...than letting hundreds of hospitals store their own records individually on their own systems with variable levels of IT security competence in the teams managing them.
Agreed. The only way to remain safe is to check that instructions do not violate security before they are executed. Anything else risks someone smart figuring out a way to determine what happened. Even a complete rollback might be detectable if it causes a delay.
They may be sane and indeed correct but I have trouble trusting financial advice from someone who does not know the difference between a parabola or an exponential. I expect the problem comes from the habitual use of too much hyperbola.
nVidia knows two things: First, gamers will need graphics cards. Now, tomorrow, forever.
It is entirely conceivable that at some point we may not need them. For example, the Intel Phi (Knights landing?) or whatever it calls itself now is an attempt by them to put several hundred low power x86 cores into chips. While this has been going on long enough that I'm not sure it is ever going to really work it is conceivable that some technology like this could result in hybrid CPU chips both high and low power cores that could be switched between processing and graphics usage depending on the needs of the machine.
This may be entirely hypothetical at this point but if it is possible to conceive of a technology which might replace the GPU "forever" becomes very unlikely especially in a fast moving area like IT.
nvidia doesn't want their cards to be sold at 200$ above mspr and they get nothing rather than the usual.
Actually, I don't think that it is because NVIDIA does have the tools to stop it and it is a tool they have already deployed with a specific exemption for miners: the driver license agreement. They recently changed the license terms to forbid usage in a "datacentre" except for "blockchain processing". If they really wanted to stop the miners they would not put in that exception and would, at least attempt, to ban all datacentre usage. This would massively drop demand and allow them to release a "miner card" which works with a driver that has a different license like their Tesla cards which, at ~10+ times the price, have a driver which is allowed to be used in a "datacentre".
Instead, they specifically exempted miners so I think that this is just an attempt by them to try and mollify gamers while, at the same time, pumping out as many cards as they can to make as much money as they can while not really caring at all about any customer so long as they keep making tons of money.
it may be possible to then do spectre in the opposite direction...preload the cache and if any preloaded pages become slower
That would presumably be a LOT harder since the cache is shared so any process running can cause the cache to flush and you typically do not have control over what gets flushed. However, the only real way to fix this is to check for a valid address before anything gets loaded. That way the branch will immediately terminate and, if it gets selected for execution, will immediately cause a memory error. This could even improve performance by reducing memory bandwidth caused by false branches.
Now look at a map. How much land mass is there further north?
Well, since Canada is larger than the US, including Alaska, and much of it is rocks and trees I don't think we have much to worry about in terms of land area for the foreseeable future. The far bigger worry is the upheaval in everyone's crops changing, sea levels rising and flooding cities etc. Global warming will cause many serious problems but the eradication of maple syrup is not one of them.
Try that on amazon.ca and let me know how it works. The only thing they have in Canada is "Amazon Family" which gives you 20% off diapers so in Canada their Prime offering is literally shit.
Actually, it is easy to see if you just use Google Maps - Chicago, O'Hare has single digits painted on the relevant runways as does Montana. Edmonton, Canada and Heathrow, UK have the leading zeroes. So clearly the US does not use the leading zero while everyone else appears to.
Actually, the poster seems to be absolutely correct. Here is the Google Maps image for the end of one of Edmonton Airport's runways in Canada clearly showing the leading '0' so Canada, like Europe, appears to require it. However, if you go south of the border to Helena in Montana then their runway does not contain a leading zero.
Maybe it's better in the US, but I couldn't live off the selection available at Amazon UK.
It's the same in Canada. Many items are not available through Prime and for those that are the Prime cost is usually the same as the non-Prime+shipping. The only advantage is that Prime is usually faster shipping. You also lack many of the features like free eBooks and the video selection is not great at all (far worse than Netflix). On top of that you cannot share Prime with people at the same address so it is useless for families since sharing an account means you cannot use it for Christmas and birthdays. The only benefit is that it is cheaper at $79/year which is ~US$65 but it's not worth it, particularly without the sharing which, for a family, either doubles the cost or cripples its usage.
If it was possible to explain Einstein's theory of relativity to a nine year old it would mean that Einstein was only as smart as a nine year old, which, obviously is not correct.
That's great news for anyone who does understand relativity because it means that we are all as smart as Einstein! Sadly though it is generally accepted that the 'genius' comes in figuring something out for the first time, not in being able to understand the idea once someone has figured it out. Lots of people understand Newtonian mechanics but I doubt anyone living today is as smart as Newton was.
In fact the reverse is probably true: the easier the idea is to explain the smarter the person who came up with the idea is generally perceived to be. It's a lot more impressive to come up with a new, simple idea in an area that lots of people have thought about before than it is to come up with one in a highly specialized, esoteric area where you may be the first person to ever really think about that thing.
