Google: Running was invented in 1612 by Thomas Running
"where is spaghetti code grown?"
Google: Slovenia
Two months ago such a result was posted here
"How many web servers are there ?"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24664280
Not sure what it gives but "how many web servers" gives 'four'. Did someone at Google fix the result individually?
Long-time player here. Strangely enough, the hardest part of these exercises is the uncomfortable brief moment of getting acquainted with (or being teleported to) a random board position.
A couple days ago I was really captivated solving chess puzzles on lichess and I encountered a particular puzzle that didn't make sense to me (my puzzle rating is ~1800). Then I realized it's white to move, and I've been pondering on black moves for the last 10 minutes... Mistakes a human mind can make while playing chess really surprise me, even while doing another intellectual activity like programming, learning math, reading a book etc you don't realize how notoriously prone your brain to errors until you have an objective measure to compare your reasoning to. Fascinating.
Mercifully Lichess actually tells you who has the move. ChessTempo didn't (you have to figure it out from who moved last,) and thereby made this feeling of disorientation much worse than it had to be.
It's a moment that actually requires paying attention to. Occasionally I find myself unable to find a winning move. To the point where I just try all possible legal moves. And they all fail! That's when I realize the last opponent move was actually a pawn move that can be captured en passant:-(
"do something against your own interests because you can't be trusted"
I really like the idea behind beeminder, as it focuses on discipline/process more than the outcome, but it looks like I could accomplish this with a spreadsheet, reminders, and a 'swear jar' of cash I actually get to keep.
I'd be motivated by the swear jar & reminders since I (would have) put it there intentionally. But I realize not everyone lives this way and busy life can be distracting.
You're very right it would depend much on the person AND the goal.
The main value I personally see here is the setup. I wouldn't have to set up reminders and tracking manually. I may even learn a new goal I hadn't considered if others share their goals. As long as it doesn't devolve into a perfectionism race to the burnout line.
I hope it results into more a tool for self improvement than yet another business preying on human flaws/needs.
You should check out the Beeminder community: http://forum.beeminder.com -- I think it will quickly convince you that we're a Very Serious Tool For Self-Improvement.
After some thought I agree with you that this is the wrong problem to solve.
I took a narrative detour I wanted to share:
Suppose we make the analogue of a scientific paper to a piece of mineral ore (in terms of their raw content, and without written symbols in them for the sake of the analogy) extracted from some mine or quarry. This ore is somehow useful to someone, even if its value is structural: the shingles on an academic roof or a heavyweight desk. What a summarizer attempts to do is use a generic refinement process that will grind up the ore and then separate the components of interest such as Iron, Uranium, or Gold.
Anyone thinking that all of metallurgy reduces to simply throwing the slab into a machine and have it spew out the precious metals will find, instead, more complexity than they bargained for, and have more questions on machines or methods to resolve. Gold, Iron, Uranium, all have different extraction process.
I believe this approach may give some insight in what problems to solve instead with AI: focus on those discoveries that have helped advance "metallurgy", those of discovering and understanding the structure of the mineral ore and contents (scientific papers) and their relation with current technologies at the time, not on the philosopher's stone of 'summarizing' process more akin to a hammer that makes everything seem like a nail.
Highly intelligent human beings have a natural ability to summarize big ideas into TLDRs. Are humans basically a bunch of "summarizers"? Probably not. Is this ability to summarize or compress big ideas into smaller, more condensed pieces of information, important to the human race? Yes, I would say that they are. So to me, this is certainly one of those problems that we correctly attempt to solve.
Yeah. I happen to have been looking at this problem in my spare time recently. I tried a bunch of abstractive AIs and approaches, and none produce consistently usable results.
I'm sticking with extractive approaches plus a bunch of hard-coded general and domain-specific rules for now.
VirusTotal includes some very poor quality Chinese AVs that produce positives for nearly every file. PDFs are pretty damn safe to access today -- the days of exploding macro exploits are about a decade behind us.
Anti-Virus tools have been flagging keygens and cracks for ages, and also hacking tools that grab passwords from (system) stores even if the tools have absolutely nothing in their code that talks to a server (I only ever used those for legal purposes, but can't tell you how often I had to disable an annoying AV...). Just because the AV says something is malware doesn't mean you can trust its claim. From my perspective, they've undermined their trustworthiness in the area where you are indeed most likely to rely on an AV.
I'm not surprised they're now flagging what is basically text and images as malware.
Oh. You'd be right in that. But you're the one that brought up sexism in the first case! Perhaps it's prejudiced in itself to assume implicit evil from the choice of characters in a story? Not to mention it detracts from the central discussion, which may explain downvotes.
> Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.
It seemed pretty clear to me that it was a light-hearted joke, referencing the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy[1]:
> “And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.”
