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Comment · 9 years ago
Q/A system, query results returned as memories. You wouldn't need to read about X, you would just remember that you already know about X.
Comment · 9 years ago
That... What? If you need to use your customers overhead crane to make a delivery, you will be going out of business fast.
Comment · 9 years ago
Don't worry, if you think people inviting you skiing is some kind of vieled attack, you belong here too.
Comment · 9 years ago
But they've only been able to fly since 2016.
Comment · 9 years ago
Self-driving nuclear reactors and currated wine deliveries for developing countries. Those are definitely ideas.
Comment · 9 years ago
This is a general NLP problem. People use language in more complicated ways than direct literal encoding. In the general case, it's a very hard problem, but hate specifically may not be so difficult.

People tend not to use phrases like "kill all the" in unambiguous ways.

Comment · 9 years ago
>I'm having a hard time finding where it's suggested in their literature that salvation comes from sobriety?

The message is the opposite. It's sobriety comes through salvation.

1 We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.

2 Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3 Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

Comment · 9 years ago
My friend said that pressure cooking popcorn kernels as an incubation medium allowed fast mycillial colonization. He could shake the jars every couple days to speed up the process. He also claimed pasteurized hay made an excellent growth substrate.
Comment · 9 years ago
Well... The traveling salesman decision problem, not the general case.

The problem of finding the optimum path is not in NP, if I give you a candidate solution you can't easily check if it's the global optimum.

What is in NP is the decision problem, finding a path that is better than a given bound. If I hand you a candidate solution, you just have to compare the sum of the distances to the bound to check it.

Comment · 9 years ago
Oh hey budget space must have an L1 norm. That's neat.
Comment · 9 years ago
I suppose they should be talking about budget velcoties.
Comment · 9 years ago
Someone must have the most likes. But it's true for the rest of us. If there are disconnected graphs, they'll have a local king of the popularity hill.
Comment · 9 years ago
We have successfully sent robots to Mars, but... I don't really need that light on in the living room.
Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
Most gasoline engines are homegenous charge, and run within a few percent of the stoichiometric air fuel ratio. Diesels will run at 6x the stoichiometric ideal amount of air.

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