I've always enjoyed reading about AI, and like many here have done some experiments on my own time.
This week I've been looking for a simple state modeling language, for use in fairly simple processes, that would tie into some AI.
I wasn't really that impressed with anything I found, so when I saw the headline, I jumped to read the article.
Unfortunately, this is a step in the right direction, but not all that clear to write or maintain, and probably too complex for what I need to do.
The cleanest model to do these types of things I've found is the 1896 edition of Lewis Caroll's Symbolic Logic. (Yes, the same Lewis Caroll that wrote Alice in Wonderland).
Meh. China discovered the industrial revolution 150 years after everyone else did, and they think they invented it.
The average income is about $100, and most of the country is poor. That's not a superpower.
The US not only recognizes Taiwan, it has created a legal obligation to protect it. It recently sold billions in arms to Taiwan (NOT China), in fact China was opposed to the sale. It has it's own flag, sends people to the Olympics. It makes it's own laws. China has no say it Taiwain's internal or international diplomacy. To get from Taiwan to China, you need a Visa, and you couldn't fly (until recently) or ferry directly. Taiwan has it's own military. The CIA World Factbook classifies Taiwan as it's own country.
Just because China keeps repeating a lie, and some are hesitant to correct them every single time they say it, doesn't make it the truth.
They identify the features of a product, translate that into an advantage, then translate that into a benefit.
People buy benefits, they don't buy features (most people anyway).
So, if you have some commercial software package that zips the reports, it might go like this:
Feature: zip tool
Advantage: compress and encrypt
Benefit: Secure and quickly transmit your reports
In this case, they're trying to justify their Geek setup services:
Feature: 3d glasses delivery and setup
Advantage: not worrying about compatibility
Benefit: Sync your 3D glasses to your TV
Sure, it's not accurate, but marketing people don't always know the fine details of what they are talking about. If they did, they would be techies.
As programmers/developers/techies, we hate to deal in Benefits. They are so hard to quantify and define. We like to deal in features, which can be validated (it's there and it works, or it's not there or doesn't work).
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I've never though that blood at the scene means you were at the scene, or that you did a crime that was committed at that location.
Thanks!
... it gets covered in Slashdot.
Ran out of mod points today, sorry.
But I agree with your post and points.
NOTHING moves too quickly at a University without getting shot at.
Almost. Helpful.
I've always enjoyed reading about AI, and like many here have done some experiments on my own time.
This week I've been looking for a simple state modeling language, for use in fairly simple processes, that would tie into some AI.
I wasn't really that impressed with anything I found, so when I saw the headline, I jumped to read the article.
Unfortunately, this is a step in the right direction, but not all that clear to write or maintain, and probably too complex for what I need to do.
The cleanest model to do these types of things I've found is the 1896 edition of Lewis Caroll's Symbolic Logic. (Yes, the same Lewis Caroll that wrote Alice in Wonderland).
A large point of the story was the development, by Google and Adobe, of a new standard for creating plugins.
Did anyone else find this the most interesting part of the story?
At least explain WHO is planning on exploiting the data, HOW they are going to do it, and WHY.
See the difference?
I like a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, but this is a stretch.
Participating in the census is a constitutional responsibility.
All you do by not participating is waste taxpayer dollars on people who will come around and collect the information anyway.
At least explain WHO is planning on exploiting the data, HOW they are going to do it, and WHY.
In business, you pick to release information when it is most advantageous to you.
Even if there are plans to move this stuff, there's NO advantage to having it released now, so deny it.
The Indian PM was out of line mentioning it to the press.
SS money is put in special issue treasury bonds. All the money is accounted for.
Should the treasury need to repay those bonds. Well, then there might be some trouble.
At least until the baby boomers die off.
One of the most powerful countries?
Meh. China discovered the industrial revolution 150 years after everyone else did, and they think they invented it.
The average income is about $100, and most of the country is poor. That's not a superpower.
The US not only recognizes Taiwan, it has created a legal obligation to protect it. It recently sold billions in arms to Taiwan (NOT China), in fact China was opposed to the sale. It has it's own flag, sends people to the Olympics. It makes it's own laws. China has no say it Taiwain's internal or international diplomacy. To get from Taiwan to China, you need a Visa, and you couldn't fly (until recently) or ferry directly. Taiwan has it's own military. The CIA World Factbook classifies Taiwan as it's own country.
Just because China keeps repeating a lie, and some are hesitant to correct them every single time they say it, doesn't make it the truth.
Taiwan != China
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tw.html
You have yet to give me a good reason why it is complicated. It is really simple. Perhaps uncomfortable for some. But simple.
It's not complicated.
Taiwan is it's own country by all measures except that China still thinks it has a right to it.
No one outside China thinks Taiwan is part of China.
Try reading something other that Chinese source-free propaganda posted to Wikipedia.
If I had 25 billion invested in china and was going to move it to India in phases, I would deny it, too.
That's simply ridiculous.
Census data is important, and feeds into all sorts of local, state, and federal decision making, as well as projects in the private sector.
You think government is inefficient now, just imagine if it had NO IDEA where its people lived within the borders.
Besides, voter registration databases have more incriminating data, and they are available to anyone running for office.
Uh. Not treating their syphilis so we could study the effects on the human body.
Kind of a famous example of bad science.
Yeah, we did a lot of crazy things in the 40's. Misuse of census data, treatment of japanese americans, tuskegee airmen.
What the @ssholes who are spouting this propaganda forget is there ARE privacy laws in place to prevent misuse of data.
It IS illegal to do now in ways it WASN'T then.
Yeah, and drinking Dr. Pepper won't REALLY make you a doctor.
Here's how marketing people work...
They identify the features of a product, translate that into an advantage, then translate that into a benefit.
People buy benefits, they don't buy features (most people anyway).
So, if you have some commercial software package that zips the reports, it might go like this:
Feature: zip tool
Advantage: compress and encrypt
Benefit: Secure and quickly transmit your reports
In this case, they're trying to justify their Geek setup services:
Feature: 3d glasses delivery and setup
Advantage: not worrying about compatibility
Benefit: Sync your 3D glasses to your TV
Sure, it's not accurate, but marketing people don't always know the fine details of what they are talking about. If they did, they would be techies.
As programmers/developers/techies, we hate to deal in Benefits. They are so hard to quantify and define. We like to deal in features, which can be validated (it's there and it works, or it's not there or doesn't work).
It's time we had a more legal distinction between an Invention and a Discovery.
You should not be able to patent discoveries.
That was passed as part of the patriot act?
???
If I wanted to read chinese propagada, I would go to the source:
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/
1) A crisp blank sheet of paper is the greatest design tool ever invented.
2) Most computer applications don't support the many-to-many relationships with the same ease physical mediums do.
It is this one.