Seriously, this. Case in point, I just bought an off-lease ThinkCentre with 8 gigs of ram and an i5 for about $150, swapped the PSU from my previous PC because it didn't have a 6-pin power connector, and it's ready for whatever GPU you want to slap in it. I just used my existing GTX650 Ti Boost until the 1070 is more available here.
The only serious downside is that the CPU is not overclockable (almost guaranteed in a business machine), which is the only thing preventing it from being 90% as good as any latest quad core CPU.
I'm not really into podcasts but most of the ones I have heard had ads and were pretty terrible with them. Just in the middle of content they'll launch into a ridiculous pitch like "Hey let me tell you about squarespace!" And it's always fucking Squarespace or Wix or some stupid shaving company, and the pitches are particularly annoying when the host pretends to really use and care about the product. I KNOW YOU ONLY CARE ABOUT THE MONEY JUST FINISH IT ALREADY!!
On the other hand, companies are comprised of people, and by just dropping the mic and walking out mid-meeting, you might be throwing the people in your team who had nothing to do with your grievances under the bus.
IMO unless your're being actively fucked over somehow or your specific company has a habit of trowing people out without a notice and good cause, it's probably better to give proper notice. Just for selfish reasons if nothing else, you might end up running into these people again later in your career.
I think the 1060 is one of the more expensive x60 range cards so far. While the performance increase this generation is pretty decent, the combination of long time between generations and increased prices means that you could've bought a 970 at launch for maybe just $50 more two years ago and enjoyed 1060-level performance this whole time. Unless you can find a 970 well below $200 on a firesale somewhere, I'd definitely go with the 1060 (or RX480 if you're so inclide).
If anyone wants some more detailed rants, check out these videos by an actual electrical engineer explaining, with a lot of calculations, why this is all a waste of time:
>apparently these days cheap is all that matters - quality doesn't
Oh shut up. First of all, the tablet the OP wants exists, go ahead and pay three grand for it if you want. The battery won't last two days of usage because there's no battery technology that is dense enough to allow that without making the tablet enormous and/or super slow.
The claim itself is of course extremely stupid, but I'm not going to spend time on it as I'm getting a feeling that this was a very masterful troll that got modded up somehow.
That's funny because I just upgraded my Q6600 machine to... a i5-2500 PC I got for cheap from work. Which is also a 5 year old machine now, yet it's within ~15% of performance of the latest Skylake processors of the corresponding market segment.
Doing this back in the day, say upgrading from a 486 to a Pentium II when P4 was already out, would be unthinkable for most people. Yet I, a huge nerd who uses the PC all the time for coding, 3D, photo and video work as well as gaming, am perfectly satisfied. Sure, I cold shell out a grand for the latest Extreme Edition CPU, but just meh.
It's fairly primitive at this point, of course, but please do explain how this is fundamentally different form how living things perceive visual information and why this is not AI.
Well, that, or prepaid phone+sim kits, which are fairly popular.
They tried this shit in Ukraine for a while (even before the whole Russia thing) - ID was required for sim cards and even currency exchanges. So while this did pass at first, eventually it got rolled back because it was a pointless pain in the ass.
IMO anonymous communication is an important part of our society and banning prepaid phones is a stupid idea and the congressperson should be ashamed for coming up with this crap.
Yes, however it's not going to work in the future with new SDKs and so on. Apparently Valve considers that direction a failure and isn't going to support it with consumer HMDs.
If you have realistic expectations, often you don't really need much more than a road and some trees - you can tell the country by the road signs (like, speed limits and stuff, not city names:D) and lane markings and the region by the trees. But sometimes you're unlucky and get a dirt road in the middle of a pine forest or something, then you're screwed.
One place I would expect the AI to do a better job is identifying cities. I can ID NYC, DC, Paris or Berlin, but I can't tell one anonymous shithole from another, country & region-level is probably the best I could hope for. The AI , on the other hand, would've probably seen that very city before.
Feedlot? John Deer tractor mowing? White lines instead of yellow? A squished rabbit on the road?
(I wasn't sure until I saw the rabbit.)
If you're the one who hit that rabbit you could probably place the image pretty damn accurately!
Generally, if it looks like America but with fewer trucks and everyone drives on the opposite side, it's Australia. If looks quite like America but something's slightly off, that's Canada. If everyone drives on the opposite side and it's cloudy, wet, and depressing, thats's the UK. If it just looks depressing, that's Russia.
Here's my result from the fist try after not playing for a while. My biggest challenge seems to be the inability to differentiate between Australian states.
Also I just now finally checked out the actual article and this game is actually mentioned there. Just shows that RTFA is for suckers.
There's a site that basically opens StreetView at random around the world and asks you to place it on the world map. As the summary explains, you can use a number of clues to generally place photos surprisingly accurately. Used to play this occasionally at work, we really liked that it challenged you to think about all these things that you know about the countries and regions around the world.
I couldn't go into too much detail in the summary, but the BT connection is to allow you to receive and make phone calls as well as answer messages from your phone without taking off the headset. While this is a minor feature on first glance, I can imagine it could make a big difference in practice since taking off the headset every time your phone rings would be a huge pain in the ass.
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Seriously, this. Case in point, I just bought an off-lease ThinkCentre with 8 gigs of ram and an i5 for about $150, swapped the PSU from my previous PC because it didn't have a 6-pin power connector, and it's ready for whatever GPU you want to slap in it. I just used my existing GTX650 Ti Boost until the 1070 is more available here.
The only serious downside is that the CPU is not overclockable (almost guaranteed in a business machine), which is the only thing preventing it from being 90% as good as any latest quad core CPU.
