. Then you present lots of examples and let it figure out which subspace in that larger tag vector space is actually populated with nodes, so it can represent each as a vector small enough to feed to your classification algorithm (which can be an ANN) along with correct classification outputs. (A vector NOT in that subspace might represent a collection of tags that never occur together, like orgy and applepie.) Then for a given tag vector input you apply your transform to extract entropy and then let the classifier produce an output from the result.
Once the whisker grows long enough to create a short between two adjacent contacts, even if the whisker immediately melts the transient disruption can affect logic circuits. If the voltage between the contacts is high enough the whisker can immediately vaporize and carry hundreds of amps of current.
Tin whiskers are nothing less than a gift from God. It is merely left up to us to discover the nature of His gift to us, and to take advantage of it.
The question we should be asking ourselves is, what potential uses might these tin whiskers have? Are they good for anything? Can we sell them in some sort of product and make money? For example, can bald guys plate their heads with tin and start regrowing hair?
Because, frankly, the stated aims of environmentalists[sic] - improving the forests, saving the fuzzy animals, and so on, is actually served by the increasing CO2 in the atmosphere, as plants grow better in richer CO2 atmospheres and that leads to a stronger biosphere all round. By and large, there's very few better things we could have done with our intelligence for the continuance of life on Earth than releasing all of the trapped CO2 back into the atmosphere so that it can be used again.
CO2 is an acidic gas. It lowers the pH of everything. It kills organisms at the base of the food chain in oceans. It isn't all flowers and greenery and happiness.
I wonder if this has anything to do with Bush running up trillions in debt and making everyone hate us?
Well look at it this way.
The government is the only entity that can effectively control the amount of currency in circulation. It is the only entity that can create and destroy money by fiat; it can print currency, it can create funds to lend to central banks, and it can destroy the money it created.
The government takes money from you every year in April. Someone has to repair roads, pick up garbage, provide for the common defense etc. Asphalt, garbage trucks, and missiles cost money. The government prints this money and spends it. It's all OK because it picks your pocket, pulls out dollars, and destroys them to account for it. And you shouldn't complain because you get to drive on nice roads with no garbage or foreigners.
What if they didn't take your money? That's what George W. Bush did. He figured you'd like him more if we skipped the part where the money comes out of your pocket and gets burned up in order to close the books on the services you receive from the government. So the money escaped your pocket (or at least your $300 consolation prize did), and suddenly all this money that had been spent paving the roads and collecting garbage was suddenly appearing at Wal*Mart for its second life, and it got spent a second time to buy more garbage, predominantly imported crap from overseas. Basically the government printed crap dollars, we spent them on imports, giving sellers overseas dollars that they promptly exchange for their own currencies. The currency exchange markets are quickly overwhelmed by dollars. These quickly end up parked in immense T-Bills held by foreign banks, who would like to unload them but cannot risk damaging their value by flooding the dollar markets with their own holdings. But the value of the dollar is deteriorating anyway, much to everyone's dismay- because dollars are the most widely held currency in the world. And we owe them to everybody. You see how awkward this is.
Let's say now you're sitting on a loading dock with 500 Nintendos on pallets. Do you want to turn them into dollars? Heh heh heh heh heh.
But the invisible hand has a way to correct everything. Maybe someday we can make our own Nintendos.
A Rubik's cube is one of 12 possible (similar looking) cubes you can make if you start with all the pieces taken apart. The set of all possible cube configurations is separated into 12 orbits and a Rubik's cube can only reach configurations within the orbit that it's already in when it's solved. I wouldn't call the other 11 cubes Rubik's cubes. You start by scrambling a solved cube like a normal person, not assembling an unsolved cube from parts to see if you're going to "win" or "lose" with the cube you made. It's not like Solitaire at all.
Every time I see a story with a flag on it, I open the thread and find three or four offtopic posts complaining about the fact that the story even exists because it isn't "news for nerds". I've read the same post 500 times by now.
Obama and McCain want to put potsmokers in prison.
Obama has indicated a willingness to halt the DEA raids on dispensaries in California. He and Bob Barr (Libertarian) favor letting states handle the issue. Obama still wants the FDA involved somewhere; I'm not sure about Barr. McCain has waffled but apparently endorses the current Bush Administration policy. link
That means they watched in 'real time' something that happened about 100 million years ago?
Yeah, exactly. Wake me up when a supernova explodes down the street.