For simplicity's sake, the headings are rounded to the nearest five, and dropped to two digits.
This is not consistent with the names given i.e. '1' or '2' since these have only one digit remaining. Either these names should be '01' or '02' or the method is something even simpler: round to the nearest ten and drop the final zero.
If this article is anything to go by it got a lot less real. What all these sorts of articles (there was one about coffee being wiped out a year or so ago) completely fail to take account of is that if one area is becoming less hospitable to a particular plant another area is almost certainly becoming more hospitable. The regions where certain crops will grow changes over time even without human-made climate change: the Romans used to have vineyards in the UK, something which is only recently again becoming feasible with rising temperatures.
Having to move to another region will be disruptive but that is nowhere near the same as claiming that maple production will be wiped out. It will just move further north to colder, wetter climes. Human-induced climate change is a serious problem and we have to act to curb it but I do wish we could "keep it real" when discussing the problems it will cause: these are bad enough without stupid articles like this gratuitously inflating them and making it easier for the deniers to ignore all warnings because some are so ridiculously wrong.
The general lesson may be the same as that behind the Concorde.
Unlike others, I agree...But I think you went to the wrong conclusion
So actually you do not agree because you think the lesson to be learned is NOT the same as the lesson from Concorde. The problem with Concorde was cost and the sonic boom which limited both the number of people willing to travel on it and the routes the plane could fly: generally only routes over oceans were possible.
The problem with the A380 is almost exactly the opposite. The cost per passenger is less but the experience of each passenger is worse due to the long time to load the craft and the need to fly through a hub. Similarly, there is no limit on the routes the A380 can fly but there is a limit on the number of airports which have the infrastructure required to support such a huge plane.
Autonomous killing machines are a frankly horrific idea.
Agreed. But the alternative, remote controlled killing machines, seems to be just as bad. We have already seen from leaked videos that soldiers given drones to pilot using a video feed seem to treat bombing people as some sort of fancy computer game.
Given the two options I am not sure which is worse. An emotionless killing machine that follows preset rules of when, and when not, to engage or an emotional human who follows no predetermined patterns but one so removed that they regard your life as much as they value the life of a video game character.
A 2C change over 100,000 years -- roughly normal for geologic history -- would almost certainly produce the kind of adaptation you are envisioning.
According to this article Ice Ages turn on a LOT faster than this. The article claims that it was originally thought it took a decade or two, now they have it down to a matter of months (if correct). Human-induced climate change seems to be on the order of decades.
Won't the males who do survive produce offspring more likely to be male in higher temperatures.
It should do since turtles have been around for the past 200+ million years which has included more than a few ice ages and warmer periods. Human-induced climate change is a serious issue but half-true stories like this designed to imply a looming disaster just play right into the hands of the denialists.
I can think of no possible way this could be abused as political censorship
While I detect a certain sarcastic tone I think you might actually be correct, not because they would not abuse it but simply because censoring the web does not work regardless of reason. Any affected website will just move to another country. This will apply both to real fake news sites as well as those targeted for political reasons. The can make it illegal in France but not Canada, the US or any other country with strong free speech laws.
The Pebble hit it right - it did just enough, and the battery lasted a long time on a charge.
Define "a long time". My current wristwatch lasts about 5 years on a single charge. Anything much less than that and the minor convenience gain of having your mobile phone accessible via your watch is vastly outweighed by the inconvenience of having yet another device which has to be kept constantly charged.
There are a lot of classes like this (one example I remember was college vs university physics...)
Exactly - the reason we have two courses is because we need to have fixed learning outcomes for the course and fixed standards against which students are graded because there are two levels of physics required by different programs. When I teach either the calculus or non-calculus course I assess students against a fixed set of standards which are lower for non-calculus than calculus.
Having flexible standards based on how confident the student is when they start the course is utter nonsense. It's great if a student massively improves their understanding of the subject but if they fail to show that they understand the material in the course then they still need to fail because otherwise you are just setting them up to fail in subsequent courses which rely on them understanding the material in an intro course at a certain level.
I already regularly have to explain to students that we reward performance not effort with grades. The reward for effort is putting in the best performance you can and getting the best grade you can. How many people would be happy seeing a doctor who qualified based on how hard they worked rather than how well they understood medicine? Who would want to live in a building or drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who did not understand basic physics but worked really hard at trying to?
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...than letting hundreds of hospitals store their own records individually on their own systems with variable levels of IT security competence in the teams managing them.
