Support government action. Much as people in America like to pretend the government is only a source of pure evil, reality is that great progress has been made through government action. Today the environment is cleaner than before the EPA was passed and several species have made it back from the brink of extinction. There are many other successes, such as the highway network, public health campaigns and public education.
No, no, you must self-classify in a government document according to some arbitrary race classification and make that your identity. It makes this country of ours so much fairer and so unlike South Africa during Apartheid.
Seriously, I haven't rebooted any of my computers in years. For windows usually MS Update does that every month or so, and outside of that they are always on. For my Linux boxes they reboot with every major new Ubuntu distro release, again every few months.
but ultimately it was a straightforward ballistics problem.
So "straightforward" that is known as the 3-body problem and was, for a long time, considered one of the big open problems in Mathematics. But hey, who's counting?
No, Perot didn't, he took votes from the Republican side by a large margin the accurate exit polls show this,
Ah, a republican de-skewering the polls to justify their dismal performance... what else is news.
Again, polls indicate Perot took votes equally. Also they were disenfranchised anti-NAFTA voters. Had Perot not been there what exactly makes you think they would have turned to Mr. Establishment, NAFTA negotiator Bush Sr?
In all likelihood they would have either (a) stayed home or (b) voted for change (i.e. Clinton).
The same is true for Nader and democrats by the way. In most states not having Nader on the ballot wouldn't have made much of a difference. The only place it might have is in Florida and only because the margins of victory were so low.
We were doing that merely 100 years ago during h firs World War. Asking our male kids to climb out of a trench to face certain slaughter, to the tune of millions.
There are two types of startups coming from MIT. Type 1 is founded on excellent research and usually have a long life, and type 2 are those made mostly of vaporware and press releases in the grand tradition of the hype-oriented founders of AI and the MIT media lab, always over-promising and under-delivering.
Boston Dynamics have been releasing amazing videos since day one, but not a single usable product. Not even a roomba, a kiva or a UAV.
Their robots are usually bioinspired and self trained because it looks cool, not because it makes any sense. The best solution for the Army's e-mule contract might have well been a self-driven electric ATV. Boston Dynamics would have never chosen that option no matter how good it is in practice: it simply isn't cool enough.
I'm rather critical of Amazon's sales model, since they seem unable to turn a profit in their retail arm. However their margins in AWS are huge. Lately, Microsoft and Google have turned up the pressure, so their AWS margins might go down a bit, but they will still be around 20%.
You are ignoring two other disadvantages: the power consumption of the first compilation pass is non-negligible, and the garbage collection mechanism creates quite a bit of overhead. So while in theory the JIT could be faster in practice it has never been. So if we are now JIT compiling (which precludes static analysis and optimizations) what is the use of the JVM?
In other words, I'm thinking about the average driver which according to statistics drives 15K miles a year. Additionally in Northern climes the limiting factor is often the number of winters, not the total number of miles.
The JVM exists because Sun assumed Java would be running in very different devices without a proper OS and without ready access to a native compiler. None of these things hold true today. So the JVM is essentially just a layer of cruft slowing down your app. Android nowadays compiles the app into native code and modern JVMs compile at run time. So let's get rid of the JVM.
In an email sent out last night (see below), Tesla confirmed that following the overwhelming number of Model 3 reservations it received, the company is currently âoeincreasing its production plans to minimize the wait for Model 3â.
..and a lottery ticket might be worth a million dollars.
Back here in planet Earth the average car life expectancy in the US is 12 years and outside the dry snowless southern states very few cars last past 15 years.
However, the 380 purchase was not made all at once: 21 ordered in June 2003, and another 21 in November 2003 and so on. So this doesn't meet the requirement of "biggest one week launch ever".
Hmm. 13M+ Rush Limbaugh listeners likely disagree with that.
This is where the disagreement occurs. Is climate change a normal occurrence? Or is it only occurring because of man's actions? Is it cyclical? Isn't this cycle very similar to previous changes in climate?
I agree with this, with a minor caveat. I think it is pretty clear that we are putting out enough CO2 to assert that at least some of that change is man-made. We haven't fully ruled out a second factor that might be making things much worse. In particular one of the most ignored issues in the popular press on AGW is why there isn't a straight direct correlation between CO2 and temperature, as one would first expect. I've read scientific articles stating that this is the $64K question of the day, and who ever answers it will likely take home a Nobel prize.
Clearly climate change is happening. We have enough data to assert that without question, unless you are a shill for the CO2 emitting industry or a jihad anti-climate change ideologist who uses this as a litmus test of blind allegiance.
