"55% chance is not much better than flipping a coin"
Which is fortunate, because an AI that achieved an 80-85% rate on New Yorker cartoons would have to have evolved at a star considerably older than the Sun.
Scandinavian welfare states evolved from the traditional communitarian cultures of these countries. Within this culture, the Lutheran moral code promotes helping each other out in time of need while stigmatizing freeloading.
But now Europe as a whole is facing an uncontrollable, Arizona-style flood of refugees who are not part of this culture and who do not feel restrained by the Lutheran moral code. Now Finland has its first Joe Arpaio.
If this is really a Python-based description language for allowing animated scenes of any complexity to be described as a hierarchical set of object classes, this goes public just in time for Oculus Rift and HoloLens.
None of these things happened at Fukushima. You need to add... 5. In event of a reactor shutdown with loss of the grid in an areawide emergency, design the core coolant coupling so that local fire truck hoses will fit. That's literally all it would have taken to keep water circulating in the core long enough to remove heat of decay and prevent a meltdown.
Japan's newest nukes are of the very latest design, and all of the plants being restarted have passed the latest safety tests, on a date that has been planned for years. No, this is not some panic move "in response to soaring energy prices" as the headline claims.
"The greater part of the cost is the delivery infrastructure. There is a significant economy of scale when it comes to content."
The QUALITY of the delivery infrastructure is a significant part of the problem. It's a lot easier to deliver fast internet over cable than it is to deliver tolerable video content. My rural cable provider has endless problem with TV channels that freeze, lose audio, and pixilate. A little winter snow clogs the dishes over which the company receives its feed, and so do summer storms. Through all this their broadband service over the same cable plugs steadily away ay 80M down, 8M up, 28 msec ping. I'm moving toward cord cutting because the technology itself works better than receiving the same content as cable video.
No, we just need a greenhouse module for the ISS that will use natural light to grow vegetables. Then they might want to edge into the protein realm. Though it will be a long time before we will be able to have cows in space (cue the trolls!) the vegetable module could raise these:
We have already established the nutritional value of lettuce on Earth. This experiment is to grow it, plus a variety of other dietary favorites, in space.
Because as all good liberals know, Uber is an evil manifestation of capitalist Silicon Valley culture. As soon as it offers its services in any country, that nation's citizens are forced to abandon their traditional ways and start riding Uber everywhere, whether they want to or not. We must inform the Saudi muttawa at once of Uber's colonialist incursion into the folkways of ancient Saudi culture, so that they may beat women who might be tempted to use the service and, if necessary, stuff them into a burning building. Choice must be stamped out before it has a chance to take hold!
' "accidental contamination gets you sued" argument that they made is also a myth.'
In any case, this argument conflates a technology with a legal problem which is totally a construct of human society. Anti-GMO activists are a bunch of liberal arts majors who think that every GM organism contains a snippet of DNA from Bungarus caeruleus, the common Monsanto lawyer. This is why they're ripping up fields of open-source, non-corporate crops like golden rice.
Yes, in that traditional hybridization means the intentional mating of strains of a species that include desired traits, followed by the culling of offspring that do not express the trait, a process which is repeated until the species breeds true for the desired traits. But anti-GMO activism refers to transgenic processes, engineering the transfer of DNA from one species into another in a precisely controlled manner. The opposition came from the assumption that transgenic processes are unnatural, which we now know to be wrong.
"I'm a libertarian and want Uber and Lyft shut down, or sued out of existence."
Just upthread, a Finn describes a need for more pool cars, especially at certain times and places, and a shortage of medallion cabs. Were you an actual libertarian, you would be gleefully holding your legs up to your chest and cannonballing into a new market.
It won't be necessary for that Pig AmeriKKKa you despise to "do anything" to Cuba. Given free trade, they will fix the problem themselves.
The first thing that will happen will be trade in OUR direction: Cubans selling those carefully maintained classic cars to US collectors for a half mill apiece. This will provide Cubans the capital to, aided by the Miami expatriates, set up the little businesses they have always craved. No longer will they have to hide two-table restaurants inside houses. Then you will see large cash-cow lines of business like cigar making and resorts. Medical tourism could be a wild card.
While in Tokyo I lived mostly about 15 minutes from Shibuya Station, and for a while in Komagome at the top of the Yamanote loop. Once during spring strike I had to walk all the way in (Toranomon). That was definitely a time when I could have used a WalkCar.
I've done a lot of street skating in my time, and I wonder how this device compares? I've never boarded, so I don't know. It would solve the problem of "What do I do with my skates when I enter a building?"
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"55% chance is not much better than flipping a coin"
Which is fortunate, because an AI that achieved an 80-85% rate on New Yorker cartoons would have to have evolved at a star considerably older than the Sun.
Scandinavian welfare states evolved from the traditional communitarian cultures of these countries. Within this culture, the Lutheran moral code promotes helping each other out in time of need while stigmatizing freeloading.
But now Europe as a whole is facing an uncontrollable, Arizona-style flood of refugees who are not part of this culture and who do not feel restrained by the Lutheran moral code. Now Finland has its first Joe Arpaio.
