Unicode has a ton of unallocated character space and frequently adds new ones so testing all possible characters isn't really practical or desirable.
The theoretical maximum number of unicode characters is "only" 2^32, and in practice the limit is set at 1,111,998 characters. While it might not be practical to test that they all render correctly, it wouldn't be difficult to set up an automated test that at least verifies that they don't cause the renderer to crash when used.
My opinion is that Apple optimizes the "tripod" with an eye towards high profit levels, not towards customers. Which is fine, it is absolutely their decision to make, whether they want to optimize high-profits or customers.
If it's a zero-sum-game (favor profits OR favor customers, pick one), and Apple is making high profits, then why is Apple also ranking first in customer satisfaction?
Once we've dispensed with the defensive Slashdot non-reponse ("because Apple customers are ignorant brain-washed sheep, and not enlightened and wise like we are"), and keep in mind that "the customer is always right", we must conclude that Apple has figured out how to keep customers happy/loyal and keep profits high at the same time.
Which is a pretty good thing to know how to do, and largely explains why Apple is currently swimming in an ocean of cash.
So tell me again: in what measure is our current level of AI anywhere close to being "real" AI?
In the measure that sets the threshold for "real" AI a lot lower than where you're putting it, of course.
Of course my only real reason for posting this reply is to include a link to this non-distorted photo of a non-deformed dog... for extra fun, let your 5-year-old's neural network figure that one out.:)
Goldman is wrong. Blockchain-based cryptocurrencies are here to stay.
I don't know whose argument you are trying to rebut, but it isn't the one presented in the article.
In the article, the argument was that most block-chain based currencies will eventually become worthless, because everyone will eventually standardize on a small number of successful currencies and the market will lose interest in the also-rans. (Think VHS vs BetaMax)
That's completely different from the idea that all blockchain currencies will go away, which is the straw man argument that you seem to be trying to refute.
Once you've factored in the value of free PR that results, it's cheaper(*) than launching the traditional (and completely uninteresting) big-block-of-metal dummy payload.
This will be the new "bump stock"....and I'm guessing immediately we'll have a ton of liberal's shouting for "common sense flamethrower laws".
If and when someone uses a Boring Company Flamethrower (tm) to murder dozens or hundreds of people at a time, it's very likely your prediction will come true.
Until then, probably not.
I bet the Flamethrower would work very well for burning up straw men, though.
I believe what happened was that SolarCity found they were spending more on salesmen's salaries than they were getting back in profit, so they stopped doing it.
Bezos should be advocating for government funded primary health care: not yet another private system.
Government funded primary healthcare is likely the best solution, but it's no solution at all if it can't be implemented for political reasons.
People have been advocating for universal health care for a long time without a lot to show for it; too many people in this country have a knee-jerk anti-government reaction to it. And Bezos is unlikely to be the person to finally figure out how to get universal health care through Congress.
On the other hand, Bezos has a whole lot more control over the actions of his company, and Amazon is large enough, rich enough, and innovative enough that they might actually come up with something useful. Therefore I think Bezos isn't necessarily wrong to be going about this the way he is doing it.
The problem was that they trained the monkeys to recognize when they were being tested and, under those specific circumstances, pretend that they like it.
The real question is (assuming their risk-analysis people aren't just chasing butterflies) -- what mechanism would correlate Hotmail accounts with a statistically greater risk of loss?
I am sure there is an intelligent comment in there somewhere; does anybody have any idea what he means?
I think he's referring not to the language's syntax (which isn't all that different from many other computer languages) but rather to Apple's approach to teaching the language, which involves interactive playgrounds rather than the traditional "type in a few paragraphs of mysterious text into a blank IDE and hope something happens" approach.
No, all for fucking 300 $1.2k phones, aka $360,000 worth of stolen merchandise. The police were hoping that they'd find all of the phones (and the thieves) at the same location.
Considering that this is a torpedo and those travel through and under water, does it really make sense to talk about what a 100 megaton atomic weapon would do if it were dropped on a city?
New York city is located on the coast, so yes. If you're quibbling about the altitude of the detonation, I don't think it matters that much with a 100 megaton payload. At 2000 feet ASL or -100 feet, New York would be toast.
Our missile defense systems are designed to deter the guys who can launch one, or a handful of missiles (read: Iran or, until recently, North Korea). They were never seriously expected to defend against a full-scale Russian attack.
The bug itself is understandable -- the space of all possible Unicode text strings is infinite, and the behavior of a universal text renderer is more subtle than most programmers would imagine. I think most programmers would be susceptible to not handling every use case in every language correctly.
What's disconcerting is that the fault appears to crash the entire OS, not just the one buggy application. Shouldn't memory protection and process segmentation prevent that?
t's not ready-for-prime-time until they can drive through a white-out condition snow storm on icy, snow covered roadways.
Of course, by that criteria, most humans aren't ready to drive a car either. Here in Los Angeles even a modest rainfall seems to discombobulate a lot of the local wetware implementations:)
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Unicode has a ton of unallocated character space and frequently adds new ones so testing all possible characters isn't really practical or desirable.
The theoretical maximum number of unicode characters is "only" 2^32, and in practice the limit is set at 1,111,998 characters. While it might not be practical to test that they all render correctly, it wouldn't be difficult to set up an automated test that at least verifies that they don't cause the renderer to crash when used.
My friends and I communicate exclusively in Telugu, you insensitive clod!
My opinion is that Apple optimizes the "tripod" with an eye towards high profit levels, not towards customers. Which is fine, it is absolutely their decision to make, whether they want to optimize high-profits or customers.
