The fact that 70% of CS researchers in the U.S. are not from the U.S. says nothing about our schools. It merely reflects the fact that >70% of the people in the world are not from the U.S., but they all want to go to the best schools, which are all in the U.S..
Honestly, why would anyone use mysql when it ignores foreign key constraints and corrupts data by inserting arbitrary values?
What advantage does it have over postgres, which is also free and actually supports data integrity?
Oh, that's right. Since there are other languages harder than English, that must mean English is easy. Well, since Einstein is smarter than you, you must be an idiot.
What you are saying is that you want the grammar checker to have high precision, even if low recall. Unfortunately, it has a poor tradeoff, and often marks my grammatical sentences as incorrect.
Well, of course they are fluent in conversational english grammar, but it takes effort and desire to learn educated formal english grammar like they expect in school.
best ones:
from dusk till dawn:
"if you can find cheaper kitty anywhere...fork it!"
half-baked:
"what's that we used to eat all the time back in the day? Oh yeah, pudding!"
mallrats:
instead of saying he farted when she went down on him, he said he threw up when she made out with him. "What can I say? When I relax, I get sick."
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Cycorp is making progress, though.
I recommend reading Witbrock, Michael, D. Baxter, J. Curtis, et al. An Interactive Dialogue System for Knowledge Acquisition in Cyc. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Acapulco, Mexico, 2003.
Also, if you are a lucky college student, go see the author talk about Cyc teaching itself at USC or Carnegie Mellon..
Oh, and for once, I actually am an expert on the topic, not that that matters on slashdot.
The fact that 70% of CS researchers in the U.S. are not from the U.S. says nothing about our schools. It merely reflects the fact that >70% of the people in the world are not from the U.S., but they all want to go to the best schools, which are all in the U.S..
Liono? Snarf?
There can be only one.
very carefully?
Honestly, why would anyone use mysql when it ignores foreign key constraints and corrupts data by inserting arbitrary values? What advantage does it have over postgres, which is also free and actually supports data integrity?
So it doesn't randomly pick a value when the user tries to insert something invalid???
Why would I switch from PostgreSQL now?
Oh, that's right. Since there are other languages harder than English, that must mean English is easy. Well, since Einstein is smarter than you, you must be an idiot.
What you are saying is that you want the grammar checker to have high precision, even if low recall. Unfortunately, it has a poor tradeoff, and often marks my grammatical sentences as incorrect.
Well, of course they are fluent in conversational english grammar, but it takes effort and desire to learn educated formal english grammar like they expect in school.
"At least, I hope so." is not a fragment. It has a subject (I) and a predicate (hope so). Not that you really need those anyway. /linguist wannabe
"In Soviet Russia _____ You!" comes from comedian Yakov Smirnoff.
best ones: from dusk till dawn: "if you can find cheaper kitty anywhere...fork it!" half-baked: "what's that we used to eat all the time back in the day? Oh yeah, pudding!" mallrats: instead of saying he farted when she went down on him, he said he threw up when she made out with him. "What can I say? When I relax, I get sick."