It's more important for FaceTime calls where you want to make eye contact with the person you're talking to, instead of them always looking off to the side. The solution was invented hundreds of years ago, the pinhole camera, but we've forgotten the old ways.
It is the nature of the task that the car must predict behavior. People don't generally walk right in front of a moving car except in crosswalks and at intersections. So the car "reasonably" didn't expect the woman to do what she did. If the car thought she was a deer, she might still be alive.
This technology learns how to behave from past experience, just like human drivers. The car probably didn't expect the woman to walk right in front of it outside of an intersection or crosswalk. People do lurch into the roadway at random places but they usually ease up to let the car pass if there's no reasonable way the car could stop. When they don't let the car pass, this is what happens.
This feels more like something that will be eventually sold to billionaires, people wealthy enough to own and operate their own $50-100 million aircraft. The noise regs meant that a billionaire couldn't do supersonic travel to most places even though he could afford the plane. Get the noise down and now those supersonic business jets can be built, sold and operated pretty much worldwide.
How do we know that the U.S. side is responsible for the leaks and not the Brits? The statement of public anger could just be preemptive blame shifting by the UK government.
Not all of us. A lot of West Coast asses will be grass once Crazy Don vs. Crazy Jong gets going, but North Korea will be glowing long before they produce anything that can reach the rest of the U.S.
Anyone who grew up watching over-the-air analog TV knows that television can be enjoyed with a picture and signal far worse than even the most pissant phone provides today. I watched a whole season of a program on a video iPod, just because the thing was portable and handy. Video and sound quality were both better than what I grew up with. For one thing, the picture was in color.
The question really is ill-posed. Even without infinite storage, infinite computation collapses the polynomial hierarchy. P = NP, P = PH and in fact P = PSPACE. You could fairly quickly boostrap your way to an AI that would let you describe (in natural language!) the actions you wanted the computer to take and have the computer either write the program or perform the actions directly. No clever programming needed during the bootstrapping, just brute force searches in polynomial space will be fast enough given an infinitely fast computer.
It's what Microsoft always does. The only reason they haven't embraced and extinguished interoperability on the Internet is that they were late arriving at that particular party. Nonetheless they made quite a go of it, particularly in the e-mail space in the 1990's. Slapdash implementations of POP, IMAP, (E)SMTP, MIME... to administer a mail system in those days was to suffer.
That hour of training is no longer necessary with the current technology because it has been listening to everyone and learning to deal with their local accents and speech patterns. All that data is probably too much to be stored locally. And since people expect voice recognition to just work, there's no way we're going back to training local systems for single speakers, at least for net services.
That's what makes the idea of going after Uber under RICO so interesting. If they are going to act like a criminal organization, they should be treated like one. The provisions of RICO let you pierce the corporate veil and go after the upper-level decision makers.
You jest, but actually that's an interesting question. Will a self-driving car break your arm if it has to spin the wheel suddenly to avoid a cow or insurance fraudster ambling out onto the road?
And you are what is known as a "useful idiot." The climate deniers, like the Big Tobacco deniers and the concussion deniers before them, operate using the same playbook. No matter how much evidence there is, the deniers cultivate so-called reasonable doubt like a prized field of weed. As long as they can keep people smoking what they are selling they'll be able to distract the body politic from doing what needs to be done.
I agree with all of this except the no PTSD part. We're seeing PTSD in drone pilots. Apparently push-button killing is still perceived as killing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02...
I wouldn't want to deprive my cat the simple joy of sitting on warm folded laundry. I don't get the big deal about folding; I just put some podcast on and zone out; the movements are automatic.
If there's a Bizarro world we have to be living in it already.
A black man named Barack Hussein Obama is President of the United States. Gay marriage is legal in all fifty states. Pot is legal in twenty-four. Donald Trump is the presidential nominee for a major political party. The Cubbies and the Indians are in the World Series. The Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA title this year. Early this year an armed group took over the headquarters of a federal wildlife refuge. Later this year they were arrested for it, stood trial, and walked.
I think the switch happened back when Obama was first elected but it might have been as far back as Reagan.
