Seriously. I don't want to call people "morons", but buying a car sight-unseen is bad.
Tesla has a well earned reputation for quality. My wife has a Model-S, and it is a very nice car. Certainly the best that I have ever driven. I think most of the people placing these pre-orders can afford the $1000 deposit.
Sounds like the reality distortion field is strong with this one.
... and Morton sells more than a billion grains of salt every week.
By "biggest" they don't mean just the number of items, but (items*price). 13 million iPhones for $500 each is still less than 325k cars at $35,000 each.
thanks. Learnt something today. I never realized this was the basis of effectively a new class system
The main reason you haven't heard more about it, is because 99% of Chinese that are able to obtain visas and travel to the West belong to the privileged class, and have no reason to criticize a system that benefits themselves and their families.
So you think that the ANN is thinking like a person does?
At the neuron level, yes, they basically function the same. Brains seem to use an algorithm similar to backpropagation, so "correct" responses lead to strengthened connections, and "incorrect" responses cause connections to be weakened.
That would be very interesting considering we have no idea how the brain works.
That is nonsense. We don't (yet) have a complete model for the brain, be we have far more than "no idea".
Like I said, good luck. People have been trying for decades, and haven't gotten anywhere near emulating brain activity in silico.
Except for the ANN that just won a Go tournament. Or the ANNs that can do face recognition, speech recognition, or many other things.
Of course, they can't do everything that a brain can do, but a baby can't run a marathon either.
Deep learning based on sigmoidal belief nets is inspired by the architecture of the brain. Autoencoders are very similar in function to the "mirroring" that occurs in the brain. Silico and vivo are not as different as you believe.
But in 25 years, you and every other programmer out there will be obsolete.
Programmers will be the last profession to be automated. Once you can automate human-level programming, you can use self-programming to automate everything.
I'd like to see an automated system that can produce proper code from a PHB's vague one sentence request.
Blocking 99% is good enough. China is not trying to totally block outside information. They are just trying to keep a lid on organized dissent. Western news publications are commonly available at newsstands, although an occasional story on Tibet, or Xinjiang, or Xi Jinping's offshore bank accounts, will be torn out. Most urban Chinese are better informed about what is going on in the world than typical Americans. China is actually more worried about social networks, where people can organize outside of party control. So Facebook is blocked, and instead they have WeChat and QQ, which are monitored and controlled.
Also, the Chinese Firewall is not "stupid". It may be evil, but it is not stupid. It is very effective at accomplishing its goals.
China has never even tried to implement a classless society. In fact, they did the opposite, by strengthening feudalism and binding the poor to the land. Everyone in China is issued a Hukou identification card at birth, that has their hereditary class printed on it. If you have the "wrong" class, as 80% of the population does, then you can be deprived of public education, housing, and even food. 99% of the 30 million people that starved to death during the Great Leap Forward had low class (rural) hukous. Today, about half the children in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai, have no right to attend public school, or go to a public hospital.
One reason that the Chinese and outsiders see the Tiananmen Square incident very differently, is that the protesters never called for reform of the Hukou system. Outsiders see the protesters as heroes standing against oppression. Many Chinese see them as spoiled offspring of the urban elite trying to preserve their privileges.
A Tesla charger has an efficiency of over 90%. If this charger has an efficiency three times that, then it should be above 270%. Maybe it can feed the extra 170% back into the grid.
Musk can't copyright the name of a famous scientist.
TRADEMARK, not copyright... and yes he can, but only for a narrow commercial purpose. Elon owns the trademark "Tesla" as a car brand. NVIDA owns the trademark "Tesla" as a GPU brand.
There were no potatoes in Ireland prior to 1589, yet there were plenty of Irish.
Nope. Ireland was sparsely populated prior to the introduction of potatoes. Staple crops like wheat grow poorly in their cold wet climate. Potatoes had a huge effect on European history, enabling northern lands to increase in population, devote fewer workers to growing food, and invest more in commerce and military force. Power shifted from the Mediterranean to Germany, Britain, Sweden and Russia. The Reformation likely would have failed without this power shift. Nothing did more to destroy the Spanish Empire than that sack of potatoes that they brought back from Peru.
