Do you waut iuteruet to stop usiug a character, to preveut them from from sayiug "Zo!" ?
Good luck with that! I expect that this will be takeu as a challeuge!
Claude Shauuou once showed that Euglish only coutaius about 1.2 bits of iuformatiou per character. Thus one cau remove a lot more characters and still make seuse out of it!
Joking aside, I'm a bit sad that what the tools that once was seen as the tools for liberating and informing people, have turned into tools for disinformation and oppression.
My understanding of "browsing" says that it is a series of file parsings and downloads, in a sequence, interspearsed with various short or long pauses. That suggests that the average browsing speed should be less than the peak file transfer speed.
In the TFA, the "median 5G user" experiences a 490 Mbps "browsing speed", while the "90%" experienced a "download speed" of 100 Mbps.
How could that be? Is "downloading" capped to the nice, round number 100?
.. we either we end up automate everything and become the ultimate slackers, or we fail to stay on top of the automation so that we eventually will be replaced by machines altogether.
I wish I could say that I prefer the former scenario, but after seeing Wall-E I'm not so sure...
How do you prevent people, good or bad, from evolving the technology or science? They only fool-proof way of keeping something secret is to not find out from the beginning. This sounds like an effort to stop the wind from blowing.
A lot of people seems to be afraid of AI, but I fear the stupidity of people more than I do the intelligence of machines.
Maybe the real threat is that we seem to accelerate our own stupidity.
... for the highest wooden building in the world is either a 37.5 m high russion orthodox church [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2360473/Kizhi-Pogost-The-biggest-building-world-thats-entirely-wood.html] if you require something 'house shaped', or it is the 180 m tall ATLAS-I EMP testing apparatus built near the Sandia National Laboratory facility in New Mexico, which isn't quite as house-shaped [https://www.google.com/maps/place/35%C2%B001'47.6%22N+106%C2%B033'27.3%22W/@35.0296017,-106.5587137,310m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d35.029898!4d-106.557574?hl=en]
Simple Logic: 1. Human are afraid of the unknown. Every horror movie director knows this. It seems to be evolutionally programmed into us. (Perhaps for good reasons) 2. We would know extremely little about the aliens, i.e. being a very big unknown.
1 and 2 => Fear, big time!
Is it possible to concieve a more polarized "we and them" situation? On top of that, they stepping on to our (rather defensless) lawn with equipment that took them across star systems?
How would it be anything but a paralyzing fear and panic if they'd show up?
The MIT press release says next to nothing, unfortunately. AFAICT, they don't reference any published article, or any kind of link to more information, so it is hard to assess. I really wanted to know more so I'm a little disappointed with MIT.
There are a few things that indicates that this is not even comparable to Google TPU: 1. The lack of more information. 2. They label it as a prototype. 3. The top person link goes to a first year graduate student (making a real ASIC takes a slightly larger team, I hear).
Without more detailed information, this is hard to distinguish from PR.
I've been lazy and I've been using Ubuntu (or Kubuntu to be specific) since around 8.04 or so. However, I also value privacy and I'm not fond of the data collecting business practices of major tech firms.
I value convenience (as I'm getting old) and I like the large apt package set, lots of stuff pre-packaged and ready to run by a a single command line.
I've have or had love affairs with C, Python, Zsh, Haskell, Mercurial, OpenFoam, Embedded, NetBSD (albeit 15 years ago), BeOS, and some other stuff...
I like KDE's features and configurability, but don't like the bloat. I've tried XFCE (&Co) on my lo-end machines, like the speed but they lack some features.
I don't really care if I run a BSD or Linux kernel and user space. I can download and build by source, but that should be restricted to the odd stuff. I expect to find most common stuff pre-compiled and pre-packaged. I value stability, but for some packages, I don't want them to be three years old. (Case in point: eclipse).
I've done enough X configuration for a couple of life times. Basic networking should also work out of the box.
Is it time for me to turn to Debian? Or Manjaro? Or... go hard core Arch? Am I too lazy for those?
I don't know the orbital speed of this clock, but if it goes as fast as ISS, it's about 8 km/s.
