Warning: This is just an Eray flame. It's not very serious-minded but just casual commentary. Don't want to waste anybody's time.
What does writing like an "undergraduate" mean? Some high schools in the U.S. provide a better education than some colleges in the U.S. Some people experience home schooling. Some people don't have higher education but are very studious. Some people I've hired with a college education (3.0+ GPA) can't manage a single-page business letter that accomplishes any purpose.
People like Curt and I clean up their messes. God save organizations from using software "donated" by CS departments and "my nephew the programmer." But at least give them a "class project," and not something by one Phd student.
I wonder where those 2 years, 12/7 in the cellar required to write a serious program accomplishing "data mining" and "parallel computing" fits in with all the "personal study" in philosophy and psychology, Phd studies, and classes, not to mention newsgroup posting? Are we talking about a university "computer lab" with all those distractions?
50 or 100 minutes once or twice a day?B.S. Degree if these posts are representative. Let's have a link to his CNET review or equivalent. And I didn't mean Bachelor of Science.
Eray isn't. He's discussing Computer Science *words*.
What background? First you study, keeping your mouth shut and paying respect to your teachers. Then you go into whatever field. Then other's carry you along, put up with you, and help you out for a couple of years while you make a continuous stream of stupid mistakes that later cause you no end of embarrassment. Then you practice for
20+ years. Then you have "background." If you remain a student, you remain a student, never having to meet any test but a "grade." That's not the real world. Grades are easy. If you want a high one, just just work harder, and you almost always get it. In the real world, you work your ass off and usually get nothing. But you pick up the pieces and try again, and eventually you may make the real "grade," otherwise known as real accomplishment or track-record, also known as growing up. If one wants to remain a professional student, fine, get published. Provide a link to your book on Amazon, or papers in respected scientific journals.What sort of person issues intellectual threats? Has temper tantrums? Makes distinctions forever? Says the word "why" 7 times in a row until you run out of answers (pushing you into metaphysics)? I hope when Eray grows up and has some teenage Erays of his own, he doesn't think there's anything "inherited." Most educated teenagers are like that, and I've known some who could talk up a metaphysical storm just like Eray.
There's some logic.
Oh, that's just so impressive. What kid doesn't write assembler computer games next thing after the "Hello world" program. I wrote them in my 1st year too. It's nothing. Lots of other posters did too. But in those days it was a lot more low level than in 1993. You got a cartidge, 80 opcodes, and maybe 20K of memory to work with, and you programmed every scan line individually. Yet some programmers turned that into real computer games *in marketable form* that people actually *bought*, with reviews they could *link to* with *their name* at the top.
Funny coming from someone who talks about "SQL" and the databases that go with it, like they are going to have any applicability to AI. Let's have a link to the AI database Eray has designed from the ground up and beta-tested, designed for processors 10 years from now, or at least a definition. Oh yeah, I forgot, the paper would be too long, it would be too complex to post, etc., etc. Meaning the terminology will be the same pop lingo we've gotten to date.
Eray has been doing the piss contest since the beginning. You are just providing a forum for her to reiterate her bachelor and masters degrees and that she is a "Phd student." What I want to know is: If she has all these degrees and is in some "university" why does she never supply input from any collegues, except the one physicist she mentioned (and rated - as he gives his "Eray Rating" to everyone he mentions)? Is this a two-man university? Does anybody there talk to him? This doesn't add up. Some of the criticism he has received could easily be resolved by a walk down the hall in any university I know of. And why doesn't this university require students to seek out persons of real accomplishment? Or bring them in to lecture? Why is it always a book? Some crazy university, or a lot of people avoiding Eray, or something else that doesn't add up.
Yeah, right. How about the moderator post where he said everybody needed a bachelors degree? (and plenty else).
The rejection of his ideas is why he keeps resorting to the degrees and the temper tantrums. So, like Descartes who forgot to think for a second, Poof!, no more Usenet presence that matters.
Which seems to be very frequently, usually by not-so-clever and not-so-subtle implication, and why do you think it is so necessary?
Brain programming again. Eray is going to program Longley's brain. I already saw one example. Lot's of luck.
The bottom line. And no respect for *free* personal surgically-maximized teaching either. What do you normally get per hour, David?
The above says nothing. Algorithm is a stupid word for programmers. Programmers write programs, subroutines, code-blocks, DLL's, etc. What programmer sits down to write an "algorithm." I can't remember hearing it in any programmer group in 20 years (I'm sure it was). It's a fancy word in the literature, that's all. The Blowfish author didn't sit down to write an "algorithm" (though always called that in the literature), he sat down to write an encryption program. Data mining is a mundane chore. Inferential searches, tautological searches, it's all being done by thousands of *experienced* programmers light-years ahead of Eray. Parallel programming (not "computing") can be a can of worms, or just a fancy word, or anywhere in-between.
Thanks again for the reminder that you are at a university. That is most impressive. But does he actually walk in the door, or just hang out on the steps? Does Eray come from some country where only one in a thousand attend a university? Last time I heard, about half of H.S. students in the U.S. go to college. Whatever, it's no big deal here. Nobody I know even mentions it, certainly not me. I have a good friend I've known for about 8 years, and I only recently found out he has masters degrees in both CS and engineering. I'm looking at 10,000 pages of language and Window's documentation I have to replace and learn about every three years. Wish I were back in college so I could have some fun. What's the big deal about degrees with Eray?
The "Run" button please? Programming isn't like psychology or philosophy. There is always a good empirical test. Like at the chess club nobody wants to hear you tell them how great you are, just what your USCF rating is. Or in music, ok, sing or play for 30 seconds. That's why you don't hear the experienced programmers in this group boasting to each other about how great they are.
Great. Another paper that would prove everything, but is just too long or "Eray terminology challeged" to understand.
Fancy way of saying he wrote a computer program. Big deal. Link to the CNET review (or equivalent)?
Again, not in the programming groups I've read for 20 years.
I wish I had a dime for every time Eray has used the term "function." Is this "higher math" he keeps talking about algebra? If it's programming, a "function" is simply a subroutine that returns a value. f(X) is the key to AI? Sure, sounds pretty mysterious to me.
I'd like to work on a unified field theory. But unfortunately I'm not qualified, and I'm mature enough to realize it. But I suppose I could talk up a storm. "Quantum anti-proton plasma synthesis effects on the Swarthchild limit in white hole parity" by Larry Fine. Get your copy today.
Hah. Comparing Eray and Curt. What a joke. Better to compare Eray and Ken, but Ken has demonstrated more programming experience than Eray. At least he has programmed long enough in one sitting for his sugar content to go down.
Another thing that doesn't add up. I've noticed since Eray's very first post (where she immediately called one author "smarter" than another by the way), she is very sloppy about logic, especially terms, like the average person. I can apply charity as well as the next guy and logic experience doesn't mean anything regarding content, but my point is: Doesn't a study of philosophy necessarily include logic? What CS department doesn't require logic courses? And he also threw out the term "incompleteness theorem" at me one time, but he didn't know if it applied to classical logic or not. (Let him keep wondering.)
When I start proving my arguments by listing my degrees, throwing temper tantrums, and writing spaced-out philosophy of the not-altogether-here kind, intellectual threats, or thinly disguised religion, then I will be inviting some personal criticism too.
Larry