The concept of mountain men makes some sense as you could learn about living off the land (haven't watched the show myself but I suspect the usual rather light on actual educational content...). In the next few year years when the only transportation is self driving ubers and everyone gets food via Amazon drones, broadbandless might very well be an extremely relevant show about how to survive when you have to use your own feet to get to a food supply.
Meh, sim settlements doesn't make large integrated buildings which I like to do. Banished and Rimworld are great games but I can't walk through my settlement, of course in FO4 my settlement doesn't actually _do_ anything but look pretty...
FO4 is still a good exploring game with an interesting environment for me. But I'll agree they really made the roleplaying lousy, unless you want to role play the base nice guy. While the environment of the game keeps bringing me bank, I do wish it was an RPG, rather than a kind of sandbox post apoc environment with few interesting NPCs.
Played that out years ago. Good game but a bit heavy on the detail management. Would be more interested in Rimworld done in the fallout 4 engine or something like that. Hmm, mod idea.
Yeah, I'm going there... what if every road required you to display your drivers license in the windshield to be scanned every time you go anywhere?
Then we would rename "driver's license" with the term "license plate," since that's what a license plate is.
As long as you mount your license to the plate to identify the current driver I suppose. Though if they go facial recognition on the driver, it wont matter much anyway.
Maybe things are changing but for years I've seen resistance to automating software testing, despite the costs of automation being not much higher than manually running the tests one time. Automated tests are not only faster but more repeatable and reliable. Plus it isn't usually someone qualified to run the tests that run them, it is someone that is qualified to develop the tests, and would rather be doing something more interesting, that is running them.
Might be pointless but one recommendation I would have to the automated car companies is any warning sign, like yield to bikes, should have a visual and audible alert by from the car to "wake up" the human monitoring the car. Though given how often nothing would happen after that alert, it would probably get ignored after a while.
That doesn't matter. None of the flat earth stuff matters. Columbus thought he was sailing to India.
"Mad" Mike Hughes embodies the real American spirit. He had a dream and he put his life on the line for it and shot himself into the air on a homemade goddamn rocket. It's the unifying concept of Westward, Ho! except he was already in California and couldn't go West any more, so he turned a goddamn mobile home into a goddamn launch pad.
Jesus, if you guys can't see how magnificent that is, your souls have been hollowed out.
The what of what he did is both extremely crazy and rather awesome. The official why is mostly what makes me bang my head on my desk.
Defending yourself from what exactly? I'm 58 years old. I've never had to defend myself. Not here in the U.S. Not anywhere in Europe (I think I've been to pretty much every country in western Europe and a few in eastern Europe. I've been in Africa, India, and Japan..Never. Once. Needed. To. Defend. Myself. I think you live in some prolonged fantasy where you think you might be attacked and will be some sort of amazing Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry type who saves himself with amazing feats of marksmanship or something. Amirite?
So happy that you've led a sheltered life. You might consider that other people live in other circumstances. I've been robbed, mugged, assaulted by strangers, and generally developed a fine appreciation for defending oneself.
Never needed the gun myself, but was glad to have it when me and my wife were being stalked by a crazy person. When she started pounding on the door I was fortunate enough to have the police show up in 10 minutes, which was fast enough to finally get her taken care of. When she was pounding on the in laws door (long story, part of the crazy), the police waited 20 minutes before they called back and asked if the crazy person was still there. By the time the police got there, she left, and then came back later. I think said person was harmless, and would not have used the gun unless she actually broke in, but having a fairly obvious crazy person (I apparently have changed my name three or four times according to this person) who has threatened my wife (because one of my alternate personas is crazy person's boyfriend), makes me happy to have options for defense around, even if I would have a hard time shooting someone.
Just like news articles often post the stock market has dropped 400 points for reason x, and by the time the article is posted the market is up 200 points. Most movement in financial markets have a lot more factors than news articles usually account for.
How many times a year does your computer freeze and need to be power-cycled, versus your brain doing the same. I hope they're using three redundant computers with separately written software, sort of like fly-by-wire aircraft do. The computers "vote" -- if one is out of whack from the other two, it's taken out of the loop.
Even more important in cars since the separation distance between them and immovable objects tends to be measured in feet versus hundreds to thousands of feet.
Yeah, airplanes have serious redundancy when a majority of the flight considers flying within 500 feet is a near miss. Automated cars are closer to airplane auto-land systems, and even then, the ground is the only thing the airplane is expected to come near.
Though you're probably right on that, can we maybe lie and say that due to the low light, photos like this require longer exposure times (this is true) and it took a 12 hour exposure so both sides of the planet got photographed?
Hey, now there's an idea! Just say it was a 24 hour exposure so it evenly imaged the entire planet.
Yep, if people are worried it will be dark after school, instead of turning back the clocks why can't we just start school an hour earlier. Pray tell the difference this would make, other than no requiring everyone to change clocks?
