Serious question: How do you find out about new products that are relevant to your interests?
I regularly browse the web with my adblocker turned on. The TV I watch doesn't have advertisements (i.e. binging shows on Netflix) or is completely irrelevant (i.e. my kids' shows that advertise the latest crap toy or game). I will occasionally see something on social media that my friends share, but honestly, they don't have a lot of the same interests that I do.
The only way that I can really find out about new products passively is if I control the Facebook ad stream to provide products relevant to me. Because I can control that ad stream, the products are relevant, and not random crap from Wish or Taboola.
I regularly visit my ad preferences to remove and even add things that make sense. This way, I get advertisements for things that I actually want, like new book releases, offers from cloud computing companies, and sales on education classes.
Sure, they're 'advertisements' from those companies, but if I'm going to see ads, I'd rather see ads for things that actually interest me and keep me informed about new products that I can research more information about later.
You can have different link text than the url it goes to.
For example, you can have a link like this: Google.com
In other words, someone put in an advertisement that looked like the actual Google advertisement, but changed the URL to their malware site set up to look like Google's.
You've actually proven my point. With AlphaGo Zero, the programmers gave the program inputs (the action space and the rules) and the desired output (winning the game) and used a learning algorithm that they made.
That doesn't mean that AlphaGo Zero can suddenly decide it wants to lose for whatever reason. It has been programmed to win and it will try to win every time.
The human mind has a tendency to personify inanimate objects. It's how our brain works. The trick to autonomous AI isn't to make an AI actually think for itself, but to trick the human brain into thinking that it is. That's why chatbots that have won the Turing test competition fool the human judges and don't actually think for themselves.
AI today is just math. It's a series of statistical probabilities and programmed actions based on those probabilities. AI doesn't "think". It calculates the probable 'correct' action, as determined by the programmer, and is programmed to act upon it.
The difference between now and 50 years ago is that we now have the math and CPU power to provide less and less information up front to more complicated math problems so that they'll determine the correct output that the programmer wants without having to provide exactly the right inputs. We're at the point now where we can determine data 'close enough' from real life that it's usable for the average person.
I don't know that we'll ever get to the point where true Autonomous AI will exist because, as programmers, the more we understand about what the AI is doing, the more we understand that deep down, it's just programming that the developer made.
To the end user, the fact that you can summon your car from across the parking lot in the rain or drive across the country using autopilot seems like the car is thinking for itself. To a programmer, it's just a simple bot AI that controls a car from point a to b.
The limitation is servers placed in between users and the content they want, by marketing company servers that demand to be parsed before loading.
Generally, this isn't true. Most marketing scripts are loaded asynchronously and will load in the background while your main content loads.
Additionally, if you're a major website, you can demand network performance improvements from the marketing vendors before you'll put their pixel on your site.
From my experience, cpu time processing javascript, loading large javascript libraries, and recalculating the dom is the biggest bottleneck. Those marketing scripts you mention? Most of them come with a jQuery library several versions old. If you load more than one or two on your site, you're loading multiple versions of jQuery (which is a huge library compared to what the scripts actually do). On top of that, they're usually inserting elements into the dom, such as 1x1 gifs or other scripts. This forces the browser to recalculate what the page is supposed to look like, which takes even more load time.
Check out Chrome's built in performance monitoring tool. It'll show you what the site is trying to load and how long it's taking to parse javascript, css, etc.
Ultimately, you're correct that it's the marketing scripts that are likely causing the issue, but it's not the issue that you think it is.
For verification that the user is who they say they are and they're authorized to make changes to the account. This is their sales portal, so they'll verify the user's information first.
You're mistaking the goal here. The goal isn't to produce energy. Although you could use renewable forms of energy to produce the carbon neutral fuel, it would be far more efficient to just use the renewable energy directly.
The goal is to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere with the side benefit that you can put the carbon into something usable to offset the cost of doing so.
What's new in this article is that the cost of doing that is a lot lower than originally expected, and with current markets, even profitable.
The Model 3 goes 310-335 miles on a single charge. Even the Consumer Reports article points out that they were able to go 350 miles with the aggressive regenerative breaking turned on, and 310 miles with the lower regenerative breaking setting.
In other words, to be comparative with the Model 3, the Ioniq would have to double their range (and then some) because the Model 3 has a far greater range.
