Indeed. Been with Internode for a while now and at first wasn't happy with the iiNet buyout, but seeing things like this I am greatly reassured. Now, as for the TPG buyout, I am not sure where things are going to go there.
Would be a shame to have such a good (I use the word in both the moral compass sense, as well as service provided) provider become rolled into just another corporate juggernaut.
Saw a program a while back, about RR jet engines. Some of those fan blades are not only so finely machined and built that they are hand-made, but also get internally imaged for problems or stress.
What such tricks with 3d printing do accomplish is they let engineers build a mock-up or scale model from their designs much more efficiently than before.
"The ImageNet Classification Challenge, as it is called, involves training software on a collection of 1.5 million labeled images in 1,000 different categories, and then asking that software to use what it learned to label 100,000 images it has not seen before."
"Wu said that Minwa had made it possible to train the system on higher-resolution images. It also permitted use of a technique that turned the original 1.2 million training images into two billion by distorting them, flipping them, and altering their colors. Using that larger training set improved accuracy by preventing the system from becoming too fixated on the exact details of the training images, said Wu. The resulting system should be better at handling real-world photos, he said."
And they sort-of cheated to do it. I am sure if Google and MS would do a similar trick with their systems their accuracy would improve too.
"Some Guy, lead artist for a game, has put up a post about the decline of quality art in games. He decries the current state of "Pixel fetishism" in the industry, saying that games with great art get needlessly marked down in reviews for their 'quality', while games that have awful — but pixel — art get glowing praise. He walks through a number of examples showing how art can be well done or poorly done, and how it can be extremely complex despite the higher resolution. But now artists are running into not only the expectation of hipster content, but technological obstacles as well. "Some devices pixelate Blarg [their game]. Some devices lack the colour. No matter how hard I worked to make the art in Blarg as good as I could, there's no way a given person should be expected to see past all those roadblocks. Making Blarg with pixel-art would have made it more resistant to making money." He says his studio is giving up on art and embracing the new medium, and recommends other artists do the same. "Don't let the medium come between you and your audience. Speak in a language people can understand so that they can actually see what makes your work great without a tax." "
Putting GST on those products/services is a good idea, but such actions should be delayed pending the investigation of the various suppliers/importers for price-parity in Australia.
Valve and the ACCC are still in a spate of litigation (according to the Q1 ACCC report here http://www.accc.gov.au/system/... ) in regards to not offering refunds.
My bank can and do notify me when there is 'odd spending' happening on my credit card. Usually it is just some odd store I have purchased from online.
Having their billing system trigger a flag when it hits 10x the usual cost and halt access and red flag for support to call them when it hits 100x is NOT hard or invasive. This wouldn't even need metadata, it could simply wait for the daily billing totals to tally up and run off that.
Dang it, I had my link all ready and you beat me to it. Damn good series, very interesting in that he describes in simpler terms why and how it is worked out.
Yeah, if all the nerds out there didn't sit on their arses and reply to slashdot stories, why, we might just be able to do anything... ahh fuck it, I am getting more doritos.
Never been asked to remove my sunglasses in a bank. There are times when I leave my normal glasses (short sighted) at home and the only way to see at all is with my prescription sunglasses on. In this case, any requests for me to remove them would be met with me asking to talk to a bank manager in regards to stopping my accounts and withdrawing all my money.
Basically, for those of us who need such devices to see well (I need to wear the damn things nearly all the time, a hefty and constant dose of immune inhibitors require it), this is going to make our lives a little more full of suction.
Well, expect there to be signs all over banks and other secure locations, from now on, telling people to remove helmets, glasses and all articles of clothing.
Seriously, fucking with security cameras is really a needed thing?
Call me crazy, Mr Anon, but isn't while you are sleeping the BEST time to charge your phone? I know it is mine. When I go to bed, I make sure my alarm is on, my phone's 'block spam' feature is on and I plug it in to my charger. In the morning, I always have full charge and am woken by my alarm.
I have been using phones for my alarm clocks since my old nokia when I was in university. I have a job, sadly, posting on slashdot isn't it. Goodbye:)
Your phone doesn't already have alarm features? Couldn't you use that as your alarm clock and, when turning it off check to see if you need to get up or can sleep in? I mean, you are already reaching out of bed for your alarm anyway.
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ISP? Yeah, Dodo are pretty bad. Telecoms company in general? Telstra.
No other company has done so much, to so many, simply to try and retain market share.
Dodo only screw with their own customers. Telstra can shit all over anyone they wish.
Indeed. Been with Internode for a while now and at first wasn't happy with the iiNet buyout, but seeing things like this I am greatly reassured. Now, as for the TPG buyout, I am not sure where things are going to go there.
Would be a shame to have such a good (I use the word in both the moral compass sense, as well as service provided) provider become rolled into just another corporate juggernaut.
Yeah I was going to say...
Saw a program a while back, about RR jet engines. Some of those fan blades are not only so finely machined and built that they are hand-made, but also get internally imaged for problems or stress.
