Leon

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   by Leon 19y ago

   Use a random number generator! http://random.irb.hr/ - a quantum RNG is online, if you get stuck on an issue then a random choice may be as good as any other if both of you are dead-set and won't budge.
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   by Leon 19y ago

   I've interned at the NASA software testing facility (IV&V) for a couple of years. Their practices for V&V are really quite amazing and thorough, and even more so for validation of unsupervised neural networks. It very much puts to shame co
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   by Leon 19y ago

   For an IM web work around, I personally prefer Meebo ( http://meebo.com) since it works for Google talk, Yahoo messaging, AIM, etc. It would be nice if they have an iPhone version available.
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   by Leon 19y ago

   Hist arguments for the reason consciousness isn't possible in software reminds me of the pessimists decrying the impossibility of human flight since we are not be birds.
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   by Leon 19y ago

   Well, from what you are talking about it sounds a lot like this good short story on just such a situation, check it out: http://www.newbanner.com/SecHumSCM/WhereAmI.html
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   by Leon 19y ago

   Google just open sourced their OCR the other day, it's multi-lingual, has natural language modeling, and a plug-in system for lay-out analysis and character recognition. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/google-and-open-source-ocr.htm