$10E6 would be useful for improvements to detect and identify radio signatures in various ways. It could be used for satellite dishes and algorithm research; I'd personally like to see it put towards improving BOINC, which helps a lot of projects, including SETI.
Source text with two spaces after a period also provides a *semantic* indicator of the end of a sentence, in contrast to initials or other uses of a period. Renderers can then use that information to decide how to format a(n english?) 'sentence', even if it means just discarding the extra space.
Without the two spaces after the period:
the renderers have one less input to the heuristic to identify the semantic element they're formatting, and
have to either add, debug, and maintain more code to identify the element type, and/or
get it wrong more often
We have paragraph breaks, capitalization at the beginning of sentences, and lots of other conventions; why not retain this one to make formatting more reliable, and let the renderers handle it?
I thought they had a behavioral psychologist on staff to actually work with addictive behaviors in their games. If the big players are gonna start doing this, they should at least come clean about it.
It ended up our dept had to pay the union for 8 hours of labor because I had the audacity to "infringe on their livelihood" when I changed a frickin light bulb!
Sounds like they were already charging at least twice that between all of them, just standing around and chatting anyway. Looks like you saved your company some money!
If that charge made it up to the head of your department, it would be pretty clear to them that if they're going to work with a union company, they'd prefer to switch to one with more people having old-timer's ethic anyway.
Do you feel that your work is completely unnecessary?
I can't understand how you would think that. Now if you'll excuse me, I have an interstellar flight I need to catch... A... B -- here we go. Chat with you later!
I'm curious what your results on the self-driving car quiz would be. Hey, if you do well enough, they could use you to program the next generation of self-driving algorithms! Probably on the 'criminally insane' setting.
Because eventually, you'll end up in a situation where the option to cheat won't be available, and you'll be exposed for not knowing your shit, or else you'll be caught, and then the jig's up. Any trust that anyone may have placed in you up until that point is shot to hell.
"Oh no, everyone's cut back on fossil fuels now that alternative and renewable energy sources are available!" "But what do we do now with our oil surplus and glut of production capacity?" "People still need fossil fuels for some of the vehicles they use." "But not enough! Prices will drop if people don't consume it!"
"I want to say one word to you. Just one word. Plastics."
I'm kind of surprised the engineers, of all people, don't remember the lesson from history that an AI would hopefully learn that the only winning move is not to play.
Is there no way to create some kind of rough numeric indicator of real-world performance and put it into a product's specs for quick comparison?
If it was manufactured this or last year, it's probably better than Joe or Jane's 5-year-old laptop which was more than likely working just fine for them (modulo bloatware and registry cruft) until it broke. That's good enough, right?
If you go the digital route, periodically check out Comixology (for sales) and Humble Bundle Books.
Also note that many of the second-tier publishers (Valiant, IDW, Image) provide DRM-free PDF/CBZ downloads for backups; others -- notably Marvel and DC -- do not.
Any 4-year old can pick a strawberry, but machines, for all their artificial intelligence, can't seem to figure it out. Pitzer says the hardest thing for them is just finding the fruit. The berries hide behind leaves in unpredictable places.
Can't the robot's patented BerryFind(TM, patent pending) technology collect video, then stream it to the desktop, where people can click on leaves to move or berries they see? That way they could assist the robot in berry hunting-seeking in an entirely non-ominous way.
Have you ever shopped for something only to have google spam you with ads for weeks on end for the actual thing you bought for weeks after you've already bought it.
Considering how often this happens, it would be helpful if the AdSenseWords feedback form had an option, "I already bought this item and am not currently shopping for another one."
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$10E6 would be useful for improvements to detect and identify radio signatures in various ways. It could be used for satellite dishes and algorithm research; I'd personally like to see it put towards improving BOINC, which helps a lot of projects, including SETI.
Source text with two spaces after a period also provides a *semantic* indicator of the end of a sentence, in contrast to initials or other uses of a period. Renderers can then use that information to decide how to format a(n english?) 'sentence', even if it means just discarding the extra space.
