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by ppod 12y ago
>checking a couple of examples with known outcomes. How do we know the outcomes are known without evidence? For example: > The computer can tell you that titles have shrunk (and you hardly need a computer to tell you that: the bulky e
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by ppod 12y ago
>digital analysis of literature tells us what we already know rather than leading us in new directions Isn't it sadly typical of the humanities to view data that confirms a hypothesis as redundant?
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by ppod 13y ago
To my ear "oh cool, today is the day you get to learn about X." is even more patronizing than the feigned surprise. Feigned surprise may have a tone of superiority, but at least it means they respect my knowledge enough to be surp
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by ppod 13y ago
>"The devoted dog of Montargis avenges the death of his master, foully murdered in the Forest of Bondy; and a humorous Peasant with a red nose and a very little hat, whom I take from this hour forth to my bosom as a friend (I thi
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by ppod 13y ago
I liked it, it made me smile. The standard "have-an-amazing-day" tone of sites submitted here is grating after a while.
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by ppod 13y ago
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/26/rules-of-eng...
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by ppod 13y ago
The word 'drone' should be excised from the discussion. Whether the pilot is sitting in a trailer outside LA or in the cockpit has very little to do with morality of the rules of engagement. The US has been repeatedly killing the
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by ppod 13y ago
I own no bitcoin, and I don't feel like I understand it well enough to make a judgement either way, but I know a bit about writing. The people who write "anti-bitcoin" posts, like this one, generally adopt a patronizing, prop
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by ppod 13y ago
> but there are people in the world who do very very bad things to innocent people. And we have some very good laws to deal with that. Laws against murder for example. I think the analogy between 'terror' and 'devil'
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by ppod 13y ago
People who argue very strongly against government intrusion often seem to ignore the distinction between private and public spaces. I have no problem with any amount of recording equipment in public spaces. Anywhere that a policeman could s
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by ppod 13y ago
I guess there's a very simple test - get the 'facilitator' to leave the room, show or tell the autistic person a word, bring the facilitator back, and ask the person to spell the word. With the picture, and the lines about 'steadying his ha
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by ppod 13y ago
Thanks for your helpful link to a google search for "NSA wiretap". None of the links you post have anything to do with "storing all text messages". Exaggeration like this just turns people cold to bothering to read about genuine privacy con
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by ppod 13y ago
>Does the NSA store all text messages? Yes, more than likely. Do you have any evidence for this? The Wiretap Act clearly prohibits it, if they are doing it, it's definitely illegal.
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by ppod 14y ago
>whether it is the "true" driving factor behind the attacks Can't you see the analogy between my scenario and this scenario? You make it sound as though if the video was the true motivating factor, then it should be banned. This is anal
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by ppod 14y ago
Lets suppose that a group of atheists (and I am one) get together and make the following announcement: * Much of the content of the Catholic mass is demonstratively false * If any Catholic mass is celebrated, these atheists will attempt to
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by ppod 14y ago
Videos don't cause people to die, and definitions of 'hate speech' are difficult. Mocking Islam seems pretty hateful, since it is at the core of the belief system of a large proportion of the world's population. But what about mocking Scien
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by ppod 14y ago
Whether it is in the recital or the enacting terms is irrelevant, I quoted the recital because it is a little clearer. The effect is the same - sites have interpreted the law to mean that a pop-up prompt is necessary. I think that the incon
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by ppod 14y ago
Aren't those nouns?
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by ppod 14y ago
This part: >Access to specific website content may still be made conditional on the well-informed acceptance of a cookie or similar device, if it is used for a legitimate purpose. Could certainly be interpreted to mean that users must a
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by ppod 14y ago
>reject the science of economics and embrace pseudo-science. You seem to be ignoring the fact that many professional practitioners of the "science" of economics disagree with your analysis. You can't just say that the guys who agree wit
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by ppod 14y ago
You should delete that right away. What good do you think is going to come of putting his home address, phone number, and wife's name (!?!?!) on the internet?
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by ppod 14y ago
This is really not my experience. My facebook ads are so relevant that they almost seem like a useful service at times. It knows a few of the things I'm interested in thanks to who I'm friends with or pages i've liked or whatever - so I see
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by ppod 14y ago
NLP is insanely fast-moving. Especially the machine learning side of things (like the EMNLP conference), proceedings this year have very little overlap from even 7 or 8 years ago.
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by ppod 15y ago
Bamboozle really exploited the potential of teletext. They could have had a text-adventure game on there. More people must have played that game than anyone realized, every time I hear a nostalgia discussion about teletext somebody says..."
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by ppod 15y ago
Do you think that you have the ability to solve problems that fall outside the envelope of your harvested and processed data? I certainly don't think I have that ability, and I'm human (i swear).
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by ppod 15y ago
The ultimate endgame has to be a Google Online Bank, a Google Amazon, and a machine learning algorithms that bypasses advertising altogether and just buys you stuff before you even know you want it.
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by ppod 15y ago
What's the difference between collecting, organizing, and processing data, and intelligence?
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by ppod 15y ago
"no one takes AI research seriously" Really? You don't think modern AI research has produced any serious results? Do you know how many applications machine learning methods are used in today?
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by ppod 15y ago
Why? Biologically inspired ANNs have been around since the 50s. What's the problem with trying to model neural computation?
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by ppod 15y ago
It's published in Neural Computation, it says so right there in the article.

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