Comment Re:Lovecraftian horror. (Score 1) 125
^ Why we need a +1, Troll option for moderation. ^
Comment Re:Climate Change? meh... (Score 2) 385
Posting to undo moderation. Next time I'll read a post all the way through before giving an "Insightful" to a self-centred prick.
'Eraser' Law Will Let California Kids Scrub Online Past 266
gregor-e writes "The first-of-its-kind 'eraser button' law, signed Monday by Governor Jerry Brown, will force social media titans such as Facebook, Twitter and Google let minors scrub their personal online history in the hopes that it might help them avoid personal and work-related problems. The law will take effect on January 1, 2015."
Comment Re:GNOME: We don't want Microsoft to have all the (Score 1) 729
I keep it installed on my systems as a little reminder to KDE that DEs that start to misbehave too badly can quickly be replaced.
Comment Re:Took a trip to Shenzhen a few years back.. (Score 1) 55
I've never been refused a stay at any Chinese hotel, but some obviously cater to foreigners, and some obviously do not.
Comment Re:GNOME: We don't want Microsoft to have all the (Score 1) 729
Comment Re: and so meanwhile... (Score 1) 245
A huge part of the answer is "Windows". PG really dropped the ball on that one.
Comment Re:and so meanwhile... (Score 1) 245
One of the first lessons I learned, ever, is that DB abstraction layers suck in general.
Comment Re:Maybe Microsoft Should by them (Score 1) 120
Enjoy your dictionary, AC, and I'll stop casting pearls before swine.
Comment Re:prosumer? (Score 1) 120
I can read, but you apparently can't detect sarcasm.
Facebook Launches Advanced AI Effort To Find Meaning In Your Posts 125
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Tom Simonite reports at MIT Technology News that a new research group within Facebook is working on an emerging and powerful approach to artificial intelligence known as deep learning, which uses simulated networks of brain cells to process data. Applying this method to data shared on Facebook could allow for novel features, and perhaps boost the company's ad targeting. Deep learning has shown already potential to enable software to do things such as work out the emotions or events described in text even if they aren't explicitly referenced, recognize objects in photos, and make sophisticated predictions about people's likely future behavior. Facebook's chief technology officer, Mike Schroepfer, says that one obvious place to use deep learning is to improve the news feed, the personalized list of recent updates he calls Facebook's 'killer app.' Facebook already uses conventional machine learning techniques to prune the 1,500 updates that average Facebook users could possibly see down to 30 to 60 that are judged to be most likely to be important to them. 'The data set is increasing in size, people are getting more friends, and with the advent of mobile, people are online more frequently,' says Schroepfer. 'It's not that I look at my news feed once at the end of the day; I constantly pull out my phone while I'm waiting for my friend, or I'm at the coffee shop. We have five minutes to really delight you.'"
Comment Re:prosumer? (Score 1) 120
IOW, the AC was correct?
Comment Re:Maybe Microsoft Should by them (Score 1) 120
The word you're maybe looking for is trifecta.
Comment Re:Bigger news (Score 1) 120
Those of us who were at Sun during the end times there can now feel a tiny bit better about ourselves, I suppose.
Comment Re:Not really surprised (Score 1) 120
s/AirDroid/AirDroid/ in previous, sorry about that.