I am still a "the world is coming to an end" skeptic, for many reasons:
One is that the press focuses on bad news because it attracts readership.
Another is because made up crises attract more funding. To give an example of a made up crisis on top of a real problem was last year's prediction by WHO of 1.4 million dead from Ebola. Actual deaths? About 11,000.
The third reason why I'm an end-of-the-world skeptic is Stein's law. If things do seem to become nearly apocalyptic we can expect that rapid, drastic action will be taken. E.g. the first time the Koch brothers mansion in the Hamptons gets flooded will see a very different tune coming from the GOP.
Fourth reason is because as a technologist I know that some seemingly insurmountable problems are often overcome via technology. E.g. the drop in the prices of solar cells has been much more dramatic that I had ever expected. Cost used to be the main problem with solar, not any more. Now it seems to be storage and lo an behold improvements in battery technology (power wall anyone) seem rather promising.
Fifth, the models are a hell of a lot more imprecise than the press lets you know. We *are* tickling the climate dragon, so we *will* get a reaction. What exactly will it be? pretty hard to tell just yet.
So every time some one predicts the end of the world be it Ebola, overpopulation, or global warming I put my skeptic hat on.
Having said that, I'm in favor of renewable energy and less CO2 production now because polluting less makes sense regardless of apocalyptic climate change or not.
Our motto is: over-promising and under-delivering since 1951.
Our main algorithm is:
1) Remarkable step on a well defined area in AI is made (e.g. AlphaGo) 2) Issue lots of press releases 3) Claim that single isolated step is proof that all remaining thousands of steps needed are just around the corner 4) Apply for grants/create startups 5) Profit! 6) Ten years later AI winter sets in 7) A few years later, serious AI researchers who have quietly been plodding along make another remarkable step. 8) GOTO 1
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Support government action. Much as people in America like to pretend the government is only a source of pure evil, reality is that great progress has been made through government action. Today the environment is cleaner than before the EPA was passed and several species have made it back from the brink of extinction. There are many other successes, such as the highway network, public health campaigns and public education.
destroying quite a nice loch with crap tourism shite
Destroying? Not that there's any hyperbole there or anything.
No, no, you must self-classify in a government document according to some arbitrary race classification and make that your identity. It makes this country of ours so much fairer and so unlike South Africa during Apartheid.
faster than they can boot a computer
You mean one can do this manually? ...
Seriously, I haven't rebooted any of my computers in years. For windows usually MS Update does that every month or so, and outside of that they are always on. For my Linux boxes they reboot with every major new Ubuntu distro release, again every few months.
but ultimately it was a straightforward ballistics problem.
So "straightforward" that is known as the 3-body problem and was, for a long time, considered one of the big open problems in Mathematics. But hey, who's counting?
...and you know this how?
No, Perot didn't, he took votes from the Republican side by a large margin the accurate exit polls show this,
Ah, a republican de-skewering the polls to justify their dismal performance... what else is news.
Again, polls indicate Perot took votes equally. Also they were disenfranchised anti-NAFTA voters. Had Perot not been there what exactly makes you think they would have turned to Mr. Establishment, NAFTA negotiator Bush Sr?
In all likelihood they would have either (a) stayed home or (b) voted for change (i.e. Clinton).
The same is true for Nader and democrats by the way. In most states not having Nader on the ballot wouldn't have made much of a difference. The only place it might have is in Florida and only because the margins of victory were so low.
We were doing that merely 100 years ago during h firs World War. Asking our male kids to climb out of a trench to face certain slaughter, to the tune of millions.
Perot took votes equally from both parties according to exit polls. Look it up.
There are two types of startups coming from MIT. Type 1 is founded on excellent research and usually have a long life, and type 2 are those made mostly of vaporware and press releases in the grand tradition of the hype-oriented founders of AI and the MIT media lab, always over-promising and under-delivering.
Boston Dynamics have been releasing amazing videos since day one, but not a single usable product. Not even a roomba, a kiva or a UAV.
Their robots are usually bioinspired and self trained because it looks cool, not because it makes any sense. The best solution for the Army's e-mule contract might have well been a self-driven electric ATV. Boston Dynamics would have never chosen that option no matter how good it is in practice: it simply isn't cool enough.
Yeah, the system should program itself and not be told what to say. It is not like humans ever get any instruction from other humans... oh wait!
Right, to be AI it has to have some magic. The moment you can actually write it down in code it stops being AI.
I'm rather critical of Amazon's sales model, since they seem unable to turn a profit in their retail arm. However their margins in AWS are huge. Lately, Microsoft and Google have turned up the pressure, so their AWS margins might go down a bit, but they will still be around 20%.
