Comment Solitaire (Score 1) 382
Seems everyone I know over the age of 76 plays Solitaire. Almost exclusively.
Comment Re:Overkill... (Score 1) 524
Here the data wiring companies are cheaper than the electricians. And the low voltage guys must be licensed. And, in certain situations, the low voltage wiring must be inspected.
Comment Electricians? (Score 1) 524
Yesterday I saw a telephone company technician do the same thing, strip 8 inches of jacket off the cables and connect up the jacks. He has been in the business for 31 years.
Submission + - DARPA Bootstrapped Learning (darpa.mil)
JoeTechie writes: "DARPA has another challenge. Saw it in WIRED, but it is quite old already. First response was January 2007.
Build an electronic student that can learn anything with no new programming.
More than your old Machine Learning program that gets better at one thing your new system should be able to learn new tricks with no interventions by you. (So the military can teach it that killing is good?)
Bootstrapped Learning Description
http://fs1.fbo.gov/EPSData/ODA/Synopses/4965/BAA07 -04/BLDescription.pdf
Bootstrapped Learning Proposer Information Pamphlet
http://fs1.fbo.gov/EPSData/ODA/Synopses/4965/BAA07 -04/BLPIPfinal.pdf"
Build an electronic student that can learn anything with no new programming.
More than your old Machine Learning program that gets better at one thing your new system should be able to learn new tricks with no interventions by you. (So the military can teach it that killing is good?)
Bootstrapped Learning Description
http://fs1.fbo.gov/EPSData/ODA/Synopses/4965/BAA0
Bootstrapped Learning Proposer Information Pamphlet
http://fs1.fbo.gov/EPSData/ODA/Synopses/4965/BAA0
