They can't. Even if they thought it was a good idea systemically.
What's sucking most people's bandwidth? Streaming.
What can't you timeshift? Streaming.
What can you timeshift? Torrenting.
So if they implemented time based data surcharges, they would drive users to piracy. Since Comcast and Time Warner both have significant media holdings, any policy that incentivized piracy (would be a non-starter.
Wouldn't work. Fully masking out shadow with lasers to anyone watching would take as much energy as we receive from the sun (for obvious reasons). It's much easier to eliminate the shadow we emit to a specific known star, because we only need to emit enough energy to make up for a tiny part of our shadow.
It's the difference between having enough lamps on the ceiling of a large hangar to simulate DAYLIGHT in the hangar... and just shining a very bright flashlight at a single 1" sensor.
Looking at the code, I don't see anything unique or interesting about this bot.
The code to set up a bot is native, meaning no portability or clarity. Conversation description is a textbook example of what a DSL is for, but instead they have you create enumerations and embed the conversational strings in the code flow? What the hell?
I was expecting something based on NLP, where I could feed a bot a bunch of recorded conversations and have it learn appropriate responses on its own, or build part or all of the conversation tree itself.
Can someone more familiar with chatbots tell me what this does that other bots haven't done better for years?
To be perfectly frank, I don't want anyone to succeed at quelling speech online, or offline, anywhere. I am proud of the fact that dissenting opinions and views, like those of frankly reprehensible groups like NAMBLA and the KKK, are not silenced in my country.
For the same reason that rehabilitation rather than punishment should be the primary goal of prisons, our primary foreign policy should be aimed at trade and improving the economic viability and stability of the rest of the world for one simple reason: well fed, happy, comfortable people don't become suicide bombers. They don't take up guns and murder people. They don't rebel against the system.
If we took half the military budget and spent it on trade instead the US could single-handedly eliminate half of the poverty in the world. And I don't mean 'spend it on handouts'. I mean trade, where we receive goods for money. But use the taxes for trade incentives rather that disincentives like tariffs.
When entire populations of people are angry enough at my country to take up arms, then I consider that a failing of my country. We did something to deserve that anger. In the case of the middle east, we have spent decades meddling in their politics or actively waging war... no fucking shit they're angry. But silencing them doesn't remove the anger or repair the harm done. Instead, it just opens up the idea that controlling speech is effective. And that's antithetical to the entire foundation of our nation and the Internet.
That's because you didn't actually read the report. The report itself lists the gaps, and for a specific job (computer programmer) women earn less than men by an adjusted 72%. Other jobs, like those you listed, the difference is less.
I don't give a crap if something is GMO or not... we'd have a hard time feeding the world without GMO. What I care about is if my purchase profits Monsanto or not, considering the predatory, deceptive, and sometimes downright evil acts that company has perpetrated.
GMO isn't bad... but the unfortunate fact is that the most visible and prolific company working in GMO crops is tarnishing the science of GMO by association.
VR still has a resolution problem, and it will for at least a couple years. The resolution of a poor monitor exceeds that of the best VR. Even an adequate monitor will give you a better experience than the same task in VR.
If you use the VR to emulate expensive setups however, then it gets more interesting. Multi-monitor setups, or faking TrackIR... that would give it some interesting utility. But just emulating a big screen will not do a very good job, unless your environment is so depressing that hiding it is a value-add on its own.
Plato also thought that a perfect society would involve forced mating with random individuals, with the children raised by a collective. Just because a famous philosopher thought it would be a neat idea doesn't make it right.
The only remaining big hangup preventing wide-scale adoption is the shitty video drivers on Linux. Until NVIDIA and AMD pour resources into better Linux drivers (or someone else pours even MORE resources into good open-source drivers) we will continue to see crappy performance, and that will keep potential developers at bay.
Not quite. The paper explains that the computer is different quantitatively than the humans. Specifically, computer vision systems degraded slowly with no hard cutoff, while human vision systems had hard cutoffs where a small degredation in the image (crop, blur) led to a big reduction in the number of accurate identifications on the Turk.
