My brother has had a white cockatoo for a couple of decades and like your parrot it says all sorts of things in context, for example whenever someone comes through the front door he says "G'day mate". Nobody taught it that phrase, basically it will start repeating any phrase it hears often enough in the same circumstances. To me it's clear that parrots are not always just mimicking, when they ask for food, lights and their bed in the right context they are clearly communicating. When the cockatoo teaches itself to say "G'Day mate" it's not getting any reward accept attention, which is pretty much the same way a human child learns to speak.
Most multinationals now train ALL their staff on SO act and give a mandatory refresher once a year. Although the training is a drag, it's a great piece of "international legislation". It forces the executive level to push an anti-corruption policy from the top down. Since once you have been trained the responsibility falls on you to behave ethically, Joe Office Worker is now far more likely to expose a corrupt manager than cooperate with him.
As for TFA, which I didn't read, if the guy was threatening someone in a personal dispute and using my name/property in an attempt to legitimise the threat, I would sack him too.
Good point, they are often seen as the same thing.
"relative freeness of market"
Nitpick: The "free" in "free market" says nothing about regulations it simply means anyone is free to trade in the market. An economic market is not a place or a thing it's a set of regulations governing trade. Fox News has sold Americans an oxymoron, unfortunately a great number of them have bought it and spread it across the globe via mass media. Now that they have bought a false assumption about a key concept in economics, it distorts their reasoning about economics to the point where they often argue against their own best interests.
Village bartering is often held up as an example of a "natural free market" by romantic libertarians, but at a minimum there must be some form of property law for it to exist. Also bartering doesn't scale very well, which is why we invented currency in the first place.
Yes, corporations are a "legal fiction", but at the end of the day, so are markets, free or otherwise.
Software is released with known "limitations" and unknown bugs. Zero day is not the day of release (as I had previously believed), it's the day that the developer is made aware that an unknown bug has been released. Either way the definition reduces to "bug", so the only reason I can see to use it is that it sounds more exciting.
I doubt the Queen has any problems being recognised and if she chose to sign as "The Queen", nobody would complain, her sicophants would just rush around and make sure whatever she she used carried legal weight.
Back in the 1930's the then communist Mongolian government banned last names in a failed attempt to weaken tribalism, recently the government reintroduced them for administration reason, and asked everyone to pick a second name and register it with the government. In a wonderful example of unintended consequences, over half the country now bear the same surname as Genghis Khan.
Your "reason" is the Jewish conspiracy theory? That must be the oldest and dumbest conspiracy theory the western world, it comes from the days before the Medici family when only Jews charged interest on loans (because it was prohibited for Christians and Muslims to do so). Christians and Muslims would take the loans and then bitch about the "evil" jews charging them interest. The Jewish conspiracy theory should have ended when the Medici's invented banking, but somehow it still lives on in people like you.
Israel has engaged in mass murder, assassinations and territorial expansion, it's also running a religious apartheid system to preserve it jewish demography. It is not currently engaged in genocide or ethnic cleansing but they did try to wipe out the Bedouin tribes after they won independence. Having said that, my own country treated aboriginals worse than cattle in the past, and currently treats "boat people" with extreme prejudice, I don't like either of those facts but there's fuck all I can do about it.
The psychology of error messages is interesting. - I worked on an early Australia wide mobile job dispatch system in the mid 90's that ran on GSM and served ~6000 field workers. The proprietary comms driver on the laptop was a piece of shit that just died silently and often. We replaced it with a much more robust tcp/ip driver that told the user about comms problems.
You guessed it, we were flooded with complaints. Previously the users had just restarted the app and most times the mystery problem would go away, as soon as they saw error messages they had someone to blame. Most of them insisted that the old driver was better, even though our back end logs clearly demonstrated it wasn't. And no it's not because the users were ignorant, the users were telco technicians and linesmen who you would expect to have some idea about mountains disrupting GSM signals..
Nope, and I've been writing both C and C++" since before the STL existed.:)
However the phrase "the STL is stable" does not imply a particular implementation from a particular vendor will be complete....or even work. Same deal with the CRT.
I've had to maintain some real winners of C code where the programmer went hog-wild with macros. UGH.
