I'm not in a hurry if the look of the new gmail app is a sign of what's coming.
What?
But it has a handy little write new email to no specific person button in the bottom right, where your thumb is. I start writing emails to no-one in particular all the time! Okay, maybe not...
But at least all the other features have been optimized to be as far away from your thumb as possible (assuming you're right-handed), in the top left corner. But you can also swipe right from the left edge to open the menu, and this will only sometimes cause you to delete emails from your inbox...
Actually, maybe you have a point. But the old version of the Gmail app was only slightly better.
"The Chinese researchers mention the question of privacy, however. That’s an issue that would make this kind of tracking difficult in democratic countries, or at least the public acknowledgement of it.
See that? Companies that make apps would never dare to ask you to let them access your location if you live in a democracy.
Okay, but they apparently missed the signs that Mexico was entering failed-state territory.
The police allegedly just shot up 43 protesters and handed them over to a so-called drug gang, one of the paramilitary proto-governments that are waiting in the wings to attempt to take over if the Mexican government fails completely.
According to Lazarus long The same should be true for AI
If that analogy holds in more than one way then I suppose that specialized AI models will appear earlier in history, will be vastly more numerous and resilient and long-lived than more generalized AI models.
The more generalized AI:s will probably want to reach for a specialized-AI swatter every now and then.
Remember when you could learn to be a HTML/CSS "coder" in a couple of months and, if you were lucky or knew the right people, get a fairly well-paying job? That must have been around 1996-1998...
It coincides with the event of a major country, that is almost completely dependent on oil exports for its economy, invading part of Europe.
This may or may not be a coincidence. At any rate, this is very bad news for the Russian economy. It remains to be seen if Putin can generate a strong enough RDF to keep the Russian people in line with his foreign policy.
All it says is that it sucks to be the one who is different from everyone else, and that the author is going to do what she can in order to bring more people like her into the industry, so that it will suck less for her kind of person.
T+1:56 "Flight controllers here are looking very carefully at the situation. Obviously a major malfunction." T+2:50 "We have a report from the flight dynamics officer that the vehicle has exploded. The flight director confirms that. We are looking at checking with the recovery forces to see what can be done at this point."
Politician: How can we tax them there internets? Aide: Uh, we tax Internet companies through the regular revenue tax and through the salary tax that their employees pay and we put VAT on anything ordered through a web store, just like we have for regular stores. Politician: Yeah, sure, but I mean I feel there's so much money being dowloaded in the Internet. Just this morning one of my staff members downloaded an internet from Facebook for hundreds of dollars. Seriously. Hundreds of dollars! I think it was a new TV and and one of those newfangled DVD-players with 3-d glasses. Aide: It sounds like he ordered something from a web shop through a Facebook ad. He would have paid VAT on that. The business that operates the web shop will pay revenue tax on their earnings. Politician: Sure, but I mean it's not the same thing. Like, he got this through Facebook, through their internet! Aide: Yeah, I suppose. Politician: Look, you have to understand that the Internet is not like a big truck that you can just load stuff on... The Internet is like a series of tubes... With gigabytes going through them. Gigabytes I tell you! I want to tax those gigabytes. I think it's only fair that we do. Aide: Errr... Politician: Could you write up a proposal where we tax the gigabytes? Aide: I'm not sure if that would make sense, sir. Facebook is not a Hungarian company, so there is no way we can tax them. Politician: Listen. You know how ugly the draft budget looks. It's what, a 10% deficit? We need to be tough on this. I'm making it a profile issue. Aide: Hmm, okay I'll see what I can do. Oh. Speaking about money, I think it's time you give me a raise.
This has nothing to do with politics. It is a simple matter of fact that growing plants is an extremely inefficient way of converting sunlight to fuel. Biomass is a scarce resource because of this inefficiency.
We can temporarily boost the amount of biomass available by taking fossil fuels and turning them into fertilizer, but that is certainly not a carbon-neutral practice.
They have little or no coal in Denmark so it makes perfect sense to be less dependant on imports.
Denmark has fairly little biomass per capita, so they'll be highly dependent on wood imports from Sweden and Finland if they're going to phase out coal with biomass. Sweden already burns most if the leftover biomass that is left once the trees have been turned into planks and paper, which pretty much leaves Finland to supply Denmark.
