Bennett, in regard to the NYT piece you found objectionable, I recently noticed that it only says that you were "dismissed" from the company, rather than "fired." So, did you misquote the New York Times intentionally on your protest page, or did they graciously correct the article after all, even though you only started complaining about it five years after the fact?
Either way, you should probably amend publiceditormyass.com to reflect the truth.
Nah, he's just a very persistent prick with such an over-inflated ego and need for recognition, that he has no shame over prostituting and debasing himself to any level. On the bright side, at least he wastes a significant amount of time on Slashdot, where he can't do much harm.
No. Seeing significant gains in compression ratio from that level of context would be a breakthrough in AI. At any rate, we're nowhere near that point yet, at least in practice. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some wonky deep neural network paper on this, but don't hold your breath for it to become usable.
Eh, even if that were all, it's still not entirely trivial to automatically tune the bitrate for each of 1 petabyte of video files without a lot of human intervention and/or wasted CPU time. At that scale, a minor improvement can still save a lot of money.
they cut the 15gb to 5gb for free users at the same time that they rolled back "unlimited" to 1tb for paying users.
now they're "capitulating" on the 5gb diversion, but maintaining the 1tb cap (after a one-year grace period) which is what they actually wanted. my guess is that Microsoft's lobbyists have been working over-time teaching the marketing department some basic Washingtonian tactics.
it's not exactly nonsense to him; he just went into a weird trauma-induced dissociative fugue when the black muslim democrat got elected, and still thinks it's 2007.
it's cute enough that i'd want it to work, but i have trouble thinking that it will, outside of a niche business traveler segment.
let's price it independently and be generous: $30 for the battery; $70 for an external 1TB spinny; $50 for the speaker; ~$100 for a good portable multiband router, for $250.
i guess if i really needed all of those things (who needs a portable wifi router these days?) and didn't already have any of them, i might consider paying the extra if the proprietary ports with exposed perpendicular pins (wtf?) wouldn't get crudded up or damaged, which of course they will. even worse, they might come with endcaps which you will lose and then feel bad about losing.
Really? Who told you that? Usually, they do want to know, at least a little, and a quick answer to the question is what they want. It's important to note, however, that they don't ask "How are you, and why do you feel that way, and could you tell me about the past few days of your life leading up to this?" They really don't care that much.
i'd imagine that it's because people keep finding ways to replace the randomness in specific algorithms with deterministic chaos that's "good enough". maybe that's not the best basis for believing it, but imho it's better than the reason people think P!=NP. i mean, even in reality, those randomized algorithms (usually) work just fine with a PRNG instead of "truly random" numbers.
otoh, i agree that it is a bit weird. maybe we can think of the randomization as being a shitty oracle? i mean, imagine taking an execution trace of a random algorithm A taking input X, and write down the random choices it makes, call them R. there's now an obvious deterministic algorithm which will mimick that execution trace, it just needs to be given X and R instead of just X. in this sense, randomization is just an unreliable oracle, and so it isn't surprising that it doesn't help too much. on the other hand, (pseudo-)randomization is extremely effective at certain practical problems. i couldn't imagine life without MCMC algorithms for example.
actually, it is now widely conjectured that P=BPP, or that any efficient probabilistic algorithm can be efficiently simulated by a polynomial-time deterministic TM.
If you're really only doing symbolic algebra, there's very little mathematica can do that isn't commonly available as free software. This seems more like a solution looking for a problem. Even if this were necessary for some reason, you could locally emulate an ARM machine with qemu; it's not like mathematica can magically detect whether it's really running on a raspberry pi. (This would violate the license, but otoh, as it currently stands, running raspberry pi mathematica on a pi zero also violates the license.)
But really, one should probably either learn how to use Sage or fork out the $240 for a stand-alone mathematica license (or download it from a premier educational institution like The Pirate Bay).
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That's more of a psychology question, since it's a standard use of the word.
Sweet, I could use one of those for my M16.
That's amazing! I have the same password on my laptop!
How you going to plausibly bring him back?
Midichlorians?
Bennett, in regard to the NYT piece you found objectionable, I recently noticed that it only says that you were "dismissed" from the company, rather than "fired." So, did you misquote the New York Times intentionally on your protest page, or did they graciously correct the article after all, even though you only started complaining about it five years after the fact?
Either way, you should probably amend publiceditormyass.com to reflect the truth.
