Static documentation is idiotic for dynamic systems. To the extent that GNU/Linux is dynamic, it *should not* be documented staticly. As a coder I never duplicate code (cut-and-paste) because that creates a non-obvious dependency -- if I changed the code in one place I'd have to change it in the other.
Same applies to documentation: if something can change, and lots of code does, I do not want to have to change both code and documentation in the same, dependent, way. There are two ways out: 1) automatically generated documentation, which admittedly is pretty ugly and schematic; and 2) archived searchable forums and discussions.
And matches will be greater in topic areas where quotation is common. How many 10-page essays on "Romeo and Juliet" quote at least 5 or 10 lines from the Queen Mab speech? Those papers will match verbatim for those 5 or 10 lines.
Perl is to code what xml is to data: to be avoided at any cost if you want a scalable, intelligible interchange. XML and perl indeed do belong on the same trash truck the dump.
It's very useful to remember that the speed of light is about a billion feet per second, or a foot in a billionth of a second. He was just looking for a measure that is 1/5 of a foot long.
pi's relationship to 1 is (pi * 1), like 2's relationship to one is (2 * 1). It doesn't require "an infinite amount of information" to express pi, even in base 10. Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity. Kolmogorov complexity deals with the amount of information required to express things: to express pi requires actually a very short program, i.e. not much information at all. Same with the number implied by this expression: 0.101001000100001... You can write a short program to express it with arbitrary precision, but it can't be exressed by a terminating decimal. Is its value "very much unknown"?
I think Norvig's lying. Google may not be pursuing linguistic structure above the phrase level in searches, but I'd bet a donut they're working their asses off trying to analyze crawled docs linguistically. To get relevance, they need to extract what a document is about. That implies sentence-level syntax analysis, which is input to sentence-level semantics, which is input to paragraph-level semantics, which is input to "pragmatic" analysis. I think what he's not saying is that the place the linguistic research dollars are going is elsewhere than parsing "Where is Paris?"
can be used as a platform for testing new therapies against infectious diseases that attack the liver, such as hepatitis C...
I'm more worried by the newer diseases like hepatitis C++.
Back when I was publishing papers in journals like Theoretical Computer Science and The Journal of Logic Programming, they always sent me a big stack of reprints that I could do whatever I wanted with. I got requests (often from researchers in the 3rd world or eastern Europe) and would just send them one. Maybe they don't do that any more?
I notice the list has
ABU ALI (a.k.a. AL-TIKRITI, Saddam Hussein; a.k.a. HUSAYN, Saddam; a.k.a.
HUSSAIN, Saddam; a.k.a. HUSSEIN, Saddam); DOB 28 Apr 1937; POB al-Awja, near
Tikrit, Iraq; nationality Iraq; named in UNSCR 1483; President since 1979
(individual) [IRAQ2]
I call bullshit. I just don't buy that there are differences among the states that are so significant that they justify the fragmented election "system" we have. The national govt needs the power to specify various election system parameters (e.g. nothing that is non-open). It would require a constitutional amendment to get that power, I think; but I think that is the right thing for the country.
Will
Well, other consequences of the rise in global temperature include a likely southward redirection or diminishment of the gulf stream. This means, as the world warms up, Europe, especially northern Europe, will get much colder. So I'm not sure I'd invest in real estate in NL for the long term.
[...] The sperm was created from embryonic stem cells and implanted into female mice. [...] The hope here is to assist couples who are having difficulties with conception.
How many couples really want to conceive a mouse, anyway?
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Why was it useless for you as a musician? Simply because you didn't need an index at all? Or because there was a better way to access a piece, given the melody? Or was it that you would have wanted such an index, and tried that one, but were frustrated with it for some reason? In other words, I'm wondering from a musician's point of view, what were the shortcomings of that method, and what alternatives to the problem strike you as being more useful?
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No, there was no concept of magnitude of the change, only direction (up, down, flat). And there was no concept of duration (quarter note, eighth note, whatever). The surprising thing was that those parameters just weren't needed to identify songs. These were popular and I think "country" songs (we licensed the sheet music) -- things people can hum or do with karioke; I'm not talking Schoenberg here. Think about it: T.C. Mits (the common man in the street) is tone-deaf anyway; and can hardly tell the difference between a perfect fourth and a minor third, let alone produce it accurately enough to be useful for a song serach.
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I worked on a system once that indexed tunes by (roughly) the first derivative of the pitch contour of the melody. The start of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" would be: FDDUUSSDSS, where D=down, U=up, S=same and F=first note. It was startling how effective this method was, with the vast proportion of 5000 tunes or so we looked at being disambiguated in 8 or fewer steps. I'm pretty sure this idea was turned into a product and sold, by Franklin Electronic Publishers, something like 10 years ago. So no, it's not impossible to index songs like this.
This is false. Sun java is available through, in non-free. That's what the whole argument is about.
The package name is
sun-java5-jre
The package description says:
The Sun Java Platform Standard Edition Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0
contains the Java virtual machine, runtime class libraries, and
Java application launcher that are necessary to run programs written
in the Java progamming language. It is not a development environment and
doesn't contain development tools such as compilers or debuggers.
For development tools, see the Java Development Kit JDK(TM) 5.0
(package sun-java5-jdk).
NOTE: You must accept Sun's EULA prior to successfully installing
this package
Did you notice from TFA that there are two little problems with this memory medium? They haven't figured out how to write to it, and they haven't figured out how to read from it. And this announcement isn't a bit premature???
Re:Interesting story, but...
