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The more neurons you have on a core, the less processing time you have per neuron since you're running them as time-shared rather than concurrent.

The main problem is in the synapses. Up to 3000 per neuron, self-modifying not only in terms of end-points but also in terms of amplifying signals. If you've done network simulation, you'll know that's going to eat into the clock cycles.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/te...

40 minutes to simulate one second is not good. So if you want to run the simulation faster, you need to split up the tasks into smaller chunks and run them on independent cores. That's the calculation I was using. How far can you possibly subdivide the work in order to get a reasonable simulation speed?

Turns out the privileged majority fight hard when you threaten their privilege:
https://news.sky.com/story/300...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

Of course, the Labour party are the people that changed the law to make it legal for them to discriminate against men. Amazed they found the time in between ruining the economy and taking the UK into illegal wars.

Here in the UK, the government makes sure the potential infection is huge so it makes all that work to protect them from it worth the investment. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

This might be a belated but amateurish tit for tat.

The problem with failing at covert actions is that they become, ah, not covert, and provide justification for a more conventional response.

Anecdotally, this summer has been the coolest and wettest I can remember in at least 60 years or more. The average first frost date is November 4th. We had a hard freeze of 27F three weeks early, which followed a 5" snow on Oct 14th. Elephants and Giraffe in Africa are wading through 10" of a late spring snow. While claiming such snow falls are common the news media are still making a big deal of it, so it must not be as common as some claim. How many times in the past have you seen photos of elephants in Africa wading through deep snow?
https://www.msn.com/en-za/trav...

And, why would he pay of the "winner" had the advantage of being supported by fudged data?

https://realclimatescience.com...

https://science.house.gov/news...

https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

AGW is all about dialectical materialism: the transfer of wealth from the West to Marxist countries via "Carbon Credits", which made Al Gore a millionaire.
http://variable-variability.bl...

... But one must explicitly say: We de facto redistribute the world’s wealth due to climate politics. That the owners of coal and oil are not enthusiastic about this is obvious. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate politics is environmental politics . This has almost nothing to do any more with environmental politics, ...

IOW, Climate Change is used by Globalists to justify their push toward Marxist "solutions" to all problems. They have their "Arm and Hammer" and they see every problem as a nail requiring hits from their hammer.

London's Goldsmith's University has a group of LGBTQ students who essentially claimed that gualgs were a "compassionate", non-violent course of action.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

Maybe compared to putting them up against a wall and SHOOTING them. Sure.
But on the compassion scale with 0 being "shoot them", a gulag was maybe a 0.001.

Nah, that was probably more related to this capacitive anti-rpg armour that had been demonstrated the year before.

Whoa, underage drinking. Noone cared with Clinton "I did not inhale" and George W.'s cocaine, or Obama's pot AND cocaine. It'd take daily deliriant usage for Americans to be likely to care.
Source.

There is no hole in the ozone. "The ozone hole is not technically a hole where no ozone is present, but is actually a region of exceptionally depleted ozone in the stratosphere." - https://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.g...

Similarly there's no Great Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean: "Dr Angelicque White, Associate Professor at Oregon State University, who has studied the âgarbage patchâ(TM) in depth, said: âoeThe use of the phrase âgarbage patchâ(TM) is misleading . I'd go as far as to say that it is a myth and a misconception....... It is not visible from space; there are no islands of trash; it is more akin to a diffuse soup of plastic floating in our oceans.." - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sc...

So it's a Garbage Soup of microscopic particles.

And an Ozone Depletion Spot.

Sex is the oldest currency known to man. I don't think the #metoo movement is going to change that.

The loss of due process and re-evaluation of the risk/reward aspect of interaction between the sexes is causing men to avoid them. There is already in Japan, the "Herbivore men" who exchew relationships with females https://www.telegraph.co.uk/me...

Now I've been married for a long time, but as a hetero male with a healthy sex drive, my risk/reward analysis leads me to state in no uncertain terms that if I was young today, I would concentrate on my career and hobbies only, and make certain I was never in a position that could be compromised. As some say - that juice isn't worth the squeeze.

