What I want to know is how to get cheap internet ONLY.
The marginal cost to the cable company of providing you with TV service is exactly $0. So there is no logical reason that Internet-Only should be cheaper than Internet+TV.
Methane - 8% of greenhouse emissions, x86 times the impact of CO2 (Yes, that makes is a significantly bigger problem than CO2).
Methane induced warming is measured by "CO2 equivalence", so the number you are quoting is already multiplied by the potency.
There is 200 times more CO2 than CH4 in the atmosphere.
Methane has a much shorter half-life in the atmosphere, so it is not as much of a long term problem. Methane is 86 times as potent, but has a potency factor of 34 over a century.
Last year, the world emitted 36B tons of CO2, and about 0.25B tons of CH4, equivalent to about 8B tons of CO2 in 100-year warming potential. So methane is a serious problem, but far less than CO2.
Methane emissions are declining in most 1st world nations, mostly because of better wellhead equipment, but also because of declining beef consumption.
Methane emissions are rising in less developed countries, mostly because of rising meat consumption. Taxes on beef may be able shift consumption to chicken or pork, but are unlikely to be politically feasible on a wide scale.
Another problem is that they ignore the quality of the experience. A sugar pill is safe but it would be silly to say it is the "best" drug since it doesn't do anything.
There is a link to report a post as abusive or disrespectful. Then it will be reviewed by someone else who will make a final determination. I don't know the details because I have never reported a post. I have a very high tolerance for on-line abuse.
You can also downvote a post to make it less visible. It is ok to downvote just because the post is wrong or not very informative.
In my experience, a lot of people consider it already "bad attitude" and "obnoxious behaviour" if someone dares to have a diverging viewpoint.
I have not seen that on Quora. It is not a forum for extended back-and-forth discussions like Slashdot. There is not really any good way to "reply" to another post, other than writing your own answer that will be posted independently and likely out of sequence.
For heart surgery, you have to trust someone or something else. You can't do it yourself. So I would trust either a human or a robot, and choose whichever has the best track record.
But picking a savings account? Why can't I just do that for myself? I wouldn't trust a "robot**", but I would trust a human "financial advisor" even less, since they have no fiduciary duty to act in my best interest.
**Pet peeve: People using the word "robot" to describe a purely software program. No mechanical components are needed to recommend a savings account, so it is NOT a "robot". It is just a "program".
China has swung back and forth between isolationism and openness. Isolationism has repeatedly been an unmitigated disaster for their civilization. The Haijin policies of the Ming Dynasty meant Europeans were able to colonize the world without competition. The "Closed Door" policy of the Qings in the 19th century meant they missed the industrial revolution. The "self sufficiency" polices of Mao from 1949-1976 made China into one of the world's poorest countries.
Walls, Isolationism, protectionism, and censorship of the outside world is not the path to prosperity, and never has been. Not for China, not for America.
It's telling that these SJW companies looking to offer a "safe space" on the internet can't find traction.
That is not entirely true. Quora.com has a "be nice, be respectful" policy, and is doing well. They don't censor viewpoints, but they do ban bad attitudes and obnoxious behavior.
Besides the contour of the land, those reasons would be....
That is reason enough. No one is going to open a software dev shop 60 miles up a winding mountain road.
Another reason is the people. They are widely dispersed, uneducated, and proudly close minded. When I took my kids to Kentucky to visit their cousins, they were shocked at the cultural divide. These are the people that thought that building a replica of Noah's Ark was a good use of their tax dollars. And now they want other people to pay for their roads.
This is the reason that the Democratic Party is losing the working class. Millions of welders, pipefitters, and carpenters spend their entire careers on one "temporary" job after another. That is how infrastructure is built. Then politicians in fancy three piece suits tell them they aren't doing "real" work.
That is greater reason to fix the infrastructure and provide greater US federal budget supplement to improve education both in schools and by establishing libraries and community education programs.
This is exactly the opposite of what we should be doing. There are very good reasons that Appalachia has never been successful at anything other than resource extraction. By far the best thing we can do is help the people there move somewhere else.
I grew up in Appalachia. My grandfather died of black lung disease. I left on my 18th birthday on a bus to Parris Island. I have relatives that left, and like me, are doing well. I have relatives that stayed, and are mostly living in trailer parks.
The people should move to where there are opportunities, and Appalachia can become the world's largest nature reserve.
