There's a decent chance we have naturally formed Qbits knocking around in there somewhere, so the approach may dead end until those can be integrated.
But all this excitement is a bit premature: with anything more complex than a very simple GP organism, you end up with a product that may work, but is too complex to dissect so you cannot explain how or why it works, and you cannot say whether or under what conditions it might suddenly stop working or start behaving aberrantly, and heck, you can't even say if it is giving results with some sort of subtle systematic bias that might cause you much trouble down the road.
And since reliability is a giant portion of why we use machines, this will at best relegate responsible use of such "AI" "solutions" to the realm of amusement toys for adults or at worst lead to some catastrophe due to irresponsible use. My money is on the latter.
Besides, what self respecting nuclear aggressor wouldn't simultaneously hack or at least DoS local official's twitter accounts? You think social media is going to stay up in a real war waged by a competent adversary? Nerp. It'll crash at the most critical moment. It isn't defense-hardened, folks.
Ahem. It's been 10 years or so since I bought my Sony Ericsson bluetooth headphones that didn't work with my Sony PS3 because they present a device profile the PS3 developers forgot to support... and many PS3 upgrades later... they still don't.
GP translation: Don't buy any hardware. (Because nothing on the market fits those qualifiers.)
Whether it proves to be economical (or even ethical) depends greatly on the level of false positives, beyond the false positives, the number of results that show cancer but the particular cancer in question is something that would have no real health consequences, how harmful the treatments for the cancers are, and how expensive the treatments for the cancers are. Witness the evolution of thinking surrounding prostate cancer detection and treatment... a lot of lessons were learned there.
That said, I think there are likely to be huge benefits from taking as many measurements as we can, starting as soon as we can, without acting on them and before in many cases we even know how to act on them. To me it's appalling that we aren't all wearing some bracelet that logs everything it can for future scientific study or potential diagnostic utility... both because part of the reason we don't is you can't trust anyone not to misuse or lose custody of data these days, and the other part of the reason is we'd rather spend our money on a few more pixels per inch or a screen that bends around the side of our cell phones.
Both of those reasons disgust me.
(BTW, for those who think as I do, I think this is a pretty friggin significant development. I can hear the rest of you yawning because it has nothing to do with emojis, bitcoin, or downloading copyrighted entertainment material without paying for it.)
The high level concept here pretty much is the math. Just saying stuff like "light always moves at the same speed to every observer no matter how fast they are moving" just seeds confusion unless you can wrap your head around the lorentz transformation. For most people, this requires quite a bit of pondering and working through examples... (frankly, I could use to spend more time on that, personally, despite having a college engineering education.)
What I'd do is explain a bit of newtonian physics to the kid, and then tell him "this stuff will work for most things, but when you get into the really large or really fast they start to give you wrong answers. Einstein found a new way to think about things that explains why, and if you pay attention in your math classes and get really good at math, someday maybe you'll be able to understand it."
Aside from the abysmal mis-allocation of resources the issue of power also belies TFA... cryptocurrencies rely on an advanced infrastructure, made up of "Human Institutions" to support their ongoing operations. There's no getting away from that shakey foundation. One big energy crisis and mining could become prohibitively cost-ineffective... and since mining and transactional ledgers go hand in hand, instead of making them more valuable for rarity, that'll make them pretty useless.
Eh, got so many caps it's only barely worth the effort to harvest them from my bars. Nothing decent to spend them on, really... nobody carries enough SG shells, 5.56 or.50 to even make a dent in my stash, and there's only like 3 places to get shipments of concrete. Mostly only good for making mines.
For that reason, the most important date for Social Security is 2018, when taxpayers must begin to repay the IOUs
...or just get more of the under-the-table workforce to start paying in, or let in more legal immigrants to start paying in. Basically the only two things actually threatening its solvency are demographic ripples and Paul Ryan.
Well, I for one wouldn't sell you my spare mirelurk meat for gold post-apocalypse. You'd be best advised bring something I can eat, drink, or shoot at mirelurks.
Pretty much, though overpriced coffee shops are probably not the optimal example to make this point.
You basically have three choices:
1) DIY, and develop your skill and spend your time at becoming a good coffee brewer
2) Buy coffee retail and develop your skill at your profession or some useful advocation
3) Buy coffee retail and fuck around and do nothing productive at all
(3 is fine sometimes, as recreation in moderation is in itself a productive contributor)
If everyone chooses #1 to extremes, no diversified economy or mature industry results from that activity. For example, if everyone changed their own motor oil, there would be no income for people willing to do so in a well set up shop where they can do it more efficiently, with better environmental waste disposal, and being able to easily run some bi-monthly safety checks while they are at it.
