However, The Guardian lost credibility after Snowden, and after they were forced to destroy some hard drives in front of GCHQ personnel.
Glenn Grenwald caught them lying, distorting and dissembling just recently. "The Guardian’s Summary of Julian Assange’s Interview Went Viral and Was Completely False" https://theintercept.com/2016/...
You're just bitter because Russia won this round of spy games. Don't worry, you'll win your fair share against weaker opponents, like Germany and your other allies. (Forget about China - they're in their own league now and vastly outnumber your spies.)
When Chinese hackers were exposed a few years ago, the DoJ supplied quite a lot of supporting documentation, including the names of the alleged perps. Why not this time?
IOW, her supporters outnumber the groups you support, and are far better organized. Get back to us after you can organize a piss-up in a Munich Beer Hall.
The Google authors omitted to mention that Pedro Carolino created something far more stylish in 1853. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Carolino's translation of "to wait patiently for someone to open a door" as "to craunch the marmoset" isn't going to be bettered by these young upstarts.
Nicely put! I think there are a similar problems facing human language processing. Slang, cant and argot change very quickly, and so it's very similar to a Fog of War for computers. Teenagers, in particular, will change the meaning of words, or create words, or even maul grammar to include or exclude others from their cliques. Irony and sarcasm are other bollards to progress for computers, innit. AI Winter is Coming!
The trouble with "nuclear" (fission or fusion) is that it requires a variety of "exotic" elements that are not abundant and that are in demand by many other industries. Those elements are not recyclable because they are converted into other elements.
Scaling up nuclear production to meet future eenrgy needs will require thousands of reactors, (possibly as many as 5k - 20k) and there isn't enough hafnium, tantalum etc to supply them all. The total known reserves of some elements, like hafnium, will be exhausted within 10 - 50 years at current rates of consumption.
The onus is on proponents of nuclear to show how they will supply ALL the requirements of their stations over the next 100 years, and without resorting to magic techs that will create rare earths and other elements out of thin air.
Get an envelope, turn it over, and start calculating! Estimate what is required to supply 15,000 reactors, roughly the number that would meet the energy needs of the whole planet with just nuclear. Too many? Then how many can be reasonably supplied for, say 100 years?
"Intelligent people" would first look at the whole supply chain before claiming nuclear is the answer.
"What matters are results, and here are some countries that have demonstrated more talent in AI than China has so far. In no particular order, and I've definitely missed some: - UK - Canada - United States - Israel - Germany"
And those nations will probably continue to lead until the next AI winter. (Remember the circle-jerking and horse-shit research that led to previous winters?)
"Our military budget is actually greater than all major countries combined." Yes. Maybe the US should double the spending so it can win in Afghanistan faster.
"The quality of the Chinese papers is usually either very low or very high but only because it's based on obviously fabricated data."
That certainly was the case in many scientific fields until about 10 years. It's not as prevalent now, especially in mathematics and computer science. Low quality papers and research are now more the domain of developing countries like several Arabic nations, Brazil and some smaller Asian nations.
It's the same in my fields (applied maths/fluid dynamics/ship hydrodynamics). 15 years ago, the standard of papers by Chinese researchers was generally very poor, but now they are contributing as much as 1/3 of papers in top quality, peer-reviewed journals.
China is building about one university per week at present, and most of them have a scientific focus. Of course, the standards at those new universities will initially be mediocre - it takes time to set up labs and to put lecturers of quality in place. Like India, who are also building universities at a dizzying pace, they see STEM as the future, the best way out of poverty and for modernising their country. OTOH, look at the erosion of science courses in many western countries. It's no surprise that China and India are exporting scientists, engineers, programmers and mathematicians to many of those countries.
It wasn't all that long ago that many Chinese universities and scientific establishments were targetted
and obliterated by the Japanese Imperial Army in a deliberate attempt to keep China from developing. Now China can develop and build whatever it needs. They also have the capability to take from other countries technologies they lack if they want them. It won't be long until the only secrets that the US has are in museums that show jesus riding dinosaurs.
"The Guardian, citing many industry experts, reminds us that these technologies filter who and what counts..."
The Guardian has been an unreliable rag since GCHQ made them smash up their hard-drives after the Snowden disclosures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Any worthwhile filter would have excluded crap written by Luke Harding and Polly Toynbee.