The unemployment rate in America is 4.6%, which is "full employment". In Seattle it is 3.1%, and businesses are struggling to find enough workers. So if Amazon employees don't like their jobs, there are plenty of alternatives.
statistical evidence that certain ethnic groups display on average higher intelligence than others (such as whites as compared to blacks).
IQ is not the same as intelligence, although it is almost certainly highly correlated. Whites are not on top. Both Jews and East Asians score higher on average. In America, blacks have mean IQ scores about 0.7 SD, or about 10 points, lower than whites. Black children have, on average, twice the blood lead levels of white children. The first large scale IQ testing in America was of recruits during the First World War, in 1917. In those 1917 tests, the average score was 15 points below today's average. A century ago, there was a 15 point gap in IQ scores between Protestant and Catholics in Ireland. Today there is no gap.
So is the "IQ gap" caused by genetics? Maybe, but similar gaps in the past were not.
There is a long ugly history of people trying to wrap racism in scientific jargon. While the heritability of intelligence is a fascinating issue, there are understandable reasons why it is not considered an appropriate conversation topic in polite society. If you bring it up, you should be prepared to have your motives questioned.
If, like me, you have never heard the term "Edge Computing" before, here is a link. After reading that page, I am still not quite sure what it is, but I know that next time I want a project funded, instead of saying "We will run it in the Cloud", I will say "We will run it on the Edge".
No amount of shaming men to try to make them more like women is going to change that
Not true. I first heard of the interruption difference years ago when I read this book. Once I was attuned to it, I noticed it happening in meetings, and I noticed that I did it myself. So I try to interrupt less, and if someone else interrupts a woman during a meeting, I often later ask her to finish her point. So at least in my case, it made a difference.
I hope every one of them is caught and hung at the nearest lamp post. Gimme the rope.
Be careful what you wish for. Harsh punishments for rape are correlated with very high acquittal rates and a cultural of impunity. Society's "ideal" of rape is a pure innocent blonde virgin minding her own business when some total stranger grabs her and drags her into the bushes. Very few real rapes are anything like that, but the more the actual situation diverges from the "ideal", the less likely the women is to be believed or even take seriously. Very few juries are likely to put a seemingly nice guy in prison for 20 years because of a "he-said-she-said" accusation of date rape.
Any GO expert care to explain why this is feasible or silly ?
It is silly. If you train a neural net to differentiate a photo of a dog from a photo of a cat, it can learn to do that. But it is then silly to expect it to recognize a picture of, say, a horse. That is NOT what it was trained to do.
Likewise, Alpha-Go was specifically trained to play on a 19x19 board. Any other size, such as 18x18, would not even be recognized as valid input.
On the other hand, if you trained it on variable sized boards, then it could adapt to that.
Here is an actual example: Deepmind trained a NN to play a wide variety of video games. When it was introduced to a new video game, it could used its existing training to play and master the new game much faster than even the best humans.
Go is played on 9x9, 13x13, and 19x19 boards. On the smaller boards, tactics (joseki) is more important. On bigger boards, strategy (fuseki) is more important, and apparently innocuous early moves can have far reaching effects much later in the game. On a 38x38 board, strategy would likely be even more important, and winning the game would require a profoundly different style of play. My gut feeling is that an AI, trained by playing against itself, could master that new style much faster than a human.
I was just wondering if this, or a chess program, are really AI or are they just a traveling salesman algorithm for Go or Chess?
False dichotomy. A solution to the TSP is not necessarily "not AI". If you used machine learning to train an ANN to find better solutions to the TSP than methods such as simulated annealing or Christofides Algorithm, then that would certainly be considered "AI" by actual AI researchers and practitioners.
Mathematically, which is harder to solve for, Go or Chess?
Go, by a huge margin. But that is irrelevant, since neither is solved mathematically be either humans or computers. They are solved with heuristics. It is not necessary to find the mathematically optimal move, just a move that is "good enough" to defeat your opponent.
Games that can actually be solved mathematically, such as tic-tac-toe or nim, are not very interesting.
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What I want to know is how to get cheap internet ONLY.
The marginal cost to the cable company of providing you with TV service is exactly $0. So there is no logical reason that Internet-Only should be cheaper than Internet+TV.
Methane - 8% of greenhouse emissions, x86 times the impact of CO2 (Yes, that makes is a significantly bigger problem than CO2).
Methane induced warming is measured by "CO2 equivalence", so the number you are quoting is already multiplied by the potency.
There is 200 times more CO2 than CH4 in the atmosphere.
