He's not hiding behind anything. Things were setup to avoid "mob rule", "tyranny of the majority"; to get the little states to agree to a union with larger states. And, yes, if we decide to change it, we need to "take it up with the Founding Fathers", as they argued that shit out 200 years ago. We'd best be very careful changing something that has brought us to superpower status.
So many articles have posting talking about "why is this on/.?" Then we get something like this nano-article, and...12 comments, 2/3's of them a waste of a parsing. I quote this guy in the Bigfoot posting:
"
Slashdot
By vadim_t 2016-Oct-6 13:01 Score: 5, Insightful Thread
I remember back when it was "Slashdot: News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters"
Now it seems it's ever trending towards "Slashdot: News for Morons, Inane Bullshit"
"
So, as a business, what is/. to do? When is the last time somebody referred to a site being slashdotted? How would one turn it around? Clickbait works, unfortunately. See the bigfoot article. Lots of postings, lots of bitching, lots of political crap; a few good zingers but nothing worth posting about. And/. made money off of that article.
This article? 12 postings? Not so much. In fact they probably lost money on this one.
The UN says they will launch a spacecraft in LEO in 2021. Musk says he will be launching 1,000 spacecrafts to Mars to colonize the planet. Total fucking lunacy. Is everyone disconnected from reality here?
Well, sure. Modern breweries are amazing. Why, if someone were to blindfold you and take you into one, when the blindfold was removed you might think that you are in a starship.
Old BB user here. The lack of physical kybd was my biggest worry with the new stuff. Once I got used to it, which didn't take too long, the soft kybd worked pretty well. I can type faster.
Let's say I go to type the word "project". I start pr, and if I use "project" a lot, over the "o" will be "project", which I just swipe up and there it is. I'm quick, so often I'll have already typed the "o". In that case, "project" floats over the "j", ready for me to swipe up. And, if "protect" is a common word of mine, I'll also see "protect" floating over the "t", also. Fat-fingering *maybe* happens a little more often, but I'm not sure.
This does mean, though, that one has to look at the keyboard, so ymmv. Generally, I find the soft kybd responds well to my thumbs, and it didn't take very long to get used to it. Maybe after a month(?) I was typing faster than on a phys kybd.
...Humans have understood how to interpret human language, it is high time we taught our machines to do the same.
I agree. This language is already written. COmmon Business Oriented Language, by the grace of Admiral Grace
I was waiting for someone to bring up this UTTER FALLACY.
COBOL is chatty/wordy, and resembles english, but it is not at all structured like english. It has very precise structural rules. You tell it "ADD X TO Y GIVING ANS", but you can't (productively) tell it "ANS IS X ADDED TO Y" or "ADD X AND Y TOGETHER TO GIVE ANS".
I'm am pleased to to be able to bring joy to your life. Yes, it was the first (and last?) attempt. We pro's have gone far beyond, and prefer to write code that looks like line noise.
Yes, it is clear. In a nutshell, you gave the top-level instruction to the AI comp. To bad today's comps have limited understanding. Unless you have a Watson, of course. We're getting there.
You do have a point, even if the computer didn't get it perfect everytime it would be nice to get some things done as easily as you could asking a human. Use google to search for the first 100 gas stations in our city, put the names and addresses in a spreadsheet. Thanks.
I agree. What Siri and others can do is still limited. I've often wanted the ability to do this.
"Basically, you want the computer to know *precisely* what you mean no matter how *imprecise* your instructions are, and this is very likely Never Ever Gonna Happen."
I learned that Samurais were basically taught to transition the unsheathing of their swords directly into a slashing attack. For some reason, they saw that as honorable.
I found that it helped me understand Pearl Harbor from the JP view.
YMBNH. The jokes are the comments. There are the fools that can't get politics out of their heads, trolls trolling trolls, and someone managed to godwin one of the threads.
Slashdot Mirror
Old meme -1. Actually funny +5.
Do you fail at reading comprehension?
He's not hiding behind anything. Things were setup to avoid "mob rule", "tyranny of the majority"; to get the little states to agree to a union with larger states. And, yes, if we decide to change it, we need to "take it up with the Founding Fathers", as they argued that shit out 200 years ago. We'd best be very careful changing something that has brought us to superpower status.
...or Bigfoot.