Without the two spaces after the period:
We have paragraph breaks, capitalization at the beginning of sentences, and lots of other conventions; why not retain this one to make formatting more reliable, and let the renderers handle it?
I thought they had a behavioral psychologist on staff to actually work with addictive behaviors in their games. If the big players are gonna start doing this, they should at least come clean about it.
The song was so catchy!
It ended up our dept had to pay the union for 8 hours of labor because I had the audacity to "infringe on their livelihood" when I changed a frickin light bulb!
Sounds like they were already charging at least twice that between all of them, just standing around and chatting anyway. Looks like you saved your company some money!
If that charge made it up to the head of your department, it would be pretty clear to them that if they're going to work with a union company, they'd prefer to switch to one with more people having old-timer's ethic anyway.
Do you feel that your work is completely unnecessary?
I can't understand how you would think that. Now if you'll excuse me, I have an interstellar flight I need to catch ... A ... B -- here we go. Chat with you later!
I'm curious what your results on the self-driving car quiz would be. Hey, if you do well enough, they could use you to program the next generation of self-driving algorithms! Probably on the 'criminally insane' setting.
Go ahead, make a hostile, bitter community of your own, with blackjack and hookers.
We're all already here, why do we need an additional one?
Because eventually, you'll end up in a situation where the option to cheat won't be available, and you'll be exposed for not knowing your shit, or else you'll be caught, and then the jig's up. Any trust that anyone may have placed in you up until that point is shot to hell.
"Congratulations on your promotion."
"Oh no, everyone's cut back on fossil fuels now that alternative and renewable energy sources are available!"
"But what do we do now with our oil surplus and glut of production capacity?"
"People still need fossil fuels for some of the vehicles they use."
"But not enough! Prices will drop if people don't consume it!"
"I want to say one word to you. Just one word. Plastics."
This myth is propagated by many high schools with the elimination of shop and auto mechanics classes.
Real question, how much more/less/different 'auto mechanics' will be needed once we move to fully electric cars?
They are bored, but constantly agitated to find a new, exciting thing to connect.
Sometimes it's called 'fear of missing out', or FOMO if you see that acronym around.
I'm kind of surprised the engineers, of all people, don't remember the lesson from history that an AI would hopefully learn that the only winning move is not to play.
Is there no way to create some kind of rough numeric indicator of real-world performance and put it into a product's specs for quick comparison?
If it was manufactured this or last year, it's probably better than Joe or Jane's 5-year-old laptop which was more than likely working just fine for them (modulo bloatware and registry cruft) until it broke. That's good enough, right?
Longer than frogs will, apparently.
When it comes to speculative finance, they probably don't have to be as bright as they do lucky enough to get out in time.
Or if you're living under a government that's figured out how to leverage social media, you can look for all that info in just one place.
If you go the digital route, periodically check out Comixology (for sales) and Humble Bundle Books.
Also note that many of the second-tier publishers (Valiant, IDW, Image) provide DRM-free PDF/CBZ downloads for backups; others -- notably Marvel and DC -- do not.
Any 4-year old can pick a strawberry, but machines, for all their artificial intelligence, can't seem to figure it out. Pitzer says the hardest thing for them is just finding the fruit. The berries hide behind leaves in unpredictable places.
Can't the robot's patented BerryFind(TM, patent pending) technology collect video, then stream it to the desktop, where people can click on leaves to move or berries they see? That way they could assist the robot in berry hunting-seeking in an entirely non-ominous way.
I brought up this issue, but nobody on the forums took it seriously.
Cryptography forums or legal forums? You could get vastly different results between the two.
Is psychology a science? Then definitely maybe.
Have you ever shopped for something only to have google spam you with ads for weeks on end for the actual thing you bought for weeks after you've already bought it.
Considering how often this happens, it would be helpful if the AdSenseWords feedback form had an option, "I already bought this item and am not currently shopping for another one."
I love the insinuation that the only people who don't have a car are those that can't afford one.
Well, the story's only slightly more complicated in L.A..
And Trump?
Good for him -- understanding that there's a conflict of interest shows a great deal of self-awareness ... hey, wait a second ...