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Youe mean including one VAT 69[^]?
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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A contest designed to push the limits of artificial intelligence suggests that truly intelligent machines are a long way off. Then again, probably so do most eighth-graders (and their parents)
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Still, that's pretty impressive, given that the majority of 8th graders in the US flunk the 8th grade science test.
Marc
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A USian science test or a worthwhile test?
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..so it may take a while before a computer "understands" LINQ
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Today at TED2016, XPRIZE is announcing a new contest that invites teams from around the world to come up with ways artificial intelligence can help solve some of the world's most challenging problems. "You are a plague and we are the cure"
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I think Troll recognition and removal would be a good start.
and if they could just fix stupid...what a wonderful world this would be!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta tomorrow (noun): a mystical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation and achievement is stored.
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Mike Hankey wrote: and if they could just fix stupid Huh I'm pretty sure they found a cure for thZZZZZzzzzzzzttttttttt
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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If you've been hanging on for the perfect domain name for your cloud computing, skydiving, or weather forecasting website, now's your chance — you can now buy .cloud domain names. Dang. cirrus.cloud is already taken
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What about get.off.my.cloud?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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iplaymymusi.cloud is still available...
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Between the 1970s and the early aughts, the incidence of myopia in the US nearly doubled, to 42 percent. "Can I do it until I need glasses?"
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Because now we all have computers that we "work on".
Nerdinitus.
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I don't care about youropia.
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I went near-sighted long before I touched a computer.
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Ditto. It's easy to blame looking at nothing further than 28" away, but I don't think it's the sole problem.
TTFN - Kent
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I blame global warming. First, that homeopathic increase in CO2 affects the elasticity of the cornea, and of course that .01C increase in temperature just devastates one's ability to see beyond the tip of one's nose.
Marc
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Because we no longer need not prey nor we are prey. A short sighted human falls very quickly to his/her death in the natural world, whereas now there is not such a mechanism to decrease both the lifespan and the procreation of genetically defective people.
Luckily, as I have both a lazy eye and myopia.
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
If a coffee bean is between the Earth and the Sun, is it a Java Eclipse? -- Sascha Lefèvre
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Is computer science even a science at all? I contend that a software engineer has more in common with an artist than a physicist. You know it when you see it
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Yes indeed. Many of our legacy applications remind me of the abstract expressionist artist Jackson Pollock. He was a specialist in the drip and splatter painting.
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I completely agree!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Xaotiq wrote: Often those that say it is art do so as a scapegoat.
I agree with you.
More Objective
Any finite system will be more closely related to science.
We use computer languages which are finite to solve a limited, finite problem set.
There are ways to measure the goodness/badness of the solution and even though numerous solutions will be reasonably equal, it does not mean there is no (mostly) objective answer.
More Subjective
Art however, is as close to infinite as possible in this finite universe.
As soon as you say you've solved art, along comes another possibility simply because you can redefine it to be something else.
Of course, we can transform anything into a subjective view or make it more subjective.
Thought Experiment
How about this one?
Suppose I give you problem that is to be solved that is quite limited.
You are to solve the puzzle by filling in the blanks (underscores with either a or b).
When both are the same letter, then you win.
[_ _]
[a b] lose
[a a] win
[b a] lose
[b b] win
It is an extremely limited system and difficult to put in the art category.
We can write an app to do it calculate the answer, etc.
Our Minds View the Finite System Easily
No one would consider the program which is written to solve that as art. Because our minds can easily see the finite system behind it.
Limited Thinking
However, with a large system -- though still finite -- suddenly the same people will attempt to transform it into "art". That's limited thinking. Just because the problem set is large doesn't mean it has transformed to art.
Transformation Into Art
However, I could reform the entire thing as art and tell you that there is hidden meaning when you render the answer as
[a b]
you are describing the loneliness felt by all humans as they recognize that they are a when others are b.
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Quote: If I want to put up a giant white canvas and call it art, so be it
How will you explain to the audience ? Oh there is creamy white on that corner, I used smoke white in the middle ...
Believe me, you'll end up admiring your art alone same to your code.
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