Geek of the Week.....

[Clippy]

Especially if you use the individual whiskers...You could get to quite a high number then.

Yep, 8 out of 10 ruskies said their maths professors preferred it.

[AtW]

It's no wonder you rate yourself for basic algorithmic skill then. It must be quite a leap for you to do stuff I was doing when I was 19

What's that stuff were you doing - getting knackered in a local boozer?

[sasguru]

What's that stuff were you doing - getting knackered in a local boozer?

Yes that and writing serious AI programs which makes yours look like a playschool group co-operative effort...
For fecks sake wake up and look at stuff like:

www.autonomy.com
www.searchspace.com

THAT is what you're trying to compete with.

[AtW]

THAT is what you're trying to compete with.

Nope - I am not interested in trivial enterprise search tasks which have 1000 times smaller scale than the web. They are not my competitors and their algorithms are useless for web scale work.

[Diver]

Can we please move this over to the Geek P1ssing contest thread

[sasguru]

Nope - I am not interested in trivial enterprise search tasks which have 1000 times smaller scale than the web. They are not my competitors and their algorithms are useless for web scale work.

Yeah, you need to take on google, big boy.

[AtW]

Yeah, you need to take on google, big boy.

You see, when you aim high, even if you undershoot, you still shoot way past what you'd get if aim low - problems of web scale search are unique and very few people handled them, I am one of them - those enterprise search people are of zero interest to me and they are not my market, good too since enterprise search is highly competitive and margins are low, where as I am about to take a unique and profitable niche

[sasguru]

You see, when you aim high, even if you undershoot, you still shoot way past what you'd get if aim low - problems of web scale search are unique and very few people handled them, I am one of them - those enterprise search people are of zero interest to me and they are not my market, good too since enterprise search is highly competitive and margins are low, where as I am about to take a unique and profitable niche

Fair enough. good luck to yer...Please remember that all this piss-taking doesn't come free. You will be sent an invoice for "Motivational Services" in due course.

[AtW]

Fair enough. good luck to yer...Please remember that all this piss-taking doesn't come free. You will be sent an invoice for "Motivational Services" in due course.

I will give you some money, buy you a beer or something - alcohol free of course as I want to return you the favour of good influence

[Churchill]

Especially if you use the individual whiskers...You could get to quite a high number then.

I can count to 1023 with just my fingers and thumbs...

But then again, I do live close to the Fens...