I sympathise, my first experience writing commercial code in C++ was in the early 90's with the Watcom compiler of the day. Their implementation of C++ was not part of the language, it was a complex layer of C macros that served as wrappers for goto statements, function pointers, etc. I had learnt about OO concepts from smalltalk a couple of years earlier while studying for my degree, the Watcom macros were what I'd call a "sociopathic implementation" of some of those ideas.
The mistake Watcom made back then is the same one many developers are still making today - "object orientated" is not a language feature, a layer of macros, or a bunch of library calls, it's a powerful and ubiquitous design methodology.
For example, if you look carefully at the examples in K&R's "C programming language", most are excellent demonstrations of OO design that were written long before the term "OO" was invented. The elegance that many developer's perceive in K&R's famous examples is not in the syntax, it's in their design.
Next up - "Spaghetti code" is not a language feature.
That's the kind of reasoned argument Linus would use, which is why people think he's a dick. The guy can't seem to open his mouth without insulting half the developers on the planet, and appears to be incapable of recognising talent in anyone except himself.
I had a win98 install that lasted almost a decade but it took a fair bit of effort to hold back the entropy (I resisted upgrading because of one win98 game...). NT was definitely a landmark in stability as was XP. I've been on Win7 at home and work for a couple of years now. I've been doing C/C++ development regularly for the last 25ys as a job, a bad pointer would often bring Win98 to it's knees, not so much with NT/XP and I've never managed to crash Win7 with bad code. In fact Win7 has crashed on me exactly twice, once when the SSD died, and another time when the video card started smoking.
From the POV of system stability you could line up today's popular O/S's, throw a dart blindfolded, and be still be sure to hit a decent general purpose O/S. This doesn't mean they are flawlessly designed, however most of the bitching I see from geeks is just the geek not understanding how things work before attempting to "fix" the "problem", and most of the bitching I hear from non-geeks is about the non-geek's ignorance of how malware got onto their machine. .
Yes copyright is automatic but if the mere act of downloading copyrighted material was a crime then the internet simply could not (legally) work the way it does since you would need explicit permission to visit a random page prior to visiting said page. So the reasoning goes that if someone puts something on the net, a third party can freely copy it. What the third party can't do is redistribute the material, so messages such as "leave your computer running" are going to hang them. When you think about it. It's not that different to the way libraries work, you can take the book home and read it, and even take a personal copy, but you can start handing out copies to all your mates.
No matter how much "downloading is theft" propaganda the MAFIAA spews, or how much I despise them for it, the above "default" arrangement is the only one that makes any sense. If we allowed redistributions w/o permission then I could simply buy up the iTunes catalog for a one time fee of $1/song and start selling copies at $0,90/song. Five seconds after I've done that, someone else does the same to me and sells at $0.50/song.
Perhaps they should make sure that their products work in the first place.
That's exactly what they are doing, making sure you get the functionality you pay for. I buy my stuff from reputable dealers, in 25yrs I've had exactly one Nvidia card and one ATI card blow up, every other video problem I've ever had has been software related. Both cards were cheerfully replaced under warranty.
AFAIK from personal experience the practice of downgrading faulty chips to a lower spec has been around since the days of maths co-processors, probably longer. And no they don't exhaustively test every chip, the grading is done via random sampling at the batch level because, like science, "statistical analysis works".
"Tracking the RNG" would help you win the game, but it doesn't tell you anything about how to play the game. This AI learns to play the game, it then wins the game using experience it gains in the same way a human does - feedback from the game score.
There' nothing really "new" in any of this, if you want a really impressive demo of what this kind of AI can do then pop over to youtube and watch the videos of IBM's "Watson" beating the snot out of the best human players in the TV game show "Jeopardy ". When it won Jeopardy the hardware filled a large room, nowadays Watson is available commercially and runs of two rack mounted servers. Their ultimate goal is to shrink it down to fit in a mobile phone.
I've found that Watson is actually a good way to test a person's understanding of AI - If you don't find the Jeopardy demo impressive (and a little scary), then you clearly don't understand the problem they have solved.
Twelve years on all I remember are the basic concepts at a high level.
