You could always, idk, just check that disable ads box, or get ad-block. Personally I just have flash disabled. Few if any ads utilize html5 to spit out audio, and I hate noise tabs.
I'm not sure if this is actually the guy, but conspiracy theories will fly about it forever so I don't care if he is or isn't. However playing 'Pretend the government agencies are coming after you.' with a child is enough for me to dismiss the guy as crazy.
I'm pretty sure if I was transmitting with tachyons you'd have to have access to the past to intercept it. Which means you would have had to have already intercepted it, or it would be impossible to intercept.
Because our economies haven't reached there yet, and we're well aware of what happens when deflation happens while the population increases, Great Depression. Also, unless your a finitest or a loon who thinks time is going to end any time soon then yes growth is sustainable forever, or until time physically runs out. You can always just add one. It's a simple mathematical proof, unless your a finitest. The only time measurable deflation was actually good was when there was a mass kill off in the population, namely the black plague. The actually destroyed the rich and gave to the poor so don't wish for it if you're rich, the poor that survived that is. How about proposing a real economic changes that can be debated rather then postulate on ideals that do not, and have never, existed.
What you are describing is the banking mentality pre-great depression. It is a poor substitute for the confidence in a deposit into an FDIC insured bank. Until regulation occurs, which won't happen, all of them are just waiting to collapse. Putting any money into any of them is foolish, and playing the bank run game and betting that you'll always be FIFO is beyond naive.
Actually that slip of paper is worth quite a bit with most US Banks. FDIC insurance will cover the losses to your account unless you're keeping some absurd amount in a single account. And the receipt is proof that you did do a deposit. Similarly a receipt in a cash transaction allows for legal recourse if the person you're doing business with is a thief though not as much as if it were a bank. Unregulated entities, and Bitcoin in general offers very few of the legal protections normal transactions offer.
It's like someone came up to their car siphoned off some gas. Then rather than report that the tank was half empty they ran things as if everything as "ok". As long as people kept putting in gas no one would be the wiser. But when people started taking their gas back, and stopped putting more gas in the tank eventually ran empty before it should have.
Ether it was deliberate theft on part of MTGOX that was done to effectively make a ponzi scheme. It could have been a theft from unrelated parties, and MTGOX lied to effectively create a ponzi scheme to hide the damage. Or, somehow, it was theft from unrelated parties, and MTGOX was blissfully unaware until it all came crashing down.
There were fewer bitcoins on the exchange than were being traded on the exchanges. There were 744 thousand bitcoins traded that didn't even exist save for on the account ledger. This is revealed with a simple end of night balancing that banks are required to do, and would be a level of retarded I cannot conceive of to be able to construct even a basic exchange, and not see the amount in the wallet not match the amount on the exchange. If the amount of money on the ledger doesn't match the amount they have plus the amount loaned out there is a problem. With a ponzi scheme the person who sees this ether did it on purpose, or panicked when they saw the problem and propagated a ponzi scheme to keep it covered up. The problems easy to hide when you're unregulated(mtgox), or highly trusted(madoff), up until the withdraws of bitcoins, and money catch up. Then you have to slow down the speed at which the money leaves to balanced out with the money coming in. This causes more panic which ultimately reveals the scam to be what it is.
We're ether in a surveillance state run by the State, a surveillance state run by Corporations, or a mixture of both. Avoiding one means getting the other at this point. I don't see a third option without destroying the tech that makes it possible, and I'll be keeping my my computers until the Amish Technology Police State take them from my cold dead hands.
Having a poor concept of a word you rarely use isn't a sign of bad English skills. How many Americans wouldn't get the correct meaning of "Want to go suck a fag?". A part of learning English is learning the Roots and inferring meaning from those roots if you don't know the actual meaning of a word. Astro - relating to the stars ology is a branch of learning. Astrology based on the Root meaning of the word is Study of the Stars like how Geology is the Study of the Earth. Astronomy is actually the odd duck because Astronomers desperately wanted to divorce themselves from any "mystic" meaning. Onomy actually means a set of rules of a perticular subject so it's Astronomers who don't actually understand English very well.
You can actually restrict Mechanical Turk users to a specific country. It's harder to get Americans to actually answer for a low wages, but they do respond. If you want it done in 3 hours you better not restrict it to the US.
Under the constraints of the analogy sure. If a developer ignored an obvious defect, bricks falling out the bottom, early in the process then sure the developer should repair them immediately. However, there is no such thing as a perfect wall or perfect house. You inspect the wall, or house before you sign for it, and if you agreed that it meet your expectations then you pay for it, or whatever the contract required. Some houses come with insurance that in case a defect is discovered within a grace period that it will be corrected, and that's payed for by the insurance. If it is outside the grace period of the contract, or insurance, then the customer is going to have to pay for any future defects found. You can't expect someone to build an earthquake proof home that covers every situation unimagined.
