Well, it did help redesign Google datacenter cooling, and save Google a bunch of money (along with being more environmentally friendly by reducing the overall power usage). Seems like a pretty good application. Nothing beats lowering CO2 emissions by simply not using power altogether.
Meanwhile, we only NEED those advancements because we make it difficult to prevent those very conditions. Prevention costs a whole lot less, but not much profit to be made there.
So what do you do with the increasing segment of the population who have nothing to trade (your Person C)? If you don't subsidize them, they either steal to survive or revolt. In either case, they will take by force whatever is needed to survive, so cheaper to subsidize then the alternatives (warfare or mass murder).
And what happens when one no longer needs humans to do the work since they provide so little value?
The usual solution is is to gain more skills, but that is increasingly difficult since most peoples costs have a pretty hard floor (housing, food, transportation), and acquiring skills usually requires one to gain such skills independently, as employer refuse to train, or provide much in the way of assistance of increasing the workers skill (why would they, just hire someone else, or automate the person away entirely).
Its becoming a catch-22: To increase your financial resources, you must acquire new skills, which require financial or time resource to gain, which you didn't have to start with, hence wanting to increase them to begin with.
Cheap SMS over data. Check out how much you have to pay for texting in some countries, as well as international rates. You usually have to pay some exorbitant price per text, or pay extra per month for unlimited international texting.
Also, it is self configuring, because your username/login is your phone number + IMEI number.
Nations also sign treaties. Treaties usually result in laws being passed. Otherwise the other nations who sign the treaty just ignores you and kicks you out of the treaty.
One of the most fundamental concepts in civil law is contracts, and treaties are just contracts between nation states. Break any contract you sign in good faith and tell me how it goes.
Problem with dota 2 is the snowball nature of the PvE aspect. An AI there will quite easily crush any team because they will have near perfect farm, which eliminates any skill/strategy any human is going to come up with. A fully slotted in 20 minute Spectre/Void/Sniper is not all that interesting to win against
They also noted why SC was preferred, the team lead and presented was a former UC Berkeley student who worked on Overmind, the SCBW AI.
Simply put, DotA 2 is less taxing APM wise, since as you as you play safe and have perfect lane equilibrium control with your CS, it is rather difficult to lose. Even top pros can't deny and last hit every wave.
Build on what? A fair amount of San Francisco is built on the rubble that was pushed into the bay after it was leveled by an earthquake a century ago. It physically is unsound to build anything all that big on it.
1) Good luck doing this. It currently is tricky as is.
2) Here's the REALLY fun one. You identify the entity with the device, they live in another country. You now lack any legal power to influence them whatsoever, unless you have the money to file an international complaint/lawsuit, assuming it is even possible.
2a) Assume you suit goes through, it gets promptly ignored. Random hacked Chinese/Russian/Australian/German is not going to care what some person in another country thinks.
As far as I'm aware, the main thing WhatsApp has going for it, in a similar way Skype did, is that it allows international texting on the cheap.
I believe here in the US it isn't much to add on to a wireless plan to get international texting, but in other parts of the world, they charge by the text and gouge pretty hard on it. I would be interested to know how much Deutsche Telekom (or other major wireless operators) charge for international texts.
So WhatApp is the perfect mix of ease of use (no login needed), cheap (was 1 USD a year after the first year, now its free), and by passes the expensive text charges.
As an anecdote, I regularly text a small group, with one person in the UK, another in Singapore, and another in Thailand. Last I looked, if I didn't have unlimited international texting in my wireless plan, it would be like 25 cents PER TEXT. So a small conversation of rapid fire texts would rack up pretty fast.
"Let the market, as cold and harsh as it is, sort things out."
And then the markets are reminded there there is thing called emotions and will to live, which results in the introduction of the free market of violence, where I take what I need to live, damm the consequences. No human being is going to stand by and let free markets work, if it means watching their child die, for any reason,.
