Also many of the competitions are for money for amounts that in the US are quite small, but for a hacker in a foreign country are a significant sum - so there simply isn't motive for top US programmers to compete.
If they want a realistic sample - put a substantial sum of money in contention and such that it isn't 'winner take all' (ie payout the top 20 or so slots).
Complete beginners in the US are far more likely to try hackerrank; whereas on average more experienced coders from other nations are likely to compete.
Also in the US graduating from a good school is adequate for employment prospects, so many good programmers don't use hackerrank and other competitive programming platforms.
I've wondered forever why this hasn't happened to all of the major companies. Clearly they all have done such gross undervaluation of corporations IP assets, otherwise it wouldn't avoid any taxes for them.
Education and commentary is a fair use exception to copyright. He was clearly using them for educational purposes and commentary and therefore they are almost certainly fair use.
In the US if you use a trademark, you own the the trademark even if you haven't registered it. Since it is already being used in commerce for that mark, the application shouldn't be successful and can be challenged in the courts if it is granted.
Are you seriously suggesting that if we repealed drug laws, use of dangerous drugs like crack and heroin would not increase?
I'm not the person you were asking, but yes, based on the experience of other nations - that is exactly what happens. The dangerous drug usage goes down because people get help for their addiction without risking jail. Also people switch to less serious drugs.
VR is going to take off at a ridiculous pace, and people will need a powerful PC (or XBox One or PS3...) to use it. So I suspect this trend will reverse either next year, or the year following.
Apple files suit in federal court under the DMCA, claiming Cellebrite has created a circumvention device; and since they, themselves were not law enforcement agents, and they did it on contract, rather than doing it as independent security research, the DMCA safe harbor procedures don't apply.
And then Apple releases an iOS update.
Method got classified by FBI, which defeats Apple being able to do so.
So, the government misrepresented in its original filing that, "Apple must be compelled to provide the backdoor to unlock the phone, because we have no other means of doing so".
Actually it is believed that the firm invented the method during the trial, so the government did not misrepresent the facts in the filing.
Draws are impossible in go (for the scoring method being used). Specific openings don't matter too much, they give similar chances regardless of the specific opening.
It would be pretty easy to have an AI that can win at MTG (or variants such as Hearthstone).
1) get lists of example decks that are used. Do millions of self play with each deck. Also do random decks. Find which combinations of cards work well together.
2) From this you can then begin predicting from seen/played cards what will be in villains deck and to design custom decks.
3) Also you can cluster decks by how they play (Zerg/fast decks, slow decks, etc.)
4) Then based on the deck group pick your optimal counter strategy based on what deck you are playing.
Top humans playing top humans at poker play GTO - game theoretically optimal. The best computer players can already beat the best humans at heads up limit; and probably will be able to beat the best humans at heads up no limit.
The best computer players can absolutely crush anyone but the top 10 or so human players, and the next couple of years will be able to beat and maybe even crush the remaining players.
The designers at DeepMind didn't expect it to lose a couple of matches and the version of AlphaGo was finalized before the start of the match and thus couldn't 'learn the kinds of moves that a really top go player made'. So you are wrong on all accounts.
They had a good idea of the playing strength when the offered the challenge, and the playing strength was probably such that they expected at minimum a 3:2 win for the bot.
I don't have a problem with the specific thing that Apple is being asked to do. They aren't being asked to break the encryption they are being asked to change the firmware on the device to one that doesn't have an artificial throttle on the number of brute force attempts per second; and to disable the wipe command that is engaged with 10 wrong guesses.
"ANY report on communication with a foreign agent, i.e. minister, diplomat, government worker, is considered classified. Not like Keyhole, but still classified."
No they are not. Only if the individual SENDING THE COMMUNICATION considers them sensitive are they automatically classified. I realize that many reporters have reading comprehension issues and so have misreported this, but if you read the actual regulations it is quite clear.
The content wasn't stripped of classification markings. The content was not classified at the time that they were emailed and were not sourced from classified documents.
What do you think of the patents being changed from 'first to invent' to 'first to file'? It seems like first to file significantly favors monied interests over those of garage inventors, since the inventor can't seek funding till they have filed their patent and there is a good chance they can't afford the patent process.
I'd be shocked if a 300 year lifespan for dogs (barring accident) weren't possible within 50-100 years or even shorter. 1000 years we should have physiological immortality figured out.
You don't have to have the car drive everywhere, 95% of the places you drive will probably have all of the factors needed for the car to navigate easily. Just don't have the car drive in areas where it can readily get in trouble.
You don't start teens off in ambiguous hard to drive conditions, but rather low traffic side streets or empty parking lots, etc.
We don't need self driving cars that are perfect from the start, merely good enough to drive us most places most of the time, and do not have accidents in the areas that are suitable for it to drive.
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Also many of the competitions are for money for amounts that in the US are quite small, but for a hacker in a foreign country are a significant sum - so there simply isn't motive for top US programmers to compete.
If they want a realistic sample - put a substantial sum of money in contention and such that it isn't 'winner take all' (ie payout the top 20 or so slots).
