This looks like pretty standard forward chaining. The twist they threw in was to let the program observe action/result and form rules to use next time. Once those rules were defined it's just boolean logic. As you say, the difficulty going forward is finding a domain where a machine can experiment and deduce positive/negative outcome when the domain is nontrivial.
And I'm not sure you got the point of GP. When building a custom system you spend money on the features you need. Build a gaming system, or a home theater, or whatever; there's rarely a need to build a super duper can-do-it-all system.
Comment moderation is about censorship. If you force people to identify themselves (even a weak form of identification such as a FaceBook id) they will self-censor, but at least they can't complain that the web site is biased against their opinions. Not that Huff Post has an editorial bias anyway...
Aside from the weird writing style, the whole excerpt doesn't really make sense. They assume because the software hasn't killed anyone yet that it's perfect. Not a good assumption. Then he says he would like the software more if it did kill them.
When Jack Welch was CEO of General Electric he fired 10% of of his managers every year, and told the survivors do the same to their subordinates. Constantly purge the bottom and try to back fill with better. I also note that Patty McCord is the ex-Chief Talent Officer; no reason given for her departure...
At Oyster, a top book is What Women Want, promoted as a work that "brings you inside a woman's head so you can learn how to blow her mind." Everyone who starts it finishes it. On the other hand, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s The Cycles of American History blows no minds: fewer than 1 percent of the readers who start it get to the end.
200 pages of soft core porn are more likely to be read than 500 pages of history. Who knew?
There are whistle blower laws that would have protected him if he'd played by the rules. He chose to make a martyr out of himself.
I have to agree with the GP's post though; Snowden (or more likely the organization supporting him) is on a PR blitz to keep him on the front pages for as long as possible. It's getting old hearing the same story day after day.
It's pretty obvious from what he says in the interview that he was well coached ahead of time on what message to get out. But despite that, he comes across as essentially saying that he's smarter and more moral than anyone in the executive, judicial, or legislative branches of government.
There are ways to address concerns about abuses of government power, he chose the nuclear route. Whether exposing the abuses of power that were happening is worth the side effects remains to be seen.
Other researchers believe this discovery may help explain disparities between projections of mass loss by climate models and observations from satellites
Or maybe not. For all we know that slush has been there since the last ice age.
A friend of mine was wondering how he could look up the military records of his great-grandfather. He knew that the man served during the Spanish American War but couldn't find anything online. It turned out that in order to get the record he would have to travel to Washington DC, look it up on the microfiche in the National Archives, then request a printed copy. I'm pretty sure the fee charged by T3 will be cheaper than the current system.
Actually, there is such a thing as Intellectual Property. And it can be protected under the laws of most countries. Just because you want something for free doesn't mean you are entitled to it for free, sorry.
HIPPA makes it illegal for a health care provider to share the information. This company claims it got the data from other sources, which is legal if not ethical.
Plus HIPPA is so poorly written nobody really knows what it means anyway. The driver for it was to simplify Medicaid billing across the 50 states, all that privacy/security stuff was a toss in from Ted Kennedy
The rover is designed to perform a certain mission for a certain length of time. There's no point in putting tires on it that outlast the instruments. Everything is designed to have roughly the same lifespan - so yea, the tires will be worn out by the end of the rover's mission. That's all they need.
The Elmegreens examined 269 spirals in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and discarded all but 41 because of factors such as an inability to discern a clear spiral structure or the lack of redshift data which gives a galaxy’s age.
They divided these 41 spiral galaxies into five different types, based on features such as the number and clarity of arms, whether well-defined or clumpy and so on.
It sounds like they only found a few of each type, seems more like a good hypothesis than "the answer". It also makes you wonder if they cherry picked some of their data.
No reason to believe this was cross-pollination. Virtually all corn raised in the US is grown from hybrid seed which is controlled and tested. But farmers can bring whatever they have to a grain elevator and say it isn't such and such variety.
Not sure how the South China Sea incident relates to this, the US ship continued following the Chinese aircraft carrier.
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This looks like pretty standard forward chaining. The twist they threw in was to let the program observe action/result and form rules to use next time. Once those rules were defined it's just boolean logic. As you say, the difficulty going forward is finding a domain where a machine can experiment and deduce positive/negative outcome when the domain is nontrivial.
Just burn natural gas, it's every where on Titan. Oh wait...
We are just now getting our property back after having successfully sued the government in December 2012.
