Not really. There are plenty of webcams that come with free software that can overlay an image (including the requisite spinning-text-around-face logo of the Laughing Man) over a tracked face in real time, but this software instead edits out a tracked area using surrounding data. I wish they gave more explanation, or any explanation at all, rather than the nebulous magical 'increase the image quality back up'.
And my other problem... what is the end goal of an intelligent artificial entity? Humans are driven by biological urges that have been ingrained into us over billions of years. What if the intelligence realized there is no real point to "life" and just chooses to end it all?
Why on earth would an AI not work similarly, and act on whatever 'ingrained urges' that were programmed into it? It seems rather odd that people continue to think that the instant a machine intelligence becomes aware of itself, it would decide to kill all humans. It would be like a child becoming aware of itself, and deciding "right then, I guess I'd better slaughter my parents now".
Just make sure the 'do not kill' weighting is greater than any possible combination of other directive weightings, rather than merely greater than the second-highest weighting.
There are quite a few stories based on an extra planet being shattered to form the asteroid belt. I'd mention one of my favourites here, but it would be a huge spoiler.
Could be a regional thing? Here in the UK, the Generic Tape Brand is Sellotape, not Scotch tape. If you asked someone here for some Scotch tape, they'd probably just wonder why you'd want to import your Sellotape from up north.
It's a SLNN (Self-Learning Neural Network) with actual neurons rather than virtual ones. You don't 'program' the cells, you provide inputs and 'reward' the correct output to those inputs, and let the neurons iteratively learn the correct weights in between.
There are numerous companies that produce custom-fit In Ear Monitors. While you can take ear canal impressions at home if you're adventurous (and have someone to help you pour the resin in), they recommend you visit an Audiologist (and usually give you a coupon for a free impression).
Hasn't Windows been on tablets since tablets were first sold, several years ago? Back when having no keyboard meant half your computer had fallen off, rather than being a selling point.
Technically, you're only supposed to be watching the live-streaming version of the web-based iplayer if you pay the TV license. Stored shows are fine though. It's rather unfortunate that the BBC has started turning unpleasantly closed though: the proprietary nature of the the download service and encryption of the streaming service makes it hard to watch without windows and flash. Then there's the continual slashing of the HD channel bitrate (and the laughable and demonstrably incorrect claims that it 'looks just as good' at 9.7mbps as at 16mbps) and use of 1440x1080.
But griping aside, they still produce excellent programming, provide an excellent news service, and as long as they continue to provide these without adverts I'll continue to pay the license fee.
If you'd actually read TFA, you'd know that while these are parallax barrier displays, they don't have just two planes of view: they have nine (though the TFA gets it wrong thinking this means 9 viewers). They're not basic stereoscopic displays, they're actual multiplanar 3d displays (well, in the horizontal axis anyway).
"See, you can check your anatomy all you want, and even though there may be normal variation, when you get down to it this far inside the head it all looks the same. No nonono, don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to".
NASA has had flops, they've had triumphs, but to say that "these people should be put out of a job" is disingenuous at best, insulting to the good people that worked to expand our knowledge of space and space travel.
No, but they should definitely be out of THAT job. Constellation was a massive bloated porkbarrel of a flop, and it needed to be killed to free up funds and workers for more useful pursuits (e.g. a heavy lift vehicle that isn't shit). Could the transition have been handled more gently? Possible, but not without massive quantities of red tape to be cut through, and almost certainly a great deal of additional pork.
So the entire idea of the "Israel created this to attack Iran" idea is based on finding the date May 9, 1979 hidden in the code
That, and the worm being targeted at Iranian PLCs. It's an incredibly sophisticated and specific attack with little avenue for direct profit, so it's unlikely to be either an extortion attempt by a criminal organisation or something produced by a blackhat hobbyist. That makes a government being behind it likely. Israel definitely has motive and means to be behind the worm.
some continue to wonder how the authors of such a sophisticated piece of malware allowed it to break into the wild and attract attention.
It took quite a while before researchers realised the payload was intended to mess with one specific brand of PLCs (they're hardly part of a standard honeypot), maybe the intent was to hide it in plain sight it as 'just another botnet'.
Look at the edges of the red and orange areas in the third image. The WebP version has some very nasty aliasing, and a line of black pixels inside the border. Cheekily, most of the WebP sample images on the page linked in the summary are higher resolution than the jpeg images they're compared to.
Basically:
1) Publisher contacted Pentagon, said "we have this book, can you check nothing classified has been inadvertantly included"
2) Pentagon: "Sure, everything is fine, go ahead"
3) Publisher prints book
4) Pentagon: "Oh shit, we missed (thing that is still classified), you can't sell this!"
5) Publisher: "Couldn't you have told us that before we spent all this money on an unsellable book?!"
6) Pentagon: "Our bad, we'll 'buy' the existing copies, destroy them, and you can print a second run with free publicity"
7) Publisher: "Sure thing"
With the corollary that, because there is no tactile response at all to allow you to position your fingers over keys, you're going to be looking at it. A lot.
That's mainly because parts of London were laid out prior to the horse & cart, and the vast majority pre-automobile.
Lay out a 'modern' city in grid-form, and you get... Ugh... Milton Keynes.
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Not really. There are plenty of webcams that come with free software that can overlay an image (including the requisite spinning-text-around-face logo of the Laughing Man) over a tracked face in real time, but this software instead edits out a tracked area using surrounding data. I wish they gave more explanation, or any explanation at all, rather than the nebulous magical 'increase the image quality back up'.
And Project Excelsior occurred even before that.
