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I know many humans (so-called natural intelligences) who are also incapable of making decisions without guiding rules. The only difference is the specificty of the rules...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Very true, but the worst part is that they have been conditioned to behave that way by everyone from their parents, the teachers and their bosses. Where would we get if everyone started thinking instead of doing what they are told? 
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I used to have a boss like that - an avid skier, we forever hoped he'd ski directly at a tree as he'd have to hit it since he'd not be able to decide if right or left was the better option. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You can throw a ball and usually the dog will choose to fetch it,
but the dog can also choose to bite you - and nobody knows why.
This is a riddle AI has a chance of answering, after all the non-thinking animal is just a finite state automiton.
Coming up with a "thought of the day?" Pretty sure OG's not getting replaced any time soon because there's not a machine that can reach such states.
AI using it's rules can't build something that can't be built and so it also can't imagine it - the rules are fixed so it's simply impossible to imagine the impossible. - humans can.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Lopatir wrote: This is a riddle AI has a chance of answering, after all the non-thinking animal is just a finite state automiton.
You must have had many dogs. And try to be careful if ever a cat comes along. It would probably answer some questions with you as an example. 
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Humans, well most of us, can use imagination to think outside the rules, AI, in its current state, is rule bound.
Maybe injecting a random variable (generated by a rule  ) may simulate imagination.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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For the random variable part - I did that once for a fractal generator I wrote. The kind you give a set of lines and it reproduces them, scaled, on each branch for n-levels. I had it make an occasional mistake. The generations that drew maple leaves still drew them - but they were different maple leaves.
But, back to your original post. It gave me a thought. First, I don't count memory as intelligence, but count creativity (else, computers already won). Using existing knowledge to create information/results that are derived from recombination of known's into about-to-be-known's. However, it struck me that perhaps the creation of about-to-be-known's (problem solving) is really analogical. Using a known pattern that solves one problem and using it to solve another problem that, although different, can accept the 'same' solution.
Like invention of flying: it wasn't. Devices were contrived, built upon previous knowledge, and applied to solve the problem. Flying was already there and we saw it. Where does this sit on the AI/neural net/imagination border?
What makes us different and what is the target of AI is This:
Aut inveniam viam aut faciam !
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Lopatir wrote: You can throw a ball and usually the dog will choose to fetch it, but the dog can also choose to bite you - and nobody knows why
Unless you own a (rescued) greyhound. The poor critters just don't grok 'fetch'. You can throw a ball, and they'll chase it to where it lands.
Then they look at you, and trot back over to see what you'll do next. 
Software Zen: delete this;
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At the moment, AI is mere statistical (Bayesian inference, stochastic analysis, etc) rule base processing programmed by human. I believe we can teach a program to be motivated (self improvement). To make a program truly AI, it must be able to learn. We must initially teach it how to code its own subroutine based on new found statistic confirmation. Which means the program is itself also need to be a compiler. Eventually it will learn to create its own machine level compiler -- integrator process.
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From what I have gathered digging around the internets, changes to the way for File Explorer to deal with folders are stored here. Why it is not stored somewhere in the Windows dir, I have no idea.
Anyway, it is possible that these file could be assisting some malware? If they are good, can I combine the contents? I don't mind having a singleton file, but already I've got 2 of them.
One file has this:
[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21799
The other has this:
[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21769
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-183
Any ideas? thanx
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They are normal. You must have unset the option: Hide protected operating system files...
You can reach this via (from explorer) View, Options, only option, View tab and scroll down a bit and check the option and OK.
They'll go away again.
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what he said , I get them as well, but then, I always have all of my files shown. Big Boy Warranty and all....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I have show all files always turned on (because to do otherwise is annoying) and these content.ie5 files show up everywhere
you can quietly delete them, does no harm at all. Over time they slowly come back, just delete again.
(If you manually sort the start menu in a particular way that's apparently stored in here too, but I'm happy with the default sort-by-name so I remove those files too.)
The one place I do leave this is: ...\temporary internet files\desktop.ini
contents of that desktop.ini are:
[.ShellClassInfo]
-UICLSID={7BD29E00-76C1-11CF-9DD0-00A0C9034933}
and that stops windows explorer hiding the content.ie5 and it's sub folders. (So once in a while I can clean out those too.)
