What I meant was that it's so rare on Slashdot that someone admits that they don't know something. I thought everyone on Slashdot knew everything!
Groupon got some press in the past couple of months because Google tried to buy them out for $6B and they turned it down. I've heard of them, but I don't find their service to be particularly unique or valuable. But there's something to learn from them - like the viral nature of their service. You get a deal (like, 50% off of dinner at a nice restaurant), and then post to Facebook that you got a deal, and all your friends grab the deal too.
If you want to read up on the topics of memory systems, here are some terms to Google:
Loci - a memory system to "walk a path" in your mind, placing objects at predictable locations along the path. Then you re-walk it, and can "see" what objects were left there. Links: 12
Major System - a system that translates digits to consonants, so that numbers can be pictured as words: Links: 12
Link System - a system to chain together 2 objects, so that a list of arbitrary length can be remembered 2 objects at a time. 12
Dominic System - a system that converts numeric values (typically 2 or 3 digit numbers) to memorable people. Links: 1 2
Memory Palace - a way of using loci on a massive scale Link
That should get you started. Follow links on the wikipedia page, and you'll know more than you ever wanted to know. I've found memory techniques VERY helpful in business, and I amaze people on a day-to-day basis with my memory (which was extremely poor before I began studying the subject). Now I'm the guy who the office always goes to, when they are trying to remember how we handled a past situation, or what's the name of that customer/product/technique, or whatever.
You realise that they are knocking houses down because the supply of them is such that they are worth less than the loans which were taken out to build them.
Do you really believe that is why they are being knocked down? Imagine you own one of those houses, and make the decision to tear it down. Why would you make that decision? Because of a supply issue? Because of the amount of the loan to build it? No and no.
The reason you'd choose to knock it down is because the value of the property torn down is greater than the value of the house standing, if maintenance, insurance, taxes, and other costs are taken into consideration.
Let me say that again, to emphasise the insanity. They are knocking houses down.
I see no insanity in these logical cost decisions. Insanity would be to try to justify making a non-market-based decision, like tax everybody to pay to keep the house standing, despite the fact that it is clearly not economically smart. It would make more sense to use such funds to help homeless people afford housing, than to pay too much for a house just to "save" it from being torn down.
There are a lot of reasons I won't buy Facebook shares, but I am pretty sure that if you buy them now on the second market, you'll find some sucker to pay you more for them later, when they go public (or sooner).
Market cap is nearly meaningless, its just the marginal price fluctuations times the number of outstanding shares. As if, in a thought experiment, you sold every outstanding share you'd be able to get the exact same price for the last share sold as for the first share sold, ha ha ha.
As another thought experiment, imagine you *bought* every outstanding share. You'd have to pay far more for the last share than for the first one.
So from a seller's perspective, market cap overstates the value, and from a buyer's perspective, it understates the value. It's a pretty good metric, as most corporate acquisitions are a small amount over market cap: perhaps a 15% to 40% premium.
But the $125,000 shipping charge is a little pricey.
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I think you are way off on this complaint.
There is NO breaking of backwards compatibility in the Python 2 Language. And there is NO breaking of backwards compatibility in the Python 3 Language.
If it helps you wrap your pea brain around it, think of it as two separate languages with a lot of similarities: one with a future, built on a lot of learnings, that has been modernized. And one that will run forever as is, unchanged, working like a champ, but with little future development in it.
I think the other moral of the story is that you shouldn't make your facebook posts public. This is a civil case, because some individual (the daughter) was able to see a public status update with a certain time stamp.
So even if you have done nothing wrong (not counting accidentally killing somebody[!]), you can be sued because of careless Facebooking. And lawsuits are costly and no fun, even if you eventually win.
The data set for a search for the correct question in that case is really very small, which is probably why both humans got it right.
After all, how many US cities have more than one airport? Fifty? Personally, I just started running through the largest cities, and Chicago popped up pretty quickly with "Midway". I never heard of O'Hare as a war hero, but it seemed like a good guess.
Presumably Watson is receiving a direct digital feed of the tournament questions (oops, answers, I forgot this is Jeopardy). That alone gives Watson a huge timing advantage over the human competitors, who must (effectively) perform voice recognition and OCR to process the clues.
Seems like there are two ways to "level the playing field" - 1) implement OCR and voice recognition, and disconnect the electronic data feed that Watson had, or 2) give Ken and Brad the electronic data feed.
