Norvig is a brutal teacher, but you learn quite a bit! The basics of research into machine understanding have already begun. Once you are able to teach a machine "emotions" then you're able to add weights to certain words based on the context.

The definition of intelligence I learned was the ability to take various inputs and act on them accordingly. There are various debates over the proper / fastest / correct way to do this, but it's in no ways dead. You just have to look to the facial recognition of the latest Xbox or the fact that last month the Kirobo project held the first human - robot NLP conversation in space.

At least your family game night will give the kiddos useful skills for the future!

This is the internet -- very little surprises me anymore...

That killed me when they closed reader, because they also gutted their Android podcast app.

Damn you! I haven't had to think of the Hayes commands in awhile and there you go bringing them up again. LOL

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You have to wonder what's going on in the original dev's heads -- they create something, get bought by Google and then shut down.

Never heard of it either. Maybe if they spent a little more time telling people about it, it wouldn't have been a waste of money.

Not all of them are bad. I use plurk, for example, because it's easy to decide what to make public and to make a private message to a specific set of people.

I think showing the full name also drives some people away from commenting. Some people may not feel safe or comfortable having all of their personal information up for grabs on the internet, so I commend you for this! I'm to the point now where I've started using DuckDuckGo more and stay signed out of Google on the computer unless it's for a specific purpose. I fear for the day when ./ decides everyone must have a verified facebook profile to comment, because that will be the day I quit coming here.

$ man 5 english
No manual entry for english in section 5

When I was there, the order came down for everyone to switch over to G+ immediately. Pfft.. We even balked at it, if that tells you anything.

I'm a Linux user, so it's back to that status for me after they ended support.

I'd say some games would be ruined by the artificial data caps imposed by the ISPs.

I always assumed by "metadata" they really mean "all". BB joycamp doubleplus good.. (or something like that..)