I wonder if they're pointing it at the data itself looking for inconsistencies or flaws. In all that data, some fraction of it will be erroneous. Watson would be the best equipped to dig that out.
How else could it possibly work? Randomise decisions to cope with a knowledge base built on conflicting information?
I was just thinking it might be a useful tool even if it's not attempting to diagnose an individual patient at that moment (or session, or thread,...).
Eg., Watson's asked to diagnose a patient. It does so to the best of its ability, and that fires up housekeeping jobs in the background that notice that five prestigious sources said $blah on the subject, while another contradicted or added value the others didn't mention. Which data needs to be followed up? Is the one source under-informed or incorrect, or are the other five?
As for all your other tinhat ravings, I suspect Watson's subject to medical privacy law. It doesn't need to know who the patient is.
I wonder if they're pointing it at the data itself looking for inconsistencies or flaws. In all that data, some fraction of it will be erroneous. Watson would be the best equipped to dig that out.
I just tweaked the universal constant at the start of creation so this comment would spontaneously appear by itself.
Yeah, sorry about that, it's a design flaw that you can still do that. Creation SP2 should fix it, I'm currently working on it. My bad.
Sorry, Sony just released another rootkit that runs on anything imaginable, so your SP will never take effect as the Universe is presently rebooting itself. You just haven't noticed it yet because of all these damned black holes fscking around with time dilation and multiverse stuff...
Every time people want the government to do yet another thing, add yet another program, department, administration, taskforce, panel, bureau, etc...whenever the government is given control of more wealth and power to legislate & regulate...that's the same as saying they want more of this crap...
Obviously the other extreme is when all regulation disappears and the sharks feast on the small fish.
I don't see how that's obvious at all. He was arguing for some one to stop doing things. You have a Constitution, and civil and criminal law; plenty of protection. What more is needed, another save the sanddarter campaign?
Making it mandatory to give inventions away so you might profit is wrong, and removes the incentive for motivation.
To quote Bugs Bunny: "You im-BEC-ile! You ultramaroon!"
Where was anyone suggesting anyone be forced to give anything away? Google would retain copyright on their stuff even if they donated its power to a patent troll fighting org.
Done with you idiot. You're shallow as a pane of glass.
Google may have a lot of money, but giving away inventions is still a bad business model.
So says you. Where's your proof? I've gained immeasurably over the last couple of decades because a few people chose to give away what they had. They have too in return (Hi Linus, RMS, L. Wall,...).
Would it benefit society for all Google employees to lose their jobs and all the money they spend in their respective communities and all the taxes they pay to suddenly cease?
Just go ahead and try to prove that would happen.
I'm a small "L" libertarian. I think everything and everybody would be much better off if none of us needed to care about whatever it is that floats your boat.
IP patents may be an oxymoron, I agree. But what they do with a patent is the salient part. Squash competition, or donate it to some patent freedom pool? I'll await further details.
The reality is that there are three categories of data that are relevant for databases: numbers, text and spatial. Everything else, which falls under the umbrella of "binary", is very unlikely to benefit from a database engine; only the metada can be manipulated...
Ya know, my email client, via its ~/.mailcap assignments, manages to handle blobs fairly well. What's wrong with your tech?
Never blame the technology. Blame the bum who's misusing it. Not saying that's you. But if mutt can do it, why can't Larry's Oracle, et al?
Mine is. Do you really expect his cell-phone provider to distinguish between wholly owned phones and discounted contract tied phones? They're all going to get it if they're on that network.
"Unbeknownst to me, my 5-year-old found N.O.V.A. on my phone and was shooting the guns and weaponry and killing enemies in the N.O.V.A. game..."
You handed [your] child your phone, unattended I'm assuming since it seems the child was killing and slaying long enough to learn the controls to the game.
I'm not a gamer. Only this morning did I look into it to see what was there (I knew they were there but never looked into them before) and whether they could be deleted (nope).
He's got a valid point. Do you read every word of all the licence agreements presented to you?
It's pretty astounding that these companies can whine about data usage of their paying customers, and then not bat an eye and upload who knows how many gigabytes of useless games/apps...
Well, you DL-ing multi-GBs of movies/ringtones/whatever daily doesn't really compare to a (monthly?) "software update."
I do agree with your sentiment, however, considering the amount of data they must be pushing to all their customers on their network every month.
In Canada you make sure to have an unlimited plan from Mobilicity...
Sweeping generalizations are always wrong!:-| From the FAQ: "Mobilicity is currently available in Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver and Edmonton. Please check back on this site later to find out when service in Calgary becomes available."
Yadmonton before Calgary?!?
Sigh. I suppose that's also why the "Savings Calculator" doesn't work here, and why I've never heard of them before.
What a waste of protoplasm. Get another hobby! Many of us come here to learn, and most of us have at least reached puberty. You make yourself look like a twelve year old who breaks car windows in the dead of night because you're bored. How creative!
... terrorists directly impact fewer people than the orders from these CEOs...
A few million people suckered into buying non-brilliant tech, vs. a few thousand people losing their lives? I think the latter would strongly disagree with you. You need a sense of perspective.
For one thing, the former had a choice in the matter.
If you aren't "technically educated", how are you using that phone in the first place? It's a technical device.
What?!? So's a car, but I'll bet my Mom hasn't a clue what a carburetor does, yet she can drive one.
Even so, I would expect someone technically inclined enough to have or want a smartphone to be able to understand the concept of whether they control the software, or whether it's up to the carrier or manufacturer, and why they would want that control.
