It certainly doesn't make the task compact or cheap(and appears to make it much harder to directly duplicate with either transistors or the inspired-by-but-not-models-of version of 'neurons' that 'neural network' usually implies in the context of computers); but the one nice thing about the very low 'clock rate' of the brain is that it suggests that however it does what it does; it can tolerate suffering fairly high latency per unit of distance between elements.
If you can tolerate latency, you at least have the option of buying more racks to compensate for what you can't achieve with available miniaturization and integration. If you can't, you run into relatively painful constraints on size. At the speed of light your hypothetical 3GHz processor is going to be waiting ~10clocks/meter for anything it needs from elsewhere in the system; and any practically available arrangement is going to be slower than that. If the brain were dependent on low latency, inability to replicate its density would(at best) mean being limited to replicating it slower than real time, possibly much slower. If it is relatively tolerant, replicating it at lower density might be horrifically expensive; but at least potentially doable with the ability to fabricate only rather small chunks of very high density.
You might want to check your truth tables. The only belief my post 'implies' is the theory that people who are going to jump on the "Something must be done!" bandwagon prefer soft targets over hard ones when they have a choice.
'Kids these days with their scary internet helicopters' are a much softer target than guns, and I would expect them to act accordingly.
Even if it did exist, how could a probe punch through the sphere of fixed stars at the edge of the universe in order to travel to an alleged tiny rock far beyond?
If your plan involves getting away with it; Don't Touch The Cell Network. You might as well use the fed's wifi, except that that would be less expensive.
Seems reasonable. I don't doubt that if the National Rotorcraft Association were a political force to be reckoned with they'd go after the handgun instead.
In fairness, I am told that the 'Pono' thing he hawks has a genuinely nicely designed DAC and amp; though it is hampered by a number of atrocious UI/UX flaws in other areas; but I find it much harder to be sympathetic to his theories on atypically high bit and sample rates. Sure; back when 64MB was a big SD card, we did terrible, terrible, things with immature mp3 encoders and even dollar store earbuds couldn't hide the metallic underwater warbling atrocities; but with modern codecs you hit the ceiling of audio hardware that costs less than an economy car at comparatively low bitrates; and the limits of undamaged human hearing well before you get to the stuff he sells.
It's hardly the nerviest audiophile snake oil, so I find it hard to get worked up about it; but the obsession with sonic purity from a guy who would probably make an audiologist emit a low whistle and frown intently is always a bit weird. Like learning that one of the Golden Eared Illuminate operates a jackhammer all day and then comes home to decide which silver-conductor IEC cable expands his soundstage more.
The store associated with his player thing specifically pushes 24 bit 192kHz FLAC tracks, not just FLAC-as-in-lossless-reproduction-of-the-CD. It's entirely possible that he is hoping to push more sales there by cutting streaming availability; also possible that he dislikes even Tidal's filthy, proletarian, glass-shards-in-one's-ears 16 bit 44kHz FLAC streams.
The former would be more pragmatic; but believers in superhuman auditory perception are not always defined by their pragmatism.
I'm somewhat amazed that a 69 year old man, with a long history of exposure to hazardously loud sound(to the point of tinnitus), has managed to remain true to the belief that limited bitrates are killing music; between his own aural limitations and the well known fact that most DACs, amplifiers, and speakers and headphones are...value oriented...at best.
It's his catalog, he can do whatever amuses him; but I have to wonder if he could actually tell which is which in a suitably blinded test.
The OBD-II port in the vehicle almost certainly exposes the CAN bus that allows those components to be upgraded, although probably in some painfully undocumented and/or deliberately restricted way. The really nasty OBD-II dongles likely aren't smart enough for it and Toyota probably doesn't post firmware updates on their website in any case; but if they trusted the user to handle the situation they could probably cook up a dedicated update module that the user can just plug and go for peanuts. It would really just require a microcontroller and enough flash to store the updates, and it's not a terribly demanding bus, just not well standardized outside of the strict OBD-II stuff.
