Considering the utter embarrassment that the last one was I highly doubt these "critics" can tell the difference between a movie and a steaming pile of shite.
Sort of, kind of, not really but yes. If you ask people in mainland China then Hong Kong is part of China like any other Chinese city, but they also think Taiwan as part of China so that's not saying much. Ask people from Hong Kong and you get very different answer. The look and feel of the city is completely different from what you find elsewhere in China, even just across the border in Shenzhen. As for the governance, good luck figuring that out, they themselves don't seem to have a very clear picture of how things are or how they are supposed to be. If you ask me then Hong Kong is about as Chinese as it was British when UK still held the lease.
Nothing surprising about eastern companies doing this stuff, Chinese, Koreans and yes, even Japanese. While they are very different nations, in some sense the mindsets can be very similar. Over there a problem is not a problem as long as you keep quiet about it.
The resulting hashes are pretty much always invalid. It doesn't take forever to calculate a single hash, you will calculate bazillion hashes but only one is correct.
The farmers couldn't imagine working in a factory, the factory workers couldn't imagine working as clerks, clerks couldn't imagine working in today's service industry and we cannot imagine where work will take people tomorrow. Our failure to imagine the future, does not mean there isn't going to be one.
Eh... if you are going to look through billion people for any match you are going to get some, probably thousands, doesn't mean you found the person you were looking for.
Can't say I'm surprised about intelligence agencies looking for the fella, but it's kind of late now, bitcoin is fart in the wind by now, there is no catching it anymore, getting paws on Satoshis personal bitcoin cache might be important in the long run tho. Governments can only hope it will fail on its own, if it doesn't... that wouldn't bode well for world economy. My personal opinion is that Satoshi, whoever he may be, purposefully designed the thing to be an economical doomsday device.
So, here's my question: if we are sitting on an unstable equilibrium like that, why hasn't there been runaway carbon dioxide warming in the past?
Well here is the thing, there have been runaways like that, in both directions and quite a few of them. There have been both snowball earth periods and periods with tropics at the poles. Cooling is also an runaway process, more snow means higher albedo means less heat means more snow. In fact if you look at temperatures over geological timescales then Earths climate tends to spend most of the time in one extreme or another. Current global temperatures are rather anomalous, because they are somewhere in the middle, an unstable situation that isn't helped by human activity.
They rely on the watermark being constant, and apparently it usually is, average large number of photos and you can extract the watermark and just subtract it from all of them. Yeah, some dynamic range is lost, but evidently for most photos its not noticeable.
Pointless to randomize size and density, just fill the mask with noise and hey presto, good luck subtracting random noise from an image. Although, some neural network techniques are pretty good at repainting entire image or just parts of it.
Super intelligent AI-s are just a short step away from human equivalent AI-s. Unlike us, lousy meat bags that we are, an AI can trivially self optimize and would probably have to do so to reach even human equivalence in the first place. From there only the raw hardware capabilities are the limit.
Hardware capabilities are not the reason why we don't have human equivalent AI-s yet, the reason is that our algorithms are lousy, inefficient and we don't really understand intelligence in the first place. If we had good enough software, then current hardware would be plenty to knock pants off us mere humans in terms of intelligence.
And once there is AI many orders of magnitude our intelligent superior, well there is no controlling or predicting the behavior of such a thing, it could simply outsmart humans at any time. Humans can't predict behavior of those more intelligent than us, to predict someone we must have a mental model of them. And our mental models of others can't be more intelligent than we are. To say super intelligence will do such and such or not do such and such is foolishness, we are incapable of predicting such things. For all we know, super intelligence might spend its days counting grains of sand on a beach for reasons only understandable to itself, or it could wipe out humanity, there really is no way to tell.
The concern and the problem is that we don't really know what exactly we are missing from a general AI and we don't know how far we are from reaching such a goal. It could be just one clever algorithm away, someone could get lucky and succeed with it tomorrow and we would never know in advance.
In science there are enough examples of a single genius making a huge leap forward in our understanding of reality, who can say there is no pimply faced youth about to do the same in field of AI from his mom-s basement?
The "researchers" didn't use actual self driving car software, they used the most generic possible software you can set up yourself in half an hour. And they didn't even do proper setup of the system, let alone set up any basic sanity checking. All this paper demonstrates is that badly set up generic classifier is not good enough to control self driving cars. Duh, no shit Sherlock.
The initial idea of moar boosters didn't work because as a center core regular F9 booster can't handle three times the structural load. The schedule hasn't been helped by the fact that they still don't actually have a launch stand that is capable of FH launch, though they should have LC-39A converted soon enough. Plus yeah, prioritization.
Alarm bells of what kind? Whats your hypothesis in the first place?
That criminals like money and often have to move it?
That power hungry business is done where power is cheap if at all possible?
Wow, what amazing insights.