No Americans THAT ACTUALLY MATTER...US Senators? US Pollys? US Company CEOs? US Banking execs? Where are they in this list?
They are not on the list because in America it is PERFECTLY LEGAL to use your influence to get rich. So there is no need to hide the wealth. Senators collect money from lobbyists, and use the revolving door to become lobbyists. American CEOs and bankers make far more than their European counterparts, mostly in leveraged stock options. There is no need to hide the money, since is is all above board.
Yes, quadrotors are more energy hungry than a plane or an helicopter and it makes probably more noise and is less compact than an helicopter as well.
I bought my son a $69 quadrotor drone for his birthday that has a 10 minute flight time, and meets all of the other criteria listed in the summary. So instead of spending their budget investigating the feasibility, they should get in their Humvee and drive to the closest mall.
The quadrotor may be slightly bigger than a heli-drone, but it is much more stable and easier to fly. My son was flying his skillfully after 2 hours of practice, so the Pentagon should be able to train operators for about $50k each.
"So when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks until when you have overcome them, then make (them) prisoners
That does NOT advocate executing anyone. Only killing of belligerents in battle, who are to be taken prisoner as soon as they stop resisting. That is not extreme in the least, and is about as mainstream as a policy can be.
We are not dependent on SA for oil. America is mostly self-sufficient in oil, and what we do import comes mostly from Canada and Mexico.
As dependency drops I hope that our government(s) tolerance for an oppressive theology diminishes.
To his credit, Obama's administration vigorously protested the recent execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. So there is some hope that America will grow a backbone, and oppose despotism from "allies" as well as enemies.
... while Apps from other medieval factions are "ok".
Could you please post a link the specific app(s) that you are complaining about? Does Saudi Arabia actually have an app that advocates beheading infidels?
It's a walled garden. It just has slightly different walls.
Not really. I have submitted several apps, and they were available nearly instantly. As far as I can tell, there is no app review process. They just remove apps in response to complaints, not proactively.
I don't think the idiot in office right now thinks it'd be a nice idea for South Korea and Japan to have the bomb, or any of dozens of other insane thoughts.
An arms race in NE Asia will have negative repercussions for Canadians as much as Americans. Canada would like suffer more from American protectionism than America itself. I don't think you can run away from Trump's problems by moving to Canada.
First let us postulate that the computer scientists succeed in developing intelligent machines that can do all things better than human beings can do them. In that case presumably all work will be done by vast, highly organized systems of machines
That is a foolish presumption. "Intelligent machines" will only do the the tasks where they have a comparative advantage. By definition, that is not "everything".
You know who "investors" are? They're people who've been slaving away in cubicles for 30 years putting money into their 401(k) plans
Indeed. The total value of American stockmarkets is about $20 trillion. The total value of American retirement accounts is about $19 trillion, but about 40% is in non-equity investments (mostly bonds, but also REITs, etc.). So more than half of stock market equity is owned by working people saving for retirement, or already retired.
The idea that investors only care about quarterly profits is nonsense. If you exclude HFTs (who are market-makers, not investors, and often hold stocks for less than a second), the average time an investor holds a stock has doubled in the last decade. Investors tend to be very patient with companies that have weak profits but high growth. Example: Amazon.
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Seriously. I don't want to call people "morons", but buying a car sight-unseen is bad.
Tesla has a well earned reputation for quality. My wife has a Model-S, and it is a very nice car. Certainly the best that I have ever driven. I think most of the people placing these pre-orders can afford the $1000 deposit.
Sounds like the reality distortion field is strong with this one.
... and Morton sells more than a billion grains of salt every week.
By "biggest" they don't mean just the number of items, but (items*price). 13 million iPhones for $500 each is still less than 325k cars at $35,000 each.
thanks. Learnt something today. I never realized this was the basis of effectively a new class system
The main reason you haven't heard more about it, is because 99% of Chinese that are able to obtain visas and travel to the West belong to the privileged class, and have no reason to criticize a system that benefits themselves and their families.
