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Comment Re:So... (Score 1) 19

All variations can be considered mutations.
And yes that means each and every one of us carries mutations.
What that means is that most single letter variations/mutations come out in the wash - they aren't easily noticeable.
But they do account for a large part of the variable responses that human beings have to various drugs and treatments.

Comment I've known people like holmes (Score 1) 70

They genuinely believe, at least start, that a wild ass idea is the same thing as an invention.
All they need to do is hire some lackeys to take their genius idea and finish the details.

I had one back in the 1980s who thought he had invented the inertial tracker (after reading about it in a Heinlein book or possibly in Radio Electronics from Don Lancaster).
He tried to hire me to do the "detail" work and was horribly offended when I told him that it was - A unpatentable - B with current technology undoable - C I wanted nothing to do with it or him.
He left screaming about suing me because I was violating our NDA (Looney) and that if I tried to produce such an item he would sue me for theft.
He really believed he had something and I think Holmes really believed she had something too in the beginning.
And if everyone had told her how difficult and unlikely she was to succeed from the beginning instead of petting her and cooing what a brilliant genius she was it would have saved everybody a lot of time money and embarrassment.

Comment Customer services (Score 2) 25

These are my favorites. They're an actual AI. That you can manipulate.

The one that's been calling me tells me I've got Humpty thousand in credit card debt and that it's willing to help me straighten it out.
Oddly it cannot tell me who my credit card is with or how it knows how much I have in debt (that I don't)

It's hilarious - tell it you don't like whatever name it's called you by and and you want to be Mister bozo t. clown and they will call you Mister Bozo T clown.

There's at least one YouTube video with somebody who's trying to break the AI by having it do ridiculous stuff although I don't think he ever actually manages to in the video.

Comment I don't think they're really any worse. (Score 1) 100

Than Google's voice to text.
I use it pretty much every time I'm writing something (like right now)
And it is pretty darn High error rate.
For instance why did it capitalize High and why did it make has into is?
Some of it, I'm sure, has to do with working with really poor pronunciation. Most people tend to blur and slur when they're speaking.
And then depending on the listener to straighten out what it was they said.

Comment Bad stuff happening for Oracle? (Score 5, Interesting) 46

I sure hope so.
The college I used to work for was defrauded of a fairly large sum of money by Oracle.
They had purchased our director of IT who recommended a "new product" they had for handling basically all the accounting, grading and assorted other functions that a college could need.
After something like 2 years of promising "next quarter" they never delivered anything and when Our IT director was fired from the college he was suddenly working for Oracle.

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