I used Here maps a lot but switched to google maps. Basically here is good only for offline routing, every other aspect sucks. Their mobile app gets less user friendly with every version. Favorites are cumbersome to use. There are very few businesses listed.
I donâ(TM)t understand the uproar here: most Americans are likely Google shareholders through their retirement funds.
Maybe we don't need to dissect the living thing while it's working. It might be sufficient to determine our brain's connectome http://www.humanconnectomeproj... then replicate the essential parts as neural network and feed it with data like we do with our kids.
intuition is pattern recognition modelling requires abstraction or essentially requires abstraction our current modelling approaches require us to speak a language, either math or a programming language abstraction is taking complex patterns and reducing them to simple concepts
From these, I think "speaking the language" is the most difficult problem. Incidentally, it is also what separates us from animals
Intuition is pattern matching. It's your brain recognizing a previously experienced situation without you consciously being aware of the exact details. If you were you'd call it reasoning.
Animals are conscious yet we wouldn't consider animal level AI particularly useful. What we really want is human or near human level intelligence. It is much more than consciousness. In fact consciousness can be quite undesirable for commercial applications.
So Tesla made a move in November and unveiled their Roadster 2 - apparently totally unexpected by the industry. "The point of this is to give a hardcore smackdown to gasoline cars" is what Elon said to justify it. Two months later Ferrari bites the bait and announces their counter-move, an electric supercar. Fair enough. Doesn't look like Ferrari has the initiative though. Marchionne made a point that Ferrari would release theirs first - they better do, because their customers don't buy Ferraris for being second and he knows that. Seems like Ferrari doesn't think they can counter it with a better ICE supercar. Why is that? Acceleration anxiety? Power anxiety? Top speed anxiety?
Looks like Musk's master plan is playing out exactly like intended.
No Facebook is the worst. Apple provides a useful, tangible product at inflated price, Google provides useful search and other services. Facebook just steals your time and confuses people about what is true and what is fake. An ex-Facebook executive explains it here https://youtu.be/MakEIlvlyfE
Actually the E.U. is pretty aggressive about enforcing their laws, it's the member countries who try to swindle and cheat (c.f. Ireland on the Apple tax issue or German authorities turning blind on Dieselgate at home)
In my personal opinion GDPR will hugely backfire on European companies. Why? For Facebook, Google, LinkedIn etc. their core business is collecting and trading data on consumers. People are addicted to their services and will consent to any and all personal data collection, just like they do today. These companies have enough resources to make their services GDPR compliant, I'm sure they will be 99.9% compliant because they know they will be watched. Smaller companies whose core business is producing and selling stuff are facing comparatively huge costs in implementing GDPR. They are already now struggling for people to sign up for their newsletters and whatnot.
I agree something needs to be done, but one need to be careful not to over-generalize. It's obvious that we don't want political elections be manipulated by external agents through facebook, so they need to be regulated much more than now.
It's crazy that you don't pay sales tax in the US when buying online. In Europe we have loopholes exploited (mostly) by Chinese sellers through Amazon to avoid VAT. There are various tax-avoidance schemes that need to be closed - can't really blame the companies to exploit legal ones.
Many of these companies provide valuable services and products but they need to pay their fair share of taxes like other companies: https://youtu.be/xRL2vVAa47I?t...
You are providing free data to Google who sells it to companies who need to pay advertising. So you pay Google through the products you buy from companies that do online advertising. The "Google ecosystem" is just a honeypot to get your data. Same story for Facebook. The business model of these (and many other "tech" companies) is to squeeze in between customers and sellers by luring away consumers and then charging the sellers for getting them back. Seth Godin as explained it nicely here: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/s...
Don't worry, the gas users will pay eventually because gas companies will have to raise prices to account for the damages they have to pay and factoring in risks of being sued for more damages. There are a lot of coastal cities.
Bokeh is a side-effect of using large aperture lenses, which you need to collect enough light, especially if the light gets distributed on many pixels. If you want large depth of focus (i.e. less bokeh) you'd have to close the aperture, reducing the amount of light that hits the sensor. That is problematic in low light situations. Guess what: if you see a real movie shooting you'll notice that they put a tremendous amount of lighting on the scene - for a reason.
The other thing is that depth of focus leads the viewer to focus on the relevant content, not the background and it also creates a bit more depth feeling.
35mm film is the "Full HD" of film (still and moving) i.e. not very high resolution. Much larger formats are in use since the early days of photography when high resolution is needed (as opposed to low cost, which 35mm did provide).