Actually there are inertial frames in which this supernova practically just exploded, e.g. that of the neutrinos which just arrived here from the supernova traveling at almost the speed of light. They would see their flight path undergo Lorentz contraction; as the velocity approaches c the distance shrinks to zero.
45 million years struck me as a little too soon for the U.S. to go supernova, but after watching the U.S. for just the past few years, I think maybe we could pull off a regular nova or at least a stellar flare.
In computer science, a low-level programming language is a language that provides little or no abstraction from a computer's microprocessor.
That clearly doesn't describe Java.
Sure it does- "little or no abstraction from your computer's microprocessor" is what doesn't describe Java. It compiles directly to bytecode for a goofy virtualized processor which is an abstraction around your actual CPU and its instruction set and register set. Bytecode is higher level than machine code because it leaves a lot of work to be done on the side like parsing class files, resolving constants, navigating inheritance trees, etc. Instructions that manipulate the stack or the virtual storage registers are trivially mapped to lower levels, but instructions like invokevirtual require native library routines for correct handling of Java objects in OO hierarchies. So there is a little abstraction. Although in theory a processor could be built to execute Java bytecode directly if there was a demand for such a thing in a market saturated with emulators.
I would totally be willing to have a site hosted in a data center that's under the water table and depends on a reliable source of power to keep its pumps going. It sounds like nothing could go wrong. I'll just throw in a few extra servers for failover if anything happens.
I never installed IE7, so I've already avoided one flaming hoop right there already. Since I still have IE6, if I were to update to SP3 I wouldn't have to uninstall IE7 to get to XP SP3 + IE6 nirvana, so I avoid a second flaming hoop. It's more like a straightforward descent into hell with no annoying hoops in the way.
We actually did not exist two seconds ago. Everything you believe in, even the continuity of your life, is a morality play created by God every two seconds.
We don't exist yet. All this isn't really happening. Three minutes from now we will spring into existence with false memories of not only our entire lives from birth, but also of the next three minutes.
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I tagged this story with "despair". It's a good tag.
If the knowledge-based system is based on tagging, you can represent a group of tags as a point in a multidimensional tag space. Then you present lots of examples and let it figure out which subspace in that larger tag vector space is actually populated with nodes, so it can represent each as a vector small enough to feed to your classification algorithm (which can be an ANN) along with correct classification outputs. (A vector NOT in that subspace might represent a collection of tags that never occur together, like orgy and applepie.) Then for a given tag vector input you apply your transform to extract entropy and then let the classifier produce an output from the result.
Not very "well-regulated" though.
Once the whisker grows long enough to create a short between two adjacent contacts, even if the whisker immediately melts the transient disruption can affect logic circuits. If the voltage between the contacts is high enough the whisker can immediately vaporize and carry hundreds of amps of current.
Tin whiskers are nothing less than a gift from God. It is merely left up to us to discover the nature of His gift to us, and to take advantage of it.
The question we should be asking ourselves is, what potential uses might these tin whiskers have? Are they good for anything? Can we sell them in some sort of product and make money? For example, can bald guys plate their heads with tin and start regrowing hair?
Who cares what he reveals? Everyone knows where BODY is- right below HEAD but before the closing HTML.
I wonder if this has anything to do with Bush running up trillions in debt and making everyone hate us?
Well look at it this way.
The government is the only entity that can effectively control the amount of currency in circulation. It is the only entity that can create and destroy money by fiat; it can print currency, it can create funds to lend to central banks, and it can destroy the money it created.
The government takes money from you every year in April. Someone has to repair roads, pick up garbage, provide for the common defense etc. Asphalt, garbage trucks, and missiles cost money. The government prints this money and spends it. It's all OK because it picks your pocket, pulls out dollars, and destroys them to account for it. And you shouldn't complain because you get to drive on nice roads with no garbage or foreigners.
What if they didn't take your money? That's what George W. Bush did. He figured you'd like him more if we skipped the part where the money comes out of your pocket and gets burned up in order to close the books on the services you receive from the government. So the money escaped your pocket (or at least your $300 consolation prize did), and suddenly all this money that had been spent paving the roads and collecting garbage was suddenly appearing at Wal*Mart for its second life, and it got spent a second time to buy more garbage, predominantly imported crap from overseas. Basically the government printed crap dollars, we spent them on imports, giving sellers overseas dollars that they promptly exchange for their own currencies. The currency exchange markets are quickly overwhelmed by dollars. These quickly end up parked in immense T-Bills held by foreign banks, who would like to unload them but cannot risk damaging their value by flooding the dollar markets with their own holdings. But the value of the dollar is deteriorating anyway, much to everyone's dismay- because dollars are the most widely held currency in the world. And we owe them to everybody. You see how awkward this is.
