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Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
Somewhat interesting and related is that software that performs medical diagnoses better than doctors has existed since the 1970s (Mycin, an expert system). It seems like nowadays that this kind of solution can possibly be provided at scale at a consumer level (can process new medical knowledge by itself, be installed on commodity hardware), not an expert myself though so I don't know if totally true. What exciting times though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin
"it proposed an acceptable therapy in about 69% of cases, which was better than the performance of infectious disease experts who were judged using the same criteria."
Comment · 10 years ago
Does anyone know about the legality of projects like this in the US?
I vaguely remember stories about game companies legally going after companies making bots.
Would uploading an API like this open someone up to a lawsuit? What about someone uploading a bot or a botting framework?
Comment · 10 years ago
I saw in the examples you can catch Pokemon with this API, does that method give you an automatic excellent throw every time then?
Also, does this API depend on running on Android?
Comment · 10 years ago
Regarding the reliance on Emacs, might not be the case anymore. When I was new to Clojure, I immediately used an IntelliJ plugin called Cursive. It was/is great, same experience as writing Java in IntelliJ. (https://cursive-ide.com/)
Comment · 10 years ago
I am guessing you made jeans before, if so can you share and estimate the cost of materials and time it takes for one pair of jeans? Am curious because $225 for time and materials seems like too much to me.
Perhaps these guys in the video run too small of an operation to have the costs spread around and to invest in tech to speed up the process.
Comment · 10 years ago
There's a few pictures in the various Github issues, looks like a Scratch like programming environment, unless that was just the developers own software.
Comment · 10 years ago
Similar to that, I really like how in Intellij I can can use my Maven and Gradle build script as the IDE project's property file. I can now have my source checkout not include any helpful IDE specific files, but still have the project be instantly imported into an IDE.
Comment · 10 years ago
A possible fix is to start investing, but it may be too late. If I remember correctly I think investing for profit is a gray area in Islam, but Kuwait did it and if I remember correctly they use to have more returns from their investments then they did on oil and paid every citizen a base salary from it (until Saddam invaded and they had to cash out).
Comment · 10 years ago
They are capable of making world class products still that drive revenue. Their fantasy football UI is the best IMO, and they managed to use that platform to drive their daily fantasy gambling that they have tied to it. Hopefully they could repeat it for Yahoo Banking etc.
Comment · 10 years ago
I don't know too much about vehicle side of things but my understanding is the following:
MISRA is not on the same level as DO-178. DO-178 covers a lot of ground, from testing, documentation, requirements, that sort of thing, and it's made by a government agency which enforces it during certification, where every single hardware and software component in the aircraft related to flight operations is certified individually. So you will actually have engineers from the FAA sit down and look at code coverage, how requirements are written, how they map to tests, see if the tests cover a lot of cases in your requirements, see if the code implements the requirements, that sort of thing.
MISRA on the other hand are treated like guidelines that car manufacturers generally want you to meet when you deliver them a vehicle component.
There is the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards you have to meet on a vehicle as a whole, but I do not know if they have to prove that they meet the following during a formal certification process. http://www.nhtsa.gov/cars/rules/import/FMVSS/
So as far as I know, there's big approval process at the end for vehicles, while there's a formal certification process for all components in an aircraft, as well as a big approval process at the end for aircraft.
Someone please correct and fill in the blanks for the vehicle side of things.
Comment · 10 years ago
Won't Android move to Java 8+ once they officially adopt OpenJDK?
Comment · 10 years ago
From what I observed it's close enough to Java that people can easily switch and are willing to. There's also enough brevity with the language to be at ease with it daily (not as much as Scala) where it may be enough that perhaps people might not want to invest time to go all the way to Scala.
Comment · 10 years ago
Well Kotlin isn't even officially released yet (1.0 candidate came out last week) so no company is probably using it for production yet.
Can a language could resolve this issue without generics or some other contract feature (which Java did later add), or without limiting the scope of array definitions and their use?
May be good to note that Array<Dog> doesn't actually extend Array<Animal>, so there shouldn't be any polymorphic usage between them, and the return statement and method call scenarios are compile time errors with proper generics.