If everyone does #2 to extremes, the industry tends to monopolize/duopolize and become overpriced, because nobody is there to say... "$2.50 for a cup of coffee... I could make money doing it for $1.50, and I know how..." and become the competition. This especially becomes true in fields where the barrier to #1 is too high, like medical care.
If everyone does #3 to extremes, most everyone ends up both poor and ignorant.
In TFAs particular case, I would say unless this guy uses the act of making his own coffee as a relaxing break from a stressful work day, then the fact that a whole 10 minutes of his day is not worth the price to have his coffee delivered to him piping hot on demand means he's not nearly the titan of industry he is made out to be by the media.
Ah, I'm gonna cut the cryptographic community some slack here and say they get to put their foot down... after all we already stole "code" from them to now mean software.
"Blockchain" is the most dominant of the more accurate alternative terms to "cryptocurrency" as far as I can tell. Not that that does not have different meanings much broader than financial ledgers in cryptography, but it would be a smaller loss to lose that term to the abyss of meaningless drivel that fills the news cycle than losing "crypto" itself.
But "blockchain" doesn't sound gangsta enough for the trendroids and adderall-addled Crameresque wannabees, I would bet.
So tweak your browser to use a fresh SSL session with a new key for every request. It'll break a few sites, but you are free to do so, as long as you use an open source browser or one that uses open source system libraries.
Also, if you think MITM is a small problem, you haven't been paying attention to just how bad home wifi/router security is these days. Anyone who isn't putting the time into keeping an OpenWRT system freshly updated, which is pretty much everyone, is liable to having an embedded agent running on their router, and if their browser chews on any script sent by HTTP, they are liable to run whatever that embedded agent decided to insert into that script.
FWIW,.invalid should not work, and you should not make it work. If it does, this is nonstandard behavior. See RFC 6761 section 6.4. Anything ending in.invalid should be guaranteed to result in either an API failure, or an NX response.
The default settings are a root account that is disabled for logins, with no password, because it is (duh) disabled for logins.
It seems it's the "disabled for logins" part that got broken under this bug, at least for some path in the code that deals with multiple failed login attempts.
Here they made it difficult to pre-pay rather than allow automatic billing... you had to putz around on the website and read a long document to figure out how. Also, if you pre-pay and your account runs dry, they fine you more than they would charge a pay-by-plate driver who never entered the system, which is bullshit.
I think they have a cash option even still, but what they really want and try to get is the ability to draw money directly out of your account. After all, what could possibly go wrong?....
Remember when you could click the channel up or down button on the remote, and the channel would change INSTANTLY?
As far as I remember, the TV never came on instantly... if the TV was not too bungled by crapware to do so, it was old enough to be a CRT and need to warm up.
I do remember our first remote remote that had only one button. It would turn the physical knob on the TV one click clockwise. If you missed your channel, you had to go all the way around the dial. You had to get up and go over to the set to turn the TV on or off or change bands between UHF and VHF.
Companies still view security as something that costs too much money to implement properly.
Money and time. Really it boils down to: your business fails if your software has less features, now, than the competitor, even if it is 100 times more secure.
There's a solution to that: When the DIP switch is flipped, everything gets completely erased before any access to the key-loading utility is allowed. It's already done that way on some brands of ethernet switches... you can always bring the switch back to baseline if you forgot the password, but if you set it up in this certain mode, doing so erases all your keys and configuration (though I doubt it is actually very secure to a JTAG case intruder).
So, that reduces the problem to: someone who can flip a dip switch can totally destroy your computer. Which isn't a big deal because if they are in a position to do so, they could also just spill coffee on it, or otherwise fry it.
Resistive electric heating is not as efficient nor cost effective nor yet ecologically sounder than either direct conversion of chemical energy or electrically driven heat pumps. Now, if you do want to turn high quality energy like electricity into heat, doing something else with it like running compute resources may help offset that deficit.
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There's a decent chance we have naturally formed Qbits knocking around in there somewhere, so the approach may dead end until those can be integrated.
