Or land their crates safely after traveling for billions of miles, or at least crash somewhere else but in the middle of nowhere, midwest USA.
And to do so at the same time that the Airforce are trying out high altitude detection gear in the same place.
Perhaps its because I'm from a different culture, but the very idea that it was anything but chinese whispers caused by some hicks not understanding military kit seems absurd to me.
But then, people in the area happily proclaim that registered flights in and out of the base are UFOs, so really, I guess there's no point in arguing against that level of self delusion.
Personally I believe 100% that extra terrestrial life exists, I just don't think they have ever come here.
During my phd I created a dynamically resizing matrix like structure for representing gene networks of arbitrary size. Shortly after this I found that something effectively identical had been granted a patent in the US.
The patent didn't effect me at all, so I wasn't concerned on that front. What shocked me was that a patent had been granted for it at all.
The design was useful for me, because it reduced memory usage by around 96%, but in no way was it something that should have been granted a patent.
I imagine that patent will cause some researchers problems unless reforms prevent its usage. I've not heard of it being used offensively yet, I assume the holder will be waiting for a chance to get some serious settlement cash.
Would you believe that a certain major UK university runs its entire computer science dept without either UPS or power spike protection?
I was surprised, especially since I saw how the regular power spikes blew computer after computer and nothing was done.
As for trying to run experiments that took more then a day or two to complete, well, can you picture a post grad who's just found that a weeks work has once again been wasted because some bean counter refused to pay for department wide UPS?
Alas I don't have to imagine, and I became quite well versed in the experience.
There's no reason to go there unless something could be done to reverse the severe greenhouse thing its got going. If that could be done then it would be great. Unfortunately we are so far from being able to do that it's just not worth considering.
About the closest we could come to solving it now is saturating the planet with redirected asteroids (or nukes, but they'd have to be ungodly large) until the atmosphere is either dissipated or so changed that the greenhouse effect is gone. Then you'd have to start over again, which would take thousands of years.
A city on Venus is a far fetched and largely pointless thing to discuss as well, even if it does provide a small amount of morning entertainment.
In business, especially the IT business, it is the first to market who wins, not the first to come up with an idea.
Sure he may have nicked their idea, but if they'd been serious and worked fast enough their website would have been just as good as Facebook.
As for whether he was being dodgy, well, did they have him working under a contract? If not then its their word against his, and he was under no legal obligation not to use the ideas any way he wished. If you want to stop that sort of thing, you *have* to have contracts. Thats why contracts exist, without them anything goes.
Besides, he's the one who made an idea into a business. That means he won, well done him. They lost, tough. Maybe next time they'll be more careful.
I realise you're probably being inflammatory, but as an American who travels extensively, I personally find the UK's Big Brother obsession (e.g., the use of cameras on an ever increasing number of public spaces and motorways) to be far more invasive.
Oh, I agree, (also, I thought after hitting post that prison state was a bit much, sorry), the camara use is absurd here. I acknowledge that the UK has its own 'eeek, punish our own citizens because of terrorists' thing going. I've been stopped and searched a number of times whilst out walking simply because I refuse to carry ID in my own country. Also I've long since stopped travelling on internal UK flights, because the security process is unbearable.
Its probably just as bad for a non UK resident coming into the UK. However the US is far more powerful, which is what worries me, you guys are meant to be the beacon of freedom, not the guys who seize data and treat incoming visitors like criminals. That scares the shit out of me.
This year there were reduced presentations, next year, it may be that many big companies don't go at all, so visitor attendance will reduce.
That'll be what kills it when it dies, because the attendee's won't think the price worth paying if too many major players aren't coming.
Since they will have to find somewhere to showcase their products if it does die, there will either be a new event created, or they will find some other way of achieving the same goal.
Personally I'd like to see smaller events round the globe. Speaking as a brit who doesn't like travelling into the prison state any more, I can't see myself attending any large events which are US only.
We were close to selling ours after owning it for a year and rarely using it due to the poor showing of decent games.
What saved it is some 'zombie killing on rails' game with a gun (don't know the name, I'm not the one who plays it) and Guitar hero. Now its actually being used.
If there aren't any more really good games over the next six months we may yet traded in.
I went for almost ten years because the papers I referred to for my own work only go back that far. I guess I need to go back and locate the earlier papers.
Yes they are slow to converge, but in doing so they are more successful in avoiding local optima.
I used an EA to train a Temporal Neural Network, and enjoyed rather a lot of success. It took an ungodly amount of time to converge though.
The problem with backprop is that its a gradient descent method. That works, but its not really likely to produce the best results.
