Posts by John Smith 19 15994 posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
And you do have to wonder, did they do so in spite of the guy leaving to join Apple, or because of it?
IDK. Tesla's stock price is complete BS. The fantasy it's an IT company, not a car mfg, persists so I guess people will continue to make money off the back of it. Buy, buy buy, bye bye is not a stock tip but perhaps a sensible strategy?
Because they don't want to?
Because they haven't got a pot to p**s in?
In the UK the banking industry has persistently cut branches (in places they don't make enough profit) while telling the relevant HoC that relaxing rules on credit unions (that have tighter joining rules than banks) are a Bad Thing.
The best thing that could happen is to treat banks like any other business. They f**k up, they go bankrupt. I'm sick and tired of their "But we're speeeeeeeecial" schtick.
Companies that lead the field were top notch at using anything that improved their existing product.
What they didn't see coming was the inferior competitor that served a market they ignored.
That got better at serving that market.
And then started coming for their market instead. Or put another way.
"Do not look down on the snake, for who is to say one day it might yet become a dragon?" *
* RIP Burt.
or the Irish? "
I would. But I suspect the HO has a similar attitude to the MoD to such systems.
That "What we do is sooooo special no OTS system (even one built for the task and used by [i]several[/i] other countries) could [i]possibly[/i] do what we need it to."
I sometimes suspect this is because the senior nappy put in charge of getting the new system has no actual idea [i]what[/i] the current system does (starting with what other systemes it has to talk to for it to work at all) and hopes the con-sultants and con-tractors will just "make it so" to coin a phrase.
No.
Because a lot of the fools who voted for this bu***hit believed what they thought was promised on the side of the bus (It was only a "what if," so not a total lie. Cummins is quite bright like that).
Let's see the govt actually deliver on it.
So far they've delivers about 6 weeks of EU payments.
Where's the other 46 "Boris"?
They did.
As anyone who has seen the film "Enigma" will know it was called "Shark" (Sharq?) and had an extra rotor because they felt 5 didn't make the challenge hard enough.
I don't know if the British ever saw one until after WWII. IOW it was entirely broken by analyzing its product.
And that's the key word here.
Government.
Not a private company. Not Trumps next neigbour.
Government.
Trumps government (such as it still is) has never stopped him spouting whatever load of s**t his brain come up with.
Was Big Telco's b**ch before he was appointed to the Commission
Was Big Telco's b**ch when at the Commission
Will be Big Telco's b**ch when he becomes a lobbyist / "media commentator" / mouth-for-hire when he leaves.
Perhaps he can take the Head of the Justice Dept and the GSA with him as well?
An argument that could be made of all the reasons the quitters had.
So 17 million fools prioritized an industry of 12 000 people (fishing) over over the car industry (38 000 people) which generates an income 1/2 that of the f**king game shooting industry? It's less than the profit of Tesco.
How stupid would people be to do that?
Dumb enough to vote Leave obviously.
Oh really, Mr (or Ms) AC?
I didn't think it would be long before quitters would want to step away from being associated with being a quitter.
You demonstrate my view quite well.
You can't "Take Back Control" (as you chanted with the frenzy of a brainwashed cultist) if you never lost control in the first place.
You've been conned. Get over it.
So true.
One the most impressive small projects I ever saw was done out of the U of Edinburgh English Language Research Unit in the late 60's. It used a deliberately limited dictionary of functional words and a small group of verbs. The grammar was quite simple and the parse built what looked like a trie with all paths in parallel until most of them had been terminated. It ran on the KDF9 with 96KB of core.
The point was it could cope with any sentence. Unrecognized words were simply listed as o/c for open class. Naturally it went nowhere in the UK.
Yes I can definitely believe that. :-( .
The thing is humans produce new nouns, adjectives and verbs daily, just as old ones fall into disuse (who has used "fax" in a sentence this week who's not involved with the legal profession?)
Any true NLU system has to cope with 2 problems. Understanding what it is being told and adding to that understanding over time.
Because humans can do both. I think the second may be trickier.
Wow.
And the MIT Automated Assistant project (from the late 70's and early 80's) gets re-born
Yet again.
These people really do have zero history of their supposed "science," that's more than about 5YO. It's like dealing with a goldfish with a PhD.
That alone requires a very large internal database (which she's been building since the day she was born).
I think the word you're looking for is "Intentionality" The desire to do (or learn, or say) something.
I think a lot of AI types spend so long on their little corner they forget that language actually evolved to do update other peoples internal database.
The early success that linguistics gave to compiler writers gave them an undeserved sense of achievement. COBOL has about 230 "rules of grammar." English more than 15 000 (incomplete and therefor ambiguous). Writing a COBOL compiler (C has about 30) without modern tools is a formidable task. But once you're written your English compiler, what does it do?
Grammatically accurate bu***hit generator.
Who would have suspected that result?
Fun fact. <300 words cover > 50% of the entire English language web content.
Most of them are a)Less than 4 characters b)Functional words ignored by large corpus analysis programs.
Any plan that begins "First we we will build a dictionary of every word in <insert live written human language>" is basically f**ked by definition.
He does not know the meaning of the word "defeat".
Or of grace, honour, charm, humility or actual leadership.
The line of Sir Alan Sugars in the UK Apprentice springs to mind with Trump.
"I don't like schmoozers." Trump does nothing else but schmooze. Preferably with dictators. Bullies only have (grudging) respect for other bullies and Trump is a bully. an amazing collection of human character weaknesses and personality disorders. You have to wonder who was the man his mother f**ked to produce him.
Who believed (and continue to do so) that only a vehicle designed, owned and used only by NASA can do this job.
Assisted by the best efforts of some members of Congress to force a down select to one supplier (and by "one supplier" they meant Boeing).
Well done to all in the CCiCAP programme and at SX for proving them wrong.
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