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What, you didn't know collective nouns are plural in British English? Parliament have determined so years ago.
I assume the ads are generated at runtime. So your mail does "sit passively in some database", but when you go to view it, it is scanned and relevant ads are generated. Next year when you view it, new advertisers' content will be displayed.
Slashdot Mirror
If you have root, accidental hosing can happen. I have seen this in fact /usr /nsr
# rm -rf
when
# rm -rf
was intended.
Same applies to documentation: if something can change, and lots of code does, I do not want to have to change both code and documentation in the same, dependent, way. There are two ways out: 1) automatically generated documentation, which admittedly is pretty ugly and schematic; and 2) archived searchable forums and discussions.
And matches will be greater in topic areas where quotation is common. How many 10-page essays on "Romeo and Juliet" quote at least 5 or 10 lines from the Queen Mab speech? Those papers will match verbatim for those 5 or 10 lines.
"it's just not yet up to the same very high standards of quality and performance as perl 5. "
I think the moderators missed the humor in your post.
False and libelous. Palin was *2nd* place in the Miss Alaska contest, not 3rd.
Perl is to code what xml is to data: to be avoided at any cost if you want a scalable, intelligible interchange. XML and perl indeed do belong on the same trash truck the dump.
It's very useful to remember that the speed of light is about a billion feet per second, or a foot in a billionth of a second. He was just looking for a measure that is 1/5 of a foot long.
pi's relationship to 1 is (pi * 1), like 2's relationship to one is (2 * 1). It doesn't require "an infinite amount of information" to express pi, even in base 10. Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity. Kolmogorov complexity deals with the amount of information required to express things: to express pi requires actually a very short program, i.e. not much information at all. Same with the number implied by this expression: 0.101001000100001... You can write a short program to express it with arbitrary precision, but it can't be exressed by a terminating decimal. Is its value "very much unknown"?
I think Norvig's lying. Google may not be pursuing linguistic structure above the phrase level in searches, but I'd bet a donut they're working their asses off trying to analyze crawled docs linguistically. To get relevance, they need to extract what a document is about. That implies sentence-level syntax analysis, which is input to sentence-level semantics, which is input to paragraph-level semantics, which is input to "pragmatic" analysis. I think what he's not saying is that the place the linguistic research dollars are going is elsewhere than parsing "Where is Paris?"
I'm more worried by the newer diseases like hepatitis C++.
Back when I was publishing papers in journals like Theoretical Computer Science and The Journal of Logic Programming, they always sent me a big stack of reprints that I could do whatever I wanted with. I got requests (often from researchers in the 3rd world or eastern Europe) and would just send them one. Maybe they don't do that any more?
Dude, just ask the primary author to send you a reprint. How hard is that?
"...could end up sequestered to .xxx because someone somewhere doesn't want the kiddies to accidentally see naughty bits."
... or naughty tits.
I notice the list has ABU ALI (a.k.a. AL-TIKRITI, Saddam Hussein; a.k.a. HUSAYN, Saddam; a.k.a. HUSSAIN, Saddam; a.k.a. HUSSEIN, Saddam); DOB 28 Apr 1937; POB al-Awja, near Tikrit, Iraq; nationality Iraq; named in UNSCR 1483; President since 1979 (individual) [IRAQ2]
I call bullshit. I just don't buy that there are differences among the states that are so significant that they justify the fragmented election "system" we have. The national govt needs the power to specify various election system parameters (e.g. nothing that is non-open). It would require a constitutional amendment to get that power, I think; but I think that is the right thing for the country. Will
Well, other consequences of the rise in global temperature include a likely southward redirection or diminishment of the gulf stream. This means, as the world warms up, Europe, especially northern Europe, will get much colder. So I'm not sure I'd invest in real estate in NL for the long term.
How many couples really want to conceive a mouse, anyway?
Why was it useless for you as a musician? Simply because you didn't need an index at all? Or because there was a better way to access a piece, given the melody? Or was it that you would have wanted such an index, and tried that one, but were frustrated with it for some reason? In other words, I'm wondering from a musician's point of view, what were the shortcomings of that method, and what alternatives to the problem strike you as being more useful?
No, there was no concept of magnitude of the change, only direction (up, down, flat). And there was no concept of duration (quarter note, eighth note, whatever). The surprising thing was that those parameters just weren't needed to identify songs. These were popular and I think "country" songs (we licensed the sheet music) -- things people can hum or do with karioke; I'm not talking Schoenberg here. Think about it: T.C. Mits (the common man in the street) is tone-deaf anyway; and can hardly tell the difference between a perfect fourth and a minor third, let alone produce it accurately enough to be useful for a song serach.
I worked on a system once that indexed tunes by (roughly) the first derivative of the pitch contour of the melody. The start of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" would be: FDDUUSSDSS, where D=down, U=up, S=same and F=first note. It was startling how effective this method was, with the vast proportion of 5000 tunes or so we looked at being disambiguated in 8 or fewer steps. I'm pretty sure this idea was turned into a product and sold, by Franklin Electronic Publishers, something like 10 years ago. So no, it's not impossible to index songs like this.
sun-java5-jre
The package description says:
Did you notice from TFA that there are two little problems with this memory medium? They haven't figured out how to write to it, and they haven't figured out how to read from it. And this announcement isn't a bit premature???
What, you didn't know collective nouns are plural in British English? Parliament have determined so years ago.
In English, all nouns verb.
I assume the ads are generated at runtime. So your mail does "sit passively in some database", but when you go to view it, it is scanned and relevant ads are generated. Next year when you view it, new advertisers' content will be displayed.