Oh dear, did someone insult something you like by giving their honest opinion of it?
You know, there is this skill called 'critical thinking'. It fosters quality and weeds out crap. Then there is fanboyish apologism, which is a downward spiral via mediocrity to rock bottom, which is where superhero movies are headed.
Next time please just refrain from trying to silence the critics. It's the least you can do.
Which ones? Because besides people pretending and clamoring that they were, I've heard very little actual reasoning as to why they were particularly 'far'-left.
People think that anybody who can use ASL could simply have a conversation with Koko. This is false. Koko's conversations are with her handler and subject to significant interpretation.
34% of the people polled is not concerned about sharing the road with self-driving vehicles.
The results of the poll are actually superpositive, given that the technology is very much in its infancy. If anything, it is a display of an inflated sense of trust in, rather than a 'deeply skeptical' view of self-driving vehicles.
1. Tu quoque. 2. The Democrats are late to the party and as such the Republicans have benefited significantly more from the practice: https://www.theguardian.com/us... 3. But yes, gerrymandering is terrible and should be banned. Redistricting should be an entirely apolitical process.
You assume Trump is not going to pretend he is doing more than he is?
If anything, any (not yet decided on) funding will be funneled to monopolistic underdelivering price-gouging 'friendly' ISPs whilst loudly proclaiming having connected rural America to broadband.
It does, but an ageing population (especially problematic is the wave of baby boomers, called that for a reason) puts a lot of extra strain on all European countries. It's a struggle to find solutions that work and considering that the conservative approach in the UK has been "You're not getting more money, deal with it", the story you mentioned is the result: - http://www.independent.co.uk/n... - http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
Exactly. These specific stickers only work on this specific system.
The first line of the following paragraph from TFA is ridiculously misleading, as it would require having access to the training mechanism of 'that image classifier at the airport': "What could be done with these? Stick a few on your clothes or bag and maybe, just maybe, that image classifier at the airport or police body cam will be distracted enough that it doesn’t register your presence. Of course, you’d have to know what system was running on it, and test a few thousand variations of the stickers — but it’s a possibility."
Also, note that this image classifier was specifically asked to classify the entire image as one specific object. No 'image classifier at the airport' will have such a task. Of course this classifier 'fails' if there are multiple objects in the same image. This specific classifier would probably also give the exact same result if you just used an image of an actual toaster next to the banana.
The only real result here is that image classifiers can see 'psychedelic' representations of objects as strong instances of those objects (note that the psychedelic image patch kind of looks like a toaster). I imagine that if you train the classifier with classes of actual 'psychedelic' classes of images ("graffiti wall", "mushroom trip"), that the psychedelic adversarial examples become much harder to find as the classifier then just classifies the weird image as such (as would a human perhaps, if forced to call it a single thing).
Foobar2000 is not barebones. It does follow function over form and is focused on audio playback and performance. It is fast, feature-rich, customizable, tweakable and extensible.
It's just not particularly noob-friendly when it comes to things like theming or 'syncing your iPod'. For a power user, however, it sits lonely at the top of the desktop audio player-heap. IMHO.
The real problem here is that most people are not smart enough to recognize a moron if the moron is dressed up prettily and spews pseudo-profound bullshit.
Granted, in that case you are technically writing the letter and throwing it away in the tax officer's office. People think they're doing online stuff 'from home', but the internet is the digital equivalent of walking around outside, with all the dangers, 'spying' and caveats that come with that.
The error is elsewhere: "Since only an infinitesimal portion of the Universe is actually observed, this is a huge optimization win." 'Observed' in QM means 'has interacted with something', not 'observed by a sentient being'.
It's still a good optimization to represent non-interacting particles with fewer bits, though.
