To be a fully random sequence, a sequence would have to contain substrings of apparent predictable beautiful order. If it didn't, it would be more predictable (you could then discard ordered continuations), not unpredictable.
> [Model-agnosticism] consists of never regarding any model or map of the universe with total 100% belief or total 100% denial. Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory. -- RAW
A universe isn't a map, it is the territory. An ordered universe can still be mapped/modeled with maths. A universe that is impossible to be mapped/modeled and has no predictable patterns would be an impossibly boring universe indeed (Kolmogorov Random Universe). Perhaps our brains would evolve to think more in probabilities than absolutes in such a universe. Or they could simply not be allowed to exist (intelligence requires order).
It is not relevant that you were on the internet before Google even existed.
Apparently you are the only person in the universe that regularly gets never-before-seen error messages. I feel for you, but I hope you stay away from any issue tracker I am involved in, because no matter your vast experience, the quality of your error reporting is downright poor.
If exact match search is unable to find your error message, then you wouldn't have found it on 2005 Google either. You wouldn't find it on any other search engine. You are (poorly and vaguely) describing a problem that must have always been there and blaming it on an unrelated recent UI change.
All the while unable/unwilling to give a single concrete example, just noisy ranting. For all I know you are, despite your experience, banging your head against the keyboard, until you get 0 results. The burden is on you to show that there is a teapot orbiting the Sun. Good luck!
Maybe I never experienced it, because if I want to force exact match results I simply place the error message within double quotes. But often you do not need exact match searches to get good results for a random error message. If it happens to you a lot, it should not be a problem to post a single example query that returns useless results.
I do agree that Google is focusing more and more on the common internet user, and not the early tech adopters. This forces us to use tricks like the double quotes, while keeping the search engine user-friendly for the vast majority of ad-clicking internetters.
The behavior you are referring to is called https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_expansion and while this improves the search results for many people with imprecise or misspelled queries, if you trained yourself to search with exact matches, you'll need some time to adapt (or get in the habbit of adding double quotes).
Thanks, but can you please give a specific example?
One, I do not share this experience, and think the quality issue is overstated (you are more likely to remember the time that a query failed, than when it succeeded).
Two, if you can produce a POC, Google can use this to improve the search results.
As is, the issue brought up by original poster is too vague and unspecified to be of any use.
There is nothing wrong with that, but it is good advice if your goal is to become exceptional.
The only way to equal or beat someone naturally talented is to put in many hours.
Relaxation is good (but try to combine it with activities that are good for you, like jogging, meditation, or taking a shower/doing a house chore.)
While you go out to have drinks with your friends, some stay home and work on research and side projects. One makes you happy, the other makes you more skillfull. It is a lever.
I do agree that sometimes it can be better to give up. I spend close to a decade of my life trying to understand the subtleties of a single paper. Now I see the broader picture this was definately a Pyrrhic victory.
Way down this thread, so time to ask the question: Do American anti-virus, social media, and search companies do exactly the same, but for the US military?
I've always found it suspicious that Russia and China created their own social networks, email providers, and search engines. Almost like they know the power of a capable search engine or social network for intelligence gathering purposes.
Google and US anti-virus companies must work closely with the NSA too.
> Kuok repeatedly expressed fears that he might be dealing with an NSA, CIA or FBI agent, but continued to negotiate with the undercover officer, even cautioning him to avoid referencing the items by model number in e-mail, because "your country has this system to analyze" e-mail for keywords.
Also after the "theft" and premature release of Stuxnet by Israel, I wonder how strong the collaboration between the US and Israel is.
> A 43-year-old former Akamai employee has pleaded guilty to espionage charges after offering to hand over confidential information about the Web acceleration company to an agent posing as an Israeli consular official in Boston.
> Facebook, for example, previously announced its DeepFace facial recognition system is capable of determining with 97 percent accuracy whether two images are of the same person. The company, which itself is accustomed to criticism that it views users as guinea pigs, is able is make such accurate identifications because of the network of images from which it draws, something that could take police agencies a decade or more to build up.
Snowden worked for Dell as a cover for his intelligence work. Russia told their military to move off Linkedin the moment it got acquired by Microsoft. Do Dell and Microsoft work closely with the DoD and should this concern non-US citizens that rely on their software and hardware?
More like implementing a password hashing scheme using a library and not understanding the maths behind bcrypt. Or mocking up a proof-of-concept in Python with no idea of how to speed it up 10x rewriting it in low-level C.
In Europe there is a mindset that companies can become so big that you can not avoid them anymore. Nobody forces you to use Google or Facebook, but you are put at a disadvantage if you do not use them.
Facebook is not free. You trade your data for usage.
The major concern for the US military when attacking North Korea was not nukes, but military hackers inside a bunker disrupting everything. There probably is a lot of know-how there. The Sony hack was also attributed to North Korea.
Of note: The Shadow Brokers hinted at the same thing a few weeks back.
"In May, No dumps, theshadowbrokers is eating popcorn and watching "Your Fired" and WannaCry. Is being very strange behavior for crimeware? Killswitch? Crimeware is caring about target country? The oracle is telling theshadowbrokers North Korea is being responsible for the global cyber attack Wanna Cry. Nukes and cyber attacks, America has to go to war, no other choices! (Sarcasm) No new ZeroDays."
Prolog is used in IBM Watson, Datalog, and AFAIK in Windows OS.
Prolog is not so popular for general purpose computing since: compilers are inconsistent, compatibility problems, difficult debugging, high maintenance costs, few experts, steep learning curves (my professor joked that the more computer science the student is exposed to, the harder is the mental switch to Prolog).
Prolog remains great for education on logic, NLP parsers, recursion.
On Quora someone asked what the longest search query time was. I was able to craft a query that took multiple seconds to complete. It used wildcards and undocumented iteration allowing one to stuff thausands of queries into a single query. Turns out it is someone's job to measure result response times, and he/she came into the thread to kindly ask us to stop messing up their statistics.
Depending on the severity of your finding, your report could wake up a senior security engineer.
When your report is out of scope, Google will not ignore your report. When there is a non-serious bug, you get acknowleged in the bug report they file internally. Finally, when they can not replicate your finding, they will communicate that with you and stay patient until they can either replicate or close your report.
Edit: forgot to add that they raised the bounty with another 2k ("we updated our payouts") and they invited me to their Blackhat booth 1 year later.