Is that relevant - how it is today compared to some previous time? Fact is that within London the study has measured a significant correlation of air pollution to low birth weight - meaning: even in today's London there's room for improvement. If we can improve the lives of people shouldn't we try to?
How about suing the actual content providers who host and serve the pirated copies, Google, dropbox, Amazon? If they can analyze your content to serve ads they should be able to identify pirated videos.
Oh wait, they have more lawyers than open source coders. Maybe not so good idea then.
A lot of data leaks can be prevented by using a browser instead of apps. There are browsers that are made for users, not advertisers: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/... Apps are basically trojan horses on your device. The purpose of the majority of apps is to collect data about their users. So, instead of the amazon app, use their mobile web page (it's actually good). Instead of Facebook app, use their web page (or better don't use fb at all), etc.
Practical tips: Some browser addons I consider a basic necessity: 1) ad blocker (obviously) 2) tracker blocker, like Ghostery (FF now comes with its own built-in tracker blocker) 3) NoScript
For messaging I recommend https://threema.ch/ Yes, you pay 3 CHF, but only once.
It has become difficult to find apps that don't sell your data. Since everybody wants apps for free the app developers have to resort to other revenue channels and selling your data is a fairly obvious one. https://www.go2mobi.com/sell-u...
It doesn't know what a dog or cat is, much less associate a picture of a white kitten with a picture of a tabby cat and establish a commonality between them.
You are not up to date. Neural networks nowadays surpass humans in image recognition. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.018... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?... In fact, that technology is now commercially available. These network do have a concept of dog and cat - in fact, on the output side you'll have a "dog" neuron and a "cat" neuron etc. Check out Brandon Rohrer's channel on YT for explanations how this technology works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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I used Here maps a lot but switched to google maps. Basically here is good only for offline routing, every other aspect sucks. Their mobile app gets less user friendly with every version. Favorites are cumbersome to use. There are very few businesses listed.
I donâ(TM)t understand the uproar here: most Americans are likely Google shareholders through their retirement funds.
Your powers of observation continue to serve you well.
In fact, it's the other thing: stuff that matters
Aging is something we could solve.
Check out the strategy here:
The Science of Curing Aging" | Talks at Google
https://youtu.be/S6ARUQ5LoUo
Read Seth Godin's blog.
except DeepMind (targeting healthcare) and Waymo
Maybe we don't need to dissect the living thing while it's working. It might be sufficient to determine our brain's connectome http://www.humanconnectomeproj... then replicate the essential parts as neural network and feed it with data like we do with our kids.
https://youtu.be/wuhbqcMzOaw
intuition is pattern recognition
modelling requires abstraction or essentially requires abstraction
our current modelling approaches require us to speak a language, either math or a programming language
abstraction is taking complex patterns and reducing them to simple concepts
From these, I think "speaking the language" is the most difficult problem. Incidentally, it is also what separates us from animals
Intuition is pattern matching. It's your brain recognizing a previously experienced situation without you consciously being aware of the exact details. If you were you'd call it reasoning.
Animals are conscious yet we wouldn't consider animal level AI particularly useful. What we really want is human or near human level intelligence. It is much more than consciousness.
In fact consciousness can be quite undesirable for commercial applications.
Valid point.
So Tesla made a move in November and unveiled their Roadster 2 - apparently totally unexpected by the industry. "The point of this is to give a hardcore smackdown to gasoline cars" is what Elon said to justify it. Two months later Ferrari bites the bait and announces their counter-move, an electric supercar. Fair enough. Doesn't look like Ferrari has the initiative though. Marchionne made a point that Ferrari would release theirs first - they better do, because their customers don't buy Ferraris for being second and he knows that.
Seems like Ferrari doesn't think they can counter it with a better ICE supercar. Why is that? Acceleration anxiety? Power anxiety? Top speed anxiety?
Looks like Musk's master plan is playing out exactly like intended.
I agree, but only if it (profit) is spent. Profit in the bank does nothing and drains the economy (other actors) of means to achieve something.
No Facebook is the worst. Apple provides a useful, tangible product at inflated price, Google provides useful search and other services. Facebook just steals your time and confuses people about what is true and what is fake. An ex-Facebook executive explains it here https://youtu.be/MakEIlvlyfE
Actually the E.U. is pretty aggressive about enforcing their laws, it's the member countries who try to swindle and cheat (c.f. Ireland on the Apple tax issue or German authorities turning blind on Dieselgate at home)
In my personal opinion GDPR will hugely backfire on European companies. Why? For Facebook, Google, LinkedIn etc. their core business is collecting and trading data on consumers. People are addicted to their services and will consent to any and all personal data collection, just like they do today. These companies have enough resources to make their services GDPR compliant, I'm sure they will be 99.9% compliant because they know they will be watched. Smaller companies whose core business is producing and selling stuff are facing comparatively huge costs in implementing GDPR. They are already now struggling for people to sign up for their newsletters and whatnot.
