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  1. Re:The companies not happy with grads is pure BS. on Bjarne Stroustrup On Educating Software Developers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's how it works. Pfft. The "problem", if you wanna call it that, is there are way more jobs than there are candidates. Especially in the valley.

  2. Re:Any GA implementation.. woo on Evolution of Mona Lisa Via Genetic Programming · · Score: 5, Funny

    Knuth uses pen, paper and toggle switches.. the way it's meant to be done.

  3. Re:Any GA implementation.. woo on Evolution of Mona Lisa Via Genetic Programming · · Score: 2, Informative

    One way to boost complexity is to evolve programs.. or neural networks, if you're that way inclined. One way to speed up the evolutionary process is to use probabilistic modeling to produce offspring.. it's must more efficient than just random mutation. See http://www.opencog.org/wiki/MOSES. Eventually, though, you will reach limits to blind search. At that point you need to complement it with logic. See http://www.opencog.org/wiki/PLN. And to focus your search you really need some kind of attention allocation. See http://www.opencog.org/wiki/Attention_allocation. An integrative approach means you can solve real world applications with modest hardware.

  4. Re:Any GA implementation.. woo on Evolution of Mona Lisa Via Genetic Programming · · Score: 4, Funny

    umm, Knuth didn't write vi, Bill Joy did.

  5. Re:Any GA implementation.. woo on Evolution of Mona Lisa Via Genetic Programming · · Score: 3, Funny

    Be sure to write your own LISP interpreter too.

  6. Any GA implementation.. woo on Evolution of Mona Lisa Via Genetic Programming · · Score: 4, Funny

    Genetic Algorithms are like the AI equivalent of text editors... everybody has spent a weekend writing one at some point.

  7. Re:what about darfur? on Nobel Winner Says Internet Might Have Stopped Hitler · · Score: 1

    I don't think anyone's gonna have a problem with the US acting in assistance to a constabulary action.

    Wow, did you really just say that out loud? Ever heard of Vietnam? Fucking hell.

  8. Re:what about darfur? on Nobel Winner Says Internet Might Have Stopped Hitler · · Score: 1

    I think you almost made the point. The US gets involved with foreign conflicts when it is in it's interest. The whole "let's stop genocide" thing is never framed as being in the US interest.

  9. Re:what about darfur? on Nobel Winner Says Internet Might Have Stopped Hitler · · Score: 1

    So you really want the big nations to police the world? You don't think that, maybe, that will cause wars?

  10. Re:Bullshit. on Nobel Winner Says Internet Might Have Stopped Hitler · · Score: 2, Funny

    Umm.. they did. World history.. it involves reading.

  11. Re:what about darfur? on Nobel Winner Says Internet Might Have Stopped Hitler · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just curious, but why would you want bigger countries coming into smaller countries and telling them who they can and can't kill?

    "I wish America would stop trying to police the world" is not compatible with "I wish America would do something about African genocide."

  12. Re:Bullshit. on Nobel Winner Says Internet Might Have Stopped Hitler · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Americans in the 1940s didn't give a shit about Europeans getting killed. Americans in the 1990s didn't give a shit about Africans getting killed. At least their consistent.

  13. Re:what about darfur? on Nobel Winner Says Internet Might Have Stopped Hitler · · Score: 1

    no-one like furries.

  14. Re:Dear God Yes on Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? · · Score: 1

    Somehow I think the disparity there is more relevant to the discussion than any amount of greed on the part of the artists.

    I said corruption of artists.. which is what has caused this land grab.

  15. Re:Importantly on Saving 28,000 Lives a Year · · Score: 0

    Your "socialist paradise" paid for your education by sending the bill to people who actually earn their keep.

    No actually. They make you pay back every cent, and then some.

    It just guarantees that everyone gets the same opportunities, not just the kids with parents who can afford to send them.

  16. Re:Importantly on Saving 28,000 Lives a Year · · Score: 0

    Hehe, you don't know shit about me dude. I only went to university because I live in a socialist paradise (Australia). In the USA I'd be mopping floors. The land of opportunity is anything but.

  17. Re:Importantly on Saving 28,000 Lives a Year · · Score: 0

    Now that you're on the 60k or whatever, I recommend saving. :)

    BTW, why are you trolling? Did someone hi-jack your account or something?

    It's either this, or go back to playing Eve Online. I'm not that bored yet.

  18. Re:Importantly on Saving 28,000 Lives a Year · · Score: -1, Troll

    hehehe.. So did mommy and daddy cut off your allowance for a week during college and now you think you know what it's like to come from the streets?

  19. Re:Dear God Yes on Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? · · Score: 1

    Heh, that's like saying despotism is tenable and just. If we just find the right guy to make king then everything will be fine! Power corrupts. Copyright would be fine if artists weren't so imminently corruptable.

     

  20. Importantly on Saving 28,000 Lives a Year · · Score: -1, Troll

    These are American lives, and people with good health insurance to boot. There's no interest in saving the lives of poor people.

  21. Re:wow-- I can't believe I found another fan on Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? · · Score: 1

    umm.. actually.. yeah, I do.

  22. Re:Pain on Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? · · Score: 1

    Assuming that skin cancer rates have increased (and not just the reported number of cases, or the public awareness), maybe it has something to do with people going out in the sun more. But, more likely, it's a combination of all these things that causes you to believe that skin cancer has "only increased". In short, you're an idiot.

  23. Re:Reconsideration sounds prudent.. on Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? · · Score: 1

    No.. I asked a should question and got an is reply. Therefore either the question was misunderstood or the answer was deliberately incoherent.

  24. Re:Say you legalize everything on Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? · · Score: 1

    Potato chips create more health care costs than any drug ever has.

    I believe cheese is the typical culprit in that tale.

  25. Re:Reconsideration sounds prudent.. on Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's the most retarded non-answer I've ever heard.

    If you don't have an opinion, maybe you should just shut up.