So the ice breaker can be used for search and rescue rather than the annual adventure trip?
Yes. It's primarily used as a research vessel, but if the circumstances require it, the Canadian Coast Guard can use it as part of their regular ice breaking services.
Cool plan, but I never use store WiFi. It's too much of a hassle to sign in, and it's often slow, and when you walk away, it interrupts any open connections. Instead, I just keep 4G mobile data on all the time.
If the ice is too thick then the ice is too thick and we can call it an outlier, an unexpected weather event, or whatever the case may be. What this is not is "proof" of global warming
The ice is not too thick. It is too fractured and mobile, and it's being pushed in the shipping channels. Therefore they've cancelled the research mission, so that the ice breaker can be used for search and rescue, as well as escorting ferries and fishing boats.
They are twisting themselves in knots so that they don't have to admit the irony of a pair of ships being sent out to study thinning ice only to have to turn back because the ice was too thick.
I have to wonder if they are downplaying the thickness and expanse of the ice. If this is just some local refreezing of ice chunks that stuck together then they should be able to sail around. If the ice is just generally thicker and rougher than expected then, as you suggest, they "need a bigger boat". But if the ice is too thick for even their biggest icebreaker then there is nothing to do but turn around and go back.
You misunderstand the problem. The ice isn't too touch for the icebreaker at all. The problem is that there's ice that drifted so far south that it's hindering regular shipping traffic, and so they cancelled the research mission so that their icebreaker could assist other vessels:
Considering the severe ice conditions and the increasing demand for Search And Rescue operations (SAR) and ice escort, we decided to cancel the BaySys mission
I took statistics in college and one thing they teach is that not everything has to line up to show a trend. There will be outliers. The global warming alarmists need to admit that there will be outliers once in a while or they start to sound like fanatics instead of scientists.
If you have one weirdo on the team who insists on 8-space or 2-space indents, then using tabs keeps you from fighting over this all the time and filling up the git repo with constant whitespace changes.
Judging by your definition you might call a cow intelligent being
It's not my definition. And yes, cows do show intelligent behaviour. Whether you want to call them an "intelligent being" depends on where you want to put the threshold for that. Obviously cows are not as intelligent as humans, but they are more intelligent than worms. Intelligence is not a boolean, but a multi-dimensional gliding scale.
And while dictionary definitions may differ, you can't claim a common usage of a word is wrong, just because it only appears in some dictionaries, and not all. Besides, looking at your other suggestions, you could argue that a machine can "reason", "understand", and "grasp truths, relationships, facts, meanings", given objective definitions of those words. Basically, it all comes down to recognizing patterns, and applying them.
The dictionary defines intelligence as : "the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.", which is what machine learning is doing, so the term AI is perfectly suitable.
More to the point, Please post some links to the research of top experts who currently think it _is_ within our grasp!
No, not more to the point. There's a big gap beween "within our grasp" and "it cannot be done". I don't believe it's in our grasp yet, but we're making good progress.
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How much does a subscription to 4G mobile data cost in your area, and how much do you save every month through price comparison?
I pay $11/month for 10GB. I don't save much by price comparison, but that's not what I got the subscription for, so it doesn't matter.
My "cheap-bastard" plan costs $1 / day for 100MB + calls + text.
My "luxury-bastard" plan costs $11/month for 10GB, no calls, no text.
Trump accused in obstruction investigation means Trump accused someone of obstruction.
Trump thinks it means exactly that.
It wouldn't be far-fetched to assume they would use cellular-signal blocking tech alongside this
Great plan... until someone dies in the store because calling 911 from a cell phone didn't work.
So the ice breaker can be used for search and rescue rather than the annual adventure trip?
Yes. It's primarily used as a research vessel, but if the circumstances require it, the Canadian Coast Guard can use it as part of their regular ice breaking services.
http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/Icebr...
Cool plan, but I never use store WiFi. It's too much of a hassle to sign in, and it's often slow, and when you walk away, it interrupts any open connections. Instead, I just keep 4G mobile data on all the time.
The North Pole has been a lot warmer than it is currently in recorded history
In your haste to respond, you seem to have forgotten the links to the North Pole temperature records of those days.