Let's say now you're sitting on a loading dock with 500 Nintendos on pallets. Do you want to turn them into dollars? Heh heh heh heh heh.
But the invisible hand has a way to correct everything. Maybe someday we can make our own Nintendos.
A Rubik's cube is one of 12 possible (similar looking) cubes you can make if you start with all the pieces taken apart. The set of all possible cube configurations is separated into 12 orbits and a Rubik's cube can only reach configurations within the orbit that it's already in when it's solved. I wouldn't call the other 11 cubes Rubik's cubes. You start by scrambling a solved cube like a normal person, not assembling an unsolved cube from parts to see if you're going to "win" or "lose" with the cube you made. It's not like Solitaire at all.
Every time I see a story with a flag on it, I open the thread and find three or four offtopic posts complaining about the fact that the story even exists because it isn't "news for nerds". I've read the same post 500 times by now.
Now I know the truth- it was the Chinese cyber-militia!
Obama and McCain want to put potsmokers in prison.
Obama has indicated a willingness to halt the DEA raids on dispensaries in California. He and Bob Barr (Libertarian) favor letting states handle the issue. Obama still wants the FDA involved somewhere; I'm not sure about Barr. McCain has waffled but apparently endorses the current Bush Administration policy. link
The bubblesort is working sir. It is working... not "apparently", it is working.
And yes, I am a subscriber to LifeLock.
Oh yeah? What's your Social Security number then?
That means they watched in 'real time' something that happened about 100 million years ago?
Yeah, exactly. Wake me up when a supernova explodes down the street.
Actually there are inertial frames in which this supernova practically just exploded, e.g. that of the neutrinos which just arrived here from the supernova traveling at almost the speed of light. They would see their flight path undergo Lorentz contraction; as the velocity approaches c the distance shrinks to zero.
45 million years struck me as a little too soon for the U.S. to go supernova, but after watching the U.S. for just the past few years, I think maybe we could pull off a regular nova or at least a stellar flare.
Yeah... Does anyone have a link to the profane image the guy got punished for?
Surely it must be in Google's index somewhere.
Make no mistake,this BS will be just the start,and of course the answer wil be---drum roll---
A pound of flesh.
I asked it "who won the election in 2004?" and it understood the question, in a way:
The current mayor is Jardir Silva Vidal who won the election in 2004 against Reino Martins de Oliveira
Sure it does- "little or no abstraction from your computer's microprocessor" is what doesn't describe Java. It compiles directly to bytecode for a goofy virtualized processor which is an abstraction around your actual CPU and its instruction set and register set. Bytecode is higher level than machine code because it leaves a lot of work to be done on the side like parsing class files, resolving constants, navigating inheritance trees, etc. Instructions that manipulate the stack or the virtual storage registers are trivially mapped to lower levels, but instructions like invokevirtual require native library routines for correct handling of Java objects in OO hierarchies. So there is a little abstraction. Although in theory a processor could be built to execute Java bytecode directly if there was a demand for such a thing in a market saturated with emulators.
No, this story proves that BSD is dying because there was a bug in it and no complaints were heard for 25 years.
People who stick with broken browsers, like IE6, should be shot. It's people like you that make web development more of a pain than it needs to be. :P
You mean people who test their work on IE6?
I would totally be willing to have a site hosted in a data center that's under the water table and depends on a reliable source of power to keep its pumps going. It sounds like nothing could go wrong. I'll just throw in a few extra servers for failover if anything happens.
Screw you, environmentalists!
I never installed IE7, so I've already avoided one flaming hoop right there already. Since I still have IE6, if I were to update to SP3 I wouldn't have to uninstall IE7 to get to XP SP3 + IE6 nirvana, so I avoid a second flaming hoop. It's more like a straightforward descent into hell with no annoying hoops in the way.
We actually did not exist two seconds ago. Everything you believe in, even the continuity of your life, is a morality play created by God every two seconds.
We don't exist yet. All this isn't really happening. Three minutes from now we will spring into existence with false memories of not only our entire lives from birth, but also of the next three minutes.