But all this excitement is a bit premature: with anything more complex than a very simple GP organism, you end up with a product that may work, but is too complex to dissect so you cannot explain how or why it works, and you cannot say whether or under what conditions it might suddenly stop working or start behaving aberrantly, and heck, you can't even say if it is giving results with some sort of subtle systematic bias that might cause you much trouble down the road.
And since reliability is a giant portion of why we use machines, this will at best relegate responsible use of such "AI" "solutions" to the realm of amusement toys for adults or at worst lead to some catastrophe due to irresponsible use. My money is on the latter.
Besides, what self respecting nuclear aggressor wouldn't simultaneously hack or at least DoS local official's twitter accounts? You think social media is going to stay up in a real war waged by a competent adversary? Nerp. It'll crash at the most critical moment. It isn't defense-hardened, folks.
"This is a solved problem."
Ahem. It's been 10 years or so since I bought my Sony Ericsson bluetooth headphones that didn't work with my Sony PS3 because they present a device profile the PS3 developers forgot to support... and many PS3 upgrades later... they still don't.
GP translation: Don't buy any hardware. (Because nothing on the market fits those qualifiers.)
Whether it proves to be economical (or even ethical) depends greatly on the level of false positives, beyond the false positives, the number of results that show cancer but the particular cancer in question is something that would have no real health consequences, how harmful the treatments for the cancers are, and how expensive the treatments for the cancers are. Witness the evolution of thinking surrounding prostate cancer detection and treatment... a lot of lessons were learned there.
That said, I think there are likely to be huge benefits from taking as many measurements as we can, starting as soon as we can, without acting on them and before in many cases we even know how to act on them. To me it's appalling that we aren't all wearing some bracelet that logs everything it can for future scientific study or potential diagnostic utility... both because part of the reason we don't is you can't trust anyone not to misuse or lose custody of data these days, and the other part of the reason is we'd rather spend our money on a few more pixels per inch or a screen that bends around the side of our cell phones.
Both of those reasons disgust me.
(BTW, for those who think as I do, I think this is a pretty friggin significant development. I can hear the rest of you yawning because it has nothing to do with emojis, bitcoin, or downloading copyrighted entertainment material without paying for it.)
The high level concept here pretty much is the math. Just saying stuff like "light always
moves at the same speed to every observer no matter how fast they are moving" just
seeds confusion unless you can wrap your head around the lorentz transformation.
For most people, this requires quite a bit of pondering and working through examples...
(frankly, I could use to spend more time on that, personally, despite having a college
engineering education.)
What I'd do is explain a bit of newtonian physics to the kid, and then tell him "this stuff will
work for most things, but when you get into the really large or really fast they start to
give you wrong answers. Einstein found a new way to think about things that explains
why, and if you pay attention in your math classes and get really good at math, someday
maybe you'll be able to understand it."
Aside from the abysmal mis-allocation of resources the issue of power also belies TFA... cryptocurrencies rely on an advanced infrastructure, made up of "Human Institutions" to support their ongoing operations. There's no getting away from that shakey foundation. One big energy crisis and mining could become prohibitively cost-ineffective... and since mining and transactional ledgers go hand in hand, instead of making them more valuable for rarity, that'll make them pretty useless.
Eh, got so many caps it's only barely worth the effort to harvest them from my bars. Nothing decent to spend them on, really... nobody carries enough SG shells, 5.56 or .50 to even make a dent in my stash, and there's only like 3 places to get shipments of concrete. Mostly only good for making mines.
For that reason, the most important date for Social Security is 2018, when taxpayers must begin to repay the IOUs
...or just get more of the under-the-table workforce to start paying in, or let in more legal immigrants to start paying in. Basically the only two things actually threatening its solvency are demographic ripples and Paul Ryan.
Well, I for one wouldn't sell you my spare mirelurk meat for gold post-apocalypse. You'd be best advised bring something I can eat, drink, or shoot at mirelurks.
Pretty much, though overpriced coffee shops are probably not the optimal example to make this point.
You basically have three choices:
1) DIY, and develop your skill and spend your time at becoming a good coffee brewer
2) Buy coffee retail and develop your skill at your profession or some useful advocation
3) Buy coffee retail and fuck around and do nothing productive at all
(3 is fine sometimes, as recreation in moderation is in itself a productive contributor)
If everyone chooses #1 to extremes, no diversified economy or mature industry results from that activity. For example, if everyone changed their own motor oil, there would be no income for people willing to do so in a well set up shop where they can do it more efficiently, with better environmental waste disposal, and being able to easily run some bi-monthly safety checks while they are at it.
