4. The cause of the current warming is believed (by 90+% of the scientists investigating it) to have been solved. Spoiler alert it's the increasing atmospheric CO2.
What I mean is once the network is trained the "thought processes" that the network uses to come up with an answer are not understood.
This seems to be especially true of image recognition networks, but as they don't talk about AlphaZeros' reasoning in the open access paper I'm inclined to think it's also true of their network.
If you can link to a paper or post from an AI researcher that details how these kinds of networks are actually coming up with their answers I would be very interested to read it.
And if you can compress "multiple human lifetimes" worth of practice into a few hours and get actual usable results from it that's rather interesting isn't it?
You AI nutters thinks neural networks are some sort of magic. It isn't
Well, it is "magic" in the sense that it works, as in this case where their machine learning algorithm taught itself to be the world's greatest chess/go/shogi player with nothing more than the rules of the game coded in to it, but no-one has any idea how or why it works.
Whether that is a good or bad thing is yet to be decided...
From all the articles about this I've read, all they did was program the rules of the games (valid moves, win conditions etc.) and then let their machine learning algorithm teach itself actual play technique by playing games with itself.
As it was never shown example games or taught existing techniques I think it's fair to say it taught itself how to play.
A patent is supposed to be detailed enough that someone else can reproduce the invention based on the patent. That implementation is then legally protected so no one else can sell a device using that implementation.
I disagree - Windows 10 start menu is by far my favorite implementation because it lets me arrange all the programs and utilities I use regularly in nice high-density icon grids so I can just launch the one I want straight away without having to scroll or open folder trees. Instant search always works for my apps too, but some people seem to have trouble with it not working..?
Bullshit. Press the Windows button, then type "cmd". Don't be slow about it. Type it like you know what you're doing. Doesn't always find it. Try the same search for "Windows Update". Doesn't always find it. Repeat with pretty much anything that's installed on your computer. Doesn't always find it.
3. Stop spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year on polluting the air and propping up corrupt middle eastern dictatorships and fix the problem of fossil fuel reliance today.
Washington's public policy was to offshore our entire industrial base and utterly neglect our infrastructure. Thereby impoverishing our working people, severely hampering our ability to fight a defensive war against a symmetric enemy, and fostering a culture of despair. Apparently the Establishment - President Trump's political enemies - considered that a "win".
Except of course, instead of reversing that neglect Trump has lowered the tax rate of the very people who got rich offshoring while at the same time increased the cost of goods that ordinary people buy, increased the cost of raw materials like steel to US manufacturers and increased the cost of US exports to some markets.
The only real problem with the Swastika is a corrupt German government has failed to rehabilitate the swastika, and in the most arrogant fashion chose it ban it in human context
Um, what exactly do you think Germany could have done post-WW2 to make the Swastika not have negative connotations in western countries?
The boosters aren't the main cost saving part - the theory with the Space Shuttle was you'd be able to land the Shuttle orbiter part and basically just strap it to a new tank and booster set. If that had worked launch costs would have been very low, but the orbiter parts weren't strong enough so the thing had to be stripped down and rebuilt for every launch.
Reusable rockets will never work... So we need much MOAR yummy juicy goverment PORK deals, because private industry will never be able to supply a working space launch system.
FYI NASA was a big early supporter of SpaceX and since 2006 has pumped billions into it through development grants and contracts.
classic 8/16 bit consoles had serious sprites/line issues causing flickering and slowdown. Every frame is still drawn, just not at 60hz, and/or sprites would fail to be drawn in time for every frame, causing them to flicker.
Sprite flicker on NES is well known, but I can't think of any games on SNES / Genesis that had any problem with sprite draw or slowdown.
But since the PlayStation 1, I don't think I have ever experienced frame drops on a PlayStation EVER. And if i did it was so unoticeable that I didn't even notice.
I think you're mis-remembering PS1 era graphics quite badly there! Almost all PS1 3D games ran at 30fps or below and often did stutter with a lot of on-screen action. Of course back when I were a lad after walking home from school uphill both ways we were bloody well grateful for any 3D games we got!
I'm assuming they'll be some way to exclude the mouse players from games. Otherwise XBox is about to become headshot city.
Surely matchmaking based on rank would naturally sort that out? Also Fortnite doesn't already allows KB&M PC players to play against control pad XB / Switch / PS4 players? And even touchscreen mobile players (!!)
could ultimately help law enforcement and intelligence agencies track the origin of... counterfeit products and other goods
Where can I get one of these (presumably) affordable 3D printers capable of printing high-enough quality to be able to pass any attempt at counterfeiting as an original product!??!
Yeah the issue is in a PHP script that comes with a popular jQuery plugin to handle the server side part of the file upload system it provides. I think the PHP script in question was written by the same guy as wrote the jQuery plugin, hence the "Javascript developers are crap" parent comment I guess.
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You must have head of the Roman Optimum and the Medieval Warm Period - and the many other examples of this. Even the Little Ice Age.
1. The Medieval Warm Period was localized to the north Atlantic region, with the pacific region getting colder. Current warming is increasing average temperatures across the globe.
2. The cause of the Medieval Warm Period (as per the link) is believed to have been solved.
3. Atmospheric CO2 has increased from ~300 to ~400 PPM since the 60s, in line with increased fossil fuel emissions.
4. The cause of the current warming is believed (by 90+% of the scientists investigating it) to have been solved. Spoiler alert it's the increasing atmospheric CO2.
