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Comment Just adjust it more gradually... (Score 1) 201

Rather than jump an hour on one day adjust multiple times.

Options:

    1. Move it two minutes a day the first thirty days in March and October.

    2. Move it fifteen minutes on the first four Sundays in March and October.

That should dot it. It would have the positive side effect of re-employing all the developers to make changes in systems to accommodate it.

Comment Weight Watchers worked for me (Score 1) 496

No connection just a happy customer. You don't need to go to meeting or buy there food or any other BS. Just follow the program (and there is an app for that).

The biggest thing for me was that whenever I would diet I wouldn't eat enough. In that case your body goes into starvation mode and you can actually gain weight while dieting - very frustrating. WW takes into account the amount you eat and the amount you exercise and keeps them balanced. I lost 20% or my weight over a couple rounds and will probably go another round this summer.

Worth a shot, especially if other approaches aren't working.

Comment Symbol Grounding Problem (Score 3, Interesting) 269

Old AI guy here (natural language processing in the late '80s).

The barrier to achieving strong AI is the Symbol Grounding Problem. In order to understand each other we humans draw on a huge amount of shared experience which is grounded in the physical world. Trying to model that knowledge is like pulling on the end of a huge ball of string - you keep getting more string the more you pull and ultimately there is no physical experience to anchor to. Doug Lenat has been trying to create a semantic net modelling human knowledge since my time in the AI field with what he now calls OpenCyc (www.opencyc.org). The reason that weak AI has had some success is that they are able to bound their problems and thus stop pulling on the string at some point.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_grounding.

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