This cliff was not present in computer vision models. Not just present at a more detailed level (ie, the computer failed earlier) but not present at all indicating that computer vision methods do not yet emulate the human visual processing method.
Using well known and solid techniques along with vast computing power, Google has finally broken into the majors of Go. The next question is whether a home computer can run the neural network now that it's been trained;.. or do the CPU and RAM requirements still place this level of play into the corporate-only bracket.
Once we can run our own purpose-designed expert systems on commodity hardware, that's when the social change AI will bring will be nigh. Whether it's beneficial to everyone, to just the 1%, or whether everything goes tits-up I have no clue. But we aren't there yet, because things like this are still hugely expensive to train and operate. A government can make a single person fly with a jetpack, but that has had zero impact on our daily lives. Social change rarely occurs until revolutionary capabilities are available to the masses (or at least the small business owners).
I was wondering if it maybe actually lends credence to people who claim they have allergies to various types of EM.
When they can reliably detect the presence of active EM radiation, rather than only reacting to the presence of blinking LED on non-functional devices, then credence will be lent.
You have had the ear of many a policy maker over the years. Can you give any examples where they listened? Where you felt you made a difference? Someone who voted yes on a law you recommended, or a wording that was changed because you commented on it?
Or the reverse... do you instead feel like the time you put in never seemed to make a difference?
Statistics is a mathematical filter we use on raw data to extract meaning. So give the students some raw data (a field full of virtual people; a forest full of trees and animals; a toy chest full of different toys, a crowd of video game characters) and give them statistical filters and widgets they can drag over these seas of data to extract information.
- Drag a 'Plants' filter over the forest to eliminate the fauna (visually the deer and rabbits vanish as well), then drop an Weight bar chart on it to show how the forest is full of tiny mushrooms and ferns as well as giant trees, but perhaps lacks in-between weights.
- Filter the crowd with a 'T-Shirt' filter, and compare the resulting Age graph with the same graph after applying a 'Buttoned Shirt' filter.
- Give them filters that have a limited radius, and see if they can find pockets of the toy chest that have an un-representative number of Lego Blocks than the whole population. Is the result from the bottom of the toy chest different than from the top?
- Filter by gender, and compare the representation of female and male characters in video games. Compare the same result when you also filter for Protagonists and NPCs
There are a lot of ways a simple picture (that's actually a bunch of sprites, one per data point) can turn into a learning experience for a different aspect of statistics. The subject matter and questions can be easily tuned to different age groups. With a robust set of filters and visualizations you can teach advanced ideas in an engaging and clear manner to almost any audience.
The more IT equipment is traded between nations, the more they can all spy on each other with embedded malware and hidden backdoors. Makes complete sense.
And no, I don't wear a tinfoil hat, and this post is half joke, but only half... I'm sure that at least one NSA official nudged a bureaucrat somewhere that this would be good for national security.
Google for the Star Wars Despecialized release. Found on respectable torrent sites everywhere at high bitrates and resolutions. The original theater releases of the first three, retouched and restored with loving care by fans as disappointed with the Lucas edits as you.
On a site that frequently ridicules the short-sighted behavior of eliminating experienced employees to bring in fresh (cheap) college graduates, it seems out of place to have a positive outlook on pervasive outsourcing.
If everyone is a contract worker doing works-for-hire, then nobody has extensive institutional knowledge. You are constantly explaining and re-explaining how your business works, and bugs are repeatedly entering codebases because the developer hasn't spent years understanding the business and its workflows. It doesn't matter how well documented your business is, developers will make mistakes when they are unfamiliar with your processes. When they can't look at a workflow or data structure and go 'that's not right' because they have spent years at the company learning how things work.
Experience has value; not just experience coding, but experience with the company understanding how it works. Systems are rarely generic... they are embedded directly into the business logic unique to each company, and the less you need to learn and relearn the requirements of every system the more productive you can be.
They've been losing money for four years, about 10M a year. It's a startup. All in all, this is pretty cheap advertising for them. But be aware that this is an advertisement. When Chevy says that they're truck will get 50MPG, get you to Colorado, and get you laid by the model onscreen you don't take them at their word.
Don't assume Imprimis is amazing because they put out an ad for their services.