What such tricks with 3d printing do accomplish is they let engineers build a mock-up or scale model from their designs much more efficiently than before.
"The ImageNet Classification Challenge, as it is called, involves training software on a collection of 1.5 million labeled images in 1,000 different categories, and then asking that software to use what it learned to label 100,000 images it has not seen before."
"Wu said that Minwa had made it possible to train the system on higher-resolution images. It also permitted use of a technique that turned the original 1.2 million training images into two billion by distorting them, flipping them, and altering their colors. Using that larger training set improved accuracy by preventing the system from becoming too fixated on the exact details of the training images, said Wu. The resulting system should be better at handling real-world photos, he said."
And they sort-of cheated to do it. I am sure if Google and MS would do a similar trick with their systems their accuracy would improve too.
No, they are ignoring it because that is what the question specifically tells you NOT to consider.
Here, broken apart by more than just a semi-colon.
"I don't mean sitting there with no power but would work if the power came back on[.]"
"rather, something continuously powered, doing the task it was designed for."
You might want to re-read it. "After we are gone" in the sense of "no more humans."
"Some Guy, lead artist for a game, has put up a post about the decline of quality art in games. He decries the current state of "Pixel fetishism" in the industry, saying that games with great art get needlessly marked down in reviews for their 'quality', while games that have awful — but pixel — art get glowing praise. He walks through a number of examples showing how art can be well done or poorly done, and how it can be extremely complex despite the higher resolution. But now artists are running into not only the expectation of hipster content, but technological obstacles as well. "Some devices pixelate Blarg [their game]. Some devices lack the colour. No matter how hard I worked to make the art in Blarg as good as I could, there's no way a given person should be expected to see past all those roadblocks. Making Blarg with pixel-art would have made it more resistant to making money." He says his studio is giving up on art and embracing the new medium, and recommends other artists do the same. "Don't let the medium come between you and your audience. Speak in a language people can understand so that they can actually see what makes your work great without a tax." "
Putting GST on those products/services is a good idea, but such actions should be delayed pending the investigation of the various suppliers/importers for price-parity in Australia.
Valve and the ACCC are still in a spate of litigation (according to the Q1 ACCC report here http://www.accc.gov.au/system/... ) in regards to not offering refunds.
My bank can and do notify me when there is 'odd spending' happening on my credit card. Usually it is just some odd store I have purchased from online.
Having their billing system trigger a flag when it hits 10x the usual cost and halt access and red flag for support to call them when it hits 100x is NOT hard or invasive. This wouldn't even need metadata, it could simply wait for the daily billing totals to tally up and run off that.
Dang it, I had my link all ready and you beat me to it. Damn good series, very interesting in that he describes in simpler terms why and how it is worked out.
Yeah, this is some irony right here.
Seems like Snowden's views on censorship are not held by the interviewer.
You ever seen a grown man naked?
Yeah, if all the nerds out there didn't sit on their arses and reply to slashdot stories, why, we might just be able to do anything... ahh fuck it, I am getting more doritos.
Son, with a monocle at the ready, I would do damn near anything with it.
Didn't read it enough to find out that it was a dead relative that they took it from.
What really gets interesting is when three or four generations all have the same penis, passed down from father to son.
Yeah, in the past I never ticked it but, just the other week, I put a little tick next to Hammond.
What, you think they will change the article later to be about something else?
Aww, go nice on her, this is her second story!
And the other was a set of facts/comments about bees it looks like she lifted from wikipedia.
Yeah I am pretty sure I will need more than sunglasses an a request to see the manager to rob a bank.
And no, not all banks do this. Mine (NAB) never has.
Never been asked to remove my sunglasses in a bank. There are times when I leave my normal glasses (short sighted) at home and the only way to see at all is with my prescription sunglasses on. In this case, any requests for me to remove them would be met with me asking to talk to a bank manager in regards to stopping my accounts and withdrawing all my money.
Basically, for those of us who need such devices to see well (I need to wear the damn things nearly all the time, a hefty and constant dose of immune inhibitors require it), this is going to make our lives a little more full of suction.
Well, expect there to be signs all over banks and other secure locations, from now on, telling people to remove helmets, glasses and all articles of clothing.
Seriously, fucking with security cameras is really a needed thing?
You can't? I can always just set my alarm a little later and just close my eyes again. Guess everyone is different.
Call me crazy, Mr Anon, but isn't while you are sleeping the BEST time to charge your phone? I know it is mine. When I go to bed, I make sure my alarm is on, my phone's 'block spam' feature is on and I plug it in to my charger. In the morning, I always have full charge and am woken by my alarm.
I have been using phones for my alarm clocks since my old nokia when I was in university. I have a job, sadly, posting on slashdot isn't it. Goodbye :)
Your phone doesn't already have alarm features? Couldn't you use that as your alarm clock and, when turning it off check to see if you need to get up or can sleep in? I mean, you are already reaching out of bed for your alarm anyway.