The time dilation relative to an earth observer will be approximately t/t' = 1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) = 1/sqrt(1-(8/300000)^2) ~ 1.000000000355
That corresponds to 0.355 ns per second, so if the expected drift is ~2 ns/s, they are actually homing in to the relativistic limit for how much two observers can agree on in this setting. I.e. it would be kind of pointless to make it 10x more accurate.
... I hoped for of a broom [http://www.ebay.com/bhp/harry-potter-broom?rmvSB=true] that would match the 1984 stunt [https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/jet-packs-in-flight-and-fiction/15/].
AI getting into the trough (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle) again (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter)?
Prominent people seem to fear AI (http://time.com/3614349/artificial-intelligence-singularity-stephen-hawking-elon-musk/), but isn't this just Fear of the Unknown? I mean, Elon and Stephen are really smart people, but do they know that most NN:s come down to linear algegra and spiced with non-linearities in the end, just simulating neurons? I mean neurons are common-place on the planet already, equipped with malice and stuff...
> Strongin said. "Because of the lack of intrinsic value, the currencies that don't survive will most likely trade to zero."
Like paper money, you mean?
Now that I look at that sentence, I suddenly have multiple issues with it. The last part, "the currencies that don't survive will most likely trade to zero" isn't hard to imagine. Isn't that the definition of "not surviving"?
I really thought the economists got past the "intrinsic value" thought. Amazing that Goldman Sachs says this.
No, this is far, far, far more impressive than that.
These planets are (according to the article) 3.8 billion lightyears away, i.e. 3.5*10^22 km. At that distance, a planet appears to be *extraordinarily* small. If we take your France - New York example (Paris-New York = 5681 km), an earth-sized planet (included in the size range mentioned in the article) would - from Paris - have an apparent size of 2*10-15 m.
I.e. the same size as an alpha particle (Helium nucleus).
A quick look at the wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper) reveals that in 2007, FBI secured DNA traces from the hijacker's tie.
If this DNA matches the suspect, this would be hard to explain.
This is not the first time Rackstraw is under investigation. He appeared already in 1978 in the investigation, but this is far from the only suspect that has been identified. The Wikipedia article lists ten other individuals that - on the surface of things - appear just as likely as him.
I'd say that this is another hypothesis generated by the famousness of the case, like other famous crime cases in the past. The "Jack the ripper" suspect list on Wikipedia counts no less than 29 persons.
From the email correspondance; Linus says to mr Woodhouse:
"As it is, the patches are COMPLETE AND UTTER GARBAGE.
They do literally insane things. They do things that do not make sense. That makes all your arguments questionable and suspicious. The patches do things that are not sane.
WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON?"
In the post, Linus is not addressing much technical detail (just mentions "garbage MSR writes" whatever than means), but his bullshit detector goes off big time.
It is clear that he thinks the patches are sub-optimal, but that in itself cannot be the first time in Linux kernel history. There seems to be something else behind, or why would he ask "WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON" question? Why does he play the "questionable" and "suspicious" card? Does he think that there is something shady going on from Intel, that goes beyond the technical stuff?
From the TFA: "The company says the tracking is precise enough to distinguish between multiple people standing side-by-side at a shelf, detecting which one picked up a yogurt or cupcake, for example, and which one was merely browsing. "
I would take that as a challenge! What can I get a away with, how can I obscure, or fool the "AI", what are the limitations and assumptions, can I beat the design engineers? Very interesting problem!
If I would be tempted to do that - who hasn't shoplifted once in 47 years - what would that indicate for the average shoplifting rate?
I don't get it. One can easily save them the work of renaming the runways (painting and what-not) by inserting a ball bearing in the middle and magnets along the runway! It will automatically align to the magnetic field. Sshhh... some people.
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Do you waut iuteruet to stop usiug a character, to preveut them from from sayiug "Zo!" ?
Good luck with that! I expect that this will be takeu as a challeuge!
Claude Shauuou once showed that Euglish only coutaius about 1.2 bits of iuformatiou per character. Thus one cau remove a lot more characters and still make seuse out of it!
Joking aside, I'm a bit sad that what the tools that once was seen as the tools for liberating and informing people, have turned into tools for disinformation and oppression.
But doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of demonstrating the technology? The figures would demonstrate the ISP limits, not the technology limits.
I thought Qualcomm would be interested in demonstrating the technology as such.
