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  1. VGG16 is not AI on AI Automatically Sorts Cancer Cells (asianscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    So now a simple (old style!) convnet is AI?

  2. Re:No way on All-time Heat Records Are Being Set All Over the World (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sometimes I seriously wonder whether those dumb comments are: a. misspelled intentionally, or b. from somebody without a decent education, or c. from a non-native troll.

  3. Typo on Programmer Creates Bee Counter Using a Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    Itâ(TM)s Mat Kelcey, no âsâ(TM).

  4. Apps connected to the card are extremely popular in London, and they immediately warn the user of an expense. If something like that were to happen you'd see a lot of unhappy bystanders!

  5. Re:No surprise, as it cannot perform anymore on Google Go-Playing A.I. Retires To Focus On Energy Conservation And Medicine (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    And mine was an apology and admission that I need some sleep :)

  6. Re:No surprise, as it cannot perform anymore on Google Go-Playing A.I. Retires To Focus On Energy Conservation And Medicine (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, it was "unanimous" and I can't spell. :p

  7. Re:No surprise, as it cannot perform anymore on Google Go-Playing A.I. Retires To Focus On Energy Conservation And Medicine (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wow, way to talk without knowing a thing about it.

    AlphaGo managed to beat one of the best player in recent history (Lee Sedol) last year, then went on a 60-0 strike against the highest ranked professionals. Now he won a tournament with the world champion without ever showing a weakness. The experts were pretty much anonymous that he never had a chance at this point.

    DeepMind have already published the details of the algorithm in a Nature paper and will do the same with the recent improvements later this year. I guess if you're right nobody will be able to reproduce the results...

  8. Re:$93.8M of my tax dollars on US Strikes Syrian Base With Over 50 Tomahawk Missiles (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The US Military is a resource to be utilized, not fucking sit around on their asses all day, especially considering the cost of doing nothing with it.

    Avoiding the use of force is strategically the best goal for a weapon. When you get to use it often, you have to keep a larger stock around hence the ballooning (since the 50s, mind you) costs of the military.

    Let me ask you a simple question: what is the role of the US military? Defend the country? Be the world's cop? If it's the former we have way too much capacity (how many carriers you need to defend the coasts?). If it's the latter we need to increase x10 because it's never gonna end, and one start to wonder why we have to foot the bill for a job we haven't voted for.

    Thanks goodness he saved money by cutting the budget of EPA and NSF! /s

    Spoken like a true civilian.

    Right, let's have the army run the country. That has always worked well. /s (- just in case)

  9. $93.8M of my tax dollars on US Strikes Syrian Base With Over 50 Tomahawk Missiles (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Neat, more than $93M ($1.59M unit cost according to wikipedia) gone in a single (non war related) strike.
    Thanks goodness he saved money by cutting the budget of EPA and NSF! /s

  10. Can you go past the partisanship and look at the evidence/policies instead? If all you care is listen to one side of the story you'll never be objective.

  11. Yes, she's bad. But he's several orders of magnitude worse, in pretty much anything. John Oliver explain this rather well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  12. Re:Just one habitable planet? That's cute! on Science Cannot Prove the Existence of God · · Score: 1

    Actually, more like 60.

  13. Just one habitable planet? That's cute! on Science Cannot Prove the Existence of God · · Score: 1

    Every time someone mention how "perfect" our solar system is, this blog post comes to my mind. You think one habitable planet is cool? How about 24?!?

  14. Link to paper and video on Software Brings Eye Contact To Video Chat, With a Little Help From Kinect · · Score: 2

    It's a 2012 siggraph (Asia) paper. Here's the link with the video.

    http://graphics.ethz.ch/publications/papers/paperKus12.php

  15. Re:But coal doesn't cause tsunamis like nuclear do on The World Falls Back In Love With Coal · · Score: 4, Informative

    The nuclear accident of Fukushima has yet to kill *a single person* due to radiation. I don't know where you get your data, but surely it's not factual.

  16. Re:That's easy on If Extinct Species Can Be Brought Back... Should We? · · Score: 1

    This might very well be true, but does not stop me from dreaming (and salivating at the prospect).

  17. Re:That's easy on If Extinct Species Can Be Brought Back... Should We? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My personal theory is that we killed all mammoths because they were delicious. Can't wait to taste one!

  18. Re:Wait a moment... on London Tube Stations Finally Get Wi-Fi · · Score: 5, Informative

    It is going to be free under the Olympics, but afterward you'll have to be a Virgin customer or pay £££.

  19. Re:Wait, what now? on Free Desktop Software Development Dead In Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Nope, it's a full fledged IDE, since I am compiling, running and debugging the program under windows. It is just that it will end up running on a linux box eventually.

  20. Re:Wait, what now? on Free Desktop Software Development Dead In Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    The code you write can be compiled on multiple platforms, but the development is done in windows. Or you think xbox/ps3/wii dev is done using an IDE on the console? ;)

  21. Re:Wait, what now? on Free Desktop Software Development Dead In Windows 8 · · Score: 2

    Well, I use it for multi-platform C++ development and IMHO it is the best IDE for that language out there.

  22. Re:Chernobyl... on Little Health Risk Seen From Fukushima's Radioactivity · · Score: 1

    Compared to *any* other common energy source, coal is by far the worse.
    Oh, and a quick google search returned this. Apparently, filter or not, Germany still made into the top 10.

  23. Re:Huh... on Axis, Yahoo's New Browser · · Score: 1

    D'oh!!

  24. Re:Chernobyl... on Little Health Risk Seen From Fukushima's Radioactivity · · Score: 3, Informative

    We are still not a net importer

    Is that perhaps because you're extending the life of extremely polluting coal plants?

  25. Re:That's just part of the concern.. on EU Blocks France's Ban of Monsanto's GM Maize · · Score: 1

    Well apparently not, and not for lack of trying. But why would you think cross-breeding is preferable? It would be a shotgun approach, since you could get the resistance as well as another set of undesired side-effects.

    Besides, it's two viruses (CMV and TSWV) which are currently threatening that tomato. For the first we have the other variety. For the other we managed to identify a few genes that could give resistance. Would that be okay?