I believe that by having drones, a large number of things that are required on an airplane as safety measures for the pilot and passengers go away. Things like parachutes, oxygen, seats, visible warnings, windows, life vests, and so forth.
A pilot on the ground doesn't risk depressurization, having to bail out, doing as extensive of a checklist (since a drone is much simpler then a plane in a lot of way, since many systems simply exist to keep the pilot aware, or keep the people in the plane alive).
This leaves a pilot with only the most core parts of their job, piloting and maintaining communication/awareness of their airspace. But even that is reduced when flying as low as drones do, and especially if you are doing this away from air bases/airstrips. I imagine the risks of flying and colliding drop quite a bit if you are sticking pretty low (under 1000 feet) and many miles from major air centers.
WhatApp has 2 reasons it is popular, especially outside the US
1) It is incredibly convenient, no pass words, no logins,
2) It is CHEAP. Ever seen what most carriers charge for international texting? Unless you specifically are paying the extra in the plan for international texting, its like 20 cents a text. I have 2 people I do game modding with, one in the UK and one in Singapore. So I would either have to sign up for a more expensive plan for international texting or pay 40 cents every time I sent them both a message, and 20 cents to receive from them. So either way, I would be paying a lot more compared to the previous 1 dollar a year.
WhatApp is basically the Skype of texting, breaking the traditional carrier setup and undercutting it hugely by going over data instead of the the approved communication channel. As far as I'm aware, Skype grew big to begin with because of its NAT punching (making it brain dead easy to use and no firewall fiddiling) and being able to do international calls cheaply
Pretty well known that housing values move quite a bit. As the old saying goes in real estate "Location, Location, Location". Land is something you can't import/create, and geography controls where housing can realisitcally be placed. 2008 was a housing bubble, and the US has had almost predictable speculation on land values every 20-30 years of its existance, that leads to a bubble and bust. Used to be cheap western land as the country expanded westward, but now speculation occurs on the current land.
My understanding is a fair number of people got in trouble by refinancing their mortgage on the growing equity of their property, and then getting caught flat footed when the bubble inevitably burst. Also, some states (California in particular comes to mind) have incentives for people to stay in their own homes, which directly lowers the supply of housing, making the remaining properties swing more in value. So if you are not living in the property, you can simply hold it, flip for an even more expensive and better located property, let appreciation/demand drive that price higher, and repeat. Or sell the appreciated property, use the difference to buy two properties (one of value equal to the property just sold, at its original acquisition price, and a second even cheaper property). Basically comes down to land being exclusive use, and non movable.
In this case, given the context, it is the less surprising thing: The researchers do not have physical access to the target. Then follows the more surprising in that they don't have remote access either, just proximity alone.
The same impact as the last 3 centuries. The US used to be composed of mostly farmers and agricultural workers (slaves), something like 90% of the population
Today, agriculture employs less then 3% of the populace. Now, in absolute terms, the number of farmers has gone up, but the population they support has gone far higher.
Seriously this. I still do not understand why people thought it was ridiculous that Finn almost beat Kylo, after the movie amply demonstrates
1) Chewies Bowcaster hits like a truck. Repeatedly shows Stormtroopers being throw off their feet from a single shot
2) Kylo hammers on his wound prior to the fight and the movie shows a pool of blood on the snow, showing how badly Kylo is bleeding out
The fact that Kylo nearly beats both Finn and Rey is a testament to his hatred/dedication.
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Well, it did help redesign Google datacenter cooling, and save Google a bunch of money (along with being more environmentally friendly by reducing the overall power usage). Seems like a pretty good application. Nothing beats lowering CO2 emissions by simply not using power altogether.
Meanwhile, we only NEED those advancements because we make it difficult to prevent those very conditions. Prevention costs a whole lot less, but not much profit to be made there.
