What the article fails to mention is any reasonable measure of geographical range.
"PlaNet is able to localize 3.6 percent of the images at street-level accuracy and 10.1 percent at city-level accuracy," say Weyand and co. Whatâ(TM)s more, the machine determines the country of origin in a further 28.4 percent of the photos and the continent in 48.0 percent of them.
The real news here is the claim that the software/network can pinpoint as well as a human can. And I'd like to see that tested.
"In total, PlaNet won 28 of the 50 rounds with a median localization error of 1131.7 km, while the median human localization error was 2320.75 km."
I know it's standard practice here to comment without reading the article. But why specifically stare that it doesn't contain exactly the information that it does?
The Warrior's bland acronym, MMI, obscures the true horror of this monstrosity. Its inventors promise a new era of genius, but meanwhile unscrupulous power brokers use its forcible installation to violate the sanctity of unwilling human minds. They are creating their own private army of demons.
--Commissioner Pravin Lal,
"Report on Human Rights"
Bad Astronomy talks about the odds of getting killed by one as 1:700,000.
I thought that 700,000 number looked suspiciously low, but when allowing for a "humanity extinct" situation, the large population cancels out the small chance to some extent. I wonder what problems we spend an inordinate amount of resources on that are less of a threat. Intuitively, once every 100,000,000 years seems like nothing to worry about, but the damage is unimaginable. It seems like the inverse at the other end of the scale from the "don't worry about driving but afraid to get on a plane" thing.
They're talking about putting in an engine w/ 300-400 hp, which doesn't sound like a huge number, but the original car weighed 2700 lb. If they're close to that weight with a decent transmission it will be damn fast.
I can see a few problems though. The original frame/engine mount only had to deal w/ 130 hp, so probably some modifications needed there. The weight distribution was 35/65 front/rear. With a presumably heavier engine/transmission and anything else needed back there that ratio could get problematic.
Vera Rubin, who did a lot of the early research on dark matter, was not allowed to use the telescope at Caltech specifically because of her gender (eventually the policy did change). Also prevented from enrolling in Princeton's graduate astronomy program because women were not allowed until 1975.
Allows all of the Emacs search/copy/paste/etc. functions.
Killer feature is: run a command with 40 pages of output; do incremental backwards search to jump to different things. (Optionally copy a section of output and paste into another Emacs buffer.) All without having to touch the mouse.
Many people don't realize how much time they waste visually scanning lengthy output without that feature (and grep is frequently not a good substitute for searching.)
You're right. The cartoon is kind of cheesy but it works (I just watched a bit on youtube, and it's still stands up as pretty well for what it was.) That movie was just plain awful in every conceivable way. The fact that they're getting some of the same people involved is a mistake.
Used for gaming and music production. I thought 32GB was a lot of RAM when I first put the system together, but it runs out quick when loading up a bunch of sample libraries in the Cubase (the music program.) Definitely would have gone to 64GB if I was doing it again.
The SLI video card setup is cool when it works, but a few games don't use both cards, or there are glitches.
Thunderbolt doesn't work too well. I don't know if that's a Windows problem or the drivers for the specific hardware.
Aside from the voice recognition, that all seemed like pretty basic stuff. Coding up the rules for dates and places doesn't seem like a particularly hard problem. The "OMG you can say 'and' and ask two different questions?!?" thing seemed especially lame.
I've worked for more than one company that treated their employees well even when it wasn't directly in their best interest. Companies are run by people and not all of them are greedy sociopaths.
Maybe that's a bit of advice for the OP: "Don't accept that things are always as bad as what cynical/. posters say."
If you don't like the ads on a site, don't visit that site. If enough people do that, site operators will figure out the types of ads people tolerate and those they don't. Ad blocking isn't 'stealing', but it is mildly sociopathic: "I want what I want and screw the people providing it."
I find ads as annoying as the next person, but that's how a lot of stuff I want to see is funded, so it only seems fair to accept them.
Pretty much every 3+ comment here is pro adblocking.
The Unicomp clicky keyboards are also available with blank keys (no letters). I've found that to be a good way to improve touch typing. Even if you don't think you're looking at the keyboard much (I didn't) it can be surprising how much you're cheating.
Before breaking down the door, they should at least have a seasoned, senior officer knock to see if anything seems odd first.
They probably could respond more reasonably, but walking up to the door and knocking might be a bit reckless. What if it's not a false alarm and there's am unstable, armed murderer on the other side?
Apple with the 'pentalobular' screws certainly seems to have had anti-tampering in mind. I don't remember seeing any other justification for those over torx.
If you can't afford the expert then you can't afford to collect such data. Move away from this project to something you have the ability to do.
I'm surprised it took this long for someone to say that. The people who will exploit your system and extract something valuable from it can afford those experts.
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For a college w/ 10,000 students, that's about $37 of their annual tuition. So for an average tuition of $29,056 that's about 0.1%.
Can offering a competitive salary for the college president improve a student's experience by 0.1%? I'm guessing yes.
What the article fails to mention is any reasonable measure of geographical range.
"PlaNet is able to localize 3.6 percent of the images at street-level accuracy and 10.1 percent at city-level accuracy," say Weyand and co. Whatâ(TM)s more, the machine determines the country of origin in a further 28.4 percent of the photos and the continent in 48.0 percent of them.
The real news here is the claim that the software/network can pinpoint as well as a human can. And I'd like to see that tested.
"In total, PlaNet won 28 of the 50 rounds with a median localization error of 1131.7 km, while the median human localization error was 2320.75 km."
I know it's standard practice here to comment without reading the article. But why specifically stare that it doesn't contain exactly the information that it does?
