There are no AI companies, because there is no AI. We have a rtificial, but we don't have i ntelligence.
If that is so, how is Google able to identify people, places, landmarks, buildings, cars, boats, bridges, skyscrapers, sunsets, lattes,... in my images and categorize them accordingly? Seems pretty i ntelligent to me.
Indeed. Problem is that that re-balancing act might take millions of years and involve getting humans out of the equation.
What many climate change critics and proponents get wrong is that environmentalism is about saving "nature" or the planet, but really it isn't. The planet doesn't care and will be just fine. Ten million years are nothing on a planetary scale and life will adapt to our pollution and destruction and go on even without us. What this is about is conserving the fragile ecosystem that humans managed to evolve and thrive in. We are not so resilient.
> this entire russia thing is the epitome of fake news
No it isn't. But the Russians have their own sophisticated troll and fake news factories. They probably don't need to rely on some freelancers in Macedonia.
Wow, there's a free ebook on Economics available on the Internet and all of my conservative Slashdot friends are running around like startled chickens clucking "liberal conspiracy!"
I usually start creating good documentation the moment my project manager is not pushing for other features to be implemented and tested ASAP because time and money and project budget and delivery!!!
You do know that practically all modern medication are drugs, right? The aspirin relieving your of your headache, anesthetics that enable surgery and provide pain relief for chronic illnesses, also, that coffee you drink in the morning...
Sure, some drugs are more addictive and harmful and therefore more dangerous than others. Like Coca Cola, for example. That deadly caffeine and sugar mix has many people especially in the US addicted to it, leading to obesity and all the health problems that go with it.
Yet in the right dose, many things are good and beneficial. And too much of everything is a bad thing. Too much water will kill you.
I think you need to broaden your perspective on "drugs".
You want to know how real science works? The oceans are warming at an unprecedented rate as well as global average air temperatures. Polar icecaps are melting at an unprecedented rate too. CO2 in the atmosphere is rising at an unprecedented rate.
Are you too fucking stupid to understand these very simple facts?
It always amazes me how most people consider reading a book, going to a theater play or to an art exhibition as profound activities worthy of spending time on, whereas playing video games is a time waster for kids.
Consider that today's video games have multi-million dollar budgets, have dozens if not hundreds of people creating unique art assets, 3D models, sounds and music for an interactive experience the player can participate in. A good video game is an agglomeration of art, music, and other cultural assets, not to mention the interactivity and direct involvement if the participant "observer", and the technical expertise and cutting edge technology that went into rendering and running such a feat of technology to bring everything together on a screen.
If you look at it this way, video games are the pinnacle of human culture and creativity. In fact, one of the best ways of spending your time.
Comparing apples to oranges... JetBrains is a Russian Company, but Kotlin is an open source project on GitHub. Also a programming language is not as sensitive security-wise as an actual security software suite, obviously. I would also wager that JetBrains is not in the big business of government contracts anyhow. Even if any government decided to boycott them, it probably wouldn't even register on their radar.
The problems with your arguments are that there are facts that back up The Economist's articles, which are meticulously researched, and there are facts backing up PolitFact's Truth-o-Meter. You can scroll down the list of Donald Trump's lies on PolitFact and read the evidence in most cases right there on Donald Trumps own Twitter account!
You are worse than blind and ignorant because you choose to be blind and ignorant. In that case I'm done arguing with you. There's no point in arguing with Ostriches who put their head in the sand and choose to believe only their own dilusions.
Hyperbole? LoL. It's people like you who are the problem. You think climate change is just another Hollywood disaster flic that ain't gonna happen. Despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, your mind is not able to step out of its comfort zone because it is too lazy or complacent, or simply lacks the imagination to envision things that go beyond your immediate experiences. Do you think "The Economist" is a magazine that engages in "irrelevant pap"? http://www.economist.com/clima...
Sure it is bigger. We have an existential crisis going on that is threatening human civilization as a whole. The figurehead actor-in-chief denies it exist. Also, I wouldn't dismiss the fact that there is a narcissistic, egomaniac, lying and hypocritical buffoon at the head of the most important country in the world, controlling the most devastating nuclear arsenal in the world "irrelevant pap".
I think this is precisely the reason for Red Hat to hand Ceylon over to the Eclipse Foundation. Ceylon and Kotlin are the two biggest competitors in that sweet spot of "nicer Java". Kotlin becoming the quasi-standard for Android development is a huge blow to Ceylon. I'm just not sure if Red Hat handing the torch to the EF means they are hoping it will give the language some momentum, or if it means they are conceding defeat and dropping it, letting someone else clean up the pieces. I guess it's a bit of both.
And the dystopian future was cemented in the last US election.
When Donald Trump was elected I had an eerie Back to the Future 2 moment - that sense of wrongness of being in an alternate universe that has gone wrong. Like when Biff made himself wealthy by changing the past so he dominated the present.