In either case, I'm confident Watson would have won. Just because Ken and Brad don't know how to process electronic signals, that's not Watson's fault. Yet you are trying to penalize Watson because he has no eyes or ears.
I bet there's nothing in the Jeopardy official rules that says that you must see or hear the clue. They have had blind contestants and deaf contestants, so clearly they are open to alternate sensory methods.
Why? I don't see anything more special or "AI" in this than in Deep Blue's wins at chess so long ago.
I don't see what's so special about the lunar landing. It was just building and launching a vehicle powered by rockets with basic math algorithms to lower the craft onto the lunar surface.
Mankind has been building and launching crafts for thousands of years, traveling our seas and oceans. Rockets had been used earlier than 255 BC. and Newtonian Physics had been known since 1700.
I agree with the grandparent post. It could be in Chinese. Watch the PBS Nova special and it will make more sense to you.
Now, in order for it to work in Chinese, the reference data set would need to be in Chinese too. That means that all past Jeopardy games, as well as all of the reference materials would need to be in Chinese. And the 4 years of optimizations would probably be similar, but would have been done with a Chinese data set.
But there's nothing "special" about Chinese over English. Children under the age of 2 can learn either. And essentially that's what Watson did - it has a ton of reference material, and knows that for certain Jeopardy answers, the correct question is X. And it sees patterns in this.
Too bad for JC Penny they hired the wrong guy for the job.
Or, as I mentioned elsewhere, perhaps Macy's hired the right guy, and he gamed Google for JC Penny, and now JC Penny's rankings are dropping like a rock.
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In summary, in light of the hundreds of donations, Peter has issued an amnesty for all individual users of Trumpet Winsock up to the end of 2012.
So till the end of time?
That was my thought too! Pi Day isn't until 2016! (3/14/16) Or maybe that's the 2000th anniversary of Pi Day.
Of course 3/14/1593 was a good day also. And 3/1/416.
Why? Are there better internet connections in the Greek Island of Lesbos?
that's funny.
What I meant was that it's so rare on Slashdot that someone admits that they don't know something. I thought everyone on Slashdot knew everything!
Groupon got some press in the past couple of months because Google tried to buy them out for $6B and they turned it down. I've heard of them, but I don't find their service to be particularly unique or valuable. But there's something to learn from them - like the viral nature of their service. You get a deal (like, 50% off of dinner at a nice restaurant), and then post to Facebook that you got a deal, and all your friends grab the deal too.
If you want to read up on the topics of memory systems, here are some terms to Google:
Loci - a memory system to "walk a path" in your mind, placing objects at predictable locations along the path. Then you re-walk it, and can "see" what objects were left there. Links: 1 2
Major System - a system that translates digits to consonants, so that numbers can be pictured as words: Links: 1 2
Link System - a system to chain together 2 objects, so that a list of arbitrary length can be remembered 2 objects at a time. 1 2
Dominic System - a system that converts numeric values (typically 2 or 3 digit numbers) to memorable people. Links: 1 2
Memory Palace - a way of using loci on a massive scale Link
That should get you started. Follow links on the wikipedia page, and you'll know more than you ever wanted to know.
I've found memory techniques VERY helpful in business, and I amaze people on a day-to-day basis with my memory (which was extremely poor before I began studying the subject). Now I'm the guy who the office always goes to, when they are trying to remember how we handled a past situation, or what's the name of that customer/product/technique, or whatever.
I think Ed Cooke's memory is as average as he claims. For example, I betcha he can't remember where my car keys are either.
You probably have it narrowed down to about 10 places, while he's got it narrowed down to 999,999,999 places.
Wow, you admit that you've never heard of Groupon?
Might want to read up on that.
You realise that they are knocking houses down because the supply of them is such that they are worth less than the loans which were taken out to build them.
Do you really believe that is why they are being knocked down?
Imagine you own one of those houses, and make the decision to tear it down. Why would you make that decision? Because of a supply issue? Because of the amount of the loan to build it? No and no.
The reason you'd choose to knock it down is because the value of the property torn down is greater than the value of the house standing, if maintenance, insurance, taxes, and other costs are taken into consideration.
Let me say that again, to emphasise the insanity. They are knocking houses down.
I see no insanity in these logical cost decisions. Insanity would be to try to justify making a non-market-based decision, like tax everybody to pay to keep the house standing, despite the fact that it is clearly not economically smart. It would make more sense to use such funds to help homeless people afford housing, than to pay too much for a house just to "save" it from being torn down.