Burning biomass is an extremely inefficient and stupid way of producing power unless you live in an extremely sparsely populated country with lots of woodland, which pretty much rules it out as a widespread global solution. Aside from burning leftovers from the wood and farming industry, we're talking about burning building material and food. It's the pinnacle of stupidity.
You ought to be able to use physics combined with observations to come up with an approximation of the number of near-Earth asteroids of any given size. Once you know how many there are it is just a matter of counting.
You can also observe the decline in the rate of discovery of new objects to infer how many there are in total.
The philosophy of evolution gets boring when you realize that an organism capable of doing philosophy can only ever find itself on a planet where such an organism evolved.
The philosophy of evolution isn't going to get really interesting until we begin to find evidence of life on other planets, or better yet in other star systems.
The Vatican is not committed to a literal interpretation of the Bible, nor is it committed to any truly allegorical interpretation. The Bible can say X and the Vatican can say Y and it's never going to be a problem as long as the pope and the cardinals and the priests are all reasonably in line. In fact, it probably works even if they aren't reasonably in line.
Don't waste your time trying to have logical arguments about a subject with people who aren't committed to logic and reason with regards to that subject.
According to TFA these studies actually show that the top performers, say the top 2%, on a given task accurately rate themselves as top performers. The surprising thing is that the bottom 2% also rate themselves as top performers.
One possible explanation is that the very worst performers on a given task are people who are actively stupid in a way. These people have strongly held false beliefs about how things work, which actively mislead them. They are also confident enough that they don't acquire feedback and therefore it never dawns on them how wrong they are.
When you think about it, it is actually possible to do worse than chance of a multiple choice test if you have strongly held false beliefs. Someone who merely guesses will tend to get 1/m questions right where m is the number of alternatives. Someone who has a false sense of knowledge could easily get zero questions right.
I skimmed the paper and the paper is a bit air-headed and unfocused when it comes to the biology.
They are a bit implicit, but it appears that their main failure scenario depends on the idea that with GMO you get huge monocultures where agriculture is dominated by relatively untested species, which could be susceptible to plant diseases. This is true, as far as I know. And I suppose that the risk of global catastrophic outcomes could very well be real.
They also seem to assume that with non-GMO breeding techniques you do not get huge monocultures where agriculture is dominated by relatively untested species, which could be susceptible to plant diseases. This is not true AFAIK.
So yeah, there is risk. But I don't understand where the GMO factor comes into the equation.
There are plenty of games (mostly racing games) that I believe push the iPad Air GPU close to its limits.
Another thing to keep in mind is that Apple will want to keep the door open for future products that would require top notch graphics capabilities on iOS. It would be a strategic flaw to lag behind Android devices in graphics power.
The basic critical thinking skill is to approach the material with some reasonable questions in mind and see how it answers them and if it answers them at all. Try using the search function, or the glossary.
Fun experiment: ask a recent college grad how many of their books in college had glossaries. The correct answer is of course all (or nearly all) of them.
Odds are Elon Musk will pick the crew for the next US manned mission, based on recruitment and testing done at SpaceX. There is something to be said for sending elderly people on the first test flights, since that minimizes the loss of life-years in the event of a fatal accident... But there are probably more important criteria. The top candidates will perhaps be ex-NASA astronauts in their early 60's / late 50's.
There is an age-old answer to the question of income and wealth differences. Income differences in a society are good to the extend that, in the big scheme of things, they lead to a situation where the poorest are better off than they would have been if the differences were lower.
The problem is that it is not easy to evaluate whether this is true in a society.
I'm planning on making rubberized case with a handle that turns you phablet into a ping-pong paddle. It'll come with an app that tracks your movements and the movements of the ball using the sensors and camera on the phone, in order to give you advice on how to improve your game.
Wait, does Kickstarter accept obviously sarcastic submissions?
Well, for starters it will protect your client side script from choking on an unreasonably large input.
I can't think of a legitimate reason why anyone would want to cut and paste a arbitrarily long texts into any form of any sort anywhere. There should always be an upper limit based on what the legitimate needs are.
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I'm not in a hurry if the look of the new gmail app is a sign of what's coming.
What?
But it has a handy little write new email to no specific person button in the bottom right, where your thumb is. I start writing emails to no-one in particular all the time! Okay, maybe not...