AI is all around us already, mostly in rudimentary forms. Right now it's fairly innocuous, like NetFlix's AI suggesting what movies/shows you might enjoy watching next. Same on YouTube, though YouTube's AI goes further, it decides who's videos get de-monetized as well as suggesting videos to users.
NetFlix AI is a really cool tool but calling it a rudimentary form of AI may be stretching it a bit. The basis is simply linear algebra matrix completion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_completion). Given a group of movies that have been categorized and rated by users, it tries to complete the unknown parts of the matrix to guess at the user's preferences. The algorithm is only as good as those categorizing the movies and isn't even basically intelligent, it is just an interesting use of some basic maths. Yes it could form the basis of a simulated intelligence but even that has limits. Yes, AI could become dangerous but there are plenty of malevolent humans with far more capability than any AI will have for a long time and they have yet to destroy the world. I think being concerned about AIs wrecking havoc in a networked world is less of a concern than hardening the networks from being misused by anyone, be it artificial or human that wants to wreck the system. This includes improving security and keeping things we really don't want hacked (nuclear weapons) off of damn public networks entirely.
You can use unexpected color changes to identify object borders to get a general idea what an object is. I did one project that enhanced the contrast, making the edges of objects stronger, so the number of bacteria could be counted. It isn't 100% but the human eye doesn't always properly recognize the border of an object either and can result in mentally blurring objects together. This is where video would make it easier to identify separate objects, since separate objects tend to have different movements, even if just slight, but that costs so much more in processing.
Well it takes years to train a human brain to make that kind of recognition. Machine learning is doing this kind of training on orders of magnitude less neurons and the training is done (sometimes) in hours, not years. So getting an accuracy even remotely approaching a 3 year old is pretty good. Besides, cows are boring, we only want to learn to recognize sheep, then maybe the sheep can all be found in the voting pool.
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The concept of mountain men makes some sense as you could learn about living off the land (haven't watched the show myself but I suspect the usual rather light on actual educational content...). In the next few year years when the only transportation is self driving ubers and everyone gets food via Amazon drones, broadbandless might very well be an extremely relevant show about how to survive when you have to use your own feet to get to a food supply.
Meh, sim settlements doesn't make large integrated buildings which I like to do. Banished and Rimworld are great games but I can't walk through my settlement, of course in FO4 my settlement doesn't actually _do_ anything but look pretty...
FO4 is still a good exploring game with an interesting environment for me. But I'll agree they really made the roleplaying lousy, unless you want to role play the base nice guy. While the environment of the game keeps bringing me bank, I do wish it was an RPG, rather than a kind of sandbox post apoc environment with few interesting NPCs.
Played that out years ago. Good game but a bit heavy on the detail management. Would be more interested in Rimworld done in the fallout 4 engine or something like that. Hmm, mod idea.
Your first problem was playing Fallout 4 for thousands of hours, you should be mocked for that alone.
When another game has as interesting a settlement building system (without being as annoying would be a bonus), I'll go play that instead.
Such as when my wife drives our car which is registered to me or when I drove my parents car?
Yeah, I'm going there... what if every road required you to display your drivers license in the windshield to be scanned every time you go anywhere?
Then we would rename "driver's license" with the term "license plate," since that's what a license plate is.
As long as you mount your license to the plate to identify the current driver I suppose. Though if they go facial recognition on the driver, it wont matter much anyway.
Yeah, I'm going there... what if every road required you to display your drivers license in the windshield to be scanned every time you go anywhere?
PPC anyone?
Um, wasn't April 1 yesterday?
Maybe things are changing but for years I've seen resistance to automating software testing, despite the costs of automation being not much higher than manually running the tests one time. Automated tests are not only faster but more repeatable and reliable. Plus it isn't usually someone qualified to run the tests that run them, it is someone that is qualified to develop the tests, and would rather be doing something more interesting, that is running them.
Might be pointless but one recommendation I would have to the automated car companies is any warning sign, like yield to bikes, should have a visual and audible alert by from the car to "wake up" the human monitoring the car. Though given how often nothing would happen after that alert, it would probably get ignored after a while.
That doesn't matter. None of the flat earth stuff matters. Columbus thought he was sailing to India.
"Mad" Mike Hughes embodies the real American spirit. He had a dream and he put his life on the line for it and shot himself into the air on a homemade goddamn rocket. It's the unifying concept of Westward, Ho! except he was already in California and couldn't go West any more, so he turned a goddamn mobile home into a goddamn launch pad.
Jesus, if you guys can't see how magnificent that is, your souls have been hollowed out.
The what of what he did is both extremely crazy and rather awesome. The official why is mostly what makes me bang my head on my desk.
Defending yourself from what exactly? I'm 58 years old. I've never had to defend myself. Not here in the U.S. Not anywhere in Europe (I think I've been to pretty much every country in western Europe and a few in eastern Europe. I've been in Africa, India, and Japan..Never. Once. Needed. To. Defend. Myself. I think you live in some prolonged fantasy where you think you might be attacked and will be some sort of amazing Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry type who saves himself with amazing feats of marksmanship or something. Amirite?