So you think that the ANN is thinking like a person does?
At the neuron level, yes, they basically function the same. Brains seem to use an algorithm similar to backpropagation, so "correct" responses lead to strengthened connections, and "incorrect" responses cause connections to be weakened.
That would be very interesting considering we have no idea how the brain works.
That is nonsense. We don't (yet) have a complete model for the brain, be we have far more than "no idea".
Like I said, good luck. People have been trying for decades, and haven't gotten anywhere near emulating brain activity in silico.
Except for the ANN that just won a Go tournament. Or the ANNs that can do face recognition, speech recognition, or many other things.
Of course, they can't do everything that a brain can do, but a baby can't run a marathon either.
Deep learning based on sigmoidal belief nets is inspired by the architecture of the brain. Autoencoders are very similar in function to the "mirroring" that occurs in the brain. Silico and vivo are not as different as you believe.
But in 25 years, you and every other programmer out there will be obsolete.
Programmers will be the last profession to be automated. Once you can automate human-level programming, you can use self-programming to automate everything.
I'd like to see an automated system that can produce proper code from a PHB's vague one sentence request.
Blocking 99% is good enough. China is not trying to totally block outside information. They are just trying to keep a lid on organized dissent. Western news publications are commonly available at newsstands, although an occasional story on Tibet, or Xinjiang, or Xi Jinping's offshore bank accounts, will be torn out. Most urban Chinese are better informed about what is going on in the world than typical Americans. China is actually more worried about social networks, where people can organize outside of party control. So Facebook is blocked, and instead they have WeChat and QQ, which are monitored and controlled.
Also, the Chinese Firewall is not "stupid". It may be evil, but it is not stupid. It is very effective at accomplishing its goals.
China has never even tried to implement a classless society. In fact, they did the opposite, by strengthening feudalism and binding the poor to the land. Everyone in China is issued a Hukou identification card at birth, that has their hereditary class printed on it. If you have the "wrong" class, as 80% of the population does, then you can be deprived of public education, housing, and even food. 99% of the 30 million people that starved to death during the Great Leap Forward had low class (rural) hukous. Today, about half the children in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai, have no right to attend public school, or go to a public hospital.
One reason that the Chinese and outsiders see the Tiananmen Square incident very differently, is that the protesters never called for reform of the Hukou system. Outsiders see the protesters as heroes standing against oppression. Many Chinese see them as spoiled offspring of the urban elite trying to preserve their privileges.
There's an abundance of research showing that strong electric and magnetic fields can be hazardous.
No there isn't.
It's also been shown that too much exposure [to MRI] causes cancer.
Total BS.
A Tesla charger has an efficiency of over 90%. If this charger has an efficiency three times that, then it should be above 270%. Maybe it can feed the extra 170% back into the grid.
How many women do you think would want some dick next to them in the bathroom regardless of what's in their mind...
How many women considered that a problem before this law was passed? This law was designed to appeal to bigots, not address an actual problem.
Musk can't copyright the name of a famous scientist.
TRADEMARK, not copyright ... and yes he can, but only for a narrow commercial purpose. Elon owns the trademark "Tesla" as a car brand. NVIDA owns the trademark "Tesla" as a GPU brand.
Please enjoy hunting me with your time machine.
https://xkcd.com/652.
There were no potatoes in Ireland prior to 1589, yet there were plenty of Irish.
Nope. Ireland was sparsely populated prior to the introduction of potatoes. Staple crops like wheat grow poorly in their cold wet climate. Potatoes had a huge effect on European history, enabling northern lands to increase in population, devote fewer workers to growing food, and invest more in commerce and military force. Power shifted from the Mediterranean to Germany, Britain, Sweden and Russia. The Reformation likely would have failed without this power shift. Nothing did more to destroy the Spanish Empire than that sack of potatoes that they brought back from Peru.