But at least all the other features have been optimized to be as far away from your thumb as possible (assuming you're right-handed), in the top left corner. But you can also swipe right from the left edge to open the menu, and this will only sometimes cause you to delete emails from your inbox...
Actually, maybe you have a point. But the old version of the Gmail app was only slightly better.
Never fear. TFA says:
"The Chinese researchers mention the question of privacy, however. That’s an issue that would make this kind of tracking difficult in democratic countries, or at least the public acknowledgement of it.
See that? Companies that make apps would never dare to ask you to let them access your location if you live in a democracy.
Okay, but they apparently missed the signs that Mexico was entering failed-state territory.
The police allegedly just shot up 43 protesters and handed them over to a so-called drug gang, one of the paramilitary proto-governments that are waiting in the wings to attempt to take over if the Mexican government fails completely.
According to Lazarus long
The same should be true for AI
If that analogy holds in more than one way then I suppose that specialized AI models will appear earlier in history, will be vastly more numerous and resilient and long-lived than more generalized AI models.
The more generalized AI:s will probably want to reach for a specialized-AI swatter every now and then.
Remember when you could learn to be a HTML/CSS "coder" in a couple of months and, if you were lucky or knew the right people, get a fairly well-paying job? That must have been around 1996-1998...
It coincides with the event of a major country, that is almost completely dependent on oil exports for its economy, invading part of Europe.
This may or may not be a coincidence. At any rate, this is very bad news for the Russian economy. It remains to be seen if Putin can generate a strong enough RDF to keep the Russian people in line with his foreign policy.
AFAIK the article does not say that.
All it says is that it sucks to be the one who is different from everyone else, and that the author is going to do what she can in order to bring more people like her into the industry, so that it will suck less for her kind of person.
Yeah, I suspect all they have is a machine learning algorithm that was good at predicting how 83 particular individuals felt about politics in 2014.
Good luck using the same algorithm on a different group of people, or on the same group a few years later.
http://spaceflightnow.com/chal...
T+1:56 "Flight controllers here are looking very carefully at the situation. Obviously a major malfunction."
T+2:50 "We have a report from the flight dynamics officer that the vehicle has exploded. The flight director confirms that. We are looking at checking with the recovery forces to see what can be done at this point."
(The main explosion happened at T+1:13.)
Politician: How can we tax them there internets?
Aide: Uh, we tax Internet companies through the regular revenue tax and through the salary tax that their employees pay and we put VAT on anything ordered through a web store, just like we have for regular stores.
Politician: Yeah, sure, but I mean I feel there's so much money being dowloaded in the Internet. Just this morning one of my staff members downloaded an internet from Facebook for hundreds of dollars. Seriously. Hundreds of dollars! I think it was a new TV and and one of those newfangled DVD-players with 3-d glasses.
Aide: It sounds like he ordered something from a web shop through a Facebook ad. He would have paid VAT on that. The business that operates the web shop will pay revenue tax on their earnings.
Politician: Sure, but I mean it's not the same thing. Like, he got this through Facebook, through their internet!
Aide: Yeah, I suppose.
Politician: Look, you have to understand that the Internet is not like a big truck that you can just load stuff on... The Internet is like a series of tubes... With gigabytes going through them. Gigabytes I tell you! I want to tax those gigabytes. I think it's only fair that we do.
Aide: Errr...
Politician: Could you write up a proposal where we tax the gigabytes?
Aide: I'm not sure if that would make sense, sir. Facebook is not a Hungarian company, so there is no way we can tax them.
Politician: Listen. You know how ugly the draft budget looks. It's what, a 10% deficit? We need to be tough on this. I'm making it a profile issue.
Aide: Hmm, okay I'll see what I can do. Oh. Speaking about money, I think it's time you give me a raise.
This has nothing to do with politics. It is a simple matter of fact that growing plants is an extremely inefficient way of converting sunlight to fuel. Biomass is a scarce resource because of this inefficiency.
We can temporarily boost the amount of biomass available by taking fossil fuels and turning them into fertilizer, but that is certainly not a carbon-neutral practice.
They have little or no coal in Denmark so it makes perfect sense to be less dependant on imports.
Denmark has fairly little biomass per capita, so they'll be highly dependent on wood imports from Sweden and Finland if they're going to phase out coal with biomass. Sweden already burns most if the leftover biomass that is left once the trees have been turned into planks and paper, which pretty much leaves Finland to supply Denmark.
