That's a pretty complicated and convoluted way to do a remix of an album.
Additionally, if a genre of music becomes so predictable that computers can synthesise it (or even dice, in the case of the German game Musikalisches Würfelspiel), then it's pretty much dead and it's time to move on to newer genres.
The statistical power of n=12 is questionable as is the fact that the study seems to be based on a number of assumptions. Does the paper end with "more research is needed"?
And there was me thinking that trains and trams were the most efficient electric vehicles on the market. They can carry more than 5 people, plus they don't need expensive batteries and chargers, you don't have to pay insurance or even have to buy them, they don't run out of electricity, and you just pay a minimal fee for a pass that lets you ride on any of them any time you want, and best of all, you don't have to drive!:)
...who's going to have the money to buy the stuff that these robots make? What will happen to our consumerism and advertising driven economies then? Will/. be able to survive? Is this how the robot apocalypse will be, i.e. an economic depression rather than Skynet and killer androids?
The article does make that suggestion but also some others that may be less painful:
Jakubowski recommends trying to distract yourself by thinking of or listening to a different song. If that doesn’t work, try engaging with the song, as many people report that actually listening to an earworm song all the way through can help eliminate having it stuck on a loop.
Finally, a study published last year in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology suggests a simple way to disrupt the voluntary memory recollection that gets songs stuck in your head: chew a piece of gum.
Think I'll try the gum and thinking of another song before going through that ordeal.
Yep, nothing new. Lived in Moscow for a while, where their power stations heat water and pump it all over the city for heating and hot water. It's very effective even in -30C. One problem is that in old buildings, i.e. most of them, the radiators are so old that the valves on them are seized. You can't turn the radiators off and so if you get too hot, you have to open a window or two. It's not uncommon to see a lot of open windows on old apartment buildings during the freezing Moscow winters.
BTW, here's a list of district heating systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... The biggest and oldest are in northern Europe with the exception of Seoul, S. Korea.
Only on/. you could make a joke about something disgusting and someone replies with well thought out, helpful information you wish you wouldn't have gotten...
...Google does not change its search algorithm to re-rank individual websites. They've never taken money to effectively censor information about things like the BP Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, have they?
...from regulation and accountability. Yes, that's how cryptocurrencies are supposed to work and why they're so popular with drug dealers, human traffickers, and the like. This is just the beginning; wait until Goldman Sachs comes up with its version of a cryptocurrency ponzi scheme. The tax payer will have to foot the bill for that one.
Yay, corporate censorship! Down the memory hole! We're saved from the evil Russians.
But how will this 'engineering' be held democratically accountable? Who has effective oversight? We're further handing the basis of our democracy, i.e. access to information, over the a tiny minority of billionaires who can manipulate it and therefore us in any way they choose. Oh hang on, haven't I just described the mainstream media?
His background doesn't appear to cover how net neutrality works, i.e. the telecoms control the medium of communication and, if left unregulated, can impose whatever prioritisation and constraints on any specific packets of data from any source and to any destination they choose.
Not an ideological narrative: McDonald's exploits its workers. For most, it's not a stepping stone to bigger and better things. Anecdotal evidence, particularly when n=1, doesn't negate conclusions based on the majority of cases.
Re: logical fallacies, are you talking about your own comments? e.g. "I love how when Real Life doesn't fit the purely ideological narrative, it's dismissed as "personal anecdote" as a counter argument = category error
No, the IPCC's report put the figure at 18% of emissions and when they calculated the estimated effect of those gases, it came to more than 50%. Methane has a much stronger greenhouse effect per tonne than CO2.
Ready... in 3... 2... 1... There goes all your investments in crypto-currencies! Bitcoin promises to make previous Wall Street boom & bust culture look relatively stable.
Nope, not screwed because what the Economist didn't mention is that CO2 accounts for a little less than half of man-made greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. The larger amount is methane from the animal farming industry which luckily has a much shorter lifespan in the atmosphere. If we cut emissions from animal farming, we can reduce the greenhouse effect relatively quickly. The difficulty with this approach is that it's difficult to convince individuals to consume less meat and dairy, even though it's good for their health. Rolling back subsidies to the animal farming industry would reduce profits and may even raise prices to consumers. Issuing a tax on methane emissions and paying that forward to consumers could also help. The alternative would be some form of rationing.
WTF does Barry Diller know about how net neutrality works? What qualifies him to spout about the subject apart from being one of the USA's anointed ones, i.e. a billionaire and therefore the press prints whatever shit falls out of his mouth?
..they're not going to talk about how this latest in a long line of all too frequent mass shootings could be prevented by putting sensible gun laws in place, then? Yeah, just talk about unlocking a dead and clearly insane mass murderer's phone, because that'll help keep people safer in the future, right?
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I'm imagining Ajit Pai in a prison cell, doing up to 7 years for identity theft. Wouldn't that be great?
That's a pretty complicated and convoluted way to do a remix of an album.
Additionally, if a genre of music becomes so predictable that computers can synthesise it (or even dice, in the case of the German game Musikalisches Würfelspiel), then it's pretty much dead and it's time to move on to newer genres.
The statistical power of n=12 is questionable as is the fact that the study seems to be based on a number of assumptions. Does the paper end with "more research is needed"?