Exactly, it illustrates the made up crisis. Gives us money to intervene, otherwise there would be a 1.4million dead people!!! OMG!!
This number was ridiculous since it assumed ritual funerary practices wouldn't change even after 1.4 million dead people.
You are ignoring two other disadvantages: the power consumption of the first compilation pass is non-negligible, and the garbage collection mechanism creates quite a bit of overhead. So while in theory the JIT could be faster in practice it has never been. So if we are now JIT compiling (which precludes static analysis and optimizations) what is the use of the JVM?
Sorry my mistake. It was the CDC:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/previe...
In other words, I'm thinking about the average driver which according to statistics drives 15K miles a year. Additionally in Northern climes the limiting factor is often the number of winters, not the total number of miles.
The JVM exists because Sun assumed Java would be running in very different devices without a proper OS and without ready access to a native compiler. None of these things hold true today. So the JVM is essentially just a layer of cruft slowing down your app. Android nowadays compiles the app into native code and modern JVMs compile at run time. So let's get rid of the JVM.
Already in the works:
In an email sent out last night (see below), Tesla confirmed that following the overwhelming number of Model 3 reservations it received, the company is currently âoeincreasing its production plans to minimize the wait for Model 3â.
http://electrek.co/2016/04/07/...
A gas car you can keep going for 15 to 20 years.
..and a lottery ticket might be worth a million dollars.
Back here in planet Earth the average car life expectancy in the US is 12 years and outside the dry snowless southern states very few cars last past 15 years.
However, the 380 purchase was not made all at once: 21 ordered in June 2003, and another 21 in November 2003 and so on. So this doesn't meet the requirement of "biggest one week launch ever".
Most likely. Very few people disagree with that.
Hmm. 13M+ Rush Limbaugh listeners likely disagree with that.
This is where the disagreement occurs. Is climate change a normal occurrence? Or is it only occurring because of man's actions? Is it cyclical? Isn't this cycle very similar to previous changes in climate?
I agree with this, with a minor caveat. I think it is pretty clear that we are putting out enough CO2 to assert that at least some of that change is man-made. We haven't fully ruled out a second factor that might be making things much worse. In particular one of the most ignored issues in the popular press on AGW is why there isn't a straight direct correlation between CO2 and temperature, as one would first expect. I've read scientific articles stating that this is the $64K question of the day, and who ever answers it will likely take home a Nobel prize.
Clearly climate change is happening. We have enough data to assert that without question, unless you are a shill for the CO2 emitting industry or a jihad anti-climate change ideologist who uses this as a litmus test of blind allegiance.
I am still a "the world is coming to an end" skeptic, for many reasons:
One is that the press focuses on bad news because it attracts readership.
Another is because made up crises attract more funding. To give an example of a made up crisis on top of a real problem was last year's prediction by WHO of 1.4 million dead from Ebola. Actual deaths? About 11,000.
The third reason why I'm an end-of-the-world skeptic is Stein's law. If things do seem to become nearly apocalyptic we can expect that rapid, drastic action will be taken. E.g. the first time the Koch brothers mansion in the Hamptons gets flooded will see a very different tune coming from the GOP.
Fourth reason is because as a technologist I know that some seemingly insurmountable problems are often overcome via technology. E.g. the drop in the prices of solar cells has been much more dramatic that I had ever expected. Cost used to be the main problem with solar, not any more. Now it seems to be storage and lo an behold improvements in battery technology (power wall anyone) seem rather promising.
Fifth, the models are a hell of a lot more imprecise than the press lets you know. We *are* tickling the climate dragon, so we *will* get a reaction. What exactly will it be? pretty hard to tell just yet.
So every time some one predicts the end of the world be it Ebola, overpopulation, or global warming I put my skeptic hat on.
Having said that, I'm in favor of renewable energy and less CO2 production now because polluting less makes sense regardless of apocalyptic climate change or not.
for another AI winter.
Strong AI:
Our motto is: over-promising and under-delivering since 1951.
Our main algorithm is:
1) Remarkable step on a well defined area in AI is made (e.g. AlphaGo)
2) Issue lots of press releases
3) Claim that single isolated step is proof that all remaining thousands of steps needed are just around the corner
4) Apply for grants/create startups
5) Profit!
6) Ten years later AI winter sets in
7) A few years later, serious AI researchers who have quietly been plodding along make another remarkable step.
8) GOTO 1
poor people greatly outnumber the rest of the population.
Except that they don't. Mexico is now about evenly divided between working class and middle class:
Mexicoâ(TM)s middle class 47% of households
http://mexiconewsdaily.com/new...