Nope. If you lose, you're simply a loser. It doesn't matter whether it was by half a point, by a random bounce, or by a bad referee call.
But you're wrong in another way as well: For many years, there have been people posting here who claimed "Go is so much harder than chess! Computers will never be able to beat humans at go!." Those claims are most definitely left in the dust now.
Moreover, after centuries of practice, humans aren't going to get significantly better at playing Go. Computing systems are just getting started. Humans will undoubtedly be left hopelessly behind very soon, just like they have been with chess.
That's not how games and sports work. No matter how slim the margin, no matter how much chance may have been involved, if one side wins, that's Destiny.
Look at last year's World Series. The Chicago Cubs' 109-year championship drought finally came to an end. It didn't matter one bit that the fate of their century-long losing streak ended up hinging on just a couple of plays in the 10th inning of the final game. Nobody went around saying "Yes, but they barely won."
You just show me a AI that can safely and consistently alley-dock a 62-ft trailer down some ancient one-lane road with a turn-in that the trailer can barely even clear
I wouldn't use that as an example. The biggest current success story today for automated driving is parallel parking assist, available today in many high-end cars. Many if not most human drivers find parallel parking to be "really hard" compared to ordinary driving, but apparently it's a snap for a computer. Calculating turn radiuses and clearances at a crawling pace should be much easier to automate than identifying road hazards at freeway speeds.
So you believe that a million years of evolution happened over night and now there are superbug boogeymen ready to eat you alive????
No, 75 years of bacterial evolution happened in 75 years. That's probably around 1e6 generations, a number which was sufficient for humans to evolve from rather primitive mammals, and it's certainly more than enough generations to to breed superbug bogeymen ready to eat you alive. (Certain bacteria were in fact always able to eat you alive, it's just now they've bred resistance to a handful of chemical road bumps we came up with.)
The analogy is about being a myopic ignoramus and focusing on one tiny positive while ignoring a huge surrounding catastrophe. Since this is exactly what you did, the analogy is 100% spot-on.
I don't have an entitlement complex. As I pointed out, the config fix works for my use case. That doesn't make this alleged limitation any less stupid, though. For example, there are a lot of people on metered data plans, and auto-play videos are undoubtedly costing them a significant amount of money. Saddling them with this crap is plainly irresponsible.
If you think I'm being unreasonable, maybe you could tell my why it breaks, what is the justification for creating such a crappy architecture, and what is the justification for not fixing the crappy design?
We're already well past the point where the planet can safely absorb the byproducts of fossil fuel burning. So the Malthusian issues are just as severe as people have been saying all along.
A. I haven't seen a problem with videos not working. Granted, there are only about 3 sites on the web where I have ever wanted a video to play. Everywhere else, I don't care if it breaks.
B. I don't see any technical reason why it should break. How is it any different from faking a "pause" button right after the page load? If it is breaking, the browser vendors should fix it. If the protocol somehow can't handle it, fix the protocol. Get it done.
To make matters worse, they hid the "click to activate" setting for HTML5 video in some obscure about:config entry. At the very least, it should be in the main config dialogs.
It's perfectly valid to use US customary units to specify quantities, especially on a US website. However, using decimals like "0.55" is a misappropriation of the SI system, and is highly discouraged.
That's probably going to happen to individually owned vehicles anyway. For example, insurance companies could very well make it really expensive to get auto insurance without you allowing them to track your every move with an app they install into your car. Governments may extend the concept of electronic tolls beyond freeways and impose them everywhere. Car manufacturers seem to already be gearing up to collect your movement data as well.
Wonder if Microsoft has implemented this software on their own premises?
Yes, they've been testing this system for a long time. One success story is that they were able to train the software to recognize chair throwing, and it enabled them to eventually identify and eliminate all executives who practiced that behavior.
Even if the number of neurons or brain size is similar between humans and dogs, it seems to me that the physical proportions of a dog's nose could also make a big difference. I'm guessing that a good-sized dog must have an order of magnitude more nose volume than an average human. Maybe this optimizes the exposure of each nerve sensor to incoming scents.
The first "personal computer" ever offered for sale was specifically marketed for kitchens. (Although this particular product didn't move the answer any closer to "yes".)
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Nope. If you lose, you're simply a loser. It doesn't matter whether it was by half a point, by a random bounce, or by a bad referee call.
But you're wrong in another way as well: For many years, there have been people posting here who claimed "Go is so much harder than chess! Computers will never be able to beat humans at go!." Those claims are most definitely left in the dust now.
Moreover, after centuries of practice, humans aren't going to get significantly better at playing Go. Computing systems are just getting started. Humans will undoubtedly be left hopelessly behind very soon, just like they have been with chess.
That's not how games and sports work. No matter how slim the margin, no matter how much chance may have been involved, if one side wins, that's Destiny.