And there was me thinking that trains and trams were the most efficient electric vehicles on the market. They can carry more than 5 people, plus they don't need expensive batteries and chargers, you don't have to pay insurance or even have to buy them, they don't run out of electricity, and you just pay a minimal fee for a pass that lets you ride on any of them any time you want, and best of all, you don't have to drive! :)
...who's going to have the money to buy the stuff that these robots make? What will happen to our consumerism and advertising driven economies then? Will /. be able to survive? Is this how the robot apocalypse will be, i.e. an economic depression rather than Skynet and killer androids?
Thanks! :)
The article does make that suggestion but also some others that may be less painful:
Jakubowski recommends trying to distract yourself by thinking of or listening to a different song. If that doesn’t work, try engaging with the song, as many people report that actually listening to an earworm song all the way through can help eliminate having it stuck on a loop.
Finally, a study published last year in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology suggests a simple way to disrupt the voluntary memory recollection that gets songs stuck in your head: chew a piece of gum.
Think I'll try the gum and thinking of another song before going through that ordeal.
Yep, nothing new. Lived in Moscow for a while, where their power stations heat water and pump it all over the city for heating and hot water. It's very effective even in -30C. One problem is that in old buildings, i.e. most of them, the radiators are so old that the valves on them are seized. You can't turn the radiators off and so if you get too hot, you have to open a window or two. It's not uncommon to see a lot of open windows on old apartment buildings during the freezing Moscow winters.
BTW, here's a list of district heating systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... The biggest and oldest are in northern Europe with the exception of Seoul, S. Korea.
Only on /. you could make a joke about something disgusting and someone replies with well thought out, helpful information you wish you wouldn't have gotten...
This! Wish I had mod points.
if you sing/play in your mind till it reaches the end, then it will be gone.
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Yep, the usual weasel words of advertising corporations. We can't believe anything they say.
...Google does not change its search algorithm to re-rank individual websites. They've never taken money to effectively censor information about things like the BP Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, have they?
Otherwise known as advertising. It's poetic when the world's largest advertising corporation calls itself out :)))
Are AWS promising to prevent the CIA from publicly soiling themselves again? They obviously can't look after sensitive data for themselves.
...from regulation and accountability. Yes, that's how cryptocurrencies are supposed to work and why they're so popular with drug dealers, human traffickers, and the like. This is just the beginning; wait until Goldman Sachs comes up with its version of a cryptocurrency ponzi scheme. The tax payer will have to foot the bill for that one.
Yay, corporate censorship! Down the memory hole! We're saved from the evil Russians.
But how will this 'engineering' be held democratically accountable? Who has effective oversight? We're further handing the basis of our democracy, i.e. access to information, over the a tiny minority of billionaires who can manipulate it and therefore us in any way they choose. Oh hang on, haven't I just described the mainstream media?
We already have a stark illustration of what ISPs look like without net neutrality, e.g. Portugal: https://qz.com/1114690/why-is-...
That's the point: reduce methane emissions and their greenhouse effects subside relatively quickly :)
...his background in business and broadcasting...
His background doesn't appear to cover how net neutrality works, i.e. the telecoms control the medium of communication and, if left unregulated, can impose whatever prioritisation and constraints on any specific packets of data from any source and to any destination they choose.
Not an ideological narrative: McDonald's exploits its workers. For most, it's not a stepping stone to bigger and better things. Anecdotal evidence, particularly when n=1, doesn't negate conclusions based on the majority of cases.
Re: logical fallacies, are you talking about your own comments? e.g. "I love how when Real Life doesn't fit the purely ideological narrative, it's dismissed as "personal anecdote" as a counter argument = category error
No, the IPCC's report put the figure at 18% of emissions and when they calculated the estimated effect of those gases, it came to more than 50%. Methane has a much stronger greenhouse effect per tonne than CO2.
Ready... in 3... 2... 1... There goes all your investments in crypto-currencies! Bitcoin promises to make previous Wall Street boom & bust culture look relatively stable.
Nope, not screwed because what the Economist didn't mention is that CO2 accounts for a little less than half of man-made greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. The larger amount is methane from the animal farming industry which luckily has a much shorter lifespan in the atmosphere. If we cut emissions from animal farming, we can reduce the greenhouse effect relatively quickly. The difficulty with this approach is that it's difficult to convince individuals to consume less meat and dairy, even though it's good for their health. Rolling back subsidies to the animal farming industry would reduce profits and may even raise prices to consumers. Issuing a tax on methane emissions and paying that forward to consumers could also help. The alternative would be some form of rationing.
WTF does Barry Diller know about how net neutrality works? What qualifies him to spout about the subject apart from being one of the USA's anointed ones, i.e. a billionaire and therefore the press prints whatever shit falls out of his mouth?
..they're not going to talk about how this latest in a long line of all too frequent mass shootings could be prevented by putting sensible gun laws in place, then? Yeah, just talk about unlocking a dead and clearly insane mass murderer's phone, because that'll help keep people safer in the future, right?
Your personal anecdote doesn't reflect the experiences of the majority of McDonald's employees.
Why are you so mean to people whose only option is to be exploited?