But the research in the article is pretty lame indeed - I have seen expiring Bayesian classifiers before, the only thing that I find interesting there is the use of word sequencing to reduce the feature vectors, but the paper is short of the details of automation of sequence selection which is a major reason why that process is quite underused currently.
The real precision of current good Bayesian filtering is close to the precission of a human filter - from 80 to 90 percent. There are newest advances in natural language processing (word sequence processing) and neural and functional text classfifcation areas (support vector machines with nonlinear kernels) that can get spam classification precision up to 99 percent. It might not be too much for spam, BUT when you transfer the same knoledge to other areas of text classification 99 percent of binary classfication precision turns into 80 precent of precision when classifying into 5 categories.
There is a lot of research in this area - I am actually doing it now.
Well, I do not know about modern church leaders, but I am quite sure that Christ and Mohammad would both be wise enough to come to a common ground if they met. After all they seemed to have the same god. It is just that that god had different plans of life for different geographical areas. I mean, what is the point of preaching about means of survival on an iceberg when your people are in a dessert?
It is just now both religions have gone global, which they were not designed to do. Covering your face works well in a dessert storm, but is quite useless in forrests of central europe.
I was the one doing the interview. I must say that Ted was clearly trying to make his arguments look as reasonable as possible and was (barely) succseeding at it, but even I was dissappointed at his attitude at the conference itself. What should have been an event for him to show up as a resonable man that people can chat with and have fun with turned out to become a farce. He managed to piss off enough people by almost everything he did or said. That is a rare talent. He actually managed to even piss me off which I considered to be impossible before that. You can read my account of that day here: http://www.aigarius.com/2006/05/27/debconf6-day-5. html
Acctually in one of the episodes of LUGRadio the top Open Source strategy guy from Sun stated that the main goal for Sun is to eventually make all their software products Open Source.
And the right software to read ebooks in Palm is the GPL ReadThemAll with the killer spotlight autoscroll feature with which I read many ebooks on my Treo. I have blogged about that recently: http://www.aigarius.com/2006/03/11/readthemall-gpl -book.html
There was not so much a problem of referies trowing this specific game, but more of the game in general being so abitrary that I really wonder why anyone except lawyer still watch that sport!
Please use BSD for that. Linux is GPL'd for a reason, even if Linus does not know it. There is allmost no comercial backing of the more commercial-frendly BSD licences. Why is it? Because more enforced freedom to all users is the most effective way in the long term and businesses know that.
I am pretty sure that what you actually want is to get access to DRM-protected content, preferably without any of those strange restrictions that DRM treis to enforce on it. It is not the DRM that people want, it is the content!
I am sure that Linux will be switched over to GPLv3 less then 6 months after GPLv3 is actually released in its final form. The issues that Linux and some others are bringing up are mostly their misunderstanding of what is acually said in GPLv3 and how it corelates with the DMCA and case law of USA and with laws in other countries. NOTHING in GPLv3 disallows implementing DRM with GPLv3 code. However there are some extra provisions that insure that if such implementations are made, the right to change that code (which is one of the most protected rights in the context of the GPL) can not be taken away from the users by a means of a DMCA-based lawsuits. Oh, and if you make hardware and sell it to the users, please do not restrict what code users can use on that hardware, or if you do, please do it without using our (GPLv3'd) code. That is the TiVo scenario - the TiVo has sold a person a computer, but it uses a technical provision to deny thoses people an ability to execude their programms on the hardware. They might not be able to give us some services if our software does not work like theirs does or they would surely not support software problems in our software, but it is not right to use our code and then lock it from us in a box that we paid for.
I think that once the GPLv3 is polished a bit more and once someone explains all the provision of the GPLv3 and corresponding laws to the LKML people in ways that they will understand, the move to GPLv3 will be unobstructed (maybe except for by a few people who wish they would be writing code for BSD anyway).
At that point opening a Linux 3.0 branch with GPLv3 clean code only would be most reasonable thing to do.
Stalled in the stoneage? It's amazing how if people have to look in a different menu for a feature, it doesn't exist.
* support for high bit colors, so that one can open RAW files directly and edit them at full power. * all filters as layers, so that you can put a 20-30 layers on the picture, see the result and then go back to the third filter you put on it and tweak some setting of that filter there * smart sharpening and noise removal with profilization for a specific digital camera, scanner or film type * multifile save - have a primary document in xcf format and several secondary documents with, for example, three different jpegs with different sive and compression levels, so that when you press save for the primary document, the secondaries are automatically updated * batch processing mode including RAW support
Some of this is in Photoshop, some of it is in Photoshop supporting tools. GIMP is a bit stale in comparison.
(Note: I am a very enthusiastic FLOSS advocate, but I do not go against the facts.)
GPL has never been designed to be a business friendly licence. It has been designed to protect user rights. And that is exactly what it is doing. Businessmen found another way to restrict user rights and the GPL v3 found another way to protect them.