Burning biomass is an extremely inefficient and stupid way of producing power unless you live in an extremely sparsely populated country with lots of woodland, which pretty much rules it out as a widespread global solution. Aside from burning leftovers from the wood and farming industry, we're talking about burning building material and food. It's the pinnacle of stupidity.
Who's going to say when you reach 90%?
You ought to be able to use physics combined with observations to come up with an approximation of the number of near-Earth asteroids of any given size. Once you know how many there are it is just a matter of counting.
You can also observe the decline in the rate of discovery of new objects to infer how many there are in total.
The philosophy of evolution gets boring when you realize that an organism capable of doing philosophy can only ever find itself on a planet where such an organism evolved.
The philosophy of evolution isn't going to get really interesting until we begin to find evidence of life on other planets, or better yet in other star systems.
The Vatican is not committed to a literal interpretation of the Bible, nor is it committed to any truly allegorical interpretation. The Bible can say X and the Vatican can say Y and it's never going to be a problem as long as the pope and the cardinals and the priests are all reasonably in line. In fact, it probably works even if they aren't reasonably in line.
Don't waste your time trying to have logical arguments about a subject with people who aren't committed to logic and reason with regards to that subject.
According to TFA these studies actually show that the top performers, say the top 2%, on a given task accurately rate themselves as top performers. The surprising thing is that the bottom 2% also rate themselves as top performers.
One possible explanation is that the very worst performers on a given task are people who are actively stupid in a way. These people have strongly held false beliefs about how things work, which actively mislead them. They are also confident enough that they don't acquire feedback and therefore it never dawns on them how wrong they are.
When you think about it, it is actually possible to do worse than chance of a multiple choice test if you have strongly held false beliefs. Someone who merely guesses will tend to get 1/m questions right where m is the number of alternatives. Someone who has a false sense of knowledge could easily get zero questions right.
Don't worry, I've bookmarked the page on my smartphone. Shoot me an email if the apocalypse happens!
I skimmed the paper and the paper is a bit air-headed and unfocused when it comes to the biology.
They are a bit implicit, but it appears that their main failure scenario depends on the idea that with GMO you get huge monocultures where agriculture is dominated by relatively untested species, which could be susceptible to plant diseases. This is true, as far as I know. And I suppose that the risk of global catastrophic outcomes could very well be real.
They also seem to assume that with non-GMO breeding techniques you do not get huge monocultures where agriculture is dominated by relatively untested species, which could be susceptible to plant diseases. This is not true AFAIK.
So yeah, there is risk. But I don't understand where the GMO factor comes into the equation.
There are plenty of games (mostly racing games) that I believe push the iPad Air GPU close to its limits.
Another thing to keep in mind is that Apple will want to keep the door open for future products that would require top notch graphics capabilities on iOS. It would be a strategic flaw to lag behind Android devices in graphics power.
The basic critical thinking skill is to approach the material with some reasonable questions in mind and see how it answers them and if it answers them at all. Try using the search function, or the glossary.
Fun experiment: ask a recent college grad how many of their books in college had glossaries. The correct answer is of course all (or nearly all) of them.
Nonsense. It's all vaporware until they at the very least have a reasonably dense Dyson sphere around the solar system.
Which manned space program are you talking about?
Odds are Elon Musk will pick the crew for the next US manned mission, based on recruitment and testing done at SpaceX. There is something to be said for sending elderly people on the first test flights, since that minimizes the loss of life-years in the event of a fatal accident... But there are probably more important criteria. The top candidates will perhaps be ex-NASA astronauts in their early 60's / late 50's.
There is an age-old answer to the question of income and wealth differences. Income differences in a society are good to the extend that, in the big scheme of things, they lead to a situation where the poorest are better off than they would have been if the differences were lower.
The problem is that it is not easy to evaluate whether this is true in a society.
I'm planning on making rubberized case with a handle that turns you phablet into a ping-pong paddle. It'll come with an app that tracks your movements and the movements of the ball using the sensors and camera on the phone, in order to give you advice on how to improve your game.
Wait, does Kickstarter accept obviously sarcastic submissions?
Well, for starters it will protect your client side script from choking on an unreasonably large input.
I can't think of a legitimate reason why anyone would want to cut and paste a arbitrarily long texts into any form of any sort anywhere. There should always be an upper limit based on what the legitimate needs are.