Posts by John Smith 19

"we (as taxpayers) have shelled out handsomely for a system that has failed, "

But don't you feel that the criminal has been punished?

Because AFAIK that's the core idea of the British system.

BTW IIRC the UK has both the highest proportion of its population (per 1000 head of population) and the highest repeat offending rates in Europe.

But no one likes a "Bad guy" and everyone loves governments "getting tough" on crime.

With a place at prison costing more than a place at a University (not even a good university) you could (literally) pay each repeat offender £20k/pa to not commit another crime*

Like farming "Set aside" for crims, not famers, which HMG seems to have no trouble doing.

Re: You do know that Moore’s law says nothing about speed?

"We now have 16 core, 32 thread desktop CPUs."

Amdahls Law suggests (kind of like a critical path analysis) that you can only speed up an algorithm until you get to the part that cannot be run in parallel. That is the minimum (or critical) path.

And that's as far as your speed up goes.

Amdahl's law dates from around the same time.

Except it shows no signs of being broken any time soon.

"..make chip designers much more conservative..as they pause to wonder..those innovations could..,

Shouldn't a security impact assessment be part of every commercial product?

Oh no, sorry. Chip designers are special.

Why? Because of the scale of their f**kups?

Not everyone used the same processor for remote management

But everyone did manage to f**k the implementation up.

Now we need a nuclear program and a couple of warheads.

It's like the India / Pakistan border dispute.

Over sheep.

Baaaaaah.

Trump..just..having a school girl crush on Putin's subversive methods of governance & law making

Trump looks like a school bully and such types are naturally attracted to other (more successful) bullies.

But Trump is basically someone whose genes gave him height, looks and a personality disorder with a good deal of superficial charm.

I'm not sure if Putin has any of these things, but he did have a career in the KGB.

Trump's biggest weakness is he believes he is Putin's equal. I think "Pampered, entitled, Park Avenue poppinjay" is nearer the mark.

Posted like a true white-male supremacist, my friend.

No, but posted like someone who's attitudes to women have not entered the 20th century, let alone the 21st.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance against any kind of sock puppet.

Makes a change from Murdoch deciding elections I suppose.

Oh yes.

Meet the new puppet master, same as the old puppet master.

"and they want to worry about/blame Russians!!??"

The last thing you need in a country brimming over wit bu***hit is someone stirring the cauldron.

So yes, the US should be worried about the behaviour of all foreign powers sticking their noses into it's business.

In fact all countries should be bothered about other countries sticking their noses into their business.

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Will be testing an Oxidizer Rich Staged Combustion rocket engine with the thrust level of the Spacex Merlin 1d mfg in India at a Russian test stand.

The US ULA has been buying RD180's (also ORSC) from Russia for the last 16 years and the US/Russian JV that slaps made in USA on the packing crates "upgrades" and "certifies" them for US use has been claiming they could mfg them in the USG if paid enough money, but it's so hard because "y'know this techs complicated and we don't really know how to do this stuff and all the blueprints are written in Russian and none of us speaks Russian and the metallurgy is tricky and and"

Re: "UK is clearly dropping out of the major league" Didn't that happen 50 years ago?

I'd suggest more like about 62 years ago.

There are other AI NLP approaches..not based on machine learning type pattern matching.

True.

Cortico is not one of them.

"Semantic folding" is very much based on chewing on a shed load of data to construct an N dimension vector and look for words that are "close" together in some sense. They are large binary sparse matrices, allowing much compression and the ability to run comparison using the sort of Boolean operators common in most MPU instruction sets, but they are absolutely in the "Throw a metric f**k load of text at it and something will come out" school. :-(

Once I saw that I immediately thought of the Binary Neural Net work in the facial recognition system developed by London University called WIZARD. It's also got features in common with speech recognition approaches using "Time Warping" to cope with words spoken at different speeds (something else most humans can cope with up to a point).

9 pages into Cortico's 59 page White Paper and my BS meter is redlining like a Geiger counter in the engine compartment of a Cold War era Soviet nuclear submarine. Lots of verbiage, little insight. Why does the word "Autonomy" keep flitting through my mind as I keep reading?

I smell a BFR.*

*Big F**king Rat.

"Do you beat your wife only on Friday?."

Indeed.

Actually as that's a query the easy answer is to check the listeners internal model and answer it.

That is an NLP problem, and illustrates that the questions "What does a sentence mean?" reduces to "Queries or updates on the listeners internal model of whatever it's about," even if the listeners internal model is "WTF are you babbling about." No model, no capacity to make a model, means the question (or any sentence) would be meaning-less.*

Recognizing the question is actually a very tricky attack on your personal behaviour is rather more of a general AI question and (I'd suggest) much harder.

*This should be pretty much SOP for NLP, but I've yet to find someone actually state it directly. I'd love a reference. I'm guessing Winograd did so, somewhere, but I've not had time to hit his thesis.

"The plural of thesis is theses, "

As I noted it looked wrong, but in truth I didn't think it was, and I could not be bothered to check further.

Thanks for confirming I was right and I'll keep it in mind.