I formally studied AI and neural nets 25yrs ago, I recently came across this series of video lectures on YT. I started watching to refresh my memory and ended up learning quite a bit of new stuff that was unknown when I did my degree. It took me about a month or so to watch the whole series, definitely worth the effort if you already have the basics, but forget it if statistical maths or matrices scare you.
Peal/Python - A toy AI doesn't need to be fast, it's purpose is to play with ideas, scripts are much more flexible than binaries for this purpose.
Of course it's a tax by a different name, you live under three tiers of governments, local governments are the bottom tier and have the right to charge property owners rates and fees and issue fines for by-law infringements such as parking tickets, etc. A good local government can make a huge difference to the local economy by improving the general appearance and amenities of the town. A shitty one will do nothing and charge extra for that level of "freedom".
Your "revenge" sounds like the actions of a crank to me. It has successfully pissed off all your neighbours, but the garbo, even if he notices the rubbish, doesn't give a flying fuck what your street looks like.
As for political labels - My 80yo parents are "conservatives", they would never dream of littering any street let alone their own. I'm not sure the english language has a general label for the political opinions you post but the majority of them are much too radical to be labeled "conservative".
Large scale grid storage doesn't exist in a cheap and efficient manner.
That's what hydro dams are for. They already use them as "batteries" for coal plants because the demand curve of a city is not flat like the output curve of a coal plant. The buffer provided by the dam doesn't stop working just because you swap out the coal plant for a solar/wind farm.
The big bang theory was the brain child of a Catholic priest who was employed by the vatican as an astronomer. The priest's theory was sarcastically coined "BBT" by a well known astronomer who dismissed the idea as nonsense. The name stuck, and the priest's evidence eventually forced the astronomer to change his mind. The names escape me, I think the astronomer was Patrick Moore but can't be bothered googling.
Sort of, it's star dust, so there's a chance that five billion years from now it will have evolved to the point where it will be looking at the remnants of our solar system with its own telescopes.
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My brother has had a white cockatoo for a couple of decades and like your parrot it says all sorts of things in context, for example whenever someone comes through the front door he says "G'day mate". Nobody taught it that phrase, basically it will start repeating any phrase it hears often enough in the same circumstances. To me it's clear that parrots are not always just mimicking, when they ask for food, lights and their bed in the right context they are clearly communicating. When the cockatoo teaches itself to say "G'Day mate" it's not getting any reward accept attention, which is pretty much the same way a human child learns to speak.
Most multinationals now train ALL their staff on SO act and give a mandatory refresher once a year. Although the training is a drag, it's a great piece of "international legislation". It forces the executive level to push an anti-corruption policy from the top down. Since once you have been trained the responsibility falls on you to behave ethically, Joe Office Worker is now far more likely to expose a corrupt manager than cooperate with him.
As for TFA, which I didn't read, if the guy was threatening someone in a personal dispute and using my name/property in an attempt to legitimise the threat, I would sack him too.
"relative freeness of market"
Nitpick: The "free" in "free market" says nothing about regulations it simply means anyone is free to trade in the market. An economic market is not a place or a thing it's a set of regulations governing trade. Fox News has sold Americans an oxymoron, unfortunately a great number of them have bought it and spread it across the globe via mass media. Now that they have bought a false assumption about a key concept in economics, it distorts their reasoning about economics to the point where they often argue against their own best interests.
Village bartering is often held up as an example of a "natural free market" by romantic libertarians, but at a minimum there must be some form of property law for it to exist. Also bartering doesn't scale very well, which is why we invented currency in the first place.
Yes, corporations are a "legal fiction", but at the end of the day, so are markets, free or otherwise.
Software is released with known "limitations" and unknown bugs. Zero day is not the day of release (as I had previously believed), it's the day that the developer is made aware that an unknown bug has been released. Either way the definition reduces to "bug", so the only reason I can see to use it is that it sounds more exciting.
I doubt the Queen has any problems being recognised and if she chose to sign as "The Queen", nobody would complain, her sicophants would just rush around and make sure whatever she she used carried legal weight.
Back in the 1930's the then communist Mongolian government banned last names in a failed attempt to weaken tribalism, recently the government reintroduced them for administration reason, and asked everyone to pick a second name and register it with the government. In a wonderful example of unintended consequences, over half the country now bear the same surname as Genghis Khan.
