But what if those problems are actually caused by the economic problems associated with laissez-faire capitalism? Certainly these problems seem to have been growing since the 80s after America moved to a much more unrestrained economic model.
Until their processors grow large enough to deal with them. That is just an evolutionary problem
The search space for Go is estimated at 10^170. If the world's fastest supercomputer could check one move every operation (93 PFLOPS) it would take 3.4*0^145 years to exhaustively solve it (at which point most physical objects will have decayed to subatomic particles).
The fact that a relatively modest computer has beaten a human at Go today is impressive.
It's been over 25 years and FOSS hasn't solved the issue of computer security either; Open source browsers and OSs also require regular security patches.
Further models, and collected data, show additional warming - not the same as Mann's hockey stick graph.
Didn't you read my link? Many subsequent proxy studies showed the same thing as Mann's hockey stick graph; That temperature rises seen today have not been seen in the last 1000+ years.
The response was that it wasn't. I've demonstrated that it is invalid
Well I've not said that study wasn't invalid, what I've said is that more recent studies still come to the same conclusion as it did, therefore using the hockey stick to doubt climate science is invalid.
It's like the other comment that pointed out the acidification of the oceans was certain because of coral bleaching. That sounds good, until I cite NOAA who tells us that the bleaching has stopped and the coral reefs are starting to repair themselves.
Well that's a pretty poor response isn't it? The correct response would be to remind them that ocean acidification is known from direct measurements, and that coral bleaching is believed to be caused by a combination of ocean acidification and temperature, so go though seasonal bleaching and recovery episodes.
By cherry picking a single report to prove someone wrong instead of simply stating the correct science you are yourself spreading needless FUD.
Well it hasn't been soundly debunked, because further studies show the same trends. Even if they have made some mistakes in methodology in that one study, it doesn't matter because it's been superseded by more recent work.
The only people the hockey stick matters to are science deniers spreading FUD about climate science as a whole.
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But what if those problems are actually caused by the economic problems associated with laissez-faire capitalism? Certainly these problems seem to have been growing since the 80s after America moved to a much more unrestrained economic model.
Who said anything about Amtrak Acela? There are a lot of proven and successful high-speed rail systems all over the world.
[citation needed]
Or they could just buy proven high-speed rail to get 125 miles in less than 40 minutes.
And they will never be able to land rockets on their tail! NASA have proven reusable space flight costs (hundreds of..) billions!!
Elon has done great work. Nikola Tesla did great work.
Nikola Tesla also claimed to have invented electromagnetic flying machines, death rays and earthquake machines.
Just because someone is a great engineer and businessman doesn't mean they're immune from being over ambitious or exaggerating.
Firstly, there's Brunel's "atmosperic railway" of yesteryear, with a few very similar features.
You're thinking of Vactrains, not Brunel's atmosperic railway which is just a conventional train pulled by pneumatic power.
airplanes
Air travel is a bad example, I'm more concerned that conventional high-speed rail would be a better investment.
We have yet to find a system for maximizing usefulness and minimizing suffering that is actually compatible with human psychology.
I'd say The Nordic model does a good job of it.
With a branching factor of 235 per move (7x more than Chess) and a large typical lookahead by human players, even that's difficult.
There is a reason why a computer beating a top human Go player was considered a big deal...
Perhaps a HDMI-C plug will be on the card in 20 years or so?
No need, video over USB-C is already a thing.
The technically correct answer is computers WILL SIT THERE AND TRY huge search spaces, but human brains will HATE waiting forever for the answer.
But the way they "solved" Go was AI...
Until their processors grow large enough to deal with them. That is just an evolutionary problem
The search space for Go is estimated at 10^170. If the world's fastest supercomputer could check one move every operation (93 PFLOPS) it would take 3.4*0^145 years to exhaustively solve it (at which point most physical objects will have decayed to subatomic particles).
The fact that a relatively modest computer has beaten a human at Go today is impressive.
China has been making most of our high technology products for quite a while now...
Go is a game played with strict rules. Computers LOVE rules.
Go is a game with a huge search space. Computers HATE huge search spaces.
"SkyHawk Blockchain"? What is this, a name for last week?
The latest greatest thing should clearly be called "SkyHawk ICO"
Reusable rockets is exactly the sort of thing NASA should have been first to do.
NASA were the first to fly a reusable rocket, they just never managed to get the cost down to referb between launches.
Being in the UK I was SCART RGB master race :)
Not a problem, just throw some opto-isolators in there.
the deafening soundscape: Jesus Christ my ears were nearly bleeding after that. Fire your sound man, immediately.
Must've been your cinema screwing the volume up, I thought Hans Zimmer's soundtrack was the best bit.
imac's dont have glued in screens at all
Apple have been gluing the imac's screen since 2012.
Elon has been saying a lot of things recently, doesn't mean it'll all come true.
It's been over 25 years and FOSS hasn't solved the issue of computer security either; Open source browsers and OSs also require regular security patches.
Further models, and collected data, show additional warming - not the same as Mann's hockey stick graph.
Didn't you read my link? Many subsequent proxy studies showed the same thing as Mann's hockey stick graph; That temperature rises seen today have not been seen in the last 1000+ years.
The response was that it wasn't. I've demonstrated that it is invalid
Well I've not said that study wasn't invalid, what I've said is that more recent studies still come to the same conclusion as it did, therefore using the hockey stick to doubt climate science is invalid.
It's like the other comment that pointed out the acidification of the oceans was certain because of coral bleaching. That sounds good, until I cite NOAA who tells us that the bleaching has stopped and the coral reefs are starting to repair themselves.
Well that's a pretty poor response isn't it? The correct response would be to remind them that ocean acidification is known from direct measurements, and that coral bleaching is believed to be caused by a combination of ocean acidification and temperature, so go though seasonal bleaching and recovery episodes.
By cherry picking a single report to prove someone wrong instead of simply stating the correct science you are yourself spreading needless FUD.
Well it hasn't been soundly debunked, because further studies show the same trends. Even if they have made some mistakes in methodology in that one study, it doesn't matter because it's been superseded by more recent work.
The only people the hockey stick matters to are science deniers spreading FUD about climate science as a whole.