Comment Re:Typical liberal response (Score 1) 681
The state of Washington actually has no income tax.
Comment Re:Ugh, that's depressing... (Score 2, Informative) 492
And Congress extended the length of copyright terms, not the executive branch.
Comment Re:Screwed Into Skin (Score 2, Informative) 58
If you read the post you're responding to, they are using needles 10 times shorter. Could make a difference.
Comment Re:Writing your own eulogy (Score 1) 411
But there's a difference between an irreplaceable employee and an irreplaceable position. If he quits, retires, dies, etc, then there are more IT guys out there that the company could hire.
Submission + - Text Compressor 1% Away From AI Threshold (google.com)
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."
