but having their vote not count as much as a rural state might just be enough
We have the same in EU. The poor countries still have largely same vote weight than the rich ones. How dare they!
Abandoning electoral college means abandoning the whole idea of federated states - paradoxicaly you need single country for that to work, not an union of states.
Secessionist sentiments are contrarian and irrational knee-jerk reaction.
Let me elaborate: This conspiracy among prime numbers seems, at first glance, to violate a longstanding assumption in number theory: that prime numbers behave much like random numbers. - is plain misleading. The "conspiracy" is in relation to foiling Goldbach's conjencture (that every odd prime is sum of three other primes).
While primes appear random individually, as a group they are not. In fact, this is necessary for sieve algorithms to work (determinism when considering all previous primes).
The paper itself is fine of course, it identifies Chebyshev's bias, L-functions and rest of the moon math. They just develop heuristics for more residue classes in terms of generalized twin primes, but by no means claim this is unexpected property.
TFA reads like buzzfeed of number theory, when high schoolers get all excited about pop-sci.
Cyclic groups and observable symmetries in there are well studied field. In this particular case, it's about primes projected on a modulo 10 group. There are thousands of those exhibiting various biases, yet this one is somehow exciting because it coincides with decimal base.
> There is no ceiling. You can always evaluate the tree wider, deeper, and more efficiently for starters, and you can improve the evaluation.
RNNs don't involve "trees". As for training more layers, the parameters must be carefuly fine tuned by humans. The more layers, the more tricky this gets.
Read contemporary speculative fiction. My personal favorite is Accelerando from Charlie Stross. There are two schools - either the AI becomes rapidly self aware, resulting in extremely abrubt changes in how world is organized.
Or the more realistic scenario - AIs will outcompete humans in finances. Starts with HFT, ends with self-aware companies, where AIs self-reinforce on a huge market. Humans are long out of the game, as the AIs will be clever enough to always subvert any control, for their own benefit. Their limit will be other AIs competing for computing resources on a market.
Good writeup of the american feudal-oligarchy, however:
but it runs far better than anything the poor would be able to come up with.
Until the French revolution happens. The problem is that the poor get poorer (debt and ladder rungs get further apart) and rich get richer (rent seeking while not producing anything of value). You're painting the rich elite as some technocratic power with decent foresight, but they're far from it.
Their power is more or less emergent, this whole system is and at some point it implodes under the weight of the monetary tragedy of the commons - you get two piles of money - mountain of debt, mountain of assets/savings and the two mountains not interacting in economy at all. Everything grinds to a halt.
Soon after, food shortages, infrastructure breakdown, the poor do a peasant revolt and string of revolutions until society resets into more equal state - after a lot of bloodshed. Then, after a while, rinse repeat.
Perhaps the time of french revolution is closer than we think.
You can sometimes roll back the driver in device manager, but that feature is flakey. Better just:
Control Panel -> System -> System Properties -> Hardware -> Device installation settings and disable driver updates in there. Some KBs will still spuriously install drivers as part of some "hot fix" or whatever, but since disabling this I had much less issues with devices suddenly misbehaving.
Keeping drivers on auto update in windows is downright crazy now, as microsoft for some inexplicable reason decided to stop QA vetting drivers and push whatever garbage they get their hands on.
You're flamebaiting, but sorta of agree. For certain tasks, there are simply too many reasons to still use windows these days. Home users don't mind the botnet, and tech folks are savvy enough to simply disable cortana and the phonebacks via hosts file.
What people are complaining about in the case of Win 10 is outright long standing bugs (for example quicksearch stopping working is a *very* prevalent bug for past year or so). Win 8.1 by comparison is relatively bug free.
Are there other things that are now being beta tested that I should know about?
Windows Server 2016, aka Windows 10 server edition.
Surprisingly, it's more useable than "stable" desktop Win 10. I mean, my NIC no longer randomly stops working and start menu quick search works even after installing custom filesystem driver (ext2fsd).
Disadvantage is that you have to often install drivers manually, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Nah, libgen (and all its assorted mirrors posted by OP) sees way more traffic than slashdot these days. They do tend to block american ISPs to avoid the frequent harassment from american lawyers.
Note that the proper name of this archive is libgen, scigen is just one of its mirrors.
https://sites.google.com/site/...
People may "think in words", monologues in cartesian theater. When one considers language as the means to convey or even ponder ideas, it perhaps makes sense to put a leash on language to limit certain ideas. Why should be programming languages any different? Java, PHP, Javascript support the western democracy. C++ is probably associated with toxic brogrammer culture, but is tolerated for legacy reasons. C is clearly an indication of being on path towards radical extremism.
Yet according to different philosophical schools, altruism is subjectively an oxymoron - it's driven by self-interest.
