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Except for some of us who come from the time you had to get permission to get an ID on the Arpanet. In that case, the WHO is not saying mathematically nice things about us. :-(

Ehh, nature, she always drags some series into the mix - the mortality rate is a function of distribution across age and other health factors - it doesn't seem to drive the immune …

Given my first terminal was an ASR-33, this is of interest to me - yes I have insurance, and yes I have friends who got staggering bills because the anesthesiologist wasn't in-netw…

Common LISP could certainly generate assembler for Arduino and other MCUs, but there's no way you're fitting that fat old beast (whom I do still love) on one . :-)

If this was reddit, I'd award gold for that comment. Only thing I can add is that one should only value paid experience, i.e. the person working a day job doing a banking app and a…

The 'problem' with modern science is that a large finite amount of stuff has been discovered, and new discoveries are most often built on that stuff. I splash around in the backwat…

Don't get me wrong, I like your cites - but at the end of the day, math is math. Either it works or it doesn't. If it works, apply it where you can! I've got a sneaking suspicion a…

Depends where you live - 20 years of salt nets you a frame that will break if you sneeze

Heh - had to go look up storage protect, aka 'red light errors' . Kept getting in trouble in the beginning of my career when I didn't realize snooping about lit up lights on the fr…

This has pretty broad applicability across a wide range of algorithms. The common failure mode when the machine fails to recognize the otherwise normal real face and body indicates…

Not as a single tool, but if I'm using numerical libraries I need to be accurate, and not have another unpleasant experience with numerical methods. That said, I can usually get by…

Much of the last 2 decades of my career has been as much principal work as I can get, and everything I know says you smacked this ball out of the park. First, if the title is real,…

Got 9/10 but it was a challenge - between the way real Trump mangles English and fake Trump strains to flagrantly fail the Turing test (h/t @JanelleCShane) it was a struggle - nice…

I just hate n-grams is the short answer - tear apart the input with link, use arc and modifier info as input to the statistical processes - so far, too early to say it works better…

Gotcha - yah, I can containerize, it's not like I'm screwing with drivers or whatnot on the AMI - I'll keep an eye on you, not ready for GPU yet, as I can't even rationally define …

OK, did a quick scan on free and paid tiers and wondering about ability to bring in specialized python libraries- in my case, https://github.com/opencog/link-grammar which almost a…

Their head probably would have exploded when they saw what the C# compiler did with tail recursive functions . :-D

Ran this on the Ithaca Intersystems Z-8000 based rig in the early/mid '80s - it was remarkably command compatible with V7 for the basics, even built a MicroAngelo based 3D graphics…

All the experience I had was theorem proving for crypto apps - that said, I think there is only the appearance of reversibility at the symbolic level, underneath its the same old m…

Grrrr. This could have been interesting if Umberto Ecco was arguing semiosis, instead of this poor exercise in semantics. As a concrete example, consider "The AI therapy app is not…

ZOMG - a brain neuron from decades ago woke up - worked on some weird stuff in reversible computing in the '80s (think of assignment always preserving functional state at assignmen…

I dunno - having done my own share of labelling, a company to make that horror go away is certainly of value - that said, converting people to cogs in AI systems is worrisome

As an NLP developer, I did like the aside on hyphen purgatory - I think that can serve as the basis for a strategy on the news ingestor in development. The vocabulary is currently …

Oh Oracle - first your sales people came every year and jacked up the licenses, and we fled. Then you came up with plans to monetize Java, and we fled. And then this. Just die alre…

Exactly why I became a programmer - biology is a lot of messy, unpredictable processes we have way too little data on. My favorite MD's are the ones who smile at the phrase 'There'…