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Comment Re:because I don't know ... (Score 1) 65

I don't know if you are trolling me or not, but your statement needs more clarification.
the original model changes when you re-train right?
so if it's open source, run it locally on your Beowulf cluster, and the problem of the censorship is gone.
or have I missed some sort of critical point?

Comment Re:We didn't have a computer room (Score 1) 192

Funny you mention Cobol. If you still recall any of it, ( Vax or IBM 370 ), the pay rate is in excess of $ 280 an hour.

I still get calls from some fun code I did back in the late 80's to early 90's ( I documented my code exceedingly verbose and had my name and number and address. every time someone calls I ask them to update it ). I sometimes got the desire to help the coding team to improve my trading reports and issues I encountered. 30 or 40 hours later, boom, solution, after solution after solution. I was really good at finding bugs and reporting them and getting invites to code parties. I have not picked up a terminal in 23 years so I would not even know where to start

Comment Re:We didn't have a computer room (Score 1) 192

1982, we had 8 x apple 2 plus and I had a teacher that was always asking me questions.
I bought that summer my C-64 and my dislike of apple just kept growing.

I don't have that many happy memories of that class because I had to learn to code on my own and never got the mental gift of coding to see how far I could push myself. Also the other 2 guys that enjoyed coding were always bullied by others, so I being somewhat bigger, working class, and fought my brother growing up, got into fights looking out for my group of friends. couple of black eyes, broke a jaw of someone, hit one kid with his football helmet and things started to calm down. Geeks like me had keys and little to no detention.

Comment Re:Of course. (Score 1) 63

I don't think you are right about that. There needs to be change, small changes that have big effects.

First limit awards in litigation. That should solve a big part of frustration.

There is a need for evil, because evil cause good people to innovate against evil and improve the world usually.

Now remove most political leaders from receiving any sort of funding, forcing them to be in the job to help society not to hinder. think Jimmy Carter - ish ... now you solved many problems that were costing society.

Bring back capital punishment for environmental polluters that won't fix the problem. and it has to be the top executives, I prefer the Division head and the person they report to. improve the health of people over multiple generations on time.

Sorry we need the military ( just an FYI to most readers, the US military is constitutionally bound, they don't get involved in the political aspects like other militaries), but you can imprison dictators.

Without bank lenders, you get bigger problems of usury.

in reference to CEO's and there pay... it's simple... no stock options, just a percentage of the outcome of success. that forces taxable money into the system and your company needs to make a lot of money in order to pay. so bad years they have a base pay. The inherent risk of the job will make them more conservative. and produce more stability and efficiency over time. but at the same time if there are loss's they can't be held liable for the risk.

Comment Re:Why do they trust the results? (Score 1) 52

the verification of this type of tool is easy because of some known science that has been discover.
history has shown us, that once we discover something, we get a good laugh about it and say "duh, I should have thought of that sooner"

I explain in another answer above this one, how they most likely get the correct image of the inside of the scroll.

Comment Re:Why do they trust the results? (Score 1) 52

This is the proper question to ask because it's the fundamental way of the scientific method.

So let's start with some basics on your question, and develop some trust in the answer using the burned scrolls, I have no interest in the outcome, I just study a lot so I can ask better questions.

1) so via radiography we can estimate and or determine the x line of the scroll with y being the depth, and different atomic or chemical signatures
2) via tangent space of a Riemannian manifold ( I think I said that right, might be the other way around ), we can determine from the Radiography data where there are 2 different types of burns the burns of clean paper and burns of paper written with an ink.

Now this is where it's more interesting for me ...
as we know, image OCR tech has been around since the late 70's, and really helped the mail system by the time chips caught up in the late 80's using fuzzy logic and neural nets.

3) the decoding most likely has a base of images of known characters, maybe even a full historical database of the evolution of the symbols of letters.
3a) there should be some human oversight on the output to compare and maybe say " hey it might be more than 1 word or meaning "

4) rough layman terms ... they print the entire roll out, and let a scanner read it, and give it's output. obviously, it's actually a 2D matrix with the highest probabilities of there being a "burn" of paper, processed, hoping for correlation.

biggest problem that your question presents is ... Who's doing the interpretation of the symbols for the meaning... This brings up an old memory that I don't have all the answers too but if I recall correctly, in the Torah, there is a word for sea of reeds which is spelt similar the Red Sea, and this became an issue with some very very old ( 3000- 1500 years ) scrolls in the decipher of Hebrew

keep on asking good questions.

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