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Just to add, you cannot combine their contents, every "desktop.ini" refers to its parent folder.
For example if you change the folder icons on some folders you'll get a "desktop.ini" file in each of those folders and the files content will contain an information only for their parent folder.
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Just to clarify Mario's answer: The reason you're seeing 2 of these files on your desktop is that there's a version in your desktop folder under your own user profile (c:\users\YourName\desktop), and the other is from the desktop folder under the public user profile (c:\users\public\desktop). What you have on your desktop is the combined content of both desktop folders. So because of this, despite all appearances, it's not violating the "files in a given folder must be uniquely named" rule.
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Whenever I read a really great book I like to share it.
Right now I'm reading, Writing Winning Business Proposals, Third Edition [^]
I really like books (and communicators) who cut through all the clouds and give me the facts in an interesting way.
I know many of you run your own software businesses and this one will be really great for those.
However, I'm finding that the basic structure they talk about with proposals directly relate to discussions I have with various stakeholders within the company I work at when they request enhancements, bug fixes, etc.
I really like the way the authors break the proposal down into what they call baseline logic:
Situation: What is the problem or the opportunity?
Objectives: Given the problem or opportunity, what are the objectives for solving or realizing it?
Methods: Given those objectives, how will you achieve them?
Qualifications: Given those methods, how are you qualified to perform them?
Costs: Given the methods and qualifications, how much will it cost?
Benefits: Given those costs, what benefits and/or value will accrue?
As a developer I love the way this logic flows and connects the entire thing together.
There's even more great stuff. Can't believe someone put this together so well.
Have any of you read this great book?
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You know how at Chinese restaurants someone has to make a joke by appending "in bed" to the fortune cookie?
Read those "baseline logic" bullet points the same way.
And...
raddevus wrote: Costs: Given the methods and qualifications, how much will it cost?
Benefits: Given those costs, what benefits and/or value will accrue?
I realize that we're talking about business proposals here, but it really annoys me that everything has to be reduced to a cost-benefit analysis. What about "my employees will be happier" even if there's a cost to the company and no direct benefit? What about "the environment will be better?" What about, how my bedroom life will be better? 
Marc
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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raddevus wrote: Work: nobody likes it.
Money: everybody wants more.
Actually, I very much disagree. For the most part, I enjoy work, it's money I hate. Working in the tech industry, I've achieved the first world luxury of making enough money at an hourly rate that I don't have to work full time. My work-life balance is actually more of a work-work balance, and not all of the work is income generating. That results in some weird behaviors -- the more I enjoy the work I'm doing, the less I tend to charge my clients. I guess you could say that my billing is based on suffering.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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That's not really work.
Work is the stuff that you don't want to do.
I'm guessing there are parts of the SDLC that you don't like and don't want to do as much.
That's not really money either.
Money is the ability to pay for what you want to do.
Ability to pay for what you want to do means freedom.
We all love freedom.
So
Work == Stuff You Don't Want To Do
Money == Freedom
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Marc Clifton wrote: You know how at Chinese restaurants someone has to make a joke by appending "in bed" to the fortune cookie?
Read those "baseline logic" bullet points the same way.
I think if you added "in bed" to each of those bullet points you're going to end up with a very different business proposition.
modified 20-Jul-17 4:34am.
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Al_Brown wrote: you're going to end up with a very different business proposition.
The difference being that, unlike being a corporate slave, the cost-benefit analysis is usually more equitable.
Marc
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Unless the between-the-sheets activity leads to marriage. In that case the amount of work involved logically suggests you should just take the money equivalent.
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Marc Clifton wrote: What about "my employees will be happier" even if there's a cost to the company and no direct benefit
"My employees will be happier" should have measurable benefits in terms of productivity, reduced absenteeism, and retention. When a change to company policy looks like reducing the "bind the mouths of the kine" with no explicit improvement to the bottom line, it's a good idea to point these out. This is especially true for 'knowledge workers' like engineers, where the intangibles become more and more important as their career gets longer.
Software Zen: delete this;
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The baseline logic is easily remembered with the handy acronym: SOMQCB
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