Someone who still believes in the old 'engineer the complex systems control software', you know, the method that tried and failed to delivery high quality handwriting recognotion, voice recognition and synthesis, vision systems, etc, etc.
While machine learning is way over hyped in what it CAN do, this is a perfect an example of where it fits perfectly in to place. ie: no 'engineer' is trying to solve these complex equations (or even characterise them) any more, they are brute force tuned with machine learning.
What that basically means is a loop whereby the record the control and response data for a run, feed it back through a brute force error minimization algorithm tuning a few thousand (or tens of..) tuning parameters, run it all again, rinse, repeat.
The people making $$$$ are out the door pretty much once the structure of the learning loop is good enough, then its all just cloud processing time.
https://www.medicaldaily.com/vegetarians-cause-more-greenhouse-gas-emissions-meat-eaters-worst-foods-environment-365398 "Eating lettuce is over three times worse in greenhouse gas emissions than eating bacon," "Lots of common vegetables require more resources per calorie than you would think. Eggplant, celery, and cucumbers look particularly bad when compared to pork or chicken."
And the methane has a rather short half-life in the atmosphere before it breaks down, much MUCH shorter than CO2. Which, somehow, the IPCC DOES NOT allow for in their calculations - gee, what a surprise.
However it does make the impact of big businesss (mostly CO2) look better with regard to farming (Methane).
BTW, when your local vegie is waxing lyrical about how evil meat is because of Methane, perhaps point out that race farming produces over half the methane of cattle farming, and thats only rice. The methane produced by the breakdown of crop waste, although nicely ignored by the IPCC in general, is estimated by other sources to contribute over 2 TIMES the amount of Methane as meat - however is discounted as a 'natural process', which is rather special.
Coal and oil extraction also produces MUCH more methane than meat farming, what a surprise (but rarely mentioned).
Basically the cattle/methane thing is a misdirection by big business - meat is not as profitable as other areas, so gets less protection funding.
Ignoring the disgusting US 'feed lot' mentality (why is it americans seem to think 'intensive' is always 'better'?) do you not realise that most of the worlds cattle are grown on pasture?
The cattle use this amazing technology called legs to wander around and eat that pasture, which is made mostly of grasses, which are both very efficient at growing, and not digestible to humans. Non intensive farming throughout most of the world required little if no additional water outside the stuff that falls from the sky, and a very small amount of fertiliser/chemicals (generally in the region of one application every several years, often lime around here, but that varies depending on region).
As to space - you need to get out more, really.
But no, I'm sure from your city appartment you spend hours pouring over PETA horror stories of US feed lots (which are both terrible, and stupid). Still, whatever makes you feel morally superior I guess. As we know your bicycle directly converts CO2 to kittens, so you are doing your bit. I'll continue to maintain my 5 acres of green trees and gardens around the house, which as we know do nothing but rape the earth mother.
Just as soon as you grow the required multiple stomachs to process grasses.
Oh dear, you didnt realise a large amount of the worlds sheep/cattle are raised on pasture? You didnt realise that the USs disgusting 'feed lot' system isnt the norm, and other countries generally avoid such fucked up approaches?
Next you will be worrying about how much water the cattle 'consume' because as we know they have internal fusion reactors, and they dont just piss the water back out half a day later, as it returns to the natural cycle, and is cleaned up through the soil in a matter of weeks.
They are trivial. This is an indoor hydroponics conveyor. In skinny there are any actual robots involved (they themselves mention humans to plant and harvest).
It's just spin on yet another high intensity and expensive indoor grow operation. Yawn.
Call me when they can automated grow and pick strawberries, potatoes, and broccoli, all of which have much MUCH more involved processes.
I also suspect they plan to make money by selling the tech and VC.. not from the crop, and the capex payback period would be huge.
They are making so many cause and effect assumptions here it is just mind-blowing.. And they call it science.. Without of course a single falsifiable claim.
This is just pure opinion politics, of a very specific type.
The assumption that average temperature somehow controls GDP for example.. Just hilarious, and of course stupid.
Yes, reporters are very light. It's a little known fact that they continuously produce large amounts of internal hot air. If they do not constantly emit this hot air they can actually float away and vanish. This is why they spend most of their time talkingb complete rubbish, in an attempt to emit as much hot air as possible.
You should feel sorry for them, as there is little time left to do anything actually useful with their lives.
You think you live in a capitalist free market? Interesting.
I assume you also think it is somehow good that you paid your government to produce, store, then ship 20,000 pallets of water to PuertoRico, but that no one in that same government gave a shit about them actually being used to help anyone, because the profit had been made, the tickboxes had been ticked, and the bureaucrats all got their good feelz on.