So they hacked a phone and snooped SMS. Cool
No, not at all, you didn't even read the summary.
In this attack they... ask for the 2FA authorization code on their fake login screen.
What I mean is once the network is trained the "thought processes" that the network uses to come up with an answer are not understood.
This seems to be especially true of image recognition networks, but as they don't talk about AlphaZeros' reasoning in the open access paper I'm inclined to think it's also true of their network.
If you can link to a paper or post from an AI researcher that details how these kinds of networks are actually coming up with their answers I would be very interested to read it.
And if you can compress "multiple human lifetimes" worth of practice into a few hours and get actual usable results from it that's rather interesting isn't it?
I'm still going to count going from "given the rulebook" to "world's best player" in 9 hours as impressive
You AI nutters thinks neural networks are some sort of magic. It isn't
Well, it is "magic" in the sense that it works, as in this case where their machine learning algorithm taught itself to be the world's greatest chess/go/shogi player with nothing more than the rules of the game coded in to it, but no-one has any idea how or why it works.
Whether that is a good or bad thing is yet to be decided...
From all the articles about this I've read, all they did was program the rules of the games (valid moves, win conditions etc.) and then let their machine learning algorithm teach itself actual play technique by playing games with itself.
As it was never shown example games or taught existing techniques I think it's fair to say it taught itself how to play.
A patent is supposed to be detailed enough that someone else can reproduce the invention based on the patent. That implementation is then legally protected so no one else can sell a device using that implementation.
Um, shouldn't Samsung have patented this? Which would make all the plans public by default?
I disagree - Windows 10 start menu is by far my favorite implementation because it lets me arrange all the programs and utilities I use regularly in nice high-density icon grids so I can just launch the one I want straight away without having to scroll or open folder trees. Instant search always works for my apps too, but some people seem to have trouble with it not working..?
Bullshit. Press the Windows button, then type "cmd". Don't be slow about it. Type it like you know what you're doing. Doesn't always find it. Try the same search for "Windows Update". Doesn't always find it. Repeat with pretty much anything that's installed on your computer. Doesn't always find it.
Unable to replicate issue, works perfectly every time.
You missed one of the options -
3. Stop spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year on polluting the air and propping up corrupt middle eastern dictatorships and fix the problem of fossil fuel reliance today.
"There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo. Please use in that order."
I think we're somewhere between number 2 and 3 right?
Washington's public policy was to offshore our entire industrial base and utterly neglect our infrastructure. Thereby impoverishing our working people, severely hampering our ability to fight a defensive war against a symmetric enemy, and fostering a culture of despair. Apparently the Establishment - President Trump's political enemies - considered that a "win".
Except of course, instead of reversing that neglect Trump has lowered the tax rate of the very people who got rich offshoring while at the same time increased the cost of goods that ordinary people buy, increased the cost of raw materials like steel to US manufacturers and increased the cost of US exports to some markets.
The only real problem with the Swastika is a corrupt German government has failed to rehabilitate the swastika, and in the most arrogant fashion chose it ban it in human context
Um, what exactly do you think Germany could have done post-WW2 to make the Swastika not have negative connotations in western countries?
(Cyberpunk 2077 logo)
The boosters aren't the main cost saving part - the theory with the Space Shuttle was you'd be able to land the Shuttle orbiter part and basically just strap it to a new tank and booster set. If that had worked launch costs would have been very low, but the orbiter parts weren't strong enough so the thing had to be stripped down and rebuilt for every launch.
Reusable rockets will never work ... So we need much MOAR yummy juicy goverment PORK deals, because private industry will never be able to supply a working space launch system.
FYI NASA was a big early supporter of SpaceX and since 2006 has pumped billions into it through development grants and contracts.
Do only a fraction of a fraction of a percent of users ever need their "vintage" Apple hardware repaired?
To be fair this is their 2nd and 3rd location. Their 1st location is on the west coast.
classic 8/16 bit consoles had serious sprites/line issues causing flickering and slowdown. Every frame is still drawn, just not at 60hz, and/or sprites would fail to be drawn in time for every frame, causing them to flicker.
Sprite flicker on NES is well known, but I can't think of any games on SNES / Genesis that had any problem with sprite draw or slowdown.
But since the PlayStation 1, I don't think I have ever experienced frame drops on a PlayStation EVER. And if i did it was so unoticeable that I didn't even notice.
I think you're mis-remembering PS1 era graphics quite badly there! Almost all PS1 3D games ran at 30fps or below and often did stutter with a lot of on-screen action. Of course back when I were a lad after walking home from school uphill both ways we were bloody well grateful for any 3D games we got!
I'm assuming they'll be some way to exclude the mouse players from games. Otherwise XBox is about to become headshot city.
Surely matchmaking based on rank would naturally sort that out? Also Fortnite doesn't already allows KB&M PC players to play against control pad XB / Switch / PS4 players? And even touchscreen mobile players (!!)
could ultimately help law enforcement and intelligence agencies track the origin of ... counterfeit products and other goods
Where can I get one of these (presumably) affordable 3D printers capable of printing high-enough quality to be able to pass any attempt at counterfeiting as an original product!??!
Yeah the issue is in a PHP script that comes with a popular jQuery plugin to handle the server side part of the file upload system it provides. I think the PHP script in question was written by the same guy as wrote the jQuery plugin, hence the "Javascript developers are crap" parent comment I guess.