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by downer 19y ago
Another data point that fits the theory.
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by downer 19y ago
> Telling me I need to take 10 minutes of tests for a site to be able to provide value isn't going to be an easy sell. People LOVE those kinds of tests. Just look at all the ones on LiveJournal and OK Cupid. "Tell me about ME!!!"
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by downer 19y ago
[ wipes tear ] That's a good one!
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by downer 19y ago
I'd consider it rather a problem to have a dating site that supported only Windows and Linux users. At least Mac users tend to be attractive...
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by downer 19y ago
> they've built a great flex application and that is no small feat without hard work and talent ?
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by downer 19y ago
Then they'll roll over and go to sleep.
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by downer 19y ago
The people on the other side of that gap aren't legal anyway.
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by downer 19y ago
This is awesome. Sounds like Cargo Cult development almost.
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by downer 19y ago
Naively I'd say you can't do it without a mind-reader. Someone may not know what they don't know; thus an intelligent agent probes to determine. This is where tutoring/mentoring comes in, but it's never exact, as the instruction from any
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by downer 19y ago
> So, what you mean by saying something is more intelligent than something else? Obviously people say that all the time despite our lack of a definition for exactly what it is , so we apparently don't need an exact definition . >
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by downer 19y ago
What program isn't a toy? Stop being opprobrious and come up with a better example.
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by downer 19y ago
Well, yeah, who wouldn't take a call from Steve Jobs?
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by downer 19y ago
Now I shall pretend to be completely ignorant on another thread, talking about Steve Jobs.
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by downer 19y ago
That sounds like something to score brownie points. In reality, with their millions, there's nothing stopping them from re-Lisping it. (Not even time considerations -- when they were in negotiations to be acquired, they didn't do any develo
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by downer 19y ago
> If anything, the celebrity around PG signals a deep desire for good, honest mentors. I agree with the second part of this point; in regard to the particular subject, hopefulness that said subject will finance one's startup is an in
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by downer 19y ago
Be sure that you have ProxyRequests Off specified, with <Proxy [asterisk]> deny from all (or allowing just as needed). E.g. in Ubuntu, make SURE you link to proxy.conf from mods-enabled, because Apache has a horrendous bug
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by downer 19y ago
> we are actually trying to define intelligence through IQ tests, for example Fail. IQ tests only measure how well you do on IQ tests. > The problem here is that not every human being is intelligent Unless they're in a vegetati
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by downer 19y ago
Let's see anything better.
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by downer 19y ago
The only thing that has prevented nuclear genocide is mutually-assured destruction. If the U.S. could've gotten away with it, who knows how many cultures we'd have nuked in pursuit of the American Dream. If anything, the spies who stole
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by downer 19y ago
PG on why Reddit switched: "Incidentally, the last straw, I've been told, was some bug in CMUCL threads that kept making the system crash." http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/574d19d5e7...
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by downer 19y ago
If we all took that attitude, we'd never get anything done. The process of discovery is hands-on, learning by doing. You don't know all the rules at the outset, or all the definitions, or even know what you don't know. You find out
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by downer 19y ago
> Where would you begin? Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
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by downer 19y ago
> I do not want to wait five billion years. You're darn well gonna wait -- and LIKE it! Fortunately, it takes significantly less time than that -- no more than three and a half billion years. Haha, and you were worried!
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by downer 19y ago
I recommend throwing out the entire field of computers and starting from first principles. Let's put the Ermine back in determine and stop weaseling our way out of deterministic systems.
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by downer 19y ago
[Meg Whitman, eBay's chief executive] wasted $2.5 billion on Skype under the "I better do something to justify my existence plan." She could have bought the Kinko's chain for the EXACT same price. To the penny. What a coup that would have
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by downer 19y ago
Vista is proprietary. They can stick in a backdoor wherever they want. Wasn't there recently an issue with Windows Update ignoring your settings and updating itself anyway? http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/security/0,39044215,62032221,0...
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by downer 19y ago
How does making a deal with a country compensate the business owners for lost revenue? It's just bizarre that they would rather bribe other countries than allow money to come into their own country via legally-operated sites. "Instead
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by downer 19y ago
I thought this was going to be about Intel on-board graphics chipsets displacing expensive enthusiast add-in cards from Nvidia.
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by downer 19y ago
> Let us know when you find it. I can't think of any phenomenon less likely area to have a simple algorithm than intelligence. Cf. Evolution.
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by downer 19y ago
Amazing how people with all this knowledge still haven't gotten anywhere close to AI. It might even be something simple, overlooked, done a little differently.

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