BTW, and I suspect it is over your head, TSMC is producing all of these chips - do you know what the T stands for? Hint: its not USASMC.
Tulips have at least some base value, and dont consume continuous and massive amounts of energy just to allow their sale to be recorded. Tulips are a WAY more sensible investment than Cryptocurrencies;)
BTW, the story is also BS. The.com crash wiped many many more investors (well, wiped out in a way, because money is only transferred, there were just as many winners - this is often forgotten). A lot of this 'lost value' in cryptocurrencies was never traded, it was just huge percentages of the total coins held by a few whales. ie: those static amounts went up, went down, but were never realized. This makes a big difference.
Then again, boom bust cycles are a great tool for those in control to extract money from the middle classes - who are always the investors who lose out (and dont get bailed out, ever..) - which is why you will never see effective regulation of such things.
The sheeple could vote for them instead of seeing them as the fools they are? The center right could rapidly move towards a more totalitarian, authoritarian state, based on violation of personal privacy and rights, forcing people to vote for the other crowd?
No, sure that could never happen, not in Great Britain.
Of course it is an assault on consumers! Mostly, I would imagine, because it is not an Apple product, and that is the Verge.
A headline like 'Google released improved USB-C headphone adapter, with small price increase' would be WAY too much to ask for. After all, Google is evil (true), Apple is not evil (ummm...).
Because somehow they managed to make these toys cost $175k each. I can only assume that they are planning to get the government on the hook somehow, because even the cartels are likely to baulk at that price.
I mean really, $175k each.. is there ANY conceivable use that would not make that price just a joke? Of course it is noy even distantly TRUE, but thats the story they are trying to spin.. so...
Because they CAN get Farcebook, I guess they Must get Farcebook. I mean, you would think they could just choose to turn off their devices, not bring a charger, whatever.
Although knowing people from such areas, I suspect it is more about giving one big finger to 'thems city folks' (even if most of these people live in the cit\y most of the time).
Anyway, good on them for caring, but good luck in keeping such things out. The safety point is also quite valid.
Did you not GET the memo? We are required to be horrified, incensed, and reactionary to a death due to nuclear power.
Those 30,000 people who died form the tsunami, well, its really just natural causes, right? right? Same for the massive property destruction, the families torn apart! None of that comes CLOSE to a single death due to the man made satan of nuclear power!
What we need is MORE reports of ANY form of radiation measurement, because ALL RADIATION KILLS. We should check every basement! every banana! This radiation is directly caused by mankind intentionally destroying the lovely natural Gaia we evolved in harmony with!
It MUST be STOPPED!
Instead we should burn lovely natural warming sweet delicious coal. Ok, so there is a little radiation release from that, but its nice NATURAL radiation, and anyway, the lung cancer is usually from the carcinogens in the soot, so it doesn't count! thats NATURAL cancer!
Yes, horrific isnt it. Why dont people take this more seriously? I mean it haves the estimated 800,000 deaths a year thanks to coal power look like nothing! I mean, 3 humans, lives snuffed out by the horror of nuclear power - and what does it give us? can anyone think of a single benefit?
We urgently need to close down ALL nuclear power! Think of the children!
As a parent of teenagers, I'm surprised you let them piss on you like that. Do they give you a weekly allowance, and tell you off if you are home late also?
Trust is them giving you the password, and you not using it unless you need to, NOT them keeping it from you.
It was a little painful, however I felt it deserved that much since I strongly felt it was not chosen on merit. I have certainly read worse. As fiction it is average - very politically correct in certain circles, very gaia-eco, a VERY thin wrapping of 'science' which seems mostly to be added after the fact where complains about previous books are 'fixed' in later ones.
As SCIENCE fiction it is very very weak, it does little outside 'we are in the future' 'I say this is so, so it is' and 'I am not calling this magic, but really we all know it is'.
The storylines are weak, the characters are FAR too black and white, and the plot twists/surprises seem far too scheduled/engineered.
The fact that all three won the top award, consecutively, is a huge insult to other current writers, sadly.
But I did read them, they were 'average', with that being possibly a little kind to them.
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Someone who still believes in the old 'engineer the complex systems control software', you know, the method that tried and failed to delivery high quality handwriting recognotion, voice recognition and synthesis, vision systems, etc, etc.
While machine learning is way over hyped in what it CAN do, this is a perfect an example of where it fits perfectly in to place.
ie: no 'engineer' is trying to solve these complex equations (or even characterise them) any more, they are brute force tuned with machine learning.
What that basically means is a loop whereby the record the control and response data for a run, feed it back through a brute force error minimization
algorithm tuning a few thousand (or tens of..) tuning parameters, run it all again, rinse, repeat.