So happy that you've led a sheltered life. You might consider that other people live in other circumstances. I've been robbed, mugged, assaulted by strangers, and generally developed a fine appreciation for defending oneself.
Never needed the gun myself, but was glad to have it when me and my wife were being stalked by a crazy person. When she started pounding on the door I was fortunate enough to have the police show up in 10 minutes, which was fast enough to finally get her taken care of. When she was pounding on the in laws door (long story, part of the crazy), the police waited 20 minutes before they called back and asked if the crazy person was still there. By the time the police got there, she left, and then came back later.
I think said person was harmless, and would not have used the gun unless she actually broke in, but having a fairly obvious crazy person (I apparently have changed my name three or four times according to this person) who has threatened my wife (because one of my alternate personas is crazy person's boyfriend), makes me happy to have options for defense around, even if I would have a hard time shooting someone.
Does possession of a blockchain count as "possession of every possible image that could be derived from it"?
Better make deriving pi illegal, you can derive every possible numerical combination from it.
Just like news articles often post the stock market has dropped 400 points for reason x, and by the time the article is posted the market is up 200 points. Most movement in financial markets have a lot more factors than news articles usually account for.
How many times a year does your computer freeze and need to be power-cycled, versus your brain doing the same. I hope they're using three redundant computers with separately written software, sort of like fly-by-wire aircraft do. The computers "vote" -- if one is out of whack from the other two, it's taken out of the loop.
Even more important in cars since the separation distance between them and immovable objects tends to be measured in feet versus hundreds to thousands of feet.
Yeah, airplanes have serious redundancy when a majority of the flight considers flying within 500 feet is a near miss. Automated cars are closer to airplane auto-land systems, and even then, the ground is the only thing the airplane is expected to come near.
Though you're probably right on that, can we maybe lie and say that due to the low light, photos like this require longer exposure times (this is true) and it took a 12 hour exposure so both sides of the planet got photographed?
Hey, now there's an idea! Just say it was a 24 hour exposure so it evenly imaged the entire planet.
Who the fuck thinks this sort of thing is a Good Idea?
Spying on your employees?
Possibly exposing your business practices to another business entity (who you may or may not be competing with)?
I'd think that this sort of thing is something only a raging dumbass would do...
And for those of us doing work for the government, I'm sure the department of defense has signed off on Alexa as a secure device, right?
There is no continent visible in the pale blue dot. Anyone who claims they can tell what continent is facing the camera is full of it.
They don't have to be able to tell which half is showing to "know" one half is being discriminated against.
I agree but someone will probably complain about which continent is visible... maybe an image with both halves showing or something?
Yep, if people are worried it will be dark after school, instead of turning back the clocks why can't we just start school an hour earlier. Pray tell the difference this would make, other than no requiring everyone to change clocks?
AI is all around us already, mostly in rudimentary forms. Right now it's fairly innocuous, like NetFlix's AI suggesting what movies/shows you might enjoy watching next. Same on YouTube, though YouTube's AI goes further, it decides who's videos get de-monetized as well as suggesting videos to users.
NetFlix AI is a really cool tool but calling it a rudimentary form of AI may be stretching it a bit. The basis is simply linear algebra matrix completion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_completion). Given a group of movies that have been categorized and rated by users, it tries to complete the unknown parts of the matrix to guess at the user's preferences. The algorithm is only as good as those categorizing the movies and isn't even basically intelligent, it is just an interesting use of some basic maths. Yes it could form the basis of a simulated intelligence but even that has limits.
Yes, AI could become dangerous but there are plenty of malevolent humans with far more capability than any AI will have for a long time and they have yet to destroy the world. I think being concerned about AIs wrecking havoc in a networked world is less of a concern than hardening the networks from being misused by anyone, be it artificial or human that wants to wreck the system. This includes improving security and keeping things we really don't want hacked (nuclear weapons) off of damn public networks entirely.
You can use unexpected color changes to identify object borders to get a general idea what an object is. I did one project that enhanced the contrast, making the edges of objects stronger, so the number of bacteria could be counted. It isn't 100% but the human eye doesn't always properly recognize the border of an object either and can result in mentally blurring objects together. This is where video would make it easier to identify separate objects, since separate objects tend to have different movements, even if just slight, but that costs so much more in processing.
Far more accurate than other 2 week old babies.
Nice copy paste skills, it actually has different words from the other reply!
Well it takes years to train a human brain to make that kind of recognition. Machine learning is doing this kind of training on orders of magnitude less neurons and the training is done (sometimes) in hours, not years. So getting an accuracy even remotely approaching a 3 year old is pretty good. Besides, cows are boring, we only want to learn to recognize sheep, then maybe the sheep can all be found in the voting pool.