Complete beginners in the US are far more likely to try hackerrank; whereas on average more experienced coders from other nations are likely to compete.
Also in the US graduating from a good school is adequate for employment prospects, so many good programmers don't use hackerrank and other competitive programming platforms.
I've wondered forever why this hasn't happened to all of the major companies. Clearly they all have done such gross undervaluation of corporations IP assets, otherwise it wouldn't avoid any taxes for them.
Education and commentary is a fair use exception to copyright. He was clearly using them for educational purposes and commentary and therefore they are almost certainly fair use.
In the US if you use a trademark, you own the the trademark even if you haven't registered it. Since it is already being used in commerce for that mark, the application shouldn't be successful and can be challenged in the courts if it is granted.
Are you seriously suggesting that if we repealed drug laws, use of dangerous drugs like crack and heroin would not increase?
I'm not the person you were asking, but yes, based on the experience of other nations - that is exactly what happens. The dangerous drug usage goes down because people get help for their addiction without risking jail. Also people switch to less serious drugs.
So this sounds like they meet the definition of "Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation", would be an interesting tactic.
Robots make economic sense at even 5$ an hour. It is complete and utter BS that it is the 15$ an hour that is driving the interest in robotics.
VR is going to take off at a ridiculous pace, and people will need a powerful PC (or XBox One or PS3...) to use it. So I suspect this trend will reverse either next year, or the year following.
Humans thinking is not particularly good, it is actually quite poor compared to a reasonable ideal.
A properly developed AGI will probably be able to solve many problems that are difficult or even impossible for humans to solve.
Apple files suit in federal court under the DMCA, claiming Cellebrite has created a circumvention device; and since they, themselves were not law enforcement agents, and they did it on contract, rather than doing it as independent security research, the DMCA safe harbor procedures don't apply.
And then Apple releases an iOS update.
Method got classified by FBI, which defeats Apple being able to do so.
So, the government misrepresented in its original filing that, "Apple must be compelled to provide the backdoor to unlock the phone, because we have no other means of doing so".
Actually it is believed that the firm invented the method during the trial, so the government did not misrepresent the facts in the filing.
'cause this is how we get skynet
Heads Up limit has been beat, heads up no limit probably not till the end of the year, maybe slightly longer.
Draws are impossible in go (for the scoring method being used). Specific openings don't matter too much, they give similar chances regardless of the specific opening.
AlphaGo updates its Policy Network and Value Network based on self play. So yes it does indeed combine 'old knowledge' to create novel knowledge.
It would be pretty easy to have an AI that can win at MTG (or variants such as Hearthstone).
1) get lists of example decks that are used. Do millions of self play with each deck. Also do random decks. Find which combinations of cards work well together.
2) From this you can then begin predicting from seen/played cards what will be in villains deck and to design custom decks.
3) Also you can cluster decks by how they play (Zerg/fast decks, slow decks, etc.)
4) Then based on the deck group pick your optimal counter strategy based on what deck you are playing.
Top humans playing top humans at poker play GTO - game theoretically optimal. The best computer players can already beat the best humans at heads up limit; and probably will be able to beat the best humans at heads up no limit.
The best computer players can absolutely crush anyone but the top 10 or so human players, and the next couple of years will be able to beat and maybe even crush the remaining players.
The designers at DeepMind didn't expect it to lose a couple of matches and the version of AlphaGo was finalized before the start of the match and thus couldn't 'learn the kinds of moves that a really top go player made'. So you are wrong on all accounts.
They had a good idea of the playing strength when the offered the challenge, and the playing strength was probably such that they expected at minimum a 3:2 win for the bot.
I don't have a problem with the specific thing that Apple is being asked to do. They aren't being asked to break the encryption they are being asked to change the firmware on the device to one that doesn't have an artificial throttle on the number of brute force attempts per second; and to disable the wipe command that is engaged with 10 wrong guesses.
"ANY report on communication with a foreign agent, i.e. minister, diplomat, government worker, is considered classified. Not like Keyhole, but still classified."
No they are not. Only if the individual SENDING THE COMMUNICATION considers them sensitive are they automatically classified. I realize that many reporters have reading comprehension issues and so have misreported this, but if you read the actual regulations it is quite clear.
The content wasn't stripped of classification markings. The content was not classified at the time that they were emailed and were not sourced from classified documents.
What do you think of the patents being changed from 'first to invent' to 'first to file'? It seems like first to file significantly favors monied interests over those of garage inventors, since the inventor can't seek funding till they have filed their patent and there is a good chance they can't afford the patent process.
I'd be shocked if a 300 year lifespan for dogs (barring accident) weren't possible within 50-100 years or even shorter. 1000 years we should have physiological immortality figured out.
You don't have to have the car drive everywhere, 95% of the places you drive will probably have all of the factors needed for the car to navigate easily. Just don't have the car drive in areas where it can readily get in trouble.
You don't start teens off in ambiguous hard to drive conditions, but rather low traffic side streets or empty parking lots, etc.
We don't need self driving cars that are perfect from the start, merely good enough to drive us most places most of the time, and do not have accidents in the areas that are suitable for it to drive.