I definitely wouldn't want to admit that I wanted my ads there, and I'd probably even pull them if anybody made noise about it; but surely the people in/rFatPeopleHate have consumption preferences that can be modified. Do you suspect them of skewing young/poor/apathetic/something else enough that they simply aren't worth targeting; or would they be worth it if you could insulate yourself from any risk of blowback; but not worth enough to take that risk?
I wonder if they'll bother enough to get a reasonably customized(to the degree that any phone isn't just a black slab with a touchscreen on the front and camera on the back); or if they'll end up doing the always-humiliating 'release badge-job product in same market as ODM's own-brand model of precisely the same design' dance?
It's especially curious because she came in to management from the VC world after Reddit's sale. Not all of them refrain from letting emotion cloud their judgement; but those are exactly the variety of management figures who are brought in when somebody has to do some ruthless but pragmatic organizational restructuring. Apparently they were so worked up about the fact that the VC was female that they forgot to check for acid blood and a willingness to cut perceived deadwood.
Yup. First the SS closes your subreddit. Then the death camps. True facts. Definitely not somebody's unhinged sense of victimhood collapsing into a singularity. Not at all.
What is particularly pathetic about the whining about oppression and SJW political correctness conspiracies is that this move is presumably just business.
People so ghastly that they are considered to be of less than zero value to the business running their hangout; all convinced that being shown the door because they are annoying the useful customers is some grand conspiracy.
I doubt you could get them on the record about it(and they'd presumably blame some twist in the advertising spot sales chain if pressed); but I'd be fascinated to know if, and if so, which, advertisers are actually interested specifically in the users that Reddit is attempting to shed. They likely aren't the highest value ones, by any means; but even demented abhumans buy things, so somebody must be interested in them.
I wonder how much, if any, of this is actually a personal reaction to the site's evolution; and how much is simply the decision that the bad press (Reddit: Nastier than StormFront!) needed to stop and it was time to monetize the better neighborhoods harder than in the past. Clearly the popular AMA coordinating employee didn't get sacked for bad performance in doing things as they had previously been done, which certainly suggests that change was in the air even before the real fuss started and Pao left.
The ideal route, for cost and time savings, would be a disused rail line(or, at greater; but quite possibly still less than new rights of way and earthmoving, on pillars above an active rail line). The rail network has shifted some over the years; but the earthmoving done to accommodate the lines tends to persist for decades after they go idle, and they tend to run between places that are, or were, worth travelling between.
I imagine that the magnetics and reasonably gas-tight tube would still be more expensive than conventional rail lines or even maglev; but being able to factory produce the tube segments and just plop them into place without substantial terrain rework would certainly lower the bill and build time. Like putting one of those hamster habitats together.
Sure, sure; but pissing money into a sand trap is American Greatness, while building infrastructure is degenerate socialism. You have to keep your priorities straight here.
I'm not optimistic about it getting built; but aside from environmental considerations; a hyperloop system could be of considerable interest for freight that is currently too expensive for air travel; but would be willing to pay a premium over conventional rail or truck for greater speed.
If the tube were big enough to allow intermodal containers, the customers would swarm you, demanding that you take their money. Aircraft style ULDs would probably be the more realistic option, and better suited to the tube shape; but a suitable robotic autoloader could probably spit those things into suitably designed freight chassis cars at a good clip. Couldn't beat trains on price; but markedly faster, probably cheaper per unit mass than air freight.
Going by the commercial offerings(you can probably do it faster if your yacht is built like a clipper ship and runs like hell all the way); that's somewhere between 20 days and 3 months. Those scantily clad companions had better be of a 'highly stimulating nature'; because that's a long time, even compared to flying coach.
Really, except in densely settled areas(where the fire can spread to nearby buildings, 'firefighters' are a socialist luxury program. If the building's owners aren't incentivized to save it; it'll just burn down and put itself out within a few hours. Why bother with drones when you could just cut the fire department entirely? Most people who call are liars, and the rest are too lazy and cheap to install fire suppression systems on their property, so the hell with them.
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It certainly doesn't make the task compact or cheap(and appears to make it much harder to directly duplicate with either transistors or the inspired-by-but-not-models-of version of 'neurons' that 'neural network' usually implies in the context of computers); but the one nice thing about the very low 'clock rate' of the brain is that it suggests that however it does what it does; it can tolerate suffering fairly high latency per unit of distance between elements.