In this case the big difference seems to be in network topology: "However, the layered structure of the whale neocortex is known to be simpler than that of humans and most other mammals. In particular, whales lack cortical layer IV, and thus have five neocortical layers to humankind's six. This means that the wiring of connections into and out of the neocortex is much different in whales than in other mammals." ( https://blogs.scientificameric... )
The source also mentions that (some) cetaceans have (much) larger neocortical surfaces than humans. We are also not the top scorer when it comes to neurons in the cerebral cortex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Our brain apparently contains a fairly minor difference with that of other advanced mammals which clearly gives us a huge advantage. According to Wikipedia, the following characterizes layer IV: "Neurons in layer IV receive the majority of the synaptic connections from outside the cortex (mostly from thalamus), and themselves make short-range, local connections to other cortical layers.[10] Thus, layer IV is the main recipient of incoming sensory information and distributes it to the other layers for further processing." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... )
There are many guesses to be made as to what that difference is: - attention? - dynamic encoding of concepts? - consciousness?
The day we find out (and we will) will be both enlightening and sobering, I believe.
It's a bunch of straightforward simple facts sourced from other places. Sure, there are much more in-depth bits of content and I'm not stating that Wikipedia does not have any issues at all, but the notion that all Wikipedia articles need to be written by experts is silly.
Do you really want someone to be able to easily determine your daily routines?
Remember that GPS is not the only source for location information. Geolocated Wifi SSIDs, geolocated IPs and geolocated cell tower locations make location tracking peanuts for sufficiently large companies.
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Oh dear, did someone insult something you like by giving their honest opinion of it?
You know, there is this skill called 'critical thinking'. It fosters quality and weeds out crap. Then there is fanboyish apologism, which is a downward spiral via mediocrity to rock bottom, which is where superhero movies are headed.
Next time please just refrain from trying to silence the critics. It's the least you can do.
Thank you. Holy shit, that title is crappy clickbait.
First, his ideas were far-left
Which ones? Because besides people pretending and clamoring that they were, I've heard very little actual reasoning as to why they were particularly 'far'-left.
This has been the case since 1865.
Koko the gorilla learned quite a bit of sign language and is able to communicate quite well.
This is not a fact and is actually highly disputed. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
People think that anybody who can use ASL could simply have a conversation with Koko. This is false. Koko's conversations are with her handler and subject to significant interpretation.
34% of the people polled is not concerned about sharing the road with self-driving vehicles.
The results of the poll are actually superpositive, given that the technology is very much in its infancy. If anything, it is a display of an inflated sense of trust in, rather than a 'deeply skeptical' view of self-driving vehicles.
1. Tu quoque.
2. The Democrats are late to the party and as such the Republicans have benefited significantly more from the practice: https://www.theguardian.com/us...
3. But yes, gerrymandering is terrible and should be banned. Redistricting should be an entirely apolitical process.
Wow, you're like, really smart.
You assume Trump is not going to pretend he is doing more than he is?
If anything, any (not yet decided on) funding will be funneled to monopolistic underdelivering price-gouging 'friendly' ISPs whilst loudly proclaiming having connected rural America to broadband.
It does, but an ageing population (especially problematic is the wave of baby boomers, called that for a reason) puts a lot of extra strain on all European countries. It's a struggle to find solutions that work and considering that the conservative approach in the UK has been "You're not getting more money, deal with it", the story you mentioned is the result:
- http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
- http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
See also:
- https://www.ineteconomics.org/...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Exactly. These specific stickers only work on this specific system.
The first line of the following paragraph from TFA is ridiculously misleading, as it would require having access to the training mechanism of 'that image classifier at the airport':
"What could be done with these? Stick a few on your clothes or bag and maybe, just maybe, that image classifier at the airport or police body cam will be distracted enough that it doesn’t register your presence. Of course, you’d have to know what system was running on it, and test a few thousand variations of the stickers — but it’s a possibility."
Also, note that this image classifier was specifically asked to classify the entire image as one specific object. No 'image classifier at the airport' will have such a task. Of course this classifier 'fails' if there are multiple objects in the same image. This specific classifier would probably also give the exact same result if you just used an image of an actual toaster next to the banana.
The only real result here is that image classifiers can see 'psychedelic' representations of objects as strong instances of those objects (note that the psychedelic image patch kind of looks like a toaster). I imagine that if you train the classifier with classes of actual 'psychedelic' classes of images ("graffiti wall", "mushroom trip"), that the psychedelic adversarial examples become much harder to find as the classifier then just classifies the weird image as such (as would a human perhaps, if forced to call it a single thing).