If everyone does #2 to extremes, the industry tends to monopolize/duopolize and become overpriced, because nobody is there to say... "$2.50 for a cup of coffee... I could make money doing it for $1.50, and I know how..." and become the competition. This especially becomes true in fields where the barrier to #1 is too high, like medical care.
If everyone does #3 to extremes, most everyone ends up both poor and ignorant.
In TFAs particular case, I would say unless this guy uses the act of making his own coffee as a relaxing break from a stressful work day, then the fact that a whole 10 minutes of his day is not worth the price to have his coffee delivered to him piping hot on demand means he's not nearly the titan of industry he is made out to be by the media.
Ah, I'm gonna cut the cryptographic community some slack here and say they get to put their foot down... after all we already stole "code" from them to now mean software.
I think you meant Gibibyte.
"Blockchain" is the most dominant of the more accurate alternative terms to "cryptocurrency" as far as I can tell. Not that that does not have different meanings much broader than financial ledgers in cryptography, but it would be a smaller loss to lose that term to the abyss of meaningless drivel that fills the news cycle than losing "crypto" itself.
But "blockchain" doesn't sound gangsta enough for the trendroids and adderall-addled Crameresque wannabees, I would bet.
So tweak your browser to use a fresh SSL session with a new key for every request. It'll break a few sites, but you are free to do so, as long as you use an open source browser or one that uses open source system libraries.
Also, if you think MITM is a small problem, you haven't been paying attention to just how bad home wifi/router security is these days. Anyone who isn't putting the time into keeping an OpenWRT system freshly updated, which is pretty much everyone, is liable to having an embedded agent running on their router, and if their browser chews on any script sent by HTTP, they are liable to run whatever that embedded agent decided to insert into that script.
FWIW, .invalid should not work, and you should not make it work. If it does, this is nonstandard behavior. See RFC 6761 section 6.4. Anything ending in .invalid should be guaranteed to result in either an API failure, or an NX response.
The default settings are a root account that is disabled for logins, with no password, because it is (duh) disabled for logins.
It seems it's the "disabled for logins" part that got broken under this bug, at least for some path in the code that deals with multiple failed login attempts.
The main problem with net neutrality is everyone has their own definition. Wu's is just one.
Here they made it difficult to pre-pay rather than allow automatic billing... you had to putz around on the website and read a long document to figure out how. Also, if you pre-pay and your account runs dry, they fine you more than they would charge a pay-by-plate driver who never entered the system, which is bullshit.
I think they have a cash option even still, but what they really want and try to get is the ability to draw money directly out of your account. After all, what could possibly go wrong? ....
Remember when you could click the channel up or down button on the remote, and the channel would change INSTANTLY?
As far as I remember, the TV never came on instantly... if the TV was not too bungled by crapware to do so, it was old enough to be a CRT and need to warm up.
I do remember our first remote remote that had only one button. It would turn the physical knob on the TV one click clockwise. If you missed your channel, you had to go all the way around the dial. You had to get up and go over to the set to turn the TV on or off or change bands between UHF and VHF.
Companies still view security as something that costs too much money to implement properly.
Money and time. Really it boils down to: your business fails if your software has less features, now, than the competitor, even if it is 100 times more secure.
Never underestimate the power of bungee.
There's a solution to that: When the DIP switch is flipped, everything gets completely erased before any access to the key-loading utility is allowed. It's already done that way on some brands of ethernet switches... you can always bring the switch back to baseline if you forgot the password, but if you set it up in this certain mode, doing so erases all your keys and configuration (though I doubt it is actually very secure to a JTAG case intruder).
So, that reduces the problem to: someone who can flip a dip switch can totally destroy your computer. Which isn't a big deal because if they are in a position to do so, they could also just spill coffee on it, or otherwise fry it.
LOL. Deserving of skit on whatever passes for a pythonesque TV show these days.
Eh, if it weren't for alarm clocks, I wouldn't wake up until all the butternut donuts had already been eaten.
In "terms of art" it probably isn't considered a "raw material" but a "manufactured material" or "natural manufactured material"
Resistive electric heating is not as efficient nor cost effective nor yet ecologically sounder than either direct conversion of chemical energy or electrically driven heat pumps. Now, if you do want to turn high quality energy like electricity into heat, doing something else with it like running compute resources may help offset that deficit.