I'm not really into podcasts but most of the ones I have heard had ads and were pretty terrible with them. Just in the middle of content they'll launch into a ridiculous pitch like "Hey let me tell you about squarespace!" And it's always fucking Squarespace or Wix or some stupid shaving company, and the pitches are particularly annoying when the host pretends to really use and care about the product. I KNOW YOU ONLY CARE ABOUT THE MONEY JUST FINISH IT ALREADY!!
On the other hand, companies are comprised of people, and by just dropping the mic and walking out mid-meeting, you might be throwing the people in your team who had nothing to do with your grievances under the bus.
IMO unless your're being actively fucked over somehow or your specific company has a habit of trowing people out without a notice and good cause, it's probably better to give proper notice. Just for selfish reasons if nothing else, you might end up running into these people again later in your career.
I think the 1060 is one of the more expensive x60 range cards so far. While the performance increase this generation is pretty decent, the combination of long time between generations and increased prices means that you could've bought a 970 at launch for maybe just $50 more two years ago and enjoyed 1060-level performance this whole time. Unless you can find a 970 well below $200 on a firesale somewhere, I'd definitely go with the 1060 (or RX480 if you're so inclide).
If anyone wants some more detailed rants, check out these videos by an actual electrical engineer explaining, with a lot of calculations, why this is all a waste of time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
We've already had Kit Kat so I'm sure google could manage to work it out somehow.
>apparently these days cheap is all that matters - quality doesn't
Oh shut up. First of all, the tablet the OP wants exists, go ahead and pay three grand for it if you want. The battery won't last two days of usage because there's no battery technology that is dense enough to allow that without making the tablet enormous and/or super slow.
The claim itself is of course extremely stupid, but I'm not going to spend time on it as I'm getting a feeling that this was a very masterful troll that got modded up somehow.
And the Rift was supposed to ship last year or at least in March. I wouldn't consider the Touch controllers until you can actually... touch them.
He's cheating because thanks to relativity, he has more time to run the marathon up in ISS than we do have here on earth.
Careful there, you do know some people want to ban plastic bags for real, right? No need to give them any more ideas.
That's funny because I just upgraded my Q6600 machine to... a i5-2500 PC I got for cheap from work. Which is also a 5 year old machine now, yet it's within ~15% of performance of the latest Skylake processors of the corresponding market segment.
Doing this back in the day, say upgrading from a 486 to a Pentium II when P4 was already out, would be unthinkable for most people. Yet I, a huge nerd who uses the PC all the time for coding, 3D, photo and video work as well as gaming, am perfectly satisfied. Sure, I cold shell out a grand for the latest Extreme Edition CPU, but just meh.
It's fairly primitive at this point, of course, but please do explain how this is fundamentally different form how living things perceive visual information and why this is not AI.
Or, false positives or not, they just don't want to have anything to do with Hitler. Especially after Tay.
Yeah this is just exactly what they want us to think.
Not me, I don't have Steam installed at all. So there you go.
"Are you willing to hire cheap H1B visa labor?"
Because I am the cheap H1B visa labor, so it's a valid and important question.
I just don't go outside, and my mom's basement protects me from the harmful sunlight.
Well, that, or prepaid phone+sim kits, which are fairly popular.
They tried this shit in Ukraine for a while (even before the whole Russia thing) - ID was required for sim cards and even currency exchanges. So while this did pass at first, eventually it got rolled back because it was a pointless pain in the ass.
IMO anonymous communication is an important part of our society and banning prepaid phones is a stupid idea and the congressperson should be ashamed for coming up with this crap.
Yes, however it's not going to work in the future with new SDKs and so on. Apparently Valve considers that direction a failure and isn't going to support it with consumer HMDs.
I'm not sure that's possible.
It is when he is quite possibly the Zodiac killer
That's not much fun though, is it :)
If you have realistic expectations, often you don't really need much more than a road and some trees - you can tell the country by the road signs (like, speed limits and stuff, not city names :D) and lane markings and the region by the trees. But sometimes you're unlucky and get a dirt road in the middle of a pine forest or something, then you're screwed.
One place I would expect the AI to do a better job is identifying cities. I can ID NYC, DC, Paris or Berlin, but I can't tell one anonymous shithole from another, country & region-level is probably the best I could hope for. The AI , on the other hand, would've probably seen that very city before.
I screwed up my link in the other post above, here's my last result: http://imgur.com/TqTkDYE
Feedlot? John Deer tractor mowing? White lines instead of yellow? A squished rabbit on the road?
(I wasn't sure until I saw the rabbit.)
If you're the one who hit that rabbit you could probably place the image pretty damn accurately!
Generally, if it looks like America but with fewer trucks and everyone drives on the opposite side, it's Australia. If looks quite like America but something's slightly off, that's Canada. If everyone drives on the opposite side and it's cloudy, wet, and depressing, thats's the UK. If it just looks depressing, that's Russia.
Here's my result from the fist try after not playing for a while. My biggest challenge seems to be the inability to differentiate between Australian states.
Also I just now finally checked out the actual article and this game is actually mentioned there. Just shows that RTFA is for suckers.
Well the "Guess the location" thing, not the NN :)
There's a site that basically opens StreetView at random around the world and asks you to place it on the world map. As the summary explains, you can use a number of clues to generally place photos surprisingly accurately. Used to play this occasionally at work, we really liked that it challenged you to think about all these things that you know about the countries and regions around the world.
https://geoguessr.com/
I couldn't go into too much detail in the summary, but the BT connection is to allow you to receive and make phone calls as well as answer messages from your phone without taking off the headset. While this is a minor feature on first glance, I can imagine it could make a big difference in practice since taking off the headset every time your phone rings would be a huge pain in the ass.
Submitter here. I am extremely disturbed by all the accusations that this is a paid advertisement. Because I have not yet received my cut.
Who do I talk to in order to escalate this issue?!?