The car reacting to your presence in such a way (other luxury cars have similar gimmicks with lights and logos and shit) is a form of presenting, a mating display ritual common in female mammals.
Funny thing is Valve originally came to Microsoft and said 'this is what we want from an online service' and microsoft looked at them like they where aliens and said 'This is light years ahead of anything people are talking about' So valve went and made Steam.
Hahahaha no.
Steam was pure ass for about the first 5 years. It was a patch manager for Half-Life 2.
4K video is so huge that it makes it quite hard to download even over torrent, and the massive storage required.
Nope. People said the same exact shit when BluRay came out. "1080p is too big to pirate!". EL OH EL. Early HD movies on DVD, HD-DVD, and BR used MPEG 2, and people simply ripped and reencoded them with MPEG 4. Even those using MPEG 4 to start with could be reencoded to much smaller sizes with no noticeable loss of quality. Discs have to play on old and weak set top players with limited processing power, and they're constrained by the transfer rate of the disc drive. This means low complexity settings for the encoder, minimal use of features, predicted frames aren't very deep, etc. Rips aren't limited to such shit.
With BRs, it's even better. You don't need to download the full BR, you can download a rip that has only the main movie and the main (best quality, native language) audio track and the main subtitle track. A HUGE portion of a major release's data is taken up by alternate audio streams, ads, special features, etc. Just cutting that crap out can get your filesize down by half or more.
At 4K, you can also download an encode that cuts size down by a factor of 10 while maintaining visual quality. We've got h.265 now, and again we can run at higher complexity settings with a smaller bitrate. We've also got Opus and other codecs (though Opus is the best). A 7.1 HD-MA or TrueHD audio track often accounts for a third of the size of the main title. Opus can transparently get that down to a much, much lower level. The only downside is that your receiver may not light up the little icon for the DTS/Dolby formats. You're still getting the same sound, though (minus any specific DTS/Dolby transforms your receiver applies to those formats, but why would you want those?).
I often have the subtitles on and I watch at 1.3x to 1.5x. Plus Netflix sells all this data anyway. It's easier to just buy it from them to find out I watched Kubo and the Two Strings yesterday.
Netflix doesn't even have porn. If they like money, they should, though. Far more people would pay an extra $10 a month for Netflix + Porn over what they currently pay for Netflix. Not many people are willing to pay $10 a month standalone for porn. But as an add-on from a reputable company that won't infect your PC, have tons of ads, etc., it'll sell like hotcakes.
All they'd need to do would be to hide it well enough - put it at NetflixMidnight.com or something and get a proper profile system setup. Currently Netflix has profiles but only a single login, and that login can access all profiles. It's fucking stupid, but my gues is they have no intention of changing it as it would lead to more account sharing. Then they'd need to placate Apple, Google, MS, Sony, Nintendo, etc. by ensuring the official app never has access to the porn streams.
Adult Swim is the best network. I don't know if it's truly a different "network" from Cartoon Network. But they don't have stupid annoying shit plastered everywhere, and they burn about half of their ad time with entertaining "bumps", pleasing logo hunts, and other meta content. I only like some of their content, but I really like the network itself.
HiThere covered most of it. The other part of it is what Canonical failed to realize. When they ruin Ubuntu, others can just take the good and run with it.
The last time I needed to set up a Linux box, I went with Mint because Ubuntu had clearly shat the bed. This was about a year ago.
Ubuntu was the single most successful flavor of Linux for desktop use. It was the closest Linux ever got to being widely appropriate for grandmas and neighbors and other people that people like us are sick of supporting.
I don't keep up with the various distros often enough to know the history of how Ubuntu failed, but I do know that it failed.
Why is it that people who don't watch TV are so damned proud of it that they need to announce it every time TV is mentioned? Please share, what else makes you special?
Because people who watch TV tend to have really annoying/detrimental habits - like comparing people they know in real life to characters in shows. Those kind of people are a plague on society, explicitly because they are easily-controlled soulless abominations directed by the liberal extremists.
