It was not discontinued. Inconel-600 is known for its resistance to chemical corrosion and still used in high-temperature environments. Unfortunately it lost certification for use in nuclear reactors because it became known in early 2000s (see publication MRP-111 Materials Reliability Program Resistance to Primary Water Stress Corrosion Cracking of Alloys 690, 52, and 152 in Pressurized Water Reactors) that it have caused leaks of radioactive fluids there because of radiation induced corrosion. The fact that Westinghouse used it in its early specifications for these reactors is entirely their fault. Germans, Russians switched to Incoloy-800 long ago and Americans waited when it gets approved in US. Unfortunately this switch caused delays, re-design, and partial re-build. Then there were problems with quality control, problems with foundation, problems with transportation of delicate components, etc.
Stalling of this project was not caused by Westinghouse bankruptcy, rather Westinghouse bankruptcy was caused by its inability to build reactors without cost overruns.
Education in Sweden is free. In contrast, a family with 3 children in USA is expected to pay over from 20k to 50k per year for 10 years of schools and over $150k per year for 4 years of college. Not to mention other big expenses, like housing or healthcare...
All I can say with this free Kaspersky anti-virus you get what you pay for. I was rather happy with no anti-virus at all for years. Now when I installed Kaspersky antivirus and to my surprise it came with 3 viruses no less.
I was not pleased, so I uninstalled this piece of cra%@#%#$%@!NO CARRIER
Well, considering that none of us can know what happened for sure, and any claims by any side could be attributed to mere propaganda, all we can do is hypothesize and estimate probabilities... I think there are following possibilities out there
Syrian army actually did that.
with knowledge of Syrian high command
sanctioned by Russian high command
without Russian involvement
attack was unauthorized by the Syrian command
Syrian government was aware of illegal stockpiles of chemical weapons (so it is still partly to blame)
Goverment was not aware, it was a rogue attack by a rogue party within Syrian army
It was a false flag attack aimed to blame Syrian goverment
Covert operation by anti-Assad coalition
Saudi Intelligence
CIA
Turkey
Other
ISIS
Other Anti-Assad terrorists (use of chemical weapons means it was terrorists, not freedom fighters or something like that)
Accidental release (due to bombing of a storage, for example)
It was never a chemical attack but everyone is claiming it was
Some other explanation
A-priori all these scenarios were equally likely. As time goes on, we should expect to come to the only most likely case.
You are claiming it was definitely 1.a.i., USA officials do not blame Russia directly, so it is 1.a.ii according to them
Russian and Syrian official claim it was either 3 or 2.a
So given those claims 1.a, 2.a or 3. would probably have 90+% probability with others to be rather negligible.
Now considering that it was not in interests of Assad or Russia to provoke any additional international critisism, I would say 1 has less than 20% chance, I would put most of my money on 2.b or 2.c.
I would not blame software for anything but inevitable bugs in the software. Just think, this software is in its testing stage, wouldn't you agree that it may have bugs? As far as conspiracy theories go, I would rather blame the police for covering up a corporate mishap here.
thunderf00t's arguments reminded me of early arguments why it would not be possible for a steam engine locomotive to pull a train of cars. Locomotive's wheels would just slip and spin, they said...
If we can use any functions such as arbitrary number of SQRT in combination with LOG, why can't we use other functions such as INCREMENT and express any number from 1 as (...(1++)++...)++?
Re: "...every time we find a weakness, it learns from us and the weakness disappears the next day."
Let's not underestimate the power of learning at damn near an exponential rate.
It does not look like AI learning at exponential time. It looks like nightly patches to a program to remove discovered exploits. Let us wait until "the weakness disappears immediately without any human intervention".
Yeah, as I heard over radio, Clinton winning popular vote is rather misleading. Popular vote and electoral vote are orthogonal to each other.
It is akin to saying after a football game that one of the football teams won by yardage rather than by scoring the points. The game would be entirely different if the teams were trying to get more yardage instead of points...
And you cannot change the game rules after the game is over either.
Trump won under the current voting rules. You cannot change rules after the vote to let some other candidate win. By changing the rules in the midair, you can even make a case that Gary Johnson won (by weighing certain voters to be zero or something).
I agree with you point that the current rules may not be fair. Then we need to change them and use updated rules in the next election. You cannot change them and apply updated rules to this election retroactively.
GP's point was that under updated rules Trump still had a chance (to win by popular vote) if he chose to spend more time campaigning in California. He did not simply because it did not make sense under current rules.
Some time ago tenure system was devised to protect researchers who explore new paths. They could not be fired just because they seemingly accomplish nothing for years for a chance that they may suddenly revolutionize their field or something.
Nowadays universities in USA have turned into money making businesses which are all focused on whether a professor can bring grants or profitable patents disregarding long term benefits for exploring new paths.
Considering the rate at which hallucinogenic or other psychotic drugs are being developed/ discovered, it is much more likely that we all live in a hallucination of some megalomaniac.
I agree that Google is a pioneer in developing this technology. I would disagree that it would take years for others to catch up. For one thing, they do not have to repeat all Google's mistakes.
Having said that, Google is going what in my opinion a government should be doing, that is, finance a research into a technology that has a potential to pay off many years later. I am not saying it is bad, I think it is nice of Google to spend money that they may not be able to get back for years if not ever.
You confused Fortran with Cobol. Yes, Cobol would stick around for decades because of legacy code in all the banks, insurance, government and other institutions.
On the other hand, Fortran is also a language of choice for cutting edge research where no legacy code exists and program development is done from scratch.