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They can't. Even if they thought it was a good idea systemically.
So if they implemented time based data surcharges, they would drive users to piracy. Since Comcast and Time Warner both have significant media holdings, any policy that incentivized piracy (would be a non-starter.
Experimental program not instantly profitable? Say it isn't so!
I'm sure they can improve the efficiency of the extraction process.
Wouldn't work. Fully masking out shadow with lasers to anyone watching would take as much energy as we receive from the sun (for obvious reasons). It's much easier to eliminate the shadow we emit to a specific known star, because we only need to emit enough energy to make up for a tiny part of our shadow.
It's the difference between having enough lamps on the ceiling of a large hangar to simulate DAYLIGHT in the hangar... and just shining a very bright flashlight at a single 1" sensor.
I can now brag about my 15 digit /. ID.
Except that this is not the first warrant canary to be deployed successfully, and we have yet to have anyone prosecuted for it.
If you have a counter case, by all means, enlighten us.
Looking at the code, I don't see anything unique or interesting about this bot.
The code to set up a bot is native, meaning no portability or clarity. Conversation description is a textbook example of what a DSL is for, but instead they have you create enumerations and embed the conversational strings in the code flow? What the hell?
I was expecting something based on NLP, where I could feed a bot a bunch of recorded conversations and have it learn appropriate responses on its own, or build part or all of the conversation tree itself.
Can someone more familiar with chatbots tell me what this does that other bots haven't done better for years?
To be perfectly frank, I don't want anyone to succeed at quelling speech online, or offline, anywhere. I am proud of the fact that dissenting opinions and views, like those of frankly reprehensible groups like NAMBLA and the KKK, are not silenced in my country.
For the same reason that rehabilitation rather than punishment should be the primary goal of prisons, our primary foreign policy should be aimed at trade and improving the economic viability and stability of the rest of the world for one simple reason: well fed, happy, comfortable people don't become suicide bombers. They don't take up guns and murder people. They don't rebel against the system.
If we took half the military budget and spent it on trade instead the US could single-handedly eliminate half of the poverty in the world. And I don't mean 'spend it on handouts'. I mean trade, where we receive goods for money. But use the taxes for trade incentives rather that disincentives like tariffs.
When entire populations of people are angry enough at my country to take up arms, then I consider that a failing of my country. We did something to deserve that anger. In the case of the middle east, we have spent decades meddling in their politics or actively waging war... no fucking shit they're angry. But silencing them doesn't remove the anger or repair the harm done. Instead, it just opens up the idea that controlling speech is effective. And that's antithetical to the entire foundation of our nation and the Internet.
That's because you didn't actually read the report. The report itself lists the gaps, and for a specific job (computer programmer) women earn less than men by an adjusted 72%. Other jobs, like those you listed, the difference is less.
I don't give a crap if something is GMO or not... we'd have a hard time feeding the world without GMO. What I care about is if my purchase profits Monsanto or not, considering the predatory, deceptive, and sometimes downright evil acts that company has perpetrated.
GMO isn't bad... but the unfortunate fact is that the most visible and prolific company working in GMO crops is tarnishing the science of GMO by association.
VR still has a resolution problem, and it will for at least a couple years. The resolution of a poor monitor exceeds that of the best VR. Even an adequate monitor will give you a better experience than the same task in VR.
If you use the VR to emulate expensive setups however, then it gets more interesting. Multi-monitor setups, or faking TrackIR... that would give it some interesting utility. But just emulating a big screen will not do a very good job, unless your environment is so depressing that hiding it is a value-add on its own.
Plato also thought that a perfect society would involve forced mating with random individuals, with the children raised by a collective. Just because a famous philosopher thought it would be a neat idea doesn't make it right.
No, NVIDIA has not-shitty drivers for Linux. They still under-perform, and under-feature their Windows counterpart, while still over-crashing.
They are not utter shit like the AMD drivers, but Windows gets all the developer attention, and thus the better drivers.
The only remaining big hangup preventing wide-scale adoption is the shitty video drivers on Linux. Until NVIDIA and AMD pour resources into better Linux drivers (or someone else pours even MORE resources into good open-source drivers) we will continue to see crappy performance, and that will keep potential developers at bay.