Other guys? Hey, if the prospect of being called out on social media and convicted by the public with no defense or due process is worth a bit of modern woman sex - by all means, go for it. I'll be the guy sitting on the lawn chair, drinking shots of tequila and eating popcorn while watching their destruction.

> The value is in creating chaos. In the Clinton case, in order to believe there was substantive criminal activity, one must believe that the whole of the FBI and intelligence community were in cahoots with Clinton.

No, it's more than that, there's still too many people looking at the whole Russia-Trump-Clinton thing through the eyes of US politics, let's be clear here, the morning Wikileaks leaked the damaging material on Clinton, Nigel Farage attempted to sneak into the Ecuadorian embassy to meet with Julian Assange - the US House Intelligence Committee has since received intelligence that this was to provide Assange with a thumb drive and that Farage was a Russian conduit:

https://www.theguardian.com/po...

https://www.france24.com/en/20...

If you're looking purely through the lens of "My candidate won, you're just bitter" then you're missing the point here. Let's be absolutely clear - Nigel Farage is incredibly friendly with a guy in British politics called Arron Banks. Arron Banks is a guy who no one had ever heard of until he dramatically appeared on the British political scene around 2015 with a story about how he was going to defect from being a major Conservative party donor to being a UKIP donor, despite the fact no one in the Conservative party had any idea who he was, he suddenly had £1million pounds to dramatically donate to UKIP. Since then he has come under investigation, because no one can explain the source of all his wealth as it's hidden incredibly well behind a cascade of fake businesses in places like the Cayman Islands which are well known conduits of Russian money. Of course, you could fairly trivially dismiss this as paranoia if it weren't for the fact that Arron Banks is married to Ekaterina Paderina. Who you ask? Someone a Russian defector described as one of their greatest intelligence assets, someone who had an affair with a much older MP who just happened to be in charge of one of the constituencies where Britain's nuclear submarines are housed:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

On top of that, Farage has consistently refused to condemn Russia even when it annexed Crimea, he has attended Russia's far right convention in St. Petersburg where a number of far right anti-EU parties in Europe were granted support and funding from Russian state entities:

https://themoscowtimes.com/art...

So at this point, if anyone things it's about Clinton or Trump, they really are failing to see the bigger picture. There's a massive web here with ample evidence trailing all the way back to Putin's doorstep, and what's more, it stems from before Trump was even a US political candidate at all, which in itself highlights the fact it's got nothing to do with "bitter Hillary" supporters or whatever justification people like to use for refusing to acknowledge it.

At this point, if you really don't think Russia is involved in interfering in Western politics in an incredibly serious manner, and if you don't think Putin had anything to do with Brexit, Trump, Hungary's Jobbik, France's NF, Greece's Golden Dawn and so on and so forth then you're in denial over such an overwhelmingly large body of evidence that you genuinely only can be either pro-Russian and anti-Western, or the kind of useful idiot that these kind of intelligence operations rely on in the first place.

Assange and Wikileaks are just one part of a massive web

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

"Chander, a former mayor of Leamington Spa, had worked for more than 70 hours in the week leading up to the accident, which saw him drive "full throttle" for almost 82 metres."

At the request of President Obama who zero-lined the budget for Yucca Mountain. Congress followed his wishes.

Most of Apple's other product designs were stolen, some from Braun products from the 60s.

https://www.cultofmac.com/188753/the-braun-products-that-inspired-apples-iconic-designs-gallery/

Funny how the Braun designer sides with Apple, ehh? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/te... -- https://www.fastcompany.com/30...

Especially against Samsung http://www.idownloadblog.com/2...

Kid, you have spent too much time reading Ayn Rand. As you get older, if you're smart and open to ideas, you'll learn that it ain't as simple as you describe.

There are a LOT of other factors that go into whether or not a person is successful in the US other than the few you describe.

I won't call you a "fucking LIAR", but I will call you ignorant. Luckily, that IS something you can remedy on your own. Best of luck, snowflake.

How about these this study from the Brookings institute
https://www.brookings.edu/opin...

