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  1. special tactics? on Google's AlphaGo AI Defeats the World's Best Human Go Player (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    AlphaGo at its core is an MCTS

    For such a thing, one needs (I think) to do some unexpected moves to constantly force machine into sparsely probed regions.
    And, during discovery stage, one needs doing it "off-line" to avoid google's retraining. Thankfully, space is big enough to ensure that google can be forced quickly enough into deep woods.
    For a match like this - one needs to use different precalculated prologs for all games (won or lost).

    It's more like hacking than playing...

  2. Assange deserves the benefit of a doubt on Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    because US went off the reservation in pursuit of those guys (him and Snowden). And since that part was very publicly proven, it throws some serious shade on the whole accusation thing.

  3. I might be mistaken, but... This is a worm right? With no control over rate of infection, right? Meaning it's an exponential growth process. Meaning it should have hit its saturation in no time. Like an hour or so. Meaning that by the time that dude pulled the plug, the party was mostly over anyway...

  4. A little taste of things to come. on Intel Launches Optane Memory That Makes Standard Hard Drives Perform Like SSDs (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    This is just like those bite-sized freebies in your local grocery store. By themselves, for practical use these drives make little practical sense. Review sites shouldn't have bothered with that Intel's cache bullshit. Instead just treat them as teeny tiny SSD drives serving as a technology preview.

    Bottom line - latency on these things is awesome. Write granularity is good too - will be awesome with proper abstraction level in OS. Write endurance - we don't know - waiting for somebody to write the shit out of them.

    We'll see if Intel/Micron can get a market foothold (being sandwiched between DRAM and flash SSDs is no picnic).

  5. Not gonna happen on Scientists Propose Plan To Re-Freeze the Arctic (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Russia needs ice free Arctic. For shipping and future oil rigs.

  6. Are they sure it is a display problem? on Apple Seemingly Censors UltraFine 5K Monitor Reviews After Poor Feedback (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I had EXACTLY same problems under Ubuntu 16.04/16.10 on my new machine.

    Turned out - bugs in Skylake graphics drivers.

    (in the end had to move to Fedora 25 for rock solid stability)

  7. That would undoubtedly compromise intelligence gathering methods. Plus it would be only a matter of time before one of the recipients got hacked and all the data dumped.

  8. My point wasn't that this is an unsolvable problem. My point was that it is an expense. Peaker plants produce _horrendously_ expensive electricity. To compensate for that solar absolutely must be substantially cheaper than traditional power supplies in order to make it worth the trouble.

  9. Well, you do realize, that capacity (natgas or whatever) sitting idle (not making money) is seriously expensive, right?

    That's why solar _must_ be cheap for markets to clear - one needs a backup to use it. That backup (might be idle capacity or additional long distance power lines or whatever) costs money.

  10. Some organizations started to inject fake phishing emails into their communication systems. All employees who clicked get their heads bashed with a rock.

  11. Dropping the ball with skylake. on Linux Mint 18.1 'Serena' Is Here For Christmas (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    The kernel in 16.04 simply does not work with skylake graphics (not anecdotal: ArsTech was bitching about that too). Even when I've moved to 16.10 I still had to hard reboot my machine from time to time. Now I'm on fedora 25 (cinnamon spin) and it is rock solid.

  12. Re:Tired of this shit. on Google's New Public NTP Servers Provide Smeared Time (googleblog.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I mean, we have timezone stuff already - just bury those seconds in those tables. Run machine clock at TAI and calculate "local time" by adding, for example, 8hrs35seconds to whatever local timekeep says.

  13. Tired of this shit. on Google's New Public NTP Servers Provide Smeared Time (googleblog.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Can we just move to TAI and convert to UTC only when interfacing the meatspace?