If you want a business friendly licence, go with BSD.
Democrats do too, but not as good as the Republicans...
It really is time for a third party to rise in USA, you know someone that would value the civil liberties and separation of church and state. Nowadays Democrats are just a bit less conservative, they are really polluting their own electorat with those stupid Republican ideas that, for example, a good polititian must be a god fearing Christian:P
You mean like the end of Buffy season 5 and cosequental ressurection in season 6? Now there is a series with a great ending! (and post-ending, remember how Angel and Spike were looking for Buffy after the end in the last season of 'Angel'?)
But since money usually rules such decisions, without software patents you'll tend to get a lot of secretive inventions and methods, and less overall innovation because people can't build on each others' work.
Total bullshit! If the idea is implemented in a product, you cann't hide it anymore. However you can protect it by patent, thus barring anyone the possibility to build on your work. (Or event just repeat your work).
If you do like the band (I have not listened to it yet), please consider a PayPal donation that is linked from their site - in this way, more money will get directly to the band.
Monday: Excited!!! My master turned me on!!! Tuesday: Excited!!! My master found my pink ball in the packaging!!!... Thursday: Excited!!! My master found my charger in the packaging!!! Friday: Excited!!! A girl came to my master, she thought that I was cute!!! The master told her how much I cost to him!!! I couldn't undersand what they were saying afterwards because my microphone was overloaded. But I am sti excited!!! Saturday: Excited!!! I am driving in a car with my master, ball and charger!!! Sunday: Excited!!! My master brought my for a walk in a dumster and now we are playing hide&seek, my master is very good at hiding!!!
x86 is now tring for several years to make a transition to 64bit architecture. How do you think what is holding it back? Windows and all other commercial software that must be recompiled to gain the benefits. (Oh and OpenOffice.org too:P)
hmm, i must say those two questions are really great stuff. I have interviewed people for a software company work and I must agree with a post before me - creative thinking is essential for a developer. You can learn new language in a week. You can *not* learn to think creatively in less then a few years.
Slashdot Mirror
But the research in the article is pretty lame indeed - I have seen expiring Bayesian classifiers before, the only thing that I find interesting there is the use of word sequencing to reduce the feature vectors, but the paper is short of the details of automation of sequence selection which is a major reason why that process is quite underused currently.
The real precision of current good Bayesian filtering is close to the precission of a human filter - from 80 to 90 percent. There are newest advances in natural language processing (word sequence processing) and neural and functional text classfifcation areas (support vector machines with nonlinear kernels) that can get spam classification precision up to 99 percent. It might not be too much for spam, BUT when you transfer the same knoledge to other areas of text classification 99 percent of binary classfication precision turns into 80 precent of precision when classifying into 5 categories.
There is a lot of research in this area - I am actually doing it now.
Well, I do not know about modern church leaders, but I am quite sure that Christ and Mohammad would both be wise enough to come to a common ground if they met. After all they seemed to have the same god. It is just that that god had different plans of life for different geographical areas. I mean, what is the point of preaching about means of survival on an iceberg when your people are in a dessert?
It is just now both religions have gone global, which they were not designed to do. Covering your face works well in a dessert storm, but is quite useless in forrests of central europe.
Take a look at Japanese tv series "The Train Man" = "Densha Otaku" there something very like Slashdot is giving dating advise.
I was the one doing the interview. I must say that Ted was clearly trying to make his arguments look as reasonable as possible and was (barely) succseeding at it, but even I was dissappointed at his attitude at the conference itself. What should have been an event for him to show up as a resonable man that people can chat with and have fun with turned out to become a farce.. html
He managed to piss off enough people by almost everything he did or said. That is a rare talent. He actually managed to even piss me off which I considered to be impossible before that.
You can read my account of that day here: http://www.aigarius.com/2006/05/27/debconf6-day-5
Acctually in one of the episodes of LUGRadio the top Open Source strategy guy from Sun stated that the main goal for Sun is to eventually make all their software products Open Source.
Doh .. you just do not have the right software.
l -book.html
And the right software to read ebooks in Palm is the GPL ReadThemAll with the killer spotlight autoscroll feature with which I read many ebooks on my Treo. I have blogged about that recently: http://www.aigarius.com/2006/03/11/readthemall-gp
There was not so much a problem of referies trowing this specific game, but more of the game in general being so abitrary that I really wonder why anyone except lawyer still watch that sport!
h tml
More: http://www.aigarius.com/2006/02/08/superballbowl.
Please use BSD for that.
Linux is GPL'd for a reason, even if Linus does not know it. There is allmost no comercial backing of the more commercial-frendly BSD licences. Why is it? Because more enforced freedom to all users is the most effective way in the long term and businesses know that.
I am pretty sure that what you actually want is to get access to DRM-protected content, preferably without any of those strange restrictions that DRM treis to enforce on it. It is not the DRM that people want, it is the content!