If it's a zero-sum-game (favor profits OR favor customers, pick one), and Apple is making high profits, then why is Apple also ranking first in customer satisfaction?
Once we've dispensed with the defensive Slashdot non-reponse ("because Apple customers are ignorant brain-washed sheep, and not enlightened and wise like we are"), and keep in mind that "the customer is always right", we must conclude that Apple has figured out how to keep customers happy/loyal and keep profits high at the same time.
Which is a pretty good thing to know how to do, and largely explains why Apple is currently swimming in an ocean of cash.
So tell me again: in what measure is our current level of AI anywhere close to being "real" AI?
In the measure that sets the threshold for "real" AI a lot lower than where you're putting it, of course.
Of course my only real reason for posting this reply is to include a link to this non-distorted photo of a non-deformed dog... for extra fun, let your 5-year-old's neural network figure that one out. :)
A couple million dollar's worth of beanie babies has never existed. 2 dollar's worth of beanie babies has never existed.
Who decides what is the "worth" of an item? You?
Goldman is wrong. Blockchain-based cryptocurrencies are here to stay.
I don't know whose argument you are trying to rebut, but it isn't the one presented in the article.
In the article, the argument was that most block-chain based currencies will eventually become worthless, because everyone will eventually standardize on a small number of successful currencies and the market will lose interest in the also-rans. (Think VHS vs BetaMax)
That's completely different from the idea that all blockchain currencies will go away, which is the straw man argument that you seem to be trying to refute.
Once you've factored in the value of free PR that results, it's cheaper(*) than launching the traditional (and completely uninteresting) big-block-of-metal dummy payload.
(*) where cheaper == smaller net loss
This will be the new "bump stock"....and I'm guessing immediately we'll have a ton of liberal's shouting for "common sense flamethrower laws".
If and when someone uses a Boring Company Flamethrower (tm) to murder dozens or hundreds of people at a time, it's very likely your prediction will come true.
Until then, probably not.
I bet the Flamethrower would work very well for burning up straw men, though.
I believe what happened was that SolarCity found they were spending more on salesmen's salaries than they were getting back in profit, so they stopped doing it.
Bezos should be advocating for government funded primary health care: not yet another private system.
Government funded primary healthcare is likely the best solution, but it's no solution at all if it can't be implemented for political reasons.
People have been advocating for universal health care for a long time without a lot to show for it; too many people in this country have a knee-jerk anti-government reaction to it. And Bezos is unlikely to be the person to finally figure out how to get universal health care through Congress.
On the other hand, Bezos has a whole lot more control over the actions of his company, and Amazon is large enough, rich enough, and innovative enough that they might actually come up with something useful. Therefore I think Bezos isn't necessarily wrong to be going about this the way he is doing it.
It wasn't easy to find something to complain about this time, was it? Still, you managed to do it. Chapeau!
The problem was that they trained the monkeys to recognize when they were being tested and, under those specific circumstances, pretend that they like it.
Wasn't that mainly about size? AFAIK 2.4 was the last that could fit comfortably on a floppy disk.
Are you referring to the 1.44MB 3.5" floppies, the 360KB 5.25" floppies, or the original 80KB 8 inch floppies?
As far as I can tell, they are all equally relevant at this point, since nobody uses any of them.
Hydro reacts within seconds.
Is "within seconds" fast enough? I presume "within milliseconds" is better, although I don't know how much better.
"Do trees dream"? and "What if every atom is actually a little solar system, with tiny people living on the electrons"?
Would have meant Jobs not being such a twit though, with his "users don't need colour" and "users don't need expansion options"
Jobs being a twit is the one condition that remains constant across all possible universes in the multiverse, so Apple's fate was sealed.
It isn't advanced mathematics. Take a huge population, group by email domain, and look at the average claims for each domain.
Right. Again, the question is, why would hotmail users have higher average claims?
The real question is (assuming their risk-analysis people aren't just chasing butterflies) -- what mechanism would correlate Hotmail accounts with a statistically greater risk of loss?
I am sure there is an intelligent comment in there somewhere; does anybody have any idea what he means?
I think he's referring not to the language's syntax (which isn't all that different from many other computer languages) but rather to Apple's approach to teaching the language, which involves interactive playgrounds rather than the traditional "type in a few paragraphs of mysterious text into a blank IDE and hope something happens" approach.
Trump can't seriously think
Correct.
All for a fucking $1.2k phone.
No, all for fucking 300 $1.2k phones, aka $360,000 worth of stolen merchandise. The police were hoping that they'd find all of the phones (and the thieves) at the same location.
Considering that this is a torpedo and those travel through and under water, does it really make sense to talk about what a 100 megaton atomic weapon would do if it were dropped on a city?
New York city is located on the coast, so yes. If you're quibbling about the altitude of the detonation, I don't think it matters that much with a 100 megaton payload. At 2000 feet ASL or -100 feet, New York would be toast.
Our missile defense systems are designed to deter the guys who can launch one, or a handful of missiles (read: Iran or, until recently, North Korea). They were never seriously expected to defend against a full-scale Russian attack.
The bug itself is understandable -- the space of all possible Unicode text strings is infinite, and the behavior of a universal text renderer is more subtle than most programmers would imagine. I think most programmers would be susceptible to not handling every use case in every language correctly.
What's disconcerting is that the fault appears to crash the entire OS, not just the one buggy application. Shouldn't memory protection and process segmentation prevent that?
t's not ready-for-prime-time until they can drive through a white-out condition snow storm on icy, snow covered roadways.
Of course, by that criteria, most humans aren't ready to drive a car either. Here in Los Angeles even a modest rainfall seems to discombobulate a lot of the local wetware implementations :)