Averaging the results of two experimental measurements is not Science, whereas averaging the results of many hundreds of measurements to determine global temperature anomaly is.
You operate a business which is part, whether you like it or not, of the industrialized copyright infringement and distribution networks which do flout the law and which are illegal
I understand your distinction that you yourself are not doing anything illegal
However, at some point you made a choice to operate this business
Possibly, you were naive and did not think that your service could be used for illegal purposes. Consider yourself now better informed and able to revisit your choice. This removes naivete from the list of possible excuses.
So you are able to make a characterisation: some or all of my customers use my services to carry out illegal activity.
Now you have a different decision that you can make: are you comfortable making your living taking money from those who are effectively acting as criminals.
Please note: I'm not making a judgement on you or your business. Simply pointing out that these are the decisions and assessments that you may have to or have made. Because there are implications. In many countries, as an owner or a Director of a business, you are liable for your actions and business decisions, including those of trading recklessly and there are legal penalties.
From my point of view, your business appears to be acting in the role of service provider so you have no direct liability for your customers' actions. A bit like a lockup storage operator who is not liable for any use of his facility by criminals to store stolen goods etc. However, at some point, a lawyer will make an assessment that your lack of diligence may represent aiding and abetting a crime. In which case, all bets are off.
Given that ELO is relatively simple, it is more surprising that more complex algorithms with the benefit of acces to a lot of historical data only marginally outperform it.
i.e. the transparency and simplicity of ELO combined with a relatively accurate outcome is better.
I envisage this system as working something like in Wall-E when he follows the red light from the approaching spaceship.
That would be cool - a little guide light showing you which way to run in an emergency. Or you could like shine it on some landmark that was a set height above the estmated wave and say "Try and get to this!". Or like a laser sight, shine it on someone running really fast in the right direction and say "Try and keep up". Man, look at those little ants scurry!
I have to say, reading the original article, I was reminded about the story about the fully-mobilized North Korean army sitting in trucks with the engines running, ready to invade South Korea at a moment's notice. Good scare story, completely false. If a line gets cut, and it is for anything important, you have a redundant route, so no crisis. You then send a normal maintenance crew out to take care of the one that got cut. If it isn't important, no crisis, so you send out a normal looking maintenance crew. You don't send out a crew of guys in an SUV to blow cover.
Regional Bell Operating Company.
OP has it about right - the fixed costs of establishing a new centre are huge, so you leverage what you have to the max.
Interesting point about fibre using more power overall than copper - all those 40A PSUs in core switches.
"Elegant force" where human characteristics combine with the power of machine computation is the end goal
BUT, winning chess against an equally-skilled opponent is a matter of finding forcing moves. When all forcing moves are known, chess is just a matter of brute force computation and massive memory
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They already banned squirters and small breasted women, it was only a matter of time before they were going to cover up sensitive holes.
Averaging the results of two experimental measurements is not Science, whereas averaging the results of many hundreds of measurements to determine global temperature anomaly is.
...that a proposed Microsoft project bases its success on the coordinated operation of a collection of bugs.
Rapidshare says they don't open or inspect the files uploaded by its users
They list a number of 'legitimate' uses
They say copyrighted files do get uploaded
But they say these files are in a minority compared with the legitimate uses
How do they know, without having inspected the files?
Wow. I may actually have prior art on this. I implemented such a system for my PhD thesis in 1990.
You operate a business which is part, whether you like it or not, of the industrialized copyright infringement and distribution networks which do flout the law and which are illegal
I understand your distinction that you yourself are not doing anything illegal
However, at some point you made a choice to operate this business
Possibly, you were naive and did not think that your service could be used for illegal purposes. Consider yourself now better informed and able to revisit your choice. This removes naivete from the list of possible excuses.
So you are able to make a characterisation: some or all of my customers use my services to carry out illegal activity.
Now you have a different decision that you can make: are you comfortable making your living taking money from those who are effectively acting as criminals.
Please note: I'm not making a judgement on you or your business. Simply pointing out that these are the decisions and assessments that you may have to or have made. Because there are implications. In many countries, as an owner or a Director of a business, you are liable for your actions and business decisions, including those of trading recklessly and there are legal penalties.
From my point of view, your business appears to be acting in the role of service provider so you have no direct liability for your customers' actions. A bit like a lockup storage operator who is not liable for any use of his facility by criminals to store stolen goods etc. However, at some point, a lawyer will make an assessment that your lack of diligence may represent aiding and abetting a crime. In which case, all bets are off.
"Never bring a sword to a gunfight."
Carbon-based life-forms using silicon-based computing systems with copper-based communication lines. We need to break these bonds.
...not having RTFA, that the article is bogus.
Who's with me?
Computer Science/Engineering professors can't tell the difference between chatbots and Computer Science/Engineering students.
1. Read the article without looking at the byline
2. Read the article assuming that "Pat Jordan" is male.
3. Read the article assuming that "Pat Jordan" is female.
Notice anything different in the dynamic between subject and interviewer in any of those readings?
Should read: "China plans to tap fibre-optic cables on the sea floor".
Remember the "manganese nodules" cover story for Glomar Challenger from the 1970s?
Given that ELO is relatively simple, it is more surprising that more complex algorithms with the benefit of acces to a lot of historical data only marginally outperform it. i.e. the transparency and simplicity of ELO combined with a relatively accurate outcome is better.
Hey, if it avoids synchronous bandwidth surges for TCP/IP, it's worth a try for power transmission.
Presumably, the double blind experiment is to avoid some sort of Hawthorn Effect?
Find another job. Anyone going in to major online content provision with minimal budget as described doesn't understand the problem.
I envisage this system as working something like in Wall-E when he follows the red light from the approaching spaceship. That would be cool - a little guide light showing you which way to run in an emergency. Or you could like shine it on some landmark that was a set height above the estmated wave and say "Try and get to this!". Or like a laser sight, shine it on someone running really fast in the right direction and say "Try and keep up". Man, look at those little ants scurry!
Someone want to compare and contrast FreeBSD jails with openbsd + sysjail?
I have to say, reading the original article, I was reminded about the story about the fully-mobilized North Korean army sitting in trucks with the engines running, ready to invade South Korea at a moment's notice. Good scare story, completely false. If a line gets cut, and it is for anything important, you have a redundant route, so no crisis. You then send a normal maintenance crew out to take care of the one that got cut. If it isn't important, no crisis, so you send out a normal looking maintenance crew. You don't send out a crew of guys in an SUV to blow cover.
Regional Bell Operating Company. OP has it about right - the fixed costs of establishing a new centre are huge, so you leverage what you have to the max. Interesting point about fibre using more power overall than copper - all those 40A PSUs in core switches.
There you go, dragging ISO and ANSI standards (amongst others) into a perfectly good Vendor-only standards discussion.
1. Develop radical new gameplay idea.
2. Get off my damn lawn!
3. Profit.
1080p60 is 3Gbps nominal.
Human play is elegant, but loses to brute force
Brute force is not elegant
"Elegant force" where human characteristics combine with the power of machine computation is the end goal
BUT, winning chess against an equally-skilled opponent is a matter of finding forcing moves. When all forcing moves are known, chess is just a matter of brute force computation and massive memory