Your "reason" is the Jewish conspiracy theory? That must be the oldest and dumbest conspiracy theory the western world, it comes from the days before the Medici family when only Jews charged interest on loans (because it was prohibited for Christians and Muslims to do so). Christians and Muslims would take the loans and then bitch about the "evil" jews charging them interest. The Jewish conspiracy theory should have ended when the Medici's invented banking, but somehow it still lives on in people like you.
Israel has engaged in mass murder, assassinations and territorial expansion, it's also running a religious apartheid system to preserve it jewish demography. It is not currently engaged in genocide or ethnic cleansing but they did try to wipe out the Bedouin tribes after they won independence. Having said that, my own country treated aboriginals worse than cattle in the past, and currently treats "boat people" with extreme prejudice, I don't like either of those facts but there's fuck all I can do about it.
The has actually been intentionally.
The psychology of error messages is interesting. - I worked on an early Australia wide mobile job dispatch system in the mid 90's that ran on GSM and served ~6000 field workers. The proprietary comms driver on the laptop was a piece of shit that just died silently and often. We replaced it with a much more robust tcp/ip driver that told the user about comms problems.
You guessed it, we were flooded with complaints. Previously the users had just restarted the app and most times the mystery problem would go away, as soon as they saw error messages they had someone to blame. Most of them insisted that the old driver was better, even though our back end logs clearly demonstrated it wasn't. And no it's not because the users were ignorant, the users were telco technicians and linesmen who you would expect to have some idea about mountains disrupting GSM signals..
There are literally millions of people that wish they could have the chance like that these folks had
So my mind was filled with wonder when the evening headlines read
Richard Cory went home last night and put a bullet through his head.
Can anyone really argue with this:
Nope, and I've been writing both C and C++" since before the STL existed. :)
However the phrase "the STL is stable" does not imply a particular implementation from a particular vendor will be complete....or even work. Same deal with the CRT.
I've had to maintain some real winners of C code where the programmer went hog-wild with macros. UGH.
I sympathise, my first experience writing commercial code in C++ was in the early 90's with the Watcom compiler of the day. Their implementation of C++ was not part of the language, it was a complex layer of C macros that served as wrappers for goto statements, function pointers, etc. I had learnt about OO concepts from smalltalk a couple of years earlier while studying for my degree, the Watcom macros were what I'd call a "sociopathic implementation" of some of those ideas.
The mistake Watcom made back then is the same one many developers are still making today - "object orientated" is not a language feature, a layer of macros, or a bunch of library calls, it's a powerful and ubiquitous design methodology.
For example, if you look carefully at the examples in K&R's "C programming language", most are excellent demonstrations of OO design that were written long before the term "OO" was invented. The elegance that many developer's perceive in K&R's famous examples is not in the syntax, it's in their design.
Next up - "Spaghetti code" is not a language feature.
you're an idiot.
That's the kind of reasoned argument Linus would use, which is why people think he's a dick. The guy can't seem to open his mouth without insulting half the developers on the planet, and appears to be incapable of recognising talent in anyone except himself.
I had a win98 install that lasted almost a decade but it took a fair bit of effort to hold back the entropy (I resisted upgrading because of one win98 game...). NT was definitely a landmark in stability as was XP. I've been on Win7 at home and work for a couple of years now. I've been doing C/C++ development regularly for the last 25ys as a job, a bad pointer would often bring Win98 to it's knees, not so much with NT/XP and I've never managed to crash Win7 with bad code. In fact Win7 has crashed on me exactly twice, once when the SSD died, and another time when the video card started smoking.
From the POV of system stability you could line up today's popular O/S's, throw a dart blindfolded, and be still be sure to hit a decent general purpose O/S. This doesn't mean they are flawlessly designed, however most of the bitching I see from geeks is just the geek not understanding how things work before attempting to "fix" the "problem", and most of the bitching I hear from non-geeks is about the non-geek's ignorance of how malware got onto their machine. .
