I've been using DuckDuckGo for my main search engine. It almost completely replaces Google.
The one area where Google excels is finding things like reviews of tech on people's blogs. Even with the term 'blog', DuckDuckGo returns a lot of the typical mediocre reviews from the popular tech sites.
Working longer hours might produce more if you're working a manual labour job, but when the job is more mentally oriented, there is definitely a limit.
For example, as someone who solves a lot of technical problems, after 3-4 hours I definitely can't produce much of value towards a solution no matter how much I sit at a desk.
In fact, for many roles it makes sense to base salary more on tasks completed rather than hours worked. This already happens in the case of research academia, where rewards are based on papers, results, and grants, rather than hours worked.
Google has to make money out of android somehow and if they can't do it via the play store or some other method they'll simply start charging for the OS itself.
Google can still give one version with crap apps away for free and a license for a crap-free version. I'd gladly pay extra for more choice. The problem is that Google tried to force the shit version on everyone.
Jai sounds like a vent for the frustrations of this guy who hates C++. There are no public compilers yet, and the GitHub page is an unofficial source derived from YouTube videos. Sounds like more talk than results.
This post isn't totally a troll. Total worth in terms of stocks isn't the only way to measure wealth. There could be those not on this top list that have assets not easily measured or even legal that might make them comparable.
Not to mention that some problems sped up by quantum computation (like Grover's algorithm) still won't have an instantaneous answer, but instead can be solved a good amount faster.
While interesting and promising, it's worth noting that the game they were playing was not the "real" Quake 3 arena with all the weapons but a highly stripped down version with one weapon, no power-ups, and brightly-coloured walls to help the AI perceive the level design.
There's a classic experiment where a rat pushes a button for food and it is paired with an electric shock. After a while it will still keep pushing the button for an electric shock.
I feel like movies have become this way. They are just churning out crap and people keep paying for it.
We need a change that restores respect to real work. The hardest workers in America typically get paid the least, and that is not right. The growth in the service industry only exacerbates the problem. People don't respect those mowing the grass or changing their oil when they have never, even in their childhood, gotten off of their fat asses and mowed their own grass or changed their own oil.
Part of the problem is that as a society we are getting to the stage where this so-called "real work" is being replaced by robots, and fast. So instead we should improve our education system so that people who would eventually end up mowing the lawn have a chance at doing something less menial.
Someone needs to start a peer-review system for firefox extensions.
The other day I installed a gestures extension and reviewed the source code myself before installing it for possible telemetry leaking. I didn't have any and it would be nice to upload my results to a website.
If someone made it nice like stackexchange with points I bet it would take off.
In a two-year span as a student I once graphed every page I read each week. This was in a technical subject where I went through each line and verified that it was true, so it wasn't casual reading.
The graph I got at the end was fascinating: it was like a sinusoidal graph with a period of about 2-3 weeks. After that much intense study time, I just lost the mental energy to be productive. Over a period of two years, my cumulative learning graph was pretty much exactly a straight line. In other words, constant learning rate.
No matter what you do, you're going to have a certain amount of productivity, and it's good to know your limits and when to take a break.
I've never had a Facebook, but the people I know who have one have complained repeatedly over the years about random unblockings.
I wouldn't be surprised if the team responsible for managing the permissions system in Facebook were told "hey guys, don't pay too much attention to the quality of your code here. Wink, wink."
Their review page now displays just a star number instead of a graphical representation of the rating, and it's now harder to see the well-written critical reviews. My guess is that they were paid to do so, which is in line with the increasing reliance on formulaic, nearly unwatchable crap that's being pushed out by hollywood today.
The way risk works is that it is computed as a probability of dying in the next time interval. A lower risk probability means that your expected lifespan increases.
Based on the way most people learn concepts from examples and slowly develop abstract rules for them, I wouldn't be surprised if we're mostly a combination of "simple" pattern recognition machine learning algorithms and hard-coded rules that in turn were derived from such algorithms.
Sorry to say but Microsoft doesn't care about this level of security. Their experts have already determined that the effect of current malware is already an acceptable tradeoff, and they continue to put just enough emphasis on security research and prevention to maintain this level.
What's not mentioned in the summary is that aside from not harming the oceans with bicarbonate, it also might actually help by accelerating the amount of bicarbonate in the ocean that is already caused by natural weathering. Overall in a few generations this could prevent too much ocean acidification and thus prevent too much damage to the oceans from other acid sources.
For example, see House et al, "Electrochemical acceleration of chemical weathering as an energetically feasible approach to mitigating anthropogenenic climate change" in Environ. Sci. Technology.
The trend these days is to repeat everything a bunch of times, like "very very very...". Doesn't add any additional meaning to the conversation or text and when I hear it, the only thing I can think is that the speaker has trouble expressing themselves.
I think a lot of people also don't realize how much it costs to provide a service like Gmail because it's all electronic, and so they don't apply the 'nothing is for free' maxim to it.
The problem is most people don't reuse them. And if you get a plastic nalgene bottle is lasts much longer than a plastic "disposable" one and is much easier to clean.
Expecting to deploy an AI in the wild (malware) and have it grabbing stuff from whatever... it's a pretty big stretch from these laboratory conditions to real-world.
The thing is, the AI, which is really just a fancy term for a machine-learning classifier in this case, doesn't have to look at all like traditional malware. These types of exploits use information obtained via non-escalated processes and can be as simple as timing info. The AI itself does not even have to run on the cloud - it can simply send the data back to the attacker for analysis.