Selective breeding is analogous to using mother nature's tools
The tools of genetic engineering, such as CRISPR/CAS, come from bacteria, which are also part of "Mother Nature".
Genetic engineering is something entirely different.
No it isn't. It is just another point on a continuum.
No Americans THAT ACTUALLY MATTER...US Senators? US Pollys? US Company CEOs? US Banking execs? Where are they in this list?
They are not on the list because in America it is PERFECTLY LEGAL to use your influence to get rich. So there is no need to hide the wealth. Senators collect money from lobbyists, and use the revolving door to become lobbyists. American CEOs and bankers make far more than their European counterparts, mostly in leveraged stock options. There is no need to hide the money, since is is all above board.
Yes, quadrotors are more energy hungry than a plane or an helicopter and it makes probably more noise and is less compact than an helicopter as well.
I bought my son a $69 quadrotor drone for his birthday that has a 10 minute flight time, and meets all of the other criteria listed in the summary. So instead of spending their budget investigating the feasibility, they should get in their Humvee and drive to the closest mall.
The quadrotor may be slightly bigger than a heli-drone, but it is much more stable and easier to fly. My son was flying his skillfully after 2 hours of practice, so the Pentagon should be able to train operators for about $50k each.
"So when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks until when you have overcome them, then make (them) prisoners
That does NOT advocate executing anyone. Only killing of belligerents in battle, who are to be taken prisoner as soon as they stop resisting. That is not extreme in the least, and is about as mainstream as a policy can be.
(especially if we're dependent on them for oil)
We are not dependent on SA for oil. America is mostly self-sufficient in oil, and what we do import comes mostly from Canada and Mexico.
As dependency drops I hope that our government(s) tolerance for an oppressive theology diminishes.
To his credit, Obama's administration vigorously protested the recent execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. So there is some hope that America will grow a backbone, and oppose despotism from "allies" as well as enemies.
... while Apps from other medieval factions are "ok".
Could you please post a link the specific app(s) that you are complaining about? Does Saudi Arabia actually have an app that advocates beheading infidels?
It's a walled garden. It just has slightly different walls.
Not really. I have submitted several apps, and they were available nearly instantly. As far as I can tell, there is no app review process. They just remove apps in response to complaints, not proactively.
and some things labelled as game changers turn out to be of little use
The most overhyped "game changer" was the Segway, with predictions that cities would be redesigned for it.
The least appreciated was when Og invented fire, and all the other Australopitheci laughed.
I don't think the idiot in office right now thinks it'd be a nice idea for South Korea and Japan to have the bomb, or any of dozens of other insane thoughts.
An arms race in NE Asia will have negative repercussions for Canadians as much as Americans. Canada would like suffer more from American protectionism than America itself. I don't think you can run away from Trump's problems by moving to Canada.
Machines can put 90% of the human race out of work ...
Too late. That already happened during the mechanization of agriculture in the late 19th and early 20th century.
... and that will have a huge impact on humanity.
Indeed. Average incomes doubled and doubled again as productivity soared.
First let us postulate that the computer scientists succeed in developing intelligent machines that can do all things better than human beings can do them. In that case presumably all work will be done by vast, highly organized systems of machines
That is a foolish presumption. "Intelligent machines" will only do the the tasks where they have a comparative advantage. By definition, that is not "everything".
You know who "investors" are? They're people who've been slaving away in cubicles for 30 years putting money into their 401(k) plans
Indeed. The total value of American stockmarkets is about $20 trillion. The total value of American retirement accounts is about $19 trillion, but about 40% is in non-equity investments (mostly bonds, but also REITs, etc.). So more than half of stock market equity is owned by working people saving for retirement, or already retired.
The idea that investors only care about quarterly profits is nonsense. If you exclude HFTs (who are market-makers, not investors, and often hold stocks for less than a second), the average time an investor holds a stock has doubled in the last decade. Investors tend to be very patient with companies that have weak profits but high growth. Example: Amazon.