Softbank is way way bigger than Boston Dynamics, and is one of the biggest technology companies in the world. I am surprised that you don't know that.
Factoid: The CEO of Softbank, Masayoshi Son, is ethnically Korean, and unlike many "zainichi" he never tried to hide his Korean ancestry. So Softbank was long excluded from many of the insider cliques and cross-ownership deals, and took on a much more free-wheeling style and international outlook than is common in Japan. This ultimately led to far greater success.
Schaft has better actuator technology; electrical, rather than hydraulic.
Nitpick: BD uses pneumatics (air) rather than hydraulics (oil). Pneumatics have several advantages over hydraulics: 1. Air is free. 2. Leaks are much less messy. 3. It is much easier to make modifications. 4. Air has less inertia and viscosity, so faster actions are possible. 5. Air is compressible so pneumatic actuators can absorb shocks and impacts.
But, as you said, electrical actuators are generally even better.
he should get time in maximum security with the rest of the scum.
Nonsense. Prisons, and especially max-sec prisons, should only be used for violent people that need to be physically separated from civilized society. For everyone else there are more appropriate and constructive alternatives. For instance, this guy could have all his assets seized, and spend 40 hours per week for the next 10 years changing bed pans in a nursing home. That way he will be contributing to society instead of being a burden, and his kids won't grow up in a broken home.
The conspiracy theory ignores Jevon's Paradox. As computing efficiency goes up, people buy more computing/storage/bandwidth since the increased demand driven by new applications swamps the decreased demand from greater efficiency. So Sloot's compression algorithm (if it really worked) would have likely driven demand up, and killing him would have made no sense.
Disclaimer: I didn't kill him, and this post is not an effort to cover up the conspiracy.
The threshold is 51%, and the 3 biggest miners control 53%. The top 3 are all in China. If the 3 of them agree, they can do anything they want with the Bitcoin blockchain.
We used to have famines, too. Not so much in the age of farm subsidies.
Wrong. The Irish potato famine was the last major peacetime famine in Europe, and it occurred while Britain (which ruled Ireland) still enforced the "Corn Laws" which imposed a tariff on grain imports and a subsidy for domestic production of grain.
Let me know when these AIs can land a plane on the Hudson River after a massive bird strike.
Most human pilots couldn't have done it. An AI pilot, if it was trained with water landings as a criteria, could.
Whenever people try to point out the weakness of AI, they always pick weird corner cases. But the thing is, these are often where an AI excels. An AI can be trained on thousands, or even millions of simulated water landing scenarios, and replay them over and over until it handles them properly. A human pilot will likely have zero experience.
Once the AI pilot is trained, then the "water landing module" can simply be copied into every plane with a USB thumb drive. Human pilots need to be trained one by one.
Last year I visited a research farm near UC Davis. The fields were no-till, and rather than spraying the entire field with glyphosate, the used a targeted applicator and an optical sensor to recognize the weeds and put the herbicide directly onto the leaves. No glyphosate was wasted by spraying it onto the soil or the crop. This cut the need for herbicide by 95%, reducing the cost and the environmental impact. They hope to make the applicator so accurate that it can even be used with crops that have no glyphosate tolerance, since none of it will touch them.
In a few years, this technology will be common, and plowshares will be melted down to make, well, maybe swords or something.
Or, without tax incentives to grow corn for ethanol, farmers will go bankrupt
GOOD! Then they can get new jobs producing something that people want to buy because it actually has value. Stupid make work schemes are not "good for the economy".
Why should farmers be subsidized, and not hairdressers or grocery clerks? Since farming is actually harmful to the environment, it should be the last thing to be subsidized.
Yes we can. The trick is to stop plowing. No-till is cheaper, less labor intensive, more profitable, and better for the soil. It also results in more carbon retained in the soil as humus. It is widely used, and adoption is growing.
Facebook is creepy, they don't ask for permission to follow you around
Hundreds of companies track you with cookies, etc. NONE of them ask for permission. That is not a Facebook issue, and has nothing to do with turning on your camera without your permission.
No it isn't. This would be an opt-in service. It is no different in principle from using any other face-chat service. There is no way in heck that FB is going to just film people without consent. They would be hit by an avalanche of lawsuits and bad publicity.
Also, filing a patent does not mean they "want" to do this. Companies file tons of patents for random crap all the time, mostly for defensive purposes. The last company I worked for offered a $1000 bonus for any "patentable idea" regardless of whether it had anything to do with their business.
The fact that people are going "out on a limb to lie to the American people" doesn't seem to bother you
Actually, it does bother me that our president surrounds himself with people that lack honesty and integrity. Meanwhile, Comey was fired for refusing to lie.
