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Comment Re:The purpose of a factory is not to provide jobs (Score -1, Troll) 178

And Fascism does not work very well either, but that does not prevent the current U.S. moving in that direction.

Not even close...not even with ultra liberal side of Democrats pushing facistic actions and promoting facist laws/rules and societal changes.

And all the while to promote facism they are using the term against anything center left to middle right as facist.....making the term meaningless over time much like they've done with nazi and racism....they've overused them so much then just have no meaning anymore.

Comment Re: Is vice signaling the new virtue signaling? (Score 1) 106

Kind of like how any economic system better for people in general is called communism.

nah....we all know that any form of economic system even resembling communism would not be good for anyone...at least not the common folks, only those at the time.

Sure, Capitalism sucks....but it sucks a whole lot less that ALL other forms of economic systems.....history has shown us this time and time again.

Comment Re:The purpose of a factory is not to provide jobs (Score 1) 178

sure, these are choices that stem out of another choice, namely out of the choice to have private ownership and operation of property. If the factory is private property, then it is operating in an environment that promotes and defends private property rights. This means nobody us forced to work there also, not just that nobody is owed a job there. In this environment competition is inevitable and it is competition for the purchasing power of individual buyers. So the demand and purchasing conditions are at least partially dictated by the totality of individual choices of all market participants. This is a policy choice, this is the choice I personally prefer as well.

Comment Re:Is vice signaling the new virtue signaling? (Score 1) 106

The guys who built those giant ovens could have told themselves that somebody was going to be baking a whole lot of bread ... very inefficiency.

Somebody wired up all those ICBM missile silos too. The ones who do think all of the above is just fine. There will always be someone.

Comment Ryzen/AMD 16/8GB (Score 5, Interesting) 82

Skipping the paywalled article I found these specs and was underwhelmed.

Sure it looks fine for playing mid games but my guess was something unique, unified RAM or a clever bus or something. It seems like a decently tuned Ryzen build. I do like the lower TDP on the CPU which should be doing less work.

A nice form factor for those who don't build their own.

Hopefully this is their entre into the PC world and v2 will have more innovations.

What's most cool is the generation of teenagers who will have default Arch/KDE instead of default Windows.

Comment Recidivism rates (Score 2) 149

US: 66% (Wall Street's numbers aren't those found in official statistics)
UK: 28.9%
Holland: 23%
Norway: 16%
China: 6%

US' conclusion: The rate is a complete mystery, we've no idea how to decrease it, let's do more of what we're currently doing differently to everyone else.

There is a slight possibility this may be flawed.

Comment Go Janitors! (Score 4, Interesting) 40

I see so many names in the commit logs, but some standouts include: Blum, Cook, Torvalds, Solodai, Tyragu, Stitt, Bergmann, Wysocki, Panda, de Mello, and no doubt some I missed who have a large number of commits fixing this problem.

Thank to all who undertook this Herculean chore!

Comment Re:On AI design and also irony (Score 1) 56

It has seemed to me, for a very long time, that modern AI systems would need to be integrated with standard RDBMS systems for reliable persistant storage of raw information, some sort of no-sql database (memcache or some variant) for persistant storage of associations, some sort of document database for blocks of textual information, a SPARQL system for searching semantically-marked information within the document database, and a more old-fashioned back-propogation NN to provide a store of understanding that the user can directly manipulate.

Probabalistic classifiers are all fine and good, but only for a subset of the tasks needed. The above structure is a very loose, wildly-speculative initial framework. It's almost certain that if you actually tried building an integrated multi-model system, that you'd end up making a lot of changes to this basic idea, but that you'd end up having to implement the same core concepts that are identified in it.

Comment Re:"Alan Turing, one of the more famous people" (Score 2) 24

From their careful selection of text, they WANTED it to mean something else so badly that they couldn't handle putting in the full text. It's a common blight on today's Internet, where people want other people's writings to mean something other than what was meant by the writer, so carefully select the words they read.

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