Really? Simple workaround? Using a unique ID is the only real option, and the problem has more to do with the ability of the "attacker" to change the transaction ID. If I write someone a check and the check numbers don't match my records then I know I have to examine the records. How do these Banking Anarchists think our mishmash of Bank databases with a Central Bank work?
Oh that's how "Real" banking works. We can't be seen doing something that "Real" banks have to do. We're against the man, and bank databases are the man./sarcasm
Frequent cash deposits in small bill denominations will trigger a money laundering audit and drug dealing investigation. All banks have a standard policy of terminating an account spotted by the system regardless of weather or not an investigation turns anything up. Most of the details are kept very vague to prevent people from kiting the system however you can read up at fincen.gov
unusual mixed deposits of money orders, third party checks, payroll checks, etc., into a
business account;
Yea that might seem like they only look at business accounts, but bots residential looks for anything that isn't a regular payroll deposit. My co-worker, against my explicit advice to avoid using his personal account for bitcoin trades, got his account forcible closed and had a week to find a new bank.
I personally use localbitcoins, because there is no fee's to sell, and you can get people to walk into a branch of your bank and deposit money directly to you and not have to worry about bank wire fee's in order to move your USDs out of an exchange.
That's a very good way to get your account closed by your bank. Might take awhile to trip the bots to flag your account, but they will find it, and if you're lucky they'll give you a week to find a new bank.
If there were something like a large building that could explode the data center wouldn't have reached the appropriate certification for these documents. I had a teacher who worked for HP, or Micron who's team thought that they'll go overboard with this tiny little data center, and get a Tier 4 certification. The reviewer didn't even need to enter the building to reject them. Their facility was too close to railroad tracks, and the possibility of a train derailing, and wiping out the data center forbid the high tier certifications.
Nice WOT with only one line of any importance and still avoids the volatility issue completely.
It's a way of transfering value from person A to person B.
The problem isn't that it's a method for transferring value. The problem is that the value is extremely volatile. You can't run a business if the cost of goods you sell or of goods you buy is constantly in flux on a daily basis. It's the one feature of the currency that it shouldn't have to be considered a currency. Bitcoiners constantly bitch about how the USD is inflationary, but the change in price due to inflation is so low that no one notices it on a day to day basis. My weekly grocery run is about the same week after week in USD, but in bitcoin it would be all over the place. Actually address the Volatility issue and you might have an argument.
The criticism that merchants will not accept Bitcoin because of its volatility is also incorrect. Bitcoin can be used entirely as a payment system; merchants do not need to hold any Bitcoin currency or be exposed to Bitcoin volatility at any time. Any consumer or merchant can trade in and out of Bitcoin and other currencies any time they want.
So merchants will accept bitcoin by not accepting any bitcoin. Sounds like a circular, contradictory, argument.
How is said company supposed to pay it's employees in bitcoin if it doesn't hold any bitcoin? If said company doesn't pay it's employees in bitcoin, why does it expect common people to be able to pay in bitcoin? Ether you have to be naive enough to think that the Volatility will go away and will be viable to hold, or you have to be stupid enough to think that you can do business in a currency and never "hold" it. Daily stability is what makes currencies work, and volatility has always made them worthless. Why is Bitcoin different then any other currency that the price of the same good Hour to Hour changes in. A deliberate deflationary spiral, a la the Great Depression, doesn't make it any better than the hyperinflation of Brazil in the 90's. Constantly changing prices make it not worth using outside of fanatics.
I don't see it that way because in the article and the BYU article the examples clearly lable a Tree a Tree, an Airplane an Airplane, and a Human a Human. Ether you're right and someone went though and relabeled the object ID labels with human readable versions, or you've given it more credit then then they are trying to take.
Well the OP was asking about whether or not this is anything new, not about whether or not this was "AI" that was similar to being human. So your sarcasm is lacking proper context. To answer your sarcastic question with a questions, do you honestly believe that when you are told that an object is X that you generation a thousand different possible representations of that object then generate a "test" to see which set is closest to what you are seeing then jumbling the closest together again and again until you have a good match? How we actually learn is still a black box worth exploring. Pretending that we know how it fully works is a good way to never find out.
Depends on what they mean by "evolution constructed". I assume that rather than have a human input the best guess at what features to look for, like eye spacing/nose placement, they use a Genetic Algorithm to narrow down to a good enough input. Still requires a person to load a bunch of pictures of air planes, and tell it to "learn" these objects. It's not really learning objects on its own, but rather learning which traits are best for identifying the object on its own.
With our algorithm, we give it a set of images and let the computer decide which features are important.