So while it's true that memory randomization and other countermeasures could foil certain kinds of attacks, the conditions to get an attack up and running are really not that special after all.
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I've been using DuckDuckGo for my main search engine. It almost completely replaces Google.
The one area where Google excels is finding things like reviews of tech on people's blogs. Even with the term 'blog', DuckDuckGo returns a lot of the typical mediocre reviews from the popular tech sites.
Working longer hours might produce more if you're working a manual labour job, but when the job is more mentally oriented, there is definitely a limit.
For example, as someone who solves a lot of technical problems, after 3-4 hours I definitely can't produce much of value towards a solution no matter how much I sit at a desk.
In fact, for many roles it makes sense to base salary more on tasks completed rather than hours worked. This already happens in the case of research academia, where rewards are based on papers, results, and grants, rather than hours worked.
Google can still give one version with crap apps away for free and a license for a crap-free version. I'd gladly pay extra for more choice. The problem is that Google tried to force the shit version on everyone.
Jai sounds like a vent for the frustrations of this guy who hates C++. There are no public compilers yet, and the GitHub page is an unofficial source derived from YouTube videos. Sounds like more talk than results.
Wow, I think the opposite is true. Everyone and their dog seems to be adding endless new JS crap to websites that no one needs.
This post isn't totally a troll. Total worth in terms of stocks isn't the only way to measure wealth. There could be those not on this top list that have assets not easily measured or even legal that might make them comparable.
Not to mention that some problems sped up by quantum computation (like Grover's algorithm) still won't have an instantaneous answer, but instead can be solved a good amount faster.
While interesting and promising, it's worth noting that the game they were playing was not the "real" Quake 3 arena with all the weapons but a highly stripped down version with one weapon, no power-ups, and brightly-coloured walls to help the AI perceive the level design.
There's a classic experiment where a rat pushes a button for food and it is paired with an electric shock. After a while it will still keep pushing the button for an electric shock.
I feel like movies have become this way. They are just churning out crap and people keep paying for it.
The article mentions the majority of these are in the adult industry.
Part of the problem is that as a society we are getting to the stage where this so-called "real work" is being replaced by robots, and fast. So instead we should improve our education system so that people who would eventually end up mowing the lawn have a chance at doing something less menial.
Someone needs to start a peer-review system for firefox extensions.
The other day I installed a gestures extension and reviewed the source code myself before installing it for possible telemetry leaking. I didn't have any and it would be nice to upload my results to a website.
If someone made it nice like stackexchange with points I bet it would take off.
You don't even need research to see this.
In a two-year span as a student I once graphed every page I read each week. This was in a technical subject where I went through each line and verified that it was true, so it wasn't casual reading.
The graph I got at the end was fascinating: it was like a sinusoidal graph with a period of about 2-3 weeks. After that much intense study time, I just lost the mental energy to be productive. Over a period of two years, my cumulative learning graph was pretty much exactly a straight line. In other words, constant learning rate.
No matter what you do, you're going to have a certain amount of productivity, and it's good to know your limits and when to take a break.
I've never had a Facebook, but the people I know who have one have complained repeatedly over the years about random unblockings.
I wouldn't be surprised if the team responsible for managing the permissions system in Facebook were told "hey guys, don't pay too much attention to the quality of your code here. Wink, wink."
Their review page now displays just a star number instead of a graphical representation of the rating, and it's now harder to see the well-written critical reviews. My guess is that they were paid to do so, which is in line with the increasing reliance on formulaic, nearly unwatchable crap that's being pushed out by hollywood today.
The way risk works is that it is computed as a probability of dying in the next time interval. A lower risk probability means that your expected lifespan increases.
Based on the way most people learn concepts from examples and slowly develop abstract rules for them, I wouldn't be surprised if we're mostly a combination of "simple" pattern recognition machine learning algorithms and hard-coded rules that in turn were derived from such algorithms.
If the apps are as usable as the custom scrolling code on their website, I don't expect it to do well at all.
Sorry to say but Microsoft doesn't care about this level of security. Their experts have already determined that the effect of current malware is already an acceptable tradeoff, and they continue to put just enough emphasis on security research and prevention to maintain this level.
This feature has been present in fluxbox for decades. Any set of open windows can be tabbed together. Wish all window managers had that.
What's not mentioned in the summary is that aside from not harming the oceans with bicarbonate, it also might actually help by accelerating the amount of bicarbonate in the ocean that is already caused by natural weathering. Overall in a few generations this could prevent too much ocean acidification and thus prevent too much damage to the oceans from other acid sources.
For example, see House et al, "Electrochemical acceleration of chemical weathering as an energetically feasible approach to mitigating anthropogenenic climate change" in Environ. Sci. Technology.
The trend these days is to repeat everything a bunch of times, like "very very very...". Doesn't add any additional meaning to the conversation or text and when I hear it, the only thing I can think is that the speaker has trouble expressing themselves.
I think a lot of people also don't realize how much it costs to provide a service like Gmail because it's all electronic, and so they don't apply the 'nothing is for free' maxim to it.
The problem is most people don't reuse them. And if you get a plastic nalgene bottle is lasts much longer than a plastic "disposable" one and is much easier to clean.
The thing is, the AI, which is really just a fancy term for a machine-learning classifier in this case, doesn't have to look at all like traditional malware. These types of exploits use information obtained via non-escalated processes and can be as simple as timing info. The AI itself does not even have to run on the cloud - it can simply send the data back to the attacker for analysis.
So while it's true that memory randomization and other countermeasures could foil certain kinds of attacks, the conditions to get an attack up and running are really not that special after all.