The Fine Brothers pull out the confusing stuff for kids again, this time exposing them to obsolete computers, the kind we used just a few years years ago. Oh, it’s an Apple II from the ‘80s. With floppy drives, no mouse, and it’s text-based on a black background. And no internet! When I had one of those, I thought it was the neatest thing ever, even though you practically had to know how to program just to use the thing. -Thanks, Benny!
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"This big, clunky thing is a phone? Why did they call it an eye-phone? It's way too big to be implanted in your eye when you're born!"
"How many US-RMB's did this thing used to cost?"
IBM's Watson Memorized the Entire 'Urban Dictionary,' Then His Overlords Had to Delete It
Humans talk funny. We invent words. We smash words together, tear them apart, abbreviate them one way, then another. Which is great and fun, if you're a human. Not so great if you are a machine or the kind of human who programs machines to understand language.
And so, when IBM's famous artificial intelligence, Watson, he/she/it of Jeopardy-winning fame, was in development, its head researcher had a great idea. Humans created this repository of slang,
The Urban Dictionary. For example, today on the site, we learn that 'healthy gas' is "the gas (fart) produced from a person who has eaten healthy foods like cabbage, beans, broccolli, grains, or other high fiber, high carbohydrate foods."
Brown realized that this formalization of informal language might be a great way for Watson to understand the way real people communicate. So, he and his team, fed the whole thing into their AI.
But one problem. Informal language has a tendency to be dirty, nasty language. Its insults and cuss words, new names for gross old things, old names for gross new things, etc. And so, we learn from Fortune's Michal Lev-Ram, they had to delete all that human messiness from Watson's memory
Watson couldn't distinguish between polite language and profanity -- which the Urban Dictionary is full of. Watson picked up some bad habits from reading Wikipedia as well. In tests it even used the word "bull" in an answer to a researcher's query.
Ultimately, Brown's 35-person team developed a filter to keep Watson from swearing and scraped the Urban Dictionary from its memory.
Thirty years from now, kids will laugh at smart phones. Yesterday I was at an auction where a Sony multi-disc CD player went for $1. Technology ages damn fast.
It could be a kind of angler's weights with deployable claws.. „claw sinker“ or „grip sinker“
(maybe it is only a concersion kit for converting a standard sinker to a claw sinker.)
it seems like the spikes could retract when pushing the upper ring down..
zombie eat flesch 2XL
It could be a kind of automatic treble hook (event though it is lacking barbs)
it seems like the spikes deploy upon applying tension at the upper ring.
Maybe it schould be retractable for safety reasons. Maybe the claws of the hook are retractable to simplify the removal of the hook from the fish (which could be an expanation for the lacking of barbs..)
the Jester 2XL ladie’s fit
It could be a kind bait hook (maybe even bait release mechanism) wherien the upper ring is connected to the fisching line and the lower ring may be connected to the fisch hook...
it seems like the spikes could retract when reducing the tension between upper and lower ring, (however this would requrire that a spring inside the device would be broken... )
At least i hope it is not for connecting a living bait fish to a fish hook .
zombie eat flesch 2XL
Skull and Swords T-Shirt 2XL
zombie eat flesch 2XL
A thingy that nobody knows
But this handy device
While it looks not so nice
Is great for just cleaning your nose!
Narcoleptic Bee S
No smoking advice for a caterpillar, S
I'd like Zombie: Eat Flesh if I'm right, please.
It serves for environmentally friendly dynamite fisching, wherein the mine is connected to a fisching line and dipped into the water.
When a fisch contacts the spikes a small detonation will only kill the single fish and not all fish in a large area... (therefore environmentally friendly)..
The jester xxl ladie's fit
Brainier than the average bear, XXXL.
What happens at Grandma's Stays.... XL blue.
Look out Schroedinger's Cat, It's a Trap! Large, please.
(Archaeologists Do it in the Dirt size M)
This older device was marketed as "Squirrel Bait" for hunting squirrels, The hunter ties a piece of string to the acorn and waits for the squirrel to take the bait and then pulls the string and hooks the Squirrel through the mouth. Pretty rough stuff back in the day...
I'm Irish - I only look sweet and innocent (small)
Skull Rider, XL, any color
Only one was ever made. Hitler hated squirrels. Nazis would catch a squirrel on Hitler's property and then give the hungry squirrel the "Acorn." The rodent would try to open it but the nails would pop out and jab their little paws.
Then the Nazis would laugh at them! hahaha!! jajaja!!! They were very cruel, no?
Pirate's favorite amino acid size L
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Who's Bringing The Chips? XXL
-"I May Not Be Totally Perfect...", 2xl, natural
can't choose, luv em all, so anything in a XXL would be cool
Neatoramabot ash grey large
That's How I Roll, Serene Green, Ladies
s morningstar.
Hip, Hip Array, 2XL, Navy
Love machine, men's large navy blue
This IS a pocket watch antitheft device.
Don't know about the 1925 patent, cause this one was around in the late 1800's.
abducted by aliens
large
navy
Schrodinger's Cat: Wanted Dead And/Or Alive
Large
After a few weeks the M.D. may remove the reusable suppository by retracing the spikes into the acorn, remove it from a body cavity... Then it is ready to be cleand refilled to be reused..
The jester xxl ladie's fit
What happens at Grandma's Stays.... XL blue.
when suddenly a big bug started to speak to her: "Your should be fulfilled, before you will give birth to a daughter." The prophecy became true.
The farmer's wife gave birth to a beautiful daughter. All avocado pickers where invited to the celebration of the babtism ceremony.
But unfortunately the farmer had 13 pickers but only 12 golden plates, so he decided to invite only 12 of the pickers.
But the 13th picker entered the church, very very angry, and said: the girl should prick herself on her 15th birthday and fall asleep for 100 years.
As time goes by the farmer forgot about the incidence and at the daughter´s 15th birthday he give her a necklace with a silver pendant showing an
advocado pit with 3 toothpicks in it, just how it is done to make the acocado pit sprout. On this pendant the daughter prick herself and fall asleep for
100 years. The item on the picture is the original pendant . It has been stolen by the Brothers Grimm and this Disney guy changing the story a little bit and called it
"Sleeping Beauty".
Come To The Dark Side - We Have Cookies XXL ladie's mfit
protect your nuts 2 xl
shirt: Pink Freud size xl
paddle faster XL
Schrodinger's Cat: Wanted Dead And/Or Alive
Large
The Original Keyboard Cat - Ash Gray - L
2XL
Artist-Designed T-Shirts (Terminator Skull Blue) XL
Please ignore my previous entry as I had not put the T shirt preference.
Family Smamily L
Schrodinger's Cat: Wanted Dead And/Or Alive
Large
Schrodinger's Cat: Wanted Dead And/Or Alive
Large
These things were supposed to be classified !
Suffice to say, without one of these,
'Finnegans Wake' would never have been written.
Schrodinger's Cat: Wanted Dead And/Or Alive
Large
I whisch i had one, too..
May the Fork Be With You xxl ladie's fit