Can't have that! But I pointed out to him that the SEC filings showed that the CIO got a 100% bonus each year, so really what I was asking for was only 45%. We settled for 42.5%.
The only realistic way to measure a salary is in the multiples of minimal wage (because that's what really determines price levels of everything else in this service economy)
That's wrong, people get paid in exchange for the value the provide (or are perceived to provide). Programmers need to provide $X worth of value for the company, or they aren't worth keeping around. Same with managers.
Incidentally I keep seeing articles about "how little CEOs make" based on dubious statistics. It seems like someone is trying to counter the propaganda that we had earlier about how CEOs were making $300 million a year or other outrageous amounts (also based on dubious statistics).
The question then becomes does a judge have the authority to knowingly allow someone to break an existing law without legal consequence for that violation?
Yes, if there is a law that allows the judge to do so (just like there are laws that allow police to speed in certain situations). The FBI is arguing that the law allows, indeed mandates, that Apple help them.
All that is needed for unbreakable communications is a lengthy sequence of random bytes and an XOR operator. Otherwise known as a one-time-pad.
That comes up a lot. and it's usually wrong. Basically, the weak part of encryption isn't the algorithm, it's the chain of trust. If you can successfully exchange one-time-pads, then you can successfully exchange keys and get good encryption. In fact, exchanging keys is easier.
. If the parties are at least marginally smart in picking and using the pad
Nah, there are a number of mistakes you can make with a one-time-pad, and schneier pointed out a few in that link from before.
Copyright in the constitution isn't a guaranteed thing (unlike the first amendment). To quote the constitution:
[The Congress shall have power] "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries."
So if congress chooses not to make a law, then there is no law.
(you might say, "doesn't that conflict with the first amendment?" and some legal analysts would say "yes, yes it does, and the first amendment takes precedence for various reasons." That is of course not the mainstream view, though).
n addition, 10 years of further research will undoubtedly lead to better software, just as was the case with chess computers.
Maybe. DeepBlue's evaluation function was really lousy, but they made up for it with brute force. The further gains have been from improving the evaluation function.
Compared to AlphaGo, whose evaluation function is already really good. We may see further improvement, but you can't generalize based on the experience with chess. It is possible we won't have a desktop-style AlphaGo for decades.
Yeap, and deep blue was smaller than AlphaGo by two orders of magnitude (not include the clock speed increase we've seen since then, going based merely on CPUs). The GPUs in Alphago are doing essentially the same thing as the VLSI chips.
The goal is to look at an extreme weather event, and say, "this was 20% more likely because of AGW." The reasoning in the paper shows that is not yet possible.
Lee Sedol seemed really disappointed and sad himself. I can't imagine the pressure he's felt throughout the event, and his face -that's my impression- seemed to tell us "I've failed you all". He later told in the press conference that he felt he could have done more in the games -I'm sure he'd like to play more games to test himself again- and I wonder what could have happened if the matches would have been played without general knowledge.
Yeah, I think playing against the unknown opponent really threw him off. Michael Redmond said in games 1 and 3 he used the wrong strategy for playing against the computer, and had he used a different strategy, his results would have been improved.
What exactly do you think it's doing with all those GPUs then? It's making a ton of calculations. Really. It's also doing tree searches, and it's also using a monte-carlo algorithm to prune the tree. On top of that, it used a neural network to fine-tune its position evaluation function.
It's actually rather incredible how much calculating power Google threw at this problem.
This had the power of 1024 CPUs and 250 GPUs. Even if CPU speed increases at twice the rate of doubling every two years (hint: that's not going to happen), we would not see this on the desktop in ten years. Google put a lot of processing power into this.
and at that point go will be as bad as chess and it will be nigh impossible to find a fair game online.
I have no problem getting a fair game online. I do it by being really bad. If someone is using a chess computer to win, then they will have a rating far higher than me:)
It depends on how the concept is applied. When the wealthy are permitted to acquire property and hold it without selling it for what the market will bear, then the poor suffer as they cannot afford a place to live, one of the basic necessities of life.
I don't think that's really the problem. I think the problem is every town/city I've ever lived in resents newcomers, and never wants things to change. Thus they refuse to allow new housing to be built.
San Francisco is ridiculous, though. You could probably build 10,000 units of 250 sq feet each, and they would sell like hot cakes.
I really like the fact-based and informed nature of how your write. The clarity of your exposition has caused me to rethink my position. I'll bet you only do heroin twice a day, not more.
We should be spending more of our time hammering the candidates about the problem with the H1B Visa program - like SHUTTING IT DOWN! This is what's really affecting people! Think Disney, Hertz, and all the others that are destroying American jobs for CHEAP foreign labor.
Yeah, reminds of the first time I started living outside the US, and reading the newspaper and realizing, "politics is so much more exciting here!" It's gotten more exciting in the US lately.
would be the University of Missouri, and the 20% loss of first year students..... The email from the temporary dean even went as far as saying that "anyone who'd applied would be accepted as a student."
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Can't have that! But I pointed out to him that the SEC filings showed that the CIO got a 100% bonus each year, so really what I was asking for was only 45%. We settled for 42.5%.
Nicely done.