I agree something needs to be done, but one need to be careful not to over-generalize. It's obvious that we don't want political elections be manipulated by external agents through facebook, so they need to be regulated much more than now.
It's crazy that you don't pay sales tax in the US when buying online. In Europe we have loopholes exploited (mostly) by Chinese sellers through Amazon to avoid VAT.
There are various tax-avoidance schemes that need to be closed - can't really blame the companies to exploit legal ones.
Many of these companies provide valuable services and products but they need to pay their fair share of taxes like other companies: https://youtu.be/xRL2vVAa47I?t...
You are providing free data to Google who sells it to companies who need to pay advertising. So you pay Google through the products you buy from companies that do online advertising.
The "Google ecosystem" is just a honeypot to get your data.
Same story for Facebook.
The business model of these (and many other "tech" companies) is to squeeze in between customers and sellers by luring away consumers and then charging the sellers for getting them back.
Seth Godin as explained it nicely here: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/s...
Don't worry, the gas users will pay eventually because gas companies will have to raise prices to account for the damages they have to pay and factoring in risks of being sued for more damages.
There are a lot of coastal cities.
But if it's a damaging legal activity you can sue for damages. Which is what's happening.
Bokeh is a side-effect of using large aperture lenses, which you need to collect enough light, especially if the light gets distributed on many pixels.
If you want large depth of focus (i.e. less bokeh) you'd have to close the aperture, reducing the amount of light that hits the sensor. That is problematic in low light situations.
Guess what: if you see a real movie shooting you'll notice that they put a tremendous amount of lighting on the scene - for a reason.
The other thing is that depth of focus leads the viewer to focus on the relevant content, not the background and it also creates a bit more depth feeling.
35mm film is the "Full HD" of film (still and moving) i.e. not very high resolution.
Much larger formats are in use since the early days of photography when high resolution is needed (as opposed to low cost, which 35mm did provide).
A fair number of movies were shot in high resolution film:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
For stills "medium format" is about 6cm x 6cm. Implying there is a large format as well: 8" x 10".
For example the photos on the lunar surface were taken on 70mm film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Final note:
As proven in Blade Runner (which was shot on film), film does have infinite resoultion: https://youtu.be/qHepKd38pr0
Related TED video:
How Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google manipulate our emotions
https://youtu.be/xRL2vVAa47I
Is that relevant - how it is today compared to some previous time?
Fact is that within London the study has measured a significant correlation of air pollution to low birth weight - meaning: even in today's London there's room for improvement.
If we can improve the lives of people shouldn't we try to?
Organic materials can be 3D printed using 2 photon polymerization. Can even print bio degradable materials.
How about suing the actual content providers who host and serve the pirated copies, Google, dropbox, Amazon? If they can analyze your content to serve ads they should be able to identify pirated videos.
Oh wait, they have more lawyers than open source coders. Maybe not so good idea then.
A lot of data leaks can be prevented by using a browser instead of apps. There are browsers that are made for users, not advertisers: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/...
Apps are basically trojan horses on your device. The purpose of the majority of apps is to collect data about their users. So, instead of the amazon app, use their mobile web page (it's actually good). Instead of Facebook app, use their web page (or better don't use fb at all), etc.
When selecting a browser, try not to choose from a company whose main business is advertising. http://www.investopedia.com/ar...
Practical tips:
Some browser addons I consider a basic necessity:
1) ad blocker (obviously)
2) tracker blocker, like Ghostery (FF now comes with its own built-in tracker blocker)
3) NoScript
For messaging I recommend https://threema.ch/
Yes, you pay 3 CHF, but only once.
It has become difficult to find apps that don't sell your data. Since everybody wants apps for free the app developers have to resort to other revenue channels and selling your data is a fairly obvious one. https://www.go2mobi.com/sell-u...
It doesn't know what a dog or cat is, much less associate a picture of a white kitten with a picture of a tabby cat and establish a commonality between them.
You are not up to date. Neural networks nowadays surpass humans in image recognition. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.018...
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
In fact, that technology is now commercially available.
These network do have a concept of dog and cat - in fact, on the output side you'll have a "dog" neuron and a "cat" neuron etc.
Check out Brandon Rohrer's channel on YT for explanations how this technology works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Also, see https://finnaarupnielsen.wordp... for a list of other things that computers are better at than humans.