I was hoping this version would finally get support to render non-Latin based scripts, to make the platform interesting beyond Europe & US. But it does not appear to have made it into this release (though users do get the ability to switch input locales, but only as long as the script is Latin based). Bummer! Apart from the obvious 'are we still in the 70s?' kwetch, this feature would make the platform so interesting for bespoke app development...
I think you you should credit the committee with at least a little wisdom - of course the prize is political (and always has been) and they have made wrong calls in the past.
But in this particular instance, given the timing of the announcement, my reading is that the intention is to pin down the US administration at Copenhagen - i.e. take away the convenient excuse that US has to be a jerk on climate issues because the administration does not have the political capital at home to implement meaningful reforms. The Scandinavians are essentially saying, "We have helped you the best we could - literally". Now stop waving your dick in the air.
Isn't the European climate delegation headed by a Danish minister (with one of the sexiest English accents of any politician, imo)?
I know from multiple sources that all the buildings were actually painted in bright colours (before the fell into disrepair, obviously), and archaeologists know what the colours were, from the remnants of pigments.
I was hoping this reconstruction would be more than just white and beige marble veneer...
search cuil on there, and first page has:
Properties for sale in Cuil Mhuine, Ireland - Properazzi
Wholinks2me Cuil Aodha
Chase Around The Windmill: Toss The Feathers/Ballinasloe...
Cuil Darach Lounge and Bar restaurant in Clones at...
but no search engine by that name.
The "proof" is that of Theorem 7.3 page 29 in Li's paper, but I stopped reading it when I saw that he is extending the test function h from ideles to adeles by 0 outside ideles and then using Fourier transform (see page 31).
Well, I submitted this 3 days ago but I guess CmdrTaco wanted to write an original post.
One of the suggestions I had:
if you have AVG 8 installed on your machine, why don't you search this a few times, so AVG can taste their own medicine:
I read on their FAQ that TBB requires 512MB to run, though they recommend 1GB. This appears to be very high, especially when compared to Boost.Threads etc. I can't think of a reason why they need to allocate this much - and it would probably be a problem for consumer applications.
Also from the FAQ, the so-called concurrent containers still need to be locked before access. So no change from normal STL containers there.
But I will download it just for the memory allocator they supply, since it can be plugged into STL, and claims to hand out cache-aligned memory. It can apparently be built independently of the rest of TBB.
The glasses will let the wearer instantly change the color of their lenses to virtually any hue by tuning a tiny electronic knob in the frame. I suspect that these will be used mainly to camouflage tiny biological knobs that cause so much anxiety in rich men of a certain age.
try Wt. It is like GWT without Java - uses standard C++ and the only essential dependencies are boost & Xerces. Doesn't have Google pushing it, but is being actively developed. I bet it can beat the pants off GWT for server-side performance, besides being architecturally modern (uses boost signal-socket library for both client and server based event handling). Another nice feature is that it degrades gracefully - defaults to DHTML if browser can't do AJAX.
'cos I vaguely recollect Bible mentioning something along these lines... ah, just confirmed it. But it seems Jewish religion is even more unequivocal on this, so maybe it is the Israeli lobby upto its old tricks again.
Maybe one of you Americans can enlighten me on this: why do you need voting machines so much that you have been trying to make them work in spite of all the problems? What is the problem they are meant to solve? The whole world votes by marking slips of paper, that are counted n times by different volunteers under controlled conditions & counts cross-checked to guard against errors, and there is a recount if the ballot is close. The system works, is reliable, accountable, is amenable to auditing etc. What is the problem voting machines are trying to solve?
Is it that it that Americans are so busy pursuing liberty, happiness, American dream, evil-doers or whatever that there are never enough to volunteer to count the votes? Is it that the no amount of oversight over humans by humans can ever gurantee 100% accuracy? Is it that touch screens just seem like the way to go in the 21st century?
If there is one thing I have learnt in this industry, it is that computer systems do not scale beyond a point (which is much lower than the volume/complexity required when you take whole populations into account), notwithstanding the hype by the likes of Accenture etc. For example, you can consider any government project to 'modernize' large departments. In the UK, I can reel off so many: court records, post office, health service - all of them unqualified disasters. And ID card scheme is supposed to be massively over budget as well... good for the vendors, I guess.
Dasher is very different from T9.
T9 is basically a lexicon lookup system, and has to be abandoned for words not
in the dictionary. Dasher lets the user write any string in the language,
though some are considered more likely than others. There is a good analysis
of T9 here.
Dasher does not constrain the writer.Dasher calculates the
likelihood of symbols in the string based on the patterns it sees in the symbols
of a training corpus. This allows the program to be tailored for various applications.
(e.g. train it on a corpus of 10000 text messages, & itll strt 2 ryt lyk dis
tho ppl cud stl ryt prpr nglsh. gr8.).
Statistical modelling does not enforce
anything. I suspect that the intent behind the statement about
'correctness' is that spellings present in the training corpus will be
preferred. For example, a dasher user is unlikekly to misspell 'receipt'
(assuming that the word appears in the training text) because once you 'rec'
has been written, 'ei...' will be shown with a higher probability than
'ie'.