If you have a clue what a phone factory looks like you understand that these will not appear in US. Apple might build something else in US, but not phones. You can't get people in developed countries to work in these types of factories. In a developed country, its better to be unemployed than to do work like that. I would rather live under a bridge than waste my life sitting by a manufacturing line repeating the same damn motion year after year. And phone manufacturing is a hard thing to automate, you can automate many parts of it, but there is still a lot of manual labor that goes into putting a phone together and you can't get rid of it.
They made their business by pulling the rug from under previous search engine giants and they know same could happen to them one day. They need the next money machine in case that happens, they have money to invest so they do, fishing for the next moonshot. Its completely sound business strategy in their position. If any of these listed goals actually plays out, they should be golden regardless to what happens with their search core business in the long run.
I have worked in environments where trying to enter into with a flash drive, or camera, or cellphone is a firing offence, in fact you can't get through the door if you have any metal on you whatsoever, a zipper included. One new guy managed to forget a thumb drive in his pocket and walked into metal detector with it, yep, no warnings, the guy was let go. There are some crazy places in this world and there are no limits to where corporate confidentiality rules will not go. If you think governments can be overzealous about keeping secrets - you have seen nothing yet.
Most people do, for much the same reason they use notepad or calc. They are hardly the best tool for their dedicated jobs, but being able to find them on every single windows machine you might have to work with is priceless.
General rule of thumb, to get any good at something, you need to do it professionally for 5 years first. Applies to pretty much any engineering field. That obviously means that its unavoidable that there are many many professionals who are still going through these first 5 years...
Not planning anything beyond next election would be even more retarded. Long term plans don't always play out, doesn't mean you should not make any and ask, "what do I need to do today for my plan to work out in X decades". Long term plans might change, but without them you can't know what direction to move -today-
Nuclear waste disposal is hard because of political problems not technical problems. People have "Not in my backyard" attitude or they are green dumbarses who have no idea what they are talking about and oppose to everything just because they like opposing to stuff.
How do you propose to cool the fuel without power for pumps? Decay heat enough is plenty to melt the entire thing down even tho the reactor has been stopped. That's why there are backup power generators and plenty of redundancy all around, unfortunately in case of Fukushima they put all that stuff in a basement where tsunami flood took it all out. Not the brightest decision in hindsight, but overall an easy problem to rectify.
And it pretty much worked in Fukushima, none of them blew the top off a la Chernobyl. Yes there were hydrogen explosions and quit a bit of leakage occurred but hey, there were no pieces of control rods raining down on homes so that's quite a step up even tho Fukushima reactors weren't exactly latest gen.
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Considering the utter embarrassment that the last one was I highly doubt these "critics" can tell the difference between a movie and a steaming pile of shite.
Sort of, kind of, not really but yes. If you ask people in mainland China then Hong Kong is part of China like any other Chinese city, but they also think Taiwan as part of China so that's not saying much. Ask people from Hong Kong and you get very different answer. The look and feel of the city is completely different from what you find elsewhere in China, even just across the border in Shenzhen. As for the governance, good luck figuring that out, they themselves don't seem to have a very clear picture of how things are or how they are supposed to be. If you ask me then Hong Kong is about as Chinese as it was British when UK still held the lease.
Nothing surprising about eastern companies doing this stuff, Chinese, Koreans and yes, even Japanese. While they are very different nations, in some sense the mindsets can be very similar. Over there a problem is not a problem as long as you keep quiet about it.
The resulting hashes are pretty much always invalid. It doesn't take forever to calculate a single hash, you will calculate bazillion hashes but only one is correct.
No worries, the windows have bars to prevent that.
The farmers couldn't imagine working in a factory, the factory workers couldn't imagine working as clerks, clerks couldn't imagine working in today's service industry and we cannot imagine where work will take people tomorrow. Our failure to imagine the future, does not mean there isn't going to be one.
Eh... if you are going to look through billion people for any match you are going to get some, probably thousands, doesn't mean you found the person you were looking for. Can't say I'm surprised about intelligence agencies looking for the fella, but it's kind of late now, bitcoin is fart in the wind by now, there is no catching it anymore, getting paws on Satoshis personal bitcoin cache might be important in the long run tho. Governments can only hope it will fail on its own, if it doesn't... that wouldn't bode well for world economy. My personal opinion is that Satoshi, whoever he may be, purposefully designed the thing to be an economical doomsday device.
So, here's my question: if we are sitting on an unstable equilibrium like that, why hasn't there been runaway carbon dioxide warming in the past?
Well here is the thing, there have been runaways like that, in both directions and quite a few of them. There have been both snowball earth periods and periods with tropics at the poles. Cooling is also an runaway process, more snow means higher albedo means less heat means more snow. In fact if you look at temperatures over geological timescales then Earths climate tends to spend most of the time in one extreme or another. Current global temperatures are rather anomalous, because they are somewhere in the middle, an unstable situation that isn't helped by human activity.
They rely on the watermark being constant, and apparently it usually is, average large number of photos and you can extract the watermark and just subtract it from all of them. Yeah, some dynamic range is lost, but evidently for most photos its not noticeable.
