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  1. Re:Trust on Microsoft's Interest In Buying GitHub Draws Backlash From Developers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If Git hub doesn’t bring in the money a company like Microsoft will just kill it

    If it doesn't bring money, it's doomed anyway. Nobody's going to run servers for charity.

  2. Trust on Microsoft's Interest In Buying GitHub Draws Backlash From Developers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you require trust, you shouldn't have used GitHub in the first place.

  3. Model S can do about 300 Wh per mile. A 80 kg battery, at 3.3 Wh/gram, can deliver 264 kWh, so about 880 miles total. But the problem is that this battery can only deliver this power gradually over 100+ years, so you would have to drive very slowly.

  4. Re:Why do we care about lifetime output over 100 y on Russian Scientists Upgrade Nuclear Battery Design To Increase Power Output (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    But after 25 years it'll only produce 70.7% of the output, which may not be enough

    That's better than most conventional batteries after 25 years.

  5. Re:what's more scary on Russian Scientists Upgrade Nuclear Battery Design To Increase Power Output (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's a minor operation, but the foreign materials such as the leads, make for good hiding places for bacteria. The old scar tissue surrounding them also hinders the immune system from getting good access.

  6. Re:Not just machine learning on Meet Norman, the Psychopathic AI (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Also, the AI is extra handicapped because it's only given static 2D images. A child may be playing in the bathtub with a plastic boat, which exposes it to a huge amount of additional data about form and function.

    If we could train an AI to do something similar, I'm sure it would result in much improved image recognition.

  7. what's more scary on Russian Scientists Upgrade Nuclear Battery Design To Increase Power Output (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd rather have a nuclear battery in a pacemaker that lasts a lifetime than having to deal with surgery every 10 years to replace a conventional one, risking infection and other complications.

  8. Re:Private Repo Access? on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Anybody who puts a private repo on somebody else's server should always assume someone's stealing their code.

  9. Re: What's the range on the thing? on California's Efforts To Restrict Elon Musk's Flamethrowers Go Down In Flames (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They certainly wouldn't use one of these toys while drunk at a bush party

    Before or after they make a campfire, light a BBQ, and toss away their burning cigarettes ?

  10. Re:Don't worry - Darwin has this covered on California's Efforts To Restrict Elon Musk's Flamethrowers Go Down In Flames (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Real flamethrowers shoot flaming liquid. This things just burns propane through a nozzle.

  11. Not a flamethrower on California's Efforts To Restrict Elon Musk's Flamethrowers Go Down In Flames (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    After Musk said he would be selling a flamethrower dubbed "Not a Flamethrower" to get around customs

    And also for the simple fact that it's not a flamethrower. It's a blowtorch in the shape of a squirt gun.

  12. Re:Stopping distant on Tesla Starts To Release Its Cars' Open-Source Linux Software Code (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, I'm aware of the issue.

    The question was if that code is part of their Linux kernel, or if it's part of their application software that runs on top of it ? The GPL requirements only apply to modifications of existing kernel code, not user level applications.

  13. Re:Stopping distant on Tesla Starts To Release Its Cars' Open-Source Linux Software Code (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Why ? Do you think that's in the kernel ?

  14. Re:Opportunity Cost strikes again on Cost To Build a Tesla Model 3 Is $28,000, German Engineers Say (www.wiwo.de) · · Score: 1

    double your price of whatever you make it for

    Unless you can sell it for more, then ask whatever you can get.

  15. Re:The free future of manufacturing components on Cost To Build a Tesla Model 3 Is $28,000, German Engineers Say (www.wiwo.de) · · Score: 1

    Suddenly EVERYTHING is cheap. Rediculously cheap

    It will still be constrained by price of energy. Mining is a very energy intensive business, especially when you get to lower grade ores and are forced to use a clean process.

  16. Re:Smoke and mirrors on DeepMind Used YouTube Videos To Train Game-Beating Atari Bot (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    Alternatively, move one of the keys 25 pixels to the left or right. The human players will probably complete the level just the same and maybe not even notice. The AI will probably jump where the key used to be

    Not necessarily. By studying the human games, it doesn't just memorize the exact screens and movements. It can also extract patterns that can be used somewhere else, like the image of a key.

  17. Re:A step back for DeepMind on DeepMind Used YouTube Videos To Train Game-Beating Atari Bot (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's not really a step back, but rather a more difficult problem. The reason that AlphaZero worked, is because the consequences of a mistake are quickly visible, leading to a short feedback cycle of improvements.

    With these particular games, there are too many choices, and too much delay between making a choice and the consequence, making it very hard to detect patterns between a specific action and the outcome.

  18. But training AI to win at Atari games is one story that just doesn't mean much to me.

    I figure there was a reason they couldn't train an AI to beat these games a few years ago. Must be harder than you'd assume. And if they can beat them now, that's a step of progress.

  19. Re:Smoke and mirrors on DeepMind Used YouTube Videos To Train Game-Beating Atari Bot (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's almost like a toddler trying to mash different shaped objects in various holes, until it figures out that the cylinder goes in the circle.

    Sufficiently advanced smoke and mirrors is indistinguishable from intelligence.

  20. Re:Montezuma's Revenge Map on DeepMind Used YouTube Videos To Train Game-Beating Atari Bot (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's the _whole_ point of intelligence --- to make an intelligent decision!

    The problem is that intelligence operates on previously recognized patterns. A human playing the game already knows the concept of a map, and a pyramid, and understands locked doors that can be opened with a key. The AI starts with absolutely zero knowledge.

  21. The best part about guidelines is that you can always remove them when they get in your way.

  22. Re:Wait a second.. Nature isn't in a vacuum? NO WA on Great Barrier Reef Has Died Five Times In Last 30,000 Years, Study Says (newsweek.com) · · Score: 2

    Mammoths turned into elephants. Dinosaurs turned into birds. Etc.

    That's not how evolution works.

  23. Re:Wait a second.. Nature isn't in a vacuum? NO WA on Great Barrier Reef Has Died Five Times In Last 30,000 Years, Study Says (newsweek.com) · · Score: 2

    I take it to mean that the loss that the Great Barrier Reef is currently experiencing is not as great a threat (at the present moment) as some portray it.

    We don't know that. Just because it has suffered before, and recovered, doesn't say much about current threat. It could be worse this time.

    That is, the best solution can be found and applied instead of a stop-gap or knee-jerk remedy.

    We already know the best solution, but we don't want to apply it.

  24. Actually, we just need someone to tell these diabetics to stop eating/drinking sugar and grains.

  25. Re:The Windows Phone of cars on Number of Electric Vehicles on Roads Reaches Three Million: IEA (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Plus it provides future fuel flexibility.