I have tried the obvious search strings
"kelly suicide", "Hutton report", "Iraq war",
suicide, murder, bbc, labour government, in various combinations without seeing any adverts.
Perhaps the ads are only being targeted at non-UK residents, or perhaps they only start appearing after the report is published in a few hours time?
Has anybody actually seen Kelly/BBC related ads on Google yet?
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You can download the 'Open' version of Cyc here
http://opencyc.org/
The supported platforms that are explicitly mentioned as being supported are NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. Does anybody know if this software works under Windows 98? After all Microsoft announced continued support for this product for a reason; theres lots of it out there. Or is this simply a ploy to get people to upgrade?
The issue of how Java floating-point operations interact with the corresponding processor instructions is still an outstanding issue,
see:
http://gams.nist.gov/javanumerics/reports/jgfnwg-0 1.html
It comes as a surprise to many that the IEEE standard for floating-point operations does not
always require processors to resturn the same result for the same operation. But Java's "write
once run anywhere" design philosophy does.
The fact is that the designers of Java work(ed)
for Sun and the Java floating-point model has a better fit to SPARC than to Intel x86.
The Java performance is best explained by an article by Prof Kahan:
"How JAVA's Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere"
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf
also see "Marketing vs. Mathematics"
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/MktgMath.pdf
I suspect the relatively poor floating-point performance of gcc is also caused by the desire to acheive accurate results.
It is amazing how often the 7+/-2 'rule' is repeated and followed. It is an urban legend, see http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/jones02urban.html
for a discussion.
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I have tried the obvious search strings "kelly suicide", "Hutton report", "Iraq war", suicide, murder, bbc, labour government, in various combinations without seeing any adverts. Perhaps the ads are only being targeted at non-UK residents, or perhaps they only start appearing after the report is published in a few hours time? Has anybody actually seen Kelly/BBC related ads on Google yet?
You can download the 'Open' version of Cyc here http://opencyc.org/
The supported platforms that are explicitly mentioned as being supported are NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. Does anybody know if this software works under Windows 98? After all Microsoft announced continued support for this product for a reason; theres lots of it out there. Or is this simply a ploy to get people to upgrade?
The issue of how Java floating-point operations interact with the corresponding processor instructions is still an outstanding issue, see: http://gams.nist.gov/javanumerics/reports/jgfnwg-0 1.html
It comes as a surprise to many that the IEEE standard for floating-point operations does not
always require processors to resturn the same result for the same operation. But Java's "write
once run anywhere" design philosophy does.
The fact is that the designers of Java work(ed)
for Sun and the Java floating-point model has a better fit to SPARC than to Intel x86.
The Java performance is best explained by an article by Prof Kahan: "How JAVA's Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere" http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf also see "Marketing vs. Mathematics" http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/MktgMath.pdf I suspect the relatively poor floating-point performance of gcc is also caused by the desire to acheive accurate results.
It is amazing how often the 7+/-2 'rule' is repeated and followed. It is an urban legend, see http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/jones02urban.html for a discussion.