It makes travelling so much easier and I can skip the whole baggage claim annoyance.
I haven't used baggage claim in more than ten years, just by packing sensibly. What do you need besides a laptop, cellphone, toothbrush, and two changes of clothes? All of that fits in my carry-on backpack.
The maximum configuration of MacBook Pro is $4,000
That is the maximum but is far from the value of a typical laptop.
before you factor in the value of the data on the computer, which offers the potential for nearly unbounded loss
Two words: 1. Backups 2. Encryption My backup software does an incremental every hour. If I backup my data before my flight, and I use an encrypted drive (which I do), then I lose nothing, and nothing is compromised.
1. Trump fired the FBI director for reasons that appeared to be tantamount to obstruction of justice. His staff defended his actions, and said the reasons for Comey's firing had nothing to do with the Russia probe. Then Trump tweeted that he did indeed fire Comey for the exact reasons that his staff had denied.
2. Trump outed an Israeli intelligence asset in Assad's inner circle by blabbing to the Russians about it. Several of his staff said they were in the meeting at the time, and no such information had been discussed. Trump then cut them off at the knees by saying that he did indeed blab to the Russians during the meeting, and that he had a right to do so (and legally, the president probably does have the right to betray an ally).
In these tweets he admitted to actions that were at the least stupid, and possibly criminal, but were also incredibly disloyal to subordinates that went out on a limb to lie to the American people in an attempt to defend him.
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Softbank is way way bigger than Boston Dynamics, and is one of the biggest technology companies in the world. I am surprised that you don't know that.
Factoid: The CEO of Softbank, Masayoshi Son, is ethnically Korean, and unlike many "zainichi" he never tried to hide his Korean ancestry. So Softbank was long excluded from many of the insider cliques and cross-ownership deals, and took on a much more free-wheeling style and international outlook than is common in Japan. This ultimately led to far greater success.
Schaft has better actuator technology; electrical, rather than hydraulic.
Nitpick: BD uses pneumatics (air) rather than hydraulics (oil).
Pneumatics have several advantages over hydraulics:
1. Air is free.
2. Leaks are much less messy.
3. It is much easier to make modifications.
4. Air has less inertia and viscosity, so faster actions are possible.
5. Air is compressible so pneumatic actuators can absorb shocks and impacts.
But, as you said, electrical actuators are generally even better.
he should get time in maximum security with the rest of the scum.
Nonsense. Prisons, and especially max-sec prisons, should only be used for violent people that need to be physically separated from civilized society. For everyone else there are more appropriate and constructive alternatives. For instance, this guy could have all his assets seized, and spend 40 hours per week for the next 10 years changing bed pans in a nursing home. That way he will be contributing to society instead of being a burden, and his kids won't grow up in a broken home.
It's always interesting when someone makes it a point to deny what no one has accused them of.
Why are you trying to shift the blame to me? Where were YOU on the night of July 11th, 1999?
the amount of CPU required to encode and render it would be insane.
GPU not CPU. GPUs are insanely powerful. The GPU in my laptop has 1024 cores running at 2GHz. That is 2 trillion ops per second.
The conspiracy theory ignores Jevon's Paradox. As computing efficiency goes up, people buy more computing/storage/bandwidth since the increased demand driven by new applications swamps the decreased demand from greater efficiency. So Sloot's compression algorithm (if it really worked) would have likely driven demand up, and killing him would have made no sense.
Disclaimer: I didn't kill him, and this post is not an effort to cover up the conspiracy.
consensus among a critical mass of stakeholders.
The threshold is 51%, and the 3 biggest miners control 53%. The top 3 are all in China. If the 3 of them agree, they can do anything they want with the Bitcoin blockchain.
We used to have famines, too. Not so much in the age of farm subsidies.
Wrong. The Irish potato famine was the last major peacetime famine in Europe, and it occurred while Britain (which ruled Ireland) still enforced the "Corn Laws" which imposed a tariff on grain imports and a subsidy for domestic production of grain.
Let me know when these AIs can land a plane on the Hudson River after a massive bird strike.
Most human pilots couldn't have done it. An AI pilot, if it was trained with water landings as a criteria, could.
Whenever people try to point out the weakness of AI, they always pick weird corner cases. But the thing is, these are often where an AI excels. An AI can be trained on thousands, or even millions of simulated water landing scenarios, and replay them over and over until it handles them properly. A human pilot will likely have zero experience.
Once the AI pilot is trained, then the "water landing module" can simply be copied into every plane with a USB thumb drive. Human pilots need to be trained one by one.
When that eventually happens, and it will happen, people will become far too afraid to fly in AI only flights.