The only realistic way to measure a salary is in the multiples of minimal wage (because that's what really determines price levels of everything else in this service economy)
That's wrong, people get paid in exchange for the value the provide (or are perceived to provide). Programmers need to provide $X worth of value for the company, or they aren't worth keeping around. Same with managers.
Incidentally I keep seeing articles about "how little CEOs make" based on dubious statistics. It seems like someone is trying to counter the propaganda that we had earlier about how CEOs were making $300 million a year or other outrageous amounts (also based on dubious statistics).
The question then becomes does a judge have the authority to knowingly allow someone to break an existing law without legal consequence for that violation?
Yes, if there is a law that allows the judge to do so (just like there are laws that allow police to speed in certain situations). The FBI is arguing that the law allows, indeed mandates, that Apple help them.
All that is needed for unbreakable communications is a lengthy sequence of random bytes and an XOR operator. Otherwise known as a one-time-pad.
That comes up a lot. and it's usually wrong. Basically, the weak part of encryption isn't the algorithm, it's the chain of trust. If you can successfully exchange one-time-pads, then you can successfully exchange keys and get good encryption. In fact, exchanging keys is easier.
. If the parties are at least marginally smart in picking and using the pad
Nah, there are a number of mistakes you can make with a one-time-pad, and schneier pointed out a few in that link from before.
[The Congress shall have power] "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries."
So if congress chooses not to make a law, then there is no law.
(you might say, "doesn't that conflict with the first amendment?" and some legal analysts would say "yes, yes it does, and the first amendment takes precedence for various reasons." That is of course not the mainstream view, though).
That shows how reliable the chain of trust is.
"News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters" is no longer in the headline.
n addition, 10 years of further research will undoubtedly lead to better software, just as was the case with chess computers.
Maybe. DeepBlue's evaluation function was really lousy, but they made up for it with brute force. The further gains have been from improving the evaluation function.
Compared to AlphaGo, whose evaluation function is already really good. We may see further improvement, but you can't generalize based on the experience with chess. It is possible we won't have a desktop-style AlphaGo for decades.
There's a pretty big difference between 5d and 9d
Yeap, and deep blue was smaller than AlphaGo by two orders of magnitude (not include the clock speed increase we've seen since then, going based merely on CPUs). The GPUs in Alphago are doing essentially the same thing as the VLSI chips.
It would be kind of cool if there were a jobs section that actually worked.......
The goal is to look at an extreme weather event, and say, "this was 20% more likely because of AGW." The reasoning in the paper shows that is not yet possible.
y purpose is to point out the absurdity of your position so that others may not end up wallowing in ignorance like you.
You failed, unless you think rationality is determined solely by voting. In which case you must be a dumb Reddit user.
Lee Sedol seemed really disappointed and sad himself. I can't imagine the pressure he's felt throughout the event, and his face -that's my impression- seemed to tell us "I've failed you all". He later told in the press conference that he felt he could have done more in the games -I'm sure he'd like to play more games to test himself again- and I wonder what could have happened if the matches would have been played without general knowledge.
Yeah, I think playing against the unknown opponent really threw him off. Michael Redmond said in games 1 and 3 he used the wrong strategy for playing against the computer, and had he used a different strategy, his results would have been improved.
This thing isn't calculating.
What exactly do you think it's doing with all those GPUs then? It's making a ton of calculations. Really. It's also doing tree searches, and it's also using a monte-carlo algorithm to prune the tree. On top of that, it used a neural network to fine-tune its position evaluation function.
It's actually rather incredible how much calculating power Google threw at this problem.
Nobody is trying to make a general intelligence
This is already false.
In 10 years this will run on phones.
This had the power of 1024 CPUs and 250 GPUs. Even if CPU speed increases at twice the rate of doubling every two years (hint: that's not going to happen), we would not see this on the desktop in ten years. Google put a lot of processing power into this.
and at that point go will be as bad as chess and it will be nigh impossible to find a fair game online.
I have no problem getting a fair game online. I do it by being really bad. If someone is using a chess computer to win, then they will have a rating far higher than me :)
It depends on how the concept is applied. When the wealthy are permitted to acquire property and hold it without selling it for what the market will bear, then the poor suffer as they cannot afford a place to live, one of the basic necessities of life.
I don't think that's really the problem. I think the problem is every town/city I've ever lived in resents newcomers, and never wants things to change. Thus they refuse to allow new housing to be built.
San Francisco is ridiculous, though. You could probably build 10,000 units of 250 sq feet each, and they would sell like hot cakes.
I really like the fact-based and informed nature of how your write. The clarity of your exposition has caused me to rethink my position. I'll bet you only do heroin twice a day, not more.
We should be spending more of our time hammering the candidates about the problem with the H1B Visa program - like SHUTTING IT DOWN! This is what's really affecting people! Think Disney, Hertz, and all the others that are destroying American jobs for CHEAP foreign labor.
Looks like your ideal campaign platform matches Trump's.
Yeah, reminds of the first time I started living outside the US, and reading the newspaper and realizing, "politics is so much more exciting here!" It's gotten more exciting in the US lately.
Yeah, don't mistake "beholden to no one" with "cares about you"
would be the University of Missouri, and the 20% loss of first year students..... The email from the temporary dean even went as far as saying that "anyone who'd applied would be accepted as a student."
wow
Is that some kind of satire? You are trying to write posts that could be construed as insulting themselves?
What is your point?