This has already been done in many different ways within computer science. Genetic Algorithms is a technique in Artificial Intelligence that has been solving problems in production settings for decades now.
The past 10 years have seen the violent death of over 100,000 Venezuelans, on par with Iraq and Syria, at the hands of "revolutionary defense squads" armed by Chávez and Maduro. It's sad to see this report fall for the regime's ploy of denominating these deaths as "caused by random crime" instead of the politically-motivated, population-control mechanism it is. Hopefully it will take less than a few decades to set straight the record.
I got that the AI uses reinforcement learning, but how does it know whether it is doing well or badly? Even assuming ALL these games show score as big numbers on the screen: Did the AI come pre-equipped with a "layer" that parses the pixel data to read the score? Or did it learn to read numbers all on its own?? Because if it's the latter, that's pretty darn impressive, and I don't see any indication of the former on the article or the paper.
I drink about a glass of water an hour while working, which is healthy by itself, and having a bathroom break every 30 minutes helps negate the effects of sitting. It's like having a built-in pomodoro timer.
I don't agree. If Obama had even tried to fund his re-election campaign using the White House budget, he'd be in prison or worse right now. During the campaign, Maduro literally forced ALL TV and radio media to transmit pro-government events and messages FOR HOURS EVERY DAY. No joke.
Not easy to fight oppression when the other side has all the media, all the money, all the weapons. It can be done, but the cost of lives would be in the thousands at least and will likely leave a permanent rift and hate among venezuelans. I would like to avoid that, and the OAS is supposed to be in place for exactly that reason.
This is very hard to predict. Foremost, I think there's no going back to the status quo. Either Maduro leaves office or is forced to make major concessions (tho some argue that the radicals in his clique simply won't let that happen), or the govt just plain completes its transition into overt military dictatorship with death squads and all.
Yes, the govt has shown every intention of escalating. Barring a military revolt, protesters simply don't have the weapons to match the level of force, but some are already becoming desperate and this could very well turn into a civil war soon.
There is a BIG difference between effective fundraising for your party and outright stealing from the STATE to fund your campaign. On top of that, Maduro moving up from VP to President after Chavez died, broke several major laws in the run-up to the election, including one that explicitly says he couldn't campaign from office. Also, Maduro barred segments of the population where he was weak from participating in the election (Miami residents, 30K+ and 18-yr olds, 100K+). On top of that, the Govt barred the oppo candidate from TV, both covertly and overtly.
And as the other reply stated, you completely omitted the part about irregularities.
How can Maduro possibly explain this with a straight face other than to admit that currency controls and confiscation of private property for redistribution to his supporters is not the way forward to economic prosperity?
State-controlled media, which is all most people have access to, have kept pumping propaganda about how the downturn is due to an "economic war" waged by the capitalists to damage the government. Over 15 years the govt has managed to create a polarized climate where, if you disagree with the government, you're lying b/c you're a CIA shill. The poor are inclined to believe the government not just because of the 24/7 propaganda, but because they're uneducated and the government very overtly gives them minor aid (while screwing them behind their backs using mechanisms they don't understand). It's a tragedy.
The Venezuelan regime treats every problem as a nail to be hammered, so it THINKS the Internet shutdown will help them. And if the OAS and the rest of the Latin American governments don't see this as "crossing the line" and start treating Maduro like the tyrant he is, the regime might as well be right.
I have no idea of what other party are you implying might benefit? Is Google expanding Fiber to South America?
The built-in camera on my Macbook turns on a hardware light whenever it's being used. Makes it pretty hard to not realize you are potentially being seen.
All OSs should display an indicator on the top layer of the display, and enlarge/flash it in a pretty unmissable way every 5 minutes, whenever your camera OR microphone is active. Failure of an OS to do so should be labeled as what it is, a security hazard.
The objection was because state run shops were selling the same models for 1/5th the price or less.
Not even that part is true. Many state-run shops are (even now) selling at similar or even higher prices than Daka did. I've seen the pictures, they've spread like wildfire in social networks.
You are being disingenuous, or are merely ignorant of the wider context (IMHO). You can't debate this subject honestly without seriously discussing the CIA and USA's role in attempting a violent overthrow of Chavez, early in his widely accepted as legitimate democratic leadership.
Actually, this comment makes you look like the disingenuous or uniformed one.
- No evidence or even convincing theories of USA involvement in the attempted overthrow of 2002 have ever been produced.