They are already attempting something just as hard, they will be learning how to play Starcraft 2 competently
So what do you do with the increasing segment of the population who have nothing to trade (your Person C)? If you don't subsidize them, they either steal to survive or revolt. In either case, they will take by force whatever is needed to survive, so cheaper to subsidize then the alternatives (warfare or mass murder).
And what happens when one no longer needs humans to do the work since they provide so little value? The usual solution is is to gain more skills, but that is increasingly difficult since most peoples costs have a pretty hard floor (housing, food, transportation), and acquiring skills usually requires one to gain such skills independently, as employer refuse to train, or provide much in the way of assistance of increasing the workers skill (why would they, just hire someone else, or automate the person away entirely). Its becoming a catch-22: To increase your financial resources, you must acquire new skills, which require financial or time resource to gain, which you didn't have to start with, hence wanting to increase them to begin with.
Cut Google electric bill by a not small amount
https://deepmind.com/blog/deep...
Effective power savings of 15%
Cheap SMS over data. Check out how much you have to pay for texting in some countries, as well as international rates. You usually have to pay some exorbitant price per text, or pay extra per month for unlimited international texting.
Also, it is self configuring, because your username/login is your phone number + IMEI number.
Except it is used for Blu Ray players, hardly a homogenous environment. And there are other embedded environments its used in as well (Set Top boxes).
Yes, you just don't see it. In house stuff is still done in it, and code still has to be maintained/extended/added on to.
Nations also sign treaties. Treaties usually result in laws being passed. Otherwise the other nations who sign the treaty just ignores you and kicks you out of the treaty.
One of the most fundamental concepts in civil law is contracts, and treaties are just contracts between nation states. Break any contract you sign in good faith and tell me how it goes.
They are addressing this directly, by limiting the APM of the AI to human levels. So it won't be able to rely on perfect micro to win.
Problem with dota 2 is the snowball nature of the PvE aspect. An AI there will quite easily crush any team because they will have near perfect farm, which eliminates any skill/strategy any human is going to come up with. A fully slotted in 20 minute Spectre/Void/Sniper is not all that interesting to win against
They also noted why SC was preferred, the team lead and presented was a former UC Berkeley student who worked on Overmind, the SCBW AI.
Simply put, DotA 2 is less taxing APM wise, since as you as you play safe and have perfect lane equilibrium control with your CS, it is rather difficult to lose. Even top pros can't deny and last hit every wave.
Sadly, I suspect they won't care, because they will look at how Comcast has made bank on having NBC, and think they can pull the same thing off.
Build on what? A fair amount of San Francisco is built on the rubble that was pushed into the bay after it was leveled by an earthquake a century ago. It physically is unsound to build anything all that big on it.
Here's the issue
1) Good luck doing this. It currently is tricky as is.
2) Here's the REALLY fun one. You identify the entity with the device, they live in another country. You now lack any legal power to influence them whatsoever, unless you have the money to file an international complaint/lawsuit, assuming it is even possible.
2a) Assume you suit goes through, it gets promptly ignored. Random hacked Chinese/Russian/Australian/German is not going to care what some person in another country thinks.
As far as I'm aware, the main thing WhatsApp has going for it, in a similar way Skype did, is that it allows international texting on the cheap.
I believe here in the US it isn't much to add on to a wireless plan to get international texting, but in other parts of the world, they charge by the text and gouge pretty hard on it. I would be interested to know how much Deutsche Telekom (or other major wireless operators) charge for international texts.
So WhatApp is the perfect mix of ease of use (no login needed), cheap (was 1 USD a year after the first year, now its free), and by passes the expensive text charges.
As an anecdote, I regularly text a small group, with one person in the UK, another in Singapore, and another in Thailand. Last I looked, if I didn't have unlimited international texting in my wireless plan, it would be like 25 cents PER TEXT. So a small conversation of rapid fire texts would rack up pretty fast.
"Let the market, as cold and harsh as it is, sort things out."
And then the markets are reminded there there is thing called emotions and will to live, which results in the introduction of the free market of violence, where I take what I need to live, damm the consequences. No human being is going to stand by and let free markets work, if it means watching their child die, for any reason,.
