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  1. Re:What am I missing here? on A New Sampling Algorithm Could Eliminate Sensor Saturation (scitechdaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Right in the abstract: Our work is based on recent developments in ADC design, which allow for ADCs that reset rather than to saturate, thus producing modulo samples.

  2. Re:Stupid on Facebook Petitioned To Change License For ReactJS (github.com) · · Score: 3

    From what I have seen, React is actually pretty streamlined. You can dump HTML straight into a rendering function. Angular (especially 2) is a horrible nightmare that requires a PhD in Angular just to understand. And when you talk about bloat... write an application on which platform? I'd like to be O/S ambivalent solution which is what? Good luck with any dynamic language. What's left... Java? Bloat? HAHAHAHA.

    Face it. We're all doomed.

  3. Re:Actual License: https://github.com/facebook/rea on Facebook Petitioned To Change License For ReactJS (github.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    GNU and the FSF have their own version of "Freedom" that is used as the philosophical basis for their licensing. It's a completely different mindset from the people that use MIT/BSD licensing.

  4. Re:Still king on Slackware, Oldest Linux Distro Still In Active Development, Turns 24 · · Score: 2

    I think of that every time I see a Slackware post. Glad he made it...

  5. Re:is 40% high on Norway, the Country Where No Salaries Are Secret (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you are self-employed (as I have been), you start with a 35% tax rate. Most of what people pay in taxes is hidden from them either in small costs or just by the process itself. Ask anyone how much tax was taken out of their last paycheck and they won't have a clue. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

  6. While I hate IP laws, any time I can see Disney getting caught up in it, I smile. The rules makers love their rules... let's see if they love them when they actually have to play by them.

  7. Re:Implications? on The Proton Is Lighter Than We Thought (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    I haven't seen a single important implication published about this other than our understanding of the proton is now more complete and it makes some nuclear physics calculations more accurate. I think the significance is more that something we thought wouldn't change finally changed.

  8. Re:No difference on The Proton Is Lighter Than We Thought (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The mass doesn't turn into anything. It just turns into photons (or other particles). The photons themselves are energetic disturbances in the electro-magnetic field which carry a momentum. Think of a long, stretchy, string and the photon is just a ripple on it. Does the ripple have mass? It's just a part of the string! But if you touch the string, you'll feel the ripple moving through because the momentum interacts with you and it feels like something is there.

    The speed of light is the same as the speed of sound. What limits sounds waves traveling through a medium? It's governed by the rate at which the particles in the medium can interact. The speed of light is simply the limit at which information can travel through quantum fluctuations. It's not really the speed of light, it's the speed of information propagation, of which light is a very simple example. If it were infinite, all events would be simultaneous. Anything less than infinite allows for units of time and causal order regardless of the overall rate of change because it will now take a non-zero amount of time to move through any given space.

    At least that's how I think about these things...

  9. Re:Wheres the source of the cash? on Apple, Google and Microsoft Are Hoarding $464 Billion In Cash (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Wealth is not fixed because you aren't including labor or natural processess. Yes there is certain amount of gold in the ground. No, there really aren't a certain number of deer or beef on earth. Yes we can count them. We can also make more. There are rates of resource exchange, production, and consumption and none of it is fixed.

  10. Re:Wheres the source of the cash? on Apple, Google and Microsoft Are Hoarding $464 Billion In Cash (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    They are paying Irish taxes because Ireland is the lowest bidder. I mean, how do you think it works? Corporations have a fiduciary (read: legal) responsibility to ALWAYS maximize profits and that means minimizing tax liability. So yes, if the U.S. provides tax rates that are lower than Ireland's, you can be sure money will flow in. If it doesn't, shareholders will have a right to sue the executive management and board of directors. Trust me, that isn't going to happen.

  11. Re: Hmmm. on Oregon Passes First Statewide Bicycle Tax In Nation (washingtontimes.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can stay fit in other ways and your cheapness is risking your life (and others) on a daily basis. The world has moved to large, metal objects that crush bicycles. Good luck.