  14. Pirates my ass! on Opera Browser Asked to Blacklist Pirate Sites in 'Turbo Mode' (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm surprised that the blurb makes it all about pirates while in fact it's about state censorship. That's Russian government we're talking about. Pirates has nothing to do with the request - it's all about blocking porn, of course! ;)

  15. Re:So let me get this straight.... on Apple Explores Making iPhones in the US, Finds 'the Cost Will More Than Double': Nikkei (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would Apple ask US-based companies to investigate this? Apple does not want to make their stuff in the US - too much trouble. That's why they've asked Foxconn in the first place - they were counting on Chinese to produce some horrible numbers and Chinese happily obliged. The whole thing is just a preemptive attack on "shift production home" movement.

  16. News flash: they don't care. on Most Businesses Haven't Inspected Cloud Services For Malware (betanews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    True story: A guy I know was developing cloud based real estate management suite. Lots of sensitive information in there as you can imagine.
    So I was, like, "Are you nervous about hackers and stuff because it is hosted God knows where by God knows whom?"
    And they guy's reply was: "Nope. I have this here certificate"
    I was like: "But that certificate will not protect you from hackers!"
    He replied: "It would".
    Me: "What?! Are you nuts?!"
    He looks at me as I'm a kind of an idiot and patiently explains that he does not care if users data will get stolen or not. If something bad happens - his ass is protected by this here certificate. I.e. he did his due diligence and whatever happened is not his fault.
    Me: "..."

  17. Putin is ready. on White House Vows 'Proportional' Response For Russian DNC Hack (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do they think Putin went to Syria? To help brother in need? Here's the reason (at least one of the majors): to push Obama's buttons. Before Syria, US government was able to act in unilateral fashion, with total disregard to Russia's howls of displeasure. Now Putin has some resemblance of leverage, Cold War style: need a response? - just pick which rebel group Obama likes the most and bomb the shit out of them...

  18. Just an excuse. on UK Is Banning Apple Watch From Cabinet Meetings Over Russian Hacking Fears (techweekeurope.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually their primary concern is with NSA. Russian hacking is a good excuse for the ban: no need to explain to Americans why they don't trust them.

  19. What's driving laws like this?
    Although it's easy to dismiss this law making incident as an act of utter stupidity, I don't think it is reasonable to assume that lawmakers are really that moronic. Are they pondering to actor guilds as electorate? Do actors throw a lot of money at elected officials? Are there really that many actors so their votes worth the indignity? What's going on?

    A side note: there are quite a few supporting comments on sites like Deadline, so it seems that many actors are under impression that this law would work... (Is weed really that good in California?)

  20. Excellent point!
    I concur.

  21. Joke as much as you want, but iPhone7 is as thin as iPhone6, so it might be subject to the same flexing that cracks solder joints in 6.

  22. Bullshit. Nexus 4s are very good phones. One is sitting on my desk right now, updating apps again (google needs to consolidate their patches - updating seemingly never stops!).
    The primary failure mode for N4 is/was the $2 power button (admittedly, replacing it was a hassle.) In fact, this the first time I even hear about the "digitizer problem".

  23. Re:Not bad, looks like a clean record to me. on World Anti-Doping Agency Says It Was Hacked By Russia (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And it's dubious that Ritalin would help a gymnast, though it might an endurance athlete.

    Are you high?! (sorry, can't help it)
    And it's not just Ritalin. For years she was scarfing Adderall and Dexedrine too. All stimulants. All banned.

    Taking this to extreme: let's attach a jet pack to Steven Hawking's chair (under doctor's prescription) and let him compete in 100m sprint. Although it would be fun to watch, it would definitely be unfair to other athletes.
    And that is my point: occasionally taking drugs to overcome injuries is totally fine by me. But taking them for years gives an unfair advantage - exactly what anti-doping tries to prevent.

  24. Re:Not bad, looks like a clean record to me. on World Anti-Doping Agency Says It Was Hacked By Russia (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    plus one gymnast with an ADHD diagnosis

    That's some crafty spinning on your part. That "one gymnast" is no other than Simone Biles. One of the most prominent stars of the Olympics. And, apparently, she was doping her entire life

  25. ADHD superhumans? on World Anti-Doping Agency Says It Was Hacked By Russia (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So, how do you compete against ADHD athletes? Effectively, Simone Biles was doped her entire life.