Well, basic probability. P(any succeed) = 1 - P(None succeed)
P(Failure) = 0.1
P(All Fail) = 0.1^3
P(any succeed) = 1 - 0.1^3 = 1 - 0.001 = 0.999 = 99.9%
So for 3 satellites with 90% chance, equals out.
I believe that by having drones, a large number of things that are required on an airplane as safety measures for the pilot and passengers go away. Things like parachutes, oxygen, seats, visible warnings, windows, life vests, and so forth.
A pilot on the ground doesn't risk depressurization, having to bail out, doing as extensive of a checklist (since a drone is much simpler then a plane in a lot of way, since many systems simply exist to keep the pilot aware, or keep the people in the plane alive).
This leaves a pilot with only the most core parts of their job, piloting and maintaining communication/awareness of their airspace. But even that is reduced when flying as low as drones do, and especially if you are doing this away from air bases/airstrips. I imagine the risks of flying and colliding drop quite a bit if you are sticking pretty low (under 1000 feet) and many miles from major air centers.
WhatApp has 2 reasons it is popular, especially outside the US
1) It is incredibly convenient, no pass words, no logins,
2) It is CHEAP. Ever seen what most carriers charge for international texting? Unless you specifically are paying the extra in the plan for international texting, its like 20 cents a text. I have 2 people I do game modding with, one in the UK and one in Singapore. So I would either have to sign up for a more expensive plan for international texting or pay 40 cents every time I sent them both a message, and 20 cents to receive from them. So either way, I would be paying a lot more compared to the previous 1 dollar a year.
WhatApp is basically the Skype of texting, breaking the traditional carrier setup and undercutting it hugely by going over data instead of the the approved communication channel. As far as I'm aware, Skype grew big to begin with because of its NAT punching (making it brain dead easy to use and no firewall fiddiling) and being able to do international calls cheaply
Flipping?
Pretty well known that housing values move quite a bit. As the old saying goes in real estate "Location, Location, Location". Land is something you can't import/create, and geography controls where housing can realisitcally be placed. 2008 was a housing bubble, and the US has had almost predictable speculation on land values every 20-30 years of its existance, that leads to a bubble and bust. Used to be cheap western land as the country expanded westward, but now speculation occurs on the current land.
My understanding is a fair number of people got in trouble by refinancing their mortgage on the growing equity of their property, and then getting caught flat footed when the bubble inevitably burst. Also, some states (California in particular comes to mind) have incentives for people to stay in their own homes, which directly lowers the supply of housing, making the remaining properties swing more in value. So if you are not living in the property, you can simply hold it, flip for an even more expensive and better located property, let appreciation/demand drive that price higher, and repeat. Or sell the appreciated property, use the difference to buy two properties (one of value equal to the property just sold, at its original acquisition price, and a second even cheaper property). Basically comes down to land being exclusive use, and non movable.
In this case, given the context, it is the less surprising thing: The researchers do not have physical access to the target. Then follows the more surprising in that they don't have remote access either, just proximity alone.
Possibly, but Ted Lieu may have deliberately named it this way, since he does have a BS in CS from Stanford.
The same impact as the last 3 centuries. The US used to be composed of mostly farmers and agricultural workers (slaves), something like 90% of the population
Today, agriculture employs less then 3% of the populace. Now, in absolute terms, the number of farmers has gone up, but the population they support has gone far higher.
Seriously this. I still do not understand why people thought it was ridiculous that Finn almost beat Kylo, after the movie amply demonstrates
1) Chewies Bowcaster hits like a truck. Repeatedly shows Stormtroopers being throw off their feet from a single shot
2) Kylo hammers on his wound prior to the fight and the movie shows a pool of blood on the snow, showing how badly Kylo is bleeding out
The fact that Kylo nearly beats both Finn and Rey is a testament to his hatred/dedication.