Teach Me Something New Today - ~{[Momma Nora's Unhinged Rants]}~

[Named User]

A related issue is general memory management; programmers at Apple Computer spend hours, days, months, and maybe years, searching for memory flaws in the deepest depths of the operating system, but the solution to this problem is to let the machine handle it, and this was known in the 1950s. Think about this the next time some idiot programmer says that modern machines aren't fast enough to cope with that.

And it was then, everyone at Android suddenly realized, “hey, Java isn’t so bad after all.”

 

[Jones McCann]

This is a standard computer program.


This a machine learning program.

It has been proven capable of solving any computable problem. It only needs enough examples of an input to output mapping, a function for measuring the distance between it's current output for a given input and the preferred output (performance), and a method of automatically adjusting it's parameters to achieve slightly better performance next time.

Repeat this process over your entire input->output dataset many times and, assuming you have enough data and the input->output mappings have a consistent statistical relation to eachother, it will begin to create what are called "concepts" that generalize universally your input data (text/image/sound/etc). Here is an example of what it learns from images.



You can see it starts with primitive lines and edges, then shapes, then fractals, fractals being the pattern of all life so it can now generalize any visual object. You then begin to see real life objects like tile, flowers, cars, then more complex objects like faces. You will live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

 

[Kalsarikännit]

On Macs, most people know Cmd + shift + 3 will take a screenshot, but less people know that Cmd + shift + 4 will allow you to take a cropped screenshot, like the snipping tool on Windows but way more intuitive.