does that mean nothing NVIDIA or Intel says can be true, just because they sell GPUs / CPUs?
Moving away from a boolean value of True or False, the correct answer is not completely True. That is guaranteed because of marketing BS.
There are hard numbers that claim revolutionary speed and quality increases. These are also guaranteed to also be not completely True because of marketing BS. Core counts, clock speed and memory size do not scale linearly with results, even though that is implied by marketing comparisons.
So called "real world" tests are also deliberately misleading. As they say, YMMV. It's always a cherry picking contest driven by, you guessed it, marketing.
Is it better then it was 10 year ago? Yes, of course it is. How much? Somewhere between 1.5 and 5 times better, for some vague value of "better". Moore's Law, an exponential size over time relationship, maps very indirectly into user land.
The Fossil Fuel Cartel has been attacking alternative energy solutions for decades. They are deeply involved in funding the climate change denial propaganda machine. They give vast sums of money to elected officials to buy legislation to keep their profits up no matter what the impact is on the environment.
For nearly 100 years the oil business has received tax breaks that are a de facto government subsidy.
The oil depletion allowance has been subject of interest, because of the relationship of big oil with the US government, and because one method (percentage depletion) of claiming the allowance makes it possible to write off more than the whole capital cost of the asset.
Big Oil follows the same playbook as Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, and the gun lobby. Lie, fund propaganda and buy influence to avoid the real economic cost of dangerous products.
The historical pattern has been that government at the local level, which bears the brunt of the economic cost, uses the civil court system to counter failed Federal policies. This happened with Big Tobacco, and is now occurring with Big Pharma over the opioid epidemic. Now it may be the Fossil Fuel industries turn.
Your position is Libertarian bullshit. Consumers have no real choice against powerful entrenched special interests. The playing field is not level and claiming otherwise is just propaganda. Stop lying.
Conservatives go batshit crazy when they think their political opposition are using tactics they claim for their own. In this rant it's suppression of free speech.
Specifically, your use of the term "sjw" is a dog-whistle/code word for abusive and bullying behavior. You want to be able to demean people online based on gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity and/or political affiliation. You are conflating "free speech" with personal attacks, lies and mud slinging. Your intent is to deny online access to anyone you disagree with. You don't want free speech, you want hate speech.
Do your opponents act in a similar fashion? They do to a small extent, but compared to the torrent of violent hate speech that spews from the right wing any thing else is inconsequential.
You don't want free speech and you don't want democracy. You want a country that look like Putin's Russia. Instead of trying to wreck democracy here why don't you go to Putin's Russia. I'm sure you would fit right in.
So you can't even show that shooting someone can lead to their death, right? Or that water can cause drowning or falling off a building can lead to injury or death.
Even so I can infer from your comment that you are an idiot.
"How is Putin going to run the USA? He's having problems running his own country. "
The short answer: Both Putin and Trump do an absolutely crappy job running their respective countries, so if Putin was telling Trump what to do it would make no difference. Crap in, crap out.
Make no mistake. Except for getting caught, Putin was telling Trump what policy he wanted from the US and Trump wanted to give it to him. I assume it has something to do with the blackmail material that Russia has on Trump. It might or might not be a sex tape, but Putin has Trump under his thumb somehow. I think it has to do bribes and international money laundering at a minium. This was going on years before Trump even got into politics.
Putin has Trump by his (tiny) balls and you don't care. He's a traitor and you are on his side. What does that make you?
There is no media that recreates the full range of color vision. The colors that can be displayed are the color gamut.
There is noise in both electronic recording and analog recording. Film has grain and mechanical uncertainly from the camera and the projector. This is due to physical positioning uncertainty when a frame is exposed or projected (or scanned). The perfs (square holes) that hold the film in place have tolerances and so do the mechanics of the film gate, which holds the film in place. No two sequential frames are in the exact same location.
Electronic image sensors have intrinsic noise as do electronic projectors. Both also have a quantized grid that limits the spacial resolution. Film also has grain characteristics that limit spacial resolution.
From a practical standpoint, current 4K camera and display technology are very similar to the best motion picture film standards. The electronic production process has no mechanical position variability like film and it is possible to track color from the camera source to the projector, so color reproduction can be better then film. The gamut of electronic projection is greater then any film stock, although film can record subtle shades that seem to be missing in electronic recording and projection.