Methinks you over-estimate our abilities, or over-generalize. I'm "technically inclined" (*nix, C, perl, MySQL,...), but I neither know nor care much to know about cell-phone tech. I hate the damned things. I bought a Nokia 3500 a few years ago after hearing all the neat things an N900 was capable of (N900s weren't available in Canada at the time, but I wanted to support the mfgr.). The 3500 isn't even in the same ballpark as an N900. My Mom might've just walked into a phone store and bought one because she liked the keypad more than others she'd seen, or because she preferred the form factor ("Fits better in my purse") over others.
Ignorance (lacking in fundamental knowledge) knows no bounds [not slamming you; just pointing out we are all "ignorant" in some ways, for whatever reason].
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I wonder if Therac-25 was FDA approved. Weird what we end up with, wrt legal systems, morality, responsibility, ... when mortals are involved.
I was just thinking it might be a useful tool even if it's not attempting to diagnose an individual patient at that moment (or session, or thread, ...).
Eg., Watson's asked to diagnose a patient. It does so to the best of its ability, and that fires up housekeeping jobs in the background that notice that five prestigious sources said $blah on the subject, while another contradicted or added value the others didn't mention. Which data needs to be followed up? Is the one source under-informed or incorrect, or are the other five?
As for all your other tinhat ravings, I suspect Watson's subject to medical privacy law. It doesn't need to know who the patient is.
Put a web interface on Watson, and any cellphone is that now. Non-local storage and processing, but who needs that?
I wonder if they're pointing it at the data itself looking for inconsistencies or flaws. In all that data, some fraction of it will be erroneous. Watson would be the best equipped to dig that out.
"fjR8n" is your idea of a secure pword? Allow me to introduce you to the following chars: "!@#$%^&*()_+-={}[]"
Does Win* allow those in pwords?
Sorry, Sony just released another rootkit that runs on anything imaginable, so your SP will never take effect as the Universe is presently rebooting itself. You just haven't noticed it yet because of all these damned black holes fscking around with time dilation and multiverse stuff ...
I don't see how that's obvious at all. He was arguing for some one to stop doing things. You have a Constitution, and civil and criminal law; plenty of protection. What more is needed, another save the sanddarter campaign?
To quote Bugs Bunny: "You im-BEC-ile! You ultramaroon!"
Where was anyone suggesting anyone be forced to give anything away? Google would retain copyright on their stuff even if they donated its power to a patent troll fighting org.
Done with you idiot. You're shallow as a pane of glass.
So says you. Where's your proof? I've gained immeasurably over the last couple of decades because a few people chose to give away what they had. They have too in return (Hi Linus, RMS, L. Wall, ...).
Just go ahead and try to prove that would happen.
I'm a small "L" libertarian. I think everything and everybody would be much better off if none of us needed to care about whatever it is that floats your boat.
IP patents may be an oxymoron, I agree. But what they do with a patent is the salient part. Squash competition, or donate it to some patent freedom pool? I'll await further details.
You've video and picture files your db can't open up correctly? Why?
Ya know, my email client, via its ~/.mailcap assignments, manages to handle blobs fairly well. What's wrong with your tech?
Never blame the technology. Blame the bum who's misusing it. Not saying that's you. But if mutt can do it, why can't Larry's Oracle, et al?
Or, for the darker side, grep /. for "NSA whisleblower".
I was wondering why that word had to be there as well (Lindsay Lohan? Will Smith maybe?).
Then again, Neil de Grasse-Tyson (sp?), Steven Hawking, the Bad Science guy, and Carolyn Porco (et al) are all "celebrities" in their own right.
Which is why I a long time ago chose to eschew Windows (& MS). I get angry every time I hear about anyone still suffering from it.
Because it's an evil practice that should never have even been considered by anyone in their right mind? Call me Pollyanna.
Man, is that a damning indictment for the US-ian system, or what?
Weren't you guys the engine of democracy a few years ago?
Fix your broken system already! You're pissing up the damn planet!
And that helps you to receive incoming calls, how?
Mine is. Do you really expect his cell-phone provider to distinguish between wholly owned phones and discounted contract tied phones? They're all going to get it if they're on that network.
I'm not a gamer. Only this morning did I look into it to see what was there (I knew they were there but never looked into them before) and whether they could be deleted (nope).
He's got a valid point. Do you read every word of all the licence agreements presented to you?
Well, you DL-ing multi-GBs of movies/ringtones/whatever daily doesn't really compare to a (monthly?) "software update."
I do agree with your sentiment, however, considering the amount of data they must be pushing to all their customers on their network every month.
Sweeping generalizations are always wrong! :-| From the FAQ: "Mobilicity is currently available in Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver and Edmonton. Please check back on this site later to find out when service in Calgary becomes available."
Yadmonton before Calgary?!?
Sigh. I suppose that's also why the "Savings Calculator" doesn't work here, and why I've never heard of them before.
Please. Do.
What a waste of protoplasm. Get another hobby! Many of us come here to learn, and most of us have at least reached puberty. You make yourself look like a twelve year old who breaks car windows in the dead of night because you're bored. How creative!
A few million people suckered into buying non-brilliant tech, vs. a few thousand people losing their lives? I think the latter would strongly disagree with you. You need a sense of perspective.
For one thing, the former had a choice in the matter.
Shouldn't this be modded up "informative"?
Methinks you over-estimate our abilities, or over-generalize. I'm "technically inclined" (*nix, C, perl, MySQL, ...), but I neither know nor care much to know about cell-phone tech. I hate the damned things. I bought a Nokia 3500 a few years ago after hearing all the neat things an N900 was capable of (N900s weren't available in Canada at the time, but I wanted to support the mfgr.). The 3500 isn't even in the same ballpark as an N900. My Mom might've just walked into a phone store and bought one because she liked the keypad more than others she'd seen, or because she preferred the form factor ("Fits better in my purse") over others.
Ignorance (lacking in fundamental knowledge) knows no bounds [not slamming you; just pointing out we are all "ignorant" in some ways, for whatever reason].