Or this one, from Britain
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

It's not a guarantee of success, any more than using condoms guarantees no pregnancies or STD's.
But you wouldn't argue against condom use just because sometimes people who use them still create babies.

Is there really anything in the advice given that you would argue against? I've given my kids more or less the same advice. Their future is an open book filled with promise, as long as they don't do anything fatally stupid like creating a baby, getting a record, dropping out of high school, getting drug addicted, etc. Do you advise your kids otherwise?

Hey Sergey, I guess you've decided totalitarianism is A-OK after all?

So now Bridenstine wants to take what NASA stands for and make it stand for anything else?

I know, right?

We need to return to that Islamic outreach focus that NASA used to have.

sigh:;; https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3909...
Sorry comrade,

Leaving aside the thousands of military personnel

I was confused as to whether deployment to the Diego Garcia military base counts as legal residence.

thousands of Chagossians who continue their fight over the legality of their expulsion

Yet they remain expelled until they win said fight.

British Indian Ocean Territory is uninhabited

Whoah there! Leaving aside the thousands of military personnel, there's thousands of Chagossians who continue their fight over the legality of their expulsion in the 60s.

... after Obama wiretapped the German leader's 'phone.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... - yes she has been wiretapped. Him, not so much.

... after Obama wiretapped the German leader's 'phone.

Well, let's not forget that Merkel and co are not overwhelmed by Trump either and see him as a threat to global peace.

That's two presidents in a row that Germany has had legitimate grievances with, and they came from either side of the political spectrum. It is perfectly understandable why Germany might not see the US as a very reliable ally.

... after Obama wiretapped the German leader's 'phone.

China's jails would make US jails seem like Intercontinental hotels, and China convicts 99.9% of all defendants, so if you are even close to the line - don't cross it, you WILL end up in a shit-hole...

That's an example of the Clbuttic Mistake, a relative of the Scunthorpe Problem. The Clbuttic Mistake happens when you blindly do string replacement on text without bothering to check for things like word separators, and then use the replaced version. It's about replacing content, rather than blocking it as most examples of the Scunthorpe Problem are. Replacing "ass" is the most common example, leading to such silliness as articles about buttbuttinating a politician, but there have also been articles that refer to the Consbreastution.

The Telegraph had more to say about it in 2008: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

See also The Clbuttic Mistake: When obscenity filters go wrong
President Abraham Lincoln was buttbuttinated by an armed buttailant after a life devoted to the reform of the US consbreastution.

It was not foolish, it was the right thing to do, are you an asshole or what?

Pathological altruism. No, it was the wrong thing to do for Germany and Europe. If you want to help them, help them in their own lands. Help them in countries where they are already safe. Instead, you encourage them to flood into your countries, including not only "refugees", but economic migrants.

I live in Europe, not in a third world country. Obviously we have space, room, food for refugees.

So it doesn't matter if you displace your own people, seize their wealth, compromise their security, and risk their civilization by a supremacist and foreign ideology with a deep-seated hatred towards the West?

You did not read the link, did you?

Did you? They only took away his allowance 13 years after they rejected his asylum claim. He should have been deported 13 years ago, but instead was receiving an allowance the whole time.

I have not been to Europe since the 70s. So I have to rely upon reporting.

In 2013 this was a thing

And in 2017, so was this

And then this year...

Imagine my surprise that this began in the 90s, around Strasbourg apparently...

Reuters, reasonably reliable, offers some more insight. Many reasons, even insurance fraud. Apparently the term 'youths' isn't very precise.

But they do not refute the reality that car burnings are a New Years' celebration in some areas of France, and even for general frivolity or riots. At least France doesn't seem to suffer from the Friday Night Fights so common in other parts of the world. And there are in fact incidents of car burnings in Sweden, who knew?

It took me a few minutes to be sure that it wasn't a piss-take on a statical news show. The amount of distortion would be flat out illegal in a lot of countries I think (as shown when they do have news from outside the US, and get it so hilariously wrong)

I'm afraid to say it's reality's well known liberal bias, raising it's head again.