Uh, it's simple. Freeze it (disable the feedback loop that lets it modify itself) and test in on a bunch of new data, a bunch of garbage data, etc., and watch it. If you want to methodically define its behavior you just need to look at the damn thing. Getting any useful info out of that will be an issue though. You may find out that somewhere deep in your neural net it's looking for a seemingly random pattern of contrast or checking against some strange distance/angle. Without tracing its entire training history you won't know why. But you can see that it's checking for that shit and then test it by giving it data that varies a lot on the things it checks, and try to suss out what impact that has in real-world use. No, it's not easy. But it's absolutely knowable and testable.
Yes, they all do it. But Best Buy can't track what I pay for in cash. Amazon by its nature knows my account, address, etc., and is much more hostile when it decides to nuke a user. You've simply never seen it happen. I've known people who have had accounts nuked to the point that other accounts shipping to the same address taken out as well.
And with Best Buy or any other retailer, you can go to a physical store and demand answers. With Amazon, all you can do is call the help line and listen to a guy in India read a script, do the text version of the same with a support chat, or send an email off into the void.
Nope, fuck you. Binary guy is correct (shockingly).
A simulation of intelligent behavior must appear to be intelligent. Playing Go doesn't require intelligence. Its complexity comes primarily from the size of the board. No one is going to interact with AlphaGo and think "Gee golly, that's an intelligent entity on the other end!".
Show me an AI that can play Go and then learn (or create) a new, unknown game without any intervention from a programmer. Show me an AI that can potty train a toddler. Show me an AI that can explain why certain Shrek movies are better than other Shrek movies.
Slashdot Mirror
Who needs a car whose handles will pop out?
Middle aged men with more money than sex appeal.
The car reacting to your presence in such a way (other luxury cars have similar gimmicks with lights and logos and shit) is a form of presenting, a mating display ritual common in female mammals.
Divide it equally among all taxpayers (people who actually pay in, not just those who file and get handouts).
They created fake accounts to access data they had no right to access and by tying it into their own data they personally identified Lyft employees.
CFAA applies. Everyone at Uber who knew of the program and didn't report it to the authorities needs to go to jail.
Funny thing is Valve originally came to Microsoft and said 'this is what we want from an online service' and microsoft looked at them like they where aliens and said 'This is light years ahead of anything people are talking about' So valve went and made Steam.
Hahahaha no.
Steam was pure ass for about the first 5 years. It was a patch manager for Half-Life 2.
4K video is so huge that it makes it quite hard to download even over torrent, and the massive storage required.
Nope. People said the same exact shit when BluRay came out. "1080p is too big to pirate!". EL OH EL.
Early HD movies on DVD, HD-DVD, and BR used MPEG 2, and people simply ripped and reencoded them with MPEG 4.
Even those using MPEG 4 to start with could be reencoded to much smaller sizes with no noticeable loss of quality. Discs have to play on old and weak set top players with limited processing power, and they're constrained by the transfer rate of the disc drive. This means low complexity settings for the encoder, minimal use of features, predicted frames aren't very deep, etc. Rips aren't limited to such shit.
With BRs, it's even better. You don't need to download the full BR, you can download a rip that has only the main movie and the main (best quality, native language) audio track and the main subtitle track. A HUGE portion of a major release's data is taken up by alternate audio streams, ads, special features, etc. Just cutting that crap out can get your filesize down by half or more.
At 4K, you can also download an encode that cuts size down by a factor of 10 while maintaining visual quality. We've got h.265 now, and again we can run at higher complexity settings with a smaller bitrate. We've also got Opus and other codecs (though Opus is the best). A 7.1 HD-MA or TrueHD audio track often accounts for a third of the size of the main title. Opus can transparently get that down to a much, much lower level. The only downside is that your receiver may not light up the little icon for the DTS/Dolby formats. You're still getting the same sound, though (minus any specific DTS/Dolby transforms your receiver applies to those formats, but why would you want those?).
I often have the subtitles on and I watch at 1.3x to 1.5x.
Plus Netflix sells all this data anyway. It's easier to just buy it from them to find out I watched Kubo and the Two Strings yesterday.
Netflix doesn't even have porn. If they like money, they should, though. Far more people would pay an extra $10 a month for Netflix + Porn over what they currently pay for Netflix. Not many people are willing to pay $10 a month standalone for porn. But as an add-on from a reputable company that won't infect your PC, have tons of ads, etc., it'll sell like hotcakes.