  12. Everyone that has ever made money on a long view will tell you that cash-flow is king. While I understand the reasoning, from the outside looking in I wouldn't touch it. They are taking huge risks on IP, not hard assets like factories and they appear to be doing it unwisely.

  13. How so? The pancreas is filled with nerves from the autonomic nervous system which is the regulatory system in the brain and body. Maybe you were dissecting unicorns when you learned about this but it has already been demonstrated in labs that the body produces small insulin spikes before, during, and after meals and intense activity with lead times associated with practice and training. This is only greatly enhanced once the chemicals arrive and start the metabolic processes.

  14. Get rid of the bun and just eat the meat, cheese, and bacon.

  15. I dropped from 343 to 180 without exercise and only maintain weight with fat intake and meat. I eat as much as I want, when I want and never count calories.
      Clearly I'm the marvel, not you.

  16. Re:Lenders Hate This One Weird Trick! on $12 Billion In Private Student Loan Debt May Be Wiped Away By Missing Paperwork (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Both have motives for lying to you. If you believe the government is different than a corporation you haven't been paying attention to who runs both of them: people.

  17. Re:Fossil fuel extraction companies on Here's Elon Musk's Plan To Power the US on Solar Energy (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    They have to pay to process and distribute it. You don't just burn what comes out of the ground.

  18. Re:Well of course on American ISPS Are Now Fighting State Broadband Privacy Proposals (eff.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Theories never take into account human irrationality or the desire for inefficient outcomes. It's always assumed that pure, utilitarian goals are the norm and that actors are infallible or immediately held accountable for poor performance. Reality reflects none of these assumptions and any theory that only attempts to explain the world through simple maximums and minimums cannot be correct by definition because it complete erases individual preference and experience.

  19. Does this also mean they can get you for infinite speed on a road with no length? I don't know if having math on your side really helps.

  20. Yeah... so I have a list of three million numbers and I need you to multiply all of them by 0.72393831 and then by a computed bias factor of 0.1283784671. Make sure to normalize all the values so that their sum only ever equals 1.0. Now do that for 40 different layers propagating your normalization values and biases. That was one input. Can you tell me anything about we learned?

  21. Re:Not intelligence, not invention on Facebook's AI Keeps Inventing Languages That Humans Can't Understand (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep. It's set optimization. That probably means that the AIs will ultimately be speaking a mutually-compatible machine code to one another that is computably efficient for both the task and the data. Imagine debugging a world where your software runs binary translators to speak device-to-device dialects of an internal VM language that is optimized for the underlying compute platform. Man I'm glad I'm getting old.

  22. Re:Two problems on Facebook's AI Keeps Inventing Languages That Humans Can't Understand (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    What's allowed isn't necessarily controllable. In this case I would guess that it is abstract compression. Humans do this by bundling large concepts into new words all the time. It's only natural for "natural speech algorithms" to also follow this pattern as they are designed to mimic human learning. Every human language has done so many times.

    The reason you can't see inside an AI's brain is because there is nothing to see. It's a bunch of matrices with numbers in them. You even get to see how all of them are tied together but none of that will tell you what the numbers mean. Machine learning is literally taking a list of numbers and multiplying by some inputs over and over and over. Humans aren't good at that kind of long-term number crunching.

  23. Re:Not the first administration.. on White House Releases Sensitive Personal Info From Voters Concerned About Privacy (vox.com) · · Score: 0

    Nixon instituted our current drug schedule which has probably killed more people by now than booze. He also championed our current dietary fiasco that is turning everyone obese while lining the pockets of wheat, corn, and sugar farmers. Yes, very much underrated as a source of evil, waste, and human misery.

  24. The big glitch. on Ask Slashdot: What Software (Or Hardware) Glitch Makes You Angry? · · Score: 1

    systemd.

  25. Re:Zerohedge Trustworthy? on WSJ Op-Ed: The Post Office Is Delivering Amazon's Packages Below Cost (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 1

    It contains tons of misinformation and poor financial speculation. Most of the people there have no clue how the financial system works but they are all experts I assure you. Good for a laugh every now and again. Watching them completely get JPM's silver trades wrong a few years ago was good times.