/.?" Then we get something like this nano-article, and...12 comments, 2/3's of them a waste of a parsing. I quote this guy in the Bigfoot posting:
/. to do? When is the last time somebody referred to a site being slashdotted? How would one turn it around? Clickbait works, unfortunately. See the bigfoot article. Lots of postings, lots of bitching, lots of political crap; a few good zingers but nothing worth posting about. And /. made money off of that article.
So many articles have posting talking about "why is this on
" Slashdot By vadim_t 2016-Oct-6 13:01 Score: 5, Insightful Thread I remember back when it was "Slashdot: News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters" Now it seems it's ever trending towards "Slashdot: News for Morons, Inane Bullshit" "
So, as a business, what is
This article? 12 postings? Not so much. In fact they probably lost money on this one.
"The meek shall inherit the Earth. The rest of us will go to the stars."
This election has everyone nervous.
And willing to leave the planet.
Well, sure. Modern breweries are amazing. Why, if someone were to blindfold you and take you into one, when the blindfold was removed you might think that you are in a starship.
No, no it's not. Invalid analogy. The OP's works better.
Old BB user here. The lack of physical kybd was my biggest worry with the new stuff. Once I got used to it, which didn't take too long, the soft kybd worked pretty well. I can type faster.
Let's say I go to type the word "project". I start pr, and if I use "project" a lot, over the "o" will be "project", which I just swipe up and there it is. I'm quick, so often I'll have already typed the "o". In that case, "project" floats over the "j", ready for me to swipe up. And, if "protect" is a common word of mine, I'll also see "protect" floating over the "t", also. Fat-fingering *maybe* happens a little more often, but I'm not sure.
This does mean, though, that one has to look at the keyboard, so ymmv. Generally, I find the soft kybd responds well to my thumbs, and it didn't take very long to get used to it. Maybe after a month(?) I was typing faster than on a phys kybd.
I was waiting for someone to bring up this UTTER FALLACY.
COBOL is chatty/wordy, and resembles english, but it is not at all structured like english. It has very precise structural rules. You tell it "ADD X TO Y GIVING ANS", but you can't (productively) tell it "ANS IS X ADDED TO Y" or "ADD X AND Y TOGETHER TO GIVE ANS".
I'm am pleased to to be able to bring joy to your life. Yes, it was the first (and last?) attempt. We pro's have gone far beyond, and prefer to write code that looks like line noise.
Nowadays, "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code" is only used by Neo Object Oriented Boolean Synthesis.
I'll call your tub of Passion Lube and raise you a Banana Slicer... https://www.amazon.com/Hutzler...
Warning: Do not attempt to use both products simultaneously.
Yes, it is clear. In a nutshell, you gave the top-level instruction to the AI comp. To bad today's comps have limited understanding. Unless you have a Watson, of course. We're getting there.
You do have a point, even if the computer didn't get it perfect everytime it would be nice to get some things done as easily as you could asking a human. Use google to search for the first 100 gas stations in our city, put the names and addresses in a spreadsheet. Thanks.
I agree. What Siri and others can do is still limited. I've often wanted the ability to do this.
"Basically, you want the computer to know *precisely* what you mean no matter how *imprecise* your instructions are, and this is very likely Never Ever Gonna Happen."
Yah. Oft stated "Do what I mean, not what I say".
...Humans have understood how to interpret human language, it is high time we taught our machines to do the same.
I agree. This language is already written. COmmon Business Oriented Language, by the grace of Admiral Grace
Thank you. You saved me a few cycles and came up with something better to boot.
No, this is the best xkcd ever...
https://xkcd.com/339/
I learned that Samurais were basically taught to transition the unsheathing of their swords directly into a slashing attack. For some reason, they saw that as honorable.
I found that it helped me understand Pearl Harbor from the JP view.
--
"Know your enemy" - Homer
YMBNH. The jokes are the comments. There are the fools that can't get politics out of their heads, trolls trolling trolls, and someone managed to godwin one of the threads.
^ guy is trolling. Mark Twain said it.
Is that the third speaker hole from the right while looking looking at it upside down or rightside up?
Do you even know what time it is?
I've been grammared! and to think I actually incorrected it because I started to write "there" and thought better of it.
Ok, so you want to play that way, eh? Try to get *this* out of your head...
"It's a small world after all..."