Pilot error is one of the most common reasons for crashes. AI auto-pilots don't need to be perfect, they just need to be better than humans.
So start them out in cargo planes, continue to improve the tech, and once they pass humans in reliability, no more human pilots.
Last year I visited a research farm near UC Davis. The fields were no-till, and rather than spraying the entire field with glyphosate, the used a targeted applicator and an optical sensor to recognize the weeds and put the herbicide directly onto the leaves. No glyphosate was wasted by spraying it onto the soil or the crop. This cut the need for herbicide by 95%, reducing the cost and the environmental impact. They hope to make the applicator so accurate that it can even be used with crops that have no glyphosate tolerance, since none of it will touch them.
In a few years, this technology will be common, and plowshares will be melted down to make, well, maybe swords or something.
Monsanto's glyphosate
Glyphosate has been off patent for years, so it is not "Monsanto's". Most RR seeds are also off patent.
along with insecticides
No-till does not require more insecticides than plow-based farming.
what kind of long term damage to society will result?
Compared to plowing? Much less.
Yea, fuck food!
We had food long before we had ethanol subsidies.
Or, without tax incentives to grow corn for ethanol, farmers will go bankrupt
GOOD! Then they can get new jobs producing something that people want to buy because it actually has value. Stupid make work schemes are not "good for the economy".
Why should farmers be subsidized, and not hairdressers or grocery clerks? Since farming is actually harmful to the environment, it should be the last thing to be subsidized.
What happens to the price of that "grass" when 15.8 million acres of it are planted?
Billions of dollars stay in the American economy rather than going to violent gangs in Mexico and Colombia.
Cant we farm without the soil blowing away
Yes we can. The trick is to stop plowing. No-till is cheaper, less labor intensive, more profitable, and better for the soil. It also results in more carbon retained in the soil as humus. It is widely used, and adoption is growing.
Facebook is creepy, they don't ask for permission to follow you around
Hundreds of companies track you with cookies, etc. NONE of them ask for permission. That is not a Facebook issue, and has nothing to do with turning on your camera without your permission.
Shower gel, toothpaste, shampoo, shaving cream, after shave, deoderant and other liquids that you cannot pack in carry-on baggage anymore.
All of these come in travel-size containers that can be carried on.
It is creepy.
No it isn't. This would be an opt-in service. It is no different in principle from using any other face-chat service. There is no way in heck that FB is going to just film people without consent. They would be hit by an avalanche of lawsuits and bad publicity.
Also, filing a patent does not mean they "want" to do this. Companies file tons of patents for random crap all the time, mostly for defensive purposes. The last company I worked for offered a $1000 bonus for any "patentable idea" regardless of whether it had anything to do with their business.
Trump did the morally right thing to do, and for that I respect him as a leader even more.
The morally right thing to do would have been to fire the liars. Trump didn't do that. He fired Comey ... for refusing to lie.
the MPAA and such claiming they loose millions of dollars because someone pirated one movie.
If your drive is encrypted, that is not an issue.
The fact that people are going "out on a limb to lie to the American people" doesn't seem to bother you
Actually, it does bother me that our president surrounds himself with people that lack honesty and integrity. Meanwhile, Comey was fired for refusing to lie.
It makes travelling so much easier and I can skip the whole baggage claim annoyance.
I haven't used baggage claim in more than ten years, just by packing sensibly. What do you need besides a laptop, cellphone, toothbrush, and two changes of clothes? All of that fits in my carry-on backpack.
The maximum configuration of MacBook Pro is $4,000
That is the maximum but is far from the value of a typical laptop.
before you factor in the value of the data on the computer, which offers the potential for nearly unbounded loss
Two words:
1. Backups
2. Encryption
My backup software does an incremental every hour. If I backup my data before my flight, and I use an encrypted drive (which I do), then I lose nothing, and nothing is compromised.
Which of his own schemes has he sabotaged?
A few examples:
1. Trump fired the FBI director for reasons that appeared to be tantamount to obstruction of justice. His staff defended his actions, and said the reasons for Comey's firing had nothing to do with the Russia probe. Then Trump tweeted that he did indeed fire Comey for the exact reasons that his staff had denied.
2. Trump outed an Israeli intelligence asset in Assad's inner circle by blabbing to the Russians about it. Several of his staff said they were in the meeting at the time, and no such information had been discussed. Trump then cut them off at the knees by saying that he did indeed blab to the Russians during the meeting, and that he had a right to do so (and legally, the president probably does have the right to betray an ally).
In these tweets he admitted to actions that were at the least stupid, and possibly criminal, but were also incredibly disloyal to subordinates that went out on a limb to lie to the American people in an attempt to defend him.