These people aren't necessarily going to 'bad' movies (whatever that means). Friends get together and want to do something. Hey, why not see this movie, at no additional cost since you all have MoviePass? Or, SO wants to see this RomCom which you have NO interest in but decide to go if it's free and you get brownie points with the SO. Or, you're totally unsure about some film that's polarizing or only for a certain kind of person (Oscar bait, genre-busting films etc.) and you figure for the low cost of free it's worth maybe checking out. Or you were normally just gonna wait for the home video release, and figure it's actually cheaper to see it in the theater. The issue's moot since they're likely to run out of cash in the next month unless someone invests in them/buys them out for some crazy reason. The MPAA might have enough sway to resurrect the concept in exchange for negotiating vastly-reduced ticket prices, otherwise I don't see it being profitable. And that's unlikely to happen until movies stop breaking sales records every single year. Unless Marvel manages to Guitar Hero itself, I don't see that happening in the near future.
To be more specific: 'artificial' has a relatively easy-to-nail-down definition. noone is denying that current AI isn't artificial enough to meet the definition (although if someone started growing/training isolated brain tissue, that might change). 'intelligence' is a notoriously difficult concept to nail down, much like 'consciousness', and it's well-accepted that there is a continuum of intelligence, and most likely more than just one kind of intelligence. Few psychologists still ascribe to the idea that 'general mental ability' is the only form of intelligence.
Therefore, it's possible for an AI to have intelligence in one narrow field (e.g. a specialist system) but have zero intelligence in other fields. Strong AI generally refers to a general intelligence, i.e. possessing at least some intelligence in ALL fields. But wait, which exact fields constitute 'all fields'? Psychologists can't quite agree on that, so the best answer one could get is 'everything a human/mammal could learn', although that's arguably arbitrary. Why not, every field of learning a Fruit Fly has? Or plankton?
Looked at this way, it's very easy to move the goalposts to another, more intelligent being, or include a field of learning that wasn't previously considered important/crucial to intelligence.
Thanks, guess that explains why cars get redesigned aesthetics every 5 years or so. I'm wondering why clothing fashions don't get design patents, then. The lesson to Samsung is that they should've stuck with stock Android:P
Design patents sound like trademark to me, are you suggesting that the same standard should apply? I.e. if it wouldn't confuse an average consumer, then it's not infringing?
If these milk crystals can be synthesized, then I could see them used in protein bars or something, otherwise it sounds like harvesting them would be too expensive. Also, anyone remember how ~15 years ago, the hype was that Ostrich meat was going to be the next big thing that everyone would eat breakfast, lunch, AND dinner? I tried an ostrich burger and it was ok, but then I never heard about/saw them since.
Incidentally, TFA says they'll only attempt to proceed with this IF the ATT/time warner deal is approved. If it's not, then Disney's current offer will likely stand.
How about the truth score is moderated by awarded journalists and editors who are well-known for casting light on corruption, and wish to maintain that reputation? That's about as good as one could hope for. Of course, such an effort would be better created by, say, Reporters Without Borders, than a random billionaire.
Maybe that's secretly the point? That the average ignoramus is unlikely to pollute the site... at least until it's too late to do so. Then, like wikipedia, ordinary people find out about and start visiting it.
Funnily enough I was just considering this today. I suspect part 1 will come out in a year or two. What exactly is on their plate after KH3, DQ11 International, DQ Builders 2, and the last of the FF15 episodes are out? They can reallocate to FF7 remake after those are shipped. I suspect the PS5 will come out in 2020, around a year and a half after the first 7nm video cards are out. Recall the PS4 came out ~18 months after the first 28nm video cards came out. They could be waiting for 5nm, but who knows if that'll end up ahead of or behind schedule, since it'll be dependent on figuring out how to iterate on EUV lithography, which noone has iterated on before. They could also theoretically be waiting on SSDs to become cheap enough to use in consoles, although RAM density is a better bet.
I'd rather have Siri behind the wheel of my neighbors' cars than my neighbors. Sure, it'd just stay in Park because Siri can't drive, but then the roadways would be clear for me. Problem solved.
