Not quite. Self calibration has been around for a long time, but this robot actually figures out what shape it is and what its range of movement is, and constructs an internal model of that.
This could be useful for things like making robots able to continue operating when damaged. Like at the end of The Terminator where the Model 101 gets its skin and some limbs ripped off, but managed to continue crawling after its target anyway.
Missing the point. Contract violations are often subjective and need to be resolved in court. Meanwhile your business is fucked because all your internal apps don't work.
It's worth reading TFA because it is much more interesting than the summary.
Mozilla wants to build some kind of in-browser tool to assist with the up-coming European elections. The tool will look at your Facebook feed and the ads you see an provide some kind of break-down on who is targeting you. Or at least it would have, but some recent change to Facebook has apparently made it impossible.
This kind of transparency could actually be a really powerful tool. In fact Facebook should build it in to their platform.
Bringing engineers from China is hardly unexpected. Even if they could get all the talent they need locally, they would want to transfer some of the manufacturing knowledge and skill they developed at home, as well as some of the technology.
Japan did the same thing with car manufacturing in the US and Europe. At first they had a lot of Japanese staff on site, in time the American workers learned the processes and took over.
YouTube and parent Alphabet have substantial operations in the EU. You can submit GDPR requests via your Google account that you use to log in to YouTube, or go directly to takeout.google.com.
It's not really clear how GDPR would help in this case though.
Click on "subscriptions" and it shows you a list of all videos posted by channels you subscribe to in chronological order. I use it every day to see the latest videos from channels I'm interested in.
If you don't have videos stored up to cover your two week break (upload them before go, just publish while you are away using hotel wifi or whatever) then you are stretching yourself too thin.
I'm glad that people can make a living off YouTube, because they make some good content that I enjoy. I wish YouTube would provide more stability for them.
Scanning the lawsuit as filed it doesn't actually seem to provide any evidence that his call was illegally recorded. He doesn't seem to have any reason to think that it might have been.
The attack on Huawei is probably a factor too. Aside from Foxconn not wanting to risk having too many valuable assets in the US where the US government can get at them, and the danger that tariffs make it impossible to supply the plant, the Chinese government likely told them to reconsider as a form of retaliation.
To an extent YouTube's hands are tied by the need to obey the DMCA. If they get claims they have to act on them, there is no provision for them to determine if the claimant really does own the copyright they are claiming to.
The onus is on the victim to sue. The DMCA does make it a crime to falsely claim copyright ownership in bad faith, but good luck getting the FBI to investigate.
Keep in mind we didn't even have social media 30 years ago, so even if your movie review is banned it's not like there used to be an alternative way to publish to millions of people for free.
Sure, but the other thing about C# is that bit shifting is quite slow too. It really really isn't built for doing bitwise operations. And also there are fixed point maths libraries for this kind of stuff, although I suppose to be fair they might not have been available at the time they wrote it or available for the.NET Compact framework.
If I were doing it in C# I'd probably create a class, or if it was C I'd have INT16_TO_FIXED() and FIXED_TO_INT16() macros.
Still, that library saved our bacon when it turned out that Microsoft lied about Silverlight actually working on Windows Embedded Compact 7.
I was thinking of doing one of those one liner C progs that prints a logo or something, but never got around to it.
C# doesn't let you simply reinterpret binary as different types like that.
The person who wrote it was trying to avoid using floating point by multiplying everything by 65536. Windows CE doesn't require an FPU so it might have helped on some low end ARM systems, but in practice I really doubt it as by far the biggest bottleneck was the rendering on the GPU.
In any case, the name "one" is... Not great. Also the code didn't actually work properly anyway, so it's a case of premature optimization.
One day I'll find a better one and change it. Some of the old STM32 library code came close.
You completely missed the point. It's the classic "if you have nothing to hide..." argument.
Surely only criminals need to worry about the police using mass facial recognition, after all if you are not a criminal what does it matter if a computer sees your face somewhere?
In practice, such tools are always abused and while someone with sufficient resources may eventually prove their innocence, others will be railroaded into a plea bargain or end up with a black mark against their name for life.
TFA says he has only been editing for 13 years, and presumably there was some slow ramp-up at the start. He has a government job but it doesn't say if it's full time or not.
I'm guessing that a lot of edits were actually on non-article pages, like the talk pages or other wiki-wank admin stuff. It's like a game of D&D for rule-lawyers.
Why did they cooperate with Communist Russia? Why did they share technology with Russia?
Kennedy was hoping to do the moon missions in cooperation with Russia, partly for peace and partly to save money. Concord could have been another joint project, and maybe it would have had more commercial success.
At least by the time the ISS went up it wasn't such a problem that a lot of it was Russian.
One thing Tesla could do to help is to open up their supercharging network. In Europe they are fitting CCS connectors so it's just the backend that they need to sort out, i.e. some way for non-Tesla owners to pay.
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Not quite. Self calibration has been around for a long time, but this robot actually figures out what shape it is and what its range of movement is, and constructs an internal model of that.
This could be useful for things like making robots able to continue operating when damaged. Like at the end of The Terminator where the Model 101 gets its skin and some limbs ripped off, but managed to continue crawling after its target anyway.
Missing the point. Contract violations are often subjective and need to be resolved in court. Meanwhile your business is fucked because all your internal apps don't work.
Or just use Android.
It's worth reading TFA because it is much more interesting than the summary.
