Neural nets are an actual indirect application of neuroscience to marketing. Uh, they _are_ inspired in the brain, you know.
For those on the outside, uh, neural nets are structured compositions of nonlinear activation functions that can represent with an arbitrary precision a wide class of mappings between two hypercubes of arbitrary dimension.
Uh, neural nets learn stuff by example. Like bayesian spam filters, only better & smarter.
So, given vital stats from a sample population and a human-produced classification of those people, the neural net can generalize that info.
It's a very interesting field, and very underemployed by open source hackers in their hacking.
It isn't, precisely because it's an inferior version of what is already available.
It gives people the general idea that open source = inferior.
While I'm not particularly fond of word processors either, MS Office is a great productivity suite that gets things done in minutes.
(I love the smell of karma in the morning) It's NOT "wrong" to use proprietary software, specially if data is released to the general public in more open (CSV/RTF/HTML) formats. I mean, time _is_ money, you know.
You really shouldnt place commentary on a story title, unless it's an "its funny, laugh" one.
Oh, by the way, everyone who has a slashdot account should go to their preferences and set the "light" layout. You wont suffer with the bad color schemes anymore, and the results are more printer-friendly too.
Is it just me or Wired is to the internet geek culture as Playboy is to women's liberation movement?
In any case, "email" makes sense; it's no longer electronic mail, analog to the postal mail - it's something entirely different, a platform for multi-user discussion, push content, information retrieval (auto-responders, Agora, etc.), and, yes, as one of its many uses, personal one-on-one communication!
My el-cheapo Nokia 1800 does that. Then again, it's very simple, but it has an option so that no money-costing message ever gets sent without double confirmation.
Usability-wise, KDE gives OS X a run for its money. Provided that everything works (it won't "just work", and you'll have to hack it into doing its job), it's the best GUI I've ever worked with.
Yes, it's essentially the only alternative for people who expect an actual GUI that makes them productive. Gnome is ok for the geekier, and I myself am a fluxbox user, but KDE is the only thing I would put "normal" people onto.
Now, KDE is HEAVY, even compiled for a specific architecture. WinXP severely outperforms Linux 2.6+Xorg+KDE. And, yep, Fluxbox ain't a WinXP killer:-O
I want to propose a toast to the Borland Sidekick, one of the first programs to exploit an undocumented feature of MS-DOS called "Terminate and Stay Resident". While the killer app of the PC revolution is the spreadsheet, this one played a great role too.
There is a downside to such attacks as they harm business trust on the internet and large capital investments to the infrastructure and R&D and all. But it also has an upside, and a important one it is. Little bouts of anarchy like this show The Powers that Be that there is such a thing as an internet community who does not take slimey practices (such as the Verisign search, remember?) lightly.
It keeps commercialism in check. And that is a Good Thing (TM).
All night long on the broken glass
livin in a medicine chest
mediteromanian hotel back
sprawled across a roll top desk
the monkey rode the blade on an
overhead fan
they paint the donkey blue if you pay
I got a telephone call from Istanbul
my baby's coming home today
will you sell me one of those if I shave my head
get me out of town is what fireball said
never trust a man in a blue trench coat
never drive a car when you're dead
Saturday's a festival
Friday's a gem
dye your hair yellow
and raise your hem
follow me to beulah's on
dry creek road
I got to wear the hat that my baby done sewed
take me down to buy a tux
on red rose bear
got to cut a hole in the day
I got a telephone call from Istanbul
my baby's coming home today
I'm not sure about german law, but I think it's not a common lnaw system like the british/american system. That is, the decisions of judges don't have much impact on future judicial decisions. There is no 'quoting the xxx vs xxx trial of 19xx' in most legal systems. Since brazilian law students read a lot of german philosophy of law, I would guess they're in the same tradition we are.
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How many people thought this was an interesting AI-based computer virus, perhaps employing genetic algorithms?
Neural nets are an actual indirect application of neuroscience to marketing. Uh, they _are_ inspired in the brain, you know.
For those on the outside, uh, neural nets are structured compositions of nonlinear activation functions that can represent with an arbitrary precision a wide class of mappings between two hypercubes of arbitrary dimension.
Uh, neural nets learn stuff by example. Like bayesian spam filters, only better & smarter.
So, given vital stats from a sample population and a human-produced classification of those people, the neural net can generalize that info.
It's a very interesting field, and very underemployed by open source hackers in their hacking.
It isn't, precisely because it's an inferior version of what is already available.
It gives people the general idea that open source = inferior.
While I'm not particularly fond of word processors either, MS Office is a great productivity suite that gets things done in minutes.
(I love the smell of karma in the morning) It's NOT "wrong" to use proprietary software, specially if data is released to the general public in more open (CSV/RTF/HTML) formats. I mean, time _is_ money, you know.
