TL;DR? The basic idea behind a simulated annealing algorithm is that it searches for successively better solutions, but occasionally accepts a "worse" one, so as to reduce the possibility of getting stuck in a local minimum when there is a better minimum nearby (sort of like jumping out of a caldera at the top of a mountain, so that you can reach a a better minimum closer to ground level.) As time goes on, the probability of accepting a worse solution is reduced, according to an "annealing schedule" until finally only better solutions are accepted.
Seriously, I (and I suspect many others) have a decent idea of the *concept* of quantum computers, but understanding actual application is... elusive.
Simulated annealing is not an exclusively quantum-based algorithm. It works quite well on classical computers. But it is a method that would perform very well on a quantum computer.
The "massive consensus" has been going down every year, more and more scientists are pulling out of the consensus. You will rarly hear about that because politicians and news organizations make a lot of money in making people think it is real.
Citation please?
All of the climate change data sets are made by computer models which always get out the results desired, and the desired result is confirming climate change, because if it does not, their funding is cut. So politicians, news organizations AND scientists benefit from lying, the ones that disprove it are shouted down. And the results? Billions of tax payer money (all of it that our children will have to pay) get sent over to other countries.
You have it backwards. Models are constructed from data, not the other way around. To paraphrase plasma physicist Kenneth Birdsall, the purpose of models is to generate insight, not data.
36%? Yea, there is a reason why I don't believe in any science study unless it makes sense.
Strawman, and a sloppy one at that. The 36% in TFS refers to reproducibility of psychological studies, not climate studies.
I think TFS is a bit sloppy, as is the first link. According to the MIT link, the subjects were not actors, just subjects. From that article:
For the experiments, subjects used videos or music to recall a series of memories that each evoked one the four emotions, as well as a no-emotion baseline. Trained just on those five sets of two-minute videos, EQ-Radio could then accurately classify the person’s behavior among the four emotions 87 percent of the time.
No, traitor isn't thrown around by "mindless idiots." It's a very good word to describe someone who betrays oaths and their country. Manning did both, and did so deliberately, willfully to hurt his nation, not to "expose injustices" or any such bullshit, but out of petty revenge.
The last time the U.S. Congress declared war was June 5, 1942. Authorizations of military force (not to trivialize them) do not rise to the level of a declaration of war.
Therefore, Chelsea Manning, no matter what else you think of her, and no matter how deserving she is of punishment for leaking sensitive information, did not commit treason. Ditto for Edward Snowden.
This is an extremely remarkable response from Samsung, it shows how they truly believe in their product. Putting their money on the line here seems like the correct thing for them to do here. Thinking long term, I like that. Hate the bloatware, but Samsung phones are damn reliable. I know from personal experience of an S3. An older Moto G 3 is fitting my needs atm.
I'm not sure how telling people not to use their product means they believe in it.
I think this is more of an effort on Samsung's part to get their customers to believe in the company.
Disclosure: I own a Samsung Galaxy S5. I'm happy with it, although I do notice it gets hot sometimes, particularly when I'm charging it with Google Maps running.
I get you. Yes, it's too much to ask an algorithm to detect deep context, at least at the moment. But there do exist algorithms that can compare and match a photograph to a database of historical images. Such an algorithm need only be run when a photograph is flagged. It can then inform the human curator, who may not be aware of the photograph's provenance.
it's the picture of a naked minor who is definitely not enjoying herself at the time.
It does not sexualize or exploit her. It depicts her, along with other wounded, terrified children, fleeing a napalm attack. A real napalm attack. IMHO, that means it is not child pornography. It is history.
In case anyone wonders what happened to her, Phan Th Kim Phúc (the girl in the photo) survived the napalm attack, albeit with injuries. She is now a Canadian citizen, living in Ajax, Ontario with her husband and two children. In 2015 she began getting laser treatments for her burn scars in Miami.
The thing about space - the color of space... your normal space color - is its black. And the thing about black holes, is they're black. So how are you going to see them?
You "see" them by observing what they do to the stuff around them. X-ray emissions caused by charged particles being accelerated towards them. Lensing effects due to light being bent by their strong gravitational fields. Binary-star systems with an invisible companion that is too massive to be anything but a black hole. And so on.
you're funny, paper ballots are counted by machine and even if tallied by humans are subject to fraud and error just as any other system
And you are desperately naïve.
Obviously, any voting system is vulnerable to fraud if it is easily compromised by bad players. But what would you prefer? A tangible, macroscopic paper-trail of the choices that voters have made, or an ephemeral whisper of them in the ones and zeroes on the magnetic domains of a hard-drive that are written and read by computer software?
