I can assure you that WordNet has been used in many more advanced ways than that, but it still generally doesn't outperform less language based algorithms. WordNet doesn't really provide that much semantic information. There are other resources like VerbNet, FrameNet, Corelex, and PropBank that work on capturing the semantics. If you are using WordNet and only keywords you run into big problems with ambiguity, and there isn't enough information in 3 keywords to allow regular word sense disambiguation methods to work. Using full natural language sentences would help a bit, but it is still limited. You really need to identify the correct semantics for the documents in order to make them easier to search.
For minor things people tend to go easier on you the first time you make the mistake. If you show up late to work once your boss may not say anything, the second time a reminder or warning, the tenth time you get fired.
It is unfortunate that the damage is done. People are convinced that nuclear is a dangerous, dirty, and impossible to maintain power source. Building one is next to impossible due to the misinformation. It will take another 30 years to convince people that they are ok.
The ignorance of Windows users isn't a reason to fight PDF, it is a reason to educate the users and force Microsoft to support a format that others OSes have for years.
I'm not sure who loses out here. The OSS projects that get free help? The kids that get paid? Google, who gets kids interested in programming so that they have more potential CS grads in a few years? The people using the software that has more features or fewer bugs now?
Most kids end up doing menial tasks for small pay (paper route, baby-sitting, mowing lawns, shoveling driveways, etc.). Very few get anything like recognition for working on a large software project.
CS (at least faculty and grad students) are moving more and more towards OS X. In order of use it would be Linux, OS X, and then Windows at my university. The labs are still Linux (Redhat) machines, with some Unix/Linux servers.
I would call it un-natural selection. The plants had already evolved into a "better" form in terms of survival. I plant that grows huge seeds that never fall off is mostly worthless from a survival perspective, but it is wonderful in terms of food cultivation.
There is a group trying to cause an integer overflow; either from comment or member numbers. This may impede their (hopeless) progress. It is titled, "If this group reaches 4,294,967,296 it might cause an integer overflow."
Obscurity implies that people don't know what is happening exactly. In crypto the algorithms are published and available to anyone -- not obscure. You could criticize public key crypto (those using large primes) for using a yet to be proven hard problem, but not for being obscure.
Exactly. If you learn graphic design using Adobe products as a student you may want to buy a copy so you don't have to go to the lab. Then you get out and start working for a living and have to buy a commercial version. Then you spend the next few decades using their suite because thats all you have ever used.
Price discrimination is how the economy works. You try and get as many people as much as possible, then get those that didn't buy it at the original price to buy it for less, so on and so forth. That is why they release a $29 hardcover book, then a $15 paper back, and then a $10 reprint.
I haven't done translation between Japanese and English, but I have done some work in translation amongst romance languages. Things are improving, and they are improving rapidly.
I don't think we will ever replace humans, but for some things machines may well be good enough. If I write a quick note to explain the new cafeteria policy it could be translated by machine. I don't see a computer capturing the subtleties of Faulkner or other real literature now, or maybe ever. There is a huge difference between technical type writing and artistic writing.
For you, the home user, your time isn't worth those $/second. For an enterprise with I/O limited systems it could easily be worth the money. If they didn't think they could sell it, they wouldn't be wasting resources designing it. Then in a few years we will get to use the results for a fraction of the cost in home systems.
Either you are old, or a bit naive. I think in the next 10 years we will see significant improvement. It just happens that the general public doesn't have access to the state of the art research. Systems are improving all of the time. They won't, however; reach the level of a fluent human translator for a long time if ever. But for most documents a machine will be able to do a decent job.
On the other hand cops are going to hate this because they could be held accountable for their actions. Although I'm sure any incriminating video will be lost. It is nearly daily that a new story comes out about an abusive cop in the city. Luckily a few have been caught on video.
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Bingo. You get what you pay for.
If you buy "fat free iceCREAM" you aren't going to get anything natural. Cream is fat, a fact you cannot avoid.