AI in video games is very different from the AI that these chips would be using. The AI in video games sucks for three reasons:
1. If the AI were too good, players would quit because it is too hard. Certain games specifically are designed to be extremely hard, but this isn't the norm. In a first person shooter, this would be the equivalent of fighting against an aimbot. (Aimbots are a great example of AI - they're designed to be perfect or to use information that the player doesn't normally have.) It becomes a game balance and design decision to make the AI imperfect.
2. Complex AI can be very computationally intensive. There's a tradeoff in the speed of calculations between "good enough" and "perfect" in some algorithms. When you're dealing with a lot of variables in a complex game that a good AI might use, it takes a lot of processor cycles to calculate how to respond to you to make it more difficult for you. Take for example Civilization that takes far longer between turns at the end of the scenario than it does at the beginning of the scenario because there are more variables to consider.
3. Given 1 and 2, the easiest method to implement a balanced AI is to cheat - give the computer advantages that the players don't have or to hardcode certain behaviors. Those behaviors can be easy for humans to learn and beat, even when the computer is cheating.
The processors in this article are talking about new chips that are designed to calculate the math for a certain type of complex calculation by making assumptions about the type of calculation being done and taking some shortcuts with the drawback that they can't perform other calculations as fast.
Motor companies have always had electric concept cars (I would argue that hybrids are rest of the motor industry's innovation, nothing to do with Tesla - a middle ground more acceptable to the consumer which sell much better. Hybrids represent 3% of the market, electrics so much less than 1% that it's too hard to account for). Just nobody was ever really willing to buy them, so why would you bring them to market - the R&D was done, yes, but to ramp up to production is expensive and they'd never have been profitable, as Tesla are finding out now (have they ever made a penny in profit?). The same problem happened with the Tesla, really, except they sell on their "designer" status only, and not very well at all.
Except the electric cars that have been produced by the big automakers look like shit and then they're shocked when they don't sell well. Tesla was the first company to make a sleek electric car that looked like a luxury sedan.
I want an electric car, but I don't want to drive a roller skate. I don't want a car that looks like it'll crumple like a tin can in a wreck. I don't want a car that looks like an electric car. If "designer" status means that I get a luxury sedan that looks like a luxury sedan, I'll buy all day long.
Porpoises are a group of fully aquatic marine mammals that are sometimes referred to as mereswine, all of which are classified under the family Phocoenidae, parvorder Odontoceti.
Or even like in this case where there's a genetic cause and a gut flora cause. It takes both scenarios in combination to cause the disease, which is why it's hard to reproduce an exact cause.
I can understand if a company is having a difficult time filling a position being open to a bit more flexibility when hiring, but this kind of pandering and coddling to the social-media texting generation is rather pathetic. You want the job bad enough? Then make an effort to get off your ass and go meet the human hiring you in fucking person.
Actually, being able to video conference in with the hiring manager is a boon when the hiring manager is at the other end of the state or across the country. It isn't 'pandering' or 'coddling'. It's a flat out necessity when you're unable to find the ideal candidate locally and flying potential candidates in is really expensive.
I've found that it's fairly common for recruiters to recruit ideal candidates from around the country, even for jobs that aren't telecommute positions.
From a purely mathematical resource point of view, older specimens of a species take up resources that could be better used by younger, reproducing, members of the species. It makes sense that there exists a mechanic to have these older specimens die off after they are no longer useful to the survival of the species to preserve the resources for the younger generations.
It probably wasn't until later that the older specimens became useful to the survival of the species by teaching the younger generations through experience or serving another purpose that benefits the species, such as taking care of the young or defending against predators. Many species have all three traits, so it was likely evolved very early on for multicellular life.
The reason they gets paid after they've been let go is because checks are typically withheld for a period of time when they start work. You don't get paid until you've been on the job for some amount of time (typically two weeks, but can be as much as a month).
They are getting the money back for the time that they already worked before they were fired. Severance packages exist, but aren't typical or required for non-managerial positions.
Money that the company DOES have to pay is unemployment insurance. If the company lays you off without cause, they're required to pay unemployment insurance at a fraction of your wages. If you're fired with cause, they aren't required to pay it.
Why? Because other countries will force recruit and blackmail their best and brightest and we (at least nominally) depend upon our best and brightest to do so under their own free will.
The DNC emails being hacked so easily by a simple typo and a phishing attempt is a perfect example. Google's Gmail security is better than the DNC's with two-factor authentication and warnings sent to your backup account when someone logs into your account from somewhere suspicious.
