I love PHP myself. Sure, script kiddies have given PHP a bad name in some circles, but I have never used a more flexible language. Plus, you can run a LAMP stack on just about ANYTHING (*cough* I'm familiar with grassroots budgets *cough*).
From what I have read, 99% of the challenge is mastering the "regular expression". PHP includes both the preg_match and preg_replace functions, both of which use these "regular expressions". The plus side is that even if you later decide to port over to something else, your math and regular expressions (i.e. the blood and guts) should be able to follow.
I have been working on this for awhile now. If you are interested, I'll be happy to setup an admin account for you so you can go futz with it and see what I've done. I'm using Wikipedia in order to "build concepts" (rather than tags or categories). Then, using those simple regular expressions, the bot can read websites and RSS feeds and begin categorizing accordingly.
(p.s. be honest. I don't mind constructive criticism at all. =)
GM announced today that it would be removing the steering wheel in all 2008 models, new models will rely on the Nintendo Wii controller in order to "reduce mechanical strain" on the equipment.
Arguing that DRM is constitutional because you *could* break it is like saying illegal wiretaps are fine so long as you have the ability to bypass the NSA.
We will only know we have it right when you can take those same algorithms, put them to use by exposing it to a different language and have it still learn it right.
Honest question: won't your algorithms be (at least partly) based on sentence structure? I.E. "The dog went into the house" v. "Inside the house is the dog"? If so, wouldn't this force an algorithm-approach to remain language-based?
I'm having a hell of a time learning Mandarin, simply due to the totally different sentence structure it uses (v. American English).
Perhaps not "life altering reprocussions", but certinly some degree of the Hawthorne effect..
I'm not sure if this is universal, but whenever I go to photograph or video any kids in my family, the moment they realize they are on camera they all turn into a spastic Jim Carrey impersonator. Sure its cute, but not exactly "useful" in any scientific sense.
What happens to the expirement when the child discovers a camera?
Assuming all camera remain hidden for the life of the expirement: What happens to the child after being told they were secretly recorded for years and years?
But you raise a good point, any board that rates the above post a "Troll -1" is not worth my time. Apparently the purpose of this board is to repost the same 6 ideas again and again and again.
Note to all members of the Ayn Rand reading club: the below post is not for you.
With so much recent debate in regards to the NSA, and the age-old privacy/security debate, the growth of WiFi raises an interesting hypothetical IMO.
Let us pretend that Community X is a small town, with a centralized "village" area spanning a few blocks, including a few parks, public areas, etc. The community government taxes the citizens, and provides a quality WiFi network throughout the village, including the schools and libraries.
As owner and administrator, Community X could police the network traffic however they pleased. They could look for people buying pot on craigs list, or scumbags stalking children on MySpace.
To those thinking "but I'll always own my line to the web"....sure, me too. And of course you'd have to be a pretty dumb criminal to be using a public WiFi network in this manner. However, I argue that catching dumb criminals is the only thing the local police are good at anyway, and at least this way, they have less time to pull me over for rolling through stop signs at 3am.
But what if: Bibleville, OH can now ban pornography on their community WiFi network directly. They could even block bloggers talking about Satan or whatever else offended their sensibilities.
Rather than focus on sweeping federal legislation, forcing morality upon millions of unhappy citizens, these complicated issues could be pushed back to a local level, and maybe, just maybe, compromised into some sort of working solution.
What I came to call my $1,000 mistake. In retrospect, dumb as hell I know. But I wasn't always the wise cynic I am today- once upon a time I assumed people were good and honest.
Finally, the inability to develop personal rapport over e-mail makes relationships fragile in the face of conflict.
Awhile ago I was working on a project with a few freelancers. It worked out well, so we continued working together. Everything was roses until we ended up in a really ugly project and the "blame game" started. A day later, this wonderful "team" of ours was nothing but a ghost. The resulting flamewar would make even the most persistant/. troll blush.
Freelancer != Employee
Email/IM != Meeting
I'm not sure why, but it would seem as though people *need* to be forced together into horrible and painful meetings when the time comes to make "tough choices".
My mistake was in allowing my own anti-meeting bias to cloud my better judgement.
XP: What's different about this? No really, what did they add? Why is this worth my money?
OSX: I like that its cute, but they moved everything so I can't find it.
Linux: I tried to install [[distro X]] but hit a snag when it wouldn't work with my [[video card/goofy legacy system/mouse]]...I don't think I'm smart enough to use Linux.