ECGA is a poor performer compared to other methods for function optimisation. If it was any good it would have appeared often in the best algorithms in competitions like GECCO's regular optimisation competitions. That's one of the benefits of having good benchmarks and assessment protocols like COCO, GECCO and other competitions - it forces touters and fanbois of one system or another to put up or shut up.
I know that it's not just cars, or any single product, or process. That's why I said "...emission controls, and anything else that is not in the interest of their shareholders." Corporations and their shills will continue to lie, cheat and dissemble on a grand scale. VW are just one example.
A prime example of why the Paris Accord limits will never be achieved. VW, Mitsubishi and thousands of other companies will continue to search for ways to get around emission controls, and anything else that is not in the interest of their shareholders.
A research paper I read in the last few years showed it's very unlikely for TV and radio signals to propagate far beyond Alpha Centauri without deteriorating to the point of being completely unintelligible. Fox News, doubly so.
I sometimes use mathematical formulae like: ten!=exactlythenumberofsecondsin42days etotheithetaplusone=0 asqrcos2phi=piapprox3.1416 cossqrtheta+sinsqrtheta=1
They Polonized their little bit in Czechoslovakia and threw out the local leaders.That wasn't done to appease the Germans at that time. No doubt that Poland was treated absolutely appallingly by the Nazis later. But Poland's vile actions also meant that several later allies baulked at entering sooner.
There are many others too, e.g. Churchill's 2nd World War Memoirs in which he compared Germany and Poland to "vultures landing on the dying carcass of Czechoslovakia." The Polish contribution to Enigma helped a little to make up for their previous vile treachery and acting as "Hitler's jackals" in 1938.
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Meanwhile you're guy is about to hand the Crimera over to Russia without a peep.
Krushchev handed it to Ukraine in 1954...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
and Putin took it back.
The USA can fight this from the moral high ground after it hands back territory it grabbed from around its own borders.
If you already have some of the US diplomats working for you, why expel them and create all that unnecessary paperwork?
The pro-Islamic comment was complete claptrap.
However, The Guardian lost credibility after Snowden, and after they were forced to destroy some hard drives in front of GCHQ personnel.
Glenn Grenwald caught them lying, distorting and dissembling just recently.
"The Guardian’s Summary of Julian Assange’s Interview Went Viral and Was Completely False"
https://theintercept.com/2016/...
They didn't steal anything - they just took a copy and left the originals.
You're just bitter because Russia won this round of spy games.
Don't worry, you'll win your fair share against weaker opponents, like Germany and your other allies.
(Forget about China - they're in their own league now and vastly outnumber your spies.)
When Chinese hackers were exposed a few years ago, the DoJ supplied quite a lot of supporting documentation,
including the names of the alleged perps.
Why not this time?
IOW, her supporters outnumber the groups you support, and are far better organized.
Get back to us after you can organize a piss-up in a Munich Beer Hall.
The Google authors omitted to mention that Pedro Carolino created something far more stylish in 1853.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Carolino's translation of "to wait patiently for someone to open a door" as "to craunch the marmoset" isn't going to be bettered by these young upstarts.
If you have to ask, make your way to the Greyhound station.
> Playing games is NOT A.I. ... it was not A.I.?
AlphaGo was playing a game. So
But even so, it was clearly something, what shall we call it, then?
AI, but not Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Nicely put!
I think there are a similar problems facing human language processing.
Slang, cant and argot change very quickly, and so it's very similar to a Fog of War for computers.
Teenagers, in particular, will change the meaning of words, or create words, or even maul grammar to include
or exclude others from their cliques. Irony and sarcasm are other bollards to progress for computers, innit.
AI Winter is Coming!
The trouble with "nuclear" (fission or fusion) is that it requires a variety of "exotic" elements
that are not abundant and that are in demand by many other industries. Those elements
are not recyclable because they are converted into other elements.
Scaling up nuclear production to meet future eenrgy needs will require thousands of
reactors, (possibly as many as 5k - 20k) and there isn't enough hafnium, tantalum etc to
supply them all. The total known reserves of some elements, like hafnium, will be exhausted
within 10 - 50 years at current rates of consumption.
The onus is on proponents of nuclear to show how they will supply ALL the requirements
of their stations over the next 100 years, and without resorting to magic techs that will
create rare earths and other elements out of thin air.