If you can tolerate latency, you at least have the option of buying more racks to compensate for what you can't achieve with available miniaturization and integration. If you can't, you run into relatively painful constraints on size. At the speed of light your hypothetical 3GHz processor is going to be waiting ~10clocks/meter for anything it needs from elsewhere in the system; and any practically available arrangement is going to be slower than that. If the brain were dependent on low latency, inability to replicate its density would(at best) mean being limited to replicating it slower than real time, possibly much slower. If it is relatively tolerant, replicating it at lower density might be horrifically expensive; but at least potentially doable with the ability to fabricate only rather small chunks of very high density.
Why build neural networks when you can get the wild-type ones to do the same work in exchange for 'mod points'? Markedly more cost effective.
You might want to check your truth tables. The only belief my post 'implies' is the theory that people who are going to jump on the "Something must be done!" bandwagon prefer soft targets over hard ones when they have a choice.
'Kids these days with their scary internet helicopters' are a much softer target than guns, and I would expect them to act accordingly.
Even if it did exist, how could a probe punch through the sphere of fixed stars at the edge of the universe in order to travel to an alleged tiny rock far beyond?
If your plan involves getting away with it; Don't Touch The Cell Network. You might as well use the fed's wifi, except that that would be less expensive.
Seems reasonable. I don't doubt that if the National Rotorcraft Association were a political force to be reckoned with they'd go after the handgun instead.
In fairness, I am told that the 'Pono' thing he hawks has a genuinely nicely designed DAC and amp; though it is hampered by a number of atrocious UI/UX flaws in other areas; but I find it much harder to be sympathetic to his theories on atypically high bit and sample rates. Sure; back when 64MB was a big SD card, we did terrible, terrible, things with immature mp3 encoders and even dollar store earbuds couldn't hide the metallic underwater warbling atrocities; but with modern codecs you hit the ceiling of audio hardware that costs less than an economy car at comparatively low bitrates; and the limits of undamaged human hearing well before you get to the stuff he sells.
It's hardly the nerviest audiophile snake oil, so I find it hard to get worked up about it; but the obsession with sonic purity from a guy who would probably make an audiologist emit a low whistle and frown intently is always a bit weird. Like learning that one of the Golden Eared Illuminate operates a jackhammer all day and then comes home to decide which silver-conductor IEC cable expands his soundstage more.
The store associated with his player thing specifically pushes 24 bit 192kHz FLAC tracks, not just FLAC-as-in-lossless-reproduction-of-the-CD. It's entirely possible that he is hoping to push more sales there by cutting streaming availability; also possible that he dislikes even Tidal's filthy, proletarian, glass-shards-in-one's-ears 16 bit 44kHz FLAC streams.
The former would be more pragmatic; but believers in superhuman auditory perception are not always defined by their pragmatism.
I'm somewhat amazed that a 69 year old man, with a long history of exposure to hazardously loud sound(to the point of tinnitus), has managed to remain true to the belief that limited bitrates are killing music; between his own aural limitations and the well known fact that most DACs, amplifiers, and speakers and headphones are...value oriented...at best.
It's his catalog, he can do whatever amuses him; but I have to wonder if he could actually tell which is which in a suitably blinded test.
The OBD-II port in the vehicle almost certainly exposes the CAN bus that allows those components to be upgraded, although probably in some painfully undocumented and/or deliberately restricted way. The really nasty OBD-II dongles likely aren't smart enough for it and Toyota probably doesn't post firmware updates on their website in any case; but if they trusted the user to handle the situation they could probably cook up a dedicated update module that the user can just plug and go for peanuts. It would really just require a microcontroller and enough flash to store the updates, and it's not a terribly demanding bus, just not well standardized outside of the strict OBD-II stuff.
I'm certain that I don't even want to know. Not how big, not how numerous, not what they are patterned to resemble, just no.
I definitely wouldn't want to admit that I wanted my ads there, and I'd probably even pull them if anybody made noise about it; but surely the people in /rFatPeopleHate have consumption preferences that can be modified. Do you suspect them of skewing young/poor/apathetic/something else enough that they simply aren't worth targeting; or would they be worth it if you could insulate yourself from any risk of blowback; but not worth enough to take that risk?