Pointless to randomize size and density, just fill the mask with noise and hey presto, good luck subtracting random noise from an image. Although, some neural network techniques are pretty good at repainting entire image or just parts of it.
Super intelligent AI-s are just a short step away from human equivalent AI-s. Unlike us, lousy meat bags that we are, an AI can trivially self optimize and would probably have to do so to reach even human equivalence in the first place. From there only the raw hardware capabilities are the limit.
Hardware capabilities are not the reason why we don't have human equivalent AI-s yet, the reason is that our algorithms are lousy, inefficient and we don't really understand intelligence in the first place. If we had good enough software, then current hardware would be plenty to knock pants off us mere humans in terms of intelligence.
And once there is AI many orders of magnitude our intelligent superior, well there is no controlling or predicting the behavior of such a thing, it could simply outsmart humans at any time. Humans can't predict behavior of those more intelligent than us, to predict someone we must have a mental model of them. And our mental models of others can't be more intelligent than we are. To say super intelligence will do such and such or not do such and such is foolishness, we are incapable of predicting such things. For all we know, super intelligence might spend its days counting grains of sand on a beach for reasons only understandable to itself, or it could wipe out humanity, there really is no way to tell.
The concern and the problem is that we don't really know what exactly we are missing from a general AI and we don't know how far we are from reaching such a goal. It could be just one clever algorithm away, someone could get lucky and succeed with it tomorrow and we would never know in advance.
In science there are enough examples of a single genius making a huge leap forward in our understanding of reality, who can say there is no pimply faced youth about to do the same in field of AI from his mom-s basement?
The "researchers" didn't use actual self driving car software, they used the most generic possible software you can set up yourself in half an hour. And they didn't even do proper setup of the system, let alone set up any basic sanity checking. All this paper demonstrates is that badly set up generic classifier is not good enough to control self driving cars. Duh, no shit Sherlock.
The initial idea of moar boosters didn't work because as a center core regular F9 booster can't handle three times the structural load. The schedule hasn't been helped by the fact that they still don't actually have a launch stand that is capable of FH launch, though they should have LC-39A converted soon enough. Plus yeah, prioritization.
Alarm bells of what kind? Whats your hypothesis in the first place? That criminals like money and often have to move it? That power hungry business is done where power is cheap if at all possible? Wow, what amazing insights.
I fly quite regularly between Asia and Europe, I would greatly appreciate the flight time being cut in half.
Boeing 737 would probably also not be viable, if there were only 20 ever built. Instead there are almost 10 000.
If you have a clue what a phone factory looks like you understand that these will not appear in US. Apple might build something else in US, but not phones. You can't get people in developed countries to work in these types of factories. In a developed country, its better to be unemployed than to do work like that. I would rather live under a bridge than waste my life sitting by a manufacturing line repeating the same damn motion year after year. And phone manufacturing is a hard thing to automate, you can automate many parts of it, but there is still a lot of manual labor that goes into putting a phone together and you can't get rid of it.
They made their business by pulling the rug from under previous search engine giants and they know same could happen to them one day. They need the next money machine in case that happens, they have money to invest so they do, fishing for the next moonshot. Its completely sound business strategy in their position. If any of these listed goals actually plays out, they should be golden regardless to what happens with their search core business in the long run.
I have worked in environments where trying to enter into with a flash drive, or camera, or cellphone is a firing offence, in fact you can't get through the door if you have any metal on you whatsoever, a zipper included. One new guy managed to forget a thumb drive in his pocket and walked into metal detector with it, yep, no warnings, the guy was let go. There are some crazy places in this world and there are no limits to where corporate confidentiality rules will not go. If you think governments can be overzealous about keeping secrets - you have seen nothing yet.
Most people do, for much the same reason they use notepad or calc. They are hardly the best tool for their dedicated jobs, but being able to find them on every single windows machine you might have to work with is priceless.
General rule of thumb, to get any good at something, you need to do it professionally for 5 years first. Applies to pretty much any engineering field. That obviously means that its unavoidable that there are many many professionals who are still going through these first 5 years...
Not planning anything beyond next election would be even more retarded. Long term plans don't always play out, doesn't mean you should not make any and ask, "what do I need to do today for my plan to work out in X decades". Long term plans might change, but without them you can't know what direction to move -today-
Nuclear waste disposal is hard because of political problems not technical problems. People have "Not in my backyard" attitude or they are green dumbarses who have no idea what they are talking about and oppose to everything just because they like opposing to stuff.
How do you propose to cool the fuel without power for pumps? Decay heat enough is plenty to melt the entire thing down even tho the reactor has been stopped. That's why there are backup power generators and plenty of redundancy all around, unfortunately in case of Fukushima they put all that stuff in a basement where tsunami flood took it all out. Not the brightest decision in hindsight, but overall an easy problem to rectify.
And it pretty much worked in Fukushima, none of them blew the top off a la Chernobyl. Yes there were hydrogen explosions and quit a bit of leakage occurred but hey, there were no pieces of control rods raining down on homes so that's quite a step up even tho Fukushima reactors weren't exactly latest gen.