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Re: AI - a load of tosh?
« Reply #14 from previous page: October 25, 2006, 12:25:20 PM »
Yeah, he was definately a bit of a twitcher.

However, having studied QM in enough depth to elucidate the strange chemical properties of atoms and molecules I can fully understand why :lol:
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Re: AI - a load of tosh?
« Reply #15 on: October 25, 2006, 12:34:44 PM »
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Yeah, he was definately a bit of a twitcher.

However, having studied QM in enough depth to elucidate the strange chemical properties of atoms and molecules I can fully understand why :lol:


Are you a chemistry student Karlos?
I once tried to get my head round a populist book on QM but
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Re: AI - a load of tosh?
« Reply #16 on: October 25, 2006, 01:19:01 PM »
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Their inability to think is why programming is so goddam hard.


Programming is not hard.

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Indeed - it's called software after all...
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Re: AI - a load of tosh?
« Reply #17 on: October 25, 2006, 01:27:11 PM »
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Karlos wrote:
Yeah, he was definately a bit of a twitcher.

However, having studied QM in enough depth to elucidate the strange chemical properties of atoms and molecules I can fully understand why :lol:


Are you a chemistry student Karlos?
I once tried to get my head round a populist book on QM but
failed really I think.


Yep. I had a real passion for it as an academic subject (still do, in many ways) but towards the end of the first year of my doctorate however, I had developed real misgivings about the industry itself, let alone the prospects for getting a decent R&D job (more and more chemists were being made redundant by brute-force "array" synthesis techniques). Luckily, I had IT skills as a plan B.

IT companies might be just as self serving, but at least people aren't dying waiting for treatments to become profitable enough to be worth making in any quantity.
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Re: AI - a load of tosh?
« Reply #18 on: October 25, 2006, 10:59:29 PM »
'2029' eh? not '2030'?
Typical trash.
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Re: AI - a load of tosh?
« Reply #19 on: October 25, 2006, 11:05:43 PM »
pah, they used ceil() rather than round()...
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Re: AI - a load of tosh?
« Reply #20 on: October 26, 2006, 12:11:29 AM »
:lol:

Nah, they preferably would've used a floating point to look as 'scientific' as possible.
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Re: AI - a load of tosh?
« Reply #21 on: October 26, 2006, 01:27:15 AM »
What, like 2.029x10^3 AD? :-D
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