Without seeing their code that is my best guess from the article.
An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind. -Gandhi
Have you considered the possibility that the world may be openly hostile to nerds become some browbeating nerd like Oppenheimer was openly hostile, and they're just getting retribution by being openly hostile to nerds. They cycle does need to stop at some point, or it's infinity recursive. Build in a valid break statement, or discard your logic.
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You could always, idk, just check that disable ads box, or get ad-block. Personally I just have flash disabled. Few if any ads utilize html5 to spit out audio, and I hate noise tabs.
I'm not sure if this is actually the guy, but conspiracy theories will fly about it forever so I don't care if he is or isn't. However playing 'Pretend the government agencies are coming after you.' with a child is enough for me to dismiss the guy as crazy.
You can easily pull up images of him as an old man prior to the accident. As subjective as name calling is he is as far from obese as can be.
I'm pretty sure if I was transmitting with tachyons you'd have to have access to the past to intercept it. Which means you would have had to have already intercepted it, or it would be impossible to intercept.
Yes that is too hard. I only drink instant at home. Brewing, even pod brewing, is far too much work.
Because our economies haven't reached there yet, and we're well aware of what happens when deflation happens while the population increases, Great Depression. Also, unless your a finitest or a loon who thinks time is going to end any time soon then yes growth is sustainable forever, or until time physically runs out. You can always just add one. It's a simple mathematical proof, unless your a finitest. The only time measurable deflation was actually good was when there was a mass kill off in the population, namely the black plague. The actually destroyed the rich and gave to the poor so don't wish for it if you're rich, the poor that survived that is. How about proposing a real economic changes that can be debated rather then postulate on ideals that do not, and have never, existed.
What you are describing is the banking mentality pre-great depression. It is a poor substitute for the confidence in a deposit into an FDIC insured bank. Until regulation occurs, which won't happen, all of them are just waiting to collapse. Putting any money into any of them is foolish, and playing the bank run game and betting that you'll always be FIFO is beyond naive.
Actually that slip of paper is worth quite a bit with most US Banks. FDIC insurance will cover the losses to your account unless you're keeping some absurd amount in a single account. And the receipt is proof that you did do a deposit. Similarly a receipt in a cash transaction allows for legal recourse if the person you're doing business with is a thief though not as much as if it were a bank. Unregulated entities, and Bitcoin in general offers very few of the legal protections normal transactions offer.
Ether it was deliberate theft on part of MTGOX that was done to effectively make a ponzi scheme. It could have been a theft from unrelated parties, and MTGOX lied to effectively create a ponzi scheme to hide the damage. Or, somehow, it was theft from unrelated parties, and MTGOX was blissfully unaware until it all came crashing down.
There were fewer bitcoins on the exchange than were being traded on the exchanges. There were 744 thousand bitcoins traded that didn't even exist save for on the account ledger. This is revealed with a simple end of night balancing that banks are required to do, and would be a level of retarded I cannot conceive of to be able to construct even a basic exchange, and not see the amount in the wallet not match the amount on the exchange. If the amount of money on the ledger doesn't match the amount they have plus the amount loaned out there is a problem. With a ponzi scheme the person who sees this ether did it on purpose, or panicked when they saw the problem and propagated a ponzi scheme to keep it covered up. The problems easy to hide when you're unregulated(mtgox), or highly trusted(madoff), up until the withdraws of bitcoins, and money catch up. Then you have to slow down the speed at which the money leaves to balanced out with the money coming in. This causes more panic which ultimately reveals the scam to be what it is.
We're ether in a surveillance state run by the State, a surveillance state run by Corporations, or a mixture of both. Avoiding one means getting the other at this point. I don't see a third option without destroying the tech that makes it possible, and I'll be keeping my my computers until the Amish Technology Police State take them from my cold dead hands.
Having a poor concept of a word you rarely use isn't a sign of bad English skills. How many Americans wouldn't get the correct meaning of "Want to go suck a fag?". A part of learning English is learning the Roots and inferring meaning from those roots if you don't know the actual meaning of a word. Astro - relating to the stars ology is a branch of learning. Astrology based on the Root meaning of the word is Study of the Stars like how Geology is the Study of the Earth. Astronomy is actually the odd duck because Astronomers desperately wanted to divorce themselves from any "mystic" meaning. Onomy actually means a set of rules of a perticular subject so it's Astronomers who don't actually understand English very well.
You can actually restrict Mechanical Turk users to a specific country. It's harder to get Americans to actually answer for a low wages, but they do respond. If you want it done in 3 hours you better not restrict it to the US.