- While Chavez had been legitimately elected in 1999, by 2002 he had managed to piss off a large fraction of the population by constantly overreaching and refusing to discuss or negotiate anything at all. The attempted overthrow came when this fraction of people thought that the radical measures that Chavez was taking (unprecedented concentration of power on his person) were a huge threat to the stability and well-being of the country. Seeing how Venezuela has gone to shit 10 years later, it would seem they were right. TL,DR: there was legitimate internal discontent. (No need to sow discord from the outside.)
- The events of 2002 could be hardly described as violent. There were far more dead and wounded in the Chavez-led 1992 failed coup.
- As for the 2002 dead, the government accused some cops of their murder but never even bothered to provide any evidence at all. Years later, the judge in charge of the trial fled the country and publicly admitted that it had been a sham trial. Even as one such cop, Ivan Simonovis, is dying in prison from multiple diseases (he has gone whole months without daylight, which is considered torture in civilized countries) the government refuses to grant him even an humanitarian measure.
The guy has been spouting pro-Maduro factually incorrect stuff all over the post. (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4438553&cid=45410025) Willfully ignorant, perhaps.
And did Venezuela stop being able to import groceries after they seized El Exito? Was the country ruined?
Actually a lot of Venezuelans would answer "pretty much" to both questions. Major shortages of basic goods, like flour, sugar, cooking oil and toilet paper started around the time and continue to this day. The collapse of the economy and the skyrocketing crime make living in Venezuela very harsh now.
Hunger and poverty have gone down significantly since 1999. Even the anti-Chavez people accept this.
Chavez's only merit was to be lucky enough to rise to power just in time for the biggest boom in oil prices in the History of Venezuela. The governments of the 80s and 90s never had nearly as many resources as Chavez had. The governments of the 70s were close, and they were MUCH better at reducing poverty (without the violence and hate Chavez brought).
Chavez also seized the oil companies, and stopped Venezuela's biggest resource being a cash cow for foreign companies.
Plain false. Oil industry was nationalized in 1976, over 30 years before Chavez. If anything Chavez has led to Venezuela's biggest resource to be a huge cash cow for Cuba and China.
I've never been there. It's probably the country I most want to visit, and one of the main reasons is because it's so hard for a foreigner to know what the country is really like. I just read the Venezuelan newspapers and talk to Venezuelans sometimes here in Europe (mostly rich Venezuelans who don't like Chavez).
Please do. Venezuelan malandros eat naive, easily-deceived first-worldies like you for lunch.
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One factor IS different. Japan has near-free public healthcare. As should be obvious, this difference is likely the main driver.
This has already been done in many different ways within computer science. Genetic Algorithms is a technique in Artificial Intelligence that has been solving problems in production settings for decades now.
The past 10 years have seen the violent death of over 100,000 Venezuelans, on par with Iraq and Syria, at the hands of "revolutionary defense squads" armed by Chávez and Maduro. It's sad to see this report fall for the regime's ploy of denominating these deaths as "caused by random crime" instead of the politically-motivated, population-control mechanism it is. Hopefully it will take less than a few decades to set straight the record.
All of with lead to a more equal society in Europe instead of a winner-takes-all-screw-the-rest situation like in the US.
I got that the AI uses reinforcement learning, but how does it know whether it is doing well or badly? Even assuming ALL these games show score as big numbers on the screen: Did the AI come pre-equipped with a "layer" that parses the pixel data to read the score? Or did it learn to read numbers all on its own?? Because if it's the latter, that's pretty darn impressive, and I don't see any indication of the former on the article or the paper.
I drink about a glass of water an hour while working, which is healthy by itself, and having a bathroom break every 30 minutes helps negate the effects of sitting. It's like having a built-in pomodoro timer.
Um... my original comment was meant to be tongue-in-cheek. I should have made that clearer.
I don't agree. If Obama had even tried to fund his re-election campaign using the White House budget, he'd be in prison or worse right now. During the campaign, Maduro literally forced ALL TV and radio media to transmit pro-government events and messages FOR HOURS EVERY DAY. No joke.
The govt probably doesn't intend the censorship to be long term, just until "the protest is quelled".
Nope. Venezuela imports everything and local currency is pretty much worthless on the outside.
Not easy to fight oppression when the other side has all the media, all the money, all the weapons. It can be done, but the cost of lives would be in the thousands at least and will likely leave a permanent rift and hate among venezuelans. I would like to avoid that, and the OAS is supposed to be in place for exactly that reason.
To be fair, at the moment the Ukraine revolt is far more bloody and destructive. At the moment.
Not to mention his election was highly suspect and not under fair conditions, just like the FAQ I posted states.
Yes, the govt has shown every intention of escalating. Barring a military revolt, protesters simply don't have the weapons to match the level of force, but some are already becoming desperate and this could very well turn into a civil war soon.