Just like all the other times, porn and gaming will be drivers for this new technology.
If this is really a Python-based description language for allowing animated scenes of any complexity to be described as a hierarchical set of object classes, this goes public just in time for Oculus Rift and HoloLens.
You're thinking of "The Last Question"
http://www.multivax.com/last_q...
Yet I was still modded down for the comment.
None of these things happened at Fukushima. You need to add...
5. In event of a reactor shutdown with loss of the grid in an areawide emergency, design the core coolant coupling so that local fire truck hoses will fit. That's literally all it would have taken to keep water circulating in the core long enough to remove heat of decay and prevent a meltdown.
Japan's newest nukes are of the very latest design, and all of the plants being restarted have passed the latest safety tests, on a date that has been planned for years. No, this is not some panic move "in response to soaring energy prices" as the headline claims.
I can't assume that delivery of the channels to the cable company is the whole problem.
"The greater part of the cost is the delivery infrastructure. There is a significant economy of scale when it comes to content."
The QUALITY of the delivery infrastructure is a significant part of the problem. It's a lot easier to deliver fast internet over cable than it is to deliver tolerable video content. My rural cable provider has endless problem with TV channels that freeze, lose audio, and pixilate. A little winter snow clogs the dishes over which the company receives its feed, and so do summer storms. Through all this their broadband service over the same cable plugs steadily away ay 80M down, 8M up, 28 msec ping. I'm moving toward cord cutting because the technology itself works better than receiving the same content as cable video.
No, we just need a greenhouse module for the ISS that will use natural light to grow vegetables. Then they might want to edge into the protein realm. Though it will be a long time before we will be able to have cows in space (cue the trolls!) the vegetable module could raise these:
http://www.foodnavigator-usa.c...
I have tried them, and they are remarkably good.
We have already established the nutritional value of lettuce on Earth. This experiment is to grow it, plus a variety of other dietary favorites, in space.
+1 Uncomfortable truth.
Because as all good liberals know, Uber is an evil manifestation of capitalist Silicon Valley culture. As soon as it offers its services in any country, that nation's citizens are forced to abandon their traditional ways and start riding Uber everywhere, whether they want to or not. We must inform the Saudi muttawa at once of Uber's colonialist incursion into the folkways of ancient Saudi culture, so that they may beat women who might be tempted to use the service and, if necessary, stuff them into a burning building. Choice must be stamped out before it has a chance to take hold!
' "accidental contamination gets you sued" argument that they made is also a myth.'
In any case, this argument conflates a technology with a legal problem which is totally a construct of human society. Anti-GMO activists are a bunch of liberal arts majors who think that every GM organism contains a snippet of DNA from Bungarus caeruleus, the common Monsanto lawyer. This is why they're ripping up fields of open-source, non-corporate crops like golden rice.
"Aren't all crops genetically modified?"
Yes, in that traditional hybridization means the intentional mating of strains of a species that include desired traits, followed by the culling of offspring that do not express the trait, a process which is repeated until the species breeds true for the desired traits. But anti-GMO activism refers to transgenic processes, engineering the transfer of DNA from one species into another in a precisely controlled manner. The opposition came from the assumption that transgenic processes are unnatural, which we now know to be wrong.
Strong support for unions seems natural in a country where pay is low and the factory you are working in might spontaneously collapse at any moment.
"You are equating giving someone a ride without a license to murdering your neighbor's dog?"
In the US, if we want the neighbor's dog killed, we call the police.
"I'm a libertarian and want Uber and Lyft shut down, or sued out of existence."
Just upthread, a Finn describes a need for more pool cars, especially at certain times and places, and a shortage of medallion cabs. Were you an actual libertarian, you would be gleefully holding your legs up to your chest and cannonballing into a new market.
It won't be necessary for that Pig AmeriKKKa you despise to "do anything" to Cuba. Given free trade, they will fix the problem themselves.
The first thing that will happen will be trade in OUR direction: Cubans selling those carefully maintained classic cars to US collectors for a half mill apiece. This will provide Cubans the capital to, aided by the Miami expatriates, set up the little businesses they have always craved. No longer will they have to hide two-table restaurants inside houses. Then you will see large cash-cow lines of business like cigar making and resorts. Medical tourism could be a wild card.
"It's now the web version of "Memento""
But hopefully with a larger SSD.
"I'm glad Finland has no other problems for the police to worry ab"
I suppose it wants to issue one of those $65,000 tickets Finland is famous for, maybe on grounds of competing with the local drunk-ass socialists.
Yes, where the Great Buddha is.
A Super Soaker filled with salt water.
While in Tokyo I lived mostly about 15 minutes from Shibuya Station, and for a while in Komagome at the top of the Yamanote loop. Once during spring strike I had to walk all the way in (Toranomon). That was definitely a time when I could have used a WalkCar.
I've done a lot of street skating in my time, and I wonder how this device compares? I've never boarded, so I don't know. It would solve the problem of "What do I do with my skates when I enter a building?"