I am sure that Linux will be switched over to GPLv3 less then 6 months after GPLv3 is actually released in its final form. The issues that Linux and some others are bringing up are mostly their misunderstanding of what is acually said in GPLv3 and how it corelates with the DMCA and case law of USA and with laws in other countries.
NOTHING in GPLv3 disallows implementing DRM with GPLv3 code. However there are some extra provisions that insure that if such implementations are made, the right to change that code (which is one of the most protected rights in the context of the GPL) can not be taken away from the users by a means of a DMCA-based lawsuits.
Oh, and if you make hardware and sell it to the users, please do not restrict what code users can use on that hardware, or if you do, please do it without using our (GPLv3'd) code. That is the TiVo scenario - the TiVo has sold a person a computer, but it uses a technical provision to deny thoses people an ability to execude their programms on the hardware. They might not be able to give us some services if our software does not work like theirs does or they would surely not support software problems in our software, but it is not right to use our code and then lock it from us in a box that we paid for.
I think that once the GPLv3 is polished a bit more and once someone explains all the provision of the GPLv3 and corresponding laws to the LKML people in ways that they will understand, the move to GPLv3 will be unobstructed (maybe except for by a few people who wish they would be writing code for BSD anyway).
At that point opening a Linux 3.0 branch with GPLv3 clean code only would be most reasonable thing to do.
* support for high bit colors, so that one can open RAW files directly and edit them at full power.
* all filters as layers, so that you can put a 20-30 layers on the picture, see the result and then go back to the third filter you put on it and tweak some setting of that filter there
* smart sharpening and noise removal with profilization for a specific digital camera, scanner or film type
* multifile save - have a primary document in xcf format and several secondary documents with, for example, three different jpegs with different sive and compression levels, so that when you press save for the primary document, the secondaries are automatically updated
* batch processing mode including RAW support
Some of this is in Photoshop, some of it is in Photoshop supporting tools. GIMP is a bit stale in comparison.
(Note: I am a very enthusiastic FLOSS advocate, but I do not go against the facts.)
GPL has never been designed to be a business friendly licence. It has been designed to protect user rights. And that is exactly what it is doing. Businessmen found another way to restrict user rights and the GPL v3 found another way to protect them.
If you want a business friendly licence, go with BSD.
Democrats do too, but not as good as the Republicans ...
:P
It really is time for a third party to rise in USA, you know someone that would value the civil liberties and separation of church and state. Nowadays Democrats are just a bit less conservative, they are really polluting their own electorat with those stupid Republican ideas that, for example, a good polititian must be a god fearing Christian
As a figter against software patents I have now some experience reading legal documents and here is what I think of this one.
r st-gplv3-draft.html
http://aigarius.blogspot.com/2006/01/ok-i-read-fi
You mean like the end of Buffy season 5 and cosequental ressurection in season 6? Now there is a series with a great ending! (and post-ending, remember how Angel and Spike were looking for Buffy after the end in the last season of 'Angel'?)
Blind obedience is a rotten idea. "I was just following orders" is never an excuse. If somebody tells you to do something bad, don't do it.
Even if they show you 1,438,398,392 links to pages that explain that it is good and not bad?
But since money usually rules such decisions, without software patents you'll tend to get a lot of secretive inventions and methods, and less overall innovation because people can't build on each others' work.
Total bullshit! If the idea is implemented in a product, you cann't hide it anymore. However you can protect it by patent, thus barring anyone the possibility to build on your work. (Or event just repeat your work).
apt-cache is the answer.
If you do like the band (I have not listened to it yet), please consider a PayPal donation that is linked from their site - in this way, more money will get directly to the band.
Summary of AIBO blog.
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Monday: Excited!!! My master turned me on!!!
Tuesday: Excited!!! My master found my pink ball in the packaging!!!
Thursday: Excited!!! My master found my charger in the packaging!!!
Friday: Excited!!! A girl came to my master, she thought that I was cute!!! The master told her how much I cost to him!!! I couldn't undersand what they were saying afterwards because my microphone was overloaded. But I am sti excited!!!
Saturday: Excited!!! I am driving in a car with my master, ball and charger!!!
Sunday: Excited!!! My master brought my for a walk in a dumster and now we are playing hide&seek, my master is very good at hiding!!!
x86 is now tring for several years to make a transition to 64bit architecture. How do you think what is holding it back? :P)
Windows and all other commercial software that must be recompiled to gain the benefits. (Oh and OpenOffice.org too
Read up, boy. The hard-drive version will come with Linux preinstalled.
I just hope that it is also Buzzword Resistant...
hmm, i must say those two questions are really great stuff.
I have interviewed people for a software company work and I must agree with a post before me - creative thinking is essential for a developer. You can learn new language in a week. You can *not* learn to think creatively in less then a few years.