This reminds of that somewhat-well-known story which Skiena tells in one of his books.
The story's about neural networks, it tells about a military system which had a neural network program which was supposed to be able to distinguish between images of tanks and images of regular cars. They trained the network with their trainining input sets, and after some training, it was working for those.
When they started using the system in real life, it was a complete disaster... After some investigation, they concluded that the pictures they used to train the network were the guilty party - the car pictures were all taken on a rainy day, and the tank pictures were all taken on a sunny day. Conclusion - the network was distinguishing between cars and tanks based on the light present in the scene:)
A minute has passed and I can still see the damn circle even though I'm (obviously) no longer looking at it.../me prepares to enter the porn business with a possibly very new business concept:)
Geez, some really creepy stuff there. Kinda opens our eyes to the real world that we have:
- Companies bribing politicians in order not to pay taxes (hurts everyone, obviously) - lots of companies gaining advantage of Iraq's war by rebuilding the country
Good thing that you don't have your email address displayed... You wouldn't want dozens of overweight geeks hitting on you constantly for the next few days:)
I was playing with words but to just show what I thought - even if hacking wasn't widespread, it would still be insecure to leave important information unprotected...
If there were no hackers, there could still be at most one hacker, who would take advantage of this.
Yes, my above response is ridiculed but I think you get the point. Even if hacking wasn't a widespread activity, it wouldn't be a good idea to let the systems be vulnerable.
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Have you ever heard of exponential technological evolution?
Well, our amazement factor with new technology could be logarithmic too in order to compensate, but I don't think so:)
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If you mean that the images don't even load, yes. But it only happens in one of my pc's, it's really weird!!
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Offtopic? Please...
It's kinda hard to karma whore when your karma is at Excellent...
This reminds of that somewhat-well-known story which Skiena tells in one of his books.
:)
The story's about neural networks, it tells about a military system which had a neural network program which was supposed to be able to distinguish between images of tanks and images of regular cars. They trained the network with their trainining input sets, and after some training, it was working for those.
When they started using the system in real life, it was a complete disaster... After some investigation, they concluded that the pictures they used to train the network were the guilty party - the car pictures were all taken on a rainy day, and the tank pictures were all taken on a sunny day. Conclusion - the network was distinguishing between cars and tanks based on the light present in the scene
I didn't limit it to males, or did I?
What do you mean by "being bonded"? Can you clarify on that please?
A minute has passed and I can still see the damn circle even though I'm (obviously) no longer looking at it... /me prepares to enter the porn business with a possibly very new business concept :)
I thought you were going to say:
;) At least, we would always know the truth :P
But it's not always right. And where it's not right, my assertion is.
Now THAT would be great
Geez, some really creepy stuff there. Kinda opens our eyes to the real world that we have:
- Companies bribing politicians in order not to pay taxes (hurts everyone, obviously)
- lots of companies gaining advantage of Iraq's war by rebuilding the country
And much more. Sad!!
Good thing that you don't have your email address displayed... You wouldn't want dozens of overweight geeks hitting on you constantly for the next few days :)
See subject. Best idea ever (maybe not new, but I've never seen it elsewhere...) :)
I for one welcome our new electricity conducting microbe overlords.
Err, procetions = protections...
I think it comes from Monty Python:
:P
We're Knights of the Redmond Table.
Our procetions are impenetrable,
But many times we're given tasks
That are quite procrastinatable.
Feel free to adapt the whole song
I was playing with words but to just show what I thought - even if hacking wasn't widespread, it would still be insecure to leave important information unprotected...
mod this story -1 Troll?
Do you know what the "=>" symbol means?
If there were no hackers, there could still be at most one hacker, who would take advantage of this.
Yes, my above response is ridiculed but I think you get the point. Even if hacking wasn't a widespread activity, it wouldn't be a good idea to let the systems be vulnerable.
Have you ever heard of exponential technological evolution?
:)
Well, our amazement factor with new technology could be logarithmic too in order to compensate, but I don't think so
I love us geeks, always attentive to the smallest of details :)
You all, don't forget to use this capability when the aliens send us a message...
"if"
Are you sure Theo isn't?
I'm also not so sure that those comments are related to his disorder...
(btw Asperger's syndrome is a very mild form of autism in case someone was amazed by reading the parent post)
It means that sometimes having to type a subject is just annoying :)
Someone either didn't notice the subject, or likes to spend a lot of keystrokes trolling :)