I wonder if they'll bother enough to get a reasonably customized(to the degree that any phone isn't just a black slab with a touchscreen on the front and camera on the back); or if they'll end up doing the always-humiliating 'release badge-job product in same market as ODM's own-brand model of precisely the same design' dance?
So, the hollow shell of a once viable company wants to smear its necrotic brand on pacific rim ODM crap in the hope that it is still worth something?
Such a familiar story. Sad; but ultimately profoundly pathetic, like a washed-up and balding boy band doing a reunion tour for coke money.
It's especially curious because she came in to management from the VC world after Reddit's sale. Not all of them refrain from letting emotion cloud their judgement; but those are exactly the variety of management figures who are brought in when somebody has to do some ruthless but pragmatic organizational restructuring. Apparently they were so worked up about the fact that the VC was female that they forgot to check for acid blood and a willingness to cut perceived deadwood.
I wonder if that is why the post simply contained an assertion and omitted the argument?
Yup. First the SS closes your subreddit. Then the death camps. True facts. Definitely not somebody's unhinged sense of victimhood collapsing into a singularity. Not at all.
What is particularly pathetic about the whining about oppression and SJW political correctness conspiracies is that this move is presumably just business.
People so ghastly that they are considered to be of less than zero value to the business running their hangout; all convinced that being shown the door because they are annoying the useful customers is some grand conspiracy.
I doubt you could get them on the record about it(and they'd presumably blame some twist in the advertising spot sales chain if pressed); but I'd be fascinated to know if, and if so, which, advertisers are actually interested specifically in the users that Reddit is attempting to shed. They likely aren't the highest value ones, by any means; but even demented abhumans buy things, so somebody must be interested in them.
I wonder how much, if any, of this is actually a personal reaction to the site's evolution; and how much is simply the decision that the bad press (Reddit: Nastier than StormFront!) needed to stop and it was time to monetize the better neighborhoods harder than in the past. Clearly the popular AMA coordinating employee didn't get sacked for bad performance in doing things as they had previously been done, which certainly suggests that change was in the air even before the real fuss started and Pao left.
The ideal route, for cost and time savings, would be a disused rail line(or, at greater; but quite possibly still less than new rights of way and earthmoving, on pillars above an active rail line). The rail network has shifted some over the years; but the earthmoving done to accommodate the lines tends to persist for decades after they go idle, and they tend to run between places that are, or were, worth travelling between.
I imagine that the magnetics and reasonably gas-tight tube would still be more expensive than conventional rail lines or even maglev; but being able to factory produce the tube segments and just plop them into place without substantial terrain rework would certainly lower the bill and build time. Like putting one of those hamster habitats together.
Sure, sure; but pissing money into a sand trap is American Greatness, while building infrastructure is degenerate socialism. You have to keep your priorities straight here.
I'm not optimistic about it getting built; but aside from environmental considerations; a hyperloop system could be of considerable interest for freight that is currently too expensive for air travel; but would be willing to pay a premium over conventional rail or truck for greater speed.
If the tube were big enough to allow intermodal containers, the customers would swarm you, demanding that you take their money. Aircraft style ULDs would probably be the more realistic option, and better suited to the tube shape; but a suitable robotic autoloader could probably spit those things into suitably designed freight chassis cars at a good clip. Couldn't beat trains on price; but markedly faster, probably cheaper per unit mass than air freight.
Going by the commercial offerings(you can probably do it faster if your yacht is built like a clipper ship and runs like hell all the way); that's somewhere between 20 days and 3 months. Those scantily clad companions had better be of a 'highly stimulating nature'; because that's a long time, even compared to flying coach.
Really, except in densely settled areas(where the fire can spread to nearby buildings, 'firefighters' are a socialist luxury program. If the building's owners aren't incentivized to save it; it'll just burn down and put itself out within a few hours. Why bother with drones when you could just cut the fire department entirely? Most people who call are liars, and the rest are too lazy and cheap to install fire suppression systems on their property, so the hell with them.