Maybe it's you that should stop watching MSNBC.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/po...

Calling Marijuana marijuana racism is almost as much fun to listen to as the cultural appropriation assholes - Guessing from your post you are British, no doubt you know about overly white chef Jamie Oliver's apparent cultural appropriation crime with his "Punchy Jerk Rice" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/fo...

Quickly citizens, get rid of all of the spices in your cupboards, the cultural appropriation police are coming!

That bullshit made me more irate than anything out of the SJW crowd. I first heard about it when I watched Neil Degrasse Tyson's conversation with Katy Perry and she commented that she didn't know that cultural appropriation was a thing. She was very sad about it. Unfortunately Dr. Tyson didn't know enough to tell her it's NOT.

Human culture is derived from human culture, and nobody fucking owns it. This has never been more true in the history of the world than since the establishment of the United States and its cultural melting pot, famous the world over for a century at least. The subsequent creation of the Internet has allowed every culture to see and interact with every other culture in real time, a guaranteed recipe for cross-cultural seepage.

My theory is the cultural appropriation police have arisen in response to a decline in organized religion. The busybodies who always want to tell everyone else what to do are still with us. They used to be part of some god-bothering cult. Now they're part of a people-bothering cult. Same shit, different day.

Also, please call it cannabis instead of "marijuana," which has racist origins.

Oh fuck off with this tripe.

Now now, the kooks have to make their virtue signaling where they can ya know.

Calling Marijuana marijuana racism is almost as much fun to listen to as the cultural appropriation assholes - Guessing from your post you are British, no doubt you know about overly white chef Jamie Oliver's apparent cultural appropriation crime with his "Punchy Jerk Rice" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/fo...

Quickly citizens, get rid of all of the spices in your cupboards, the cultural appropriation police are coming!

That's only if you assume that article is the only evidence. The link was just a quick google result meant to just show the correlation, because many people who blame the legacy of slavery, or racism, or something inherent with blacks don't realize crime, poverty and single motherhood had already gotten much better 100 years after slavery, before the welfare state war on poverty. None of the "explanations" commonly given in left-wing nor in racist circles even correlate with the timeline of the facts, let alone explain them.

Here's a summary from Dr. Thomas Sowell, noted black Harvard educated (pre-affirmative action) economist. Here's a longer, more detailed look at the issue from City Journal. If you want even more detail, including academic studies and citations, the best source is Sowell's books “Wealth, Poverty, and Politics" and “Vision of the Anointed”, but I obviously can't link you to a free to read copy of those. Here's someone who tried to summarize part, including some of the references to other countries which experienced the same issue, making the theory replicable.

I think there is definitely some room for additional contributory explanations like the "war on drugs" as well, although the timing on that doesn't match up as well for an inflection point. If you think about it, lacking education and career opportunities is silly as an explanation, unless you think those were improving for black women until the 1950s, but with the Civil Rights Act and such in the 60s, suddenly it all started getting much worse? Somehow I don't think that is going to hold much explanatory power. Correlation doesn't prove causation, but you do need at least some correlation in order to consider something for such a dramatic causation. When the same correlations occur in other countries like England and among other races (like whites), the pattern becomes pretty obvious.

The impacts of similar laws are demonstrated as recently as 1999 in Britain. I couldn't find a direct link to the journal article itself, but in news article summary: 'The prestigious Journal of Economics has published "The Effect of In-Work Benefit Reform in Britain on Couples: Theory and Evidence"'showing "the introduction of the Working Families Tax Credit has increased the divorce or separation rate by a staggering 160 per cent among women married to or living with a partner who either does not work, or who earns very little because he works part-time."

There is literally a ton of related evidence, not just a single correlation. Most anyone who has honestly researched the various timings, effects and related welfare system laws can see the same thing, it's not a big mystery, although it does tend to quash some people's kneejerk reactions of slavery, racism or some inherent racist characteristic.

So faking DSLR shots is like, nothing.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

If you're going to call the media liars, you're just aping Trump.