What part of "successfully sued the government" is confusing you?
And I'm not sure you got the point of GP. When building a custom system you spend money on the features you need. Build a gaming system, or a home theater, or whatever; there's rarely a need to build a super duper can-do-it-all system.
Comment moderation is about censorship. If you force people to identify themselves (even a weak form of identification such as a FaceBook id) they will self-censor, but at least they can't complain that the web site is biased against their opinions. Not that Huff Post has an editorial bias anyway...
Aside from the weird writing style, the whole excerpt doesn't really make sense. They assume because the software hasn't killed anyone yet that it's perfect. Not a good assumption. Then he says he would like the software more if it did kill them.
There's a good chance NSA does share some of what they find with the FBI and Interpol. They would never admit it though.
When Jack Welch was CEO of General Electric he fired 10% of of his managers every year, and told the survivors do the same to their subordinates. Constantly purge the bottom and try to back fill with better. I also note that Patty McCord is the ex-Chief Talent Officer; no reason given for her departure...
The study indicates that jeans and a hoodie are a tool to project even more power than a suit. Draw your own conclusion.
At Oyster, a top book is What Women Want, promoted as a work that "brings you inside a woman's head so you can learn how to blow her mind." Everyone who starts it finishes it. On the other hand, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s The Cycles of American History blows no minds: fewer than 1 percent of the readers who start it get to the end.
200 pages of soft core porn are more likely to be read than 500 pages of history. Who knew?
There are whistle blower laws that would have protected him if he'd played by the rules. He chose to make a martyr out of himself.
I have to agree with the GP's post though; Snowden (or more likely the organization supporting him) is on a PR blitz to keep him on the front pages for as long as possible. It's getting old hearing the same story day after day.
It's pretty obvious from what he says in the interview that he was well coached ahead of time on what message to get out. But despite that, he comes across as essentially saying that he's smarter and more moral than anyone in the executive, judicial, or legislative branches of government.
There are ways to address concerns about abuses of government power, he chose the nuclear route. Whether exposing the abuses of power that were happening is worth the side effects remains to be seen.
It says I'm a terrorist...Hold on...Someone is at the door
This isn't DoD, it's FBI. But the answer to your question is that something prepared by a non-government company (contractors) can be copyrighted.
This manual isn't classified, but it was obviously a mistake to submit it for copyright.
Other researchers believe this discovery may help explain disparities between projections of mass loss by climate models and observations from satellites
Or maybe not. For all we know that slush has been there since the last ice age.
FOIA requests will still be processed as they are today. Or you could pay a small fee and get a copy of the same thing from T3 - your choice.
A friend of mine was wondering how he could look up the military records of his great-grandfather. He knew that the man served during the Spanish American War but couldn't find anything online. It turned out that in order to get the record he would have to travel to Washington DC, look it up on the microfiche in the National Archives, then request a printed copy. I'm pretty sure the fee charged by T3 will be cheaper than the current system.
the number one IP-intensive industry by employment in the United States was grocery stores.
I suspect the number of grocery stores that have any IP is pretty small.
Actually, there is such a thing as Intellectual Property. And it can be protected under the laws of most countries. Just because you want something for free doesn't mean you are entitled to it for free, sorry.
HIPPA makes it illegal for a health care provider to share the information. This company claims it got the data from other sources, which is legal if not ethical.
Plus HIPPA is so poorly written nobody really knows what it means anyway. The driver for it was to simplify Medicaid billing across the 50 states, all that privacy/security stuff was a toss in from Ted Kennedy
So you agree that Snowden should be extradited and punished?
The rover is designed to perform a certain mission for a certain length of time. There's no point in putting tires on it that outlast the instruments. Everything is designed to have roughly the same lifespan - so yea, the tires will be worn out by the end of the rover's mission. That's all they need.
encountered an unknown obstruction known as "the object."
Their framework can't handle a public static object?
The Elmegreens examined 269 spirals in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and discarded all but 41 because of factors such as an inability to discern a clear spiral structure or the lack of redshift data which gives a galaxy’s age.
They divided these 41 spiral galaxies into five different types, based on features such as the number and clarity of arms, whether well-defined or clumpy and so on.
It sounds like they only found a few of each type, seems more like a good hypothesis than "the answer". It also makes you wonder if they cherry picked some of their data.
Not sure how the South China Sea incident relates to this, the US ship continued following the Chinese aircraft carrier.