Well, I'm interested in the product. I imagine others are as well who want to keep a gun at home outside a gun safe but still unusable by an untrained person who might find it. Could be children, could be a colleague rummaging through your desk (with permission), could be the woman who comes every two weeks to clean your house.
There isn't any situation where I'm going to snatch up a gun and want to fire it instantly. I'm simply too afraid of killing the wrong person to do something like that. I'm not a soldier, I'm not a policeman. A fingerprint reader will have plenty of time to reliably match my print because I'm going to take some time before deciding to kill somebody. If I can't take that time, then I guess they are going to kill me.
He's a snake oil salesman. He's been saying Trump will win for over a year because Trump is a "master persuader" and could sell water to a drowning man. Facts have no bearing on people's choices, only "linguistic kill shots" matter, etc. Now that Trump is losing badly and Adams is being proved wrong, it turns out that neither he nor Trump is "fueled by criticism" after all, they just duck it like everyone else.
Yes. The reboot has been a great big sack of nothing in terms of social issues. Putting a gay character onscreen a year after gay marriage has been legalized all over the U.S. is hardly daring filmmaking.
Really, it's "we can pay for it now, or someone else can pay for it later." That's why most of "we" is satisfied to keep doing what we are doing. Speed up the warming processes and maybe interest will perk up. And indeed peat bogs burning, along with breakdown of methane clathrates in melted permafrost might just provide that burst of speed. Of course "we" would have to be convinced of the dangers posed by these events and "we" are to a surprising extent willingfully ignorant and stubborn.
But second, they claim they've been doing this to images uploaded to Dropbox. [...] But what happens when they find out their new algorithm -- which compresses AND decompresses! -- has a bug when it hits a certain data condition, and sorry, all your images are corrupted because the EXIF data common to them all triggered the bug.
Assume that the engineers behind this aren't morons. Failing that, read the article. For every newly compressed image, Dropbox does a decompression and a bit-for-bit comparison with the original before replacing the original. If there's an image that triggers a bug that corrupts the image for whatever reason, their test will catch it before the original image is replaced.
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It's more important for FaceTime calls where you want to make eye contact with the person you're talking to, instead of them always looking off to the side. The solution was invented hundreds of years ago, the pinhole camera, but we've forgotten the old ways.
It is the nature of the task that the car must predict behavior. People don't generally walk right in front of a moving car except in crosswalks and at intersections. So the car "reasonably" didn't expect the woman to do what she did. If the car thought she was a deer, she might still be alive.
This technology learns how to behave from past experience, just like human drivers. The car probably didn't expect the woman to walk right in front of it outside of an intersection or crosswalk. People do lurch into the roadway at random places but they usually ease up to let the car pass if there's no reasonable way the car could stop. When they don't let the car pass, this is what happens.
This feels more like something that will be eventually sold to billionaires, people wealthy enough to own and operate their own $50-100 million aircraft. The noise regs meant that a billionaire couldn't do supersonic travel to most places even though he could afford the plane. Get the noise down and now those supersonic business jets can be built, sold and operated pretty much worldwide.
How do we know that the U.S. side is responsible for the leaks and not the Brits? The statement of public anger could just be preemptive blame shifting by the UK government.
Not all of us. A lot of West Coast asses will be grass once Crazy Don vs. Crazy Jong gets going, but North Korea will be glowing long before they produce anything that can reach the rest of the U.S.
Anyone who grew up watching over-the-air analog TV knows that television can be enjoyed with a picture and signal far worse than even the most pissant phone provides today. I watched a whole season of a program on a video iPod, just because the thing was portable and handy. Video and sound quality were both better than what I grew up with. For one thing, the picture was in color.
Feed a dog and he'll never bite you. That's the difference between a dog and a man.
The question really is ill-posed. Even without infinite storage, infinite computation collapses the polynomial hierarchy. P = NP, P = PH and in fact P = PSPACE. You could fairly quickly boostrap your way to an AI that would let you describe (in natural language!) the actions you wanted the computer to take and have the computer either write the program or perform the actions directly. No clever programming needed during the bootstrapping, just brute force searches in polynomial space will be fast enough given an infinitely fast computer.