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No, I would like low latency and fast internet, please.
Serious question: How do you find out about new products that are relevant to your interests?
I regularly browse the web with my adblocker turned on. The TV I watch doesn't have advertisements (i.e. binging shows on Netflix) or is completely irrelevant (i.e. my kids' shows that advertise the latest crap toy or game). I will occasionally see something on social media that my friends share, but honestly, they don't have a lot of the same interests that I do.
The only way that I can really find out about new products passively is if I control the Facebook ad stream to provide products relevant to me. Because I can control that ad stream, the products are relevant, and not random crap from Wish or Taboola.
I regularly visit my ad preferences to remove and even add things that make sense. This way, I get advertisements for things that I actually want, like new book releases, offers from cloud computing companies, and sales on education classes.
Sure, they're 'advertisements' from those companies, but if I'm going to see ads, I'd rather see ads for things that actually interest me and keep me informed about new products that I can research more information about later.
You can have different link text than the url it goes to. For example, you can have a link like this: Google.com In other words, someone put in an advertisement that looked like the actual Google advertisement, but changed the URL to their malware site set up to look like Google's.
You've actually proven my point. With AlphaGo Zero, the programmers gave the program inputs (the action space and the rules) and the desired output (winning the game) and used a learning algorithm that they made.
That doesn't mean that AlphaGo Zero can suddenly decide it wants to lose for whatever reason. It has been programmed to win and it will try to win every time.
The human mind has a tendency to personify inanimate objects. It's how our brain works. The trick to autonomous AI isn't to make an AI actually think for itself, but to trick the human brain into thinking that it is. That's why chatbots that have won the Turing test competition fool the human judges and don't actually think for themselves.
No, that isn't Autonomous AI. That's programming.
AI today is just math. It's a series of statistical probabilities and programmed actions based on those probabilities. AI doesn't "think". It calculates the probable 'correct' action, as determined by the programmer, and is programmed to act upon it.
The difference between now and 50 years ago is that we now have the math and CPU power to provide less and less information up front to more complicated math problems so that they'll determine the correct output that the programmer wants without having to provide exactly the right inputs. We're at the point now where we can determine data 'close enough' from real life that it's usable for the average person.
I don't know that we'll ever get to the point where true Autonomous AI will exist because, as programmers, the more we understand about what the AI is doing, the more we understand that deep down, it's just programming that the developer made.
To the end user, the fact that you can summon your car from across the parking lot in the rain or drive across the country using autopilot seems like the car is thinking for itself. To a programmer, it's just a simple bot AI that controls a car from point a to b.
They actually gave him an offer of 419, but he rounded up to 420 because the 420 reference amused him.
It's the same thing. The software layer just runs on it's own separate networking hardware in between the client and server.
Generally, this isn't true. Most marketing scripts are loaded asynchronously and will load in the background while your main content loads.
Additionally, if you're a major website, you can demand network performance improvements from the marketing vendors before you'll put their pixel on your site.
From my experience, cpu time processing javascript, loading large javascript libraries, and recalculating the dom is the biggest bottleneck. Those marketing scripts you mention? Most of them come with a jQuery library several versions old. If you load more than one or two on your site, you're loading multiple versions of jQuery (which is a huge library compared to what the scripts actually do). On top of that, they're usually inserting elements into the dom, such as 1x1 gifs or other scripts. This forces the browser to recalculate what the page is supposed to look like, which takes even more load time.
Check out Chrome's built in performance monitoring tool. It'll show you what the site is trying to load and how long it's taking to parse javascript, css, etc.
Ultimately, you're correct that it's the marketing scripts that are likely causing the issue, but it's not the issue that you think it is.
Then I go to Slashdot and bitch about it while I find a new site to be on or I make one for me and my silenced friends.
Even if someone commits a crime, you still need to have someone willing to prosecute it and prove that someone actually committed a crime.
A CEO or other top executive dumping stock ahead of a major announcement is called insider trading and illegal.
I don't know whether I should trust this comment or not because it only has a score of +1 with no moderation history at the time of my post.
Help me decide how to think about this comment, Slashdot!
For verification that the user is who they say they are and they're authorized to make changes to the account. This is their sales portal, so they'll verify the user's information first.
