Oh bull. Therapy is a throw away thing today. The stigmata evaporated along about the '80s.

"Give a woman a child" - You're an asshole. A rational man doesn't give his wife a child, they share one. My daughter was the best thing that ever happened to me and I don't regret any 'inconvenience'. I pity any partner you end up with because you obviously only see them as that wallet you referred to.

(or at a more advanced level, are programming a computer to learn how to learn things)

That is pure hope as well as circular. I don't think he's dismissing the concept so much as dismissing the current field operatives as being anywhere near as far along as they promote themselves to be. He's doing it with a heavy dollop of derision, but I'm seeing that from the opposite side as well. .

Let's simply do a change up on a few words and query as to how the brain stores concepts and can compare, contrast and combine them. .

I read nothing in that article describing 'how' other than hypothetical. It was obvious from the gp that "idea how" referred to knowledge of actual functioning.

Might you then explain to us how a neuron weighs the incoming signals and decides which axons to direct its outgoing signals to?

I know you gave yourself a caveat with "large scale", but those large scales don't really cut it for understanding how the brain fundamentally works, and in order to replicate its functioning in code (develop actual artificial intelligence), we will need to understand that. Add in how the effects of the various chemical baths it is subjected to modify cellular functioning and the prospect is even muddier. (That 'testy' lashing out allusion.)

We don't simply need to know what areas do what and a vague knowledge of how they interact, we need to understand in enough detail what it is they are doing at all levels for us to translate that into a hairily complex software system . A system quite a bit more hairy than one using a movie script database would or could be.

I'd put money on the programmers having coded in a limit (possible variable) on the number of times a specific line of inquiry could be asked before that rather canned response was generated.

Don't project your distaste for shots of yourself onto others. They may not have the same hangups or fixations.

What in hell were you doing wrong to yield reinstalls twice a year? I've had my machine running for five now and no reinstalls.

For the entire route? Don't think so. Please provide a link of any nature to support that view.

You forgot salesmen, which is probably the biggest block of promoters of these fads.

Writing software which was then mostly run in house on data stored in house. Smarter banks had teams that did the installation and maintenance in house as well. In the banks I spent those same decades you mention contracting for, they rented their wire transfer software (which I worked on) and we had complete access to the source code and managed the compilations and never once did the financial data leave bank systems for storage. Even the backup machinery was bank owned. Hell, when it was still being used, even the microfiching was in house.

False comparison as moving data to the cloud does not reduce or eliminate the risk you mention. Adding new security risks isn't the brightest thing to do.

You just saw the extent of his evidence.

As well as in your imagination.

Does "properly" define out as "what I think"? And "blame"? Is that just code for "what I don't want"? Children are a log more fluid than one view and unless they are actually damaging their child, it's no concern of others. And no, catering to their daughter's penchant for pink is not damaging, nor is buying them pink to begin with.