Oh, my sweet summer child... You have no idea what it means when the left has a stranglehold on culture

I don't? Oh you bloody fool, making an assumption like that just shows how badly you're arguing that point.

They're not. It's just that nobody gives a fuck in schools what your political leanings are. And why would they? That's not what a school is for

They're not? So why don't you explain why all those universities go out of their way to remove speakers they disagree with. And the students unions do exactly the same thing. I mean really, in the UK it's become so bad that the government is looking to get involved. And even the guardian is arguing against it. These are not one-off things. You seem to fail to understand the difference between what you linked, and what I'm saying. Universities in Europe are, have, and do actively remove/revoke speakers from speaking at their universities. Whether they're old school feminists who's view points no longer "fit" with the new feminist order. Or speakers who argue for more free speech in Europe.

You seem to fail to understand that universities are the place where your views should be tested, and in European countries your views aren't being tested because they're banning people who would challenge them. European universities have been doing this since the 1970's. This same infestation has been going on in US universities for the last 10-15 years, and the same in Canada.

What we do in the next 10-20 years will determine whether our planet remains hospitable to human life or slides down an irreversible path

We've had 5-10 years left to save the planet for the last 30 years or so... The numbers may change, but the — unsubstantiated — message is always the same...

Maduro says it was an assassination attempt by drones, BUT firefighters say a gas tank in an apartment exploded. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/04/venezuelan-president-nicolasmaduro-cuts-short-speech-panic-amid/

The first thing I thought when I heard this story was that it would have to be a large drone to carry much explosive power, and would need to get quite close to the person to pose much danger. Not something you'd be surprised by. Something definitely didn't make sense.

The media is in too much of a hurry to report than to think about it.

Maduro says it was an assassination attempt by drones, BUT firefighters say a gas tank in an apartment exploded.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/04/venezuelan-president-nicolasmaduro-cuts-short-speech-panic-amid/

Much of the plastic collected for recycling in europe ends up to shady places in china and other less developed countries. In which the process of handling the waste is less than perfect.

http://www.thegwpf.org/new-rep...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
"It is feared that an increasing proportion of waste set aside for recycling is now being thrown into the sea."

I doubt the operators receiveing the waste make much difference with European waste and American waste. That is to say, most likely both will end to the environment. Shipping trash for recycling to some 3rd world country is a fraud. They may have cheap labor there, but I doubt they have the high tech and proper processes to handle everything cleanly and enviromental friendly way.

You do realize that Greenland is home to roughly 56,000 people right and that the South and Western edge would have always been livable right? As to why they left, it will likely always be up for debate.

As to the Roman claim, here's a port, just North of Rome that's been around since pre-100 BC https://www.telegraph.co.uk/co... If sea levels were 30' higher back then, not only would this have been under water, most of the area around it where Roman ruins can be found, would have been flooded as well.

The grade school experiment I was referring to is to take two glass jars, put a thermometer in each, and put CO2 in one then seal them. Place the jars outside in the sun and watch the difference in temperatures. No incandescent bulbs, just two different concentrations of gasses exposed to sunlight. A rigorous scientist like yourself should be able to figure that one out and replicate it.

Great to know, a list of software that doesn't contain US government sanctioned backdoors. If the Pentagon doesn't like it, then you can be 99% sure it values your privacy and doesn't harvest your private data.

Actually the irony is that you can not be sure of that at all precisely for the same reason we can not trust so much of the software on and off this Pentagon list. Your post is currently moderated as "Interesting" but would be better moderated as "Funny" because it might be a joke, but it certainly isn't true.

The way we come to trust a program is by examining its source code, then modifying that program to suit our needs, running the version of the program we trust, and we can help our community by distributing a copy of the program and its source code under a free software license. These are the four freedoms of free software—software users are free to run, inspect, modify, and share for any reason even commercially. Therefore free software is worth trusting; when those who are skilled and motivated to do the vetting do that work, they can come to trust that software. Those who trust their efforts can get copies of programs from them.