I've picked up NMS now for the first time after Steam reviews went from Mostly Negative to Mostly Positive after the latest update. I'm really interested and keen to try it out now. Like most, I was very excited for this game, but unlike most, I didn't but into the hype, I never preorder and always wait for reviews before making a purchase. That's really the only way to go people.
In some ways Terraria is the better game because it's a more focused experience. The world and progressions feels more polished and coherent.
Starbound is probably the greater game overall, partly because of sheer size and ambition, but these characteristics also introduce some hard edges and it can be a bit overwhelming at times. Also because of the many different world types, every single world in Starbound doesn't seem quite as interesting and varied as the one Terraria world.
No! Just stop it! You are being so unfair to President Trump! If you just started accepting alternative facts into your life, you'd see how in the alternative reality in which I Trump supporter live, President Trump is the greatestest, most honestest, competentest President this country has ever had! You have just been brainwashed by the FAKE NEWS mainstream media!
Really? Have you ever learned about the Age of Enlightenment? It's that era that went hand in hand with the scientific revolution and took the western world out of the dark ages of medieval thinking, for good. It's also the reason why the west has been steering human progress for the last 300 years. The dark ages on the other hand where dominated by religious thought, superstition and fraught with prejudice towards critical thinking. Religious fanatics would rather burn progressive thinkers like Galileo Galilei on the stake rather than listen to reason.
I'm sorry, but the conservative right in the US with the denial of climate change supported by the *vast* majority of scientist, their antipathy towards the theory of evolution and efforts to teach creationism in schools, their tactics of spreading fear and uncertainty among the populace to legitimatize their crackdowns on civil rights and their boosting in defense spending, even though in reality terrorism is a marginal threat. All of this looks like steps of a counter-enlightenment movement, a return to the dark ages to me.
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There are no AI companies, because there is no AI. We have a rtificial, but we don't have i ntelligence.
If that is so, how is Google able to identify people, places, landmarks, buildings, cars, boats, bridges, skyscrapers, sunsets, lattes,... in my images and categorize them accordingly?
Seems pretty i ntelligent to me.
Indeed. Problem is that that re-balancing act might take millions of years and involve getting humans out of the equation.
What many climate change critics and proponents get wrong is that environmentalism is about saving "nature" or the planet, but really it isn't. The planet doesn't care and will be just fine. Ten million years are nothing on a planetary scale and life will adapt to our pollution and destruction and go on even without us.
What this is about is conserving the fragile ecosystem that humans managed to evolve and thrive in. We are not so resilient.
> this entire russia thing is the epitome of fake news
No it isn't. But the Russians have their own sophisticated troll and fake news factories. They probably don't need to rely on some freelancers in Macedonia.
Wow, there's a free ebook on Economics available on the Internet and all of my conservative Slashdot friends are running around like startled chickens clucking "liberal conspiracy!"
Funny.
It must be really hard to live in a world in which science seems to be interconnected with an opposing ideology.
Ever cared to consider that it isn't and it is actually your world view that is the problem?
I usually start creating good documentation the moment my project manager is not pushing for other features to be implemented and tested ASAP because time and money and project budget and delivery!!!
Which is about 10% of the time.
You do know that practically all modern medication are drugs, right? The aspirin relieving your of your headache, anesthetics that enable surgery and provide pain relief for chronic illnesses, also, that coffee you drink in the morning...
Sure, some drugs are more addictive and harmful and therefore more dangerous than others. Like Coca Cola, for example. That deadly caffeine and sugar mix has many people especially in the US addicted to it, leading to obesity and all the health problems that go with it.
Yet in the right dose, many things are good and beneficial. And too much of everything is a bad thing. Too much water will kill you.
I think you need to broaden your perspective on "drugs".
Please read this page very carefully:
https://climate.nasa.gov/evide...
Also the other tabs.Causes, Effects, Scientific Consensus...
Nice straw mans you got there.
You want to know how real science works? The oceans are warming at an unprecedented rate as well as global average air temperatures. Polar icecaps are melting at an unprecedented rate too. CO2 in the atmosphere is rising at an unprecedented rate.
Are you too fucking stupid to understand these very simple facts?
It always amazes me how most people consider reading a book, going to a theater play or to an art exhibition as profound activities worthy of spending time on, whereas playing video games is a time waster for kids.
Consider that today's video games have multi-million dollar budgets, have dozens if not hundreds of people creating unique art assets, 3D models, sounds and music for an interactive experience the player can participate in. A good video game is an agglomeration of art, music, and other cultural assets, not to mention the interactivity and direct involvement if the participant "observer", and the technical expertise and cutting edge technology that went into rendering and running such a feat of technology to bring everything together on a screen.
If you look at it this way, video games are the pinnacle of human culture and creativity. In fact, one of the best ways of spending your time.
Looks like a prototype for Stormtrooper armor.
Galactic Empire confirmed!