Look at last year's World Series. The Chicago Cubs' 109-year championship drought finally came to an end. It didn't matter one bit that the fate of their century-long losing streak ended up hinging on just a couple of plays in the 10th inning of the final game. Nobody went around saying "Yes, but they barely won."
You just show me a AI that can safely and consistently alley-dock a 62-ft trailer down some ancient one-lane road with a turn-in that the trailer can barely even clear
I wouldn't use that as an example. The biggest current success story today for automated driving is parallel parking assist, available today in many high-end cars. Many if not most human drivers find parallel parking to be "really hard" compared to ordinary driving, but apparently it's a snap for a computer. Calculating turn radiuses and clearances at a crawling pace should be much easier to automate than identifying road hazards at freeway speeds.
You're confusing yourself. The tiny positive you mentioned "more green plants".
The industrial revolution was in the past. We're talking about the future.
So you believe that a million years of evolution happened over night and now there are superbug boogeymen ready to eat you alive????
No, 75 years of bacterial evolution happened in 75 years. That's probably around 1e6 generations, a number which was sufficient for humans to evolve from rather primitive mammals, and it's certainly more than enough generations to to breed superbug bogeymen ready to eat you alive. (Certain bacteria were in fact always able to eat you alive, it's just now they've bred resistance to a handful of chemical road bumps we came up with.)
The analogy is about being a myopic ignoramus and focusing on one tiny positive while ignoring a huge surrounding catastrophe. Since this is exactly what you did, the analogy is 100% spot-on.
I don't have an entitlement complex. As I pointed out, the config fix works for my use case. That doesn't make this alleged limitation any less stupid, though. For example, there are a lot of people on metered data plans, and auto-play videos are undoubtedly costing them a significant amount of money. Saddling them with this crap is plainly irresponsible.
Similarly, 9/11 was great because the new World Trade Center building looks much more attractive than the blocky old towers.
If you think I'm being unreasonable, maybe you could tell my why it breaks, what is the justification for creating such a crappy architecture, and what is the justification for not fixing the crappy design?
We're already well past the point where the planet can safely absorb the byproducts of fossil fuel burning. So the Malthusian issues are just as severe as people have been saying all along.
A. I haven't seen a problem with videos not working. Granted, there are only about 3 sites on the web where I have ever wanted a video to play. Everywhere else, I don't care if it breaks.
B. I don't see any technical reason why it should break. How is it any different from faking a "pause" button right after the page load? If it is breaking, the browser vendors should fix it. If the protocol somehow can't handle it, fix the protocol. Get it done.
To make matters worse, they hid the "click to activate" setting for HTML5 video in some obscure about:config entry. At the very least, it should be in the main config dialogs.
Arrested for Driving While Intoxicated. This tends to have an impact on insurance rates.
And I don't know why you think I care what insurance companies in Europe do.
It's perfectly valid to use US customary units to specify quantities, especially on a US website. However, using decimals like "0.55" is a misappropriation of the SI system, and is highly discouraged.
They should have said "8 and 13/16 ounces".
You don't think that risky driving behaviors are relevant to insurance risk?
You don't think that insurers would like to know which customers are more likely to be involved in accidents?
I think you're the one who has no idea how insurance works.
Maybe you think that drivers with multiple DWIs on their record pay the same rates as everyone else.
Why? To check if you're driving too much, too fast, making dickhead moves, or hanging out at to too many taverns.
That's probably going to happen to individually owned vehicles anyway. For example, insurance companies could very well make it really expensive to get auto insurance without you allowing them to track your every move with an app they install into your car. Governments may extend the concept of electronic tolls beyond freeways and impose them everywhere. Car manufacturers seem to already be gearing up to collect your movement data as well.
They renegotiated their cost for RP-1. They now get it for closer to the price of jet fuel. (~$2/gal vs $8/gal).
They also signed up for the loyalty card, so they get additional discounts on their groceries whenever they buy fuel.
... it wants its two hottest languages back.
Wonder if Microsoft has implemented this software on their own premises?
Yes, they've been testing this system for a long time. One success story is that they were able to train the software to recognize chair throwing, and it enabled them to eventually identify and eliminate all executives who practiced that behavior.
Government should serve the people, and should not view citizens as an annoyance to be managed away.
So you're under the impression that razing entire residential sections of a city to make room for freeways isn't "managing away" people?
Even if the number of neurons or brain size is similar between humans and dogs, it seems to me that the physical proportions of a dog's nose could also make a big difference. I'm guessing that a good-sized dog must have an order of magnitude more nose volume than an average human. Maybe this optimizes the exposure of each nerve sensor to incoming scents.
It's not the same. Those posters are rolled up, not folded into 12"x!2" squares.
I want the full-size posters that used to come folded up in many LPs.
When I was in high school, half the wall space in by bedroom was covered with those things.
The first "personal computer" ever offered for sale was specifically marketed for kitchens. (Although this particular product didn't move the answer any closer to "yes".)