He must have some serious dirt on someone at Dice
Nah, he's just a very persistent prick with such an over-inflated ego and need for recognition, that he has no shame over prostituting and debasing himself to any level. On the bright side, at least he wastes a significant amount of time on Slashdot, where he can't do much harm.
Should we interpret this as a cry for help?
No. Seeing significant gains in compression ratio from that level of context would be a breakthrough in AI. At any rate, we're nowhere near that point yet, at least in practice. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some wonky deep neural network paper on this, but don't hold your breath for it to become usable.
Eh, even if that were all, it's still not entirely trivial to automatically tune the bitrate for each of 1 petabyte of video files without a lot of human intervention and/or wasted CPU time. At that scale, a minor improvement can still save a lot of money.
makes sense to me. thanks.
someone want to explain how this is flamebait?
Also work REAL GOOD against the MUZZIES and their traitorous LIE-BERAL allies, like the ones who are going to mod this down.
they cut the 15gb to 5gb for free users at the same time that they rolled back "unlimited" to 1tb for paying users.
now they're "capitulating" on the 5gb diversion, but maintaining the 1tb cap (after a one-year grace period) which is what they actually wanted. my guess is that Microsoft's lobbyists have been working over-time teaching the marketing department some basic Washingtonian tactics.
Well, this is a special case where the plan is reasonable.
I mean, what good is QA when you don't have any end-users?
it's not exactly nonsense to him; he just went into a weird trauma-induced dissociative fugue when the black muslim democrat got elected, and still thinks it's 2007.
it's cute enough that i'd want it to work, but i have trouble thinking that it will, outside of a niche business traveler segment.
let's price it independently and be generous: $30 for the battery; $70 for an external 1TB spinny; $50 for the speaker; ~$100 for a good portable multiband router, for $250.
i guess if i really needed all of those things (who needs a portable wifi router these days?) and didn't already have any of them, i might consider paying the extra if the proprietary ports with exposed perpendicular pins (wtf?) wouldn't get crudded up or damaged, which of course they will. even worse, they might come with endcaps which you will lose and then feel bad about losing.
It's true. I think the major issue with pedestrian collision would be to just program the car to repeatedly ram the obstacle until they're dead.
Really? Who told you that? Usually, they do want to know, at least a little, and a quick answer to the question is what they want. It's important to note, however, that they don't ask "How are you, and why do you feel that way, and could you tell me about the past few days of your life leading up to this?" They really don't care that much.
I'm really smart and good at computers, so I don't need society. Gotta go now, I'm working on a GUI for this social networking site.
Smart people care about solving problems. It's much harder to solve a problem if you willfully misdiagnose it as whatever's popular.
Autism is to the nerd community as quantum physics is to Deepak Chopra's: mostly a convenient topic to borrow aspirational pseudo-science from.
i'd imagine that it's because people keep finding ways to replace the randomness in specific algorithms with deterministic chaos that's "good enough". maybe that's not the best basis for believing it, but imho it's better than the reason people think P!=NP. i mean, even in reality, those randomized algorithms (usually) work just fine with a PRNG instead of "truly random" numbers.
otoh, i agree that it is a bit weird. maybe we can think of the randomization as being a shitty oracle? i mean, imagine taking an execution trace of a random algorithm A taking input X, and write down the random choices it makes, call them R. there's now an obvious deterministic algorithm which will mimick that execution trace, it just needs to be given X and R instead of just X. in this sense, randomization is just an unreliable oracle, and so it isn't surprising that it doesn't help too much. on the other hand, (pseudo-)randomization is extremely effective at certain practical problems. i couldn't imagine life without MCMC algorithms for example.
actually, it is now widely conjectured that P=BPP, or that any efficient probabilistic algorithm can be efficiently simulated by a polynomial-time deterministic TM.
How appropriate. ESR is relevant to a few dozen people in the world, and irrelevant to everyone else.
If you're really only doing symbolic algebra, there's very little mathematica can do that isn't commonly available as free software. This seems more like a solution looking for a problem. Even if this were necessary for some reason, you could locally emulate an ARM machine with qemu; it's not like mathematica can magically detect whether it's really running on a raspberry pi. (This would violate the license, but otoh, as it currently stands, running raspberry pi mathematica on a pi zero also violates the license.)
But really, one should probably either learn how to use Sage or fork out the $240 for a stand-alone mathematica license (or download it from a premier educational institution like The Pirate Bay).
huh. i might consider accepting pervasive soul-crushing DRM if it meant that i could kill somebody over the internet.