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by 3chelon 10y ago
I thought before writing "always". But I do think it will be difficult for the foreseeable future, because as @Grue3 already pointed out, it's ambiguous even to humans. The central problem of getting a machine to understand m
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by 3chelon 10y ago
So presumably the purpose of this experiment was to quantify just how bad algorithms can be at inferring meaning? Trying to measure the sadness of lyrics with an algo is tantamount to the early scene in "Dead Poets' Society"
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Your statement about 12 yo kids is an understatement - while I'm plodding along doing 50m every 45 sec (admittedly over a distance), the 12 year olds from my local club are leaving me standing. They're probably aiming towards 50m
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by 3chelon 10y ago
This is a classic example of how tyranny changes a nation's sense of humour. This joke could just as well have been made under Stalin.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Amazon, Google and IBM are all tackling this quite well. Not really startup territory. However, and I have done some work in this space, perhaps providing simple-to-use services built on top of these and offering them to non-technical folks
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by 3chelon 10y ago
I've been thinking a lot about this recently. There are certain near-future technologies like self-driving cars and robotic home care that could revolutionise the lives of the old. I think that's a given, but they have a relativel
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by 3chelon 10y ago
They definitely use your contact lists. I have done multiple experiments with this. I first noticed about a year ago, people popping on my FB's "People you may know..." list, and sure enough, the _only_ way they could link th
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by 3chelon 10y ago
I make cider every year and I've never had any problems - I think it's the easiest form of alcohol to make. On the question of methanol, it is my understanding it comes from the high pectin content. I always use a pectic enzyme to
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by 3chelon 10y ago
I don't know this for a fact, but if I were FB I think I'd be fanatical about verifying real users to prevent people setting up social media PBNs. A holy grail of grey-hat SEO nowadays would be to control large networks of interli
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Google Brings AI to Raspberry Pi(bbc.co.uk)
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by 3chelon 10y ago
This is double-plus-plus-plus ungood, as either Trump or Big Brother might say. Seriously, I have pointed out before that Trump seems to have actually learnt the rules of Newspeak with terrifying effectiveness.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
That's my life too.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
I imagine some years from now a high demand for this by tattoo removal clinics.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Yes, I agree not all contractors can see the bigger picture, and some of them can be pretty opinionated. I met one just recently. I guess that's the flip-side. But most good contractors in my experience are acutely aware of the restric
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Well said. One major difference I've noticed between contract and permanent developers, esp. senior ones, is humility. I think most developers have met at least one so-called "rockstar" coder (or as I prefer, prima donna). Th
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by 3chelon 10y ago
I keep reading things like this, in the whole AA-style all-or-nothing abstinence approach. Is taking a month completely disconnected really going to help, in the long term? Or is it like an alcoholic giving up the booze for Lent and then bi
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Some commutes just can't be fixed. It's easy if you're single and rootless, but once you have kids, schools, other people's jobs and lives to consider, it becomes exponentially harder. I commute just under 2 hours each w
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Delusional is a strong word. Exactly 100 years ago they outlawed horse-drawn carriages from the streets of New York City ( https://www.nytimes.com/store/horse-cars-last-days-1917-nson... ). Based on that, I cannot imagin
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by 3chelon 10y ago
This kind of problem has long been solved in the mobile comms world by strong ECC codes and robust modems and channel coding algorithms. We routinely send autonomous vehicles into interplanetary space so I can't see that linking vehicl
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Once the technology is good enough, there is no theoretical reason for a speed limit. I'm looking forward to sitting in the auto-lane cutting code at 200mph while the petrol-heads are doing a thrilling 70 in the manual lane beside me!
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by 3chelon 10y ago
I agree fully. I have a car, but I commute on the train because I value being able to multitask. I spent half a lifetime stuck in traffic and hated every minute of it. The future cannot come soon enough for me.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
- Moving backwards to a safe and large enough spot when the route is too narrow to fit self-driving car and oncoming huge lorry (and there is no line marking the limit between road and ravine). Surely you're missing the point? With V2V
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by 3chelon 10y ago
I remember when I was about 10 I asked my teacher this question. He had always been a good teacher, encouraging open-minded debate, so I was quite shocked when he told me not to ask stupid questions. (In retrospect, he'd probably just
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Sad but true. It's a cyclical world.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
The advantage is already there, over Windows machines. It could be argued that the merger of NeXT and Apple democratised Unix. In the 90s, most people were packing Windows 95 and if you wanted a Unix box you were going to pay for it. Silico
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by 3chelon 10y ago
This is great! I remember as a teenager back in the 80s I built a 4-bit CPU (actually, not much more than an ALU really) using 74-series chips I'd salvaged in part from old mainframe boards I found at my local scrapyard. I loved invent
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Irigary is the one who called E=mc^2 a sexist equation, right? No further questions, your honour.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
I think maybe in the back of everyone's mind is the post-apocalyptic scenario. Which is strange, because at at that point we'd have far greater worries, such as lack of food, clean water and antibiotics.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
Yes, deliberately, and not all of them. And my post contains far fewer sentences than the article.
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by 3chelon 10y ago
To be fair, aside from the preschool formatting of the article (one sentence per paragraph, a concerning recent BBC trend), the journalist didn't actually say anything incorrect. But she did not answer the main question that was asked:

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