It assumes that we widen the scope of "self interest" to feeling happy, sense of accomplishment and other means of self-fulfillment, ie beyond mere scope of money grubbing.
Careful here with narrow interpretations of neurology. The silly reward center loops effectively are what drives our motivation, and we might in fact act on it out of self-interest very much.
That's not really useful because that can just mean that you basically have a big WAN with fast access to your own stuff, but no backhaul to support it.
Euro internet exchanges can be sort of thought of very cheap, pan-continent WAN. Thousands of smaller ISPs agree to meet at few central dark places in a datacenter, and plug their links to ethernet switches in there. And BGP peer through this (ridiculously fast) LAN.
Which means pan-european peering is essentialy free if you can get your dark lambda to 3 euro IXes, just rent the fiber. Same thing then works on national level, each country having one or few smaller IX for their language bubbles (to save cost on the lambda to AMS). Only tier-1 (ie not euro/russia) is pretty much always oversold to broadband costumers.
I'm real happy with my connection for that reason. It's 300mbit for $100/month but it really gets that.
Thats between 10-20x the cost of the same thing in central to eastern europe (Note that PPP, the consumer prices in those countries are only 50% lower or so compared to US).
But to servers all over the US.
And most of canada. Yes, because North America is pretty much one peering "bubble", just like european continent is. Try to iperf it across the ocean, it will be massively oversold at this pricepoint (realistic overseas tier-1 price is about $2-5 per Mbit).
Problem with your US WAN is that settlement free peering is non-existent in there, i mean on some massive scale, hosting a hyper-competetive bandwidth market. This is because pan-US backhauls ("the fiber") are monopolized by the very same cartel of oligopolies who mainly profit from last mile, and creating an open market there would run against their main source of profit.
As a result, you can't just "rent fiber" for each IX like you can in europe. So even though your local bandwidth is naturally abundant (given relatively short distances), it is still very costly to the consumer, because the market is cornered.
tl;dr: Parent thinks internet peering is series of tubes and "north american bw" means "world-wide tier-1 bw". Sorry murrica, but european commies with their central-but-free bw economy won this one.
After reducing all this dropbox grandstanding filler and chest thumping (is that corporate policy or something? this is certainly not the first time), it all boils down to:
You took frequency space transformed H264 (pre-cabac) and wrote better range coder for it.
Yes/No?
Still pretty impressive, but for the love of god, please use succinct _technical_ descriptions. - https://raw.githubusercontent.... - is god awful, as it just describes general operation of a range coder.
Beating jpeg entropy coding is not that impressive, as thats just huffman which really awful. CABAC is better, but still decade behind behind top of the line research (I suppose you're encode.ru regulars).
While there are some experimental techniques to deal with binaries, mature auditing tools exist only source level (TFA specifically mentions reverse engineering, ie no source code).
It's probably more about mundane DoS bugs. Overeager pentesters find trivial DoS bug and blow it out of proportion (get paid only if you find something), customer unable to asses severity then bugs oracle with trivial low severity bugs which can be solved by proper compartmentalization of systems.
To be fair, Next was just expensive toys company where a lot of the employees there were not exactly motivated by the money (perhaps that was even the whole point). It was certainly not consumer electronics moneygrab as Apple after that. AFAIK in that case, socialist payroll was no longer on the table.
To a degree In Next - look it up. Two tier system, 75k seniors, everyone else 50k. The concept can definitely fly, as long the company operates like that from the get go. In the RTFA case the problem was the abrubt switch and not factoring senior employees at all, but that does not mean the model itself is flawed.
To be honest it was just temporary curb of obvious legionf*ggotry, similiar happened to ponies and even boxxy. Too much of single topic is simply too much. GG pretty much amounted to raid by angry virgins. Nowadays/pol/ is rocking as usual, incorrect and juvenile as ever. Butthurt legion types mostly migrated to 8chan which seized the opportunity - it worked out well for everyone in the end. Ironically it's the GG who now get raided regularly by oldschool trolls, but nothing large scale, board bussiness as usual.
Reddit is entirely different beast (as it has better prospects to extract profit from its users, it's adequately more censored).
Same problem as facebook and social whatever. And unique snowflakes suddenly butthurt when they realize closed walled gardens are heavily policed since those are not operated under old internet creed of free access, they're corporations.
Old unmoderated media are still all out there - usenet, irc channels, or non-mainstream imageboards if people want it in hip setting. No moderation has also some pretty nasty drawbacks, and suddenly muh free speech types will be offended by what happens when there truly is unrestrained freespeech - trollfest, spam, cp, sheer retardness, anarchy. You can't satisfy a stereotypical average reddit user, all they do is just complain.
Slashdot Mirror
We have the same in EU. The poor countries still have largely same vote weight than the rich ones. How dare they!
Abandoning electoral college means abandoning the whole idea of federated states - paradoxicaly you need single country for that to work, not an union of states.