These are by a wide margin the most common responses I get from "Joe User" in regards to the "big 3" consumer operating systems.
Back in the day, I had a small business where I accepted the "big 4" credit cards. We were selling sporting gear via mail order and the web.
One day, some kid called up and placed a decent-sized order for about $1,000 worth of gear. Naturally, I demanded to speak with the card holder, and he put his mom on the line who prompty told me "no problem".
Week later, Dad calls me up furious. You guessed it: divorce. Kid and mom are getting back at a dead beat dad, and he's none too amused about it. Dad calls the CC issuer, demands a chargeback. I get hit for $1,000 refund, plus the fees coming in, plus the fees going out, plus some other "service charges" for the "bad order".
Of course...I'm still out $1,000 in gear! I call mom and kid, explain that *I* am none too amused either, and that I'd like my gear back. She implies that my parents were never married, and that I might wish to visit Satan.
Having accepted that this situation could only get worse, I called the police. They explained that no crime had occured: a) mom had "paid" for the goods and b) she had the legal right to use her husband's credit card. I called my bank, and my credit card services, and they each told me it was my own damn fault for selling a quality product at a fair price and that no one could force her to mail back goods because (by then) she was claiming she had never recieved the order in the first place.
I am sure some merchants have done lousy things, but as one of the "good guys" it simply blows my mind when I think about this, even now years later.
Epilogue: never got the gear back, but funny enough, I *did* win about a grand from a scratch off ticket the week I closed the business. Save your mod points, I must have some real karma around here somewhere. =)
Can you imagine now why privacy COULD be a good thing? Not only despite, but BECAUSE you don't do anything wrong?
Well said.
I was searching for info on Jeffery Dahmer the other day. I'm not planning to kill anyone, mind you, but I was curious if they ever discovered why he had been killed by his fellow inmate (the punchline goes: "because he heard Jeff's stomache growling"). This search was sparked by some absurd discussion I had with a friend who was talking about a horror movie.
Point is, I'm not dangerous or anything, but I do end up on "weird Google tangents" now and again.
I don't care if the Government, or anyone else, wants to know that I searched Google for "Jeffery Dahmer Killed".
I care that people might assume I am dangerous because I am curious.
I care that my rights to due process may or may not be enforced, depending on the threat I am percieved to be.
Here here! There is no shame is saying that people deserve to be safe, and that there are many valid threats at a federal, state and local level (to be addressed accordingly).
However, I can certainly understand the anger some feel in regards to the "fear mentality". This historically effective strategy has been abused in recent years, and even the dimmest Americans are coming to accept that.
a) This is another non-story. So long as the majority of people are "dumb", social engineering will remain a part of our lives.
b) I was trying to find an interesting convo (and failed)
c) I've known a few scum bags in this world, and oddly, in my experience, the bigger the scum bag, the more attractive they are. I find the stereotype of "hunchbacked hackers in dark rooms" just insulting and absurd. Just as insulting as the other two options (I'm not black, but a Jew, but either way its irrelevant.) Prejudices are reported every day as "fact", and I hate when I see the BBC use Fox News editorial policies.
d) I'm hungry, and cranky, and bored, and waiting for the fiance to wake up so we can go get dinner (she works the night shift). After previewing that comment, I said to myself "nope, that's just dumb" and hit back...or so I thought. Sorry for wasting your time.
In his place: countless thousands hunched over computers, stealing bank details and exploiting technological weakness - without witnesses, and often for hire.
Everyone knows that Jews are good with money. Its in their blood.
Of course he ate the chicken- he *is* black after all.
Which of these quotes is published as fact by the BBC...
...in 1936?
...in 1956?
...in 2006?
Human prejudice is a curious thing to us aliens...
Slashdot Mirror
Which language did you intend to start with?
I love PHP myself. Sure, script kiddies have given PHP a bad name in some circles, but I have never used a more flexible language. Plus, you can run a LAMP stack on just about ANYTHING (*cough* I'm familiar with grassroots budgets *cough*).
From what I have read, 99% of the challenge is mastering the "regular expression". PHP includes both the preg_match and preg_replace functions, both of which use these "regular expressions". The plus side is that even if you later decide to port over to something else, your math and regular expressions (i.e. the blood and guts) should be able to follow.
I have been working on this for awhile now. If you are interested, I'll be happy to setup an admin account for you so you can go futz with it and see what I've done. I'm using Wikipedia in order to "build concepts" (rather than tags or categories). Then, using those simple regular expressions, the bot can read websites and RSS feeds and begin categorizing accordingly.