My understanding of "browsing" says that it is a series of file parsings and downloads, in a sequence, interspearsed with various short or long pauses. That suggests that the average browsing speed should be less than the peak file transfer speed.
In the TFA, the "median 5G user" experiences a 490 Mbps "browsing speed", while the "90%" experienced a "download speed" of 100 Mbps.
How could that be? Is "downloading" capped to the nice, round number 100?
.. we either we end up automate everything and become the ultimate slackers, or we fail to stay on top of the automation so that we eventually will be replaced by machines altogether. I wish I could say that I prefer the former scenario, but after seeing Wall-E I'm not so sure...
...your taxes then?
How do you prevent people, good or bad, from evolving the technology or science? They only fool-proof way of keeping something secret is to not find out from the beginning. This sounds like an effort to stop the wind from blowing. A lot of people seems to be afraid of AI, but I fear the stupidity of people more than I do the intelligence of machines. Maybe the real threat is that we seem to accelerate our own stupidity.
This automatically translated article talks about fire safety in high wooden houses: https://translate.google.com/t... Unfortunately the images didn't come along, but they can be seen in the original article: http://www.husbyggaren.se/bran...
... for the highest wooden building in the world is either a 37.5 m high russion orthodox church [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2360473/Kizhi-Pogost-The-biggest-building-world-thats-entirely-wood.html] if you require something 'house shaped', or it is the 180 m tall ATLAS-I EMP testing apparatus built near the Sandia National Laboratory facility in New Mexico, which isn't quite as house-shaped [https://www.google.com/maps/place/35%C2%B001'47.6%22N+106%C2%B033'27.3%22W/@35.0296017,-106.5587137,310m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d35.029898!4d-106.557574?hl=en]
Simple Logic:
1. Human are afraid of the unknown. Every horror movie director knows this. It seems to be evolutionally programmed into us. (Perhaps for good reasons)
2. We would know extremely little about the aliens, i.e. being a very big unknown.
1 and 2 => Fear, big time!
Is it possible to concieve a more polarized "we and them" situation? On top of that, they stepping on to our (rather defensless) lawn with equipment that took them across star systems?
How would it be anything but a paralyzing fear and panic if they'd show up?
The MIT press release says next to nothing, unfortunately. AFAICT, they don't reference any published article, or any kind of link to more information, so it is hard to assess. I really wanted to know more so I'm a little disappointed with MIT.
There are a few things that indicates that this is not even comparable to Google TPU:
1. The lack of more information.
2. They label it as a prototype.
3. The top person link goes to a first year graduate student (making a real ASIC takes a slightly larger team, I hear).
Without more detailed information, this is hard to distinguish from PR.
I've been lazy and I've been using Ubuntu (or Kubuntu to be specific) since around 8.04 or so.
However, I also value privacy and I'm not fond of the data collecting business practices of major tech firms.
I value convenience (as I'm getting old) and I like the large apt package set, lots of stuff pre-packaged and ready to run by a a single command line.
I've have or had love affairs with C, Python, Zsh, Haskell, Mercurial, OpenFoam, Embedded, NetBSD (albeit 15 years ago), BeOS, and some other stuff...
I like KDE's features and configurability, but don't like the bloat. I've tried XFCE (&Co) on my lo-end machines, like the speed but they lack some features.
I don't really care if I run a BSD or Linux kernel and user space. I can download and build by source, but that should be restricted to the odd stuff. I expect to find most common stuff pre-compiled and pre-packaged. I value stability, but for some packages, I don't want them to be three years old. (Case in point: eclipse).
I've done enough X configuration for a couple of life times. Basic networking should also work out of the box.
Is it time for me to turn to Debian? Or Manjaro? Or... go hard core Arch? Am I too lazy for those?
But this is actually relevant (well, almost)!
I don't know the orbital speed of this clock, but if it goes as fast as ISS, it's about 8 km/s.
The time dilation relative to an earth observer will be approximately
t/t' = 1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) = 1/sqrt(1-(8/300000)^2) ~ 1.000000000355
That corresponds to 0.355 ns per second, so if the expected drift is ~2 ns/s, they are actually homing in to the relativistic limit for how much two observers can agree on in this setting. I.e. it would be kind of pointless to make it 10x more accurate.
... but I fail to see the problem.
Those who search for "hitler is my hero" will find the results anyway and will not hindered by the completion removal.