I imagine civilians lost a lot of faith in 'aeroplanes' after they dropped a bunch of bombs on them during ww2. After a bunch of test pilots died because parachutes hadn't been invented yet. After a bunch of barnstormers died pushing the limits of airplane controls. After an endless procession of adverse weather, mundane mechanical failures, and human errors.
The bugs were worked out, pilot training was drastically improved, and it was figured out what was needed for safe flight. And now commercial air travel is far safer than the automobile trip to the airport. Wait, automotives are crazy dangerous, and one of the leading causes of death, yet lots of people drive them around on public roads for fun. Public opinion on self-driving cars will change once the bugs are worked out and it's figured out how to make it safe. Just like with planes and automobiles, it will likely take a few decades to really figure it all out, though. Hint: Google has been working on their self-driving-car tech since 2009.
Word is that Tesla will need another round of funding before they can fulfill all the existing Model 3 orders. It makes sense they'd try to avoid this by fulfilling the most profitable orders first. There are likely enough of those to 'put off' the $35k Model 3 for a while. Given they recently announced options for a more powerful Model 3, they're likely going to remain in 'premium' territory for a while. Soon they'll be making more Model 3s each month than Bolts are made each year, so it's not like competition is stiff; they can afford to keep the less-profitable customers waiting. Worst case scenario, Musk pulls a Bezos and gives a Billion to Tesla (a la Blue Origin).
The major music labels arguably all do the same thing anyhow (the RIAA doesn't help with this), how many bands can you tell what label they're with? It's not like DC vs. Marvel, or Pixar vs. Dreamworks, where it's pretty clear which is which.
Ontopic: Finding new music is easier than ever, now. No more listening to the radio station you like and praying you hear something that's not in heavy rotation, or that something new rotates in. Now there are countless online streams, satellite radio channels, and websites dedicated to finding/hearing new music (e.g. Pandora). Youtube has plenty of old/rare music as well; want a video of Rodney Dangerfield rapping, or a lost performance of a jazz great? They've got it. Many online music stores let you play back parts of songs that are for sale, to tell if you like them (or if it's that song you're trying to find). And there are other sites dedicated to free (legal) streams and downloads, where I tend to find the best stuff (e.g. Bandcamp, Soundcloud). On the internet, almost nothing is TOO obscure to find.
After all the speculative execution flaws are found and fixed (in hardware or software) the question won't be how much of a slowdown those fixes cause, but how much of a speedup from speculative execution remains.
Some companies e.g. Google say that when they decide who to promote, the person with authority who makes the decision doesn't see information about a candidate's protected statuses (age, sex etc.) and thus it's non-discriminatory. However, metric-driven companies can use a metric as a basis of who to promote/give a raise/fire... and that metric may be affected by a protected status. For example, someone who is disabled in some way, and can do the job, but is therefore a little slower than other employees. One potential way around this is to give a 'handicap' to metrics of protected classes that have associated statistical tendencies that affect their metrics; of course this is then positive discrimination, and may not be fair/legal.
I wonder if it was really ONLY RNA being moved between the snails. Perhaps some hormones were inadvertently getting injected as well. Injecting RNA shouldn't have any immediate effect, until and unless it's processed to produce proteins. Alternatively, perhaps some of the epigenetic structures function like prions, and merely by chemically interacting with other RNA, can 'infect' its epigenetic structures.
This was covered by Randall Monroe in his 'What If' series. Conclusion: immunocompromised people remain reservoirs of pathogens, since it takes longer than a week for them to eliminate the infection. We could probably quarantine those people longer, but that'd include the elderly and infants, and there are members of both groups that can't care for themselves for a few weeks. HIV-positive people might end up in permanent quarantine...
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These people aren't necessarily going to 'bad' movies (whatever that means). Friends get together and want to do something. Hey, why not see this movie, at no additional cost since you all have MoviePass? Or, SO wants to see this RomCom which you have NO interest in but decide to go if it's free and you get brownie points with the SO. Or, you're totally unsure about some film that's polarizing or only for a certain kind of person (Oscar bait, genre-busting films etc.) and you figure for the low cost of free it's worth maybe checking out. Or you were normally just gonna wait for the home video release, and figure it's actually cheaper to see it in the theater.