Keynes got the number right, he just got the time unit wrong. It's now a 15 hour day.
If you are doing software or cleaning floors, it's still a 15 hour day.
Given how stagnant pay has been over the last 10 to 15 years, you are certainly making the same amount of money and working a lot more hours then you used to. Just look at the ever widening divide between the really rich and everyone else if think I'm wrong.
Not rich == having a fixed salary or working freelance. The gig economy is freelance indentured servitude. Even those with a W-2 are seeing their benefits reduced on a yearly basis while their pay is stagnant.
The former middle class is going extinct. The top 1% has more then ever. There is a direct causal relationship between these two facts.
Even if he wins, he will never get to use that domain name in the future. The most he could recover would be a fraction of the annual income he made from the site for a handful of years. And since he's filing the lawsuit in the US, it's not clear if he could collect even if he wins.
What could he do, place a lien of the French embassy in Washington? It's extra-territorial so US law does not apply.
He's reduced to filing what is a effectively a nuance suit that will be settled for a pittance because he has no leverage.
Make no mistake about it, the "social credit" score isnt' about ran numbers, it's where you ladder-rank among other citizens. And what do you to to climb that rank for "benefits"
1, Don't do crime
2. "Volunteer" to do free labor for the state (communism)
Facebook wants to have it both ways: they want no regulation and they want the protection of a common carrier. The result is a monopolistic monster that will sell any bit of info that it can lay it's hands on that has no internal or external control. As often happens, unbounded capitalism leads to negative outcomes.
The key phrase: "the company hopes to begin seeding the robots in employees' homes". The pool of Google employees is a demographic that relates to no other demographic in the world except other massive Silicon Valley companies or Microsoft. What other group is extremely well educated, has a high income, an extremely skewed rate of people on the Asperger spectrum, very limited cultural diversity, a glaring lack of women, and is completely immersed in technology?
Let's face it: Google workers often don't even have a home life. They're at work all the time. Some of them live in dorms or sleep in their cars.
So how is testing with that group going to be any help when it comes to making a robot work with normal households? Normal homes have old people, babies, children, pets, visitors, repair workers, cleaning people, etc. There are shut ins and people with physical and mental impairments. It can be a changing cast of characters or a fixed set of people.
Just like facial recognition, there will not be enough diversity to cover real world situations. Xbox face tracking failed at first because the training sets were mostly white men, so when women or people of different backgrounds were trying to use the system they were not recognized as trackable faces. Same with Apple face recognition software.
Silicon Valley never learns. They are in a near impenetrable bubble of their own making. When it comes to deployment in the real world, they always come up short. (Now think about how well self driving cars are going to perform when they are widely used...)
Your argument is specious. You are setting a standard that is impossible to meet and is radically different then the way scientific results are judged.
Science is based on testable theories that are repeatably verified. An accepted theory is superseded when it fails a test and a new theory is proposed that passes all the previous tests plus the new tests. The old theory isn't wrong, because it was verified up to the point it failed. It was replaced by something better.
This is exactly the case with Newtonian gravity vs Einsteinian gravity. Newton's description is all that is needed until the realm of relativity is encountered. That's why the only item you use that requires Einsteinian effects is GPS.
Your position can be re-framed to support the flat earth theory: a flat earth can't be ruled out because the edge hasn't been found yet.
As a worker under the US Medical/Wall-Street Industrial Complex, you should work as long as you are able to pay health bills while being as sick as possible. All income not spent on medical treatment or health insurance should go to the Entertainment/Food/Automotive Complex or the Shelter/Clothing Complex. When you can no longer fulfill your financial responsibilities to any of the Government/Economic Complex members you should immediately die because you are not generating enough profit or taxes to justify your continuing existence. You will get assistance for a quick death by having all possible assets stripped from your personal control.
It's easy to grasp once you accept that you are effectively an animal that exists to make a profit for someone else.
Get with the program or you will die very quickly and even more unpleasantly. This is your only instruction/warning.
The nominal value of crypto-currency is a consensual agreement among it's users. The technology is the hand waving part that gives a pseudo-rationality to the shared delusion. At the point that enough people doubt the value it ceases to exist.
