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Ever since almost a decade ago MS released a few VS previews with broken installs and told everyone to reload their OS I've refused to install any pre-release MS products. If they'd responded to community outrage by defenestrating the PMs involved from a 10th story window and released working uninstallers at the time I might've been willing to relent; but they didn't and at this point the bridge is a mass of radioactive rubble at the bottom of the river and the site is too poisoned to allow rebuilding for generations.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Davies said: The brain is the one example we have of truly intelligent computation He must know people that I don't know.
But he's giving a straw-man argument.
No-one ever said that backpropagation mimics the brain (or if they did, they were misinformed).
Nothing we do in AI mimics the brain; none of the AI methodologies -- not even his Holy Grail neural networks, which a lot of poorly informed people have declared as mimicking the brain.
The brain works with what is easiest defined as "highly compressed and merged 3D movies with smells and other sensory records attached". We don't have anything of artifice that can even come close to processing brain-level quantities of such data feeds -- Hell, we don't even have data of that kind, let alone the capacity to process it!
So he's just talking the usual "what I'm doing is perfect, and what everyone who doesn't do what I'm doing is inferior!" bollocks.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Agreed.
If it was about natural intelligence he might have a point.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: No-one ever said that backpropagation mimics the brain (or if they did, they were misinformed). "Deep learning" implies actual learning. If it is measuring successes and keeping score, than I'd have to agree that learning is not the most ideal term to use.
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I'm not seeking you out, before you get that idea. You simply had a good argument that I wanted to reply to
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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the only way is to teach these engineers farming or fishing ....
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Munchies_Matt wrote:
For f**** sake, just stop with the freaking technology abuse!!! I agree. Cars are just as bad. Too much technological crap that breaks and is too expensive to repair.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Because it is so difficult to reach down and use a button isnt it. In America yes. We are too fat.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I thought phones had to be switched off during flights ?
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Not since a while.
Officially you should set them in airplane mode at take off and landing; I suspect 99% of the phones are still open anyway.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Okay, I am not flying that often. This was a rubbish rule anyway, so...
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On private planes that is not a requirement and I know of no incidents ever caused by a cellular phone on an airplane. I fly on our corporate planes occasionally and I have seen pilots in the cockpits on their phones. We get no service at altitude so I'm not sure what they were doing.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: We get no service at altitude so I'm not sure what they were doing. Playing Candy Crush?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: Playing Candy Crush?
Better than flying!
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Marketing wrote: and it will even tell passengers when they need to drink water. Humans have a built-in sensor for that, known as "thirst".
..and water? Do I look like a plant or a pet?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Do I look like a plant or a pet? Do you really asking us to vote on that (possibly Monday survey ? !) or would you like to decide for yourself?
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A rethorical question, so no answer expected.
..but it does make me curious what the monday-survey would judge
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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No sense holding back. Volunteer for the input of the lounges in judging your animal, vegetable, mineral (or a derived class).
Non-rhetorical: what have you got to lose?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Non-rhetorical: what have you got to lose? Nothing. Amazed at how quick this turned
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Breath in Deeply
Savor the Chaos!
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Well - I don't have such a phone. Perhaps they'll do for that what they do for earphones and give them out to the passengers. Kind of a disposable cell phone. Or maybe even build it into the seat (or was that already mentioned).
Someone call it artisanal seating.
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Ha, yes, if you dont have a smart phone you are f***ed and have to spend 10 hours folded in half!
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Sounds like an excuse they'll give you to install an app on your phone just so they can take a peek at whatever else you've got stored on it. Really, is there any other purpose?
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