More and more researchers are turning to evolutionary computation for neural network training. It's interesting, but its a convergence of known techniques which are both well understood by the scientific community.
As interesting as it is, it's not new. People have been doing it for almost ten years now.
Our observations of the Solar System and of the bodies orbiting other suns, if we are to be quite strict about it, would lead to the following three classes.
Actually, as an English clever person with a doctorate and everything (I has a smarts, I do), I've found myself using just 'Math' recently as it seems to make more sense. Certainly in tutorial material.
It just sounds better really, not least because the word it's shortened form of isn't 'Mathsematics'. I may be committing an Englishness sin by doing this, but since I never studied Mathematics as a single subject, I may be able to plead insanity.
Yes, but we still need a (fair) way of helping media creators to make a living from their work.
I'm not saying all downloaders should be criminalised, that's a batshit insane approach.
I'm thinking a parking ticket type system, so if you get caught, you pay a small fine, and move on without your life being poured down the crapper.
A parking ticket type system would acknowledge that not everyone plays nice, but there is a possible consequence if you choose to grab something of TPB rather than buy it. I'd say a ten, or even 100 buck fine every time your caught (not per file or anything like that) would be suitable. It would be enough to discourage some people, and if you did get caught? Pay up and move along, no big deal.
The way to solve the automobile problem is to solve the suburb problem.
Having people live in endless house farms around cities so they have to commute back and forth every day has increased Americas fuel requirement massively.
The solution is either to move business out to the suburbs (yeah, right..), or provide alternative commuting methods, like free maglev trains and decent low emmision public transport in the cities themselves.
Nice to see someone paying homage to Adams with a suitably obscure sig.
My three years at college were spent with a sign containing that phrase on my door. I lost count of the number of times clueless fellow students asked me what it meant.
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Or land their crates safely after traveling for billions of miles, or at least crash somewhere else but in the middle of nowhere, midwest USA.
And to do so at the same time that the Airforce are trying out high altitude detection gear in the same place.
Perhaps its because I'm from a different culture, but the very idea that it was anything but chinese whispers caused by some hicks not understanding military kit seems absurd to me.
But then, people in the area happily proclaim that registered flights in and out of the base are UFOs, so really, I guess there's no point in arguing against that level of self delusion.
Personally I believe 100% that extra terrestrial life exists, I just don't think they have ever come here.
During my phd I created a dynamically resizing matrix like structure for representing gene networks of arbitrary size.
Shortly after this I found that something effectively identical had been granted a patent in the US.
The patent didn't effect me at all, so I wasn't concerned on that front. What shocked me was that a patent had been granted for it at all.
The design was useful for me, because it reduced memory usage by around 96%, but in no way was it something that should have been granted a patent.
I imagine that patent will cause some researchers problems unless reforms prevent its usage. I've not heard of it being used offensively yet, I assume the holder will be waiting for a chance to get some serious settlement cash.
no fork perhaps, but clones of the service may appear.
Most of the time the scam mail I get has a yahoo email attached.
There are no innocents among free web service providers.
Would you believe that a certain major UK university runs its entire computer science dept without either UPS or power spike protection?
I was surprised, especially since I saw how the regular power spikes blew computer after computer and nothing was done.
As for trying to run experiments that took more then a day or two to complete, well, can you picture a post grad who's just found that a weeks work has once again been wasted because some bean counter refused to pay for department wide UPS?
Alas I don't have to imagine, and I became quite well versed in the experience.
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There's no reason to go there unless something could be done to reverse the severe greenhouse thing its got going. If that could be done then it would be great. Unfortunately we are so far from being able to do that it's just not worth considering.
About the closest we could come to solving it now is saturating the planet with redirected asteroids (or nukes, but they'd have to be ungodly large) until the atmosphere is either dissipated or so changed that the greenhouse effect is gone. Then you'd have to start over again, which would take thousands of years.
A city on Venus is a far fetched and largely pointless thing to discuss as well, even if it does provide a small amount of morning entertainment.
Ethics are, unfortunately, a luxury usually indulged in by successful companies *after* they have become rich/powerful.
Lime (or calcium carbonate, CaCO3) is a base, which is the opposite of an acid.
So the ocean will be all like 'All Your Base..'
Ok, I'll stop now.
In business, especially the IT business, it is the first to market who wins, not the first to come up with an idea.
Sure he may have nicked their idea, but if they'd been serious and worked fast enough their website would have been just as good as Facebook.