Nonfree software (proprietary, user-subjugating software) is frequently malware and is untrustworthy by default. We don't know what's in it and we're unable to inspect its source code. This means we can't "be 99% sure it values your privacy and doesn't harvest your private data". Perhaps it does that but is part of a malware scheme separate from the US Government and American corporate malware schemes we've come to learn about. We also don't know if they have "US government sanctioned backdoors" but direct the spied-upon data somewhere else. If we find out a proprietary program is malware we can't do anything to fix that program (modification is not legally allowed), and even if we modify a copy of the binary we can't legally distribute a copy of that fixed binary to others to help our community.

Therefore this list doesn't help us evaluate trustworthiness at all. At best it uses a proxy for trustworthiness—nationality (if that even means anything, considering software development firms hire worldwide): the nationality of people or an organization that had something to do with writing the code. But that's not terribly helpful. If the NSA hired a contractor to write a program, then released that program as free software, we could vet that program's source code and that code might be useful to us in the free world despite that the code came from the NSA (which is justifiably widely untrusted in so many of their other activities). In another example we're told that Apple's iTunes contained a security flaw that went unpatched for years and "allowed intelligence agencies and police to hack into users' computers for more than three years". I'm guessing people working with both the NSA and Apple come from many countries.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

A majority of EU member states, including Britain and Ireland, have voted to reform rules like EC Commission Regulation No 2257/94, which caused international ridicule by stating that all bananas must be "free of abnormal curvature" and at least 14 cm in length.

Imperfectly-shaped fruit and vegetables may now be back on supermarket shelves by 2009.

France, Italy, Spain and Greece opposed the reforms and were accused by officials of unfairly seeking to protect the interests of their farmers.

Mariann Fischer Boel, the European agriculture commissioner, has said that she also wants to scrap a swathe of regulations on produce such as onions, garlic, caulifower and spinach.

Speaking before the vote she said the rules were outdated and especially inappropriate at the time of a world food shortages.

She said: "In this era of high prices and growing demand, it makes no sense to throw (misshapen fruit and vegetables) away or destroy them. It shouldn't be the EU's job to regulate these things."

Under the present regulations, Class 1 cucumbers must be "practically straight" and be bent by a gradient of no more than 1/10.

Produce that does not meet the minimum standards can not at present be sold as second-class, meaning many edible items are thrown away by farmers.

So France, Italy, Spain and Greece wanted the rules which artificially limited the supply of bananas and pushed up the price. The UK and Ireland - places where its too cold to grow bananas and which import them didn't want them. Still it took from 1995 to 2009 to get rid of the rule.

Still it's clear the EU has a lot of rules which are designed to benefit EU producers at the cost to EU consumers and to shield those producers from foreign competitors.

Yes let us take a look. First place is Central America, then Africa, then South America, then Asia. Why do you hate brown people?

Compare and contrast to the British ship, SS City of Cairo, which was torpedoed in 1942, carrying silver coins, rather than gold.
It wasn't salvaged until three years ago (and contrary to the implication in the report, it's still being salvaged), and about $50 million has been recovered. Mind you, the City Of Cairo was about ten times deeper than this Russian ship.
Of course, that's just half the story; once you've raised the metal from the seabed, you then have to find a way to ship it to a port where it's not just going to be confiscated. In some cases companies will stash their finds back on the sea floor at a known location until they're ready to load up and sail it back to a home port. (In this case the silver was taken to Her Majesty's Receiver of Wreck in Southampton.)

Perhaps you fail to understand that calling someone a paedophile can get people killed. Indeed there are so many morons around that even a paediatrician can be driven out of her house.

Musk may be a far-sighted genius but he also looks like a deeply unpleasant character with plenty of flaws of his own.

its very very BIG

There is confusion as to if you need to tell your insurer - but you must if they ask.

There is no confusion. You don't have to tell them.

Some insurers insurers usually operate a “catch all” clause in their policies about keeping them informed about factors which may affect your driving, and failing to declare a course could lead them to cancel cover in the event of an accident

>Rousseau was right.

French snowflake. Hobbs was right and science proves it

Science shows Thomas Hobbes was right – which is why the Right-wing rule the Earth