I can assure you that WordNet has been used in many more advanced ways than that, but it still generally doesn't outperform less language based algorithms. WordNet doesn't really provide that much semantic information. There are other resources like VerbNet, FrameNet, Corelex, and PropBank that work on capturing the semantics. If you are using WordNet and only keywords you run into big problems with ambiguity, and there isn't enough information in 3 keywords to allow regular word sense disambiguation methods to work. Using full natural language sentences would help a bit, but it is still limited. You really need to identify the correct semantics for the documents in order to make them easier to search.
For minor things people tend to go easier on you the first time you make the mistake. If you show up late to work once your boss may not say anything, the second time a reminder or warning, the tenth time you get fired.
It is unfortunate that the damage is done. People are convinced that nuclear is a dangerous, dirty, and impossible to maintain power source. Building one is next to impossible due to the misinformation. It will take another 30 years to convince people that they are ok.
The ignorance of Windows users isn't a reason to fight PDF, it is a reason to educate the users and force Microsoft to support a format that others OSes have for years.
I'm not sure who loses out here. The OSS projects that get free help? The kids that get paid? Google, who gets kids interested in programming so that they have more potential CS grads in a few years? The people using the software that has more features or fewer bugs now?
Most kids end up doing menial tasks for small pay (paper route, baby-sitting, mowing lawns, shoveling driveways, etc.). Very few get anything like recognition for working on a large software project.
Usually they get paid by the CD after they pay back the cost for recording and such to the label.
CS (at least faculty and grad students) are moving more and more towards OS X. In order of use it would be Linux, OS X, and then Windows at my university. The labs are still Linux (Redhat) machines, with some Unix/Linux servers.
Talking about general purpose computing doesn't make headlines. Thats why.
Now I need a "-1, No reading comprehension" mod attribute for myself.
Your math is off by a factor of ten: $.03 * 1000 = $30.
No, but if I could carry all of my textbooks and journals around with me in something the size of a legal pad it would be wonderful.
I would call it un-natural selection. The plants had already evolved into a "better" form in terms of survival. I plant that grows huge seeds that never fall off is mostly worthless from a survival perspective, but it is wonderful in terms of food cultivation.
There is a group trying to cause an integer overflow; either from comment or member numbers. This may impede their (hopeless) progress. It is titled, "If this group reaches 4,294,967,296 it might cause an integer overflow."
You would have entirely too much free time.
Taking that point, if you don't want to keep anything secret there is no need for encryption.
Obscurity implies that people don't know what is happening exactly. In crypto the algorithms are published and available to anyone -- not obscure. You could criticize public key crypto (those using large primes) for using a yet to be proven hard problem, but not for being obscure.
Exactly. If you learn graphic design using Adobe products as a student you may want to buy a copy so you don't have to go to the lab. Then you get out and start working for a living and have to buy a commercial version. Then you spend the next few decades using their suite because thats all you have ever used.
Price discrimination is how the economy works. You try and get as many people as much as possible, then get those that didn't buy it at the original price to buy it for less, so on and so forth. That is why they release a $29 hardcover book, then a $15 paper back, and then a $10 reprint.
I haven't done translation between Japanese and English, but I have done some work in translation amongst romance languages. Things are improving, and they are improving rapidly. I don't think we will ever replace humans, but for some things machines may well be good enough. If I write a quick note to explain the new cafeteria policy it could be translated by machine. I don't see a computer capturing the subtleties of Faulkner or other real literature now, or maybe ever. There is a huge difference between technical type writing and artistic writing.
For you, the home user, your time isn't worth those $/second. For an enterprise with I/O limited systems it could easily be worth the money. If they didn't think they could sell it, they wouldn't be wasting resources designing it. Then in a few years we will get to use the results for a fraction of the cost in home systems.
Either you are old, or a bit naive. I think in the next 10 years we will see significant improvement. It just happens that the general public doesn't have access to the state of the art research. Systems are improving all of the time. They won't, however; reach the level of a fluent human translator for a long time if ever. But for most documents a machine will be able to do a decent job.
On the other hand cops are going to hate this because they could be held accountable for their actions. Although I'm sure any incriminating video will be lost. It is nearly daily that a new story comes out about an abusive cop in the city. Luckily a few have been caught on video.
More than enough to wake up early one day.