Nations that maintain currencies have resources to manage currency: courts, law enforcement, armies, laws, taxes, international agreements, the world wide banking system. And even with all that it's not always possible to keep things from going haywire.
Crypto-currency is dependent on a rule of law maintained by the same entities that are responsible for regular currency. It is intrinsically less secure then regular traditional money.
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does that mean nothing NVIDIA or Intel says can be true, just because they sell GPUs / CPUs?
Moving away from a boolean value of True or False, the correct answer is not completely True. That is guaranteed because of marketing BS.
There are hard numbers that claim revolutionary speed and quality increases. These are also guaranteed to also be not completely True because of marketing BS. Core counts, clock speed and memory size do not scale linearly with results, even though that is implied by marketing comparisons.
So called "real world" tests are also deliberately misleading. As they say, YMMV. It's always a cherry picking contest driven by, you guessed it, marketing.
Is it better then it was 10 year ago? Yes, of course it is. How much? Somewhere between 1.5 and 5 times better, for some vague value of "better". Moore's Law, an exponential size over time relationship, maps very indirectly into user land.
For nearly 100 years the oil business has received tax breaks that are a de facto government subsidy.
Big Oil follows the same playbook as Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, and the gun lobby. Lie, fund propaganda and buy influence to avoid the real economic cost of dangerous products.
The historical pattern has been that government at the local level, which bears the brunt of the economic cost, uses the civil court system to counter failed Federal policies. This happened with Big Tobacco, and is now occurring with Big Pharma over the opioid epidemic. Now it may be the Fossil Fuel industries turn.
Your position is Libertarian bullshit. Consumers have no real choice against powerful entrenched special interests. The playing field is not level and claiming otherwise is just propaganda. Stop lying.
The United States of Mickey Mouse.
He's an authoritarian personality type, which is why he loves dictators like Putin and Kim Jong Un.
Specifically, your use of the term "sjw" is a dog-whistle/code word for abusive and bullying behavior. You want to be able to demean people online based on gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity and/or political affiliation. You are conflating "free speech" with personal attacks, lies and mud slinging. Your intent is to deny online access to anyone you disagree with. You don't want free speech, you want hate speech.
Do your opponents act in a similar fashion? They do to a small extent, but compared to the torrent of violent hate speech that spews from the right wing any thing else is inconsequential.
You don't want free speech and you don't want democracy. You want a country that look like Putin's Russia. Instead of trying to wreck democracy here why don't you go to Putin's Russia. I'm sure you would fit right in.
I'm asking this question and I'm not being snarky about it: do you follow this practice for your own email use? I'm curious.
Even so I can infer from your comment that you are an idiot.
The short answer: Both Putin and Trump do an absolutely crappy job running their respective countries, so if Putin was telling Trump what to do it would make no difference. Crap in, crap out.
Make no mistake. Except for getting caught, Putin was telling Trump what policy he wanted from the US and Trump wanted to give it to him. I assume it has something to do with the blackmail material that Russia has on Trump. It might or might not be a sex tape, but Putin has Trump under his thumb somehow. I think it has to do bribes and international money laundering at a minium. This was going on years before Trump even got into politics.
Putin has Trump by his (tiny) balls and you don't care. He's a traitor and you are on his side. What does that make you?
Because Republicans seem to be perfectly happy keeping his puppet Trump in power with zero oversight.
There is noise in both electronic recording and analog recording. Film has grain and mechanical uncertainly from the camera and the projector. This is due to physical positioning uncertainty when a frame is exposed or projected (or scanned). The perfs (square holes) that hold the film in place have tolerances and so do the mechanics of the film gate, which holds the film in place. No two sequential frames are in the exact same location.
Electronic image sensors have intrinsic noise as do electronic projectors. Both also have a quantized grid that limits the spacial resolution. Film also has grain characteristics that limit spacial resolution.
From a practical standpoint, current 4K camera and display technology are very similar to the best motion picture film standards. The electronic production process has no mechanical position variability like film and it is possible to track color from the camera source to the projector, so color reproduction can be better then film. The gamut of electronic projection is greater then any film stock, although film can record subtle shades that seem to be missing in electronic recording and projection.