Not quite. The paper explains that the computer is different quantitatively than the humans. Specifically, computer vision systems degraded slowly with no hard cutoff, while human vision systems had hard cutoffs where a small degredation in the image (crop, blur) led to a big reduction in the number of accurate identifications on the Turk.
This cliff was not present in computer vision models. Not just present at a more detailed level (ie, the computer failed earlier) but not present at all indicating that computer vision methods do not yet emulate the human visual processing method.
Should Apple allow the FBI to see your dick pics?
I love the #10. The ability to amend yourself (without redacting your post) would be appreciated.
Using well known and solid techniques along with vast computing power, Google has finally broken into the majors of Go. The next question is whether a home computer can run the neural network now that it's been trained;.. or do the CPU and RAM requirements still place this level of play into the corporate-only bracket.
Once we can run our own purpose-designed expert systems on commodity hardware, that's when the social change AI will bring will be nigh. Whether it's beneficial to everyone, to just the 1%, or whether everything goes tits-up I have no clue. But we aren't there yet, because things like this are still hugely expensive to train and operate. A government can make a single person fly with a jetpack, but that has had zero impact on our daily lives. Social change rarely occurs until revolutionary capabilities are available to the masses (or at least the small business owners).
I was wondering if it maybe actually lends credence to people who claim they have allergies to various types of EM.
When they can reliably detect the presence of active EM radiation, rather than only reacting to the presence of blinking LED on non-functional devices, then credence will be lent.
Pass the double-blind, or GTFO.
You have had the ear of many a policy maker over the years. Can you give any examples where they listened? Where you felt you made a difference? Someone who voted yes on a law you recommended, or a wording that was changed because you commented on it?
Or the reverse... do you instead feel like the time you put in never seemed to make a difference?
Statistics is a mathematical filter we use on raw data to extract meaning. So give the students some raw data (a field full of virtual people; a forest full of trees and animals; a toy chest full of different toys, a crowd of video game characters) and give them statistical filters and widgets they can drag over these seas of data to extract information.
There are a lot of ways a simple picture (that's actually a bunch of sprites, one per data point) can turn into a learning experience for a different aspect of statistics. The subject matter and questions can be easily tuned to different age groups. With a robust set of filters and visualizations you can teach advanced ideas in an engaging and clear manner to almost any audience.
The more IT equipment is traded between nations, the more they can all spy on each other with embedded malware and hidden backdoors. Makes complete sense.
And no, I don't wear a tinfoil hat, and this post is half joke, but only half... I'm sure that at least one NSA official nudged a bureaucrat somewhere that this would be good for national security.
Google for the Star Wars Despecialized release. Found on respectable torrent sites everywhere at high bitrates and resolutions. The original theater releases of the first three, retouched and restored with loving care by fans as disappointed with the Lucas edits as you.
On a site that frequently ridicules the short-sighted behavior of eliminating experienced employees to bring in fresh (cheap) college graduates, it seems out of place to have a positive outlook on pervasive outsourcing.
If everyone is a contract worker doing works-for-hire, then nobody has extensive institutional knowledge. You are constantly explaining and re-explaining how your business works, and bugs are repeatedly entering codebases because the developer hasn't spent years understanding the business and its workflows. It doesn't matter how well documented your business is, developers will make mistakes when they are unfamiliar with your processes. When they can't look at a workflow or data structure and go 'that's not right' because they have spent years at the company learning how things work.
Experience has value; not just experience coding, but experience with the company understanding how it works. Systems are rarely generic... they are embedded directly into the business logic unique to each company, and the less you need to learn and relearn the requirements of every system the more productive you can be.
I poorly worded a few areas. On the first, I said '100% more', but on the second I didn't say '200% more'. I think the meaning is clear overall.
They've been losing money for four years, about 10M a year. It's a startup. All in all, this is pretty cheap advertising for them. But be aware that this is an advertisement. When Chevy says that they're truck will get 50MPG, get you to Colorado, and get you laid by the model onscreen you don't take them at their word.
Don't assume Imprimis is amazing because they put out an ad for their services.