Apropos does not aim to replace
TeX. The intent of the two programs is different: Tex is a
typesetting program, geared towards representing the notation of
mathematics, while Apropos uses MathML in order to capture the meaning of
mathematical expressions. Apropos does display the notation to the
user, but only because people use notation to understand mathematics. Meaning
of a mathematical expression is independent of the notation (e.g. f'(x)
vs. df(x)/dx), and humans use a lot of context to parse notation.
This is why conversion from Content MathML to TeX (and other display formats)
is straightforward, but TeX to Content MathML is ambiguous.
Apropos' model operates at a higher
level thancharacters or words. Apropos predicts based on
the grammar of Content MathML. It does not 'exploit' the redundancy in the
syntax of XML - that should be obvious by trying it out once. It does not ask
the user to create symbols of XML, rather it aids in constructing the
mathematical expression by representing it as a (prefix) tree. So there is no
question of Apropos predictions being based on inefficiencies in
XML.
Finally, both Dasher & Apropos do not
try to stifle creativity, free speech, geekiness or bad spelling.
(well, maybe bad spelling). They are only designed to seek out redundancies in
languages and exploit them to make repetitive tasks a little
easier.
Please read my report for a detailed description of how Apropos works. I have contrasted the system with both T9 & TeX.
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I was hoping this version would finally get support to render non-Latin based scripts, to make the platform interesting beyond Europe & US.
But it does not appear to have made it into this release (though users do get the ability to switch input locales, but only as long as the script is Latin based).
Bummer!
Apart from the obvious 'are we still in the 70s?' kwetch, this feature would make the platform so interesting for bespoke app development...
I think you you should credit the committee with at least a little wisdom - of course the prize is political (and always has been) and they have made wrong calls in the past.
But in this particular instance, given the timing of the announcement, my reading is that the intention is to pin down the US administration at Copenhagen - i.e. take away the convenient excuse that US has to be a jerk on climate issues because the administration does not have the political capital at home to implement meaningful reforms. The Scandinavians are essentially saying, "We have helped you the best we could - literally". Now stop waving your dick in the air.
Isn't the European climate delegation headed by a Danish minister (with one of the sexiest English accents of any politician, imo)?
I know from multiple sources that all the buildings were actually painted in bright colours (before the fell into disrepair, obviously), and archaeologists know what the colours were, from the remnants of pigments. I was hoping this reconstruction would be more than just white and beige marble veneer...
Who better than an ex-beauty queen to deliver world peace? Now is her chance to prove that she wasn't just saying it at the pageant.
search cuil on there, and first page has: Properties for sale in Cuil Mhuine, Ireland - Properazzi Wholinks2me Cuil Aodha Chase Around The Windmill: Toss The Feathers/Ballinasloe ...
Cuil Darach Lounge and Bar restaurant in Clones at ...
but no search engine by that name.
me too.
Well, I submitted this 3 days ago but I guess CmdrTaco wanted to write an original post. One of the suggestions I had: if you have AVG 8 installed on your machine, why don't you search this a few times, so AVG can taste their own medicine:
I read on their FAQ that TBB requires 512MB to run, though they recommend 1GB. This appears to be very high, especially when compared to Boost.Threads etc. I can't think of a reason why they need to allocate this much - and it would probably be a problem for consumer applications.
Also from the FAQ, the so-called concurrent containers still need to be locked before access. So no change from normal STL containers there.
But I will download it just for the memory allocator they supply, since it can be plugged into STL, and claims to hand out cache-aligned memory. It can apparently be built independently of the rest of TBB.
Is there a relevance to the display of ignorance in the title?
try Wt. It is like GWT without Java - uses standard C++ and the only essential dependencies are boost & Xerces. Doesn't have Google pushing it, but is being actively developed. I bet it can beat the pants off GWT for server-side performance, besides being architecturally modern (uses boost signal-socket library for both client and server based event handling). Another nice feature is that it degrades gracefully - defaults to DHTML if browser can't do AJAX.
'cos I vaguely recollect Bible mentioning something along these lines ... ah, just confirmed it. But it seems Jewish religion is even more unequivocal on this, so maybe it is the Israeli lobby upto its old tricks again.
Maybe one of you Americans can enlighten me on this: why do you need voting machines so much that you have been trying to make them work in spite of all the problems? What is the problem they are meant to solve? The whole world votes by marking slips of paper, that are counted n times by different volunteers under controlled conditions & counts cross-checked to guard against errors, and there is a recount if the ballot is close. The system works, is reliable, accountable, is amenable to auditing etc. What is the problem voting machines are trying to solve? Is it that it that Americans are so busy pursuing liberty, happiness, American dream, evil-doers or whatever that there are never enough to volunteer to count the votes? Is it that the no amount of oversight over humans by humans can ever gurantee 100% accuracy? Is it that touch screens just seem like the way to go in the 21st century? If there is one thing I have learnt in this industry, it is that computer systems do not scale beyond a point (which is much lower than the volume/complexity required when you take whole populations into account), notwithstanding the hype by the likes of Accenture etc. For example, you can consider any government project to 'modernize' large departments. In the UK, I can reel off so many: court records, post office, health service - all of them unqualified disasters. And ID card scheme is supposed to be massively over budget as well... good for the vendors, I guess.
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Please read my report for a detailed description of how Apropos works. I have contrasted the system with both T9 & TeX.