You tell me which of these two options is more susceptible to fraud. You tell me which is harder to verify by all interested parties. You tell me which is more easily tampered with.
I submitted this as an April Fools post several months ago. As time goes on, it seems less and less far-fetched.
Retail giant Walmart today annouced the start of a program to clone employees to staff its almost 10,000 stores worldwide. Speaking from inside Walmart's flagship store in Bentonville, Arkansas, Stella de Ville, Senior VP of Human R&D, described the program as a "win-win" for Walmart and its associates, with potential to optimize the "right-fit" of employees with their positions. "We want employees to be happy and thrive in their jobs" explained de Ville. "What better way to do this than to design their DNA so that it's inevitable?" De Ville went on to describe future plans that could include the cloning of lower and middle management candidates, and ultimately customers. "There's a long development time for this, because we're talking about years of growth for a clone to mature to a marginally literate and functioning member of Walmart society, but the benefits are significant. We are making the required investment in the lobbying of legislators to ensure that our young and growing cloned Walmarters are supported by the social welfare system and are educated to Walmart standards with taxpayer assistance." When asked about the inevitable exercise of free will by some of the clone candidates who may not wish to be Walmart employees or customers, de Ville replied "Uh, those candidates will be re-directed towards other objectives" as she shifted uneasily on her feet and glanced over to the store's frozen-meat section.
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Encryption is insanely great.
FTFY, Tim.
Sounds a lot like Genetic Algorithms. Interesting.
Yes, they are similar, in some respects.
Can you provide links?
Here you go.
TL;DR? The basic idea behind a simulated annealing algorithm is that it searches for successively better solutions, but occasionally accepts a "worse" one, so as to reduce the possibility of getting stuck in a local minimum when there is a better minimum nearby (sort of like jumping out of a caldera at the top of a mountain, so that you can reach a a better minimum closer to ground level.) As time goes on, the probability of accepting a worse solution is reduced, according to an "annealing schedule" until finally only better solutions are accepted.
Seriously, I (and I suspect many others) have a decent idea of the *concept* of quantum computers, but understanding actual application is... elusive.
Simulated annealing is not an exclusively quantum-based algorithm. It works quite well on classical computers. But it is a method that would perform very well on a quantum computer.
People who can't spell shouldn't post, yet here we are. Our colletive geese cooked.
Irony meter just exploded.
Not Kenneth ... In the literature, he was typically listed as CK Birdsall ... for Charles Kennedy ... went by Ned.
(Quick correction from a former phd student of his.)
Oops. Thanks for the correction. I have his plasma physics simulation book, but obviously haven't looked at it recently. :-|
The "massive consensus" has been going down every year, more and more scientists are pulling out of the consensus. You will rarly hear about that because politicians and news organizations make a lot of money in making people think it is real.
Citation please?
All of the climate change data sets are made by computer models which always get out the results desired, and the desired result is confirming climate change, because if it does not, their funding is cut. So politicians, news organizations AND scientists benefit from lying, the ones that disprove it are shouted down. And the results? Billions of tax payer money (all of it that our children will have to pay) get sent over to other countries.
You have it backwards. Models are constructed from data, not the other way around. To paraphrase plasma physicist Kenneth Birdsall, the purpose of models is to generate insight, not data.
36%? Yea, there is a reason why I don't believe in any science study unless it makes sense.
Strawman, and a sloppy one at that. The 36% in TFS refers to reproducibility of psychological studies, not climate studies.
I heard once that this is the classic dilemma in politics: do you vote for the knave, or vote for the fool?
The answer: vote for the knave, because the knave is competent. But watch the knave like a hawk.
I'll leave it to the reader to decide which is which in this discussion.
So facts are now a liberal conspiracy? You conservatards are too rich.
The truth has a well-known liberal bias.
-- Stephen Colbert, in character, on The Colbert Report
I think TFS is a bit sloppy, as is the first link. According to the MIT link, the subjects were not actors, just subjects. From that article:
For the experiments, subjects used videos or music to recall a series of memories that each evoked one the four emotions, as well as a no-emotion baseline. Trained just on those five sets of two-minute videos, EQ-Radio could then accurately classify the person’s behavior among the four emotions 87 percent of the time.
The Rosenbergs were executed for Treason.
No, they were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage. You might think that's the same as treason, but it is not.
He is a fugitive from raping two women in Sweden
You have to get "allegedly" into your vocabulary if you want to be a lawyer.
-- from the motion picture Primal Fear
No, traitor isn't thrown around by "mindless idiots." It's a very good word to describe someone who betrays oaths and their country. Manning did both, and did so deliberately, willfully to hurt his nation, not to "expose injustices" or any such bullshit, but out of petty revenge.