Agreed. The only way to remain safe is to check that instructions do not violate security before they are executed. Anything else risks someone smart figuring out a way to determine what happened. Even a complete rollback might be detectable if it causes a delay.
They may be sane and indeed correct but I have trouble trusting financial advice from someone who does not know the difference between a parabola or an exponential. I expect the problem comes from the habitual use of too much hyperbola.
You have NO say in what we use your GPU for
I agree but it seems that nVidia may need some persuading.
...with Ford's new CRYPTO door opener and starter mechanism!
Given the Pinto's safety record you might want to drop the 'O'.
nVidia knows two things: First, gamers will need graphics cards. Now, tomorrow, forever.
It is entirely conceivable that at some point we may not need them. For example, the Intel Phi (Knights landing?) or whatever it calls itself now is an attempt by them to put several hundred low power x86 cores into chips. While this has been going on long enough that I'm not sure it is ever going to really work it is conceivable that some technology like this could result in hybrid CPU chips both high and low power cores that could be switched between processing and graphics usage depending on the needs of the machine.
This may be entirely hypothetical at this point but if it is possible to conceive of a technology which might replace the GPU "forever" becomes very unlikely especially in a fast moving area like IT.
nvidia doesn't want their cards to be sold at 200$ above mspr and they get nothing rather than the usual.
Actually, I don't think that it is because NVIDIA does have the tools to stop it and it is a tool they have already deployed with a specific exemption for miners: the driver license agreement. They recently changed the license terms to forbid usage in a "datacentre" except for "blockchain processing". If they really wanted to stop the miners they would not put in that exception and would, at least attempt, to ban all datacentre usage. This would massively drop demand and allow them to release a "miner card" which works with a driver that has a different license like their Tesla cards which, at ~10+ times the price, have a driver which is allowed to be used in a "datacentre".
Instead, they specifically exempted miners so I think that this is just an attempt by them to try and mollify gamers while, at the same time, pumping out as many cards as they can to make as much money as they can while not really caring at all about any customer so long as they keep making tons of money.
it may be possible to then do spectre in the opposite direction...preload the cache and if any preloaded pages become slower
That would presumably be a LOT harder since the cache is shared so any process running can cause the cache to flush and you typically do not have control over what gets flushed. However, the only real way to fix this is to check for a valid address before anything gets loaded. That way the branch will immediately terminate and, if it gets selected for execution, will immediately cause a memory error. This could even improve performance by reducing memory bandwidth caused by false branches.
Now look at a map. How much land mass is there further north?
Well, since Canada is larger than the US, including Alaska, and much of it is rocks and trees I don't think we have much to worry about in terms of land area for the foreseeable future. The far bigger worry is the upheaval in everyone's crops changing, sea levels rising and flooding cities etc. Global warming will cause many serious problems but the eradication of maple syrup is not one of them.
Try that on amazon.ca and let me know how it works. The only thing they have in Canada is "Amazon Family" which gives you 20% off diapers so in Canada their Prime offering is literally shit.
Actually, it is easy to see if you just use Google Maps - Chicago, O'Hare has single digits painted on the relevant runways as does Montana. Edmonton, Canada and Heathrow, UK have the leading zeroes. So clearly the US does not use the leading zero while everyone else appears to.
Actually, the poster seems to be absolutely correct. Here is the Google Maps image for the end of one of Edmonton Airport's runways in Canada clearly showing the leading '0' so Canada, like Europe, appears to require it. However, if you go south of the border to Helena in Montana then their runway does not contain a leading zero.
Maybe it's better in the US, but I couldn't live off the selection available at Amazon UK.
It's the same in Canada. Many items are not available through Prime and for those that are the Prime cost is usually the same as the non-Prime+shipping. The only advantage is that Prime is usually faster shipping. You also lack many of the features like free eBooks and the video selection is not great at all (far worse than Netflix). On top of that you cannot share Prime with people at the same address so it is useless for families since sharing an account means you cannot use it for Christmas and birthdays. The only benefit is that it is cheaper at $79/year which is ~US$65 but it's not worth it, particularly without the sharing which, for a family, either doubles the cost or cripples its usage.
If it was possible to explain Einstein's theory of relativity to a nine year old it would mean that Einstein was only as smart as a nine year old, which, obviously is not correct.
That's great news for anyone who does understand relativity because it means that we are all as smart as Einstein! Sadly though it is generally accepted that the 'genius' comes in figuring something out for the first time, not in being able to understand the idea once someone has figured it out. Lots of people understand Newtonian mechanics but I doubt anyone living today is as smart as Newton was.