The people making $$$$ are out the door pretty much once the structure of the learning loop is good enough, then its all just cloud processing time.
https://www.medicaldaily.com/vegetarians-cause-more-greenhouse-gas-emissions-meat-eaters-worst-foods-environment-365398
"Eating lettuce is over three times worse in greenhouse gas emissions than eating bacon,"
"Lots of common vegetables require more resources per calorie than you would think. Eggplant, celery, and cucumbers look particularly bad when compared to pork or chicken."
But dont let facts get in the way..
And the methane has a rather short half-life in the atmosphere before it breaks down, much MUCH shorter than CO2.
Which, somehow, the IPCC DOES NOT allow for in their calculations - gee, what a surprise.
However it does make the impact of big businesss (mostly CO2) look better with regard to farming (Methane).
BTW, when your local vegie is waxing lyrical about how evil meat is because of Methane, perhaps point out that race farming produces over half the methane of cattle farming, and thats only rice. The methane produced by the breakdown of crop waste, although nicely ignored by the IPCC in general, is estimated by other sources to contribute over 2 TIMES the amount of Methane as meat - however is discounted as a 'natural process', which is rather special.
Coal and oil extraction also produces MUCH more methane than meat farming, what a surprise (but rarely mentioned).
Basically the cattle/methane thing is a misdirection by big business - meat is not as profitable as other areas, so gets less protection funding.
Ignoring the disgusting US 'feed lot' mentality (why is it americans seem to think 'intensive' is always 'better'?) do you not realise
that most of the worlds cattle are grown on pasture?
The cattle use this amazing technology called legs to wander around and eat that pasture, which is made mostly of grasses, which are
both very efficient at growing, and not digestible to humans. Non intensive farming throughout most of the world required little if no additional
water outside the stuff that falls from the sky, and a very small amount of fertiliser/chemicals (generally in the region of one application every several years,
often lime around here, but that varies depending on region).
As to space - you need to get out more, really.
But no, I'm sure from your city appartment you spend hours pouring over PETA horror stories of US feed lots (which are both terrible, and stupid).
Still, whatever makes you feel morally superior I guess. As we know your bicycle directly converts CO2 to kittens, so you are doing your bit.
I'll continue to maintain my 5 acres of green trees and gardens around the house, which as we know do nothing but rape the earth mother.
Just as soon as you grow the required multiple stomachs to process grasses.
Oh dear, you didnt realise a large amount of the worlds sheep/cattle are raised on pasture?
You didnt realise that the USs disgusting 'feed lot' system isnt the norm, and other countries generally avoid such fucked up approaches?
Next you will be worrying about how much water the cattle 'consume' because as we know they have internal fusion reactors, and they
dont just piss the water back out half a day later, as it returns to the natural cycle, and is cleaned up through the soil in a matter of weeks.
All that juicy delicious pork will be very useful on the moon also....
So why are they only vaccinating women?
Oh. Yes. I remember... Only the protected classes count.
Silly me.
They are trivial. This is an indoor hydroponics conveyor. In skinny there are any actual robots involved (they themselves mention humans to plant and harvest).
It's just spin on yet another high intensity and expensive indoor grow operation. Yawn.
Call me when they can automated grow and pick strawberries, potatoes, and broccoli, all of which have much MUCH more involved processes.
I also suspect they plan to make money by selling the tech and VC.. not from the crop, and the capex payback period would be huge.
They are making so many cause and effect assumptions here it is just mind-blowing..
And they call it science.. Without of course a single falsifiable claim.
This is just pure opinion politics, of a very specific type.
The assumption that average temperature somehow controls GDP for example.. Just hilarious, and of course stupid.
It's taken this long for it to be slashvertised so it is obviously not important enough.
Admittedly the bs factor in the slashvertisement is quite impressive, but still, sorry, try harder next time Apple.
Yes, reporters are very light.
It's a little known fact that they continuously produce large amounts of internal hot air. If they do not constantly emit this hot air they can actually float away and vanish.
This is why they spend most of their time talkingb complete rubbish, in an attempt to emit as much hot air as possible.
You should feel sorry for them, as there is little time left to do anything actually useful with their lives.
The obvious solution is either:
Commissar and Serf or Pig and Equal.
After all, we all wish to bath in the warm happiness of National Socialism.
You think you live in a capitalist free market?
Interesting.
I assume you also think it is somehow good that you paid your government to produce, store, then ship 20,000 pallets of water to PuertoRico, but that no one in that same government gave a shit about them actually being used to help anyone, because the profit had been made, the tickboxes had been ticked, and the bureaucrats all got their good feelz on.