I just wish the best libertarian minds (Gary Becker, Jim Buchanan, Eddy Prescott) and all hadn't sold out to Bush.
Oh hell, it's off-topic, so sue me.
If one wants to post an open source guy, it'd really have to be Bruce Perens or ESR.
Nah, RMS ain't no agenda setter, he's a raving lunatic.
You really shouldnt place commentary on a story title, unless it's an "its funny, laugh" one.
Oh, by the way, everyone who has a slashdot account should go to their preferences and set the "light" layout. You wont suffer with the bad color schemes anymore, and the results are more printer-friendly too.
Statistical estimators being broadcasted without sample variances, t-stats or significance tests.
I mean, would it KILL them to print a standard coefficient table or equation?
Disclaimer: Yes, I teach econometrics.
Why is coffee so popular?
We're just not physically constructed so to endure 8+ daily hours of work.
Just look at any other animal.
Is it just me or Wired is to the internet geek culture as Playboy is to women's liberation movement?
In any case, "email" makes sense; it's no longer electronic mail, analog to the postal mail - it's something entirely different, a platform for multi-user discussion, push content, information retrieval (auto-responders, Agora, etc.), and, yes, as one of its many uses, personal one-on-one communication!
Mac users like/can pay for stuff.
:)
Beginning with their ridiculously overpriced PPC's, to iTunes, shareware software...
Your typical Linux geek or Windows pirate isn't really used to the concept of "paying for computer stuff". He just downloads it. Can it work?
Then again, good weblogs can lead to dead-trees publishing deals. I hope someone will pick me up some time
My el-cheapo Nokia 1800 does that. Then again, it's very simple, but it has an option so that no money-costing message ever gets sent without double confirmation.
Usability-wise, KDE gives OS X a run for its money. Provided that everything works (it won't "just work", and you'll have to hack it into doing its job), it's the best GUI I've ever worked with.
:-O
Yes, it's essentially the only alternative for people who expect an actual GUI that makes them productive. Gnome is ok for the geekier, and I myself am a fluxbox user, but KDE is the only thing I would put "normal" people onto.
Now, KDE is HEAVY, even compiled for a specific architecture. WinXP severely outperforms Linux 2.6+Xorg+KDE. And, yep, Fluxbox ain't a WinXP killer
I want to propose a toast to the Borland Sidekick, one of the first programs to exploit an undocumented feature of MS-DOS called "Terminate and Stay Resident". While the killer app of the PC revolution is the spreadsheet, this one played a great role too.
... *sigh*
Ah, the memoriesf the TSR era
Someone wondered if Linux would ever get certified as an UNIX.
Well, this is a true Unix getting certified as a Linux!
We are actually winning. Amazing.
But I am an optimist!
There is a downside to such attacks as they harm business trust on the internet and large capital investments to the infrastructure and R&D and all. But it also has an upside, and a important one it is. Little bouts of anarchy like this show The Powers that Be that there is such a thing as an internet community who does not take slimey practices (such as the Verisign search, remember?) lightly.
It keeps commercialism in check. And that is a Good Thing (TM).
The Carnegie-Mellon University finally invented Clippy!!!
Way to go.
All night long on the broken glass
livin in a medicine chest
mediteromanian hotel back
sprawled across a roll top desk
the monkey rode the blade on an
overhead fan
they paint the donkey blue if you pay
I got a telephone call from Istanbul
my baby's coming home today
will you sell me one of those if I shave my head
get me out of town is what fireball said
never trust a man in a blue trench coat
never drive a car when you're dead
Saturday's a festival
Friday's a gem
dye your hair yellow
and raise your hem
follow me to beulah's on
dry creek road
I got to wear the hat that my baby done sewed
take me down to buy a tux
on red rose bear
got to cut a hole in the day
I got a telephone call from Istanbul
my baby's coming home today
1. Sell OS
2. ALlow OS to ddos competitor search engine
3. ???
Google-owned Orkut is okay.
:)
Oh, by the way, join my Orkut community "Geek Pride"
It ain't got a fancy Creative Commons license, but the kid is alright.
Linky.
I particularly recommend "I couldn't find her heart" and "Alarm in the graduate school".
What about the rest of slashdotters? Non-RIAA independently released music you thoroughly enjoy?
Yes, capitalism _will_ solve hunger in Africa.
(And cut the 419 jokes, already. Christ, so obvious)
I'm not sure about german law, but I think it's not a common lnaw system like the british/american system. That is, the decisions of judges don't have much impact on future judicial decisions. There is no 'quoting the xxx vs xxx trial of 19xx' in most legal systems. Since brazilian law students read a lot of german philosophy of law, I would guess they're in the same tradition we are.
I mean, sheesh, with the internet, this is much less of a problem. Just stop listening to major label music and support independent artists.
Will Larry the cow be satisfied with the state of current Linux distributions?
Will there be APT (the package management system with Super Moo Powers) repositories in this?