(p.s. be honest. I don't mind constructive criticism at all. =)
GM announced today that it would be removing the steering wheel in all 2008 models, new models will rely on the Nintendo Wii controller in order to "reduce mechanical strain" on the equipment.
Sounds like the *best* kind of order: a challenge!
You really have me intrigued here. I assume this is done by determining relationships of words based on usage, and not predefined "rules".
Sounds to me like using ANN might be better suited to this than an algorithm, no?
(Working on an AI parser myself, but my focus is synonyms/antonyms)
100% CORRECT.
Arguing that DRM is constitutional because you *could* break it is like saying illegal wiretaps are fine so long as you have the ability to bypass the NSA.
Bad joke gone worse. No offense intended =)
We will only know we have it right when you can take those same algorithms, put them to use by exposing it to a different language and have it still learn it right.
Honest question: won't your algorithms be (at least partly) based on sentence structure? I.E. "The dog went into the house" v. "Inside the house is the dog"? If so, wouldn't this force an algorithm-approach to remain language-based?
I'm having a hell of a time learning Mandarin, simply due to the totally different sentence structure it uses (v. American English).
Perhaps not "life altering reprocussions", but certinly some degree of the Hawthorne effect..
I'm not sure if this is universal, but whenever I go to photograph or video any kids in my family, the moment they realize they are on camera they all turn into a spastic Jim Carrey impersonator. Sure its cute, but not exactly "useful" in any scientific sense.
What happens to the expirement when the child discovers a camera?
Assuming all camera remain hidden for the life of the expirement: What happens to the child after being told they were secretly recorded for years and years?
If three year olds have more or less perfect grammar by age 3, what the hell happens to adults? Seriously, is it something in the drinking water?
Nothing like anonymous activism, eh?
But you raise a good point, any board that rates the above post a "Troll -1" is not worth my time. Apparently the purpose of this board is to repost the same 6 ideas again and again and again.
Note to all members of the Ayn Rand reading club: the below post is not for you.
With so much recent debate in regards to the NSA, and the age-old privacy/security debate, the growth of WiFi raises an interesting hypothetical IMO.
Let us pretend that Community X is a small town, with a centralized "village" area spanning a few blocks, including a few parks, public areas, etc. The community government taxes the citizens, and provides a quality WiFi network throughout the village, including the schools and libraries.
As owner and administrator, Community X could police the network traffic however they pleased. They could look for people buying pot on craigs list, or scumbags stalking children on MySpace.
To those thinking "but I'll always own my line to the web"....sure, me too. And of course you'd have to be a pretty dumb criminal to be using a public WiFi network in this manner. However, I argue that catching dumb criminals is the only thing the local police are good at anyway, and at least this way, they have less time to pull me over for rolling through stop signs at 3am.
But what if: Bibleville, OH can now ban pornography on their community WiFi network directly. They could even block bloggers talking about Satan or whatever else offended their sensibilities.
Rather than focus on sweeping federal legislation, forcing morality upon millions of unhappy citizens, these complicated issues could be pushed back to a local level, and maybe, just maybe, compromised into some sort of working solution.
::slaps forehead::
What I came to call my $1,000 mistake. In retrospect, dumb as hell I know. But I wasn't always the wise cynic I am today- once upon a time I assumed people were good and honest.
Like I said...dumb as hell.
Last time I read it, Atlas Shrugged was about 1,000 pages. I think you may be expecting too much from the people looking for Ch3@p V|@GR@ 0N|IN3.
Ayn Rand: eternal proof that no one hates Communism more than those forced to live under it.
Finally, the inability to develop personal rapport over e-mail makes relationships fragile in the face of conflict.
Awhile ago I was working on a project with a few freelancers. It worked out well, so we continued working together. Everything was roses until we ended up in a really ugly project and the "blame game" started. A day later, this wonderful "team" of ours was nothing but a ghost. The resulting flamewar would make even the most persistant /. troll blush.
Freelancer != Employee
Email/IM != Meeting
I'm not sure why, but it would seem as though people *need* to be forced together into horrible and painful meetings when the time comes to make "tough choices".
My mistake was in allowing my own anti-meeting bias to cloud my better judgement.
XP: What's different about this? No really, what did they add? Why is this worth my money?
OSX: I like that its cute, but they moved everything so I can't find it.
