Have to agree with the other guy who replied to you - when I took it, pure CS was sort of an applied math degree with a bit of engineeringish stuff like operating systems theory and digital design mixed in. From what I hear, it's now hard to find that, and most CS programs have turned into software engineering, at best.

Maybe women just don't want to slam energy drinks and sit in front of a screen in a cubicle seventy hours a week. I've always suspected they were smarter than men.

But but... in the USA, everyone is above average and everyone is equally talented. Kumbayah and flower power.

Funny how an entire nation can delude itself into thinking weird thoughts that, to an impartial outsider would seem utter madness. I blame the 60's unicorn liberals who are now firmly in charge (they're in their 50's and 60's now in positions of power).

Social science is about as scientific and STEM as Scientology. It's called Voodoo sciences for a reason. Nobody goes into it thinking it will be a great way to utilize their strong math skills.

So women stopped studying computer science because they didn't have to anymore? That certainly sounds like a crime against humanity.

Kindle's have bookmarks. They're easy to use and work very well. I use them exactly as you've just described.

That's not the suspicious part. This is:

"But instead, the performance was largely similar, except when it came to the timing of events in the story."

So they measured a whole bunch of things. What would you like to bet they didn't correct for multiple comparisons?

Yet, oddly enough, I see very few environmentalists stepping forward to volunteer to commit suicide first. I guess they think THE REST OF US need to go; but somehow they're too goddamned important.

They can't step forward because they are made out of straw. They are really easy to burn though.

I, for one, cannot wait for the day when I can set my car's logic system to different ethical settings, sorted by philosopher.

I just tried the Plato setting and now I'm stuck in a cave. Thanks Joe!

Except that sitting on the floor isn't an Eastern practice, it's a Japanese/Korean practice. Chinese sit in chairs like the rest of Asia/world.

Would a real-name policy even work at eliminating trolls? I mean, The Westborough Baptist folks are still out there trolling in the real world and everyone knows their real names.

at least in Berlin...

I was curious about what rules would be waived so actually read the article. This article says almost nothing. And the supposedly supporting link on 'waive the rules' doesn't go anywhere. About all I can tell is that they will let them do their Impact Assessment as they begin construction instead of ahead of time.

Seems like much ado about nothing unless anyone has some real info.

we demand that Samsung engineering department show us their diversity porfolio!

Signed,

NAACP, N.O.W., G.L.O.W.

Of course a program can do things that it is not explicitly programmed to do, at least in the sense you're implicitly using "explicitly programmed to do." Any learning algorithm, from simple regression on up, changes it's output based on the training data it's presented with.

If you want to use that phrase in the most general way possible, then your brain can't do anything it's not explicitly (by genetics) programmed to do either.

Nobody knows how to program "general intelligence." Virtually everybody has given up on the idea of doing so and has turned to the idea that you don't have to.

You'll have to wait a few years until they integrate radar and track the bullet's flight. The first one might miss, but the one behind that will hit exactly. By then they'll have dropped the pretense of a human pulling the trigger too.