Comparing apples to oranges... JetBrains is a Russian Company, but Kotlin is an open source project on GitHub. Also a programming language is not as sensitive security-wise as an actual security software suite, obviously. I would also wager that JetBrains is not in the big business of government contracts anyhow. Even if any government decided to boycott them, it probably wouldn't even register on their radar.
The problems with your arguments are that there are facts that back up The Economist's articles, which are meticulously researched, and there are facts backing up PolitFact's Truth-o-Meter. You can scroll down the list of Donald Trump's lies on PolitFact and read the evidence in most cases right there on Donald Trumps own Twitter account!
You are worse than blind and ignorant because you choose to be blind and ignorant. In that case I'm done arguing with you. There's no point in arguing with Ostriches who put their head in the sand and choose to believe only their own dilusions.
Hyperbole? LoL. It's people like you who are the problem. You think climate change is just another Hollywood disaster flic that ain't gonna happen. Despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, your mind is not able to step out of its comfort zone because it is too lazy or complacent, or simply lacks the imagination to envision things that go beyond your immediate experiences.
Do you think "The Economist" is a magazine that engages in "irrelevant pap"?
http://www.economist.com/clima...
Or maybe you were referring to my depiction of Donald Trump? in that case open your eyes man!
Sure it is bigger. We have an existential crisis going on that is threatening human civilization as a whole. The figurehead actor-in-chief denies it exist. Also, I wouldn't dismiss the fact that there is a narcissistic, egomaniac, lying and hypocritical buffoon at the head of the most important country in the world, controlling the most devastating nuclear arsenal in the world "irrelevant pap".
I think this is precisely the reason for Red Hat to hand Ceylon over to the Eclipse Foundation. Ceylon and Kotlin are the two biggest competitors in that sweet spot of "nicer Java". Kotlin becoming the quasi-standard for Android development is a huge blow to Ceylon. I'm just not sure if Red Hat handing the torch to the EF means they are hoping it will give the language some momentum, or if it means they are conceding defeat and dropping it, letting someone else clean up the pieces.
I guess it's a bit of both.
And the dystopian future was cemented in the last US election.
When Donald Trump was elected I had an eerie Back to the Future 2 moment - that sense of wrongness of being in an alternate universe that has gone wrong. Like when Biff made himself wealthy by changing the past so he dominated the present.
I've picked up NMS now for the first time after Steam reviews went from Mostly Negative to Mostly Positive after the latest update. I'm really interested and keen to try it out now. Like most, I was very excited for this game, but unlike most, I didn't but into the hype, I never preorder and always wait for reviews before making a purchase.
That's really the only way to go people.
In some ways Terraria is the better game because it's a more focused experience. The world and progressions feels more polished and coherent.
Starbound is probably the greater game overall, partly because of sheer size and ambition, but these characteristics also introduce some hard edges and it can be a bit overwhelming at times. Also because of the many different world types, every single world in Starbound doesn't seem quite as interesting and varied as the one Terraria world.
No! Just stop it! You are being so unfair to President Trump!
If you just started accepting alternative facts into your life, you'd see how in the alternative reality in which I Trump supporter live, President Trump is the greatestest, most honestest, competentest President this country has ever had! You have just been brainwashed by the FAKE NEWS mainstream media!
Leave President Pussygraber alone! ;ÂÂ(
Woah dude! You're so rad!
The TV series has gone beyond the books. Didn't you get the memo?
I don't agree. Turtles are a major threat to our ecosystem and all living life on the planet:
Ducks are birds and birds where dinosaurs. So:
Duck == Bird ^= Dinosaur
Turtles eat baby ducks. And since we have established that duck ^= dinosaur, the following statement can be resolved via mathematical induction:
Turtles eat baby ducks ^= Turtle eats Dinosaur
Incidentally, T-Rex is extinct, ergo:
Turtle > T-Rex
Quod erat demonstrantum.
You have no idea what you are even talking about.
Carbohydrates and calories have no nutritional value whatsoever?
Don't confuse anti-US College with anti-education
Really? Have you ever learned about the Age of Enlightenment? It's that era that went hand in hand with the scientific revolution and took the western world out of the dark ages of medieval thinking, for good. It's also the reason why the west has been steering human progress for the last 300 years. The dark ages on the other hand where dominated by religious thought, superstition and fraught with prejudice towards critical thinking. Religious fanatics would rather burn progressive thinkers like Galileo Galilei on the stake rather than listen to reason.
I'm sorry, but the conservative right in the US with the denial of climate change supported by the *vast* majority of scientist, their antipathy towards the theory of evolution and efforts to teach creationism in schools, their tactics of spreading fear and uncertainty among the populace to legitimatize their crackdowns on civil rights and their boosting in defense spending, even though in reality terrorism is a marginal threat. All of this looks like steps of a counter-enlightenment movement, a return to the dark ages to me.