drstrangevibes

the fact that watson has good nlp isnt nearly as impressive as the fact that it has a huge knowledge base, how the hell did it get all that knowledge, if it is just from browsing the internet by itself that makes me afraid.......very afraid

Whenever I am searching for an internet solution, if I see a result coming from the EE domain I automatically pass over it, so why shouldnt the reporter?

didnt know that people can collaborate in IRC on one document and see real time changes going into a shared piece. The wave bots had also had the ability to collaborate, See http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/telstar/2010/01/14/irm10-help-me... of a wave bot helping in a realtime environment to facilitate refrerences for research projects...... I think people that think wave was just a replacement for email, irc twitter are kinda missing the point, and google are largely to blame because that is the way wave was "marketed"[sic]

IMHO .....because it was, the real problem was that people didnt see its value, scalable online collaborative editing where some of the editors are programmable bots, i dont think people really realised its potential sadly.....

my code to interface with this for a major financial exchange went live today too. So far its been working perfectly!

I find all this discussion about the rules slightly amusing, as it is Zen. The rules are there to instruct the apprentice, to guide adept, but there are no rules for a master. shu ha ri.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuhari

I do not claim to be a master

yes I meant processes as in the generic term you might say executions as erlang process are different to Java threads. I meant a comparison of concurrent 'activities' as comparing a Java thread model to an erlang process model is somewhat pointless. I am interested in any Java program you might have that can run thousands of threads without grinding to a halt. please show me I didn't think it possible!

besides it being functional and process orientated, theres lots about erlang syntax, that is just cumbersome, unwieldy and unnecessary, the interested reader is refferred to http://damienkatz.net/2008/03/what_sucks_abou.html. To claim that stability is a facet of the syntax , is questionable given as it would imply that languages like reia http://reia-lang.org/ are less stable, which i would very much doubt. Also in terms of stability ive yet to hear of a jvm based project with 99.999% uptime. You seem to suggest that this is because all of the java programs out there are not written to the same standard, this clearly cant be true. Finally, I wait anxiously for the day that a single jvm can handle as many concurrent processes as a single erlang execution environment. This is all my opinion, but what you say doesnt really make sense to me.

my main question is why? Seems to be the worst of both worlds..... All the pain of Erlang syntax without any of the incredible stability and scalability of Erlang.

right so we vaccinate even though theres a low chance of contracting a disease, a significant chance that the vaccination will cause side effects and a chance that it might not work anyway. Makes sense to me!

anything which prolongs life increases population growth any other argument is absurd, yes I know the theory that populations with high infant mortality have more children, but surely the infant mortality acts as a population regulating factor, and besides large populations with a high decay will always eventually be taken over by lower populations where fertile couples are living longer!

0:30 the goal for bill gates? reducing population growth?!!

another reason for not doing an MBA is that it stops you from being able to make a point concisely....;-)

in any case epic fail at damage limitation by all involved

no, read the article again, Tesla agrees electrical waves get damped when transmitted through the air, but he is talking about transmitting electrical current wirelessly without losing power!

>A society based on the principles of the free market will >create unprecedented human health and prosperity agreed , but only for 0.005% of the population

I hardly think Tesla was proposing sending massive microwaves towards a huge metallic object as a means of power. Ever put metal in a microwave? Dont!

no, read the article again, Tesla electrical waves get damped when transmitted through the air, but he is talking about transmitting electrical current

why dont we have wireless power then?