I am really getting tired of how reactionary Slashdot has gotten over the last couple of years.
90% of new products / ideas discussed are routinely dismissed, with the viewpoint that somewhere back in 1995 things peaked.
Have you actually used a collaborative document editor like Quip for more than 2 minutes, and given yourself time to actually use it?
I have. Initially I wasn't quite sure what the big use case was, but I'm using it a lot now for:
1) Collaborating on core flow for documents before prettifying elsewhere if needed. Ie I'll take a first stab at the storyline, then add in the people I want to edit / critique it
2) Rapidly building out a collaborative document where individuals own sections. It is SO much faster than mailing segments around to just be able edit real-time together. This allows you to see what others are doing, align your sections if needed, quickly communicate if needed too.
This is not a slashvertisement by me. I've tried this stuff. It works for use cases like mine where you need to collaborate to get documents built out. Saves a ton of email-based delays, things get done faster, and easier.
Using different browsers does very little to stop a competent advertiser building a complete picture of you. DMPs are nifty little programs that build a unified view of people through heuristics (eg same IP address for multiple browser sessions) and probabilistic methods (eg this phone and this laptop seem to spend a lot of time in the same physical location, they are probably the same user), even before you start taking into account cookies, logins etc.
Why?
Do you think the business of tech should be tech for its own sake? Or to actually improve on everyday needs & issues?
Or is it that you expect him to say 'we're here to make money'? In which case, you can want to make money while taking pride in your work and the effect it has on the world.
Your post smacks of cynicism. Wanting to do good is not hubris; it's arguably what should be the default for most of us.
I've been trying to wrap my head around this for a few days now and don't really get it.
With an IPO you get an actual stake in a company - for good or bad.
With an ICO you get... some digital tokens? Why can they not get devalued through creating more coins when the company wants to sell more?
Bitcoin maybe I get because there's a limited quantity possible, but is that the case for these other ICOs?
Can someone explain?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt23...
Just chilling to watch people casually reenact the mass murders and atrocities they committed. I found it difficult to realize most of these guys think they are good guys who did the right thing.
For me, the PSP is excellent for fighting games. The fact that Tekken exists for the PSP is what made me choose it over the DS. I travel a lot, Tekken looks gorgeous on the PSP, and finally, you can put it on standby so it's always ready to resume. And fighting games to me are absolute portable gaming - 1 minute rounds for god's sake!
As others have commented, DSPs are not necessarily the most cost efficient option. At a previous job, I ended up writing two versions of the system we were developing: one for TIs newest, hottest DSP, pre-release version, and another version for the PC. Optimized the hell out of the DSP version, used every trick I knew.
In the end, I had to conclude that a dual-cpu system, still cheaper than a DSP-based solution, would blow away the DSP in terms of performance. It was a bit of a shock to me at the time.
For patrons, I agree, it's their choice. For employees, I beg to differ. Until we're at a stage where there's virtually no unemployment, people can't necessarily choose their jobs, and bar/waiting jobs are usually some of the most accessible. Allowing smoking in restaurants/bars has the side effect of pushing cancer on the poor. I think it's probably a very small number of cases that this would apply to, but I also don't think it can be waved away.
If what you want is a programming/software engineering type of job espoused in the article linked, what are you doing in Computer Science ? The modules that you fear will be useless in getting a job are perfectly useful in getting research related jobs - but I don't think this is what you want.
This has nothing to do with neural nets, other than being an instance of machine learning. If anything, this approach is probably related to Transformation Based Learning, or some other weakly statistical approach. Fully statistical approaches like neural nets choke on the variance of real NLP tasks.
wtf ? what does putting grand ideas have to do with communism ? this independent of ideology - a country just got invaded for "democracy", or at least many would accept that as an acceptably motivation.
Cyc gets touted here at/. a lot, for reasons beyond me. Cyc is an untenable approach, with exactly the kind of silliness that Ask Jeeves used when they started up. You cannot explicitly program semantics/pragmatics for everything that you need, at least not for anything but toy examples. How this lesson was not learned from early failures such as SHRDLU is a mystery too.
If you want to take a look at a much more promising approach, check out Steve Pullman's work at the oxford NLP group. He's been working on extracting semantic information from texts automatically, and while the approach is new, the results are impressive.
A PhD is not necessarily about getting extended knowledge in a field; that's a side-effect. The real point of it is to learn how to do research. How to examine a field, search for ideas, develop them, apply them using the correct methodology, and do all of this in a coherent way which contributes knowledge, and most importantly, all of this on your own.
That's all it is, a qualification that says you know how to do research, which is not something you learn in undergrad. Just because you were expecting Einstein at every corner does not make it self-aggrandizing.
Pragmatics isn't a field ? Really ? Then all the research that has been going on to deal with exactly the kind of sentences you used must be wasted !! And my professors must have been having a good laugh with us.
This has nothing to do with poor grammar, it is exactly pragmatics; using non-grammatical knowledge to comprehend meaning.
