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Comment #46015611
He puts the bubble pop down to people needing human connection, 'feeling cared for', but his example shows the AI customer support simply getting nowhere.
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Comment #38348444
You can see implications that your teacher didn’t. That’s not a ‘new teacher’.
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Comment #22746563
Intel’s OneAPI promises to translate away from CUDA: https://software.intel.com/oneapi
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Comment #22746549
Intel’s DPC++ seems similar - computation graph, communicating via buffers. https://software.intel.com/en-us/oneapi/dpc-compiler Anyone pick out differences?
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Comment #21680519
Possessive is also contraction: "x's" <- "xes" <- "x his". No citation, but I read that somewhere. Interesting that it started out so primitive-seeming.
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Comment #21614508
Out of date. Reinforcement Learning makes truly ‘smart’ actions, courses of action. Calling something ‘curve fitting’ pooh poohs it (especially ‘just’ curve fitting) - calling it ‘…
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Comment #20464318
It looks to me like it could be an assignment to const, or, a copy vs a non-copy - it’s not obvious at all. I’m sure: ‘?=‘ was fought over and rejected, but that’s what I’d have ex…
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Comment #20101570
I don't think there is one, yet. 'Multiprocessor Programming': https://www.amazon.com/Art-Multiprocessor-Programming-Revise... has some algorithms, though.
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Comment #19699476
Are you thinking of the way ints and chars (and floating-point types!) inter-convert? That is a weakness or convenience, but otherwise the typing is pretty strong.
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Comment #19662814
> VAMPIRE has a special mode for working with very large knowledge bases and can answer queries to them. Does this mean it can somewhat replace Prolog? I forget why Prolog doesn't …
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Comment #19528712
> provably untrue. So prove it. No, they look for and start the fights. This is just one case, true, but it makes your case hard to prove: https://www.foxnews.com/us/dc-antifa-lead…
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Comment #18653455
e1m8b: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom/Ports/d-f/e1m8... -- has mirrors Be very gentle, the server seems taxed: e1m4b: https://www.doomworld.com/e1m4b/e1m4b.zip
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Comment #18501658
... promised to be "the most open administration ever" - and ended up being more closed even than GWB. There's really something to the idea that paying lip service mentally gets yo…
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Comment #18501639
There was a politician and activist from Montana on (US) NPR radio today who advocated getting congress to pass an act that /corporations aren't people/. If anyone's new to the iss…
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Comment #9283219
Some recent /opinion/, though not a study, from Canada: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/jo...
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Comment #9243551
> I've heard that the Marines actually have really good air support, because they have their own planes Why can't the army buy the same planes, are they not being manufactured any …
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Comment #8746574
Such self-fondling pabulum around here. If Aristotle can be wrong, so can Einstein. See: IQ data. I bet at least the number of people who posted want to say the same thing, but hav…
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Comment #8543138
There's Ulrich Drepper's "What every programmer should know about memory" - http://lwn.net/Articles/250967/ . It's long, it's from 2007, but its fundamentals are right.
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Comment #8307607
http://rockstarresearch.com/increase-longevity-and-intellige... > It turns out that lots of people get their klotho levels increased as a side-effect of taking prescription forms o…
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Comment #7903326
> The claims are not supposed to tell you how to implement the invention That part of the original deal around patents has been lost, then - to wit, that after the 17 years elapsed…
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Comment #7791894
No, the difference is in the added word troll , not simply a defender . Trolls are non-practicing, and produce nothing and protect nothing. I'm sure a legitimate 'little guy' with …
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Comment #7670306
If it was a snotty 'ummmm', I personally would object to it in real life, too. And I think others would as well. Also, you don't need 'ums' in writing.
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Comment #7541541
That 'universals' guy seems actually to be Donald Brown, and his book is 'Human Universals'. http://www.amazon.com/Human-Universals-Donald-Brown/dp/00700... The book is expensive, …
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