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spinesheath

Germany8679 Posts

October 15 2018 16:41 GMT

#19501

On October 15 2018 02:58 Excludos wrote:

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You mean The Onion? It's not like you can't see it's fake, but hilarious nonetheless

I mean actual "news articles". Why have a reporter write about some random local sports event when you can just have an AI do that. Not like anyone expects great literature in sports.

bo1b

Australia12814 Posts

October 15 2018 21:04 GMT

#19502

On October 15 2018 20:50 Manit0u wrote:
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Problem solved.

hahahaha

On October 16 2018 01:41 spinesheath wrote:

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I mean actual "news articles". Why have a reporter write about some random local sports event when you can just have an AI do that. Not like anyone expects great literature in sports.

I think that would be a feat of natural language processing far higher than anything achieved so far. Matter of fact, I think having a computer produce a well written novel would be significantly easier.

mahrgell

Germany3943 Posts

October 15 2018 21:13 GMT

#19503

On October 16 2018 06:04 bo1b wrote:

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hahahaha

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At least for game and stats summaries, computer written articles are used for many years.
Just read nhl.com, any pregame report. Those are 80% machine written.

bo1b

Australia12814 Posts

October 15 2018 22:11 GMT

#19504

Yeh, I don't think that would be all too hard at all. But that's separate from an actual report involving a machine watching the game and reporting on the players and events.

WarSame

Canada1950 Posts

October 15 2018 23:08 GMT

#19505

They operate off of stat lines. The stat lines still need to be filled by humans, but the articles can be entirely generated.

Think of those short baseball blurbs:

The Jays fell behind early as A. J. Happ struggled to get even a single out, giving up 3 runs in the first. He regained his form sitting the next 9 batters. The Jays came back to go ahead 6-3 in the 4th and poured on the runs, going ahead 500-3 in the 6th. The Jays have improved to 2-1 in the series, 100-30 for the year.

That's pretty easy to generate. We're not talking Player Tribune articles. Those are all written by the same guy. He lives in Ohio.

bo1b

Australia12814 Posts

October 16 2018 00:30 GMT

#19506

I'm talking player tribune articles though. And the original person was too, hence the "actual news articles."

WarSame

Canada1950 Posts

October 16 2018 00:39 GMT

#19507

Yes, actual as in they are actually published. Player Tribune articles aren't really what I consider news articles. I think that's a separate category, due to the depth of the article, called Longform Journalism.

bo1b

Australia12814 Posts

October 16 2018 00:58 GMT

#19508

Ok, well to make things clear I'm talking about an article written by a machine, with no statlines filled by a human. The only source of input the machine has is viewing the game, and the output is something like this:

http://www.espn.com.au/afl/story/_/id/24815489/afl-grand-final-collingwood-mason-cox-inspired-jimmy-stynes

WarSame

Canada1950 Posts

October 16 2018 01:05 GMT

#19509

Yes, I agree that that is out of the reach of AI for now.

spinesheath

Germany8679 Posts

October 16 2018 15:19 GMT

#19510

I'm not talking about a machine watching the game and writing an article about it, hell no.

Manit0u

Poland17774 Posts

October 17 2018 09:12 GMT

#19511

solidbebe

Netherlands4921 Posts

October 17 2018 09:37 GMT

#19512

Missing something for the 'NEIN' after the while

Manit0u

Poland17774 Posts

October 17 2018 10:22 GMT

#19513

On October 17 2018 18:37 solidbebe wrote:
Missing something for the 'NEIN' after the while

9!

solidbebe

Netherlands4921 Posts

October 17 2018 10:35 GMT

#19514

On October 17 2018 19:22 Manit0u wrote:

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9!

That one was obvious

zatic

Zurich15366 Posts

October 19 2018 05:43 GMT

#19515

On October 10 2018 22:07 bo1b wrote:
What skills do I need to write a machine learning program which outputs terrible smut? Middle age women gobble that shit up, and I think it can't be too hard to have a computer output 30 pages of formulaic sex en masse. Keep in mind that grammar and continuity issues are not a problem, and quality is even less of one.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/writing-with-ai-boring-gimmick

Manit0u

Poland17774 Posts

October 24 2018 08:50 GMT

#19516

For all you cable-inclined guys out there:

Silvanel

Poland4767 Posts

October 24 2018 09:57 GMT

#19517

Haha. What a timing. Our company is moving to new office and tomorrow i start moving our four racks with automated test setups. Its not servers or anything, but also take a lot of cabling and its generally a mess (better than on the video though!). So i am right now thinking of how to organize things: cabling, PCs, switches, power etc. The constraint we have is that our devices under test (DUT) take 12+ different cables in and they need to be accesible all the time. We need to able to remove DUT and its cabling with ease, or modify setup.

So this movie was actually quite helpful, made me think about some things and issues. I wont be able to apply everything obviously since the way we use our gear is different but hey, i actually look forward to doing that.

bo1b

Australia12814 Posts

October 26 2018 08:15 GMT

#19518

Is there anyway to do arithmetic operations on the relational algebra? Say you have a database of fast food outlets that you own, and you might have relations like employee_info, branches etc. In the branches relation lets say there information about who is able to work for you at that particular location, and in the employee_info relation there might be a timetable showing who's working currently and who's not.

Is it possible to output how many employees are available at a specific branch at that time? I have a feeling that arithmetic operations weren't possible on the relational algebra, which is a shit if correct.

solidbebe

Netherlands4921 Posts

October 26 2018 09:21 GMT

#19519

Of course that's possible, you link all those tables and use the count function on employee ids with your conditions.

bo1b

Australia12814 Posts

October 26 2018 10:45 GMT

#19520

I know it's possible like that, but I'm asking if it's possible to subtract in anyway. I found this schema out of a textbook:

https://d2vlcm61l7u1fs.cloudfront.net/media/86b/86b4f72e-7407-4e33-af28-e90aacc10ccc/php4ZZyIW.png

Lets say you're trying to find the amount of copies remaining at specific library branch, using an aggregate count might not work, depending on how they've set up the schema. If all they've done is input that there are 5 copies of Casino Royal at that library, and 2 separate people have loaned a copy from that library, how can you output the correct answer?

I'm just trying to find out if you can do arithmetic from one column of data (assuming they're both numbers) to another, which I don't think is possible (or I never learned, which is more likely).