Under the constraints of the analogy sure. If a developer ignored an obvious defect, bricks falling out the bottom, early in the process then sure the developer should repair them immediately. However, there is no such thing as a perfect wall or perfect house. You inspect the wall, or house before you sign for it, and if you agreed that it meet your expectations then you pay for it, or whatever the contract required. Some houses come with insurance that in case a defect is discovered within a grace period that it will be corrected, and that's payed for by the insurance. If it is outside the grace period of the contract, or insurance, then the customer is going to have to pay for any future defects found. You can't expect someone to build an earthquake proof home that covers every situation unimagined.
Really? Simple workaround? Using a unique ID is the only real option, and the problem has more to do with the ability of the "attacker" to change the transaction ID. If I write someone a check and the check numbers don't match my records then I know I have to examine the records. How do these Banking Anarchists think our mishmash of Bank databases with a Central Bank work?
/sarcasm
Oh that's how "Real" banking works. We can't be seen doing something that "Real" banks have to do. We're against the man, and bank databases are the man.
unusual mixed deposits of money orders, third party checks, payroll checks, etc., into a business account;
Yea that might seem like they only look at business accounts, but bots residential looks for anything that isn't a regular payroll deposit. My co-worker, against my explicit advice to avoid using his personal account for bitcoin trades, got his account forcible closed and had a week to find a new bank.
I personally use localbitcoins, because there is no fee's to sell, and you can get people to walk into a branch of your bank and deposit money directly to you and not have to worry about bank wire fee's in order to move your USDs out of an exchange.
That's a very good way to get your account closed by your bank. Might take awhile to trip the bots to flag your account, but they will find it, and if you're lucky they'll give you a week to find a new bank.
If there were something like a large building that could explode the data center wouldn't have reached the appropriate certification for these documents. I had a teacher who worked for HP, or Micron who's team thought that they'll go overboard with this tiny little data center, and get a Tier 4 certification. The reviewer didn't even need to enter the building to reject them. Their facility was too close to railroad tracks, and the possibility of a train derailing, and wiping out the data center forbid the high tier certifications.
So why weren't the "important" bank records held in a Tier 4 or Level 5 data center?
It's a way of transfering value from person A to person B.
The problem isn't that it's a method for transferring value. The problem is that the value is extremely volatile. You can't run a business if the cost of goods you sell or of goods you buy is constantly in flux on a daily basis. It's the one feature of the currency that it shouldn't have to be considered a currency. Bitcoiners constantly bitch about how the USD is inflationary, but the change in price due to inflation is so low that no one notices it on a day to day basis. My weekly grocery run is about the same week after week in USD, but in bitcoin it would be all over the place. Actually address the Volatility issue and you might have an argument.
The criticism that merchants will not accept Bitcoin because of its volatility is also incorrect. Bitcoin can be used entirely as a payment system; merchants do not need to hold any Bitcoin currency or be exposed to Bitcoin volatility at any time. Any consumer or merchant can trade in and out of Bitcoin and other currencies any time they want.
So merchants will accept bitcoin by not accepting any bitcoin. Sounds like a circular, contradictory, argument.
How is said company supposed to pay it's employees in bitcoin if it doesn't hold any bitcoin? If said company doesn't pay it's employees in bitcoin, why does it expect common people to be able to pay in bitcoin? Ether you have to be naive enough to think that the Volatility will go away and will be viable to hold, or you have to be stupid enough to think that you can do business in a currency and never "hold" it. Daily stability is what makes currencies work, and volatility has always made them worthless. Why is Bitcoin different then any other currency that the price of the same good Hour to Hour changes in. A deliberate deflationary spiral, a la the Great Depression, doesn't make it any better than the hyperinflation of Brazil in the 90's. Constantly changing prices make it not worth using outside of fanatics.
I don't see it that way because in the article and the BYU article the examples clearly lable a Tree a Tree, an Airplane an Airplane, and a Human a Human. Ether you're right and someone went though and relabeled the object ID labels with human readable versions, or you've given it more credit then then they are trying to take.
Well the OP was asking about whether or not this is anything new, not about whether or not this was "AI" that was similar to being human. So your sarcasm is lacking proper context. To answer your sarcastic question with a questions, do you honestly believe that when you are told that an object is X that you generation a thousand different possible representations of that object then generate a "test" to see which set is closest to what you are seeing then jumbling the closest together again and again until you have a good match? How we actually learn is still a black box worth exploring. Pretending that we know how it fully works is a good way to never find out.
With our algorithm, we give it a set of images and let the computer decide which features are important.
Without seeing their code that is my best guess from the article.
An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind. -Gandhi
Have you considered the possibility that the world may be openly hostile to nerds become some browbeating nerd like Oppenheimer was openly hostile, and they're just getting retribution by being openly hostile to nerds. They cycle does need to stop at some point, or it's infinity recursive. Build in a valid break statement, or discard your logic.