The Paris Accord is completely voluntary with each nations limits, set by that nation. If we don't link the limits we set for ourselves, then we just don't have to follow them.
As the article explains, the data is not a direct stand-in for sales data. But do to the breadth and volume of the set, it is a reasonable representation of popularity. If something is more popular, there's generally more of it.
So people are buying new hardware and benchmarking it. Then we're seeing a ~10% increase in the purchase of new AMD systems. That's the point of the article.
This seems like a remarkable discovery; a writing system that combines sight with touch. I'd have thought there'd be more of a discussion, not lame jokes about Perl. I mean, imagine combing written English with Brail. You could double the information density on the page, just for starters. I don't know what else could be achieved with such a system, but I imagine you'd have even richer ways of writing than we do now.
Quantum computing is not magic. It has problems it's insanely good at (in theory) solving, and it has problems where it's as fast or slower (because of the necessary error correction) as your traditional deterministic computer. Not only are we a long way off from personal quantum computing (we still don't even have a general purpose quantum processor), we still need to research deterministic architectures.
there is a nice combination of acids that apparently works great for dissolving bodies, but neither mythbusters nor breaking bad is going to tell us (probably some mix of acids, paying attention to the molar concentrations)
To clarify my point: The article mentions Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Steven Hawking. What do they all have in common? They are not AI researchers. The author of the book is a philosophy professor. They are all talking about and making predictions in a field that they aren't experts in. Yes, they are all smart people, but I see them doing more harm than good by raising alarm when they themselves aren't an authority on the subject. An alarm that isn't shared with the experts in the field.
The Slashdot fortune had a good response: Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. - Seneca
Maybe more apropos: Once again prosperous and successful crime goes by the name of virtue; good men obey the bad, might is right and fear oppresses law.
Except that just a few vehicles out of the millions that are on the road. That's an insufficiently large sample size to say how automated cars from different manufactures with different levels of maintenance under varying road contritions will interact. You can't assume competency from the limited, though still impressive, testing Google has done.
If anything you are demonstrating the author's point, assuming that what Google has accomplished will be true of all driverless cars. Each of Google's automated cars is effectively a student driver with Google's engineers, technicians, and drivers shepherding the vehicles through the hazards of everyday driving. How will that record hold when one of those cars are twelve years old and hasn't had a tuneup in three?
How can “The scientific community now accepts to some degree that this contact may occur in the next 50 to 100 years.” be true if we haven't even established that there is life outside of Earth!
Then you have this tripe: "'Further, by means of self-consciousness, man becomes capable of treating his own mental states as objects of consciousness. The prime characteristic of cosmic consciousness is, as its name implies, a consciousness of the cosmos, that is, of the life and order of the universe,' De la Torre writes in a study published in the journal Acta Astronautica."
I don't know about tourism, but I definetly see a market for flying from New York to Tokyo in a couple of hours. If you need drop everything to meet with executives halfway around the world before a multi-million dollar deal tanks, a couple hundred grand is pretty cheap for a ticket.
Low orbit satellites are not going to carry a continent's worth of network traffic. On top of that you still need backhaul at your ground stations. All those cell towers, they need something for backhaul. Microwave repeaters are only going to carry you so far. On top of that fiber simply has the highest available and future bandwidth with the lowest latency of any available technology. Sure wireless may dominate the immediate future of Africa, but eventually they'll exceed it's limits and move to a wired infrastructure.
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If you open the case, you'll let the hackers in!
The Paris Accord is completely voluntary with each nations limits, set by that nation. If we don't link the limits we set for ourselves, then we just don't have to follow them.
But I want to believe.
As the article explains, the data is not a direct stand-in for sales data. But do to the breadth and volume of the set, it is a reasonable representation of popularity. If something is more popular, there's generally more of it.
It may be hyperbole, but if AMD is gaining market share at the expense of Intel, "stealing" is a word for it.
So people are buying new hardware and benchmarking it. Then we're seeing a ~10% increase in the purchase of new AMD systems. That's the point of the article.
This seems like a remarkable discovery; a writing system that combines sight with touch. I'd have thought there'd be more of a discussion, not lame jokes about Perl. I mean, imagine combing written English with Brail. You could double the information density on the page, just for starters. I don't know what else could be achieved with such a system, but I imagine you'd have even richer ways of writing than we do now.
Quantum computing is not magic. It has problems it's insanely good at (in theory) solving, and it has problems where it's as fast or slower (because of the necessary error correction) as your traditional deterministic computer. Not only are we a long way off from personal quantum computing (we still don't even have a general purpose quantum processor), we still need to research deterministic architectures.
Don't use it!
There's going to be no launch if their banking on that thing being built.
Just install Emacs.
Don't sue your fans!
there is a nice combination of acids that apparently works great for dissolving bodies, but neither mythbusters nor breaking bad is going to tell us (probably some mix of acids, paying attention to the molar concentrations)
Piranha Solution
To clarify my point: The article mentions Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Steven Hawking. What do they all have in common? They are not AI researchers. The author of the book is a philosophy professor. They are all talking about and making predictions in a field that they aren't experts in. Yes, they are all smart people, but I see them doing more harm than good by raising alarm when they themselves aren't an authority on the subject. An alarm that isn't shared with the experts in the field.
I find it interesting that the people raising the biggest alarm aren't AI researchers.
I wonder what Coca-Cola gets out this partnership?
Paramount Studios (owners of Star Trek, and a US company) would be affected.
The Slashdot fortune had a good response: Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. - Seneca
Maybe more apropos: Once again prosperous and successful crime goes by the name of virtue; good men obey the bad, might is right and fear oppresses law.
Except that just a few vehicles out of the millions that are on the road. That's an insufficiently large sample size to say how automated cars from different manufactures with different levels of maintenance under varying road contritions will interact. You can't assume competency from the limited, though still impressive, testing Google has done.
If anything you are demonstrating the author's point, assuming that what Google has accomplished will be true of all driverless cars. Each of Google's automated cars is effectively a student driver with Google's engineers, technicians, and drivers shepherding the vehicles through the hazards of everyday driving. How will that record hold when one of those cars are twelve years old and hasn't had a tuneup in three?
Then you have this tripe: "'Further, by means of self-consciousness, man becomes capable of treating his own mental states as objects of consciousness. The prime characteristic of cosmic consciousness is, as its name implies, a consciousness of the cosmos, that is, of the life and order of the universe,' De la Torre writes in a study published in the journal Acta Astronautica."
I am very disappointed in you Slashdot.
I thought the title read "European Space Agency Picks Pluto Planet-hunting Mission". My first thought was "They already found it!"
I don't know about tourism, but I definetly see a market for flying from New York to Tokyo in a couple of hours. If you need drop everything to meet with executives halfway around the world before a multi-million dollar deal tanks, a couple hundred grand is pretty cheap for a ticket.
Low orbit satellites are not going to carry a continent's worth of network traffic. On top of that you still need backhaul at your ground stations. All those cell towers, they need something for backhaul. Microwave repeaters are only going to carry you so far. On top of that fiber simply has the highest available and future bandwidth with the lowest latency of any available technology. Sure wireless may dominate the immediate future of Africa, but eventually they'll exceed it's limits and move to a wired infrastructure.
I thought he was either digging up the sidewalk or digging for sidewalks.
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