Get an envelope, turn it over, and start calculating!
Estimate what is required to supply 15,000 reactors, roughly the number that would
meet the energy needs of the whole planet with just nuclear.
Too many? Then how many can be reasonably supplied for, say 100 years?
"Intelligent people" would first look at the whole supply chain before claiming
nuclear is the answer.
"What matters are results, and here are some countries that have demonstrated more talent in AI than China has so far. In no particular order, and I've definitely missed some:
- UK
- Canada
- United States
- Israel
- Germany"
And those nations will probably continue to lead until the next AI winter.
(Remember the circle-jerking and horse-shit research that led to previous winters?)
"Our military budget is actually greater than all major countries combined."
Yes. Maybe the US should double the spending so it can win in Afghanistan faster.
"We have fully mapped the brain..."
Bullshit.
The US did that years ago. And lost.
Still, you've got Trump and are leading China in Jeebus research, so it's not all doom and gloom.
"The quality of the Chinese papers is usually either very low or very high but only because it's based on obviously fabricated data."
That certainly was the case in many scientific fields until about 10 years. It's not as prevalent now, especially in mathematics and computer science.
Low quality papers and research are now more the domain of developing countries like several Arabic nations, Brazil and some smaller Asian nations.
It's the same in my fields (applied maths/fluid dynamics/ship hydrodynamics).
15 years ago, the standard of papers by Chinese researchers was generally very poor, but now they are
contributing as much as 1/3 of papers in top quality, peer-reviewed journals.
China is building about one university per week at present, and most of them have a scientific focus.
Of course, the standards at those new universities will initially be mediocre - it takes time
to set up labs and to put lecturers of quality in place.
Like India, who are also building universities at a dizzying pace, they see STEM as the future, the
best way out of poverty and for modernising their country.
OTOH, look at the erosion of science courses in many western countries. It's no surprise that
China and India are exporting scientists, engineers, programmers and mathematicians to many
of those countries.
It wasn't all that long ago that many Chinese universities and scientific establishments were targetted
and obliterated by the Japanese Imperial Army in a deliberate attempt to keep China from developing.
Now China can develop and build whatever it needs. They also have the capability to take from other
countries technologies they lack if they want them. It won't be long until the only secrets that the US
has are in museums that show jesus riding dinosaurs.
"The Guardian, citing many industry experts, reminds us that these technologies filter who and what counts..."
The Guardian has been an unreliable rag since GCHQ made them smash up their hard-drives after the Snowden disclosures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Any worthwhile filter would have excluded crap written by Luke Harding and Polly Toynbee.
ECGA is a poor performer compared to other methods for function optimisation.
If it was any good it would have appeared often in the best algorithms in competitions like GECCO's regular optimisation competitions.
That's one of the benefits of having good benchmarks and assessment protocols like COCO, GECCO and other competitions - it forces touters and fanbois of one system or another to put up or shut up.
I know that it's not just cars, or any single product, or process.
That's why I said "...emission controls, and anything else that is not in the interest of their shareholders."
Corporations and their shills will continue to lie, cheat and dissemble on a grand scale. VW are just one example.
A prime example of why the Paris Accord limits will never be achieved.
VW, Mitsubishi and thousands of other companies will continue to search for ways to get around emission controls, and anything else that is not in the interest of their shareholders.
A research paper I read in the last few years showed it's very unlikely for TV and radio signals to propagate far beyond Alpha Centauri without deteriorating to the point of being completely unintelligible. Fox News, doubly so.
I sometimes use mathematical formulae like:
ten!=exactlythenumberofsecondsin42days
etotheithetaplusone=0
asqrcos2phi=piapprox3.1416
cossqrtheta+sinsqrtheta=1
They Polonized their little bit in Czechoslovakia and threw out the local leaders.That wasn't done to appease the Germans at that time.
No doubt that Poland was treated absolutely appallingly by the Nazis later. But Poland's vile actions also meant that several later allies baulked at entering sooner.
There are many others too, e.g. Churchill's 2nd World War Memoirs in which he compared Germany and Poland to "vultures landing on the dying carcass of Czechoslovakia."
The Polish contribution to Enigma helped a little to make up for their previous vile treachery and acting as "Hitler's jackals" in 1938.