Treason, under the U.S. constitution, can only be committed during a time of war.
The last time the U.S. Congress declared war was June 5, 1942. Authorizations of military force (not to trivialize them) do not rise to the level of a declaration of war.
Therefore, Chelsea Manning, no matter what else you think of her, and no matter how deserving she is of punishment for leaking sensitive information, did not commit treason. Ditto for Edward Snowden.
Get your ass to ... I dunno, somewhere your phone is not?
Why not release an update that bricks them so they have to be returned?
Found the iOS 10 updater.
JK ;-P
This is an extremely remarkable response from Samsung, it shows how they truly believe in their product. Putting their money on the line here seems like the correct thing for them to do here. Thinking long term, I like that. Hate the bloatware, but Samsung phones are damn reliable. I know from personal experience of an S3. An older Moto G 3 is fitting my needs atm.
I'm not sure how telling people not to use their product means they believe in it.
I think this is more of an effort on Samsung's part to get their customers to believe in the company.
Disclosure: I own a Samsung Galaxy S5. I'm happy with it, although I do notice it gets hot sometimes, particularly when I'm charging it with Google Maps running.
I get you. Yes, it's too much to ask an algorithm to detect deep context, at least at the moment. But there do exist algorithms that can compare and match a photograph to a database of historical images. Such an algorithm need only be run when a photograph is flagged. It can then inform the human curator, who may not be aware of the photograph's provenance.
it's the picture of a naked minor who is definitely not enjoying herself at the time.
It does not sexualize or exploit her. It depicts her, along with other wounded, terrified children, fleeing a napalm attack. A real napalm attack. IMHO, that means it is not child pornography. It is history.
In case anyone wonders what happened to her, Phan Th Kim Phúc (the girl in the photo) survived the napalm attack, albeit with injuries. She is now a Canadian citizen, living in Ajax, Ontario with her husband and two children. In 2015 she began getting laser treatments for her burn scars in Miami.
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The iPhone 9 won't have a screen. This will at least double battery life.
It will be designed to fit into the user's anus. And people will still line up to buy it.
It could be worse than that, and people would still line up to buy it.
Who needs hardware inputs for when software fails.
You can say that again.
The real point is to pressure Apple into giving money to some advocacy groups.
How about the IRS to start?
Amen to that. Unfortunately, Apple lacks the, uh, ... courage.
To control the way people think, you start by controlling the way they talk.
The thing about space - the color of space... your normal space color - is its black. And the thing about black holes, is they're black. So how are you going to see them?
You "see" them by observing what they do to the stuff around them. X-ray emissions caused by charged particles being accelerated towards them. Lensing effects due to light being bent by their strong gravitational fields. Binary-star systems with an invisible companion that is too massive to be anything but a black hole. And so on.
you're funny, paper ballots are counted by machine and even if tallied by humans are subject to fraud and error just as any other system
And you are desperately naïve.
Obviously, any voting system is vulnerable to fraud if it is easily compromised by bad players. But what would you prefer? A tangible, macroscopic paper-trail of the choices that voters have made, or an ephemeral whisper of them in the ones and zeroes on the magnetic domains of a hard-drive that are written and read by computer software?
You tell me which of these two options is more susceptible to fraud. You tell me which is harder to verify by all interested parties. You tell me which is more easily tampered with.
I'll wait...
I submitted this as an April Fools post several months ago. As time goes on, it seems less and less far-fetched.
Retail giant Walmart today annouced the start of a program to clone employees to staff its almost 10,000 stores worldwide. Speaking from inside Walmart's flagship store in Bentonville, Arkansas, Stella de Ville, Senior VP of Human R&D, described the program as a "win-win" for Walmart and its associates, with potential to optimize the "right-fit" of employees with their positions. "We want employees to be happy and thrive in their jobs" explained de Ville. "What better way to do this than to design their DNA so that it's inevitable?" De Ville went on to describe future plans that could include the cloning of lower and middle management candidates, and ultimately customers. "There's a long development time for this, because we're talking about years of growth for a clone to mature to a marginally literate and functioning member of Walmart society, but the benefits are significant. We are making the required investment in the lobbying of legislators to ensure that our young and growing cloned Walmarters are supported by the social welfare system and are educated to Walmart standards with taxpayer assistance." When asked about the inevitable exercise of free will by some of the clone candidates who may not wish to be Walmart employees or customers, de Ville replied "Uh, those candidates will be re-directed towards other objectives" as she shifted uneasily on her feet and glanced over to the store's frozen-meat section.