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  1. Re: International Laughing Stock on The US Can't Leave The Paris Climate Deal Until 2020 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    To speak directly to your account name: Yes, 'Visualize Whirled Peas' if you wish, but we don't care nor do we need to hear about your virtue signaling.

    Wrong on both accounts, but keep going.

  2. Re: Trouble is, AGW's not real. on The US Can't Leave The Paris Climate Deal Until 2020 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You could just look at the temperature trend for the last 50 years. That doesn't require faith in models, groupthink, nor appeal to authority. http://www.woodfortrees.org/pl...

  3. Re:Trouble is, AGW's not real. on The US Can't Leave The Paris Climate Deal Until 2020 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Not believing people who are trying to sell you something is a basic survival skill.

    There are plenty of people trying to sell the idea that AGW isn't happening.

  4. Re:Trouble is, AGW's not real. on The US Can't Leave The Paris Climate Deal Until 2020 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Still not answering the question, I see.

  5. Re:Trouble is, AGW's not real. on The US Can't Leave The Paris Climate Deal Until 2020 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I wasn't talking about me or you, but about "others". How many of them have studied the models in detail ?

  6. Re:Trouble is, AGW's not real. on The US Can't Leave The Paris Climate Deal Until 2020 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    In fact, you don't know. You're taking it on faith. Others choose not to.

    Others choose not to, based on faith, or because they have studied the models in detail ?

  7. deja vu on Ask Slashdot: How Can Programmers Move Into AI Jobs? · · Score: 3, Informative
  8. Re: International Laughing Stock on The US Can't Leave The Paris Climate Deal Until 2020 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3

    Now, put on your big boy pants and go find a way to be nicer to Mother Nature. It'd be far more productive for you to help than it is for you to sit and complain.

    You don't think someone could do both ?

  9. Re:what if on Nutella Used An Algorithm To Design 7 Million Unique Labels (inc.com) · · Score: 2

    What if the algorithm makes a copywritten artwork? Who do you sue?

    The company that makes it. Of course, damages will be small, since there's only one jar for each pattern.

  10. Re:Only 7 million? on Nutella Used An Algorithm To Design 7 Million Unique Labels (inc.com) · · Score: 2

    1677216 unique pixels. Colour me unimpressed.

    What's the hex code for 'unimpressed' ?

  11. Re:$1 / month for each Raspberry Pi 3 on Linux Malware Infects Raspberry Pi Devices And Makes Them Mine Cryptocurrency (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    10 H/s of XMR yields about $1.10 per day [cryptocompare.com].

    I'm only getting $1.05 per month, using 1W power consumption.

  12. Or better yet, protest but don't break the law...

    What if you didn't, but other people in the protest did ?

  13. Re:Get Rich Slowly... on Linux Malware Infects Raspberry Pi Devices And Makes Them Mine Cryptocurrency (hothardware.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Depends on what cryptocurrency they are mining, how suitable the Pi is for that, and what the value of that currency is.

    Take bitcoin for example. One PI can do about 0.2 Mhash/second. A botnet consisting of 1 million devices can mine about $6.50 in a month. And you don't even get to keep all that, because a million devices mining will produce a great deal of very small transactions, which take up a lot of space in the blockchain, and you'll have to pay quite a large transaction fee. You'd be lucky to keep half of that money.

    Instead of the developing the malware, you could make more money as a Walmart greeter.

  14. Re:real world on British PM Seeks Ban On Encryption After Terror Attack (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    You, as many people, are assuming that she's getting this wrong through stupidity

    I'm sure she's stupid either way, even if she has sinister plans.

  15. real world on British PM Seeks Ban On Encryption After Terror Attack (boingboing.net) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In the real world, people just buy a set of knives from Lidl, rent a van, and discuss the plans in someone's living room. Banning encryption isn't going to stop any of that.

  16. Re:There is no 'AI' on Ask Slashdot: What Types of Jobs Are Opening Up In the New Field of AI? · · Score: 1

    So multiplication of 16 bit matrices is AI?

    Just as much as connecting 3 neurons together is I.

  17. Re:There is no 'AI' on Ask Slashdot: What Types of Jobs Are Opening Up In the New Field of AI? · · Score: 1

    providing an appearance of intelligence by eventually getting things right via brute force matching.

    That's all we need. That's how our brains evolved. We have 20 billion neurons in our cerebral cortex, with thousands of connections per neuron. That's also brute forcing. The appearance of intelligence will get better and better as we find better algorithms, and bigger networks.

  18. Re:software, hardware, or wetware? on Ask Slashdot: What Types of Jobs Are Opening Up In the New Field of AI? · · Score: 1

    Actually I suspect we may find that the best approach is by cheating with a bit of biology. We may find it easier to grow our own biological neurons that map themselves than trying to figure out what a brain does and emulate it with electronic circuits

    Doubtful. Biological neurons are slow and inflexible. Artificial neural nets can already outperform human brains on various subtasks, and it's much easier to experiment with different network parameters in software. Looking at real brains is useful to learn some new tricks, but it's unlikely that brains have the perfect implementation for the task, given the huge constraints given to them by nature.

    My suggestion is to get at least 3 PhDs

    I would pick one, and work together with people who have the other 2.

  19. Re:If you truly want to get in AI, go in biomedica on Ask Slashdot: What Types of Jobs Are Opening Up In the New Field of AI? · · Score: 1

    If you want to be at the forefront of AI you should first invent it and to do that, you need to define intelligence and individualism. I think brain research would be your field to try.

    Before you try to invent anything, you should first learn the stuff that's already out there that others are working on.

    If you want to go into commercial AI, make an app

    Most AI requires more computation that fits in an app.

  20. Re:"New field of AI", indeed on Ask Slashdot: What Types of Jobs Are Opening Up In the New Field of AI? · · Score: 2

    That's like saying, "there's no story, just a book full of letters", or "there's no intelligence, just a skull full of chemicals", or "there's no weather forecast, just computers running code".

  21. Re:There is no 'AI' on Ask Slashdot: What Types of Jobs Are Opening Up In the New Field of AI? · · Score: 1

    All we have are systems with an ever increasing number of if statements.

    You must be completely unaware of what's happening in the field, if you believe that. Here's an example of how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  22. Re:Difficult on Ask Slashdot: What Types of Jobs Are Opening Up In the New Field of AI? · · Score: 1

    Designing and training a deep ANN is a lot harder than learning how to edit HTML

    Sounds like a perfect job for AI.

  23. Re:Also, autopilots on Japan To Launch Self-Navigating Cargo Ships 'By 2025' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Port-to-port self navigating ships is a bit more involved than running a simple autopilot.

  24. Home Blood Pressure Monitors Are Wrong 70 Percent of the Time, Says Study

    So, take 10 measurements, and look for the 3 identical ones.

  25. Re:Computer checks pilot on Boeing Studies Planes Without Pilots, Plans Experiments Next Year (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's a good thing that planes with human pilots cannot be manipulated to fly into buildings or mountains.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...