I suggest that you stay where your are in your parent's basement until he finishes the Fill Metal Jacket sequel. (Kubrick died in 1999.)
If you are doing software or cleaning floors, it's still a 15 hour day.
Given how stagnant pay has been over the last 10 to 15 years, you are certainly making the same amount of money and working a lot more hours then you used to. Just look at the ever widening divide between the really rich and everyone else if think I'm wrong.
Not rich == having a fixed salary or working freelance. The gig economy is freelance indentured servitude. Even those with a W-2 are seeing their benefits reduced on a yearly basis while their pay is stagnant.
The former middle class is going extinct. The top 1% has more then ever. There is a direct causal relationship between these two facts.
What could he do, place a lien of the French embassy in Washington? It's extra-territorial so US law does not apply.
He's reduced to filing what is a effectively a nuance suit that will be settled for a pittance because he has no leverage.
BINGO! Exactly!
Make no mistake about it, the "social credit" score isnt' about ran numbers, it's where you ladder-rank among other citizens. And what do you to to climb that rank for "benefits"
1, Don't do crime
2. "Volunteer" to do free labor for the state (communism)
3. Bribe your way to the top.
4. Be born rich
There is a real lack of technical information in the reporting, at least so far.
Facebook wants to have it both ways: they want no regulation and they want the protection of a common carrier. The result is a monopolistic monster that will sell any bit of info that it can lay it's hands on that has no internal or external control. As often happens, unbounded capitalism leads to negative outcomes.
The key phrase: "the company hopes to begin seeding the robots in employees' homes". The pool of Google employees is a demographic that relates to no other demographic in the world except other massive Silicon Valley companies or Microsoft. What other group is extremely well educated, has a high income, an extremely skewed rate of people on the Asperger spectrum, very limited cultural diversity, a glaring lack of women, and is completely immersed in technology?
Let's face it: Google workers often don't even have a home life. They're at work all the time. Some of them live in dorms or sleep in their cars.
So how is testing with that group going to be any help when it comes to making a robot work with normal households? Normal homes have old people, babies, children, pets, visitors, repair workers, cleaning people, etc. There are shut ins and people with physical and mental impairments. It can be a changing cast of characters or a fixed set of people.
Just like facial recognition, there will not be enough diversity to cover real world situations. Xbox face tracking failed at first because the training sets were mostly white men, so when women or people of different backgrounds were trying to use the system they were not recognized as trackable faces. Same with Apple face recognition software.
Silicon Valley never learns. They are in a near impenetrable bubble of their own making. When it comes to deployment in the real world, they always come up short. (Now think about how well self driving cars are going to perform when they are widely used...)
He only uses his AOL account for trolling on Slashdot.
His brain is made of turds. Glad to fix that detail for you.
Science is based on testable theories that are repeatably verified. An accepted theory is superseded when it fails a test and a new theory is proposed that passes all the previous tests plus the new tests. The old theory isn't wrong, because it was verified up to the point it failed. It was replaced by something better.
This is exactly the case with Newtonian gravity vs Einsteinian gravity. Newton's description is all that is needed until the realm of relativity is encountered. That's why the only item you use that requires Einsteinian effects is GPS.
Your position can be re-framed to support the flat earth theory: a flat earth can't be ruled out because the edge hasn't been found yet.
So far evolution has not eliminated gross stupidity, so the prospect for future reductions in stupid do not look good.
RS -232 actually worked most of the time, unlike the other examples.
It's easy to grasp once you accept that you are effectively an animal that exists to make a profit for someone else.
Get with the program or you will die very quickly and even more unpleasantly. This is your only instruction/warning.
If nowhere else, all their personal data is safely stored on a secure server in Russia. Besides whatever Facebook actually has available.
The nominal value of crypto-currency is a consensual agreement among it's users. The technology is the hand waving part that gives a pseudo-rationality to the shared delusion. At the point that enough people doubt the value it ceases to exist.
Nations that maintain currencies have resources to manage currency: courts, law enforcement, armies, laws, taxes, international agreements, the world wide banking system. And even with all that it's not always possible to keep things from going haywire.
Crypto-currency is dependent on a rule of law maintained by the same entities that are responsible for regular currency. It is intrinsically less secure then regular traditional money.
And you can take that to the bank.