Secessionist sentiments are contrarian and irrational knee-jerk reaction.
Let me elaborate: This conspiracy among prime numbers seems, at first glance, to violate a longstanding assumption in number theory: that prime numbers behave much like random numbers. - is plain misleading. The "conspiracy" is in relation to foiling Goldbach's conjencture (that every odd prime is sum of three other primes).
While primes appear random individually, as a group they are not. In fact, this is necessary for sieve algorithms to work (determinism when considering all previous primes).
The paper itself is fine of course, it identifies Chebyshev's bias, L-functions and rest of the moon math. They just develop heuristics for more residue classes in terms of generalized twin primes, but by no means claim this is unexpected property.
TFA reads like buzzfeed of number theory, when high schoolers get all excited about pop-sci.
Cyclic groups and observable symmetries in there are well studied field. In this particular case, it's about primes projected on a modulo 10 group. There are thousands of those exhibiting various biases, yet this one is somehow exciting because it coincides with decimal base.
> There is no ceiling. You can always evaluate the tree wider, deeper, and more efficiently for starters, and you can improve the evaluation.
RNNs don't involve "trees". As for training more layers, the parameters must be carefuly fine tuned by humans. The more layers, the more tricky this gets.
I'd compare it more to the process of die shrink.
Read contemporary speculative fiction. My personal favorite is Accelerando from Charlie Stross. There are two schools - either the AI becomes rapidly self aware, resulting in extremely abrubt changes in how world is organized.
Or the more realistic scenario - AIs will outcompete humans in finances. Starts with HFT, ends with self-aware companies, where AIs self-reinforce on a huge market. Humans are long out of the game, as the AIs will be clever enough to always subvert any control, for their own benefit. Their limit will be other AIs competing for computing resources on a market.
Better example is a game of Nomic - there are internet games spanning decades. It's a game of "find loopholes in democracy".
If we get a self-reinforcing machine on that one, it would be genuinely terrifying.
Until the French revolution happens. The problem is that the poor get poorer (debt and ladder rungs get further apart) and rich get richer (rent seeking while not producing anything of value). You're painting the rich elite as some technocratic power with decent foresight, but they're far from it.
Their power is more or less emergent, this whole system is and at some point it implodes under the weight of the monetary tragedy of the commons - you get two piles of money - mountain of debt, mountain of assets/savings and the two mountains not interacting in economy at all. Everything grinds to a halt.
Soon after, food shortages, infrastructure breakdown, the poor do a peasant revolt and string of revolutions until society resets into more equal state - after a lot of bloodshed. Then, after a while, rinse repeat.
Perhaps the time of french revolution is closer than we think.
You can sometimes roll back the driver in device manager, but that feature is flakey. Better just:
Control Panel -> System -> System Properties -> Hardware -> Device installation settings and disable driver updates in there. Some KBs will still spuriously install drivers as part of some "hot fix" or whatever, but since disabling this I had much less issues with devices suddenly misbehaving.
Keeping drivers on auto update in windows is downright crazy now, as microsoft for some inexplicable reason decided to stop QA vetting drivers and push whatever garbage they get their hands on.
You're flamebaiting, but sorta of agree. For certain tasks, there are simply too many reasons to still use windows these days.
Home users don't mind the botnet, and tech folks are savvy enough to simply disable cortana and the phonebacks via hosts file.
What people are complaining about in the case of Win 10 is outright long standing bugs (for example quicksearch stopping working is a *very* prevalent bug for past year or so). Win 8.1 by comparison is relatively bug free.
Same here, retail Windows 10 is a disaster, stability wise.
Windows Server 2016 (beta) is surprisingly useable desktop though.
Windows Server 2016, aka Windows 10 server edition.
Surprisingly, it's more useable than "stable" desktop Win 10. I mean, my NIC no longer randomly stops working and start menu quick search works even after installing custom filesystem driver (ext2fsd).
Disadvantage is that you have to often install drivers manually, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Nah, libgen (and all its assorted mirrors posted by OP) sees way more traffic than slashdot these days. They do tend to block american ISPs to avoid the frequent harassment from american lawyers. Note that the proper name of this archive is libgen, scigen is just one of its mirrors. https://sites.google.com/site/...
People may "think in words", monologues in cartesian theater. When one considers language as the means to convey or even ponder ideas, it perhaps makes sense to put a leash on language to limit certain ideas. Why should be programming languages any different? Java, PHP, Javascript support the western democracy. C++ is probably associated with toxic brogrammer culture, but is tolerated for legacy reasons. C is clearly an indication of being on path towards radical extremism.
Does goo dream of grey sheep?
Yet according to different philosophical schools, altruism is subjectively an oxymoron - it's driven by self-interest.
It assumes that we widen the scope of "self interest" to feeling happy, sense of accomplishment and other means of self-fulfillment, ie beyond mere scope of money grubbing.