So is Java, so is C#, so is PHP (it has come a long way -- especially compared to JS).
Plenty of successful, effective people use frameworks and libraries in projects in those languages.
and they'll fade away on their own
Or they elect the president of the United States of America.
Because Pizzagate. And Benghazi. And Kenya. And communism.
Did you complain that other movies in the past treat women merely as background decorations, or that they always seem to need rescuing?
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Even if that were true (it's not), how many films have there been with the reverse? and how may have you complaied about because of it?
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Foobar2000 is not barebones. It does follow function over form and is focused on audio playback and performance. It is fast, feature-rich, customizable, tweakable and extensible.
It's just not particularly noob-friendly when it comes to things like theming or 'syncing your iPod'. For a power user, however, it sits lonely at the top of the desktop audio player-heap. IMHO.
The real problem here is that most people are not smart enough to recognize a moron if the moron is dressed up prettily and spews pseudo-profound bullshit.
Oh, I think I've just spotted one..
Seriously, any one who knows a bit about unix will enable the root account and set a fairly strong password.
So, almost none of the Mac users, then?
I am positive that 95% of the Mac users I know don't have a clue what root is. They started using OSX because it was not Windows(tm) and simple.
Granted, in that case you are technically writing the letter and throwing it away in the tax officer's office. People think they're doing online stuff 'from home', but the internet is the digital equivalent of walking around outside, with all the dangers, 'spying' and caveats that come with that.
The error is elsewhere:
"Since only an infinitesimal portion of the Universe is actually observed, this is a huge optimization win."
'Observed' in QM means 'has interacted with something', not 'observed by a sentient being'.
It's still a good optimization to represent non-interacting particles with fewer bits, though.
In this case the big difference seems to be in network topology:
"However, the layered structure of the whale neocortex is known to be simpler than that of humans and most other mammals. In particular, whales lack cortical layer IV, and thus have five neocortical layers to humankind's six. This means that the wiring of connections into and out of the neocortex is much different in whales than in other mammals."
( https://blogs.scientificameric... )
The source also mentions that (some) cetaceans have (much) larger neocortical surfaces than humans. We are also not the top scorer when it comes to neurons in the cerebral cortex:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Our brain apparently contains a fairly minor difference with that of other advanced mammals which clearly gives us a huge advantage. According to Wikipedia, the following characterizes layer IV:
"Neurons in layer IV receive the majority of the synaptic connections from outside the cortex (mostly from thalamus), and themselves make short-range, local connections to other cortical layers.[10] Thus, layer IV is the main recipient of incoming sensory information and distributes it to the other layers for further processing."
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... )
There are many guesses to be made as to what that difference is:
- attention?
- dynamic encoding of concepts?
- consciousness?
The day we find out (and we will) will be both enlightening and sobering, I believe.
A lot of content doesn't require expertise. It really, really doesn't.
I clicked random article three times:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's a bunch of straightforward simple facts sourced from other places. Sure, there are much more in-depth bits of content and I'm not stating that Wikipedia does not have any issues at all, but the notion that all Wikipedia articles need to be written by experts is silly.
Do you really want someone to be able to easily determine your daily routines?
Remember that GPS is not the only source for location information. Geolocated Wifi SSIDs, geolocated IPs and geolocated cell tower locations make location tracking peanuts for sufficiently large companies.
Try finding your favorite WiFi-networks here: https://wigle.net/
Cell tower database: https://opencellid.org/
You can bet your ass that (semi-)static IPs are geolocated using that data as well.
My apologies, you are correct. It seems I have misunderstood the article. The iPhone was indeed calibrated out of the factory and not by DisplayMate.
The Note 8 display may still prove to be calibratable to the same level of accuracy, however.
DisplayMate compared the calibrated screen in the iPhone to the uncalibrated screen in the Note 8.
FTA: "What makes the iPhone X the Best Smartphone Display is the impressive Precision Display Calibration Apple developed"
I'd be surprised if a calibrated Note 8 screen would fare much differently.