Seeing child abuse images would be orders of magnitude worse than the worst hate speech you could produce. I've read no end of sweary, hateful screeds on the internet. They aren't pleasant reading, but I find I can shrug my shoulders and move on, sometimes even laugh as I imagine the spittle flecked, red faced, raging keyboard hammerer who wrote it.
Not so with images. I've never seen any child abuse images, and I never want to. I've seen some gore / death type photos though, and those were bad enough. They lingered in my mind's eye in a way that hate speech never would.
Indeed. I don't know why you were modded down - this is exactly what will happen, and gives the lie to whatever "hate free zone" smokescreen they might construct as justification.
It's possible that this could be a step forward, you know. Just because dark matter / string theory et. al. have a lot of resources behind them in 2018, it doesn't mean they are the best explanation of the universe we can ever hope to have.
A lot of more recent Graphics papers (mostly Image Processing, actually) are using Convolutional Neural networks to do various things. There has been a lot of low hanging fruit in the areas of denoising, and various image manipulation techniques, so results in those areas have been transformed in the last few years.
One such "hot" area that has application in the broader area of computer graphics, is the denoising of path traced images. Path tracing uses stochastic light bouncing techniques to produce a highly accurate image (in terms of lighting effects), but these images are noisy (due to the stochastic nature of the rendering process), requiring a large amount of samples to "average away" the noise, and hence being slow to render. Neural networks can learn to remove the noise from such images, potentially allowing for photorealistic images to be created extremely rapidly, perhaps even in realtime. In my view, this is the most exciting "game changing" area in graphics at the moment.
>Wait, so you're saying that because something happens, it must be common? And if it isn't common, it must not be a known thing?
I don't think I said anything along those lines.
>Notice how far off of logical your answer is? You have evidence that it is uncommon or rare, and you take that to mean that if it was the most likely explanation, it >would have to be common instead. Because the pilots have more experience with common readings. There is no reason to think that at all.
It certainly *could* be something rare, yet mundane, however the two examples given - dust on the sensor or an insect, don't strike me as the sort of things that would fool pilots who are well used to operating such machinery. (That does not imply that I think it is an alien spaceship, though)
It seems to me you're trying to have it both ways here. If it's merely dust, or an insect, or some other other mundane occurrence fooling the pilots' sensor, then it would be the sort of thing that happens somewhat regularly, that the pilots would be used to dealing with. Given their excitement, this event is clearly not usual from the pilots' perspective, (who presumably know their equipment well, given they use it every day)
I'm 45, I've programmed in c++, java, fortran, even actionscript in my time, and enjoyed using them all. However I cannot abide javascript, and that goes double for the 10000 vague, incomprehensible frameworks that surround it. It could be that I'm just getting old, but I find the whole javascript framework / html app development scene a fractal hall of mirrors. A pox on it all.
If I recall,they filmed the Hobbit at an unusually high framerate. At last, their genius becomes apparent. Simply play back the Hobbit films at a far lower framerate, and hey presto - a 250 hour Netflix series, ready for release!
A few typos: "lucks" vs lucky, "heave" vs heavy, and "like" vs likely. OP needs a comma after "and many others". Also OP should've ended the sentence after "more than 5 years" and continued with a new sentence (too many chained "ands" are no good)
"jump through hoops" is fine though, as you thought.
So there are certainly some issues, but in my view it hardly fails "basic English literacy".
So the left wing ruling party, and the hundred's of thousands of "refugees" they invited in, will have finished burning the country to the ground by then?
You would think that of all businesses, high tech software might enable its workers to work remotely from another part of the country, and sidestep the inevitable housing price bubbles.
Perhaps, given the USA isn't (yet) a war torn, second/third world country, those in San Francisco can hope for something better than people fleeing Aleppo. Or does that have the whiff of pinko communism about it?
Setting aside this undoubted idiot with the gun, I see everyone one here laughing at the conspiracy nuts believing Pizzagate - is it now settled that there's nothing to it? It doesn't seem at all clear to me that it can all just be dismissed, if the evidence I've seen and read about is genuine. I'm not saying I know either way, but there were some highly unpleasant pictures from that pizza place, and the emails from Podesta - why is it suddenly considered crazy to think something untoward was going on?
A scientific law can remain "at the top of the heap" for a long time - Newton's laws lasted hundreds of years for example. But a scientific law is only a model of nature, a set of formulas that predict what see see in nature. Nature is in charge, not our laws. When contradictory evidence is found, scientists must try to find a better model. Relativity supplanted Newton's laws. But nothing is ever settled. For example relativity fails at extremely large scales, and/or extremely low accelerations (the galaxy rotation problem) - it's clearly not the ultimate "code of the universe".
Indeed, and not only that, but trying to find a way to "break out" of the simulation. That seems optimistic. Imagine if Super Mario discovered he was in a game and tried to break out into our world, I doubt he'd have much luck.
I agree with you about American stadiums, it totally takes the shine off. However F1 already has the Red Bull team, so I don't suppose Apple will do anything worse than that.
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Seeing child abuse images would be orders of magnitude worse than the worst hate speech you could produce. I've read no end of sweary, hateful screeds on the internet. They aren't pleasant reading, but I find I can shrug my shoulders and move on, sometimes even laugh as I imagine the spittle flecked, red faced, raging keyboard hammerer who wrote it.
