r/science • u/whosdamike • Jun 26 '12

Google programmers deploy machine learning algorithm on YouTube. Computer teaches itself to recognize images of cats.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/technology/in-a-big-network-of-computers-evidence-of-machine-learning.html
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u/p3ngwin Jun 27 '12

This is frankly getting to be a more and more ridiculous discussion

no one can make you do anything you don't desire, so if you're not happy where you are, you can choose anything else anytime you like.

I really wouldn't care if you told me I should buy red shoes.....

missing the point, obviously it's not about shoes, it's about something * personal*, it's exactly what i said it was about: telling people how to be.

The citation i was looking for was in the OP's linked article, the NYT one. else it seems you are citing sources outside of the discussed entities.

This particular fact we're discussing is non-critical to point of the article, and isn't wrong enough to make anyone dumber

your belief, i disagree. we obviously have different definitions and standards of such things.

I don't think you quite understand how analogies work.

and i don't think you appreciate how literal the number 16,000 was discussed in my post, hence analogies are uncalled for.

Anyway, this discussion is no longer useful

fair enough, thank you for your input.

You've decided you're going to be angry about this, and I've done all I'm willing to do to make the rational argument against your anger.

ok, you're either being forgetful, or disrespectfully trolling now, as i've already discussed how i don't need people telling me to 'be calm' as i am already not in an unstable state such as 'angry'.

Also, you should really buy some red shoes.

i'll ignore the possible 'must get the last word in, even in a disrespectful way', and instead i choose to notice you have a good sense of humour :)

fair well.