As for whether he was being dodgy, well, did they have him working under a contract? If not then its their word against his, and he was under no legal obligation not to use the ideas any way he wished. If you want to stop that sort of thing, you *have* to have contracts. Thats why contracts exist, without them anything goes.
Besides, he's the one who made an idea into a business. That means he won, well done him. They lost, tough. Maybe next time they'll be more careful.
given that not one futurologist predicted the microchip or the home computer revolution, I tend to ignore what they say these days.
I realise you're probably being inflammatory, but as an American who travels extensively, I personally find the UK's Big Brother obsession (e.g., the use of cameras on an ever increasing number of public spaces and motorways) to be far more invasive.
Oh, I agree, (also, I thought after hitting post that prison state was a bit much, sorry), the camara use is absurd here.
I acknowledge that the UK has its own 'eeek, punish our own citizens because of terrorists' thing going. I've been stopped and searched a number of times whilst out walking simply because I refuse to carry ID in my own country.
Also I've long since stopped travelling on internal UK flights, because the security process is unbearable.
Its probably just as bad for a non UK resident coming into the UK. However the US is far more powerful, which is what worries me, you guys are meant to be the beacon of freedom, not the guys who seize data and treat incoming visitors like criminals. That scares the shit out of me.
This year there were reduced presentations, next year, it may be that many big companies don't go at all, so visitor attendance will reduce.
That'll be what kills it when it dies, because the attendee's won't think the price worth paying if too many major players aren't coming.
Since they will have to find somewhere to showcase their products if it does die, there will either be a new event created, or they will find some other way of achieving the same goal.
Personally I'd like to see smaller events round the globe. Speaking as a brit who doesn't like travelling into the prison state any more, I can't see myself attending any large events which are US only.
True enough. That such a great piece of hardware is so impoverished in terms of games is sheer stupidity
that's the fella. I'm almost tempted to try it, looks like fun.
We were close to selling ours after owning it for a year and rarely using it due to the poor showing of decent games.
What saved it is some 'zombie killing on rails' game with a gun (don't know the name, I'm not the one who plays it) and Guitar hero. Now its actually being used.
If there aren't any more really good games over the next six months we may yet traded in.
I went for almost ten years because the papers I referred to for my own work only go back that far. I guess I need to go back and locate the earlier papers.
Yes they are slow to converge, but in doing so they are more successful in avoiding local optima.
I used an EA to train a Temporal Neural Network, and enjoyed rather a lot of success. It took an ungodly amount of time to converge though.
The problem with backprop is that its a gradient descent method. That works, but its not really likely to produce the best results.
More and more researchers are turning to evolutionary computation for neural network training. It's interesting, but its a convergence of known techniques which are both well understood by the scientific community.
As interesting as it is, it's not new. People have been doing it for almost ten years now.
Our observations of the Solar System and of the bodies orbiting other suns, if we are to be quite strict about it, would lead to the following three classes.
1: Stars
2: Gas Giants
3: Rubble
Actually, as an English clever person with a doctorate and everything (I has a smarts, I do), I've found myself using just 'Math' recently as it seems to make more sense. Certainly in tutorial material.
It just sounds better really, not least because the word it's shortened form of isn't 'Mathsematics'. I may be committing an Englishness sin by doing this, but since I never studied Mathematics as a single subject, I may be able to plead insanity.
Yes, but we still need a (fair) way of helping media creators to make a living from their work.
I'm not saying all downloaders should be criminalised, that's a batshit insane approach.
I'm thinking a parking ticket type system, so if you get caught, you pay a small fine, and move on without your life being poured down the crapper.
A parking ticket type system would acknowledge that not everyone plays nice, but there is a possible consequence if you choose to grab something of TPB rather than buy it. I'd say a ten, or even 100 buck fine every time your caught (not per file or anything like that) would be suitable. It would be enough to discourage some people, and if you did get caught? Pay up and move along, no big deal.
Wow, 7 minutes after the article was posted, and STILL no postings! Could this be my first FP? COULD IT???
You're entering a realm which is, unusual, the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location.......
once we reach peak solar in 2015.
[user was banned for this post] :)
The way to solve the automobile problem is to solve the suburb problem.
Having people live in endless house farms around cities so they have to commute back and forth every day has increased Americas fuel requirement massively.
The solution is either to move business out to the suburbs (yeah, right..), or provide alternative commuting methods, like free maglev trains and decent low emmision public transport in the cities themselves.
Nice to see someone paying homage to Adams with a suitably obscure sig.
My three years at college were spent with a sign containing that phrase on my door. I lost count of the number of times clueless fellow students asked me what it meant.