Yes, wel, that is what one does, look for patterns in the data. But the idea is that the data is a good representation of the real world, and that the patterns you find can be generalised to something useful. If you are just drawing conclusions from whatever your machine learning algorithm finds in the data, you need to look over your method, research questions and evaluation.
(Discalimer, the article doesn't give any details, and briefly mentions astronomy and biomedical research, areas I am not too familiar with, but I would think that what I mentioned is common practice in all scientific research.)
Careful, you don't want to invoke the small number Gods on here. It can get ugly. I know, as I have hidden behind my keyboard and watched as 4 digit and under users have emerged from the depths and cast judgement on us lesser souls.
'For most of human history, people have lived in small tribes where everything they did was known by everyone they knew,'
Bad analogy. People in someone's physical neighbourhood would know what the person was doing. Go to another village, and the first village would not know. Take a would alone in the forest, and noone would know exactly where you'd been. Now we have an omniscient observer who knows everything we do all of the time, even if s/he is not physically around, or even unknown to us.
And even more dangerous, this flood of information is used to draw conclusions from...
>On a side note, according to some anthropologists
>Sanskrit is the root of all Western language, due
>to the migration of the Celts from the Indian >subcontinent in very early times, though this has
>been disputed.
Rubbish. The theory is that both sanskrit and most european languages have a common ancestor called Indo-European.
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I have to stronly disagree here!
If a ISP can't handle usenet they should change business.
Usenet is not the unnecessary compitition - the new proprietary BBSes are.
The copyright "wound" applies to everything, not just usenet.
Apart from the huge binary postings, usenet is nice and small! I have been reading it for longer than I can remember (10 years?) - it takes about 20 minutes a day to download the news from a dozen or so newsgroups and read them at home. Much better than having to look things up on webpages full with flashing banners and other crap (I only have a 56k modem).
And like someone else mentioned - you can find the answer to almost any question with a few decent queries in the power search. There is also Dejasearch, which is a front-end to dejanews if you don't like their interface (I don't).
Are you for real? You actually *want to be one of those 12 yr old children working*? Have you any idea about the conditions they work in, what kind of life they have??
It saddens me to see that people can be so ignorant of the rest of the world.
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Yes, wel, that is what one does, look for patterns in the data. But the idea is that the data is a good representation of the real world, and that the patterns you find can be generalised to something useful. If you are just drawing conclusions from whatever your machine learning algorithm finds in the data, you need to look over your method, research questions and evaluation.
(Discalimer, the article doesn't give any details, and briefly mentions astronomy and biomedical research, areas I am not too familiar with, but I would think that what I mentioned is common practice in all scientific research.)
Careful, you don't want to invoke the small number Gods on here. It can get ugly. I know, as I have hidden behind my keyboard and watched as 4 digit and under users have emerged from the depths and cast judgement on us lesser souls.
Yawn
'For most of human history, people have lived in small tribes where everything they did was known by everyone they knew,'
Bad analogy. People in someone's physical neighbourhood would know what the person was doing. Go to another village, and the first village would not know. Take a would alone in the forest, and noone would know exactly where you'd been. Now we have an omniscient observer who knows everything we do all of the time, even if s/he is not physically around, or even unknown to us.
And even more dangerous, this flood of information is used to draw conclusions from...
-peter
Me and a bunch of friends wrote a story on Fidonet, must have been around 86. Never got really 'published' though...
It is closed source encryption - who would trust that?
And how do you measure that? An IQ test or something? (well...you people do believe in the "lie detector"...)
And where do you put the border between being allowed to vote and not?
Anyway - it's only about money in the USA, why not pick the richest one as president??
>On a side note, according to some anthropologists
>Sanskrit is the root of all Western language, due
>to the migration of the Celts from the Indian >subcontinent in very early times, though this has
>been disputed.
Rubbish. The theory is that both sanskrit and most european languages have a common ancestor called Indo-European.
now we wait for cool games?
I have to stronly disagree here!
If a ISP can't handle usenet they should change business.
Usenet is not the unnecessary compitition - the new proprietary BBSes are.
The copyright "wound" applies to everything, not just usenet.
Apart from the huge binary postings, usenet is nice and small! I have been reading it for longer than I can remember (10 years?) - it takes about 20 minutes a day to download the news from a dozen or so newsgroups and read them at home. Much better than having to look things up on webpages full with flashing banners and other crap (I only have a 56k modem).
And like someone else mentioned - you can find the answer to almost any question with a few decent queries in the power search. There is also Dejasearch, which is a front-end to dejanews if you don't like their interface (I don't).
It will be a sad day when usenet disappears...
-fish
Are you for real? You actually *want to be one of those 12 yr old children working*? Have you any idea about the conditions they work in, what kind of life they have??
It saddens me to see that people can be so ignorant of the rest of the world.
Those kind of articles appear every 3 months on sci.maths...
Yeah right. I took the TRS-80, Apple-II, BBC, Macintosh route. Never got a PC until Linux was available for it. May I know did something similar.
Introduce standards?? The PC platform will suffer?? Haha, that would be funny if it wasn't so sad..
--fish