6029105 comment Comment Re:Typical liberal response (Score 1) 681 by beallj on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @09:32PM (#29510901) Attached to: Microsoft Tax Dodge At Issue In Washington State The state of Washington actually has no income tax.
4260373 comment Comment Re:Ugh, that's depressing... (Score 2, Informative) 492 by beallj on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @10:29PM (#27682343) Attached to: Biden Promises 'Right Person' As Copyright Czar And Congress extended the length of copyright terms, not the executive branch.
216961 submission Submission + - Text Compressor 1% Away From AI Threshold (google.com) Submitted by Baldrson on Monday July 09, 2007 @08:17PM Baldrson writes: "Alexander Ratushnyak compressed the first 100,000,000 bytes of Wikipedia to a record-small 16,481,655 bytes (including decompression program) thereby, not only winning the second payout of The Hutter Prize for Compression of Human Knowledge but, bringing text compression within 1% of the threshold for artificial intelligence. Achieving 1.319 bits per character, this makes the next winner of the Hutter Prize likely to reach the threshold of human performance (between 0.6 and 1.3 bits per character) estimated by the founder of information theory, Claude Shannon and confirmed by Cover and King in 1978 using text prediction gambling. When the Hutter Prize started, less than a year ago, the best performance was 1.466 bits per character. Alexander Ratushnyak's open-sourced GPL program is called paq8hp12."