Not so with images. I've never seen any child abuse images, and I never want to. I've seen some gore / death type photos though, and those were bad enough. They lingered in my mind's eye in a way that hate speech never would.
Indeed. I don't know why you were modded down - this is exactly what will happen, and gives the lie to whatever "hate free zone" smokescreen they might construct as justification.
Just 2 pounds a month, can help us stop this. Please...
So Bezos has a nascent space program, and v2.0 of his AI will have a bias against people called Dave. What could possibly go wrong?
This IS real science. A theory + experiments to disprove (or not) that theory.
It's possible that this could be a step forward, you know. Just because dark matter / string theory et. al. have a lot of resources behind them in 2018, it doesn't mean they are the best explanation of the universe we can ever hope to have.
Looks like those shorts took it... *puts on sunglasses* - in the shorts.
A lot of more recent Graphics papers (mostly Image Processing, actually) are using Convolutional Neural networks to do various things. There has been a lot of low hanging fruit in the areas of denoising, and various image manipulation techniques, so results in those areas have been transformed in the last few years.
One such "hot" area that has application in the broader area of computer graphics, is the denoising of path traced images. Path tracing uses stochastic light bouncing techniques to produce a highly accurate image (in terms of lighting effects), but these images are noisy (due to the stochastic nature of the rendering process), requiring a large amount of samples to "average away" the noise, and hence being slow to render. Neural networks can learn to remove the noise from such images, potentially allowing for photorealistic images to be created extremely rapidly, perhaps even in realtime. In my view, this is the most exciting "game changing" area in graphics at the moment.
Just let Google Duplex handle all flirting and dating smalltalk tasks, it's for the best... :-)
>Wait, so you're saying that because something happens, it must be common? And if it isn't common, it must not be a known thing?
I don't think I said anything along those lines.
>Notice how far off of logical your answer is? You have evidence that it is uncommon or rare, and you take that to mean that if it was the most likely explanation, it >would have to be common instead. Because the pilots have more experience with common readings. There is no reason to think that at all.
It certainly *could* be something rare, yet mundane, however the two examples given - dust on the sensor or an insect, don't strike me as the sort of things that would fool pilots who are well used to operating such machinery. (That does not imply that I think it is an alien spaceship, though)
It seems to me you're trying to have it both ways here. If it's merely dust, or an insect, or some other other mundane occurrence fooling the pilots' sensor, then it would be the sort of thing that happens somewhat regularly, that the pilots would be used to dealing with. Given their excitement, this event is clearly not usual from the pilots' perspective, (who presumably know their equipment well, given they use it every day)
You do know what the letters UFO stand for, right?
I'm 45, I've programmed in c++, java, fortran, even actionscript in my time, and enjoyed using them all. However I cannot abide javascript, and that goes double for the 10000 vague, incomprehensible frameworks that surround it. It could be that I'm just getting old, but I find the whole javascript framework / html app development scene a fractal hall of mirrors. A pox on it all.
If I recall,they filmed the Hobbit at an unusually high framerate. At last, their genius becomes apparent. Simply play back the Hobbit films at a far lower framerate, and hey presto - a 250 hour Netflix series, ready for release!
A few typos: "lucks" vs lucky, "heave" vs heavy, and "like" vs likely.
OP needs a comma after "and many others".
Also OP should've ended the sentence after "more than 5 years" and continued with a new sentence (too many chained "ands" are no good)
"jump through hoops" is fine though, as you thought.
So there are certainly some issues, but in my view it hardly fails "basic English literacy".
So the left wing ruling party, and the hundred's of thousands of "refugees" they invited in, will have finished burning the country to the ground by then?
The big news here is that trade unions employ economists. I bet they make him wear a court jester's outfit when presenting his latest findings.
A spokesman for hydrogen said earlier - "There. HAPPY NOW?"
You would think that of all businesses, high tech software might enable its workers to work remotely from another part of the country, and sidestep the inevitable housing price bubbles.
Perhaps, given the USA isn't (yet) a war torn, second/third world country, those in San Francisco can hope for something better than people fleeing Aleppo. Or does that have the whiff of pinko communism about it?
Lets see what Dr Hans Zarkov, formerly of NASA has to say about it.
Setting aside this undoubted idiot with the gun, I see everyone one here laughing at the conspiracy nuts believing Pizzagate - is it now settled that there's nothing to it? It doesn't seem at all clear to me that it can all just be dismissed, if the evidence I've seen and read about is genuine. I'm not saying I know either way, but there were some highly unpleasant pictures from that pizza place, and the emails from Podesta - why is it suddenly considered crazy to think something untoward was going on?
A scientific law can remain "at the top of the heap" for a long time - Newton's laws lasted hundreds of years for example. But a scientific law is only a model of nature, a set of formulas that predict what see see in nature. Nature is in charge, not our laws. When contradictory evidence is found, scientists must try to find a better model. Relativity supplanted Newton's laws. But nothing is ever settled. For example relativity fails at extremely large scales, and/or extremely low accelerations (the galaxy rotation problem) - it's clearly not the ultimate "code of the universe".
Indeed, and not only that, but trying to find a way to "break out" of the simulation. That seems optimistic. Imagine if Super Mario discovered he was in a game and tried to break out into our world, I doubt he'd have much luck.
I agree with you about American stadiums, it totally takes the shine off. However F1 already has the Red Bull team, so I don't suppose Apple will do anything worse than that.