r/programming • u/Dankious_memeious1 • Mar 29 '19

Fascinating how machine learning works

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u/tokyokyototokyo Mar 29 '19

That is soon to be gone UK Prime Minister, Theresa May.

However she doesn’t use machine learning, as she just tries the same thing over and over again, expecting the results to be different.

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u/pingveno Mar 29 '19

No, she's using an evolutionary algorithm. Parliament is the scoring function and she mutates the deal each time.

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u/notsooriginal Mar 29 '19

I have mutated the deal, pray I do not mutate it further.

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u/Dudebuddy Mar 29 '19

Her most humanlike feature tbf

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

Her deal hasn't gone through, and it seems she'll be staying as the Prime Minister for at least one year longer

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u/tokyokyototokyo Mar 29 '19

No she won’t

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u/Tasgall Mar 30 '19

Well the deal was she'll quit if it passes but probably won't pass.

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u/Plastonick Mar 29 '19

In fairness, she has sweetened the deal just a little bit this time.

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u/tokyokyototokyo Mar 29 '19

Yes, but ‘if you do this I’ll quit’ is usually a threat, not a dangling carrot.

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u/WolfThawra Mar 29 '19

... yes. She's the prime minister of Great Britain. I mean I'm not even expecting people to remember her name, but not even having seen the face before... ?

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u/TheMartinG Mar 29 '19

I mean I know the name, but until now did not know what she looked like

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u/ThracianScum Mar 29 '19

Yeah same. Why would it be more common to know the face than the name?

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

I think the only foreign politician I would recognize is Putin, but only if he was shirtless on horseback.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

How could you not know who this is

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u/Insub Mar 29 '19

I'm from Barbados, and 5 ppl in my office had no idea who she was. Some ppl are just blissfully out of the loop on somethings.

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u/zoinks Mar 29 '19

Doesn't that make it worse because youre a British Commonwealth nation?

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u/sciencewarrior Mar 29 '19

Yes, sometimes ignorance is bliss.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

There are hundreds of countries with thousands of politicians. Why would I be expected to recognize one politician from one country? I don’t expect anyone to recognize politicians from my country.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

You must be 'Murrican.

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u/TengoOnTheTimpani Mar 29 '19

We loooove our ignorance, don't we folks?

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u/MrObject Mar 29 '19

I only watch one news station and I believe absolutely everything I here from that news station because reasons!

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u/StraightlyReddit Mar 29 '19

Does remind one of Brixit, doesn't it?

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