The issue's moot since they're likely to run out of cash in the next month unless someone invests in them/buys them out for some crazy reason. The MPAA might have enough sway to resurrect the concept in exchange for negotiating vastly-reduced ticket prices, otherwise I don't see it being profitable. And that's unlikely to happen until movies stop breaking sales records every single year. Unless Marvel manages to Guitar Hero itself, I don't see that happening in the near future.
That's funny, Bixby just tells me "you have nothing suitable so just go naked". Must've used GPS to determine I'm in a nudist commune.
To be more specific:
'artificial' has a relatively easy-to-nail-down definition. noone is denying that current AI isn't artificial enough to meet the definition (although if someone started growing/training isolated brain tissue, that might change).
'intelligence' is a notoriously difficult concept to nail down, much like 'consciousness', and it's well-accepted that there is a continuum of intelligence, and most likely more than just one kind of intelligence. Few psychologists still ascribe to the idea that 'general mental ability' is the only form of intelligence.
Therefore, it's possible for an AI to have intelligence in one narrow field (e.g. a specialist system) but have zero intelligence in other fields. Strong AI generally refers to a general intelligence, i.e. possessing at least some intelligence in ALL fields. But wait, which exact fields constitute 'all fields'? Psychologists can't quite agree on that, so the best answer one could get is 'everything a human/mammal could learn', although that's arguably arbitrary. Why not, every field of learning a Fruit Fly has? Or plankton?
Looked at this way, it's very easy to move the goalposts to another, more intelligent being, or include a field of learning that wasn't previously considered important/crucial to intelligence.
Putin's stepping down in 6 years (or so he claims), so they better hurry up.
Expect a Leia anthology film next. She has plenty of backstory that could be filled in (now that the EU has been tossed).
Thanks, guess that explains why cars get redesigned aesthetics every 5 years or so. I'm wondering why clothing fashions don't get design patents, then. :P
The lesson to Samsung is that they should've stuck with stock Android
Design patents sound like trademark to me, are you suggesting that the same standard should apply? I.e. if it wouldn't confuse an average consumer, then it's not infringing?
If these milk crystals can be synthesized, then I could see them used in protein bars or something, otherwise it sounds like harvesting them would be too expensive. Also, anyone remember how ~15 years ago, the hype was that Ostrich meat was going to be the next big thing that everyone would eat breakfast, lunch, AND dinner? I tried an ostrich burger and it was ok, but then I never heard about/saw them since.
No. And I don't, actually.
Incidentally, TFA says they'll only attempt to proceed with this IF the ATT/time warner deal is approved. If it's not, then Disney's current offer will likely stand.
How about the truth score is moderated by awarded journalists and editors who are well-known for casting light on corruption, and wish to maintain that reputation? That's about as good as one could hope for. Of course, such an effort would be better created by, say, Reporters Without Borders, than a random billionaire.
Maybe that's secretly the point? That the average ignoramus is unlikely to pollute the site... at least until it's too late to do so. Then, like wikipedia, ordinary people find out about and start visiting it.
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Funnily enough I was just considering this today. I suspect part 1 will come out in a year or two. What exactly is on their plate after KH3, DQ11 International, DQ Builders 2, and the last of the FF15 episodes are out? They can reallocate to FF7 remake after those are shipped. I suspect the PS5 will come out in 2020, around a year and a half after the first 7nm video cards are out. Recall the PS4 came out ~18 months after the first 28nm video cards came out. They could be waiting for 5nm, but who knows if that'll end up ahead of or behind schedule, since it'll be dependent on figuring out how to iterate on EUV lithography, which noone has iterated on before. They could also theoretically be waiting on SSDs to become cheap enough to use in consoles, although RAM density is a better bet.
I'd rather have Siri behind the wheel of my neighbors' cars than my neighbors. Sure, it'd just stay in Park because Siri can't drive, but then the roadways would be clear for me. Problem solved.