BTW, and I suspect it is over your head, TSMC is producing all of these chips - do you know what the T stands for?
Hint: its not USASMC.
Tulips have at least some base value, and dont consume continuous and massive amounts of energy just to allow their sale to be recorded. ;)
Tulips are a WAY more sensible investment than Cryptocurrencies
BTW, the story is also BS. The .com crash wiped many many more investors (well, wiped out in a way, because money is only transferred, there were just as many winners - this is often forgotten). A lot of this 'lost value' in cryptocurrencies was never traded, it was just huge percentages of the total coins held by a few whales.
ie: those static amounts went up, went down, but were never realized. This makes a big difference.
Then again, boom bust cycles are a great tool for those in control to extract money from the middle classes - who are always the investors who lose out (and dont get bailed out, ever..) - which is why you will never see effective regulation of such things.
The sheeple could vote for them instead of seeing them as the fools they are?
The center right could rapidly move towards a more totalitarian, authoritarian state, based on violation of personal privacy and rights, forcing people to vote for the other crowd?
No, sure that could never happen, not in Great Britain.
Hmmmm...
Of course it is an assault on consumers!
Mostly, I would imagine, because it is not an Apple product, and that is the Verge.
A headline like 'Google released improved USB-C headphone adapter, with small price increase' would be WAY too much to ask for.
After all, Google is evil (true), Apple is not evil (ummm...).
Because somehow they managed to make these toys cost $175k each.
I can only assume that they are planning to get the government on the hook somehow, because even the cartels are likely to baulk at that price.
I mean really, $175k each.. is there ANY conceivable use that would not make that price just a joke?
Of course it is noy even distantly TRUE, but thats the story they are trying to spin.. so...
Because they CAN get Farcebook, I guess they Must get Farcebook.
I mean, you would think they could just choose to turn off their devices, not bring a charger, whatever.
Although knowing people from such areas, I suspect it is more about giving one big finger to 'thems city folks' (even if most of these people live in the cit\y most of the time).
Anyway, good on them for caring, but good luck in keeping such things out. The safety point is also quite valid.
Did you not GET the memo?
We are required to be horrified, incensed, and reactionary to a death due to nuclear power.
Those 30,000 people who died form the tsunami, well, its really just natural causes, right? right?
Same for the massive property destruction, the families torn apart! None of that comes CLOSE to a single death due to the man made satan of nuclear power!
What we need is MORE reports of ANY form of radiation measurement, because ALL RADIATION KILLS.
We should check every basement! every banana!
This radiation is directly caused by mankind intentionally destroying the lovely natural Gaia we evolved in harmony with!
It MUST be STOPPED!
Instead we should burn lovely natural warming sweet delicious coal. Ok, so there is a little radiation release from that, but its nice NATURAL radiation, and anyway, the lung cancer is usually from the carcinogens in the soot, so it doesn't count! thats NATURAL cancer!
Yes, horrific isnt it.
Why dont people take this more seriously? I mean it haves the estimated 800,000 deaths a year thanks to coal power look like nothing!
I mean, 3 humans, lives snuffed out by the horror of nuclear power - and what does it give us? can anyone think of a single benefit?
We urgently need to close down ALL nuclear power! Think of the children!
As a parent of teenagers, I'm surprised you let them piss on you like that.
Do they give you a weekly allowance, and tell you off if you are home late also?
Trust is them giving you the password, and you not using it unless you need to, NOT them keeping it from you.
No. No they are not.
Complications are complex mechanical great systems used in mechanical watches to display other items like Moon phase, stored power, etc..
It is not a name for 'displayed on a watch face'
But they are trying to misuse it to sound more 'expensive watch' like.
No. They are just digital displays.
It has happened about as often as people in the room have managed to use their guns to stop a mass shooting.
ie: both are statistically a fiction.
In which case why are they not charging him with that?
Yes, I did.
It was a little painful, however I felt it deserved that much since I strongly felt it was not chosen on merit. I have certainly read worse.
As fiction it is average - very politically correct in certain circles, very gaia-eco, a VERY thin wrapping of 'science' which seems mostly to be added after the fact where complains about previous books are 'fixed' in later ones.
As SCIENCE fiction it is very very weak, it does little outside 'we are in the future' 'I say this is so, so it is' and 'I am not calling this magic, but really we all know it is'.
The storylines are weak, the characters are FAR too black and white, and the plot twists/surprises seem far too scheduled/engineered.
The fact that all three won the top award, consecutively, is a huge insult to other current writers, sadly.
But I did read them, they were 'average', with that being possibly a little kind to them.