The Warrior's bland acronym, MMI, obscures the true horror of this monstrosity. Its inventors promise a new era of genius, but meanwhile unscrupulous power brokers use its forcible installation to violate the sanctity of unwilling human minds. They are creating their own private army of demons.
--Commissioner Pravin Lal,
"Report on Human Rights"
Bad Astronomy talks about the odds of getting killed by one as 1:700,000.
I thought that 700,000 number looked suspiciously low, but when allowing for a "humanity extinct" situation, the large population cancels out the small chance to some extent. I wonder what problems we spend an inordinate amount of resources on that are less of a threat. Intuitively, once every 100,000,000 years seems like nothing to worry about, but the damage is unimaginable. It seems like the inverse at the other end of the scale from the "don't worry about driving but afraid to get on a plane" thing.
There is an organization that certifies USB stuff. If a cable has a little sticker with that certification logo, it's probably good.
Not sure how much they do to prevent unauthorized use though.
Well I'm sorry. I'm not Tony Stark.
The actor who says that line is Ralphie from A Christmas Story.
They're talking about putting in an engine w/ 300-400 hp, which doesn't sound like a huge number, but the original car weighed 2700 lb. If they're close to that weight with a decent transmission it will be damn fast.
I can see a few problems though. The original frame/engine mount only had to deal w/ 130 hp, so probably some modifications needed there. The weight distribution was 35/65 front/rear. With a presumably heavier engine/transmission and anything else needed back there that ratio could get problematic.
Vera Rubin, who did a lot of the early research on dark matter, was not allowed to use the telescope at Caltech specifically because of her gender (eventually the policy did change). Also prevented from enrolling in Princeton's graduate astronomy program because women were not allowed until 1975.
Allows all of the Emacs search/copy/paste/etc. functions.
Killer feature is: run a command with 40 pages of output; do incremental backwards search to jump to different things. (Optionally copy a section of output and paste into another Emacs buffer.) All without having to touch the mouse.
Many people don't realize how much time they waste visually scanning lengthy output without that feature (and grep is frequently not a good substitute for searching.)
Music production is another case where no amount of memory is ever enough. Playing back a lot of sampled virtual instruments eats RAM like crazy.
I put 32GB in my current machine and still hit that limit frequently.
You're right. The cartoon is kind of cheesy but it works (I just watched a bit on youtube, and it's still stands up as pretty well for what it was.) That movie was just plain awful in every conceivable way. The fact that they're getting some of the same people involved is a mistake.
Now they'll have to get some guy to just recycle Horner's previous themes ... ;)
Intel 4970s
Gigabyte motherboard w/ thunderbolt
32GB RAM
2 GTX970s
2 ~1TB SSDs
4TB HD
2560x1440 monitor
Used for gaming and music production. I thought 32GB was a lot of RAM when I first put the system together, but it runs out quick when loading up a bunch of sample libraries in the Cubase (the music program.) Definitely would have gone to 64GB if I was doing it again.
The SLI video card setup is cool when it works, but a few games don't use both cards, or there are glitches.
Thunderbolt doesn't work too well. I don't know if that's a Windows problem or the drivers for the specific hardware.
Aside from the voice recognition, that all seemed like pretty basic stuff. Coding up the rules for dates and places doesn't seem like a particularly hard problem. The "OMG you can say 'and' and ask two different questions?!?" thing seemed especially lame.
Not always true.
/. posters say."
I've worked for more than one company that treated their employees well even when it wasn't directly in their best interest. Companies are run by people and not all of them are greedy sociopaths.
Maybe that's a bit of advice for the OP: "Don't accept that things are always as bad as what cynical
If you don't like the ads on a site, don't visit that site. If enough people do that, site operators will figure out the types of ads people tolerate and those they don't. Ad blocking isn't 'stealing', but it is mildly sociopathic: "I want what I want and screw the people providing it."
I find ads as annoying as the next person, but that's how a lot of stuff I want to see is funded, so it only seems fair to accept them. Pretty much every 3+ comment here is pro adblocking.
Drum Key (used to tune drums and adjust hardware). If you play in bands it's surprising how ofter the drummer needs one and doesn't have one.
The Unicomp clicky keyboards are also available with blank keys (no letters). I've found that to be a good way to improve touch typing. Even if you don't think you're looking at the keyboard much (I didn't) it can be surprising how much you're cheating.
Before breaking down the door, they should at least have a seasoned, senior officer knock to see if anything seems odd first.
They probably could respond more reasonably, but walking up to the door and knocking might be a bit reckless. What if it's not a false alarm and there's am unstable, armed murderer on the other side?
On Slashdot, maybe 'former MLB pitcher' is less noteworthy than 'creator of Kingdoms of Amalur'.
The people who fund in kickstarter take all the risk, while having no possible upside beyond the products that they buy.
There are a few other things:
Apple with the 'pentalobular' screws certainly seems to have had anti-tampering in mind. I don't remember seeing any other justification for those over torx.
they managed to combine both action, a compelling story, and respect for the Star Trek mythos into commercially successful films....
Wait! ... amongst the things they managed to combine were such elements as action, a compelling story and ... i'll come in again.
Neither article (OP or this response) seem to support the assertions made in the posts.
Also, is "amount of radiation" a good metric for harm done? Seems like that leaves out a lot of factors that would affect the real world impact.
One thing that seems clear is that (even ignoring climate change) fossil fuels cause a lot more deaths than nuclear.
If you can't afford the expert then you can't afford to collect such data. Move away from this project to something you have the ability to do.
I'm surprised it took this long for someone to say that. The people who will exploit your system and extract something valuable from it can afford those experts.