And as the other reply stated, you completely omitted the part about irregularities.
How can Maduro possibly explain this with a straight face other than to admit that currency controls and confiscation of private property for redistribution to his supporters is not the way forward to economic prosperity?
State-controlled media, which is all most people have access to, have kept pumping propaganda about how the downturn is due to an "economic war" waged by the capitalists to damage the government. Over 15 years the govt has managed to create a polarized climate where, if you disagree with the government, you're lying b/c you're a CIA shill. The poor are inclined to believe the government not just because of the 24/7 propaganda, but because they're uneducated and the government very overtly gives them minor aid (while screwing them behind their backs using mechanisms they don't understand). It's a tragedy.
I have no idea of what other party are you implying might benefit? Is Google expanding Fiber to South America?
It depends on location and ISP. I'm guessing your ISP isn't CANTV.
Most of what you may want to ask is probably already covered here, tho: http://caracaschronicles.com/2...
BTW, full Internet shutdown seems to be in effect only in San Cristobal. In most other places, you can bypass the blocks by using the Tor Browser.
Still done that way in Japan. Then again, maybe the country with the world's highest teen suicide rate isn't the best example.
The built-in camera on my Macbook turns on a hardware light whenever it's being used. Makes it pretty hard to not realize you are potentially being seen. All OSs should display an indicator on the top layer of the display, and enlarge/flash it in a pretty unmissable way every 5 minutes, whenever your camera OR microphone is active. Failure of an OS to do so should be labeled as what it is, a security hazard.
The objection was because state run shops were selling the same models for 1/5th the price or less.
Not even that part is true. Many state-run shops are (even now) selling at similar or even higher prices than Daka did. I've seen the pictures, they've spread like wildfire in social networks.
You are being disingenuous, or are merely ignorant of the wider context (IMHO). You can't debate this subject honestly without seriously discussing the CIA and USA's role in attempting a violent overthrow of Chavez, early in his widely accepted as legitimate democratic leadership.
Actually, this comment makes you look like the disingenuous or uniformed one.
- No evidence or even convincing theories of USA involvement in the attempted overthrow of 2002 have ever been produced.
- While Chavez had been legitimately elected in 1999, by 2002 he had managed to piss off a large fraction of the population by constantly overreaching and refusing to discuss or negotiate anything at all. The attempted overthrow came when this fraction of people thought that the radical measures that Chavez was taking (unprecedented concentration of power on his person) were a huge threat to the stability and well-being of the country. Seeing how Venezuela has gone to shit 10 years later, it would seem they were right. TL,DR: there was legitimate internal discontent. (No need to sow discord from the outside.)
- The events of 2002 could be hardly described as violent. There were far more dead and wounded in the Chavez-led 1992 failed coup.
- As for the 2002 dead, the government accused some cops of their murder but never even bothered to provide any evidence at all. Years later, the judge in charge of the trial fled the country and publicly admitted that it had been a sham trial. Even as one such cop, Ivan Simonovis, is dying in prison from multiple diseases (he has gone whole months without daylight, which is considered torture in civilized countries) the government refuses to grant him even an humanitarian measure.
The guy has been spouting pro-Maduro factually incorrect stuff all over the post. (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4438553&cid=45410025) Willfully ignorant, perhaps.
And did Venezuela stop being able to import groceries after they seized El Exito? Was the country ruined?
Actually a lot of Venezuelans would answer "pretty much" to both questions. Major shortages of basic goods, like flour, sugar, cooking oil and toilet paper started around the time and continue to this day. The collapse of the economy and the skyrocketing crime make living in Venezuela very harsh now.
Hunger and poverty have gone down significantly since 1999. Even the anti-Chavez people accept this.
Chavez's only merit was to be lucky enough to rise to power just in time for the biggest boom in oil prices in the History of Venezuela. The governments of the 80s and 90s never had nearly as many resources as Chavez had. The governments of the 70s were close, and they were MUCH better at reducing poverty (without the violence and hate Chavez brought).
Chavez also seized the oil companies, and stopped Venezuela's biggest resource being a cash cow for foreign companies.
Plain false. Oil industry was nationalized in 1976, over 30 years before Chavez. If anything Chavez has led to Venezuela's biggest resource to be a huge cash cow for Cuba and China.
I've never been there. It's probably the country I most want to visit, and one of the main reasons is because it's so hard for a foreigner to know what the country is really like. I just read the Venezuelan newspapers and talk to Venezuelans sometimes here in Europe (mostly rich Venezuelans who don't like Chavez).
Please do. Venezuelan malandros eat naive, easily-deceived first-worldies like you for lunch.