There are a lot of reasons I won't buy Facebook shares, but I am pretty sure that if you buy them now on the second market, you'll find some sucker to pay you more for them later, when they go public (or sooner).
Market cap is nearly meaningless, its just the marginal price fluctuations times the number of outstanding shares. As if, in a thought experiment, you sold every outstanding share you'd be able to get the exact same price for the last share sold as for the first share sold, ha ha ha.
As another thought experiment, imagine you *bought* every outstanding share. You'd have to pay far more for the last share than for the first one.
So from a seller's perspective, market cap overstates the value, and from a buyer's perspective, it understates the value. It's a pretty good metric, as most corporate acquisitions are a small amount over market cap: perhaps a 15% to 40% premium.
Therefore, market cap is NOT nearly meaningless.
A penny?
But the $125,000 shipping charge is a little pricey.
I think you are way off on this complaint.
There is NO breaking of backwards compatibility in the Python 2 Language.
And there is NO breaking of backwards compatibility in the Python 3 Language.
If it helps you wrap your pea brain around it, think of it as two separate languages with a lot of similarities: one with a future, built on a lot of learnings, that has been modernized. And one that will run forever as is, unchanged, working like a champ, but with little future development in it.
I think the other moral of the story is that you shouldn't make your facebook posts public.
This is a civil case, because some individual (the daughter) was able to see a public status update with a certain time stamp.
So even if you have done nothing wrong (not counting accidentally killing somebody[!]), you can be sued because of careless Facebooking. And lawsuits are costly and no fun, even if you eventually win.
The data set for a search for the correct question in that case is really very small, which is probably why both humans got it right.
After all, how many US cities have more than one airport? Fifty? Personally, I just started running through the largest cities, and Chicago popped up pretty quickly with "Midway". I never heard of O'Hare as a war hero, but it seemed like a good guess.
Presumably Watson is receiving a direct digital feed of the tournament questions (oops, answers, I forgot this is Jeopardy). That alone gives Watson a huge timing advantage over the human competitors, who must (effectively) perform voice recognition and OCR to process the clues.
Seems like there are two ways to "level the playing field" - 1) implement OCR and voice recognition, and disconnect the electronic data feed that Watson had, or 2) give Ken and Brad the electronic data feed.
In either case, I'm confident Watson would have won. Just because Ken and Brad don't know how to process electronic signals, that's not Watson's fault. Yet you are trying to penalize Watson because he has no eyes or ears.
I bet there's nothing in the Jeopardy official rules that says that you must see or hear the clue. They have had blind contestants and deaf contestants, so clearly they are open to alternate sensory methods.
Why? I don't see anything more special or "AI" in this than in Deep Blue's wins at chess so long ago.
I don't see what's so special about the lunar landing. It was just building and launching a vehicle powered by rockets with basic math algorithms to lower the craft onto the lunar surface.
Mankind has been building and launching crafts for thousands of years, traveling our seas and oceans. Rockets had been used earlier than 255 BC. and Newtonian Physics had been known since 1700.
Big deal.
Guilty as charged to all nine counts...
You're hired.
Now go take a shower.
I'm going to warm up for tonight's broadcast by watching Maury.
Nothing like prefixing a little artificial intelligence with some genuine stupidity.
I agree with the grandparent post. It could be in Chinese.
Watch the PBS Nova special and it will make more sense to you.
Now, in order for it to work in Chinese, the reference data set would need to be in Chinese too. That means that all past Jeopardy games, as well as all of the reference materials would need to be in Chinese. And the 4 years of optimizations would probably be similar, but would have been done with a Chinese data set.
But there's nothing "special" about Chinese over English. Children under the age of 2 can learn either. And essentially that's what Watson did - it has a ton of reference material, and knows that for certain Jeopardy answers, the correct question is X. And it sees patterns in this.
Chinese would be no different.
Here's a link to the Nova coverage.
Too bad for JC Penny they hired the wrong guy for the job.
Or, as I mentioned elsewhere, perhaps Macy's hired the right guy, and he gamed Google for JC Penny, and now JC Penny's rankings are dropping like a rock.
"To play devil's advocate, who says that JC Penny did this themselves?"
I'm going to be rude and answer a question with a question: does it matter?
I think it matters.
What it it was the head of IT at MACY'S that boosted JC Penny's ratings.
Right now he's laughing his ass off, as he watches JC Penny in the Google Penalty Box.
Women can't get pregnant in space?
That's inconceivable!
Troll???
that was funny as hell!