Mozilla wants to build some kind of in-browser tool to assist with the up-coming European elections. The tool will look at your Facebook feed and the ads you see an provide some kind of break-down on who is targeting you. Or at least it would have, but some recent change to Facebook has apparently made it impossible.
This kind of transparency could actually be a really powerful tool. In fact Facebook should build it in to their platform.
It's both shocking and depressing how effective the propaganda is. Sad.
Bringing engineers from China is hardly unexpected. Even if they could get all the talent they need locally, they would want to transfer some of the manufacturing knowledge and skill they developed at home, as well as some of the technology.
Japan did the same thing with car manufacturing in the US and Europe. At first they had a lot of Japanese staff on site, in time the American workers learned the processes and took over.
YouTube and parent Alphabet have substantial operations in the EU. You can submit GDPR requests via your Google account that you use to log in to YouTube, or go directly to takeout.google.com.
It's not really clear how GDPR would help in this case though.
Click on "subscriptions" and it shows you a list of all videos posted by channels you subscribe to in chronological order. I use it every day to see the latest videos from channels I'm interested in.
This works on desktop, mobile and smart TV.
If you don't have videos stored up to cover your two week break (upload them before go, just publish while you are away using hotel wifi or whatever) then you are stretching yourself too thin.
I'm glad that people can make a living off YouTube, because they make some good content that I enjoy. I wish YouTube would provide more stability for them.
Scanning the lawsuit as filed it doesn't actually seem to provide any evidence that his call was illegally recorded. He doesn't seem to have any reason to think that it might have been.
The attack on Huawei is probably a factor too. Aside from Foxconn not wanting to risk having too many valuable assets in the US where the US government can get at them, and the danger that tariffs make it impossible to supply the plant, the Chinese government likely told them to reconsider as a form of retaliation.
Trump's tariffs don't help. That factory needs to be supplied from China.
To an extent YouTube's hands are tied by the need to obey the DMCA. If they get claims they have to act on them, there is no provision for them to determine if the claimant really does own the copyright they are claiming to.
The onus is on the victim to sue. The DMCA does make it a crime to falsely claim copyright ownership in bad faith, but good luck getting the FBI to investigate.
What's really problematic is triggered snowflakes trying to silence everyone they disagree with, e.g. by modding them troll.
Shadow bans are a free speech violation now?
Keep in mind we didn't even have social media 30 years ago, so even if your movie review is banned it's not like there used to be an alternative way to publish to millions of people for free.
Sure, but the other thing about C# is that bit shifting is quite slow too. It really really isn't built for doing bitwise operations. And also there are fixed point maths libraries for this kind of stuff, although I suppose to be fair they might not have been available at the time they wrote it or available for the .NET Compact framework.
If I were doing it in C# I'd probably create a class, or if it was C I'd have INT16_TO_FIXED() and FIXED_TO_INT16() macros.
Still, that library saved our bacon when it turned out that Microsoft lied about Silverlight actually working on Windows Embedded Compact 7.
I was thinking of doing one of those one liner C progs that prints a logo or something, but never got around to it.
C# doesn't let you simply reinterpret binary as different types like that.
The person who wrote it was trying to avoid using floating point by multiplying everything by 65536. Windows CE doesn't require an FPU so it might have helped on some low end ARM systems, but in practice I really doubt it as by far the biggest bottleneck was the rendering on the GPU.
In any case, the name "one" is... Not great. Also the code didn't actually work properly anyway, so it's a case of premature optimization.
One day I'll find a better one and change it. Some of the old STM32 library code came close.
A robot with spinning blades called Terror...
History will look back on the great Man vs. Machine War that started when lawnmowers demanded suffrage and wonder what iRobot were thinking.
And yet it's proven to work. I think maybe you might find it easier to understand if you consider that 7 year olds don't really have "study habits".
You completely missed the point. It's the classic "if you have nothing to hide..." argument.
Surely only criminals need to worry about the police using mass facial recognition, after all if you are not a criminal what does it matter if a computer sees your face somewhere?
In practice, such tools are always abused and while someone with sufficient resources may eventually prove their innocence, others will be railroaded into a plea bargain or end up with a black mark against their name for life.
My laptop is like that and it's fine. Of far more concern is the quality of the keyboard. Most laptop keyboards are awful.
The photo isn't very good, but it looks like this machine may have a bit of travel.
TFA says he has only been editing for 13 years, and presumably there was some slow ramp-up at the start. He has a government job but it doesn't say if it's full time or not.
I'm guessing that a lot of edits were actually on non-article pages, like the talk pages or other wiki-wank admin stuff. It's like a game of D&D for rule-lawyers.
Why did they cooperate with Communist Russia? Why did they share technology with Russia?
Kennedy was hoping to do the moon missions in cooperation with Russia, partly for peace and partly to save money. Concord could have been another joint project, and maybe it would have had more commercial success.
At least by the time the ISS went up it wasn't such a problem that a lot of it was Russian.
I wish Tesla fans were so accepting too.
One thing Tesla could do to help is to open up their supercharging network. In Europe they are fitting CCS connectors so it's just the backend that they need to sort out, i.e. some way for non-Tesla owners to pay.
Ariane won't be retired because there isn't a commercial alternative in Europe. The EU isn't going to give up its launch capability.
I don't waste my time with that shit, my phone is mainly used to post on Slashdot.