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It was not discontinued. Inconel-600 is known for its resistance to chemical corrosion and still used in high-temperature environments. Unfortunately it lost certification for use in nuclear reactors because it became known in early 2000s (see publication MRP-111 Materials Reliability Program Resistance to Primary Water Stress Corrosion Cracking of Alloys 690, 52, and 152 in Pressurized Water Reactors) that it have caused leaks of radioactive fluids there because of radiation induced corrosion. The fact that Westinghouse used it in its early specifications for these reactors is entirely their fault. Germans, Russians switched to Incoloy-800 long ago and Americans waited when it gets approved in US. Unfortunately this switch caused delays, re-design, and partial re-build. Then there were problems with quality control, problems with foundation, problems with transportation of delicate components, etc.
Stalling of this project was not caused by Westinghouse bankruptcy, rather Westinghouse bankruptcy was caused by its inability to build reactors without cost overruns.
Education in Sweden is free. In contrast, a family with 3 children in USA is expected to pay over from 20k to 50k per year for 10 years of schools and over $150k per year for 4 years of college. Not to mention other big expenses, like housing or healthcare...
All I can say with this free Kaspersky anti-virus you get what you pay for. I was rather happy with no anti-virus at all for years. Now when I installed Kaspersky antivirus and to my surprise it came with 3 viruses no less. I was not pleased, so I uninstalled this piece of cra%@#%#$%@!NO CARRIER
try { DoWork(); } catch(InterruptedException) { DoWhine(); }
What is IS?
Yeah, this election demonstrated what could happen when both parties tried their best to lose. I guess Republicans lost in the end.
Well, considering that none of us can know what happened for sure, and any claims by any side could be attributed to mere propaganda, all we can do is hypothesize and estimate probabilities... I think there are following possibilities out there
A-priori all these scenarios were equally likely. As time goes on, we should expect to come to the only most likely case.
You are claiming it was definitely 1.a.i., USA officials do not blame Russia directly, so it is 1.a.ii according to them
Russian and Syrian official claim it was either 3 or 2.a
So given those claims 1.a, 2.a or 3. would probably have 90+% probability with others to be rather negligible.
Now considering that it was not in interests of Assad or Russia to provoke any additional international critisism, I would say 1 has less than 20% chance, I would put most of my money on 2.b or 2.c.
Re: blaming the software for...
I would not blame software for anything but inevitable bugs in the software. Just think, this software is in its testing stage, wouldn't you agree that it may have bugs? As far as conspiracy theories go, I would rather blame the police for covering up a corporate mishap here.
thunderf00t's arguments reminded me of early arguments why it would not be possible for a steam engine locomotive to pull a train of cars. Locomotive's wheels would just slip and spin, they said...
No, C-x M-c M-butterfly
You need to brush up on basic mathematical functions. Successor function is as basic as it can get, in fact it lies in the very foundation of axiomatic theory of arithmetic.
If we can use any functions such as arbitrary number of SQRT in combination with LOG, why can't we use other functions such as INCREMENT and express any number from 1 as (...(1++)++...)++?
Re:
"...every time we find a weakness, it learns from us and the weakness disappears the next day."
Let's not underestimate the power of learning at damn near an exponential rate.
It does not look like AI learning at exponential time. It looks like nightly patches to a program to remove discovered exploits. Let us wait until "the weakness disappears immediately without any human intervention".
Yeah, as I heard over radio, Clinton winning popular vote is rather misleading. Popular vote and electoral vote are orthogonal to each other.
It is akin to saying after a football game that one of the football teams won by yardage rather than by scoring the points. The game would be entirely different if the teams were trying to get more yardage instead of points...
And you cannot change the game rules after the game is over either.
Trump won under the current voting rules. You cannot change rules after the vote to let some other candidate win. By changing the rules in the midair, you can even make a case that Gary Johnson won (by weighing certain voters to be zero or something).
I agree with you point that the current rules may not be fair. Then we need to change them and use updated rules in the next election. You cannot change them and apply updated rules to this election retroactively.
GP's point was that under updated rules Trump still had a chance (to win by popular vote) if he chose to spend more time campaigning in California. He did not simply because it did not make sense under current rules.
Some time ago tenure system was devised to protect researchers who explore new paths. They could not be fired just because they seemingly accomplish nothing for years for a chance that they may suddenly revolutionize their field or something.
Nowadays universities in USA have turned into money making businesses which are all focused on whether a professor can bring grants or profitable patents disregarding long term benefits for exploring new paths.
It's been about a century now that a candidate that wasn't from one of the two major parties came in second.
This sounds like a fallacy. Wouldn't a party lose it's "major" status if it came in third?
What's about hair dressers and telephone sanitisers?
Considering the rate at which hallucinogenic or other psychotic drugs are being developed/ discovered, it is much more likely that we all live in a hallucination of some megalomaniac.
You now also need to show a government issued id when you steal a phone or apply for a fake id.
I agree that Google is a pioneer in developing this technology. I would disagree that it would take years for others to catch up. For one thing, they do not have to repeat all Google's mistakes.
Having said that, Google is going what in my opinion a government should be doing, that is, finance a research into a technology that has a potential to pay off many years later. I am not saying it is bad, I think it is nice of Google to spend money that they may not be able to get back for years if not ever.
Wouldn't another robot which knows of all possible decisions of this particular robot be better that this "Perfect Robotic Player"?
Ten ways you can tell if Russia has invaded Ukraine.
He is the manager.
You had it easy. I once worked with a whole team of them.
You confused Fortran with Cobol. Yes, Cobol would stick around for decades because of legacy code in all the banks, insurance, government and other institutions.
On the other hand, Fortran is also a language of choice for cutting edge research where no legacy code exists and program development is done from scratch.