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I am really getting tired of how reactionary Slashdot has gotten over the last couple of years. 90% of new products / ideas discussed are routinely dismissed, with the viewpoint that somewhere back in 1995 things peaked. Have you actually used a collaborative document editor like Quip for more than 2 minutes, and given yourself time to actually use it? I have. Initially I wasn't quite sure what the big use case was, but I'm using it a lot now for: 1) Collaborating on core flow for documents before prettifying elsewhere if needed. Ie I'll take a first stab at the storyline, then add in the people I want to edit / critique it 2) Rapidly building out a collaborative document where individuals own sections. It is SO much faster than mailing segments around to just be able edit real-time together. This allows you to see what others are doing, align your sections if needed, quickly communicate if needed too. This is not a slashvertisement by me. I've tried this stuff. It works for use cases like mine where you need to collaborate to get documents built out. Saves a ton of email-based delays, things get done faster, and easier.
Using different browsers does very little to stop a competent advertiser building a complete picture of you. DMPs are nifty little programs that build a unified view of people through heuristics (eg same IP address for multiple browser sessions) and probabilistic methods (eg this phone and this laptop seem to spend a lot of time in the same physical location, they are probably the same user), even before you start taking into account cookies, logins etc.
The study itself uses the Daily Mail as proof that in the UK police don't catch criminals anymore... How does shit like this get published?
Why? Do you think the business of tech should be tech for its own sake? Or to actually improve on everyday needs & issues? Or is it that you expect him to say 'we're here to make money'? In which case, you can want to make money while taking pride in your work and the effect it has on the world. Your post smacks of cynicism. Wanting to do good is not hubris; it's arguably what should be the default for most of us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... I'm happy to argue that the definition of mental illness is fluid, and entirely open to debate
I've been trying to wrap my head around this for a few days now and don't really get it. With an IPO you get an actual stake in a company - for good or bad. With an ICO you get... some digital tokens? Why can they not get devalued through creating more coins when the company wants to sell more? Bitcoin maybe I get because there's a limited quantity possible, but is that the case for these other ICOs? Can someone explain?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt23... Just chilling to watch people casually reenact the mass murders and atrocities they committed. I found it difficult to realize most of these guys think they are good guys who did the right thing.
For me, the PSP is excellent for fighting games. The fact that Tekken exists for the PSP is what made me choose it over the DS. I travel a lot, Tekken looks gorgeous on the PSP, and finally, you can put it on standby so it's always ready to resume. And fighting games to me are absolute portable gaming - 1 minute rounds for god's sake!
As others have commented, DSPs are not necessarily the most cost efficient option. At a previous job, I ended up writing two versions of the system we were developing: one for TIs newest, hottest DSP, pre-release version, and another version for the PC. Optimized the hell out of the DSP version, used every trick I knew.
In the end, I had to conclude that a dual-cpu system, still cheaper than a DSP-based solution, would blow away the DSP in terms of performance. It was a bit of a shock to me at the time.
For patrons, I agree, it's their choice. For employees, I beg to differ. Until we're at a stage where there's virtually no unemployment, people can't necessarily choose their jobs, and bar/waiting jobs are usually some of the most accessible. Allowing smoking in restaurants/bars has the side effect of pushing cancer on the poor. I think it's probably a very small number of cases that this would apply to, but I also don't think it can be waved away.
Just search the site, will ya ? To begin with, you can limit it to the frontpage for the last 7 days. Even that would be an improvement.
Screw it. Just search the actual, current frontpage.
If what you want is a programming/software engineering type of job espoused in the article linked, what are you doing in Computer Science ? The modules that you fear will be useless in getting a job are perfectly useful in getting research related jobs - but I don't think this is what you want.
Joomla, as they spell it, comes from Arabic originally, and means exactly the same thing : all together, or all of us.
(Sentence, as another reply suggests, is another word, which sounds much the same)
Fantastic ! And Einstein suggested a lot of good stuff for physics, so why don't we all just pack up and go home ?
"Asking if computers can think is like asking if submarines can swim."
This has nothing to do with neural nets, other than being an instance of machine learning. If anything, this approach is probably related to Transformation Based Learning, or some other weakly statistical approach. Fully statistical approaches like neural nets choke on the variance of real NLP tasks.
Actually, fascism does have to do with corporations. It is one of its definining characteristics. I think you're confusing it with authoritarianism.
wtf ? what does putting grand ideas have to do with communism ? this independent of ideology - a country just got invaded for "democracy", or at least many would accept that as an acceptably motivation.
Cyc gets touted here at /. a lot, for reasons beyond me. Cyc is an untenable approach, with exactly the kind of silliness that Ask Jeeves used when they started up. You cannot explicitly program semantics/pragmatics for everything that you need, at least not for anything but toy examples. How this lesson was not learned from early failures such as SHRDLU is a mystery too.
If you want to take a look at a much more promising approach, check out Steve Pullman's work at the oxford NLP group. He's been working on extracting semantic information from texts automatically, and while the approach is new, the results are impressive.
if you want to have the same kind of fun these guys did, try out some of his thought experiments.
That's all it is, a qualification that says you know how to do research, which is not something you learn in undergrad. Just because you were expecting Einstein at every corner does not make it self-aggrandizing.
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Pragmatics isn't a field ? Really ? Then all the research that has been going on to deal with exactly the kind of sentences you used must be wasted !! And my professors must have been having a good laugh with us.
This has nothing to do with poor grammar, it is exactly pragmatics; using non-grammatical knowledge to comprehend meaning.
Wow. The way you threw in that ignorant, malicious attack on Iraq / Islam is amazing. And thank you to the rest of you who modded it up.
yes, well, they're off to get the phoenecians themselves, and punish those aleph, beta inventing bastards !
(aleph means ox, btw)