Range is quite a bit lower as well. So basically they have shown a car that will come out in 18 months, is slower and has less range than today’s Teslas. And will probably cost more, too...
And they are already doing just that with classic Atari games like Breakout. The only input the AI got was the score and the raw screen pixels. It had absolutely zero information about the fact that there was a ball that needed to be bounced up by a paddle. It just had to figure out that the white pixel on one frame and the white pixel in a different position on the next frame were somehow related, and something bad happened when it reached the bottom. After a while it was breaking bricks on one side to get the ball on top of the bricks, surprising even the researchers who had not expected this kind of behavior.
You expect me to believe that big financial companies are throwing billions of dollars at a zero sum game with no expectation of profit?
No, they are constantly analyzing incoming orders, seeing them before anyone else does, identifying patterns, and moving the price in such a way that ordinary investors end up paying more or selling for less. That's the source of their income, in fact it's the only source, and it's giving them massive profits or they wouldn't be doing it (investing heavily in technology, paying massive bonuses for those who come up with successful algorithms, etc.). It's a huge industry designed to make money, not some silly casino game where they just win some money back and forth from each other for fun.
I think you are confused about the concept of "economies of scale".
If you only make a few rockets for a few missions, they will cost a lot of money per rocket. If you make many rockets for many missions, cost per mission will go down because of economies of scale (efficient production line,...). However. if you make few rockets for many missions, that costs EVEN LESS! Making lots of rockets makes them cheaper per rocket but still raises the total price. A production line that makes half as many rockets is never going to cost twice as much per rocket.
So no, it really was about preserving jobs for the sake of it. Which is normal for a government funded operation.
Indeed, at the very start of the game the computer gave itself a 2% chance of winning with that selection. In the preceding two games it started out with more than 90% confidence of winning. It still played very well, but that was just an unwinnable game.
Actually, the iPhone X has 5 notches (if you count the rounded corners which are technically cut off the rectangular pixel array).
One thing I don't get, is why Google is limiting the notches to one per side. I personally dislike notches, but if you're going to allow them anyway, why disallow twin cameras on the corners with screen space in between?
Those 80 hours a month are flight time. That doesn’t take into account the time preparing the flight, the time on the ground between flights, and the time finishing up after the last flight. That brings you pretty close to the amount of time “ordinary folks” work, and then that doesn’t even take the crazy schedules into account. Early shifts, late shifts, weekends equivalent to weekdays,...
If I recall correctly, they made the altered males more attractive by changing their genes so they produced stronger pheromones.
However, there are plenty of women who don't like attractive men (hell, I'm married to one...). Likewise, some small percentage of female mosquitos may actually prefer the non-altered males. They will continue to have offspring and pass this property on to them.
In these new generations, there will be some (by pure chance) that are even less likely to mate with the altered males. And again, these will be even more likely to reproduce. Give it a few generations, and you have an immune population.
So if you don't go all in and try to kill all of them in as few generations as possible, you're screwed. It's like antibiotics, really. The worst you can do is take too low a dose or stop too early.
This thing could already power watches as if by magic. My watch battery lasts a few years, and if I did the math correctly, that's well below 60 microwatts. Surface area is more than 5 cm2, and temperature differential is well over 5C, so it should be plenty of power.
What exactly is the significant difference, then? Other than "the artist did a poor job of copying the statue so it doesn't look quite the same"? Did he really mean to add anything to it?
I can't help but wonder what the "damage" was, though. I know, artists should be paid for their work, blah, blah, but in this case it was an honest mistake and no harm was done, so the word "damages" doesn't seem entirely appropriate.Sounds more like a lucky windfall or money grab to me, especially since it's hard to argue that the statue is entirely an original idea of the artist not based on any prior art whatsoever. Oh well, good for him I suppose.
According to electrek, Tesla's Gigafactory is already producing 20 GWh and will be over 100 GWh when fully completed. So I guess they should just call it the BYD megafactory.
Actually, I'm wondering why it's so hard to get the money back. Of course, if they take it out of an ATM, it's gone. But I don't suppose they took 1.2 billion out of ATMs. So most of it just went from bank account to bank account to bank account. How hard can it be to trace?
But it's not always delusory, and I'm quite surprised that a so-called entomologist would say that "only two kinds of arthropods actually infest humans: lice and a mite that causes scabies".
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Range is quite a bit lower as well. So basically they have shown a car that will come out in 18 months, is slower and has less range than today’s Teslas. And will probably cost more, too...
Pink triangles and nothing else?
I bet they left Lieutenant Gruber in charge...
Fortunately, people like Elon Musk___ can still organize free ethereum giveaways without anyone stopping them.
And they are already doing just that with classic Atari games like Breakout. The only input the AI got was the score and the raw screen pixels. It had absolutely zero information about the fact that there was a ball that needed to be bounced up by a paddle. It just had to figure out that the white pixel on one frame and the white pixel in a different position on the next frame were somehow related, and something bad happened when it reached the bottom. After a while it was breaking bricks on one side to get the ball on top of the bricks, surprising even the researchers who had not expected this kind of behavior.