And my other problem... what is the end goal of an intelligent artificial entity? Humans are driven by biological urges that have been ingrained into us over billions of years. What if the intelligence realized there is no real point to "life" and just chooses to end it all?
Why on earth would an AI not work similarly, and act on whatever 'ingrained urges' that were programmed into it? It seems rather odd that people continue to think that the instant a machine intelligence becomes aware of itself, it would decide to kill all humans. It would be like a child becoming aware of itself, and deciding "right then, I guess I'd better slaughter my parents now".
No new knowledge is produced by them.
A poor choice of words,given the purpose of these probes.
Just make sure the 'do not kill' weighting is greater than any possible combination of other directive weightings, rather than merely greater than the second-highest weighting.
Shhhhh! But yes.
There are quite a few stories based on an extra planet being shattered to form the asteroid belt. I'd mention one of my favourites here, but it would be a huge spoiler.
Could be a regional thing? Here in the UK, the Generic Tape Brand is Sellotape, not Scotch tape. If you asked someone here for some Scotch tape, they'd probably just wonder why you'd want to import your Sellotape from up north.
It's a SLNN (Self-Learning Neural Network) with actual neurons rather than virtual ones. You don't 'program' the cells, you provide inputs and 'reward' the correct output to those inputs, and let the neurons iteratively learn the correct weights in between.
There are numerous companies that produce custom-fit In Ear Monitors. While you can take ear canal impressions at home if you're adventurous (and have someone to help you pour the resin in), they recommend you visit an Audiologist (and usually give you a coupon for a free impression).
Hasn't Windows been on tablets since tablets were first sold, several years ago? Back when having no keyboard meant half your computer had fallen off, rather than being a selling point.
Technically, you're only supposed to be watching the live-streaming version of the web-based iplayer if you pay the TV license. Stored shows are fine though. It's rather unfortunate that the BBC has started turning unpleasantly closed though: the proprietary nature of the the download service and encryption of the streaming service makes it hard to watch without windows and flash. Then there's the continual slashing of the HD channel bitrate (and the laughable and demonstrably incorrect claims that it 'looks just as good' at 9.7mbps as at 16mbps) and use of 1440x1080.
But griping aside, they still produce excellent programming, provide an excellent news service, and as long as they continue to provide these without adverts I'll continue to pay the license fee.
holdig your head still
If you'd actually read TFA, you'd know that while these are parallax barrier displays, they don't have just two planes of view: they have nine (though the TFA gets it wrong thinking this means 9 viewers). They're not basic stereoscopic displays, they're actual multiplanar 3d displays (well, in the horizontal axis anyway).
"See, you can check your anatomy all you want, and even though there may be normal variation, when you get down to it this far inside the head it all looks the same. No nonono, don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to".
Has Space -X actually put anything in orbit? No.
You mean 'Yes'. The Falcon 9 upper stage orbited for a good 3 weeks.
NASA has had flops, they've had triumphs, but to say that "these people should be put out of a job" is disingenuous at best, insulting to the good people that worked to expand our knowledge of space and space travel.
No, but they should definitely be out of THAT job. Constellation was a massive bloated porkbarrel of a flop, and it needed to be killed to free up funds and workers for more useful pursuits (e.g. a heavy lift vehicle that isn't shit). Could the transition have been handled more gently? Possible, but not without massive quantities of red tape to be cut through, and almost certainly a great deal of additional pork.
So the entire idea of the "Israel created this to attack Iran" idea is based on finding the date May 9, 1979 hidden in the code
That, and the worm being targeted at Iranian PLCs. It's an incredibly sophisticated and specific attack with little avenue for direct profit, so it's unlikely to be either an extortion attempt by a criminal organisation or something produced by a blackhat hobbyist. That makes a government being behind it likely. Israel definitely has motive and means to be behind the worm.
some continue to wonder how the authors of such a sophisticated piece of malware allowed it to break into the wild and attract attention.
It took quite a while before researchers realised the payload was intended to mess with one specific brand of PLCs (they're hardly part of a standard honeypot), maybe the intent was to hide it in plain sight it as 'just another botnet'.
Look at the edges of the red and orange areas in the third image. The WebP version has some very nasty aliasing, and a line of black pixels inside the border.
Cheekily, most of the WebP sample images on the page linked in the summary are higher resolution than the jpeg images they're compared to.
Those were all you guys?! Man, dick move America.
There's no reason not to charge to allow someone to move to the front of the line.
Well, apart from destroying the concept of a transparent and reliable packet-switched network, that is.
I prefer to read all sarcastic meta-articles as if they were narrated by Charlie Brooker. See this Newswipe sketch for why.
Basically:
1) Publisher contacted Pentagon, said "we have this book, can you check nothing classified has been inadvertantly included"
2) Pentagon: "Sure, everything is fine, go ahead"
3) Publisher prints book
4) Pentagon: "Oh shit, we missed (thing that is still classified), you can't sell this!"
5) Publisher: "Couldn't you have told us that before we spent all this money on an unsellable book?!"
6) Pentagon: "Our bad, we'll 'buy' the existing copies, destroy them, and you can print a second run with free publicity"
7) Publisher: "Sure thing"
With the corollary that, because there is no tactile response at all to allow you to position your fingers over keys, you're going to be looking at it. A lot.
That's mainly because parts of London were laid out prior to the horse & cart, and the vast majority pre-automobile.
Lay out a 'modern' city in grid-form, and you get... Ugh... Milton Keynes.
Or just stick a handful of cameras outside, and give passengers who want to look around an HMD.