All they'd need to do would be to hide it well enough - put it at NetflixMidnight.com or something and get a proper profile system setup. Currently Netflix has profiles but only a single login, and that login can access all profiles. It's fucking stupid, but my gues is they have no intention of changing it as it would lead to more account sharing. Then they'd need to placate Apple, Google, MS, Sony, Nintendo, etc. by ensuring the official app never has access to the porn streams.
No, it's not that we're experts, it's that we're old enough to know the current crop of "experts" are selling a hot load of manure.
This guy gets it.
Adult Swim is the best network.
I don't know if it's truly a different "network" from Cartoon Network. But they don't have stupid annoying shit plastered everywhere, and they burn about half of their ad time with entertaining "bumps", pleasing logo hunts, and other meta content.
I only like some of their content, but I really like the network itself.
HiThere covered most of it. The other part of it is what Canonical failed to realize.
When they ruin Ubuntu, others can just take the good and run with it.
PBF is no longer producing.
No longer regularly producing.
The last time I needed to set up a Linux box, I went with Mint because Ubuntu had clearly shat the bed. This was about a year ago.
Ubuntu was the single most successful flavor of Linux for desktop use. It was the closest Linux ever got to being widely appropriate for grandmas and neighbors and other people that people like us are sick of supporting.
I don't keep up with the various distros often enough to know the history of how Ubuntu failed, but I do know that it failed.
Who the fuck was calling for lowered standards in forensic science?
The commission itself. Do you have any idea what kind of malarkey passes as "forensic science" when they want to convict someone?
1: Whoosh.
2: "Paren" is a common abbreviation of parenthesis.
3: We need people with a sense of humor.
Yeah, but you write about as well as most fan fiction writers' cats.
Bible Black
I recommend people Bing that one. With safe search off.
Just like Rob Malda!
Why is it that people who don't watch TV are so damned proud of it that they need to announce it every time TV is mentioned? Please share, what else makes you special?
Because people who watch TV tend to have really annoying/detrimental habits - like comparing people they know in real life to characters in shows. Those kind of people are a plague on society, explicitly because they are easily-controlled soulless abominations directed by the liberal extremists.
Calm down, Dwight.
You don't need to know what it "means", you just need to trace where it got that value from and what it ultimately does.
Uh, it's simple. Freeze it (disable the feedback loop that lets it modify itself) and test in on a bunch of new data, a bunch of garbage data, etc., and watch it.
If you want to methodically define its behavior you just need to look at the damn thing. Getting any useful info out of that will be an issue though. You may find out that somewhere deep in your neural net it's looking for a seemingly random pattern of contrast or checking against some strange distance/angle. Without tracing its entire training history you won't know why. But you can see that it's checking for that shit and then test it by giving it data that varies a lot on the things it checks, and try to suss out what impact that has in real-world use. No, it's not easy. But it's absolutely knowable and testable.
You're the ignorant one. A neural network is a weighted decision tree with a feedback loop and some win/lose conditions.
Yes, they all do it. But Best Buy can't track what I pay for in cash. Amazon by its nature knows my account, address, etc., and is much more hostile when it decides to nuke a user. You've simply never seen it happen. I've known people who have had accounts nuked to the point that other accounts shipping to the same address taken out as well.
And with Best Buy or any other retailer, you can go to a physical store and demand answers. With Amazon, all you can do is call the help line and listen to a guy in India read a script, do the text version of the same with a support chat, or send an email off into the void.
You're not the real LUDDITES guy. I know because Slashdot didn't detect your IP and apply the bonus formatting on LUDDITES .
Nope, fuck you. Binary guy is correct (shockingly).
A simulation of intelligent behavior must appear to be intelligent. Playing Go doesn't require intelligence. Its complexity comes primarily from the size of the board.
No one is going to interact with AlphaGo and think "Gee golly, that's an intelligent entity on the other end!".
Show me an AI that can play Go and then learn (or create) a new, unknown game without any intervention from a programmer.
Show me an AI that can potty train a toddler.
Show me an AI that can explain why certain Shrek movies are better than other Shrek movies.
Nope. That's a game state, not a board state. We're talking about the number of legal positions (board states).