Methane has a much shorter half-life in the atmosphere, so it is not as much of a long term problem. Methane is 86 times as potent, but has a potency factor of 34 over a century.
Last year, the world emitted 36B tons of CO2, and about 0.25B tons of CH4, equivalent to about 8B tons of CO2 in 100-year warming potential. So methane is a serious problem, but far less than CO2.
Methane emissions are declining in most 1st world nations, mostly because of better wellhead equipment, but also because of declining beef consumption.
Methane emissions are rising in less developed countries, mostly because of rising meat consumption. Taxes on beef may be able shift consumption to chicken or pork, but are unlikely to be politically feasible on a wide scale.
Methane emissions by country.
CO2 emissions by country.
Disclaimer: I don't eat meat, so don't blame me.
Another problem is that they ignore the quality of the experience. A sugar pill is safe but it would be silly to say it is the "best" drug since it doesn't do anything.
How do they balance that threshold?
There is a link to report a post as abusive or disrespectful. Then it will be reviewed by someone else who will make a final determination. I don't know the details because I have never reported a post. I have a very high tolerance for on-line abuse.
You can also downvote a post to make it less visible. It is ok to downvote just because the post is wrong or not very informative.
In my experience, a lot of people consider it already "bad attitude" and "obnoxious behaviour" if someone dares to have a diverging viewpoint.
I have not seen that on Quora. It is not a forum for extended back-and-forth discussions like Slashdot. There is not really any good way to "reply" to another post, other than writing your own answer that will be posted independently and likely out of sequence.
For heart surgery, you have to trust someone or something else. You can't do it yourself. So I would trust either a human or a robot, and choose whichever has the best track record.
But picking a savings account? Why can't I just do that for myself? I wouldn't trust a "robot**", but I would trust a human "financial advisor" even less, since they have no fiduciary duty to act in my best interest.
**Pet peeve: People using the word "robot" to describe a purely software program. No mechanical components are needed to recommend a savings account, so it is NOT a "robot". It is just a "program".
"Buy now or wait for something better" is a dilemma faced by anyone who has ever bought any computer.
What right does a citizen have to fly a drone? I don't see that in the constitution.
Drones are useful to militias, so they are protected under the 2nd Amendment.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and fly drones, shall not be infringed.
China has swung back and forth between isolationism and openness. Isolationism has repeatedly been an unmitigated disaster for their civilization. The Haijin policies of the Ming Dynasty meant Europeans were able to colonize the world without competition. The "Closed Door" policy of the Qings in the 19th century meant they missed the industrial revolution. The "self sufficiency" polices of Mao from 1949-1976 made China into one of the world's poorest countries.
Walls, Isolationism, protectionism, and censorship of the outside world is not the path to prosperity, and never has been. Not for China, not for America.
It's telling that these SJW companies looking to offer a "safe space" on the internet can't find traction.
That is not entirely true. Quora.com has a "be nice, be respectful" policy, and is doing well. They don't censor viewpoints, but they do ban bad attitudes and obnoxious behavior.
Besides the contour of the land, those reasons would be....
That is reason enough. No one is going to open a software dev shop 60 miles up a winding mountain road.
Another reason is the people. They are widely dispersed, uneducated, and proudly close minded. When I took my kids to Kentucky to visit their cousins, they were shocked at the cultural divide. These are the people that thought that building a replica of Noah's Ark was a good use of their tax dollars. And now they want other people to pay for their roads.
Only during the construction phase.
This is the reason that the Democratic Party is losing the working class. Millions of welders, pipefitters, and carpenters spend their entire careers on one "temporary" job after another. That is how infrastructure is built. Then politicians in fancy three piece suits tell them they aren't doing "real" work.
That is greater reason to fix the infrastructure and provide greater US federal budget supplement to improve education both in schools and by establishing libraries and community education programs.
This is exactly the opposite of what we should be doing. There are very good reasons that Appalachia has never been successful at anything other than resource extraction. By far the best thing we can do is help the people there move somewhere else.
I grew up in Appalachia. My grandfather died of black lung disease. I left on my 18th birthday on a bus to Parris Island. I have relatives that left, and like me, are doing well. I have relatives that stayed, and are mostly living in trailer parks.
The people should move to where there are opportunities, and Appalachia can become the world's largest nature reserve.
Amazon treats workers like garbage.
The unemployment rate in America is 4.6%, which is "full employment". In Seattle it is 3.1%, and businesses are struggling to find enough workers. So if Amazon employees don't like their jobs, there are plenty of alternatives.