In fact the reverse is probably true: the easier the idea is to explain the smarter the person who came up with the idea is generally perceived to be. It's a lot more impressive to come up with a new, simple idea in an area that lots of people have thought about before than it is to come up with one in a highly specialized, esoteric area where you may be the first person to ever really think about that thing.
For simplicity's sake, the headings are rounded to the nearest five, and dropped to two digits.
This is not consistent with the names given i.e. '1' or '2' since these have only one digit remaining. Either these names should be '01' or '02' or the method is something even simpler: round to the nearest ten and drop the final zero.
It doesn't make any difference if you don't own a mobile.
If this article is anything to go by it got a lot less real. What all these sorts of articles (there was one about coffee being wiped out a year or so ago) completely fail to take account of is that if one area is becoming less hospitable to a particular plant another area is almost certainly becoming more hospitable. The regions where certain crops will grow changes over time even without human-made climate change: the Romans used to have vineyards in the UK, something which is only recently again becoming feasible with rising temperatures.
Having to move to another region will be disruptive but that is nowhere near the same as claiming that maple production will be wiped out. It will just move further north to colder, wetter climes. Human-induced climate change is a serious problem and we have to act to curb it but I do wish we could "keep it real" when discussing the problems it will cause: these are bad enough without stupid articles like this gratuitously inflating them and making it easier for the deniers to ignore all warnings because some are so ridiculously wrong.
The general lesson may be the same as that behind the Concorde.
Unlike others, I agree...But I think you went to the wrong conclusion
So actually you do not agree because you think the lesson to be learned is NOT the same as the lesson from Concorde. The problem with Concorde was cost and the sonic boom which limited both the number of people willing to travel on it and the routes the plane could fly: generally only routes over oceans were possible.
The problem with the A380 is almost exactly the opposite. The cost per passenger is less but the experience of each passenger is worse due to the long time to load the craft and the need to fly through a hub. Similarly, there is no limit on the routes the A380 can fly but there is a limit on the number of airports which have the infrastructure required to support such a huge plane.
Autonomous killing machines are a frankly horrific idea.
Agreed. But the alternative, remote controlled killing machines, seems to be just as bad. We have already seen from leaked videos that soldiers given drones to pilot using a video feed seem to treat bombing people as some sort of fancy computer game.
Given the two options I am not sure which is worse. An emotionless killing machine that follows preset rules of when, and when not, to engage or an emotional human who follows no predetermined patterns but one so removed that they regard your life as much as they value the life of a video game character.
That's not true because in American it is called soccer.
A 2C change over 100,000 years -- roughly normal for geologic history -- would almost certainly produce the kind of adaptation you are envisioning.
According to this article Ice Ages turn on a LOT faster than this. The article claims that it was originally thought it took a decade or two, now they have it down to a matter of months (if correct). Human-induced climate change seems to be on the order of decades.
Won't the males who do survive produce offspring more likely to be male in higher temperatures.
It should do since turtles have been around for the past 200+ million years which has included more than a few ice ages and warmer periods. Human-induced climate change is a serious issue but half-true stories like this designed to imply a looming disaster just play right into the hands of the denialists.
I can think of no possible way this could be abused as political censorship
While I detect a certain sarcastic tone I think you might actually be correct, not because they would not abuse it but simply because censoring the web does not work regardless of reason. Any affected website will just move to another country. This will apply both to real fake news sites as well as those targeted for political reasons. The can make it illegal in France but not Canada, the US or any other country with strong free speech laws.
The Pebble hit it right - it did just enough, and the battery lasted a long time on a charge.
Define "a long time". My current wristwatch lasts about 5 years on a single charge. Anything much less than that and the minor convenience gain of having your mobile phone accessible via your watch is vastly outweighed by the inconvenience of having yet another device which has to be kept constantly charged.
There are a lot of classes like this (one example I remember was college vs university physics...)
Exactly - the reason we have two courses is because we need to have fixed learning outcomes for the course and fixed standards against which students are graded because there are two levels of physics required by different programs. When I teach either the calculus or non-calculus course I assess students against a fixed set of standards which are lower for non-calculus than calculus.
Having flexible standards based on how confident the student is when they start the course is utter nonsense. It's great if a student massively improves their understanding of the subject but if they fail to show that they understand the material in the course then they still need to fail because otherwise you are just setting them up to fail in subsequent courses which rely on them understanding the material in an intro course at a certain level.
I already regularly have to explain to students that we reward performance not effort with grades. The reward for effort is putting in the best performance you can and getting the best grade you can. How many people would be happy seeing a doctor who qualified based on how hard they worked rather than how well they understood medicine? Who would want to live in a building or drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who did not understand basic physics but worked really hard at trying to?