Linux: I tried to install [[distro X]] but hit a snag when it wouldn't work with my [[video card/goofy legacy system/mouse]]...I don't think I'm smart enough to use Linux.
These are by a wide margin the most common responses I get from "Joe User" in regards to the "big 3" consumer operating systems.
Question 1: could any old game written in Flash be ported to a console?
Question 2: how does Flash rank among "languages" used in game design?
Just tossing it out there for anyone with an answer.
Back in the day, I had a small business where I accepted the "big 4" credit cards. We were selling sporting gear via mail order and the web.
One day, some kid called up and placed a decent-sized order for about $1,000 worth of gear. Naturally, I demanded to speak with the card holder, and he put his mom on the line who prompty told me "no problem".
Week later, Dad calls me up furious. You guessed it: divorce. Kid and mom are getting back at a dead beat dad, and he's none too amused about it. Dad calls the CC issuer, demands a chargeback. I get hit for $1,000 refund, plus the fees coming in, plus the fees going out, plus some other "service charges" for the "bad order".
Of course...I'm still out $1,000 in gear! I call mom and kid, explain that *I* am none too amused either, and that I'd like my gear back. She implies that my parents were never married, and that I might wish to visit Satan.
Having accepted that this situation could only get worse, I called the police. They explained that no crime had occured: a) mom had "paid" for the goods and b) she had the legal right to use her husband's credit card. I called my bank, and my credit card services, and they each told me it was my own damn fault for selling a quality product at a fair price and that no one could force her to mail back goods because (by then) she was claiming she had never recieved the order in the first place.
I am sure some merchants have done lousy things, but as one of the "good guys" it simply blows my mind when I think about this, even now years later.
Epilogue: never got the gear back, but funny enough, I *did* win about a grand from a scratch off ticket the week I closed the business. Save your mod points, I must have some real karma around here somewhere. =)
Can you imagine now why privacy COULD be a good thing? Not only despite, but BECAUSE you don't do anything wrong?
Well said.
I was searching for info on Jeffery Dahmer the other day. I'm not planning to kill anyone, mind you, but I was curious if they ever discovered why he had been killed by his fellow inmate (the punchline goes: "because he heard Jeff's stomache growling"). This search was sparked by some absurd discussion I had with a friend who was talking about a horror movie.
Point is, I'm not dangerous or anything, but I do end up on "weird Google tangents" now and again.
I don't care if the Government, or anyone else, wants to know that I searched Google for "Jeffery Dahmer Killed".
I care that people might assume I am dangerous because I am curious.
I care that my rights to due process may or may not be enforced, depending on the threat I am percieved to be.
Here here! There is no shame is saying that people deserve to be safe, and that there are many valid threats at a federal, state and local level (to be addressed accordingly).
However, I can certainly understand the anger some feel in regards to the "fear mentality". This historically effective strategy has been abused in recent years, and even the dimmest Americans are coming to accept that.
But were you hunched? For all *I* know, you have perfect posture!
By the way, is my money still good if it went through the wash?
a) This is another non-story. So long as the majority of people are "dumb", social engineering will remain a part of our lives.
b) I was trying to find an interesting convo (and failed)
c) I've known a few scum bags in this world, and oddly, in my experience, the bigger the scum bag, the more attractive they are. I find the stereotype of "hunchbacked hackers in dark rooms" just insulting and absurd. Just as insulting as the other two options (I'm not black, but a Jew, but either way its irrelevant.) Prejudices are reported every day as "fact", and I hate when I see the BBC use Fox News editorial policies.
d) I'm hungry, and cranky, and bored, and waiting for the fiance to wake up so we can go get dinner (she works the night shift). After previewing that comment, I said to myself "nope, that's just dumb" and hit back...or so I thought. Sorry for wasting your time.
Note to self: less Mountain Dew, more jogging. (This guy raises an excellent point)
In his place: countless thousands hunched over computers, stealing bank details and exploiting technological weakness - without witnesses, and often for hire.
Everyone knows that Jews are good with money. Its in their blood.
Of course he ate the chicken- he *is* black after all.
Which of these quotes is published as fact by the BBC...
...in 1936?
...in 1956?
...in 2006?
Human prejudice is a curious thing to us aliens...
Because your life is so disorganized. You should be more like me.
For example, this post is classified under "S" for "Toy".
From the unpublished interview:
Vot ze are talking aboot is a total terrorist gap. We must not allow the soviets to create more terrorists than we...
Jigowatts.
Jigga who? Jigga please, Doc is the man.