01-21-2010, 08:08 PM
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#1096
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Mistress Monster Mod'rator Spy
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The North Coast
Posts: 15,428
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Yeah, seems she didn't like the taste of her own medicine.
"I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death."
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
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01-21-2010, 08:45 PM
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#1097
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Obsessed Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: far-Northern California
Posts: 2,194
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Quote:
Kate wrote
After dinner mints at 11.
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Whew! Thank the FSM I don't have one of those 'soul' thingies!
Atheism is a strictly non-prophet organization. - Carlin
And the Catholic Cow sez: "The Inquisition was a legal proceeding.
Victims had rights, trials, etc."
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02-27-2010, 03:52 PM
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#1098
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Organ Donator
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Beastly Muck
Posts: 13,136
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Quote:
Zarathustra wrote
From the Tractate I gather that Wittgenstein was talking about representations of the world through language, using the analogy of a picture. Language can be meaningful when the arrangement of parts of a statement bear a resemblance to the arrangement of facts in the world.
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Wired explains teh Google's Al Gore rhythms.
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Steven Levy wrote
Google has used its huge mass of collected data to bolster its algorithm with an amazingly deep knowledge base that helps interpret the complex intent of cryptic queries.
Take, for instance, the way Google’s engine learns which words are synonyms. “We discovered a nifty thing very early on,” Singhal says. “People change words in their queries. So someone would say, ‘pictures of dogs,’ and then they’d say, ‘pictures of puppies.’ So that told us that maybe ‘dogs’ and ‘puppies’ were interchangeable. We also learned that when you boil water, it’s hot water. We were relearning semantics from humans, and that was a great advance.”
But there were obstacles. Google’s synonym system understood that a dog was similar to a puppy and that boiling water was hot. But it also concluded that a hot dog was the same as a boiling puppy. The problem was fixed in late 2002 by a breakthrough based on philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s theories about how words are defined by context. As Google crawled and archived billions of documents and Web pages, it analyzed what words were close to each other. “Hot dog” would be found in searches that also contained “bread” and “mustard” and “baseball games” — not poached pooches. That helped the algorithm understand what “hot dog” — and millions of other terms — meant. “Today, if you type ‘Gandhi bio,’ we know that bio means biography,” Singhal says. “And if you type ‘bio warfare,’ it means biological.”
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La propriété, c'est le vol ...
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03-02-2010, 05:33 PM
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#1099
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Guest
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Wow Phil, that's pretty cool. Now I can tell my friends they're wrong: Philosophy is not useless.
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03-02-2010, 09:54 PM
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#1100
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I Live Here
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: prick up your ears
Posts: 20,553
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Quote:
Zarathustra wrote
Wow Phil, that's pretty cool. Now I can tell my friends they're wrong: Philosophy is not useless.
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Just mostly useless.......
You can always turn tricks for a few extra bucks. If looks are an issue, there's the glory hole option, but don't expect more than ... tips.
~ Philiboid Studge
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