We call these people "deniers" and not "skeptics" because real skeptics don't ignore all the evidence, when it's this overwhelmingly strong
...while at the same time not showing any skepticism towards pieces of data that can be twisted in their favor.
If the ice is too thick then the ice is too thick and we can call it an outlier, an unexpected weather event, or whatever the case may be. What this is not is "proof" of global warming
The ice is not too thick. It is too fractured and mobile, and it's being pushed in the shipping channels. Therefore they've cancelled the research mission, so that the ice breaker can be used for search and rescue, as well as escorting ferries and fishing boats.
They are twisting themselves in knots so that they don't have to admit the irony of a pair of ships being sent out to study thinning ice only to have to turn back because the ice was too thick.
The only irony is you not reading the article.
I have to wonder if they are downplaying the thickness and expanse of the ice. If this is just some local refreezing of ice chunks that stuck together then they should be able to sail around. If the ice is just generally thicker and rougher than expected then, as you suggest, they "need a bigger boat". But if the ice is too thick for even their biggest icebreaker then there is nothing to do but turn around and go back.
You misunderstand the problem. The ice isn't too touch for the icebreaker at all. The problem is that there's ice that drifted so far south that it's hindering regular shipping traffic, and so they cancelled the research mission so that their icebreaker could assist other vessels:
Considering the severe ice conditions and the increasing demand for Search And Rescue operations (SAR) and ice escort, we decided to cancel the BaySys mission
I took statistics in college and one thing they teach is that not everything has to line up to show a trend. There will be outliers. The global warming alarmists need to admit that there will be outliers once in a while or they start to sound like fanatics instead of scientists.
If you took a statistics class you should be able to recognize the trend.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicen...
Of course, there are still outliers on top of the trend.
with 4 you run out of line length too often, unless you extend your program line arbitrarily like a moron.
Or you need to refactor your code better. Linux has no problems with 8-space tabs.
If you have one weirdo on the team who insists on 8-space or 2-space indents, then using tabs keeps you from fighting over this all the time and filling up the git repo with constant whitespace changes.
Except when there's a mix of tabs and spaces.
Please tell me more about things that never occur to you.
Who's talking about humans ? It's a game with strict rules. Computers LOVE those kinds of problems.
Besides, plenty of humans can drive a car, or make money on the internet.
Here's a game: you have a car, and you need to drive it from California to Florida following the rules of the road.
Or: you have a phone, a bank account with $1000, and an internet connection. Your goal is to increase your money following the rules of the law.
This isn't even fucking "weak AI". It is a program
There's no contradiction.
Judging by your definition you might call a cow intelligent being
It's not my definition. And yes, cows do show intelligent behaviour. Whether you want to call them an "intelligent being" depends on where you want to put the threshold for that. Obviously cows are not as intelligent as humans, but they are more intelligent than worms. Intelligence is not a boolean, but a multi-dimensional gliding scale.
And while dictionary definitions may differ, you can't claim a common usage of a word is wrong, just because it only appears in some dictionaries, and not all. Besides, looking at your other suggestions, you could argue that a machine can "reason", "understand", and "grasp truths, relationships, facts, meanings", given objective definitions of those words. Basically, it all comes down to recognizing patterns, and applying them.
The dictionary defines intelligence as : "the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.", which is what machine learning is doing, so the term AI is perfectly suitable.
You're confused. I never said anything about strong AI. But gweihir claims that "all experts" believe it's (near) impossible.
I just wanted to hear that out of the mouths of these experts.
More to the point, Please post some links to the research of top experts who currently think it _is_ within our grasp!
No, not more to the point. There's a big gap beween "within our grasp" and "it cannot be done". I don't believe it's in our grasp yet, but we're making good progress.
All experts ? Please post some links to the research of a couple of these top experts.
Here's a long list of improvements invented over the years, a lot of them fairly recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
A lot more horsepower, deeper network, better algorithms, and better understanding.
I think NASA, SpaceX, and Blue Origin would disagree with you.
SpaceX isn't man-rated. BO can't even get to orbit, and NASA doesn't have rockets.