Yes copyright is automatic but if the mere act of downloading copyrighted material was a crime then the internet simply could not (legally) work the way it does since you would need explicit permission to visit a random page prior to visiting said page. So the reasoning goes that if someone puts something on the net, a third party can freely copy it. What the third party can't do is redistribute the material, so messages such as "leave your computer running" are going to hang them. When you think about it. It's not that different to the way libraries work, you can take the book home and read it, and even take a personal copy, but you can start handing out copies to all your mates.
No matter how much "downloading is theft" propaganda the MAFIAA spews, or how much I despise them for it, the above "default" arrangement is the only one that makes any sense. If we allowed redistributions w/o permission then I could simply buy up the iTunes catalog for a one time fee of $1/song and start selling copies at $0,90/song. Five seconds after I've done that, someone else does the same to me and sells at $0.50/song.
Perhaps they should make sure that their products work in the first place.
That's exactly what they are doing, making sure you get the functionality you pay for. I buy my stuff from reputable dealers, in 25yrs I've had exactly one Nvidia card and one ATI card blow up, every other video problem I've ever had has been software related. Both cards were cheerfully replaced under warranty.
AFAIK from personal experience the practice of downgrading faulty chips to a lower spec has been around since the days of maths co-processors, probably longer. And no they don't exhaustively test every chip, the grading is done via random sampling at the batch level because, like science, "statistical analysis works".
"Tracking the RNG" would help you win the game, but it doesn't tell you anything about how to play the game. This AI learns to play the game, it then wins the game using experience it gains in the same way a human does - feedback from the game score. There' nothing really "new" in any of this, if you want a really impressive demo of what this kind of AI can do then pop over to youtube and watch the videos of IBM's "Watson" beating the snot out of the best human players in the TV game show "Jeopardy ". When it won Jeopardy the hardware filled a large room, nowadays Watson is available commercially and runs of two rack mounted servers. Their ultimate goal is to shrink it down to fit in a mobile phone.
I've found that Watson is actually a good way to test a person's understanding of AI - If you don't find the Jeopardy demo impressive (and a little scary), then you clearly don't understand the problem they have solved.
Twelve years on all I remember are the basic concepts at a high level.
I formally studied AI and neural nets 25yrs ago, I recently came across this series of video lectures on YT. I started watching to refresh my memory and ended up learning quite a bit of new stuff that was unknown when I did my degree. It took me about a month or so to watch the whole series, definitely worth the effort if you already have the basics, but forget it if statistical maths or matrices scare you.
Peal/Python - A toy AI doesn't need to be fast, it's purpose is to play with ideas, scripts are much more flexible than binaries for this purpose.
they are a part of (ahem!) team Googie, not team IBM. Sorry article.
Both the summary and article say "google".
Of course it's a tax by a different name, you live under three tiers of governments, local governments are the bottom tier and have the right to charge property owners rates and fees and issue fines for by-law infringements such as parking tickets, etc. A good local government can make a huge difference to the local economy by improving the general appearance and amenities of the town. A shitty one will do nothing and charge extra for that level of "freedom".
Your "revenge" sounds like the actions of a crank to me. It has successfully pissed off all your neighbours, but the garbo, even if he notices the rubbish, doesn't give a flying fuck what your street looks like.
As for political labels - My 80yo parents are "conservatives", they would never dream of littering any street let alone their own. I'm not sure the english language has a general label for the political opinions you post but the majority of them are much too radical to be labeled "conservative".
India has the tenth largest economy on the planet FFS!
Yet the number of Indians without electricity or plumbing is still greater than the entire population of the US.
Large scale grid storage doesn't exist in a cheap and efficient manner.
That's what hydro dams are for. They already use them as "batteries" for coal plants because the demand curve of a city is not flat like the output curve of a coal plant. The buffer provided by the dam doesn't stop working just because you swap out the coal plant for a solar/wind farm.
The big bang theory was the brain child of a Catholic priest who was employed by the vatican as an astronomer. The priest's theory was sarcastically coined "BBT" by a well known astronomer who dismissed the idea as nonsense. The name stuck, and the priest's evidence eventually forced the astronomer to change his mind. The names escape me, I think the astronomer was Patrick Moore but can't be bothered googling.
Sort of, it's star dust, so there's a chance that five billion years from now it will have evolved to the point where it will be looking at the remnants of our solar system with its own telescopes.