You're mistaking the goal here. The goal isn't to produce energy. Although you could use renewable forms of energy to produce the carbon neutral fuel, it would be far more efficient to just use the renewable energy directly.
The goal is to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere with the side benefit that you can put the carbon into something usable to offset the cost of doing so.
What's new in this article is that the cost of doing that is a lot lower than originally expected, and with current markets, even profitable.
The Model 3 goes 310-335 miles on a single charge. Even the Consumer Reports article points out that they were able to go 350 miles with the aggressive regenerative breaking turned on, and 310 miles with the lower regenerative breaking setting.
In other words, to be comparative with the Model 3, the Ioniq would have to double their range (and then some) because the Model 3 has a far greater range.
AI in video games is very different from the AI that these chips would be using. The AI in video games sucks for three reasons:
1. If the AI were too good, players would quit because it is too hard. Certain games specifically are designed to be extremely hard, but this isn't the norm. In a first person shooter, this would be the equivalent of fighting against an aimbot. (Aimbots are a great example of AI - they're designed to be perfect or to use information that the player doesn't normally have.) It becomes a game balance and design decision to make the AI imperfect.
2. Complex AI can be very computationally intensive. There's a tradeoff in the speed of calculations between "good enough" and "perfect" in some algorithms. When you're dealing with a lot of variables in a complex game that a good AI might use, it takes a lot of processor cycles to calculate how to respond to you to make it more difficult for you. Take for example Civilization that takes far longer between turns at the end of the scenario than it does at the beginning of the scenario because there are more variables to consider.
3. Given 1 and 2, the easiest method to implement a balanced AI is to cheat - give the computer advantages that the players don't have or to hardcode certain behaviors. Those behaviors can be easy for humans to learn and beat, even when the computer is cheating.
The processors in this article are talking about new chips that are designed to calculate the math for a certain type of complex calculation by making assumptions about the type of calculation being done and taking some shortcuts with the drawback that they can't perform other calculations as fast.
Except the electric cars that have been produced by the big automakers look like shit and then they're shocked when they don't sell well. Tesla was the first company to make a sleek electric car that looked like a luxury sedan.
I want an electric car, but I don't want to drive a roller skate. I don't want a car that looks like it'll crumple like a tin can in a wreck. I don't want a car that looks like an electric car. If "designer" status means that I get a luxury sedan that looks like a luxury sedan, I'll buy all day long.
Realistically, at those speeds and at it's weight, it's probably going to go through whatever it hits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porpoise
It's close to pedantic in the dictionary.
Or even like in this case where there's a genetic cause and a gut flora cause. It takes both scenarios in combination to cause the disease, which is why it's hard to reproduce an exact cause.
Actually, being able to video conference in with the hiring manager is a boon when the hiring manager is at the other end of the state or across the country. It isn't 'pandering' or 'coddling'. It's a flat out necessity when you're unable to find the ideal candidate locally and flying potential candidates in is really expensive.
I've found that it's fairly common for recruiters to recruit ideal candidates from around the country, even for jobs that aren't telecommute positions.
From a purely mathematical resource point of view, older specimens of a species take up resources that could be better used by younger, reproducing, members of the species. It makes sense that there exists a mechanic to have these older specimens die off after they are no longer useful to the survival of the species to preserve the resources for the younger generations.
It probably wasn't until later that the older specimens became useful to the survival of the species by teaching the younger generations through experience or serving another purpose that benefits the species, such as taking care of the young or defending against predators. Many species have all three traits, so it was likely evolved very early on for multicellular life.
The reason they gets paid after they've been let go is because checks are typically withheld for a period of time when they start work. You don't get paid until you've been on the job for some amount of time (typically two weeks, but can be as much as a month).
They are getting the money back for the time that they already worked before they were fired. Severance packages exist, but aren't typical or required for non-managerial positions.
Money that the company DOES have to pay is unemployment insurance. If the company lays you off without cause, they're required to pay unemployment insurance at a fraction of your wages. If you're fired with cause, they aren't required to pay it.
Yes. We do.
Why? Because other countries will force recruit and blackmail their best and brightest and we (at least nominally) depend upon our best and brightest to do so under their own free will.
The DNC emails being hacked so easily by a simple typo and a phishing attempt is a perfect example. Google's Gmail security is better than the DNC's with two-factor authentication and warnings sent to your backup account when someone logs into your account from somewhere suspicious.