I imagine civilians lost a lot of faith in 'aeroplanes' after they dropped a bunch of bombs on them during ww2. After a bunch of test pilots died because parachutes hadn't been invented yet. After a bunch of barnstormers died pushing the limits of airplane controls. After an endless procession of adverse weather, mundane mechanical failures, and human errors.
The bugs were worked out, pilot training was drastically improved, and it was figured out what was needed for safe flight. And now commercial air travel is far safer than the automobile trip to the airport. Wait, automotives are crazy dangerous, and one of the leading causes of death, yet lots of people drive them around on public roads for fun.
Public opinion on self-driving cars will change once the bugs are worked out and it's figured out how to make it safe. Just like with planes and automobiles, it will likely take a few decades to really figure it all out, though. Hint: Google has been working on their self-driving-car tech since 2009.
Word is that Tesla will need another round of funding before they can fulfill all the existing Model 3 orders. It makes sense they'd try to avoid this by fulfilling the most profitable orders first. There are likely enough of those to 'put off' the $35k Model 3 for a while. Given they recently announced options for a more powerful Model 3, they're likely going to remain in 'premium' territory for a while. Soon they'll be making more Model 3s each month than Bolts are made each year, so it's not like competition is stiff; they can afford to keep the less-profitable customers waiting.
Worst case scenario, Musk pulls a Bezos and gives a Billion to Tesla (a la Blue Origin).
The major music labels arguably all do the same thing anyhow (the RIAA doesn't help with this), how many bands can you tell what label they're with? It's not like DC vs. Marvel, or Pixar vs. Dreamworks, where it's pretty clear which is which.
Ontopic: Finding new music is easier than ever, now. No more listening to the radio station you like and praying you hear something that's not in heavy rotation, or that something new rotates in. Now there are countless online streams, satellite radio channels, and websites dedicated to finding/hearing new music (e.g. Pandora). Youtube has plenty of old/rare music as well; want a video of Rodney Dangerfield rapping, or a lost performance of a jazz great? They've got it. Many online music stores let you play back parts of songs that are for sale, to tell if you like them (or if it's that song you're trying to find). And there are other sites dedicated to free (legal) streams and downloads, where I tend to find the best stuff (e.g. Bandcamp, Soundcloud). On the internet, almost nothing is TOO obscure to find.
Disney buying Fox, Sony buying EMI, T-Mobile merging with Sprint. Who needs competition?
After all the speculative execution flaws are found and fixed (in hardware or software) the question won't be how much of a slowdown those fixes cause, but how much of a speedup from speculative execution remains.
Were they using Chrome on the car, with custom settings?
Some companies e.g. Google say that when they decide who to promote, the person with authority who makes the decision doesn't see information about a candidate's protected statuses (age, sex etc.) and thus it's non-discriminatory.
However, metric-driven companies can use a metric as a basis of who to promote/give a raise/fire... and that metric may be affected by a protected status. For example, someone who is disabled in some way, and can do the job, but is therefore a little slower than other employees. One potential way around this is to give a 'handicap' to metrics of protected classes that have associated statistical tendencies that affect their metrics; of course this is then positive discrimination, and may not be fair/legal.
I wonder if it was really ONLY RNA being moved between the snails. Perhaps some hormones were inadvertently getting injected as well. Injecting RNA shouldn't have any immediate effect, until and unless it's processed to produce proteins. Alternatively, perhaps some of the epigenetic structures function like prions, and merely by chemically interacting with other RNA, can 'infect' its epigenetic structures.
Coming soon: child-in-a-hot-car alerts, child-accidentally-saw-someone-naked alerts, child-missed-school alerts, child-using-drugs alerts, child-feeling-depressed alerts, child-feeling-repressed alerts, child-defying-authority alerts, child-attempting-suicide alerts, public-child-funeral alerts, government-overreach alerts, government-collapse alerts, and finally no alerts once children are starving in a lawless land.
This was covered by Randall Monroe in his 'What If' series. Conclusion: immunocompromised people remain reservoirs of pathogens, since it takes longer than a week for them to eliminate the infection.
We could probably quarantine those people longer, but that'd include the elderly and infants, and there are members of both groups that can't care for themselves for a few weeks. HIV-positive people might end up in permanent quarantine...