Real bookstores are better than the web stores ... you actually get to browse the book before buying it.
You can browse books online. Go to amazon.com and click on "look inside".
Amazon.com has millions of books available. This brick&mortar store has 3000. You can't browse a book that isn't stocked.
statistical evidence that certain ethnic groups display on average higher intelligence than others (such as whites as compared to blacks).
IQ is not the same as intelligence, although it is almost certainly highly correlated.
Whites are not on top. Both Jews and East Asians score higher on average.
In America, blacks have mean IQ scores about 0.7 SD, or about 10 points, lower than whites.
Black children have, on average, twice the blood lead levels of white children.
The first large scale IQ testing in America was of recruits during the First World War, in 1917.
In those 1917 tests, the average score was 15 points below today's average.
A century ago, there was a 15 point gap in IQ scores between Protestant and Catholics in Ireland.
Today there is no gap.
So is the "IQ gap" caused by genetics? Maybe, but similar gaps in the past were not.
There is a long ugly history of people trying to wrap racism in scientific jargon. While the heritability of intelligence is a fascinating issue, there are understandable reasons why it is not considered an appropriate conversation topic in polite society. If you bring it up, you should be prepared to have your motives questioned.
if you pay for everything in cash you are probably automatically becoming a suspect
8% of American households have no one with a bank account or credit cards, and do everything in cash.
If, like me, you have never heard the term "Edge Computing" before, here is a link. After reading that page, I am still not quite sure what it is, but I know that next time I want a project funded, instead of saying "We will run it in the Cloud", I will say "We will run it on the Edge".
No amount of shaming men to try to make them more like women is going to change that
Not true. I first heard of the interruption difference years ago when I read this book. Once I was attuned to it, I noticed it happening in meetings, and I noticed that I did it myself. So I try to interrupt less, and if someone else interrupts a woman during a meeting, I often later ask her to finish her point. So at least in my case, it made a difference.
I hope every one of them is caught and hung at the nearest lamp post. Gimme the rope.
Be careful what you wish for. Harsh punishments for rape are correlated with very high acquittal rates and a cultural of impunity. Society's "ideal" of rape is a pure innocent blonde virgin minding her own business when some total stranger grabs her and drags her into the bushes. Very few real rapes are anything like that, but the more the actual situation diverges from the "ideal", the less likely the women is to be believed or even take seriously. Very few juries are likely to put a seemingly nice guy in prison for 20 years because of a "he-said-she-said" accusation of date rape.
Studies have shown that men interrupt women more than vice versa. So it is a real thing.
It's primarily a tree searching algorithm. On top of that, they use a heuristic to figure out which branches to search down.
This is also what human players do. Since humans can't search as broadly, they prune more aggressively, but the basic algorithm is the same.
Any GO expert care to explain why this is feasible or silly ?
It is silly. If you train a neural net to differentiate a photo of a dog from a photo of a cat, it can learn to do that. But it is then silly to expect it to recognize a picture of, say, a horse. That is NOT what it was trained to do.
Likewise, Alpha-Go was specifically trained to play on a 19x19 board. Any other size, such as 18x18, would not even be recognized as valid input.
On the other hand, if you trained it on variable sized boards, then it could adapt to that.
Here is an actual example: Deepmind trained a NN to play a wide variety of video games. When it was introduced to a new video game, it could used its existing training to play and master the new game much faster than even the best humans.
Go is played on 9x9, 13x13, and 19x19 boards. On the smaller boards, tactics (joseki) is more important. On bigger boards, strategy (fuseki) is more important, and apparently innocuous early moves can have far reaching effects much later in the game. On a 38x38 board, strategy would likely be even more important, and winning the game would require a profoundly different style of play. My gut feeling is that an AI, trained by playing against itself, could master that new style much faster than a human.
I was just wondering if this, or a chess program, are really AI or are they just a traveling salesman algorithm for Go or Chess?
False dichotomy. A solution to the TSP is not necessarily "not AI". If you used machine learning to train an ANN to find better solutions to the TSP than methods such as simulated annealing or Christofides Algorithm, then that would certainly be considered "AI" by actual AI researchers and practitioners.
Mathematically, which is harder to solve for, Go or Chess?
Go, by a huge margin. But that is irrelevant, since neither is solved mathematically be either humans or computers. They are solved with heuristics. It is not necessary to find the mathematically optimal move, just a move that is "good enough" to defeat your opponent.
Games that can actually be solved mathematically, such as tic-tac-toe or nim, are not very interesting.