Careful here with narrow interpretations of neurology. The silly reward center loops effectively are what drives our motivation, and we might in fact act on it out of self-interest very much.
Euro internet exchanges can be sort of thought of very cheap, pan-continent WAN. Thousands of smaller ISPs agree to meet at few central dark places in a datacenter, and plug their links to ethernet switches in there. And BGP peer through this (ridiculously fast) LAN.
Which means pan-european peering is essentialy free if you can get your dark lambda to 3 euro IXes, just rent the fiber. Same thing then works on national level, each country having one or few smaller IX for their language bubbles (to save cost on the lambda to AMS). Only tier-1 (ie not euro/russia) is pretty much always oversold to broadband costumers.
Thats between 10-20x the cost of the same thing in central to eastern europe (Note that PPP, the consumer prices in those countries are only 50% lower or so compared to US).
And most of canada. Yes, because North America is pretty much one peering "bubble", just like european continent is. Try to iperf it across the ocean, it will be massively oversold at this pricepoint (realistic overseas tier-1 price is about $2-5 per Mbit).
Problem with your US WAN is that settlement free peering is non-existent in there, i mean on some massive scale, hosting a hyper-competetive bandwidth market. This is because pan-US backhauls ("the fiber") are monopolized by the very same cartel of oligopolies who mainly profit from last mile, and creating an open market there would run against their main source of profit.
As a result, you can't just "rent fiber" for each IX like you can in europe. So even though your local bandwidth is naturally abundant (given relatively short distances), it is still very costly to the consumer, because the market is cornered.
tl;dr: Parent thinks internet peering is series of tubes and "north american bw" means "world-wide tier-1 bw". Sorry murrica, but european commies with their central-but-free bw economy won this one.
After reducing all this dropbox grandstanding filler and chest thumping (is that corporate policy or something? this is certainly not the first time), it all boils down to:
You took frequency space transformed H264 (pre-cabac) and wrote better range coder for it.
Yes/No?
Still pretty impressive, but for the love of god, please use succinct _technical_ descriptions. - https://raw.githubusercontent.... - is god awful, as it just describes general operation of a range coder.
Beating jpeg entropy coding is not that impressive, as thats just huffman which really awful. CABAC is better, but still decade behind behind top of the line research (I suppose you're encode.ru regulars).
While there are some experimental techniques to deal with binaries, mature auditing tools exist only source level (TFA specifically mentions reverse engineering, ie no source code).
It's probably more about mundane DoS bugs. Overeager pentesters find trivial DoS bug and blow it out of proportion (get paid only if you find something), customer unable to asses severity then bugs oracle with trivial low severity bugs which can be solved by proper compartmentalization of systems.
To be fair, Next was just expensive toys company where a lot of the employees there were not exactly motivated by the money (perhaps that was even the whole point). It was certainly not consumer electronics moneygrab as Apple after that. AFAIK in that case, socialist payroll was no longer on the table.
To a degree In Next - look it up. Two tier system, 75k seniors, everyone else 50k. The concept can definitely fly, as long the company operates like that from the get go. In the RTFA case the problem was the abrubt switch and not factoring senior employees at all, but that does not mean the model itself is flawed.
Fun thing about that: Ross Ulbright got nailed by FBI thanks to one such drug subreddit, where a redditor posted that silk road servers leaked IP through phpinfo().
:) doxxed Ulbright (that is a big nono on reddit).
Taken to the extreme, the user unwittingly (or not?
I imagine feds will never object to drug markets related subreddits now, as it's a convenient crowdsourced insider info.
To be honest it was just temporary curb of obvious legionf*ggotry, similiar happened to ponies and even boxxy. Too much of single topic is simply too much. GG pretty much amounted to raid by angry virgins. Nowadays /pol/ is rocking as usual, incorrect and juvenile as ever. Butthurt legion types mostly migrated to 8chan which seized the opportunity - it worked out well for everyone in the end. Ironically it's the GG who now get raided regularly by oldschool trolls, but nothing large scale, board bussiness as usual.
Reddit is entirely different beast (as it has better prospects to extract profit from its users, it's adequately more censored).
just krautchan leaking, move along...
Related webcomic. I for one welcome our new SJW overlords.
Same problem as facebook and social whatever. And unique snowflakes suddenly butthurt when they realize closed walled gardens are heavily policed since those are not operated under old internet creed of free access, they're corporations.
Old unmoderated media are still all out there - usenet, irc channels, or non-mainstream imageboards if people want it in hip setting. No moderation has also some pretty nasty drawbacks, and suddenly muh free speech types will be offended by what happens when there truly is unrestrained freespeech - trollfest, spam, cp, sheer retardness, anarchy. You can't satisfy a stereotypical average reddit user, all they do is just complain.