Most others are not likely to be converted to die-hard nazies because they see a completion alternative.
The minuscle part of humanity that are, probably have worse problems.
... I hoped for of a broom [http://www.ebay.com/bhp/harry-potter-broom?rmvSB=true] that would match the 1984 stunt [https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/jet-packs-in-flight-and-fiction/15/].
AI getting into the trough (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle) again (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter)?
Prominent people seem to fear AI (http://time.com/3614349/artificial-intelligence-singularity-stephen-hawking-elon-musk/), but isn't this just Fear of the Unknown? I mean, Elon and Stephen are really smart people, but do they know that most NN:s come down to linear algegra and spiced with non-linearities in the end, just simulating neurons? I mean neurons are common-place on the planet already, equipped with malice and stuff...
> Strongin said. "Because of the lack of intrinsic value, the currencies that don't survive will most likely trade to zero."
Like paper money, you mean?
Now that I look at that sentence, I suddenly have multiple issues with it. The last part, "the currencies that don't survive will most likely trade to zero" isn't hard to imagine. Isn't that the definition of "not surviving"?
I really thought the economists got past the "intrinsic value" thought. Amazing that Goldman Sachs says this.
No, this is far, far, far more impressive than that.
These planets are (according to the article) 3.8 billion lightyears away, i.e. 3.5*10^22 km. At that distance, a planet appears to be *extraordinarily* small.
If we take your France - New York example (Paris-New York = 5681 km), an earth-sized planet (included in the size range mentioned in the article) would - from Paris - have an apparent size of 2*10-15 m.
I.e. the same size as an alpha particle (Helium nucleus).
"This is very cool science" - Indeed!
... his gravity model could match Newton's and his engineering NASA's.
Tall order (double pun intended) to match them both, to a level where you're prepared to put your life on the line.
A quick look at the wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper) reveals that in 2007, FBI secured DNA traces from the hijacker's tie.
If this DNA matches the suspect, this would be hard to explain.
This is not the first time Rackstraw is under investigation. He appeared already in 1978 in the investigation, but this is far from the only suspect that has been identified. The Wikipedia article lists ten other individuals that - on the surface of things - appear just as likely as him.
I'd say that this is another hypothesis generated by the famousness of the case, like other famous crime cases in the past. The "Jack the ripper" suspect list on Wikipedia counts no less than 29 persons.
... and is known as the 'age of the captain' problem, introduced by Gustave Flaubert, a french writer.
It's been used to study how children in elementary school react to word problems. It has notthing to do with maths.
See e.g. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3...
Seagate SG4000 series life expectancy: 32 years
Average HD life expectancy: 50 years
HGST HDS5C series: 167 years
There are no self-driving cars deployed yet, only test vehicles and prototypes. That problem is not yet solved.
I would expect that the deployment of both automatic trains and aircrafts would beat the automobiles to automation as they pose simpler problems.
From the email correspondance; Linus says to mr Woodhouse:
"As it is, the patches are COMPLETE AND UTTER GARBAGE.
They do literally insane things. They do things that do not make
sense. That makes all your arguments questionable and suspicious. The
patches do things that are not sane.
WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON?"
In the post, Linus is not addressing much technical detail (just mentions "garbage MSR writes" whatever than means), but his bullshit detector goes off big time.
It is clear that he thinks the patches are sub-optimal, but that in itself cannot be the first time in Linux kernel history. There seems to be something else behind, or why would he ask "WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON" question? Why does he play the "questionable" and "suspicious" card? Does he think that there is something shady going on from Intel, that goes beyond the technical stuff?
Can anyone shed some light?
From the TFA:
"The company says the tracking is precise enough to distinguish between multiple people standing side-by-side at a shelf, detecting which one picked up a yogurt or cupcake, for example, and which one was merely browsing. "
I would take that as a challenge! What can I get a away with, how can I obscure, or fool the "AI", what are the limitations and assumptions, can I beat the design engineers? Very interesting problem!
If I would be tempted to do that - who hasn't shoplifted once in 47 years - what would that indicate for the average shoplifting rate?
I don't get it. One can easily save them the work of renaming the runways (painting and what-not) by inserting a ball bearing in the middle and magnets along the runway! It will automatically align to the magnetic field. Sshhh... some people.