It's what Microsoft always does. The only reason they haven't embraced and extinguished interoperability on the Internet is that they were late arriving at that particular party. Nonetheless they made quite a go of it, particularly in the e-mail space in the 1990's. Slapdash implementations of POP, IMAP, (E)SMTP, MIME... to administer a mail system in those days was to suffer.
That hour of training is no longer necessary with the current technology because it has been listening to everyone and learning to deal with their local accents and speech patterns. All that data is probably too much to be stored locally. And since people expect voice recognition to just work, there's no way we're going back to training local systems for single speakers, at least for net services.
That's what makes the idea of going after Uber under RICO so interesting. If they are going to act like a criminal organization, they should be treated like one. The provisions of RICO let you pierce the corporate veil and go after the upper-level decision makers.
You jest, but actually that's an interesting question. Will a self-driving car break your arm if it has to spin the wheel suddenly to avoid a cow or insurance fraudster ambling out onto the road?
And you are what is known as a "useful idiot." The climate deniers, like the Big Tobacco deniers and the concussion deniers before them, operate using the same playbook. No matter how much evidence there is, the deniers cultivate so-called reasonable doubt like a prized field of weed. As long as they can keep people smoking what they are selling they'll be able to distract the body politic from doing what needs to be done.
I agree with all of this except the no PTSD part. We're seeing PTSD in drone pilots. Apparently push-button killing is still perceived as killing. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02...
I for one embrace our truthfully hyperbolic overlords.
I wouldn't want to deprive my cat the simple joy of sitting on warm folded laundry. I don't get the big deal about folding; I just put some podcast on and zone out; the movements are automatic.
> I'm actually still kind of confused as to why nobody has made a big powered armor movie yet.
Robot Jox? (ducking) Joe Haldeman wrote the screenplay and impossible as it might seem after viewing the thing today, it did see theatrical release.
If there's a Bizarro world we have to be living in it already.
A black man named Barack Hussein Obama is President of the United States. Gay marriage is legal in all fifty states. Pot is legal in twenty-four. Donald Trump is the presidential nominee for a major political party. The Cubbies and the Indians are in the World Series. The Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA title this year. Early this year an armed group took over the headquarters of a federal wildlife refuge. Later this year they were arrested for it, stood trial, and walked.
I think the switch happened back when Obama was first elected but it might have been as far back as Reagan.
Well, I'm interested in the product. I imagine others are as well who want to keep a gun at home outside a gun safe but still unusable by an untrained person who might find it. Could be children, could be a colleague rummaging through your desk (with permission), could be the woman who comes every two weeks to clean your house.
There isn't any situation where I'm going to snatch up a gun and want to fire it instantly. I'm simply too afraid of killing the wrong person to do something like that. I'm not a soldier, I'm not a policeman. A fingerprint reader will have plenty of time to reliably match my print because I'm going to take some time before deciding to kill somebody. If I can't take that time, then I guess they are going to kill me.
He's a snake oil salesman. He's been saying Trump will win for over a year because Trump is a "master persuader" and could sell water to a drowning man. Facts have no bearing on people's choices, only "linguistic kill shots" matter, etc. Now that Trump is losing badly and Adams is being proved wrong, it turns out that neither he nor Trump is "fueled by criticism" after all, they just duck it like everyone else.
Yes. The reboot has been a great big sack of nothing in terms of social issues. Putting a gay character onscreen a year after gay marriage has been legalized all over the U.S. is hardly daring filmmaking.
With the Singularity being postponed to 2045, this looks like the best chance for some worldwide disaster^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hexcitement before I die.
Really, it's "we can pay for it now, or someone else can pay for it later." That's why most of "we" is satisfied to keep doing what we are doing. Speed up the warming processes and maybe interest will perk up. And indeed peat bogs burning, along with breakdown of methane clathrates in melted permafrost might just provide that burst of speed. Of course "we" would have to be convinced of the dangers posed by these events and "we" are to a surprising extent willingfully ignorant and stubborn.
Assume that the engineers behind this aren't morons. Failing that, read the article. For every newly compressed image, Dropbox does a decompression and a bit-for-bit comparison with the original before replacing the original. If there's an image that triggers a bug that corrupts the image for whatever reason, their test will catch it before the original image is replaced.