You expect me to believe that big financial companies are throwing billions of dollars at a zero sum game with no expectation of profit?
No, they are constantly analyzing incoming orders, seeing them before anyone else does, identifying patterns, and moving the price in such a way that ordinary investors end up paying more or selling for less. That's the source of their income, in fact it's the only source, and it's giving them massive profits or they wouldn't be doing it (investing heavily in technology, paying massive bonuses for those who come up with successful algorithms, etc.). It's a huge industry designed to make money, not some silly casino game where they just win some money back and forth from each other for fun.
I think you are confused about the concept of "economies of scale".
If you only make a few rockets for a few missions, they will cost a lot of money per rocket.
If you make many rockets for many missions, cost per mission will go down because of economies of scale (efficient production line,...).
However. if you make few rockets for many missions, that costs EVEN LESS! Making lots of rockets makes them cheaper per rocket but still raises the total price. A production line that makes half as many rockets is never going to cost twice as much per rocket.
So no, it really was about preserving jobs for the sake of it. Which is normal for a government funded operation.
Indeed, at the very start of the game the computer gave itself a 2% chance of winning with that selection. In the preceding two games it started out with more than 90% confidence of winning. It still played very well, but that was just an unwinnable game.
But what exactly is the source of their profits? Is new money magically being made? Nope, every penny gained by HFT is a penny lost to some trader.
Yeah, those other companies didn't get massive amounts of money from their governments, right...
Actually, the iPhone X has 5 notches (if you count the rounded corners which are technically cut off the rectangular pixel array).
One thing I don't get, is why Google is limiting the notches to one per side. I personally dislike notches, but if you're going to allow them anyway, why disallow twin cameras on the corners with screen space in between?
The public will want 1 billion cell phones before long.
There are already 1.3 billion phones in China alone. The total number worldwide is around 7 billion.
Wikipedia "number of mobile phones in use"
Yeah, black people have as much right to see sunscreen lotion ads as white people do.
Those 80 hours a month are flight time. That doesn’t take into account the time preparing the flight, the time on the ground between flights, and the time finishing up after the last flight. That brings you pretty close to the amount of time “ordinary folks” work, and then that doesn’t even take the crazy schedules into account. Early shifts, late shifts, weekends equivalent to weekdays,...
If I recall correctly, they made the altered males more attractive by changing their genes so they produced stronger pheromones.
However, there are plenty of women who don't like attractive men (hell, I'm married to one...). Likewise, some small percentage of female mosquitos may actually prefer the non-altered males. They will continue to have offspring and pass this property on to them.
In these new generations, there will be some (by pure chance) that are even less likely to mate with the altered males. And again, these will be even more likely to reproduce. Give it a few generations, and you have an immune population.
So if you don't go all in and try to kill all of them in as few generations as possible, you're screwed. It's like antibiotics, really. The worst you can do is take too low a dose or stop too early.
I can kind of understand they had no choice there. It's a pretty big market to just give up for reasons of principle.
But how can "invalid input" just lead to a crash of the system?! Shouldn't input validation be a solved problem by now?
It must be fun being a computer.
"It looks like you are trying to do X. But you didn't type it quite correctly or unambiguously. Therefore, I will do Y just to mess with you..."
Kinda logical that the oldest color would be pink, if you consider what the oldest profession is.
This thing could already power watches as if by magic. My watch battery lasts a few years, and if I did the math correctly, that's well below 60 microwatts. Surface area is more than 5 cm2, and temperature differential is well over 5C, so it should be plenty of power.
(Not talking about smartwatches, obviously).
What exactly is the significant difference, then? Other than "the artist did a poor job of copying the statue so it doesn't look quite the same"? Did he really mean to add anything to it?
I can't help but wonder what the "damage" was, though. I know, artists should be paid for their work, blah, blah, but in this case it was an honest mistake and no harm was done, so the word "damages" doesn't seem entirely appropriate.Sounds more like a lucky windfall or money grab to me, especially since it's hard to argue that the statue is entirely an original idea of the artist not based on any prior art whatsoever. Oh well, good for him I suppose.
According to electrek, Tesla's Gigafactory is already producing 20 GWh and will be over 100 GWh when fully completed. So I guess they should just call it the BYD megafactory.
Actually, I'm wondering why it's so hard to get the money back. Of course, if they take it out of an ATM, it's gone. But I don't suppose they took 1.2 billion out of ATMs. So most of it just went from bank account to bank account to bank account. How hard can it be to trace?
From TFA: The bots learn from self-play ...
The equivalent of 180 years of self-play must have left them deaf as an adder.
(OK, I admit, I'm really a bot that learned how to post jokes through self-play)
But it's not always delusory, and I'm quite surprised that a so-called entomologist would say that "only two kinds of arthropods actually infest humans: lice and a mite that causes scabies".
I guess botflies and screwflies aren't arthropods then?
And in two years we'll have a car with almost the range and almost the power of today's Teslas, which of course won't improve in the mean time.